Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-10
BREAD-B UTTER STATES
LEE FRAZIER PICTURES CALI,
FoRNIA THINGS
Minnesota and Wisconsin Place for
DEMONSTRATION Rose Tour
nament-Humoeou Comment
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, January Us.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, January IS.
DEAR EDITOR: New Years DaS
1915. was in some respects the most re-
markable we have ever experienced.
A perfect summer day, ~ in the shade,
clcudless sky, glorious sunshine,
baimy air, laden with sweet fragrance
of millions of California flowers, the
gentlest of breezes, vast stretches of
green, reaching out in all directions.
orange groves with their ripening fruit.
the beautiful pepper tree, matchless
lawns, unequaled gardens of roses,
chrysanthemums, poinsettias, violets,
carnations, geraniums cement roads
stretching away to all points of the
compass, like white ribbons through
green fields, strong and majestic looking
mountains, in the near distance, with
their snow capped peaks glistening in
the sun, and a smoky haze clinging to
their sides, for a.. the world like our
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homes ard sweet. dreamy bungalows,
mansio.,s, palaces, cottages, canons,
sunken gardens, miles of flags and bunt-
ing, 10, coo automobiles, l50. 600 people
along the line of march, $50. 600 smiles,
the California climatic SMILE" that
never comes off, and then the parade,
the most unique and the most wonder
full in all the wide world Just think
of i'll An hour and Is minutes of steady
marching to pass a given point, and
barring few bands and marching clubs,
posies from one end to the other.
Goodies" and Goodies" of them, oceans
of them, train-loads and ship loads of
them, worked into every sort of color
scheme imaginable by master hands,
and typical of art, agriculture, indus
try, commerce, peace and prosperity.
Many colored flowers miraculously
woven into bells, cornucopias, collars,
saddles and blsnkets) fer horses, bung-
allows, bridges, dragons, doves, swans,
what not. Floats representing fairy
tales slch as "T h e Flying Ship, "
The Hat Box, Gingerbread House, :"
Jack and the Bean Stalk, - Sleeping
Beauty, "Puss in Boots" etcetera.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
lovely women, beautifully gowned; as
many splendid looking men we'll groem-
ed and well behaved; countless bevies
of sweet-faced girls, and armies of
manly looking boys-mostly tourists(?l
Orange Grove Avenue, one of the fin
est and richest in the world, and Pasa-
dena herself, the Grown City," the
city of homes, Pasadena the superb, the
splendid, the magnificent, the ideal.
What glorious New Years day in the
southland, with its warm sunshine and
warm welcome. Do you think we could
e'er forget it? Not if we tried, and
who would want to? If it be true that
thing of beauty is a Joy forever"
then we are sure OF at least million
everlasting, endless and eternal Joys
from our experiences OF our very Hap
py New Year, 1915
California is all right for a winters
vacation Southern California is Just
little slice off the rim of paradise
A dandy good place for old people, sick
people and cripples. who have made a
little bread and butter, in Minnesota
or Wisconsin or some other good east
ern state, to bssk in the sunshine and
lengthen their lives, or recline in the
shade of the eucalyptus or pepper, or
the palm, and eat the aforementioned
bread and butter.
| California is long on climate and
short on jobs. Many people have made
| fortunes here, and more have lost them
Many more fortunes will be made and
lost, but remember it takes so much
more money to accomplish anything
here than it does back home. The av-
erage man, that is the man Of moderate
means, better let well enough alone.
| The poor man certainly hoe 20 business
here, if it is livelihood Tic is figuring
on, climate is the only wc~' \ the die
tionary down here. 1hey talk il, preach
it and sing il, but bless your heart, they
can't eat it. California is all right for
what the Lord intended it but good cid
Minnesota and Wisconsin 1.-THE bread
and butter states, by the way has her
beaten to pulp, frayed to a fragile
and licked to stand still in so many
| ways, and if you don't mind, we will
tell you about it some dav, meantime
if you want Happy New Years and a
contented mind and a fat purse, SO
you may enjoy the wonderful curative
properties of this salubrious climate.
when you are old, or sick or knocked
out, just work hard the earlier years
of your existsnce and come here to
spend it at your leisure, in the gray
dawn of life. S. LEE FRAZIER.