Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-03-02
Mrs. Emmett Writes Interesting
Letters From Paris.
CONTINUED from First Page.)
Hotel Continental,
8 Rue Castiglione, Prais,
January %, 1921.
Ny dearest Mother:

January ZZ, I9ZI.
My dearest Mother:
We have tried to take things lit
tie easier today, as all this steady go
ing is beginning to tell on US both
Besides we expect to leave soon fol
little trip through Italy and Swift
zerland and there will have to be
some rest days, or it will be physi-
cal impossibility to keep up.
The French insist on sending break
fast to the rooms; I do not know
whether it is to cater to the Incidence
of the inmates, or because it is more
economical. Anyway it is very SIM
pie affair. Nothing but coffee, rolls
and butter, and to me it is none too
appetizing when poked into your bed
before your face is washed and your
teeth brushed. / expect to get mine
in the dining room tomorrow morning
if have to sleep with my clothes on
to accomplish it.
y We moved into pension" yester-
day and I am delighted with the
change. 1t only costs us forty francs
a day, which is about $3.50 per in
our money. The marvel is how we'll
it is conducted for so small a sum,
for the meals are excellent and so
well served.
Immediately after lunch today, we
started for Versailles. remember
reading in Carlyle's History of the
French Revolution" how the women
of Paris walked out to this palace to
demand bread of the king. If they
did, it was some stroll, believe me.
They call it nine miles and 1 am sure
the Sans Culottes as we'll as myself
are convinced of it. We passed
through some awful looking slums
and there were people around who
still looked mean enough to guillotine
anything from a king down to poor,
inoffensive me. They told US after
wards we made a mistake in going
on the tram, as it passes through a
very rough section of the city, SO we
come back on the train. There is no
hope of getting around without
trouble until we learn the French lam
guage better. 1 feel like saying as
the little girl said to Mcdowell after
listening to him play one of his own
compositions, "You don't do it right
at ALL"
But Versailles was worth all the
trouble of getting here. The gardens
were far larger and more elaborate
than any we saw in England. It takes
hours to walk over them, and the
gardener who laid them out must
have been the greatest genius of his
age. 1t was all done for Louis XIV,
and after him came 'the deluge," so
guess that explains where much of
the money was sunk that caused
France to 'sgo broke" about this time.
We made no effort to go into the pal
ace as it was impossible to do so and
see the garden the same afternoon,
but we went into the two Trianons.
I am sending you postcard picture
of "The Grand Trianon" and 'La
Petit Trianon" as you will associate
Marie Antoinette with the one, and
the signing the "Peace Treaty" with
the othes. Both are exquisitely fur
nished and the inevitable guides are
present to "speil off" lot of yarns
about it. For the first time since COM
ing here had the profound pleasure
of telling them 1 could not understand
one word of French so it was time
wasted. We had time to see the old
royal coaches and they were worth a
trip out there alone. While they look
ed like pure gold to me, they suggest
ed hearses too strongly for me to en-
thuse over them. don't want a free
ride in that sort of vehicle yet a
while.
When we got back to the palace it
was too dark to see anything so we
are planning to go back and go
through it later on.
On our return trip we got off at
the "Invalides," right in front of Ma
poleon's tomb, but it was raining and
too dark to see anything, so we hur-
ried across a beautiful bridge called
"Pont Alexander and crossed the
Seine near the "Place de la Con-
corde." Near by was q hotel in which