The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-09-22
Something TO
Think Ab0uf

By r. Il. WALKER
A METROPOLITAN newspaper re
IA Gently featured the photographs


seer in a trip around the world.
They we're as follows: The Grea
Wall of China, a group of figures out
side a Buddhist temple to brighter
away evil spirits, the houseboats OF
the canal at Canton, China, the an
Gent 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
b~ulbrushes.
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, q
fault common to a good many trav-
elers.
What are the five most interesting
examples of the handiwork 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 IN opinion
compiled from the experiences of a
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 romano of its build
ing, if you will take trouble to look 1t
up in the library, you will find ex-
t~raordinarily interesting.
The Vatican al Rome. No building
in the world houses so many unre-
~placeable treasures as the Vatican. Its
art riches, it's 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 hat is housed the l00-inch
Hooker telescope with pierces
further into the unknown of space
than any other instrument that hu
man hands have devised. One mo-
ment's look through that magnificent
instrument would show you a new
universe which before it was built
had never been seen. n IS one of the
scientific wonder spots of the world.
Shakespeare's home at Stratfbrd. 1t
was here that the master of all writer's
retired after he had finished theNgreat-
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 engi-
genius since the world began.
There ma 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,
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
To the traveller there is given the
great privilege of seeing with his own
eyes but ever 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
he wonders that they found.
If YOU are interested in any OF the
i've things of man enumerated above
Won can find them all interestingly
about in any good library, and
the greater things in nature hun
1reds of books have been written on