The Yale expositor., 1914-01-22

From Distant Friends.

sam G. Bettes writes MS card from
Looking Glass, Oregon, dated Jan. IL
1914 lie says:-"HellO at Yale, Mich
1t makes me homesick TO hear the
frogs sing here. 1t makes me thin
of chappcd feet in the spring of the
year. The frogs and birds sing the
year around here. | was out hunting
today and missed AZ wild ducks at one
shot, but the gun or son of gun, how
it kicked. am eating supper with
my left hand. My wife is much better.
Good bye all.
From sam Bettes.
Following is a letter received recent.
ly Ivy Henry Pearce from his brother
Spain + who, with his wife is spend
ing the winter in sunny California, and
which we are sure will be read with
interest by our subscribers.
Los Angeles, Jan. 2, IA
Dear Folks
Well Christmas. with all its pleasures
has again come and gone, the year
1913 we have left behind with its
pleasures and sorrows, its successes
and disappOintments, and we are all
here TO commence the year 1914 and
are glad of it.
We spent Christmas with Del and
Mabel. 1t was not a very pleasant
day as there was considerable rain.
Usually California don't experience
rain so early in the season as this, but
we have had number of rainy days
up to date.
We commenced the new year yester-
day by attending the Tournament of
Roses" at Pasadena, which is an an.
nual event and has been for the last
twenty five years. We started early in
the morning and were gone nearly all
day. 1t takes about an'h ur TO go to
Pasadenl from here. Pasadena, being
one of the wealth;est cities in the
state, in fact in the United States, is
always beautiful, and yesterday 1t was
superb in its decorations of flags, bunt-
ing and flowers. A parade consisting
of beautiful horses, floats, bands, etc,
which took about two hours to pass a
a given point, was the leading event
of the day, and such floats and floral
decorations-I wish could describe it
all to you, or rather, wish you could
have been here to see it. There were
about eighty large floats, and mind you,
they were not advertising floats, but
were made of all kinIs of greenery and
all kinds of flowers. Each and every
one as it passed seemed to outclass in
beauty the one preceding 1t, to be out
classed 10y the one following, and so
down the line. The most beautiful
one was pure white peacock, about
twelve feet long and four feet tall, its
tail feathers being nine feet long. The
body was made of pure white lilies of
the valley. The bird was standing In a
bed of smilax which covered the entire
float, clear to the ground. The cost of
this magnificent float was fifteen hun
dred dollars. How | wish | could de-
scribe each one separately to you.
The riding horses were all decorated
with flowers, many with large collars
of roses and others with blankets Gov
ering their whole bodies and hanging
to the ground. Everything in the
parade was made of greenery and cut
flowers, all real, no imitation being al
lowed.
| bought couple of packing boxes
to sit on and we got right out to the
edge of the curb, so you see We were
in the bald head row. Ada had a
peach box and cream box, and we
were not only feasting our eyes, but
sitting on peaches and cream.
With love and best wishes from us
both, Affectionately yours,