Show CHARMS OF CATALINA AN ISLAND OF DELIGHTS San Pedro is the passenger p enger port por for Catalina and about folk with Avith shin shining lug ing In faces boarded the Cabrillo with Wit us the day da we went over to the island three hours away across eroH a stretch h of sea where the are short hort and choppy like those of the English chan ehan channel channel nel un A few years age the passage ge to Catalina was a synonym for seasick asick ie i ness ess but that was ws when the boats were small and ed and anyhow our day was as one or of ot sunshine sun hIne and a 8 sapphire sea seR and the joy of f life Ufe was wits upon us Directly we e had hail passed pRel Sap Pedro point poi t tand and the long breakwater the misty cloud from the west nest w t resolved itself into a mountain island still dim as our own rugged rushed Wasatch when the mist and smoke fill 1111 our valley II ey Soon Catalina lay la r revealed sharp shoulders thrust forward emerald valleys alleys opening out to the sea precipitous heights and nd tiny stretches of beach and bay ay Into the bay we steamed and loitered to see the little brown blown ln S dive In the clear wa ter for the coins thrown from the pier piar and then along the beach of or Avalon fascInating with its sight and flavor of fish and fishermen its curio places full of wonderful shells and sea things and aud elbowed on by b our fellow travelers until we reached the hotel It was a good hotel too with deft and silent little Jap Tap servants and such a nice clerk at t the desk His smile and unfailing good humor must be worth much mon money mony monty ey ty y to the Hotel J Prom rom the time verandas glass enclosed an you a draught open to the sea breeze an you OU preferred it so the bay of Avalon blue of a It blueness lay spread spreads before belore you ou In a ne green and soft t J 58 nd bleak hl k The village st a g SIes along the bay and there climbs up the tho with a drive that sent the ban balb well wen over the bluff and the road below belov and und andon andon on towards the first hole Then gran pa and an seemed to say things but he lie got his form directly r and like a bird his ball baIl soared after She had the lead on him however and she kept it and far up the valley vaHey across the bridge and on the side hill w we e saw the white bonnet and dragging to the rear the crimson cap Not so two other golfers not fiot so stout and not so 54 old by several summers It was sur surprising surprising surprising how the th balls of those two youngsters happened to fall close to together together together gether and how the knickerbockers and the tIme white piquet skirt traveled side sid by side down and up and out of sight Catalinas Submarine Gardens So much of Catalina and yet no word of the submarine gardens But if you want to see where the Rhine maidens live and where the was forged if you would like to see the ocean caves from which Triton rose to blow bow his wreathed horn if you want to know where the mermaids come from if you want the fairy stories about the sea to all come true then go and see seethe seethe I the submarine gardens of or Catalina island island island and Over the glass bottom bottoni of our boat loat we hung entranced as we passed pass d over oer forests of green ellow palms and saw sawa sawa a throne room for the sea king carpet carpeted ed with velvet moss of a loveliness and set about with pearly pearl shells and bordered by waving pink ferns And oh the time creatures of the I deep The shoals of bluefish blue as the bluest bluebirds with now and then thena a lordly gold being proceeding in leis leisurely leisurely leisurely I fashion and flashing his flame colored sides at wondering ring us Deep on a mossy rook rock ro k where the sunlight glinted through the water a green rock bass sunned himself such a big lazy fellow far too big to talk of unless one were tell telling telling tellIng ing a real fish story st ry r And there were electric fish with a sort of electric light business in their tails Wis and there were ele I endless silver ones and speckled ones I Speaking of fish lish the best ones to eat eat f fare are the We Ve discovered that by b experimentation and afterwards Jack Tack told us about it IL He was a gentleman of au an ancient and a 1 fishy tIshy aroma whom Ve we we talked with on the bench beach of Avalon while he salted silver sHyer sardines for bait for his sand dabs and chewed tobacco vigorously He fish for but sand dabs he explained and could ketch ketchem em when nobody else could He was one of the characters of Avalen valen A with witha a story to tell the tourist of life as he lie had known it We Ve loitered along from front fromI I Jack to the fish market threw stones at atthe atthe atthe the ugly gray gulls that flocked on the beach in great numbers lingered mger d in the curio stores and then loafed on the verandas An energetic limb climb brings bring one directly to the wire wireless wireless less telegraph station on a K spur of the mountain looking far out over the waste of sapphire sea A little further furt er eron on and the other side of the island Is reached and a still wider panorama spreads at ones feet Coining Coming away from the Country club that first day we remarked to a lean young man who was industriously his golf stick handles How do people ever get getaway getaway away awa from here I 1 dont know he I answered been here three months came for a week exactly how I we felt about Catalina and what we i intend to do the next time we go stay for three months anyhow We Ye want to enjoy again that s sen sense n e of island aloof aloofness aloofness ness flOss the tte being entirely away from the mainland and its activities hills a village a ge for forthe the most part p of tents and cottages available at moderate moderate I ate prices for the summer resident Wandering up up one on shaded street we strolled Into an artists studio tent hung with fish nets and gay with color sketches in which he had tried to Mold hold Molda holda a memory mem ry of blueness g and greenness too toot I vivid for mortal mo color tablets and cups CUIS and tubes The artist was sick siek but buthis buthis buthi I his hi friend did the honors and urged us to come again Then Thea we struck the I end of Avalon A alon and a fence but there Ivas iras a stile over the fence and we I climbed up and down into a golfers paradise The wide porches of the com corn comfortable comfortable I club house looked over the tree treetops treetops tops of Avalon Avalo to the blue lue ue bay and the great sea iea aa A er young man played gay music musk m n the piano in Iu inside side with the u pedal down a mock mocking mocking ing bird whistled when the th piano paused and the golfers came ca me and went There was w s a old pa In III a crimson cap calm c and a granma ma maIn t tin In a White sunbonnet t e led lea I off of |