Amador ledger., 1901-07-12
POLLY LARKIN
Observation-Disclosures


very appropriately called "Vacation."
From start to finish it is gem, giving
you full list of all the summer resorts
and mineral springs, where the broken
down in health people can partake OF
the sparkling waters and enjoy new
lease on life, and full list of the sub
urban town and country homes that
are DESTROYS of varying the monotony of
their quiet life by taking summer board
ers, as well as all necessary information
for those who nothing short of real
camp life and an out and out outdoor
life will satisfy. 1t gives you over two
hundred places from which to select
your summer abiding place, with the
various attractions of each place, the
terms, and full directions how to reach
it and the cost of transportation, be-
sides a long lisG of the various hotels in
the towns and their rates per week and
month. In fact this little book, eva
cation" does all of your thinking and
planning for you. You have only to
glance over it and make your selection.
Did L say glance over it? Well, you
can't do it, for it is gotten up so attract
lively and so beautifully Illustrated with
scenes pertaining to the various sec
tons that before you know it the sec
onds that you had taken to glance
over Vacation" have slipped into
minutes, and the minutes into some
thing like an hour. 1t is such fascin-
ating little book for pleasure seekers,
and seems to anticipate what you de-
sire most. 1t takes you all through the
beautiful Mendocino, Sonoma, Russian
River and Marin valleys into the very
heart of the redwoods and the shady
trout steams teeming with speckled
beauties, and what enhances the latter
/ to the angler who would rather fish
than eat, these same trout streams
have been replenished by thousands of
little fry from the California North
western Railway Company's own fish
hatchery near Ukiah. But for the
company's efforts the streams would
have long since been robbed of their
finny tribe. AS it is, however, there is
still rare sport for the disciples of Isaac
Walton. A friend who picked up my
little booklet, Vacation" said: "Its
almost as good as taking trip, to read
this book, Polly. You can almost i'm
agine you were already there in some of
the places, and the pictures are so love
ly of the many resorts and recreations
that these places hold in store for the
summer guests. 1t makes one long to
pack their trunk and get out of the
city on short ORDER" "Vacation" is a
good book to keep for future reference.
Now comes Jules HenrivauX, till
lately director of glass mandatory
at St. GObain, who predicts that the
coming or new age is to be glass Mr..
Henrivaux holds that glass is the best
substance known to use for every kind
of structural purpose, and is especially
adapted for dwelling houses. AS there
is an inexhaustible supply of materials
from which glass is made, in its adap-
liability to all shapes and forms and its
durability as we'll as it's cleanliness, and
that it can be shaped, colored and deco
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material is capable, and it is upon this
aspect of the idea that Mr.. HenrivauX
allows his imagination to dwell and
builds his castles in the air and fur
nishes them with chairs and tables all
made of glass, or in other words, vltri-
fed materials toughened to the strength
of teak and mahogany. He does not
stop here, however, but cooking uten-
sis, plates, cups and saucers will be
made of the same substance. This
house of glass will be absolutely clean
and can be kept clean from horrid
microbes. You can turn the hose on
this glass house and wash it from garnet
to cellar without leaving trace of hui
Nudity. Dust will have to seek some
other abode, and the industrious spider
will not be able to spin his dainty lacy
cobwebs, for the polished surface gives
him no chance of swinging his little
hammocks in some convenient corner
out of reach of the thorough house
keepers broom.