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AMATEUR PHOTO BY E. R. 2ALINSKI. 



AT CLOSE RANGE. 

 Winner of 41st, prize in Recreation's 4th Annual Photo 

 Competition* Eastman Folding Kodak. 



OPTIMISM. 

 A. L. Vermilya. 

 If the soft light fails upon the fairest day 

 And cold rain falls from skies of ashen 

 gray, 

 Do not from your gladness part; 

 Labor on with cheerful heart; 

 For the sun will shine again another day. 



If you're fishing on the bay where sea- 

 mews soar 

 And you row your boat across from shore 

 to shore, 

 Getting not a single bite 

 On the left or on the right, 

 Try another kind of bait and fish some 

 more. 



If you rest to watch the golden sunset's 



gleam, 

 Rocking, gently rocking, while you muse 

 and dream, 

 Till you're drifting slowly back 

 O'er the hard-won, weary track, 

 Grasp again yo - oars and pull against the 

 stream. 



When fair summer with her train has 



glided past, 

 And you shiver in the winter's chilly blast, 

 Look beyond the ice and snow; 

 Think of lands where roses blow, 

 And bright, sunny skies o'er all a lustre 

 cast. 



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AMATEUR PHOTOS BY MRS. F. I. RUHL. 

 MORNING. EVENING. 



THg GLORIOUS FOURTH. 

 Winners of 42nd prize in Recreation's 4th Annual Photo Competition. Bausch & Lomh Single Achromatic Lens. 



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