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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
titudinous gases in the city air around 
even her beautiful suburban home? 
Take better care of your daughter 
than you can? Certainly, and better 
too than the school can ; that is, better 
if we consider the girl’s healthful en- 
joyment. The moral is evident. Mothers 
and fathers who really love their 
daughters and wish to place them in 
the best possible care will bear the 
great sacrifice of sending them away 
or, rather I should say, permit them to 
go to this great playground where the 
conditions and the environment are 
one hundred per cent perfect. Do not 
accompany your daughter to camp. 
Avoid doing that if possible. She needs 
to be self-reliant, to act untrammeled 
by the usual parental oversight. She 
wants the joy of telling you of the 
camp when about two weeks later you 
arrive for that visit. She wants to be- 
come familiar with the other girls and 
with the attractions of the camp, the 
things to which she can point with 
pride. She longs for one moment in 
her life in which she may tell you some- 
thing you do not know and in which 
she may feel that she can give you 
points on many phases of camp life that 
you have never dreamed of. She wants 
to feel superior, as she really is when 
her outdoor activities are noted. When 
she has become versed in camp lore 
she will chuckle quietly as you ask your 
innocent questions. Deep in her affec- 
tionate heart she says: “I never.. Did 
any one ever see a mother as green as 
that? She is even ignorant of the first 
thing about Cross Paddles and Water 
Witches, what we do on our tramps 
and mountain climbing and on the 
farms.” 
It will be a joy to her to give you 
kindergarten instruction and details of 
many things that any young girl is sup- 
posed to know. You, a grown-up per- 
son, sit meekly with your little daugh- 
ter and fondly receive her instructions, 
which she will give in a dignified, 
“don't-vou-know” manner. “Every girl 
in camp knows that.” Yes, conditions 
are reversed. Your daughter then can 
take good care of her parents, and her 
parents would not exchange her for any 
other instructor. She will even give 
you “fine points” on the singing of 
camp songs, and will lament the fact 
that your musical training has been so 
long neglected, and you will sit there 
in Pow-wow and say, “Well! I never 
supposed my daughter could sing like 
that.” 
If you desire to learn more in detail 
of this care that is better than yours, 
telephone or write for personal call, 
Edward F. Bigelow, ArcAdiA: Sound 
Beach, Connecticut. 
Mrs. A. B. Hull, Top o’ Kent, Colonia, 
New Jersey. 
I do want you to know what a pleas- 
ure it has been to us all to look back 
on Betty’s lovely summer spent at 
Kineowatha. We especially thank you 
for the special care you gave her on the 
trip there and the interest in things 
that you imparted to her. She speaks 
so often of the barn trips, such unusual 
fun she had there, she loves to live it 
all over. We hope she can return for 
another season. 
Illustrated Lectures on Nature. 
It is with much pleasure that we call 
attention to the illustrated lectures by 
Manley Bacon Townsend, 188 County 
Street. Attleboro, Massachusetts. The 
editor of this magazine is personally 
acquainted with the lecturer and knows 
that he has the spirit of the real nat- 
uralist with an effective power of dic- 
tion and elocution that enables him to 
interest and instruct an audience. He 
has secured a large amount of good 
material and has prepared some of the 
most effective lantern slides in the pos- 
session of any other lecturer in this 
country. We cordially recommend him 
to churches, societies and other similar 
institutions. 
Mounted Animals for the Bruce 
Museum. 
We are hoping that we have among 
our Members and friends a naturalist 
with a private collection of common 
mammals or of birds, that he will con- 
tribute to the Bruce Museum. We are 
especially in need of a raccoon, an 
opossum and some other of our smaller 
mammals. Will any one who has a 
collection in good condition and 
adapted to modern museum standards, 
please correspond? Edward F. Bige- 
low, Curator of the Bruce Museum, 
Post Office address, Sound Beach, 
Connecticut. 
