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Here are a few more of THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS® syndicated features which have appeared in 100+ newspapers over the past three and a half years.

Oh boy. Here we are again, well into summer, and every neighborhood is filled with young adults who spend all day moping around the house with "nothing to do".

"Become a camp counselor," says Deb Sillers, a young lady who has done just that. "It will get you out into the country, pay you $300 to $500 a session in addition to room and board, give you time to be quiet and think, put you in contact with people who have a knowledge of woodcraft and give you the opportunity to explore firsthand the currently popular back-to-the-land movement."

If you're 19 or over and think you might like to line up a counseling job for next summer, you can make a good beginning by contacting the following two agencies: Association of Private Camps, 55 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036 and American Camping Association, Bradford Woods, Martinsville, Indiana 46151. The latter offers a Dire Directory of Accredited Camps for 55.95.

Here's a summertime "scientific experiment" that Jim Baker describes in his book, How To Be A Kid Again.

Cut a piece of cardboard (taken from a soapbox or the back of a note pad) so that, when it's folded in the middle, it makes a double-thick "holder" measuring about 2 1/2" by 4". Punch a quarter-inch hole through both layers and then snugly sandwich and glue the tip of a chicken feather in between.

Now line up the "lens" and one hand with your eye and an uncovered light bulb . . . and you'll be able to see the bones in your hand and fingers with the aid of this "feather X-ray"!