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WILMETTE LIFE March 22, 1929 cans hung over the rail with a sort of "LaFayette-we-are-here" smile. There was no answering smile from the great . cavernous dock that night, only a mob of darting porters seemed to note our coming, or care. Then the boat-train and in one compartment a Parisian who had been visiting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a Viennese on business in Chicago, a Russian girl who was in Moscow all during the Revolution, and a French girl who was to be married and live in Philadelphia. There was no Jack . of ·conversation that night, then Paris at midnight, the hour when she is most herself, perhaps, the hour when the taxi-men cease to be taxi-men and turn rubbers, for the fare from then on is "what the traffic will bear." The traffie, when it is American, is exceedingly qocile. Tomorrow we change our money into pesetas and to the land from which Columbus set sail. - -------------A-PPROVED BY BOOK CLUB Because of the li.t erary merit of her latest .book, "Other Ways and Other Flesh," Mrs . .Edith O'Shaughnessy has been offered an honorary membership .n the Mark Twain Society. "Other 'vVays and Other Flesh," published by Harcourt, Brace and company, was the F ebruary selection of the Catholic Book Club. SOME NEW BOOKS Harcourt, Brace and company are publishing this month new books by Sinclair Lewis (Dodsworth), Katherine Mayo (Slave s of the Gods), H. S. Canby (Amer~can Estimates ) , Jo seph \Vood Krutch (Th e M odern Temp er), and Lewis Mumford (Herman Mel ville ). Mr. and l\f rs. Phillip S. Hill, 735 Eighth street, returned Monday from a ten days' trip to Biloxi, Miss. and ~f emphi s, Tenn. -oM r. and 1vf r s. Georg e Kane, 1012 Ashland a ve nue , re turned recently fr om Holly\\'oocl Beach. Fla., wh er e th ey had been vacati onin g for three wee ks . 'II ESIHER. GOULD"'S ~ iRAVEL CORNER and you are served a realty good custard? It is strange everywhere, this south of France, a towered chateau set high on a hill, a farm which cannot be real, which must have been built for som e international exhibition. By tomorrow I shall have crossed France from north to south and be in sunny- it is to be hoped-Spain. Tonight it is Carcassonne, the famous walled city of France, about which poets have sung and round which Henry James paced in the moonlight. three times. A dreadful form of martydom that, for its cobblestones are the sharpest and the meanest in the world. It is a marvelous place, this tiny walled city, even in spite of the vigorous restorations of Viollet-le-Duc. In fact a good deal is because of them. since much would be inaccessible otherwise, mere masses of ruins. In the ramparts of the city you see th e Roman foundations, the wall and towers of the Visigoths, a tower built by the Sara cens, and the large part built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. first by the Spaniards and then hy St. Louis. Two thousand years of life represented here, and call it Hollywood or Joliet, if you will, as some have, it is an astonishing and wonderful thing. The cathedral. alone, part in the Romanesque fift!l century style, part in the Gothic of the twelfth century with ro se windows which remind one of Chartres, makes America seem a childishly youthful place. Three days in France! Thr ee days since coming up to the clock we Ameri- SPRING and the MEDITERRANEAN S.S. "Carinthia"-April 8 A southern route sailin1 by the newest Cunarder -specially built for cruising. The score of visits, with generous sightseeing, includes Barcelona, for the Exposition, Carcassonne, . for the first time on a cruise, the Dalmatian Coast, etc. Assured homeward accommodations included in the rates-$725 up. THE WALLED CITY OF FRANCE Th e concierge and I are the only people in the world who speak English. Aside from us it is a dead lan' gua~e, archeologists will soon begin digging it up on stones. I am ·plunging farther and farther down into the south, every day farther from everything that has a familiar look, from everything I have known. Paris left yesterday morning is already a memory. To\vns which have been only dots on the map are materializing before my eyes. They blame us Americans for traveling with the words "strange" and "how queer" on our lips, but isn't it strange for us to be in a country where the women go clopping to market in wooden sabots, where the people walk about in ~ drizzling rain soaked to the s ~<in and dress the donkeys and horses in the most colorful raincoats, where wine is easier to obtain than water, Foreign Travel printte party-vi ~ iting s eve n Em·opean countries by steam er, mil. motor coa c h a nd private car, 6!1 Duyt~-ln('ludin~ All Expenses $780.00 Fro m N Pw York ba ck t o N e w Y o1·k Gontluct crl by S P l ~>c t, AGNESJ.CARROLL AND ASSISTANT NORTH CAPE-BALTIC SUMMER CRUISES S~S. "Carinthia"-· June 26 Phone Greenleaf 1105 all6 Sheridan Rd. Evanston S.S. "Franconia"-- June 29 The most popular summer vacation, OP ~he "Franconia" and "Carinthia" - the newest Cunarders, sister-ships, specially built for cruising. '!'he routes include Iceland, the North Cape and Hammerfest, Trondhjem, the ancieut Royal City of Norway, the most beautiful of the Norwegian Fjords, and the cities of southern Scandinavia and the Baltic - Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Visby, Tallinn (Esthonian capital), Helsingfors (capital of Finland) and Copenhagen. The rates- $800 up - · include assured homeward accommodations during the year. . The Sayner HOTEL and BUNGALOWS On Plum Lake Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Sayner, Proprietors Sayner, Wisconsin Special Sailing ··· to France and England ~tty~ APRIL 17 The "dream . , sh. lpo f crutses, ~ i / f.., returning her ~~/'.A...";) world-cruise p~s1 ·:· AtV eengers to Amenca · "' and Europe. She'll ~ be met at Cherbourg c, and Southampton by Q}c, special trains to Par. is and 4 London. She'll carry Tourq, ist Third Cabin and Third (q$ Class passengers in addition to First Class de luxe. She's worth arr'lnging your program for, if you're going to Europe this Spring. 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