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to enjoy the gifts of nature as we have.
One Interesting fact about this homo
oC Kngllsh terns Is that it Is believed to
bo fnr older than the British empire,
there being evidence that they hav.eiln
habited It from a time anterior to that of;
the- arrival of the conquering NormansJ
The story of the te,rns serves to call;
attention to one of (ho most negletod.
parts, oi everybody's education. Tho man'
or woman who knows the bird Is a rara!
avis ("rare bird") In these days, and,
that, too, when so much Is said of tho
charms 'and wonders 'of. natural history..
Even In the country, there are only nbout,
half a dosan birds, such as tho robin, the
-bobolink, the barn swalldw, the bluebird
and the sparrow that any person you
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h. This1' beautiful bird has been, maflo nearly extinct by tlio ruth-
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Anions the Interesting animals that
man.ljus syefeeded in mor.'e.or less com
pletely exterminating without any real
benefit to himself Is tho- tern, or sea
swallowf eome remarkablo photographs of
which.-made In. .England, are'shown here-wlthr-
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They belong to the' gull tribe 6f birds,
and gfitthqlr. popular .name, from their
curious flight, which resembles that of a
landtWwatorw..' Like the trite gull they
have., great pojwer of ,wlrig arid often, go
far .put. to sea. including the long tall,
they are' about fifteen Inches in length,
and Ihey present a very picturesque ap
pearance as .they Bktm.'ajong the sur
face of. the wayes, wrfh' their- black
heads, gray wings, -white bellies and red
legs, catching small fishes and mollusks
without stopping, and sometimes diving
after their prey.
They breed along the coast and often
follow rivers and even reach Inland lakes.
Unfortunately for .them, both their eggs
and their plumes are attractive, and
merciless hunting has almost driven them
from the eastern shores of the United
States as well as from those of western
Europe and tho British Isles.
But they know their enemy and in
.recent times they have chosen their
breeding places In spots almost lnacces
slblBj to ,thff hunters, lately one of their
concealed breeding places has been found
on a lonely part of the coast of Norfolk,
England, and tho photographs wero taken
there-by-hunters who had no other aim
than to Increase our' knowledge of the
ways and peculiarities of animals which,
as far as we know, have aa good a right
meet can tell you anything about. For
most people birds are only birds.' Yet tf
you will read such a book ns Gilbert
White's "Natural HlBtory of Solbourne"
one of tho most delightful books ever
written you will be quickly convinced
that the bird world Is worth a great deal
of attention, and that those who know
nothing about It are as Ignorant of some
of -the world's greatest charms as are
thpe who do not know one star from
anoiher.
When you go into the- country or to the
scashora for your vacation, take a book
on ornithology along, and make acquain
tance with the many species of birds
which you are suro to see. Study them
with an opera glass and make photo
graphs, oC them with, you camera. Learn
to distinguish them from one another not
only by their plumage, but by their. songs,
their calls, their manner of flight, tho
character of their nests' and the places
thny most frequent; watch their dally llfo
and habits; follow them through the
fields ' and Into tile forests uul don't
shoot them. You will find in this way,
that ;i new soUrco ot, interest in the
world" ybu live In ' has Veen opened for
you. .
One o'f tho recollections of childhood
that I should most regret to lose 'Is that
of the wonderful song of a thrush that
I used to heur at sundown, ringing across
the fields from some fur-away hidden
place, tho sweetest sound I ever heard.
I would leave my play and stop to listen
in simple wonder. It was long before I
found out the nanje of the bird that sang
that marvellous evening song, which fas
cinated everyone who listened to It, and
I never caught sight of the bird itself
and yet It seems to mo that I shall hear
that melody as long as the cells of mem.
ory transmit their Impressions.
And yet men endowed with the divine
gift of human intelligence murder birds
by wholesale; murder them for their
piumagtr: murder them to- get a new
dainty for Jaded appetites, murder them,
mojt horrible of all, for the mere sake of
killing: to see their delicate feathers fly
from the impact of the shot, and their
little bodies drop mangled upon the
ground. And this Is called sport.
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Little Bobbie's Pa
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feed to Sis
JBy WIIjIjIAM 1 KIUK.
