The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-29
ON 4 TOUR
WITH CAROLINIANS
CBy Lillian Macon Thompson.)

until at last to our great Gel1snt,
Pierrot's impassioned pleadings pre-
vailed. and Mignon yields with a Yes,
yes. Pierrot, yes, yes.
To have Pierrot pictured in your
mind against this Arcadian back
ground. and then to "a him APP
pear before you. his sleeves rolled up,
a coarse towel slung through his belt,
awaiting your order for a bath,
seemed to me so incOngruOus and IN
s~uppoetable a situation, that was
almost ready TO forego the luxury,
mental service of preparing it. So
poignant, indeed. were my feelings on
the subject, that a tactless and un-
feeling friend bluntly suggested that
the name might very easily and prop
erly be translated into plain Amerl-
can "Peter", but | would as soon take
my own rude brush and sketch into
the foreground of one Of CorOt's eX-
quisite landscapes. a bulky and stolid
american COW, pIacidly chewing her
cud. as to inject this praSaics name
Of Peter into an atmosphere soft
ened and colored by the presence Of
an Etienne a Eictorine, a Clothilde,
and a being answering to the call Of
"PierrOt.'
1.-The knight Of the Bath"
We have e~ndeavored to sooth our
u ooS $'" oN
uatiOn some what, by referring to him
only and always as THE Knight of the
Bath, rather than vulgarly as The
Bath Steward, $50 great is the diff
erence twixt word and word in max
ing smooth a rough way for not
only is PierrOt endowed with a name
that calls for another and more pic
tureSQue vocation, but also is he en-
doWed with the great limpid eyes
of the South that seem ever to be
looking toward the outside leagues
of liberty Of green grass and Wav-
ing fields, and when he comes to us
with eager and expeCtant little ges-
lures. that SO earnestly seek 20 in
terpreI our hating and mispro-
nOunced French, we feel that W. must
"shatter into bits this sorry scheme of
things that has incongrously COM
bined a name, and a calling, SO ut
terly at variance with each other,
and in some way remould the Situa-
ton nearer to the hearts desire"
In addition to picturesque French
novels, we are also revealing in this
wonderful French cuisine to which
we are being actually introduced for
the first time, and if France itself
holds for us anything more a1lurin2
than the fOOd we are now enjoying, ]
fear. the lands of straightforward
and obvious roast beef and plum pud-
F ding will rever be able to lure us &c
its shores from a country where al
the wonderful subtleties. complexities
and delicate standings of all things
, French. seem in some way to be mar.
~Velously wrought into ItS 100 as we'll
Indeed. we find life on the oceaf
> wave most enchanting in every way
6 and though our vessel is not one O
the larger and palatial liners, patron.
lied by the rich and fashionable. I Ok
not see how w could be more com
Ort n L ~ .rry ~-o --
: no more talented or interesting grou]
of people could be gathered toSethe
anywhere.
With the Passengers Aboard.
n Among the number Of the ship
e passengers we boast the name .
a AdOlph Weinenan, the sculptor: Az
d mar Embury, the young architec
who has designed so many of the pic
4, tureSQue suburban homes aroun
IS New York and whose charming plan
Is in House and arden ''Hous
z Beautifully and many other pub1ica
lions devoted to things beautiful an
l. artistic have SO delighted us; an
Geduey Bunce, the artist, whose pic
al lures of Venetian scenes are so ia
,e nous.
l. Mr.. Bhnce. though over seVent
n years of age, is still a most interest,"
~ ing and charming person. and r sti
painting his wonderful pictures
ne recent one, L am tOlU. having q ShO,
~ while ago sold for four thousand 90
~ lars.
He has spent the greater part of h
Is. life in \enice, and it is like a Stol
out of a book to hear him talk Of O.
IN days IN Italy when he knew the tU
|Brownings. and of later ones with II
n younger Browning. Mark Twain ar
n many other notable people wi,
on whom he was closely associated. an
he indeed. | felt like q real cbaracte
,ly IN that same story. when. taking q
les Of my hand the very book was rea,
ios ing tand what should it be but :"
VS. Eyes when the occasion amir
priately called for Leaves From
~Florentine Album "Sonnets from n
Portuguese or one of Walter Patti.
go exquisite prose poems") he sketch,
IN the front OF ii an outline Of +
OF streets we should follow in Paris
me oroer TO come to a statue of LaFa
no cite. by his friend Bartlett. the scni
tor. which he felt We would be int.
hin teSted in SoejpS