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HO USE & GARDEN 
Let the Old Oaken Bucket 
Still hang in the well— but, 
only as a memory 
T IME was when the old oaken bucket was a 
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family. With it, water was drawn from the well or 
spring and carried for domestic use. Today, in the 
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The Bird Club Movement 
(Continued from page 26) 
giving careful thought to the feeding 
of the birds. Davenport, Iowa, is as 
good an example as any. I arrived 
in Davenport in a blizzard, but such 
was the enthusiasm of the bird lovers 
that I was taken from house to house 
that I might see for myself the suc¬ 
cess that was attending the efforts 
being made to befriend the feathered 
guests. At almost every house I was 
invited to join a family group drawn 
up around the window to watch the 
antics of the bird neighbors who 
gathered to enjoy the feast provided 
for them. And practically every 
child, parent and grandparent in 
those families was taking a keen per¬ 
sonal interest in the behavior of wary 
Blue Jays and Woodpeckers, acrobatic 
Nuthatches and Chickadees, jaunty 
Tufted Titmice and Cardinals and 
many others who came to the food 
tray or window box, singly or in 
flocks, each for what he liked best— 
suet, peanuts, corn, bird seed or 
doughnuts. 
That night there was a dinner for 
bird lovers and a lecture on birds, 
and later the judging of bird houses 
and of photographs of birds sub¬ 
mitted by residents of the town in 
competition for prizes. And all these 
things were being done under the 
auspices of the local bird club, a 
thriving up-to-date organization, of¬ 
ficered, not by sentimentalists, though 
proper sentiment was not lacking, but 
by prominent business and profes¬ 
sional men of Davenport. The presi¬ 
dent was a wholesale baker; the sec¬ 
retary, curator of The Academy of 
Sciences, and the treasurer, one of the 
leading physicians of the town. These 
men and many others had taken up 
the work because they believed in 
what has been termed “the Meriden 
Idea,” which is based on the knowl¬ 
edge : 
First—That birds need our protec¬ 
tion. 
Second^—That it is worth our while 
to protect them. 
Third—That through the medium 
of a local bird club better than in 
any other way, every man, woman 
and child in a community can have 
a hand in their protection with pleas¬ 
ure and profit out of all proportion 
to the slight trouble and expense in¬ 
volved. 
During a recent lecture tour the 
writer has had an opportunity to see 
how general this movement is and 
how rapidly it is spreading. At Sioux 
City, Iowa, the following advertise¬ 
ment appeared in all the daily papers 
throughout the cold, snowy weather: 
WANT TO BE HAPPY- 
RIGHT HAPPY? 
Feed the birds. Not the pets— 
but God’s wild creatures — who 
suffer much now from the cold 
and snow. Scatter crumbs or 
grain each morning—watch them 
come —Smile Also. 
’Tis said mankind would perish 
but for the birds—their ceaseless 
warfare on worms and insects de¬ 
structive to plant life. Buy chicken 
feed—iBE A GOOD FELLOW— 
feed the birds NOW. 
The Farmer’s Bank. 
“The Little Bank 
’Round the Corner.” 
Sioux City, Iowa. 
This advertisement was inserted by 
Edward T. Kearney, president of the 
bank and a prominent member of the 
local bird club. 
At Omaha, where great enthusiasm 
for the birds has been aroused large¬ 
ly through the energy of Miss Joy 
Higgins, of the Nebraska Audubon 
Society, hundreds of business men 
and their wives attended a luncheon 
to hear an address on bird conserva¬ 
tion, and when the chairman, Thomas 
R. Kimball, announced that the local 
bird club had secured a five hundred 
acre tract of beautiful country at 
Childs Point for a bird sanctuary, 
the applause fairly made the dishes 
rattle. 
And it seems the women’s clubs are 
destined to play a most important 
part in this movement. The Brook¬ 
lyn Woman’s Club, The Englewood 
(N. J.) Woman’s Club, The Century 
Club of Rochester, The Woman’s 
Club of Rockford, Ill., and the 
Woman’s Club of Minneapolis are a 
few of the many which are doing 
splendid work for bird conservation. 
Last year the Minneapolis organiza¬ 
tion started a bird club which it has 
mothered until now it is strong 
enough to stand alone and will soon 
become an entirely separate and inde¬ 
pendent body. 
This year Mrs. Phelps Wyman, 
president of this bird club, with the 
backing of the Woman’s Club, plan¬ 
ned a three-day campaign, during 
which nine bird lectures were de¬ 
livered in different parts of Minne¬ 
apolis. The result, I am told, has 
been the awakening, especially among 
the young people, of a live interest 
in birds and their protection. 
Junior Bird Fans 
A very important branch of this 
movement is the organization of bird 
clubs in the schools, private and pub¬ 
lic. The pupils of the best schools 
to-day will soon be the country’s 
leaders, and if they leave school with 
a proper appreciation of the value 
of birds, it will mean much to the 
birds and to the country. 
The Fay School at Southborough, 
Mass., was one of the first to or¬ 
ganize a bird club, and this club is 
reorganized every year under com¬ 
petent leadership. It was my privi¬ 
lege to be present at the reorganiza¬ 
tion last year. Membership in the 
club is not compulsory, but kindness 
to birds has become one of the tradi¬ 
tions of this famous school and every 
single boy in it joined the bird club 
on the spot. More recently clubs 
have been organized at Hotchkiss, 
Noble and Greenough, Salisbury, 
Rumsey Hall, Culver Military Aca¬ 
demy and many another. 
Nor are the girls one bit less ac¬ 
tive. Strong bird clubs have been 
started at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, 
Ill.; Miss Porter’s School at Farm¬ 
ington, Conn.; The Dwight School at 
Englewood, N. J.; Rye Seminary at 
Rye, N. Y.; and Monticello Seminary 
at Godfrey, Ill. And these are only 
a few of the many. What promises 
to be a very successful club is one 
organized recently at the State Nor¬ 
mal School at New Paltz, N. Y. The 
intelligent enthusiasm and resource¬ 
fulness of the headmaster, Mr. John 
C. Bliss, is reflected in the whole at¬ 
titude of his teachers and his four 
hundred young women students, each 
one of whom will soon be a teacher, 
and, let us hope, a spreader of the 
gospel of bird protection. 
It has been the writer’s experience 
that the bigger the man or woman 
at the head of a school, the more he 
or she appreciated the value of birds 
and the more anxious to have the 
students take part in the Bird Club 
Movement. Only the small minds at¬ 
tempt to ignore the importance of 
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