Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-19
Miss Florence Minis Writes
From Wisconsin's Capitol
City.
Dear Advertiser:

From Wisconsin's Capitol
City.
Dear Advertiser:
Madison, the capital city of Wis,
.consin is "a city, not built on seven
hills, but on four lakes which are
about as good as hills for beautiful
scenery.
Someone said that in the summer
time Madison is perfect fairyland.
1t is certainly frost land in the win
ter for the lakes are frozen and the
whirring of many skaters over the
ice covered lakes, wrapped in their
many wooden and fur coats, gives
more the impression of what Iceland
itself might be like.
One peculiar thing about the
Northern country is that it changes
directly from winter to summer and
back again. In Duluth they say as a
sort of joke that there are only two
seasons, winter and very late fall.
This morning in Aurora, the tenn
perature was twenty-three or -four
below zero. Figures under such cir
cumstances mean nothing to me. If
my hands are very cold it might be
thousand below zero or one below.
Nothing matters beyond certain
point except the fact that one is cold.
I think in terms of Madison for a
while, where spent part of the holi-
days, and then my thoughts dance
back to the immediate present and
Aurora.
The University of Wisconsin at
Madison is one of the largest in the
country, and as remarked to one OF
its graduates this morning, profess
:sor here, it seems more like con-
servatory one might find in Paris or
London than in any small city in
America. The campus of the Univer-
sity covers nine hundred and twenty
six acres bordering on Lake Mendoza.
There are about twenty-six buildings
in all.
Several years ago the student body
numbered five thousand, seven hun
,dred and forty-eight. In nineteen and
twenty-one the number has doubtless
greatly increased.
The two places of particular In
terest in Madison are the University
and the Capitol. Every time visit a
new capitol building, I wonder If any
one / have not seen could be more
beautiful
The. most interesting thing to me,
because of it's newness was the sys-
tenn of voting in the Legislature and
Senate of Wisconsin, the only state
of the United States using this sys-
ITEM.
Above dhe main floor. just at the
sids Of theagallerS sheret tfssa baAetin
board arranged with electric lights
in colors. At each desk there are
three buttons. Upon pressing one OF
these buttons the legislator declares
his presence, for a light is flashed on
the board beside his name or number.
This saves a chorus of replies when
the roll is called. If any are absent,
there is the corresponding lack of a
light on the bulletin board. To vote
ave or nay, there are buttons at each
desk which flash on lights CT certain
colors, by which it is easily ascer-
tanned who is voting and what ne is
voting for. This impressed me as be-
ing very accurate and efficient MI
nus the attendant complications OF
usual voting. With one glance, the
sneaker can see the number OF ayes
or nays by the number of red or blue
lights.
My room at the hotel overlooked
the capitol so that could feast my
ewes on its massive dome and splen-
did proportions at any time during
the day.
FLORENCE MINIS.
A,,rora Minnesota.
Jan. 12S 1921.