Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-20

ing us of that depressing feeling during
the heated term. Take any given day
the temperature at a. m. being 70 de
grees Fahrenheit, the relative humidity il
about eighty-five per cent. From 10 "a
m. to p. m., the hottest part of the day
when the temperature may be So or 81
degrees Fahrenheit, the relative humidity
will be as low as ffty-five or sixty per cent
From this we learn why the heat il
never oppressive, and why sunstroket
never occur, and why one does not swea
away in perspiration and seek the ice
cooler for comfort.
From the above table it will be seer
that there are only four OF the six warmel
months where the average temperature
reaches only 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Anc
we also learn that the mean temperature
for the six warmer months, for the past
ten years, has been at tho average stand
srd of only 81 degrees Fahrenheit. The
months Of May and October are of about
the same temperature, or several degrees
cooler, averaging about 50 degrees
Fahrenheit for the past ten years.
Here, in the six warmer months, We
find comfort and peace from oppressive
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and purity of the atmosphere is remark
ably refreshing and invigoratiDg. There
are no windy, nor wet, nor damp, nor
! foggy days, which gives us every day to
be out in the open air, inhaling pure
aseptic atmosphere. DIR. Bodington, of
Warwickshire, forty years ago, said /:
''To live in, and breathe freely, the open
air, without being deferred by wind or
weather, is one important and essential
remedy in arresting the progress oil
phthiais."
Regarding the attractiveness of the
scenery, those who have travelled much
and visited this section of country are at
once captivated with it's grandeur and
beauty, and generally concur in the
opinion that there is no place so charm
ing. 1t abounds in majestic mountain
heights and cliffs, and romantic cations
and ravines, and fertile valleys Of exquis-
lite beauty, and ripping streams finding
their way from the mountains to the great
Pacific. Los Angeles, from its central
position, can boast Of many attractive
drives over good roads to local places of
interest. over rounding bluffs and beau
tiful valleys, to points commanding
views of billowy hills and distant am
phitheatre Of mountains, Of most beauti-
full scenery, and charming foothill
drive to the ocean.
LOS Angeles is a beautiful, thriving
city Of about $4,000 inhabitants. The
principal streets are paved with asphalt
or bituminous rock, and are kept clean
by being swept clean every night. An
outfall sewer to the ocean is soon to be
constructed.
The resident portion of the city con-
tains some of the most beautiful homes
in America. They ere surrounded by
large green lawns, laid out with ex-
quisite taste and beauty, and contain a
variety of evergreen trees and palms,
and semi-tropical plants and flowers of
all descriptions. There is beautiful
park in the heart of the city, and several
other parks are being laid out and deco
rated in an elaborate manner.
The city contains numerous finely con-
structed private hotels for the accommo-
dalton of the tourist and invalid, built in
the resident portion of the city, away
from the noise of the business portion of
the city.
Seventeen miles westward from Los
Angeles is the seaside resort,
Santa Monica, where surf bathing
in the warm coast stream is moet
enjoyable. and can be INDUCED in every
month in the year. Twenty miles south
ward is the seaside resort, Long Beach,
and five miles from this, westward, is
the Port of San Pedro, where steamer
awaits the tourist for an ocean voyage OF
thirty miles, to Catalina island, which
place is 6 rapidly growing, popular sum-
mer resort. Good hotels with good ac-
commodation will be found at each of
these places, open to tourists during the
summer months.
About one hundred miles southwark
from Los Angeles is Coronado Beach,
with its renowned Hotel del Coronado of
$50 rooms, beautifully situated, with
grounds laid out with exquisite taste and
beauty, and wide, magnificent views of
mountain, ocean and bay scenery, and
whose surf-bathing is most pleasant and
enjoyable, and where the sunny days
pass away almost like q dream.
Regarding tho healthtuiness of this
section OF Southern California, statistics
prove it to be the most healthful spot in
| America. From the Board OF Health re-
ports OF the prevailing diseases, we learn
that cholera infantum is an almost
olDShSO VIC SiphO
ones, which in our eastern cities
carries away thousands upon thousands
during the summer months. Diarrhea
and dysentery, which also swell the
death-list up in the tens OF thousands,
are indeed of very rare occurrence, and
the fear of the death of the babe from
these diseases, by those mothers who
have lived East, is thing of the past
with them.
AS there is no stagnant water nor damp
soil for the decomposition of vegetable
matter for the development OF malaria
intermittent and remitteEt fevers are
equally as rare.
The purity Of the water, which is
derived from the mountains, which
is free from contamination of sewerage
and decomposed animal or vegetable
matter, gives us almost perfect immun'
ity from the more common zymotic dis
eases. When, however, such diseases
do occur they usually run mild course
The even state of the temperature
with no days OF oppressive heat; the
purity OF the atmosphere, with a low rel
alive humidity; and every day to be GU
of doors, makes this section OF the coun
try a most desirable one for consump
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