Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-12-23
G. D'ARToIs, President. -
j. M. SANCHEZ, Vice-Pres't. t.
j. ID. RuFEIN. CLIP Hm,n Cnm
Too Poeiical by Half.

We cannot but regret that people
who visit our section are SO often in
clined to indulge in flowery, over
drawn descriptions of Los Angeles
when writing letters for publication
elsewhere. . They too frequently sac
rifice point of truth to round Pc
riod. When giving actual facts, una
dorned by poetry or fiction, we CEN
slider that we have enough to be proud
of; and all such fulsome eulogies as
we refer to, only work injury to our
country, when read by thinking pco-
pie. As an instance, we give an ex-
tract from n letter written from our
city to the Ventura Signal:
December is here, with the
balmy breath Of June; a perfume of
flowers upon the breeze, a shimmering
of sunlight over all the deep-hued,
brilliant blossoms in our garden and
an intensity of rest and calm i'm all
the atmosphere. The mountains have
just a touch of green upon their grace
ful slopes-the shadows lie heavily
through the deep caflons, from which
at night the mists come creeping up
the heights, carrying the secrets of
the sea to the clouds that rest upon
their SUBMITS. There is so much of
beauty and poetry in these days that
when one reads of "iierce storms" and
drifting SHOWS, beyond the Sierras,
he Gf a new-comer) finds a thread of
unreality.in all. :. When the uplands
are being sown in rye, wheat and
barley; when the markets are filed
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berries, with purple grapes and golden
rustles in all the fields, there is no re-
alizatiOn of Winter and December Is
but myth.
flowers, with beautiful shrubbery and
pampas grass, moving its softly tinted
salmon fiowers in'f the sunshine.
| Neils' open their creamy petals from
the yeranhahs, and the bright. "Agrip-
pinasu burn their crimson hearts upon
the bushes. This is but type of the
many beautiful homes Los Angeles
contains. There is soft languor in
the air seemingly inconsistent with
the crowded streets and busy life of
the city. 1t is a great resort for tour
lists, and is said to have had greater
ruslnof visitors this season. than ever
known before, coming from all parts OF
the globe to this land: gs-,ncrEH
"Where tile sun goes down ~
And gold is found by tide and stream;
Where maidens are brown as the cocoa brown,
And life is love and love is a dream"
Anot very sastute reader OF. the above
would start out for Los Angeles eX-
pecting to find a little Eden here and
nothing short ofit. He would picture
on every hand a growth of self-sus-
tanning fruits and flowers and q Tree
of knowledge in the centre, while the
people still retained the primitive fig
leaf costume and knew no guile. Ar
rived here, he finds himself after all
on the sin-cursed earth and he is dis
appointed. The country and climate
may possess a Thousand advantages
over those which he left behind, but
he is still dissatisfied and pronOunces
the whole hoax and swipdle. Those
who WELD the pen in the interests ol
Southern California should study
moderation; let them stick to solid
prose and leave their fine imaginations
to the poets whom nobody is expected
To believe.
DIR. Brennan lectures at Turn-Verein
Hall this afternoon at o'clock toladies
exclusively, on the subject of Health
and Beanty of Women. This evening
he will discuss the popular theme OF
Love, Courtship and Marriage. AL
| ,ybo oro infaraatada in these subjects