Evening star., 1926-11-26
PORTLAND.

| TUf61LAND.
/ That afternoon Samuel Hill took us
over that most beautiful Of roads, the
Columbia highway. need not, think.
| describe it to you. After all, I am not
raphy, nor do 1 mean to weary them
with what they know better than l.
After all, it is my impressions that
you are asking for and 1t is to these
| that 1 must stick. Only this let me
| say, that a more beautifully built
| road exists nowhere, l think, and
| that the landscape 1t runs through is
| a continual enchantment-gran
beautiful and lovely-it is all three OF
| these.
Towering rocks, deep valleys, for
ests dark with mystery, splash1ng
waterfalls dashing down the noun
tainside like silver light, then stretches
| of meadow land, where acres OF apple
trees give a note of home and pros
perity in charming contrast to those
more solitary and grand places where
pine and rock make man feel small
! We passed through several dear
little places where the population
came rushing out with flowers and
great baskets of red-cheeked apples,
which not even "Snow White or the
fairy story could have resisted, but
| these that were here given me were
| free from poison
Each Town Has Band.
! Each little town had its own band,
and l was much touched that they all
, played our national hymn. This be
| tokened forethought and a manifest
desire to honor and please the woman
who had come from so far. The
musicians were quantity dressed; IN
one place they wore green. waist
coats and green mountatneer hats; IN
another there was something req
about them. and, If l remember
| clearly. they had brass helmets on
their heads. Anyhow, they received
us with joyful strains and marched
before us for a while cheering our al
ready cheerful way.
| We arrived with the sunset at
Portland, which seemed to me per
fectly delightful town. The public had
been waiting for us long time, put
| it had lost none Of its enthusiasm
and the greeting 1t gave us was spien-
didly sincere. Before penetrating 1hto
the city we stopped at iovely 1oialT a'i
| for crippled children; we visited ali
| the little sufferers. and l felt IKE
blessing all those who were perform
| ing such a. labor Of love. The rooms
we're white and cheerful, the nurses
ihad gentle faces, the windows We're
| wide and looked out upon loVely sur
roundings and even the most grieV-
ously crippled child had some Things
besides suffering in its eyes:
| Then on we flew down fasclnatns
streets all lined with bungalows OF
,,,hich each had its very own face. l
loved those bungalows, and they are,
| T have discovered, special feature
| NJ vour American towns, anyhow IN
NJ am told that California is the
land of bungalows. am a1ralo'
alas to nv utmost disappointment
that shall not reach California this
time. But these California bunga-
| lows were perfectly delght1ul anu !
loved the way they were, one ana ali,
set back from the road, on low grass
banks, and what struck me partlcu,
Isrlv is how they stand side by size
like nerfect little buildings on show In
an exhibition, with no division be-
tween them except neatly mown
grass. This we do not see IN
European countries, where the houses
are generally separated at least py
a hedge. hope that this means that
each man in America lives in perfect
accord with his neighbors. Cn-
fortunately, l have not Deen apie
to penetrate within these tiny dwell
ings to judge for myself If this Is
the case.
Prince Plans Cottage.
MY son, who has the nesting in
stinct, kept examining these little
model dwellings, exclaiming at each
that this or that was exactly what
one day he meant to build, for princes,
you know, because they live in
palaces, have the cottage dream.
1t was nearly dark by the time we
reached the inner town. There the
crowds thickened, the cheering be-
came boisterous, the lights were
ablaze and, as in most big receptions.
I felt it would have been convenient
If had had two heads with which
to bow right and left at once.
In Portland there were the usual
receptions-governor, mayor, and
committee, pleasant and charming
people, eager to make us feel at home,
eager to do the honors of their city.
After the big dinner we were all
taken to the horse show, and If there
is a thing on earth that pleases me,
1t is a horse show, and let me add
that in my life have seen very few,
and 7 a1wavs envied those represented