. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . .:K AM) IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 61 progress through the Madawaska territory with the same expe-rience in all. At our entrance the scholars all would rise totheir feet and remain standing while the smiling, fair-facedteacher bade us welcome. Usually there was a bouquet besidethe school-globe on the table and often potted flowers in thewindows. Indeed the love of flowers seems general among theMadawaska French, for we saw beautiful varieties filling thewindows of manv of the farmhouses
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . .:K AM) IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 61 progress through the Madawaska territory with the same expe-rience in all. At our entrance the scholars all would rise totheir feet and remain standing while the smiling, fair-facedteacher bade us welcome. Usually there was a bouquet besidethe school-globe on the table and often potted flowers in thewindows. Indeed the love of flowers seems general among theMadawaska French, for we saw beautiful varieties filling thewindows of manv of the farmhouses whatever, wav we MOIIIKN From Madawaska town at the head of the great northwardbend of the river St. John, where we stayed for dinner, we jour-neyed through lower Frenchville, and upper Frenchville withits great church and pretty houses and convent of Saint Rosaireto Fort Kent where we arrived before nightfall. Here are sev-eral fine houses and grounds near the old barrack that has beentransformed into the hotel Dickey. Near the river, on the levelplateau that includes the famous blockhouse, is the handsomeresidence of Vincent M. Theriault, Esq., a wealthy land propri-etor who is one of the leading lawyers in the Madawaska terri-tory. He is of Acadian descent, and his wife was the beautifulMarguerite Elise Cyr of the family so prominent in all the annalsof the Madawaska territory. From my visit to his place I])rought pictures of his house and family which represent themost cultured phase of Acadian home life ; also I took fromFort Kent with me a photograph of the house and grounds of €2 IN FAIR AROO
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