Life — August 5, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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“Lifes Travel Contest= THE WINNERS First Prize (A six-weeks’ trip to Europe with all expenses paid for two people) won by Howard Hosmer 1910 Kalorama Road, Washington, D. C. Second Prize ($250 in Cash) won by C. G. Farwell 204 Holly Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland Third Prize ($150 in Cash) won by Frank Mulhauser 197 Hot Springs Road, Santa Barbara, California Fourth Prize ($100 in Cash) won by Clare Connor 7722 No. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Mrs. Mabel Eaton Stewart 19 Lufbery Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey and Fifth Prize ($50 in Cash) Mary Isabel Wade 2239 Helen Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Elizabeth J. Lockard 1415 N. Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Indiana (No fifth prize was announced in this Contest, but the final dectsion was so close that the judges decided to make this special award. In the cases of the ties, the full amount of the prize is given to cach of the tying contestants.) won by and Here Is the Winning Essay on ‘What I Shall See in Europe’’: SHALL see the places I saw eight years ago, touring afoot, as one of 40 Hommes, or as a buck on leave. Le Havre (“Harve,” as the A. E. F. knew it) and_ its suburban rest camp....The barnyard villages of the train- ing area in Haute-Marne.... The little church at Domremy and the hillsides on the Meuse where the voices spoke to Jeanne....Toul and the old home sector, stretching off to- ward Metz, with its ruined and half-ruined villages and red , blooming in the barbed : rstwhile abode of rats and snipers....Chau- mont, G. H. Q., of pleasant post-Armistice memories. Paris.. .. The Place de la Concorde, bare now of rusty. battered trophies of war, and the effigy of Strasbourg, no longer speaking a warning of vengeance... . The Tui). crics and the summer concerts... .St. Etienne du Mont, eternal spirit bulwark against ancient and modem - The view of the city from the Butte Montmay. -Versailles, glittering monu- ment to human folly. The chalk cliffs on the Kentish channel coast....Dover, no longer black and gloomy as when the guns roared across the strait - London, struggling with peace-time problems in the wake of war....The Strand. +++The Wren churches... .The Inns of Court. Edinburgh. The Castle.. look at Auld Reckie from Arthur's Seat... .The Trossachs and the lochs. Winchester and its cathedral and soft green countryside where also doughboys sojourne - Homeward from Southampton with a look at Spithead and the green shores of the Isle of Wight. These are a few of the things I shall see on my next trip to Europe, which shall 1 as its object not so much the secking of new impressions as the revivifying of old ones. Howard Hosmer. Joan Kinley Is Delighted At the Result EAREST EDITOR: When I got back from my hectic trip through Ev rope and found all the answers to my letters, I was a very, very proud girl. I realized I was literally famous! It was sort of discouraging to have everybody finding fault with my descriptions of what I'd scen when I had tried so hard to get things straight. But I do think it’s perfectly inspiring the wa: y one went into this con- test with both feet, so to speak, and when I said it would be educational I didn’t exaggerate one bit—because I st least have Icarned so many things I didn’t know before, y that Jupiter isn’t visible from the Atlantic until nearly sunrise and that “Is Zat was written by James Gleason and Richard Taber. Well, I hope you'll congratulate the winner for me and tell him that if he hasn’t made plans for a com ‘ panion on his trip to Europe I'm perfectly wild to go back and sce if there really is a padlock on the Arc de Triomphe. But I guess Mother wouldn't let me. Anyway, thanks for the ocean-liner ride. Your loving friend, Yom. Kinkes comicbooks.com