Our forefathers did not think their
houses complete without screens. These
are useful for breaking off the heat where
there is an open grate, and for placing near
a door often opened, to prevent a draft, and
are still quite popular. Very handsome
ones may be made of feathers by gumming
them on a framework of gauze or other ma-
terial, stretched by wire. Or card -board may
be used for the background. The lad who
is skillful with tools may make screens of
thin wood and other light materials, a
framework of strips being made and fastened
together, and then covered with the material
preferred. If it is to be a folding screen,
the separate parts can be readily joined
together with hinges.
Care of Domestic Animals and
Plants.
It seems advisable to supplement what
we have said about the methods of making
home attractive with some consideration of
other important elements of home interest,
the plants and flowers which change our
windows into miniature conservatories, and
the singing birds and other pet animals to
which we give loving care, and whose lively
arts and sweet voices help to make the
hours pass pleasantly. First among these
it will be well to speak of the prime favorite
among all the feathered tribe, the golden-
plumaged and sweet- voiced canary.
The Canary Bird.
No birds, except pigeons and fowls, have
developed under man's care into so many
varieties as the canary. The original wild
bird is a finch, of greenish hue. Among
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domestic birds there are several varieties
fully or partly green, but yellow is the most
admired tint, there being several shades of
this favorite color. The canary, above all
other birds, lives and thrives in a cage. It
has been bred for so long a series of genera-
tions to cage-life that its native wildness has
vanished, and in the open air it is quite in-
capable of taking care of itself. In the cage
it is bred with greater ease and success
than almost any other bird, and the raising
of canaries is in some localities, as in the
Hartz Mountains of Germany, a distinct
and profitable business.
It is as a song-bird that the canary is
most valued, and for many generations its
powers of song have been developed in
Germany until they approach perfection.
The young birds are carefully trained, some
by skillful older singers, some by the flag-
eolet, until they can execute certain fine
trills or passages of melody. Some song-
sters have the wonderful compass of four
octaves, and can sing various " shakes " in
marvelous style . Each burst of song should ,
for the best effect, end in a soft, flute-like,
falling passage, an effect which it takes six
months' training to produce. Many birds
of excitable temperament are apt to break
into loud, detached notes, which spoils
their song to the ear of an adept in canary
music .
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Our forefathers did not think their houses complete without screens. These are useful for breaking off the heat where there is an open grate, and for placing near a door often opened, to prevent a draft, and are still quite popular. Very handsome ones may be made of feathers by gumming them on a framework of gauze or other material, stretched by wire. Or card -board may be used for the background. The lad who is skillful with tools may make screens of thin wood and other light materials, a framework of strips being made and fastened together, and then covered with the material preferred. If it is to be a folding screen, the separate parts can be readily joined together with hinges.
Care of Domestic Animals and Plants.
It seems advisable to supplement what we have said about the methods of making home attractive with some consideration of other important elements of home interest, the plants and flowers which change our windows into miniature conservatories, and the singing birds and other pet animals to which we give loving care, and whose lively arts and sweet voices help to make the hours pass pleasantly. First among these it will be well to speak of the prime favorite among all the feathered tribe, the goldenplumaged and sweet- voiced canary.
The Canary Bird.
No birds, except pigeons and fowls, have developed under man's care into so many varieties as the canary. The original wild bird is a finch, of greenish hue. Among
domestic birds there are several varieties fully or partly green, but yellow is the most admired tint, there being several shades of this favorite color. The canary, above all other birds, lives and thrives in a cage. It has been bred for so long a series of generations to cage-life that its native wildness has vanished, and in the open air it is quite incapable of taking care of itself. In the cage it is bred with greater ease and success than almost any other bird, and the raising of canaries is in some localities, as in the Hartz Mountains of Germany, a distinct and profitable business.
It is as a song-bird that the canary is most valued, and for many generations its powers of song have been developed in Germany until they approach perfection. The young birds are carefully trained, some by skillful older singers, some by the flageolet, until they can execute certain fine trills or passages of melody. Some songsters have the wonderful compass of four octaves, and can sing various " shakes " in marvelous style . Each burst of song should , for the best effect, end in a soft, flute-like, falling passage, an effect which it takes six months' training to produce. Many birds of excitable temperament are apt to break into loud, detached notes, which spoils their song to the ear of an adept in canary music .