BUSINESS INVITATIONS FROM STAMFORD 



XI 



ber's beauty? Does it increase the 

 arm's usefulness? Does the tearing of 

 the skin from a birch tree — does it give 

 the tree a certain kind and a certain 

 amount of agony? Do you know that 

 it does not? Why not think it over? 

 The scoundrel that wounded those 

 lovely trees had forgotten, or more 

 likely had never heard of St. Paul's 

 command: "In conclusion, Brothers, 

 wherever you find anything true or hon- 

 orable, righteous or pure, lovable or 

 praiseworthy, or if 'virtue' and 'honor 

 have any meaning, there let your 

 thoughts' dwell." (St. Paul's Epistle 

 to the Philippians, 4: 8 — Twentieth 

 Century New Testament.) 'Tis good 

 advice. The reader, too, might con- 

 sider it for a moment or so. But first 

 listen to what Wilson Flaeg, in his 

 "Woods and By-Ways of New Eng- 

 land," says of the white birch: 



'The white birch is remarkable for 

 its elegance. Like the alder, it is em- 

 ployed by nature for the shading of her 

 living nictures, and for producing those 

 gradations which are the charm of 

 spontaneous wood-scenery. In all the 

 Northern States a pitch-nine wood is 

 generally fringed with white birches." 

 The main stem "extends to the summit 

 of the tree, giving out from all Darts 

 numerous slender branches, forming a 

 very neat and beautiful soray, of a dark 

 chocolate color, contrasting finely with 

 the whiteness of the trunk. The dura- 

 bility of the bark is said to be unsur- 

 passed by that of any other vegetable 

 substance. In the ruins of Dworotrkoi, 

 in Siberia, a niece of birch wood was 

 found changed into stone, while the 

 outer bark, white and shining, re- 

 mained in its natural state." It "is 

 found in the hiehest latitude in which 

 any tree can live. It is the last decid- 

 uous tree in the northern boundaries 

 of vec-etation in America and Europe, 

 before we reach the Arctic Circle.... 

 occunying the belt just below the line 

 of nernetual snow." 



Now let me remind you of St. Paul's 

 command, and let me leave it with you. 



But don't, oh don't call such ravag- 

 ing beautiful. 



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H. J. Flick 



PORTRAITS 



221 ATLANTIC ST. 



STAMFORD, : : : CONN. 



Telephone Connection 



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TOMPKINS' STONE 



is used to beautify Walks and Drives. 

 Especially Summer Places. 



WE CARRY IN STOCK THIS STONE 



We also deal in 



Coal, Wood and Drain Pipe 



CHAS. F. WATERBURY 



DAVID WATERBURY & SON 



Phone 270 Canal Dock Stamford 



Up-town Office: STARK BROS., 

 40 Park Row. 



Tt is certainly a most admirable pub- 

 lication and deserving- of great success. — 

 George Letchworth English, Shelby, 

 North Carolina. 



HURLBUTT BROTHERS 



cMerchant bailors 



Dealers in FINE READY-MADE 

 CLOTHING, GENT'S FUR- 

 NISHINGS, Etc. 



318 Main St., Stamford, Ct. 



