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Auntie Makes a Helpful Suggestion
1 '(Pauline Herr Thomas)
Auntie May was spending the clay
at Jea'u ie's house. The two lead lust
:stepped out for a walk when they met
Baby Louise and ,her ulotbar, TheY
were about to start on after chatting
,a moment wlteu,Jeanne asked Auntie
to wait a few minutes, She nee bisalt
into the house' to return presently with
'her brand new "bye -to" doll 'lit her
•equally new • eat'riage.
Site had a moment of 'indecision
when she saw Laicise, her face beam-
ing, running joyfully to it, shouting,
"Louise push; LOulso push," but site.
came on toward the group with her
prize possession,' and tltottgb looking
somewhat motel, allowed Louise to
catch tae handle of the carriage. In a
moment Louise lead abandoned the
Idea of pushing and ilacl taken, the doll
in her arms, but as quicicly Jeanne
took it from her, anxiously, a,nu1 care -
tally replaced it while she warned.
"Mustn't touch the dolly, Louise, only
push,"
Louise's momentary joy of posses-
sion made her eager for more, so
again site dragged the, dolly from her
covers and -again Jeanne recovered
• her, this time to rush pito the house
'with her treasure, leaving only tire
•earriago, which of course no longer
:satisfied Louise, There followed
'shreilcs of dismay while her mottles,
the unspoken words, "How selfish!"
'plainly written on her face, tried to
•conl1ort her,
Auntie May said inflating,as she felt
that a discussion of the conduct and
traits of her niece was imminent, and
she objected to discussing them with
a neighbor.
Because Joanne was an only child
and because she had always been
alrowered with beatttiful toys, erei'y-
one predieed selttshuess except Amttie
May. For the moment, however,
Auntie May . beoame a . bit troubled:
'it did' appeal seitlah," she thought,
"but then; Jeanne has'. always bean
painstaking,, riulte beyond her years;
to keep her toys in good' condition. I
Can't believe it was pure selfishness.'
When they, were (Mee more at home
and J0apue was playing happily with
her doll, Auntie afay said, "You love
your dolly, dott't you, dear?" •
"Orr, yest better than all my other
toys."
"Sho is such n lovely dolly. Baby
Louise loved her, too,'didit't she?"
continued Auntie May.
"But Auntie! I was so afraid she
would let tier fall!"
"Well, of. course, Louise is too little
to think of being careful: Sae could
play better with Raggedy Atn1,.
couldn't site?" suggested Auntie May,
"Oh, .yes! she can, have Raggedy
Ann any time. I don't mind who
plays with my toys it they will only
be as careful as I am, You know
Arlene broke my big dolly and Jackie
smashed my washing set,. and—"
"Of course, Arlene was too little to
play with your big dolly and Jackie
was a boa' and did not know just how
to play with a little girl's washing
set,"
"Well, I lust won't take my dolly
out when Louise 1e there, any more.
She can have my' balls and blocks and
such things, and I'll let Evelyn and
Ruth play with my 'bye -lo' doily,
they're bigger, you know."
"Hardly a selfish declsien and surely
a justifiable ane," thought Auntie May,
"It's just as easy to be synlpatetieally
suggestive as to be hastily condemns:
tory, and very much more profitable!'
A Queer One
The. Radish -Cabbage Wedding
and Their Family of
Cabbishes and Radages
A round little radish lived with her
horse are distinct species, to be sure,
but nearly related and belong to the
sem@ genus; whereas cabbages and
other, are at -best quite distant cousins
radishes, though still related to each
and belong to different genera:
According to the naturalists, a spe-'
cies is made up of individual plants
thusband, who was also her distant or animals quite similar in heredtary
cousin, a big round cabbage, in the make-up; and usually also in api3ear•
:garden of a Russian scientist, Dr, ance, unless breeding and selection
'Geo'rgii D, Iiarpenehenko, Ile had of- have split it up into distinguishable
Jlciated at their wedding, and now ire varletes. Time, all black -oaks belong
kept track of their progeny. Whether to one species of oak, and all white
to call the hybrid plants resulting from oaks to another; and in nature all
this crossing of Iwo cousins of tate black oaks look more or' less like each
vegetable kingdom "raddages" 01' other, as do the white oaks,
•"cabbishes" is a problem, we learn All dogs are of the same species,
fro man account of the experiment by bet here artificial breeding has split
Frank Thone in NBA Magazine and the species up' into separate varieties
:Science Service, Reading on: lar breeds, ranging all the way from
A queer posterity It was. In our Pomeranians and Mexican hairless to
neighbor world of plenls and animals
:there seems to be a prejudice against
marrying too far out of the family.
