Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-07-18

. Chapman w. Marshall Oh recent
return to New York from France,
wrote fine letter to Mrs. McGinness
from which We make the following in
teresting extracts:
"Dear Mother McGinniss:
You cannot realize how delighted
I was to once more receive one of
your grand and loving letters. 1t
was wonderful treat mother, after
you have been away from Gods
Country" and spent a whole long
month on the sea, with nothing but
water 10 Weep you company, to come
back and; find lots of letters from
those you know and love:
e. I was first Of all, so pleased to hear
how we'll you are, and that you are
enjoying so much of life. No one Is
old except i'm thought and action so
don't for one minute think I regard
you as old, when you write and tell
me Of attending movies, banquets and
the like. Why, that is even more
than myself can do. At times aboard
ship I'm sure my action are ever so
much older than yours.
We had a delightful trip this last
time. Going over the water was just
as smooth as one could find it in
lake and the weather was very warm.
While in France it was the same.
While in France I spent two days
and one night in Paris. It was a
wonderful trip and saw too much
of which to try and write in an ordin-
ary letter, so I will leave the finer
details out, and explain them to you
with the aid of pictures when1 re-
turn home.
Paris is without doubt wonderful
city. 1t is rather modern in a great
many respects, yet there is still much
in, evidence of the backwardness of
the people. But it is the latter which
goes to make it interesting for US to
visit. One can ride all over the city
in a very up-to-date subway, or on
the other hand, he could easily hire
an OK to pull him around In a two
cart all day. They have both
extremes. One sees but little evil
dence of the war in the city, outside
Of captured guns and men Of all ma
tionalities in uniform, most promi-
nent of which are our own soldiers
and sailors, for everyone is being re-
stricted in no way from seaing the
city, providing it is possible.
spent one afternoon at Versailles
and was all through the palace and
Of Louis the XIV. There
Is no way of really describing the
beauty to be found there. One simply
las to see it. took several pictures
and bought cards of the place which
will show you some day unless some
,ne is more fortunate that and beats
ne to it. -.
What really impressed me the most
vas the Pantheon LIE Care, the big war
,icture of which you have read and
leard about. One enters beautiful
arge building and ascends flight Of
many steps and dark passageways to
! central platform, about fifty feet in
liameter On either side, in front
md in back is the picture. It is
,ainted on a wall which is three hun
lred feet in circumference and twen-
y-five feet high. The picture is ar
.anged in a series of groups, each |
group representing a country and its
prominent people of the Allies. In
The foreground, life size, are the
prominent generals, admirals, and
eaders of the nations represented, so
natural one could easily make the
and think they were stand
ng there and ready to speak, but they
are only painted, SO have no further
bearing on my description if such this
may be, one. The one of our country
Is very good. President Wilson isl
shown making one of his famous
speeches, surrounded by our leaders.
~ SAO VI SuC " CSAUOAI oAN
bit more in the foreground are three
types of American manhood, which
went into the making of our army
and symbolic how united we were
in the fight for Democracy. One is
our laborer, another our business
man, and the third our western cow
boy. The three are lead by an Off
GER carrying our flag. 1t struck me
as being very real.
Then there is one central group
called "Our Heroes which has sew
en- thousand individual persons pic
tured. They represent the entire AL
lies, and are placed at random, stand
ing on the steps Of a large building,
from which they are reviewing their
armies march through a
large gate. The columns of soldiers
gradually fade away in the distance
and there is the dust from the horses
and a great number of areOplanes