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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
SEASON OF SWARMING LIFE
Possessor of Microscope Will Find
Much Fascinating Study.
Throw Youmelf Hesld an Ant Hill
for. Instance and Jferc Veil
Which ha Hidden Secret.
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1 11 h season or s warming
life, vegetable and insect
lias coine, and a great
joy fills the heart of every
possessor of a good micro
scope, says G. 1. Serviss
in Success. There is no book more full
of instruction, and few so full of delight
It need not be a large and costly instru
ment; indeed, it should not be for begin
ners. They might easily become con
fused and discouraged by the complica
tions, and except to expert hands the
dillieulties of manipulating a powerful
modern microscope with its delicate
accessories.
A simple instrument is best. A very
high magnifying power is not needed. A
single cheap lens steadily, mounted, will
do wonders, even when it magnifies but
a few diameters. I have often been as
tonished to find how few persons ever use
even a pocket magnifier, or know how to
use one if it is handed to them. I have
been accustomed for many years always
to have such a lens about me, as insepar
able a companion as my penknife. Fre
quently I have two or three, of varying
powers, in my pockets, and I believe I
could write a book full of stories about
the interestimr things I have seen with
my pocket magniliers, and all of which
should have missed without their ready
aid.
On a teeming summer day throw your
self on the ground beside an ant-hill, and
see what a little lens, costing, perhaps,
half a dollar, or less, will do for you in
opening before your eyes a world whose
largest inhabitant is scarcely half an inch
long, but wherein there exists a perfec
tion of social organization, and a mar
shaling of industry that may well amaze
an on-looking philosopher.
Take a delicate ilower, or a growing
root, and place it under the glass; look
about you casually at first, and then look
deeper by aid of the little lens, and a
new world will open up ; many of Na
ture's secrets will be revealed.
For the observation of minute life, of
course something more powerful than a
pocket lens is needed. But the shops are
full of microscopes of every conceivable
power, and price, costing from five, or
ten, up to a hundred, or several hundred
dollars. If you get a microscope whose
magnifying powers run from ten diam
eters to a hundred diameters, it will be
all you will need. Remember that the
superficial area of an object is increased
in apparent size proportionately to the
square of the given magnifying power.
For instance, a fly's wing with its deli
cate veins and its shimmer of prismatic
colors, appears ten thousand times as
large as life when magnified, one hundred
diameters, because it . is magnified one
hundred times each way. Of course,
you cannot see all of a fly's wine- at otiop
when it is magnified like that, but you
can move it about on the stage of the
microscope and examine different parts
of it at your leisure.
With a little ingenuity, and perhaps, at
first, the assistance of a more experienced
observer, it is not difficult to see the blood
nowing in the semi-transparent foot of a
living irog, and there are a legion other
things fully as interesting.
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The "Scare-Head" V liter.
The public which glances hurriedly
over its paper every day, gathering the
gist of the news from the head-lines,
does not always realize the difficult prob
lems which come to the writer of head
lines. He must not only announce as
much as possible, but do it in words
which contain only a given number of
letters, in order that the heading may
just fit the. width of the column. The
Sunny South prints a story, very true to
life, which shows how professional wri
ters of headlines carry their troubles
home with them.
The young man with a tired look sat
in the rear end of the ear, staring at an
advertisement.
"English beauty shoes," he mumbled
to his companion. "That's what it says."
"Yes," said the other, "but that's too
short."
"H'm, h'm!" the tired man replied.
"Beautiful shoes from England "
"That won't fit ; it's too long" was the
reply.
"Well, then, 'Beautiful English
shoes "
"That's only three words. You've
got to have four, you know."
"That's so, that's so. Ah, I have it!"
he cried so loud that all the passengers
in the car gave a jump. "English shoes
of beauty' twenty-three letters and
spaces. At last, at last !"
A compassionate old man looked up
from his newspaper.
"What's the matter with your friend?"
he asked. "Is the poor fellow crazy?"
"Oh no," the other man replied, assur-
ingly. "You see lie s just got tnrougn
with his night's work on a morning
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newspaper, lie is a neau-niie vvnu,
and after a fellow has scribbled off head
lines for eight hours steady, he contracts
the habit and can't get over it. Every
advertisement or bit of writing that he
sees for several hours afterward until
his mind gets rested well, he begins to
count the letters and spaces, and turn
the wording into a head-line that will fit.
It isn't exactly insanity ; it's habit."
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BACK FROM A SPRING-DAY RAMBLE.
THE flOIiIiY iflfl
PIIXEHUBST, IT. 0.
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The Holly Inn is one of the most attractive hotels in the South. Since it was
built in 1895, it has been necessary to enlarge it several times to meet the constantly
increasing demand. The interior is elegant, cheerful and tasteful. No modern con
venience is lacking. There are bath rooms, electric lights, steam heat and open
fireplaces. There is a call bell In every room, and all beds are furnished with best
hair mattresses. An orchestra furnishes fine concerts daily, and also provides lor
dancing. The cuisine is unsurpassed. The waitresses are all white girls from tht
North. "Rooms for billiards and other games are provided in the hotel.
A. I. CREAMER, Manager.
The Harvard,
PINEHURST, N. C.
TiNLHURST.Ti.C lms recently completed notei is centraiiy located Dt
cween The Carolina and The Holly Inn.
It is modern in every respect, having electric lights, steam heat and several
suites with bath, and with its cottage annex and large dining room accommo
dates seventy-five guests.
The Cuisine is in charge of a competent chef, and the table service li
guaranteed satisfactory.
F. H. ABBOTT, Manager.
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