Show SOUTHLAND LETTERS by MRS G A DOWNEY 01 D I mm airs 0 A dawney time tittle unil mid other timan you have fleen tho gasoline A alloy aley picture of Itu chol decapitating tho tire 30 pound turkey for walt nod and 1 well wo we have that picture indio real in thousandth ti of places imro in thin this great HoU southern thern port maiero than thure in 1 no tin need of tar to discolor thi the hands turkeys and turkeys and 1 and fixing and then it whole lot moreT heso famous cooks who have havo arved n bvrd thin this college so faithfully tor for nearly ft a quarter of a cen century kury huro know how now to make sonic beet best things taste a little belter better our immense dining room hero can be bet seated with colbow room to spare la Is always for its air of running willio its spotless sut surfaces fAces every ahr ro inspire tho the ennio same in ach today ba however its 11 beautiful plants its decorating homey atmos tre aro are making this large aa family arst of whom are fur far separated from their own friends forgot that they aro are not and cannot bo be whore here loved orrem are conr college post office ie Is a reni real where packages aro are die dla tr buoI to our girls 11 packages CB that come from parents and friends ni just s thoy they do to colleges coll cgee and academies in tho north mrs mildred downey predicted today hat that I 1 would for days have to administer medicines for and head very likely it will prove true I 1 havo have often it to he be dr dentist or nurse though 1 have never ut tempted surgery o 0 I 1 make a guess on tho the nied med atine however and so far it has P worked pretty well I 1 wonder nm am I 1 tho the only ono one that lina lin over ever dolp that A great hospital juat just rebuilt re ro built at n coat oaf of and distinguished by tho namo dieu ne as i fine ne example of tho tact and sym pathy of ite its directors dir octora it has hall always been a bouso of mercy and yet it in 1 patronized by the people of 61 wealth po so skillful do the director directors do their work that no one but themselves IH Is rill allowed owed to know who for a room and care and who doea does not I 1 the rooms are all alike A char ity fly patient may have bare a it room right next to one who puy pays for hie his room and not even tho the nurse on duty knows who pays and who does not this insures the same careful atten bior for all classes ct of patients last year 7 patients were cur car fed veil for and surgical operations ver month were performed abow churches and a few theatres allow colored people though they are segregated in the th theotres thea entres trea As a general thing thin however T I 1 think they prefer their on excle sive churche churchea the are their own heart songs tho the speakers are moro enalin helpful help belp tul all saints day here probably acs the finest noral display at any enny city in tho the country tho the flowene placed upon the mon limen i monte tm tomar and houses bouses of dead cost thousands of dollars astor asters and sell 11 at three four five or anore dollar dollars a dozen Car narrations rAtIons at iny time tinte 1 three and four dollars do llara though thoai are laree large and freih fresh they are not krown grown here but corao come from alabama or oven even california now orleans j lifts bas however tho the finest deeo deed shade I 1 tea ten roses and american beauty 4 that I 1 have seen anywhere they i boom bloom nil nit winter out of doors even evon i trough we sometimes have cold weather wo we do not often haro have frosts though sometimes water has ha frozen on tho the campus and water pipes have havo burst last winter jack nipped 00 me flowers flu wore we aro tire kind glad now to draw the blan kol over our beds beas and steam libat or coal bal fires aro arc welco welcomed mod most daye days or evenings people evou wear fur costs but that Is not sig they thoy wear them in july in los lo 10 angeles if ono one winbon to display their tura furs iho 1 I lie winds straight from tho the gulf li tream aro what causes tho the really cold weather and for myself I 1 do not mind my tiny out of door cold it is tho the cold from wind deop sweep in our long wide and many tory story halla halls that invites ho lie shivers ebl vers somo sortie of our good friend friends hove have asked me about tho the policy of tho the bollego a etc ote and perhaps I 1 have not made it clear that this institution wae was ono one of the first to throw it iff doom doors open to tho the colored people at tor ter the tire civil war other churched chur chee followed tho the ox ample and now there are numerous colleges and academics where the colored people aro are trained to become educators ami ana leaders for their own race until recent years thoro there were absolutely sol not any county schools for tho negro but tho the example and urge of tho the church schools have ed public sentiment so that now there are colored schools in almost all tho the cities and largo large villages year by year these county schools aro are showing marked improvement ie as tho the tea teacher chern employed aro are select od from the beat best trained young men ani women wo we bavo have in connection with our college a tico firo practice school where hero graduates aro are trained to become teachers pages could bo filled right in thil this line and yet I 1 would mot lint exhaust my story of needs and supplies auppl fox and much moro that cornea comes across my path and I 1 could allow you why there Is no more important service for mankind it in our country here tiara in now orleans thero there are at least three largo large colleges coll epoe rind perhaps a doton dozen oc ot more high schools and an equal percentage tago in other large cities A few weeks ago our football boys played southern university nt at baton rougo rouge noi aril mr downey and I 1 drove up in our car a round distance of miles reaching our homo home about a M tho the roads wore were fine moat most of the journey carrying over the jackson highway a hard gravel road with as many curves ns as the twist our only mishap was when 0 o e ran into a dust colored cow bonding our lichts skywards twisting our hood and punching a hole in the radiator we camo came right along however after atter fixing the lamps and ine that tho the hole was near the top of ot tho ho radiator tho haton baton rouge journey took u aloner the mississippi arder tho the loft left bonic bank leveo and wo we had a chance to see what a splendid system of protect protection irn la Is given this country the lavee rises gradually from the road sido side and perhaps in feet it reaches reache s on tin elevation of 25 or 28 feet then it drope pot quite perpendicularly to the river the top of the levee lev ee Is a fint smooth path where in the clear moonlight wo we often saw silhouetted against tho sky mules m ules cattle and saddle ridera riders a it very interesting picture tco too hero and there on our right we based plantation mansions some of which may bo be or years old they aro are imposing even now surrounded as a they are by stone or iron walls or palt and far behind them still within the inclosure are numerous where the pro war ar slaves lived cedars and pines grow in aban bance the tree trees have a wonderful ds dl play ay of mou moss which hangs from the bouhe boughs to a depth of from 2 to 8 feet cot down and resembling a mall small poplar tree inverted or onoro vividly like a comans heavy switch af or hair perhaps a single 1 large 1 broo bears n ton on of this moss the ga thorl drying and marketing mark of it ie to an important industry Indu atry it ie in exported and Is vry valuable I 1 in the making of furniture pillow pillows mattresses mettr ceBe ate nut but the trees themselves with their exhaustless production tiro very beautiful as no tho the great sweeping moss clusters wave in the breeze |