The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

also Distributed $50 samples OF the arti'
cles described, which the memb ers pres
ent we're to take home for testing, and. II
suited as to price and quality. they were
pledged to purchase the same in future.
TO quote from letter OF Mrs. j. q.
Lennon. the well-known Oakland bot
anist: The meetings and papers offered
created more inte rest tnan anything ever
placed before the club, and when the dis
tributiun of samples took place at the
store there was great excitement
The rodncts sampled and discussed
we're: Baking powder. beet sugar, cotton
goods. marmalads. olive oil, paper
prunes, pickles and fishes, raisins,
spices and extracts, soap, powder, Dor
avoids, candles OF which twice as many
are imported as are manufactured here,
where tho factories have been running
at only one-fourth their capacity. BY
home purchasing $i50,0O0 Der year would
show up better; I'M ported gUods are being
Stipulated by California products, and,
as the speaker reminded her carers,
''the farmer never needed our help ore
than at the present moment
Seven hunried and fifty Thousand dol
lars is sent out of the state each year for
CONDENSED milk, pretty bad record
for country where during 365 days our
cows can remain in open pasture, thus
insuring milk product of the highest
standard at minimum cost.
Chocolates and cocoa we're considered
home goods, though the raw material is
not home prod uct, still, the manufac-
| tured article is produced in large quanti-
ties hsre. The local manufacturers i'm
| port the cocoa direct from South Amer
lea. and in process and cost produce an
article identical with that brought from
| tbs east.
Rubber, also in, ported crude direct from
South America. is used to make betting
and hundred, of other articles, the num-
her OF which is rapidly increasing. The
rubber hose OF local make being equal to
the best. (The India rubber tree grows
| in Southern California in great perfec.
| ton. Has anyone tried to supply the To-
cal demand for crude rubber from our
own trees?)
Salad dressing equal to Durkee's is now
made by San Francisco woman. The
ladies are thus doubly pledged 70 assist
both home industry and fellow wo-
| man.
Shirt waists and soap. home ma ie, are
equal to eastern goods in manufacture,
| but this latter brought arounu the Horn
IS better seasoned.
Samples of sewing and embroidery silk
we're distribute by a California firm, and
it is interesting to note that we have in
the state a market for cocoons. The more
|
better market Southern California silk
raissrs will have for the raw material.
Not many stoves can be called CALI
fornian, hut those which can are sold at
prices no higher than eastern-made
goods. and havs some advantages over
them.
Macaroni of home manufacture is su-
perior in flavor to all other on account of
the high grade of California flour which
is without an equal in the world.
Walnuts and woolens were declared su.
perior to any others. Chile nuts are i'm
ported. but the home product which is
sold at 25 cents for two pounds is larger,
Of finer flavor and bound to bs freshcr.
The wooden mills, which buy mostly
California and Oregon wool, if patronized
exclusively, would help to foster one of
the states most important industries
sheep raising, while whalebone. which Is
bought by the dry goods men in San
Francisco, is cheaper than in the east.
In discussion it was found chat the
chief drawback to at once carrying out
this I'M st admirable plan OF aiding our
state was reluctance Of the storekeepers
to deal in iome products. This could be
overcome by persistently asking for Cali.
fornia goUds, and, of course, refusing to
accept any other.
This meeting, having been 20 success
will take up other lines of goods and dis
tribute samples as before. In this man
ner interest is 10 be kept up. and an ell 1rt
will be made to awaken all other wo-
mems clubs in California 10 move in
the same direction.
As the Oakland Ebell is the Oldest wo-
, mems society in California it was fittin.
for it to lead off in so practical a matter,
.. and we Give it as our belief that the clubs
of Southern California will be pleased to
follow SO excellent an example, especially
the Los Angeles and Santa Ana Ebell
societies. founded upon the same plan as
that of Oakland. Or local producers
and manufacturers may, therefore, short
~ be called upon for samples and price
lists, and An endesvor may be made to
end the costly habit of paying excessive
freight charges for inferior articles mere.
Iy because they are imported"
By persistent effort the ladies OF Cali
fornia may so foster state industries that
we snail be truly self-supporting, and
have not only enough OF our superior
wares for ourselves, but also some to
spare to the rest OF the world.
H. r. STRANE.