Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1919 — Take Yanks About [ARTICLE]

Take Yanks About

Y. M. C. A. Conducts Sightseeing Tours Through France. lBattlefields and Castles of Leading Interest After Paris Haa Been Seen. Chantilly. France.—The progress of the sightseeing doughboy through France, after he gets through with battle fronts, is from one beautiful spot to another. Of course, the battle fronts come first, and the Y. M. C. A. trips to Cbateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood. Rhelms, Soissons and the Che-mln-des-Dames are so popular that the boys have to draw tots every day for the coveted free tickets, as only 100 persons can be taken on each trip. But all the other trips the Y. M. C. A. has arranged for American soldiers and sailors axe studies in beauty and

art and history amid pleasures and palaces, and the eagerness and Intelligence with which the boys go on these expeditions is plain evidence of their essential soundness of heart arid mind. The first day, as a rule, the boys get aboard the big!“Y” sightseeing automobiles and see' Paris. Then they go by special train to the palaces of Versailles, Fontainebleau, Malmaison and St. Germain. Next they come bhck to Paris and spend a day in the Louvre. And then those still keen for palaces are invited to take another trip to tlie jewel of them all. the famous chateau of the Condes and Montmorencys at Chantilly. Thousands of American soldiers have visited Chantilly this year and have learned something of a place which many wealthy tourists overlooked. Indeed, though many Americans visited "Chantilly in years before the v.’kr, a

large percentage of them saw only the race course and never visited the chateau. Yet many experts hold that though a number of other museums outrank it in size, nowhere in the world —not excepting the Louvre—is there a more exquisite* collection of objects of art.