Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-25
BACHELER SISTERS SAY
 THEY PREFER UNITED STATES

WlCA yOUA6 AOulcA luc 4lbbCS EIaLSSSl Isabel and Christine Bacheler, who are | art instructors in the Hartford high | school have given an interesting sketch i of their experiences. In the Hartford | | Times, they describe some of the eN2eri- ences as follows:
 During our stay in Paris, the French | national holiday, July IA, was celebrated | and for nearly a week the traffic from | the section of Heaven and He'll so called as far as Sacre Occur was seeth- ing mob of merry makers. In the fash 1 ionable quarters of Paris excitement was high with fireworks, cheering or parades, but in the poorer section which we visited with bodyguard of French friends, wild. almost maniacal gaiety abounded. Ev- anywhere there were merry-go-rounds or carrousels groups of wild-haired women and soldiers who walked seven or eight in a row, arms around each other or inter locked roughly breaking through the crowd, swaying an dsinging in half
 drunkenness.
 '%The cafes were overcrowded, their tables and chairs far out into the street,
 where women and children sat with the
 men drinking foaming glasses of beer.
 blond ct brune. Here and there a ghast-
 ly creature was seeh smoking a cigarette,
 the carmine on her lips making brilliant
 stain on the stub of what in London would be called a Woodbine.
 And then there was the dancing! The
 music was Bacchanalian, wild, to which f men and women, with cries and shouts | swayed in a small cleared space on the street corners. The odors were terrific, garlic predorGinating and making one 5 think of the odors of the city Of Cologne. r We heard the merry-nakers going home about 1 o'clock in the morning.
 "The battlefelds were thrilling and ! horrible. We saw Chateau Thierry. a Belleau Woods, Rheims Soissons and e many ruined villages where the inhabi- l tants were still living in holes in hill |. or wandering through the ruins. endeav- T bring to collect the stones belonging to q their homes.
 s 'fWe crossed the Marne on tempor- : ary bridge the original bridge having been d blown up by the Americans to keep the ? Germans from rushing down the hill : crossing the river and getting into Cha e teau Thierry. It was here that some of - the terrible fighting took place and the O river ran blood for seven hours y Up on the hjll, near Belleau Wood is ', a large Ameriean cemetery where many u bodies were being distinterred, placed
 in rough boxes. packed in a huge truck
 rushed down the hill across the rattlina
 bridge over the Marne to the railroad IL SNdAlOll III Cildltdu lnlGEEN. We saw q r. great number of American cemeteries Ie many of the graves being decorated by Ie the peasants wHh peoples and other wilt ] flowers.
 n At the bottom of the dugouts whic. l. we entered, near the Aisne river, is le section which had been no-man's land ts There were bits of decaying clothing "a leather straps and an overpowerin:
 stench. Here, on no-man's land tn ,6 ruin and devastation were absolute. A st far as the eye could see was chopped u a- ground. great shell holes, barbed wire en d tanglements and as you picked your wa. CT over the rough ground, you had to wal is with great caution as there were so man of unexploded shells half buried in tn
 earth
 50 Everywhere in Europe we were i'm as pressed with the friendliness of the pee tn pie Even the shy little peasant chil ne dren smiled sweetly from behind thei 'i- moths skirts.
 he "In Switzerland, the people were espe S. cially polite and anxious to please "
 werel surprised and delighted to find ths ve the Swiss national holiday fell on a dat CT August l, when we were in Switzerlan n- The celebration was very beautiful. 0 ct every mountain top were roaring fires s 50 that a star of light gleamed from eac
 mountain. The boats on Lake Ilucerr
 were brilliantly trimmed with hutterin
 pennants and bright lights.
 IN Tn the afternoon, a band of ninstre te came down the mountains with instrt al ments slung over their shoulders. broa CT red sashes. shining horns. loose trouser te and feathered hats. Then followed ed the court yard an impromptu dance,
 dance quite as hilarious as those in Pa-i as Early in the evening a procession of Ii oh tie children carrying lanterns on Tor ed poles marched through the street, the ad eyes round and excited while the ligl ng made shining halos of their fair hai ng Everywhere rockets were shooting in his the sky and for each rocket on the O eh posite side. we. on this side. sent off tv Is, or three. There was great excitemel tte and much rivalry. Each mountain trit me to surpass it's neigh5or in beautiful fir m works.
 ept The Swiss national dish. fried apples
 butter with whipped cream, and. if q ter sired, le petit win de Bordeaux was ser 10 ed in the garden under swaying lantern F. while yodeling sounded from one mou CTS tain to another. and the national hyn lon rang through the cool starry night est childish voices.
 eve saw so much that 1t would be q
 ficult to tell of everything, but it mig
 be interesting to know that while pilot SEE by Swiss friends we climbed rror,nts
  lch higher than Mount Washington, Rigi ohc Pilatus. This we accomplished in O the day by starting under the stars in [ ith quiet holy time between daylight a ec- night, when the earth is holding the breath in anticipation of that conf CT glory. the rising sun.
 in When the sun. turning the wor as suddenly and wondrously rosy, looked C Iiss CT the mountain we had been on our | nes ward climb over two hours and cod ale look down the mountain side and see on- below us the misty sleeping village on; yet untouched by rosy-fingered dawn. rte Soon after we came down the Tnou 'te- tain (we reached our hotel in starligl
 there was a wild snowstorm .burying cal mountain under ten inches of new fall ITS snow. .,ss Europe is picturesque and charmi Alc- and we're going again soon, but
 comfort and safety, give us les Etats U
 and especially New England"