Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — Birds in Cemeteries. [ARTICLE]

Birds in Cemeteries.

Not long ago it was suggested that with excellent propriety we could . make of every cemetery a bird sanctuary or refuge. The proposition appears to have found wide favor through numerous articles in the press, and a few instances are known where the Idea has been made a reality. What could be more fitting than to make of these silent and sacred resting places of our dead, the abodes of creatures that bless and beautify the world of the • living. What could be simpler than-to plant and nurture such shrubs and trees as by the berries and fruits they bear would attract to them these untiring servants of man? The decorative value of such planting would_obviously be considerable. The songs of birds, the sweetest of nature’s music, will take away from these silent cities something of the sadness and gloom that Inevitably enshrouds them.