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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



cial preparations, rather than depend- 

 ing too much on the broom. 



The more one thinks of our aerial 

 enemies, which are always present in 

 innumerable forms of both organic and 

 of inorganic matter, and the more one 

 realizes the dangers of an exposure, for 

 even a brief period, to cultural material 

 on which bacteria may be advancing 

 toward a protuse harvest, the more con- 



with heavy foliage, in late autumn, 

 with bare limbs, and in winter with 

 those boughs clothed in snow or sleet. 

 Pictures never lose their interest, but 

 always satisfy, and the owner is truly 

 and deservedly proud to exhibit them, 

 unconsciously and naturally giving 

 them the best and most prominent 

 position on the walls or in the album 

 where they bring back, whenever look- 





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fident may one feel that good old 

 mother nature has done her best to 

 prepare us all with sufficient energy 

 and with the proper facilities for con- 

 tending against these enemies. We 

 may come off conquerors over most 

 of these invisible foes, if we cultivate 

 sufficiently our natural power of ob- 

 servation by study and by experiment, 

 and have energy and perseverance to 

 practice what we learn. Mother na- 

 ture may be a somewhat subtle per- 

 sonage, but she will help us to help 

 ourselves if we will allow her to do so. 



ed at, no matter how many years after, 

 happy recollections and fond remem- 

 brances. 



An Interesting Bat. 

 Mr. J. Willis Young, of Greenwich 

 Avenue, Stamford Connecticut, re- 

 cently contributed to Arcadia a live 

 bat of extremely interesting appear- 

 ance with unusually well-shaped mouth 

 and ears. It is not the common red bat 

 found almost everywhere, but is the 

 so-called silver haired bat, L,asionycteris 

 noctivagans. 



Good Words for Photographers. 



BY W. D. KVLE, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. 



They are little things to amuse, or 

 interest or mystify one's friends. The 

 supreme or fundamental object should 

 be, or, rather, the result wall be, a close 

 study and close approach to "Nature 

 in all her glorious moods." A true 

 nature lover never tires of studying 

 and talking pictures, at different sea- 

 sons of the year, of even the same 

 scene, some favorite view, a bit of river, 

 a cozy alcove or bayou in a wood sur- 

 rounded lake perhaps in the spring 

 with leaves half out, again in summer 



