The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-02-03
ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHLAND.
753 S. w. LIST St, Miami, Fla.
Jan. 81, 1922.

Dear Opinlonltes:
This has been busy week with
the New England Bean Dinner on
Tuesday and the Trip around the
World on Thursday and many little
events in between
The first luncheon of the New
England Club was success from the
moment when the first stragglers
came into the Halycon sun-room
until four hundred sat down to a
genuine New England menu. We had
cold meats, baked beans, Goldfish
cakes, pumpkin pie, pickles, biscuit
and coffee, all cooked in true New
England style by the Halcyon chef,
and around the tables constant
babble of tongues made the event a
truly social one. Bradford was well
represented as the Hookers, the
Gales and the Parkers were all there.
The speaking was brief, each vice
president saying few words as he
was introduced. kilograms from the
governors of Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island were read and each message
told of ice and snow and cold. 1t
was a very pleasant affair and took
most of the day before it was really
over.
Then on Thursday, the Housekeep-
ers' Club of Cocoanut Grove con-
Quoted a trip around the world,
which was unique in that it could be
done from one thirty in the after
noon to ten in the evening. 1t was
reported that one thousand trip
tickets were sold and as result a
good bit of the debt on the Club
House was lifted. The first visit was
made to Villa Serena, the home of
| the Hon. w ] Bryan, where America
held sway. Grouped about the lawn
were parties of all the periods, while
down on the waters edge were the
Seminoles. Several soloists gave a
program from the balcony and the
famous Bryan grape juice punch was
served. Mr. Bryan welcomed each
guest by hand shake as they enter
his home.
There was still time to visit Japan
which was staged in the beautiful
grounds of Four-ways Lodge, the
home of Arthur Curtis James. This
is the show place of the Bay with
it's wonderful royal palm lined walks
1t was against such a background as
this that the opening scenes of the
Mikado were sung by gaily dressed
! Japs.
The evening was given to Spain
and France Spain held sway at the
home of DeForrest Christiance, where
Isabella held her court in the Span
| ish villa. However, the most popular
event was the bull fight with mata-
dor and toreador doing their best to
arouse the anger of the paper mache
bovine gentleman. 1t was scream,
especially, when the. bull supposedly
wounded to death slowly arose and
waltzed around the ring to the
music of the band. .a
France entertained at the Club
with music and folk dancing by chill
dren and young people Then pro-
cession Of the nations. closed the
event except for the general dancing
in the Club House and the Commun-
ity house.
We are getting more notables
every day but just now we have
Charles E Hires of Philadelphia of
root beer fame. He is one of the
few brewers whose product has es-
capped the prohibs shafts. Of course
at the root Of his success is the fact
that his beer is non-alcoholic; than
Mr. Frank Rice of Chicago is also
here. There isn't much in name but
he is a miller and grain expert.
Of course the fact that California
has had bad freeze isn't spoken of
down this way one section of the
country never thinks about what is
happening in another section and
never hears of bad luck visitations.
But the wires tell us that they have
had several freezes out that way.
We have had a funny little COM
mercial war going on all over
bananas. Two carloads of bananas,
each owned by competing interests,
are side by side on the F. E. c.
tracks and the prices on one car
load are 1871 cents a dozen and on
the other 25 cents a dozen And
then one sign read "a Big Bargain
in Bananas, % cents a Dozen" and
the other sign reads ga Better Bar
gain in Bananas, 1914 cents a dozen"
Meantime, we are having bananas at
very low figure.
We haven't been without our
thrills either. Mabel Cody entertain
ed great crowd out at Hialeah
! Sunday doing stunts for the Movies,
and it was great fun to watch the
camera man take pictures from the
wing of another plane. And some
day, you all will be. watching these
stunts without straining your eyes
against the sun. You will recognize
the film when you see Eddie Regal
doing trapeze stunts, hanging by his
toes and standing on top while the
loop the loop and the tail spin were
being done, changing from plane to
plane and the parachute jumps.
And then we had a little party
which isn't being greatly talked
about, when the six members Of the
Whispering Orchestra of Gold, which
has been playing at one Of the
hotels, were lured at midnight to
the outskirts of the city and fogg-
ed and told to leave in twenty-four
| bourS Thew loft sooner than that