Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-06
]. C. PAsQUETH
AGAIN WRITES
OF HIS TRIP

The following letter from J. c.
Pasqueth will be Of particular inter-
est to the readers of the Ledger:
Dear Ledger Friends
In the last letter l left you in San
Francisco, after bringing you up the
inland route from Los Angeles.
Leaving San Francisco via the coast
route one March morning, we drove
south through a number Of beautiful
suburban towns including, San
Mateo, Redwood, Palo Alto-here we
drove through the grounds Of STAN
ford University, stopping to inspect
the exceedingly beautiful chapel with
its remarkable mosaics, stone carv-
ings and art glass windows. One
could spend hours here enjoying its
artistic features and / could write
pages of it but-we hurried on down
81 Canine Real-'.The Kings High
way, to San Jose where we called
on Shelby M. Dodson, wife, little
daughter, and good mother, happy
and spry at SO years young. They
lived ins Mexico "a years ago. A
happy hour of "Reminiscences of the
old home town, and they told us Of
the other Mexicoans in San Jose.
Leaving San Jose we drove up over
the Coast Range, through the big, old
redwoods and down into Santa Cruz
on the ocean. / visited here the place
where, 20 years ago, I had my first
view OF the Pacific; as fascinated this
time as the frst-old ocean is a con-
slant mystery.
On to Del Monte and Monterey for
the night stop.
Next day we drove through Pacipc
grove and around the famed II mile
cypress grove drive, viewing its many
interesting features. On through
Salinas, King City to Paso Robles-
here we called on DR.. and Mrs. A..
Hills Wilmar. Mrs. Wilmar was
Edna Epperson of Canton, O., is
known in Mexico having visited her
aunts, Mrs. w. G. Pasqueth and Mrs.
Oscar Martin, a number of times.
Dr.. Wilmar has a big practice and
numbers amongst his patients Pader-
ewski, who makes his home in Paso
Robes now.
Driving south we passed through
the Atascadero Ranches, laid out by
E. G. Lewis, Of University City, Mo-,
and Woman's Magazine fame during
the st. Louis Worlds Fair. They ex-
tend on both sides of the Highway
for IL miles, the fine town Of Atlas
cadero about the center. We were
not buying ranches hat day so we
drove on through Santa Margarita to
San Luis Obispo and stopped for the
night. How good we do sleep of
nights after whole days in the open
sightseeing and breathing in first the
salt ocean breezes then maybe thru
the pine woods and abreath Of the
health giving aroma Of the pines for
a couple of hours or more. Is it any
wonder these Californians are such
rosy, healthy folks?. I expect to
arrive home all made over and FULL
Of health. / Recommend this out
door life to others. Try it.
When Samuel G. Blythe stops writ
ing about politics and Who's Who in
Washington to write of common
n methods of health consider
ations and Irwin S. Cobb lays aside
his usual line of articles to tell peo-
pie "How to reduce their fat and be
healthy" its proof there's a good
deal of interest in the subject.
Health's the thing-money won't buy
it--a little pleasant daily attention
right where you live-here in Mexico
or any other p~lace-will do it though.
1t pays big returns.
The last day" we drove through
Santa Maria, Gaviota, then 80 miles
along the beach to "Santa Barbara
the Beautiful" Here we found that
fine Mexicoan, Bryan Kelso. He
showed us through the handsome new
building of the County National Bank
& Trust Co., where in less than a
year, he has climbed up to the fine
position Of Paying Teller. Bryan
looks well and handsome. He says
he'd be happy if he just had all his
friends out here too. On alongside
the sea through Ventura by the
Sea- down the San Fernando Valley
past Universal City and through Hol-
lywood. passing many of the. big
moving picture studios, arriving home
in Los Angeles. Up the Inland
Route to San Francisco back the
Coast Route to Los Angeles, over
1000 miles, ALL on concrete paved
highway. Some days we drove over
200 miles in 10 hours driving. We
were Z days on the trip From the
seat of an QUITO il certainly an ideal
way to see California with its great
variety Of scenic beauties and many
luxnriant valleys,