[A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn]@TWC D-Link bookA Truthful Woman in Southern California CHAPTER III 8/34
A fur cape is always needed to protect one shoulder from a chilling breeze while the other side is toasted.
It is not safe for new-comers to be out-of-doors after four or five o'clock in the afternoon, nor must they ride in open cars except in the middle of the day.
These innocent diversions give the doctors their support. Bill Nye, with his usual good sense, refused to drive in a pouring rain to view the scenery and orchards when visiting San Diego in March, and says: "Orange orchards are rare and beautiful sights, but when I can sit in this warm room, gathered about a big coal fire, and see miles of them from the window, why should I put on my fur overcoat and a mackintosh in order to freeze and cry out with assumed delight every half-mile while I gradually get Pomona of the lungs ?" There are many places worth visiting if you can rouse yourselves for the effort.
Point Loma, twelve miles distant, gives a wonderful view, one of the finest in the world.
I warrant you will be so famished on arriving that you will empty every lunch-basket before attending to the outlook. National City, Sweet Water Dam, Tia Juana (Aunt Jane), La Jolla--you will hear of all these.
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