Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-18

the open. I was told. This factory wa.
turned into royal establishment unde
Louis XIV, and as ! understood.
produced goods only for royalty. viz
| Kings. cmperors. potentatcs. and wheI
the guide showed us carpet (or tap
cstry) hanging on a wall valued n
$4,000. ! believed him. This carpe
had woven in the center Of II n picture
OF King Otto OF Bavaria, who wen
mad and drowned himself in Lake
StarnbcrC. just on the outskirts OF th'
city of Munich. This suicide happen
cd n short time before | sailed from
New York, and | was somewhat IA
, rliliar with the fact, having read 1t II
the foreign news. In 1910. when or
my way to Ober- Ammcrgau in Ba'
varia. I spent day and night ir
Munich and saw the monument erect.
cd TO him on the lake and very Close
TO where he was drowned. We visited
the Louvre, which Is a great public
building given over to art. never had
more than n passing taste for pictures
because | had never seen any of i'm
rortance up to that time. but since
went to the Louvre I have somewhat
changed. Often our prejudices (and
prejudice is founded on ignorance). sc
darken our eyes and senses that we
miss much of beauty as we journey
along the way: we do not see right
fully the beautiful that Is all around
us. The Louvre is the one great art
center of Paris. | saw the finest and
most beautiful pictures OF all sizes,
cost and mountings. Many Americans
sat before pictures copying them and
never turned their eyes at the stream
Of tourists passing by. During his
Italian campaign, Napoleon took the
choicest oil art and the celebrated
works were assigned n place in the
Louvre.
| have only touched Paris. All the
space in The Enquirer could he taken
rp over and over again with plenty
yet to tell.
From Paris | went to Rouen. city
of about 100000. and 10 miles from
l'aris. It is in Normandy. Like a
number of the smaller places. the
streets though generally straight, are
narrow and badly kept. In and around
these towns Of Normandy there is
n great deal Of quaintness. Planqucttc's
beautiful little opera, The Chimes of
Normandy" as / once saw ii perform
cd. was quickly brought TO memory as
] saw Roucn and the country round
and about 1t. As | SOW 1t with it's
quaint manners and Impressions and
the many colored dresses OF the fe-
males. I thought how truly the opera
composer had portrayed it all Without
scarcely an exception, may say that
every European town Of any note has
its cathedral. The one In Rouen is
very pretty. This place Is on the Seine
river over which are bridges of stone
and iron connecting the old and new
towns. 1t has what many larger
French cities have but not on 30 large
a scale as Paris. Rouen has been a
ST torm- center for centuries, having bee4;
taken and retaken many times. Hem
X-took. Ii I'm. Ida aaxr4na6 afsAxC56R
burned here in 1431.
have not touched the great war In
this story. am only giving some trav-
cl impressions as / go along the way
can say nothing new about the war
for every reader knows 1t from day to
day. | can only emphasize what thou
sands have said and that is. that II
was uncallcd for and n crime of crimes
Poor France! Truly my heart and
sympathy go out to her almost as n
weeping child clutches for its mother
The murder at Sarajevo was only q
flimSy excuse. England and France
practically begged Germany to submit
it TO n conference. but the German en-
pcror. war mad for so years. would
hear nothing. 1t was not his concern
anyway, and Austria could (and be-
licvc. would have been satisfied had
she not been really vassal Of Ger
many, who started the conflagration
on the prctcXt that Austria and the
archduke were an ally and friend
World domination-that is the secret ol
it all. often think that the whole
German nation is depicted in the coun-
tcnancc Of the kaiser: and today. he
and his people. hate the Americans
worse than they do the English or the
French. and II becomes worse daily.
Think OF what is in store for us II
Germany wins.