Mate a donkey and a horse, and you
,get nothing but mules, Mate a carrot
.and a beet, and you get—nothing at
all. The relationship is too remote,
For the breeder the'riele is, always,
make your matings relatively close;
the more distant the cousinship the
less chance you have of obtaining off-
spring, and the less . chance the off-
spring you do get have of amounting
to 'anything.
There are a few good hybrids that
have become standardized—the mule,
dor example—but for every success re -
suiting from . these; out -of -the -family
matings there are thousands of
dailures. The great majority' of bybrids
are worthless.
It was so with the radish • -cabbage
wedding that took place under Dr.
Karpeehenko's hand in the garden of
the Institute of Applied . Botany of
Detukoe. Selo, near Leningrad, The
•offspring were neither cabbages nor
radishes, but merely queer rosettes of
leaves.
They did not make cabbage heads
,above the ground not' radish roots be-
neath. 'In fact, they resembled, out-
wardly at east, the tufty little mime
•tial cabbage plants that still grow wild
en the' cliffs along the North Sea
shores. That is the fate of many Ity
brad crosses: they produce what look
like "throwbacks."
Yet in spite of the unpromising
looks of the radish -cabbage children,
D1'ICarpechenko puitivated them -care-
fully, saved such seed as :they formed,
and took tender care of the •grand-
children plants also, though. they turn- both sides of the house. They pro -
ed out no better than their parents duced big, bushy growths of stalk,
from a gardener's point of view. rather more than either parental type
Why? What good reason could a usually grows, and these stalks were
geneticist in a government Institute heavily burdened with white flowers,
intermediate in size and shape be-
tween cabbage and radish flowers.
Inside, the stalks tended .to be like
those of the radish, for they were
St, Bernards and. Newtoundlands.
Similarly artificial breeding has split
up the original cabbage stock into
Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, cauliflower
and several distinct varieties of true
cabbage; but those are all children of
one species, all varieties of the orig-
inal' stock, known to botanists as
Brassica oleracea.
You can pu your finger down' on
almost any part of one of these new
"raddages'--or "cabbishes," if you
prefer to call 'em so—and pick out,.
here a radish 'character, there some-
thing of unmistakable cabbage origin,
Mr. Phone remarks as he. proceeds:
The leaves, for example, have more
of the radish shape and arrangement.
They never try to head np, but remain
as a loose rosette rising a little above
the ground. The nearest they come
to being a. cabbage is to look a little
like their old wild ancestor.
But though radishy in shaper they
are a little cabbagy in texture, being
less hairy than typical radish leaves.
This habit of forming only a rosette
of leaves near the ground persisted in-
to the second generation or grand-
children of the original cross, even
though these were again crossed with
head -forming varieties—cabbage and
Brussels sprouts.
The roots of the hybrids were, plain-
ty enough hybrid roots. They were
not thickened up into the nice edible
globes or spindles that radishes make,.
but neither were they so strictly thin
and fibrous as the roots of regular cab-
bages. riven in the second generation.
crossings with cabbage this trace ot
the radish inthe roots still persisted.
When they came to produce their
flowers, the hybrids again favored
of Applied Botany give visiting oRi-
dais, who were not scientists, for us-
leg good ground to raise such weeds?
