Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-04-27
]. c. PASQUETH
FINDS THE WEST
INTERESTING

IN GlB6O tBlO
j. C. Pasqueth, who is visiting in
California, has written the Ledger as
follows concerning the interesting
experiences, he has had and the num-
Der of former Mexico residents whom
he has seer since going West:
"Dear Ledger Friends
when / arrived in Southern Cali
fornia the middle Of January every
thing was in full fruit and flower.
There had been several weeks Of
heavy rains causing some damaging
washouts on railroads and highways
but after eaeh washout the damage
was rapidly repaired and the optim.
ists-most people one meets here are
optimists-smiled and said they r
GLAD Of the rain for it filled the re-
sevoirs and soaked the ground-thus
assuring abundant crops for 1922.
II began meeting old friends I'd
met on previous trips-they all give
one a real hearty welcome and gave
a good imitation of being glad to see
me. It's a way they have-we all
rather like it too-now honest, don't
we? The first ex-Mexicoans met
were Mrs. Lora Stokes Moore and
daughters, Josephine and Lora Lee
and DIR. Harmon Stokes all living
happily in a beautiful l home in a
pretty part of Los Angeles.
~ took several auto drives to the
beaches-yes, that's right, some
hardy ones are bathing in the ocean
now at Long Beach, Santa Monica
and Venice. Coming back from Ven
ice one day we passed the Al G.
Barnes Circus winter quarters and
saw coming toward us down the road,
three elephants abreast-they were
taking up all the road and IS we
drew near, we were stopped and asked
to wait for them to go by. They
passed by us so close | could have
reached out a hand and touched the
nearest elephant. I asked the guard
my eternal questions I'm called
"Thos. Edison, Jr.," by a dear girl
that knows my weakness for always
wanting to know WHY about most
everything) and he told me that
: Tusko (the biggest elephant or
earth) was running away and they
{. were trying to catch him or turn hin
: back to the house by keeping along
: side him with the other two. Tusko
: is a foot taller than old Jumbo and {
: ton and a half heavier. He has tive
! tusks each six feet long. He looked
t mad; head swaying from side to sid'
and little eyes twinkling-like a mis-
!. chievous boy, didn't want to go home
1 I eventually learned that they took
crate of crisp celery Ia delicacy HI
likes) in an auto and lured him hom'
) with that, he munched it in his stall
:. later and was happy-so am I, TO
Y hecould have smashed us four peopl
and our auto if he had stepped asid
as much as six feet. But he left M
alone, l think, so | could write hir
' up for the Ledger. You may see hlr
next summer for he starts out on tn
j circus circuit oon
"We drove yer to Long Beach on
0 day and visited with Mrs. j. w. Nc
d Kinley and Mrs. Bessie Wainscot1
They were eager for all the news O
: Mexico. Had tea with them and the
j fed me on barracuda, a fish that er
d JOY very much.
81 heard that Ham Mckinley ker
one fish market busy supplying hin
with barracuda when he was here Las
summer. Mrs. Mckinley and Mr.
: Wainseott will be coming to Mexico j
a few weeks. l visiter a MILNE
9 Ian in-law-relative of my brother
she was talking Of a man mililne
u there in Long Beach his manner
I raving over a "dream of a hat"
L remarked to my brother-"sounds lik
% J. P. Morris, who one time lived
Mexico" and the lady said, "wh,
that's the name Of the man l we
talking about-how'd you know?
% Just another one of those peculiar il
q cidents about Mexico people that
have often had happen in talking
= people in far distant placesl didn
e know J. P. Morris was a milliner
2 Long Beach. Go on and say it.
q everybody does-"the world is {
" small"
SIN a cafeteria in Long Beach v
met and chatted with Mrs. Jno. Ricl
etts. She is spending the winter
y various places in Southern Californi
7 II want to tell you that it CAN 9
y cold in Southern California, and
did that very thing. I went out OF
morning and found half an inch
y ice On the bird bath in the yard, Il
= thermometer registered 20 degrees
Is 1880 a. m.--next morning 80 degre'
:. and from 81 to, 40 degrees for tv
weeks. 1t has kept the native Ca
fornians Chat always means a boo
teri busy ever since telling me it
livery unusual. Well, that's tn
Is for everything in this wonderful sta
is very unusual. One Sunday
ne showed so hard up in the mountain
that MT. Wilson and Mt. Lowe o.