ONCE DE LEON, the Spanish knight, sailing in search of the Fountain of Youth, came to the flowercrested vistas of an enchanted land one Easter Sunday four hundred years ago. He called this country "Florida," Land of Flowers. We can only imagine with what heroic labors, what struggles with the elements, de Leon won his way to these strange shores. Today the traveler boards the luxuriously appointed trains of the SEABOARD AIR LINE, is transported swiftly and with every convenience to this land of marvelous climate, magnificent hotels, where all out-door sports are enjoyed during the Winter months. The Seaboard Air Line Railway is the shortest, most attractive FLORIDA CUBA GEORGIA The Carolina Resorts Pinehurst and Southern Pines, N. C., Camden and Columbia, S. 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THE POINT OF VIEW-When Youth is Youth-Those the Opera Delights Not- 737 741 751 763 767 768 772 7-7 THE FIELD OF ART-" Pauline" (Mr. Manship's Portrait of His Daughter at the THE FINANCIAL WORLD-Prophecies Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner's Sons. All rights reserved. Entered at New York Post-Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post-Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. HERE is one advertisement in this December SCRIBNER There is also a product or a firm advertised here that How well can you express your critical opinions on these If your criticisms are the best that we receive, we shall send you, without $50.00 Set of Rudyard Kipling Outward Bound Edition. 25 Volumes Bound in Cloth For the second and third and fourth best criticisms, we shall send a set of CAUTION: 1st-In arriving at your choice, consider the small advertisements as well as the large ones. 3d-Be sure to send in your suggestions before the 15th of December, 1916. 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