The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-17

ed women and men, mostly in evening
dows 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
lily. Ostend is the congress ground of
the aris1ocrat from everywhere. Every
body, laughing and happy, everybody
living for the moment, forgetful of the
before, and careless of the afterwards
Only Ostend, RENE des PLACES, can
produce such scene; nowhere in all
the world is it equalled. Then, off 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, 1.-THE
Venice of the North" as she once
proudly called herself, when she could
boast of 100000 inhabitants, of a SOW
ereign's brilliant court, and of mas
sive walls and 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 1.-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 will view the stone pulpit from
which Jacques Van Artevelde, dear
gossip and ally" of Edward III, ad-
dressed his turbulent -burghers.
The belfry, with it's Roland" bell. is
close to the town hall and few steps
further is the Castle of the Counts,
former palace of the sovereigns of
Flanders. 1t Is now a partially re-
stored ruin of great extent, with a
torture chamber beneath the Donion.
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
lie 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 Rel.
gium is not so well known. Having
breakfasted. you will start early on
your sightseeing, and If you have. not
been to the Belgian capital before.
you will begin with the town hall
This remarkable Gothic building dates
from the fourteenth century, and wit
messed the execution of Counts Eg.
mont and De Horae by Alva. You
must do the cathedral and picture
galleries before you lunch, and you
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 boulevards
to the great Palace of Justice, which
crowns the upper city.
Antwerp is only half an hours train
from Brussels, and you should give IL
a full day, at any rate; so arrive as
early as you can from Brussels, and
begin with the cathedral, If only to
see the Rubens masterpieces. There
are one or two more churches almost
of equal interest, one of which con-
tains the family mausoleum of Rubens.
Then there is the Plantin Museum of
Printing. With the residence OF the