Evening star., 1936-09-27
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR.

- CRIBBLINGS: Mont st. Michel,
with its single street. a popu-
lation of 227 and its famous
- Gothic fortress-monastery. long
has known how to cater to tourists.
A share of it's fame is based on an
omelet-omelet of La Mere Poulard.
When the creator of this happy dish
died in 1881 she willed the recipe to
the town for travellers yet to come.
She rests now beneath a simple mon
ument with her husband, and their
epitaph hints the esteem In Whlcn
they were held in their calling. It
reads: Here repose Victor and An
nette Poulard. Faithful spouses and
good tavern keepers. May the Lord
welcome them as they received their
guests"
Passage from New York to Cali
fornia on the best ships usually Is
booked so far ahead that the late
conner despairs and takes the quicker
trans-continental train. One can
have a little bit of each-take a boat
to New Orleans and from there travel
on the air-conditioned Sunset Limited
to San Francisco.
Rounding out trip to Kingston.
Jamaica, sight-seers include a drive
to Spanish Town on the banks OF
the Rio Cobre. Stops usually are
made at the ancient Ferry Inn, sur
rounded by famous silk cotton trees
known as pirate trees.
John Marshall, who was quite a
fudge said of Natural Bridge: Gods
greatest miracle in stone" Some
years before, King George III had
sold it to Thomas Jefferson for 20
shillings.
The little boy who used to try to
see the parade over the heads of the
bigger boys (ranging in age from 2o
to 80) by a mirror attached to a
walking stick, has given London an
idea for King Edwards coronation
procession next May. These peri
scopes are to be developed into huge
refiectors on buildings. People at
the back of the crowd simply look
into the mirror and, 10 and behold.
The procession route of about miles
Is nearly twice as long as King Georges
inaugural parade in 1911.
TRAVELLERS who feel romantic
- about lighthouses should sail
to Glasgow From the Clyde's en-
trance to the famous port there are
more than 600 lights.
If one can be satisfied with just
o smattering of Indian travel. he
may get it synthetically by going to
Port of Spain. Trinidad. Planta-
tions and villages of the island are
peopled with some $4,000 Hindus,
who retain their customs and cos
TUNES. With their load of necklaces
and bracelets of gold and silver
coins. the women present a striking
picture.
Farmers in Nova Scotia almost in
variably name their oxen Spark
and Diamond"
The strict sect of the Samaritans is
vanishing in Palestine. And no won
der. Brides are few and far between.
Under their code, each Samaritan
man, who wants to marry, enters his
name on waiting list. Then he waits
to be allotted a wife. He waits and
waits. And when he reaches ripe old
age. be may be given wife in her
teens.
Paradise and Wavecrest are two OF
the more famous of the many beaches
skirting the indigo sea that hens in
the Bahamas.
Old-time Lithuanians try to be con-
genial with everything. Everything
lives, in their belief, and one must
therefore be polite to stones, trees
and such, including naughty tourists.
ONCE year, Hollands towns go on
a spree; that is, the towns that
don't hold to the theory that the Ker-
mis- is too wicked. The Kermis starts
off innocently enough. The rule is
that one must eat "a poffertjes and 2
wafelen. Poffertjes are best described
as little round pancakey blobs, twist
ed and covered with butter and sugar.
Wafelen are oblong waters, also
dressed in butter and sugar. The Ker-
mis- used to be combination of reli-
gious and commercial celebration,
linked with the harvest and market
ing. But wild fun has drowned out
the religious note, and many cities, in
cluding The Hague, long ago banned
them. They trive in the provincial
towns, and at Rotterdam, Delft, Nil
megen and Maestricht. BY the way,
the ffertjeS-Wafelen rites are COM
pleted by washing them down with
beer or Frambozen lemonade.
Flowers represent the seasons in
China. The schedule: Tree peony,
Spring; lotus, Summer; crysanthe-
mum, Autumn; plum, Winter.
Traffic signs, theater placards and
such, even stamps, are bilingual in
Montreal, French to the point OF
ranking next to Paris as city. About
two-thirds of its population speaks
French as their native tongue. Street
car conductors announce stops IN
both languages.
ON THE plains Of Marathon is the
only marble-faced dam in the
world. 1t supplied Athens with water
The quarry from which the stone was
taken used to furnish marble for
sculptors of ancient Greece.
The outstanding vacation-land slo-
STEAMSHIPS.
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