Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-04-07
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Charles Dudley Warner Discusses Its Cli-
mate and Beauties.

Charles Dudley Warner Discusses Its Gil.
mate and Beauties.
But 1t is seldom cold in the Needles
and Mohave desert--a shimmering al
kaline waste: eighty-fve degrees IN
March, and say one hundred and
twenty degrees to one hundred and
thirty degrees in July. 1t does not
matter. The few people in the far
apart stations live in houses that have
second detached roof put on like fly
of tent; and the heated, desolate
passage is providential arrangement
TO lower the spirits of traveller to the
enjoyment of the irrigated country
recovered from the desert. in Southern
California 1t is veritable paradise,
as really such as the oasis of FaYoum
In Egypt Heavens! how the human
eye does crave the green color; how
grateful it is for q field of barley,
straight eucalyptus tree, vines and
roses clambering over the houses
the lustrous foliage of the orange
groves starred with globes ofgold This
is paradise. And the climatep Per-
petual summer (but daily rising in
price). There is no doubt of this
when you reach the San Gabriel Val.
ley, Pasadena and Los Angeles
Avenues of eucalyptus, pepper and
orange trees, two, three, four rows of
them. seven and eight miles long; vast
plumed fields Of oranges; the vine stubs
in the grape plantations beginning to
bud; barley fodder (the substitute for
hay) well up the verdant; palmettos
and other semi-tropical plants, and
all the flowers, and shrubs, and vines,
gay, rampant vigorous, ever-bloom-
ing. in dooryards. gardens. over-run-
ming trees and houses-surely it is
summer. There is snow sprinkled on
the bare, ashy hills. but everywhere
in the plain is water; from the unfail-
ing mountain springs running in
wooden conduits and bitches. You
can buy this water at so much an
hour. All you need to buy is climate
and water-the land is thrown in. 1t
is warm In the sun--the thermometer
may indicate seventy degrees; 1t is
even hot walking out through the
endless orange plantations and gar
dens that surround Los Angeles; but
there Is q chill the instant you pass
into the shade. you still need your
winter clothing, and if you drive, or
ride in the grip-cars over the steep
hills, you require q winter overcoat.
The night temperature throughout Cal
ifornia is invariably in great contrast
to that in the daytime; nearly every
where fire is necessary at night the
year round, and agreeable nearly all
the year. even in Southern California
doubt if it is ever pleasant to sit out
of-doors or on the piazzas at night
though it may be in the hotter months,
in the southern portion. But 1t is very
confusing to the mind of the new
conner to reconcile his necessity for
winter clothing to what he sees and
almost feels; in short, to get used to
the climate. The invalid is thrown off
his guard by appearances; and l
should say that there is no country in
the world where person needs to use
more care about taking cold Yet this
must be said, the air is bracing and
life-giving. Ibid not in any part of
the State, in walking or taking any
sort of exercise, fell the least fatigue
A "cold." therefore, for a person in
ordinary health and condition, is not
the dragging. nearly-mortal expe-
rience that it is apt to be in the East.
Then the browning advantage of the
country, even if the climate is treach-
erous and needs watching in its effects,
Is that one can be out of doors all the
time nearly every day in the year.
Meantime he can eat oranges, If he is
not particular about the variety. and
get rich selling prospective or real
orange groves to Eastern people. But
he will never get over the surprises and
contrasts of the country. Atlantic.