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Good Use of the Camera. 



BY WILL 1). KYLE, FORT WAYNE), INDIANA. 



I have been interested in "Boy 

 Work" for about thirty-three years, 

 and have been using my camera for 

 the last four or five years in connec- 

 tion, and find it a valuable ally — some 

 of the boys taking" up the work them- 

 selves. My principal object in taking 

 the boys out on river trips is to get 

 them acquainted with nature in her 

 different "moods" at different times of 



nature spots that are charming indeed. 

 For example, the enclosed photograph 

 shows a little nature spot at the junc- 

 tion of the St. Joe and St. Mary rivers 

 — the latter coming from the left. This 

 is about five blocks from our $1,000,000 

 court house (the finest court house in 

 the United States). Only thirty feet 

 from the sycamore tree in the right 

 foreground are a grocery and butcher 

 shop and other business places and 

 residences. Near here is a long bridge 



BEAUTIFUL SCENERY UNNOTICED BY MANY PEOPLE. 



the year, and I have numberless pic- 

 tures. Fort Wayne is situated in a 

 peculiarly fortunate position for nature 

 lovers, but alas ! there are very few 

 nature lovers here, except among my 

 "boys." In or near the heart of the 

 city (Fort Wayne) the St. Mary's 

 River joins the St. Joseph River and 

 forms the Maumee River, which flows 

 from Fort Wayne to Toledo, Ohio, 

 emptying into Lake Erie. Before and 

 after entering and after leaving the 

 citv, all three rivers twist and wind 

 around in the most complicated con- 

 tortions, thus forming many beautiful 



spanning the Maumee over which sev- 

 eral thousand people pass daily to 

 reach their homes in beautiful Lake- 

 side and Forest Park additions. I 

 showed the enclosed view to eleven 

 different camera users who live in 

 Lakeside and three of them remarked 

 that it was beautiful and I must have 

 traveled a great distance to find one 

 as beautiful. When I told them where 

 it was and that they pass it four or 

 six times a day, they could hardly be- 

 lieve their senses. Others recognized 

 it after a lung scrutiny and with much 

 surprise. 



