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Committees on publicity and entertainment were formed, the former pre- 

 paring news-articles for the local papers regarding various features of interest; 

 the latter promoting the formation of Junior societies in some of our public 

 schools, thereby giving the pupils a chance for bird-study. Our treasurer, Mrs. 

 Edward S. Harris, Sr., has talked and read to the children of her neighborhood, 

 and has instilled in them a respect for living things that has led these boys and 

 girls to think before they wantonly waste anything. 



"BIRD GUARDIANS," A MASQUE GIVEN BY THE DOYLESTOWN (PA.) NATURE CLUB 



The keynote of the Audubon movement in Cumberland is 'live and let 

 live,' which, although it be applied to wild-life alone, must necessarily react 

 on our human relationships, so that protection and tolerance must mean a 

 more beautiful conception of living. — William S. Sparks, Assistant Secretary. 



Doylestown (Pa.) Nature Club. — I am sending you a yearbook, also a 

 picture of 'Bird Guardians,' a masque written by Leigh Mitchell Hodges for 

 the Nature Club in the interest of bird-life, and presented in the open once in 

 Doylestown and once at Chestnut Hill, to several hundred people. The Nature 

 Club has started three bird-sanctuaries, and for two years has had an appro- 

 priation from the State Game Commission for feeding the winter birds, which 

 was done during the bhzzards and severe weather. During one of our severest 

 snow-storms last winter the committee on bird-protection faced a blinding 

 snow, and waded in drifts up to their waists, in reaching one of our suburban 



