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situation makes this pavilion tea room especially 

 fascinating. The little lake occupies a prominent 

 position on a hill top overlooking the ocean, with the 

 Santa Barbara Isles in the foreground. Enormous 

 trees of live-oak, and various other trees of semi- 

 tropical growth, like the palm and the olive, break 

 the distant view, and afford glimpses of the blue 

 Pacific glinting in the sunlight. Numerous! water 

 plants, from the varied water lilies and the big- 

 leafed lotus to the Egyptian water grasses, flourish 

 in the lake at "Riso Rivo," as the place is named 

 meaning "Laughing Rivulet. " In the midst of the 

 tea ceremony, the pavilion is mysteriously guided 

 among the various water attractions of bloom and 

 fragrance. With the flowering vines trained over 

 the pavilion from its floor boxes, it forms a veritable 

 place of enchantment. 



There are many attractive tea-room pavilions on 

 the pleasure lakes of New England. The little 

 garden lakes along the Connecticut River, and the 

 homes of summer residents in the resort sections 

 of old Marblehead, show many quaint designs, with 

 foot-paths, on pilings, leading out from the shore of 

 the lake or pond. In the park sections of Boston, and 

 in the Roger Williams Park at Providence, there are 

 music pavilions and restaurant pavilions that have 

 been built out in the water, and that have served as 



