The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-15
A MEMPHIS LADY.
THE TABLE TALK or A RE
TURNED EXCURS1UNIST
From CaIifOrnia-sOme Interesting
Gossip About the Climate, Man
ners and Products.

Seated at a South Memphis table at
breakfast yesterday m1rning w6s a
lady Just returned from California,
whittier she went a few weeks ago
when the rate was cut 80 low as 10
make it too great temptation to be
Ie.i-ted.
"Nolhing tastes 80 vel over there
as it DOES htre," she said, holding up
lu, cious red S ice Of tomato upon her
fork. Everything had fiat taste to
me. The f.uit5 are all big and look
fine, but they have rot the delicious
flavor of our fruits. This applies not
only TO fruits and vegetables, but to
meats as we |. A bfoiler costs rs cents
in market, but the meat is not 30
sweet rs that OF cur bsrnyard fowls
here. | could not eat beet in Cali
f0rnia at all. The mutton is t1lfrab y
good. Meat and fowls are very high.
Anyone might make fortune vita q
chicken ranch in the Deighborh God OF
San Francitco. The sameness OF the
climate probably accounts for the lack
of variety in other things. | suppose
it is all right when one g is accus-
toned TO it, but | think it would
take me good many years to forget
how things tastsd at home before
could really e Joy what the people OF
San Francisco have TO eat. The reel
dences are nearly all built OF wood on
account CT the earthquakes, but no
body fears them at all. A little shock
that shakes the chandelier passes I'M
noticed. If the doors are lifted off their
hinges they lose their temper, but
don't seem to be frightened bit. 1t
is the expense OF having things fixed
up again which annoys them. The
sun is absolu ely essential to health
out there, and nearly every house has
a profusion of bay windows. They
jut out over the sidewalks from the
second story to the tops OF the build
irgs. When one applies at hotel or
logging house to rent room
an extra charge of So 80 a
month is made for those
which have bay Window. A
nicely furnished room with a bay
window can be had for $l2 80 a month,
in a desirable locality and a careful
couple with an oil stove and no false
pride can live very chesply. should
think it might be done for $50 month
with economy. Board at the hotels is
about the same as it is here. AND
then it is not necessary to spend much
money for clothing. The texture is
the same winter and summer. The
only difference made is in color-light
coored clothes for one season and
dark for the other. The wind blows
a gale half the year and it rains the
balance OF the time. People dress in
all sorts of styles. An old woman msy
dress like maid OF six cen, or schoo
gill like grandmother and no one
thinks OF making remarks about it
They are long way fom Paris yor
know, either to the east or west
was struck at once b.
the number of white headed people
and so many Of them had young faces
And then the suicides. Oh, my
Three or four day. So many peo
pie go out there to get rich, fail 10 &c
bread, go off into quiet, shady cor
ner OF one of the parks, and mah e al
end OF themselves. There is came
ness even about the suicides. Tit
ia is, life is go monotonous there tina
nobody seems to be really attached t.
the place. They are perpetually NOV
ing about, and never seem to be quit
setlled. The earthqu axes help to keel
them shaken up, | suppose. | man
eyed to gat a pretty good idea OF every
thing, and prefer Memphis. tn
cable cars take you everywhere.
vent cut TO Laurel Hill, which
: | believe, is one OF tn
prettie,t places in the world. For II
cents took a trip Of six miles t
; where l could get good view OF tn
ha Dor with the Golden Gate in tn
distance, but the view of the ocean
3 obstruc ed BIZ the hills. And tai
A about ills, The scenery | am sure
as g and as there is in the world. w
were about two days in the noun
8 tains, day or two on the prairie
; and the de er OF AIizons, the tri
3 taking week. But the train wa
nearly forly-eight hours late. "Whel
ever you can spare $780," she con
cluded getting down to hsr break
fast again you must make the triE
wa ne three months aud it cos
me f400, but was more economics
than you would be-"