The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-12-13
FROM CALIFORNIA.
A Glowing Pen-Picture of the Delight-
full Climate In the Golden State. &


Rev. w. Bowser, whofis iemem
bered by many of our people as
pastor Of the NJ. h. church iuthi,
city some three years ago, is now 9
resident of Los Angeles, California
and from that place writes the fol
lowing interesting descriptive letteI
to the Milton paper, which we re-
| produce for the perusal Of the Press
readers:
1 Los ANGELES, Nov. S0.-In writ
| ing you again, / wish to lay out {
line of samples of what we have in
Los Angeles. Your readers will
| find it profitable to compare and
contrast the same with the goods
you carry in Milton. | shall open
up the case and lay out the goods
on the tables of language, Just as
! find them in first writing, without
any effort at artistic effect lin ele-
CANT dictation. M
You want to know how the
weather is just now, in November?
Well, to answer the question we
shall tell you what we see daily.
You can see men at work In their
shirt-sleeves everywhere, men de-
livering goods in like comfortable
attire, ladies walk the streets with
pert little parasols. adjusted by a
| joint near the nozzle to keep off the
impertinent sun. Ice men 90 their
daily rounds doing out their crys,
tai coolness; children go to school
in light clothing, and little girls
are even seen in cherubic8 white;
healthy boys delight to bound along
the streets wearing natures shoes.
Doors ajar and windows open make
o very agreeable inside atmosphere,
We have no fire for heat and only
need flash for cooking our daily
meals. Mind you, these points for
instance will not stand little lat
er when the rains come. This is
what we have now.
Let us take a peep at the dress
that nature wears, irrigated and
fixed up by the hand of man: Just
out of the window there the rose
blushes in its radiant beauty. Dia-
gonally across the street, Z see
trailing arbor terminating lin a
dome fifteen feet high all covered
with lofty green, spangled with wide
open cups of purplish blue. 1t is
the morning glory. At the en-
trance from the street to the house,
stand on either side, two thrifty fam
palm, while directly across the
street, the long-lingualedEleafed
cactus fourishes. The pepper-tree
stands little to the right with
its fern-like foliage softly sWaying
4 in the breeze. Farther off is the
3lusty growing eucalyptus tree, ap-
parently drawing on soil, air and
sunshine as vigorously as Lin its
Australian home. Near by is a.
broad-topped geranium.clunp, ten
feet high, all ablaze with fierylred.
There is no need of the sprinkling
hand or pinehing finger to produce
a comely form, nor the covered fire
to keep Jack Frost out Of the bay
window whore the pet geraniums
stand. The orange and the lemon
tree are beautiful starred with the
golden fruit. So much for natures
decorative attractions. II
Now come with me to the fruit
stand. Look at the gorgeous array
of colors. There is a box of orang-
es that reflect rich golden hue
from their thick porous rinde In
that next box is The plain yellow
lemon, and there are several shades
Of color in the apple display. Here
are boxes Of blackberries, there the
red raspberry, the strawberry, the
cool, refreshing guava, ofdarkI pur-
plish hue. In the corner to your
right is q variety of grapes, black,
blue and red, Here is a lot ofdull|
green pears. Pomegranates, too,
with a reddish, tingue vanishing
into creamy white have a place
in the exhibition. The dull dark
fig of course is there and the Haw-
allan banana. Evergreen wreaths
and froudes, around and about and
among the kinds and varieties Of
fruit, complete the display.
Vegetables? Yes. The man
with the "pigtail'' corrals the pro-
ducing business and his vending
vans are on every street. New po-
tatoes are coming into the markets
and onions, cabbage, cucumbers,
carrots, radishes, large, sweet and
firm. Turnips, tomatoes grown in
stalk and bush; green corn, sweet
potatoes and other vegetables now
find way to the table. In word.
the season here now corresponds
with spring in the north. The
couple Of showers already had,
have started grass and other Wild
growth. Il will not be long until
we see the beginning Of the long
procession of wild flowers that
march through the year.
/ am sorry ! cannot stay With
you longer, nor leave you any Of
my goods. These are only sam
pies Of what we have in Los Ang-
eles. The goods are like the SAM
pies. j must repack my case and
be off. It is nearly train time.
Good Byel w. BowsER.