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ness and professional men whom I should have taken anywhere 

 for New Yorkers men as fresh in their thoughts, as ready, as 

 though they had only the day before left Broadway or Wall 

 Street. 



" It is the same with their houses. They receive you, they 

 dine or lunch you, they entertain, as though they were New 

 Yorkers. Of course, the climate leads them to a diiferent 

 style of building ; but when you are once indoors you are as 

 much at home, and find the ways of the house, the mode of 

 life, and the tone of conversation, as familiar to you as though 

 you were at home. I met no ' rusty' people in all California." 



An American correspondent of a London paper said : 



"All Englishmen with whom I have talked agree that 

 there is a marked difference between Californians and other 

 Americans, and in favor of the former. It comes out, I think, 

 most clearly in the manners of the lower classes, who have a 

 certain frank courtesy that I have not met elsewhere in the 

 States. One explanation is that California has been settled by 

 picked men from all countries in the world. * * * The pleas- 

 anter side of such deference to a stranger's feelings is a self- 

 respect which makes the lower classes in California among the 

 most agreeable companions I have known anywhere in a corres- 

 ponding class." 



28. Physical Characteristics. Of the Americans in Cal- 

 ifornia, it may be remarked that they generally have the same 

 marks as the Americans in the Eastern States. Their eyes are 

 deep set, their foreheads high, their features regular and finely 

 cut, their faces expressive and free from grimace, their com- 

 plexions sallow, their lips thin, their mouths grim, their bodies 

 tall, slim, and slightly bent in the shoulders, their chests thin, 

 their voices harsh, and their enunciation slow and clear, with 

 little modulation. These general characteristics, as compared 

 with Europeans, are common among the natives of the Atlantic 

 States who came to California after reaching adult age ; but 

 there is an evident change in those who came young to the 



