The Archive · 1922

Tae True Yetrow Sea

But Kitty, the wonderful fields of mustard and clover that greet one in the country, the meadows in some places look like a veritable Yellow Sea, again the mauve of the clover shows that Nature follows the dictates of fashion, or alternating patches of gold and lavender and green made an entrancing crazy quilt pattern. Up on the hills the azaleas are in full blossom, again mauve being the most popular hue, but rivalled by rose, yellow and henna. The Chinese youngsters pick the blossoms and tie them on long branches so that they look juke feather dusters, or those kahili things they carry in Hawaiian processions. then sell them to foreigners. The foliage is so fresh and green, little blue and white violets and unfamiliar little blossoms fringe the paths and try as I may can't see but what the season out [this way is holding its own even with April in Iowa Center.

There are heaps of things I want t6Y say about blindfold buffalo, sin graves and tempies and costumes, but my bell is ringing. Yours, Marvels of Antiseptic Healing

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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