Year: 1874

| pOndenf. Lou Lewis THE Orig
inal Garden OF Eden-Those HOr-
rid Men" from Los Angeles-''Z Zoe
ZelIa" Gone from the Beach
Things In General.


EDITOR HERALD: Zoe Zella, Dunn
norix, Cory Es Pondent, Right
Away, and number of 9TH
ers whose names we cannot
pretend to fathom or enumerate, have
written and rewritten up our fair
little watering place, until perhaps it
may seem vain endeavor for us to
attempt anything further on the
| theme; but love, real love, for the
spot where we have whiled away so
many hours that would otherwise
have passed in WEAKNESS and ennui,
| pleads with us to cast our mite into
the vast fountain of letter writing
Yesterday, while lying upon the
white, glistening shores that stretch
long miles away and finally fade from
the sight, lost in the boundless ex-
panse of water, we could not but
think that indeed there might per-
haps be some truth in the idea that
somewhere among our verdant hills
and lovely wales life first came, and
that on some spot familiar to our eye
dwelt our first parents. But highly
imaginary as this may be, Santa Mon-
| lea is to us


AN EDEN,


AS fine and fresh as the hour it stood
complete from the hands of its Crea-
tor. Perhaps you, whose every mo-
ment is absorbed with the RESPONSE
bilities of business, would ask lis how
we contrive to pass so many idle
days pleasantly. Well, our days are
not idle ones; and if they were, we
venture to assert that the mere re-
membrance of the fact that before us
stretched the grand old ocean and
around us the much loved caf1on,
would alone make them pleasant.
Then we are quite literary set down
here, and the authors are consulted
not little. We have a poet with us
(once week, at least), and even the
immaculate " Zoe" " herself gives us a
kindly word now and then to keep us
light-hearted and free. By-the-by,
have your ever seen "Zoe ?" No I?
Well, let me tell you something, then.
You don't know anything about her,
Notwithstanding Dumnorix's half
dozen futile attempts to immortalize
himself by giving a description. She
is sweet little woman, with her
large brown eyes and curling, black
hair, and after one view of her not
even DumnoriX himself could con-
vince you that "Zoe" is q


SKELETON IN THE CLOSET.


For our part we are delighted that
there is yet left some one with suffi-
cient force of character and strength of
will, to say that black is black and
white is white, even though the in
jured innocents down here Whose eX-
tremely primitive conduct is really
the only blemish upon Santa Monica)
do condemn her and threaten fight.
Day after day come the papers from
your city, and almost as many times
do we find reports in them of hood
lumism, disgraceful conduct, etc., re-
atiye to Santa Monica. Now il there
is one hOodlum amongst us, we should
| like to know it, and we warrant that
this community would unanimously
vote q cara of thanks, may be in q
! tangible manner, to the infOrmer.
The secret of it is, that on Sundays
alone is there the least appearance of
rowdyism, ,and we argue that it is pretty
fair to say, inhospitable as it may ap-
pear, that our visitors themselves are
the hoodlums, if indeed there can any
| be found. We do not propose to "puff'
this, our home, for its many attrac-
tions render that quite unnecessary,
but we do ask visitors and callers to
let us alone, and if they cannot do it
physically, why, then, mentally and
morally. Some week or ten days ago,
two gentlemen (?) came down from
your city to see how we could enter
tain, L suppose, and finding us rather


TOO QUIET AND sPIRITLEss


To suit their depraved tastes, walked
into neighboring tent, and insulted
the occupant. The quarrel not coming
that they had anticipated, they had
recourse to the cowardly act of dis
paraging his parents. Now, you touch
a California boy upon the question of
fathers or mothers honor, and you
find yourself in a hot nest, and this
case proved no exception. 1t is per-
fectly true that a revolver was drawn,
but in worthy cause, and we honor
and respect him who had the manly
courage to defend a parents name.
We only hope that the blonde and
brunette will not be foolhardy enough
to make second attack upon one who
has shown himself fully able to resent
an insult, even though revolver does
have to be brought in as assistant.
Our friends down at


THE DOUBLE CLIFF HOUSE


Have deserted us. You know we are
all interested in that mansion, for on
dit "Zoe" lived there, and she had
two fair companions with her, whose
mischievous pranks never ceased ;
"but they are good girls, both OF
them," and we upon the hill walk to
and from the beach alone, and sigh for
q glimpse of their bright, merry faces.
Close your schools up there, and send
them to us again. We give you our
solemn word to meet them at the
Halfway House with our drove OF
burros. Could they ask any more


Last Sunday, to escape the crowd
and confusion that invariably attends
us on that day, we, in company with
party of congenial spirits, left the
tents and clambered our way up the
precipitous path that leads to the cliff


ABOVE THE CANYON.


| Rut after our walk was ended the