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Show STOCKHOLM BEAUTIFUL CITY Eusy Commercial Metropolis of Sweden Swed-en Has Most Picturesque Surroundings. Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm has the appearance of a beautiful, pleasure pleas-ure resort instead of a busy commercial commer-cial city of several hundred thousand inhabitants. The king of Sweden's palace lies on an island between Lake Maler rnd the Baltic sea. Entrance to it can be obtained with difficulty. The visitor is courteously shown through a labyrinth of state apartments, apart-ments, suite succeeding suite, contain-I contain-I ing priceless tapestries, marvelous china, pictures and portraits, statues, vases. and bric-abras, the gifts of Napoleon Na-poleon the Great, the third Napoleon, the Russian czars, the emperor of Japan Ja-pan and many other notable people. All the rooms have splendidly painted ceilings, heavy crystal candelabra and huge mantelpieces made of Dresden china a bewildering wilderness of curious and beautiful things which it would take days to explore thorough- One of the chief pleasures of a sojourn so-journ in Stockholm comes from the S 1 - vt x . r 1 , s, ' ' 3 . v " x Stockholm Suburban Residence. numerous steamer trips which can be made in a day to some one or other of the many islands lying between the city "and the open 6ea. On these islands, divided by narrow channels of deep, still water, opening out here and there into lakelike lagoons la-goons or wider riverlike spaces, and with shores all clothed with pines to the water's edge, the people live their summer life. On the banks are many . pretty villas with tiny landing stages among rocks which rise sheer out of fathom deep water. Some of the little-islands little-islands are joined to larger ones picturesque bridges, while red and white and green restaurants are set about among the pine trees. Surpassing all other beauty, is the indescribable northern twilight with its wonderful tender blue sTiot through with glowing pink. . The light is clear and bright, so much so that one can see everything distinctly, can read and write with ease, and yet it is not daylight, nor could it be mistaken for such. One can sail in and out for many hours between the islands be- fore reaching the cpen Baltic with its crisp waves and rougher water. |