SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 



Edited by ALICE HALL WALTER 



Address all communications relative to the work of this depart- 

 ment to the Editor, at 53 Arlington Avenue, Providence, R. I. 



A Practical Demonstration of Protected 

 Home Resources 



SHOULD every local Audubon Society arrange to rent, buy or obtain by 

 gift some restricted but favorably located area, inclose the same with 

 a cat-proof fence, label all trees and shrubs, put up scientifically con- 

 structed nesting-boxes, lunch-counters and drinking-fountains for birds, and 

 invite young and old to assist in keeping up such a birds'-eye demonstration 

 of protected home resources, all classes of people might be drawn into closer 

 touch with nature. 



Bees, toads, spiders, fishes, 

 small mammals and other forms 

 of life may be judiciously intro- 

 duced, their increase regulated 

 and economic value illustrated in 

 such an experiment plot. 



The demonstration method 

 works admirably in other fields. It 

 should serve as well in this case, 

 and, properly carried out, might be 

 made to advertise nature most 

 attractively to many people who 

 are now isolated from the real, 

 living world. 



At this season, when every 

 city -dweller who can possibly 

 leave town is striving to fit into 

 some niche or corner of nature, it 

 is all too apparent that many 

 people, both in town and out, seem 

 to have no place in nature. 



While it is true that the all-the-year-round country-dweller, for the most 

 part, becomes more and more satisfied with his natural environment, there is 

 a large proportion of our population which needs a practical demonstration 

 of nature. 



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A BOY AND A BIRD-TABLE— A YOUNG 



FLICKER HAS JUST TAKEN A BATH 



Photographed by S. Louise Patteson, Fairmount, Ohio 



