The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-14

ne began dH Ills VIC
saw all the noted things In Spain, the
Alhambra and the Moorish mosques
and all those things you read about,
and we looked up in detail many OF
the things about which we had read
and studied in school, just to prove
they we're really true. We went up
and down the Mediterranean and into
Egypt and the Holy Land:
The worst place was ever in was
Jerusalem. Ii rained and showed and
sleeted' the ten days we were there.
Our quarters were in an old monas-
terry where il was cold and damp and
as uncomfortable as a prison. We
couldn't eat the food and lived on
Joppa oranges. Nearly everything in
the Holy Land looked faky to me.
That Is, I mean the things the people
tried TO make you swallow about his
being the original spot mentioned in
the Bible, and that being the exact
building where some biblical story yas
enacted, and then the things they sell
you carved out OF wood right out OF
the Garden OF olives, and things like
that. wanted to buy a knife and the
bazaar peddler asked me 81 for 1t.
which was a ridiculous price. finally
got II for so cents.
OF course, II was all intensely in
/ teresting just the same, especially
/ Bethlehem, which really looks as the
/ bible tells. Some of our party went
1 on boat trip TO Joppa and Damascus
l and were caught in such a storm that
( they just drifted around in a circle for
/ over Ave days, SO we were glad we
remained in Jerusalem, even If it was
dirty and the food nasty and the
rooms cold. We 'bathed in the River
Jordan and went swimming in the
Dead Sea. The water in the latter is
SO heavy with salt that you float
laboye the water under your armpits.
lOf all the places we visited, TO me
the most interesting was Athens, then
Cairo, then Rome and Paris. the most
beautiful city OF all, but not nearly so
full of interest to me as the other
places. We were among the first
Americans to see Mr.. Roosevelt when
he came out of Africa. and were in
Rome when The famous Vatican Incl
dent occurred. All of the Roman pa
.pers were very bitter against Mr..
Roosevelt and so we're the people,
everybody feeling that he should have
acceded to the pope's request that in
seeking an audience at the Vatican he
should not 60 elsewhere on the same
day. The trouble put a damper on
other Americans being granted audi
ences at that time and we were
among the ones disappointed.
MY, how | would like to be in
London now TO see the funeral of the
king. Not that / am not sincerely
sorry for his death, but | can't help
thinking what wonderful spectacle
the funeral procession will be. When
we were In London we visited the
kings stables and saw his beautiful
aorses and the state coaches, and
everywhere We heard him spoken OF
with the greatest affection. | am
sure the people are mourning for him
now, because they all seemed 70
,ond OF him and he seemed immensely
popular. | think the English village
country the most beautiful in the
world. II Is series OF pictures like
one sees in paintings, and II is really
Mficult to believe that IL Is real, the
.oloring is so pretty and the whole
Effect so charming. | would love to
spend months In the English lanes
Ind country roads.
Young Hickey shows that very little
escaped his alert eye and eager mind
iuring his travels, and the vivid i'm
,ressions he received he is able to
bass to others in an interesting de-
lcriptive way. The young man is a
tudent in Detroit College, and know
hg that he was TO have the pleasure
N the trip several months in advance.
lie took up regular course of read
ne and study of the people and
countries he expected to visit. He
lays he will continue this course
low and thinks he will enjoy II more
han ever after having been there.