Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-05-24
SECOND LETTER
A MANpRRRR,s DIARY II


April 22-Sea rolls some but GU T
steamer is very steady. Several go
| ing to Passion Play and big Exposition
| in Munich. One German boy goes back
Boat officers In Bremen tried to get
ger, who, confronted with boy said he
had no servant. Fraud. Sam sends
him home.
April 24-Rose at 5. had breakfast
French Consuls came aboard, stamped
our passports to enter France. Went
ashore to Care de Cherbourg, had a
lunch Of hard shelled pain, buerre, cafe
Gu lait. For two / paid three Francs.
Franc is Just about 10 cents American
Got on Wharf Am.Ex. travellers check
200 fir. / bought at Express Office,
Washington for S2032. Had to pay
him silver quarter for stamp. That
| 200 fir. cost me $20.57. At Cooks to-
day in Paris got $40. Cooks check
turned into 106.40 francs. Lots of pa
per money used here. Also Franc and
half franc yellow metal coins, | send
Louise one to make amends for naiser-
able writing. A 100 FIR. note is long
as our notes and an inch wider. Ride
to Paris interesting. Arrived Care
st. Lazarre at midnight. Three of us
I hit hotel Britannia. Got room for two
nights, Is FIR. per night. Had bridal
chamber of hotel, only bride lacking.
Lovely bed, plateglass wardrobe, door
mirror, another foot costly mirror.
Got to bed and Chinese Charley, one of
our three, knocked to know if wanted
supper. No Charley.
April Monsieur knocked ,jabber-
ed, non comprehended and said cafe
au lait, pain and he comprehended.
Brought little round waiter, little
earthen pot, hot milk, sticks sugar,
foot of bread, hard shelled, had to
deep massage it. Buerre lovely, UNI
sailed, fresh;this petite dejuneur costs
fir so centimes, 35 cents U. s..
April 26-Found Owen, whom / lost
last night, door away, and went
there, engaged for three nights lit
tie neat room above his; $40 COM
plete. Always specify service inelud-
| ed, price complete or you pay for
bougies, heat, and God knows what
else. Have hot and cold water nj my
room, fine single bed. the two Swiss
men servants speak English and Ger
man, nobler language that the Gus
sed French tongue. Owen and l did
big days work. Rode to Place de la
Bastile, St.Pauls Cathedral, walked
through street market; one stall sold
only lungs, brains, hearts, livers, kid
neys. Live snails, big fat ones, crabs
on sale; potatoes the size of marbles.
Did Hotel de vile (City Hall) Notre
Dame Cathedral, tried to go thru
morgue, did Luxembourg Palace filled
with glorious paintings; through Sor-
boune, St.Lupice Cathedral, quaint
Cluny Museum; Vast library filled with
earnest students; thru oldest church
nj Paris, home to Care St.Lasaire in
rain at cost &c each ride.
April 27-Breakfast with Owen
Coffee, buttered bread, price about 10
cents Around US stood a score of
well dressed business men whose break
fast was bread, wine, and may be a
cup of chocolate. Cover service in
restaurant costs franc and they
stand to save that. French are great
bread eaters, eat so % more than we.
Lost Owen and went to Madeline church
Heard glorious music at g. These
Catholics have us skinned on beauti-
full church music. At 10 went to Yer
sailles; took trolley at Place de la Con-
cord. Woman conductor handing mon
ey. | said to her Versay. She couldn't
understand and began to cackle. If
she had had both tonsils as big as
English walnuts and two adenoids, big
as acorns up her nasal passages, she
couldn't have enunciated any worse.
She looked ugly and l felt ugly. The
- fool ought to have known that
Versailles was the only station for
eigner would care to go to. / ought
to have said vairsl. Owen is having
same results as I have. His Berlitz
don't save him. He couldn't say pa
pals Royale" so the woman at the tube
could comprehend. 1t was cold out at
Versailles but hundreds of children
with teachers were there. Many girls
from z to Ia years wear dress and
coat reaching nearly to the knees,
wear shoes and stockings reaching A
inches below the knees, and above
knees legs are bare almost if not quite
to the body. Boys pants are cut eff
about inches above the knees. 1t
hailed twice that day; so degrees tenn
perature and | think society for pre-
vention of cruelty to children should
get to work.
April 28-Pere la Chaise cemetery
in rain. Queer city of dead; tombs 6
to 20 feet high, close together; ave
nues run from City thru cemetery.
Found Raehei's tomb and that of Abel
ard and Heloise. / believe they un-
frocked Abelard but he was a great
teacher. Went to pantheon of the
War" this p. M; some 5000 portraits
Of great actors of war. In u. s. sec
ton Woodrow stands with manuscript
in hand Around him are Lansing,
Newton Baker, House, Teddy, Comp
ers and others, MeAdoo, Gerard In
100 years Woodrow will shine grand
est of them all. He worked for ever
lasting peace. The spirit of the Christ
ever pervaded his notes and addresses.
One day in Louvre, saw collection of
Estruscan mirrors like inch shallow
frying pans Had beautiful human
figures traced inside and one seemed
gilded - Who were the Etruscan?
When and where did they live? The
little painting Mona Lisa, stolen not
long ago always has a crowd around it.
April 29-Went to Louvre again and
stood before Mona Lisa, was wife of
Italian. Leonardo loved his are-he
loved Mona Lisa. Only Platonic love
of course. She smiled on him and af-
ter years fwork he transferred
that smile TO canvass. DaVinei died
403 years ago and all that time Mona
Lisa has smiled on every one who
stood before her. Go way to her right
or to her left, she looks at you and
smiles. She smiles thru 100 degrees
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