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will be alive to encourage home museums, garden clubs, care of 

 pets, manual training projects that pupils may have under way, 

 and a host of other such interests that might be named. In 

 other words, may we as teachers be humble and admit that we 

 are but incidents, helpful or otherwise, in the average child's life 

 and above all, let us not become jealous if Jerry learns more from 

 his museum than from us. 



The Burroughs Nature Club 



Ellen M. Phillips 

 When these fine warm days arrive, even people who live in the 

 city begin to hear the call of the open; and fortunate indeed are 

 those who may answer the call at once. Fortunate, too, are 

 those who, though not answering at once, look forward to a time 

 when for at least a week or two they may forget the din and bustle 

 of city life and spend their time in the great out-of-doors. But 

 what of those less fortunate to whom the call is none the less 

 clear, nay, to whom it sounds most loudly and insistently, who 

 must turn their backs upon it and day after day must face the noise 

 and confusion of crowded streets, the tumult of busy factories, 

 the heat of stuffy tenements? What of their children? If any- 

 one doubts the fact that these children long for the fresh green of 

 which they have been robbed, let him load his car with wild- 

 flowers, take them to a school in a congested portion of the city, 

 and watch the faces of the children as the flowers are distributed. 

 He will surely behold the " light that never was on land or sea." 



For years the teachers who love Nature themselves and who 

 are able to go out into her by-ways occasionally for rest and re- 

 creation to their own spirits, have longed to open up her secrets 

 to the little ones of the city who are in and of the "madding 

 crowd. ' ' 



They have succeeded in bringing into the class-room much 

 nature material. The good work began years ago when a little 

 school up in Dutchess County, consisting of sixteen pupils and 

 a noble woman with all nature personified in her heart, kept busy 

 and happy providing nature material for a school of 2000 chil- 

 dren down among the tenements of the East Side. 



These country boys and girls went for nature tramps with 

 their teacher and brought the trophies of wood and field back to 



