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Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-21
5 CARED FOR IN WINTER

Evergreen make a beautiful ail-the- year-round lawn adornment and als5 afford shelter for the birds; and if they are berry-bearing they provide food for them A tangle Of bushes Tn yard makes a safe winter and summer shelter. A few trees and shrubs which will yield food are the wild cherry. the eiderberry. the little red cedars. dog wood. holly. sumac. certain varieties of the barbeTry and the black berries On the Virginia creeper-"
 Mrs Bailey called the attention of her guest to an account which demon strated the results of bird clubs in the town Of Meriden- A recent visitor de- scribed what he saw in an eaTly-morn- Ing walk through the place He came across father and mother out with a camera photographiug their baby in its carriage. a pine Erosbeak perched happily on its cap. a little farther on an old gentleman was playing with Q White-breasted nuthatch which he a0d his wife had tanned and which came daily to the house for food
 As he walked on he met Eroup Of school children He spoke to them. and they said he might accompany them to the bird sanctuary" where they were going to scatter food Throwing ft upon the ground. they stood quietly by 10 watch the birds of many species come for t. They were observing the habits of the various birds and would doubtless later relate at their club what they had noticed
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out of school-in other cities as well as in Washin gton. Bird clubs do no more for the pleasure and benefit of the birds than they do for that of it's members.
 Especially as winter approaches much can be done for the preservation of a city's birds. If people who have trees would build houses for them, the birds would return year after year to them, and if they would set up the little bird tables or shelves near a win dow or door, or against a tree, and place food daily upon them, the birds would come regularly for meals.
 "A Washington man who has done this finds that the birds return season after season. One catbird comes every year to his tables to find food for it's young. Winter feeding Is one of the best methods of bringing about a friendly relation between birds and human kind"
 Asked what were satisfactory winter foods, Mrs. Bailey replied: Birds are especially fond of cracked nuts of all kinds; hickory. black walnut, peanut and cocoanut meats are easily provided and all small grains, with shreds of meat. fat and suet and cut-up apples. are all favorfte tit-bits. There should be, too. a shallow dish of fresh water daily for them to drink from and bathe in.
 Twhen public fountains and drinking pools are frozen or dry City birds suf- fer for want of water. But let water
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from New York, from whom Mrs. Bal
 ley received her first impetus toward
 the real study of natural history, for he encouraged every early inclination Tn that direction and nodded circum-
 stances for the continuance of her sci emtfde work after she had left college and had determined to take up orni- thology as life study.
 Mrs. Bailey ranks only second to Mrs
 Olive Thorne Miller, regarded as the
 leading woman ornithoIogist of the
 United States, and what Frank NJ
 Chapman has done for the east, Mrs Bailey has done for the west, each
 having given an authoritative hand
 book to the section in which has lain
 the chief field of investigation.
 Mrs. BaiIey's Handbook of the Birds
 of the Western United States is now
 in it's fourth edition, the standard au- thority upon it's subject and the main pathological textbook in most of the western universities Although she does not give the impression of being a robust woman, Mrs. Bailey has spent a large part of every summer for many years in field work in the west She has travelled from Vancouver to Mexi- co, living months for time in Utah. Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and Cali fornia, making her studies of the birds eof each section.
 The last few summers she has passed in California; North Dakota and Ore son. and she is now sending the re-
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as volubly with the farmers as she can discuss Latin prose composition and modern literature with the high brows.
 From her great-Grandfather, Col. John Nawter, who founded the town in which she lives. she inherited a love of all public affairs. Col Vawter very remarkably combined the three learned professions of divinity, law and politics, and was a success in each. leaving his mark in the state as n lawyer, preacher and politician. It was through this maternal ancestor that Mrs. Dixon descended from the Nor man barons of de Valletort, who were sturdy supporters Of William the Con- queror at the battle of Hastings. and were later in the twelfth century un- of Harberton.
 They intermarried with the great families of England and France, and as early as the seventeenth century tort to Walter, and finally to Vawter. where it appears in the records at Plymouth, in England. In this record is quaint account of the sale of some 1t appears it took a man and two horses two days journey to trans port the papers concerned in Vawter's fee.
