The Seaforth News, 1927-08-11, Page 3BIRD BATHS
Can you ;imagine an orchard, a
garden or ,a dooryard in summery
without birds? Would you not miss,
their darting, dipping: and flashing in
the sunlight;, flitting hare and there
among the flowers --preening; and
singing in the shrubbery? If you love
birds'and want more of them to come'
and build their homes about the prem-
ises,attract: them with bird baths
arranged for their constant use, be-
cause, next to food, ahnost any bird
likes a cool, sparkling bath better
than anytliibg else' in the world:
Baths that are attractive to birds,
ante decorative in even the nicest kind
of garden, can' be made with scarcely
any expense at all by converting dis-
carded objrete.
A bath to perch on the stump an
old tree could be an old, wooden chop-
ping boles, with its •,cracks puttied
securely, and decorated in a pretty
fashion: After the cracks are sealed
so the lvat'er cannot,, seep through,
sandpaper, the surface and wash with
warm scapy, water. This removes all
the inghness and dust and prepares.
it as it should be for the finish of
enamel. No surface should' ever be
enameled until perfectly clean and,
if possible, quite smooth.
- PAINTING' THE BOWL.
Enamel the clean bowl, tihen,: inside,
with a sky-blue enamel which will
catch the lights' and reflect them in,
- the water. Paint the outside violet'.
and add a design of red and gold to
bring a pleasing touch of the oriental
into the garden. The design need not
be complicated; alternating lines of
the red and gold drawn from the edge,
of the rani toward the bottom of the.
bowl would be effective; ora stripe
of the red arid one of gold near the
rim would be pretty. Use small point-
ed cancel' hair brushes for the
striping'
Even if' one had no old bowl to
decorate, a new one of about the right
size can be bought for a small sum.
This new bowl would have no cracks
to seal and hide, so if one preferred
it need not be decorated with colors
but be given, instead, two or three
coats of varnish which *ill not qnly
enhance its decorative effect but pro -
beet it from the water. An old mend,-
ed
end=ed bowl, however, looks better enom-
eled because the paint hides the
mending.
Many different types of pans and
earthenware dishes can be used just
es attractively as a wooden bowl. It
Is best to place these In the shade,
however, beetiuse the :water heats
more quickly in them than it does in
the wood, and _birds object to •a hot
bath. A bath fashioned from'a square
tide 'cakepan can he ornamented so
that it will look as though it never
had any other .purpoee than to serve
the birds.
In one garden where yellow jou-
quils and wood violets grey—for
there was a portion of it that hap-
pened to be in a low and quite moist
situation, so low, in fact, that after
hard showers little pools of water
stood awirile before soaking away—a
tin bath of this sort was decorated
to harmonize with the flowers. 'It was
enameled a cool sea green inside and
on the outside yellow and violet. The
edsign wad a simple one. The sides
and ends were first painted yellow,
then little half -circles of the violet
were added at the lower edges.
These portable baths are preferable
to stationary ones because they can be
so easily kept clean and the water
changed often. The oftener the bet-
ter to pleas•, the birds.
' PLACING IN STONES,
In order to have the baths popular
with many different species of; birds
• a nice thing to do is to place stones
of varying sizes, all of them quite'
small, to be sure, inside the baths.
Several handfuls of coarse gravel is
a convenient way to arrange a shal-
low depth at one side of a bath, to
aecommedate tiny birds, 'such as
humming birds, Jenny wrens and
chickadees, and permit the opposite
Hide to have only one or two small
stones where orioles, 'robins and
saucy bluejays can stand while de-
ciding to plunge into a two-inch
depth of water which they prefer to
anything more shallow.
Birds are particular, too, about the
situation of their baths. They usually
like to have ,a convenient plate to
perch and tidy their foliage after a
pillage. . For their accommodation,
• then,a situation uncle:: a tree or near
a shrub should be sought. Avoid
placing it ton near dense shrubbery
where possible marauders could'
pounce out unexpectedly and do them
harm.
WHERE TO PUT IT. -
For artistic effect in the garden, a
'•bath can be seated on either a"grassy
mound or on an old stump so that it
will not be on a level with the ground
surface If some vines are planted
at the base of the stump so that they.;
will ,wind and cling to it as they grow
the 'effect will be all the more pictur-'I
esque for the garden. Or some woad
violets could be planted here as they
would flourish under the frequent
showers they would bet when the
birds splashed the water down upon
them many tines a day.
A short time�•after you' have pro -
.tidied the bal'aia, many birds will find
them and will come daily, some of
thein many times :a . day, to freshen
their pretty bright -colored, coats and
dry then in the sunshine, a lovely
thing to see.
