A PICTORIAL PRESENTATION OF HOTELS, RANCHES AND RESORTS OF ARIZONA.

Arizona The Ideal Vacation Land of the World

SOME states are winter states, offering climate and entertainment for tourists during that season; some states are spring states, some summer states and some autumn states. But Arizona is a twelve-month state, and could be a thirteener if we could get another thirty days crowded into the year. There is no day in the 365 when you cannot find a climate to delight you somewhere in Arizona. And wherever you find that day, be it in the north, east, south, or west, there is something amazing, something stupendous, something startingly beautiful to look at and something for you to do that you will never forget.

Arizona is so crowded with wonders that it is a bit embarrassing. But it is not our natural wonders alone that make Arizona the ideal vacation land of the worldit is the air we keep our wonder, preserved in. I, personally, never understood what a pleasure ordinary breathing is until I got my first sniff of Arizona air.

I never understood what complete contentment was until I went to live for a while on a remote cattle ranch and chased big cows and little cows and medium sized cows over so much landscape that I became aware of my own littleness. I, who always regarded a horse and a tarantula with equal aversion, discovered that a saddle is a sort of pulpit from which you preach to yourself, and the subject of your sermon is: "I am the Captain of my soul."

So, if you have been booted around by the cock-eyed world and the addle-pated cookoos who are trying to magnify its simple cat-fits into convulsions, come out to Arizona. In twenty-four hours you will have discovered the vastness and the permanence of the world, and that emperors, kings, dictators of foreign or domestic brand are only wigglers on a pond of brackish water. You get a sense of proportion, discard fear, and repossess yourself of common sense. That is what Arizona will do for you.