Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-11-05


yohu' was at one Time exceedingly
bored by the efforts of certain young
ladies to entertain her by plavinp on
the organ whenever she visited at
their home.
THE idea" she said. in a contemptu-
GUS tone. "of their thinking that they
can entertain any one at this day of
the world by plavtng on an organ
when organs are as common as cook
stoves,"
am forcibIy reminded of her re-
mark as / begin to write something
about my visit to the Middle West. So.
NJ. BIS. | am not writing to entertain.
but to help fiji the column when help
is needed, to retain my membership i'm
the column. and last. but not least. to
avoid the reproaches of certain sis
ters whose names | refrain from men
tioning.
Leaving the shire town of Hancock
county at 1890 p. m. we Arrived in
Boston the following morning just as
old sol is beginning to work in earnest.
-N'H' q wait VI Sever a. nuns III tllt
city on real July day does not sound
very attractive, but, thanks to the
company of kind friends who met us
there, that wait is one of the very
many pleasant "reminiscences of the
summer
Leaving Boston at 2.1O p. m, the late
afternoon brings us to the grandly
IA If n .ri Of tlA oh, i,..,
hills. Whether robed in its mantle of
snow or clad in green, the Berkshire
country surely furnishes an mex
hauStlhie source OF admiration. We
pass through this section all too
rapidly. The "lordly Hudson is crossed
just as darkness settles down.
The early morning finds us speeding
through southern Ontario. Here we
see gently rolling surface and small
fields of grain, which serve as an intro
duction to the extensive fields which
we see later IN southern Minnesota,
our objective point.
About eight o'clock we reach Wind
sor, Ontario, at which place we enter
the tunnel under the bed of the Detroit
l.
This tunnel is a wonderful piece of en-
gineering. We did not intend to send
away our last post-card of this tunnel
but we did, so we are not sure that our
figures are correct. but as we remem-
Der, it was begun in 1901 and com
pleted in 1910 at a cost of several mil
lion dollars. It's length is one and
three eighths miles. Previous to the
tunnelinc of the bed. the river was
crossed by a bridge.
AS we travel through Michigan. later
in the forenoon. we come TO large
fields devoted to Crane culture The
grapes are stuck" much as we "stick"
peas At AIS we reach Chicago
twenty-five hours and five minutes
after leaving Boston.
Here we have a wait of three hours.
and no friends to meet ms. as we had
in Boston. We spend the time study
ing STYLES. which proves TO he y very
monotonous wav of EMPLOYING one
self as there was absolutelv no vari
etv in the cut of the dresses They
were all after the nrevaiIine one-niace
model The sameness of the dresses
however. was somewhat relieved bv
SLIGHT differences in the stvle of tbe
hobs"
When we board the CHICAGO and
Northwestern train we have for n
seatmate for n few hours a lady who
with her husband. has been i'm mis-
sionary work in China for the mast
thirty-fye years They are on route to
WASHINGTON, whence they expect to
sail in August. to resume their work
| i'm China. in an unattractive mart Of the
| country. Such examples of devotion and
sacrifice make us ordinary MORALS feel
pretty small
Saturday morning finds MS in north -
ern Iowa. The train stons half hour
| or so at Mason CITY for breakfast
Five more small towns of Iowa are
crossed. and then we mass into Ninne-
sofa Here. again. we find small sta
| tons AS we reach the third. after