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

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



DOUBLE ONLY IN NAME. 



This number is named February-March but is the regular single num- 

 ber — the MONTHLY issue for February, and so counts to subscribers and 

 advertisers. The April number will be published the last week in March, 

 and so on for the following: months. 



The "Syntor" Lens 

 There are many photographers who 

 want an anastigmat but do not care to 

 make as large an investment as such 

 a purchase usually involves. At the 

 same time they do not want to sacri- 

 fice quality and thus defeat the very 

 end they seek. It would seem the re- 

 quirements of this class are fully met 

 in the "SYNTOR," the inexpensive 

 Goerz lens. For further particulars 

 see the Goerz advertisement in this 

 issue. 



We Are What People Call Us. 



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We are a bug house. 



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Note: — Before proceeding further, let us 

 explain. There is an old saying, with much 

 truth in it, that a person may be or become 

 that in which he has implicit confidence and 

 earnest faith. We propose to go further and 

 say that Arcadia will accept and become 

 everything that the people persist in erron- 

 eously calling it. It is so difficult to change 

 public opinion that we take the easier 

 course and accept and assume all that we 

 are called. There have been many curious 

 remarks of misunderstanding our simple 

 yet important purpose of leading people to 

 a knowledge and love of nature. We have 

 been amused; we have been vexed; now we 

 are resigned and accept anything you per- 

 sist in calling us, as will be set forth in a 



series of articles of which this is No. 3. 



***** 



"Please let me off at Arcadia," polite- 

 ly requests the passenger on the trol- 

 ley car en route from Stamford or 

 Greenwich. 



"Eh, e-wha-where-Arcadia ! What's 

 that? **** Oh, yes, yes; certainly, 

 certainly. I know — forgot just for the 



moment. You mean down at those 

 'bug houses' !" And the conductor 

 laughs heartily as if it were the joke 

 of the season. 



And so it undoubtedly is in the esti- 

 mation of the conductors (and of some 

 others) because it seems as if at least 

 fifty of the visitors who have arrived 

 at Arcadia have with some hesitation 

 and courteous reluctance told us their 

 experience with the conductors, begin- 

 ning gently and with due respect for 

 our supposed sensitiveness on the point, 

 "You won't mind, will you, if I tell 

 you what they call you here?" And of 

 course they laugh, hesitatingly, experi- 

 mentally, "just to see how we are go- 

 ing to take it." 



"Mind?" Of course not. We are 

 delighted to have afforded so much 

 happiness. "We" does not mean the 

 editorial "we," but refers to several of 

 us in the office. One hundred and 

 fifty laughs we've had, fifty more or 

 less of conductors' resibilities, and an 

 equal number of tender mirths on the 

 part of our visitors. We have not ex- 

 isted in vain. Arcadia is successful 

 in adding to the jocular happiness of 

 Sound Beach — even though it be bug- 

 ular and at times, we must confess, 

 a trifle trite. 



But, seriously, what is meant by this 

 term, "bug," so often used in reference 

 to a naturalist who frequently is known 

 as a "bug man?" And what is a "bug 

 house?" 



Webster's dictionary says of bug, 

 "As a general term it is used very 

 looselv in America and was for- 



