Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-03-16

Mrs. Emmett Writes Interesting
Letters From Marseilles and
Nice.
Splendide Hotel,
81 Boulevarde d'Athenes,
Marseilles,
January 27, 1921.
My dearest Mother:
AS we left Paris on the o'clock
train yesterday, and got here at II
p. M, you can well understand there
is not much of me left to tell the
tale. 1t must be at least five hundred
miles, and none the better travelling
for having to make it on European
trains. While they, are behind US in
every modern arrangement, we must
"give the devil his due" We had
fine lunch in the diner for about
sixty cents in our money, which
would have cost more than twice that
amount had we been travelling at
home.
Tomorrow we are going on to Nice,
then to Italy. Nice is to Europe what
Palm Beach is to our country, but
there is no use to write you about it.
till after l have seen it. There is so
much to tell you about Marseilles
that I will have exhausted all the ad-
jectives in the dictionary before I
reach Italy.
All my reading about it never gave
Marseilles justice. and it was such a
surprise to me to find such place of
beauty down here on the Meditera-
mean and so little written about it.
1t is located in one of those coves
where mountains and sea seem to
meet, and to me nothing can equal
it. 1t is really the gateway to this
country of "the Rivera" as Jackson
vile is to the Florida resorts, but ex-
cept for climate, there the resem-
blance ceases. The weather is as mild
as April, and the sun shines brighter
than any place this side of the
Equator.
We walked all day along the, Med.
.iteranean shore borde by hand
some SON illas, while p g sin the back
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trees which have not lest their fo1i-
age.
The city itself is absolutely for
eign. Paris has so many English and
Americans that it is quite cosmopoli-
tan, but here it is the Latin race
strictly and no other that holds the
floor.
You note this everywhere; down
on the waterfront as the fishermen
come in with their boats full of fish;
out in the parks where the band is
playing to a laughing temperamental
crowd unlike anything you would see
in America. Some of them are in their
native costume, which has most
unique looking headdress.
There is "The Dansante" going
on in the adjoining room, and find
myself looking up from my writing
to watch the dancers, for the scene
is so entirely French. The music is
good, and the graceful women we'll
worth staring at, but the touch of
color lent by the uniforms of these
gay looking officers lend a pictures
que tone so different from the Eng
lish or American dances. Part of their
uniform is bright red with much gold
trimmings, and both the attractive
looking girls and gaily clad officers
dance wonderfully. But there is an
other side to this picture that can
not be left out.
Some of the most miserable lock-
ing creatures you can imagine walk
the streets, and at every corner a
scrawny hand reaches out to beg for
aims. Then most Of the buildings look
like they might have been put up in
Adams day. Yet it all forms part
of the life over here and the very
contrasts make the whole so pictur-
isfed am with the old U. S. A.
But l wish you could look in on
the scene have here before me. Fine
music, gay birds, much drinking and
smoking at the tables around the
room, with dancing in the center. Its
beautiful, but you know the world
can't run like this. That is what's
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