Thare was a awful funny cuppel calm
to visit Pa ft Ma last nlte. Thare naltn
was Mister & Mussus Blume, I . think
thare nalm shud have been Gloom. Thay
was both of them as sad is If the wurld
was cummlng to a end.
I know that Pa dldent Hko thorn, ',beo-
kaus he Is awful Jolly moast of tho time.,
but Ma sed that thay was old friends ot
tho. fambly so thay wud have, to bs en
tertained.
wud bo -glad to entertain them, Pa
a out in tho kitchen, but thay
look so sad that I doant know what to
dor for their plesur, unless I spank llttlo
Bobble & malk him cry. I -have newer
did that yet, sed Pa, and IJiato to start
in now.
Oh, I guess thay alnt as bad as all
that. Ma sed. Jest go out now & enter
tain them till I cum.
So Pa & mo went out Into the living
room wile Ma was gluing sum late sup
per for tho cumpany.
Well, sed Pa to Mister Blume, I see
that Matty won another galm yesterday.
He la doing prltty well for a- poor old
cripple that is nil In, trent'he? sed Pa.
I do not pay much attention to thq
petty trlumfs of a basoball playor, sed
Mister Blume. Ho may be a Idol among
the unthinking, but was Caesar n base
ball player? No. He was a generall
Oh, I see, sed Pfi, you want to talk
about generals. Well, sir, I think that
Napolyun was about the niftiest general
that ever told his men to go & git drilled
by bullets. He was a tar sited man, sed
Pa. Wen his starving, frosen Grand
Armeo was blundering back from Moscow
he cud look fnr enuff ahed to sit out tf
It hlsself, so he took six of the best
horses & the best carriage & took a bee
lino for Paris, leovtng his poor soljers to
git hoam tho best way thay cid.
Oh', yes, he was a Inhuman man, sed
Mister Blume. He waded to his trlumfs
thru a sea of blood, of blood, blood, blood.
Thon Mister & Missus Blumo looked aw
ful blue A sad.
General Thomas was a grate general,
too, sed Pa. They called him the Rock
of Chlckymauga. If it had not been for
him tho army of the Potomac wud nevor
havo sot to tho sea with Sherman, sod
Pa. I ought to know, Pa sed. I was one
of the first oslfers to reach the sea. I
got thero ahed of Sherman, Pa sod. t
was out taking a swim In the surf wen
he got thare.
Mister Blume looked at Pa kind ot
hard for a mlnrtlt, but Pa dldent turn
red, I turned kind of red for him,' but
Mister Blume wasent looking at me, so
ho dldent know that Pa was lying.
Well, sed Mister Blume, you may have
been In that awful, war, but wether you
were or not, thare were reely grate men
In those days & the peepul reely loved
them. Now wo havo no reely grate men.
Jest wen we beegln to think one of thorn
Is grate, up cums a Inquiry & somebody
produces a lot 'of canceled checks, & the
grate man's nalm Is mud. The grate
men are all molderlng In thare graves,
sed Mister Blume.
' & the grate wlmmen, too, sed Missus
Blume. Oh, dear me, what Is this wurld
cummlng too. '
Oh, I think you must be a grate woman,
I toald Missus Blume. Then she reely
smiled & called mo a deer llttel man. It
made me think of a llttel vers I herd On
the stage:
The w'se man is wise In his wisdom,
The fool thinks he's wise In his .folly;
But the high & the low, warever you go
Aro all easy marKs ror a jony,
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more nttractlvo than when clad
absolutely In keeping with tho
Bport alio follows.
The little golf girl wo Bhow you
hero la dressed for golfing and
nothing olso, with tho samo un
questionable good tuato that
marks tho do rlguour riding cos
tume tho smart habit maker turns
out for tho riding girl.
Tho llttlo knitted cop our golf
girl woarB is banded In tho samo
tight stitch that Is usod for tho
rovers, hom and ouffa of tho whlto
double-breasted sweater that
fastens with olght white bono but
tons. Tho body ot . tho sweater and
crdwn of tho cap aro ot the same
wide walo stitch..
White silk shirt with crimson
tlo and blue sorgo skirt woll above
smart russet-laced boots' and
brown silk stockings complete a
costume that Js woll to the fore in
its own field.
Tho dotting ,Girl.
