Evening star., 1939-04-02
The Travellers Notebook
senbb'ings About Ice|onds Natural Heating,
Bingo in Monte Carlo, and Homer Rodeheovers
Easter Service Among 100000 Lilies

high as $4,000 to /.
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Within q few years, the Midnight
Sun Highway to the North Cape Of
Norway will be completed. and even
now the traveller may ride in auto
or bus more than 100 miles within
the Arctic Circle to Bodo. The mid
night sun appears at North Cape
on May IL.
A sample of 9O-cents-a-day meals
aboard the Union Pacif1c's Chal-
lenger from Chicago to the West
Coast: Breakfast, bacon and eggs
(fried, boiled or scrambled), with
toast and coffee: luncheon, meat
loaf with tomato sauce, Drowned
potatoes, creamed celery, hot rolls,
milk; dinner, turney with cranberry
jelly. whipped potatoes, candied
sweet potatoes. corn en- casserole,
hot rolls, coffee.
Homer Rodeheaver, the musical
evangelist, will conduct one OF the
worlds novel Easter services this
year when he leads the choirs OF
Bermuda's churches on st. Davids
Island. On the slopes of the natural
amphitheater will be Towering some
5000, 900 Easter lilies.
Sculptor. painter, botanist, archi-
tect, engineer and inventor-as such,
Leonardo da Vinci will be honored
in a special exhibit opening at Mi
Ian in May. The ground floor OF
the Palace of Arts will be devoted
to handiWork of this great 18th GEN.
tury Italian. Models of machinery
designed by Da Vinci will be dis
played, and figuring prominently in
the exhibit will be his ideas Of hu-
man flight. Six models Of flying
machines, executed along the lines
of his sketches and notes, will be in
cluded.
World famous gardens around
Charleston have entered the tourist
spotlight again as Spring becomes
floral as we'll as a calendar theory
in South Carolina. Fourteen miles
from the picturesque Southern city
are the Middleton Gardens, their IS
acres a magnificent picture of ter
races, ornamental waters, live oaks
draped with Spanish moss. hedges
and walks. Magnolia Gardens,
nearer the coast, display not only
beautiful magnolias, but tangles OF
Wisteria vines and azaleas 20 feet
high. with camelias towering above.
Cypress Gardens, with dikes and
bridges leading the visitor into the
black-water swamps, are % miles
from Charleston on the Coastal
highway. OF Middleton Gardens,
laid out in l740, Amy Lowell said:
step lightly down these terraces.
They are
The records of dream
Visitors in Ireland, especially
around St. Patrick's Day. hear the
legend of the choice Of the patron
saints grave. A dispute over the
appropriate place to bury the
evangelist arose among his follow
ers, Gained only, when Irish in
genuity came to the rescue with this
solution: Two oxen would drag his
bier and interment would be made
the first spot where the animals
stopped. Without guidance and
without urging. the oxen plodded to
what is now the site of Down Pat
rick Cathedral.
Those who wish to sail on 1895
newest ship, the Mauretania-so
new it has not yet made her maiden
voyage-need not 60 to Europe, for
two short cruises are scheduled for
the late summer. Cunard- White
Stars liner will enter transatlantic
service June II and on August 10
will sail from New York for Ber-
muda and Halifax and on Septem-
Der Is for Nassau, in the Bahamas.
One of the biggest travel bargains
in France in 1889 is the tourist card,
which can be bought in the United
States as well as abroad. For 40
francs "a bit more than a dollar)
it cuts French railroad fares 40 per
cent. Requirements include a mini
mum stay within French borders of
six days and ones initial ticket
must be for a journey of 300 kill
ometers or more. The tourist card
OF 1888 was good for only two
months: this year 1t is valid for
three months.
More than score Of dolls. dressed
in the provincial costumes Of
France, are on exhibit at the Golden
Gate Exposition at San Francisco.
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At least three tattoos, spectacular
military exhibits. are planned for
England's summer tourist season.
The famed Aldershot tattoo will be
held June 7 to 10 and June 13 to II.
TidWorth's tattoo is scheduled for
July %, 20 and 81 and August S.
The other will be held in London in
June, with cast" of about 5000.
Miami is second only to New York
as a leading port of entry for COM
blned steamship and air passengers.
One day last month Pan-American
Always set record in passengers
between the United States, Havana.
Nassau, the West Indies and South
Amorico To, O1ionar ,,1o ,,or toaI.