The Alamance gleaner 1
Y0Lm UV' GRAHAM, M, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 1928.
I HAPPENNINGS OF TtiE WEEK |
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Italy Also Rejects Anglo
French Navy Agreement
i ?Smith Invades South.
BY EDWARD W. PICKARD
ITALY, like the United States, has
rejected the Anglo-French agreement
as a basis for future naval limitation.
Premier Mussolini's note Is not so
abrupt as Secretary Kellogg's, but Is
just as specific In Its objections to
naval limitation by categories, and un
doubtedly completes the destruction of
the agreement
The note reaffirms Premier Musso
lini's declaration in the Italian senate
last June, when he said, "Italy Is
ready to accept as the limit of arma
ments any figure, even the lowest,
provided It Is not exceeded by any
other continental European power,1*
meaning, of course, France. It Insists,
however, on consideration of all
branches of arms, land, naval, and air,
in any discussion for disarmament.
The Fascist note launches Into a
lengthy explanation of why It favors
limitation of global tonnage for navies
Instead of limitation by categories.
The argument Is identical with that
? advanced by the American delegation
at the tripartite naval conference at'
Geneva a year ago, and repeated In
the American reply to the French
British memorandum.
"Each statb must be left free to
use Its tonnage quota the way It be
lieves It tfest answers Us particular
needs, both as regards the type of
ships and Its armament," Mussolini
explains.
" (Pranpa trhloh nHmltto/11* wAnM ha
I be chief beneficiary of the agreement
witb England, la mighty touchy on the
subject Last week the authorities In
Paris seized the person of Harold
Horan, correspondent of the Universal
Service, because he bad cabled to New
Tork a letter Foreign Minlstei Briand
had sent to French ambassadors re
garding the Interpretation of the pact
and compelled blm to agree to leave
the country. Ur. Horan's explanation
was that his employer, William Ran
dolph Hearst had handed him the
document with Instructions to send It
to America.
The British cabinet voted-to make
public' all the documents and cor
respondence In connection with the
agreement "as soon aa practicable." It
was necessary first to get the consent
of all the nations concerned. Sir
Austen Chamberlain, British foreign
secretary, who Is now In California
In search of health and a rest, de
clined to discuss this subject or any
other affairs of state. He Is suffering
from neuritis in his left arm but Is
said to be getting better and gaining
weight.
GEN. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, general
issimo of the Chinese Nationalist
armies, was elected Brat President of
the Nationalist government of the
country, including Manchuria, and was
Inaugurated on the seventeenth anni
versary of the revolt against the em
peror on October 10, 1821. Chiang,,
who Is only forty-one years old, actu
ally Is only President of the govern
ment state council, but as he Is also
chairman of the Koumintang central
executive committee, which controls
the government, he Is the dominant
figure In China. The United States,
Germany, Prance and the Netherlands i
were the only foreign governments
that cabled congratulations to General
Chiang.
Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman, chairman of
the China famine relief organisation <
In New York, has received froni a mis
sion In Kansu a letter telling of ter
rible conditions In that remote prov
ince. Last year's earthquake killed
86,000 and reduced 1001X10 to dire pov
erty; this jeefs crops were rained, i
by drought and (amine conditions pre- i
vail already; and to cap the climax
the Moslem* who form a third of the
population are In-revolt and have mas
sacred a* least MMMXX) persona.
GOT. AL SMITH was almost qulea
cent the first part of last week,
so tar as the campaign waa concerned. I
but Wednesday night he left New 1 <
York for ? visit to the solid Booth.
Bo passed through port of North Caro
lina and Tennessee, making no set
speeches bat appearing frequently on ,
the rear platform of his car and Mop-'
ping at Chattanooga for a ten turunda
with party leaders. Then ha pro
ceeded to I-oulsvlll* where he deliv
ered an address on Saturday. His
schedule called for a Week of cam
paigning from Missouri to Ohio with
a speech In Chicago October 10; then
a brief rest In Albany followed by a
final tour of two weeks In' Atlantic
seaboard cities. Qov. Albert C.
