The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-11-06

arrived at Jerusalem at about p. IN.
after taking nine hours to do 60 miles.
The Red Cross didn't have room
for us, so we were sent over here 9th
American colony where they have
been simply lovely to use. You never
tasted such wonderful meals and such
loads to eat at a time: The lemon
pie, doughnuts and biscuits beggar
description, and we leave nothing un-
tried They generally have two des-
serts, a pudding and watermelon or
canteloupes. Aren't you sorry for
the hardships We are undergoing?
We are the most incongruous party
at the colony you ever saw. All OF
us are members of the A. c. r. N. T..
But one is Mennonite from Sidon.
the one we really came with. and he is
very nice; but another joined us un-
expectedly. He is an eX-office of the
army. is a poet and acted in Seven
teen and in other plays. He now
aspires to the Indian army, which just
about expresses it. Then there are
Miss Twiddle and myself and that is
all
We have had a beautiful time and
have five days more. I've learned
loads more about the city than l did
the last time. as we have had TO walk
everywhere. not being able to afford
guides and ghdrrys. I have found it
all so different, so much cleaner (the
British did that the first thing), so
built up with beautiful buildings, all
outside of the city in this direction.
and the peop'e so much more friend
" We have stopped several Bedouin
women and talked to them in our
most Indifferent Arabic. You really.
see more real Arabs here than up
north. where they are much more civ
ilized II seems to me lots mort
real Beduoins are in the city now than
remember before. only perhaps ]
didn't know the difference then.
The first day morning we saw the
Temple Area, Solomons stables, the
Mosque of Omar. the wailing place,
and in the afternoon we drove TO the
Mount of Olives and saw the Kaiser's
palace, where his picture and that of
the empress dressed in medieval
robes, with the model of the palace
between them, is painted on the cell
ing. Behind the altar Gall this is in
the lovely chapel, in the middle and
in mosaic, is the cross. in the next is
the Kaiser's own coat of arms, on the
other side of the cross the empress
coat of arms, and in the same line,
the Crown Princes and Eitel Freid-
rech's. Did you ever hear anything
so German. Gethsemane was lovely.
late in the afternoon. with the sun
setting behind the city. We saw the
Garden Tomb in the morning The
American colony takes charge OF 1t
now to keep it in order. and as it is
on our way to town we can often go
in They don't think il is real out
here. but / do just the same. Miss
Twiddle is lovely person to go about
with and loves all this just as do.
We have been reading Luke together
to get to know about things here. We
have read in patches. lot at sitting
and out loud and il is lovely to have
some one interested. So many OF
the people with us wouldn't be.
Yesterday we saw Pilates house
and the Pool of Bethesda. and we
Il
the Mount of Olives. We then went
to tea at the Y. NJ. c. A. Today We
are going to drive to Bethlehem. and
before we go back we are going to
Jericho. Yesterday morning, ! for
got to say, we went to service at the
huge new English cathedral OF st
Georges, near here. 1t is a lovely
place, with cloisters and gardens all
around Inside is spot they are
leaving as a souvenir. 1t seems that
one of the choir boys, Syrian, heard
that two cannons had been made IN
the church. He told the Turks and
they dug hole just in front OF the
altar. looking for the cannons. be-
Ijeve Canon Wright himself stood by
while 1t was going on
How often have wished you and
daddy could be here, too. Every
thing reminds me so vividly OF yon
and our trip. But it means so much
more this time, and can take it IN