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clouds and wind,” and the “great rain” de¬ 
scended upon the astounded host; while the 
king’s charioteer lashed his horses down the 
mountain trail, and the fiery old prophet, gird¬ 
ing up his loins, “ran before Ahab to the en¬ 
trance of Jezreel!” 
Who can say, after this, that changes of 
the weather are insignificant, and, above all 
things, are to be ignored in polite conversation? 
In the street, “How are you? Fine day!” still 
lingers as a cordial and human sort of greeting; 
but in the modern drawing-room one is severely 
interdicted from any reference to even the 
direst meteorological capers; though he be 
landed from his motor car in a snow-drift, or 
blown in through his hostess’ door by a simoon. 
This, I protest, is sheer folly, the climacteric of 
tyrannical conventionalism. Not talk about the 
weather—perish the thought! As well forbid 
the broker to allude to stocks when he joins 
his neighbor on the way up town after a bear 
raid; or our strenuous ex-President to mention 
jaguars and armadillos on his return from 
Brazil. 
Let us be independent, and brave the sar¬ 
castic shafts of the social critic. It is a fine 
day. The wind is northwest, and the air is wine. 
To-morrow may be rainy—but who cares? 
Weather, dear, delusive, betwitching, faithful 
weather, will still be with us, anyway. 
Notes of a Casual Reader. 
This has been a harvest-year for the Audu¬ 
bon Society folks, who are rejoicing in many 
successes, the fruit of years of sincere effort. 
Foremost, of course, is their gratification over 
the enactment of the Federal law against the 
importation of all feathers used in millinery, ex¬ 
cept those of the ostrich and of domestic fowls. 
The annual report of the National Association, 
which will shortly be issued, will recount the 
nine years’ struggle to bring this about; and 
Secretary Pearson mentions that not less than 
200,000 letters and telegrams were sent to 
Congressmen during the last few months, urg¬ 
ing the beneficent action. That shower con¬ 
vinced them that it was really a case of The 
People vs. Conscienceless Traders, and, of 
course, the people won. The great aid af¬ 
forded by Dr. Hornaday and the Zoological 
Society is gratefully acknowledge. 
How effectively the barnyard-grown plum¬ 
age and other materials may be utilized in pro¬ 
ducing really beautiful ornaments for a lady’s 
hat or coiffure, appears from the result of the 
scrutiny to which the millinery of returning 
travelers has been subjected by the Custom 
House. A number of “aigrettes” and other 
confections, for which the wearers declared they 
had paid large prices in Paris, were found to 
be imitations made from feathers or other ma¬ 
terials of no dutiable and little intrinsic value. 
It was with doubtful joy, no doubt, that these 
hats were recovered by their owners, with the 
compliments of the appraiser; but it surely will 
please the good women who have worked for 
the protection of birds that they may have their 
success and their pretty trimmings, too. 
A pictured window in memory of Izaak 
Walton is about to be placed in the cathedral 
of Winchester, England, where Walton died 
and is entombed—-a memorial of interest to all 
lovers of English literature, as well as of quiet 
fishing. Its central figure is of a personage 
dressed like a medieval king, illustrating the 
phrase: “The Lord sitteth above the water- 
flood.” Large figures in the side panels repre¬ 
sent St. Anthony preaching to the fishes; St. 
Peter and the tribute-money; St. Andrew with 
the loaves and fishes; and St. Wilfred instruct¬ 
ing the Sussex fishermen—an English legend. 
In the lower corners two scenes introduce Wal¬ 
ton himself, in one as meditating by the bank 
of the Itchen, with St. Catherine’s Hill in the 
background, and in the other Walton with his 
pupil saying grace before eating their lunch 
beside the river Dove. The escutcheons of 
Donne, Herbert, Wot ton, and other asociates 
of the angler, with various plants, fishes and 
aquatic symbols, make further embellishments— 
all in vivid colors. 
