The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
OUTDOOR LIFE
IN CALIFORNIA
Is PORTRAYED

The Raven. which has the subtitle OF
the California Monthly and bears as its
motto Originality. Qusintness and quail
i1y,' has a very prettily illustrated artf-
Gle Tor It's leader on Pasadena Gate 10
The Valley" by Susan D. P Randolph
one Of the best OF the pictures is called
Flowers and Snow at Pasadena" and
shows 3 beautiful aforementioned home
at the foot Of a snow-capped mountain
peak The following paragraph cuIled
from the paper viii show the fascination
the place eXerts upon those who enter this
PARADISE and come under the almost hyp-
notic influence Of its charm:
Coming from colder countries. the out
door life in Pasadena seems particularly
attractive. The wide city streets, the fine
country roads. the many scenes Of interest
al o1er continual invitation 10 a world in
gala attire al the time.
The tourist mind gradually undergoes q
changf- First. Il seems that Pasadena is
e charming place 10 spend a few weeks
OF pastime; then the visitor fingers, and
hesitaung, IS lost 10 the beloved Eastern
home The leaven works very quickly in
some cases. takes q few years in others
but today many are weighing the pros
and cons, as others have done IN the past,
snc are choosing 10 cast In their lot with
US as many have done before"
This article in the Raven makes inter
estiIg reading in connection with the re-
cent tele graphic news item that John D.
Rockefeller has purchased a home in Pas
sdena Tor S25o.oo0 and viii spend nearly as
much more in fitting it up as the most de-
siraols spot on earth in which 10 spend his
declining years
NcCIure's Magazine for April contains
an article on Some Diet Delusions," by
Woods Hutchinson, A NJ. NJ d, which
viii delight very much the natural ape
ttted sons OF Adam who ike 10 eat what
they Ike and give condemn 10 the food
faddists and patent cereals and vegeta-
rians and doctors who forbid this and
that. I once heard q healthy farmer say
that Il his doctor we're 10 forbid him 10
eat sugar he would 90 right straight and
get him another doctor. Let anybody OF
analogous inclination go get Dr. Hutchin-
sons paper on diet delusious, and hence
forth he can pretty much say 70 his appe
Iice, As you like it In subdivision un-
der the captain Instinct Far Superior TO
Reason" DR.. Hutchinson says:
Fortunately. when il comes 70 practice
philosophers, refOrmers and doctors alike
have about as much influence here as they
have over conduct in other realms-and
that Is next 10 none at all. The man in
the street follows his GOd-given instincts
and plods peacefully along 10 his three
square meals a cay consisting or any
thing he can ind in the market, and just
as much OF il as he can afford, with spe-
ciaI reference 10 rich meats, sugars and
fats Here. as everywhere, instinct is far
superior 10 reason. and a breakfast diet
OF sausage and buckwheat cakes, with
maple syrup and strong coffee. has carried
the white man half round the world. while
one OF the salads and cereals. washed down
with q post-prandial subterfuge. would
leave him stranded gasping in the first
ditch he came to
In another place the doctor gives some
curious information about how dieting has
cut two ways. A sIarch-free food may
cure a man OF diabetes. but Il he persists
in his self-denving diet he may die sooner
THAI II he didn't So Il seems you might
5uet as well die sweetly by sugar as 10
shorten your life by ascetc dietetics.
Why Miss Anthony Never Married.
Ida Hustled Harper. Miss Anthony's
biographer. says: There was a prev
aIeur belief that Mss Anthony hated
men. Il would not have been at all
strange II this were true. for never in
al history was q woman so misrepre-
sented. ridiculed. berated and maligned
as she was By men, publicly in her
early years and privately when gen
eral sentiment would no longer tolerate