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The little colored boy was perfectly right when he replied to the 

 kind lady who asked his age. "If you goes by what mudder 

 says, I'se six; but if you goes by de fun I'se had, I'se most a hun'- 

 red". 



This whole marvellous realm of nature, so prolific of enduring 

 joy, is a closed book to the average person, who goes through the 

 world with eyes closed and ears stopped to its appeal. The ap- 

 preciation of nature should be begun in childhood. Then is the 

 golden time, when the young, unfolding mind is most sensitive 

 to its environment. Then, if wisely guided, enduring pictures 

 will be hiing upon memory's wall, — pictures that will never fade. 



What the Nature Study Society is doing in Webster Groves, Mo. 



Anne A. Jones Sec'y. 



The Nature Study Society of Webster Groves was organized 

 in April of 1920 and has at present one hundred and twenty 

 active and one hundred and fourteen junior members. Since 

 its organization it has been holding regular meetings on the first 

 Friday evening each month (with the exception of the summer 

 months) and has had at most of these meetings, speakers on 

 various topics pertaining to some branch of nature study, and all 

 of them authorities on the subjects in hand. Some of the talks 

 were illustrated with slides, others with moving pictures, and 

 others again, such as rock formations, wild flowers, etc. with speci- 

 mens. 



Many field trips have been taken, sometimes having the speaker 

 of the Friday evening meeting lead a field trip on the following 

 Saturday afternoon in order to carry along or illustrate his talk 

 of the previous evening. This sometimes brings the message 

 home more forcibly than any other way. 



The jimior members prepared a programme for one of the 

 evening meetings; they were drilled by several of tlie active 

 members, the children appearing in costume and acting out 

 their parts with much credit to themselves and tlieir leaders. 



The active membership is divided into four groups for the study 

 of birds, astronomy, trees, and wild flowers. 



