Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-28
Mrs. j. L. Minis Writes of D.
A. r. Congress and Trip to
Boston.


A. r. Congress and Trip to
Boston.
Dear Advertiser:
For fear l shall become too in
volved with the wonderful expert
'ences which are before me for the
coming days in Boston and other
places, l shall give a few impressions
of my journey before I leave my
quarters at which I arrived last
night.
For one thing I didn't speak all
day yesterday, which was a very
great deprivation to me, from Wash
ing to Providence, Rhode Island.
There lady who was sitting oppo-
site me, who had, as she told me af-
terwards, lived in New England all
her life and travelled a great deal,
asked me, who had never been any,
whee, what place this was through
which we were passing. I told her,
and pointed out the state capitol
on a high hill, amid myriad of bril-
liant lights. 1 had no way of knowing
what city it was, except by my pow
ers of observation and wondered
that she could not likewise use hers.
I was very glad to be able to break
the spell of silence which remained
,unbroken as I was soon off at Back
Bay Station where I was enveloped
in the embrace of my daughter,
whom had not seen since October.
Some one asked me what had i'm
pressed me most on my way from Co.
lumbia to Boston, and replied that
the apple orchards and grain fields
and lovely farms of Virginia, the
bill boads from New York to Provi-
dence, because it was dark and 1
could not see them any further, and
the granite rocks of Connecticut.
Mrs. Manly Timmons was my rnost
congenial and delightful companion,
as all the Edgefeld people know who
love her, leaving me at Washington
where we stopped.
AS we ascended the steps in the
- 7. 90 - 1
station to the gate where we were ex-
o, iin to met, we saw y, very read Sad
ffy the tall, handsome figure of Mr..
F. L. Parker, and beside him Annie
May Timmons, now Mrs. Parker, who
had not seen her mother since last
May when the beautiful marriage
took place in Edgefeld. They trans
ported US very quickly through the
streets of Washington where nature
is. having her spring opening, and
where the temperature was like sum-
mer weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker have lovely
apartments, very conveniently ap-
pointed and located on 18th street
in a very desirable and centrally To-
Gated section of the city. Here they
dispensed hospitality to me with
old time grace as was done in the
years before the war, and yet with
the greatest ease on account of the
wonderful provisions of modern
equipment.
My special reason for stopping
in Washington on my way up, or as
l notice they say here coming down
east from South Carolina" was to go
the red tape of being dele
gate to the National Congress of the
D. A. R. They call it the Continental
Congress of the Daughters of the
Revolution, but that
sounds too large for me, like SIM
plicity. l attended one session of this
Congress in the Memorial Continent
al Hall, which is a magnificent white
building just in sight of the Cor
coran Art gallery and the National
Treasury Building. No one was al
lowed to cross the threshold except
accredited delegates, other
if wearing the National
D. A. R. emblem being admitted to
the galleries. After unwinding sew
eral miles of red tape, interviewing
several pages, and information bu-
reaus, 1 was finally, in the space of
not less than an hour, presented to
Mrs. Johnston Of nth Carolina who
was chairman of redential Com
mittee. She was courteous, as
they all had ry determln-
ed that the pers, ltered were
fully entitled to do so. AS had been
instructed from Edgefeld to attend,