ARCADIA 
XI 
hilarity one of them explained that 
without giving the matter much 
thought he had supposed our longest 
office building to have an interior con- 
struction of a main aisle with large 
bins on both sides filled with bushels 
and bushels of various kinds of bugs 
after the style of a granary where oats, 
buckwheat and corn might be assigned 
to different bins. Upon further in- 
quiry we found he had a mental picture 
of big scoop shovels and huge baskets ! 
Here is material for study more in- 
teresting than the study of nature ! ! 
Sound Beach Seedless Grapes. 
Mr. Edward A. Finch of Sound Beach 
recently left at ArcAdiA specimens of 
seedless grapes which he supposes to 
be a cross between the Delaware and 
the Catawba. These grapes were 
referred to an expert, Mr. U. P. Hed- 
rick, Horticulturist of the New York 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Gen- 
eva, New York, and he replies : 
“I suppose that we have record of 
some half dozen such seedless grapes 
all of which have originated under 
cultivation, probably as hybrids. No 
one of the seedless grapes that we have 
yet seen has any commercial value and 
certainly this has none. I am hoping 
that sometime some one will bring us 
in a seedless native grape. As you 
probably know, several such seedless 
Viniferas grow in European vine- 
yards.” 
“Regarded as a Wonderful Achieve- 
ment.” 
Edward F. Bigelow, editor of The 
Guide to Nature, expresses the opinion 
that teachers and parents spend too 
much time in developing girls, and give 
too little encouragement to girls to de- 
velop themselves. A girl is diffident 
and self-conscious, he says, because she 
has been repressed and allowed too lit- 
tle outward expression. He has little 
faith in various new-fangled pedagogi- 
cal inventions and contrivances, but 
contends that the girl should be left 
free to “find herself” — probably mean- 
ing that the various regulations gov- 
erning her life and habits tend to cloud 
the real self, and to squelch her natural 
feelings. Dr. Bigelow says the girl 
should express herself through nature, 
and he is going to explain his ideas 
in lectures to teachers and parents. He 
has experienced a change of viewpoint 
as regards girls, as the result of being 
a teacher, a parent, a grandparent, a 
biologist, a naturalist, and an instructor 
in girls’ schools. He is bold enough 
to say that he thoroughly understands 
girls, which the ordinary person would 
regard as a wonderful achievement, 
especially for a man. — The Stamford 
Advocate. 
When a man has the record of hav- 
ing been brought up with four sisters, 
of having brought up three daughters 
and two granddaughters, of having 
taught girls for ten years in public 
schools, and for twenty years in pri- 
vate schools, of having been an em- 
ployer of girls for twenty-five years, 
and naturalist guide in camps for girls 
in many states, and is now guide in 
charge of nature study of the 125,000 
Camp Fire Girls of America; he has a 
right to feel that his impressions of 
girls may qualify him as a “guide” to 
the nature of girls. 
Edward F. Bigelow, A. M., Ph. D., 
of ArcAdiA, Sound Beach editor of 
“The Guide to Nature” and curator of 
our own Bruce Museum, is celebrating 
his sixtieth year by offering a new lec- 
ture for adults, with the title “Girls.” 
It is well adapted to Women’s Clubs, 
Teachers’ and Parents’ Associations, 
Teachers’ Institutes and churches. — 
“The Greenwich Press.” 
Early Morn. 
(Summer) 
Each lowly weed was a crystal clear, 
The grasses spears of light, 
And every flower wore a diadem 
Of the sparkling dew of night. 
(Autumn) 
’Twas worth the early rising 
To see the frosted fields; 
Which shone in the morning sunlight 
Like burnished silver shields. 
— Emma Peirce. 
Apple Tart. 
Lady (to apple vendor) — Two of the 
apples you sold me yesterday were 
rotten. I was going to take them along 
to show you, but I forgot — 
Apple Vendor (politely) — Doesn’t 
matter, ma’am ; your word is as good 
as the apples. — Kansas City (Mo.) 
Times. 
