

THE GUIDE T< > NATURE 



"Practical" Suggestions — Wise and 

 Otherwise." 



Occasionally suggestions have been 

 made to us that our circulation might 

 he increased if we should offer "prac- 

 tical" directions. We found, upon in- 

 quiry, that this advice contained a 

 meaning of the word practical new to 

 us. It meant how to make money. We 

 had supposed that it was practical to 

 accomplish the object sought, to at- 

 tain to our point of view from which 

 nature and the knowledge of nature 

 appear to be an end in themselves. But 

 not so, it has been argued, not only by 

 our readers but by the editors of some 

 other magazines by whom articles on 

 nature have been returned because 

 they were not "practical": that is, they 

 did not tell how to make money. And 

 those fault-finding readers and editors 

 are wise. They evidently voice a de- 

 mand. 



Thus we have published articles on 

 pet rabbits and caries, honeybees, the 

 raising of dahlias, peonies, orchids. 

 The sin of omission appears to be that 

 we supposed these things to be an end 

 in themselves, and not to be done to 

 "make money" with which to buy 

 something else. YYe were hoping that 

 we are right and must confess that we 

 have not yet been convinced that we 

 arc wholly wrong to build up a maga- 

 zine on nature for her own sake. But 

 it appears, from the rapidly growing 

 circulation and sumptuous pages of 



those magazines devoted to the getting 

 of money from suburbs, country and 

 farm, that it pays to teach the "prac- 

 tical." So, spirit of Huber, Jefferies 

 and Thoreau, pardon us ; we must lapse 

 a little from the enjoyment of nature, 

 for its own sake and be "practical." 



$$ THE JOYS OF GOING NUTTING. $$ 



Now is the time to go nutting. Boys 

 and girls in their leisure hours, men 

 on Sundays when the factories and 

 stores are closed, and women between 

 the times of preparing the daily meals, 

 should now go nutting. Let it be ex- 

 plained to you who have recently 

 moved to the suburbs that nuts can 

 now much better be gathered than in 

 April. They bring a good price per 

 bushel, and the demand has been in- 

 creasing. Since Teddy went to Africa, 

 more people are becoming vegetarians. 



P. S. — Do not go nutting when you 

 are working at something else. Re- 

 member the old adage — "Une thing at 

 a time." 



$$ RAISE CHICKENS — THE FLUFFY $$ 

 DEARS. 



A timely hint : borrow your sitting 

 hen now. She may not be broody but 

 she will be by next spring when you 

 most need her. It is always best to 

 plan things ahead. By the way, do 

 not forget that you will need eggs 

 when she wants to sit, but you cannot 

 get them yet. They will not keep un- 

 less packed in salt. In case of short- 



