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 HOTELS RESTAURANTS CUISINE 43 is asked. One need not pay more than $3.00 to $5.00 at any of the best resort hotels, and $30.00 or $40.00 a week will command the choicest rooms at many places. These terms are of course inclu- sive of meals and full service. Pasadena has three famous hotels, the new Ray- mond, successor to the one which burned, the Mary- land, a delightful retreat open all the year, and the Green, huge-spreading and winged, overlooking acres of flowers. Near-by, at Oak Knoll, is the Huntington, christened with memorable cere- monies early in 1914. This hotel together with the Tavern on Echo Mountain, the Hollywood Inn, and the country inn at Beverly Hills near Los Angeles, the sea shore hotels Virginia at Long Beach, Windemere and Arcadia at Santa Monica, Venice and St. Mark's at Venice, Redondo at Redondo Beach, and the Stratford old English inn at Del Mar comprise a group of Southern California casas des huespedes whose patrons are offered every open-air amusement golf, ten- nis, polo, the use of saddle-horses, and the pleas- ures of sea-shore and neighbouring hills. Some provide sleeping-porches, and many have tenting accommodation. Others own lodges which if not in the wilderness are at least well removed from rushing throngs. The inns of California forest and lake are with- out number. Usually a central building of rustic