The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-07-19

Wood choppers per cord, 81 90
Dalrymen per month, $50 to $50
Lumber pliers per month, $35 90
Girls for housework per month,
$4,000
Girls for country homes, per
month, $1,000,
Waitress, per month, 500. 90
Laundry girls, per week, So. 90
The cost of living depends upon
the individual, but boarding in Los
Angeles and San Francisco especi-
ally is minimum, a meal can be
obtained at many places for 15c., a
better one for 25 and a more elab-
crate one for 35. All Baraboo peo-
pie who go to these cities remark at
the low priced meals that can be
obtained. Of course there are many
hotels that will look after your
wants at $500 or more per day.
The Climate.
It is said that you can tell man
from New Jersey because he wears
collar buttons in his cuffs, and the
residents of Southern California
claim they can spot an easterner
by the umbrella he carries.
During the winter monthsit rains
in the southern portion of the state
but after the last drops of spring
there is no more until about DeCem-
Der. Often in the morning there
is a heavy fog or great clouds which
induce a man from the east to take
his umbrella, but it never rains.
The days are warm but the nights
are always cool. The air is very
dry.
In San Francisco one marvels at
the cool weather. Furs are worn
by tie ladies and overcoats are in
demand during the year. During
the afternoon it is sometimes warm
but the nights are cold.
One dollars in bills are not found
along the coast and the larger
pieces of money are usually in gold.
Pennies are as rare as clear days
this season at Baraboo.
Down in Texas they make the
steers glide down an incline and
plunge into a monst1ous vat of
crude oil in order to produce con-
sternatiou with the ticks that in
habit them but in California oil $
used to sprinkle the streets in order
to keep down tn dust. AS with
the steers one dose does the bust
ness for a whole year.
At Riverside each of the nine cars
in our special train was supplied
with big box of oranges, at Santa
Cruz the ladies decorated the en-
tire train with great quantities of
flowers and at other places fayors
were also shown.
Mission Architecture.
Adobe houses prevail all the way
from Texas to far up the Pacific
coast in California. These houses
are usually but one story high and
the bricks of clay are dried in the
sun. The early missions were built
of adobe and were very simple
in their architecture. The modern
houses of stone, brick or other
material follow the mission style
all over that country. It is very
pleasing to the eye and well adapted
to the climate. The new postoffices
at San Antonio and Riverside, as
well as many of the public buildings
in that section of the United States
are built after this sytle of archi-
lecture.
A Ride of Surprises.
A trip on the Southern Pacific
along the coast is one Of surprises.
For hundreds of miles the ocean
waves beat against the right OF
way. aud great fields of oil derricks
are passed, some of which are plant
ed in the ocean, the oil being
pumped to the land in pipes. In
spinning along one sees vineyards
of 10000 acres, a dove ranch OF
Is, 900 birds, or fields of sweet peas
covering a tract of land as large as
the city of Baraboo and producing
an odor that intoxicated all the
ladies with joY.-H. E. Cole
Harry L. Workman, formerly OF