’Tis not in mortals to COMMAND success, but we’ll do more, we’ll DESERVE IT. — Addison. 
Of Interest to Tree Lovers. 
It is with much pleasure that we call 
attention to the F. A. Bartlett Tree Ex- 
pert Company of Stamford, Connecti- 
cut. Now is the acceptable time for 
giving attention to our trees. June is 
a delightful month in the young full- 
ness of the year, and everybody thinks 
or should think about the welfare of 
the trees, and incidentally of our own 
welfare as enhanced by the trees. 
As the editor is personally acquaint- 
ed with Mr. Bartlett and many of his 
staff, he assures his readers that their 
orders will receive careful attention. 
The company does not limit its work 
to this part of Fairfield County or even 
to Connecticut. It has offices in vari- 
ous other places. 
The Laboratory at Woods Hole. 
1 he annual announcement of the 
thirty-third year of the Marine Biologi- 
cal Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massa- 
chusetts, is an attractive pamphlet of 
some thirty-four pages that arouses 
one’s enthusiasm for all phases of 
biology. The list of competent profes- 
sors who have charge is inspiring. This 
country should be congratulated be- 
cause we so strongly cling to the faith, 
and the practice too, that biology, real, 
serious study of living things, is worth 
while. We congratulate the professors 
and the students who can, for several 
weeks in midsummer, retire from the 
rush and bustle of the cities, where 
most of the colleges and universities 
are situated, and settle down for a time 
on that eastern point of Massachusetts 
in a kind of scientific retreat from the 
commotion, distress and strain of our 
modern civilization, and devote them- 
selves to the study of life ; to do what 
in itself is really worth doing, and is 
not merely a foundation for something 
else, like most of the occupations of 
mankind. Where can a young man or 
a young woman spend the time to bet- 
ter advantage than in a vacation at the 
seashore in the company of inspiring, 
well-educated people? We heartily 
commend this laboratory. For full par- 
ticulars address the Business Manager, 
Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 
Heard in a Bronx Movie House. 
Girl, reading title of picture : “Idle 
Hours With John Burroughs.” “Who’s 
he ?” 
Her male companion, knowingly : 
“Doncher know Burroughs? He’s the 
feller what invented the adding ma- 
chine. It oughter be a good picture.” 
— New York Globe. 
“No, sah. Ah doan’t neber ride on 
dem things,” said an old colored lady 
looking in on the merry-go-round. 
“Why, de other day I seen dat Rastus 
Johnson git on an’ ride as much as a 
dollah’s worth an’ git off at the very 
same place he got on at, an’ I sez to 
him, ‘Rastus,’ I sez, ‘yo’ spent yo r 
money, but whar yo’ been ?’ ” — Boston 
Transcript. 
Some Doubts on Heredity. 
“What is heredity?” 
“Something a father believes in until 
his son begins acting like a darn fool.” 
— The American Legion W eekly. 
Perseverance is a great element of 
success. If you only knock long 
enough and loud enough at the gate, 
you are sure to wake up somebody. — 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 
I am much interested and pleased 
with the little magazine — small in size 
but large in knowledge. — Mrs. Ina L. 
Chaffee, Cincinnatus, New York. 
