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in a miserly manner, but blessing on 
those with dollars and blessings on 
those with great learning and blessings 
on those with kindly spirit who at the 
present time are radiating the sunshine 
of cordiality to other people. 
The big problems of the world will 
not be solved by bayonets, nor by 
trusts, nor by labor unions, but as they 
have always been by the greatest thing 
in the world, and that is kindness of 
heart and helpfulness to other people. 
Inspirations and Suggestions for 
Walking. 
[Quotations from Editor al in Recent Num- 
ber of “The New York Journal.”] 
Now that the piping days of Spring 
are here, take a walk ! 
Ride first to where you can walk to 
some profit. Go out to some suburban 
station. All the better if you never 
heard of it. Get off the train and hike 
out. 
Go down the green lane and cross 
the brook, climb the hill and wander 
through the woods, along the road to 
nowhere. 
Discover the sky and surprise the 
violet. Watch the robin and spy out 
the fern. Sit long and silently upon a 
log until the little folk of the forest 
lose their shyness and play their antics 
before you. 
Realize that there are many silent 
worlds besides your own, circles known 
to woodchucks and unknown to society, 
and spheres of influence among feath- 
ers and fur of which Downing Street 
and Washington reck not. 
Walk on and suck the sweetness of 
the health-laden breeze, steal glimpses 
of the virgin beauty of the apple blos- 
soms, wonder at the far-off hawk 
poised in the high air, learn peace from 
the wide-eyed cows and frolic zest from 
the shaggy colt. 
Walk ! 
Walk enough and you will walk out 
of your pigeonhole, your party, your 
set. your niche, your cult, and into your 
proper soul. 
Which, heaven knows, will be a far 
country. 
Buttercups. 
As soon as the fragile flowers unfold 
The sun transmutes them into gold. 
— Emma Pe : rce. 
Glasses When Using Microscope? 
Andover, Massachusetts. 
To the Editor: 
The question of wearing glasses 
when using a microscope still puzzles 
certain of your correspondents. The 
facts are simply these : 
If the trouble of the eye is in the fo- 
cusing — that is to say if the eye is 
myopic, hyperopic or presbyopic — the 
error may be offset by altering slightly 
the focus of the microscope. In these 
cases glasses should not be worn for 
microscopic work, since the micro- 
scope itself will adjust the focus better 
than the glasses can do it. 
But if the trouble with the eye lies in 
the irregular curvature of its lenses — 
that is to say, if the eye is astigmatic — 
then glasses will have to be worn for 
work with a microscope for precisely 
the same reason as for any other work. 
A simple test of whether one should 
or should not keep his glasses on is 
this : 
Assuming that the glasses have been 
properly fitted by a competent oculist, 
hold them at arm’s length, and look 
through the glass of the “sighting” eye 
at lettering about a half inch in height. 
Rotate the glasses about the line of 
vision. If the letters change shape, 
wear the glasses with the microscope. 
If the letters do not change shape, leave 
them off. 
Edwin Tenney Brewster. 
Reversed Ice Cone. 
Audenried, Pennsylvania. 
To the Editor : 
The cone of ice which you picture 
and describe on page 137 of The Guide 
to Nature for February differs from 
mine as follows : 
In mine the water shot out of a 
small hole in a pipe, extending hori- 
zontally over the creek bank and form- 
ing a body with the small end at the 
pipe and the larger end away from it, 
just the reverse of the one in upper 
New York State. The whole form was 
connected with the pipe by a stem of 
ice only as thick as a baby’s wrist, the 
water shooting through it under con- 
siderable pressure. The inside of the 
ice had the form of a cone. 
Charles D. Romig. 
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