Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-03

ed women and men, mostly in evening
dress. Through the open French win
dows a great crowd is passing along
the Digue, the magnificent roadway
which stretches along the sea to the
right and left of Ostend. to France on
one side, to Holland on the other.
You hear every language, and you
soon notice every type of nationality,
but always the best of that national
ity. Ostend is the congress ground of
the aristocrat from everywhere. Every
body, laughing and happy, everybody
living for the moment, forgetful of the
before, and careless of the afterwards.
Only Ostend, Refine des PLACES, can
produce such scene; nowhere in all
the world is 1t equalled. Then, of to
the station, for you are going to see
as much of Belgium as you can in
your weeks holiday.
In half an hour you are in Bruges.
the old. old City of Flanders. THE
Venice of the North" as she once
proudly called herself. when she could
boast of 100000 inhabitants. of SOW
ereign's brilliant court, and of mas
sive walls and a powerful army able
to defy an emperor's wrath. Now
Bruges has nothing but her thrilling
romantic past and the inestimable
treasures of art which even her con-
querors refrained from taking.
In Client you must see the cathedral
with its world-famous altar-piece THE
Alteration of the Lamb" by the broth
ers Van Eyck, and the tombs Of for
mer bishops, wonders in carved mar
BILE. Nor must you fail to pause a few
minutes before the town hall. where
you viii view the stone pulpit from
which Jacques Van Arteyelde, dear
gossip and ally of Edward Ill, ad-
dressed his turbulent felIow-burghers.
The belfry, with its Roland" BEN. is
close to the town hall and few steps
further is the Castle of the Counts,
former palace of the sovereigns of
Flanders. II is now a partially re-
stored ruin of great extent, with a
torture chamber beneath the Donjon,
and other uncanny evidences of how
they did things in the good old days.
After dinner you had better catch
your train for Brussels, for you will
arrive at the capital long before mid.
night. and you will have ample time
to see something of night life in Lit.
tie Paris before you go to bed.
Brussels is more or less familiar
ground to everybody who has been on
the continent. even If the rest of Bel
GUM is not so well known. Having
breakfasted, you win start early on
your sightseeing. and II you have not
been to the Belgian capital before
you will begin with the town ball
This remarkable Gothic building dates
from the fourteenth century, and wit
messed the execution of Counts Egg
mont and De Horae by Alva. You
must do the cathedral and picture
galleries before you lunch, and yot
will find an excellent restaurant in
one of the many arcades. where YOU
may also be tempted into buying some
lace. After lunch, drive through new
Brussels with its splendid boulevard:
to the great Palace of Justice, which
crowns the upper city.
Antwerp is only half an hours trair
from Brussels, and you should give 4
full day. at any rate; so arrive al
early as you can from Brussels, an,
begin with the cathedral. If only I,
see the Rubens masterpieces. Their,
are one or two more churches almos
of equal interest, one of which con
tains the family rlausoleum OF Rubens
Then there is the Plantin Museum o
Printing. with the residence Of th'