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Show MOSS COLLECTING. TIIFRK is a craze thi summer foi collect)"- i !'., and a mwl fascl j nating fad if i. as the search, foi I mossy treasures means wonderful "excur-sion "excur-sion into the very In-art if the woods. ;I.ike other of her del'nate ibildren. Nature Na-ture guards her most he- ', 1 specimens of nios in sern't places, and the pi: who arc Unt on making their rollcclio:;. iute-resting : well nn valuable will eareh dillgenlly with gratifyiui rruHs and be aslonisli'd al tbe number of varieties they can get in whatever part of 1 1;; country they arc. At one of the large n-Horia where a noted professor of botany is utaying there is until rivalry among the girl mos ol-lcclors, ol-lcclors, due 10 the fact 'h it Ihe professor has offered r. prize for ibe best coUecilon submitted lo him by tbe middle of th summer, the prize lo be u liberal donation in ihe winner name to a freh air fund for which the girls are to rsisn inouoy by means of a fair. All the collections are to be exhibited , at the fair, where I hey are fcurc to fc unique and much admired feature. No iouht if it w. ugL'et,ted to thelD eider iu many places would emulate the. pro-ffssor, pro-ffssor, and rirs who are now only cM- ecting for fun might make their tovly ; no-s.es a means of helpiuc to Provid ouutry joys for tenement children. . |