My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately the sunshine and the 

 summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall become, as it were, interwoven into man's 

 existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory. Richard JefferieS. 



The Guide to Nature, 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



Vol. I 



JULY, 1908 



No. 4 



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m OUTDOOR WORLD 



La Jolla, the Nature Lover's Beach 



BY CHARLOTTE M. HOAK, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 



"Lest we forget that out of wild nature Ave are come; tlrcit our instincts are 

 great, our wisdoms little, that the main current of our will is still like the green mov- 

 ing waters, and our reasoned choices like the flutter of foam on its surface; that we 

 became citizens but yesterday and were bred in the wilderness." 



A JOLLA is the nature lov- 

 er's beach. When the 

 wheezy little motor that 

 has tugged you up goes 

 clanking' on its backward 

 track to San Diego, the 

 rhythmic beat of the inces- 

 santly pounding surf, like 

 an impenetrable curtain of sound, shuts 

 out the outer world. Its hurry and bus- 

 tle, its strident noises and nerve wearing- 

 discords are one by one forgotten once 

 you yield yourselves to the charm of the 

 sea. 



A set description of La Jolla is not 

 necessarv, for her fame has already gone 



abroad. Every well informed tourist 

 comes with large expectations of this 

 "gem of the sea," and none are disap- 

 pointed. Not far from the stuffy little 

 station, which never yet has held one- 

 half the eager crowd which throngs 

 thither, lies the main part of the village, 

 a cliff colony charmingly set on the 

 brown sandstone bluffs where they slope 

 less abruptly to the water's edge. 



Before you have been many days in 

 La Jolla, you yield to the charm of the 

 mysterious caves which are accounted 

 her chief attraction. At hi eh tide the 

 sounding surf breaks angrily far inside 

 their eloomv entrances. The constant 



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