Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-12
California in Early March


S. L. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald.
The fragrant, blushing blossoms are
beginning to unfold,
The glow of new blown poppies makes
the ranges cloths Of gold;
The riches of the valleys and the azure
OF the skies
Make the gladdened stranger wonder
If he may believe his eyes,
For the gorgeous splendor of it has not
ever half been told.
The perfume of red roses floats upon
the balmy breeze,
There are delicate pink halos over all
the almond trees;
Full-throated larks and robins with eX-
ultant bursts of song
Are denying that their Maker has Plan
ned aught which may be wrong.
And the ancient oaks are given up to
dreamy reVeries.
White and pure. the long-stemmed lilies
add their beauty to the scene,
Lush carnations vie in making crimson
splotches on the green:
Out beyond the wide arroyo, where the
oranges invite
Him that thirsts to treat his palate to
a new and strange delight,
Stands the guarding eucalyptus with
its slim trunk smooth and clean.
Far away, the white topped mountains,
like old men, whose use is o'er:.
Seem to gaze down on the valley
through which guided waters pour
And lurking sadness calms them, as
they stand there, grim and gray,
Knowing that their call is futile, know
ing they nave had their day
And may lure the fortune seeker from
the rich, wide wales no more.
W hite and pink the fragrant petals are
beginning to unfold.
Nature spreading cut her beauties in
rich fullness cries: 'Behold?'
And the pilgrim, half-enchanted,
breathcs the balmy summer air,
Fearing that he may be dreaming,
doubling earth may be so fair,
For tha charm and wonder of 1T have
not ever yet been told.
Greatest Climate on Earth
The climate of California figures in
many wonderful stories and pleasing
legends. Everybody has heard of the
man who, having arrived in one of the
fine cities of the Golden Ttate, found it
necessary to wear his overcoat while he
walked on the shady side of a street
and longed for a fan and summer
underclothes when he crossed to where
the sun could shine upon him. Here
is a new one that I got at first hand
the other day. An old gentleman who
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practice of commendable thrift aTnassed
a comfortable fortune in Grand Rapids,
Mich, came out here year and half
ago to spend the winter. He was de-
lighted with his experience. TO live
where he could see roses in bloom in
January and February and to find it
to sit at an open window
on st. Valentines day and look down
upon long rows of Gala lilies that grew
in the open air was privilege that he
wished to share with those who We're
dear to him. To be able on the ami
of the birth of George Wash
ington to sit in the shade of a spread
ing palm and hear the gleeful twitter-
ing of birds filled him with longing
for perpetual summer that did not de-
sert him when he had returned to
The consequence was that when he
returned to Los Angeles last fall he
was accompanied by his wife and
daughter and filled with a determina-
ton never to waste another day where
it was necessary to wear ear muffs.
In order to make the pleasure which
he was in search of complete he rented
a fiat. 1t happened 10 have a south
front, hence day after day the sunlight
filed the rooms and made artificial
heat unnecessary. The only thing that
with the enjoyment of the