The Coconino sun., 1927-08-05

| people. They bow and scrape and
thank you for everything-whether
| you do it or not-and when you thank
them for anything they thank you for
| thanking them-so. it's a case of "see-
ing one another home It'll morning" all
the time.
The customs were easy as nothing.
We had only hand baggage (Which, by
the way, is pronounced "b'gosh'') and
this the officials handled very care
fully, upsetting nothing and even
helped US close, lock and strap our
eases again. Didn't l just say the
people were polite? However, if you
walk on the right side of the street
they just about knock you over-the
right side here is the left side--if
you follow me-and they don't give up
their seats in street cars any more
than IN u. S.
While in Gothenburg we had the
pleasantest hotel room. When we paid
our bill. fifteen per cent of the whole
was added for tips! Here, in Stock
holm, it's all ten per cent but they
don't do their own adding.
We didn't "do" Gothenburg as we
will be back there again, SO after rest
ing up for a day and two nights, we
went on to Stockholm by canal, a
wonderful trip of three days duration.
This canal is BAT miles long but only
about a third of it is built canal-the
rest is a chain of lakes and rivers
and it is all as beautiful as a dream.
Our boat was cozy little affair which
glided along where the canal was at
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branches of the beautiful birch trees,
and dozens of other trees and bushes
which grew right down to the water S
edge in places. In other places on
both sides were perfect little gems OF
farms with great two and three story
farm homes, and the wooded hills and
mountains rising abruptly behind
them Then at times we'd be out on
wide rivers and again on lakes so big
we couldn't see land. We were
shifted" from one to another by
means of as many as 65 locks-situ-
ated at various places along the canal,
as needed-also conveniently, for there
was something of special interest at
each set Of locks, such as great rapids
and waterfall at one place where 1t
took two hours to go through the
locks. Here a number of us landed
and walked two miles and half to
the town through the most wildly
beautiful country one could ever imag-
inc. Such trees and rocks and rapids
and waterfalls! And with all that a
perfect road, finely sanded and
swept, which went past stately coun-
try homes with parklike yards, to a
quaint, foreign" looking but pro-
gressive little town, where there is a
great power station which sends its
power not only over Sweden but to
Denmark and Norway also. There
we found our boat at the docks and
were soon merrily ON our way again.
This stunt we did several times, visit
ing famous old castles and churches
which have greatly figured in old
Swedish history. At one place, while
passing through fifteen locks, we
landed just before midnight and went
to explore an old "cloister" church
with its ruins and graves Of ancient
kings. We poked around the place
and read the inscriptions on the tomb
stones in the graveyard and alto
gether had jolly time. Sure, we
could read 'em at midnight-thls IS
the land of the midnight sun-almost.
But, seriously, / was greatly inter
ested to see that the ruins surround
ing this church, which has been re-
stored" and is surprisingly large and
beautiful and dates from 1900 some-
thing, are like those of our Califor-
MIA missions, pergolas, patios, arches
and all, even to the redtiled roofs
where there were any-but mostly on
top Of the old walls there was deep
mat of green grass and moss grow
ing in a depth of several inches Of
soil-the accumulation of ages. | no.
ticed this similarity to our missions
in other instances also. In each case
it was in the churches of Catholic
origin, which is logical enough, after
all.
AS we got farther north the coun-
try became more rugged-there were
more pine and fir and great malapais
looking cliffs and by the time we
reached the Baltic there were hum
dreds-yes, iterally-of little islands
and all were wooded, even those that
wore So fiuv thnra was only SOace for