The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-26
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one would take of a lawn. After
travelling over good many miles Of
such roads | can better understand
the remark that Gen. Helmick made
at Brest that the roads of France
saved the world from defeat. One
can hardly speak of the roads OF
Brittany without recalling that along
them at frequent intervals are
shrines, emblematic of the cfucifixion
where the wayfarer may stop for a
moment of rest and prayer. Like
the chateaux and the walls the shrines
IN many cases seem centuries old.
The People.
Brittany's people are simple and
plain. 1t is said they are closely akin
to the Welsh and that their languages
overlap enough that Welshman and
a native of Brittany can get on to-
gether. The business and profession
al people dress quite as Americans
or the French, but the peasants as
well as many in the cities wear the
costumes of Brittany: the women
with heavy full skirts, white simple
hats or hair covering that suggests
the ordinary head-dress of a nurse,
and men women and children wear
ing sabots Of wood, or shoes with
leather uppers and wooden soles. The
men wear a low crowned, wide rolled !
rim block hat, to which the land |
owner adds a black ribbon that falls
in the back as far as the shoulders.
And the people walk, that is, most of
Them do. Along country roads one
meets them, even when they are haul
ng they are leading the horse as a
'ule. Most of their vehicles are two
Wheeled and made for one horse and
f two or more horses are used, they
ire hitched up tandem. | saw five
litched tandem to pillow. Ordinarily
he people seem most happy and their
aces are SO uniformly ruddy from
abyhood till old age that one is
truck at once by this characteristic.
tut the people have suffered in the !
yar and in any group of women, so
arge a number wear the token of t
lourning that one is constantly re-
linded of the sacrifice France has +
lade of her men in the great war. {
90, frugality appears on every hand. t
here is no waste. The land is pet 7
ID and coaxed and constantly en- I I
ched from the barns and stables. N
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Die seems to be expected to do it's 4
art. And this frugality it was that
labled the French people to prompt
pay off the enormous levy assess
against France at the close of the is
ranco-Prussian war almost a half L
injury ago. a
The Flower of Brittany. u
In Brittany probably the most n
aracteristic flower at this time of p
ar is the ojancs, a yellow flower II ~
at grows on low shrub that is II
green with leaves quite W
lite similar to the leaves of the
lite fir or Juniper This likeness ap- ca
ars only at a distance of several m
ct, and the shrub is not a member u
the evergreen fmily. le
The ojancs grows everywhere, on i +.
nth, fences, along the border of -
rdens, in waste places and in he'd ~
S. It's branches are extensively -
ed for decoration purposes. In ~ ~,
tiffany there is saying that when W. w.
: ojancs is in bloom it is kissing "
ne. Well l agreed at once with -
} reasonableness Of this proposition o. -,
d it seemed that even the most ~ ~
installing chaperone should APP a.
ove. But then I was advised that 20
} ojancs blooms the year round and pl
rather think those who urge the y
ying have the better of the propo- c e.
ion. sl'
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