Ritchie of Maryland opened the Dem
ocratic campaign In Chicago with a
rousing speech, most of which was de
voted to the religious Issue and a vIp
orous attack on Intolerance. The real
of the time he spoke on prohibition,
which he doesn't like. Ritchie was
followed In Chicago by Mayor Jimmy
Walker of New York.
Herbert Hoover, whose appearance
In Klliabethton, Tenn., was declared
by his supporters to bare been a great
success In the way of winning votes,
pnt In mncb time preparing for his
Boston address. He also conferred
with New York state' Republican lead
ers and told them the result there was
up to them. They appeared fairly con
fident but do not underestimate the
battle that confronts them.
H. O. Hansbrough, once a Repub
lican senator from North Dakota and
now a supporter of At Smith, put forth
the charge last week In a Minneapolis
speech that Hoover "la credited" wtth
owning oil and mining properties' 1n\
Colombia and Mexico, and demanded
that he withdraw from the campaign
and permit the selection of a Repub
lican candidate "who- capnot be Influ
enced In handling oiir foreign rela
tions." Henry J. Alien, director of
Republican publicity, learning, that
Hansbrough waa ta make the occfos
tlon, wired him that. there waq. no
foundation for the statement and that
It could only be uttered for the pur
poeb" of- gaining votes by dallbarata
Ilea. Hansbrough, however, delivered
his address and made the charges,
which he Instated wars "based* on
facts,"
SAN ANTONIO surrendered absolute
ly to the American Legion and the
former service men had a line time
at their convention In the Texas city.
General. Pershing delivered an address
on the opening da/ devoted malnt/ to
a plea to the Legion to create aa In
terest In good government that vara Ml
impel voters to go to the polls on elec
tion da/. Lord Allenb/ of Hhdui
was glTen a great ovation wtnp he
was presented with the Legion* dis
tinguished service cross. Weds as da/
the big parade was staged, with about
10,000 members of the Legion and -Its
anxlllar/ In line and numerous bands
Oiling the air wttb melod/. Thd pro
cession was more than fonr hows
passing the Alamo where It was re
viewed b/ various dignitaries. Loaia
vllle was awarded next /ear's conven
tion, and Paul V. VcNutt, tledn of
Indiana university law school, was
elected national commander.
'
UNITED 8PAN1SB WAR VET
ERANS held their annuel cOOven
tlon In Havana. Cuba, wbera mora
than 7,000 membera and their (Head*
were welcomed by President Mechedo.
Col. William L. Grayson of Savannah,
Ga? was elected commander In. chief
almost unanimously; and Otto fiaths
of lllnnesota settlor sice commander
and Frank B. Shea of Connactlcnl
Junior sice commander. Hie parade,
w^ich waa held on the anniversary of
Cuba's ten-year revolt, waa partici
pated In by Cuban army coodngents
and officers and men trou the battle
ship Texas. The Maine memerttl was
officially dedicated with Impressive
ceremonies.
THE American navy's big dirigible
Los Angeles successfully made the
round trip from Lakehorst to Saa An
tonlo and back for tba purpose of vie
Itlnp tbe Texas dty at the time of
the American Legion con vended. One
sight air mall flysr mads complaint
that he narrowly escaped collision
with the airship because of Us lack
of lights.
COMMANDER RICHARD R BIRD
Is finally <m his way to the Ant
arctic, for, with members of MS party,
ha set hall from Saa Pedro, Calif, la
the whaler a A. Lanes, the fiagrttp
ef his expedition. The ether three
- - .... ?
vessels will be met In New KhHidH
tad the Bp?lltl<n win go Ikmct to
Kott tea. Byrd expects lot make aa
alrplana INght over tha South pole,
hat this will he only en Incident, tor
the commander's chief purpose la to
teake a long and Intensive study of
-the Antarctic regions.
CLERQT and lay members of the
Episcopal church la large num
bers gathered In Washington for the
forty-ninth triennial general conven
tion of the rhnrch. The opening serv
ice was held In the natural amphi
theater on Mount St. Alhan, and Presi"
dent Coolldge delivered an address In
which he emphasised religion as the
underplenlng of all government and
of all society. In the first session of
the house of deputies Dr. Za Barney
Phillips of Washington waS elected
chairman.
| P UK8LDKNT COOI.IDGK learned the
' other day that a score of ministers
to foreign countries who graduated to
their present positions from the for
eign service of the Department of
State bad tentatively agrded to try to
bold on to their jobs by withholding
their resignations when Mr. Coolldge
retires next March. The President
thereupon made It known thgt the fu
ture of these "career" diplomats would
reel wholly In the hands of his suc
cessor who will bavo full power to re
move them.
