Show ML M OT AM solo ta ig fa 1 I 1 I 1 W Y 4 9 W 0 M s q t ra outdoor recreation amid natural scenic beauty best antidote for ills of our modem civilization 7 i OTHER NATURE M D is really a very clever practitioner her medicine Is usually easy to take and she eha generally manages to make the patients like the treatment she belongs to the eclectic school of medicine and uses any sort of remedy that seems to suit the case and bhea ashes tar far from orthodox for she advertises and she drums up patients every spring when that tired feeling hits us all after a winter of hard work and no less strenuous avocations she not only fills the newspapers with display ads of mountain and seashore and forest lake but she gets in a private call to each one of us something like this stop look listen I 1 drop the strenuous life take up the a simple amples life pause take breath rel relax she lias has a persuasive tongue has old mother nature anyway the whole country Is this very minute doln doans just what doctor nature told them to do and quite likely it Is a lucky thing tor for the american nation for the american people are under indictment just now as the most lawless nation cation of earth the indictment contains cont alna special counts of murder robbery and other crimes of violence those defending our people endeavor to throw the blame on lack of police protection faulty legal procedure sensational sat ional newspapers and so on but the criminologists know better they declare emphatically that tho the prevalence of crime Is a symptom of basic disturbance in our emotional stability when a people they say has a normal emotional life everything goes smoothly and the nation progresses when its emotional life 1 Is abnormal emotional instability shows itself with insanity and crime as natural resultants automobiles the movies and jazz carried to extremes complexity and of life in the big cities and avocations that are as strenuous as vocations are the causes they see of our emotional instability these have drained the nervous vitality of our people right night here mother nature M D steps in with an offer of aid the pictures suggest some of dotor doctor natures Nature 3 many activities in no I 1 she he la Is giving some new york city boys a dose of country life in tho the palisades interstate park along the Hud hudson sort tills this park Is a thing of beauty and a joy forever to the millions of the metropolis welfare one annually make vacation joys there possible to hundreds of thousands ot of boys and girls to whom a scene like this Is fairyland doubtless Doubt lesa there are boys bos in this line who never be before forree saw a wild flower or heard a wild songbird who have not known what it play under tho the shade abade of trees and in clean air these boys will absorb health and strength and ideas this glimpse of a new world may be the turning point in their lives picture no 2 Is one to warm the cockles cackles of the heart of every man who was once the same kind of boy A look at it carries the conviction that every boy should have a chanco chance to play after doctor natures own fashion contrast with him the city boy whose knowledge of life la Is derived almost entirely from the moving pictures which boy has received tho the better start on a career as aa a useful likable humar human creature 7 the youngster who has baa landed his big one has felt the urge of incentive the t thrill of sportsmanship the pride of achievement each a valuable lesson in itself picture no 3 affords a glimpse of 1 winter sport in the snow enow in th the yosemite national pork park now there Is a new idea about winter sports abroad in the land and doctor nature most heartily approves for several seasons winter sports have been increasingly popular in new england and in yosemite rocky mountain and mount rainier national parks the young P people eople are taking to them amazingly it ita s a good thing too tom chasing the summer the year round may be good for the old and the feeble but for the red blooded roan and woman a touch of frost Is needed to harden up the fibre fabre and bring about the full stature mental moral find physical and a playful battle with jack frosi with ski snowshoe snow ahoe bobsled and toboggan as weapons brings a healthful physical fatigue and a keen appetite and a dreamless steep sleep that cause doctor nature to beam with pleasure picture no 4 show two eastern girls looking down from a height on a fertile section of utah the whole scenic west to Is full this summer with girls from all parts of the country and moot mont of them are in trousers its a becoming dress in most cases and for mountain climbing and riding and hiking it Is the sensible dress these girls are far from home everyone will admit that their long trip by motor car will benefit them physically R X k i 14 1 az J low how about mental benefits they have seen many tin an object lesson 0 of earth in the making naked granite peak eroded valley glacier gorge and mornine moraine they have been in a vast exhibit in tho the national parks parka 0 of wild life animal bird and plant surely they should have gained educationally cation ally they have driven and camped with people from every nook and corner of the united states the former farmer from nebraska the banker from illinois the merchant from louisiana the manufacturer from now new york all with their women folks has that not made for democracy I 1 doctor nature to t exceedingly busy in the national parks this summer the national bpark service reports with the season yet several weeks from its peak that all records for attendance will be broken and that la is a good thing for the nation forout for outdoor recreation amid scenes of natural scenic beauty to la the beat antidote tor for the mantilia ManyI many Ilia Ils of our modern civilization doctor nature in the national parks la U showing her patients a wonderland at the grand canyon she Is showing them the most sublime spectacle la in all the world and the worlds greatest exhibit of erosion in rocky mountain she takes them to the roof hoot of the world on the continental tin divide and shows them tho the most remarkable collection of high granite peaks and beautiful valleys known to man in yellowstone they are seeing more geysers than oil all tho the rest of the world con can show and buffalo and elk and moose and bear lu in their native wilderness in mount rainier they arc am enjoying winter sports in the snow in midsummer and gazing upon the largest single peak glacier systems sy stema a vast and im preas lve motin mountain tain with its ita top snow clad and with its flower belt between ice and forest clad slopes and so on wonder after wonder Is doctor nature showing her patients with lessons tor for the physical body for the mentality for the soul she shows them majestic scenes but evell ee more majestic Is the response she ehe awakens in the human mind and soul for we are poor specimens indeed it we are not bettered by association with the beautiful and majestic la in natural scenery |