Chapter XXVIII 



The Climate of Southern California 



INFORMATION regarding the climate of a locality 

 is essential to the sportsman or traveller. 

 Aside from its fame as a sportsman's paradise 

 Southern California has become noted as a health resort; 

 yet its peculiar climatic conditions are but little under- 

 stood, as instance the party of otherwise intelligent people 

 who, proposing to spend the winter in Southern Califor- 

 nia, packed away their winter clothing in New York and 

 came to Los Angeles in a private car, garbed in muslins 

 and duck and with wardrobes light enough for Samoa. 

 I was first impressed strongly in favor of Southern 

 California by the remarks of a Southern Californian of 

 wealth, who had no real estate to dispose of. He told 

 me that, obliged to seek a mild climate for a permanent 

 residence, he began a tour of the world, making an ex- 

 tended, and, as he considered, an exhaustive series of re- 

 searches, living in all the famous health resorts known, 

 as the Azores, Madeira, the south of Italy, France, Spain, 

 and Cairo, Florida, Colorado, and other States. 



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