Well, for one thing, Dr. ICarpe-
chenko had done a thing rated as al- hollow, and the cabbage stalk is typi-
' most impossible; he diad made an "In- cally solid,
tergeneric cross." And no matter how One unusual feature about the flow-
useless they may be, the •offspring of ars in the hybrids with, extra chrome,
an intergelieric cross are such great some counts was the tendency to pro•
scientific curiosities that their mere duce extra stamens. The normal
-existence is sufllcient justification in stamen number in both radish and
itself. cabbage is 'six, but in these plants, so
They are scarcer than two -headed unlike their type, there were some -
calves or mathematical horses, nnly Lures elglit'stantens,
once before in the history of plant Perhaps the oddest thing about the
breeding do we come upon a record of structure of -these cross -bred plants,
,a cross between a radish and a cab- and at Ilio same time the most easily
bage, • That was made by an Amert• noticed, is the way the seed-pocls are
can, De, G. Cravatt of the In S. put together. Cabbage seed -Pods aro
Department of Agriculture, 'lack In long, slim. affairs, opening on the shies
1910; but 115111(0 the present hybrid it with a pair of trap -doors running ilowit
Was completely sterile and loft no the whole length, and sliaiding their
seeds'throttgln those openings, Radish
seed -pots are thick and stocky, with a
topei`irtg tip; they have no natural
mode of opening at all, and release
their seeds only when crushed or de-
cayed,
The pods of the hybrids ate nI about'
the sante size and shape as radish'
descenclatis, So on the basis of rarity
alone' the job was justified.
Tcr n10st of us,_ a hybrid between a
radish and a. cabbage may seem: no
more renterkable- Man that common: -
piece c t 001 that provides us with
mules, But there 10 a. difference, and
a big ons. For the thtnkey Gild the
is it
itugh co ti ?rDwl?
GENIAL SEA LION' WA3 TOLD TO LOOK PLEASANT
A {lei in the Loudon Goo was in an accommodating Mood when the phote-
grapiler asked him to pose and he exhibited the wide smile •for which 110
has become famous,
podss: They have trap-cloor openings
through which the seeds escape, cab-
bage fashion; but these run only about
half -way from the bottom to the top,
and the rest of_the seeds are left in-
side the pod to get out as best they
can, after the manner of the radish.
The American predecessor ot this
Russian radish -cabbage hybrid was de-
scribed fourteen years ago in The
Journal of Hereditary, but did not at-
tract much attention at the time and,
since the strain died out for lack of
seed, was lost sight of and pretty well
forgotten.
The description theu,wrltten by Mi'.
Gravatt; its originator, 'tallies fairly
well with that now given by Dr. Han
pechenko, but differs in some respects.
For one thing, Mr. Gravatt's hybrid'
had leaves more like a cabbage, but
they were much larger than the Ieaves
of either parent.
It grew into. a tremendous bush, fill-
ing one end of the greenhouse where
it was set- Before it died of a bac-
terial root rot, it had grown out of the
ventilator of the greenhouse and part
way down the root on both aides. It
bore huge numbers of flowers, but
never set a single fertile seed.
•
• "It is strange," says a cynic, "how
rarely the woman for whom a man
gives up reputation and respectability
1s worthy of the sacrlfice," The
dame's not worth the scandal, in fact.
A woman's clothes are her senti-
ments expressed in fabrics, says one
of our leading novelists, and, as you
so often hear, there 1s very little sen-
timent these days,
Fish That
Build Nests
Some fish can fly, so it seems 01113'
1 fair that some others can build nests.
But flsh.•nesting has never become the
Ifavored occupation 'of. naturalists and
small boys that bird -nesting Is. Indeed',
it may bo doubted whether Izaak Wal-
ton himself knew that many species of
fish not only make nest's but also
guard them carefully until the eggs
are hatched and the young fry are
launched on their .careers. But, we
learn from Leon Bertin, who writes in
Larousse Mensuel (Paris), some fish
"build nests more or less analogous 10
those of birds. These nests the writer e
divides into seven I
ever 'classes: Nests i
e is t
selected by chance, prepared nests, o
excavated nests, woven preparecl,neste,
nests of foam, nests of "beads" and i
living nests. Reading on of these
classifications, we learn:
The nest selected by chance is a
natural cavity, suitable to its needs,
found by the ash and adopted without
modification. It may be a crevice in
the reek, the under side of a stone, an
empty shell or a submerged old shoe
or fragment of pottery. The eggs are P
laid in a mass or else deposited side
by side in a uniform layer. Such nests
are used by many fish of the littoral t
zone—blennies, for example, lump fish
and buttes• fish.
