The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-09-29


er a richer childhood.
Among the places where sometimes
my father would take me was the
lovely home of the writer, Mrs. Au-
gusta Evans Wilson. She and my
father were great friends, and she
made quite a pet of his 'little
daughter" Her garden was to me a
sort of paradise. In addition to the
usual camellia trees, red, pink and
white, that grew in the open, she had
a long line of specially fine ones grow
ing in a house of glass. Some of them
had the forms of star crystals. They
are all gone now. Her big hundred
acre estate has been cut up, improved
(?) and made into residence park
called ashland" l have never seen
such "japonicas" since. In her farm
yard were only white creatures-white
fowls, guineas, pair of white pea
cocks and even drove of white tur-
keys. Her big, sleek COW was like
an enlarged rabbit for whiteness. She
had snowy collie and cat like new
ly-ginned cotton. am sure that
the mice that fat cat was supposed to
devour had enough aesthetic intuition
to get bleached. Knowing her fond
ness for pets, someone sent her a
fawn. 1t was the tint of chamois-
skin, with pale brown spottings edged
with white, but it did not "belong,'
and, to my eastacy, she gave it to me.
We had large place, too, but moth
ing in comparison with hers. A new
fence was put up for the purpose of
constructing my new treasure. 1t
grew rapidly, especially as to legs,
and soon there were no boards sufti-
ciently high to restrain it. Next to
young cabbage and lettuce its favor
lite food seemed to be the family
washing. Needless to state, it was a
case of Il never loved a dear gaz-
ellie" | don't know whether the love-
ly marauder actually died, but it is
certain that it disappeared.
As "Miss Augusta" for so we call
ed her, my father and l would stroll
around her domains the two "grown-
ups" would be talking incessantly in
a tongue quite foreign to me. Ordi-
nary sentences were heard now ana
again, but Immediately would come
some fvo-sylIabIcd word. and I glow
ed With deem rride as NV father pvinr-
cd comprchpnsion. Miss Aupusta al
WAYS carried with her a tinv note
bool, and Mcneil Sometimes a+ NV
childish remarks and queries, she
would laugh, stop short, draw out her
book and saw to nv father. civilian.
7 must mt that nhrasa down" She
once nropbeefpd that when 7 GREW nm
7 wouId he q v,,itn,
This seems, now. very long ago. Mo-
bile at last BEGAN to wake ND. North
erncrs. not Garnet -bagners This fine
came in orr snhnTbs wern "dnva1,
oped." Most of the lovely old places
are gone. Live oaks We're chonnoi
down 10 ,,,,1-o NOV. fo,. Ll,iIIi,,l. Ipt-
fftv feet front one hundred and ff-
tv deem II is like cnttfnr nm nm al
far cloth into ouil+ niocas We havo
a Michigan Avenuo an Illinois Place
and n Waldorf cafe bu+ the old Rat
t7c Houso da+inr from, 1870 ron,od-
e1ed, II is trne. bn+ stilI tha Ra+tIo
House. is here vet We have NAM
new school huildirwS. not vet O11i+e MS
many as could be- used, but on ON,
wide. oakshaded Government Street
-+on5, III, wv, -''.'S.,'
did in the ffties our Rarton Acodev
nv.
The famous old Shell Road claim.
ed fondIv to have heen +Ln scarn and
the incitor Of moro nronosaIs tban on,, @
other ten miles of road on earth fol-
lows the same Ionn cn,ve Of Mobile
Bay.
What the future holds for onr little
city no one can safely nredict We
honed much from tbn onorinr Of +bo