The Washington herald., 1921-04-12
Golden West
Clues Luxury
FloDers and SnoID-CoD'
cred Mountains of Pas
adena Are Praised.
BY O. o. M'INTYRE.

PASADENA, Cal. April IL. -
Pasadena is a land of beautiful
flowers and magnificent homes
nesting between the sncw-capped
mountains of Southern California.
I thought the post cards showing
orange trees and snow folks sent
back home were a Photographic
trick, but il is a reality.
So far as / could learn there is
not a taxicab in the city. The pub
lie conveyances are all handsome
limousines with nothing about
them to show they are for hire.
The tariff is moderate. They make
one feel quite wealthy. The most
noticeable thing to me is the alb
sence of hurry and jostle and yet
the people are generally more pros
porous than they are in New York.
Not a beggar has whined at our
heels.
We went direct to the Hotel
Maryland, in the heart of the city.
There is a genial atmosphere about
the place. One does not have the
feeling OF being ticketed and num-
bered as in Gotham. BY some
magic process all the employees
know you by name after a few
hours. Nothing makes for a warm
welcome like that.
The bell boys haven't itchy
palms. One actually refused a
gratuity for a small GRAND.
believe I could make money ex-
hibiting him on Broadway. Our
room overlooks a miniature golf
course. , The meals are American
plan and the menus are under
standable. Some day an enterpris-
ing hotel man is going back to the
American plan in New York and
grow rich.
Oranges are free. Great hampers
of them are about the foyer. We
had been in the hotel only a few
hours when ii. NJ. Nickerson, the
resident manager, telephoned to
know IL we were comfortable and
IL there was anything he could do.
He extends this welcome TO every
guest. About this time in a New
York hotel the house detective
would be shopping about to see il
there was any chance of you spying
the house for the bill.
In the dining room at lunch
nearly all the men wore golf
knickerbockers and the women
were in organdies and light sum-
mer dresses. Pretty young wait
resses attend to your gastronomic
wants. / was Intrigued by orange
blossom ice" and our waitress did
not even frown at my third order.
In fact, she asked II l would like
more. OF course, she might have
had q sense of humor.
After lunch the guests go out on
the verandas. They overlook
grassy plots and bowers of flowers
OF all descriptions. Life halts at
noon for an hour and then the men
return to their golf and the women
to motoring or bridge. My dog is
going about for the first time in
his life unmuZzled and unleashed.
He has the manners of the subway
rushing New Yorker and thinks
nothing of galloping over a fresh
ly cut lawn and flower bed.
Pasadena is the golfers earthly
Paradise. They have the best
courses in the world here. The
most popular course is that owned
by the Pasadena Coli Club. It IL
In Altadena. a five minutes motor
ride from Pasadena. II is just
finished and five professional golf
ers are on hand to teach. The
days are never too hot and the air
is invigorating and the views from
the Pasadena Golf CLUB links sim
ply cannot be described by words
Pasadena is filled with golfers from
New York, Boston. Philadelphia
Washington. Pittsburg and Chicago
where there are splendid golf
courses. There are all sorts of
tournaments every day. Today
watched some celebrities on the
Pasadena Clubs links. Charlie
Chaplin was playing with Grover