14.12.2012 Views

Bird lore - Project Puffin

Bird lore - Project Puffin

Bird lore - Project Puffin

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Reports of State Societies and <strong>Bird</strong> Clubs 465<br />

Committees on publicity and entertainment were formed, the former pre-<br />

paring news-articles for the local papers regarding various features of interest;<br />

the latter promoting the formation of Junior societies in some of our public<br />

schools, thereby giving the pupils a chance for bird-study. Our treasurer, Mrs.<br />

Edward S. Harris, Sr., has talked and read to the children of her neighborhood,<br />

and has instilled in them a respect for living things that has led these boys and<br />

girls to think before they wantonly waste anything.<br />

—<br />

"BIRD GUARDIANS," A MASQUE GIVEN BY THE DOYLESTOWN (PA.) NATURE CLUB<br />

The keynote of the Audubon movement in Cumberland is 'live and let<br />

live,' which, although it be applied to wild-life alone, must necessarily react<br />

on our human relationships, so that protection and tolerance must mean a<br />

more beautiful conception of living. William S. Sparks, Assistant Secretary.<br />

Doylestown (Pa.) Nature Club.—I am sending you a yearbook, also a<br />

picture of '<strong>Bird</strong> Guardians,' a masque written by Leigh Mitchell Hodges for<br />

the Nature Club in the interest of bird-life, and presented in the open once in<br />

Doylestown and once at Chestnut Hill, to several hundred people. The Nature<br />

Club has started three bird-sanctuaries, and for two years has had an appro-<br />

priation from the State Game Commission for feeding the winter birds, which<br />

was done during the blizzards and severe weather. During one of our severest<br />

snow-storms last winter the committee on bird-protection faced a blinding<br />

snow, and waded in drifts up to their waists, in reaching one of our suburban

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!