The Washington herald., 1915-08-22

| Good heavens she exclaimed
That's Fred Think of having a hus-
band who is being chased down the
streets of a big city by some trained
bears. They call it art, too"
However, no resident pays any atten-
| ton to the performances of the movie
people. The click of the camera does
not arouse the slightest interest II
anybody does some fool thing in pub
lie. it causes no comment. 1t is taken
| for granted that he Is doing it for the
| movies. I imagine many a man has got
out of scrape that way. It's an ever
| present and ready-made excuse for most
any kind Of conduct
| Criminals have not been slow to take
| advantage of this and turn it to their
| own ends. A somewhat lawless element
| has gathered around Los Angeles and
| hold-ups are not uncommon. Only a
| few days before this was written, three
| robbers. passing as a moving-pi out
| fit. with a fake camera, held up a man
and stripped him OF his money, while
the poor victim yelled for help and shout
ed that it was a genuine robbery. The
! robber with the camera simply waved
the crowd back with his hand and said:
Look out, This is moving picture
! stun. Keep away: don't spoil the film"
The onlookers believed him and left
the hizhwaymen to finish their work in
peace lney sdy inc IIldu WIN vas
cleaned out was the maddest man on the
Pacific Slope. Can you blame him?
Los Angeles is the noisiest city on the
map or of. The street cars are about
as big as Pullman coaches and wherever
tracks cross they make noise that
would put a boiler factory to blush.
while the horns the fire engines are
the most iendish destroyers of the peace
that were ever invented. Half a dozen
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Belgium or frighten them to DEATH
But for all its noise and its movies and
its too-good climate Los Angeles is a
mighty interesting and pleasant city.
Poor old San Francisco certainly needs
to look to her laurels.
The little State fair at San Diego il a
gem. It's perfect in its harmonious con-
struction, all the buildings being in the
Spanish style Of architecture. The
streets. the water front and the noun
tains are all highly suggestive of Nice,
except that the climate is about five
times as good as it is at Nice. The ex-
hibits are largely confined to agricul-
tural products, as that is about the only
industry they are really interested in
down there.
The war hae-done those fruit growers
a lot of harm. 1t has been like a body
blow to many of them, particularly to
apricot is always referred to here as a
cot" One grower who came on from
the East a couple Of years ago to make
his fortune told me that he had just sold
his crop for s13 a ton. when last year he
refused $35 ton for the crop. Last
years dried apricots are still on tho
market. and can be bought for a good
deal less than the packers paid for them
on the tree. 1t seems that the great bulk
of the cot crop was in the part dried
and exported to Europe. That trade Is
now nothing. but, fortunately. the dried
cots keep all right for a number Of
years.
1t seems there has been considerable
of opium from the Isthmus
to California. The custom authorities
went through our baggage on the pier
at San Francisco with a searchlight
and scrambled up our personal belong
ings into a regular mess.
Confound them!