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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February. 
1915 
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deciduous trees and evergreen conifers, all in the rugged hardihood that assures 
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yond all reason, through ignorance and 
selfishness. Can we check the slaughter, 
and will this great Northwest wilderness 
suffice to keep up the supply? 
Great changes certainly are taking place, 
particularly in the prairie region of the 
southern part. Settlers are pouring in, 
the land is being broken by the plough, 
and marshes are being drained for agri¬ 
culture. This is driving the wildfowl 
from these prairies. Railroads are being 
pushed in various directions, even to 
Hudson’s Bay, which in a year or two 
will be accessible. Gunners and depre¬ 
dators are thus pouring in. In addition, 
Indians and settlers live on the land, and 
take what game they require for food at 
all seasons. 
It has been well suggested that the area 
adapted to breeding purposes is not as 
vast as has been supposed, which is doubt¬ 
less true. To offset this, however, is the 
fact that the available area does not pos¬ 
sess its normal quota of breeding wild¬ 
fowl, probably because the stock has been 
so depleted on the migration south. These 
unspoiled areas can certainly produce 
more wildfowl than they do at present. 
Even yet, multitudes of fowl are still 
reared in this great natural preserve. In 
autumn, on the western lakes and marshes, 
they still swarm in tens of thousands. 
They can yet be saved if the breeding 
grounds can be better protected, and if 
the migratory host can be saved from un¬ 
due slaughter on its long journey and on 
the winter feeding grounds. 
The former is for the Canadian gov¬ 
ernment to carry out, the latter largely 
for us. It is a matter of patriotism and 
public obligation for game officials in 
every State to support and co-operate in 
every way with the Federal authorities, 
and likewise for all sportsmen who are 
gentlemen and not mere pot-hunters. If 
we can save and send back to the breed¬ 
ing grounds each spring a million more of 
wildfowl breeding stock saved from the 
avarice of man, and these return with 
their broods, it is not difficult to calculate 
the result. 
Creating Personality in Bedrooms 
(Continued from page 92) 
long reach between tawdriness and rich¬ 
ness as one might imagine. 
Another point as to the use of color: 
take into consideration the color you most 
effect in your clothes. I know a woman 
who wears much lavender. She fur¬ 
nished her boudoir and bedroom — shades 
of sixty-two! — with a predominance of 
red. The moment she entered that room 
her personality lost itself in the shock to 
one’s color sense. Later, the same 
woman, having learned her lesson, always 
tried out pieces of her new gowns in the 
rooms in which she would appear in them 
most frequently. 
Time was when the guest-room held 
mostly the dejected, and, alas! often re- 
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