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sympathy with all life, whether it be 

 that of our brother, the ehipnumk. who 

 scamper- chattering over out tent-Hy 

 at an early lunu", our little sister the 

 humming--l)ir(l, finishing her ex(|uisite 

 nest, or oiu" variously natured cani])- 

 mates, for all are of one family — chil- 

 dren of one Father." 



It is evident that the Aloha Camps 



young- people to see except the road in 

 which they are walking, but here is a 

 camp that intends to look upw ard. We 

 ha\e heard much of camps that talk 

 abotit their tennis iields and baseball 

 grounds, but here is a cam]) that will 

 look at the realms of nature, and will 

 do something with nature. Listen to 

 these gratif\inL;- and refreshing words. 





FLOWER GARDEN AT THE HIVE. 



merit their wonderful success. The 

 editor of this magazine believes that 

 it is sacrilegious to take yotmg people 

 to nature and not into nature, in other 

 words, to take them to a summer camp 

 merely for athletics, entertainment and 

 tuition fees. Much as these camps have 

 accomplished, yet Mrs. Gulick says. 

 "I have never been satisfied with our 

 nature work and am always looking 

 with eager interest for the right leader 

 to inspire the girls in the love of nature 

 work." .She tells of tw^o eminent spec- 

 ialists that she has engaged to interest 

 the young people this coming year. 

 One is Dr. Alfred Gunderson, of Floral 

 Park, Brooklyn, wdio will take with 

 him a telescope with a four and a half 

 inch object glass. That is a good sized 

 telescope to take into a camp ; it is as 

 large as will be needful. The young- 

 folks will study the stars and make a 

 chart of the map of the heavens. Is 

 not that glorious news? We had be- 

 gun to think that there is nothing for 



"Our region is especially rich in ferns 

 and in a few rather rare orchids, and 

 as we are near woods we have a good 

 many birds that generally are not 

 around towns. At the Hive, our camp 

 for little girls, last year w^e had a regu- 

 lar gardening class and they learned 

 all the common garden flowers and 

 vegetables. They planted seeds and 

 learned to transplant the young seed- 

 lings, and they learned a number of 

 common w^eeds. They were very proud 

 of having planted and later gathered 

 radishes, lettuce and at least one or tw^o 

 servings of peas. We are having again 

 the same work at the Hive for the lit- 

 tle girls." 



Of a specialist that visited the camp, 

 Mr. Alfred Kinsey, Mrs. Gulick writes 

 that he took the girls on many walks 

 to study ferns, flowers, sedges and 

 grasses, also birds and stars. This is 

 something really to the point. No 

 other letter from a camp has reached 

 our desk that rings so true with the 



