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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



and things oi that kind and have none 

 of the learning thai Arcadia gives you 

 aboul nature. 



MASTER CLARENCE McGARRY. 



'A place where your thoughts are heavenly and your 



'"ill is free from all temptations that may 



induce you to do wrong." 



interested and anxious to help Arcadia 

 in its strife for success is doing a good 

 deal. 



One day a man mistook Arcadia for 

 a gymnasium ; ordinarily people would 

 think that a very nonsensical idea, but 

 Arcadia is a gymnasium, but not one 

 to develop the muscles, but a gymna- 

 sium to develop the mind and brain 

 deeper into nature. 



If men and women who are striving 

 to make all the money they can would 

 think of other than this they would 

 hud that it would make the world 

 seem much more cheerful and bright 

 to them. 



Arcadia teaches you to be glad with 

 what you have and to not be grumb- 

 ling and scolding because some one 

 else has a little more than you have. 

 Some one else may have more monev 



SECOND PRIZE- A I'OCKKI MICROSCOPE. 



"Youk Thoughts are Heavenly and 

 Your Son. is Free." 



BY CLARENCE M'GARRY. 



Arcadia is a place where we may 

 go to study the things that the Lord 

 has given us, not the tilings that we 

 read out of books, but the birds, the 

 flowers and the trees. Arcadia means 

 a place set apart from the hum and 

 buzz of the city, a place where you 

 may go and rest your mind from the 

 toil and worry of a hard day's work; 

 a place where your thoughts are heav- 

 enly and your soul is free from all 

 temptations that may induce you to do 

 wrongf. 



THIRD PRIZE A POCKET MICROSCOPE. 



It Will Make Fresh aIixds. 

 by clara schotanus. 



Arcadia is a lovely place when all the 

 flowers and shrubs are in bloom. We 

 should stud}- nature all the time. Each 

 day learn something new about it if 

 you can possibly do so. Everybody 

 should study nature, young and old. 

 Our education is not complete without 

 knowing something about nature, or 

 the common objects around us. It 

 will make fresh minds of us and will 

 help us to be honest in our work. We 

 hone that everybody, young and old, 

 will understand and sympathize with 

 the work we are doing. We will have 

 to think about it and it will make us 

 love the flowers, trees and birds. 



Children who live in the crowded 

 cities have no chance to run around in 

 the fields and see what nature has done 

 for us, because there are no large fields 

 to run in. 



Listen to the sweet carols of the dif- 

 ferent kinds of birds. Hear the squir- 

 rel chatter in the tree and see the wild 

 rabbit olav in the field. 



