Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-12-21
RETURNS HOME
FROM LONG TRIP
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there were many surprises. Northern
Spain. Mrs. Thompson refers to as
prosperous and the whole country
| tingles with an alertness that seems
much like America. Barcelona she
found to be a modern city with a
business appearance. She visited Sar-
gossa and Madrid and of the famous
Spanish gallery, the Prado, she says:
"The Prado alone is worth the trip
| to Europe. 1t is superior to any other
art gallery we saw, the Louvre in
Guided. Spanish paintings have rare
| ly been permitted to leave the coun-
try and they are all preserved in the
Prado." Escorial, where are located
the tombs of the Spanish kings, was
visited and the party saw the apart
ments of Phillip the Fifth, the king
of Spain at the time of inquisition.
Segovia, quaint medieval town, par
TALLY walled, proved an interesting
stop.
Even a beggar has a lordIy air
in Spain," says Mrs. Thompson, "and
the landscape is for all the world like
the setting for comic opera" She
pictures wildly the dress of the
Spaniards, their colored robes, gold
and silver decorations and the
swords, still made at Toledo. which
they brandish with such pleasure.
The barren land is occasionally
irrigation and the result is abundant
vegetation. North Spain Mrs. Thomp-
son likens to New Mexico. There
Il
of locomotion except the donkey
"As we travelled through the coun-
try | came to the conclusion that
the railways were constructed to hit
the towns by chance" Mrs. Thompson
continued. "They are crooked and
unusually the town station is several
miles away from the town ITSELF"
At Granada Mrs. Thompson spent a
week enjoying the beauties of AL
hambra and the luxuriant, beautiful
vegetation there. Granada's wealth
of verdure comes as a result of the
aqueducts built in ages past. Gibral-
tar was next visited
Mrs. Thompson and several others
of the class decided to take a trip
to Africa before returning to France.
They crossed to Tangier from Glib
raltar. This town they found fascin-
ating, particularly because it is inter-
national. There are four or more
kinds of currency used and in each
store the vendors tell the price in
different monies. Sometimes it is
cheaper to buy with French money
and then again with Spanish.
r Casa Blanca, Morocco, was the next
CfOn Sinnn tho
many Europeans going into this
country, There are no railways as
yet, Mrs. Thompson says, but the
French have built good roads and
with her companions the long drive
to Marrakech, at the foot of the fam
Gus Atlas Mountains, was taken. "Af-
ter leaving Casa Blanca, there were
no Europeans" she says. "In our
automobile there were two French Of
fcers besides ourselves and the rest
were Arabs, who at noon got out to
pray to Allah. But a short distance
out and we commenced to pass long
caravans coming in with things to
barter. Occasionally we passed conical
huts, where farmers lived The coun-
trysls practically a dessert, but there
are light rains and some crops can
be raised" 1t was amusing to watch
them plow, she says. The farmers
use camel and a mule and if they
happen to have two of each they
never hitch them together, but always
use the mule and the camel together.
For plow they use crooked stick.
Continuing over the fiat desert, Mrs.
Thompson says that they finally saw
low hills which looked like mountains