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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



A Plea For A Camera For The Boy. 



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



Through the medium of the camera 

 department of The Guide to Nature 

 (the grandest and most valuable mag- 

 azine of its kind published in the 

 world), I desire to address the "grown- 

 ups," namely, the fathers, uncles, 

 mothers, aunts, Sunday-school teachers, 



him on trips in the country or along 

 the river, and show him how to look at 

 a beautiful water scene and "imagine a 

 frame" around it. and how to judge it 

 on the ground-glass, and if you never 

 do another thing in the world to help 

 that boy, the chances are ninety-nine 

 to one that he will be "safe." As long 

 as he is interested in pictures and 



•snow him now to look at a beautiful water scene." 



day-school teachers and "boy workers" 

 in general, in regard to "that boy" or 

 "those boys" in whom you are inter- 

 ested, in order to make a plea for the 

 camera as one of the best possible in- 

 struments to get the boy in line and 

 to keep him there. Teach him how to 

 use a camera, how to devolop plates or 

 films, how to get the best possible 

 prints from his negatives, how best 

 to select subjects for his pictures; take 



knows how to produce them right, you 

 will not catch him behind the barn 

 smoking cigarettes, or spoiling his fu- 

 ture manhood by yielding to any of 

 the man}' other glittering temptations 

 held forth to the boys of our large 

 cities. In taking trips with a camera 

 boys, singly or in clubs, will learn of 

 "nature in all her different moods," and 

 nothing in the world is so elevating, so 

 refining, so sacredly delightful, nothing 



