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The fifth annual mid-winter exhibit will be held at the Art 
Institute of Chicago, Dec. 28 to Jan. 13. The program will in- 
clude Saturday afternoon lectures in Fullerton hall by speakers 
of note, daily presentations of motion films of plant and animal 
life by the Society for Visual Education, and exhibits installed 
by the Chicago Aquarium society. It will offer interesting ob- 
ject lessons in the natural sciences. 
The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America is very 
active in Massachusetts. Like the Chicago chapter, it endeavors 
to secure state legislation, making it a penalty to pluck the 
precious annuals, such as the columbine and fringed gentian, 
the tender orchids and plants, such as the bloodroot and trilli- 
ums, which are easily exterminated. 
The Chicago chapter, Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson, president, 
has supported a movement to save the wild flowers by colonizing 
them in suburban grounds and country estates. Some wild flow- 
ers thrive under protection and the right care. Nearly every 
suburb has its loyal wild flower friend, and River Forest has put 
up a decided fight to protect the forest preserves. 
The Friends of Our Native Landscape, the Prairie club and 
Nature Study clubs co-operate with the Wild Flower society in 
hanging signs to “Spare the Wild Flowers” and endeavoring to 
educate the public to enjoy and not to destroy. Interested per- 
sons desiring to help in this national crusade to keep the earth 
as lovely as we find it, should join the Wild Flower Preservation 
society. 
Seward School, Room 201, 
4600 South Hermitage ave. 
To the Illinois Audubon Society, June 1, 1922 
Dear Friends: 
I am glad to belong to the Audubon Society. We put our 
pennies in a box and when we had a dollar, we sent it to the 
linois Audubon Society. The Membership card is hanging up 
in our room. We thank you for it. 
We know sixteen trees. We have learned about trees by 
seeing the leaves and pictures. We know the shapes of the leaves 
and the different edges. 
We have learned about wild flowers too: Our teacher, Miss 
Kelly, brings leaves and flowers to school. We love the song 
birds. We know 32 song birds from bird pictures. We love 
them for their beautiful songs. We love them for their beautiful 
colors. The birds contribute to our “Daily Bread” by eating © 
bugs, worms and insects, and by eating weed seeds, too. 
All the people must be very kind to birds. No boy in our 
room will ever harm a song bird. 
Your little friend, 
OLGA VRABLIK 
Aged 9 years 
