The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-08-18
EUROPEAN TRAVELS.
ANOTHER or MISS SARA pARKER's
+coe INTERESTING LETTERS. cil
Journal Readers Afforded Charming
Glimpses of European Peoples and
Countries.
Interlaken, Aug, Il, 1910
Dear Home People,


Dear Home People;
This last week has been a complete
change in many ways. We left city
life at Milan, we left art galleries al
Venice, and we said goodbye to leis.
ure at Bellagio. We have, seen the
originals of the best in art, nature her
self; we have enjoyed country life in
modern hotels; and we have been on
move except for the rest we have been
forced to take waiting for luncheons
and dinners to be served, and a few
hours a night, first in one style of a
bed and then in another.
We call ourselves the Down the
Slope Company" doing one night
stands, and we are a source of great
uneasiness to our conductor. because
of our. American ways. We usually
conform to the dictates of the local
Madam Grundy, but we threaten such
dire things as going out on an eyen-
ing without our hats, on; or wearing
our sweaters to some, glacier, or Civ
ing an impromptu concert as the
company hits the town The only
really awful sin of omission we have
committed IS that from Saturday night
to Saturday night. we. did not dress
for dinner, as we arrived at the hotels
anywhere from 7,30 to $50 at night.
can assure you that very few of our
sins are of omission, for we are. busy
most of the time, land Q good time Is
much of the time going on, We have
! just heard of party on a travel tour,
/ in which only two members We're on
| speaking terms when they left the
boat We think they must be learn
! ing a lot for there will be nothing to
: distract their minds. Everybody's hap
py ia our crowd, even the hotel wait
ers catch the disease and smile upon
us as We appear. Its quite fetching
to begin saying good night as we
leave the d:i.ner table ana keep it up
until the little elevator boy says it
for the final send-off as we head. for
our room, really for the rest of the
night. / can't imagine any of our
lords of the dining hall or our knights
of the elevators so endangering their
dignity as to wish a mere overnight
guest, good night -%.tT ,o.,t
But for the weeks -wanderings, we
left Bellagio Monday morning for Me-
maggie, which is rather diagonally
across Lake Como. Como is a. most
beautiful lake and it seemed as if mo
other lake could be quite so beautiful.
But We are bound to our route and
that decreed aaride by electric train
over the mountains, up, up and still
up. until we dropped down again at
Porlezzo on Lake Lugano 1t is one
series of mountain peaks, and beauti-
full foliage. Our next change was for
the steamer to cross Lake Lugano
clear TO Ponta Tresa. The water and
the sky are a. brilliant blue. the, coast
line is entertainingly uneven with ho-
tells and little homes dotting the land
scape from the top of the mountains
down to the shore line. -1-e 4.as..aa
Que "cnaIni of mouDsains, pointed
rounding, jagged and even makes ev-
cry moment new view They crowd
upon you, and you realize that the
world Is outside only because you sec
distant peak tall enough to show it's
head above the mountain-bound shore
of Lugano. Another change and we
are fussing our way along by rati to
Laino, through thrifty country, heav-
lily enough wooded to shut out most of
the mountain view. The last lap was
another three hours boat ride on Lake
Maggiore to Stresa. We had seen Co
mo in rage, and in smiles. We had
been above her to see where the lake
divides, reaching long arms to the
| We had seen Lugano Rugged close
] by the mountains and kissed by the
sun, but Maggiere1at sunset, and the
/
mountains distant as the eye could see
blashing pink at mghtfall, with the
water rippiihg lazily ION it's surface,
while the stars came, shyly to view
the Spectacle and fthe eleetrics, not to
be out done cleaned in and out the
: trees along the shore was to see the
{ fafrest of them alt Twilight and
Evening Star" came naturally TO our
I lips as we sat on the upper deck aud
approached the shore. .t.'@
Stresa is "a very popular resort and
is the residence OF the Duchess of Ge-
noa. 1t is charmingly situated on this
4 lake, dropped down in the mountains.
But a few hundred metres off is Isola
Bella with its magnificent palace fur
nished with tortoise shell furniture.
inlaid with silver and precious stones.
1t is filled with art treasures and cur
los. r. 'i'e
Since these We're one night stands,
we wrenched ourselves away from so
much beauty and onward and upward,
ever our motto, we approached Mar
tiguy through the Simplontunnel. Here
Won see the rlIPgedness of the Aims