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nienced but troubled to know how to adjust their food-habits to such a shortage, 

 which, though temporary, still has to be met wisely while it lasts. If Audubon 

 Societies at this juncture were prepared to demonstrate the value of such a 

 natural product as bees' honey, for instance, accompanying the demonstration 

 with correlated talks on the vegetation which furnishes a food-supply to bees 

 and is protected from insect depredations by birds, and also methods of bee- 

 keeping, it would be a timely aid in a national emergency. Make the year that 

 is to come one of very real value along educational lines. — A. H. W. 



THE HARVEST 



"Oh, 'tis sweet, when fields are ringing 

 With the merry crickets' singing, 

 Oft to mark with curious eye 

 If the vine-tree's time be nigh: 

 Here is now the fruit whose birth 

 Cost a throe to Mother Earth. 

 Sweet it is, too, to be telling, 

 How the luscious figs are swelling: 

 Then to riot without measure 

 In the rich, nectareous treasure, 

 While our grateful voices chime, — . 

 Happy season! blessed time." 



— From The Peace, by Aristophanes, 



(who lived about 450-380 B.C.) 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 



For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XXXVI: Correlated with History, Nature-Study and 



Observation 



CHRISTMAS IN 1917 



While all the world strives daily to contrive some better way to live, some 

 new device to save the precious resources upon which life depends, and to dis- 

 cover some means of knowledge of useful arts now unpractised by men, whereby 

 the conditions of all may be uplifted, Christmas draws near, bringing a sadder 

 yet more hopeful message than ever before in your lifetime or mine. This will 

 be an anxious holiday season in many homes throughout the land, where 

 empty places may not soon be filled by accustomed cheery faces. It will be 

 a holiday season of hope everywhere, for those whose faith in happier days and 

 nobler things is strong and serene. 



It is well in all this tumult of strife and disaster to think calmly and to 

 open the mind to new ideals of daily living. 



There have been other times when the world was in commotion and people 



