Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-02-04
Vivacfous Description of Many Places
and scenes OF Great Historical
Interest
so MUCH I'm T.4E WORLD TO SEE
Writer Afraid She Will Be Old BE-
fore She Gets To View 1t All

Through the courtesy Of Mrs. Lena
Tracy Barkhurst of Malta, the Demo-
crat is able to publish the splendid
article which appears below, and
which was written by the younger
daughter of the late Rev. T. II.
Housed, former pastor of the Malta
M Il. church - AS letter itself in
sdicates, Miss Housed is a student IN
Vienna. Written at the head of her
article was the following: Elinor
Housed, Sesoenborngasse IA, Vienna
VIII, Austria:
leaving for Italy
A bad beginning sometimes
makes good end. / cnly hope it
will in our case. We oversight and
rot up an hour later than we intend
ed. In our haste we forgot our
lunch and mothers suit coat. We
were sure we should miss our train.
The taxi ride and forgetting our
lunch got me into the spirit OF the
iOurney. I was all excited. How |
did hate to leave my sister who will
he away for the winter. She will
he harpist in Grand Gpera orches-
ira. am very proud of her. | can
never hope to become so good mu-
stefan as she is.
The train was rather crowded.
Decause we forgot our lunch we had
10 eat breakfast on the diner. The
other person at cur t2hle was
Po.i3b lady who could speak Eng
list and German. Her history was
thrilling. Had to fee from her cas-
lie in Ukrania with her three small
children. She managed to take her
diamonds and other jewels by con-
ceaiing them in bread.
The dining car was filled with
rather odd looking people. One
man, the Polish lady informed us,
was from very fine family. His
son married Russian princess.
There were two Americans, a man
and his wife, rather prosperous
looking people. There was young
Englishnan with a monocle, and
great many young Italians wearing
university caps. Quite lively
bunch
The scenery was interesting. So
many peasants putting up hay. The
farther south the more prosperous
the people seemed to be. Used
horses in drawing In the hay. They
also put the hay in quite large
stacks. while in southern Austria
they put it on pole, making tall,
thin, pointed stacks.
In Austria the houses were clean
looking aud had many flowers in tha
front yards Some were for several
families They had long rows of
balcon!es. The italian houses had
different appearance. AS we got
farther south the hills grew into
mountains that were almost entire
-.ty OF stone. They looked like snow
in the sun, with their tops above
the clouds.
At Jarvis they put on an Italian
coach. Here I got my first glimpse
..of Itaiians ea masse. They did not
seem az nice as Austrians. They
tried to firL The Polish lady left
her frat class coach and came to
visit as. We found out other in
teresting facts about her. When
She Escaped to Poland she loaned
her jewels for security and started
a factory for silks and woolen
i goods. She was selected to take a
beautiful bl oH2e bowl to the pope.
She Is to be the guest of the Italian
nation aad is ia, tied to social affairs
where MussoiiDi. the emperor, and
the pope are to be present She is
friend of Paderewski and of the
Polish president, She wants US to
come to Poland and says she will
show us all the interesting things in
Warsaw where she lives. Our bad
beginning forgetting our lunch
was very lucky. Otherwise we
should never have met her You
don't meet such people, smart, and
wealthy, and lovely, every day
The scenery from Jarvis on was
too lovely Tor words. The mountains
Of rock and the little towns that
nestled in the valleys were too
beautiful to undertake to describe
! 1he houses had red tiled roofs and
were made of gray stucco. They had
many balconies. The sunset was
baautifui Just as 1t got dark we
camc to the plains. How consider,
ate of the sun to lot US see all the
beautiful part.
Arrive mt Venice
We got into Venice at 1880. 1t
was raining, so there were no gon-
dolas Ia sight. We took the boat 10
the other end of the Grand Canal,
Her and tAerc lights twinkied on
The black, black waters, making
very romantic picture. All the pal
aces, mostly Gothic. looked so state
~. / never had such sensations be-
fore. The canal is perfectly beaut-
Sul.
We. got OFF nj, the station just be-
yond the famous Rialto Bridge that
Shakespeare refers to in The Mer-
chant OF Venice The walk through
che narrow streets to the hotel, the
noisy Italians all gesturing while
rhey talked so fast. this was ter
ribIy fascinating to me. l knew at
once: should like Venice. HOW
happy I am to be in Italy at l6!
Tve. walk through the narrow
streets from the Riaito to the no.
tefs6 las SO interesting. OF course
xs, sa.,f i. hngaa a sfreat car or