The lump fish is found on the coasts
of Scotland and Norway, and has a
length of from twenty to twenty-four
inches and a proportionate width. It
lays about 100,000 eggs at a time in a
mass as large as a child's head. The
male takes care of the egg mass dur-
Laws of Electricity city Linked With
Gravity Laws by Einstein Theory
New Work of Great Physicist Extends Relativity Theory
P�l".ctrodynaarics, According to Summary Given
by Berlin Mathematician
13oriln,--Dr, lruna Borchardt has their movements trent pectllitritlee
given the -te.!;uclttted Press a summary, theft' gravity: areas rather than fire
lu popular terms of the now dlsoovery' a general Inter -end of ,.nifty? of.
ar: I'rvf. Albert Einstein, whose Mattie bodies up011 each other, Similar
luallrlal formulae have been prepared aacit body that finds itself in en ale
for presentation to tite Prussian Aced- de condition it represented as 51
ein of Sciences. These findings have founded by au electric field or ar
net been published, but friends of the front whose pecuIlaritles and perm
discoverer of relativity see in titin ex- tatious the lime of electric mantra
tatians, or electric movemt ni..•-
No `Neral Boum
Here
In his Hatable address recently tie.
to livered in Albert Hail, Loudon, the
Prime Minister of Ga'eat •Britain, Mr,
Stanley Baldwin,' offered this axioHm,.
velttcit ought to be accepted 05 'Nada
Of nreatal'In tbe roiatlonsilip of all .eiv111.
III zed nations: "The Moral boundaries
all
ly
ct-
1r•
ea
11•
n-
or
position of the relation between gray-
ity and eloctrodYeanlles 'a further
area advance in the field of physics.
llr. Gorchardt is tate author of num-
oreue treatises oe mathematics and
physics, having been formerly en of.
&clal in the Ministry of Education,
is explanation of the new Einstein
theory follows:
otherwise, electric dynamics- - must
be derived.
"Even only a few decados ago
physicists were still tryiug to coo -
strut a unitary eoneeption of all na-
tural phenomena •by reducing the to-
tality of electric. manifestations or.
electrodynamics to atomic move -
"The ooncepticia of so-called elassi- mems; that 'Is, to mechanical causes.
cal physics that each body through But when ingenious evperlrrents
its mass causes everywhere in space along these lines failed, the opposite
a certain effect known as gravity bas, way was chosen and attempts were
in the relativity theory, been sup- made to intrepret the movements of
planted by the conception that gravity masses as electrical phenomena. In
manifests itself only in th immediate other words an attempt was made t
surroundings .of the said body in its regard mechanics as. a part of electro
so-called gravity field of areas. dynamics.
"According to this theory each body, The new work of ,Professor Elnstei
with its gravity area, acts upon space travels in this direction. It regi
In such a manner as to shape or re- seats an attempt, by an extension 0
shape it, In other words, space can the relativity theory, to bring th
no longer as before be considered as mathematical laws of the gravity are
something absolute, such as time used and of the electro+dynamic area int
to be regarded by ua:•- consonance with each other olid` t
"'Bodies must accordingly derive. t t th
of coaliltrles 110 longer niardi ;feces.
s:trily .with their political and physical
boundaries, They overflow, and all
(onus of international co'operatiou
are springing up to -day in 1110 anaat
unexpected places."
This broad vision a2 the moral co'
c .'ration of Mations .shoal , be kept
clearly in thought by those e0nc'erya•
ed in the negotiations recently
at Ottawa for the - strengthening
of the existing treaty between tate
United Statee and the; Domanlou of
Canada so as to check the notorious
smuggling of liquor into the United
States, The relations between these
two great nations were never chaser
nor more amicable. Tills long lute of
undefended frontier is pointed to: con-
tiuually as an evidence of the way in
which nations may maintain friend-
ship and national security without the
O employment of forts or ships or war,
-' No political ambition on either side
of the line arises to mar in the 'slight -
n. est degree this sense of .amity Only
5 -the lust for profit—illegal. and bide,
f' fensible proilt—which always charas•
e terizes those who engage in the traffic
a in intoxicating liquors, appears like a
O O1ond 011 the interuatioual hoilzon,
o •porteuding a starlit,
v res em from the sante. standpoint•" t may be, as Canadians interested
in this traffic insist, the duty or the
g United States to enforce its own laws
without appealing to a neighboring
f nation for aid. But it is sufltelentlY
e evldeut that a fleet of rum rufinera'
al' on one side of the Detroit hover, and
• a fleet of customs officials on tiro Uni-
e ted States side, determined to block.
