Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-04
MANY TRANSMITS
DOWN IN FLORIDA
People Who Go South To Es-
cape Winter Long For Old N
Home In N. Or w.
FINE SCHOOL ABSENTEES

h4CN0A tA ~ \ iV4 Ahc mum anna ftOAIN
shortly after Christmas. Mr. and Mrs
/ George Davidson. OF the Davidson
Farm near 81. Margarets. with theii
two younger children. have been so
journing at Daytona. The Atlanti,
i City Of the South" Mrs Davidson. il
writing the Capital of her trip farther
South says:
We started farther on our way
South. driving nearly to Titusville
/ through an unimproved, desolate
| country. which seems 10 he feature
Of Florida as soon as you leave the
/ cities or towns far behind you FL
| route we passed through the beautiful
town of Rockledge through which
| the Dixie Highway winds over a
dered by the river on one side and the
rocky tree-eovered country on the
other In many Instances the trees
are covered with that graceful moss
| characteristic of the South
ION many houses we saw the sign
For Sale. as we'll as on orange
groves. We could not understand. and
nquiring the reason, were told the
owners are from other states, who
come here to escape the rigorous win
ters, but having interests at home
soon tire and sell out to return north
or west as the case may be. Many
who come are old people, who die
here and their property is necessarily
sold
u have only met one man in Day
tOna who was born here, and is called
a Florida Cracker We camped at
night at Minus, few miles from
Titusville. and could hear the roar OF
the ocean. the frogs croaking in the
mrashes. We saw the green grass
and a brood OF little chicks. and best
Of ali the weather was so warm at
MONDAY we began to feel oppressed
by the heat
Minus is a town in the making
but has a beautiful High School In
deed, from the time ] entered the
State Of Virginia. | have been i'm
schools Ii child is absent a single
day without being sick or having
some good excuse. the parents have
to pay fine of $500 for every days
absence Needless TO say, the attend
ance is good. In South Carolina and
Georgia, the penalty is $1,000 per day.
but the school houses there are the
same old non-descript ones we have
In Maryland Some parts of the South
seem 80 years behind the times.
THE children in this part of the
Southland attend school in. drOves.
Coming over the hill in the earl.
morning light, with the sun flashing
on their dinner pals. they remind one
of a company of soldiers with flashing
armor They are happy and carefree
and often wave and call my children
as we drive by.
ION Sunday we drove TO Fort Pierce
another booming Florida town, thence
TO Sewell's Point where we called or
an Englishman who had lived on 6
pineapple plantation for % years
We had met him on the steamer com
| ing to Florida last August. and he
called my little girl The Little Pilot
| because she pointed out the light
houses, buoys and other familiar
points in the Chesapeake the frs
| evening out.
at was at the Englishman's plan
tation that We were having our frs
inner tube trouble. Here we alsc
| found flies and mosquitoes so annoy
| ing we began to think We had gone
| farther South than intended. So
next morning, instead of going a hun
dred miles farther south to Miami, We
retraced our way 10 Daytona. and set
tied ourselves in our little cottage oil
| Ridgewood Avenue. We stopped a
many orange groves and purchases
drops. oranges that fall from th'
trees and cannot be shipped. but arr
| perfectly good TO eat
N'Our house had been owned by
mother and daughter, the husband o
the latter. former soldier, having
recently died Evidences of his de
votion 10 home were everywhere abou
the place. and it seemed sacrilege Il
disturb them We have had the place
fixed up to our own taste and ideas
have planted orange and grape fruit
which will not bear for two years
In the yard is a wonderful artesial
we'll, which my husband heartily dis
likes. for the waters disagreeabl
taste.
The nights. here are comfortable
. but now and then We have a COO
. SPELL At four O'Clock in the mornin
il is quite sharp and cool. and chill
dressing early, bat at nine o'clock IN
sun begins to warm up things. and tn
rest of the day is delightful.
Heretofore February has been tn
longest month in the year to me, bl
this year it has passed in an incred