EDITORIAL AND GENERAL 



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MISS CLARA SCHOTANUS. 



'Run around in the fields and see what nature has 



done for us." 



honorary mention. 

 More Kind to Animals, 

 by everett mercer, aged 12. 

 Arcadia teaches us that there are 

 many pretty and interesting things in 

 the most common. It broadens our 

 minds and makes us better men and 

 women. It has made the children of 

 the Sound Beach school more kind to- 

 ward dumb animals and has taught 

 them to see beaut}- in the most com- 

 mon and everyday things of life. 



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Let Rocks Their Silence Break. 



BY VICTOR JONESj AGE 12. 



Arcadia is built of a lot of little- 

 buildings connected together. It is 

 planned like a park and has improved 

 the town wonderfully by its many 

 beautiful surroundings such as flowers, 

 shrubbery and trees. 



Everybody thinks that the rocks are 

 dead, but they are as much "alive" as 

 animals. If you study them you will 

 find out the good in them. 



If all the people would study nature 

 and spend les . time trying to make 

 more money than they need they would 

 find use in every little insect and stone. 



other good descriptions. 

 Help People Forget About Them- 

 selves, 

 by catherine a. brexxan. 



Arcadia is a place where the study 

 of nature is taught; to love nature; to 

 know her plants; trees and other 

 things; to help people forget about 

 themselves ; to preserve the plants 

 that are being destroyed by thought- 

 less people. 



Arcadia is also the home of The 

 Agassiz Association which is in itself 

 a preserver of nature. 



The study of bees and many more 

 insects is also being carried out and 

 many new points accomplished con- 

 cerning the different kinds of insects. 

 The study of the stars is also followed 

 up here. 



Arcadia's principal use is to help 

 people not to be so utilitarian, to think 

 of other things beside money, houses,, 

 to take notice, look around and see the 

 beautiful things which God has created 

 besides ourselves, with which to make 

 ourselves and others happy. 



BY DEMAREST ADAMS, AGE 8. 



Arcadia is to keep people from wor- 

 rying so much. 



"If They Only Knew." 

 by ernest larsox. 



Arcadia is for the purpose of study- 

 ing nature. Not only for young people 

 but for old people also. It is where 

 (lowers and other things, that are pro- 

 duced by nature, are taken so people 

 may study them, and find out about 

 the traits and habits, how they grow 

 md take their food from the soil. 



We study nature because it not onlv 



