The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-02-13
A California Letter.
Los ANGELES, CAL

four days and nights, just like Il
spring rain back home. and yon
have no idea how pretty and green
everything looks after the dust is all
washed off. The Pepper trees are
, perfect beauties, the leaves surh Il
vivid green and the berries such n
/ bright red. This is the season when
Gala lilies are doing their best,
they all look so fresh and white after
| the raiu-wish I could send you about
| Il ton of them. The POinLsetti il the
most striking looking flower We have.
The bloom is about the size of II
dinner pla.e, bright red with Il gold
center. When it first blooms there
are large bright green leaves CD the
| stalk but they soon fall off and the
big red Hover on top of the twig looks
as if you had put II red paper flower
on the top of II riding whip They
grow in clusters like Il lot of slim
| twigs in bunch and each one has Il
| flower ON it.
| OF course, the roses and all such
! flowers are in full bloom, and in fIct,
| have made up my mind that every
| thing in the vegetable kingd ON blooms
in this country hut figs. and they are
such funny looking things when they
begin to grow. They look just ike ii
and by they are full grown figs.
| Christmas was lovely day. The
sun WAS positively hot. L. did not
seem one bit like Christmas rs | have
been used to il; there was no sugges-
lion of snow any where, and Mrs.
Kennedy had her table beautifully
decorated with roses which she had
gat bered ont of her yard.
| New Years day / attended the
| Tournament of Roses ut Pasadena.
IT is u sight for your life, not hut
| what | have seen much larytr
parade-, and just rs pretty ones. bn'
there We're no natural flowers in any
| that | had ever seen before. and in
this one everthin" WAS covered with
he heautIeS. Then when you think
of it being mid-winter. it was Il
wonder | can't begin To tell you of
| al the decurabiOn-, but the Tnui ma
meut colors are sky blue and gold:
they of course were everywhere, from
one end of the town To The other. 1t
daughters we're all in white, but the
| visitors were out in their seal skins
and rnuffs. They seemed to think be-
cause it was the first day of January
matter if it was warm.
The parade WA, about An hour
passing Il given point. There was
plenty good music, all kinds of
rigs. from the little donkey cart of
H.. children to the six-horse taily-ho,
and all sorts of horse back riders.
really lhiuk one tally-ho from the
high school WAS the best decOrai I'd
fifteen pretty girls ON it., all dressed
IN pure white with white chiff par
lsnl- with trimmings Of smilax. They
had six pure white horses hitched tn
. satin covered with roses, tn whole
body of the tally-hO WAS covered wit h
rosas and the wheels wound in smilax
and roses There were six out-ri,ler-.
blue and gold satin. with a long stH fl
, lowered with roses, each one ON n
, nure white horse with n collar of pink
roses around its net.k; the saddle
blanket also covered with pink ros-r
In front of this rose bedecked turnnul
came n herald mounted ON Il mlgniti
cent horse and covered with blu. ana
gold and roses. The girls took the
prize and truly they deserved it.
| would not wear any roses that
day hut got the biggest sunflower
could find and took it to the do
ings." My friends tried ~ make me
believe I need not wear it; that every
one would know / was from KANSAS
but told them there was nothing
like showing your colors. and dis.
covered that some of the prettiesI
decorations they had were made by
the old yellow sunf1owers.
Speaking OF sunflowers: The Jar.
hawkers of this town had celrbrs
tion on ''Kansas day" They hired
elk Hall" and had time of their
own. The Times of this city says,
The Kansas Society plumes itself or
being the huskiest one of the many
state societies recently formed in thi,
city, for the reason that 1t is but thret
months old. and has already a mem.
e bership of over 500" They have haC
three meetings and are trying TO ge