Southern California; . hinewarms the heart as well as the body. One cannot butbe light-hearted when the birds sing all day long and theflowers bloom in winter as in summer. The stir andstimulus of city lifeis here and the peace ~^,t yand rest of nature ^ • Money and thoughtare being expendedwith unremittingeffort upon this fa-vored corner of the world to make it real-ize all the promise ofnature. Homes springup almost in a daj, and green lawns and waving treessurround them in a season. It is a country that mothers love to come to withtheir babies, for here the little ones play out of doors all
Southern California; . hinewarms the heart as well as the body. One cannot butbe light-hearted when the birds sing all day long and theflowers bloom in winter as in summer. The stir andstimulus of city lifeis here and the peace ~^,t yand rest of nature ^ • Money and thoughtare being expendedwith unremittingeffort upon this fa-vored corner of the world to make it real-ize all the promise ofnature. Homes springup almost in a daj, and green lawns and waving treessurround them in a season. It is a country that mothers love to come to withtheir babies, for here the little ones play out of doors allday long and nearly every day in the year, growing fatand rosy and merry. It is a land of prosperous homesand orange groves; the refinement of the East andWest is united here in the one endeavor to make ofSouthern California a fruitful, beautiful, and so far as lieswithin human power, an ideal region. No wonder itsresidents are proud of what they have accomplished !Each settlement is the model colony and each town is. ^:. ii^> ?-. -^i ?^^; /In5«l destiued to be the metropolis, but it is a pardonablepride when we realize how vital the interest of each manis in his own home and section, when we realize that hehas made it out of a waste of sand and sagebrush by hisown toil, and that to him it seems a veritable miracle,p.^ this sudden sjiringing of a gar- %deu out of a there is no featurewhich so fully insures the futuregreatness of Southern Califor-nia, and which is so frequently ___ overlooked by its admirers as R««. ^^.g excellent school system. The influence of the State University has been mostimportant in elevating the standard of instruction, forboth the pul)lic and private schools are annually exam-ined by its professors, and onl}- those schools placed onthe accredited list can admit students to the Universitywithout examinations. It is sufficient to add thatalthough the requirements are rigidly enforced, thegraduates of a large percentage of the h
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