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By the Golden Gate

CHAPTER VI
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The women, as you see them going hither and thither, are the picture of health and many of them can boast of real beauty.

Here are few if any pale faces, sallow complexions, cadaverous cheeks.
There are various types of nationality, but it may be said that there is a California or San Francisco type, which is the product of climate and environment.

One is struck with the animation manifested in the faces and movements of the men and women.

They are quick too in reaching conclusions and witty in observation.

A young man in one of the railway offices asked this question: "What," said he to me, "is the difference in dress between a bishop and any other clergyman," I replied that some of the bishops wore aprons, and that this was the only real difference in daily attire--except some special mark on the coat or the shape of the hat.


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