The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-30

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411lnber o. AnlA 10 a.. saw.

T. seq --.4poria Gazette though Sa,dr.
y --A- ,.Onuay were spent ia raI
Diego; but as two handsome fat prieati
-an freshman with q brogue as rough
as tin crater, and a German---werS
with the party II could hardly hays
been Sunday. But II was a fair day
full OF sunburn and a soft breeze blew
just heavily enough to sustain the
faint perfume of the almost oderless
California flowers. II this same mum.
Der OF flowers that bloom by the Cali.
iornia ROADSIDE bloomed In Kansas the
perfume would be nerve trying But
nature evens up. and where she gives
proruslon of bloom she withholds tbs
rich perfume. The California roses
might almost be paper for all the 10Y
they give the nostrils. A Kansas clover
helu nils whole railroad train with
fragrance. No traveller In California
ever gets a whin of any flower by the
roadside as he whizzed along on
choo-choo car. The way farer afoot OF
buggy riding is nore fortunate On
the buggy ride from San Diego to OLD
Mexico one goes through scents and
Incense. The road passes along fhs
seashore and turns into green fields
but not by running brooks.
For all this beautiful land of South
ern California is a converted desert
Man did 1t. The water even is extrs
dry II has TO be diluted before IL can
be used for cooking, and to drink il
one must have good teeth But IL is
wet enough TO irrigate the soil. IL has
brought forth marvels under the hand
OK man, but II man we're to leave Cali.
rornia the desert would return la q
year. Kansas now could stand man.
less tep years before the wild desert
would come. Bat California is artid
cial Water is mans wizard wani
and the effect is fairy like. unnatural
Arabian-nightsey, tinselled and sug
gestivs Of the Sunday-school exhIbitio,
Of Cinderella. One wonders how n
looks back of the scenes. II is STACEY
ana seems TO be constantly on exhibi.
uon-a beautiful, exquisite charmins
picture Dut climate and all, a show
mat 's constantly calling attention ia
the ract that 1t Is living up the an.
houncement on the bills One-at leasi
hansan-longs to have the curtain
iall or the company leave and get dowr
10 everyday clothes and boiled egg,
ana nash for breakfast In our rids
through the olive groves and lemor
Forests and long rows OF orange trees
ana palms. and fig trees in fruit IN
southern California, Just one famiIia,
scene met the northern eyes one dao,
reminder of the fact that somewbsrs
IN this blessed land the people and ths
SOIL and the slimate are In thelr sbir,
sleeves. We came out upon n fIeId IN
Whlch was hay stack and nv ths
STACK s., was a pile OF big yellow pump.
kinS. II was like a glimpse Of tbe
Fowler neigh borhood or a visit down
through the Naples over Rinker ford
Ihere are meadow larks mere hut
their notes are not so plaintiye as arr
lhoSe IN Kansas. Perhaps If the sopgs
were translated out OF the Spanish intc
Ehgilsh they would sound more homa.
~ enu sweet But then the birds scnps
are IKE everything else here In Soutb
tih california; much better than our
Inlhgs but still foreign and iareony
Inc horses are slicker and better ee,
Up ana cleaner limbed than the Kansas
norses. There are no steers here-all
uay we saw only Mr.. and Nrs. Coyv
~
me meat comes from Armours iu
hahsas CITY The meat for the chile
eNl carni which we ate al the Mexican
tavern was brought into the little Mex.
lcen town from the north country and
translated into Spanish by the cook
we ate Spanish dinner which by tba
way was much more skillfully cooked
than a similar dinner would have been
IN American country hotel at a town
OF less than 100 people. We had rice
Iried In lard for a vew minutes Ia
harden the grain, then boiled with
onions ana tomatoes; frejoles. chile
c9n carni, which is a Spanish stew
meat ssewed with tomatoes and cbfla.
peppers, and potatoes without butter
The cooking was clean and intelligent
and after our stomachs had gotten ONO
the vernacular, they turned dinner into
reasonably good Anglo-Saxon blood in
three or four hours. To see this hin of
fare In print. one would suppose that
a man would have to get out and run =
Jackrabbit to death to get such a ain
ner ground through his works. But
the presumption Is wrong. Apparently
mexlcans have something like human
cog wheels under their vest and despite
NAN AoNe Anhl VIC AmtfAcdu5 cOuQo6CeQu
good deal by admitting that -Ae Mex
lean has q soul. perhaps he may not De
a bad sort-barring the fact he despises
labor frankly, while Americans desplse
II by inference. The difference is this:
the American will get his work done
by machinery or by proxy or let It gc.
The Mexican merely lets 1t go ana ue-
votes his time TO thought What he
thinks about. Heaven knows, and It's
none Of our business. Certainly Il
can't be about his woman kind. r'or
though there are hundreds of prettJ
Mexican children there Is not on earth
such a thing as a pretty Mexican wo-
man. The beautiful Mexican woman
and the beautiful Indian maiden live
only In books. There are pretty half
breeds. and pretty Spaniards. but Mex
leans, pure blood. never
At the curio store In the little Mex.
lean town where We spent the day