Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
sightseeing.

ike uy SELL uO oCt nave TIC 1iHCf GoA
and cannot go everywhere they might
like to 90. We all of Us, your readers,
love to read of outings campers-out,
hunting, fishing. trips abroad. by land
and by sea. Trips among the hills
and valleys, in wagon or on horse
back. As a lady. the wife Of a well-to-
do farmer and mother of q large fami-
" of children, said 10 me one day, !
my husband went off on a visit, and |
when he came home | asked him, |
among other things, What did you
get to eat?' He laughed and said,
Why do you ask?'" She said, "we
farmers wives that have to stay at
home and never 90 anywhere, to see
how other folks live. want to know so
we can get out of the old same track, |
and do as others do" Aud she was
right. / think it is selfish for those
who go to see the sights, to keep it all
to themselves. Why not let others
have the benefit of what we see and
hear? So yoI see why write all
about my trip. Isn't that right?
Well, one pleasant morning l was
told, To-day, you are to go out to
Claude's and spend the night, and to-
morrow morning Charley will call for
you, to go sightseeing. And Sarah,
will go with you this morning, to pilot
you, for you will have to change cars
three times" So we took the cars
Just about the time the school children
were going TO school. way up il the
city. As we stepped in and took our
seats, at every street girls and boys
would pile in with their books and
lunch box, and such a sight of young
folks would crowd in as long as there
was standing room; and yet every two
minutes and half another car would
follow; and as we reached the high
school, such a crowd of young ladies
and young men between IA and IS
years old-two thousand just such
folks all in one great building. And
such sight.
After a pleasant ride We reached
Claude's. He then took me in charge
and drove me around his part OF the
city. First, we rode past the new to-
bacco mandatory, the largest in the
world. At the time of the cyclone it
was leveled with the ground, but now
it was all built up and no one would
ever think that few months ago that
great. magnificent building was a mass
of ruins. From there we drove past
the great market gardens on part of
the Shaw tract; past Shaw's botanical
garden, out to Tower Grove; and
such beautiful world? Such beauti,
full drives! Such beautiful walks, and
such beautiful groves of trees and
such sights Of the most gorgeous
flowers; lakes filled with all colored
water MILESTONE blue, some white
as snow, some deep red, pink and vel
t low. The sides of the walks edged
t are bordered with most beautiful dwar
foliage plants. Some as yellow as ar
orange. some purple, some green, ant
such varied colors I never saw. And
great beds of all kinds OF verbenas
petunas, phlox, chrysanthemums. anC
great lunches of curios, and ever.
species of flowers that grows on lanC
e or in the water. And such lovely
f lawns, with imitation feudal castles
overgrown with vines and shrubbery
As you pass along filed with wratl
and surprise, you see at every turI
old ladies, middle-aged ladies, AM
young ladies, with little children dress
Y ed like ferries, playing around. o.
: seems like little bit of heaven. Yol
see men in clean white aprons, with
broom and shovel and wheelborrow
cleaning up anything that is unclean
It makes one feel like the world is no
all bad.
After we had driven all around tn
grove, we went home and took dinner
After dinner Claude put in the othe
seat, aud his wife and his minister
wife, and young lady, to drive II
around to see boulevards and fine resi-
. dences of the rich; then to the Fores
Park. As we reached the boulevard
and the rich portion of the city, wa
repeated the grand show of flowers
fountains with great stone basins
when horses that were thirsty coul
drink of the clear, cool waters. A
each drinking place would be a blac
- man that would uncheck the horse!
- briddles, so the horse could drink wit
= comfort. When we reached Fores
Park. we drove very slowly, so W
I could see all of the beautiful flower:
~ the wide drives, the lakes. with swar
geese and ducks, and other water fow
as they sailed gracefully over the We
ter. The boats, filed with the beat
~ tiful and mirthfuI young folks. \
t. pen or pencil can portray the beautie
y of the park, with its bridges, drives
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