A Carload of Young Women at 

 ArcAdiA. 



The Inkowa Club of New York City, 

 having chartered a special car for the 

 trip, spent Memorial Day at ArcAdiA. 

 The young women composing this club 

 arrived in the early part of the forenoon 

 and spent the entire day, participating in 

 the forenoon in the exercises under the 

 auspices of The Sound Beach Associa- 

 tion in an extensive and patriotic pro- 

 gram and community flag raising. They 

 had a picnic lunch in the Forest of Arden 

 and there stayed until about 2 P. M., af- 

 ter which they had a regular ArcAdiA 

 outdoor program, consisting of demon- 

 strations with honeybees, etc. At about 

 four o'clock there was an indoor program 

 of illustrated lecture, projection of micro- 

 scopic objects, music by Edison Diamond 

 Disc phonograph, etc., etc. 



One of the most remarkable demon- 

 strations with honeybees ever made 

 with any party was made with these 

 people, who were eager to get acquaint- 

 ed with the sweet, stinging insects and 

 handled them freely. Twenty frames 

 from two hives were held by members 

 of the party with bared arms and 

 hands. No bee veils were used. The 

 bees were freely shaken over the bare 

 arms of many members, and taken up 

 in their bare hands by the handful. 

 There was only one instance of sting- 

 ing, and that with one of the young 

 women, who chanced to press against 

 the bee with her hand. The weather 

 was ideal and the bees performed to 

 perfection. Members of the party ex- 

 pressed much pleasure and interest in 

 the micro-projection, which, as they 

 enthusiastically asserted, surpassed 

 anything of the kind that they had 

 ever seen. 



Letters have been received from of- 

 ficers of the club, expressing the writ- 

 ers' pleasure and appreciation of that 

 day's outing in nearness to nature. 



Staten Islanders at ArcAdiA. 



A large party, mostly of teachers, 

 chiefly from Staten Island, with four 

 friends from South Norwalk, spent 

 Saturday, June 2nd, at ArcAdiA. They 

 had the entire program of the day, in- 

 cluding the usual demonstration with 

 honeybees, micro-projection, talks, lec- 

 tures, etc. 



This party was the first to use the 

 new grills for outdoor cooking in The 

 Agassiz Grove. These grills were made 

 by Mr. Stephen I. Clason from old 

 wagon tires contributed by Mr. 

 Moulds of the local blacksmith shop ; 

 they are pleasingly successful for any 

 form of camp cooking. They also 

 used the supply of new dishes furnish- 

 ed by J. R. Evans & Company of Stam- 

 ford. These enterprising dealers in 

 house furnishing goods have supplied, 

 with an especial contribution of liberal 

 size, an extensive equipment of plates, 

 cups and saucers, knives, forks, spoons, 

 platters, dishes, etc. 



Our Faded Wistaria. 



On the front door of our office we 

 have a white wistaria that we especial- 

 ly prize, not only because of its intrin- 

 sic beauty but because of its rarity, but 

 evidently this rarity was not appre- 

 ciated by two women who went past 

 the office, one of whom remarked, 

 "Why, I never saw such a faded out 

 wistaria as that one." 



A Magnificent Range for the Serving 

 House 



In our efforts to have the Serving 

 House of Little Japan perfectly pre- 

 pared for visiting parties, we are de- 

 lighted to announce that a fully equip- 

 ped, first-class, modern range has been 

 supplied by Abendroth Brolhers, Port 

 Chester, New York. Their advertisement 

 appears in this number of the maga- 

 zine. In addition, we want personally 

 to express the highest appreciation of 



