Show r if r h. h NN i i f PLEASANT PLACE OF ABODE ABODE- Writer Speaks Highly of St. St Michaels One of the Islands of the Azores The place In the world to live Is in the Island of St St. Michaels In the Azores says George H. H Pick Pick- erell in the Washington Post For more than eight years Mr has been stationed on the island as United States consul The Island island is 40 miles lo loix ten miles wide and has inhabItants inhabItants inhabitants he went on It has a salubrious ous ms us semi tropical semi tropical climate and the only disturbances of nature are hailstorms It is a beautiful land Jand and over it are spread little villas thatched with vines and moss where the doors need not be locked because of the peacefulness of the population and where the windows windows windows win win- dows may always remain open to let in air which never becomes too cold Six days days' sail from New York we have all the metropolitan papers and keep in close touch with the worlds world's doings Twice a year a Portuguese opera troupe and n now w and then a circus circus circus cir cir- cus comes to the island At At other times we have bands in the public squares Fruits vegetables and fish are eaten mainly and the cost of living as low One can live plainly but very comfortably comfortably comfort comfort- ably with wife and child for 75 a month as servants can be hired for lor 2 50 a month There are many beau beautiful beautiful women there and the young man ma makes love to them in the street in Spanish fashion He lie stands in the I street and talks to her as she leans f from oom the window above When the engagement engagement engagement en en- Is made they meet but aft after r I that they are never again so near uI until tIl they are married |