One September day two hundred and sixty years ago, two French explorers moored their frail canoes in a sluggish stream, emptying into Lake Michigan, and gazed with dismay across a desolation of foul-smelling swamps. No human or habitation obscured their view. The only sounds of life issued from the wooded banks ahead where wild deer and buffalo fled in panic before the arrows of the unseen lords of these lands, moccasined red men who moved silently along the sandy portage from Lake Michigan to their hunting grounds along the Illinois River.....
On that morass of black mud, stagnant with water and overgrown with wild onion, has risen a modern Bagdad, its limitless horizons etched with the delicate tracery of steel skyscrapers, and its borders a succession of garden suburbs, model industrial villages and golden beaches where freighters lie, their masts aflutter with the flags of all nations.

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS
In 1893 a smaller and more gullible world thrilled to the knowledge that President Grover Cleveland, by pressing a button, had opened the gates of the World's Columbian Exposition. But on May 27th, 1933, a larger and more sophisticated world looked on with almost unbelieving eyes as a star, forty light years of 240 trillion miles away, threw the switch that started the illuminating machinery of Chicago's second world's fair--A Century of Progress.....No visitor who beheld the spectacular lighting display that followed could longer question the reality of the 1933 Babylon arisen there.

opened the gates of the World's Columbian Exposition. But on May 27th, 1933, a larger and more sophisticated world looked on with almost unbelieving eyes as a star, forty light years of 240 trillion miles away, threw the switch that started the illuminating machinery of Chicago's second worlds fair--A Century of Progress.....No visitor who beheld the spectacular lighting display that followed could longer question the reality of the 1933 Babylon arisen there. (page 25)

While the story of science's contribution to human progress is the theme of the Exposition, it is no stale tale, but a swift-moving narrative, made thus by the employment of "action" exhibits. Where former fairs have featured endless aisles of "still" displays, the wise sponsors of Chicago's Show, working on the premise that the 1933 man and woman want to see how things are made, decreed that it should be a pageant of processes rather than of products.

Grouped about Home Planning Hall, a vast H-shaped structure of bizarre, futuristic design, are eleven model houses--the goals of most feminine visitors to Chicago's centennial celebration. Although all of the houses are moderne in architecture and have for their interior motif the practical demonstration of the latest trends in home furnishing and decoration, lighting, labor saving devices, and combination heating and air-cooling plants, each is as different from its neighbor as the material used in constructing its outside walls.

The only thing, for instance, that the House of Glass has in common with its next door neighbor, the House of Tomorrow, is a matchless view across Lake Michigan. But even that is not static. For the House of Tomorrow is built upon a turntable so that its view may change with the moods of its occupants. And the enamel, the steel, common brick, synthetic stone, ordinary lumber, Florida stucco, cypress, and fabric houses have not even view in common.

Whether or not the new century for which these truly are new are designed will be able to eliminate neighbors who throw rocks, those who dwell in glass houses similar to the one on display need not worry...

Supplementing the extremely variegated displays of education, social work, child welfare, psychology, sociology, statistics, economics, and political science on view within the Hall of Social Science are a series of outdoor displays. Their exhibit hall is a tract of land directly north of the Thirty-first Street Entrance.

No stage spectacles are these, but living exhibits, composed of red-skinned men and maidens who are temporarily living within the landscaped Exposition grounds exactly as their grandfathers lived in the woods and on the plains of North America a century ago.

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
Dedicated to all the happy children who wander through it during A Century of Progress is the little folks' land of make-believe at the southerly end of Northerly Island--the Enchanted Island.
A veritable wonderland, people with the giant figures of such story-book heroes as the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, it centers about a miniature mountain that rises out of an artificial sea and down whose synthetic slopes children may slide.
Close by this mountain is the Children's Theater where plays are given for, by, and of children under the supervision of the Junior League of Chicago. And adjacent to it is the terminus of the miniatrue railway in whose pocket-sized coaches children may climb mysterious hills, wind in and out of shadowy caves, and travel along the shores of a seemingly big sea.
From the center of this enchanting island, landscaped paths radiate to a hundred other thrills. One leads to a miniature farm, stocked with the babes of the animal kingdom, baby chicks and goslings, a calf, lamb, colt, even a young burro. Others carry youthful visitors to Tony Sarg's marionette show, a house built of marbles, the crayon shop, an 8-track electric train, a merry-go-round, and a giant swing, a wading pool, and a beach with plenty of sand for digging.

Not the least of the Islands attractions are its checking facilities; here parents may leave their young in the care of trained nurse, confident of their safety as well as entertainment.

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