Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-25
THE PEACHES ARE
ON THE BEACHES
DIR. j. c. Pasqueth Writes From Cali
fornia, That he is Seeing Things"
On the Pacific Strand

DR.. j. c. Pasqueth is attending the
Piece Conference.-The one piece bath
ing suit sessions held daily on the
beaches of California, according to the
following interesting letter to the Led
ger from the far west.
LEDGER
We drove ont to Santa Monica about
seventeen miles from Los Angeles,
and found Joe S. Mcintyre of ST.
Louis, who is writing you some such
fine letters of his travels. / found him
making out his routes to Alaska. W?
talked of various people and happen
ings of our old Mexico. town since he
eft there; and then | spied the batheri
outside on the beach and rushed away
leaving Joe talking about the Won
ders of California, to go SEE some
of the WONDERS in bathing suits
or very NEARLY without them would
be more correct; for at Santa Monica,
Ocean Park, and Venice, l saw sights
yes, they were SIGHTS" by the
hundreds with as scanty covering as
the few pictures I'd seer of them in the
papers before leaving home. But they
have reached the limit now-unless
we are to go back to the Garden of
Eden days, and that's too far to go
BACK. We make our brags about go
ing FORWARD in this Twentieth
Century. Forward and upward.
At one Of the best beaches is a great
wireless plant sending messages clear
across the Pacific Ocean and across
country to Washington, D. c., that's
progressing FORWARD. At Venice
is a large aviation field sending pas
sengers and mail out every day to the
interior of California, and that's very
much UPWARD; high over the air
currents of the mountain ranges.
We drove alongside the ocean
through the Jap fishing village and
Inceville-by-the-sea, where the great
movie producer, Ince, makes his great
sea village scenes; then on up the Mali
bu road to Sugar Loaf Rock, built a
fire on the sand of the beach, and had
our lunch. Not over thirty minutes
after, a dozen or two machines brought
other picnic parties. When we were
through with it, we "loaned" our fire
to a party from a swell Pierce-Arrow,
who had no frewood. We sat on the
beach and watched the rollers come
in and pound the rocks, the sea gulls
flying about feeding and screeching;
also saw "gulls" of another and more
fascinating kind wading in the surf.
laughing and screaming with p~leasur".
After the gulls and girls we watched
a most beautiful sunset in all its colors
over old ocean, and later a son (of
Adam) set his pack down after hobb-
ling down from the Santa Monica Mts.
nearby-and he was in all his colors
too, with the dust of miles all over
him. There was California life Cor
you-on the ocean beach at the foot
of the mountains were jitney parties,
limousine parties, a hobo with his own
fire, all kinds enjoying the benefits Of
the great outdoors-and the hobo, if
you will believe my version of it, had
the best of it. | once heard of a hobo
that tackled a prosperous looking cit
izen for a %"loan," saying he was so
he had to sleep outdoors; and the
|. c. replied, "Why you are better
off than I, for I paid a physician $50
to tell me to go to sleeping outdoors
Another day drove south to Long
twenty-five miles, and while
en- the "Pike" Miss Nora Humphreys,
a former Audrain County school teach
err, came up to me. She is married
and lives in Phoenix, Arizona. l for