Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-10-18
vacation Life in Southern California,

vacation Life in Southern California.
BY REV. Il. W. c. FARNsWoRrI.
Many things which make up the real
ife of Il people escape the eye and pen of
The hasty tourist. A residence of two years
n southern California and the reading Of
msny letters written from here 10 The east.
ern press by transient visitors have con-
giuced me more then ever OF this fact.
.sa great national smitarium, and prob
'ly one Of the best in the world, this
1ruer of our country is rapidly coming
o prominent notice. Perhaps the read
; IF the MESSENGER would like to take
roop into the inner life of the people
re, An account of the way in which
We t1le our vacations will present one
r9 important inside Wow, and particu-
" 50 when l. is considered that larre
'pp)rtion Of he JsJnle have come here
Il health, whetaar they !iuI T. or u9'
Some of the supposed os~eut,2's If wa
ion attractions are w,nlat Tucra ore
no lakes. Oar "rivnus' are mere brooke
- small streams drained almost dry by
riEitin- pipes ul bitches, or ut TINS
p5on the dry bets of winter tolvcuts
&yre5ts arc few AMI diliitaJ Of access. Ex
Jrsions by railroads lnl steamboats, are
Nv, excepting thos, by rail from Los
\ngolcs to Santa Monica, the principal
tea,side resort in these parts. There are
few medicinal springs with hotels and
few villas among the mountains; but
elaborate summer resorts pitrOnizel BIZ
lur own people hardly exist. The vael
lion assembly" nus not reached u3. Hills
nd mountains are abundant, some of the
alter being higher than Mount Washing
on, but to the casual observer they seem
Ir0Wn, barren, and perhaps unattractive
There is the grand old Pacific with calm
md regular dignity unknown to the Allan
ic, but it sends up over much of the coun-
ry frequent and dens fogs. The country
"dried up" during all the vacation sea
IN. For six or eight months hardly drop
# rain ever moistens the parched earth.
"A poor place for vacations: rather one to
0acate," you say.
But there is another side to the picture.
Considering all things and the wants of
Ill the people believe this is ono of the
best vacation repions in the world. For
the toilino and tired the moor and C,oble
.or tbc m,sses who most noad r,,t and
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