The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-23

purple grapes framing the low door
ways, while occasional peoples. corn |
Flower and mustard nodded US a
friendly welcome from picturesque
matched roofs. where vugrant seed
had blown and blossomed.
Farewell To Paris.
With a taste Of this out-of-door life
among park and chateaux. we soon
turned our tickle backs on Paris and
the Mex week found US one day al
ST. Cloud, another of Chanteliy; an
other n thus on through the week
TO Aalmaison. Versailles. and Fon-
tainbleau, and eve after all this.
~grasping enough to sigh regretfully
over the thought that our time would
not permit Us a longer stay In France.
SO that we might take in q tour days
coaching trip through this chateau
country OF Southern France. which
the Student Hostel was planning for
the following week.
The trip to St Cloud we took by
water, passing under the many tate
ly bridges Of the Seine. by picturesque
villas running down to the waters
edge under the shadow Of forest
crowned hills from which convent
and monastery frowned srinly down
upon you.
The palace at st. Cloud was de-
stroyed by the Communists in 1s7f.
IoNN -" yoo "OAh AOI titS Woo4E Ky
lands overlooking the Seine through
ttefraced and balustrated gardens that
look toward long viStaS through elmS
and silvefy beeches many centuries
old, it takes but a slight stretch of
the imagination to reconstruct il all
as it once roSe there.
Below the height OF ST. Cloud nestles
the little village OF Sevres. where the
world-famed Sevres porcelain is
manufactured, and where we had the
delight OF spending an hour or SO
among the priceless treasures of the
great museum there.
AT Chantilly. an estate OF over six
thousand acreS-Once the home of the
hluStriOus Condo family. we spent
most Of the day driving through the
great forest. where from a central
point. twelve cut through the
heart of h forest. radiate like the
spokes Of a wheel IN a dozen different
directiOns-each avenue SO long that
standing It one end and hooking
through to the other. the entrance
/ which is as high as the lofty trees
5 that arch overhead. seem only a low
{ tarchway no higher thar a mans
: head.
Crantelly is also famous az a greaV
4 race course. it being to France VIVA
NeWmarketis to England.
2 At The Biz Race
! We were disappointed to learn tina
! the June races had just taken plac'
= the week before we arrived in Paris
but the GROWING event of the racin.
: season, the Grand Prix at Long
: champs was yet ahead OF us, and thi
. we determined to see-the YER
thought OF attending the races i
Paris p us on the qui vive 70
8 h entire week.
q We knew nothing, however, Of tn
= entries for the races. and feared wit
the q French at our cOmman'
|. to attempt the hazardous task Of buy
!, ing our tickets and securing desirabl
seats in the midst Of that turbulent
e excited crowd, so as the brilliant
n fashionable throng was what we real
o. " wished to see-the gowns an
= Jewels Of the women-the latest fad
and fancies of fact a
that animation, color and bri1lianc
4 that go to make up the vivid scene G
a race day in Paris, we compromise
by deciding to get a "a for the after
= noon, station ourselves at a point c
vantage where the elegantes emerge
= and afterwards drive in the Bots d
Bonlogne where we would seeeaH tn
h fashionable, gorgeously attired thron
as they drove and had tea in the e1
20 elusive open-air restaurants there.
A French-speaking friend drov
= the bargain, and gave Instructions t
10 W SIIu ~ NiAiS 70 ~ ~
mapped out program. whereupon "
,r blithely set forth. three of US in
. victoria of the deep-sea-going variet
% drawn by a would be-frOlicSOme stee
at with the tragic air of a woman WI
1T having out-lived her youth and beau'
~ is yet unconscious of it, the who
r presided over by a coachman in iivel
~ far too Respondent for the rest Of h
a equippage.
or Poor But Genteef."
10 If ever you saw poor but gentee
written over anything it was write
over that turnout. But W. refuse
to let it quench the buoyancy of o.
70 spirits. Were we not off for the rae
=, in Paris. and did not such an occ:
uc sion call for brilliancy and b%ouyanc+
lie Should we let such a trivial matter
40 the fact of our not being able to
d' out in our own Mercedes throw
u shadow over such a rare event. L
deed no, We were made of stern
stuff We hoped. So setting Ii ne