THE BEE. E that what can best stand advertising usually .j vertises the least. The great Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Laky seats twelve thousand persons. To be heard in every part of that immense edifice is a triumph of the human voice. Only one woman is said to have thus succeeded, and that woman is Miss Maud May Babcock, head of the depart ment of elocution and physical education at the Utah University. From this fact something may begatheredof the range and power of her In 18'.K) she taught voice culture and Delsai e at Harvard. Then she went west to the great staV of Utah and founded a private school of elocution. This school, though successful, was given up that she might devote all her time to the uni versity. Her classes now number more than three hundred pupils, and among her graduates aro those teaching the elocutionary art in five of the leading educational institutions of the State. -- tii4-tinctl- y S. POWERS, EDITOR. Address all communications for the Woman's Department to Mrs. Powers, EVANOELINE Who will make a plea for the birds? In Utah this rose in a wilderness Children. Utah with its silent groves and orchards, its glorious mornings greeted by only here and there an isolated piping, its perfect summer days thatclose to the benediction of only a few lonesome twitterings, in Utah is there no single bird defender? Then, poor old state, let Audubon bless his lucky stars he never knew you In Eastern papers we read reports of the plans and accomplishments of Audubon societies, and these in localities where they have twenty birds to our one. Have we only the need, or do we have the will and the sentiment necessary to meet it? The sentiment is here, the story of the seagulls among us proves that, and it only awaits an awakening touch. Let the school children do this. No one else can do it with the same force and earnestness as they, and besides, could not an Audubon society with its occasional session, be worked in as a pleasant and profitable change in Friday afternoon programs? Then speaking from the birds standpoint, I would rather have the children for my friends and advocates, and protectors, than anyone else. From bo one else would I expect the same heartiness and constancy and practical aid, while I can think of no creatures that need such defenders as much as birds. Their existence from the time they are so fortunate or unfortunate as to see tho light of day outside the shell, is one unbroken series of risks, dangers and pitfalls. The little girl who told her dream to her mother, the other morning, had some idea of the situation. I dreamed, mamma, God said I must be a bird. But I was afraid. I wa3 afaid of being up in a nest so high, I was afraid of the wind and rain and hail, I was afraid of other birds. I was afraid my mother would get killed, and I would starve and oh, 1 was afraid of snakes, and weasels, and boys, so I said 1 rather be a kitty, for kitties have little girls mostly to take care of 1 them. But God said no, I must be a bird, a little yellow bird. So I was a bird, and it was just as I thought"!! would be. I was dead. My eyes were punched out, and I had glass ones hitched to wires hung in their places, and I was riding around on a tall ladys hat. But I was dead. Right here parenthetically it might be ventured were childrens eyes opened to the cruelty and barbarism of birds as trimming, their mothers would select headgear with more taste and forethought. But we wish to end with the question we began with, who will plead the cause of the birds? Let the bright pupils of Salt Lake schools try it and send to this department of The Bek their brightest briefest efforts. We will gladly publish the best paper sent in, and accompany it with the picture of the writer. Who shall it be? The excellent. portrait of Mrs. W. A. Nelden and Mrs. C. E. Allen published in The Bee recently were reproduced from platinum I. O. Uox 433. photos made at the studio of Mr. Johnson Co. They have been unusually admired. The entertainment by the pupils of the Oquirrh school last night at the First Congregational church was a decided success. The recitations, the music, and the drills were all of excellent character. Tonight another program of at least equal merit will be given. The music by orchestra and chorus, the solo by Miss Pye, the wand drill, the work in color and chalk by five of the upper grade boys, and the Quarrel Scene from Julius Caesar by Messrs. Meakiu and Rogers, are among the attractions. These entertainments are for the benefit of the piano fund cents is charged. and an admission of twenty-five pleasant hour was that spent at the late city C. E. Union, and had the Endeavorers known of the treat in store for them there would not have been a vacant chair. Rev. Linsey opened the program with a discussion of the relation between the church and the Christian Endeavor. Mr. Bagby followed, saying that young people are both missed and needed and that no chair should be empty on Sabbath day. Dr. Paden A closed with a description of apastors woes. There was a man hanging to a strap in an East Seventh South car the other evening, and he was a heretic. That is the assertion, here is the proof. We hope when the ladies get the manners of the community seen to, they will begin on the morals. What do you mean? That most of us are not impressed with the t nor"anti hat. importance of anti-spi- San Francisco has erected a statue to the It conmemory of Robert Louis Stevenson. sists of a large rectangular pedestal, with sides inscribed and with top surmounted by a gay Even in stone, the vescruiser. sel seems to rolick and to assure the observer that the last voyage of our prince of story tellers was fair and found happy anchorage in a harbor of Treasure Island. A man who can make sunshine for this shady old world while he lives, and then can leave a cheerful monument to mark his memory when he dies, is a benefactor high-decke- d indeed. AN EASTERN VIEW. The Puritan, a publication from New York City, has an article in its April number upon prominent elocutionists of the country. The following clipping from the article will prove pleasant reading to all Salt Lakers, and perhaps at the same time prime them with a fact or two they had not known before about a modest neighbor. ' Advertising may pay we hear it does but nevertheless the truth is demonstrated occasionally SAVINGS BANKS IN SCHOOL. Written for Tub Deb by Mrs. Blanche P. Taylor. It is conceded by everyone working, writing, or speaking along educational lines that th development of character, the preparation for a useful life, supersedes the value of purely intellectual or literary training. The great effort of leading educators is almost wholly in the direction of better adapting the instruction given in our public schools to the requirements of life, to train children to become men and women who cannot only do some one thing well, a purpose which the manual training school accomplishes, but also to make good citizens and helpful members of the community. The General Federation of Womens Clubs is pursuing educational work and many state federations have followed this lead. Here in Salt Lake womens clubs are active forces for improvement in the public schools. The Womans Club has this winter made an investigation of the School Savings Bank System in cities and towns of the use in some sixty-fivUnited States. The system is so simple that it requires no additional expense to carry it on and but a small outlay of time and labor. Each Monday morning the pupil at roll call, answers with the amount, if any, which he has saved or earned and wishes to deposit. This he leaves with the teacher who in turn hands it to the principal whose sole responsibility consists in receiving the money and depositing it in the bank. The time consumed by the system during school hours does not exceed fifty minutes per month. The time required of the teacher outside of school hours is about hour per month while the work is of the veiy simplest sort requiring ho special instruction or training. The reports received by the Womans Club from the many school superintendents who have made a thorough test of the system, exhibit results that are undoubtedly desirable to be inculcated in the minds of children and youths. The chief benefits may be summarized briefly. The system teaches economy, in the use of not money alone, but of school and other books, ot dothing, of time, of talents and all the ' various things by the aid of which we all become useful to ourselves and the community. The systematic training which develops habits of caretaking, of saving and utilizing along all lines the things that are about us, educates children in the true economy of nature and makes the means of obtaining a subsistence much less of a problem, e one-ha- lf -