R EC RE A TION. 



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The 



Climate of 

 California 



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Is better than medicine for invalids, and is a 

 tonic for the most robust. 



Winter there is balmier and more inspiriting than a flawless day 

 of spring in the East. It is perfect weather. 



This, joined to the countless other charms of that 



idyllic region, explains why so many thousand tourists have 



already gone there this season, and why 



everybody should go who can afford it. 



Only 2% days from Chicago, and 4 from 



New York, by The California Limited, Santa Fe Route. 



Address General Passenger Office, 



The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 



CHICAGO. 



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To amateur photographers: 



We take pleasure in announcing our re- 

 moval from Pontiac, Mich., to Jamestown, 

 N. Y., where we have improved facilities for 

 shipping. This place is also nearer our 

 source of supplies, and has much better 

 water than our old location. We have ab- 

 sorbed all the interests of the Monroe Dry 

 Plate Works, and shall continue to make 

 the Chautauqua Plate. We _ have made 

 some decided improvements in it, and know 

 you will be more than pleased with it in the 

 future. We shall continue to sell at the 

 popular price at which it has heretofore 

 been sold, and should be pleased to receive 

 your orders, which will have our prompt 

 attention. 



The Jamestown Dry Plate Works, James- 

 town, N. Y. 



" Go to the ant, thou sluggard! " com- 

 manded the Proverb. 



Accordingly the Sluggard went to the 

 Ant. 



" Go to the devil! " exlaimed the Ant. 



11 Talk about red tape! " sighed the Slug- 

 gard. — Detroit Journal. 



I wish to ask some sportsman, through 

 Recreation, to tell me the weight of the 

 largest perch ever caught. 



W. Oades, Detroit, Mich. 



Many thanks for your kindness in plac- 

 ing the query in your columns respecting 

 the breaking of a dog by book; but I was 

 hunting trouble when I asked for it. An- 

 swers have come by every mail, up to date, 

 and courtesy demands I acknowledge them 

 all. I am getting off another batch now, 

 on postals, and address this to you, as a 

 proof of the advertising power of Recrea- 

 tion. Answers come from all over the 

 United States. 



A. W. Burnham, Somers Point, N. J. 



" And, then," the fair maiden went on 

 with her narration, " I covered my face 

 with my hands and wept." 



" Impossible," ejaculated the young man. 

 " You could not cover your face with those 

 small hands." 



And she was his from that day forward 

 and they lived happily ever after. — Detroit 

 Free Press. 



If you call a man a lion 



He will always be your friend. 

 But just hint that he's a bear, and 



He will hate you to the end. 



I shot 2 large coons near here last fall. 

 One weighed 14 pounds and the other 12J/2 

 pounds. 



Harry Shaw, Austin, 111. 



