Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-02-02
Take Your Boat to Europe

Supplementing the old slogan
"Take Your Car Abroad" is the new
cry "Take Your Fold Boat to Eu
rop," for collapsible boats are now
the thing on the Danube in German
Austria. and tourists can sail past
castles, medieval cities and peasant
villages haunted with adventure and
legend.
Democratic Saints
III the old Norman French village
Of Vaucelles the 15th-century choir
of the church names its patron
saints very democraticalIy, for here
are statues to Monsieur Saint Paul
Monsieur Saint Pierre, Madame
Sainte Anne, and others
A New Shrine in Belgium
Belgium has shrine that annual
ly promises to be one of the most
visited in Europe 1t is the obscure
little church of St. jacques at Lou
vain, where now stands Meunier's
memorial to Father Damien, the
heroic priest of Molokai, the leper
isle Of the Pacific.
Learn To Fly When in England
Visitors 10 England can now learn
10 fly, for flying lessons on the in
stallment system are given each
week end at Yeadon in Yorkshire
and many folk who cannot drive
car are learning to handle aircraft.
Who's Afraid Of Pilates Ghost
Tourists and botanists who today
climb the slopes Of Mount Pilatus in
Switzerland to collect some of the
500 different wild flowers that grow
there, have long forgotten that it
was not till the 18th century that
anyone approached it. Pilates
ghost was supposed to hover there.
A Flying Vacation in Germany
One of the best resorts in Europe
for a flying" vacation is at Con-
stance on the German lake called
Bodensee, near where the Zeppelins
are built Air excursions around
the lake to many towns make a glor-
ious holiday.
The Thames Highway
Yke river Thames, which gives
.ondoners and visitors a glimpse OF
bat city's 70 mile port is, like the
Rhine, "liquid history. For cen
turies it has been a highway for
business and pleasure, and once
there were more passenger boats up
on it's surface than carriages on al
| the streets of London.
In Luther's Wittenberg
Visitors to Luther's city of Wit.
tenburg in Germany today may see
the famous theses that he nailed on
the church door in 1917. The pres
ent doors are of metal and the text
of his protest is deeply inscribed in
the metal.
Most Beautiful Girls i'm France
At Aries in old Provence, famous
for it's great Roman remains, the
modern tourist is more interested in
the report that this city has the
most beautiful girls in France.
A New Land for Ski Fans
Jugoslavia has now decided to
compete for winter sports and great
ski centers have been established at
| Ljubljana, Bled, Kranjska Cora and
| on Mount Orjen, where snow flies
from October till May
Scotland for Ocean Holidays
Travellers who want plenty of sea
life and adventure while on a Euro.
pean holiday often choose Scotland
because of the fascinating and thrill
| ing journeys which can only be
made by sea to the Western He
brides, Shetland and the Orkneys.
Oldest Company i'm the World
At Falun in Sweden is the oldest
commercial company in the world
for it has owned a mine there fol
seven hundred years and extracted
from it over half a million tons OF
copper, more than fifteen tons of sill
yer and a ton of gold.
Ireland's Literary Tree
In Coole Park, the estate of the
late Lady Gregory the Irish dram
atist, Ireland boasts ats most lit
erary tree' This growing timber
shows honorable scars in the shape
of signatures in the bark Of William
Butler Yeats, Edward Martyr,
Synge, George Moore and George
Bernard Shaw.