Ruth’s Diary

Breakfast at the usual hour – 8:30 & then we started out for a day at Versailles. We took a train out to Versailles & then walked through the gorgeous gardens of Versailles. Their vastness & extent was astounding – with a large artificial lake & a section with hundreds of varieties of trees, & marble statues on all sides, & a statue fountain. A large avenue in the marks where the Louis’ rode in their coaches or on horseback. Then we sat in one of the parks & ate a lunch packed at the pension – one loaf of bread cut in half, with slices of ham in it, 2 hard boiled eggs, & a peach. After lunch we strolled on to Marie Antoinette’s little hamlet, we went through the Petit Triannon & then through the Versailles Palace with its famous Hall of Mirrors. (For further details see the booklets purchased in these places. In the evening we all, the whole eleven of us, went to the Folies Bergeres. It was on the same idea as the cabaret of the night before only far more elaborate. The costumes were glorious in many of the scenes the costumes were scant but there was nothing obsene (sic) or vulgar about it. I enjoyed particularly the Schwarz sisters were so clever & versatile. They played 2 pianos – danced, sang. Their skit taking off the Am. pronunciation was very amusing.