 When 1t was announced that Mrs Norman Gait was to be the future mis- tress of the White House, and later when her pedigree was given as a direct descendant of Pocahontas daughter of the powerful Indian chief Powhatan, Werwoance of Attanough- komouck, everybody began to wonder if they had not somewhere an Indian ancestor, but few could find as direct a line from Indian chiefs as Mrs. James s. Davenport of Vinitia, Okla, and Mrs William H. Murray of the same state Both are proud of their Indian for bears, and Mrs. Davenport not only
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Special Correspondence.
 WASHINGTON, D. C.,


 N 7EVER in the history of our MH government have the senators II NJ and representatives been rich
 CT in wives of distinguished ancestry and royal descent than are the members of the Sixty-feurth Con- gress. From this point of view the present democratic Congress Is most undemocratic, and many of these women come from the middle and western states, where ones forbears, 1t seems, are cherished more for their deeds than their blood
 While the women of the Sixty-fourth Congress take a pardonab1e pride in those of their ancestors who fought in the revolution and other wars in the early history of our country, an ex- animation of the records of the pa triotie societies will show that they have wandered far beyond those colonial and fighting ancestors to the very thrones of kings and queens, tracing, in many instances, as direct a line of descent as do rulers of the royal houses of Europe or the orient. "A mans a man for a that" and a woman is, too, for that matter, and though the democratic Speaker of the House prefers to be known simply as Champ Clark instead of John Beau
 
 parents, for all that he feels a pride in his good ancestry and in the knowl- edge that his mother was a Beau champ of Kentucky. of fine old cava- Her stock.
 His witty wife, in speaking of man or woman, would doubtless tell what ~ they could do for the good of mankind and how much they knew, yet Mrs Clark becomes enthusiastic when she reminisces about her ancestors, for she may well be proud of them.
  Through her mother, Mary McGIung McAfee Bennett, she traces an an- cestry from the early kings of Scot land, and glories in two of the McAfee ancestors. father and son. who fought at the battle of. the Boyne. The sons son, James McAfee, came from Irelan6 In 1749 to Pennsylvania, enigratine from there to Virginia, where mcAfet Mob, near Salenas Vaas was named fol him. The fighting blood ef the olt
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it the Chickasaws built schools and edu- cated their children In a certain re- spect they are wards of the govern ment
 In these schools Mrs. Murray taught her people. and so anxious is she that her five boys shall be brought up tn the traditions of their race that she teaches them the history of their dtf- ferent tribes. and has the old Indian cookery frequently served on her table In Washington she has made fashion able pashtoffa- a favorite Indian dish made of ordinary hominy grits which is ground fine with mortar until all the husk is removed; then this meal Is broiled until soft, meat is then added, and the flavor is delicious
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 From Kentucky. the Bluegrass state, so rich in pedigreed stock of different sorts. is Mrs. Ben Johnson. a lneal descendant Of Sir Richard Coxe. who was born in 1899. and of Sir John Berk- eley. In Mrs. Johnson are embodied all the tsaditions of her state. which, for many years, has been noted for its gracious and beautiful women and the cieverness of it's men. from whom have sprung some of the greatest statesmen of the country.
 jurist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and author of Coke upon lit- tleton," has a descendant in this con- gress in the wife of Representative William Atkinson Jones of Virginia. Mrs. Jones has distinguished line of ancestors in Sir Richard Talbert Coke of Trusly Hall. England; Richard Coke a great-uncle. was one of the early members. of Congress from Virginia; another uncle. Richard Coke. was gov ernor and United States senator from Texas. Besides these later ancestors Mrs Jones traces a royal ancestry from one of the English Edwards
 Mrs. Thomas Upton Sisson. wife of Representative Sisson of Mississippi. Is descended from the famous admiral Sir John Hawkins. cousin of Sir Francis Drake. sailing with him on that memorable voyage when he planted the cross on the Pacific coast in 1878. Her maternal grandfather was Col Ran som Sutherland of revolutionary fame; some of these Hawkinses became lords oi the Manor de Valletort. which was In the family of Mrs Lincoln Dixon oi Indiana.
