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how they can readily enjoy it; also, how to get there, and about 
some of the delights they may behold there 
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avenue elevated the very last stop brings him within sight of 
the vast conservatory with its dome-shaped roof of glass. From 
here a short walk will bring him to the large museum, where the 
lover of growing plants and student of botany will find much to 
mat him. 
“But it is the ‘glory of living nature’ all over these wonderful 
gardens that makes this great park so like heaven. There is in 
particular a little shallow valley there, through the center of 
which the tiniest possible stream of the clearest possible water 
gently flows, and the whole surroundings of velvety grass and 
early spring foliage in every shade of green, with b f the 
early flowers and the fruit blossoms, make this little vale of 
eauty seem almost heaven n mt come, in 
joy 
at its very best, and it surely seems the ia of heaven, if 
not the ‘land of pure delight’ in very tru 
“Tt is a place for tired mothers and groups et happy children. 
And on a recent visit there I found several such groups. ith 
one the mother was in black, but the party of four children, 
of a bear?’ They Ban indeed. So I told them the story, the 
altogether es and the o’ertrue story, of the ‘Bear That 
Took a Ride on a Railroad Car.’ And they all thanked me for 
it, and the littlest one quickly ran to the family basket and 
brought me a huge gumdrop as a reward. (It was very good.) 
“Such is the human element in an excursion into heaven; the 
