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Show LURE TO THE ADVENTUROUS Through All the Ages Man Has Dared Evel-y Danger in the Search for Beautiful Things. Now, a thing of beauty that is rare and difficult to obtain seems ever to have exercised an Irresistible lure to adventurous man. To possess it he will suffer the hardships of the highest high-est mountain climb, or risk the almost al-most certain dangers of disease in tropic zones. He will dare death at the hands of savage enemies and pursue pur-sue his quest far into the regions of1 unknown wilds. Into the depths of shark-infested seas he dives with the hope of securing secur-ing a lustrous pearl. Then to the topmost top-most Alpine peak he climbs for a rare specimen of the edelweiss. A glittering glitter-ing jewel In an Idol's head may tempt him to invade the sacred precincts of an Indian temple, or a, beautiful flower flow-er lure him far into the primeval forests for-ests of Brazil, Colomb'ia or Peru. To tills spirit the civilized world owes ntrt only its greatest geographic discoveries and important additions to scient'fic knowledge, but to it is also due the discovery of many of nature's choicest things of beauty, things whose practical value may be but slight, but whose appeal is to the artistic and esthetic sense. National Geographic SocieM- F-n"o"Ti. |