Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty First Year - Number 106
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 3, 1931
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MARLIN GIRL RETURNS
FROM TOUR OF EUROPE
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Ranked Third on Honor
Roll in Studies at
University of
Madrid.
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       With the distinction of having ranked third on the honor roll among 400 foreign students at the University of Madrid in Spain, this summer, Miss Mary Bety Norwood has returned from a trip to Europe during which she visited several other countries.  About 200 students at the University of Madrid were Americans, while the next ranking nationality in numbers ws the English.
       Miss Norwood, who is a graduate of Marlin High school, went to Spain to take a scholarship in the University of Madrid awarded her for proficiency in her studies in the Spanish department at Baylor University, Waco.  She will teach the coming year at Hico.
       Embarking at Galveston, she made the trip to Spain by way of Cuba and the Canary Islands.  She toured Northern and Southern Spain, before taking up her studies, visiting the Alambra, Gibraltar and other points of interest.
       She witnessed transfer of the control of the University of Madrid to the republican form of government, an aftermath of the revolution several months ago which drove King Alfonso from the throne.
       Spanish customs differ somewhat from those in the United States (she) says.  For instance, stores open (for) business at 10 a.m., dinner is served at nine p.m. and theatres open for the evening at 11 p.m.
       After completing her studies at Madrid, Miss Norwood visited in Paris, France took a motor bus trip through the Alps in Switzerland, and continued her tour through Berlin, Germany; Rome Italy; and back to France where missing a boat resulted in her resorting to a fourth means of transportation to get across the English channel.
       Having previously ridden on bus, boat and train, she boarded an airplane for the two-hour flight across the water from France to England.
       She then made a side tour that varried her through Wales, Scotland, Ireland and as far back toward as Halifax, Nova Scotia.
       Miss Norwood was again to see Halifax on the return trip home, she learned, although not until after she had visited that city.  Embarking from Boulogne, they came back by the great circle route, landing at New York, and thence by bus through a number of the larger American cities.
       She was met in Waco by a number of members of her family, who accompanied her to Marlin.

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