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Show GIVE THE BOY A MICROSCOPE. Will Interest Him in the Wondere of the Natural World. If you want to keep your boy out of mischief give him a microscope, not one of tho elaborate, Intricate, expensive ex-pensive affairs that the bacteriologists iiBO when hunting foe germs, but a common one, with two or three lenses that revolve on a pivot and fold Into a cover, which protects them from In-Jury In-Jury when carried In tho pocket. There Is no better way of Interesting Interest-ing the boy In the wonders of the natural world than this simple contrivance con-trivance which opens to his oyos visions vi-sions ot a universe of which he knew nothing. See through tho microscope the most Insignificant flower becomes a thing of wonderful beauty.' The interior in-terior ot a nasturtium Is a fairy cavern, cav-ern, showing a dozen different tint and hues ot color, with dainty white stalactites and stalagmites, almost touching each other, midway between floor and roof. He will find monsters, too, for the head of an ant, seen through a microscope, mi-croscope, is a terrible object, snd he can not help thinking what an awful aspect such a creaturo would present If it were as big as a horse. He has heard about the creatures that are to be found in water from a stagnant pool; he will find them for himself and show them to other boys, and all his crowd will become Interested and bring things to look at and wonder about. He may not dovelop Into a Darwin; but If he has any faculty of observation at all, It will be sharpened by what he sees, and ho will learn that there Is more In nature than what we discern on tho surface. |