Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-07-19
A LETTER FROM EUROPE
Written by Mrs. John Abel, OF Scho-
field, who Recently Went Abroad
to Visit at Her Old Home.
Deideshem, July 9th, 1910.

DC1OCSIlOA1y NbAAi ASA~'
Mr.. Thayer::
As promised to write few lines
for the PILOT, while was on my
travels in Europe, take this oppor-
tunity of doing so. However, l ask
the indulgence of the readers for |
am not professional writer.
We, my daughter Mary and l, had
a most delightful trip across the
Atlantic and during the six days the
weather was as near perfect as it was
possible and we were only seasick a
couple of days, but you know that is
the disagreeable part of ones trip on
the water, and which all expect wnen
they start out.
We had the pleasure Of meeting
Mrs. Lemke and Mrs. Peschmann of
Wausau on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. We reached Germany well
and in good spirits. After brief
stay there, went to Paris where we
stayed ten days, and l visited many
of the old and interesting places
which were so familiar to me in my
younger days, especially the museums
and art galleries. One place in which
/ had never been before and which
was intensely interesting, was the
Palace of Justice and of the Supreme
Court. The court was not in session
when we were there, so fortunately
we were enabled to 60 through the
entire building; walked down the hall
through which Marie Antoinette,
Louis the 10th, and all the mobiles
passed on their way to he beheaded.
We also visited the Salon des Beaux
Arts, which was beautiful and in
structive, especially to the young
folks from Ohio, who came over in
the same boat. We left Paris to go
to my old village home, Walheim, in
Alsace, where we remained two weeks;
from there we went to Basel and
commenced our tour in Switzerland.
There is only one Switzerland on
earth. In Paris we saw the beauti-
full in art, and in Switzerland we saw
beauties in nature that the most
gifted pen could not describe even in
the smallest degree. A few of the
important places are Mt. Rfgi, the
Pilatus, the Alps, the Axelstrasse
tho CT Goldbor1t Road
During our stay in Switzerland
there was much rain and the country
was flooded. At Lucerne we were
obliged to walk on high sidewalks,
made of planks, in order to get on
board the boat for an excursion to
the mountains. The streets were all
flooded in Lucerne and we were glad
to get on the sea, as we felt safer
there than on land. And on our trip
through this country, feasting our
eyes upon the most beautiful sights
that ever human eye beheld, we did
not see one person from our home
state in America-WiScons From
Switzerland we went to Heuhausen,
where we saw the Reinfall, and we
were fortunate to be there during the
high water, for it was in its grandeur.
In the evening we saw the illumina-
tion of the old castle and the waters.
That night we stayed at Schaffhausen
and the next morning went to Kon-
stanz, by way of Bodensee to Lindau,
and at the latter place saw the bor-
ders of Austria-the mountains of
Trial, Bavaria, Wuertemberg. From
Lindau I'VE went to Munchen, and
from there to Oberammergau to see
the Passion Play, which was beauti-
full and which left lasting impress
sion upon all who saw it.
And now we are in Deidesheim, my
husbands old home. Il is noted for
it's fine wines, and for miles you can
see nothing but vinyards. The in
habitants call their wine the pearl o.
the Rhine. On the 9th of July we
shall leave here for trip up the
Rhine, to see the sight of the great
Koelner cathedral, and from there we
will return by way of Strasburg to
my old home in Alsace.
MRS. JOHN ABEL.