“WILD ANIMAL FRIENDS” 
_ Supjyrcr OF LECTURE IN MANCHESTER 
_ Town Hart, Wepnespay 
ees EvENING. 
_ The Manchester Town hall was 
_ packed to its utmost capacity Wednes- 
_ day evening when the students’ meet- 
ing of the Woman’s club was held. 
Mrs. Grace Beaton as president of the 
_ club opened the meeting, omitting the 
reading of the minutes and 
_ announcing that the next meeting 
would be at the Town hall on the 
_ afternoon of November 17, at the us- 
ual hour, half past three, when the 
_ Parent-Teacher association is invited 
_ to attend a lecture by Dr. Edith 
Southard of Wellesley College. Mrs. 
Southard has given a number of ad- 
dresses in Manchester in previous 
years before various organizations, 
such as the Parent-’leacher associa- 
tion and the Arbella club, and all who 
heard her will be anxious to be pre- 
sent at her “Talk,to Mothers” at the 
Town hall, November 17. Announce- 
ment was also made of a course of 
- four lectures which will be given in 
the Town hall under the auspices cf 
the Woman’s club by Dr. Helen B. 
Cole of Beverly. Tickets, which are 
50 cents for the course, may be pro- 
cured from members of the Woman’s 
club. © 
Mrs. Beaton then introduced Mr. 
E. Harold Baynes, who gave a splen- 
did address on “Our Wild Animal 
Friends,” illustrated with lantern 
slides. The slides were fascinating 
studies of the smaller animals and a 
few birds, including, especially, pic- 
tures of some of Mr. Baynes’ many 
tame animal friends. 
: At the outset the speaker told a 
little of what he called “the language 
of the trails,’ which embraced the 
tracks of various animals in the snow, 
some of the tragic wood mysteries 
which a naturalist is able to solve by 
snow tracks. The pictures of the 
animals included many species, most 
of them being pets upon Mr. Baynes’ 
New Hampshire estate. Among the 
most interesting were the pictures of 
Jimmy Bear and The Sprite, the lat- 
ter a magnificent red fox. Jimmy 
was a little bear cub, which was taken 
into the Baynes home at a very ten- 
der age and kept until he grew too 
large “for private use,” when he was 
presented to the New York Zoological 
Gardens, and Mr. Baynes assured his 
audience that Jimmy could be seen 
there today, the largest and finest 
black bear in the Gardens. The slides 
showing Jimmy as a cub were very 
appealing and, many of them depict- 
ing some of his queer antics, amusing. 
Jimmy had a particularly thrilling ad- 
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venture with a cow, which he never 
forgot. It was upon the occasion of 
his first meeting with such an animal 
and the picture showed him standing 
on his hind feet looking over a wire 
fence into the pasture. . Presently, 
Mr. Baynes said, the cow, too, became 
curious and came forward to meet 
Jimmy Bear, who incautiously went 
under the barb wire and into the pas- 
ture. ‘Lhe cow promptly tossed him 
over the fence and, in fact, many feet 
beyond. It made such an impression 
on Jimmy that later in the day when 
he met a second cow, he retreated 
hastily up a post, from which vantage 
point he surveyed the new acquain- 
tance, she looking up at him. F inally 
she went off a few feet and stood 
there patiently. Jimmy slid down the 
post and advanced toward her as she 
stood with lowered head waiting for 
him to come near enough to receive 
a second toss. That cow got the sur- 
prise of her life, Mr. Baynes said, 
for when Jimmy Bear came within 
reach, he “stood up on his hind legs, 
squared off like a prize fighter and 
hit poor Mrs. Cow first on one side 
of the nose and then on the other, 
scampering back and climbing the 
post to safety before you could say 
‘Jack Robinson.’ ” 
The Sprite was the animal which 
the speaker said he had “loved best 
of any in the world,” a tiny little 
thing about the size of a kitten when 
it first became a member of the 
Baynes family. There were some fine 
colored slides showing The Spirte 
when he was very young, blue-eyed 
and alert. ‘He was very mischievous, 
but all his mischief seemed only t> 
make him the more lovable even to 
farmers who had lost their chickens 
through the depredations of The 
Sprite. A particularly good picture 
showed the fox, still very young, just 
before making a descent upon a 
neighbor’s hen yard and “his whole 
expression seemed to ask politely; 
‘Will you kindly show me the way to 
the chicken yard?’ ” 
As The Sprite became older he be- 
came, of course, more dangerous, and 
Mr. Baynes decided that the time had 
come when he must liberate the fox, 
now a splendid specimen, and after 
one unsuccessful attempt, the animal 
was left upon a hillside, miles and 
miles away from the Baynes home to 
have his freedom. The next night, as 
the speaker was sitting in his study, 
there came a patter of little feet on 
the piazza outside and a scratch on 
the door and, when Mr. Baynes 
opened the door, a red fox sat in the 
lamplight—actually smiling, the speak- 
er said. Of course, The Sprite was 
taken in and after that he would go 
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away, returning avery night or every 
other night to his home. Finally there 
came a night when The Sprite did not 
return and he has never returned and 
Mr. Baynes was forced to the con- 
clusion that he never will return. 
Seldom has a speaker came to Man- 
chester who has made his subject as 
appealing to such a “mixed” gather- 
ing as was seen at the Town hall, 
Wednesday evening and Mr. Baynes 
was given round after round of vigor- 
ous applause. 
A GYMNIC 
Under the auspices of the Man- 
chester Parent-Teacher association 
there will be given in the Town hall 
on Thursday and Friday evenings, 
Nov. 12 and 13, an extensive demon- 
stration of various athletic move- 
ments used in modern gymnastics, in- 
cluding folk dances, dramatization of 
stories, etc. 
These exercises are to be given by 
the school boys and girls of Manches- 
ter assisted by parents and teachers. 
They will be given under the per- 
sonal direction of Mrs. Geo. R. Dean, 
who has selected the movements and 
given the instruction. Cake and 
candy will be for sale each evening. 
Admission 25 cents. Following is the 
program: 
1. Simple Folk Dances and Singing 
Games.—ist Grade boys and 
girls. 
2. Gun Exercises——Boys from Priest 
School. 
3. Folk Dances and Singing Games. 
—Pupils of 2nd. and 3d. grades. 
4. Desk Gymnastics.—(a) Miss 
Goldsmith’s room, (b) Boys 
from Priest School. 
. Folk Dances——Girls from Priest 
School. 
Dutch Dance.—High School Girls. 
. Indian Dance.—Boys from Priest 
School. 
. Mistress Mary in Flowerland.— 
Price and Priest Schools. 
g. Spanish Dance.— High School 
Girls. 
Old English Dance——Mothers and 
Teachers. 
11. Folk Dances.—High School Girls. 
12. Flag March—Price and Priest 
Schools. 
O07 ENT, 25. Ue 
IO. 
The position of city forester is now 
offering a new field for men with a 
technical training in forestry. Fitch- 
burg, Massachusetts, is one of the 
latest towns to secure an official of 
this sort. 
It’s a pity the people who quarrel 
over trifles haven’t something worthy 
of their talents. 
