Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-09-28
Miss Doris Runge Passes Federal
Examination and Now Seeks
Civil Service Position
GROUND CHERRY PIE
CALIFORNIA DEuCACY
Cotton Picking Started In CaEfOr-
MIA and Continues Until Rain
Season in February

The Following is taken from
letter Just received by Attorney
Ralf T. Runge from Lis sister. Miss
Doris. who has been in Los Angeles
and Pasadena, California, since the
middle of last March, and now lives
i at lao S. Oxford, Los Angeles.
! JNThe two questions you ask in
your shorthand letter sound very
natural They are just the questions
that almost anybody would ask about
a person visiting California, aren't
they?
No Rain All Summer
Well, then, first, as to the weather.
The summer has been like a fairly
hot unusually even-temperatured
Wisconsin summer, except that there
has been no rain Gust a spatter once
or twice in the night and that the
nights are always cool People who
know California say that they can
feel fall approaching. The sun is no
longer so intensely hot, and the
evenings are bit cooler. Soon, they
say, you'll want a little fire in the
evening to be comfortable.
Last night | attended the com
munity sing, which is held every Mon
day evening out in the patio of the
Wiltshire Presbyterian church, three
morning, though, when l came down
town, light fog hung over everything
which cleared away in an hour.
suppose we shall soon be having the
/ same foggy, drizzly weather we had
when first came here.
"The temperature in Pasadena is
about degrees higher in summer
! than il is here-which is a minor
reason why l left Pasadena. In
winter it gets colder there
"As to how l like it-so far as
weather is concerned / can't say yet;
winter should be the test of that.
Summer is somewhat more agreeable
than in Wisconsin, chiefly because
you're rid of uncertainty about sud
den rains and changes in tempera-
| ture; but it's such a parched, thirsty
| country-longin@, longing, for some
thing it can't get. Only where men
take the trouble to water it for hours
I every day is il green and beautiful.
! There is something uncanny to me in
! the knowledge that, should the man
| made irrigation system give way. the
! region would be virtually a desert
throughout the summer season-cap-
able Of sustaining but a small frac-
| tion of the present inhabitants. As
blocks away from where / live, and
which l always attend when / can get
| away. The manager made the sur
prising announcement that The sing
will be held here again next week.
rain or shinei' And we haven't had
rain to speak of all summer! This
a matter of fact, | suppose depen-
dence upon man-made devices is no
greater here than in Wisconsin,
where we have to have heated hous-
es throughout the winter-and may
find it hard to get them, too, in the
present instance-hut : don't happen
to be used to the idea of irrigation
Likes California
aside from the climate, I like Cal
ifornia because it is entirely differ
! ent from our part of the country. and
therefore very interesting Methods
of farming, for instance, are entirely
new and strange; industries are diff
ferent-yOu can't turn halfway round
(when hunting for a stenOgraphic
job without running into an oil COM
pany or a movie firm; labor problems
are interesting and somewhat differ
ent-this is the land of the Jap and
the l. w. w: the historic background
is different--in the first place it much
more conspicuously exists, in the
second. it has chiefly a Spanish, and
secondarily a romantic cOwboy-and
gold-hunter character. At present, too,
cosmopolitan character is given to
the population by the presence Of
Southern and Oriental races distin-
guishable by their color.
'Then, there are the mountains to
gaze upon-and, If / get a chance, to
climb upon also. for my two exper-
fences have shown me what fun that
is. And there-most impressive OF
all the sights I've seen-is the des-
ert. DR.. Jackson made a detour into
1t with US going home from San Diego
this spring. and I must see it again
some time. II gave one an impress
sion of immeasurable vastness and
solitude: and back of the little oasis
~:llaga Of Palm Springs where we
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