Little journeys abroad (1895) (14783820533)

Identifier: littlejourneysab00warr (find matches)
Title: Little journeys abroad
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Warren, Mary Bowers Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905, ill Sacker, Amy M., binding designer
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Publisher: Boston : Joseph Knight Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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ng, we were re-minded of Bible pictures. Biblical, too,were our frequent picnic-luncheons of 198 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. bread and wine, symbol of substance andspirit, going back farther than Melchizedekand his mystical offering. It is predicted that the vine will becomethe fortune of Algeria, the exportation ofwine to France alone amounting to thirty-two million francs a year. Of course, thereare good years and bad years, as much ofthe hot sirocco wind is not beneficial tomen or vines, although I met people occa-sionally who said they enjoyed sirocco air. The wine of the Chateau Hydra is well-known, as is that made at Staoueli, wherethere is a Trappist monastery. We didnot go, voting the drive long and uninter-esting, and being told that ladies are onlyadmitted to the ante-room, where evensilence begs, for to the usual rules ofpoverty and obedience the Trappist orderadds that of silence. But a party of ourfriends did go, and were impressed withthe hospitality of the monks and the ex-
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Vv^k^ ALGERIAN ARAB HEAD. VILLA LIFE IX ALGIERS. 201 cellence of the wines, the perfumes, andthe eucalyptine, although they could notagree whether the principal dish at luncheonwas composed of fish or flesh. The monas-tery stands on the site of a battlefieldwhere the French were victorious over theTurks. There had died, some time before wereached Algiers, Cardinal Lavigerie, — theFrench prelate who did so much for Al-geria and the Arabs, and who had diedsaddened by his unfruitful efforts to obtainencouragement and help from the govern-ment at home in his plans for extendingthe work of the church and French rule inAfrica. His picture was in all the shopwindows; and we heard accounts of thepomp of the funeral procession, and thelying-in-state in the cathedral. A nobleman, every one said, successful in institut-ing his order of White Fathers, wearingthe Arab burnous as habit, and who, had 202 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. his ambitious dreams been realized, wouldhave added much to the name a