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of the rich. Nature has done much for the place ; 

 art has done more. It lies upon the park-like foot- 

 hills that slope gently to the Bay of San Francisco. 

 In the wooded canons and gulches may be found 

 the "cottages" of the members, houses built for 

 the most part for comfort rather than show ; houses 

 with broad and deep verandahs, with large living 

 rooms, with cosy corners. Within, you will mark 

 no silken and velvet hangings, but the freshest of 

 chintzes, the most exquisite linen, that simplicity, 

 in short, which is so delightful and so costly. 

 Here the women wear the plainest clothes, while 

 the male gladly lays aside his cut-throat collar 

 and assumes instead the soft and becoming stock. 

 But stock and skirt must be cut by an artist. The 

 hypercritic at Burlingame might complain that art 

 had just failed to conceal art. The neglige is too 

 studied. But the whole is amazing. You have 

 polo, tennis, golf, pigeon shooting, bathing, boating, 

 and a score of minor amusements to distract your 

 leisure. You can hire from the club stables a 

 well-appointed four-in-hand, a tandem, even an 

 Irish jaunting car, at a price considerably less 

 than you would pay in London. You have all 

 the advantages of country life in France or Eng- 

 land. A pack of drag-hounds — some five and 

 twenty couple of well-bred English fox-hounds — 

 meets twice a week during the season. Coaching 

 parades (at the last there were eleven coaches and 

 thirteen tandems), steeplechases, pony racing, flower 

 shows, give the cottagers opportunities of filling 

 their houses with guests. 



It will be seen, therefore, that Burlingame, as 



