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Show THERE IS NO GARDEN OF THE GODS. Some one with rare powers of Imagination Imagi-nation must have been responsible for the naming of the "O'arden of the Cods" near Colorado Springs Xo one who hai rvcr visited the region, Other than a resident of the Colorado city, obsessed with local pride, ever felt the effort worth while, because Invariably there is disappointment The region might bo more accurately described as the Canyon of Desolation. Desola-tion. A recent eastern visitor, representing represent-ing Collier's, was enticed to the spot and here is his judgment, which will be appreciated : "With the Garden of the Gods it Is different Thr place irritated me. For If ever anv spot was outrageously ovprnamed, it is that one. As a little park In the Catskills it mircht be all well onough. but as a natural wonder in the Rocky Mountains, with Pikes Peak hanging overhead, it Is B bale-pink joki- If I had my way. I should take its wonder name away from it, for the name is too fine to waste, and a thousand spots in Colorado Colo-rado are more worthy of It The entrance to the place, between two tall rose-colored sandstone rocks, may perhaps be called imposing; the rest of it might better bo described as imposition Guides will take you through, and they will do their utmost, ut-most, as guides always do, to make you imagine that you are really seeing see-ing something. They will point out Inane formations In the sandstone rock, and will attempt to make you see that these are "pictures." They will show you the Kissing Camels, the Pear and Seal, the Buffalo, the Bride and Groom, the Preacher, the Scotsman. Punch and Judy, the Wash erwoman, and other rock forms, sculp-jtured sculp-jtured by Nature into shapes more or ! less suggesting the various objects mentioned. But what if they do9 To look at such accidentals is a pastime about as intelligent as looking for pictures in the moon, or in the patterns pat-terns of the paper on your wall As nearly as Nature can be altogether silly she has been silly here, and I think that only silly people will succeed suc-ceed in finding fascination in the place." |