NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



in number and of short duration. In thirty- 

 five years he has not taken a vacation of a 

 month's time at one period. He has never 

 visited the East but three times, and then 

 only on hurried trips. He has been invited to 

 go to Europe to be the guest of prominent 

 scientific men, but he has never been able to 

 accept on account of the length of time he 

 would be compelled to remain away from 

 his work. His recreations are few in number, 

 but no one finds keener enjoyment than he 

 in such ones as he chooses, — a small party 

 of jolly friends, a visit to some friend in a 

 near-by town, a romp with a little child, a day's 

 wandering, at rare intervals, amidst the city's 

 kaleidoscopic scenes, a long, strong tramp up 

 the mountains, a day at the sea of which 

 he is so passionately fond, — these are his chief 

 stands for recuperation in the long, hard battle. 

 And yet it is not a wholly apt figure; for 

 his life is rather one series of noble triumphs, 

 all adding to the sum of human happiness. 

 He is particularly fond of the society of 

 young people, and he is held in the highest 

 esteem by them ; with them he steadily 

 renews his youth ; he is of the type that never 



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