The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-12

leave his home in California when that
gets a little warm for him. It isn't the
Californian who came here for bust
ness reason who swells the records in
the divorce courts-it is he spoiled child
rem of other states. When the native
sons" begin to dominate California so
ciety viii be as it is elsewhere. For the
climate here is not enervating. Men
have hustle and enterprise here Cali
fornia is as American as Kansas. or
Ohio, or Vermont, or Virginia. They
fight with their fists here and in the day
time, and the Spanish drop of blood has
only appeared in the eyes of the wo-
men. For the men are as sad in their
pleasures as the rest of US. There is 4
fiesta going on here in Los Angeles this
week. The crowds that fill the streets
are sober minded, serious visaged men
and women There is a spirit of anxiety
on the faces of the festive populace.
which recalls the crowds on the streets
of Emporia the day when the planning
mill and the coal yards and the Method
ist church all burned in few hours.
Los Angeles is on a boom. It has been
booming for ten years. In that time it has
doubled its population and fortunes have
been made in real estate The only men
who have lost are those who let go. There
has been no sag in prices. Frisco was at
came and reprinted the ships in the har-
Dor. But for some reason Los Angeles
mas peeh gong aheaa, anu = me Nspdil l
war mas only built another fre under her
at a time when she might have desired to
sit down and look at herself III the MIR
sas City and four times as beautiful There
are no big ugly fiat buildings and apart
ment houses The day laDorer mas ms
separate house his bluegrass lawn and
his splotch of red geraniums in the door
way. There seems to be no squaior, no
filth. no place here like little Italy and
Mcclure place" and the bottoms and
.shelFs half acre in Kansas City Even
the saloons which are so offensive in the
middle west don't Obtrude themselves on
one so vicOusly in Los Angeles. They
SaV-fO revert aR3iD to CllmaJe-Jhat drink
ing does not affect men III southern Cali
fornia as it does in the temperate zone.
They say also that less whisky is con
given arno4lnt of wine has much less effect
mans nerve and general health here
than in the Mississippi valley Certainly
we have seen but one drunken man IN all
months, and he was confirmed drinker
who would have gone to the devil in
We went over to Santa Monica the
other day with the Sterrys ana MAJOR
girl from Kansas City santa Monica IS
a playground for Los Angel es-one Of hait
dozen where IN summer ene ldLlilles q
all sorts of people, laDOring men, ma
hobs. merchants ana pfolessloIdl men Z,
come for q day or a week or q li 1T Il
IS accessible on street cars. and IN the fur-
nished cottages which rent from ~ 70
siV0 a month, one may I'VE as " anu IL
family please. There is of course surf
bathing and all kinds of fun. They say
the place Is getting a trlne gay Dqt 70
the innocent Kansas eyeit looks as guileless
as Christian EndeavOr picnic But there
are half a dozen other resorts, ana on
Sundays the railroads and steamships are
crowded with pleasure seekers. These
they say they do in the big, hot, stuffy
cities Of the east; for, Los Angeles IS
dream Of beauty and healthfulness- The
DAYS are not very hot-not hotter than
that May day that we love in Kansas.
get away from care and the routine of
life as they do elsewhere in America. and
the cities at least whether we like it or
not. considerable minority of the popu-
lation is adopting the European Saboath.
making it a day of restful recreation
rather than of worship OF course the
majority Of the people Of this town nor
of any other American town DO not go
out pleasure hunting. every SUNDAY. But
the important point is that those VINO do
60, do not loose caste with those VINO stay
The Puritan prejudice is gone
Which seems 10 prove OF al leaSt moi
cate that with our earnest. nerve vVrael1-
ing American life we need another holiday.
| The day of worship is goods but life, ruth