 Mrs. Daniel J. Rio-dan, who belongs to the House contingent of blue bloods Is a well known clubwoman and a member of the Societe des Beaux Arti
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boasts of being directly descended from the great chief TeCumseh, but of be- ing lineal descendant on her mothers side of the Duke of Wellington, known simply as the great duke"
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 Representative Davenport has been twice married. his first wife having been a half Cherokee. and Mrs. Daven- port laUghingly refers to him as the Squaw man." She Is a Shawnee by blood and a Cherokee by adoption. The Shawnee tribe sold it's lands in Kan sas and purchased tribal rights in the Cherokee tribe. Formerly these Shaw nees lived in the region of the great lakes, and 1t was there that her great at-grandfather met and married the daughter of Tecumseh. She was a full blood, of course. and he was a Scotch man. After their marriage he took his Indian bride back to Scotland, where in her leather suit, leggins and mocca . sins. she created as much of furor as did Pocahontas when John Rolfe took her to Englanu and presented her in court society. This ancestor was named Ironside. the maiden name of Mrs. Davenport
 Mrs Murray has extreme Indian fa- cial characteristics such as high cheek bones, dark and deeply set eyes with that penetrating look peculiar to her and she possesses many of the manner isms of her people. She descended from chiefs of the Chickasaw tribe. her moth- CT was one-fourth Chickasaw, and her uncle, Douglas Johnson. was for some time governor of his people.
 Under old Chief Pushmataha the Chickasaws sold their Mississippi lands to the government and with the money bought land in Oklahoma. Their sur plus money was placed in the United States Treasury and on the interest of
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thing If one Is developing an interest in OrnithoIogy. The birds usually ml- Erate at night, and one can often hear them. A friend who sleeps out Of doors recently heard a flock of wild geese ny ing south over her porch. and from my own I can see and hear many Of the birds as they migrate From our win dows here I have noted over nfty spe- cies of birds. and I have seen many more of which have made no note.
 "A wren and a bluebird built close to our home year after year in a small grove of oaks. but since the trees were cut down they have deserted us. We have some purple grackles this fall that come daily for the crumbs thrown out to them. A little song sparrow came every day for his food. but one morning we found his bones on the doorstep, a sad little memento a cat had left us of our songster.
 "A great many chimney swifts have their roests in Washington chimneys- Early in October they visited the city by thousands. and one could see them Sathering toward evening from an parts Of town and s~arming about the Dig stacks of the great buildings.
 As to planting for the birds one can. with advantage 10 himself as we'll as t0 the birds. set out winter shrub6ery.
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Born and reared in the east. and with her home for many past years in Washington, Mrs. Bailey is as familiar with the birds of the east as any other woman, and she has spoken and writ ten much of them. To a recent caller she gave a short talk regarding the winter care of the little winged visitors.
 "Of course we have not now all the birds we had in former years, when small, of oaks and other trees in almost every part of town, but there is a great deal which can be done by the people to keep those we still have and to bring back some of those which have deserted I should advocate the Organization of bird clubs both in and
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as the 1ounder or this form or trlal-
 
 Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher. wife of the senator from Florida, and a for mer president of the Congressional Club, is parliamentarian of note. She always takes a prominent part in the D. A. R. meetings and with her splen- did presence commands/ attention wherever she goes. Mrs. FIetcher's ! revolutionary ancestor was Lieut.. Col. | Brinton Paine, and she also counts George Clinton Paine of New York. Through her fathers family, the Paines, she traces her descent from 1 the Norman barons, who were cru saders, and to the son of "Pagen," on whom King William the Conqueror showered favors. The ancient family ] of Paines resided in Leicestershire ! upon the famous field of Bosworth, where the. last great battle of the Roses was fought, and the fate of the ! houses of York and Lancaster decided | by the death of Richard III, August 22, | 14S5. For many years the family in the family at Market Bosworth, and l afterward in Suffolk and Leicester [ counties. England.
 | Mrs. Sutherland, wife of Senator | Sutherland of Utah, is southern, her | father, John Percival Lee, being a close 1 kinsman of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married a Mile. Fosque of Florida, and i in his early married life went west to Utah. She has an enviable line of l ancestors on both the French and Lee l side. Her husband, the senator. was born in Buckinghamshire. England, and i loves to visit his relatives there.
