Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-08-19
Something to
Think Ab0nt
INTERESTING PLACES.
METROPOLITAN newspaper re
By r. II. WALKER

4 METROPOLITAN newspaper re-
"A Gently featured the photographs
seen In a trip around the world.
They were as follows: The Great
Wall Of China, group of figures out
side a Buddhist temple to brighten
away evil spirits, the Households on
the canal at Canton, China, the an
Client instruments In the astronomical
observatory at Picking, the bank of
the Nile near Cairo, where, according
to local tradition, the daughter of
Pharaoh found the infant Moses In the
bulbrushes.
The interests Of this traveller were
apparently confined largely to the
Orient or else he traversed the most
of his journey with his eyes shut,
fault common to good many trav-
elers.
What are the five most interesting
examples of the handlwOrk Of man to
be seen In a trip around the world?
What are the five things most worth
seeing and remembering?
What would interest one would not,
perhaps, interest another, and the list
which is given below may not appeal
to you even though 1t be an opinion
compiled from the experiences Of
dozen or more world travellers who
discussed the interesting question.
Here are the things which were In
general agreed upon as the five things
most worth seeing:
The Tai Mahal at Agra In East In
dia. This is undoubtedly the most
wonderful example of architecture in
the world. 1t was built by Shah Jehan
to his favOrite sultana, MOomtaZ-i-
Mahul, and the romance of Its build
ing, If you will take trouble to look 1t
up In the library, you will find ex-
traordinarily interesting.
The Vatican at Rome. No building
In the world houses so many unre-
placeable treasures as the Vatican. It's
art riches, its wealth Of literary treas
ures exceed In interest and in value
any other single collection ever made.
The Mount Wilson observatory,
near Los Angeles, Cal. 1t is in this OBJ
servatory that is housed the 10O-inch
Hooker telescope with pierces
further into the unknown of space
than any other instrument that hui
man hands have devised. One mo-
ment's look through that magnificent
instrument would show you a new
universe which before 1t was built
had never been seen. 1t Is one Of the
scientific wonder spots Of the world.
Shakespeare's home at Stratford. 1t
was here that the master Of all writer's
retired after he had finished the great
est contribution to literature ever
written in any language or by any
man. 1t is an inspiration to stand
where he had once Stood to see some
Of the material things that were once
his companions.
The Panama canal. Undoubtedly
the greatest example Of mans eng-
neering genius since the world began.
There may have been greater difficult
ties to surmount in the building Of
the pyramids but they are useless
things, not so wonderful now as a
modern city skyscraper.
All FIVE of these things are the ac-
complishments of the brain of man.
Added to them the traveller around the
world would wish to see those other
and greater things that man has never
equaled: The falls at Niagara, the
Grand canyon, the mighty trees Of
California, the great tides Of Fundy,
the caverns at Luray, the mountain
Gus monuments Of God In the Alps
and the Himilayas, the supreme
beauty Of Lake Louise or the Bay Of
Naples.
To the traveller there is given the
great privilege of seeing with his own
eyes but even If you cannot travel,
the beauties and the wonders Of the
world are not denied you. You can
see them through the eyes of others
who have seen them and have written
down in graphic and truthful language
the wonders that they found.
If you are interested in any Of the
five things of man enumerated above
you can find them all Interestingly
written about In any good library, and
Of the greater things in nature hun
dreds of books have been written on
each Of them.
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