A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . o bed. Tuesday, September first thing I did this morning was tohunt up my banker. That gentleman, aftersupplying me with the required Germanmoney, cross-questioned me in the most ap-proved Prussian manner and very politelytold me what I should see in Kiel. Insteadof following his advice, we went to theThaulow Museum and saw some wonderfulold Schleswig-Holstein wood-carving. Inthe afternoon Maud, Marian, Raphael andI walked up to the palace, formerly the resi-dence of the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp, andnow occupied by Princ
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . o bed. Tuesday, September first thing I did this morning was tohunt up my banker. That gentleman, aftersupplying me with the required Germanmoney, cross-questioned me in the most ap-proved Prussian manner and very politelytold me what I should see in Kiel. Insteadof following his advice, we went to theThaulow Museum and saw some wonderfulold Schleswig-Holstein wood-carving. Inthe afternoon Maud, Marian, Raphael andI walked up to the palace, formerly the resi-dence of the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp, andnow occupied by Prince Henry of through the Schloss-Garten, we tooka tram-car for a ride out to a place calledBellevue, where we hoped to get a look atthe German War Fleet, but not a battle shipwas in sight, so we walked back along theharbor-side road. We saw a number ofbeautiful villas and the Imperial Yacht ClubHouse. Many of the places displayed ForSale cards; there was not much going onin the harbor and the great ship buildingworks at Krupps Germania Wharf seemed. ^ A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 143 to be idle. In fact the whole place lookedlike an American boomed town shortly afterthe boom had collapsed. Wednesday, September lO. After breakfast we took a train for Lu-beck, the smallest of the three independentHanseatic towns of the German trip, which was quite brief, was throughHolstein, and a very fine country it appearsto be. The land is flat with a few low hillsand many broad lakes that today were cov-ered with numerous water fowls. In thefields were herds of the fine black and whitecattle for which the country is of the large, brick farm houses arethatched with straw, which gives them avery picturesque appearance, but I regret tohave to say that the barn, stable and dwell-ing seemed in most cases to be under oneroof. We arrived at Lubeck quite a bit be-fore noon, so, after securng rooms at theStadt-Hamburg Hotel, we went to see theCathedral. It is a fine
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