The Placer herald., 1870-11-05
MULFORD AT SAN JOSE.
Sugar-Cured American Girls that BucI

sugar-Cured American Girls that Buck.
From Correspondence of the s. T. Chronicle. ]
Until the other day was never in San
Jose, "to speak of" although had in form
er years heard much of that city from GER
tain San Jose boarding-school girls; and from
them had derived the impression that San
Jose was rather lively, frisky sort of a
place, with considerable respectable mischief
lying around loose on the surface, and great
deal more under it. Some eight or nine
years ago there was extant in the State a
breed of California-raised, sugar-cured Amer
ican girls, some of them perhaps having in
their veins just enough California blood to
deepen the Anglo-Saxon fluid tinting their
checks and to make them shy and give pre-
monitory symptoms of "bucking" whenever
a stray man came wandering about their
pasture; girls full of a comparatively unbrok
en- life and vigor, combining in temperament
and organization much of the originality,
boldness, freshness and fervor of the country
They had as to the cast-ron conventionali-
ties of life tried to break these girls in at San
jose. But they seemed never to succeed.
This California stock would always kick over
the traces. Up in old Tuolumne | was the
family friend of two such unbroken sisters.
They used to shoot themselves from the gar
ret windows after the old folks had retired
for the night, and go to the stable and take
out the old mans horse, and harness him to
the old mans buggy, and then we used to
jump into the wagon and take a ride all night
around to Shaw's Flat, Columbia, Sonora
and jamestown. Well, these girls were or
iginally from San Jose. They had learned
how to do these things at San Jose board
ing school. That's the sort of education
worth paying for. 1t puts life in the blood
and bloom in the cheek. Even the old horse
used to like those midnight, moonlight drives;
the old man didn't. Those girls are alive
yet; healthy wives and mothers, and doing
their best to make the census man earn his
money when he comes round ! ndorse
San Jose as the educational center of the
State.
APPEARANCES.
There is lively, cheerful look about the
city. The streets on Saturday thickly
crowded with teams from the surrounding
country, give one the impression of being in
some Eastern inland town on "market day."
One is, however, occasionally reminded of
California by the presence of felt sombrero,
the jingling spurs, the RATA, the big stirrups,
and the swarthy face of the native Calfor-
nian. They tell me that the old stock is
gradually disappearing, moving off to the
Lower Country" Here and there the
"adobe" and the tiled roof are seen, sur
rounded by painfully smart American edi-
fees in white front and green blinds. 1t is
the trace of the old Mexican Rip Van Wink
le, sleeping amid the hustle of American
progress. But theirs was pleasant, easy,
dreamy life on the then unfenced, unbroken
plains, herdng their stock by day and twang
ing their guitars by night. We cry out,
"All rightw eco ahead" They drawled,
"poco tiempo," whose proper Interpretation
is, "Take it easy
HOW DO YOU LIKE OUR CITY?
The first question they fire at man here
is, Chow do you like San Jose p They
do the same in Stockton, in Santa Cruz, at
San Quentin, and possibly at Mud Springs.
At none of those places do they allow man
after landing to go out in his mental jury
TOoln IoT tWeuty-lOuT HOuTS anu dSIec upOi'
his verdict This is unjust A man can
not make up his mind as to the qualities of
horse or even of wife until he has driven
them for twenty-four hours; how much more
time must he have, then to determine as to
the virtues, drawbacks and set-backs of a
town containing 5000 souls-immortal souls
at that! San Jose has wide streets. Good
Neat dwellings Good. Vistas of noun
tain background Good. Handsome wo-
men. Better. Brave, intelligent, noble
men, who block up the main entrance Of the
Auzerais House, so that the stranger must
charge in column to pierce their center, and
get in or out. Bad. The water is good.
The whisky is better than the water-at
times. The natives, owing to the labors of
good men ongathem, have passed even
the bounds of mere civilization. They are
becoming enlightened. They are building a
jail. The Court House is a magnificent
Temple of Justice, and if the article dealt
out there is, as to fair proportions, in keep
ing with the building, San Jose should be
the legal and equitable Head Center of the
State.
! NORMAL SCHOOL AND STUDENT.
| The Normal School building has as vet