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44 WILMETTE GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS "Stone LIFE December 20, 1929 RAYMOND-WHITCOMB EXICO LAND CRUISES A Mexico City-already ancient when the Spanish Conquistadors supplanted the proud Aztecscan be visited this Winter in the most comfortable circumstances ever presented. A week in the brilliant Mexican capital, with its gay boulevards and splendid arc hi. . tecture. and visits to Cuemaoaca, Xochimilco, Puebla, the Pyramid&. o/ T eotihuacan, Guadalupe and Workers" and "Philippine Exhibit~" at 11 and 3 o'clock, respectively, Monday, December 23, are the subjects of the first of next week's guide-lecture tours for the public at Field Museum of Natural History. On Tuesday at the same hour subjects will WHAT HO, KOREA be "Tibetan Art" and "Bronze and Korea ! Our imagination faints and Copper Workers"; on Thursday there will be two general tours of anthropol- all but fails at the mere mention of ogical, botanical, geological and zoolog- Korea! What is it like? What as our ship leaves China and goes northical exhibits. ward up into the Sea of Japan, will we find at that place on the map labelled, so confidently that someone must know something about it, "Korea." It seems that in ancient days the "islands and archipelagoes" off this ON LAKE OSCEOLA coast were disastrous to navigation an;l In Florida's Most BeautJtul many a ship was lost here leaving its Small City crew, if any of it survived at all, tp be captured and perhaps tortured by WINTER PARK the hostile natives. Some of these sad Open December to April experiences have been mildly commemorated ·in the names given to cerExcellent Service Table and tain places, 11 Deception Bay," ulnsuit Every room steam heated. Island," "False River." Our heart goes Putting course on grounds. out to the poor mariners who did not Excellent 18·Hole Golf Coune. dare be any more profanely explicit Will be pleased to give Wilmette than that! How little from such acreferences upon request. counts can we guess that Korea is called by its inhabitants "The Land of the Morning Radiance." It is a place of J. J. HENNESSY, Mgr. Dlr. exceptional natural beauty, a beauty Summer Season : which seems to have caught the imaginOcean llouse, Watch Hlll, R. I. ations of its people as shown by the names of their mountains. "The Mountain Fronting on the Moon," The Last- E,SIHER. GOULD~S TRAVEL CORNER. ing Peace" the "Heaven Reaching Peak," the "Cloud Toucher." Can these mild nature lovers be the same om~s who were so inhospitable to their early callers? But times have changed now, unJer the present ruler, foreigners are welcomed and many of the industrial ideas and social reforms of the West are finding their way into this hitherto isolated little country. The present people are peace-loving! kindly, and li~e quiet and reposeful hves. Thev sttll follow, it seems, the rather unfortunate-for the women-custom of ha\'ing the women do all the work. They keep in spite of foreign contact thc:ir own distinctive styles of architecture and of clothes, the latter ·made of marvelously fine lawn or silk. The court lives a life of well developed culture and intrigue. Their most picturesque art is the dance of \\,·hich they ha\·e very beautiful native types. It offers us ~ whole new wor1d to explore-this land of the Morning Radiance! VIRGINIA INN MISTLETOE EXHIBIT As the Christmas holidays approach, a general \\·arning is appropriate that the perils or delights, according to the point of view, of the Phoradenclron a~e imminent. Anvone at anv moment JS likelv to becon,-e a victim ;r beneficiary as the case may be. \Vhat is the Phoradendron? That is the scienti fie name that the botanists apply to the plant known by the less erudite simply as mistletoe. An ex'hihit of several kinds of mistletoe illustrating how they grow, more or less parasitically, on other plants and trees in the \Yilcl . is a feature of the hall 0f plant life at Field Museum of Katural Hi:-; tory. lt is clue to its habit of growing attached to the branches ·of trees that the mistletoe has long been invested by manv peoples of the world with a mystic iore. From the superstit.i ons surrounding it has developed. the Christmas time custom among Europeans and Americans whereby a person ·standing in proximity to a twig of the shrub may be kissed without hesitation and without the formality o.f permission. This custom originated among the German and. Britons. Among the ancient Germans and the British Druids the mistletoe was esteemed as sacred. The Celts belie\·ed it possessed magical powers. Among the Norsemen there is a legend of the slaying of an ancient warrior, Bald.c r, with a spear of mistletoe. Years ago the mistletoe was reputed to have valuable medical properties, but this idea has been abandoned. THE ROAD OF UNUSUAL SERVICE Monterre)). A From San Antonio-January 29 to February I 0. February 11 to February 23. February 24 to March 8. Or in conjunction with a Land Cruise to California, leaving Chicago January 26, February 7 and 21. $325 and up from San Antonio and return. GOLDEN STATE WINTER ~IR~LE TOURS Personally Escorted All-Expenses Included Visiting Old Mexico; over the fascinating Apache Trail, through southern ArizonaAmerica's Garden of Allah, Carriso Gorge, San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside and the Orange Empire, SantaBarbara, Old Missions, Del Monte, San Francisco, American River Canyon, Salt Lake City, Colorado Rockies, Royal Gorge, Colorado Springs and many other interesting places. An ideal care-free three-weeks winter vacation providing highest class hotel accommodations and motor car service, arranged on a comfortable schedule and at a price surprisingly low. 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