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for Bird Day were arranged for the Woman's Out Door Art League 

 of Chicago for a number of years by Mrs. E. S. Adams and Mr. 

 John M. Blakely. Articles for the Arbor and Bird Day Annual were 

 furnished by the Secretary and others of our members and articles were 

 furnished for many months to "School News" and other papers. Mate- 

 rial was furnished for the "Illinois Course of Study" and the publication 

 of a children's paper "By the Wayside" was carried on for many years 

 in conjunction with the Wisconsin Society. Other important publicity 

 work on these lines was the publication in the Ladies Home Journal — 

 partly through the efforts of Miss Amalie Hannig and thanks to the great 

 kindness and generosity of the Editor of the paper — a full page of copies 

 of an English series of Egret pictures, and it also came about that the 

 ladies in the charming fashion plates of that influential paper were per- 

 mitted "ostrich feathers only." Through Miss Hannig's influence also 

 an article by Baron von Berlepsch was written for and published by 

 Bird-Lore. The educational work of the Society was carried on in 

 various ways. Over 100,000 leaflets, our own and those of the National 

 Association, were sent all over the State. Portfolios of pictures and leaf- 

 lets of information were placed in libraries and other public places. Sets 

 of mounted pictures and migration records were supplied to schools. Our 

 first lecture, given by Mrs. Farwell, written by Mr. Clark and the slides 

 furnished by Mr. Dugmore and others, began its work in 1902, a circulating 

 library having antedated it about a year. Our second lecture, written by 

 Mr. John L. Devine, with slides by Mr. Frank M. Woodruff, came in 1910. 

 Largely through the efforts of the Society with the kindly aid of Hon. 

 H. G. Hall and Hon. S. E. Erickson in the State Legislature, April 1893 

 saw the observance of Bird Day in conjunction with Arbor Day made a 

 law in Illinois. The legal questions connected with our work have been 

 largely managed by Mr. J. M. Blakely assisted in those earlier days by 

 Mr. Deane and Mr. Clark. Through their efforts the bird laws have 

 been much improved and bad laws generally have been defeated. 



To our able President, with his large knowledge and well known name, 

 we are indebted for most of the work accomplished with the millinery 

 trade, in especial for friendship and help for the birds from Mr. Fredrick 

 Bode, President of the Western Merchants Millinery World, which re- 

 sulted in the publication in one number of the paper of some beautiful 

 plates of featherless hats and the more important fact that the Association 

 passed resolutions endorsing the work of the Audubon Societies and also 

 sent warnings to the milliners against breaking the plumage laws. Through 

 Mr. E. B. Clark of the Chicago Evening Post the battle against caging of 

 our native birds was largely fought, in fact, Mr. Clark with his able pen, 

 was a veritable St. George in fights against the many dragons we en- 

 countered. 



The Illinois Society claims a goodly share in helping the cause of the 

 birds with the General Federation of Woman's Clubs. Many letters 

 passed between the officers of the State Federation and the Audubon 

 Secretary and an arrangement was made for the associated work with the 

 Forestry committee, all of which helped toward the good work accomplished 

 by Mrs. Martha Decker, then President of the General Federation, and 

 Mr. Dutcher, which culminated in the endorsement of the Audubon work 