 Mrs: William A. Cullop, wife of Repre- sentative Cullop of Indiana is teasingly referred to by her friends ested in and belongs to so many so- cieties, giving an elan to everything she undertakes.
 She is a state regent. G. A. R.. or ganizer of the Francis Vigo Chapter at Vinecennes, Indiana, as well as the | builder of the monument to Col. Francis Vigo. and preserver of the lhouse; ex-chairman board of managers of Good Samaritan Hospital; member Of Vincennes Fortnightly Club, Con- gressional Club at Washington, of the | Fine Arts Society, vice president of the Indiana State Society of the Ma tional Capital, and president of the T Womans National Democratic Leag que. | Mrs. Cullop boasts descent from Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, a sign CT of the Declaration of Independence, and from Thomas Watson, a leader in the battle of Brandywine. She traces her ancestry from Hamon- de Leigh, son of Gilbert de Venables, Baron of Kinderton. and great-granson of Gill bert de VenableS of Normandy, who and was a younger brother of Thibauit III, Count of Blois; also she counts among this royal lot of forbears Thi- bault. brother of Ro1lo the Viking, the first Duke of Normandy.
 
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 Mrs. Lincoln Dixon, whose husband Representative Dixon of North Vernon Ind, is a member of the ways and means committee, laughingly refers tc herself as a 'fffty-niner because hel husband was first a member of the Fifty ninth Congress. She is a pro- gressfve college bred woman and much interested in college clubs for the ad. vancement of students, and in al phases of politics. She is familiar with every nook and corner of her husband. district, and can talk crops and polite:
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Wives of Senators and Representatives Who Are Descended From Distinguished Person. ages and Even From Royalty-Mrs. Champ Clark Traces Ancestry From Early Kings of Scotland - Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth Is Also a Descendant of Scotch Kings-Mrs. Alt lee Pomerene of Dis- tinguished English h Stock-Wife of Senator Warren of Wyoming Descended From an Historic Wells hm an. Mrs. Duncan Fletcher Is a Descendant of the Norman Barons-Mrs. Sutherland of Utah, Mrs. Cullop of Indiana, Mrs. Dixon of Indiana Boast Ancestors of Dis tlnction-Mrs. Daver1- port Of Oklahoma a Descendant of the In- dian Chief Tecurnseh. Other Women Who Come From Ancestors of Note.
 Special Correspondence.
 ASIJTNCsT0N n f
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suits of many of her later field expe- ditfons to the leading pathological magazines of this country, the scien- tif1c Aux and Condor and the popular Bird Lore publishing many of her arti- cles. She refers with especial pleasure to one summer long ago spent in field work with Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller whom she regards as a beloved elder sister in science
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-21
Special Correspondence
 wHcHTEGTON. D.

6peCia1 COTEeopu1AAcaSo WASHINGTON, D. C.,
 HERE is 8 splendid movement
 these days in the direction of q
 fuller and finer study of natures GS and a desire for knowledge about the birds of the country is one of the most pleasing phases of the study. In Wash hgton there resides woman who stands among the leading scientists faniliarizing the people of the United States with the birds of the land.
 Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey comes aaturafIy by her taste snd talent for natural history, for she Is the younger sister of Prof. c. Hart Merriam. one of Amerfca,s most distinguished and ver- satfle men of science, an ethnolcgfst. biologist and pa1eonto1osfst. for many years chief of the United States bio- logical survey, and now conducting sthnologfea1 and biological investiga- dons under special trust fund for original scientific fnvestigation. Also. she is the wife of q scientist, her hus- band being pr. Vernon Bailey, chief hsld naturalist of the United States biological survey.
