The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-01-29
THE ROuSTABOUT.

1t is hard to get accustomed to the
"dinky" little radiators they use in all
the towns along the Mexican border.
They remind one of an old time tai
low candle mould. But they seem to
do the business and that is all that
is necessary In Pasadena as else
where, however, no serious effort Is
made to provide effective heat. Many
good houses and store buildings de-
pend on little gas burners, or little
wood stoves that would make re-
spectacle watch. charms. But the
heating facilities seem to be about the
only thing built on the narrow guage
plan here, as the people are surely
Ihospitable and all other appoint
ments of home and public life are, so
generous that they seem almost eX-
traVagrant.
Pasadena has no saloons and is a
Sahara desert for the sport. 1t is
what its founders intended it to be,
a city of homes. Here they build a
new school house every year and
maintain some fifty pulpits. They
have just completed high school
building, or more properly speaking a
high school plant that cost $4,000.
There are four buildings in the group,
presenting the appearance of uni.
versity. The Universalist church
which has a building costing $4,000
twenty years agO,-and worth more
than that now,-have decided to tear
it down and build a new edifice to
cost something like 100000.
And California deals with the good
roads question in millions. Some.
thing like sixty million dollars will be
spent by the state, and an equal
amount by the counties, in the sys-
TENS of roads now under construction
or planned. In and around Pasadena
are over 100 miles of macadem and
oiled roads. as hard as flint and as
smooth as a table. 1t may be cheap
er in some respects to build roads
here than 1t Is in the east, but there
are some enormous grades and eX-
pensive bridges here. In fact Pasa-
dena claims to possess the largest
concrete bridge in the world. 1t must
be said in passing that Iowa should
have as fine roads and as beautiful
highways as California If 1t would
spend as much money in the right
way. And Iowa has more money. to
spend than California. II Is only
question OF EARRING loose.
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Did you ever experience the pleas
ant pastine of hunting for an
apartment? Your friends will all tell
you to look around and not take the
first rooms offered you Then you be-
gin the real business. You look at
half dozen in one part of town one
day and an equal number on another
street the next. After you keep this
up for three or four days,-get sever
al new corns on your feet, get crick
In your back, and get farther and
farther at sea, you finally go back to
the first one and try 1t out for a
month. Then like the fellow at the
cheap lunch counter who always
wishes that he had ordered some
thing else, you will hear of something
so much better than what you accept
ed that you wonder why you were in
such big hurry after all
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And here in Pasadena YOU can get
anything you want II you want a
tiny house you can find 1t at the rear
of some very fashionable home. And
II you desire something larger and
better, the family will let you have
their home for the winter and they
will live in the little one. And near
ly everybody Is doing II. 1t is the ex-
ception and not the rule here to find
a house that will not rent out room
or an apartment. Hotel rates run
from $50 to 800 per week per per
son, and apartments without board
all the way from $40 to $125 per
month. A fiat siich as would rent for
from $50 TO $40 per month In oska-
loosa would command $50 to 500, per
month here M cot,raa In Oekaiooea