The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-17
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
CHARLES Dudley w arncr Discusses Its Gil.
mate and Beauties.

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Charles Dudley W amor Discusses 1t, Gil.
mate and Beauties.
But it Is seldom cold in the Needles
and Mohave desert-a shimmering al.
kaline waste: eighty-ive degrees IN
March. and say one hundred and
twenty degrees to one hundred and
thirty degrees in July. 1t does moi
matter. The few people in the far.
apart stations live in houses that have q
second detached roof. put on like a fly
Of a tent; and the heated, desolate
passage is a providential arrangement
TO lower the spirits of a traveller to the
enjoyment of the irrigated country
recovered from the desert, in Southern
California. 1t is a yeritable 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 a field OF barley, .
straight eucalyptus tree, vines and
roses clambering over the houses.
the lustrous foliage Of the orange
groves starred with globes of gold. This
is paradise. And the climate? 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
rhay) we'll up the yerdant; palmettos
and other semi-tropical plants, and
all the flowers, and shrubs, and vines,
gay, rampant. vigorous, eyer-bloom.
ing. in dooryards. gardens, over-run-
ming trees and houses-surely it is
summer. There is snow s%prinkled 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 watcr-the land is thrown in. II
is warm in the sun-the thermometer
may indicate seventy degrees; it Is
" hot. walking out through the
endless orange plantations and gar.
dens that surround Los Angeles; but
there is a chill the instant you pass
into the shade. you still need youl
winter clothing, and if you drive, or
ride in the grip-cars over the steeI
hills, you require u 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 neariy al.
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 fol
winter clothing to what he sees anG
almost feels; in short. to get used tC
the climate. The invalid is thrown of
his guard by appearances; and
should say thai there is no country il
the world where a person needs to use
more care about taking cold. Yetthis
must be said, the air is bracing and
life-giying. did not, in any part OF
The State, in walking or taking any
sort of exercise, fell the least fatigue.
A "cold,n therefore, for II person in
ordinary health AMI condition, is not
the dragging, nearly-mortal cxpc-
rionce tina, it is APT TO be in the Ensi.
Then the crowning advantage of the
country. even if the climate is treach,
crous and needs watching in its cffects,
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 10 Eastern people. But
he will never get over he surprises and
contrasts Of the country. -AHaatic.