:May, 1919
THE
LA~DSWOMAN
RESULTS
ph:a..•ml't' of watchin~ them wa.~ alm~t pam. It. mo£IJP me thrnk
nf n fleet of battle<~Ju ps movmg !'.O 11urely and rPgularly ac~ll th~
sky, w•th the ecortt'l k"ep.ng the way C'le:lp. 'fben tbP <~on came
ont M thonllh to 'lalute them. 'fhP IIW&Jio~' Jl!L'i'>Cd o\·er the
other r.m. the 11un wPnt In ftgaJn, and I regretfully tnme:d to the
man)'.(el rick to flnrl a l~sl'r ph.•MurP Jn the colours therP,
Poems
First Prize: 'fhe Gates of the Soul
REI•'USl.!; the diet of ~orry
You offer me every day;
1 fix my thoughts on the Godhead
And spurn th<> feet of clay.
l rcful'lc to {Pf'd my mind
On thP tiny thmgl> that pinrh-
J haY<' the sun on n. crocu!J
.And thP fiODg o£ a finch.
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}<_;'lliELI~E DE.\S.E.
Secood Price : Waiting
Y
OU hav<' not come::.
All day I've
li~t<·n('d
;
And at night
Methought I heard you in the scurrying win?·
You ha.ve not come. 'l'hough the dewdrop· ghstenPd
In the dawn
I could not see the glory of the new-born da.y,
1 could not sec the brightness of the ':Inn.
You ha.v<' not come. Tht> weary hours pas.:; by
So slowly,
I can do nought but think of you.
You h.a.ve not comt-. And now, as the hours pas....; by,
I know
You cannot come. And J must face once uwrc
The long, long night, and weary. hopeless da ~n.
M. G. B.
New Eyes and New Ears
By Edith Lyttelton.
a marvdlol!s "a) rul'liOJ~rrng tht• pa~ at which they come. Tl~
voung blnl.i are tan11ht gc>od hAI>Its : 1 f yon watch you "-ill f'l! a
littl" tail poktd out of thP nl">t e>ory now and th,.n-for &
pu.J'PO"e. In tlli~ way fhP nG!It. 1~ kl"pt clt>an and 11weet, tnt I
"ondf'r how the motht>r tf'lldlM the little ones to be 110 cart'toJ .
Peop!P oftf'n hardly reall"~t> that a wallow can ling both loud
and ~wed, when m lli~ht and at .. o at rt'$L Some of the not~ are
rathH harsh and chnttcrlng, but oth~:rs are hrauuful, and it. I~
dell~Xhtful to hear the song from tar ~"ay, cmnin~J nearer and
nearrr as tbP. 1.-&llow appM&Ches.
Pt>ople u-f'd to think that the swallows hid thtm-.t>lvcs and
went to 'lleC'p In th,. winttr. but we know now that tMy fly away
to anQth,.r ~ummM. SOmettml'l' you can see a torpid swallow
llUitl' late In the yl·at. A few atay bf'hlnd, perhap.~. to look after
a late brood of young onC"l, for th~ 1wa.l!ows have 1\t IPa.~t two
ramlllell Jn the year They art> Mid sometimes to wert their younsr
,,nP" when the t1rne comf'11 to go, it the young blrda are not yet.
fuJly grown.
Hud!lon tells a wonderful story about two martins who lltro~~:r;IPd
to gPt their young ones out of the n~t late In October. I Wlllh I
rould give the whole expertenff., hut lt Is too lon~t. Ha enya:
" ~uredly thP young would be abandoned, and that vt-ry
hortly ; thP wea.thel' wa~; rou~h and cold and food becoming;
-ach day, and for a month or ~lx wef'kR the Impulse to
fl.y aonth, the ' mighty brrath which Ill a. powerfullanguagt>, ft>lt
not hPard. lnstructB tbP. fowl~ of hPavt>n.' mc.st have been
worrying U1e brains of thc:lf!e two ovcrworlr:Pd little martiD.~."
'l'he Jli)Or 1mall paren~ worked on and on tfll at IMt on .!\ovPm·
ber ],t thc>y flew away and in the neat WPn> found two full-grown
dead young martin..'. Hud.ion ~oes on = " More ob.~rrva.tlon ts
wantf'd, but the ca11e dtscribed lncll:n.cs me to think that ~cau!'.t a
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swallow·~ throat is not white, though he has a wb1te breast, and if
you watch him in flJgbt you wUI see lli1sbes of white when hb
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blne·black bodv wheels and turns. You can tell a wallo~ from
:\ hom:P mart.n by the ton~.t featheN at t>I\Ch '>ide ot his tail
but the birds arc like t'llch other In colour nn in ch~k o r n heyance; that only
telegraph wil't"S in Briti~b En.st Africa t'arly in the year; stran~teh
wht>n thP in•iste:nt cry cca.~~ and tho young bird.; grow ol•l th"
familiar they lookt•d runong 1\ll th~ othPr bird~ t\nd beast..~. "h.l.ch
relc~!' come~, and the • might)' breath' hlcw., upon and bca~
could never be met with under English ski(>,. I t1 led to t(''l
them away c;outhward irre.,i-.tlng M a ball of thllt anywhere under a roof or on
help you in your work. tor tht•y kill many o( Uw in-..:ct whtch
any projecting mMonry. You CAn ~t·c th<>m after rain gntherinll
might dr,troy tht· t.:ro~ you haw hclJ')Cd to sow ; . watch thctr
-k-y, down over thc.- mendowl!. ~tla.ncin~t acl'O'J!I the "aU>r.
are beautifully bullt. and lined "lth (try grass and f~·nthcr~. Tlw
L!'t your c;pirit h~t.Pn to •· l-o\\:\110\\ tllghto of ~ong that dip th!'ir
nests are always planned with a convent<'nt OI)('nin{l. "0 that tht•
\\lng, m tt-nN and fly ,l\\1\!."
,wallo~~ can fly In and out ca .. ily. Il you can be still f?r a timt
dose to n swallow's ne$t you wlJI se<' a great denl of their famil~
life, for they aro not at all ahy or afraid of human beln~. Thr
Appreciation of " The Landswoman ,,
tather feed the mother, whan a he I :'I "'ttrn~. very '\retull~- by
th<> w:w. most people- agret' that thf' swnJio,\~> rsm for tnc-
'fhis is no" t'Onf\n,od to T. ~ \.S. \ \'il"\::!1' Rcgilttrar \\ ritt>~
and when tbo young bird<~ are hatch<'d the parent.!l both work
"Thl' maga11ne i'< an nnfalllnle JOY to m(' trom bri:IDO•n~ to cnt.l :
hard to bring lnscets and pokt' them down th<' throat.i of the
and ('\en n pu ppy dog de,·outt•d th<' A prllnumht•r from covN to
babi<'s. You will hear n ~treat deal of excited chipper going on :
t'()\er."
th<'n the fnth<'r or tl\!' mother swoops in. judging thelr dlstanet in
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