April t6. !929 Two RAYMOND-WHITCOMB NORTH CAPE-BALTIC SUMM~R CRUISES S.S. "Carinthia"- June !6 S.S. "Franconia"--June !9 Raymond-Whitcomb North Cape Cruises for almost ten years have been the most popular Summer Cruises to sail from America. This year there will be TWO Raymond· Whitcomb Summer Cruises to the Land of the Midnight Sun. The cruise-ships will be sister-ships-the· newest Cunarders-specially de· signed for cruising. Sailing just after ·the close of schools and colleges, these cruises have consistently attracted younger people and families bound for a vaca · tion together. They may be taken as a complete holiday in themselves (generous shore excursions characterize the programs) or as a delightful new way to Paris. The routes include Iceland, · the North Cape and Hammerfest, Trondhjem, the most beautiful of the Norwegian Fjords and the cities of Scandinavia and the BalticBergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Visby, Tallinn (Esthonian capital), Helsingfors (capital of Finland) and Copenhagen. The rates-$800 upinclude assured homeward accommodations by such noted Cunard liners as tiie "Aquitania", "Berengaria" and "Mauretania" as well as the "Carinthia" and "Franconia". those of the Compagnie Transat_ lan ... tique for a motor tour of Morocco and Algiers. . An Englishman and I have been laughing at the efforts of one of 'the Spanish crew, who is washing the smoke stacks, not to overwor~ · and have just discovered that he spea~s English. This is one of the travellers FAREWELL TO SPAIN 'Americans a.s if we were beings from awkward situations! How sad to leave the beautiful At- another planet. As indeed w~ are! ham bra! To know that tomorrow On from Ror.da t~ ~lgectras. from FREE LECTURE "Mister Flores" will be murmuring his where now we are sk1ppmg ?ut 111 ~ur "Indian Winter in the Labrador" is blandishments in another ear, that the little boat past the great tmpresstve .the title of a free illustrated lectur~ little shoe shine boy will be calling im- rock of Gibraltar, on our way to Mor- tc) be given Saturday afternoon, Ap!tl pudently after another traveller his occo. Spain is fading fast. Spain; 27 at Field Museum of Natural Hts"No, tank you." country of surprises. Let me list for to~v, by Dr. William Duncan Strol)g, Really tl)e guides and various tour- the unwary some of these surprises ~o anthropologist of the recentlr returne.d ist hangers-on are funny. I have often that he may not be caught, as I was, Rawson-MacMillan Subarctic expedilaughed at the moment when I ~hould un~uvare. . tion for Field Museum. The lecture have. been most stern! They ptck up I was surprised: That even the child- will be given in the James Simpson the Jargon of refusals-they ~ave so ren speak Spanish. That there are so theater of the museum at 3 o'clock, and many of them-and parrot-hke call T·hat the trains the general public . is invited. D.r. . f "N k , 1 many po1 tcemen. t h em a ter you, . o t.~n you-go way seemingly unassisted, arrive. That Strong who is a'3Ststant curator m - tomo.rrow mornmk. . you manage to get off at the right charge' of North American ethnology Yet tt was not .so sad to be lea vmg statiqn. That the people, even the and archaelogy at the museum, lived !he Alha~12ra as tf I had not been go- peasants, have very fine hands. That for several months among the nomadic mg !O Ronda, famed amo.ng; trav~llers the do. 1keys' backs don't break. That Naskapi Indians or Lab:ado. durin.g for tts beauty. The tour:st s phtloso- the women don't smoke. That the men the course of his work on the expedtphy of "Carry on." I was not disap- smoke so incessantly. That the soil is tion. pointed. A hotel surrounded by beau- so red and a great part of the country tiful. gardens, perche~ on the edge of so barren. That the Spanish never get GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS a chff and commandmg a marvellous 1 used to tourists. That they stay up Next week's guide-lecture tours at That there are so many view of valley and mountains. all night. Mu'.;eum of Natural History will Field The "thing to see" at Ronda is a dogs but none of them bit me. That tremendous Roman bridge built across the cigaret lighters light . That the begin Monday, April 29, with "Plant the gorge, still used to connect the two coffee is so poor (this was not wholly Life" at 11 o'clock and "Metals" at 3 towns. Below it is the Moorish bridge, a surprise.) That there are so many o'clock. Other days at the same hours and up the gorge a short wa y the new churches. That the Spaniards seem subjects will be: Tuesday, "Pewter and Spanish on~ . Three civilizations, laid . to be used to all these things. But I Bronze" and "Masks"; Wednesday, e JLasic and really over- "Animals Used for Food" and "South so loosely U].:?On one another that much suppose th_ that eacb left outcrops thru the rust whelming surprise was to find myself America"; Thursday, two synoptic tours of the departments of anthroof the othe'rs. in Spain at ·all! pology, botany, geology and zoology; And I am not sure that the race that We are nearing the African side. and Friday, "Geography of the Chicago liv es here now is not as foreign to us Tangiers straggliDg up her .shore is Region" and "Archaleogy of Italy." as any. Thes e black clad, sad-eyed putting on her most welconung sun women struggl_ ing up the stee p streets, lit smile. I turn my self over now. 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