Parkways and Willows 



Chicago. The children fortunately 

 come in schools to rave over the won- 

 derful habitat settings of birds and 

 beasts and bugs and flowers there pre- 

 sented. Beginning with the sand dunes 

 at the lower end of the lake with real 

 sand from the dunes, real driftwood 

 from the beach, and mounted speci- 

 mens of nearly every form of wild life 

 known to have inhabited that still un- 

 tamed wilderness, and with a marvel- 

 ously-wrought-out panoramic back- 

 ground perfecting the illusion of the 

 scene, the wild life of early Chicago's 

 environs will here have adequate and 

 altogether admirable presentation. 

 Passing from the dunes to the Calumet 

 region the open channels and the reedy 

 recesses dear to the water-fowl of the 

 early days are shown with an almost 

 startling fidelity to Nature. Thence 

 the panorama is to lead one through 

 the woods and streams and prairies 

 lying to the westward of the great city, 

 and on around through the oaks and 

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