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THE GUIDE TO NATl'RE 





PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



'Tis not in mortals to COMMAND success, but we'll do 

 more, Sempronius, we'll DESERVE IT. — Addison: Cato. 



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Incorporation of E. B. Meyrowitz. 



Mr. E. B. Meyrowitz, the well- 

 known optician, whose advertisement 

 has appeared in The Guide to Nature 

 for several months, and who has been 

 operating various branch stores in 

 Manhattan and Brooklyn, has now 

 formed a corporation to be known as 

 E. B. Meyrowitz, Incorporated. His 

 active interest in the business remains 

 the same as in the past, and as presi- 

 dent of the new organization he retains 

 personal supervision and control of all 

 its affairs. 



of doll fur iture or, more especially 

 along our lines, a bird house or a cage 

 for a pet. This set of tools and the 

 bench are not only a good commercial 

 enterprise on the part of the company 

 selling them, but they are really doing 

 good work throughout the land in the 

 hands of active youth, teachers and 

 lovers of outdoors, in increasing a nat- 

 ural interest in doing things. Write 

 to the company today for a catalogue, 

 and refer to The Guide to Nature 

 You will be interested in the catalogue 

 for it contains valuable information. 



Hands vs. Head. 



To learn how to do things efficiently 

 as well as to say things correctly, is an 

 important part of nature study that 

 should not be overlooked. The active 

 outdoor boy or girl may be interested 

 in reading a story of nature, in dream- 

 ing or exclaiming over the objects of 

 Mime aspect of nature, or indeed in 

 singing a song about nature, but to 

 enlist the actions of the child is far 

 better than any of these. We all like 

 to do things and there is a joy in doing, 

 but the joy is greater if we have con- 

 venient and efficient tools. The best 

 set of tools and the best working bench 

 at a moderate price that I have seen, 

 are unquestionably those made by 

 Hammacher, Schlemmer & Company, 

 New York City. Turn to their adver- 

 tisement on the last cover page of this 

 magazine, and note that attractive 

 bench. If your boy's management is a 

 problem for you, get him this entire 

 outfit and you will have no more 

 trouble. And, by the way, the entire 

 equipment is so attractive, neat and 

 tasty that the girl too will enjoy it. A 

 girl likes to saw, pound, hammer and 

 drive nails, if she is a wide-awake girl. 

 She, just as well as the boy, likes to 

 make a music rack, a little settee, a bit 



Sound (Long Island Sound) Beach. 



We are not a Beach in a direction 

 from somewhere — south, north, east or 

 west, nor from any of the other twen- 

 ty-eight points of the compass. We 

 are the thing itself, HERE — a Beach 

 on Long Island SOUND. 



Please remember that it takes two 

 words to indicate our location, post 

 office, railroad station, and express of- 

 fice, Sound Beach ; don't forget the 

 Sound. Even Shakespeare must havi 

 anticipated the trouble. Didn't he ex 

 claim, " 'Sound' them, it doth become 

 the mouth as well/' Right you are 



Wm. S. It becomes the month and 



the letter and the express package 

 much better than Beach only. Prithee, 

 Shakespeare, you are right. "SOUND" 

 them, and prefix the Sound to our ad- 

 dress. 



Omitted Credit of Photograph. 



The photograph from which the il- 

 lustration on page 299, of the January 

 number of The Guide to Nature, was 

 made, was taken by Stierle, the photo- 

 grapher, Marquette, Michigan, and is 

 copyrighted by him. 