Parents, Make Your Children Respect You
Begin While They're Young, or Your Task is Hopeless Ancestor Worship is Not Half
so xsangerous as Viiuo. worsnip . ,
A By WIXNIFKEp BLACK.
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"iJet's" pretend," said the llttlo girl,
"let's- pretend" and she sat very 'straight
on th'e bid stone wall. "I'm Mrs. Van die
VereV .ahd I have three automobiles and
three ' maids, Just
to do. my hair and
nako'ne pretty.
"And I havo long
golden- hair, and
everyone thinks I
bleach, it, to make
It shine so, but I
flonft-jind my eyes
are Jke. blue stars
andjrn'y feet are'
Uny,. 'and I havo
lafa full of dia
monds, and I go
abro'atT $n a private
yacht .whenever I
wan'tr to, and my
busb'and adores me
andl Jrave twelve
children? every.pnb
a beauty-, and"
"Let's ' prebsnd," said the other little
.girl, , "let's pretend I am beautiful, too,
ind ilih aud-everybody . Is mad at me
for having the moit diamonds and pearls
and things, and my husband and I have
quarrelled, and let's pretend that I am
tolng' to forgive him, but he doesn't
know It, and" 1
"Toot, toot," said the little boy, shuf
fling along the red road and kicking up
rlouda of red dust. "Toot, toot I'm an
engine, great big shiny engine, and I
pull a long train clear -up over the moun-ta!ns-i-tqot."tobt4geV
6M .ftte Araek,-here
ComerjhenghJ;'. V.,
And theotdj shaggy log lay In .the sun-.
Ihlne andbflnk5s&7apid paid not tho'leasf
Attention fo'-the grand lady,' In the
checked glhghffnl frock and tha stubby
ihoes; or fo'the fine personage in a blue
denim play dress, and two braids down
her chubby back, or to the great engine
mat puffed right under'fier vefy pose." ;
But if one of them,(stould start to fall,'
"woof I" the old dog would be there is a
mlBu'fetb'-CBll-'ror-Uelti or'to-glvo help
himself for, that is the nature., of the
Miaggy dog and he cannot help It 1
"Let's pretend,' How old do wo get
before wo stop pretending. I wonder?
What fun It is to pretend I
' I know a man who is as honest as the'
day his word Is his bond anywhere In
the city whare-ho, lives, and he pretends,
what, do youthlnki;. thar ho is a thief.
Ho tells' how much he made from this
deal, andlhow he got. the Jaest of that
bargain, and lookB all around to sea It
every one. bears . lllm when he talks.
He's pretending like the little boy In the
red dust. Why be angry with him?
Sometimes ho must be tired of pre
tending and Jongs to look his "friends, In
the eyes naturally and as he really' Is,
but he can't. He has pretended too long
It's a pity, isn't It'?
I know a .woman .who plays "pretend"
sho has a husband who neglects her
and she 'Is always telling us all how
devoted h is and -how dearly he loves
her. . .
One dayl sa'vy. a. great basket of lilies
In her house, her husband sent them to
I; her, she said. An anniversary, it was, I
think, and I had seen her the day beforej
at the florist's ordering the flowers he T
self. Yet when she told me how her hus
band had sent them . and how good ho
always was her poor sad face-lit up and
she looked prettier than I ever saw her
look in all her life.
I told her how pretty she was, and that
It was no wonder that her husband adored
her, and hoW we all envied her and
yes, why not, why couldn't I pretend too,
if it made her happy and me -happy too?
Let's pretend you and I," let's "pretend
we're young and beautiful and ad
ml fed .The man who once loved us loves
us-tstlU; he doesn't show It very plainly,
tsojnetlmes he acts, as if some one else
IbiiOio, that's all nonsense, how could he
wctn we sun love nun so i
Let's pretend-therman you love doesn't
do very well In business. He's faithful
and honest and he works, but somehow
some one else always gets In ahead of
htm." It Isn't his; fault, It's Just luck
that's It-luck that's against him, Who
could succeed handicapped by bad luck?
Let's pretend, sister, let's pretend. Tell
him that ho's clever, tell him that he Is
ambitious, tell him that he works harder
and moro intelligently than anyone you
ever saw. Bee, he's pretending, too-how
straight he's beginning to stand. Look
he holds, his discouraged head higher
than he did before you began to pretend
he's beginning to believe the pretend
he's beginning to act up to It
Go on. sister, go on pretending; some
day you may make' It all come true Just
by pretending. Who can tell? '
Let's pretend, let's . all pretend If it
makes the gray old world gayer-why
npt?
