TEACHING BIRD STUDY 



stead of spending their brief vacation in idleness, 

 they were seeking additional knowledge to prepare 

 them for more valuable future service. They were 

 learning that morning the important lesson that birds 

 are placed on earth for a useful purpose. When they 

 returned to the schoolroom they would teach the 

 boys that the bird is a friend to the farmer and 

 should not be killed nor its nest destroyed. They 

 would teach girls that there is something far more 

 exquisite about the living bird than is to be found in 

 the faded lustre of its feathers when sewed on a hat, 

 and they would cultivate in the heart of the girls a 

 feeling of sympathy for the home life of the birds 

 about them. 



The greatest problem to be solved by those ac- 

 tively engaged in measures which make for civic 

 righteousness is how to preserve the children of the 

 country from evil influences, and to direct their 

 curiosity and restless energy into safe and productive 

 channels. The teacher occupies a strategic position 

 in this matter, and one of her problems is how to en- 

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