e !their efforts, is a continuing menace
e to peaceful relations. With the in-
s creasing determination. of the people
of the United States to •enforce the
prohibition law, the moment will 1111-'
doubtedly arrive when sone Canadian
bootlegger may be summarily dealt
with by an American oflcer in Cana-
dian waters. It is clear to all to what
such au apparent invasion of national
rights might lead.
It worrad •seem tke more easy for the
Dominion authorities to acquiesce in
the desire of the United States Clov-
ertrment for a treaty toe the suppres-
sion of this trade because the Caua-
dian provinces themselves either pro-
hibit the sale of liquor, or make it a
government monopoly. From this
monopoly only liquor intended for ex-
port is free. If it is to be sold for
consumption in. Canada it must be
through the provincial distributing
agencies established under varying
laws in the different provinces. If
all manufactured intoxicants could be
treated alike, irrespective of the put -
chaser sought, all would go from the
distillery or brewery into the control
of public officials, Under such c0u-
ditions it is hardly likely that the Pro-
vince of Ontario would set itself ftp
In the bootlegging business,'
Morally the issue seems clear. It
Ontario does not purpose to expose
its awn citizens to the unrestricted
activities of tbe manufacturers of
liquor intent upon forcing •their pro- •
duet?kl�pon the people, it ought not to
be a peaty to their efforts to force
it upon the people of a neighboring
and friendly state. Despite the diplo-
matic difficulties, and notwithstanding
tits endeavors of those engaged hi
manufacturing intoxicants for uulaw-
ful trade, it may yet be believed that
the representatives of these two great
nations will reach a harmonious con-
clusion for the termination of the situ-
ation so full of danger to both. Parties'
Stanley Baldwin's words apply with
compelling g- force,—C1riatiau Science
Mona or.
Ing the incubation and watches over interlaces faith great skill," Readin
it closely. He defends it, cleanses it on:
and aerates 1t with boundless deaf)- The most beautiful examples o
boli. He does not.eat during the per- }voven nests are those made by th
iod, and can not be tempted from his sticklebacks, little fish which we
task by the sign of prey. Males have sharp spines on their backs auci sides
been seen remaining close beside the The architect and weaver is th
eggs at :low tide -when the ground was male. 'He begins by digging a 11111
bale.
excavation at the bottom -of tit
Prepared nests show distinct im- stream or pond and then carte
provement over those selected by thither, bit by bit, aquatic plants.
chance. The Ash does not content it- Phase he Bolds in place by pebbles.
self with merely choosing a natural The cellar of the nest being made, he
cavity. It. clears it out, fernleiies it, erects - a circular wall and covers it
garnishes it with water plants, and with a dome. The materials are a1-
solnetimes does it with water plants, ways water:,::plants woven together by
and sometimes does it best to eamon- the fish. It must be added that the
Hage it.' Examples of such nests are clever builder is aided by a viscous,
triose of the goby and the parrot Hsis, secretion which hardens quickly in a
so-called because of its vivid 'colors, thread, analogous to the silk 81)111 by
silkworms and spiders- The stickle-
back carries this back and forth,
"Sowing" his handiwork firmly to-
gether.
When the uest is 'finished the male
attracts first one female, then a sec-
ond, then a third. These swim into
the nest and deposit their eggs.
Then there is the nest of an African
fish, the suyo, which is •a sort of
After choosing a suitable fissure in a
rock, the fish carries thither in its
mouth fragments of algae with which
it decorates the walls. Atter the eggs
leave been laid, the father fish mounts
guard,
The -nest of the goby is usually one
valve of a shell selected by the male.
If it happens to be placed with the
hollow side up, like a .soup plate, the basket constructed of aquatic plants
ingenious fish begins his task by tune and floating on. the surface of the
'Ing it over. Then he worms his way water. Perhaps the mother of Moses
under the shell and cleans it out in- borrowed an idea from this for the •k
side, enlarging the cavity by digging ar
in the ground underneath. Finally he of buleushes in which she placed her
irides the nest under a layer of sand. holld. Sometimes these fish creggs,
hold as many as a thousand eggs,
amber in color and as large as a
hazelnat.
