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contains no less than sixty-five active volcanoes, 

 and thousands of extinct craters which are either 

 the cups of cerulean lakes or the birthplaces of 

 magnificent glaciers. The Muir is most accessible 

 and best known, but one which issues from Redoubt 

 Mountain leaps from a cliff of a thousand feet, in 

 huge emeralds, which whirl and flash as they fall. 

 It is admitted that nowhere else can so delightsome 

 a voyage be found as that between Seattle and 

 Juneau. There is nowhere a more beautiful island 

 than Kadiac; nor is there any coast where mount- 

 ains, snow-clad from head to heels, rise sheer thir- 

 teen thousand feet out of the sea — spectacles of 

 incredible and appalling grandeur. 



More quietly delightful and yet as health-giving 

 is an outing of tent-camping, easily accessible and 

 small of expense. Better, however, is a log cabin 

 and a camp-fire in some locality chosen for its 

 waters, wildness, and beauty. Such outings are 

 supposed to be appropriate only for men, but women 

 should go. More than men they need to break the 

 monotony of life squarely off, and make a summary 

 riddance of it. Let them make wood-nymphs of 

 themselves. Whoever heard of a Diana suffering 

 from nervous prostration, or a naiad sending a satyr 

 post-haste for Hippocrates? 



A woman can never fully appreciate the refine- 

 ments of her home till she have an opportunity to 

 contrast them with their opposites — not the oppo- 

 sites found in poverty, overcrowding, and squalor. 



