. Pine Hills bird notes . ut it is health-giving and extremelyrestful. Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeveof care is here in full force. What life mostneeds to-day is a little more of natures peaceand rest. And yet many of us, with clear visionfor most things, see this truth as through a glassdimly. One Feline Inhabitant. So far as I have knowledge there is but onecat in the borough of Monmouth Beach. Of thislack of felines one hears no complaint. Birdsare numerous, but not in such variety as farthernorth, Robins, blackbirds, meadow larks andsparrows waltz together over the lawns and tripa
. Pine Hills bird notes . ut it is health-giving and extremelyrestful. Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeveof care is here in full force. What life mostneeds to-day is a little more of natures peaceand rest. And yet many of us, with clear visionfor most things, see this truth as through a glassdimly. One Feline Inhabitant. So far as I have knowledge there is but onecat in the borough of Monmouth Beach. Of thislack of felines one hears no complaint. Birdsare numerous, but not in such variety as farthernorth, Robins, blackbirds, meadow larks andsparrows waltz together over the lawns and tripacross the piazza in most familiar ways. Theynest nearby, and as you watch their pretty waysyou find yourself acknowledging to yourself, andperhaps to your neighbor, the charm of it he wonders why he has never before caughtthe spirit of these little creatures lives as theyappeal to him to-day. Ah, my friend, you havebeen too busy to stop to throw open the shuttersof your soul for a look into the heart of nature. 23. Local Plant sand and marsh flats along the river arevery interesting to the nature-loving is always an opportunity to gratify any de-sire he may have to find some new or strangething. Nature is not everywhere the Pine Hills, alike on sand or clay, growsthe evening primrose. Here along the river flatsI find the more attractive day primrose, calledsun-drops, a perfect glory of sunlit blossomsopening their golden petals to the morning sun,closing them when night comes to the easternsky and the evening primrose takes up its on, away from the shore, you come upona group of slender stemmed iris, the blue of theflowers rivaling the blue of the sky under whichthey are growing. And here is the yellowthistle, a shore plant four feet in height, its cream-yellow flowers deepening to gold color in thecenter, with deeply-cut base leaves two feet inlength — a noble plant full of artistic suggestionsto the artistic eye, and cove
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