A number of fishes build nests ot
foam, that is, of a mass of viscous bub-
bles, Among these are the gouramts
and the macropo(s. These admirable
The excavated nest Is a simple ornamental fish, adorned with brilliant
cavity dug in the sand or earth at the ,metallic colors, have their origin for
bottom of the water, The American the most part in China and India,
perches Drake their nests in this man- Living in marshy waters which' are
nen. The same is true of the cat fish, 5001' ill oxygen, the gouramis and their
The care given to its young by the .close relatives have acquired the curl -
at lIsh'is edifying. The father does ons' habit of coming up to breathe the
not content himself with guarding and air near the surface. They swallow
rotecting his little ones. He likewise rapidly a mouthful which Is placed in
cleans them with his gills, wbit;h he reserve ill special labyrinthine organs
nes like a brush, Sometimes he. even situated in the vicinity of the gilts.
altos them in his month for this pur- Their specia] fashion of nest -making
pose. and after cleaning them spits probably .arises from this. In effect
them out. But it occasionally happens the nest of the gourami Consists of
that a little cat fish slips down the bubbles of air expelled by the mouth
paternal gullet and serves for food,
Woven nests are achitectural mar-
vels, Mr. Bertin continues, telling us
that the fish "constructs them with
fragments of aquatic plants which it
The nest is now ready. The female
nters, turns bottom side up and at -
aches herself to the ceiling by a sort
f sucker formed by her ventral flats.
Then she moves slowly along, deposit -
ng her eggs in a uniform layer.
Rural England Combines Business and Pleasure •
WHEN 11.UNTSidansl
Iivartstn,'n, hounds snd inl•elork iti thn market plan'
AND (EE0ERS MEET
dl IM,)ubridge, Ifent, at -010 gurney and Rurelo,v
hunt,
of the male after having been covered
with a viscous sheath which prevents
them from being crushed.
Nests of beads have been discovered
in the Sargasso Sea among the float-
ing" algae. These nests resemble large
bags whose wall is formed by the eggs
themselves, united by filaments at the
two poles. Each bag is composed of
at least 1,000,000 eggs. They may be
compared to the bead bags which were
popular among ladies a few years ago.
Unhappily it is not known to exactly
what fish these nests belong.
A living nest is used by the bitter -
ling, a sort of very small fresh -water
carp. It is by no means the least re-
markable al the neat -making fishes,
but its methods are far from kind, It
lays its eggs in the merier of a river
mussel to which it deliberate confides
the task of rearing its progeny,
The female bears under her abdo-
men a long tube which enables her to
Introduce her eggs into the gills of the
mussel, Observe now what passes on
within this living nest. The eggs and
embryos are arranged between the
filaments of the gills. One naturalist
tesimatea an average of fifteen to cacti
mussel employed. It is extremely re-
markable that the embryos ail have
their heads placed toward tine edge of
the gill. This a most advantageous
position tor them, since they receive
lhrts more Oxygen,
Do the `roots of words" produce
"flowers of speech?"
Auul -"You think of studying to be
a doctor, cit? ;Don't you do it!" Young
blan—"Why not, aunt?" Aunt—
,
"%','e11, you can't get a practice till you
!are married, and you c tn.'t get Mar-
,' rigid until you get a praotio0, that's
why:" •
"Ari abater risks his life every
time lie I,nlces a drop these days."
It was told recently try that clever
young actress, Miss Stella -Freeman..
A young husband --said Miss Free-
man --was playfully questioning wide
On her past, 'Tel me frilly,' Ile said, i
• any Other 11/011 over kis you?"
"W ` Was fire reply, 't1' was 5)0 up
rhio rivecall,r with` a r1an, 1nti :lie s40tarted
rocking the boat, at thu same iime ex-
claiming: 'Now, Mary, my,:dear, either
you kiss 1n, nr wo both drown!'"
"Arid did you a -•:) MAO" gasp -d the
bn btutd, "Was 1 cir'owlsuAt:" O'slind
the wife,