The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-05
OUT AND ABOUT.

the Study of their Life and Work, is
the title of valuable little book in
pamphlet form by DR.. c. F. Hodge of
Clark university, and Miss Helen A.
Ball. 1t is the first book to be devoted
to birds alive and about our homes,
and to the culture and enjoyment of
birds, and is on sale at the city news
stands, The letter press is by DR..
| Hodge, but quotations from the best
authors are introduced frequently in it
and with good results Keats, Emerson,
Shelley, Lowell and Wordsworth vie
ing among the authors thus represent
ed. Miss Balls contribution consists of
food chart, wherein one may see just
what to feed a bird upon, and draw
| ings.
DR.. Hodge has written so charming
ly and SO untechnically that the most
birdly unenthusiastic of persons must
conclude after reading his words, that
there is something in it. Very pretty
is his account of the upbringing Of the
young cedar bird, and so is his
description Of the way to go
about tanning q bird It seems
that if you want a bird to get
to like you, you must use your eyes in
the proper manner, glancing at it
| PiScSoLIlys llel lQIIllLS eyes away,
and pretending to be looking at or
| thinking about something else and its
nervous tension is Immediately re-
leased! The next step is to keep your
| olrd hungry, and then to tempt it with
something of which it is desperately
fond, peppermint drops, or spiders, or
black ants, or what you will. When
ne begins to answer you back, it is a
| sign of acquaintance.
AS for attracting birds about our
homes, that, says DR.. Hodge, is an
easy and delightful process, if one will
| only keep a shallow dish of clean water
| out on a post so that the thirsty ones
| can come and drink and battle, while
fresh bone or a piece of suet fastened
to the limb of a tree will endear you
| to the little things and be the means
| OF saving dozens of precious little lives
| IN a winter. cat is generally re-
| sponsible for about fifty song birds in
year. DR.. Hodge recommends arse
ME as the most humane and effective
method of disposingof the English spar
| row, and he says that by its intelligent
use any northern town or city can ca
silly rid itself of the pest in a single
winter. And he concludes the subject
| by saying: Those who in spite of all
the evidence in hand, continue to think
the English sparrow worthy of protec-
ton, should keep them in cages in their
own homes and be placed under heavy
ponds never to let them out"
The Burlington party will sail for
home about the middle of the month on
the New England of the Dominion line.
Mr.. Burton Holmes, the lecturer,
reached Vancouver on Aug. so on his
return from the Philippines, the cities
| of the Chinese coast and the mountains
Of Japan, where he has spent the last
four months obtaining material for lee
lures to be given during the coming
season. The other subjects upon which
Mr.. Holmes will lecture this season are
The Grand Canyon of Arizona-which
was the most successful of the series
last winter-Moki Undertaking to In
dian life in the southwest-and Old
Paris. Mr.. Holmes will be in Boston in
January and February, and will, it is
hoped, favor Worcester again.
President Eliot Of Harvard and Pres
ident Angel of Michigan University
will deliver addresses at the Inaugural
ton of Miss Hazard as president of
Wellesley College, on October 8. But l
don't see any mention Of the Rev. Win
chester Macdonald on the program.
The able rector of Bostons Protestant
cathedral, as Trinity church is called, is
not in great demand for functions at
women's colleges. by next June people
will have forgotten those cruel, cruel
words he spoke, just as the weather
was getting horribly hot this year anent
the pernicious, dsleterious and alto
gether vlrulert effects of the higher
education upon woran's character and
destiny; end then the reverend gentle
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vitations again to that sort of thing.
Miss Caroline Gardner Clarke, for
rnerly of the Old South choir of this
city, gives a morning recital of songs
today, at the Prescott Casino, Lynn.
Miss Evelyn Howe left yesterday to
resurle her teaching at Montague.
Dr. and Mrs. Archibald McCullagh re-
turned Thursday from the White
Mountains
Strange, is it not, how the standards
for gentlewomen have changed and are
changing? Fifty-nay, 25-years ago,
what young women of refinement would
have ventured to go to THE Turtle"
or "Zaza," or 1.-THE Conquerors," pro-
vided, that is, that she knew before
hand what they We're?
Now, they all do it, These plays
were among the most successful So
cially and financially of the New York
season and the matinee girl did her best
to make them the success they were.
One can't go the length of wishing the
old ringleted, wasp-waisted days back
when ladies were females" and faint
ed to order and We're known to be
gentle, delicate creatures, all sensibiIi-
ties and nerves. And yet-and yet.
Mrs. Edna I. Tyler returned last week
from a ten days visit to Gilmanton
Iron Works, N. H., where her mother.
Mrs. Annie Smith, and sister, Mrs. f.
G. Dudley, have been staying since
June. They expect to return to Wor-
cester next month. Mrs. Smith has a
serial, entitled Cast up by the sea-
now running in the Chicago Ledger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert rockingham
returned yesterday to Worcester for
the winter
Mrs Sarah Tucker and Miss Tucker
returned yesterday from South Dart |
mouth, Where they have been spending
the summer.