LAND AND WATER image Steamship Battling with the Marcel Waves The terrestrial Globe is pleasingly tinted in blue, pink, yellow and green. The blue portion is called Water and is inhabited by oysters, clams, submarines, lobsters and turtles, besides delightful schools of fishes and whales. The pink, yellow and green portions are called Land and are alive with human beings and other animals and vegetables. image The College Yell of a School of Whales Besides the animals and vegetables there are mountains, table-lands, rivers, forests and lakes. In former times mountains were used as protective barriers. Today they serve as monuments to Public Men for whom they are named (See Presidential Range), and country seats for retired Grocers and Fishmongers. image The Presidential Range Showing comparative height of principal peaks.—Reading from left to right: Mt. Washington—Jefferson—Lincoln—Cleveland—Roosevelt—Wilson. Note:—At the moment this picture was taken a war cloud drifted over the last two peaks.—Until the cloud passes it will be impossible to ascertain their altitudes. Rivers are the most curious and interesting form of Water. image A River Bed The first thing a river does after rising is to betake itself as fast as it can to the nearest River-Bed, in which it remains for the rest of its days. The largest river in the world is the Amazon, named after the single-breasted suffragette of ancient times. QUESTIONSHow many rivers can get into one river-bed? Why is a Congressman? image Noah Sighting Ararat When Noah saw the flood subside, |