Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1907-02-01
Paper by Mrs. JOIIs.

r get the children interested, our ODlet
will be gained, and we may be content
l let them keep the glory. 1t is not prais
we are after, but results, and it matter
not whether it is the Town Council, tn
Civic Committee, the home keeper or tn
children, who accomplish it.
School gardens may be used to advan
tage in the teaching of arithmetic
language and drawing, and through it al
will run the unconscious teaching o
ethics, the rights of others as well as tn,
rights of self.
In the confined part of our towns wher'
the houses are near the street, window
boxes are a thing to be considered. They
are Of little trouble and planted witt
scarlet geranium, and a good running
vine will enliven the whole front of &
dull house.
In November of this year 1 saw in
Philadelphia near the park the most gor'
geous row of window boxes, while the
ground below was white with SNOW. In
that city it is forbidden to use the fire
escape as a pantry, SO some girl friends
use the window boxes as a store room for
their delicacies.
wondered as looked out upon your
lake to-day if any of the adjoining land
could be used for public purposes. 1t
would be an ideal place to start little
park or picnic ground. A few trees, a
few benches, some swings, and a summer
house, and your picnic ground is complete.
The children could romp and the elders
could rest and the cooling Dreezes would
blow over all.
Bill posters are an unsightly nuisance,
and doubt if they are really a means of
revenue to the advertiser, except perhaps
in the case of the circus poster where the
children and the unedueated may feast
their eyes and fire their imaginations
only to be disappointed with the actuali-
ties. Let advertising be done through
the legitimate source-the newspapers,
and let US preserve the beauty of our
towns and road-ways from flaring posters
which at the best are less beautiful than
the works of nature.
The public cannot learn too soon that
the English sparrow is a serious nuisance.
Imported to war upon the caterpillar it
has utterly failed in its work. 1t has
taken possession of every part of our
driven off our native birds and |
is now becoming a menace to the farmer.
It is really a species of vermin and has
been aptly called ''the rats of the air"
The Agricultural Department of the U.
3. Government, in bulletin on this SUBJ
ect, says: 1.-THE English sparrow is a
curse of such virulence that it ought to be
attacked and destroyed be-
ore it becomes necessary to depete the
public treasury as has been done in other
Laws are advised legalizing
he killing of the English sparrow and
he destruction of its nests and eggs at all
easons of the year and making it an of
ense to give it food or shelter. The city
f Boston has been doing something along
his line, but is hampered by the mis-
AIKEN sympathy of the populace, who ,
till believe in the face of all evidence .
hat English sparrows are the foes of the /,
English sparrows are grant
orous.
Publicity might be given to the fact
hat they make excellent pies. If we
'ish to give our sympathies to any bird. 7
It it be to the quail, our familiar Bob q
'hite. Tests made by the Agricultural
apartment show that one Bob-white v
an and will in a single day eat more v
rasshoppers, caterpilars and other in
,cts than I would dare to mention for 7
ar of not being believed. But read the
latter up in the report of the depart
ent; and then when you hear the fami-
ar drumming along the wheat field, you
i'll feel that there hides one of the far
ers' best friends and protectors.
While am on the subject of birds, let
e make plea not to add to the already
iCA WuCAhAA6 OhAoi Jul ndllNG DlIQS are II
yhting against by wearing their feathers
pom our hats. Most of us would turn
If heads in horror and make protest
the sight of their butchery, yet we
We our sanction by buying their car
sses and Haunting them upon our heads
ow can we know that we do not wear
e fedgling reared in our own apple
se and watched with such care to pre-
mt accident,
1 make no plea for the destructive birds;
make no plea for quilts and pumes,
ough presume the plucking is an I'M
process for the victim, but /
plead, don't sanction the killing OF
r robins and wrens, our thrushes and
ks. Maurice Thompson says, ''The
ence of ornithology is both fascinating
d useful, but the unrecognized and un-
med science of bird loving is to the
IRE practical study, what religion is to
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