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Show DRIVEWAY R!OTOF COLOR Seaside Road of Rio de Janeiro Is On of the Most Famous in the World. Skirting the Bay of Guannbara ll a seaside drive which seems to eon-dense eon-dense In Its four miles the very e sence of beauty. It Is the Avenlda Beira Mar, the famous Avenlda of H de Janeiro. The massive emerald mountains which skirt the bay makes a fitting setting for the semicircular sweep of the drive, with Its stately homes. Its luxuriant gardens and the blue and white breakers that beat lta flanks. The eve meets a riot of color when ever it turns. Overflowing the gar. dens, covering the walls and falling la veritable cataracts from the houses, tropical flowers lavish themselves In a lovely abandon. Begonias and pinks, jasmine and dahlias, azaleas, camellias and chrysanthemums are everywhere. ev-erywhere. Beautiful oytls trees, thousands thou-sands of roses and delicate orchids abound. And all seem to be singing together in a chorus of brilliance and fragrance. With such an inspiration it is no-wonder no-wonder that human flowers also flourish flour-ish along the drive, and one catches tantalizing glimpses of dark eyes and laughing red lips in flower-framed windows. win-dows. For ail Its perfection, work on tha Avenlda Beira Mar was begun not more than ten or twelve years agoi and completed In a few years a feat which is little short of marvelous when one considers the infinite time and money and red tape usually necessary In the completion of any great public work. Statistics are hard, colorless things applied to the Avenlda Beira Mar. One thinks of it rather as an idea of beauty which materialized somehow In a form far surpassing the expectations expecta-tions of its creators. They builded better than they knew and the memory mem-ory of what they built will linger long In the hearts of those who have seen and Idled along the most beautiful of driveways. |