BROWN FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA— OUTDOOR LIFE IN CALIFORNIA. 



things as Paulsen came up the road, for he had come to California about 

 the same time that we had, and by ingenuity, industry and integrity 

 earned his own home. 



"Paulsen," said Simpson, "we've heard the good news and want to 

 congratulate you." 



But Paulsen blushed rosy, and so we showed our appreciation later 

 by presenting the happy father with a handsome baby carriage. 



(To be continued.) 



Out-door Life in California 



VERY activity in California is influenced by its out-door life. 

 Its art, literature, science, agriculture; its commerce and its 

 industries; and its people, perhaps most of all, have been 

 moulded by an all-the-year-round climate to an extent hardly 

 believable at first glance. 



Art, literature and science are most difficult to classify, 

 for, as it is often said, they belong to all the world. While this is true; while 

 all the world may share and delight in the art of a Velasquez or a Rem- 

 brandt, in the stories of Hans Christian Anderson, Alexandre Dumas, in 

 the creative genius of Luther Burbank, yet the contributions of these won- 

 derful men to the world have been strangely colored by the lands in which 

 they lived, and as long as man remembers them or their work, he will asso- 

 ciate them with their environment. 



So it is in California. 



Who can separate Helen Hunt Jackson and Bret Harte from Califor- 

 nia? There are many other writers whose pens have been steeped in the 

 very breath of California. So it is with our artists, who may have a setting 

 not to be found anywhere else in the world. Palms and firs side by side, 

 a giant redwood, the Sierra foothills — these are unmistakably Californian. 



Outdoor life and the God-given climate which permits men to live 

 naturally in the open the year round mean everything to California. 

 It is part of California. 



Agriculture in California exists to an extent unknown in other coun- 

 tries. Not that California is as yet the greatest agricultural producing 

 country in the world, for this young State has not yet achieved the full 

 measure of its possibilities. But the agriculture is unique, for there is an 

 out-of-door climate the year round for plants as well as for men. With 

 irrigation, climate and soil, there is a continuous season of agriculture. 



Our industries in California are affected by our agriculture. There is no 

 closed winter season which pens up the stock and confines the farmer to 

 his home, indirectly affecting manufacturing industries. Our sturdy work- 

 ingmen do their honest labor the year round and are not confronted by 

 coal bills. Our commerce, even river commerce, is open the year round. 

 There is no ice to prevent boats running on inland waters while the com- 

 merce of the sea in winter is not rendered difficult by terrific hurricanes. 



But the people of California — these are the most interesting, for it is 

 the people who make the commonwealth. We are all favorably influenced 

 by our out-of-door climate and environment. People begin as children, of 

 course, and it is said that California children are the healthiest in the 

 world. It is always out of doors with them. People say that California 

 women are stronger and larger than their sisters in the East. A census 

 of Stanford girls and those of an Eastern college seemed to bear out this 

 theory. 



Anyway, the spirit of a people is the most important. It is no won- 

 der that Californians are loyal. They are Americans first and Californians 



If 



