Show A LITTLE TOO QUIET th funereal silence that ermle tb channel island jersey and guernsey are gardens says a recent french visitor to the channel islands the fields are so neat so carefully kept that they seem rather like garden plots the least corner of earth is cultivated the roadsides every little hollow and even an inch of earth on the end of a rock but these edens are silent the traveler goes on to say now and then people on the islands smile out no one ever laughs laughter is unbecoming and to laugh aloud would be scandalous the birds sing but not the people even the children are sober little men and women rather than children the trees arc bews yews cy presses and weeping willows when the people go to walk they take to the cemeteries lovers exchange vows upon tombstones and houses that are near graveyards rent more readily and at a better price on that account we are admirably situated in our new house said a jersey woman to the french writer we are right opposite the cemetery and I 1 can see the tombs from the windows of my bedroom in the the view is lovely and still the frenchman has to admit that there is something very attractive in this solemnity and stillness the longer he remained in the islands the loss he mt like comier away |