Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-04
Sightseeing.


doors we saw such a sight. On the
right. Oh the left and before US, such
sights of everything that grows or
| trees, on bushes, on poles, on wires
on the earth or in the sky. Flower:
of all kinds and all colors. and all
shapes and all the smilaxes. lis that the
word?), roses of every color and every
shade of color. Callas, chrysanthe'
NUNS and great many lovely flowers
| that / did not know the name OF. As
| we stood and admired those beauties.
the thought came TO me, did all Oi
| these beautiful flowers come by chance
or was their some wonderful unseen
| power to bring all of these beautiful
flowers into existence? As we make
our way along, very slowly, for if you
want to see to advantage you must
take time, we come to the fruits and
such vast variety. Fruits in cans;
fruits in bottles. fruits in preserves,
fruits dried, fruits in their natural
state, fruits in jell in glasses. How
many ways the good mothers and
aunts, sisters and cousins have found
to bring all of these things TO the use
of the human, to crafty our tastes.
AS we look We see glass jars, glass
cans, filled with pickles of every de-
scription. 1t fairly makes my mouth
water. l saw way up on top of great
pyramid of cans, a great glass can that
would hold three or four gallons just
packed full of everything that could
be converted into a pickle-eXcept a
beet. They would color the liquid SO
you could not see what was in the can.
But | saw cucumbers whole, cucum-
bers cut into strips lengthwise, cucum-
bers cut crosswise into slices, pepper
pods big and pepper pods little, pepper
pods long and pepper pods short.
Pods of ochre or gumbo, slices of musk
melon cut in all manner of shapes,
onions white, onions red, onions yell
low, walnuts, both white and black,
ears of corn that were full grown but
tender cut in sections and mixed in, so
as to make it look pretty, and carrots
cut in inch pieces mixed all through
the mass. o, yes! and peaches, pears
and celery cut in short pieces. Such
a compound had never seen before,
and right in among all of these things
were great piles of loaves of bread,
loaves as white as bread can be made,
and brown loaves of all sizes and
shapes. Bread enough to feed the
thousands of poor children, and cake
of every kind that cunning hand could
make. And such variety, it makes
one hungry to look upon such,a great
mass of good things. 1 asked, "what
will be done with all this great pile OF
bread and cake?" The answer was, al
don't know; maybe give it to the
poor
Right over on the opposite side we
saw hundreds and hundreds of plates of
apples from a great twenty-ounce ap-
pie to a little checked crab. Such a
fine display of fruits / had not seen
since the early fifties. Peaches, plates
and plates of the most beautiful red
checked, yellow-sided peaches. o, they
looked so delicious! So tempting! 1t
made me feel like reaching out my
hand to take the tempting fruit. Nee
tarines, apricots and grapes. Such
grapes! Grapes of all kinds and all
colors, ounces, great nice ones, such as
my ma used to make into preserves
when | was child.
Now we begin to see the vegeta bles,
baskets and baskets, boxes and boxes,
pans and pans. Pumpkins of enor-
nous size and of every variety.
Squashes big and squashes little. l
saw some of the largest potatoes l ever
saw-basket full after basket full. l
did not learn where such great, smooth,
nice potatoes came from. AS looked
at them just thought if | had such
potatoes as these / would be willing to
dig them for nothing and board myself.
And sweet potatoes of all sorts and
great big yams, and such a sight.
Egg plant fruit, great large ones. o,
| don't know what to compare them to.
Well, as big as piece of chalk. And
right over here were baskets filed
with ears of corn of all kinds. White,
yellow, red, mixed colors in long piles;
bushels aud bushels of pop corn.
Enough to feed all the little tots in
town. And all along the sides of that
great building were bundles of wheat,
bundles of rye and oats, and corn
stalks lined the sides of the room in
every direction, with the ears of corn
all in the natural state. o, yes, and
| right over by the watermelons and
muskmelons, gourds of all sorts,
gourds that would hold ten or twelve
gallons, and gourds with long handles.
just such as l drank out of at the old
spring at Sylvan lake the first time I
ever drank at that Sprip0 And 7