The Washington times., 1923-03-18

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The romance OF poetry and art
lies over there. Here we are all
business and hustle and progress
and success. But II you're a bit
tired OF 1t all, it's fine to get
away for while. see new faces,
other lands and stretch helping
hand across the sea.
Anyhow, when the warm days
Of June strike Washington, Vik-
tor Flambeau's going back again
20 Europe, and he invites you all
to join the party. There'll be a
hundred or more, with their own
private train, and several men
from The Times Herald staff viii
accompany the tourists.
JUST GOOD TIMES.
Every detail has already been
carefully planned. Social. edu-
cational and travel features are
to be emphasized, with just plain
good times all the way and
plenty Of congenial companionship.
There viii be chaperones for
young ladies' travelling alone or
for boarding school students.
The fun WIN begin the day the
party leaves Washington. June
10, by private car for Montreal
via New York, seeing America
first" along the way. Sailing
next day by the new steamship
Doric, Of the Canadian Pacific
Line, special courtesies will be
extended to The Times Herald
travellers.
Those who are bent on Improv-
ing every opportunity will ,yather
in the mornings for a series Of
professional travel talks explain
ing every country to be visited,
with few side lessons in lang
Ilages, shop talk" it might be
called, since it is intended for
shopping in French, German ind
italian. Others will be "imprcv-
ing their time on deck a la
steamer chair. Probably there'll
be a different party, lecture, con-
cert or dance every evening.
The sail down the st. Law
renee river is an event, and be-
sides, you can't be seasick, going
that way. After leaving Quebec
you may sight Newfoundland, as
your boat passes the Gulf Of St.,
Lawrence and reaches the Grand
Banks. You'll know when you
cross the warm Gulf Stream, and
then you'H be far out at sea
with only an occasional distant
sail or smokestack in sight.
MOTORING IN ENGLAND.
The eight-day voyage is quickly
over, and when you reach Liver
pool on Sunday, July /, you'n
be almost sorry it wasn't longer.
The boat train, with special cars
reserved for '"Times-Herald Party"
viii take you quickly up to Lon
don, where the schedule calls
for a week of sightseeing, in
GLIDING a three-day motor tour
to Windsor, Elton, Stoke Poges,
Maidenhead, Henley, Warwick,
KenilK0rth, Stratford on Avon
with its memories of Shakes
peare, and histric Oxford, with
its glorious university and numer-
GUS colleges. "Old Lunnon" itself
is worth the cost Of the entire
trip.
London Bridge, st. Paul's Ca
thedral, the Bank Of England, the
Royal Exchange, the Houses Of
Parliament, the Tower. Westmin-
ster Abbey-oh. the things to see
in London are simply legion, to say
nothing Of the British Museum,
with its glorious Egyptian rooms.
the original Rosetta Stone and hun
dreds Of other antiquities, besides
the National and Tate galleries,
with their lovely pictures.
OF course, we shall ride on q
London bus, sample the tube and
the underground, admire the Lon
don bobby (the most gorgeous Do
liceman in Europe today. see the
new marble Cenotaph lin honor Of
the heroes Of the late war;, bend
over the Tomb Of the Unknown
Soldier in the Abbey. Just q slab
n the floor but marked with Q