The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-24
FOR NATURE STUDY
Everv Girl Should Know by Name, the Birds and Trees
in Her Neighborhood-Let the Girl in the Country
Send Boxes of Wild Flowers to City School Rooms
How the Schoolgirl of Yesterday Spent Exchanged
Afernoons"-7h Study of Stars Viii Please the
Maid With the Scientific Mind.

T.. OANGS Err.
known what a delightful and convenient
wrap it
The girls grouped themselves around
on the grass near a brookside and as
the lesson went OF the brook sang and
sparkled and the sound of it's lullaby
and the CLEAN of it's waters made mu-
sic and sunshine in our souls. We
learned a great deal about botany in
those enchanted afternoons, and we
learned. too, a love of nature that is
not gained by those who study her
only in dried specimens between white
washed walls.
You may be interested to know that
we always carried a luncheon on he
expeditions, and it was not the least
interesting part of the occasion. Girls
who fell below a certain percentage in
their studies were not permitted to take
UP botany in their work. The oppor-
tunity of studying nature was thus made
very honorable and precious, and we
held it as something worth striving for.
The study of astronomy c%aptivates
those who have a scientific turn Of
mind. To learn the names OF the con-
stellations and to recognize some OF
the planets when they appear above the
horizon is not beyond any ordinary
mind, but the study of astronomy is. on
the whole, too abstruse to be attractive
to very young girls. Definitions and
forpo,1or N, -oou laorn hut fn oroSn
the principles of astronomy you require
maturity and insight; for these you
must wait. But you need not wait to
learn by heart Addison's exquisite lyric
that begins:
The spacious armament on high,
And all the blue, ethereal sky,
And s%pangled heavens a shining frame.
Their great original proclaim.
knew a wee tot once, a dimpled crea-
ture with serious eyes, who did not want
to take lessons in music. Lifting her
little hand she pointed upward and said:
Il would rather study astronomy" AL
though the child did not know it,
astronomy and music and mathematics
are all somehow akin to one another,
and she who is proficient in any one of
them may hope to become proficient in
them all.
One April day as l watched the birds,
our little brothers of the air. busy with
their housekeeping, l wrote a bit of
verse that you may like in any month of
the year, since, though it has an April
measure, you may read it in May or
June, and like it just as well.
The Building of the Nest.
They'll come again to the apple tree
Robin and all the rest
When the orchard branches are fair to see,
In the snow of the blossom drest:
And the prettiest thing in the world will bs
The building of the nest.
Weaving it well. SO round and trim,
following it with care,
Nothing too far away for him,
Nothing for her too fair.
Hanging it safe on the topmost limb,
Their castle in the air.
All. motherhood. you'll have weary days.
When the egg are under your breast,
And shadow may darken the dancing rays
When the wee ones leave the nest;
But they'll find their wings in d glad amaze,
=. And God will see to the rest.
So come to the trees with all your train
When the apple blossoms grow;
Through the April shimmer of sun and rain,
Go flying to and fro;
And sing to our hearts as we watch again
Your fairy buildings grow.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)