The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-07-14
CALIFORNIA BREEzEs.
Berkeley, CALIFORNIA;.

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! Again the people needed rest, &C
the preacher takes 4 vacation.
! Again as four years ago it 10 Berke
; Icy, and once more as then it il Sec.
! Harrison's home by exchange. Sar.
atoga must be getting popular, FOL
the preacher has had i've PROPOSE.
tions for exchange Of homes for vac.
alton; one from San Francisco, and
four from Berkely and Oakland. As
We could not very we'll occupy all
five places at once, there being but
four of us all told, we decided to &C.
cept tho offer of Sec. Harrison.
Those who breathe saltwater, alrfor
eleven mouth like TO take in mount
ain air for the twelfth; and those
who breathe mountain air most of
the year, like few whiffs OF the
ocean breezes. The man who can
not find what suits HIM in Califor-
mia, between Shasta's snow, and
San JoaQuin's heat, and San Diego g
''even temperature all the year
round" must be very hard to please.
Of course the attractive feature
of Berkeley is the University Of Cal
ifornia. do not know how many
acres they have in their grounds,
but I do know that there are hills,
valleys, forest and plain. as great
variety as it would be possible to
crowd into the same space. There
are no buildings that, like Stan
ford's could be called magnificent;
but what they lack in quality they
make up in quantity, there being
about twenty buildings IN all. There
is one building that is certainly
unique, the Greek Theatre. Il is
said to be an exact reproduction of
he old theatres of Greece. 1t, is a
perfect circle with one side cut out
for the stage. The whole thing is
of solid stone, and will seat ten
thousand people. If any one desires
u roof over his head when attending
any performance there, he must
carry it with him, for Natures blue
dome is the only covering. It is
built in a natural amphitheatre1 in
the side of the hill. The entire
was the gift 4Of;.W.S R.
Hearst the editor Of the San Fran
risco Examiner, who has proved
two things, that he can run
mean newspaper, and make
a mighty good gift to state insti-
tuition. Sec. of War Taft speaks in
the theatre tomorrow afternoons.
The oldest inhabitant vows that
this Fourth was the hottest on re-
cord. It was OF course very unus-
ual, we have nothing but unusual
weather anyway. The weather up
to the first OF July was unusually
cool; 80 of course we had to have
some unusually hot weather to bal
ance up. But l think often after the
last three or four days we will all
be willing to call it balanced.
I suppose you have all seen ocean
seals, and yoa know what ungainly
and clumsy looking ami
mails they are. Yesterday afternoon
we lookd at the performance Of
some trained seals. They would
beat bass drum, play the Gym balls,
balance balls small and large on
their noses and carry them around
the room, do the same with stick
with a heavy weight at the upper
end, whirl sticks in the air and
catch them when they came down
and so on. It is marvellous how q
clumsy, stupid animal may DO
trained to do wonderful things, and
equally marvellous to see how a hu-
man being with God given faculties
will develop (9) himself downward
to do things that brute would not
be guilty OF. .5
If one has the eye open for the
winsome and the attractive he can
find almost anywhere. Yesterday
afternoon in a trolley car here cat
opposite me, father and FIVE child
rem. The children were all flnes
looking; but the one that especially
attracted my attention was a little
girl five or six years of age. She.
had one of those faces that would