Aug. 29, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



553 



A rAX-AMEHICAN EXPOSITION' BUILDING. 



lire and health thp work has given her, and through it what a 

 wealth of riches has come to the others of us, who look so 

 fondly on what she has so skillfully wrought. 



As Mr. Mclntyre and I were passing down the street, we 

 saw on the corners neat zinc boxes with an ample slit in the 

 top, ala a mail-box. On these is written: "Gift of the 

 Native Daughters ;" and all to foster neatness in the town. 

 God be thanked for daughters. I know this thought is often 

 in Mr. Mclntyre's mind, and I believe voiced by his lips, as I 

 saw those neat boxes. I said, "God be thanked for the native 

 daughters of Ventura." What a happy suggestion was this. 

 I even went out of my way to pick up a piece of paper that 

 must have blown in from the outside, that I might do my part 

 to keep tidy the streets, and show my appreciation of these 

 fair daughters of fair Ventura. The half-filled boxes, and 

 the neat paper-and rubbish-free streets show full well that the 

 ladies' efforts are not unheeded. This means a whole lot 

 more than clean, tidy streets, it means a toning up of the 

 whole child population of \'entura. Need I limit it to the 

 children? We children of larger growth need Just such ton- 

 ing up. If all parents had time and inclination to instruct 

 the children tiever to throw the paper-scrap, the banana peel, 

 or other filth and rubbish, into yard or street, then our walks, 

 paths, streets aud yards would be a " a joy forever," and not 

 the unkept reservoir for rubbish and rot that so often oflend 

 and disgust us in our strolls and rides. 



As we parents are too often remiss in this, or else fail to 

 impress our wishes, it is good that such as the Ventura Native 

 Daughters should come to the rescue. May we not all take a 

 hint from them, and go and do likewise ? as also do all we 

 may by word and more telling example to aid in this good 

 work of a wholesome cleaning up ? Surely, Ventura is happy 

 and fortunate, in having this ever-present reminder — I should 

 have said reminders, for these boxes are very plural — not to 

 throw the litter on walk and street, and to pick up any that 

 more thoughtless, careless hands have cast away to disfigure 

 the landscape. 



How many of us, as we see the disgusting scratch of 

 many matches en beautiful walls, or see the scattered matches 

 on floor or walk, rejoice that the fond, eager, loving mother in 

 the long years past, busy though she was almost to the limit 

 often of strength and endurance, yet was not too busy to 

 train us in better and neater ways. The little child that is so 

 taught that it will never mark a wall, never scratch a match 

 where it will mar and disfigure, never cast the refuse paper or 

 fruit-peel where it will offend good taste, has received a hs- 

 son that will make it more a lady or gentleman, as it comes to 

 maturity, and more a patriot as it pushes out to fight lifi''s 

 battles. I feel sure that one taught care and thoughtfulness 

 in these matters, will have such respect for law and oi'cler 

 that it will take great temptation to move him to join mob or 

 engage in riot. Surely, such teaching must be rife in the fair 

 homes of Ventura. For only from neat homes could come 

 the impetus that fixed these boxes on the many street-corners 

 of beautiful " Ventura by the Sea." 



I wish these words might move others to act for home and 

 city, that we may become a neater people in our home, as iilso 

 in our surburban life. 



PROF. L. H. BAILEY. 



And do some of you— not many, I am sure — ask, Wlm is 

 Prof. L. H. Kailey? Well, he is an old friend and studeiitdf 

 mine, who by hard, earnest work has become known the 



world over. He is perhaps the most noted and best known 

 horticulturist in the world. He is prosessor in Cornell Uni- 

 versity and has written some of the best books on growing 

 and caring for fruits that are to bo found. He is also at the 

 head of the great movement in New York State that has suc- 

 ceeded so gloriously in taking " Nature Study " to thousands 

 of children in the rural and city schools. He has inspired the 

 teachers to this same nature study, so that they can interest 

 the children. 



And not content with this, he has pushed on to the farm- 

 ers and has inspired in them a desire to know more and much 

 of nature. So that thousands of them are again in school, so 

 to speak, and are happy in quest of truth as found in study of 

 plant, insect, soil, and rock. This nature study, as carried on 

 in New Y'ork, is full of promise. It is making life fuller, 

 brighter and better in thousands and thousands of homes. 

 Prof. Bailey even prepares the leaflets and booklets that are 

 to be used as lesson helps in this grand quest of truth. More 

 still, he either goes or sends some one to schools and homes, 

 to give added help and inspiration in this great and benefi- 

 cent work. May we not pray that the Lord of the harvest 

 may send more Baileys, and may waken to more nature study 

 every section and State in our beloved country ? 



I have had Prof. Bailey lecturing with us for two days in 

 the University Extension work in agriculture. It was a great 

 treat to hear him, and the great audiences just hung on his 

 words. Prof. Bailey says his whole life has been turned, 

 brightened and tremendously influenced by a lady teacher, 

 who very early incited him to observe and study the trees. I 

 visited his home while he was but a lad, and was delighted to find 

 him authority on all the birds of his neighborhood. Later it 

 was ray delight to be for four years his teacher, and to watch 

 with profoundest joy, his leaps and bounds into the realm of 

 knowledge. Will not the nature-study work, inaugurated in 

 New York by Prof. Kailey, discover to the world other Bai- 

 leys who will walk in his footsteps, and thus multiply the glad 

 fruit that is sure to come from all such well-directed effort ? 

 The home circles in the great Empire State who have tasted 

 of this blessed nature study fruit, may well help to incite 

 other places and States to "go and do likewise." 



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