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Show PARADISE FOR THE BIRDS Providence Seems to Have Provided Temperate Zone for the Feathered Friends of Man. Up in the far country where the timber fails, the calendar Is respected. respect-ed. There is no summer before the official day set for it. The ground Is held fast by frost until June is well started. There are flurries of snow, wild, bitter winds, a sky that has no mercy. And then, suddenly, the wind shifts and comes out of the south. It is summer then with a leap. The Interest of the temperate zone in the northland Is that it is there that have gone a great many of the migrating birds which paid us a few days' visit and passed on. For ail Its inhospltality to man, that country In summer is a paradise for birds. Its marshes are safe refuges from two and four-footed enemies. There is ex-haustless ex-haustless material for nests. And out of the pools come myriads of insects, food that does not"fail until the time for the southward bird movement arrives. ar-rives. Some man has said that there Is no God north of latitude 59. He did not inquire as to what the birds might have thought of that. Toledo Blade. |