For those who must be "high and dry" to improve, the rainy season is certainly unsafe.
Los Angeles is also a place to go from to the beach at Santa Monica, and Redondo, or that wondrous island, "Santa Catalina," which has been described by Mr.C.F.Holder in the _Californian_ so enthusiastically that I should think the "Isle of Summer" could not receive all who would unite to share his raptures--with a climate nearer to absolute perfection than any land, so near all the conveniences of civilization, and everything else that can be desired.

His first jew-fish or black sea-bass weighed 3421/2 pounds, and a dozen other varieties are gamy and plentiful; fine sport with the rifle in the upland region, wealth of verdure along the trail; below, good hotel, beaches, bathing, evening concerts--"the true land of sweet idleness, where one can drift around with all nature to entertain." To be strictly truthful, I must add that the hotel was built just over an old Indian burying-ground, therefore cases of typhoid fever are not unknown..