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In the summer, people out for a picnic will break off the 
branches for fans, or, perhaps build a shelter with them. Child- 
ren swing on the branches and often break them off 
The fungi, however, are about the most dangerous enemies in 
ae as few trees are protected against them. If the 
us finds any open place in the bark, no matter how small, 
it will run its little fibers in and begin its gruesome work. After 
inserting its fibers, the fungus begins to take all the nourishment 
rom the tree. The tree then becomes hollow and is soon blown 
down 
No tree is proof against storms. The Carolina poplar and 
soft maple sometimes become so loaded with snow that their 
branches break off, especially if the wind is strong. 
Everybo - ee if they will, take care of trees. If children 
would not cut off the branches and carve their names in the 
bark, more trees would be fine. When grown-ups are building 
a house they should try and think about the trees. They might 
build on a spot where there are no ie or, perhaps, build in 
such a way that the trees would not be in 
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Hanna T. McMawcs, Principal. 
PROFESSOR FRANKLIN W. HOOPER 
Professor Franklin W. Hooper, Director of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences for the past twenty-five years, 
died on August I at his summer home in Walpole, New Hamp- 
shire, at the age of sixty-three. He is survived by his widow, 
the daughter of Mr. Peter S. Holden, and a son and daughter 
Professor Hooper was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, and 
educated at Harvard University. During 1875 and 1876, he 
served the Smithsonian Institution in an exploration of the 
Florida Keys; after - he became principal of the Keene 
High School in New hire and remained in that aecae 
until 1880, when pie ve Iphi Academy in Brooklyn 
Professor of Chemistry and Geology. 
