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city, and they go out there and work ah day Sunday and work 

 in the evening after hours, and very often take their famiUes 

 out there too, put up a shed or two dry goods boxes and live 

 there all summer, in that way getting a touch of rural life, at 

 any rate of out-door life, doing some gardening and fruit- 

 growing. And nothing is more attractive, nothing is more inter- 

 esting anywhere in the old country than to go and spend a day 

 in one of these little settlements where perhaps four or Jive 

 hundred families are located. This is something which the 

 ordinary tourist misses altogether, partly because it isn't down 

 in the guidebook and partly because one doesn't get into these 

 places easily. They do not like to be looked over. If one goes 

 there sociably and talks and visits with the people and spends 

 some time in getting acquainted, he finds them very amusin!; 

 and interesting and the stories one could get would be well 

 worth the entire trip. 



Here we are on a large estate in Silesia showing one of the 

 fine old castles with its splendid grounds. It is the estate of 

 Prince Piickler of Moscow who wrote a famous book on land- 

 scape gardening. This is his own estate built a little over a 

 hundred years ago on one of the most magnificent stretches of 

 land I ever saw, on which today are developed thousands 

 of beautiful trees planted over a hundred years ago, because he 

 preserved many which were old trees when he v/ent on there, 

 and the trees which he himself planted about a hundred years 

 ago are now full grown beeches and oaks such as we cannot 

 have in our gardens and our yards in this country because we 

 haven't lived long enough yet to accomplish so much. 



The beech trees in this picture are a part of the Kaiser's 

 hunting property. The land belongs to him personally. A 

 tract of 640 acres right in the center of this big capital city 

 (Berlin). You will notice the fine rural character. You 

 would think that you were out in the woods there. It is only 

 ten minutes walk from the main streets of the city, and there 

 you are in this splendid woodland. It gives every one the op- 

 portunity to get a breath of the fresh out-door air and look 

 at the trees, a chance to remember that there is something else 

 besides streets and buildings. 



But speaking of buildings there are some of these in the old 

 country which are very interesting and which teach us really 



