Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1909 — Letter From Mrs. Imes. [ARTICLE]

Letter From Mrs. Imes.

* New York City, Feb. 2, 1909. Mr. Editor. Dear Sir: Thinking you and your readers might be inteiested iu a few lines from me, I will explain that I came to this city three weeks ago on a three fold purpose; as usual combining business and pleasure, but this time also to be present at the public school commencement in which!'' my niece Ellen graduates with the highest honors of her class. Rensselaer may be justly proud of her, as her education - w r as begun there. She now enters high school. As to business I can but hay it looks as if we were in the mid summer season, to lock at the windows or enter the millinery and dry goods stores, beautiful in tropical hats of all-over lace. The new Charlette Cordy of lac© and net. The leghorns and fancy straws made fluffy with feathers and aigretts, edged with delicate lace, maline and the like. Jet hats are Indispensible, very dashing, chic, becoming effects, with saucy feathers and ponpons. I will tell more when I return of these. Now as to pleasure. I have had one continual round of theaties, shopping days, musicals, lectures, family dinners, lodges etc. etc. This great and magnificent .city teems with interest on every hand. I only wish I might write a true description of It Nature has done so much for her. The surrounding scenery is simply overwhelming and entirely beyond description, the rivers and bays, the palisades and bluffs surrounding. The great New York bay supporting in its bosom hundreds of boats, from small small sail boats to the largest vessels, all passing and repassing reminds one of a great flock of swimming birds in the midst of which stands the Goddess of Liberty as though her business was to guard, holding high her torch of light at night. The Goddess of Nature hat net only endowed the place with beauty but also utility for development. Science and art have gone hand in hand and have constructed beautiful buildings, streets, parks, monuments, bridges and have even burrowed into the ground in order to gain railroad facilities. Think of riding along quietly reading or conversing in a railroad car, knowing that the great Hudson or East river with all Its ocean steamboats, war vessels, ferries and smaller boats right over us, or a great business thoroughfare with its buzz of business, its trolleys and even elevated railroads above us. I sometimes wonder if this is what is meant by “subduing the earth.” But my letter is getting lengthy, and my time limited, so will close, very respectfully,

MRS L. M. IMES.