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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1913 
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The dining-room, with its ladder-back 
Chippendale chairs, has some perfect speci¬ 
mens of Georgian furniture. It has an 
old-world flavor with its portraits of an¬ 
cestors in their soft gold frames. The use 
of an old wash-hand stand for a serving 
table is suggested by the narrowness of it, 
but possibly it is part of an old sideboard 
cut down to fit the spot where it now 
stands. Old silver appeals to all of us, 
especially when it is so perfect in design 
as here. 
The bedroom with its dainty white 
striped paper is charming. A dainty flow¬ 
ered border reproduces the colors in the 
curtains, and the ladder-back Colonial 
chairs are just right in a bedroom of a 
house built in farmhouse type. 
How to Attract Martins and Other 
Birds 
Seventeen years ago, impelled by love 
of our native birds, I began to build 
houses for them on my grounds. I had 
made a study of birds as a boy, and felt 
that the little fellows should be encour¬ 
aged to come back to us; that we should 
do something for them to atone for our 
mistake in allowing the sparrow to mo¬ 
nopolize our gardens and our generous 
scraps of food. 
My first birdhouse was built to attract 
the purple martins. This was erected on 
my place at Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, 
which is in the heart of a district called 
“Flatville.” I had never seen martins in 
Chicago, but as a boy I had won them to 
a little house I built in the country. 
Two days after the new house went up 
in Flatville two martins came around and 
investigated it. They flew about the house 
all day, but evidently their requirements 
were not met, for they left and never re¬ 
turned. Something about the house made 
them timid. Several days later three more 
martins came, circled about, and finally 
went into the house. They also betrayed 
evidence of fear — and flew away. I 
climbed up to the house and tried to 
guess what it was that excited the birds’ 
distrust, but could not. Next day two 
more martins came and perched on the 
roof. English sparrows drove them away; 
the sparrows found the house attractive 
and occupied it. No more martins that 
year. 
During the next winter I designed a 
house which the birds could enter on either 
side and go straight through. When the 
first martins came I saw that I had hit 
upon the right plan. They took up a 
lease. When a sparrow pursued them 
they dove into the house and immediately 
came out on the other side. The sparrow 
waited at the front door with the patience 
of stupidity. It was amusing to watch the 
little pirate's face. Joseph H. Dodson. 
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