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Show I WHEN CALI FORN I ANS ARE MEEK. J; On a day last week the thermometer Hi registered 56 degrees in San Francis- H co. and over LOQ degrees in Los An- geles. All of California is scorching in the heat. One amusing feature of the heat wave Is that the California papers have had not one word of self praiBe for a month on the climate of that state, which is a mo6t remark ! able omission for Californians. when ever the opportunity is presented, are loud In boasts of weather. Every winter, as the tourists gather in Southern California, they are en tertained by large headlines in news papers reporting cold weather at some I eastern point. A storm on the Atlan tic coast causes the Los Angeles 1 dallies to issue extras and a blizzard 1 in the prairie states is the subject of I editorial comment at great length 'J California, to be 6ure, has a com I paratlvely mild winter, but for climate I that is delightful in its seasonable changes, that Is invigorating and yet not severe. Rives us Utah, where there are no blizzards, and no great heat waveB thai send the thermome ten up to lft degrees with humi'tit i hat of sea level. oo |