pmost tip, out of compliment to a
well-known pianist and politician, has been called the Magnetic Pole.

[Illustration: THE MAGNETIC POLE]

So far as we know, all the disadvantages of the North Pole are shared by
the South Pole, but for some reason the South Pole has never been so
successful as an advertising medium.

[Illustration: A PERFECT DAY IN NEW YORK]

[Illustration: A PERFECT DAY IN PHILADELPHIA]

CHAPTER XIX

AMERICA

[Illustration]

Let us see America first.

On a modern map of the Western Hemisphere America is as easy to see as
the Decorations on the breast of a Rear Admiral of a Dry Dock.

One wonders how it escaped being discovered so long!

But when you look at this map of the Western Hemisphere as it appeared
about a thousand years ago, when Lief Ericsen discovered New England,
you will understand that discovering America in those days was no
child's play.

Nevertheless, Lief, the son of Eric, did not think much of his find.

How could a lowbrowed viking be expected to understand Boston, much less
what was going to be Boston in a thousand years!

[Illustration: EARLY MAP OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE]

After writing his Impressions of America in obscure Runes on a
conspicuous rock, Lief pulled up his anchor and sailed home to Norway.

No one could decipher the Runes, but everybody suspected what they
meant.

And Lief was justly punished for his rudeness, his statue stands (so
runs the tale) in the Fenway of Boston to this day.

America was not discovered again for nearly five hundred years.

Then Christopher Columbus took a hand, but though he made four trips to
the New World, Columbus carelessly neglected to write a book or even a
magazine article on his Impressions of America.

[Illustration]

A new path in Navigation, just as in Art or Literature, once shown, is
easy to follow, and seven years later an Italian plagiarist named
Amerigo discovered America all over again and copyrighted the whole
continent in his own name.

By this time, as the accompanying map will show, the continent of
America had gained considerably in bulk and offered an easy mark to the
horde of discoverers who came in the wake of Amerigo.

And still they come--and though it is too late to secure a copyright on
the continent they never fail to copyright their impressions of
America.

[Illustration: THE MAYFLOWER]

CHAPTER XX

BOSTON

[Illustration: BOSTON _And Vicinit