Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-28

Whpu the matter OF uHICIES tVICt'
with the dish faced heiress has been proved an
accident: enough like her somewhat changefui
to gsate the seye Of hsr m sen
you postal from every place CO.
Postal 1, portrays a van-colored ship
blowing it's way through ultramarine
waves, beneath which is scrubbed uncer-
tainly:
Il wish / were the heroine of maya
zine story She is the only girl l know
who wouldn't be sick with this COM
bined roll. pitch and ragtime. Your great
red roses are dear.
Kitty, CHANGING over the card when
sent to mail it, is shocked at her sister
omissions and adds: And SO are your
champagne your books and your fruit. :
H. Bordered with naval flags of Great
Britain and the United States:
"A line to let you know I'm on deck
and enjoying it. There's an iceberg on
the horizon-a wonderful glittering thing,
which Kitty declares looks incomplete,
because pictures of icebergs always have
a polar bear with his paw on freshly
lied SEAL
III. ST Mungo's Well, in crypt of Glas-
gov Cathedral, bears small connection
to what follows:
I'VE landed about an hour. ago, nave
only had time for lunch.
III. Inversnaid, on Loeb Lomond. A
sheet of blue water encircled by noun
tains rose-purple with bell heather. Only
space for date.
Gable from r. G. Walton to Miss Ben
bury:
please choose postals with small pic
lures Walton
what waste of money" comments
| Kitty. -,
Not at ALL explodes the colonel II
would have cabled to Himalaya to beg
nfh
| Y. Coaching in the Trossachs. coach
| man i'm red livery refining in four pranc-
| ing steeds
when | was little girl l learned
4 from my second reader:
The tall, pink fox-glove bowed It's
The violet nodded and went to bed
| When | saw for the first time today
| the graceful pink flower a baby breeze
| rippled by and bowed its head greet
ing and a memory.
Extract of seventh page of letter from
IR. G. Walon to Miss Elizebeth Ben
| bury:
| Your postal made me think of the day
we drove to the Arden meadows for
golden rod. And when we reached the
fields you said 'Oh. look at all those
can't choose which to decapitate SO
we came home empty-handed, do you
| remember. dearest?
VI. The Castle at Edinburgh.
| "At the castle this morning Kitty
called to Dad: I've found a horseshoe for
! luck. It's so small it must have be-
longed to a Scotch donkey Maybe it
did said our guide. 1t COON frae the
heel of a soldiers boot, miss.
| VII. The Prentice Pillar in Roslin
| Chapel.
"A friend we made shpboard
| brought me out here in his motor car,
| and we've had charming morning at
this jewel of chapel and the castle
| nearby"
| Will Swanson. picture of Robert Louis
Stevenson's home.
| 1.-The friend of whom / wrote brought
me here in his motor today.
Extract from first and only page OF
letter from Mr.. Walton:
"You said the summer was to be de-
| voted to Kitty's education when | ask
ed il | might cross with you. L hope
your chance acquaintance who seems to
be name.ess. has reliable chauffeur.
a postal is but limited medium to
sooth ruffled annoyance. E1ilzaDetn dehD-
crates and sends
TX. The Douglas Room, at Stirling Cas-
tie.
We've gone back to Stirling. The ship
friend was nameless because ! couldn't
remember whether he spelled it Johnson
or Johnston. He wished to bring me here
by motor, but / preferred to come by
train-though you know it makes my head
ache
Extract from ninth page Of letter from
Mr. Walton to Miss Benbury:
I've loved you more than ever. though
that sounds like an absurd exaggerat1on
since you overlooked my flare OF Jealousy
over Johnson j ohnston. But. with this
ocean between us. ] am a fool and jeal-
Gus of everybody that can look at you
when / can't.
x. Melrose Abbey. a section of the in
terror which presents most singular ap-
pearance because of Bettys endeavor tC
outline the columns and not to hide them
by her writing.
Nothing impressed me so much as a
face on the outer wall. no bigger than
your fist-a girls laughing face, the hail
wind blown. the lips parted; statues OF
prophets. priests and kings had alike tum.
! bled into decay, while her youth had de-
fed the centuries
After spending half an hour In declph-
ering. Watson cables:
Disregard pictures, write across. Wal
ton
Miss Benbury smiles at his peremptori
: ness and sends:
XII. Carlisle Cathedral by moonlight
: Cathedral dimly outlined on dark care
, and closely overwritten with black ink
but the text thereof no man knoweth. fol
neither love and patience, nor veXatfor
! and impatience, could decipher one word
XII Abbottsford. Portrait of Sir Wal
ter Scott
I'm so Inundated. Since we've been il
Scotland I've seen dozens of places where
I SCOTS characters lived or died or ESCAPED
. FROM and / struggle to turn the CONVEX
safion to Iyanhoe.' because it's the onl.
one I've read. I heard bright woman
, describe North Carolina as a place where
people keep the Ten Commandments anc
read SCOTS novels l must spend a win
ter there"
XIII. Sent froii Warwick A picture O.
. the ruins OF Kenilworth over which Wal
ton chuckles because it bears only thu
UNDERSIGNED line:
Poor, dear Amy Robsart."
At Stratford- on-Avon, Elizabeth passe,
by the following postals: Shakespeare.
house. memorial, desk bust, portrait
church in which buried inscription or
. ways cottage-by summer. by winter, il
+ colors, etc. etc. and chooses:
XIV The Harvard House-a subtle
, fIattery any loyal aluminus would appre
ciate.
Did you know the house OF John Har
, wards mother is at Stratford?'
That is ALL but Walton finds an under
} living significance in the innocent query.
SO in great citation he urges:
II have framed the Harvard House, but
/ yearn to hear you describe 1t. The
plans for my skyscraper are about done
; and | can get off for three weeks toward
the last of the month. 1t occurs to IN.
and | wish to run over. have some day:
, with you in England and reutrn on ths
steamer that you DO May II?
: Walton's letter is handed Elizabeth
just as she is leaving for a day al Seven
Oaks At the first stationers She re-
quests a souvenir postal
'Oh, any Of them will do" is her inn
| patient exclamation when the clerk lifts
out a trayful. Il haven't seen anything
here yet.
(Afterward he told it as a typical bit
of COMMUNICATING postal before one