OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, THURSDAY, MAY 10. 1923 _TWE

Mrs. T. Dowdney Clark on A Visit to the Land of the Pibroch, Scott and Burns \ VERY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OP EDINBORO, DI'RING THE HI NTING SEASON— ITINERARY INCLUDES PEACES OF RARE HISTORIC INTEREST AND LITERARY FAME

Rcadei* who Imil from the IjxthI i s „■ i ho Cakes and Pibroch and are I 1 familiar with Edinboro town, will! I lind it difficult to believe that Mrs. T. Dowdney Clary was there only L a matter of hours. In one place in; \ her charmingly written travelog,! v Mi . Clark speaks of acquiring |, the "Scotch atmosphere." Never ' t, ,iii|. never could any person have! imbil'Cd more of the spirit than t t Mrs. Clark. ! | This in point of fact as we have, | had reason .to remark before, is c nor peculiar genius. As a lady j „ Mrs. Clark is typically American; jc ;,s an artist she is truly cosmo- !•„ inditan, and art nows no racial dis- t In addition endowed with large] yiopathics, she is able to see the a coiuitHes she visits, through the!., eyes' 'of ili» own people. „ The thought comes forcefully to , s mind what Ji sad pity is it tliat „ pinre tourists and particularly ] writers have not this faculty to tiic ; * ante degree. American writers visit distant „ lands on a carping critical spirit, j intent upon observing things, hair it and customs with which th#J- ^ may disagree ami upon which they r may pour out their ridicule and j, contempt The same is true of y other people on n visit to America. p The result is an inevitable estrancement between tlic nations in p question. No country visited by Mrs. Dow- (| " dney Clark will need regret she|| ever entered its ports, and nt thejv -aiue time. America should feel j ( pi oud it was represented there a ladv who so completely won the , hearts" of the people, and left so ( favorable an impression of the 1 ( land and people from whence she ] . Hat we must not transgress up-1 ^•Klfpnticnce of our readers, who doubtless are eager to learn what Mrs. Clark has to say of the home of Scott and Burns. GOING THROUGH SCOTLAND jr When I took my trip abroad last j ' summer, 1 made up my mind that ( 1 would visit Scotland, although it : ' was not included in our program, I intended taking part of our week ' ■pent in I-ondon before sailing for home for that purpose, which 1 J I never spent three consecutive j days so "pressed down am! runn- ' ing over" with such interesting . «•*. ' When our party arrived -in- l.on- < 'oh. I immediately sought infor 1 Marion about a three day trip thru part of Scotland, making Edifl- 1 Imrgh (or Edinboro, ds the people f over there call it), the main center ' of trips. Imagine my disappoint- 1 ment when I was told tliat the. hooting season was on and that ' it would he nearly imposible to find any necommodntions in Edin- 1 burgh. One man had just returned ami ' hud lieen turned down nt every ho- ' tel rnd had to sleep on a bench m ' the big Caledonian station all 1 night. Still determined to go, 1 ! sent telegrams to four hotels and received game reply from eacli one, "completely booked." So I gave up thought of my trip but felt ter- 1 ribly dissatisfied, as Scotland was ; to me one of the principal attract- 1 ions of the trip, having been in all 1 I lie other countries before. Suddenly I concluded, that no .

matter where I slept, here was my chance ami I would take it. I found that it took two entire days to go to Edinburgh and return, leaving me just one whole day for sightseeing. It was now Tuesday afternoon, and we sailed early Saturday morning, i«cnusc I had to be back In London Friday night. If by | chance the're was an accident or any kind of interference, it meant missing my Bteamer home. I was going entirely alone, as my party, never having been to London before, had plenty to see there. I'll never forget how our Italian conductor looked, when I told Him I was going to Scotland on my own responsibility and at m>" ®wn expense. He held up his hands and pulled his hair and said, "Oh, you headstrong American women, why you may have to stand all day long hi the train and sleep in the street" I said anyway I would risk it, and there was always a way out and he told me, "Mrs. Clark, 1 wash my hands of you and certainly won't be responsible." Well we glared at each other and he laughed and said, "Well go to it, , only don't for Heaven's sake fail to return here Friday night." 1 assured him I would do my i best and having received, so to ; (