By DOltOTHY MIX
A Chines scholar, who recently leo
turod in this city, says that a great deal
ot the late progress In his country has
been due to the respect and affection in
Which young men
hold their mothers,
and that it is not
surprising that
Chinese children
honor their p a -rents,
since they
are taugltt to do
so by means ot the
very first reader.
I wonder If It
would be possible
to borrow any of
these Chinese first
readers for use In
American schools
and homes?
Wo. have spent a
lot of effort and
money in sending
missionaries over
to tho so-called heathen Chinee.
Here's
f The Great Niebuhr "
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By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
One hundred and one years ago, August
21, 1812, a Berlin publisher announced
to tho world that he had Just published
the first two volumes of Niebuhr's His
tory of Rome a
work that was des
tined to play havoo
with many of the
records of the past
The great German
book made a com
plete revolution In
the method of writ
ing history. In its
wide and all-Important
field it did
as much as Sir
Charles Lyell's
book did In the
field of geology.
or Darwin In that of biology. It was,
In fact tho history of history, the key
that was to admit us to the temple of
truth In matters historical.
In Niebuhr's work therd appeared, prac
tically for the first time,' the exact facts
regarding the Romans and their institu
tions their population, the foundation
of their state, the origin ot the Plebs)
the real relation between the Plebs
and the Patricians, the nature of the
public lands, the character of the vari
ous constitutions, and the true meaning
of the early laws and customs out of
Which came, In the fullness of time, the
all-conquering republio which ended with
Ctasar,
Tha myths which, up to Niebuhr's time,
had dominated much of our thought
about Romo were exploded for all time,
superbtltlona were wiped out, and the way
was cleared for a propen understanding
of the great people who had stamped their
genius so indelibly and permanently upon
the world.
Nor must tho fact be overlooked that
in clearing up the Roman field Niebuhr
cleared the entire field of history.
The entire past, beginning with the
dawn of recorded events, was now to
begin to loom up with something like
accuracy of outline and proportion. Rollln
and his brother-dreamers were to give
way to the historians who should see
clearly and report faithfully. Fables were
no longer to usurp the place of facts,
and old tradition was to take a back seat
for reality.
And so, what Vlco and Montesquieu did
for the philosophy of' history, Niebuhr
was to do for its method, and it is per
fectly correct to say that those who have,
within the last half century or so, re
written the story of the past have done
so largely along the lines that wero
marked out by the great German his-torlan.
a chance tor China to repay the debt
and send over some first readers to hood
lum America.
While the good ladies in China, how
ever, are holdlpg oyster suppers,- and
church fairs, ana sewing bees to raise
the money for their missionary enterprise
for cur benefit, it may not be amiss for
Amor Jean parents to take note of tho fact
that the volume that Is found so effica
cious in Instilling respect for parents in
the youthful breast is the first reader.
It is not Differential Calculus, or Kant
on Pure Reason, or any of the Irtgh-
browed literature that a man peruses in
his mature years.
Which Is to say, that if you want your
child to treat you with reverence and
respect, you must instil those sentiments
In him while he Is young and not wait
for him to acquire them when he comes
to the years of discretion. Conduct is
nine-tenths habit. Unconsciously wo go
cn treating people the way we. have al
ways treated them, and the son and
daughter who have run rough shod over
their parents in their childhood continue
to run rough shod over them in their
manhood and womanhood.
We Americans are very scornful be
cause the Chinese worship their ances
tors, but ancestor worship is a much less
dangerous religion than the child wot
chip that prevails among us. It does a
great-grandfather's spirit no harm to bo
prayed to, but it everlastingly ruins the
child for Its parents to kowtok and knock
their foreheads before it
How other godllngs act we do not
know, but it fills tho American brand
with an insufferable self-complacency
and self-esteem, and makes It a grinding
tyrant who tramples Its slaves Into the
dust The modern car of Juggernaut is
the perambulator, and millions of Amer
ican parents cast themselves before it
and let it crush out ail of the comfort
and happiness of their lives.
