RANA GERUMP SAYS: 



All Of Nature. 



If nature-study is to do its work for the 

 coming generation and bring about that 

 perfect sympathy with the whole great out- 

 of-doors and establish spiritual as well as 

 bodily sanity, it must stand for all of na- 

 ture and not for detached bits of it which 

 may be utilized in this or that other study 

 or enterprise. The child forgets himself 

 when he is doing the best nature-study, 

 which should give him sympathy and under- 

 standing with all birds and not merely with 

 the ones which work for him; and for all 

 trees whether they make good timber or not; 

 and for all insects whether they help or 

 hinder him or remain neutral; and for the 

 skies and the eternal stars as well as for 

 the soil beneath his feet. 



It is only in the larger sense and in the 

 widest bounds that the companionship with 

 nature may be established, and this ideal is, 

 after all, what makes nature-study worth 

 while. — Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, in 

 "The Nature-Study Review." 



What Airs. Comstock says is timely 

 but it is only half good. We not only 

 need all nature, but we need it for all 

 people. Why in all that is good and 

 true, beautiful and beneficial should we 

 limit an interest in nature to "the 

 child?" Perhaps the most deplorable 

 conviction in the popular human mind 

 to-day is that good old Mother Nature 

 is all right for the children to study or 

 to admire, but that men and women 

 must look for something different. Can 

 it be possible that any human being, 

 when he reaches the age of twentv-one 

 has grown out of touch with the earth 

 or with the heavens above? Do not 

 abandon old Mother Nature and wan- 

 der away from her loving interests, to 

 search for the almighty dollar to spend 

 for golf, for flying machines, for frivol- 

 ities. As long as we live let us all 

 remain children in her sight. 



Go roam in the land of-out-of-doors, 

 'Twill banish that tired look of yours. 



Nature study is an asset you can have with- 

 out money and without price, yet its 

 results will be priceless to you. 



The sun is the very best of M. D's, yet his 

 services are free to all! 



Let your pleasures overflow 

 On the heads of those below: 

 They'll return to you again, 

 Purified by other's pain. 



He Proved his Fish Story. 

 Many Stamford fishermen have told 

 big stories about their catching of big 

 fish, but Mr. E. B. Hoit, who tells a 

 big story, brings a photograph of his 

 big fish to protect him from possible 



MR. E. B. IIOIT KNOWS HOW TO CATCH THE 

 BIG ONES! 



assault, verbal or other kind. He re- 

 cently caught two hundred pounds of 

 groupers at Sarasota, an island in the 

 Gulf of Mexico, off the west coast of 

 Florida, 

 shown in 



raph. 



Some of these huge fish are 

 the accompanying photo- 



Are you getting distraught with these trials 



of yours? 

 Let me whisper a word to you: — Move out 



of doors. 



