Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-22
SQUIRRELS AND WOMEN
Likewise the Pigeons at city Hall.
Women Of the State In an In.
quirne Mood - Capital Mu-
scum Needs overhauIlng
BY GEORGE NoX MCCAIN
THE unusual, the picturesque and ever

attractive things OF lie nave, somewhere.
their drawbacks
Eliminate the tritc rose and its thorn and
take instead a shade tree on "a well kept
lawn and the shrubbcry that banks garden
plot or clusters around rural home .
They are attractive for while. but with
the advent Of fall they become nuisance.
Their leaves are scattered broadcast or
they drift and pack, and time and money are
required to maintain their vicinity in order
and cleanliness.
Which leads m TO the fact that the
pigeons OF City Hall and the squirrels on
Capitol Hill, Harrisburg, are getting TO be
nuiSances.
TT MAY, Of course, be to some an attrac-
i tive picture to see on the broad pavement
at the northeast corner of the. public build
ings pigeons swarming around and over an
amiablc old party in billycock hat and frock
coat training them TO cat bread crumbs off
his shoulder.
It's like tho American tourists children
who formerly kept rolyglot photographer
busy on the lob in Venice swapping the
youngsters feeding the famous pigeons in st.
Mark Square. at 50 many lire per snap.
The City Hall pigeons arc messy and OBJ
jcctionable and should have been driven to
other haunts years ago.
The friendly squirrels OF Capitol Hill in
Harrisburg are celebrated for their fearless
ness of the humans who haunt the cement
walks in the vicinity.
Even the dcvil-may care telegraph mes
scnger boys have made friends with them;
and that is saying lot--for the squirrels.
The ordinary legislator. the casual citizen.
che stenogruphcr with the llopi Indian hair
pads and the department. clerks oil regard
thc squirrels pretty, playful little things.
to whom it is a pleasure to toss u peanut
in passing.
Just tho same. tho squirrels Of Capitol Hill
are nuisance. This is not matter of
private or personal opinion.
It's an official declaration. It's head
quarters stuff.
THE other day half dozen husky bpeds
L of the genus homo were distributed around
Capitol Park just cast of tho museum build
in" each with oap-box trap in his hands.
legs braccd and eyes fixed on certain frisking
squirrels in their vicinity.
They were the official squirrel cops OF the
commonwealth.
They were shopping around catching Capt.
tol Hill squirrels
There are about 200 squirrels in the
park volunteered the geological expert in
charge of the sriuridao Of Capitol Hill.
Were getting rid Of some of 'cm. This
lot we are catching today are to be shipped
TO Alabama. We've already sent consign-
ments to other states.
The squirrels are getting too numerous.
They destroy about all the shruhbery that
We put out" and disgust loomcd large in
his tone of voice.
I'VE cant set ont young tree that they
don't ruin il By eating the bark" be
went on.
",WCre going. to keep thinning them out
and reducing their number 50 that they won't
BE- able to do SO much dHmagc.
Like the pigeons Of City Hall. the squirrels
have, alas, become an annoyance and ycIa-
tion of spirit.
TNElOSE conscientious and we'll meaning
l patriots who ever since equal suffrage
became n fact, have been striving to lead the
new woman votor into paths of political
pcasantncsS and peace nS well as through
the intricate maZ"S Of party procedure. are
seeing the frutiou Of their work with a
vengeance.
That is. they would see it il they were in
Harrisburg.
Women all over the state are rising to their
opportunities with voice and pen.
They are taking no mans word, appar-
emily, ON political issues. They've got to be
shown. They re all from Joplin. Mo. or the
Ozark foothills, judging by performance.
Several bureaus whose function it is to
governmental have received hundreds of re-
quests for documents from women clubs and
women individually.
Ono bureau, whose supply Of printed mat
ter is limited. has been compelled. after add
ing II score Of women's clubs to its mailing
list, to announce that its available material
is exhausted,
The women want copies of laws. rules of
procedure. statistics, etc, and they want
en- quick.
THE state maintains museum in the
/ library building on Capitol Hill.
OutSid" of Rothcrmrls painting. "Gcttys-
burg and one of the finest collections of
Indian arr"whcads, knives and stone axes
in the country and the battle flags it is d
museum largely in need Of rehabilitation.
It's heterogeneous array running from
eight live tur'"S in six inches of water to
collection Of rennSylvanias = fauna without
Identification labels in many instances
In scores Of cases the identification cards
originally affixed TO SpC'im"ns or Curios have
faded :" as to be almost undeCphcrablc,
They must have been written in pokebcrry
juice.
Others are 50 hndy traced that It requires
the aid Of imaGlnat ion--Or divination--to
make out just what they say.
The state Legislatures of the past have
treated III" museum Shabbily on the score of
money. but the curator should at least make
IT," most Of the mcuScr matter he has on
hand.
4 MONG the Indian relics and tho material
~ rescued from mounds aud kitchen mid
dcn~ uf the prehistoric era there is at least
a quarter peck Of stuff dumped in pile in
Olp case without mark or Arrangement.
The faunal exhibition is Credtabl", but
not rrcditably handled
In elaborate glass frontcd cases tho vari-
Gus birds and mammals are exhibited in a
clever reproduction of their natural haunts.
Each one is Il wcll-oXcCuted work in oil
Of covert, meadow. forest or cave. 1t is
we'll lighted,
The discriminating visitor. however, gaz-
ing at IN" upper bank ot specimens, HcCs
handsome background dsigurcd by an un-
painted and crude board ceiling that duls
the uttractilcnrS, Of the whole exhibit
IN III" reptile cases III" visitor Is left 10
tio device. If his own imagination to de.
rrrmiuc whether the Shiny object on a plaS.
ter plaQu" is II ella monster or an ordinary
he'll bender Of our own muddy waters. So
with the snake tribe.
Grlidcs with some knowledge Of the build
iug and it. contents should DO employed
On" Of the uniformed gentry was unaware
when iRt"rrngated, that Il most important
bureau Of the stat" government was located
within forty feet Of whore hc sat in his easy
Chair.
The curator should smoke UP.
The Hardlnes In England
From tho Ed!nbu-sh Scotsman.
Ilarding in England Hardncc, is an
Anglo. Saxon name meaning hardy. brave