icles,
tableware, ornamental brick and tile work, and general pottery; a great
variety of cabinet work, furniture and willow ware; splendid photographs
of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry, also wild animals and
birds, singly and in groups; views of trees, streams, roads, bridges and
railroad trains; enlarged photographs of the insect enemies of farm
products; others of the birds which prey upon such insects; artistic
views of seed beds, nursery rows, potting sheds, brick and pottery
works--in fact, pictures of every possible aspect of the agricultural
and manufacturing industries on the farm. Taken together, this
collection presented a most interesting series for the school rooms,
which proved an object lesson of great value to both pupil and teacher.
The landscapes were especially excellent in giving correct ideas of
distance values in perspective drawing.

As time passed, the inventive genius of the club members began to crop
out in the repair shop, where they not infrequently, and sometimes much
to their surprise, found themselves able to construct better and cheaper
instruments, lenses and attachments than they were able to buy. With
these improvements they soon achieved success in color photography.
Later this led to making magnificently colored slides for stereopticon,
kinetescope and biograph exhibits, which soon attracted wide attention
and were in such demand that a large trade resulted. In this way another
exceedingly profitable allied industry was added to the now famous
Solaris Farm.

CHAPTER XIX.

FENWICK HALL.

In the infancy of this Republic, when its government was looking about
for a permanent home, Gen. Washington was moved to found and lay out the
City of Washington as its Capitol. With a marvelous prescience he
foresaw the coming needs and future greatness of the newly-united
states. Impressed with visions of the glorious destiny awaiting his
beloved people, his cherished republic, he wisely concluded to provide
generously for the growth of a magnificent city which, a century later,
should reflect credit as the capital of a mighty nation. Careless of the
gibes and sneers of many of his most intimate friends, Washington, the
far-seeing statesman, the invincible soldier, deliberately planned,
platted and surveyed through the wilderness of forest at that time
covering the great triangular basin lying between the Heights of
Columbia and the waters of the Potomac and Anacostia r