Another remembrance of universal interest 
is the movement to establish a memorial 
museum of George Borrow in his native town, 
Norwich, England. The house in which Bor¬ 
row spent his childhood has been bought by the 
Mayor and turned over to the city under the 
care of a committee, which proposes to make 
of it a fitting memorial of the author of 
“Lavengro.” For this purpose they are restoring 
the building to its original condition, and 
gathering for it furniture, books, manuscripts, 
etc., of Borrowian interest. Contributions of 
such articles are desired, and may be sent to 
the Mayor of Norwich. The memorial house 
was opened last July with a celebration, one 
feature of which was a week-end camp of the 
Gypsy and Folk-lore Society on Mousehold 
Heath. 
Of a different class, yet pertinent, is a fact 
not generally known, but worth mention in con¬ 
nection with the recent celebration in New York 
of the tenth year of aviation, since the Wright 
brothers made a success of the biplane by their 
flights on the coast of North Carolina. This 
fact is that there may now be seen in the Na¬ 
tional Museum in Washington one of the 
earliest of these machines—the Wright biplane 
acquired by the United States Government in 
1909, which was the first aeroplane to be pur¬ 
chased and operated by any government. It 
was deposited by the Department of War. 
Substantially like the machine built by the 
Wright brothers and successfully tested at 
Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, it embodies some 
improvements. The two main planes measure 
37 feet long by 6 feet wide, and the elevating 
planes 15 feet long by 2 feet wide in the middle, 
while the motive power is supplied by a four- 
cylinder, 30-horsepower gasoline engine. 
The oldest inhabitant in the New York 
Zoological Park is an alligator, which had been 
alive seven years before it came to the park in 
1899. A pair of bison, a doe wapiti, a pair of 
Alaskan brown bears and one of the grizzlies, 
have also been in the park since it was first 
opened, and were fully grown animals when 
they arrived. 
Binocular. 
The Third Annual 
Travel, Vacation and 
Sportsmen’s Exhibition 
WITH 
Outdoor Trapshooting Tournament 
Organised and Conducted by 
The International Exposition Co. of New York 
—SPORTSMEN’S SHOW AND — 
TRAPSHOOTING TOURNAMENT 
Under the Management of 
FOREST AND STREAM 
New Grand Central Palace 
MARCH 5th to 14th, 1914 
The purpose of this exhibition is to persuade 
Americans to see America first and to inculcate 
a desire for healthful recreation in nature’s 
playgrounds. 
That the Travel Snow is an assured success was 
amply demonstrated by the last exhibition 
which proved to be a revelation to the New 
York public. The educational value of this 
exhibition has made it a necessary institution. 
The visitor will find a remarkable collection of 
scenic exhibits in replica, the wonders of the 
American Continent. There will also be hourly 
travel lectures, motion pictures of big game 
hunting and kinemacolor scenes of America’s 
wonderlands. 
This year the logical combination of the Sports¬ 
men’s and Travel Shows will result in one of 
the most complete and effective expositions of 
this kind ever held in the Empire City. The 
Sportsmen’s Show will occupy an entire exposi¬ 
tion hall which will be transformed into a vast 
forest scene. 
The topographical character of the principal 
big game countries of the United States and 
Canada will be accurately reproduced. A reli¬ 
able information bureau will be conducted by 
“Forest and Stream.” Guides from all parts of 
the country will be in camp to help the sports¬ 
man intelligently plan his trip and a complete 
assortment of outdoor equipment will be exhib¬ 
ited. 
The necessity of forest, fish and game conserva¬ 
tion will be demonstrated by the exhibition of 
live fish and game with facts and figures. Ex¬ 
perts on every phase of outdoor life will be on 
hand to instruct the tyro in the first rudiments 
of woodcraft. 
An outdoor trapshooting tournament with an 
unusually attractive program will be conducted 
on the roof of the Grand Centra) Palace. There 
will also be bait-casting and other sportsmen’s 
tournaments, with valuable prizes. 
Don’t forget this entry in your new diary. 
For further particulars address 
W. J. GALLAGHER, Manager Sportsmen’s Show 
Grand Central Palace, New York. 
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales 
By George Bird Grinnell. A splendid collection of 
tales and folklore collected by the author during a resi¬ 
dence with the tribe, when the nights were given up to 
story telling. Many of the tales are of thrilling interest, 
and in addition to this, the author’s observations on the 
Pawnees, their history, life, characteristics and progress 
are of more than passing interest. Cloth, illustrated, 417 
pages. Postpaid, $1.75. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
127 Frank,in 
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