NEWS AND NOTES 39 



The school house was decorated with our own school grown 

 flowers, of which we had quantities, and the flowers on the tables 

 were arranged by one of the mothers. 



Place cards with appropraite nature quotations were painted 

 by our sixth and yth grade pupils from flowers gathered in the 

 garden. Miss Miller expressed herself as greatly delighted. 

 Several members of our Board of Education, the Superintendent, 

 Assistant Superintendent, and a few principals were present. 



Last spring we had a fair under the auspices of our Mothers' 

 Club. Booths were erected, by the fathers, all around the assembly 

 hall. The prettiest booth was the central one at which our hya- 

 cinths and tulips and daffodils raised by us last winter were sold. 

 We realized between $15 and $20 from the sale of these bulbs. 

 Some of this money was used to purchase bulbs for this winter 

 and each child in our school has already planted a bulb. They 

 are in the trench ready for winter growing. 



We realized $33.50 at the West Michigan fair this fall, nearly 

 $20 of this amount being in direct competition with many others. 



Nature and Culture has changed its name. It is now The Blue- 

 Bird. It is published monthly as the Ohio Audubon monthly. 

 Eugene Swope is editor. No. 4 W. Seventh Street, Cincinnati, O. 



Three interesting pamphlets are on the editor's desk this week. 

 "Directions for Field Studies in Agricultural Nature-Study" by 

 Gilbert H. Trafton, Mankato, Minn. *'A Course in Physical 

 Nature-Study for the Elementary School" by Wm. T. Skilling, 

 San Diego, Cal. and "Butterflies and Moths in the Vicinity of 

 Evansville, Ind." This latter the inscription says "has been 

 prepared by teachers who realize the satisfaction to be derived 

 from helping boys and girls to know and enjoy the wonders of the 

 world around them. 



There comes to the editor's desk with regularity, the Wilson 

 Bulletin, a quarterly bulletin of ornithology. It is published at 

 Oberlin, Ohio, and it is the official organ of the Wilson Ornithologi- 

 cal Club. The last number, No. 3, Volume 25, bears date of Sept- 

 ember, 19 13. This bulletin is always interesting and contains 

 each quarter, a number of well illustrated articles that are of 

 interest to bird lovers. This September number contains two 

 long articles of special interest, one on the Home Life of the Glossy 



