CHOOSE A BOOK

1. Burgess, Thornton Waldo, The Burgess Flower Book for Children. Little, Brown.

Stories like "Surprizes in the Green Forest," "A Trap for Insects," and "Peter Finds Three Old Friends" tell about the wild flower life. The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Little, Brown) is full of similar stories about bird life. 2. Clark, Graves Glenwood, Tiny Toilers and Their Works. Century. Stories of insects as farmers, paper-makers, home-keepers, cowherds, dressmakers, warriors, fishermen, weather prophets, jacks-of-all-trades, miners, factory workers.

3. Dorrance, John Gordon, The Story of the Forest. American.

How trees live, grow, and die; how to know trees; how trees serve men; famous trees in history.

4. Downing, Elliott Rowland, A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region. University of Chicago Press.

The tales that Nature spreads before the eyes of people who live near the Great Lakes. The wonders of flowers, of birds and beasts, of rivers and forests.

5. Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, The World of the Great Forest. Scribner. How animals, birds, reptiles, and insects think, talk, work, and live.

6. Du Puy, William Atherton, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker. Stokes. Story of the strange feats performed by our government in sowing forests, inventing new animals, growing pearls, destroying harmful animals, making new plants.

7. Eliot, George, Silas Marner.

How a miser named Marner lost his money, but gained real riches when the little waif, Eppie, came to his home.

8. Fabre, Jean Henri, Field, Forest, and Farm. Century.

How the earth yields its riches for the welfare of man; how men can help the earth and all its creatures to serve men better.

9. Hawkes, Clarence, Tenants of the Trees. L. C. Page & Co.

How to win companionship with birds; the secrets of woodcraft for one who wants to be fair to birds and animals.

10. Keeler, Harriet Louise, Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. Scribner.

A tree lover tells how to know our native trees, enabling us to recognize our friends; more than three hundred pictures.

11. Kipling, Rudyard, The Boy Scout Book. Abbott.

An inspiring book by one who believes in boys and Boy Scouts.

12. Lord, Isabel Ely, Getting Your Money's Worth. Harcourt.

Explains, for girls especially, how to select and how to buy; the advantages of a family budget; how to make it; how to effect savings and to use a bank.

13. Mills, Enos Abijah, Wild Life in the Rockies. Houghton.

In "In the Wilds Without Firearms," one of the stories, a great nature lover tells how he faced gray wolves unarmed. He tells of nature in the region of Estes Park in the Rocky Mountains.

14. Muir, John, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Houghton. How America's great nature lover spent his boyhood in Scotland, and his youth in Wisconsin, learning to know wild animals and birds and flowers.

15. Pinchot, Gifford, The Training of a Forester. Lippincott.

A book by one who is distinguished for his knowledge of the forest and for his services to forest conservation.

16. Price, Overton Westfield, The Land We Live In. Small, Maynard. Explains the use and the waste of America's forests, lands, waters, minerals, telling why and how they ought to be preserved.

17. Pritchard, Myron Thomas, and Turkington, Grace Alice, Stories of Thrift for Young Americans. Scribner.

How to be poor; how to be rich; how to save; how to spend. What would you do if you had $100 to spend? Ella, Phil, and Herbert tell what they would do.

18. Rolt-Wheeler, Francis William, Boy with the U.S. Foresters. Lothrop. Explains what forestry is and what the saving of timber means; many pictures by the Federal Forestry Service.

19. Schauffler, Robert Haven, Arbor Day. Moffat.

The history, spirit, and significance of Arbor Day; suggestions for the planting of trees with programs for celebrating the holiday.

20. Seton, Ernest Thompson, Rolf in the Woods. Doubleday.

A Boy Scout's book of out-door adventures, founded on true stories from American frontier history.

21. Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty. Dodge Publishing Co.

Black Beauty, a horse, tells the story of his early home, his kind masters, his adventures in the city, and his experiences with his mates, Ginger, Merrylegs, and Captain.

22. Sharp, Dallas Lore, Roof and Meadow. Houghton.

Stories of birds, woodchucks, raccoons, and their friendships.

23. Squire, Emma Lindsay, The Wild Heart. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.

Stories of Skygak, the old-man seagull; of U-Cha-Ka, the jumper; of Leonard, the deer; of Timothy, the bear; and of several others.

24. Ward, John J., Insect Biographies with Pen and Camera. Stokes. The life-stories of familiar insects, some of them man's valuable friends, some his dangerous enemies, told with many pictures.

A. LIVING WITHIN ONE'S MEANS

1. THE WAY TO WEALTH

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In this story Franklin imagines a wise man, Father Abraham, quoting from Poor Richard's Almanac, a publication which Franklin began in 1732 and continued until 1758. Read the selection aloud in class, paragraph by paragraph; discuss the meaning of every sentence that is not clear to you; give examples of each of the proverbs of poor Richard.

COURTEOUS READER: I stopped my horse, lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. They were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man with white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?"

Father Abraham replied: "If you would have my advice, I will give it to you in short; for 'a word to the wise is enough,' as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathered around him while he proceeded as follows: "Friends," said he, "the taxes are indeed very heavy; and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.

"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and of

these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing any relief. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us. 'Heaven helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says.

"Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship,' as Poor Richard says; and again 'Who dainties love, shall beggars prove'; and moreover, 'Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.'

"It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on disease, absolutely shortens life. 'Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright,' as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we · spend in sleep! forgetting that 'the sleeping fox catches no poultry,' and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

""Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.' Let us, then, be up and doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. 'Drive thy business, and let not that drive thee'; and 'early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,' as Poor Richard says.

"So, what signifies wishing and hoping for better times! We may make these times better if we bestir ourselves. 'Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting.' 'There are no gains without pains; then help, hands, for I have no lands.' 'He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor'; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow. 'One to-day is worth two to-morrows,' as Poor Richard says; and further, 'Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.'

"If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you, then, your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country.

It is true, there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weakhanded; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for 'constant dropping wears away stones,' and 'little strokes fell great oaks.'

"But with our industry we must likewise be steady, settled, and careful, and oversee our own affairs with our own eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says, 'Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee'; and again, 'If you would have your business done, go; if not, send'; and again, ‘The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands'; and again, 'Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.'

"So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may,

if he knows not how to save as he earns, keep his nose to the grindstone all his life, and die not worth a penny at last. 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.'

"Away with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times and heavy taxes.

"Here you are all together at this sale of fineries and knickknacks. You call them goods; but if you do not take care, they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may, for less than they cost; but if you have no occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, 'Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.' And again, ‘At a great pennyworth pause a while.' He means that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only and not real; or 'the bargain, by straightening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good.' For in another place he says, 'Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.' Again, 'It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance'; and yet this folly is practised every day at auctions. Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone hungry and half starved his family. 'Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire,' as Poor Richard says.

"These are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be