The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-15

Hampton Court is one of the many royal palaces. The famous Woolsey lived here, and it was a favorite place with Henry Eighth. It contains the excellent gobelin tapestries Like most of the palaces, it has been made into park for the British people, who throng it's ancient halls, to see the clock court, and the in geniouS astronomical clock, the state apartments and picture galleries and the haunted gallery
 The formulae of reception was a little strange to Americans. Every body had a card from the govern ment. A dozen constables scrutinized each card until presently it was the turn of an imposing person to an nounce in stentorian tones the guest and his wife, if he had one with him, whereupon the Earl shook hands with each of them.
 The piperS of the Scots guards and the band of the same regiment play ed a lengthy concert of music which Americans are faIaiilar with it. Tents had been erected in the park and tea was served with cakes and ices in a generous fashion, although it has to be admitted that even the resources of government did not successfully accomplish an American type of lem onade. Lemonade was served, but it is not made very well here nor for the matter of that, is ice cream.
 The welcome began when the Amer jeans reached Glasgow. This was at the end of a perfect voyage. Not a soul was seasick. The sea was like mill pond, until the coast of Ireland was neared, when for one afternoon and a. night the 1S.oOO ton ship rolled a little.
 At Neville, an Irish port, a stop was made to let off some Rotarians who were bound to Scotland by way of Londonderry, and presently the steamer entered the Clyde, passing on the way a half dozen war ships which. it was said, represented a part of the moral suasion which the govern ment employs to settle the coal strike, only this day settled by an agree | ment, which carries government subsidy and a plan for profit shar- ing, very substantial victory for the men who have been out for eighty nine days.
 The strike brought the Rotarians an unexpected advantage. They saw | London without it's smoke or fog | They saw a transformed London, upon which the bright sun has shown for days. bringing to the city's surpass- | ingly beautiful architecture and il- | Illumination, a beauty which no mar | can remember having seen before. 1 Not since ancient days has Londor | had so much sunshine and so little | smoke
 These beauties were acquired at z | great price. I shall describe in . later letter the paraIyzing effect ot l the coal strike, and speak now o1
 the injury to crops which. has beer | caused by a. most unusual absence o1
 rain- Hay is not more than half 2
 crop Fruits have not matured as l have been dwarfed where they grew
 Agricultural Britain prays for rain. The Glasgow Rotary club met the | crusaders with bands ard pipers | They J-iS o- | native flowers and a box of Scotch
 candy, furnished Charabancs to z
 special train waiting at the station
 of the Caledonian Railway and al
 safely in Edinburgh, the Athens ot l Europe, rooms assigned and every.
 body feeling quite at home.
 | This is the season of tourists, the 1 jeans were assigned to private homes where they became the guests of some
 of the leading people of the city.
 Edinburgh is gray and old Above
 It frowns Edinburgh Castle, which
 has been in some sort a garrison since Roman days. The best of i ! lines Princess street, a thoroughfart
 which has a character of it's own | This street will stand comparisor | with any in the world.
 Its people live largely in the past | They are steeped in the quarre1s, the battles; in the romance and the king | anu doSSIlS OI IOHS ago. IheSe thing
 are in sort bread and butter to tn, city, for in come dropping thousand
 or tourists, to see the home of Joh1
 Knox, the stern Calvinist and tn,
 window from which the beautiful ant
 unfortunate Mary. queen of Scots
 lowered her babe at the end of som
 two or three hundred feet of rope
 that it might be baptised in tn
 Catholic faith.
 Little did Mary dream that the TO
 nance of her child would draw man
 shilling and many a sixpence iron
 sympathetic listeners born in a Ian. of which she never knew.
 Holyrood Palace. with it's ruine
 Abbey, where Mary also lived, is .
 ian missed Here is the poor queen furniture, her audience chamber. he | bedroom, the bedroom of Lord Darn ley and the secret stairway Ieadin from one to the other. Here is tn
 very spot where Rizzio was seized a
 he sat with tffe queen, and there darkHng Stain said to be the yer Rizzio, after he had been fifty time
 stabbed with the blades of Scotsmer Day after day the Edinburgh Ro
 tar1ans provided charabancs, motors , trains guides and all things neces sary to show Americans the land . marks of their ancient land. The visitor became, after a litt1 time, expert in the matter of rufne abbeys, and those who were not de
 Hnquent for lack of reflection learn
 ed the difference between a Pa1ac and a Castle, and discovered that tn marks of CromWeIfs cannon stil could be seen upon many rufne
 wall, and found in the memory O living Scotchnaane fora sScotchma