Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-10-13
We We're Clad To Get Back to Old
England From Trip to Ireland
Say Former Baraboo Doctor
THINKS COUNTRY is
A BEAUTIFUL PLACE
Has No Time For the Irish Jaunt-
ing Carts and Compares Them
to Tractors

Mrs. B. n. Robinyo y, this city has
received letter from her son, Dr. b.
n Robinson, who is now in Liverpool,
England. DR.. Robinson recently took
a trip with his wife to Queenstown,
ireland. and tells of conditions there
at present.
Dear Mother:-
Well we have returned from Ire
land and believe me we are glad to
get back safely to English
soil again There is something in the
very air over there that makes one
feel uncomfortable and i'll at ease.
But | will GOMEZ that as go along
with the description of our journey
We left Liverpool on the Cunard
Liner Schythia at about five p. m.
and arrived in Queenstown the next
day at eleven p. m. We were met
in the outside harbor by little ten
der and on it we We're taken to the
town. The whole OF our trip was plan
ned by the Cunard Co. and we were
their guests on all our little journey
which, let me explain. was one Of
business and pleasure combined.
have been for some time desir-
ous of seeing for myself just wha
has been going on in that
little corner Of the world, and
this trip gave me the opportunity.
The fact of the truce made it pos
sible to go in comparative safety,
but it was with a. feeling of relief
that we have come back out of that
realm of lawlessness, of cold blood
ed murder and assassination:
Let me describe Queenstown as it
appealed to us. God has given heF
a wonderful landlOcked harbor, as
good as any in the world, and large
enough to hold all of the British fleet
at one and the same time. It lis
protected at it's opening by fortresses
on either side, which are now obsolete
because of the new long range guns,
the fortresses being much too close
to the town to be of advantage. The
town is built on the side of hill
cent and is in three distinct terraces,
the higher you go the better class OF
people you encounter. II has the ap-
pearance of not changing much in
the last century and looks like a.
town you might expect to find in
France or Spain or even Italy, that
was thriving in the sixteenth GEN.
tury, but has forgotten to keep up
to date. And like such towns the
center of the place is great cathe-
dra1 which rises out of the town. 1t is
spotless and new and stands in marked
contrast to the old weather stained.
time dilapitated ruins that are forced
to serve as dwelling for the common
people.
Let me describe the hotel where
it was necessary for us to stay all
night. Once upon a time the Queen
had stopped there It might have been
clean at that time, but it is my hon
est opinion that it had not been well
cleaned since. The dust Of ages had
accumulated on the bed posts, and the
mantel was almost cushioned with it
and the corners were rounded with
dirt like the corners OF a modern
operating room are rounded with
concrete to make it more easy to keep
them clean. This may have been the
idea there but for some reason we
could not appreciate it.
We took a ride into the country in
As ~
comfortable locomotion / must say
/ much prefer a tractor. 1t is very
good for one with liver trouble; they
say 1t shakes one up so. No one need
argue that point with me for one
minute I'll admit it on one trial, that
is if a good shaking is good for a
sluggish liver However, will not
recommend it as a treatment To my
patients. As a churn though / think it
should be made known to those in
terested in the butter-making indus
try. Kindly take this matter up with
the Department of Ag -icultnrs but
don't mention 1t to the man
ufacturers conveyances. public
or private, for do not wish
to be the cause direct or L.dicect,
of INJECTING such form of punish
ment on my poor fellow countrymen.
But the country is beautiful. What
place it could be made into as a
dwelling place for happy and content-
ed man If they would try to use
their brains and Drawn just
10 make two blades of grass