Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-22
To the Standard:
FLORIDA.
"reminiscences of the Land OF Flowers.
Sketch No.2
BY NoRINE.

Somebody has said that when you
are in Spain you must eat garlic in self
defense, and much to our sorrow we
found that the performance of the
Spanish elemepts in our cuisine made it
necessary in some parts of Florida.
When we returned from our first walk
in Pensacola, ravenously hungry, (the
result of the combined effects of salt
air and exercise) most tempting look
ing breakfast was placed before us;
but what a terrible fall to our hopes
there was when we found every dish
favored with onions or garlic and spice.
Even the fish and oysters had a dash of
both, which efectually spoiled them
for us. Tom and I were too hungry
to be fastidious, but Polly "turned up"
her dainty little nose and vowed she
"could not eat a thing" $50 much
the worse for you," said Tom, "you
will find out before dinner time that
fasting and sea breezes don't agree at
all, and you will be forcibly reminded
of certain passage in your Virgil in
which it sprophesied that the yoyagers
will eat their tables; see if you won't
feel as if you could eat yours, onions
and ALL"
We started out again after breakfast
with the double purpose of sightseeing
and house-hunting. This took us to-
ward the northern part of the city, and
we soon turned into Palafax street, the
principal street of Pensacola. 1t has
no striking features exceptits cosmopo-
Titan collection of names on the sign
boards. Over one tobacco store the
name Thomas Del Vasco was formed
Of cigars. Further on over a drug
store the Brosnaham was blazoned
in huge letters. Dow & Coe polly
insisted on calling it Cow d Doe APP.
pealed to the literary part of the com.
munity from over the doors of book
store. Damiana q Borello were the
proprietors of confectionery store, and
Neri q Giovanni displayed the mos
lucious fruits of all kinds in their show
windows. The queer names were in
Vulnerable, but the sunlight on the
bright paint was so dazzling we were
soon compelled to rest our eyes by OBJ
serving the people, and many of then
were as queer to all appearances as tn,
names which some of them bore. The,
have, as a general rule, very dark com
plexions, with black hair and eyes;
real blonde is a rara avi8 among tn
natives. They are, however, great ad
mirers of that style of beauty.
Another thing which attracted GU
attention at once was the lazy gait an,
manners of the pedestrians. The
seem t, take life easy, and the me
sauntered along to their business house
as if they were going for an evenin
stroll. You felt as if you would lik
to shake them to see if there was an
life in them. "Things are not Away
what they seem," however, as we foun
later on, for these same men with sue
indolent airs. possessed any amount {
energy and enterprise, together wit
good business habits and qualification
A great many carriages and ph@tor
filled with ladies passed us, and IN MOI
than one of them could be seen tt
pale face and wasted form of some il
valid seeking health and consequel
happiness in that invigorahng atme
phere A heavy carriage drawn b
an equally heavy pmr of horses, To
told us, was the Commodore's from tt
Navy Yard. A sable driver III bit
liveries, very young, faultlessly 4
tired gentleman, with an KNOWN