Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-07-21

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/, interest to her friends; &
| Fontainebleau, France!
July q. 1921.
This Is just the most wonderful
old place / have ever SEEM: do wish
you could see 1t. / cannot describe
it In. the first place, it is so very
very large, simply huge. The wing
of the place in which We live Is a
very big thing by itself. but there is
lever so much more of the palace. We
have room on the fourth floor. There
are two others in it, besides myself,
Emile Rose Knox and Miss Kath-
leen McCallister, who sings, 1t is a
, nice big room, and we have a big
closet. We have piana In our room
also. Only the girls live IN the pal
ace. The men live in various PLACES
out in town, but they have their meals
down here and practice h,,re, and
can stay until ten o'clock The food
is real good. We have breakiast at
eight, lunch at twelve-thrty aud din.
ner at seven.
The grounds are perfectly lnarve-
lous, lakes, flowers, trees, and lap ms
and everything is kept 50 perfectly.
II will send you some pictures. Mr..
Chadwick took some fine ones with
his kodak. and / want to get some
of them wish could describe
lit so that yoa could get some idea
of the place, but cannot.
Mr.. Casaresus speaks very little
English, but he is. Just as nice as he
can be. His son speaks English very
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took a walk Sunday afternoon.
I went In the Chinese Museum, which
is in the palace, and also the art
gallery. They have quite large col
lection Of pictures, Monday morning
/ took walk In Fontainebieau. i
went into the forest, and through
town, etc. 1t is really quite large
place. They have street cars here,
too. The palace is right close to the
business part of town, but of course
has O big fence around It, and part
of the waya big wall. We have to
be inside what they cali the English
Gardens after nine O'Clock, and in.
side the building after ten p. m. 1t
is light until nine o'clock: guess
tit is. because they use tdaglight saw
ing time, 1t was real funny, the way
we had to keep turning our watches
up to keep up with the time on the
boat coming over.
We got to Havre late Friday after
noon. We spent Friday night on the
boat, and went to Paris Saturday
morning. We got there about one
ocoick. They said we could not get
our trunks until'3 o'clock. We went
to the American Woman's Club in
Paris, and then some of Us went out
and got lunch at hotel in Paris,
We went down to the station to see
about our trunks, and they told us
we could not get them until five
o'colck. We went back to the Ameri-
can Woman's Club, and later had tea
there. One of the girls, Miss. Lamopt
went out to look for friend In Paris.
Somebody had told another one of thel
girls that It would probably be :. six
before we could get our trunks, so
We did not hurry to get back down
to the station. After having tea, we
found out that the six-ffteen train
was the last one out to Fontaine-
bleau that night. Some Of the girls
started out walking to the station to
see about their baggage. You see we
had to change stations, and so we
would have had to transfer our trunks
to the other station and check them
to Fontainebleau. Well. Miss Waite,
Miss Knox and myself we're still at
the American Woman's Club. 1t was
fiye-thirty, at least, and Miss Lamont
had not returned. Miss Waite said
she would not go off and leave her.
Emile Rose and / got in taxi, and
started out for the other station. I
left my trunk check with Miss Waite
so that, II possible, she could get 1t
and bring 1t when she came. Well,
Emile Rose and I just did catch the
6:15 train and after we were on 1t
we did not know what station would
be Fontainebleau. You see, the trains
over here are different from our.
They are divided up into separate
compartments for nine or ten people;
instead of having conductor come
in and get your ticket, it is taken
up after you leave the train. You
should have seen Emile Rose asking
some Frenchmen in French how many
stations before Fontainebleau, or
what was the last one before Fon-
.tainebleau. She made him under
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