The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-08-02

gan, who spent his birthday, April IT, there year
after year.
Pictures and descriptions of AK have been
printed often enough for those who never have
been there, but the picture which lives in the
memory of the first party of American permits
sionaires is more vivid and aIluring than any
other. If you take n collection of clean, bright.
well-built villas, with broad sidewalks and as
phalted streets, such constructed in pros
porous American mountain and lake resorts,
deck them with charming French Italian gar
dens. place them on the slopes of hills and the
edge of an emerald lake, frame the picture in
ranges of snow-capped mountains through which
run zig-zag roads, and you have idea of the
vista awaiting the American boys
Several of the Americans housed in the
Hotel Lamartine, the edge of the Lamartine
woods where the celebrated author wrote
Raphael" THE philOsOphc. intellectual fighter
will be sure to find on the outskirts of Chanbery
a suburb of Aix-fes Bains, Les Charmettes." that
delightfully."- located home where Jean Jacques
Rousseau lived romance with Madame Warens
received royalty his friends and wrote books
The permissionaire cannot escape history in
AK, for he passes crumbling Roman arch when
lie takes his way to the great bath establishment
in which special rates had been made for his
plunge and shower. If he does not seek elude
but to study the past, soldier may find
plenty of Roman relics in the museums There
also are relies of I'm era when mountain top
pied over, burying TO hamlets and partly filling
Lake Bourget, from whose depths the treasures
have been retrieved.
lie can row across the lake to EautecOmbe Ab-
hey, which stands on the sole bit of ground In
this province still controlled by Italy. 1t con-
tains 200 marble statues and the mausoleums of
the dukes of Savoy. He will where Han
niba 200 B. c.. started his passage of the Alps
He will walk where walked Charlemagne Henry of
Navarro, the khedives of Egypt. Elizabeth of Aus
tria, Marie Pia of Portugal, kings of Great Brit
ain, Sweden. Norway, Belgium. Spain and the
kings of high finance
So much for the historic and scenic features.
The permissionaire, however. may be seeking less
classic relaxation his leave, and it is in album.
dance in AK. Leave does not mean license to
him, and among the many good things that may
be said to his credit-lOyaty, amiability, good
looks-let us not forget to give him a good mark
for this, and we have 1t the word of the in
habitants of AK.
Temptation may follow close, and not always
can the boy 1900 miles from home resist, but to
his eternal glory be 1t said that he does not seek
1t. Also to the credit of AK and the department
of Savoy be it added that all possible precau-
lions taken to safeguard him. few gam
bling houses there will always be, a few women
will follow army anywhere; there will. in
word. be lawbreakers ready TO lure him and. in
spite of warnings, there were grOcers who sur
reptitiously sold bottles of liquor-not much. be-
cause the customer, rendered loquacfOus, con-
fessed the place of sale and the vendors were
hailed to the bar of justice.
1t is not the intention Of trying Ito represent
the permssionaires Sunday school boys. But
they alive with health quickened by tho
sense of liberty, and the paths of this lead nat
uraly to sane recreation. Few Of them cared to
seek entertainment in dreary gambling places
or illicit resorts when they could enjoy the beau
ties Of nature and the wealth OF healthy eater
tainment made available
The boys did not have to be herded into the
straight and narro8 path. either. A few second
lieutenants sent with the men, but the off,