Southern California; . lose to the range oflofty mountains, with its fine old missionoverlooking the town, its modern stores jostling againstthe quaint old adobes and its atmosphere of Boston cul-ture overlapping the dolce far 7iie7ite of the Mexican ? Itis one of those places which people go to visit andconclude not to leave. It is not a thriving, commercialcenter nor a bustling metropolis, but many people ofrefinement and taste have made their homes within itsprecincts and it is constantly attracting to itself more ofthe same sort—^ people who love flowers and music, whoread and think. There
Southern California; . lose to the range oflofty mountains, with its fine old missionoverlooking the town, its modern stores jostling againstthe quaint old adobes and its atmosphere of Boston cul-ture overlapping the dolce far 7iie7ite of the Mexican ? Itis one of those places which people go to visit andconclude not to leave. It is not a thriving, commercialcenter nor a bustling metropolis, but many people ofrefinement and taste have made their homes within itsprecincts and it is constantly attracting to itself more ofthe same sort—^ people who love flowers and music, whoread and think. There is an excellent hotel, the Arling-ton, where visitors can find luxuryand comfort enough to suit themost fastidious. A few miles from town is Monte-cito, a rambling settlement of fineestates and beautiful homes, reach-ing from the sea far back into tlufoothills. About many of thesihomes the natural setting of liveoaks and rocks, of tangled thicketswhich delight the birds, and openfields of clover have been
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