speak, his blessing. I left him, but ' 1 thought "Huh! one might think!' j wag going to the North Pole." | 1 bought my ticket at the hotel, j j packed my bag and next morning, : at lialf |>ast seven, I 1 wa sat t|ie station just one hour | ' I the "Edinboro. Express" was | Oh what crowds of people arriv- 1 ! cd, it did gee mas if the whole!. ; Isles was going to Scot- , j I gut a porter and we walk- ■ ] : e«l the entire lengtii of the train, j nineteen cars, ami peered in each ( comportment, every seat taken hut . one by u huge man, who only left j , three inches for me. Well, 1 knew j I was wider than that. Just then a trainman came by,! | ] and 1 grabbed his arm and said, ' . '"I'll give you a dollar ir you will L get me a seat." He said, "impns-;| i Bible." I said, "1 moke it two, put j j me in the dining car, can't you 7" said, "not till I see the money,". ( I showed him about two dollars ( : wffth of shillings 1 had anil he got, a fine seal in the diner and oh ! I was on my way. Then a nice intelligent English ■ waiter brought me London papers, , railroad maps and books ami (as 1 , had whispered to him I would , make it worth while), he was most , attentive and sharpened my pencil , ! and told me about the most inter resting places we were passing. We traveled fast all day, muking only two stops. We were in Scot- ; •land long before noon. I file a [specially good and large dinner l>eI I ause, alas I knew not what await- , ed me in Edinburgh. At my table met a charming English couple, i who owned and had been living on big ranch above Johannesburgh. Africa, for twenty years. I-ater, as 1 had to glve up my goat at the table for the second sitting. I followed my new acquaintances, (at their invitation) to their' •compartment and as the man had consented to an interview, I took down some of the most interesting i imaginable, about the ranch; life there and many adventures. I was thrilled and got a lot of [material for a story. 1 met two] English war nurses, so I hustled I ] down to them and go n lot of in-| formation and accounts of many; thrilling incidents. At tea on the ; train, one of the eiHtors of Edin-] , burgh's liest daily newspapers, 'The Scotman,' came to my table and I ] he told me many things about Edinburgh and vicinity. How I enjoyed the rugged benu- . tiful scenery, even though a heavy , "Scotch mist" was falling. The] . grew bigger and thousands of . sheep were grazing, while great. . stretches of purple heather could . ! seen. , Then as we neared Edinboro. the , [ rail road led along the high cliffs ] by the sea for miles, giving us a [ glimpse of unusual scenery. It was just quarter after seven when I our train drew into the immense . station and still daylight. I hire.! , taximeter and having secure.! I names and location of many hotels i , and boarding houses on the train. I we started <"i our way. We stopped at nine hotels and ] fourteen bearding houses before I ; a place V, taximeter bill was j simply scandalous, also I fairly . ached from getting in and out so I time beside going up and down steps. But at quarter to ten o'clock, 1 got lodgings _and board

I in a fine home and after engaging < un experienced guide and driver 1 1 i for seven-thirty next morning, and : eating a lunch my landlady kindly , brought me, 1 went to my nice | : r..rrh and to my rest, thanking the l ] dear Lord it was well with me and , » j that instead iff sitting on a front ] j stoop till night, or walking the . streets, 1 was resting on a good : , , lied with n fine soft pillow under , I At seven-thirty next morning I ; f 1 started out with my guide, who : was a dear old man in a sort of u f I ' buggy, pulled by n fine big horse,:, j', Jupiter by name, and a great pet.',. ; i soon found out. , My guide carefully tucked me in, ; ' fur it was cold and windy, then 1 1 ' ! gave me n fine hunch of heather. c . [ so 1 would abtforb the "Scotch at- . | . ! mosphere," and we tsarted, taking f in all parts of the city. ] , ' Edinburgh, which is wonderfully j J situated upon huge hills of rock.J^ ' lias its origin involved in mystery i ( ' and fable and no monuments have j g ! survived the ravages of time, tliat ( ] really can assist in compiling its ] |; earliest history. ! j There arc many magnificent j , ] i buildings, almost everyone being ; , i of brown stone. The main busi- ; % ,-ness and shopping street of Edin- , • is called Princess street. *Ve • visited art galleries, St. GiieR Ca-]f ' i thclral, passed by "John Knox's j j ' : house," Sir Walter Scott's magui- ! j ] ficent and immense monument. |c Robert Burns' monument and many i £ ' others, amriig them being n fine | ( 1 one of our own beloved Abraham . ' I Lincoln. j | '! My guide drove me in the West v Princess street gardens to see ttiel£ i wonderful floral clock on the side ! .-of a bank. The face was entirely], I of growing flowers, also the hands : I rend wafi distinct and lieautlful. It ^ I* was the size of three ordinary)

' j doors. I saw Fettes College anil the , University. I was taken to the j '• spot where public executions hail j ^ " I^eii for many years hack, but now , ' abolished. I enjoyed going up to ' the castle on the top of the rocky " i hill where the Argyl and Sutherland Highlanders have their bar). • ' rack*. A special army guide, an , i officer, showed a company of usjj i. the nrmory, banquetting hall, Mao ] Queen of Scott* roonuj, Queen j , y Margaret's chapel, for this huge;1 - building had been the home of nullum* iuwi nvvt, v..t

- kings and queens in days long ago. r Then we walked out on the Es1 planaile and watched a big com- ; !t.pany of soldiers drill, attlreil in r ! their "pluides." Every soldier was six feet high and over and what a splendid picture they made. When j f we had *een all, our guide said:. o."l.a<Ues and gentlemen, kindly j 'I j stand in line, while I collect my j j fee of two shillings," and as his ; V eagle eye saw several skullSngj e ; pway, he shouted out, "we allow no - dead heads here," and thus he I 0 brought the erring stingy one*: J ; back and they waiil the fee. This pleased some of us very j much. One old gentleman said, i- "Three cheers, captain, that's what ' y a lot of these mean buggers need,, e ■ good rounding up," and by the I f expressions there heard, 1 knew all t j but the mean ones thought the •I i same. My guide was waiting for me nt, c the gate ami we were at once on s 1 our way to see the "Covenanter s a Burying Ground." I walked all | t through it reading names and in- , n scriptions, many very tragic, for e | we know what troubles they had. .1 Some how I always loved to read dj about them. Many of the tombs] stones were nearly down, ij After this we drove on to a station and I paid my go oil old man, d got out and got on top of a tallyho coach and started for a tour to s the Forth Bridge or Roslin. This > splendid unusual bridge is much o visited. Then taking a different d course we went to the village of n Glllgraine, where we had an exd cellent hot lunch under big trees ■ —

