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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



June 27, 1901. 



ers. Let the children seek the market, prepare the vege- 

 tables, etc., in neatest fashion, do their own selling, and, most 

 important of all, let them have every cent of the proceeds, to 

 spend as their very own. If rightly guided — and the thought- 

 ful home circle will always keep guidance in mind — the money 

 will not go for tobacco, nor nonsense. Very likely it will go 

 for books or papers that will guide to better profits. How 

 rich is the culture that comes from such a scheme, well and 

 successfully carried out I It will surely be the best school the 

 child will ever attend. 



I believe in education. I am sure no class can have too 

 much. Were all our people thoroughly and wisely educated, 

 most of the evils of our present society would disappear. I 

 believe the educated 

 farmer may exert a 

 power forgood that any 

 man might .justly envy. 

 I talked this to my boy 

 long before he entered 

 college. I believe that 

 the teaching that fol- 

 lows boyhood is the 

 teaching that tells. 



My boy, before lif 

 hardly reached h i ~ 

 teens, had such a gar- 

 den as suggested above. 

 He also had a valuable 

 partner — his younger 

 sister. He also had two 

 very interested specta- 

 tors to advise, direct 

 and encourage. They 

 were the "tother" part 

 of the home circle. 

 That boy not only se- 

 cured spending money 

 — he got habits of thrift, of industry, of systematic work ; and, 

 best of all, he acquired such a love of the work, that he looked 

 towards agriculture during all his college course, and to-day 

 is an enthusiastic tiller of the soil. He has no use for tobacco, 

 and if he ever uses profane or unclean language, a knowledge 

 of the fact has never reached his father's ear. That little 

 garden was a garden indeed. In it grew richer and better 

 plants than celery or asparagus. 



There are gardens and gardens. Setting the table may 

 be the garden for the girl, or she may have a veritable flower- 

 garden that perchance may take her into the sunshine and 

 pathway to robust health. We must secure employment for 

 our dear children. Their good and the safety of our country 

 demand it. He or she that lets the club, business, society, or 



\I'IiRT OF MH. JOHX W. BAUCKMAN, OF FAIRFAX CO.. 



(See page 4ti2.} 



even church duties, rob the children of the care and thought 

 that will secure to them habits of thrift, industry, and 

 " patient continuance in well-doing," is making a perilous 

 mistake. He or she who keeps the little hands wisely 

 employed, and the little mind interested in all that the hands 

 find to do, is the good angel of the child. May we not hope 

 that there will be just such good angels in all our home circles ? 

 May these good angels be so wise and happy that the work of 

 the child may be at the same time its best play. 



MIMICRY. 



I don't mean making faces. Bees and wasps are usually 

 beautifully yellow and often brilliantly striped. They love 



sweets, and so gather 

 thickly about the nec- 

 tar - bearing flowers. 

 Two-winged flies hover, 

 and for like purpose, 

 about the same flow- 

 ers. These flies are 

 also yellow and beau- 

 lifully striped. Often 

 they are so like the 

 bees that only sharp- 

 est eyes can tell which 

 is fly and which is bee 

 or wasp. Why this 

 semblance in color and 

 markings ? The bee 

 and wasp have a sting. 

 The bird picks up the 

 handsome wasp only 

 to feel the cruel smart, 

 and spit it out, with 

 a lesson that will save 

 all other wasps from 

 attack bv that bird. 



The fly has no sting. It could not hurt the bird, and doubt- 

 less would be a delicate titbit for bird or youngling. Yet the 

 fly has the wasp color, and the bird is fooled by this, passes 

 the fly, loses the tender steak, and so the fly owes its life to 

 its color-markings. 



It is good to get our children interested in just such inter- 

 esting things that are thick all about us. The cabbage but- 

 terfly in its black-dotted robes of white drops its green eggs 

 on the green cabbage-leaves. Their green hides them from 

 bird and insect ; and so they are saved to life by mimicry. 



The weasel is white in winter and brown in summer, and 

 so profits by its color. Polar animals are white. Who of the 

 children can tell why this white helps the weasel and the 

 polar bear? 



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