Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-15
ESTABLISHED 1856
IN HOLLAND. LONDON AND PARIS
DR.. Porter Continues His European Ram
bles and Observations
PARIs. FRANCE NAV q

EDITOR CENSOR: Since wrote YOU
in Switzerland / have been worked
pretty hard. At Zurich met clergy
man, Mr.. Wasser, from Estherville.
Iowa, whom | had seen on the Caro-
MIA, and we kept together during our
trip to Munich, Oberammergua. SUIT
gard to Heidelberg, where we saw be-
sides the SchlOss a half dozen college
boys with slashed faces. They fight
duels just as our boys play oaae ball.
for the fun of it. We stayed in Worms.
where Luther lived for time. and
took trip down the Rhine from May
ence to Cologne. The Cathedral is very
heautifrl and the bells pealed long and
lord while VS. we're there. We hear
beautiful chime bells so often over here.
These Catholics have the finest of music
and fine paintings in thei- churches.
The trip down the vine clad castled
Rhine is grand. 10 me the intensive
cultivation of the vine was of interest.
Every little pit and depression in the
rocky bluffs was planted togrape vines.
The terraces were walled on the
lower sides and sometimes thirty in
number, one above the other. We
stayed in Amsterdam three nights and
visited the great art museum and took
the trip to the island of Marken. How
clean everything is in north Germany
and Holland. But these Marken peo-
Pile have spotless dress and home. Edam
was on our route and the cheese there
is made with great cleanliness. The
Holstein cow in Holland pays her owner
hundred dollars a year. She was
grazing all over Holland, while the
Swiss COW was housed and fed newly
cut alfalfa. We did Leyden, Harlem,
Delft, Hague between trains and spent
a day in Antwerp in the great art gal
lery and saw the cathedral. The Hague
gallery and Peace palace were visited
and we sat long before Rembrandt's
Anatomical picture. The smell of the
dssecting room almost pervades that
famous room. Rubens and Rembrandt
and the other famous Dutch masters
have left rich legacies to art lovers
here In Brussels | visited the great
exhibition day. 1t will be good when
COMPLETE. The Canadian exhibit of
stuffed animals, live bears and beavers
is the best there.
| lost Mr.. Vasser and met Mrs. Law
son of Baraboo and ladies on way to
Paris. Mr.. Neff, my companion in
Palestine, was at Cooks when | went
dead broke to get gold. He can par
ley WOO" and | can not. | had two
French books along; but when in the
subway lady asked him the way to
va Qong al and he pointed to Villiers,
concluded that for 6-day stay in
"Gay Paree, Neff could do the talking.
| cannot see that Paris is very gay.
They are a nice lot of people. The
first night we went to Grand Opera.
The play. was fair but the Opera house
is grand. Sunday we went to hear
Chas. Wagner of the simple life cult.
He did not preach until next Sunday
but he came into the church and said
TO us that he was Chas. Wagner. He
gave us a warm hand shake and said he
knew Americans. Hc said he lived N
their homes over there and not in hotels.
At the door was young American also
came to hear, whom found to be from
my boyhood home in Maine, his father
our merchant there. | was glad to
meet Mr.. Nef at Cooks when ] ar
rived. file had room on Rue Bona
parte just off from st. German, near
Subway. and for three SOUS we can ride
all under the city. The two-story
street cars also pass our door. Across
the way is a clean little place where we
get our breakfasts. They are better
than the regulation kind. A cup Of
chocolate, one of hot milk, sugar, anda
dozen nice little rolls, some nicely but
tered and some sweet gives US both a
good start and all for about fourteen
cents each. Our rooms are clean and
beds good, but up three stories and
forty cents a night is the cost. Neff
says he can go round the world on $500.
He goes to Columbia next fall to study
divinity. Graduating from Wooster he
taught in the Sandwich Island, IN Japan
and China He speaks German. The
milk here is excellent. For supper
sometimes they bring US in a pan a
quart of rich milk and loaf of bread
drink wine at table. We tried it yes
terday. II was much better than Jeru-
salem wine but a man could hardly con-
tain enough toget him drunk. | believe
wine does less harm here than beer
does in Bavaria. see less evidence of
fatty degeneration. | see no DRINKS
anywhere but the stuff is doing damage
to whoever uses it just the same.
LONDON, MAY 26 We came over here
yesterday from Boulogue to Foxes
tene, twenty-nine miles over sea, and
had very smooth voyage. 1t is so
nice to hear the English language spoken
again 1t is quite cold but fine wealth
er. The trip was made in seven hours
from Paris and lot of nice tourists
came third class for S. 20. find many
of them ride third class. Since | left
Bundisi in southern Italy until arrived
in London rail and steam fare has cost
me SAL. That has taken me to Naples,
Rome, Pompeii. Florence, Venice, Bo-
logna, Milan, Como, all over Switzer-
land, Munich, Oberrmmergan, Stuff
CART, Heidelberg, Worms, Mayence to
Cologne, Amsterdam, Marker, Leyden,
Harlem, Delft, The Hague, Antwerp,
Brussels, Paris and London. write
this simply to show the hundreds of
your readers, who are able to take
European trip that the expense need
not deter them, andyou can live cheaper
here than at home. The tourist should
90 independent and not tied to party.
We met San Francisco lady at Mar
ken, who has been going over Europe
alone. We meet women seventy years
old touring. If they will only limit
their baggage they have no trouble
/ would take almost nothing if going
agin. Buy as you need the things you
want. They are cheaper anywhere than
in America. c..v.P.
P. S.-London is an awfully drunken
city--women by scores go to grog shops
to drink even at midnight. Free trade
gets the blame due to free grog. P.
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