The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-15

tne charses in all apartments are rea-
sonacle, considering the materials and
service supplied, and travellers may be
comfortably housed in Los Angeles at
month. depending upon the incl!na-
lions. the service. the location and the
other things tina. go TO tx charges.
S!de OUT on any car line in the city
ana !ou will see apartment, houses by
the dozens n scores. Of every con-
ce!va Die name. style and condition.
M cost of living during a three or
aoas m2n,hs sojourn need not be
great. Prices are no greatly different
from those in the northwest. Meats
are nigh. choice steaks and chops in
particular. Butter Of the FIRST grade
is - cents a pound. Eggs, strictly
fTesh, 80 cents a dozen II you carry
them I'M 50 cents il you have them
aeiivered. Choice bacon IS cents q
pound, sliced. Sugar, coffee and other
staples are the same in price as gem
erally through the country. Squads
are 80 70 80 cents each. Spring chic
ksns, so cents each. Eread is ) and
10 cents a loaf. depending upon the
size. BIZ; is far inferior 10 tins north
"cStern article. II IS made Of soft
wheat. or a mixture OF soft and hard
"heat, with the soft forming the
70 do for each person, for there are
S.'"N-1 poAl VI tue IU4Al1IS. mere =
nothing like hard spring wheat for
bread making-as you will discover
"hen YOU don't get i.
II you go down with Your list and
Eour small change into one of the
markets, of which there are scores of
the "open-faced' kind. which have no
fronts save a steel framework like the
extension part of your desk telephone,
"hieh they pun across the front at
night n paddock, got, will SCI. how
the tourist traffic has affected the
business of selling. Pcopie buy in lit
tie 'dabs'-enough Tor a meal or two
and the nome people have got the
injection, the same as the tourists or
travellers. You want. say, some ripe
olives. so you get ) or 10 cents worth
in a little paper pail: YOU get two
heads Of splendid lettuce, crisp and
delicious, for another ) cents: three
French rolls take another nickel; a
hcad OF celery is a nickel or dime, de-
pending on the market: radishes are
. cents a bunch, or three for To-:
grape fruit. rather juiceless and not
equal 10 the Florida, 10 cents each or
three for a quarter; table raisins; Is
cents a package. holding about two
pounds; fresh fish. "a cents a pound
for sand dabs. their choicest small
fsh, oval in shape and not AS big as
s'1' 1iii ~ liic tuIylc part, Sole,
20 cents n pound; rock bass, Is:
striped bass, 90, and other fish about
IN the same scale OF prices: all fish
ready for the pan, and just out of the
water. But the fish from these wa
tiers has not h flavor of the east
coast fish and oes not at all compare
in dclicacy of flavor with the shad,
blue fish. mackerel and other Atlantic
coast fish.
When you get into fresh and smok-
cd meats prices rise. Smoked tongue,
sliced for h table, is 60 cents a
pound; boiled ham, sliced, 40 cents;
chicken tamales, ready to drop into
the pot, two for a quarter; beef ia
males. Two for Is cents; prime por-
tcrhouse, 80 TO 35 cents. and Califor-
Mia has a very good lobster that sells
in the markets for 20 cents q pound,
Just as it comes from the water. Its
flavor is good, and it resembles the
eastern lobster except that it has not
the immense claws of it's eastern
brother. ] have suggested that claws
are not so necessary to existence here
as they are on the east coast, where
competition is keen. There are no
crabs here Of the delicious soft she'll
variety they have on the east coast.
They serve a mussel steamed in the
cafes, but it is not especially appetite
ing. The fish and sea foods are a dis
tinct disappointment. if one expects
the quality and variety Of the other
coast.
! A good deal has crept into this let
ter about eating and the price of
foods. but if you should figure on COM
have to eat n h prices Of edibles
these stirring times of a high cost OF
living. So | will go on and say that
cream Is 80 cents a quart, milk 10
cents d quart: ice about the same
price as at home: oranges IS cents a
dozen; lemons. 30 cents: spring wa
for 40 cents. Prices in the cafes are
about the same as at st. Paul, Min
neapolis or Chicago. In the cafe
teria"-"bacteria,'' as the irreverent
call them-thc multitudes of tourists
are content to wait upon themselves
and get a Very fair grade of meal at a
very reasonable price. 1 don't fancy
them myself. but they serve q good
purpose and fill a long felt want-and
many hungry stomachs. And if you
ant to see how important a function
eating is, you have only to note the
thousands of places of all sorts and
kinds where meals are served or short
notice. long notice or no notice at all.
] think YOU could stay in Los Angeles
four months, cat every course of a
seven curse dinner every day in a
different cafe, restaurant, cafeteria or
eating house, and never repeat.
The climate is u~ndeniably delight
full, as a winter climate. For the
three weeks we nave been here tho
thermometer has ranged from sixty to
seventy in the day time. A day or two
of the time It has crept up as high as
eighty. During the middle of the day
the sun shines warmly, and an over
coat would he burdensome. But
about 4 o'clock when the sun begins
to drop behind the mountains, the air
cools rapidly. and at 6 o'clock a top
coat is comfortable" The nights are
delightfully."- cool after the warmth Of
the day. A bit of steam in the radi-
ators is welcome morning and "
ing. In the morning the sun floods
the living room and at 8 o'clock the
windows are thrown up and an air
balmy as late May or early June blows
in On the hills and high ground there
Is n light breeze and down at the
ocean the breeze blows off the pond
with a GOODNESS and salt spiciness that
is appetizing and delightful. And
through It all there is sunshine-ever-
lasting. immutable and Interchangeable
sunshine. 1t is like North Dakota in
June-eXcept that there is not the
frequent high wind Of the broad
prairie country.
Los Angeles-pronounce 1t Loce
Ahng-hayl-ais. IL you would follow the
Spanish pronunciation. which is az
fectcd by the first families and purists