South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28

know how TO dress neatly and with
taste. Once in a while you see a
woman who has rather overdoue
things as 10 variety OF coiors but
that is seldom. To look at most OF
the women you'd think that her out
At cost a lot Of francs. but a fell
low told me that they do IL on $3.50
per. The same man told me What
he was sure a Partisan woman
would rather go without food than
wear poor clothes.
The second day Mac and / went
over 10 another hotel where some
Of our men were staying. In the
afternoon we all took a street car
out to Versailles. On the way out
there we saw the old building in
which the treaty Of peace was sign
Cd in 1871 which ended the Franco
Prussian war. A little further on
We passed a little church which was
built in SIS A. d. To date that is
the oldest thing I have seen. 1t was
a little old stone building that Is not
in very good shape and still stand
ing. Whenever a person Cor at
least - sees such things he wants
10 go up and touch it 10 see If II is
real. We finally reached Versailles
and hired a guide to take us through
the palace of Louis XIV. We took
about an hour going about the
place.
I'm one long hall the paintings on
the wall show the history Of France
fl ON Charlemagne to Napoleon.
was surprised to find CORVALLIS
surrender at Yorktown as a part Of
French history, but our guide ex-
planned the French attitude on the
subject. We were shown where
Louis XIV was born, where Marie
AntOinette had her reception room,
the balcony from which she address
ed the mob, the small door through
which she escaped from the Swiss
guard, and last, but not least, the
hall in which Kaiser Bills father
was made emperor of Germany. This
occurred during the German inva-
sion in 1871. The furniture in the
palace is wonderful. The guide let
us try a few of the chairs and a
person could easily fall asleep in
one. 1t was nearly dark when We
left the palace and so the guide
rushed US home a better way and
PROMISED 10 show us everything in
Paris the next day.
The old boy drifted in the next
morning about 9 o'clock and we
started out for the day. We went TO
the Louvre and couldn't get in. We
then went out TO the royal ceme-
terry. In Il back lot behind a garden
surrounded by an iron fence we
found the grave Of Lafayette. His
body is beside that of his wife and
near those of his wife's relatives.
who were OF a nobler family. When
we left the place we had TO sign
our names in a book as American
citizens who had come to pay re-
spect TO the memory of the bearer
OF liberty. equalite and fraternite.'
From Lafayettes tomb we went
out TO the University de Paris We
went through the school OF medi-
cine and gave all the other build
ings the once over The univer-
sity owns several very pretty. large
buildings. The chapel is in the same
building as the medic department.
In the chapel we saw the tomb of
Cardinal Richelieu. II one has read
Dumas Three Musketeers' he will
recall this old schemer and diplo-
mat. over his grave is a large
marble monument which shows the
cardinal on his deathbed with his
sister supporting his head, and
weeping France sitting at the foot
OF the cot
The Cluny museum is near Tye
university. but this place was closed
as was the Catacombs. This was be-
cause OF air raids of the night before.
which I forgot to mention. It wasn't
much of a raid as raids go. anyway.
AS it was nearing noon we dropped
into a small restaurant and had
feed. and then went over to the
Luxembourg. This is a very beauti-
full building and contains an assort-
ment of the best paintings and
statues I ever saw or hope TO see.
The statue that impressed me most
was that of a beautiful woman
whose form was of marble, her gown
OF agate and her veil was OF light
tar stone. I can't imagine how ii
was put together. We hurried from
the Luxembourg to the Cathedral des
Invalides.' This was built by Ma
roleon to be used as church by
his disabled soldiers. Here is his
tomb and ashes. His casket rests
in a mahogany chest in the center
o. the cathedral. In a circle about
il are printed the names OF the
great victories he won. About the
cathedral yard is an enormous num-
her OF guns OF all calibers that have
been captured in the present war.
suppose we spent two or three
hours here. as the war material was
very interesting TO us. AS II was
getting dusk now and we were rath-
el tired we took taxicabs and went
home.
The trip nearly ended our sight
seeing until the next sunday. This
time we deemed quite appropriate
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