Show A points about california and her amiable people plenty of bara for the tonett bat he mint pay well to see them where the bonea are very 1 cloae take your average californian and you will find him to be an amiable creature distance lends no enchantment in his case you have got to meet the fellow on his own soil to get thoroughly acquainted with him and learn to admire all the good traits he has stored away in his well nourished frame there is nothing mean or small about the average californian says the chicago herald he lives well sleeps well and dresses in good taste he likes legitimate sport and is a keen critic at the theater he nourish a throbbing love for and he looks with suspicion on bank notes and gold and silver certificates he prefers to collect and pay his debts in coin and considers a penny as a sort of tramp in our monetary system it rains in san francisco during the winter months not every day perhaps but possibly nine or ten times a week but the average californian appear to notice the precipitation until he meets a friend from the east then he begins to apologize something after this fashion how do you like this country ever in california before this rain is something unusual thursday was as clear as a bell sorry it is HO disagreeable gree able spring is quite as backward this year as some merchants I 1 know are in their payments then you laugh and stoop to let the water run off your hat but the average californian will continue this fog in the morning means a clear afternoon never knew it to fail will you bury your beak in a glass of wine there is the apologetic humanitarian for you you can find him almost anywhere in san francisco he knows that fogs and brainstorms rainstorms rain storms are as prevalent in his town during the months of november december january and february as they are in the web footed state of oregon yet when approached by the tourist he manifests the most acute astonishment at such climatic eccentricities so thoroughly addicted is the average californian to this harmless and amusing form of tergiversation that he at once impresses you with the belief that he actually thinks he is telling the truth and that the doleful surprise he manifests is thoroughly conscientious things grow very large the moment you leave the mojave desert with its bristling stunted palms and miles and miles of sage brush just take a ride with a los angeles man through the san gabriel valley if you doubt this assertion let him do the talking he is sure to keep you thinking this is about the way he rattles along peach trees no a prune orchard why last year mr so and so gathered six thousand tons of prunes off these trees why sir the crop was so heavy that he had to hire men to saw off the branches to pre t f serve alie trunks of the trees on but this country is a coming you cant stop her just look at these mountains they are fifteen miles from town and you cant touch the land for less than five hundred dollars an acre look at that dirt raise anything here this soil is blacker than sound and richer than baldwin its a great country why ita different from anything on earth hero the squirrels build their nests in the ground and rats live in trees that shed their bark instead of their leaves see that orchard over there fifteen years ago it was covered with sage brush now there are eighteen thousand orange trees in that tract of land and the fruit the wind alone blows off would pave every road and path in i golden gate park what do you think of our women not so pretty as they are in frisco eh I 1 will tell you why its the climate up there they have more moisture in the air and that softens the complexion here its dry the year round and that is why the faces of our women look harsher but its a good country it what do you think of it anyhow and so this man of los angeles will talk and talk until the sun goes down in tho ocean with a sizzle but california has everything to brag about and the visitor can afford to stand this good natured hyperbole the state is bigger than the combined area of the commonwealths of new york pennsylvania vermont new hampshire and delaware it is a thousand miles long from the mexican line to the boundary of oregon the distance is as great as that which separates new york city from chicago it is a state where the zones are so closely wedded that the visitor may pick strawberries one moment and half an hour later enjoy a sleigh ride on the flat top of a mountain it is a land filled with flowers fruits and birds and just enough snow and ice to drape in glittering the purple peaks and savage cataracts to the north |