The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-04-08

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ity of the permanent faculty members,
duty both satisfying and gratifying
sunday afternoon the faculty members
and staffites have tea together. This
tea is specialty-Imean we have diff
ferent things to eat then than we have
at our other meals. We send this
meal happily down our alimentary
canal to rest with the olive oil be-
smeared, the soft and the fried food
OF native Syrian cooking. No, l am
not complaining about the food, but
l am not accustomed to it yet.
Perhaps the first thing you would
like to ask me is what do you miss
most! {" | waver between salted but
ter and twilights, for we have no twi-
lights here. But altho there is no
twilight the sunsets are beautiful. Ohio
sunsets never have the wonderful COL
ors that these sunsets do. Another
thing miss is grass. 1t is so hot
here in the summer time that grass
does not grow at all. However,N |
think shall decide to answer your
question by saying that the thing |
miss most is hot water. Nothing
could be more acceptable.
| Everything is done backwards here.
We put our overcoats on when we
come in instead Of when we 60 out.I
now know what that expression "In
the shade Of the mighty Rock" means.
surely can sympathize with Jonah
when his gourd house withered.
| This is a queer country-Sunny Syr-
ia where one roasts in the sun and
freezes in the shade especially if there
is little breeze. 1t gets quite cold
in ones room, so cold in fact that
we have to keep little oil stove burn
ing most of the time in order to keep
comfortable.
Yesterday morning l watched the
sun rise over the Lebanon mountains.
First all was rosy red and then, as
the sun came UP higher, bright and
dazzling white from the snow. There
is first low near range of mountains
and back of that higher range. The
second is not merely snow-capped it
is covered with snow and makes a
very beautiful sight when the sun
comes up from behind.
have played tennis several times
and go swimming nearly every day in
the Mediterranean Sea. So long as
one stays in the sun, it is very warm.
And now while it is fresh in my
4 mind, ! will tell you about my trip
over. y
| There were twenty of us on the ship
/ who we're coming to Beirut. As there
/ were only IS other first class passen-
gers, we had things about our own
way. Among our number was Mrs.
H. S. Bliss, wife af the late president
of the Syrian Protestant College. Mr..
Bliss attended the Peace Conference
in Paris in behalf of the Syrian peo-
Piles.
The first land we saw after we left
4 New York was the Azores Islands.
iWhen- awoke on the morning OF
/ September E I saw from the port-hole
a cloud-like mountainous bit of land
which at our distance seemed three or
four miles long. At first consider
ed it cloud, but later found it to be
one of the Azores. 1t was SO miles
to the north. These islands are very
mountainous. About IL a. m. that
day,we saw San Minguel, or St. Mich
aelsy about so miles away. The noun.
tains' are allof volcanic origin. Con-
sequently as the altitude of the peaks
is about 5000 to $500 feet and the larg-
est only 40 to so miles long and about
10 or IL miles wide, we could see some
of the cities very distinctly.
One of the girls said the cities look
ed like washings.hung out on the line,
for nearly all the buildings are painted
white, pink, gray, light green, etc.
Wouldn't living in a 1avendar house
be romantic? The hills are terrac-
ed in many places and the fields are
laid out in four sided, often rectangu-
lar shapes with hedges between them,
You can't imagine how pretty these
hedged off fields were, when one could
stand off on board ship several miles
away and get panoramic view over
several miles of territory. Some OF
the hills were wooded and on the tops
of some were many windmills of the
Dutch variety.
We sailed very close to Ponta Del
gada, but could not land as the har-
Dor was too small for our ship. We
remained in the harbor about two
hours and during this time | saw sew
eral Fords go down the city streets.
Some of them were painted light col
ors while others retained the color
they had brought from Detroit and
SO looked quite prosaic and out of
place in this gaily light colored CITY.
On board the Canopic we're two first
class and about 100 second class pas
sengers for these islands. Miss Smith
from Washington, D. C., came out to
visit the American Consul and his wife
and was met on board by them. It
looked fine to see the Consul's motor
launch with its American flag stream
ing out over the water. The Consul's
party came on board just after the
Portuguese officials came on for ocr
shipping papers and to unwind the
necessary red tape. We also had a
small cargo to land here.
We were met by round of small
boats with things to sell. These
vendors are compelled to be honest
for they each carry permits from the
Portuguese Government. The ven
doris brought their boats to the ships
side and threw up a coiled rope which
one let down to receive basket. In
this basket one places their money
and receives their desired merchan-
disc. Pay first is their motto and