Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-09-17

w nat Is LnaC! SAID one as we ap-
preached the edifce.
1.-THE cathedral, said the guide.
"Must we see it,"
'fSure."
'Well, one of US will go inside and
the other outside and we can see it in
three minutes
So they did.
English Lake District
The lake district of England, famous
as the abiding place of the poets
Wordsworth and Southy and other dis
tinguished English authors, is a region
of utmost charm. Within the borders
of these counties, Westmorland, Cum
berland and Lancashire are grouped
some sixteen lovely lakes interspersed
with numberless mountain streams and
cascades and Swallowed by heather
covered peaks. Nesting in the valleys
and often reaching upon the mountain
sides are many little villages often so
close together that they are within
easy walking distance. The appear
ance of these rural hamlets is decided
ly quaint to American eyes. The old
English cottage style of architecture
prevails and each home is graced by
blooming garden of old fashioned
flowers. At the hostelries, where the
scarlet coated driver of the coach in
variably has business, fair English
maid supplies post cards and varied in
formation, no less than bodily refresh
ment to the traveller.
The roads through the lake district
as in other portions of England are the
product of years of labor and exper-
fenced care. Coaches filled with many
merry companies of tourists, roll easily
no hill and down without danger along
the beautifully smooth highways. AL
the mountain roads, and there are many
of them branching in and out among
; the lakes and hills, are bordered witt
l stone walls some three feet or more
/ high and thick enough to supply
, comfortable seats for weary traveller
: who prefer tramping to coaching
These walls which have taken years t.
construct. add much to the pleasure
: of travel. No danger is there OF
coach going down a declevlt.
: and tipping its passengers int
eternity or perchance into lake. Like
sturdy sentinels they guard the wa!
: and incidentally add much to the pic
turesqueness of the landscape.
= Lake Windermere, said to be the
most beautiful sheet of water in Eng
land is some ten miles in length. Az
the coach follows the winding roaC
around it's borders EXPLANATIONS Of
delight atits beauty are heard OF
every side. The village of Winder
mere is larger and more modern thar
: the other hamlets in the region and il
, favorite summer sojourning point.
, At Hawkshead, afew miles farther
on, is the grammar school where vii
liam Wordsworth wrote his earliest
poems. 1t is still standing. So also
is the cottage of Dame Tyson where
the poet lodged for time and at
Grossmere not far away is the much
written of Dove cottage, the home OF
Wordsworth and his sister where
many lite ary minds met for discussion
and recreation. The grave of Words
worth and those of many members OF
his family are grouped together under
several yew trees in Grossmere GENE
! terry.
Among the other famous names
which are associated with the English
lake land are tho sc of Robert Southy
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who
lived in Keswck and wrote many mas
terpiece under the spreading trees on
the shores of the lake.
Thomas DeQuincey was member of
the circle at Dove Cottage for a time
and John Wilson the christopher
North" of litera ture spent a number
of years in the vicinity.
John Ruskin spent the last twenty
years of his life among the English
lakes and at his death his family de-
clined the honor of burial in Westmin-
ster Abbey for him because he wished
to lie in Cowiston church yard under
the shadow of his beloved Lakeland
Fells.
Among other writer's of note who
have been attracted by the charms of
the Lake district DR.. Arnold and
Harriet Martineau are perhaps the
best known.
Among visitors to Dove Cottage
were numbered Sir Walter Scott,
Charles Lamb, Mrs. Hemans and the
poet, Shelley, the last renting a cot
tage and remaining near Keswick for
some time.
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