Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-07-20

lIMiss Florence Minis Write.
From Seattle and Portland
land the Journey to San
Francisco.
;EDear Advertiser:
Leaving Livingston, Mont, Wed
fEnesday, June 29, we arrived in Seat
lille, Washington, late Thursday night
1 The United States made a great
3sgain when it included this territory
lamong the numerous ones added to
1.-THE original thirteen colonies, for il
tfissindeed, a land flowing with milk
aaad honey.
Strangely true, that though this
Estate and Florida are as far apart
\ siiss any two on the map, they are very
Iaike in climate and products. The
Ewarm japanese current gives Wash
3mgton, Oregon and Southern Alaska
asclimate that added to the natural
of the coil, makes it one of
Ethe finest fruit raising districts in
1.-THE country. 1t never SHOWS in Seat
ltle, a fact that / have had to think
lover long time before I could be-
Elieye it.
Ii It; seems to me that there is only
tone business enterprise that would
fnoti flourish in Seattle and that is the
ttforist shop, for the avenues, yards
land vacant lots were all riot of
4blooIa, with magnificent roses and
flowers of every description, and the
street corners were gay with flow
fsE Yenders like sunny Italy.
I EBefore going to Seattle, 1 was told
IHhat the most interesting of all Seat
tiles show places was the public mar
fikst It had never occurred to me that
nthing, supposedly SO common
place, could be thing of beauty. In
ldriping along, it was not necessary
tobe told just where the markets
were for along the streets there
tfashed q colorful display of fruits,
9yegetables and flowers, of such per-
tfeeionS that a vegetarian would prob
Eabls think it an earthly paradise, and
Ia am essentially non-vegeta-
IIs thought that even I might be in
q 10 eat such carrots and radish=
ffsss3s / saw in a red and yellow color
scheme. This was a rainbow design
reaehing to the earth with pots of
gold close to hand for the venders,
and wealth in nourishment for the
purchasers.
One is amazed at the very small
price at which these things are sold,
partly perhaps because of the ease
and quantity in which they are rails
ed, and partly because they are near
ly all sold by japanese men and wo-
men, who have a cerain thrifty ca
pacity for living on a very small in
come. There were monstrous straw
berries and cherries about twice as
large as any had ever seen.
Instead of looking at buildings as
I went about sightseeing, ] was look
ing at the flowers, amazed at the pro-
fusion with which they bloomed, es-
pecially the Dorothy Perkins roses,
which have long since bloomed and
withered at home.
I left Seattle with the same i'm
preston the Norsemen had when they
visited America and called it Vine
land, for 1 was as surprised to find
grapes instead of snow in this far
northwestern corner of the CONT
nent, as they were to find such veg
citation on the eastern shores.
Portland was also veritable or:
chard and rose garden. Early in June
every year a rose show in held. This
city is older than Seattle, and has
not grown old as gracefully as some
I have seen.
I am continually surprised at the
enormous stretches of country that
lie between the large cities in the
west. Travelling on one of the fast.
est trains in the west, the Shasta Linn.
tied, we spent day and half and
night from Portland to San Fran,
cisco. On any other train it would
have taken six hours longer.
The morning of the second day
we passed Mt. Shasta, and / looked
up to behold the most beautiful
mountain had ever seen. Certainly
it could be we'll compared with "the
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