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RECREATION. 



"Aug. 8, 1904." Do yon not think the ap- 

 pearance of your letter would have been 

 improved by writing "August eighth, one 

 thousand nine hundred and four"? If not, 

 they why would the appearance of the print- 

 ed page in Recreation be improved by 

 spelling out such words? If, in the interest 

 of brevity, terseness and the saving of time 

 and space, it is proper to put the date of 

 your letter in the shortest possible space, 

 then why is it not equally proper, rational 

 and practical to boil down the reading mat- 

 ter in Recreation, in the same way? 



If you will justify your action in this 

 matter, I will offer a further justification 

 of my method. 



I may add here that you can read the 

 figures 12 quicker and with less tax on 

 your eyes than you can read the word 

 twelve, and in these days, when thousands 

 of tons of good printed matter are put on 

 the market every day, and when no man can 

 get time to read half the good stuff he would 

 like to read, it is certainly a kindness to 

 every reader to give him the greatest 

 amount of information in the smallest pos- 

 sible space and with the smallest possible 

 tax on his time and eyesight. — Editor. 



She does not attempt to humanize them, 

 the fatal error of so many painters of ani- 

 mals who thus become mere caricaturists. 



A YOUNG ARTIST. 



The drawings reproduced on page 220 of 

 this issue of Recreation were made by 

 Miss Eileen Hood, 12 years old, a daugh- 

 ter of Arthur Hood, Esq., of Kenley, Sur- 

 rey, England. 



The drawings, which are in water color, 

 direct with the brush, were dashed off one 

 morning from memory of various attitudes 

 assumed by the does as Eileen had watched 

 them at play about her father's grounds. 



Miss Eileen is already well known in 

 England among people interested in art. 

 When she was but 9 years old she won the 

 Princess Louise gold medal, for a snap 

 shot drawing of a group of horses ; the next 

 year the Sir John Tenniel gold medal was 

 awarded her, also for a drawing of horses ; 

 and at the age of 11 she won the Watts 

 prize, with a spirited drawing of a bucking 

 broncho, which she drew from a verbal de- 

 scription only. All these prizes were won 

 at exhibitions of the Royal Drawing Soci- 

 ety. Her best known drawing is a portrait 

 of Tess, a beautiful collie of which the little 

 girl was extremely fond and which was 

 killed by a motor car. The portrait was 

 painted from memory, after the collie's 

 death, and has been exhibited in England, 

 • France and Switzerland. 



To a great extent Eileen is unconscious 

 of the reputation she is achieving. Her 

 drawing is the natural, spontaneous expres- 

 sion of her own impressions, and her in- 

 terest centers largely in animals, chiefly 

 dogs. A strong feature of her work is 

 that her dogs are dogs, her horses, horses. 



COLD STORAGE CHICKENS POISON. 



A summer hotel in this State, at which a 

 number of my friends have spent their vaca- 

 tions for years past, recently served cold 

 storage roast chicken at dinner, and as a 

 result 23 of the guests were made seriously 

 ill from ptomaine poison. Several of them 

 came near dying and it was only due to the 

 most diligent efforts on the part of 4 phy- 

 sicians that the lives of these people were 

 saved. 



I have printed several articles in Recre- 

 ation, written by prominent physicians, 

 commenting on the risk which people al- 

 ways incur in eating cold storage birds, 

 either wild or domestic. As is well known, 

 game birds and poultry that are placed in 

 cold storage houses are stored with the 

 entrails in, and it is supposed that the con- 

 tamination of the flesh results from this 

 cause. 



The sooner people learn that cold storage 

 birds are wholly and totally unfit to eat, 

 the better it will be for all concerned. All 

 States should enact laws prohibiting the 

 keeping of game birds and poultry in close 

 season. Birds that can not be eaten 

 within a few hours after killing, especially 

 in warm weather, should not be killed. It 

 is far better that the trade of a few game 

 dealers should be curtailed than that the 

 health of thousands of people should be 

 jeopardized. 



My Ninth Annual Photo Competition closes 

 November 30. The time is growing short in 

 which to make and enter pictures, and I 

 trust all my friends who have participated 

 in previous competitions may be represented 

 in this one. A number of valuable prizes 

 are offered, and in addition to these all 

 photos used will hereafter be paid for at 

 the rate of 50 cents to $1 each, according 

 to actual value for illustrative purposes. 



Will G. H. Blodgett, who wrote the article 

 entitled Canoeing in Georgian Bay, which 

 was printed in August Recreation, please 

 send me his address? 



When the war is over I shall ask Ad- 

 miral Togo to write me an article on 

 "Hunting the Russian Bear on the Japan 

 Sea." 



The orchard is the place for fruit, 

 But when in search of peaches, 



The wise man dons a bathing suit 

 And hies him to the beaches. 



— Town Topics. 