Practically In every family you know
the children are the ones who must be
obeyed, Their will is law. Their opinions
decide matters. They have the best
olothes. They go to places of amuse
ment while the parents stay at home.
The father and mother are merely upper
servants to look after the children's
wants.
And the children repay this attitude of
their parents Just' as ycu would expect.
They are Insolent and overbearing, and
selfish and disobedient, because they
have been taught, to be, They havo been
brought up, tacitly at least, to look
down upon their parents and despise
them. They havo never been made to
consider their parents, and it never oc
curs to them to do so.
The other day a prosperous looking
man entered a subway car with a much
drested up little boy about 6 years old.
Thero was only one vacant seat and tho
child made a dart for it and got it. Tho
man said. "Son, let father have that
scat and you can sit In his lap." "Huh,"
responded son, "I got it first, and I'm
going to keep it." And ho did, while
the man hung on to a strap.
Everybody round about looked bale
fully at the child and as if they'd glvo
5 to have him turned across their knees
in a good slapping position for about flva
minutes, but I thought there should be
some sort of commission appointed to
commit such parents to the asylum for
the feeble minded.
For that man. and parents of his Ilk,
are not only raising up their children 'to
be a heartbreak to themselves, but a
curse to the community. It Is these
children who are brought up without any
respect for their parents, or regard for
others, and who are greedily Intent on
getting tho best for themselves, who
make countless thousands mourn by their
Inhumanity.
Of course, It seems to the' adoring
parents that It's cuto for a tiny tot to
defy them. They make a hundred ex
cuses when Johnnie Is impertinent tc
them, and Mary talks back when they
dare to reprove her. They even think it
funny when their child openly criticises
their ways, becauso they are so sure that
when It grows up it will appreciate all
they havo dono for It aud the sacrifices
they have made.
It is a fallacious hope. Unless you
have established an authority over it
child before It is 3 years old, unless you
have bred respect and reverence in It
from Its very cradle you will never get
anything from hat child but contempt
And it's really all you deserve, because
you had your chance and you threw It
away. The Chlncso are an older and,
In many respects, a wiser people than
wc. That's why the child's lesson In lt
duty to Its parents begins in the First
Reader.
There is no other feature In American
llfo that Is so pathetlo and soaltogether
wrong as the relationship that exists be
tween parents and children, and the fact
that In the average ' "family h father
and mother are jio afraid of their chil
dren that they dors, not call their, soulo
their own must-' make angels' :wdep.
Often the parqnta have glvefe the chil
dren at incredible . sacrifices ,'io, them
selves, advantages that they, -never had
in their own youth, but instead, of tha
sons and daughters being tltle'd. with
gratitude and appreciation,' ttntjr &rg
oshamod ot their father and mother, and
correct thorn so often about thelrgram
mar and ttirJr manners, and their way ot
dress, that tho poor old people go
trembling before them.
It Is ror these young upstarts, without
reverence for ago', dr respect, tor their
parents, that vye need a hundred ship. '
loads of Chinese ' First Readers There
can bo no better education- for boys and
girls than to be tnught- to honor their
parents, and the only time in Ufa In
which this lesson can be thoroughly
learned In early, youth.
And this Is something for parents also
to icmomber if you want your children
to reverence you when you are old, you
must make them respect you when they
are young. - ...
The Stream of Life
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By MLIAN LAUFFKRT1'.
Unknowingly, unceasingly, still day by day they pass us by-V '
Those friends whom wo shall never know comrades to whom out 'spirits
cry.
A llttlo child may shyly smile, a gray-haired man may kindly glance; .
But, smiling still, they pass tho whilo, and llfo boarB onJta puppet. danco.
Perhaps that girl with eyes sea-gray might be a comrade soul 6 me; '
That lad of spirit blithe and gay may hold to frlcmdshlp'B shrfno the key.
But still the stream of life flowa by flows by to some uncharted sea;'
A comrade spirit greets tho eye, then Hweops away eternally.
VIth laggard step or Joyful feet, at evory turn throughout tho day
We pass, but we may nevor meet, for still convention holds her sway.
Brothers and Blstora all, they clalm-r-perhaps, but ,tlsi a weary while
Since man has dared, unknowing shame, to greet his fellows with a'-fimilo.