Amorie the new features of the 1927
Canadian National Exhibition will be
the slew Live' Stock Pavilion—aa 8 -
acre extension to the C. N. 1;. Coliseum.
Canadians will point with particular
pride to this mammoth new structure.
49t7tYear
of the
C.N,G.
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;John J. Dixon,
Celebrating
Canada's
60th
Birthday
ra ,rte
a,aet":
The story that fishing -worms can
sing probably originated from some
fisherman who heard a mosquito while
he was putting on the bait.
Someone says kissing is a relic of
the dark ages. Also dark nights.
Mae -"Let's matchfor the eats!"
we
Sue—"Where shall lunch?"
lilae—"Let's match first."
.Patient — "Doctor, how are my
chances?"
Doctor—"Oh, pretty good, but I
wouldn't start reading any, continued
stories,' '
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Ole„ why did I eat that pie?
Thede exercises tire.„...
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A pound a dayemust melt away.
I'm melting drop by drop. , -
No rest. No peace. No beauty nap,
Haven't had a decent meal;
But no one gives a rap.
"One, two; one; two"—I'm sick and
tired of that.
I want to eat. I want to sleep.
All right, then. I'Bbe fat!. ,
"I5 your husband a good provider,
Mandy?"
"Shuh is a piovidah, nothin' but.
TIe's going to buy furniture providin"
he gats the money;, he's goin' to git
the money providin' he goes to work
he goes to work providin' there's noth-
in' else to be did, providin' the job
suits him. Lle suttlnly is a provldah."
You can buy a dog with money, but
it takes love to put a wag in its tail.
Some men respect no creed but
greed.
"Guess I'll go on a bender," said the
fly starting around the pretzel,
An ,absent-riiiiided young physician,
courting a girl, charged her two dol-
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What Premises to bo the biggest
flown' show ever hold in Canada is to
be held in the Memorial School
Auditorium, Ham1'iton, Ont, en Aug.
?4th and 25th, Being the conihlned.
exhibitions of the C11.nadian Glailiel'tis',
Society anti tlgo Hamilton Herticnz1-
tural Society, it will tax the school to
its capacity.
The Seoretarl Mrs. Schumacher,
I19 Victoria Ave, N., Hamilton, is busy
sending out the prize lists and site
r,tports keen interest in ail the classes
wh+fit include the open, amateur and
rcviee.
The outstanding 'features of the
show will be the competition for the
Spectator Cisp in the open class, the
Eaton Trophy in the amateur class,
and the 'Kiwanis Cup in the seedling_
oiase.
Two year's ago the Hamilton
Kiwauis Club offered to the Canadian
Gladiolus Society a cup to be award-
ed to the best seedling gladiolus of
outstanding merit, This meant that
the winner must be a better flower
than any on the market at the present
time,
This stirred up a great deal of in-
terest and the rivalry was very keen.
Among those entered was one from far
off New Zealand. In spite of the
high caliber of the enteries, the
Judges would not•make an award. The
samething happened at Peterborough
last year -and although there was keen
disappointment among the -exhibtors,
it stirred up their blood with the result
that, this year is going to see the
greatest' struggle for this coveted
prize.
Besides the 225 classes for gladiolus,
there are numerous sections for asters,
dahlias and dozens of other fall bloom-
ing annuals and perennials.
Elbert If. -Gary," chairman of 'the
United States- Steel Corporation pass-
ed his hand several times over a glass
sphere on his desk at 71 Broadway,
New York, on June 16 last and a
minute quantity of electricity,, thus
released, amplified and transmitted to
Pittsburgh, set in motion a ,700 -volt
motor -generator used to furnish pow-
er for the rolling machinery of the
Homestead Works of the Carnegie
Steel Company. Says "The Iran
Trade Review" (Cleveland) :
"Tine demonstration was arranged
by the corporation and the Westing-
house Electric Company as, a feature!
of the convention of the iron and steel
electrical engineers at. Pittsburgh.
The delegates visited. the Homestead
works to witness the spectacular start.
"The sphere on Judge Gary's desk
was lined with silver and served as
one plate of a condenser. Judge
Gary's hand served ae the other plate.
A grid -glow relay, a recent Westing-
house development ,connected by
telegraph,: litre to the Westinghouse
works at Newark, interrupted the
continuous 42.95 meter wave of the
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speaker. "And if I were alone I
should be the same; but i'ni afraid' for
Miss Marples In this lightning. She's
so attractive!"
"What is the naw structure you
have put up on the hill there?" asked
a curious visitor of a'farnler. "Well,"
replied the farmer, "if 1 find a tenant
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ofgenuine value on any farm.
"Preserving Fruit,. and Vege-
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