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 If Maeterlinck had known Florida, the quest of the Blue-Bird Would perhaps have heen told in 
 fewer Words, for down in this sea-girt, flowerp State lies the Wap to Happiness. The home of the 
 novelist's elusive songster is on the ever-green shores of the Florida Coast, in featherp palm-groves, 
 where whispering Winds sing softlp, the hlue Atlantic hreaks on a golden strand and sunn-ff skies 
 shed their radiance over all created things. 
 
 Unlike mantp Winter resorts, Florida is not a mental attitude due to a man made atmosphere, 
 Wonderful and complete as are the Works of human hands there, hut rather a delightful, living reality 
 fashioned in the hour of Nature's happiest mood, endowed with the rarest gifts of climate, and With 
 a heautp of limitless extent, and where plant and animal life thrive because it is not possible to 
 avoid doing so, people Will also be happip because it is in the air, brought and kept there bff the 
 sweetness of the soft salt-laden Winds and the smiling skies above them. 
 
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 Florida's climate rivals the Italian Riviera and to get there is far more Within the reach of the 
 average bus]P American; and social gaipety or quiet living is as attractive as on the shores of the 
 Mediterranean. From Jacksonville to Keip West, along the East Coast and through Central Florida 
 to the West Coast is a continuous Winter plaip-ground Witheverip possible means of enjo-gment pro- 
 vided to suit the requirements of every human taste or fancy. The finest hotels in the World are 
 there, and filled throughout the season With smartest social life on the continent; and also, in end- 
 less numbers are charming, quiet retreats where society does not rule and there are no troublesome 
 formal exactions. Every known form of outdoor pleasuring is pursued in Florida, Without the 
 necessity of considering any adverse climatic conditions, for the Winter skies are always smiling 
 and December breezes are as balmy as May day zephyrs. You can golf at Christmas tide on the 
 best links in the country; motor in mid-Winter over the finest of roads and speed up your "90" on 
 the hardest beach speedways in the World. You can fish in the deep sea, or drop your line into 
 placid inland Waters; you can sail, or run your natty motor boat on ideal bays and inlets, or pilot 
 your jaunty steam yacht over the ocean Waves and come to anchor in safe havens, where sea and 
 shores are all lighted With the glinting rays of hundreds of electric lamps. There is Wonderful 
 miles of hard-surface roads that reach to the inland country, or down, all the Way to the coast. 
 
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WINDSOR HOTEL FROM HtMMING PARK, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 
 
JACKSONVILLE TERMINAL. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 
 
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HOTEL PONCE DE LEON, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 
 
 NOTED FOR THEIR SPANISH AND MOORISH ARCHITECTURE. 
 
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 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALCAZAR AND CORDOVA HOTELS FROM THE PONCE OE LEON. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 
 
TWO OF THE OLDEST RELICS. ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA. 
 
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HOTEL ORMOND, ORMOND BEACH, FLA. VIEW FROM HY D RO- AE ROP LAN E, SHOWING GOLF COURSE AND OCEAN. 
 
CASINO BURGOVNE AND BUSINESS SECTION, BEACH STREET. DAYTONA. FLA. 
 
FRONT VIEW OF ROYAL POINCIANA HOTEL AND GROUNDS. PALM BEACH, FLA 
 
 BATHING SCENE. BREAKERS HOTEL, PALM BEACH, FLA. 
 
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 ROYAL POINCIANA GOLF LINKS AND CLUB HOUSE, PALM BEACH. FLA. 
 
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