OCR Text |
Show 1 ' ' If ' A A WONDERFUL STATE. -' Potato About California and Her . ,.irt Amiable Pooplo. "I ,Ajri - JPlsoty of Bar SlRhU for th Tourtal r , JWM' -YT, , (l . MMt Py Well to So Tliom Jv'SVtfJ'' " ' Wtoero tho Zob Are Very I JTvJJwt Take your average Californian and j ij v croaturc. Diatanco lends no enchant tf i " , ment in his case. You havo got to ', T ' , ' meet the follow on his own soil to got I ' I thoroughly acquainted with him and J ' learn to admire all tho good traits ho f 1 has stored away In hiB well-nourished j JE frame. There is nothing' mean or ' I ' W" small about tho average Californian, I MlW 8ays t1ie Chicago Herald. lie lives I K well, sleeps well and dresses iu good 'I ' S f i taste. He likes legitimate sport and is i 1 ' a keen critlo at the theater. lie doctra't ! t. nourish a throbbing love fqr China- I I ft men, and he looks with suspicion on I i I bank notes and gold and silver cortill Zk'm catcfl. He prefers to collect and pay W ' m W his debts in coin, and considers aponny Vl J I as a sort of tramp in our monetary sya- !1 m tern. tl t Tg 1 It rainB in San Francisco during tho 1 1 . ' I 1 winter months not ovary doy, por- I w C haps, but possibly nine or ten times & It ' week. But tho average Californian I M W doesn't appear to notice tho precipita- m a tion until ho meets a friend from the Jf aBt- Then he begins to apologize , something after this fashion: I A fc "How do you like this country? I rm Evor in Call'orn- bofore? This rain I u is something unusual. Thursday was H as clear as a bell. Sorry it io bo disa- S m grceable. Spring ia quite as backward I M this year an some merchants I know I M are in their payments." Then you I ' I laugh and stoop to lot tho water run f off your hat. j "But," tho avorago Californian will I continue, "this fog In tho morning I means a clear afternoon. Never knew I it to fall. Will you bury your beak In a glass of wine?" I i There is tho apologotlc humanitarian for you. You can find him almost I anywhero in San Francisco. Ho knows W that fogs and rainstorms aro as prova- lent In his town during tho montlis of H November, December, January and H Fobruary as they ai n tho web-footed ,. state of Oregon. Yet when approachod H by the tourist ho manifests tho most H , acute astonishment at such climatic H eccentricities. So thoroughly addicted H is the average Californian to this harm 1 H f less and amusing form of terglversa- B i tion that ho at once Impresses you j with tho belief that ho actually thinks B I ho Is tolling tho truth, and that tho H doleful surprise ho manifests is thor H oughly connclcntlous. |