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THE GUIDE TO N ATU RE— ADVERTISEMENTS 
Over 39 years continuous in- 
dorsement by the birds 
THE FAME OF JACOBS BIRD-HOUSES IS 
KNOWN IN EVERY LAND 
Beautify your grounds and help your bird neighbors 
by using JACOBS colony houses for Purple Mar- 
tins, individual nest boxes for the Bluebird, Wren, 
Chiek-a-dee, Swallow, Flicker, Tit-mice, and Wood- 
pecker. 
Bird Baths and Drinking Fountains. 
Feeding Devices for Winter Birds. 
Sparrow Traps and Bird- 
Banding Traps 
Beautifully Illustrated Catalogue FREE. 
If you mention The Guide to Nature we will send a copy of 
“American Bird-House Journal.” 
JACOBS BIRD HOUSE AND MFG. CO. 
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 
What the Animal Does. 
An applicant for a place as teacher in 
one of the colored schools of Louisville 
was being examined touching fitness 
for the position. “What is your defini- 
tion of the word ‘jeopardized’?” asked 
the examiner. The candidate’s brow 
wrinkled. “Which?” he inquired. 
“What do you understand the word 
‘jeopardize’ to mean?” For just one- 
half minute he hesitated. Then he an- 
swered sonorously, “In reply to vo’ 
question I would state that would refer 
to any act committed by a jeopard.” 
Fine Points in English. 
The man had just informed the Pull- 
man agent that he wanted a Pullman 
berth. 
“Upper or lower?” asked the agent. 
“What’s the difference?” asked the 
man. 
“A difference of fifty cents in this 
case,” replied the agent. “The lower 
is higher than the upper. The higher 
price is for the lower. If you want it 
lower you'll have to go higher. We sell 
the upper lower than the lower. In 
other words, the higher the lower. Most 
people don’t like the upper, although it 
is lower on account of its being higher. 
When you occupy an upper you have 
to get up to go to bed and get down 
when you get up. You can have the 
lower if you pay higher. The upper is 
lower than the lower because it is 
higher. If you are willing to go higher, 
it will be lower.” 
But the poor man had fainted ! 
— The Epworth Herald. 
Bine Lace Flower 
Clusters of delicate light blue blossoms, in size and 
color like the Forget-me-not, borne on long slender 
stems. Texture resembles Queen Anne Lace. 
Exquisite with cut flowers. 
Chinese Wool Flower, flower clusters, mas- 
sive feathery balls of brilliant crimson, blooming 
till frost. 
Aster Novelty Hybrids, will produce many 
new types and colors never offered. 
ALSO 2 FAMOUS VEGETABLES 
IVlatctiless Lettuce, remarkable for crispness 
and juicy texture. Grows somewhat likeRomaine. 
Sweet Corn, 60 -day Makegood. Earliest of 
all, large, sweet and tender. 
All Five Packets for 25c 
All tested novelties and easy to grow. Send for 
big colorplate catalog tree. Complete stocks of 
seeds, bulbs, window plants, perennials, fruits, 
berries and special novelties. Values exceptional. 
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park,N.Y. 
SONG AND TALKING BIRDS 
For Easter Gifts 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist 
Darien Phone 96 Connecticut 
