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| studied with interest a large picture near the door on the wall to my right. It showed a city which at first glance seemed little different from those on our Earth, except that it was laid out in circular form instead of the series of hard rectangles usual with us. But the architecture was very different. | hardly know how to describe it, for not one of our many architectural styles approximates it in any way. Here was perfection of the graceful lightness and delicacy for which many of our better modern architects are striving but have never quite achieved. It was the kind of city of which men dream, but never see on our Earth. | had guessed, before | was told, that the city depicted here was on Venus, this ship?s home wlan planet. On the other side of the door was yet another painting, a pastoral scene of bills and mountains with a stream running through the farmland. This might have passed even more easily for an earthly scene except that the farmhouses were not scattered around the countryside, but also followed a circular plan. | was told that this arrangement had been found more practical in enabling these farm Wo Ralf a. .£ftatea 2 fet 2. eee btw groups to become small, self-sufficient communities, containing everything necessary to supply all essential commodities for the country folk. On Venus there is true equality in all respects, including allocation of commodities. Trips to the cities, then, need be undertaken only for pleasure or for personal reasons. On the opposite wall, behind the long table, | noticed a picture of a large mother ship, and | wondered whether it represented the one we were in. But as this thought passed through my mind, the little lady from Venus corrected it by saying, ?No, our ship is really very small in comparison. That one is more like a traveling city than a ship, since its length is several miles, while ours is only two thousand feet.? | realize that my readers are likely to consider such dimensions incredible, and | readily admit that | myself was unprepared for anything so fantastic. However, it is necessary to remember that, once we have learned to harness the great natural energies instead of depending on mechanical force, it should be no more difficult to build cities within the walls of gigantic ships than on the ground. London and Los Angeles are cities nearly forty miles wide which were built largely by crude machines and manpower?a prodigious achievement in itself. Once gravity is mastered, cities in the air for us, too, can be4 come a reality. ?Many such ships have been built,? Kalna explained, ?not only on Venus but also on Mars and Saturn and many other planets. However, they are not intended for the exclusive use of any particular planet, but for the purpose of contributing to the education and pleasure of all citizens in the whole brotherhood of the Universe. People naturally are great explorers. Therefore, travel in our worlds is not the privilege of the few, but of all. Every three months a fourth of the inhabitants of our planets embark on these gigantic ships and set out for a cruise through space, stopping at other planets just as your cruise liners stop at foreign ports. In this way our people learn about the mighty Universe and are enabled to see, firsthand, a little more of the ?many mansions? in the Father?s house to which your Bible refers. ?In the temples of wisdom on our planets we have many mechanical devices by means of which our citizens also can study conditions in other worlds and