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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Long before the Juvenile law was 

 passed, Judge Matthews was one of 

 the pioneers in that work. 



He is a member of the Iowa Histori- 

 cal Society and of the American Bar 

 Association and will soon become a 

 member of the American Geographi- 

 cal Society. 



The judge spent 1887 and 1888 in 

 Europe, making careful studies from 

 the legal and nature loving points of 

 view. His articles on game and fish 

 have been published in various maga- 

 zines. 



Taking him altogether, Judge Mat- 

 thews is one of the best examples I 

 have met of an enthusiastic, talented, 

 large-hearted man, leading a simple life 

 in nearness to the heart of nature. He 

 is an excellent guide to others in the 

 fact that to be a man, to live on a high 

 plane of thought, to be held in high 

 esteem by his fellow men, one does not 

 require luxury or ostentation. A big 

 man can live in a log cabin or in a 

 freight car. It isn't the coat ; it's the 



man. 



OUTDOOR WoRLD 



Education by Doing — "Park Life." 



BY EDWARD F. BIGEL0W, SOUND BEACH, 

 CONNECTICUT. 



It has been said in all truth, in 

 application to many places, that the 

 modern tendency in education is to 

 put the test upon saying things cor- 

 rectly rather than upon doing things 

 efficiently. 



That actions are stronger than 

 words, and more important, must have 

 been uppermost in the mind of Pro- 

 fessor B. J. Horchem, of the "Park 

 Life" plan in education, when he con- 



ceived the idea which he is carrying 

 out so successfully and about which 

 everybody is now asking questions. 



Professor Horchem, Principal of the 

 Audubon School in Dubuque, Iowa, is 

 regarded as one of the best (some say 

 the best) of the educators in that large, 

 growing, hustling, western city. But 

 the ordinary work of the routine school, 

 however well he conducts it, is not 

 enough for him. He maintains that 

 education is continuous — that the best 

 vacation is not vacuity but a change 

 of activities. And the boys under his 



PUTTING UP THE TENTS, EASILY AND IN GOOD ORDER. 



