The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-03-25

have had several friends write me
that they would like for me to write
letter occasionally for The Record.
] will confess that would like to do
It, always enjoy writing letter
Tor The Record. for always feel as If
| was writing to friends. 1 can be
as personal and confidential as I want
to and know 1t viii not be misunder-
stood at home can write to and
for my own home folks in a different
way from that in which a newspaper
correspondent usually writes newspa-
per copy.
The only reason l haven't written
more often is that have simply been
overloaded with work When the
day is done II is near midnight and
| have dictated. read over and signed
from so to 100 letters, besides attend
| ing the sessions of Congress, and you
| can easily imagine that my desire to
write something has been quite fully
satisfied
But l am going to promise to write
three or four letters in the next three
or four weeks IL have to do It after
midnight, as I am doing now
For six months | have been living
at home The family came down in
October and the children are in
school They didn't like it very we'll
al first and missed their kid friends
at home, but they have made new
friends now and are very well salts
fed
1t was a new and novel experience
for our kids, who had lived all their
lives in Canon City, to move into a
great city. They found much to in
terest them of course. but didn't open
their eyes and exclaim over the big
ness of things as much l had sup
posed they would. They took the
capitol and Washington monument as
matter of course. and We're no.
so excited about them as they were
over the Novels elevator when it was
put in at home. After we had been
here a few days Marion. aged 10. re-
marked that she had seen more doc
tors signs and stray cats here than
she had seen in any town she had ever
been in. And Lyman. aged 5, said:
Il don't like a town where the houses
are all catched together like they are
here-I like Canon City better"
In most all OF the city houses are
built up solid and together like the
store rooms on Main street The
usual width OF lot is IL feet Most
houses are three stories and a base
ment There are many big apartment
houses of course But many people
own their own homes The front
yards are usually from six to 20 feet
deep and many streets have very lit.
tie yard. The block we live in is
about as big as the block we live in
at home. and the children say that
they have counted SO houses in the
block With no back yard. and with
the front yards little larger than a
good sized front porch. you can mag
inc that there are a good many chill
dren PLAYING in the streets.
There are lots OF fine shade trees
and many parks, little and big. which
makes this beautiful city. and | am
going TO write story aboa. these
shade trees some time.
Getting house in Washington is
very hard matter. sat around
the hotel for six months looking for a
house In an easy way. didn't go out
and look myself. but 1 watched my
friends in their resultiess searches In
the evening would visit with then
on the hotel gallery and listen to their
tales OF woe. I saw NO necessity for
my burning up gasoline and street
car tickets chasing around for
house while no one else could find
one. Some of my friends got apart
ments. some stated at the hotels, oaly
very few of the new members were
able to lasso house. There are only
few houses for rent. A small per
cent OF them are furnished. very
small per cent OF them will listen to a
proposal to rent them to families with
children. So you can see where the
cards were stacked against me,
But ! was lucky. One day had
an inspiration. I called up a minister
whom ! had met and who lived In
part of the city I wanted n house in.