The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-08-23
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william Allen White Writes about Z
Eumber OF Things Ae Saw.

Il Is immaterial what day we spent
in iLezic0, says William Allen White.
n the Alnporia Gazette. though SatuT-
oAy aau aaonday were spent in san
Diego. but as two handsome fat priesta
an lrishman with a brogue as rouSs
as TIN CRATER. and a German-Tere
with the party il 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 num-
Der OF flowers that bloom By the Cali
fornia roadside bloomed in Kansas The
perfume would be q nerve trying But
nature eFens up. and where she gives a
profusion 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
field mis- a whole railroad train with
fragrance No traveller in California
ever gets a whin OF any flower by the
roadside as he whizzed along on 4
ch0o-choo car. The way farer afoot or
buggy riding is more fortunate. On
the buggy ride from San Diego to Old
Mexico one goes through scents and
E~---'N
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 IT, The water even is extra
hry. 1t has to be diluted before il can
be used for cooking, and 10 drink it
one must have good teeth But it -
wet enough to irrigate the soil Il has
brought forth marYels under the hand
OF man. but II man were to leave Cali.
fornia the desert would return ia a
year Kansas now could stand man
less ten years before the wild desert
would come. But California IS artif-
cial. Water is mans wizard wand.
and the effect is fairy like. unnatural
Arabian-nightsey tinselled and sug-
gestve OF the Sunday-sch0oI exhibition
OF Cinderella One wonders how II
looks back Of the scenes. II is STACEY
and seems to be constantly on exhibi-
uon-a beautiful. exquisite charming
picture, but climate and all, show
that is constantly calling attention to
the 1act that il is living up the an
nouncement on the bills One-at least
hansan--longs to have the curtain
fall or the company leave and get down
and hash for breakfast. In our rice
through the olive groves and lemon
forests and long rows Of orange trees
ana palms, and fig trees in fruit. in
Southern California. just one familiar
scene net the northern eyes. one dear
reminder OF the fact that somewhere
IN TINS blessed land the people and the
soil ana the slimate are in their shirt
slteFes- we came out upon q field ia
Nhlcn was hay stack and by tba
stack was pile Of big yellow pump-
klns. 10 was like glimpse Of the
Fowler neighborhOod or visit doUn
through the Naples over Rinker ford.
There are meadow larks mere. but
nieir notes are not so plaindve as are
those IN Kansas Perhaps II the songs
were translated out Of the Spanish into
Engilsh they would sound more home
~ and sweet But then the birds scnes
are like everything else here in south
eIn California; much better than our
things but still foreign and iargony.
ne horses are slicker and better ser
up and cleaner liTnbed than the Kansas
horses. There are no steers here-all
DAY we saw only Mr. and Mrs. Cow.
1he meat comes from Armours. in
Kansas City. The meat for the chile
con carni which we ate at the Mexican
tavern was brought into the little Mex
ican town from the north country and
translated into Spanish by the cook.
We ate Spanish dinner which By the
way was much more skillfuIly cooked
than similar dinner would have been
In American country hotel at a town
Of less than 100 people. We had rice
frled In lard for a vew minutes to
/ hn In
onions and tomatoes; fretoles. chile
con carni, which is a Spanish stev--
meat stewed with tomatoes and chila-
peppers, and potatoes without butter.
The cooking was clean and intelligent
knd after our stomachs had gotten oaso
the vernacular. they turned dinner INTO
reasonably good Anglo-Saxon blood in
three or four hours To see this bill OF
fare in print one would suppose that
q man would have to get out and run a
5ackrabbit to death to get such q din
ner ground through his works. But
the presumption is wrong Apparently
Mexicans have something like human
cog wheels under their vest and despite
the fact that we Americans condescend
3 good deal BY admitting that -Ae Mex
ican has a soul perhaps he may not be
, bad sort-barring the fact he despises
/ tAAo- II amy "ulte AAuefllAne desplSo
1t by inference. The difference is this.
the American will get his work done
By machinery or by proxy or let it &c.
The Mexican merely lets it go ana oe-
votes his time to thought What he
thinks about. Heaven knows. and it's
none Of our business Certainly II
cant be about his woman kind. r'os
though there are hundreds OF pretty
Mexican children there is not on earth
such thing as a pretty Mexican wo-
man. The beautiful Mexican woman
aut the beautiful Indian maiden live
emily in books. There are pretty hail.
breeds. and pretty Spaniards. but Mex
cans. pure Blood. never.
Bidn't KNEW the other.