The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-11
THE OLD FOLKS STAY
 YOUNG IN ST DETER CRIIPC

oSS Oiii lOI lQels IT, der is here from her honeymoon trip and tells us that:
 Do the old folks at St. Peters burg leave the dance floor at 10 o'clock and wend their way home ward? Indeed they do not They remain to dance until 12:30 o'clock each evening and look as fresh as the debutantes when it comes time to pay off the orchestra"
 As Mrs. Richard Snow-and here with her husband-Elizabeth gos- siped of the towns. they had visited Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, St. Petersburg, Daytona and a dozen other places-in th:s fashion:
 We saw orange groves by the mile and oranges and grapefruit by the millions. And we actually found one place on earth where we could get something for nothing when we saw a sign at Orlando on a piled-up dish of citrus fruits: Take all you want free of charge Of course, we realized that didn't mean by the carload, so we took one apiece.
 Went By Gasoline
 We made the trip by automo- pile, and, of course, got to sec a great many more things than would have been possible to us if we had travelled by rail
 For instance. we went to Or mond Beach-this is near Jackson. yllle-and stumbled into John D. Rockefeller playing goir. That was before he had his cold. He looked just as natural as his pictures. and as calm as though he expected to win the game.
 We considered the prettiest towns we saw Daytona. Miami. St. Petersburg and Orlando; and can't get over raving yet about the IT lakes of Orlando, which are right in the heart of the city. There the Wild ducks swim around perpetu- ally-just like the tourists are now doing in the waters around Jack sonvllle; and, after we had been having magnificent plunges every where, 1t certainly did seem like visiting Santa Claus house when we arrived in Birmingham and found everything freezing stiff. We were actually accused of bringing that Sunday and Monday weather. But don't tell this. We might be taken out and hanged if people got to believing it.
 Why, folks are wearing or- gandies, ratines, voiles-everv- thing but. low neck-in the dav- time in Florida
 Ponce De Leon Village
 You know, St. Petersburo is called the Sunshine City of the South and it's an old folks mecca. It is declared they ge. young when they stay there. One newspaper has a standing offer to pay $1 to any human being who applies for it if the sun fails to shine at sometime during every day of the year. It IS declared safe offer, no one ever yet having received the dollar.
 Really. to see elderly people having so much fun gave me hone that after l get olo, there still will be something to live for. It won't be bad at Florida hotels.
 Among the stapendous things we saw was the big Deering estate which belongs to the president of the International Harvester com pany, and the Luden home, built, one might say, of cough drops. We also saw the residence of William Jennings Bryan. All the families were at home.
 Trustfu. Cops
 Two hundred servants are em- ployed at the Deering estate, and it took just IS traffic cops to show us through the grounds. We didn't feel graciously complimented. We wouldn't have snaked their sunken gardens, anyway, and the statuary would have been too heavy to fliv- yer home with. Then the Venetiar gardens were also too large and clumsy for our use. since we have only an apartment in Atlanta, and really would have no place to put them.
 Think of all the. property bein~ owned by an old bachelor! Some poor woman is missing lot -one way or the other"
 MT. and Mrs. Snow will remain ss the quests of Mir. and Mrs. James H. Tinder-Mrs. Shows parents-several days, after which they will return to Atlanta.