The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-04

nightingale had the inspiring voice.
but the peacock had been given her
wonderful plumage. Whereupon the
peacock strutted away satisfied, |
proud once more. but being ever |
careful to look out upon the world |
and up. never glancipg down at her |
ugly feet
The waiting owl has had insult
upon injury piled on him until now
the best the poets can say for the
poor old thing Is that he is wise.
Men poets started giving him credit
for that, probobly because he sell
dom talked.
But do you know, once he was the
sweetest OF singers when, alas. be-
ing present when our Lord expired,
he from that time on avoided day
light and uttered only n hard. mo-
notonous cry that caused Thomas
Gray to write OF him
-, from yonder ivy-mantled
tower,
The moping owl does to the moon
complain
OF such as, wandering near her
secret bower.
Right in this dav birds are per-
Molest her ancient solitary reign"
forming quite a lot of interesting
acts. even promoting international
relations. George Cohan in one of
his comic operas wrote popular
song telling about II. A Yankee
bird made his home on the mast of
an Atlantic ship and one day was
carried far away to England. While
there he fell in love with an English
sparrow and, refusing to return
home without her. they hid them
selves in the great masts of ship
bound for America. Upon arrival
they established themselves In Cen
trail park, New York. and lived hap
PLY ever after and that's how the
English sparrow came to be In the
u. S. A"
The king of birds was settled upon
by the height he could fly. but there
was no competition when it came to
selecting the queen OF song. The
mocklng birl has no rival.
She sings with the greatest soft
ness and richness, and, when happy,
with an abandon of joyous, playful
lays that would appear TO rend her
breast with delight. Her famous
night song Is inspired when all the
other birds are in their shelter and
awed TO solemn silence. At tn {
| hour she watches for the weird
moonbeams and as they appear over
| the eastern hills greets them with
soft. sweet. pensive, solemn strains.
The mocking bird was born n
| genius, but she wasn't satisfied Just
| to leave 1t at that. She developed
| and used her gift until she became
master. The little gray and white
| bird din't know much music when II
| first arrived but II kept quiet when
| the other birds were singing and
listened and thought. Then once
| at eventide when all the oth,. birds
were tired she gave her voice its
way, and
"There came a sound o. melody
No mortal ever heard,
| And all the birds seemed singing
From the throat of one sweet
bird.
Then the other birds went Mayin'
In n land too fur to call;
Fur ther warn't no use in stayin'
When one bird could sing for ALL
The mocking bird belongs to the
south, because here 1t is to be found
the whole year round. II gives forth
the most harmonious melodies of al
the feather tribe. reminding US oi
green fields and fragrant blossoms
and has had wonderful influence
on the people OF the south, inspiring
many worn or disconsolate wan
derer to be up and about his allotted
task.
II Is splendid, this revival In the
interest OF birds. In oregon. build
! Ing OF bird houses has been made
part of the regular manual train
ing work in the schools. It Is in
tended for practical as well as ar
. tistic purposes. The houses are de
signed and located to attract bird
which destroy fruit-killing Insect
and bird houses and bird baths hav'
been proven drawing attractions o
money worth.
The man or boy who can wall
through the woods and recogniz
,, every chirp, every trlll, has Away
, had something deep within him tha
, others haven't. But in the cit
. we can build nests and houses ant
!, bird baths for wrens and robins o.
,, even a 50-foot lot and come to know
! something OF the happiness such as
sociations bring.