THE LA RUE HOLMES NATURE LOVERS LEAGUE 



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it, smooth it or drive a nail through it, 

 and will enjoy such work. But, you 

 contend, the girl isn't going to be a 

 carpenter; tools belong to the boy. 

 Now be consistent. You do not ex- 

 pect all boys who use tools to be car- 

 penters, nor do you expect all girls 



In the same sense and for the same 

 reason that a girl wields paints and 

 fashions clays should she saw off boards 



who stencil patterns on dainty fabrics 

 to fresco the ceiling of a church. The 

 girl who letters and decorates a pos- 

 ter will not necessarily paint guide- 

 posts for street corners ; nor is it nec- 

 essary, if she learns to make mud 

 cakes and fashions them for the oven 

 in dainty pottery and bric-a-brac, that 

 she shall make jugs and urns for a live- 

 lihood. 





and bore holes through them. But for 

 the boy, the use of tools needs no argu- 

 ment. 



Let your nature interests have a 

 basis in manual training. Let your 

 motto be to do effectively as well as 

 to say correctly. 



v The La Rue Holmes Nature Lovers League h 



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By George Klingle, Summit, New Jersey 



"The Guide to Nature" is the official organ 1 f the LaRue Holmes Nature League. It is im- 

 portant, for the general League interest, that the magazine be liberally supported, through the active 

 cooperati r« of League members — George Klingle. 



L. H. Nature League Motto: 'Self-sacrifice; heroism for another." 



Notes on the Economic Relations of 

 Starlings. 

 < ireat concern is felt by many of us 

 concerning the introduction of the Eng- 

 lish starling (Sturnus vulgaris), which 

 occurred about sixteen years ago. The 

 bird is of great value in the Old World. 

 but the change into new conditions seems 

 to be effecting as much harm as did the 

 introduction of a Scotch thistle on the 

 Pacific coast, and the naturalization of 

 the chirping foreigner which have so 



harmfully driven away our native song- 

 sters. 



My attention was first attracted to the 

 damage done through the birds feeding 

 habit by noticing a nestling being sup- 

 plied with what proved to be the stam- 

 inate flowers < f the hickory. Later on, 

 in different localities, the same peculiar- 

 ity has been noticed. Possibly these 

 were not wholly eaten, but whatever the 

 condition, such feeling, if at all exten- 

 sive as I believe it to be, of course means 



