The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
Roadside Temptations

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We're YOU ever tempted by roadside mar
kets. as you toured over the country, to buy
much more than there was room for in your
car, without placing some of the merchandise
or one of the passengers on the right front
Fender? Then you are like all the rest OF us who
find it difficult to drive on past great stalls OF
red, ripe tomatoes, h%andWoven baskets, shell
jeWelry, French-fried almonds, or whatever
happens to grow by the side OF your highway.
Is there anything more intriguing than the
Indians in their bright shawls who spread
their wares on blankets and squat beside
them? And who, as he travels across New
Mexico Oh the much-sung Highway St, has not
stopped to see the silver jewelry they have to
sell? The Indians are as good merchants as
they are craftsmen, and you will not save
more than a few cents by buying directly
from them rather than from the stores. But
think of the fun you have!
Harvest season is a glorious time to motor.
Not only is the air at its crispest and %clearest,
and the sunlight a glory as it makes a halo
about yellow leaves. but you have a ringside
seat, as you motor along, at the premiere Of
the harvest festival. In early morning you
drive in California alongside tomato fields
where the Mexicans in their bright shirts are
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road. AS you pass by, the workers invariably
stop to grin and wave at you. and the world
has suddenly become a very friendly place.
Almonds are ripe in September, and on coun-
try roads you may be able to buy the fresh al
monds directly from a farmer at a great saw
ing. We got a bushel last year for IS cents 4
pound, just south Of San Jose.
There is one drug on the roadside market.
We have often wondered who buys the plaster
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over Highway rs from Dallas to Houston in
Texas. They are a wonder to behold.
If you are travelling along Highway 20 be-
tween Cleveland and Buffalo, or any highway
through grape Vineyards, you will find bottles
OF fresh grape juice festooning highway stands,
with some cherry juice for variety. Ordinarily.
you drink all you want for 10 cents at the
stand, then take a gallon off with you.
1t is along this same highway, as it wanders
through the Finger Lakes region of New York,
that you pass an antique shop about as often
as a filling station. You car buy old iron
stone china or a knife-and-fork trav or old
frames almost without stopping the car.
AS you motor through the Smokes in Ten
nessee on 70 or 81, you will surely come
across the furs that are neld up for your in
spection As you drive along. There are many
stories emenating from sales of these furs,
and we have no advice TO offer. Some claim
to have purchased wonderful bargains in fine
furs from these trappers and fox farmers;
others did not think so favorably of their pur-
chases. n
In Arkansas, the natives who live among
the hills carve wood dolls and dress them as
"~backwooos' characters, ON the order of some
of Bob Buns relatives. The women dolls are
In denim and calico, and the men in coarse
cloth. Fiesta pottery seems to grow beside
highways, and even in New York
State, pottery stands are highly advertised.
One Of the most famous regions is in the Caro-
linas.
If you should come across an old colored
man driving his horse and buggy along a
Middle Tennessee highway. with baskets load
ed into tie buggy, you will have a treat in
store. He makes the baskets himself, grows
the dye, and dyes them. They are very reason
able and durable. Most of them are natural
color, with a band or two in red.
There are, too, meals you can buy, almost
from soup tc nuts, course by course, as you
drive alors. This is quite practical in Oregon,
on that spectacular coast highway, where the
fresh still-steaming crabs can be bought from
roadside stands wrapped in wax paper. Some
one In the party can pick out the meat for
the piece de resistance of your dinner as Won
travel. You will soon be coming to a bank of
blackberries, in almost any part of Oregon,
and they DO nicely for dessert.
If there is anything lovelier than a road
side market OF gladiolas, we have yet to see
it. They abound in New England, California.
and the Northwest. Hardly anyone
drives TIM ough the giant Redwood forests in
California without emerging laden with Red
wood napkin rings or Redwood trays, or some
thing Redwood. We give The brass ring to the
citrus stands, with their great areas of grape
fruit, oranges, tangerines, and lemons. All in
one breath, the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
California, and Florida must be mentioned as
the source of these fruits although Arizona
seems to be running them a close fourth.
If you are motoring this fall, make out
your shopping list before you leave home.
the markets are more replete and captivating
than ever before. And leave room on the list
(and In the carr for the unexpected.
DOROTHY KINCAID - In Christian Science
Monitor.
The %racially prejudiced are insecure, though
externally they may exhibit confidence and
even arrogance. They accuse racial groups
OF aggression, underlying weakness, preoccu.
patton with sex, etc. Actually these are the
things which the prejudiced find in themselves,
but are unable to face in themselves.