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BRINGING H0:ME A STICK FROM WHICH TO MAKE THE SPLINTS. 



me glad." Beauty gives pleasure. That 

 is our reason for printing Mr. Waters' 

 picture in this number of The Guide 

 TO Nature. For the same reason he is 

 shown by the sculptor, or in the win- 

 dow of the enterprising merchant. A 

 crowd might gather around a drunken 

 man, but the point of view would be 

 that of ridicule or pity, because we 

 recognize the fact that a human being 

 in that condition is out of place. 

 Basket making is one of the disap- 



pearing arts. It savors of the days 

 of long ago. There is an old-fashioned 

 quaintness about it that seems to har- 

 monize with colonial houses and old- 

 fashioned customs. It is fitting that a 

 basket maker should be well advanced 

 in years. I know that basketry is 

 taught in the schools of the present 

 day, but I never think of it as real 

 ])asket making. It is only busy idle- 

 ness. 



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