We never visit the Metropolitan Art Museum, but we cross Europe to visit galleries of lesser interest.

We choose a night boat down the majestic Hudson, and we suffer untold discomforts by day on crowded little boats paddling down the comparatively insignificant Rhine.
Every country possesses its own peculiar advantages and beauties.
There is no desert so barren, no mountains so bleak, no woods so wild that to those who dwell therein their home is not beautiful.
The Esquimau would not exchange his blinding waste of snow and dark fields of water for the luxuriance of tropic vegetation.

Why should we exchange the glories of the land we live in for the footworn and sight-worn, the thumbed and fingered beauties of other lands?
If we desire novelty and adventure, seek it in the unexplored regions of the great Northwest; if we crave grandeur, visit the Yellowstone and the fastnesses of the Rockies; if we wish the sublime, gaze in the mighty chasm of the Canon of the Colorado, where strong men weep as they look down; if we seek desolation, traverse the alkali plains of Arizona where the trails are marked by bones of men and beasts; but if the heart yearns for beauty more serene, go forth among the habitations of men where fields are green and sheltering woods offer refuge from the noonday sun, where rivers ripple with laughter, and the great lakes smile in soft content.
Unhappy the man who does not believe his country the best on earth and his people the chosen of men.
The promise of automobiling is knowledge of one's own land.

The confines of a city are stifling to the sport; the machine snorts with impatience on dusty pavements filled with traffic, and seeks the freedom of country roads.

Within a short time every hill and valley within a radius of a hundred miles is a familiar spot; the very houses become known, and farmers shout friendly greetings as the machine flies by, or lend helping hands when it is in distress.
Within a season or two it will be an every-day sight to see people journeying leisurely from city to city; abandoned taverns will be reopened, new ones built, and the highways, long since deserted by pleasure, will once more be gay with life..