LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 



During the past two winter seasons, the 

 Mystic Camera Club has shown upon the screen, a series of in- 

 teresting views from distant and widely separated localities, illus- 

 trating many phases of natural scenery. 



This evening we propose showing to you some views nearer 

 home, and while we cannot expect to show scenes of such im- 

 posing grandeur and sublimity as are found in the mountainous 

 regions of New Hampshire, California, North Carolina and the 

 Yellowstone, we do hope that we will be able to demonstrate the 

 existance of loveliness enough, immediately surrounding us here, 

 to furnish material for an evening's entertainment. 



A young friend who passed several years abroad in the pur- 

 suit of his artistic studies, recently told me that nowhere had he 

 seen more charming landscape views, than could be found in and 

 around Medford; but, he added, "I did not so fully appreciate 

 this fact before 1 went away. " 



So it is. We are apt to look upon our immediate surroundings 

 as commonplace, and seek elsewhere for that which may exist 

 near at hand if we would only learn to use our senses in the 

 right way. 



The traveler who goes abroad for pleasure or study, finds 

 everywhere marvelous creations in nature appealing to his senses, 

 but he returns from a contemplation of them all to find that after 

 all, "there is no place like home." 



Absence, and the educating influences of the scenes through 

 which he has passed, have broadened and enriched his mind, 

 quickened his perceptions of the beautiful in nature, taught him 

 how to discover beauty where before he may have thought none 

 existed, and led him to find a restful satisfaction and enjoyment 

 in the charms which make his native place "The dearest spot 

 on earth." 