 It was, however, her father, Clinton A Merriam q fGfnasf representative
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twelve wise men. This was a century and half prior to the reign of Alfred the Great, who is generally accredited as the founder of this form of trial.
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of New York. Her home there Is the lcentertof all that Is best in both music and art. and. while these are her recre- ation. she does not allow them to in- terfere with the many charities in
 which she Is interested and to which
 she gives a great deal of hes times- Through her fathers family. the Gala
 wells of Canada. she descended In the l third generation from Lord Campbell of England. and in the second genera ton from Sir Roderick Caldwell
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-05-16
10000 Women To Attend Contention

| dates for the Office are Mrs. Samuel r.
Sheath Of TiHin, Ohio. and Mrs. Josiah F..
Cowles Of Lo~ Angeles. Cal. The Ohio
candidate Is at present first wee president
Of the federation. and i d club woman of
wide experience. Mr.. CowleS. whose name
has been put forward bv the California
women. has also been prominently identi-
fled with the federation several wears a-
director. treasurer and chairman w va
riorS committees.
II The words NJ Mi-~ Luiie w >tearn~.
n-r Of the directors of the fedora an. "the
business VI being i cluh woman i~ w big
hmSireS- and i getting 10 be 2 bigger h-~i-
~e-~ every day. This i~ apparent frnl,
the elaborate program that has been arr
ranged FOR the convention. The topics in-
dicate an increasingly wide range Of az
fairs IN which the club women arc taking
not only m interest but an active part.
There wa \ time. fer instance. when the
New York City Federation ~ Womens
Clubs could report on aIl of ill., activities
III each convention. but now. say, Mr..
Eugene !. Grant. the president of the city
federation. it takes the I'm conventions WI
IN administration o. ret through the re-
ports at the thirty-eieht committees which
have developed.
The general federation has WY IT, hread
object the futherance a every movement
ir the interest of women. children and
mankind IN general, and the program calls
tor reports and discussion TN committees
ON art. child welfare. civics. civil service
reforms. home economies. conservation.
industrial and social questions. legislation.
education. literature. music. public health
.-and under these headings come subjects
ranging All the way from moving pictures
~ international relationships. One inn
p%oriant announcement that will he made ut
the convention ~ the fact that me fedora
ton has raised an endowment of 100000.
The plan to raise such w sam was voted
at the Cincinnati convention In 1910. and
now that the sum has heen realized it will
be invested by trustees. the interest being
used ~ help carry on the work of thc ega-
eraI federation.
Many women prominent IN New York
club life VIII take their turns IVY ho~te--e-
~ various sections of the great gathering.
Mrs. Thomas a. Edison. for instance. viii
rs one of the first to entertain the women.
~ her home ut LlcwelIyn Park. N. u. Nh.
John Hays Hammond viii ho ho~tps- af a
luncheon to aIl Ut the state presidents
Mrs. William 7. lIelmuth viii be hostess at
2 pioneer club women dinner. ana in ad-
dItion there viii be- lEnchcous and dinners
and other entertainments ut various
womenS cluh.- a Shakespeare ma~onc. y
reception IN the Metropolitan Museum of
Art and q number ot .thcr outside features
will bc included.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-05-16
TODAY IN HISTORY

lT66-Ncw- of the repeal Of the stamp
act reached Boston.
l'93-Bataylan republic formed IN IIol-
land. IN imitation of France. 1t sur
Wved for eleven years.
1899 Birthday of %IIonore De Balzac.
French novelist.
leo6-blockade ot the Elhe and OF Bre.t.
y coast ~ 1000 miles. with no place
invested by land. and before many of
the ports no h~lockading ships.
lsll-Con~titution of the republic of Yu-
catan was published: Nncatan a.
serted its independence Of Mexico.
lS3i-Nanta Anna made triumphal entry
into Mexico City.
lNoo National republican convention at
Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln.
lNo2-Conscripiion went into effect in the
Confederate Sutc-.
lN9l-Death Of Madame Blavatsky. high
pne>te~S a theosophy, aged go.
ST Commodore Jack Barry.
father VI the American navy was
unveiled al Washington.