Preefdent Coolldge has appointed an
on usually large number o* career men
to the highest diplomatic posts. While
sympathetic toward as permanent s
foreign service aa It Is passible to at
tain, the President fears the present
reported move on the part of the inln
tstera la elmply another manifesta
tion of a disposition by gome govern
ment services to attempt to organ
ize themselves Into sslf-perpetuatlng
bodies.
EVIDENCE against dry law offend
era obtained by tapping wlrea la
still admissible In federal courts re
gard lees of state laww making wire
tapping a crime, for the^Intted States
Supreme mart has refused to review
Its decision so holding. Justice Holmes
dissented In the original fytae. denounc
ing the government for wUfully break
ing.one law to enforce another. New
Tork was aroused by the discovery
that shout thirty persons had died
there- within a few days supposedly
from drinking alcohol that had been
i polsdoed by government agents to
?oaks It non potable. The police
promptly closed a lot of speakeasies
In the lower East side section where
most of the alcohol was dbtalned.
FOB the second consecutive time tbe
New lork Tankees of the American
league won the world series, defeating
the 8t. Ix>nla Cardinal# Of the National
league In four atralgbt games. The
final game waa remarkable for the
number of home runs, Babe Both
cloeed tbe aeaaon la a blaae of glory
by making three. Aa their ahare of
tbe gate receipt# the Thoka received
$8,831 each, and tbe Carta $4,197 each.
TEXTILE workers of New Red
ford, liaae^ have called off tlielr
atrlke that bad laated 28 weeka and
accepted a corapromlae under which
wagea will be redoced 8 per cent In
atead of 10, and tbe manufacturer#
will hereafter give the worker# SO
day a1 notice of any propoaed wage cat
GRAF ZEPPELIN, the huge Oer
maa dirigible, the 11 rat to croaa
the Atlantic carrying paid passengers,
atarted from Frledrlchachafon Thure
day awrnlng on tta mam arable flight
and landed at Lakehurit, N. J., where
the navy air atatlon tad made all
preparation# to gfotmd knd house tbe
airship. There were Wit three pay
lag paaaangara. two of whom were
Americana Pram representatives num
bered four. Tbe ofil^al gueata In
dnded Commander Charles E. Rosen
daht of tbe United State# navy, retire
sentatlves of tbe German and Spanish
govern meets, Lady Grace Drummond
Hay aad Count Brandateln-Zeppelln.
tbe Inventor*# son-In-law. Dr. Hago
Eckener, commander of the dirigible,
was alao Ita chief pilot. a large quan
tity of mall waa brought over on the
airship.
It was expected the Graf Zeppelin
would remain In the United States
about ten days and thea return to
Germany.
United Statea Far in '
Lead in Air Traffic ,
The United State! la Car ahead of i
Horope Id the matter of air traffic, t
aald Be He Reynolds, president of tbe <
National Air Transport. Int. In ad
<1 retting a distinguished group of eirtc I
leaders, guests at a luncheon given c
by the Traffic dub of Chicago, I
Mr. Reynolds Illustrated his remarks 1
by a series of Interesting flguraa. com- I
paring rations phases of European a
. aid American aviation dvtag tha lagt v
. 'A a LkaR A- 'Kvest?*-~ :
few yearn Id tlx Bolted Mil tea, ha i
?Id. there were today W ethedaled
ilr routea operating pUoaa ttJBOO <
nllea a day, 12 lloaa of which carried 1
ilr BMil and azpraaa and 0 plying aa
?omblned nail aad paaaengar lloaa.
la eoaiparlaoe with thia u Hinge Af
ire, tha apeak aa qooted dally nlleagee I
if European aatlooa aa MM: Oreat I
Irltala. <200 nflaa a day; Poland. I
1270 ml lea; Holland. tOAD arilea; I
Uly. MOO ?flea; rraaea.mm MMfc i
ad i
WeSS *T If " I 11*1 a'r ? I'V'r dtli fl!tai '"C? I i| 'it*
doll/ total mileage. bpoadanv
rtad. Um United 8tatea by Ifer eut
cteoood Ito European rirmlc. nootctod
Mdteyaoido.
