56 Bird Day Book 



GOOD RESULTS. 



THE greatest pleasure does not come from those things which 

 cost most, but from those things on which one spends much 

 time and earnest effort. Having to wait awhile for results in- 

 creases appreciation. 



Planting the flowers and watching them grow creates a love 

 for them ; the setting out of a tree and watching it tower to the 

 sky, with wide-spreading branches, creates a keen appreciation 

 of the cool and delightful shade from the burning summer's sun; 

 the building of bird-boxes for the nesting of our feathered friends 

 and watching them choose their mates, build their nests and rear 

 their young implants in the hearts of every one a sentiment that 

 elevates and draws them nearer to the great heart of Nature. A 

 feeling of responsibility in the care of school house and grounds 

 gives a sense of ownership that causes the pupil to feel that he is an 

 integral part of that world to which he belongs — the school. 



With beauty all around, the heart is educated as well as the 

 mind. Who can know the untold joy that such efforts bring to 

 school children? 



Good results will not be confined to school house and grounds, 

 but will extend from home to home. 



"Go make thy garden as fair as thou can'st 



Thou workest never alone ; 

 Perchance he whose plot is next to thine 



Will see it and mend his own." 



If children are daily surrounded by those influences that ele- 

 vate them, that make them clean and well ordered, that make them 

 love flowers, trees, birds, pictures and proper decorations, they at 

 last reach that degree of culture where nothing else will please 

 them. When they grow up and have homes of their own they will 

 have them clean, neat, bright wtih pictures, fringed with shade 

 trees and flowers, and surrounded with a choir of lovely feathered 

 songsters. 



