Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-08

gan, who spent his birthday, April IL, 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 vivid and allurfng than any
other If you take collection of Clean bright.
weh-built Villas with broad sidewalks and
phalted streets, such constructed in pros
porous American mountain and lake resorts.
deck them with charming French or italian gar
dens, place them the slopes of hills and the
edge OF an emerald lake, frame the picture in
ranges of snow-capped mountains, through which
run zfS-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 Lamartne
woods, where the celebrated author wrote
Raphael" The philosophic intellectual fighter
will be sure to find the outskirts of Chanbery.
suburb OF Aix-lesBains. Les Charmettes," that
delightfully."- located home where Jean Jacques
Rousseau lived romance with Madame Warens,
received royalty as his friends and wrote books.
The permissionaire cannot escape history In
AK, for he passes crumbling Roman arch when
he takes his way to the great bath establishment,
in which special ratAs had been made for his
plunge and shower. II he does not seek to elude
out to study the past, soldier may find
plenty of Roman relics in the museums There
also are relics of when a mountain top
pied over. burying 16 hamlets and partly filling
Lake Bourget. from whose depths the treasures
have been retrieved
He can row across the lake to Hautecombe alb
bey which stands 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 see where Han
nibal- 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 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 crediEloyalty. amiability good
looks-let us not forget to give him a good mark
habtants of AK.
Temptation may follow close and not always
can the boy 5000 miles from home resist, but
his eternal glory be 1t said that does not seek
it Also to the credit OF AK and the department.
OF Savoy be 1T added that all possible precau-
tons are taken to safeguard him. A few gam
bling houses there will always be, few
Will follow an army anywhere; there viii, In a
word be lawbreakers ready lure him and, in
reptitousy sold bottles of lquor-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 to represent
the permissionaires Sunday school boys But
they alive with health. quickened by the
sense of liberty. and the paths of this lead
seek entertainment in dreary gambling places
Illicit resorts when they could enjoy the beau
ties of nature and the wealth OF healthy enter
tafnment made available
The boys did not have to be herded into the
straight and narrow path. either few second
1ieutenants were sent with the men. but the ON