. Eight journeys abroad. e there are Chinese servants with long pig tails andqueer hats and always the same gayety. Miss Douglas is very nice and she introduced us to a Misslinger, an art student here, who has taken us to Geromes,Boug-ereaus and Jan Van Beers studios and also was a great treat and the houses also superb. Geromeis magnificent and his work the same. Van Beers housesomething wonderful but Monte Cristo like. I have neverdreamed of such houses as I have seen here. At last we have decided on our future movements. Weall leave here Thursday, July 5th, Frank and Sam go to
. Eight journeys abroad. e there are Chinese servants with long pig tails andqueer hats and always the same gayety. Miss Douglas is very nice and she introduced us to a Misslinger, an art student here, who has taken us to Geromes,Boug-ereaus and Jan Van Beers studios and also was a great treat and the houses also superb. Geromeis magnificent and his work the same. Van Beers housesomething wonderful but Monte Cristo like. I have neverdreamed of such houses as I have seen here. At last we have decided on our future movements. Weall leave here Thursday, July 5th, Frank and Sam go to Basleand spend the night, then on to Lucerne and in a day or twoacross the lake to Burgenstock and spend a week at the bigHotel half way up the mountain to get accustomed to thehigh air. Then they go to Lugano, Chiavenna and over theMaloja Pass to St. Moritz. Cliif and I go to Hombourg formy three weeks cure, as I need it very much. I prefer goingwith the others but think it best to go to Hombourg. Affly. yours, M. D. GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA Royal Victoria Hotel, Bad-Hombourg. July 7th, Laura, Of course you know how hard it was at Paris to get achance to write, with going to the Exhibition and out to allsorts of things. At the 4th of July reception at Mr. Porters,the American Ambassador, Frank met the Christophersons(who were married in Philadelphia during the Centennial),and they were most cordial, and she said if she had onlyknown we were in Paris she could have done a great dealfor us. Frank and Sam left Paris Thursday morning, July 5th,for Basle and Lucerne and are to spend a week at Burgen-stock, a high place across the lake from Lucerne, preparatoryto going to St. Moritz. Cliff and I took the night train thesame night to Frankfort, by way of Metz and Mayence, andgot here by one oclock the next day. We found two nicesingle rooms awaiting us and if it would only get warm itwould be perfect, for the Hotel is beautifully kept and hasbeen all fixed up in
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