Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING Page Twelve APRIL 5 1939 Small Birds Build Home n Overcoat Ambitious to I Study Learn Though III One nice spring day several years ago my father hung his overcoat out on the back porch Hearing an unusual noise among? the birds on the back porch we stepped to the door to see whfit Mercedes Fitzgerald is waging valiant battle against ill health and suffering and with Indomitable courage is climbing a was going on toward real achievement Mercedes who has suffered from arthritis for years and so has been unable ever to enter school found herself at 12 years of age unable to do all the Interesting things most children do Right then she set her aim high: She would learn to read and write and sew and knit and play games in spite of crippled fingers and a delayed beginning Starting out with a primer she learned so easily and progressed so rapidly that her teacher says it has been a Joy to take books and lessons to her Recently Mercedes decided to Join the Knighthood of Youth feeling that she would have the companionships and friendships denied ordinarily In sending her application Mercedes said she hoped many of the Knighthood members would write to her freely without expecting answers back as writing is still a most difficult Job She was assured that Knighthood of Youth members love to do things like that and so Mercedes is hoping that the mail man will for the first time in her twelve years carry a batch of cards letters and greetings from boys and girls all over the state to this member who has come so confidently and hopefully into the ranks of modem knights" Birds The door One day we heard one of them chirping as though It were sad We wondered what was wrong and upon investigating we found the mother bird drowned in a tub of water The father bird stayed away all day chirping his sad song That evening he left and returned with another bird which went down in the pocket and killed the little ones The two then fiekr away We never saw our feathered friends again Wins Crown In Bryant’s Spelling Bee - ' Various Ways following the cow-bir- ds meadowlarks bobolinks bob white and mourning doves JEAN BELLISTON Age 10 Nephl - tournament asserting that “you Just can’t spell him down” The spelling tournament at Bryant started some time ago with preliminary matches in every room by which the room champion was selected These met in spirited spelling matches in the boys’ gymnasium until all but three were eliminated Marjorie Cowles Mary Lou Brown and Roy Cole met in the The two girls went finals "down on “archipelago” which Roy spelled correctly winning the championship ’ : birds fly their with air through mouths open and in this way catch their food: Swallows martins swifts and whippoorwills Some birds perch in the open and watch for their food to fly near them Then they quickly dart out and catch it Some of them who do this are the kingbirds pewees and the phoebes warblers Vireos bluebirds wrens" tanagers and orioles hunt for their dinners among the leaves of trees and plants These are some of the birds who get their food from under the bark or in the wood of trees: Woodpeckers nuthatchers creepers and chickadees Among the birds who find their food on the ground are the blackbirds crows robins sparrows warblers woodpeckers and brown thrashers The weed seed feeders are sparrows goldfinches grosbeaks horned larke blackbirds PAGE ECHO NELSON Blackfoot Idaho Mercedes Fitzgerald Get Food In Thepewas one little bird sitting on the‘£dge of the overcoat pocket and another was sitting on the nail on which the coat hung They were chattering and making a big noise Mother said: “I believe that they are going to build a nest in the overcoat pocket Let’s watch and see” Sure enough that day they started building their nest Finally the nest was finished and the mother bird laid four little eggs In the course of time there were four small birds The father and mother were surely busy feeding them They got so tame they would sit on the coat when we would go back and forth through the little town Junction claims an interesting set of triplets Juana Rhoda and Blake D Robinson now well over a year old and growing fast These babies were extremely tiny when bom Rhoda weighing only 2 pounds Juana r pounds and Blake 4 pounds-Theiparents Mr and Mrs Blake Robinson and their grandparents Mr J F DeLange have taken such good care of the children that they have had scarcely a sick day in their lives ang Juana now weighs 19 pounds Rhoda 18 pounds and Blake the huskiest of the group 29 pounds The story and photograph of the triplets was sent to us by Paee Helen Rae MorilL 9 who Read of Chickadee The real name of the chickadee is the blackcap titmouse1 It is called chickadee because of the call it makes The chickadee will build its nest in an old woodpecker’s nest or in a bird house but most usually it builds its nest in a decayed stump of birch or The eggs are commonly pine white spotted with reddish The young birds leave the nest about two weeks after hatching Their food is mostly insects grain and seeds brown THAYS E STANLEY Age 11 Nephl Utah thinks they are unusually interesting babies and-Mr- s Roy Cole Roy Col§ champion speller of r Bryant high school had to defeat more than a thousand contestants altogether before the victory was his But Roy did the Job easily those irHshargeof the i Juana Rhoda Blake Robinson |