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; the village green anil watched . i • [ the village lads and lassies dance, i I How charming it was, and then [ up on the coach again, with the; ' 1 . horse* prancing along up hill and ' hill, by the purple heather and the i I sheep, and at I o'clock back in Ed- ! 1 i . I then visited the museum i I I also the gallery, where there are r ] one hundred paintings of king- c 'and queen* and then from five '" ' ; seven o'clock. I shopped hard and ! fast. j i Oh whnt wonderful values I I [found In woolen goods a'1'1 what ; :nice big stores. I finished just ns'f ■ ! the station clock struck riven, when r the stores close and loaded with I walked to my lodgings. ! n j an excellent dinner and a good ( [chat with .my landlady, who had n i lived there maty years, then pack- r : ed my bug and slept the sleep of v I the weary. ] ,, | I saw a fine parade of three : i; I hundred and seventy boy scouts if that day. There were three bands ^ of bag pipes. It was simply great, j t I saw and counted two hundred ami i „ j nine men standing in line nt a i t j Parish "House waiting for foodij f I waB told, had Scotlaml;t jhnd so many of its men out of!). work and so many suffering fami- 1 : a ] How f wisheil I was rich so I:r | might walk down that line and j help each one, for are we not all brothers ami sisters and I saw disery deep on their faces. Tbe next morning, Friday, 1 was up bright and early and after breakfast, I my kind landlady bood by and ' I was driven to the station, where 1 : j easily foun da nice scat in the Lon|don express and started on my! i homeward journey, j Thorough my same waiter (who. ! ; had been in the English army dur- ; I

I the war). 1 met some nice peer." : pie. who told me many interesting I t'angs. We arrived in London at ,17.15 and I was driven to my hotel, l] I ran into our Italian conductor the lobby — the tl«ar man was [waiting for men. anxious and wor j ried, because 1 really was as a | ' member of the party, under his 'care. He nearly wrung my hand I I off, so relieved was he. I went to my room and dressed ) dinner anil at just seven-forty j | I walked into the dining room ami ( '• took my place at the tal»e with my ( | friends, feeling as pleased as a t : child with a new toy. , Some ilavf! hope to do Scotland i I at a slow er pace, going to the far f northern part. But having only ( ■me day 1 really did do the best I > | could The next day, Saturday. c : when I stood on the promenade | , neck of our ship, homeward bound, , ■ l watched the British Isles fade t . from view-, I could see in fancy , i beautiful Edinhurg and in the dis- ] | j the Pel ham hills with the . sheep and the henther, "and" then 1 ' turned to the West and there be-;- ] me rising up beyond three v ] thousand miles of water 1 saw my ) k [home country, the United States of i America, the land of my nativity and* the fulfillment of all my de- s ! sire*. The End. f MBS. T. DOWDNEY CLARK. Don't Fumble T!$s She dropped her gloves, | He raised his lid: 1 He picked them up , ' With "Ohy, you kid!" t He- smile. I at her. j; "How dare you, sir?" ji i Excuse me, miss, |" ! "It's just like this — meant the glove."

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•WHITCOMBE RILEY. THE HOOSIER POET' James Whitcombe Riley, America's Poet Lauriet. will be the sul>ject o fa lecture delivered by Dr. Harold Milton Nichols, pastor i/i ' Park Avenue M. K. Church, Phil- ] adelphia, at the-Searille Methodist ' i Church, on- Monday, May 14th. j Those who were privileged to Dr. Nichols on the poet at the ' of the Ocean City Fishing ( Club, held at the Manufacturers"Club recently, will never forget the occasion. Dr. Nichols lui.mnde a profnund study of the poet ' and quotes from his verses an in- , The gifted preacher More- ' : has u charming moiic of presenting liis subject, and is an accomplished orator. So deeply has' imbibed of the spirit of Riley, ! - nature's own minstrl and lyricist, , that he seemed to exude the free, ] ! roving atmosphere of the wood- ; • land stream, the v.ist'forcst land.] ''and the mighty sea. The people of the vicinity may ' anticipate a rare literary treat, ! with a profound human interest, ' when Dr. Nichols appears at the Church. Admission to the lecture may lie ] secured for the nominal cluirge of fifty cents. jr-L. V ijjeky Yeggs Two yeggs held up and tried to j rob a Scotchman. It was a hard fight but after the lanky ScotchI man had licked them both, nc gave i one of them a shove with his foot i and said, between breaths — "Weal I — it's a good thing that 1 only had a nickel with me. If I had had a' j dime I would have killed you." i

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