1913. 
311 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements de¬ 
sired. 
The first group includes 7732, boy’s 
shirt waist, 8 to 12 years. 7733, girl's 
dress with bloomers, 4 to 8 years. 7741, 
boy’s sailor suit, 4 to 8 years. 7723, 
boy’s suit, 6 to 12 years. 7740, child s 
rompers, 2 to 8 years. 
The second group shows 7724, girl’s 
bertha dress, 4 to 8 years. 7505, girl’s 
dress, 10 to 14 years. 7365, girl’s dress, 
10 to 14 years. 7739, girl’s double- 
breasted coat or reefer, 6 to 12 years. 
7722, girl’s dress closing in front, 10 
to 14 years. 512, design for braiding. 
Price of each pattern 10 cents. 
Colorado Bird Notes. 
One of the best things the boys did 
last Spring was to put up a bird house. 
We had fed the j uncos and sparrows 
all Winter, sweeping off the snow under 
the window west of the house, and scat¬ 
tering ground oats and cornmeal on the 
ground where they would be attracted 
by it, and where we could watch them 
while they fed, sometimes in peace and 
harmony and sometimes quarreling and 
driving each other about. There were 
a great variety of juncos and sparrows, 
amonp - which were a few tree sparrows, 
and as the weather became milder and 
Spring came on these were joined by 
finches. In March we saw the first 
bluebird of the season. He flew into 
the yard and settled on the fence, stay¬ 
ing near the house all day, flying from 
the fence to the apple tree, sitting in 
contemplative mood as if he felt that 
he had rushed the season a little in 
coming so soon, for it was rather a 
cold day, but still he stayed, now on 
THIS RURAL NEW -YORKER 
the roof of the house and now on the 
fence or the apple tree again. How 
glad we were to see him he must have 
known, I think, and felt a little of the 
warmth of our welcome in spite of the 
chill in the air. We were most careful 
not (j disturb or frighten him, and ad¬ 
mired him from the windows, keeping 
discreetly out of sight. During the day 
he was joined by several others of his 
kind. Two days later it snowed, a soft, 
wet Spring snow, which brought the 
j uncos, sparrows and finches about the 
house and yard and adjoining fields by 
hundreds, where they fed in immense 
flocks all day, picking up weed seeds 
and insects by the millions. The snow 
and wet and cold did not in the least 
dampen their spirits, and they sang and 
chirped and twittered as jubilantly as 
if the sun were shining. I counted 56 
finches in the yard at one time. The 
day following this was bright and warm, 
and now a great flock of bluebirds, just 
arrived from the South, flew down in 
a five-acre field in front of the house 
where they spent a couple of hours 
feeding. 1 watched them from the 
porch as they flitted from place to place 
busily feeding or resting in long rows 
on the fence and telephone wires. They 
sang some too, but their chief aim and 
object appeared to be to get filled up. 
Then they drifted on, and we did not 
s:e them again in such numbers. But 
the children had already determined to 
make a bird house when the first blue¬ 
bird came and now they lost no time 
in carrying out their plan. 
They found a small wooden box 12 
inches long, eight inches wide and six 
inches deep, and put a partition across 
the middle of it making two compart¬ 
ments. Fitting a board over the top 
of the box they bored two holes in it 
for entrances to each compartment, 
nailed a long board to the bottom of 
the box to fasten it up by, and put it 
up on one end of the chicken-house, 
nailing it securely in place. In the 
morning, before they went to school, a 
bluebird flew up on the ladder by the 
chicken-house and peered critically at 
the bird house. Then he flew up on the 
edge of the chicken-house roof, and 
looked at it from that angle; and finally 
he flew down and perched on the 
entrance to the bird house itself and 
looked in. Twice lie did this, and then 
flew away, but when the children had, 
gone to school he came back, and after 
looking the house all over once more 
he went in and stayed several minutes, 
poking his head out of the door, ap- J 
parently admiring the scenery. After 
a while he came leisurely out and flew 
off, returning within an hour and bring¬ 
ing with him another bluebird, his mate. 
Fie flew straight to the door of the bird 
house this time and went in, but the 
female alighted on the ladder as the 
male had done at first and proceeded 
to look things over thoroughly on the 
outside, first from the ladder and then 
from the top of the chicken house ex¬ 
actly as he had done. When, at last, 
she decided to go in, she found the door 
rather a tight fit. She went in and out 
a number of tinfes as if to accustom 
herself to it. They both appeared to be 
quite favorably impressed I thought, ex¬ 
cept for the door, which, try as she 
would, the lady bird did not quite like. 
In April when the weather seemed 
settled and the warmth and sunshine 
made us feel that'we couldn't possibly 
have any more cold weather, the female 
began to carry strings and dried grasses 
and deposit them in the lower part of 
the bird house. When it was stormy 
or cloudy the work was abandoned until 
the sun shone again. The male did 
none of the work of building, but re¬ 
mained near to keep trespassers away. 
The finches took a great liking to the 
little house, and we hoped they would 
be allowed to occupy the upper story, 
but Mr. Bluebird drove away every in¬ 
truder. The sparrows, too, kept com¬ 
ing persistently, but they were never al¬ 
lowed to get near enough to look in, 
for just as they seemed about to take 
possession from somewhere would sud¬ 
denly appear an object of blue darting 
furiously at the intruder and the spar¬ 
rows never stopped to argue the case, 
but made all possible haste to get away 
to a safe distance. 
When the first brood was being reared 
it seemed to me that Mr. Bluebird base¬ 
ly deserted the mother bird to provide 1 
for the family alone, just as he had 
allowed her to do all the work of build¬ 
ing the nest. I rarely saw him, while 
she seemed constantly going and com¬ 
ing with worms and grasshoppers and 
bugs for the little ones, but when these 
were grown up and gone he put in an 
appearance again, and stayed near the 
bird house much of the time, and when 
the second brood hatched he kept as 
busy as the mother bird. One or the 
other could be seen almost constantly 
carrying food to the nest, and almost 
invariably when they went out we could 
see that they were carrying something 
from the nest which they dropped when 
a short distance away. We concluded 
after seeing this many times that they 
were carrying away the droppings de¬ 
posited by the young birds, thus keep¬ 
ing the nest clean from day to day. We 
watched them for more than an hour 
one day, and by actually timing them 
we found that one or the other of them 
appeared every three minutes with some 
kind of an insect which they had 
hunted down, and which was quickly 
disposed of by the ravenous brood in¬ 
side the bird house. 
One day a baby bluebird settled down 
on the window ledge to rest. He was 
tired from his first flight, and he sat 
there a long time after we discovered 
him. When the boys went out to see if 
they could catch him he did not show 
the least fear, but allowed them to take 
him in their hands. They brought him 
in the house so the cat could not get 
him, and when later in the day we saw 
the other baby birds sitting on the fence 
and fluttering down on the lawn we 
shut the cat in the granary so the birds 
would at least be safe from him until 
they were a little more expert at flying. 
After this the bluebirds did not visit 
the bird house any more, but we often 
saw them in the yard, for they remained 
around the home place until cold weather 
warned them that it was time to be 
moving South. tessie i. carpenter. 
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