The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-03
Miss Pauline Commerford Writes an
Interesting Letter from California.

{ verting the Indians to Christianity
and teaching them useful trades, as
well as his efforts to plant a civiIiza-
tion in the desert have made his
memory an object of yeneration to
Proteatants and Catholics alike in
California.
Southern California is a land of
! continual surprises, and living con-
| ditions are so entirely different from
| what they are in the South, that one
almost feels that they have moved
! into a foreign land. With the trans
! lent who is here for the winter and
| does not want to stay at a hotel o.
a boarding house, it is either a Cali
fornia Bungalow or an apartment
Nov, California bungalows are
justly famous. There is in no other
part of our broad country anything
like them. They are unique and 4
peculiar product of California.
They are picturesque, attractive
and comfortable, and, as the owner
will tell you, have wonderful possibi-
lities. The possibilities certainly
manifest themselves as you go
| through them as l well tell you later.
They range all the way from three
to twelve rooms with all modern i'm
proyements, always surrounded with
profusion of flowers; and date
palms and orange trees in backwards.
There is a carefully kept lawn in
front and an equally pretty one in
the rear, and over the house gener-
ally the brilliant purple, Towering
vine, the Borgenviella, introduced
here some years ago from Australia.
This is IuXuriant bloomer and COW
ers the bungalow with a profusion
OF flowers. These little homes can
be had all the way from $1,000 to a
$4,000 a month according to size
A comfortable and pretty 4 room
apartment or bungalow completely
furnished, bath and electric lights,
with the water paid by the landlord
can be had for $500 a month. Even
table and household linen are fur
nished and all dishes and kitchen u
| tensils. All you have to do is 70
bring your trunk and move in. 1t
in u
pay, to move household furniture
across the continent The interior
Of these little bungalows are very
artistic. They are finished in the
native wood, generally furnished
with mission chairs and tables and
have hard wood floors with turkish
rugs. The landlord shows you, the
prospective renter, into a four room
bungalow. From the broad porch
| you enter sunny living room heated
by an open fire of Eucalyptus logs,
or perhaps a tiny hot blast wood
stove. There will be desks, tables,
and chairs, books and magazines.
| He touches a spring and 10, a pretty
brass bed, already made, descends
from the wall where was a full
length mirror. These disappearing
beds are peculiar to California. De-
cided improvements on the folding
bed. They are absolutely sanitary as
they rest in air closets in the walls,
where there is a free circulation of
air at all times. A touch of the
spring returns them to their mich in
the wall without any effort on your
part. The landlord will show you
disappearing dressers arranged in the
same manner. He will next show
| you into the little dining-room ar
ranged in the same manner to be
used also as a bedroom, but oldest
of all in this land of surprises, he
will touch spring and down comes
the ironing-board from out OF the
wall. One of the disagreeable fea-
lures of life in California is that
Laundry work of any description is
SO expensive that tourists as rule
do all of their own laundry, or at
least do the ironing. The launde-
ries do what they call ''rough-dry
washing for fifty cents for every 25
pieces, ironing all flat pieces that
they can put through the machinery
included in that price, but if they
launder and iron dresses and shire
waists, they will charge you about
ten dollars a week. The little kit
chenetta fitted with a gas range with
its disappearing features-such as
towel racks for wet towels, going
back into the walls dried by gas
jets,-is extremely interesting to the
hous akeeper from the East. Another
thing that would interest her are the
complete little markets on nearly
every corner in the residence section,
where she can buy food of every