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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



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VOL. XVII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, OCT. 15, 1904. NO. 10. 



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BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



mHKRE is a truthful old sajMng- 

 T^ about the bow that is never un- 

 strung, losisg its strength, and the 

 man whenever plays, who never takes 

 a holiday, who rides no hobby, who 

 does the same thing, and keeps his 

 mind in the same channel, day after 

 day, year after year, finally becomes 

 like the bow that is never unstrung — he 

 loses his elasticity and power of exe- 

 cution. 



No matter how much a man may 

 love his vocation, if he follows it con- 

 tinually, without a break, he loses his 

 zest for it to certain extent — it becomes 

 "work" to him. as we understand the 

 word. To illustrate, I have a good 

 friend who is a professional photogra- 

 pher (it was he who helped me to make 

 a start in that delightful recreation,) 

 and when I one dav' waxed enthusi- 

 astic over its beauties, how it appealed 

 to one's sense of the artistic, he said: 

 "I passed all that, long ago. The 

 only things that I can now see 

 in itj are the dollars and cents." As 



much as I enjoy photogpaphy, it is 

 quite likely that were I penned up in 

 a studio, and in the dark room, week 

 after week, I would find mj'self long- 

 ing for the green fields and the hum of 

 the bees. 



No matter how well a man may be 

 adapted to some particular line of 

 business, if he never investigates, 

 tries, nor sees how something else is 

 done, he may sometime become so car- 

 ried away with a superficial view of it, 

 as to foolishly abandon his old occu- 

 tion for a new one to which he is, per- 

 haps, illy adapted. Had he occasion- 

 ally "played" with some other line of 

 work, he would have learned some- 

 thing of it, been enabled to compare it 

 witK his other line of work, and the 

 brief respites from an endless routine 

 would have sent him back to his regu- 

 lar work with renewed vigor, interest 

 and pleasure 



Most of my readers know that pho- 

 tography is my hobby. Let me give 

 just one illustration of how I ride it_ 



