THE CAMERA 



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Especially when You are before the Camera. 



Photographs on this and previous page by courtesy 

 of The New York Zoological Society. 



BUT REALLY IT IS TIRESOME TO KEEP ONE'S ARMS IN AN ELEVATED POSITION. 



are not large enough to contain them. 



Were it not for our increasing in- 

 telligence and our growing apprecia- 

 tion of the sublime and the beautiful 

 we should not have established our na- 

 tional parks. We have realized their 

 use and value in the generation in 

 which we live, and we have realized of 

 what inestimable worth they will be 

 to the generations yet to come. "A 

 thing of beauty is a joy forever," sang 

 Keats, and the verse has sunk so deep- 

 ly into the consciousness of the world 

 that it has become a proverb for all 

 peoples. In what supreme measure is 

 the saying true in this case. As the 

 years go on, as intelligence increases, 

 as civilization advances, as man's ap- 

 preciation and love of the sublime and 



beautiful enlarges, this park preserved 

 as God made it will be indeed "a joy 

 forever." 



Really, gentlemen who sneer at "na- 

 ture lovers" do not mean what their 

 disparagement might imply. They are 

 all themselves "nature lovers." All 

 men not congenitally defective are. 

 Even the savage, without understand- 

 ing his impression, looks with pleasure 

 on a beautiful landscape. Exactly in 

 the measure in which intelligence is 

 developed and civilization advances 

 does this appreciation and love in- 

 crease. The man or woman whose 

 broad culture and enlightened humani- 

 tarianism takes the most exalted form 

 seeks most and loves best "communion 

 with her visible form." 



