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Bird- Lore 



in the clearings. This spring, the Class 

 prepared the chart shown in the photo- 

 graph. It was exhibited one week at a 

 time in the seven grades of the elementary 

 school, and Leaflets were provided for the 

 teachers to read. This chart was very 

 effective in increasing interest in birds 

 among the children, more than one hun- 

 dred of whom have been induced to sign a 

 pledge promising to protect birds and their 

 nests." 



The fourth place seems surely to belong 

 to the large club of the Arlington School 

 at Nashua, New Hampshire, the home city 

 of the New Hampshire Audubon Society; 

 but this commendation is based less on the 

 size and alertness of the Class than on the 

 practical correctness of the bird-boxes — a 

 quality sadly lacking in some of the ama- 

 teur boxes shown in other pictures. Miss 

 Mary M. Morill informs us that the 

 Junior Class at this school has more than 

 200 members, representing all the grades. 

 Those shown in the picture are the Owaissa 

 and the Opeechee Clubs, of the seventh 

 and eighth grades respectively. These 

 names are taken from Longfellow's poem, 

 'Hiawatha,' and are the names, in the 

 language of the Ojibway Indians, of the 

 Bluebird and the Robin, respectively. 

 Miss Morrill adds: 



"Since forming last fall, they have en- 

 joyed meeting once a month, at 6.30 p.m., 

 at the school, in their respective rooms, 

 having first a business meeting, and then a 

 study of some bird from the Audubon 

 Leaflets. Afterward the two classes unite 

 in the hall for an entertainment, one class 

 entertaining at one meeting, and the other 

 at the next. 



"We have had a most interesting illus- 

 trated lecture on birds by our State Secre- 

 tary, the Rev. Manley B. Townsend. We 

 have tied suet on trees, put seeds and 

 crumbs into feed-boxes, made bird-houses 

 and a large feeding-shelter (shown in the 

 picture), and have planted sunflower seeds 

 to attract the birds later. Some of the 

 boys are to make cement bird-baths in 

 their manual-training class." 



A Solace to Shut-ins 



In sad contrast to the vigorous youth in 

 other pictures are the unfortunate children 

 shown in the four illustrations on page 325. 

 They are a few of the Junior Society of the 



Open-air Class of the Municipal Hospital 

 at Buffalo, New York. These children, 

 who are the victims of that dread disease, 

 tuberculosis, occupy a building by them- 

 selves within which is a court, where the 

 pictures were taken; but many members 

 of the society must remain indoors all the 

 time. The leader of this Class is Miss 

 Nettie V. Howard, who writes as follows: 



"We have an Audubon Calendar in our 

 class room, and have had some very inter- 

 esting bird-bulletins, compositions, draw- 

 ing lessons and memory lessons from our 

 bird-plates and similar materials. Our 

 bird-list on the blackboard has at present 

 ten birds that the children have actually 

 seen this year. These children stay in the 

 hospital all the time, and, as there are not 

 many trees around the grounds, their list 

 does not grow very rapidly. 



"We are hoping to take the children into 

 the country before long. They are look- 

 ing forward to seeing, as they say, 'lots of 

 new birds.' At present we are very much 

 interested in three mother Robins, whose 

 heads or tails are all we are privileged to 

 see these days. Every day when we take 

 our outdoor exercise, the children want to 

 walk around the trees where the Robins 

 have their nests. The society has done 

 much to make the older boys feel that they 

 are responsible that no harm comes to 

 those patient mothers on their eggs. 



"As many of the activities are denied 

 these children, the outside world has to be 

 brought to them by the teachers, through 

 stories, actual experience, and magazine 

 articles. They are eager to know and read 

 about other societies, and are wide awake 

 to be at the head of the rank in any com- 

 petition." 



Three Lively Classes 



Any preference among the remainder 

 of the photographs is difficult. The laugh- 

 ing group of girls and boys of the Titus- 

 ville, Florida, Class shows but a few of the 

 whole number, we are told; and the pic- 

 ture was taken by one of the members. 

 Mrs. Mattie King, their teacher, writes 

 that the boys were to bring their bird- 

 boxes for the pictures, but they assured 

 her they could not do so because all the 

 boxes were inhabited. Surely a good 

 reason ! 



A very interesting group is that of the 

 Horace Mann School at Kansas City, an 



