Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-06-22
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SAN Francisco, June 20.

excursions to summer resorts has now
fairly arrived, and business men with
their families, recognizing that a
brief sojourn away from the hum
drum of every day city life cannot
be otherwise than health-giving, are
flocking to the country or to some
| popular or fashionable watering place.
Santa Cruz yearly receives its share
of visitors and Santa Barbara is
| about equal in attractiveness. Santa
Cruz is about 1870 miles south of San
Francisco, and is accessible either by
steamer or by rail. Many people
prefer to go by steamer simply be-
cause it is the cheapest mode of get
ting there, and in conjunction with
the reasonable fare offered the trip is
made very attractive and interesting
a brass band always accompanies the
excursionists and discourses sweet
music on the deck for the Waiting
of the gay party. Although Santa
Cruz has the reputation of being a
healthy and pleasant resort its climate
is nevertheless unfavorabIe for in
valids, and particularly so for con-
sumptives, having as it does the
warmest temperature in the morning
and the coolest bone-chilling fogs
coming in from the ocean at night
fall. These fogs last till about 1880
or o'clock P. NJ, after which the
evenings are delightful and pleasant,
and the suburbs of Santa Cruz are a
veritable paradise. The light winds,
or to say the gentle breezes, which
then prevail, waiting the strong and
almost Supplying odors of the orange,
maple and locust trees, SO abundant
in this locality, to ones face are par
ticularly welcome and pleasant after
the sweltering hot weather here Gus
tomary during the summer and
autumn months. At this time the
hotels in town and vicinity give
dances and parties, to which are IN
vited the elite of the town and all
visitors that may happen to be So
journing in the city, or in the suburbs.
On moonlight nights one may wander
along the well paved streets, roomy
and neat in appearance, enjoying his
cigar, viewing the scenery and in
haling the refreshing breeze, while
the melancholy, almost monotonous
quiesence is unbroken, save by the
ripple of merry laughter from
groups of Mexican men and women
collected on the verandahs of their
dwellings, or the plaintive airs play
ed on the guitar, accompanied per-
haps by the mellow voice of fair
senorita, carried to him by the
zephyrs, now soft and sweet as an
eolian harp, then forte and harsh,
fill his soul with sadness and de-
spondency, rather than with ANNA.
ton and cheerfulness. A brief walk
along the principal avenue brings
you almost directly to picturesque,
fine, white Sunday beach, where
nightly during the summer months
hundreds disport themselves and
likewise battle in the cool water.
At 10 80 or II o'clock p. NJ. a general
withdrawal takes place and every
one returns to his home or lodgings,
and when midnight gradually over
shadows the city with her mighty
hand, deathly stiffness prevails over
the town. Such is nocturnal life in
almost all Of the California seaside
resorts, and particularly in Santa
Cruz and Santa Barbara.
"wHAT DYER soYE 2"
There is great tendency prevail
ing among California youths of
picking up any and all slangy
phrases which have been popularity
used in the Eastern cities, and put
ting them to advantage in all CONVEX
sations and also using them as sar-
castle replies, which they may have
occasion to do at any moment.
"What dyer soye' is the latest i'm
portation, and as there is really some
thing witty about this phrase will
attempt to describe the many ways
in which 1t may be used: Suppose a
person should inquire after your
health and you in return should re-
late to him short story of some
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