care for the things of the park aside from space and 

 only these people had been educated to an apprecial 

 what an additional inspiration this place would be< 

 sordid lives ! 



President Cleveland went fishing when the affair 

 came too taxing ; President Roosevelt hunts bears 

 little boy in the first grade of to-day becomes presic 



Clevel 



study be rightly taught. It was not 

 nd wanted ; he could have bought 

 at the market. It is not the bea: 



:, except in a few places. Without q 

 ers who would never b 



n ther 



:ellen 



i good t 



subj, 



natter what advantages they might 



exceptions, the good teacher would 



nature-study if only she knew her 



ect. How can she have any adequate comprehension of that 



:h she has not herself experienced ? She did not have na- 



re-study in the grades when a child herself; she did not get it 



the high school except in rare instances ; there are scarcely a 



tudy a 



study; 



and the number of colleges that offer such cours 



and zo61ogy, are now generally offered in the college, the normal 

 school and the high school ; but these courses are largely domi- 

 nated by the spirit of the scientist and the specialist — and 

 rightfully so. 



A little girl said to me : "I don't care at all for botany, but I 



