Life — July 15, 1897 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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53 region, crowded with mountains, forests, streams and lakes. The principal industries of the Granite State —so called from its cardiac condition—are poli- tics, cotton cloth and summer boarders, varied by railroad phlebotomy. The summer boarder is born, not made, though his native gullibility may be developed by judicious training. By the processes of evolution, the summer boarder is enabled to raise a new growth of feathers during the cool season, to replace those plucked during the summer. The raw material for the New Hampshire boarder is raised principally in Massachusetts, which overflows its borders in hot weather, deluging New Hampshire with this summer biped. They are captured by the fierce mountaineers and carried into the deep fast- nesses of the hills, where they are kept all summer and sent back to their own habitat in the fall, picked to the bone. Long years of training has engendered a haughty sense of superiority in these Swiss of New England, who make forays into Massachu- setts, capturing all the public offices in that State “TO THE RESCUE! ME FORTUNE 1S MADE! become an expert roof-gardener, The roof- garden of the future will be different, of course. Some capitalist will doubtless ar- range the top of his sky-scraper with this particularly in view, and we shall have the concomitants of elevation, good music, good fluids and low prices, associated with real trees, real vines, real arbors, real humming- birds and real fuzzy caterpillars, and no variety show, Metcalfe. LIFE’S PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURS. NEW HAMPSHIRE. F there is one place more than another where a tropical welcome awaits the tourist, it is in New Hamp- shire, a region situated in the northeastern part of the United States, in the neighbor- nood of Can: adaand Mas- ‘'! ENJOY KILLING DRAGONS FOR THE SAKE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS Sachusetts. Oxieanrnt © New Hamp- shire is a confederationof left vacant by the modest Celt. The office of naval officer summer resorts, banded of the port of Boston is permanently garrisoned by New into a commonwealth for Hampshire, and no native of the Bay State has been found the protection of its per- bold enough to venture near it. manent residents and the During the winter the mountaineers wage relentless sooting of its transient war on the railroads, compelling them to disgorge, reluc- visitors. It is a lovely tantly, their share of the summer plunder; but in warm a comicbooks.com