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Show - - AS SEEN BY: ENGLISHWOMAN. SAl WtCTI '3U' 32. JuX73omT - - -. ff, jT . . Rhapsody on American Scenery Aslen- tffrlthed Mrs. Jonathan. , I J)VA.'S i 'J '1 . "When you havo seen- (tho.. O9ld.cn, Oate you -will wonder at Uib dlffercniJe, between Tirkey and California. But keep movlig" poor Mrs. Jonathan was getting awfully tired "and go north now pu'st Shasta, and Hood, and Ranler, and their lesser satellites, of Sowy peaks, to Seattle, a city sitting oft more1 hills' than Rome ever knew, and tako a steamer for the Inside 'pas-sago 'pas-sago to Skagwa'y. There yon will, find ajnew land, of the .Midnight Sun, with flbrds no less grand and gloomy; ' or turn from' tho shadows' to the sunlight and stop In southern California. You hvo iieen the Riviera? Yes?" Mrs. John didn't give Mrs. Jonathan time to even nod an affirmation, but was 'going 'go-ing again. "You will seo a fresher and fler one there. And you will hear tho old, old mission bells ringing In the newv ,8uch flowers. suchsscenery, siich frufti.lJBuch siiiililne.V'siicli--but pardon m"lpromtatd nojavtoj thap-sqdlre,,d,(ht thap-sqdlre,,d,(ht ,1? Turn reastward faow, goring thfbugh'the MJaVe' desert" stopping stop-ping on tho way to .stare and stagger, before, tho awful magnificence' of the Orand.icanyon!,iLtoldyouJlof..:iand1toseQ, the potHflod forest," as" a" reminder of ruins older than Baalbec and Babylon. Af New Cleans, a'llitlSsOUtherni Paris, take a steamer up tho RIlsslss- thojisana mTlos through tho land bf cotton and the cane, thence Into the Obty,tand for :nnoTh"er thousand sail through a plcturqsque valley to-Pltts-burs, where tho fron worksind niohey maMo Titian and Vulcan and Tubal Cain look Hko So' cents, as you Americans Ameri-cans say. Then there are thq,,coal fields of Pennsylvania; tho go'lti Holds', ofijho far west; the great plains that seoA to lvvjneiiu"!tcltlesrtiiathave 1 rtset la aTalgljtno wealth 'ehd-powaV. colliges whoso ujldtngs aro sermons In Utone; men nnd women who In 8cl4pce -ahd art and llteratiiro ' , Jfi-. Jonathan took a long, .long . breijth. y ' ' " ...'''. . "qood gracious!" she exclaimed", "I'd , bo Head boforo I had, done .all that." Outing. |