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

]Miss Florence Minis Writes
From Seattle and Portland
and the Journey to San
Francisco.
:EDear Advertiser:
Leaving Livingston, Mont, Wed
fnesday, June 29, we arrived in Seat.
;ltle, Washington, late Thursday night
4 The United States made a great
asgain when it included this territory
lamong the numerous ones added to
dthe original thirteen colonies, for it
4is sindeed, a land flowing with milk
land honey.
ts$ Strangely true, that though this
Estate and Florida are as far apart
tas,any two on the map, they are very
llalike in climate and products. The
EWarm japanese current gives Wash
tington, Oregon and Southern Alaska
lasclimate that added to the natural
of the coil, makes it one of
1.-The finest fruit raising districts in
1.-THE country. 1t never SHOWS in Seat
Etley a fact that I have had to think
lover a long time before l could be-
fieye it.
E 1t. seems to me that there is only
tone business enterprise that would
mot flourish in Seattle and that is the
ffiorist shop, for the avenues, yards
land vacant lots were all riot of
EbIoom, with magnificent roses and
flowers of every description, and the
street corners were gay with flow
be- M vendors like sunny Italy.
Before going to Seattle, was told
|Ettaat the most interesting of all Seat
tiles show places was the public mar
Ekst 1t had never occurred to me that
anything, supposedly so common
Ipiac ce, could be thing of beauty. In
driving along, it was not necessary
|to DE told just where the markets
were for along the streets there
flashed colorful display of fruits,
Eyegetables and flowers, of such per-
ffectiont that a vegetarian would prob
|ablS think it an earthly paradise, and
h, rho am essentially non-vegeta-
81 ai ithough bit that even might be in
"a ss5 ITO seats such carrots and radishs:
EEesSs / saw in a red and yellow color
scheme. This was rainbow design
reaching 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 very small in
come. There were monstrous straw
berries and cherries about twice as
large as any I had ever seen.
Instead of looking at buildings as
/ 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 lon| since bloomed and
withered at hom
l left Seattle II the same i'm
preston the = lad when they
visited Amer, - led it Vine
land, for I was as su-prised to find
grapes instead of snow in this far
northwestern corner of the conti-
nent, as they were to find such veg
citation on the eastern shores.
Portland was also a verita BILE or
chard and rose garden. Early in June
every year rose show in held. This
city is older than Seattle, and has
not grown old as gracefully as some
I have seen.
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 a 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