House and Garden 
SAN LUIS REY, NEAR OCEANSIDE 
civilization. The mission church was built 
as a rule of unburnt or adobe brick and 
tiles and the Indians were taught agriculture 
to support themselves. The tan, yellow and 
brown of these buildings lends wonderful 
charm to the paintings, especially in the San 
Diego Mission. Closely following this mis¬ 
sion, which was one of the first, came the 
Mission of San Carlos near the bay of Monte¬ 
rey, a modest undertaking that had no sug¬ 
gestion of the famous watering place which 
grew up near the ruins of its site. It is 
particularly interesting because here were 
buried the remains of many of the venerable 
men whose pious efforts created the missions 
and laid the foundation of civilization in 
California. There were in¬ 
terred here the remains of 
Father junipere Serra who 
perilled life on land and sea, 
and underwent starvation 
and want to found the 
buildings that to-day are 
crumbling in ruins. As an 
appreciation of his efforts, 
Mrs. Leland Stanford re¬ 
cently erected at Monterey 
a statue of Serra standing 
in a boat, as if about to land, 
with a tablet recounting 
O 
his heroic deeds; a fitting 
tribute to one to whom 
California really owes the 
foundation of her greatness. 
THE OLD FRANCISCAN MISSION OF SAN GABRIEL 
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