Arbor and Bird Day Bulletin, 15 



"The pupils are taught that the appreciation of birds is not a 

 mere sentimental affair," says Director Johnson. "They are told of 

 instances, quoted from government reports, in which crops were de- 

 stroyed by mice because the owls were exterminated, and are given 

 problems to figure out regarding the value of a bird which catches a 

 thousand flies an hour, when a man, paid 20 cents an hour, can kill 

 but 300 in that time." 



Several of the schools entered the building of bird houses on a 

 business basis. The Green Lake school baseball team recently ap- 

 peared on the diamond with spick and span new uniforms purchased 

 with money obtained through the sale of bird houses made by the 

 pupils. The Summit school sold bird houses on the street the day of 

 the exhibit, and has obtained no little business training from obtaining 

 the permits from the city to sell articles on the street, from preparing 

 their advertising and from planning their selling campaign. 



THE TREE 



I love thee when thy swelling buds appear, 



And one by one their tender leaves unfold, 

 As if they knew that warmer suns were near, 



Nor longer sought to hide from Winter's cold; 

 And when with darker growth thy leaves are seen 



To veil from view the early Robin's nest, 

 I love to lie beneath thy waving screen, 



With limbs by Summer's heat and toil oppressed; 



And when the Autumn winds have stripped thee bare, 

 And round thee lies the smooth, untrodden snow, 



When naught is thine that made thee once so fair, 

 I love to watch thy shadowy form below, 

 And through thy leafless arms to look above 



On stars that brighter beam when most we need their care. 



Jones Very. 



Love, now an universal birth, 

 From heart to heart is stealing, 



From earth to man, from man to earth, 

 It is the hour of feeling. 



One moment now may give us more 

 Than fifty years of reason; 



Our minds shall drink at every pore 

 The spirit of the season. 



Wordsworth. 



