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Show Never did man voice a greater truth than Pres. Roosevelt when ho stated that Americans arc vvofully Ignorant of America. "Familiarity breeds contempt" con-tempt" you know, and our beauties are so near us that we must needs go strolling oil to the "land of the midnight mid-night sun," to tho Alps and the Ap-pcnlnes, Ap-pcnlnes, to "Parec" and London, the Danube and the Dnclper, Venice, Milan, Mi-lan, Rome, Athens, Palestine, India, Africa and tho Orient lomr before there has been a thought of visiting the magniliclcnt places and things to be seen In our own country. Did you never go up or down the Hudson with Its quiet and picturesque beauty, ts palisades, and tho Catskill mountains in the north; have you ever basked in the sunlight that shines on "the green Holds of Virginia," the Incomparable Shenandoah valley; have you seen the palms and oi augo grov cs of Florida, and been over the Plant railroad system In that southern state; Is there any attraction for you in nanow waterways water-ways tilled with (lowers, over which the hanging trees form arches; have you stood on tho hanks of the broad Mississippi, the greatest riveron earth have you followed It to the source and enjoyed the innumerable lakes that there abound; have you been on the Great lakes tit the north Ontario, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Eric, and have you missed Niagara, that peer of all waterfalls; have the long stretches of prairie land escaped you so far, and the Rockies, and Sierra Ncvadas, with the canyons of the Colorado, the great gorgesjand passes, lakes and waterfalls, beautiful valleys and towering peaks, as well as the Great Salt Lake; the Yosemlte valley with Its untold wonders, wond-ers, and the land of llowers as a whole; have you "done" New York and Brooklyn seen the Eads bridge; ever been to Washington City, that which In a few years will be the most beautiful beauti-ful city the world ever saw; has Chicago, Chi-cago, the great western city with all that Is bustling and modern, come In on your list; and Philadelphia, that sleepy old place of 2,000,000 people-have people-have you never been there; and how about Now Orleans, St. Louis, Denver, und San Francisco? If you have never visited these places and seen tho In numerable and incomparable sights that could he mentioned by the hour, yjjy take a foreign trJp? The United stfe? m tow -?: ",c p,u. e?L tiling in mm si 5s$f7 mtthen -Atmuiui a mUialib' 15 mads Is on the ,. In forgetting It. |