LTMXG IN THE COUNTRY 



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Living in the Country. 



Each year finds a greater number of 

 people in America erecting homes in 

 the country. They are beginning to 

 Hve in the golden today rather than 

 in the past, or in the future. They 

 have come to the realization that iu 

 the country, and only in the country is 

 found the simple beauty of nature with 

 her fragrance, her color, her atmos- 

 phere of peace, her silent inspiration in 

 all her myriad forms. And she will 

 gently find her way into the very soul 

 of the dweller in the country, and 

 through this communion he will be 

 re-created, re-inspired, and re-strength- 

 ened. — "The Hoggson Magazine." 



thrifty management let out to local 

 sportsmen the right to hunt them and 

 thus turned a penny toward the funds. 

 The Herbivora have fared better; but 

 hay is so scarce that they have to live 

 on wild chestnuts. 



With few institutions is the war 

 playing sadder havoc than with the 

 Zoological Gardens. At Budapest 

 they have ptit the lions on short ra- 

 tions, and even then have had to feed 

 them on the least valuable of the sheep 

 and goats. The seals have had to be 

 killed for lack of fish. The polar bears 

 have met the same fate, except that a 



Natural Steam Caves. 



BY H. li. ZIMMER.MAX, MT. MORRIS, ILL. 



In southern California are to be 

 fotnid the most wonderful steain caves 

 in the world. They are in the vicinity 

 of the well known arrow-head on the 

 mountain side, on the east side of the 

 Waterman Canyon. They are artifi- 

 cially formed and consist of tunnels cut 

 into the blufif from the sides, roofs and 

 floors, from which the arsenicated 

 steam issues. The temperature of tliis 

 steam is 202, the next hottest springs 

 in the world being at Carlsbad, Ger- 

 many, 164 degrees. Some idea of the 

 heat of these springs may be gathered 

 from the fact that eggs can be nicely 

 boiled in this water in from, three to 

 five minutes. 



STEAM COMING FROM CAVES. 