William P. MaeCroekeo, manhunt
Mcfttiry, Department of Cmntfcc,
(poke on UM octet/ of tytaw., No
maaaa of trorel ton without hcicrd,
ko onld. An proof of Um octet/ feet or
la dying, ho bold MM u ezoMpIo
bo record of can nlr trmnoport eon
/nay oM bad oporoted planee ortt
i iWotonoo of tXtifi&t mike with bat
two MaHUoa.
i" baked i
1 beans for 1
i dinner i
<? by o. J.
Chester trenton m of bos
ton pat mora tlmo on that
weakly letter to Mi mother |
thin niual. It wii an Impor
tant letter. He closed hla eara to the
sound of revelry on the campoa be
low aa the boyi prepared to go to the
Held for football practice. He did not i
anawer the repeated rapa at hla door
aa hla daeimatee went by. He did
not even atop to Ml Ma fountain pen
when It went dry, but dipped It Into
the Ink battle on hla desk. It was a
long letter?that letter to Mrs. Chea
ter Archibald Trenton II, and when
be flnlahed, he reread parti of It
aloud, changing a word here and
there and adding central underscor
ing! to bring out impart ant points.
"I certainly am glad that you are
going to meet Virginia at last, moth
er. She wrote home and aaked her
mother, after I told her you wanted
to or to come to Boston for the week
end, and it in all right with her folka
Ceclle Manning la coming with us.
"She la aure a peach and you will
all like her. She aald she had heard
of our house through the Murray! In
Detroit?you remember the Hurrays?
well, they Uve next to Virginia1!
folka in Detroit?Virginia'! dad la an
automobile manufacturer, but ahe Isn't
one of tboae newly rich?not by a
long shot?ahe la the real stuff.
?Ill leave all the fixings to you,
mother, because you know how to Jo
it- We'll leave here after lunch and
will be at the house around ?:30- I
suppose Benjamin will meet oe. < It
might be a good idea to have two or
threft In?bow iboat dste Laidlaw for
Cedle??I'll leave that to Sls-and
we can run out to the dab to dance.
"1 know everything will be all fine
?you know how to do it-mother,
j know you will Hke Virginia
Benjamin, the Trenton Chauffeur,
austere in hla greeu livery, was at
the station to meet Chester atd the
two young ladies. Cheater and Ben
jamin had been very close friends for
years, ever since the days when Chea
ter III sat on the front seat with Ben
jamin when he was driven to and
from grammar school. Benjamin was
on the alert for the usual effusive
greeting tut Chester, In a most dig
nified manner, mach the same as that
used by Cheater H, said: "How do
you do, BenjaminT' Benjamin smiled
broadly over the wheel as the car
left the station. Young Mr. Trenton
waa certainly grown up nowadays but
just wait until the young ladles were
not around. The big car rolled
through the massive stone gateway of
the Trenton estate and ?
winding boulevard through well-kep
lawns and shrubbery. Back on a ter
raced elevation stood the Trenton
house, as It had stood for more than
half a century, since Chester I of^New
York and England had built it there.
Massive, imposing, an architecture of
an American past and magnificent in
its simplicity, the Trenton house was
one of the show places of New Eng
tr U hesntlfn' 1" exclaimed VIr
i glnla Botler of Detroit "Just beau
tiful I It looka like an old painting?
we bare beautiful bouaea In Detroit.
1 too, but they are all ao new and ao
extravagantly done?I bare never
aeen one like this."
Cheater m waa very happy. So
happy that when Benjamin stood at
the car door and aaalated the young
ladiee to alight he winked at l-'m
which the chauffeur knew meant a
confidential chat later In the garage,
over cigarettes. Benjamin unamlllng
ly winked back.
"Bow do you do, James," aald Chen
ter m to the dignified botler who
opened the door. "Ia my mother
downl"
"No, Mr. Cheater, that la?she, la
coming now, Mr. Chester?I will send
the luggage up, sir."
