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Show Making Homes on the Desert. Out on the Western desert, where by means or Irrigation tbo (Jnltod Statos Qovornmenl la reclaiming tnll-Houb tnll-Houb of acres of arid laud, many wumou of culture and roUuotnont nro making homes In tho boat eeuso otthn word. Here wo really llvo, snyu Can stanco Adams lu tho Now Idea Worn nil's Magazlno for July aud onob day brings now aud Interesting experience en, almost nuy one of which would ho n thrilling tidvouturn to tho fcmluliio rolntives lett lu the East, for few of us aro untivu-born in this great land of promlso where we hnvo oleotcd to sot up our InreB and ponatre. Perhaps to Bomo of us, na we Jookr-d from tho train wiudowf, tbia desert, which was to bo home, soomod liko tbo sun-blistered, eand-bhiBted, fsa-ond fsa-ond of nowhere, and thoro was a wist ful yearning for "tbo floah-pnta of Egypt," that seemed tbon to bo ouly nttainnblo in Now York and Chicago and Washington and Doetou nnd tho other cities that hnvo given ub blrtb. But thoro is muoh work to bo dono and no timo for vain regrets, nnd ov-on ov-on hefnro tho teiupornry struoturo la uomplotod tbnt ia to sheltor ub until wo cau build n truly house, wo real-Izo real-Izo that horo iu the WoBt la tho greatest great-est of all blpfaluga health, for our-selvop our-selvop and our children, uud wo nro glad no aamo. Tho air ia fresh nnd bracing orgon-tlo orgon-tlo nnd anrotisiug, but uovro enervating enervat-ing and oppressive |