Transcriber’s Notes:
1) Cover added.
2) A couple of unusual spellings in the “ads”have been left as printed.
“With cheerful hop from perch to spray,
They sport along the meads;
In social bliss together stray,
Where love or fancy leads.
Through spring’s gay scenes each happy pair
Their fluttering joys pursue;
Its various charms and produce share,
Forever kind and true.”
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
Nature Study Publishing Company, Publishers
1896
T has become a universal custom to obtain and preserve the likenessesof one’s friends. Photographs are the most popular form of these likenesses,as they give the true exterior outlines and appearance, (exceptcoloring) of the subjects. But how much more popular and useful doesphotography become, when it can be used as a means of securing plates fromwhich to print photographs in a regular printing press, and, what is moreastonishing and delightful, to produce the real colors of nature as shown inthe subject, no matter how brilliant or varied.
We quote from the December number of the Ladies’ Home Journal:
“An excellent suggestion was recently made by the Department of Agricultureat Washington that the public schools of the country shall have a new holiday,to be known as Bird Day. Three cities have already adopted the suggestion,and it is likely that others will quickly follow. Of course, Bird Day will differfrom its successful predecess