Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-25

A Tribute to Home knowledge.
So many of our leading journals
have adopted the plan of furnishing
art portfolios to their subscribers at
the bare cost OF production, that the
realizes that its patrons
should be afforded like opportunity
for securing this aid to home knowl-
edge. The success of the Worlds
Fair portfolios so widely distributed by
the S. +. Examiner, indicates the de-
mand for such information, and in the
selection of an educational medium,
we have concluded that an object Of
like interest might be subserved by
the dissemination of information re.
lating to our own country.
Americans are busy, hurrying, push
ing people. We run under full head
of steam from life's beginning to its
end. Our main object seems to be to
make living and get on in the world.
Both are very laudable characters tics,
if not pushed to the extreme. In many
instance we would save time and make
more money by going slower and Civ.
ing more though and study TO our
surroundings. Not only this, but every
American ought to consider it . patri-
otto duty to be we'll posted about his
country and its special characteristics.
In love Of country and bravery in de-
Tending its honor, no other nation or
people excel us; but in a. general
knowledge of our native land, its
scenery, its mountains, river, lakes,
glaciers, canyons, waterfalls, superla-
tive wonders of our natures handiwork
possibilities and resources of different
sections, and the varied characteristics
of its people, we are undoubtedly be-
hind the citizens of other nations.
There is, or has been, . reason for this.
Perhaps, several of them. In the first
place, we are too busy to travel and a
very large majority OF them have not
the means to travel if they had the
time. Then again. our country is 90
vast that it would require almost a
fortune to travel over it and study its
features, AS other people in the smaller
countries which they inhabit.
These very substantial obstacles
have been removed to very large ex.
tent by the recent publication of a
valuable and beautiful work on
America entitled" OUR Own COUNTRY"
We want to call your special atten.
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of the goodwill and favor of every
American citizen. 1t represents and
reproduces in splendid photographs
and eloquent descriptions every par,
and section OF our country. The
photograph are ravishingly beautiful
while the pleasure of beholding them
is largely increased by u knowledge OF
the fact that they are accurate and
true.
A drawing or engraving, be it ever
so fine, can only show an object OF
landscape as the artist sees it, but the
photograph gives it the living imita.
ton of the thing itself, and when these
photographs are printed in the natural
cOlOrs with the softness, beauty and
artistic shading that distinguishes first
class works of his character, our
pleasure is increased hundred fold.
Z" Our Own COUNTRY" is the best and
most useful of all of the many ex.
cellent series of portfolios that have
been issued and the WASHINGTON
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hundred photographs in natural photo
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descriptions, anecdotes, events and
other matters OF interest and value,
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there will be q special portfolio of
water colors, representing the most re-
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series. The first number, now ready,
contains the following Photographic
views, with description and text mat
ter:
A Country Stream; On the Banks
of the Merimec; Summer Time in
Minnehaha: Minnehaha Greek Below
the Falls; Old Fort Smelling; Phan-
tom Rock, Camp Douglas, Wisconsin |;
Minnehaha in Winter; Mirrored
Rocks, Dells of the Wisconsin; Raft
ing in the pells of the Wisconsin |;
Beleaguered Castle, Camp Douglas
Witches Gulch, Dells of the Wiscon-
sin; Romance Cliffs, Dells of the
Wisconsin; Sugar Loaf, Mackinac
Island, Lake Superior; Whaleback
Steamboats, Of the Northern Lakes
Summering in the Apostles Islands
Camping in the pine woods OF Wis
consin; Scene on the St. Croix River,
near the Falls; Flowing for Wheat in
Northern Dakota; Pictured Rocks of
Lake Superior; Rustic Bridge in the
Black Hills of Dakota; Some bad
Indians" belonging to the Government
Police; Camp OF Ojibway Indians,
Minnesota; A Ranch in North Da-
kota; Falls of Miners River, near
Lake Superior; Sioux Indian Hut OF
North Dakota and Manitoba.