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Title: A Truthful Woman in Southern California

Author: Kate Sanborn

Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #19391]

Language: English

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A TRUTHFUL WOMAN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

BY KATE SANBORN

AUTHOR OF ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM, ETC.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1906

COPYRIGHT, 1893,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--HINTS FOR THE JOURNEY
II.--AT CORONADO BEACH
III.--SAN DIEGO
IV.--EN ROUTE TO LOS ANGELES
V.--LOS ANGELES AND ROUND ABOUT
VI.--PASADENA
VII.--CAMPING ON MOUNT WILSON
VIII.--CATCHING UP ON THE KITE-SHAPED TRACK
IX.--RIVERSIDE
X.--A LESSON ON THE TRAIN
XI.--SANTA BARBARA
XII.--HER CITY AND COUNTY
XIII.--IN GALA DRESS
XIV.--AU REVOIR

A Truthful Woman in Southern California

CHAPTER I.

HINTS FOR THE JOURNEY.

The typical Forty-niner, in alluring dreams, grips the Golden
Fleece.

The _fin-de-siecle_ Argonaut, in Pullman train, flees the Cold and
Grip.

_En Sol y la Sombra_--shade as well as sun.

Yes, as California is. I resolve neither to soar into romance nor drop
into poetry (as even Chicago drummers do here), nor to idealize nor
quote too many prodigious stories, but to write such a book as I needed
to read before leaving my "Abandoned Farm," "Gooseville," Mass. For I
have discovered that many other travellers are as ignorant as myself
regarding practical information about every-day life here, and many
others at home may know even less.

So let me say that California has not a tropical, but a semi-tropical
climate, and you need the same clothing for almost every month that is
found necessary and comfortable in New York or Chicago during the
winter.

Bring fur capes, heavy wraps, simple woolen dresses for morning and
outdoor life; and unless rolling in wealth, pack as little as possible
of everything else, for extra baggage is a curse and will deplete a
heav