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  • Encouraged by $180 "I want you to rejoice with me. I have sold my first maun- Krlpt a crime story—and the check is $180. It's the real thrill that comes once in a life time. All this I owe to N. I. A. training—and I consider myself a beginner of rawest type. T got back far more than the N. I. A. tuition fee in my first sale." Mrs. C. E. Scott, 660 N. Market St., Shazvnce, Okla. How do you KNOW you can't WRITE ? Have you ever tried? Have you ever attempted even the least bit of training, under competent guidance? Or have you been sitting back, as it is so easy to do, waiting for the day to come some time when you will awaken, all of a sudden, to the discovery, "I am a writer"? If the latter course is the one of your choosing, you probably never will write. Lawyers must be law clerks. Doctors must be internes. Engineers must be draftsmen. We all know that, in our times, the egg does come before the chicken. It is seldom that anyone becomes a writer until he (or she) has been writing for some time. That is why so many authors and writers spring up out of the newspaper business. The day-to-day necessity of writing—of gathering material about which to write—develops their talent, their insight, their background and their confidence as nothing else could. That is why the Newspaper Institute of America bases its writing instruction on journalism—continuous writing—the training that has produced so many successful authors. Learn to write by writing NEWSPAPER Institute training is based on the New York Copy-Desk Method. It starts and keeps you writing in your own home, on your own time. Week by week you receive actual assignments, just as if you were right at work on a great metropolitan daily. Your writing is individually corrected and constructively criticized. A group of men with 182 years of newspaper experience behind them are responsible for this instruction. Under such sympathetic guidance, you will find that (instead of vainly trying to copy some one else's writing tricks) you are rapidly developing your own distinctive, self-flavored style— undergoing an experience that has a thrill to it and which at the same time develops in you the power to make your feelings articulate. Many people who should be writing become awestruck by fabulous stories about millionaire authors and therefore give little thought to the $25, $50 and $100 or more that can often he earned for material that takes little time to write—stories, articles on business, fads, travels, snorts, recipes, etc.—things that can easily be turned out in leisure hours, and often on the impulse of the moment. How you start We have prepared a unique Writing Aptitude Test. This tells you whether you possess the fundamental qualities .necessaryi to successful writing— acute observation, dramatic instinct, creative imagination, etc. You'll enjoy taking this test. The Coupon will bring it, without obligation. Newspaper Institute of America, 1776 Broadway, New York. ' Newspaper Institute of America | 1776 Broadway, New York | Rend me your free Writina Aptitude Test and further J ■ information on writing for profit as promised in I I Nature Magazine—May. Mr. Mrs. Mist 1 I | Address.. (All correspondence confidential. call on you.) No salesmnn will S7E361 \-—--L °zr j build their cities in the moss-draped cypresses. Over her high peaks, the highest in eastern North America, the ravens and the golden eagles sail. Jessamine and azalea, egret and eagle, live oak and balsam, swamp and mountain— all these and a thousand other Carolinian things invite the lover of beauty to Carolina. THE EVENING SKY IN MAY (Continued from page 332) viewed with opera glasses or field glasses. Coma Berenices, or Berenice's Hair, is a filmy wisp of light to the naked eye, but the glasses show it to be a coarse cluster of stars. More than a score can be counted with the aid of an opera glass and there are many more in the group, visible in powerful telescopes. This group will be found about midway between the brilliant Arcturus, in Bootes, and Denebola, in the tail of Leo. The third cluster is the great globular mass in Hercules visible as a faint luminous cloud on a clear night when there is no moon. It is a magnificent object when viewed with a powerful telescope. It is composed of more than one hundred thousand stars more brilliant than our own sun but over thirty thousand light years away. It lies on the western edge of the keystone-shaped configuration in Hercules to the northeast of that beautiful little circlet of stars known as Corona Borealis. This is also a good month in which to search, with opera glasses, for the four moons of Jupiter. Arcturus, Spica and Vega are the three stars of first magnitude now visible in the eastern half of the sky. Vega is now rising in the northeast as Capella is disappearing in the northwest. Procyon and Pollux and Regulus in Leo are the brightest stars now visible in the west. The planet Jupiter, in Gemini, is still a magnificent object in the evening sky, and ruddy Mars shines brilliantly in Cancer, passing into Leo the middle of the month. It will be found a few degrees northwest of Regulus. Saturn now rises about midnight in the southeast in Sagittarius. Venus is still a morning star but very low in the east at sunrise. Mercury cannot be seen until the last week in May when it may be glimpsed near the time of elongation on May 27. It will then be low in the east at sunrise. Don't let your garden keep you on your knees Grubbing . . . hoeing . . . sweating. Don't let drudgery of weeding break your back, Do your summer's gardening ... in American Legion Conservation In accordance with a resolution passed by the American Legion of North Carolina recommending a program of reforestation, conservation and the restoration of wild life in North Carolina, and requesting each post to interest itself in these subjects for the benefit of the community and the state at large, the legion has been supporting the North Carolina Department of Conservation in its highway beautification work and assisting in the promotion of public parks and public forests. Legion posts and individual members have brought to the public consciousness the need for such improvements and led the state in their achievement. one operation ... this easy, modern ■way. 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