366 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



accept no other treatment nor adaptation 

 to a changed situation. The brush and 

 the comb shall be applied in his retirement 

 as it was in active days, and the bald man 

 may well inquire, in many occupations. 

 "Is it philosophy or folly?' 



Good Things Out of Nazareth! 



Every naturalist, and especially every 

 meteoroloigist is familiar with the photo- 

 graphic work with snow crystals and 

 frost forms done by Wilson A. Bentley 

 of Jericho, Vermont. He began his 

 career along' that line when he was only 

 a boy and has devoted his attention to it 

 with a persistence and a skill equal in 

 some respects to those of Edison. He 

 too is self-educated ; no college can claim 

 him. 



Recently the editor, while visiting the 

 schools of a western city heard from the 

 drawing teacher of her interest in Mr. 

 Bentley's photographs and of her use 

 of them in her teaching. She regards 

 them as works of art, exquisite, and 

 beautiful beyond description. Imagine 

 her astonishment when another teacher 

 expressed surprise, saying, "Is it possible 

 that you use those photographs in the 

 school work of a city like this? Don't 

 vou know that Mr. Bentley is not a col- 

 lege educated man !!!!!!!" 



The Best Magazine in the United 

 States. 



Can anybody decide which is the best 

 magazine in the United States? Maga- 

 zines cover so many and so various fields 

 of activity that among many of them 

 there cannot be much comparison. For 

 example, there can be no comparing of 

 a magazine devoted to horses with one 

 devoted to postage stamps, or another 

 to school-teaching. But there can be. 

 and there is, such a thing as the best 

 magazine, for the reason that it takes 

 the best from every other magazine- I 

 fancy that if a really good article should 

 appear in any magazine on horses, post- 

 age stamps or pedagogy, you would find 

 that article reproduced in "The Literary 

 Digest," a periodical that stands head and 

 shoulders above any other magazine that 

 is attempting, or has attempted, to give 

 a summary of the thought and teaching 

 as expressed in all classes and types of 

 journals. 



It has been truly said that every per- 



son should know everything of some- 

 thing and something of everything. This 

 magazine gives the readers the cream of 

 everything worth thinking about. You 

 will here find discussed not only what the 

 newspapers are saying, how the politi- 

 cians are whacking each other, how the 

 war is progressing, who has made a new 

 scientific discovery, but also what writers 

 are achieving fame in the world of fiction 

 and of poetry, and what is the current 

 need of religious and social service. In- 

 deed, it often ofifers thoroughly practical 

 advice as how to spend money or how to 

 get along without it. 



But what is the use of trying to praise 

 "The Literary Digest?" We might as 

 well talk of the sun's beneficial rays. 

 Everybody is familiar with the good 

 qualities of both, or should be. 



Professor Robert M. Yerkes of Har- 

 vard University, probably the foremost 

 animal psychologist in the country, makes 

 a plea for more attention to the apes, 

 baboons and monkeys. We know, he 

 points out, something about their bodily 

 structure, but almost nothing about 

 their mental operations. Yet these 

 creatures are nearest of all brutes to our- 

 selves, and the study of them would prob- 

 ably teach us more about ourselves than 

 would that of any other of the lower 

 animals. The Germans have a special sta- 

 tion for the studv of apes, located in the 

 Canary islands. Professor Yerkes argues 

 for establishing a similar laboratory some- 

 where in Southern California. 



The newest earthquake recorders are 

 so sensitive that if a person sit quietly 

 in a chair near one, and then change 

 to the side opposite, the earth's crust 

 will spring sufficiently under the chang- 

 ing load to show on the record. No 

 wonder, then, that an approaching 

 storm is indicated by a rising of the 

 crust under the diminished pressure 

 of the "low." 



A recent study at Cornell University 

 shows that in the hibernating woodchuck 

 the body temperature falls from the nor- 

 mal ninet3^-eight of the warm-blooded 

 animals to a little above forty. At the 

 same time, the carbon dioxide in the 

 blood nearly doubles. Four to six 

 months is the natural diu'ation of the 

 winter sleep. 