Mrs. Chester Archibald Trenton 11
was very charming. 8he kissed her
son's two pretty gnceta and tock them,
herself, to their rooms. Chester's
debutants slater met them on the
stairs, vary lovely In her peach-col
ored t ens. her sonny hair bound
with a band of silver.
"Ton have met all the family hot
grandmother," said Alice as she went
with tbeaL "Grandmother never
comes down until dinner-time. We
will iave four guests?Betsy Ann Lee
and Dlek Travers, David Laldlaw and
Robert Burn ham. my fiancee. Wo are
going to the Country dob after din
ner for dandng Wo would have gone
tor dinner hot grandmother Is eo old
fashioned?a creature of habit, and
she Insists on the family being to
gether oo Saturday night. An old
New England custom of hers and yon
can't change grandmother."
Cecils and Virginia whispered over
their dressing.
1 am positively afraid to meet the
grandmother." aald Virginia. The
HwraJO say Ae lea regular dowager
?rules the whole family with an trow
hand. Fearfully proud of her family,
tracea her anceetry back to 8Ir Wal
ter Raleigh, in fact, her sntae wae
Caroline Raleigh before (he married
Cheater Trenton L"
Cheater III was waiting for them
at the bottom of the atnlra and led
them te the drawing room where be
fore the fireplace aat a little, old gray
haired lady. In black aUk and cream
lace. 8be looked like a Sargent por
trait Just atepped from Ite frame.
"Grandmother, thta Is Iflss Virginia
Butler from Detroit, Mich., and Ulaa
decile Manning from New Haven. My
grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Rulelgh
Trenton."
The Sargent portrait looked at
them carefully through her gold lor
gnette. Then she nodded as though
In approval.
"I am pleased to welcome you,
young ladles. Into our home," she said
In a voice that was modulated, for
mal, exacting, "and I trust your so
journ under lta roof will be pleasant.
Dinner will be announced In seven
minutes."
"I claim Miss Virginia as my din
ner partner," said Chester Trenton 11,
handsome and distinguished in his
dinner clothes. "I want to hear all
about dynamic Detroit and that new
model her father Is going ?. put out
this fall."
Chester III glowed with pride a*
his father offered his arm to bis pret
ty guest; he knew the family ap
proved and now It would be much
easier to tell them that he and Vir
ginia?well, she was wearing Ids frat
pin. Re was proud of his distin
guished father and his charming,
dashing mother; Sis was a nice little
thing, too, and grandmother-well.
She was all right as far as grand
mothers go, although he did wish she
would relax a bit and forget she was
a klu to Sir Walter Raleigh. For the
first time Chester III felt a real glow
of pride In bis beautiful home; he bad
always lived there and bad taken It
as a matter of course; but It sure
was a corking place?perfect?every
detail. Be looked arourfB at the
great rojm In which they were stand
ing. Then he looked up at the framed
painting of his grandmother's famous
relative ever the fireplace and grinned.
Sir Walter refused to grin'Jit ck.
The butler announced dinner and
they started for the dining room;
ahead be could see tbe soft glow of
a candle-lit room; an expanse of glis
tening linen, silver, flowers. Dinners
In the house of Trenton were works
of art and he knew that Virginia was
accustomed to the best Just wall
until she puts those pretty white
teeth Into some of the delectable
viands prepared by Oscar, tbe French
chat
And then James came In. bearing a
familiar big silver dish; h serving
dish of huge proportions. He set ll
down In front of Chester II and re
moved the cover of sliver. Chester til
looked?closed Ills eyes?opened them
and ' ked again! Baked beans I
Baked beans I It was Saturday night.
He had forgotten 1 Baked beans I
Oh, the Irony of It!
He was dancing with Virginia of
Detroit a few hours later.
"I'm having a beautiful time, Cliet
dear?Just gorgeous."
He held her closer. He knew It
was bad form to apologize but she
sure had an apology coming about
that dinner.
"I'm deucedly lorry about the
baked beaua, Glnny. You eee, I had
forgotten about Saturday night?and
grandmother?New England cuatom."
Tbe mualc atopped and Virginia
allpped her hand through hla arm.
