The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-23
AND CHARM OF
THE SUNNY LAND OF FRANCE
(By MISS LILIIA An Na1nv r,.on

= Tcdrf OF talOfS Louise
Ia VALERIE, young and trusting.
and de Montasna,
Namtenou, selfish and ambitious
MARIE Antoinette, happy and light.
hearted, with no shadow Of the DARK /
Gays before her clouding her yonna
all hose rare and radiant
creatures the store Of whose wit and
beauty, trlumphs and defeats. lows
ana heartaches still resound through
the annals Of Did court DAYS in
France
Glamour N Dead DAYS.
If, as prophetic ones believe. and
as the dream OF universal brotherhood
demands, all mOnarchies shall one
DAY perish from the earch. why. oh.
why, we find ourselves asking, could
not France have been the asst to have
been stripped Of the glamour that
surrounds monarchial institutions,
what people were ever so suited to
adorn such q life, Their scintinating
wit; their gracious a~daptability: their
love OF color OF light, and Of effect
how it all blends into such a setting
Even our democratic hearts yearn
over the Spaendour Of those departed
days, and sigh to think that against
the Respondent background that only
their artists, luxury-loving souls knew
how to create. no longer walk in
0T~SOJ Miss oiiN Jul (
queen and cavalier. lord and lady, and
beauty OF high degree.
Looking down the green vista OF
this far-famed Cypress Avenue. |
tcould but be reminded of a similar
one nearer home, and even more
beautiful-that lovely walk in Salem.
North Carolina, known. as Cedar
Avenue, bordering that peaceful Gods
Acre where h Moravians OF that
quaint old town bury their dead.
A widely travelled friend once told
me that in all his j~0urneyings about
the world, he had yet to see anything
of it's kind so beautiful as this Cedar
Avenue in Salem-cOmparing it at the
time to this n at Ramboui1let-
saying that the former was much
longer and had the advantage of The
contrast of the dark green Of the
cedars against the emerald green of
the grass on each side OF it, but. SO
hard is it for us to believe that the
best things in life often ever lies
nearest at hand, that 1 had to stand
in the actual shadow Of this more
famous one before | could accept his
estimate as q true one.
Go To Salem.
So when next the wanderlust seizes
you, and a longing to see one Of the
great sights. Of the world possesses
wy A1oSN00 So~k 49, -
vain longing toward distant goals
just get on the train and go to Salem
North Carolina. and if you viii
lehoose as the time Of your going, the
Easter season, when in the early dawI
OF Easter Sunday the great throns
gathers in front Of the M~oraViar
tchurch there to hear Bishop Rond
thaler's CHAD greeting, The Lord il
risen! The Lord is risen indeed!' an6
from there wend your way with thu
, assembled throng down this sam
Cedar Avenue, as it echoes n re
: echoes with b stately music Of thOS'
! grand old German chorals, proclaim
ing the resurrection morn, I think
> can safely promise you that though
you search the world owe you will
. nowhere see OF experience anythin!
l more beautiful or uplifting
> From Rambouillet we drove a dist
. ance OF six miles to h Chateau d
Mainteeun-the smooth white rOa
y we followed taking US for miles unde
: an avenue of slender acacias trees
u some pink, some white-shakini
: their perfumesf clusters above us; pas
{ meadows of W~ondrously wrOugh
n mosaic of primrose. cOwslip an
Iavemone; by fields Of oats n bar
ley, with the scarlet peoples riotin
e through them like a great %conflagra
ton, until as the wind swept owe
JIlC1l " ~
whole countryside go up in a blaze Q
lerimsOr glory.
q This Chateau was presented I
o MADAME e MaintenoR by Louis XIV
r. and is now he property OF the Du
= de Noailles. a descendant Of that littl
Eneice Of Madame de Ma~inteHon, WIN
Il is seen Ken feeling by her side in thu
most famous portrait OF that celebra
ed woman.
n The place is of unusual historic II
If terest except that which attaches
1t lit as the home OF the brilliant wor1a
II who becan.a the third wife OF Lou
d XIV. but the gardens are very beat
n tiful, with turretS and battlementS
e Ichateau and spires of Glib
Villages reflected in the silver Eui
81. from, which stream it was Louis il
h tention to convey water to versatile
= Through the magnificent aquednet tn;
a. he started but never compieted-t
ID LOFTY arches of which. as see
: lxh-u.~h q Inno vista. Of tYlD0iHg vi