THE NATIONAL | GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE MAY, 1930 e CONTENTS YB ce TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR Some Impressions of 150,000 Miles of Travel ‘With 80 Tlhustrations WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Scenes in the Fortunate Isles 12 Natural-Color Photographs Where Streets Are Carpeted with Flowers 13 Natural-Color Photographs WILHELM TOBIEN An Elysium for the Beauty-Seeking Traveler 14 Natural-Color Photographs Hunting for Plants in the Canary Islands With 38 Tiustrations DAVID FAIRCHILD PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALLTwo New Hoovers! Greatly Incroaved efficdanty. No increase in price Mictiel 725i the finest wbeeire cleaner sins bull, 259%, mareeMPicient thas eny previous Hoover, Medal $75, though selling at © poplar price, ye! fi mare sffichent than ony ther make of clecner ot any pei Do you wash the dishes “nearly clean“? HE children know that you have ao rigid The Hoover also cleans more speedily, and uses standard of cleanliness for faces ond hands; less human energy in its operation thon any you know thot you have an equally rigid cthercleaner. In addition, it gives scientific core standard for food and dishes and linen. How to floor coverings, removing unsightly thread about floor coverings — ere ‘and lint, lifting and stroight- you content when they ore ‘ening the nap end restoring merely “surface-clean"? the brightness of the eaters, Ask your Hoover dealer for a free trial or home dem- onstrotion of The Hoover and its efficient dusting tools. Only $6.25 down; bolonce monthly, Liberal allowance for your old cleaner. Descriptive booklet on request, Any woman wha uses a Hoover may have complete cleanliness of her rugs and carpets. The Hoover removes more dirt per minute than any other cleaner—thus giving deeper cleaning— because it gets out more than the surface dust which suction is able to remove. It shakes HOO\ 7 ER ES DOVER, COMPA lsose—by Positive Agitation “Lt METS NRC OATS) —the caked-grit deep inthe jy gaans. AS SLSMEPS-AS ir cigyg THe eldeet ond Lerneat nas fate rug. And that is the dirt which, ON & CUSHION OF AIR aia heeal & Ge eae left in, destroys your rug. Eanadsyar Henition, Onis © 180m, ie Hower OnVor. LVIL, S WASHINGTON SOME Or NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. | aan TARE oe ATA HORAN NOTES OGTR, De ne wna TAT AS ER NA IMPRESSIONS OF 150,000 MILES RAVEL By Wruam Howarp Tarr The hate Chief Sustic States, and hest-belowed st af the National Geographic Society aeith if for 2 Philippine Eslands, in May, ro03 «comprises tee of these adilre for publivation in the ather suluabie articles 10 The ne The dgwinent, and active support-—E DITOR, E before this alistigaished con ‘al company with ver able hesitation, Helonint as sens da heen enter: ovgraphic Sac arid ayn tained as sou hive heen by the articles that the Editor, Dr. bab been alle to secure on. sul r ae excur- re unexplored territe eleed most fascinating. d veries, that T cannot hope to titillate your mental palate by chtnmenplace a- Sevvationson commonplace subjects. which sre the only anes that T eau disctiss, v one cas reatl ‘The Magazine of the mnal Geagraphie Society and not n= detstand ie marvelons success that his heen made with it. ‘There has heen no pandering to the taste for muckraking for sex problems, upon whieh has been which have 3 sea, the nates fir Nariox at Gilocwatnic MAGAZINE 4 Ithile Pr "5 ceremonial me the Hubbard Gold Medal to the tate Nutiontd. Geographic Society William Howard Taft, former President of the United rican citizen, Mi He addressed Thie So ana many times thereafter. war awember of the Board of Trustees f heen generously cad actively identified y, after serving as Governor General The following hich he porsonaliy reviseat He eoutributed ten ‘ident of the United States de mgt, onl at one af them pre~ Ernest mer enves antec to fis conn Wilt so much of the magazine success: of the present day. ‘The effyrt has heer within the pruper line of geography, which in its large sense is a study of the topography, sitnarinn, extent-and climate of the earth's habitable areas and the re~ lation 6f the differences in them to the life and charaeteristies of the people whn live on them, ar, what is the same thing, the history of man ps affected hy his physical enyiromment, So it is that Dr. Grosvenor and his able assistants have carried 8 to the Philippines through the pages and w derful photographs of the man who in all the work! knows most about the Phil- pines, Dean C. Worcester, and espe- cially thelr nonsChristian tribes. Our late Minister to Greece has taken us to Mon tenegro und to Corinth amd to Athens, and given usa glimpse of the oldest and youngest of civilizations, Another, Mr, Prederick Moore, the As-