Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1920 — BIRD BATH IS GOOD IDEA [ARTICLE]

BIRD BATH IS GOOD IDEA

Feathered Creatures Will Appreciate It, and It Is Recommended a* a Gloom Dispeller. Anyone who wants a true gloom dlspeller right before his eyes all the time has only to fix up a bird bath of some sort on his lawn. No lawn

is too small to afford space for one ■and no city street so congested that sooner or later some feathered neighbor will not seek out the bird and make himself its immediate excuse for being. It is not necessary to have anything elaborate. A fountain of stone or cement may be very tasteful, but little old robin will take the finest bath in the world in any shallow tin pan. A coat of moss-green paint will turn the home-contrived article into a thing of beauty, blending in with the green of the grass around it. No old swinxming hole ever saw more antics than are carried on by the splashing birds, not any more unrestrained delight In the water, nor any -more democratic gatherings, nor heard more chattering. If an occasional fight Is pulled off, why that’s just human and bird nature. - ‘ • - / The possessor of a bird bath for his lawn has a long option on the pure joy of life. He will find himself more than repaid for his trouble, and probably astonished at the number and variety of birds common to his neighborhood that he never saw before.—St. Joseph Gazette.