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merly used still more loosely 

 in England." (Those Conductors 

 are surely not English ! They have 

 never changed their habit in spite of 

 several telephone messages from this 

 office to the superintendent of the com- 

 pany as to what and where is Arcadia.) 



"Strictly speaking," says Comstock, 

 "only the Hemiptera are bugs." Of 

 course it is well known that conduc- 

 tors are obliged to speak and act 

 "strictly" (according to the rules of 

 the road), so it is logically (or per- 

 haps conversely) proved that the afore- 

 said conductors and their emulators 

 insist that this entire establishment 

 shall follow the methods of the Hemip- 

 tera. 



But how are the Hemiptera con- 

 structed and how do they act? Again 

 referring to Comstock (an excellent 

 authority) we find that Hemiptera are 

 "common," and that the "mouth parts 

 are formed for piercing and sucking." In 

 other words, they are adapted to se- 

 curing delights from commonplace 

 things which most of us would not 

 recognize as treasures because they are 

 so "common," nor for a similar rea- 

 son take the effort to explore and to 

 bring back. But Hemiptera have 

 learned to pierce and to suck out the 

 delightful juices — the very .quintes- 

 sence, the life itself, of "common" 

 things. 



Come to think of it, the principle 

 of the bugs is exactly what Arcadia 

 is for — to act, to teach and to help in 

 getting our "life," the highest and best 

 from the life of the "common" things. 

 Let us learn to emulate the Hemiptera 

 and pierce through our own coating of 

 callousness due to constant polishes of 

 familiarity, and imbibe the wonderful 

 life giving tonic so abundantly devel- 

 oped in the common things surround- 

 ing us. First let us learn to know 

 that in common things are sweets ; let 

 us endeavor to make those our own ; 

 let us thereby rise to a higher, fuller, 

 more royal life ; let us hear the words 

 of that great piercer and sucker of 

 common things, Ralph Waldo Emer- 

 son, who tells us so truly: 



"He who knows the most, he who 

 knows what sweets and virtues are in 

 the ground, the waters, the plants, the 

 heavens, and how to come at these en- 

 chantments, is the rich and royal man." 



On November 3, 1853, Henry David 

 Thoreau expressed this same idea of 



effort and enrichment. He then wrote 

 in his Journal : 



"I make it my business to extract 

 from Nature whatever nutriment she 

 can furnish me, though at the risk of 

 endless iteration. I milk the sky and 

 the earth." 



Oh, let us all laugh — laugh with 

 joy because this "common" world is so 

 full of "sweets and virtues," laugh that 

 we know how to imitate the bugs and 

 how to pierce and suck," for the good 

 things. Let us (gently and depreci- 

 atingly) ; but you will not feel offended 

 if we steal your joke — Oh, ho, ho ; hah 

 ha, ha, ha ; he, he, he, — hurrah ! 



We are a bug house. 



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