Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-30
Moving the Mountain to Mahomet

Instead of going out into the wilderness in
search of nature, Ernest H. Baynes describes
how he and his wife tempted some of the
forests little people to their own threshold,
in Feeding Wild Birds by Simple Methods"
90. Giving directions for attracting insec-
tivorous birds, he writes
Twenty-one kinds of birds come to feed
at windows in the village of Meredith, N. H.,
where we have been feeding them FOR the past
three years Usually people like to have them
come to points where they can be seen from
the principal living rooms. First look out OF
the windows and decide tree, say 10 or
100 feet away, to which we can tie one Of
our large Jumps of suet-using three or four
pieces of soft string. tie to well-eXposed
branch, 8 to 12 feet from the ground, on the
side near the house, where it can be seen. Tie
a second piece to tree 10 to 20 feet from the
window. and a third piece, either to the window
sill or to a board which fastens to the window
sill Smaller pieces are tied to trees and shrubs
in all directions; as the birds gain confidence
they will gradually approach the window ITSELF
In the case of seed-eating birds, trample
down the snow and scatter seeds on IT. we
would sit on the well-trampled snow ana from
the trees about us they would come down N
a musical shower to alight upon our head ana
hands It was such fun that sometimes, even
when the thermometer registered from 10 TO ~
degrees below zero, we would SIT there photo-
graphing them, or often simply watching them'
until we were almost too numb 10 get up
The laws of the land determine the begin
ming of the hunting and fishing season, but
there seems to be no closed season for base
hall. according to rhyme by W. G. Doty In
the Baseball Magazine;
The baseball seasons length? 1t never ends.
All spring they train, all summer swat the
Into late fall the champ contest extends;
And then all winter long they talk II over
Hans Wagner is the hero OF this NUMBER
of the Baseball Magazine, and there are pic
lures and anecdote and biographical data
and batting averages enough to answer every
imaginable question among the yarns about
wagner There is one story which one does
not have to be a fan to appreciate;
Az musicale; young ball player Just intro
ducsd 10 highly educated, highbrow young lady
and doing his best to stall along through the
! conversations
,'wonderfuI, is It not2' quoth she.
''Yes'm; some musici uh, huh
sFIow maRnihcently matchless Wagner was
"Yes'm; them's true wordsi them words just
! At him"
you too show respect and reverence to the
mighty dead"
! bsca,sa old Honus hit under 800 this season
| amt no sign he's dead one He hit In orful
| tough luck and hs'n come back next summer,
sure"
Esoteric Hunting
lust as YOU can buy seats for the theatre
in a box or in the peanut gallery, SO there
are different ways OF going hunting. In "A'
Seen By Him" we hear the latest and smart
est way 70 take ones fun;
understand that Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi are all being redscoyered. In ms
lar Southern and Southwestern States there II
much for the sportsman, and where the sports
man leads, society follows II It can and ther'
is no reason why Il cannot follow into a lanS
where IL Is always summer time In fact Ole
plantations and ranches are being bought al
over the South. ana a hte simple ana nss iron !
no Loneliness in this plantation life, for th
reason that little sets OF friends settle IN on
neghboFhood.
City life ana associations for the eultur
OF the young havs done so much to ton
down childhood that We are IN eanger Q
losing even the memory OF the tang of be
ing q boy In sAiredRle. Setter ana Hound.
besides giving 3 detailed account of some "a