"Apologize! Why, I would have
been terribly dlaappolnted If It hadn't
been baked beana In New England on
Saturday night?anj Cheater, dear. If
you m ant what yon laid at the prom
the other night and?and?well, you
can make up your mind It la baked
beana on Saturday nlghla?alwaya!"
Remain* of Colombo*
Columbua died May 20, 1.106, and
waa Interred at Seville, Spain. In
1042 the body waa exhumed and
placed In the cathedral of San Dom
ingo. In 1700 or 175)6, upon the cea
alon -of San Doming to France, tbe
remalna of Columbua were re-exhumed
and tranaferred to the cathedral of
Havana, Cuba. After the Spanlah
Amerlcan war, aa tbe reeult of which
Spain loot Cuba, tbe rellca of Col
umbna were removed, to Seville where
they still remain.?Pathfinder.
Unfortunate Pido
Strange dutlee fall to tbe lot of bo
mane eoctety a grata, end about the
atrangeat waa tbe vlalt of a Plttaburgh
agent to Eaet Liberty, Pa, for the
pnrpoae of Informing a houaewlfe that
tbe proper way to ocrub Fldo, tbe pop.
waa not to duntp him Into the electric
waaher and turn on tbe Julcw.
Greenland Joarneditm
Greenland not only baa a newepa
per, but tbe paper la free to every In
habitant The "Atuagogolliutlt'' la
printed la tbe native Eakimo lan
guage and tbe expense of tta publica
tion la met by tbe Soath Greenland
etate treaaury. _
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Ii\ Norm&ndv 1
_f 1 i I a a
Bretons In Holiday Attire.
I (Prepared by the National Ueoyraphlo
Society. Washington. D. C.?
FKANCK, rlcb In many ways geo
graphically, curiously enough has
few lakes and no Important ones.
Luke Oeiieva, which for more
than thirty miles forma a part of the
French border, Is Swiss. Keally, the
only large lake In all France la Grand
Lieu, Just south of Nantes, In Brit
tanny, and It measures only 17.80U
seres In extent Another curious geo
graphical feature Is that the length
of coast considered, France Is Inade
quately supplied with true seaports
or harbors capable of receiving and
sheltering large vessels. But the river
ports make good that deficiency to a
considerable degree, and not only
serve Invaluably thereby, but add
greatly to the plcturesqueness of the
country.
The geography of Fratusi has affect
ed the people as weU as the climate
and the architecture. Though the old
provincial boundaries are gone long
ago, the characteristics the people of
those former divisions Imbibed from
the soil remain the same, and In each
lives s pride of locality second to
none, with Idiosyncrasies of speech
and custom and costume easily traced
back to region^) conditions and pecu
liarities. In architecture we find the
explanation of some of the most re
markable buildings of the country In
the geographical conditions of their
locations.
8prlng In Normandy.
Just as the visitor to a picture gal
lery retains s much stronger Imprea
slon of the merits of different painters
by seeing the works of only one at a
visit, so the beauty and charm of
France are beet remembered by con
sidering her provinces one at a time.
Almost every one of the older divisions
of the country has some feature die
tlnctly Its own that fixes It Indelibly
In mind.
Brittany la always the "land or par
dons," a hlenlc, wind swept peninsula
fall of silent, undemonstrative folk
who live by the harvest of the sea.
Daupbtne, whose Alpine sierras saw
tbe horizon with their snowy teeth,
burns with glorious sunsets that Are
Its aavage grandeur; Burgnndy, of the
wins; Champagne, of the "liquid sun
shine"; Anvergne, of the deed volca
noes, like giant beehives, and Tonralne.
thai was and still Is tbe playground
of France, are all characteristic and
easily remembered.
Not less so Is Nonnsndy, wltb its
shimmering streams and Its wide
spread orchards of elder apples?acres
and clouds of pink and white and
green in the tender spring?tbe air
quick with tbe tbln, sweet, subtle frag
rance. And spring la not only "apple
blossom time In Normandy." By every
farm, about tbe railroad stations,
along tbe roads, and In private estates
bristly hedges of scented baws vie
wltb the purple and tbe wblte clusters
of great chestnuts, tbe long festoons
of tbe towering acadas (locusts), and
other flowers Innumerable.
