THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
SHE LEADS IN BEAUTYAND INTEREST 
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t HOMES TO NATURE'S REALMS. (g? 
i A EDWARD F. BIGELOW, MANAGING EDITORSH 
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Volume XIII. 
JANUARY, 1921 
Number 8 
REVELATIONS IN HAIRS. 
By Clement B. Davis, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. 
S HOULD one institute a beauty 
quest, probably the last place to 
look would be the pile of dead and 
withered leaves raked up from the 
“back yard” ready for burning. 
fhe harvest here, though, is rich in 
many ways, but especially so in the 
variety of form and surprising beauty 
of the hairs which are to be found more 
or less on nearly all leaves. For him 
holding complacently to the popular 
belief that hairs are merely hollow 
tubes this old pile of leaves holds, in- 
deed, a revelation. 
On Fra Lippo Lippi’s suggestion that 
“We love first, when we see them 
Copyright 1921 by The Agassiz Association, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 
