The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-06
Miscellany
Page.
TOOK A KANSAS VIEW.
California Described as Land of Beer
and fleas.

Miss Nellie Parker. of Lincoln, Kansas
is spending the summer in San Francisco
81 am out at the Cliff house." she writes
to the Lincoln Republican. "a great
many ladies' are sitting by the windows
Nearly all of them are eating sandwiches
and drinking beer. I think the most OF
them are from Kansas City, Mo. 1t
would jar your Kansas nerves to see the
men and women drink so much beer. /
never saw any beer in my life until L
came to California. l have seen 1T every
where here with the single exception OF
my sisters house. 1t is sad to see the
women drink so much. The ladies en-
trance is part and parcel of the California
saloon. l have seen turnouts generated
by men and footmen dash UP to these
places and leave the ladies at the ladies'
entrance'-a rustic of silk and swirl of
chiffon and plumes and train-and in a
few minutes out they came as merry as
a load of Lincoln ladies who had just
driven away from the polls on election
day.
California has twice. more than twice.
as many saloons per capita as any other
state in the Union. Now there is no ef-
feet without a cause. The state was set
tied first by Mexicans and next by adven-
turers of the days of '49, and all the time
its yintages and wineries are squeezing
out millions of gallons of wines. Here
are three causes: Mexicans, 49ers and
vineyards. Add these up and see If the
sum total does not produce very good
reason for the drunkenness and profiigacy
which is apparent and amazing to one who
comes from a state where the laws are
good and fairly obeyed. And now before
/ get off this high horse let me give a
word of advice TO the people of Kansas
about to emigrate to California: Don t.!
1t is better for the children to grow up
in that land of drouth and flood, hot
winds and cold winds, crop failures and
real estate men, joints and grasshoppers
much better than this lovely land of
beer and roses, eternal fieas and sunshine,
where the moss grows thickly on the
roofs and fences of the ranches, and on
the backs of the natives, and tongues of
all new settlers
''Then the fresh salmon and cod and
founder and feas. 1t is given as a reason
why churches in this city are siimly at
tended that the bite of the church flea is
worse than the bite of any other flea in
the world. 1 ought to know-I have been
to church twice myself. and l tell you
honestly that / was nibbed clear to my
floating ribs. Most ladies carry hatpins
to church to stab the fieas with. When
you get bite, stab him as nearly as pos
sible. If you don't kill the critter, you at
least get relief-presumably on the prin-
ciple of counter-irritation.
81 didn't mean to run off the track this
way-from fish to fieas. Now, I'll go
back and tell you that you can get good
meal for fifteen cents. Rent is very high,
however 1 have to pay SO month for a
little snickety room on Market street.
There is a little patch of a window on
a level with the next roof. If drunken
man should walk around UP there he
might fall through my window. So you
see l may get man that way-one may
fall to me"-Kansas City Journal.