What an air tbe many mod bouses
have, with tbelr great thatcbed roofs I
The aralls are built of a sticky, clayey
soil, that dries rock-bard In the sun
Tbe roofs are a Joy, almply thick rolli
of straw laid dose by tbe fanner and
cemented together by nature In a few
months wltb moas and flowers, limy
overhang tbe sunny wall and shelter
tbe vines?sometimes they are trees,
trained like vines?that border door
and window and tbe whole place rad
iates a spirit of solid prosperity and
comfort, as well as beauty and charm.
The beauties of Normandy are as
varied as they are striking, and a stn
gle day among them brings a sympa
thetic understanding of the struggles
of centuries to bold such a lovely
province.
?ayewx sad Its Tapestry.
Ous of tbs. fiercest of these
away back In the Ninth century. ^
Their strange, dragon-prowed galleys
swooped down npon the French coasts '
and the frollcksome vikings came la
land, killing, burning, and destroying.
In true pirate fashion. It took them
about a century to secure more than
a mere toehold; but then King Charles
the Simple did a wise thing and made ?
the pirates welcome. They settled 1
thickly along the lower reaches of the
Seine and made Rouen their capital.
And the Norsemen were no mere free- ,*
hooters. Dnder Rollo the Ganger they
fathered the Normans, Who conquered
Kngland In 1006, and gave their name
to this rich and desirable regtoo.
The story of their conquest of Eng
land reposes safely nnder glass to
day, after a somewhat stprmy career,
in the placid little city of Bayem, ooe >
of William the Conqueror's towns.
Bnyeux's quaint old houses ding about
the handsome cathedral as barnacles
grow upon, a rock, and through the ?>
meadows all about meanders a sleepy
little stream gemmed with lilies.
But it is the "tapestry" In the mu
seum that makes Bayeux a magnet
No more original or curious history ef
a war was ever wrought than this
seamless strip of plain lines?not tape *
entry at all?2SO feet long, by 20 inches .
wide, covered with vivid sketches in
worsted embroidery of eight colors.
Clearly and In great detail the SB
scenes tell the story of the prepara
tion of William the Conqueror's fleet
and the Battle of Bastings. The needle
sketches are rude and simple, hardly
more than mere, artistic shorthand
suggestions: but they were done with
such fidelity to the facts sad such
dash that they move us even yet as
no mere written account can.
Duke Wllllnm's .favorite town was
Caen, where lie and bis duchess, Ma
tilda, .who defied the canon law by
marrying within the forbidden degrees
of consanguinity, did royal penance by
building two great abbeys, whose
churches of St Etlenne (St. Stephen)
and La Trinite contribute so greatly
to Caen's beauty today.
On the Lovely Orne.
Below I be town Idle* the lovely
little Oroe, ? sleepy stream, at can
?et a dream river, running nnlmliaelj
by broad, craaey, tree-hedged prom
enadea and Inab meadows, where gray
and brown net* overhang the walla
and the mnlU-colored rowboata glow
like atrange Jewels opon the river*
placid breaaL Queer little rickety
bridgea bar Ita ahlnlng length aa It'
allpe northward out of the city, and
away through the lovely Norman
renntry of great, rolling flelds, golden
with grain and dotted with farm
houaea and apple orchards, toward the
gleaming white aand dunea that fringe
the bay of the Seine with Iridescence.
Big and little at earners ply alowly
op and down the canalized waters of
the Oroe. Ton can almoat shake hands
from deck to deck aa the vessels paaa
between the endless lines off poplars.
Serosa the bey from the month at
the Orne are the month of the Seine
and the great ahlp-bolldlng and com
mercial port of Le Havre- The glori
ous river that leads from Havre to
Rouen and on to Paris la a stream
of delights, winding tortuously among
little towns, farms, the ghostly ruins
of former grandeur like Jam leges, and
between chalky cliffs now and again,
that rise hundreds of feet above the
river, or. low and beetling, shelter as
tonishing cave communities, whose
homes are bored right Into the soUd
rock.
Splendid wooded peninsulas Jut oat
into the stream, that widens below
Rouen Into aa majestic a deed an the
Hudson; and then the ancient ptratn
stronghold itself comas Into view,
shroadad with the saaafee of tta foe