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THE DECEMBER TRAVEL 
“Behind The Scenes in China _ 
MOST AMAZING ARTICLE OF THE YEAR 
By the PRINCESS DER LING 
WRITTEN by the First 
Lady In Waiting to the 
late Empress Dowager of 
China, this article of life in 
The Forbidden City can be 
unquestionably accepted as a 
wholly veracious narrative. It 
tells of court life among the 
highest potentates and officials 
of the Chinese Empire. It 
discloses facts which have 
never before been in print, 
and which are of especial sig¬ 
nificance at this time of revo¬ 
lution in China. 
The Late Empress Dowager 
IN THE SANTA BARBARA BACK-COUNTRY 
Nearly everybody has heard of Santa Barbara, but few 
people know of the charm of the country in behind the hills. 
Here are ranches covering thousands of acres — some as 
many as 70,000—places where you may see the vaquero rope 
steers from his horse with the old-time dash of Mexican 
days. The author, Charles F. Saunders, makes you want 
to follow him both “afoot and a-horseback through this 
region. 
WITH CANNIBALS OF THE SOUTH SEAS 
Some of Uncle Sam’s battleships, cruising in the South 
Seas, stopped at Admiralty Island. Black men came out 
in oddly fashioned boats to meet them. This narrative of 
how the ships landed a detachment and made friends with 
the cannibals reads like a story by Jules Verne. 
PLANTATIONS OF THE OLD DOMINION 
By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., tells of a Virginia plantation of 
to-day and contrasts it with that of ante-bellum times. 
The “plantation” has passed — it is a “farm" now. 
THREE ITALIAN HILL TOWNS 
The Easily accessible but seldom visited Umbrian hill towns 
of Spello, Narni, and Trevi are shown by Russell W. Leary, 
to have all the charm of some of the better known places. 
You’ll decide to visit them next time you go to Italy. 
MEDIEVAL VITRE 
Pictured graphically by the pen and camera of B. M. 
Trebor, this medieval city of Brittany once more becomes 
a Twentieth Century reality. The people and their en¬ 
vironment to-day are in strange accord with the spirit of 
yesterday. 
EXCURSIONS ABOUT AMSTERDAM 
This is Blair Jaekel’s third article on the Netherlands. 
We’ve been receiving letters of appreciation from our 
readers with regard to this series. The author combines a 
keenly observant eye with a sense of dry humor, and the 
result is a treat. 
A California Supplement containing three special articles about the Golden State. A guide to California 
for the tourist and settler. 
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