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Show SIGHTSEEING IN MIAMI By LEAH FOERSTER Ppople are not In Miami very long before seeing the Seminole Indian In-dian Village. The costumes of the women art ro colorful as to attract at-tract attention at once. The women wom-en are straight and slender and bear themselves well.. We did see a completely modern version of the costume on two Seminole maidens. Under the wide cape, always al-ways a part of the costume, the regular skirt and blouse had been separated to form a decided bare midriff. The old tribesmen were probably as shocked at this as we were. We visited the Seminole Indian In-dian Village at. Musa Isle and saw the manner , in which this tribe lives. We took a snapshot of our little girl between two young Seminole girls and her fairness fair-ness against their dusky complexion complex-ion was a striking comparison. Bull 'Gators Fight Here the Seminoles had several pits of alligators. Outside the regular reg-ular performance of an Indian wrestling an alligator, we were in for some real entertainment. In one of the pits two big bull alligators alli-gators were fighting. One had grabbed the other by the snout and we could hear the bones crunch as those powerful jaws closed. The injured alligator roared and bled and hissed and although they threshed about until their pit became be-came a mudhole, the one alligator would not release the other. A Seminole man separated them with a b:g pole by striking them on a tender spot somewhere on the jaw. Flying Tourist Courts We were interested in the development de-velopment being made for the future fu-ture airplane tourists. This we saw at an airplane tourist court under construction. Adjoining each tourist tour-ist cabin was a private hanger. A main runway was constructed to lead in the direction of the court. There were also runways and hangars hang-ars being constructed on many private estates. Miami is decidedly decided-ly "air minded." While we waited over the weekend week-end for our through-state trip, I managed to get Dick to husk a cocoanut for me and, like all other fruits and nuts, you can't beat a tree-ripened one. Fresh cocoanut milk mixed with fresh pineapple juice is somethng to drink. Pina-oolada, Pina-oolada, it is called at "Sloppy Joe's." Visit Cypress Gardens An early-morning start headed us out of cities and towns and into the wide open spaces of Florida. There were many cattle grazing on this flat, grassy land. Among these cattle we spotted a type resulting re-sulting from inter-breeding of the Brahmas and Texas Longhorns, thought to be most adapted to the Florida climate and grazing country. coun-try. Bordering the long stretches of country were rows of tall, beautiful beau-tiful Australian pines,, used as windbreaks. As we proceeded into the Florida Everglades we traveled for miles by canal waterways on either side. The canals were choked with the water hyacinth that made a beautiful beau-tiful green and purple carpet all p.long the highway. White egrets, blue herons cranes and pretty little lit-tle ducks were to be seen by eager tourists through this section of country. As we progressed further into the Everglades country the weather became noticeably warmer. warm-er. By the time we neared the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee, Okeecho-bee, we were into real summer. (On this day Milford was enjoying a quiet but forceful blizzard). Here we traveled by miles and miles of r sugar cane fields, bean fields and celery fields. We were reminded itvint Lake Okeechobee, largest freh water lake entirely within the United States, had spilled over during a severe hurricane, killed hundreds of field workers and residents as it swept away the shacks of the migratory workers, homes, or anything that could be swept away by the uncontrolled waters and wind. Now, Lake Okeechobee Okee-chobee has a great sea wall to prevent another such tragedy. The entire event of this hurricane hurri-cane surrounding the lake and the people involved was featured in Readers Digest a few months back. Yet it was not all bad. The dwelling dwell-ing places for the migratory work-ere work-ere were no longer the shacks that stood only by a prop of some kind, but instead were fairly decent housing units. We also noticed several well - designed buildings designated as "hospitals for migratory migra-tory workers only." Anyone having hav-ing seen the manner in which this population, mostly negroes, lived can appreciate the socal .value of this improvement. |