The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19
PILGRIMS DAY CEREMONIES
Kenosha Travellers Witness Celebration
of Anniversary of Departure of Pill
grim Fathers from southampton
Visit Cathedrals in Brittany.
(By Lawson r. Muzzy)

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we should retract our steps to South
ampton, where we attended Pilgrims
day ceremonies. The affair will long
be noted in history. 1t was the two
hundred and ninety-second anniversary
of the departure of the Pilgrim Faith
ers, who landed many days later in
Massachusetts. It was the Lord
Mayors function primarily and we
were his guests at a grand banquet
given that day. 1t was celebrated by
laying the cornerstone of monument
to commemorate that far away and
momentous day. The United States
Consul, General Swain, the Mayor and
other eloquent speakers were heard.
The Lady Mayoress was especially
gracious to our Downer maiden and
this added to the local interest of the
august occasion, as may be imag ned.
The same day we visited the house
where Isaac Watts was born AMI 1iv-
led. Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon, the present
occupants, were most hospitable He
exhibited an organ upon which the
evangelist Sankey played, just before
sailing for America. The Philadelphia
house where the Liberty Bell is stored,
is modelled after this Watts mansion.
In the garden attached is fig tree
at least four hundred years old under
which Watts wrote many of his best
hymns.
It is not easy to speak too highly
Of the amazing interest that attaches
to Brittany and Normandy for the
tourist. Oman has three choice old
cathedrals and queer old street, steep
as a house roof for two hundred feet
down, narrow as a hallway and as
strange and wonderful as a lane in
ancient China Aat Shanghai. How
those people live is wonder. Dinard,
close by is another extreme, fashion
able, gay and rollicking by the sea.
But Mont st. Michael is the cap chief
of all this wonderful country. They
pronounce it Nav Saa Nutshell with
accent on last syllable. It is a pyra-
mid of rock, cone shaped, out on a
vast loWland of hundreds Of acres.
This land is covered twice a day by
the tide, and as the brine comes rush
ing shoreward it travels faster than a
horse can gallop. The sight is one of
extreme grandeur. This island is COW
cred with the most wonderful masonry
extant, almost. It is sublimity itself.
The granite cove is entirely covered
with the monastry, abbey, church, tur-
rets and cloisters, rising four hundred
feet above the sea. 1t required hours
to go over the island and peer into the
crypts, noisome dungeons, halls, naves,
and the hundreds of apartments.
Around the lower rocks are little shops
and cafes, all with active solicitors and
no one wishes to escape their urging.
One must purchase views of this pom
derous and famous place It has a
famous cafe long kept by Madame
Poulard. Her reputation for inlmitable
omelettes extends around the globe.
She is now deceased, but those mix
lures are made by a company and are
quite as toothsome as the originals.
We became very chummy with a youfh-
full Irish professor of Dublin and p
youthful and Jovial Scotchman of
Edinburg. With these we made mn a
little quartette at dinner that certain
ly was vastly entertaining to old and
young America. These subjects of
King George never left us until our
train departed
The 18th century cathedral at
Bayeux is certainty quite as imposing
as any in Normandy. An aged French
priest took US under and THROUGH all
the most sacred and secret PASSAGES
and exhibited yestments Of cold
thread that are never seen save over
the shoulders of the priests on rare
occasions. Here toe in a museum we
saw that famous tapestry worked bv
Queen Mathilda.- It is all spread out
under glass perpendicularly and il Is
20 inches wide and 132 feet long. This
wonderful handiwork is of scenes If
war by William the Conqueror.
Caen is among the most noted towns
for interest in all France. William.
the king, founded the magnificent ei-
tadel It is pronounced Kaw, only it
must be jerked out like lightning. or
no one knows what you are trying to
say. In fact, it is right discouraging
to your correspondent to talk French
or was for weeks. st. Giles is the
most ancient church in "Kawo and
the guide there told us the parishioners
were trespauvre, perhaps to get a
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