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143 Woodcraft Manual for Girls golden fleece of the drygoods man, the mortar and pestle of the druggist, and others are well known. Examples of these and others are given in the illustration but any wideawake Woodcraft Giri will be able to find many others by careful observation. Fir«— Senrant or Matter? nUB IS A OIXAX SERVANT BUT A TEKIOBLE MASTEK FIrv FwmtiMi Condenaed horn Hn CommUam Robert Adunaon's Pamphkt Why should America suffer five times as much fire loss per lioad as any European country? Chiefly because we are so careless. Just think that every year about 2,000 lives are lost in fires, and 6,000 persons injured. The money loss to this country is about $500,000,000, which means that every family of fiveperscma is paying $12,50 a year as their share of this loss — $2.50 apiece. In Europe the people are so careful about fires that fire loss is only about fifty cents apiece. Taking no account of the suffer- ing and misery, our cash fire loss in America is $600,000 a day, $25,000 an hour, S416 a minute. In other words, we lose each year through fire more than enough to build the Panama CanaL During 1913, in New York City alone, 588 fires were caused by children playing with matches, with a loss of $32,000. It has beoi calculated that more people have been killerl in recent years on the Fourth of July celebration than were killed in the whole original Revolution that it celebrates. Nearly 40,000 wcfe killed injured m Fourth al July fires in the ten years, 1904 to 1914. This is why sensible pe(^ have riien iq;> and demanded a safe and sane Fourth. Firewtnks and bonfires should be absolutely forbidden. I never yet saw the time or place where a bonfire was not a curse. However safe it may seem, there is sure to be some risk, and it is wasting valuable wood. A true Woodcraft Boy or Girl never makes a bonfire. Let us express our patrk>tian without ruin- ingour neighbors' property or our own. Flret would be practicaUy unknown if we followed the advice al ComaaMkfaa Adamsoii of New York City, and practised the TWENTY-fOfUK DON'TS Doo't allow chOdmio play with matches. Don't block the fire eso^wt.