Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1917 — BIRD BATH MADE ORNAMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIRD BATH MADE ORNAMENT

Simplicity and Beauty Combined in< Article Constructed by Lover of Man’s Feathered Friend*. . Individuality and beauty mark •* simple bird bath made of concrete, .

which adorns the' lawn of a home in' Omaha, v Neb. At a glance it ippears to have been made by placing a thick cross section of a big log on top of a stump in the yard. But both parts are made of concrete. The imitation bark

on the sidfe, instead of being fashioned with a mold, has been worked out by hand so that It contains less of a suggestion of the artificial than Is found in many molded-concrete lawn ornaments. A number of these rustic baths have been made. —Popular Mechanics Magazine.