Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05
THE EUROPEAN WAYSIDE
Or. Mcconnell Writes Random Notes
Of Travel.
HOW BOYS Can WORK way ACROSS

Ducks on Lake Observation-Disclosures
Sprina-Hears of Death of Dr..
Walker-Ameriean Women the Best
Dressed Women in France-Cost of
Living.
Paris, August 10, 1922
There are enough wild ducks on Lake
Lucerne to make your trigger finger
itch. They are mostly mallards and
black duck and come up close to swim
around to pick up bread thrown from
the boats. No one is allowed to shoot
on the lake.
The Italian farmer plows with oxen
or his milk cows. Like France they
have large white cattle, with long
horns, larger than Holsteins.
While walking along the lake shore
at Lucerne / met a Davidson College
boy. He was Palmer from Tennessee
and had come over with six other
Tennessee boys on one ofsth Swift
Packing Company's boats, feeding
cattle for his passage. He reported
good passage with light>work and good
food. He has seven weeks In Europe
then the company gives them passage
home. l wonder more boys do not do
likewise, for they get their European
trip SO cheap.
There is spring at Clermont,
France which petrifies all objects plac-
ed in It. The owner makes little figures
of clay and puts them in the water.
In three months he can take them out
looking like marble and sells them.
mold of gutta percha is used which be-
comes coated with marble, then 1t Is
pulled off and he has a cameo which
looks as If it had been engraved.
The Romans formerly occupied Cler-
mont and julius Caesar defeated the
the Gallo Chief, Vercingetorix there,
50 3. c. There is a fine statue of the
Gallo chief, by Bartholdi, who made
our statue Of Liberty standing in Cler-
mont.
We took tea with Nine. Chaffraix one
of my war time friends. She is the
widow of wealthy sugar planter OF
New Orleans and spends her winters
in America and her summers in France.
She told me that she had to pay taxes
in France on all the property she owns
in the United States, so she is doubly
taxed. Her home here is about 600
years old and is beautiful. The
grounds are large and the treasures In
the chateau would interest any one and
her hospitality is equal to the best ira
ditions of our own old South.
I had letters to the Count of Pontgi-
band from a French acquaintance and
we spent an afternoon with the count
and countess at the Castle Of Pontgi-
band. They were kind and hospitable
and we saw all the beautiful paintings
and furniture Of their home. His
great t-grandfather came over to Ameri-
ca with Lafayette and he showed me
the medal of the order of Cincinabus,
showing that his forcfather had served
on Washington's staff.
You should see how solemnly the
French take the waters at the mineral
springs such as at VichyRoyat. They
have the water measured out in u
medicine glass like it was poison and
drink solemnly as an owl. In fact the
French drink only mineral water. Cof-
fee, wine and mineral water, never
plain water. Somewhat like an old
Texan who, when asked il they had
good water in Texas, replied, ITO tell
the truth, stranger, l amt drunk no
stark reped water for years"
A crowd of American Legion buddies
are in Paris now, whole ship load of
them coming over. 1t makes it quite
homelike for me, as my button is an in
trOQuCllOH. n NHSlllldlll ID neiuihS thS
party. | went into the American En-
press Co office this morning to have q
check cashed and the cashier was 4
Davidson College boy named Wright
| from Georgia. He was in the navy
during the war and has been in Paris
for two years. Let me recommend the
American Express Co. to my friends
who expect to travel. 1t is better
than Cooks, which is the old British
agency. Your checks are good any
where, and they help YOU in every way
about your ticket, etc.
I heard today-Aug. 18TH, of DIR.
Miles Walkers death. Poor fellow he
suffered a lot these past few years and
will be missed lie was a man who
kept right up in medicine as he grew
older, and always read the latest pub
lications. There is not a great deal to
be learned in medicine over here now,
that cannot be had at home, as the war
gave these people big set back. Peo-
pie in the United States don't know
what it means to see large numbers OF