Show hands and going through a thousand until we left at eleven o'clock and they kept up the performance perform perform- ance until midnight What an emotional emotional emo emo- people I revelled in the tho most exquisite roses during all of ot our stay in Eustis our hostess keeping our room filled with the choicest varieties so marvelous in color so rich in perfume as to almost intoxicate us with their beauty Where Winter Strawberries Grow Mar March h we took the train for forO Ocala O l the next day reached Lawtie a quiet little town settled by northern northern- to strawberry culture Here we spent a week driving walking driving walking sit sit- the broad piazza of the hotel in the sun getting tanned and fat c Nothing here is cultivated but acres i i n a and arid acres of ot strawberries little tiny 11 i plants but raise the leaves and you youcan can can pick nearly a a. quart from one vine i The number of quarts shipped north ll i S during the season is fabulous but oc- oc tL t freezes do damage r Nr The mornings and evenings were alil al- al il ways cold so we had a wood fire in inthe Ii the big place fire-place in our room of fat r pitch pine wood and it was very fascinating fas 5 to watch the fire light as it flickered here and there lighting the V room f-room room so that we needed no lamp Alli All i through the tho South the tho mocking birds L t were singing calling and answering I each other day and night Returning to Jacksonville Jacksonville- we devoted the few f. f hours we had to visiting the shops shops- and the Exposition building Here in the 01 Pool we saw a a. number of the ti uncanny looking beasts the lar largest est of which was ten feet long so utterly k hideous and ugly that he was most fascinating fascinating fas fas- to me Our next stop was at ati i Savannah where we drove all over the city and out on the beautiful shell road to the old cemetery called Bonaventure Bon venture aventure Beautiful Way where the trees great live oaks covered with are a hundred years old Great Natural Arches Roads y Roads have been cut through the woods and the effect is indescribable it is like is-like like driving through great cathedral cathedral cathe cathe- dral arches so sombre and solemn and fo ifo grand withal a a. fitting place for forthe forthe forthe the dead Savannah is a a. beautiful old I city with many parks parIes and squares squares' planted with palms and palmettos right in its heart The magnolias J 1 J. J seem seem the favorite tree and they grow to a great height The houses are large and broad with verandas all around the two stories and they must be f needed in the hot summer We had a avery avery very full day and at seven o'clock took the sleeper for Richmond We rode all the next day reaching our destination destina- destina tion In the evening and drove to Fords Ford's Hotel where we had stopped thirty-five thirty years ago on our wedding trip But the hotel had changed the city has grown and nothing looked natural except Sunset Park and the theold old cold t old Capitol Park The grass was turning turning turn turn- ing green and the numerous gray r squirrels were so tame they came and ate te from my hand We drove all the J morning visiting the beautiful statue t I of Gen Robert E. E Lee Lee Lee-a a bronze equestrian eques eques- trian on an Immense granite pedestal lInthe In the afternoon we drove to the park up Ir Pollard the Vir- Vir nl siy-husban siy lt Ing fag the war It was their first meeting meet meet- r ing since that memorial time when they re mere boys one wearing the blue and Ind the he the other other the gray and they had hada a most interesting war talk f The next morning we took our train for Washington exactly five weeks from the day we left It has been truly a delightful trip beneficial In health and education on perfectly charming In every way whose memory will go with me through life C. C G. G G. G Ii 11 |