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Of baths; namely, shower baths, needle
baths, Turkish baths, hose baths and
others too numerous to mention. /
came out Of there feeling like new man,
and / feel that sulphur baths are great
things to take. al.
| After breakfast, we hired a bicycle and
rode to town about 8 miles away,
called CRANBERRY. There are two roads
to the place, but unknowingly we took
the mountain road and were very much
tired out by the time we got there, for it
1 is not much pleasure in pushing a
bicycle up a high hill. When we got
near the town, we went down hill, much
! to our satisfaction, for the town lays
down in the valley like AK. We coasted
down but had to keep the brakes on all
the time for the speed kept getting too
/ fast for u.s. Once safely there, we rode
around town but as there was notFmuch
/ to see there, we ate our dinner at some
] restaurant where we got a very good
meal and proceeded back to AK via
better road, called the Alpine highway.
It was very fine stretch Of roadway and
very level / must say it was almost
as coed as paved street for there was
!; no holes in it. The scenery along there
{ was great for the mountains were on
| both sides of us. From the foot, to half
way up the mountains, we could see
houses where people made their homes
and usually stay there all their life.
This road was much longer than the
! mountain road for we came in by the
lake, but we saved lots of hard work.
/ We got back to AK at p. m.
After supper we went to French
opera show but as my knowledge of
French is very limited, could under
stand very little of it. We we're always
looking for the next act to see if there
was anything interesting. We were
always there with the applause for when
we saw the French people applaud we
thought it may have been an interesting
and good act. l believe in the old
proverb, when in Rome, do as the
Romans do" We retired about mid
night, SO you see do not mind it bit
F., in being out late at night.
On Friday night we went to an Americ-
an vaudeville show given in the same
theatre. There were nine acts, mostly
tumbling and acrobatic acts. The
actors We're French and it was fair
imitation of our vaudeville shows at
home but that was all. We expected
it to be real good SO we bought the first
two seats in the front row, commonly
known as the bald-headed row.
On Saturday morning we hired bicycles
and rode out to the lake to take few
/; pictures. In the afternoon we went to.
the railway station and bought tickets
!, for ride to the top Of Mount Reward
which I referred to in the first part of
my letter While at the station, met
fellow who lived acres the street from
me when was at Mankato, chis being
! the second friend of mine have met
since being in France. It sure was a glad
meeting and we had lots to talk about.
We rode to the top of Mount Reward,
which is mile high, in a cog train. Only
one coach is taken up at time which
is pushed up by small locomotive The
train stopped two times on the way up,
there being water tanks stationed along
the track for it is some climb up that
mountain. 1t was fine getting up SO
high, 1t was cool about half way up as
the clouds were that high but not very
cold at the top. The view from the
mountain top was surely fine for we
could see very far off, as the day was one
of the clearest we had that week. The
town looked very small and the lake
looked like small pond, not over a block
long. It was almost impossible to be-
lieve that3it was II miles long for we
could see both sides of it. We looked
through a large telescope and could see
Mount Blanc and the Swiss Alps, also
we could see Italy in the distance.
|. We could see the snow on top of
Mount Blanc very plainly, also on the
other mountains farther away. Itsurely
was fine sight and one will remember
for a long time. Four trainloads Of
people were up so we had quite crowd
up. Mount Reward. We were up there
about an hour before the t aims went
!: down again. We got back to the hotel
about supper time.
After supper we went to a dance given
at the Casino by the Y. M. c. A. where
we had regular honest-to-go odness
American girls to dsi:ce with and they
were good lockers too. Also there were
a few French girls there to help fill in for
there were lots Of, soldiers there. We had
a good time and it was very exciting in
that they had the colored tag and colored
flag system. Every man who wants to
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