GOSSAMER GLORIES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 16

GOSSAMER GLORIES

MADE IN CiiniVßEC IN BRITTANY.

"The world is wide," sayjs one proverb: '"Tis a small world," gays the other, and you may say, yea, to both sayings and not disagree. Folk-Jore and fairy-tale, legend and tradition, are the same in lands; as., far asunder as. the polea, and each owes something to the other, declares the "Christian Science Monitor." So the Englishman feels at home in Normandy, and in Brittany the Cornisbman will 'catch in the strange syllables of the Breton tongue an echo of h^s own lost language. The Frenchman and. the' Scot have ever been'hereditary friends, and there was much give-and-take of names among them. Douglas, when he made ajiome ,in France, became de Glais, and plain Williamson- was turned into tho Sieur Devxlencbn. Sometime, ■we know • not when, a.Scotsman found a little settlement by a, French river and called it Cauldebeck' in memory of his own land over the water.

Caudebec- is a placid place, backed by the forest-covered hills, and crownedby- its cathedral tower ,"la plus jolie chapelle que j'al janiais vu" of Henri Quatre. In early days it was a leader of the fashion, and a "Caudebec hat" was the hall-mark of a dandy "in teacup . times, or when the hoop was worn." Then Caudebec made gloves so soft and fine that they could lie within a walnue shell—worthy covering for tho fair hand of "la belle Marquise" ! pone are those gossamer glories, but' when Caudebec made itself it mad© a more enduring glory. 'There are quaint streets and gabled houses to delight the of the summer. wayfarer, and there is,_ in particular, the rue de la .Boucherie, where the rivulet runs down the street so prettily. ■--