The Seaforth News, 1961-05-04, Page 3Wolves Reared
This Inchon Boy
The Wolf Boy -of India will
.never become a superman like.
Tarzan, that fiotional character
with animal foster -parents, lie
wIi'l never find a luscious human
mate, or rule the creatures of
his jungle with biceps of steel.
There have been many tales
of children roared by wolves -
t'ront Romulus and Remus, the
legendary founders of Rome, to
IVfowgli, the wolf -boy of Kip-
ling's Jungle Books.
But the reality is stark tra
. gedy, For heredity in humans is
a very fragile thing.
A cat w i'I 1 mother puppies,
hens will care for ducklings and,
• when the young grow up, they
will become almost normal
members of their own species.
This seldohi, if ever, happens in
'the case of a child who has been.
brought upby an 'animal with
maternal feelings.
If he has missed that essential
something the human environ-
ment givea a baby, he will
probably remain at least half
animal. He is unlikely ever to
learn to talk.
One of the worst cases is that
of Ramu, the Indian Wolf Buy.
Today, seven years after he was
found in the jungle, he is still
in- Barra r
lir
r Hospital, Lark -
now.
p
now. Most of the time this' six-
teen -year-old boy lies in bed
playing with toy animals like
an infant, When taken for an
airing in a wheelchair he can
now smile his happiness.
That, however, is about the
extent of Ramu's progress to
normality!
Despite every care and atten-
tion he remains pitifully deform-
ed, He cannot walk upright, let.
alone talk. Yet tests show that
Ilamu's brain must have been
slightly above average when he
was born.
He has wild, yellow-brown
eyes, long double incisor teeth
and claw-like fingers, lie .can
shuffle along on all fours, whim-
per, snarl or growl.
Doctors who have examined
him over the years doubt if he
will/ ever be any better. Indeed,
it is feared he may die between
eighteen and twenty - a wolf's
usual life span!
Bantu was discovered in a
art of India where wolves are
e only large wild animals,
ether evidence of his strange
upbringing is:
One: Rannu laps milk or water
like a dog.
Two: He can smell raw meat,
wtidh he loves, before seeing it.
Three: When taken to Luck -
now Zoo, he tried, with excited
yelps to scramble into the
wolves' cage.
Four; The tuberculosis bacilli
with which he is infected . is of
an animal type quite different
. from that of the human.
When Ramu was first brought
to the hospital, emaciated, hun-
gry and with long matted hair,
he was terrified of his own kind
and so scared of the light it was
assumed he had been living in
a den. His body was, filthy and
badly scarred, writes Basil Sai•
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ley in "Tit -Bits,"
,He almost starved in his railed
cot until he was given raw meat
and a pan of water to lap. At
the first attempt the patient's -
teeth bit deeply into ward at-
tendant's
ttendant's hand!
One day Ramu caught sight of
an alsatian dog and yelping with
joy, tried desperately to mach
it,
Today he will take a veg:ter-
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This, bed -•' one of many - contains 121,000 of the bright, showy blooms.
ian diet and evenwear clothes,'
But it is most unlikely he will
ever leave hospital. His arms
and legs are still crippled His
brain, too, remains deformed.
Nevertheless Bantu has a' host
of admirers. He has'long, been
the pet patient of the hospital
and has attracted hundreds of
visitors. Many couples have tried
to claim him as their son.
In letters from abroad, a
French girl , proposed marriage,
and an American organization
once offered two hundred thou-
sand dollars to exhibit the boy
in the United States.
But the hospilal do not want
to lose Ramu, who they named
after Rama, a Hindu god, He is
the first such boy tobe studded
scientifically and a huge file of
rpdata has been compiled which is:
confidential pending t. u r t h e r
tests.
Meanwhile, he tas been made
a ward of the state.
Dr. D. N. Sharma, the medi-
cal superintendent at Balranipur,.
says that X-rayexaminations of
bone formation prove that Ramu
must havebeen about nine when
he was found.
He believes the boy was rear-
ed by wolves from about the
age of two.
"The years between two -and
nine are vital to development,"
, he declares. "Because Rasnu ac-
quired few human habits then,
he is unlikely to acquire them
now."
Children who have been rear-
ed by animals and missed human
companionship during their for-
mative years seem quite unable
to catch up. Nor, as a, rule, do
they live long.
For Ramu's case is not unique.
Many, of course, are unauteen-
ticated: There is, however, im-
pressive evidence concerning
two little,'girls, one about two,
the other eight, Who were dug
. out of a wolf' den -'in another
part of ,India '
• They also moved on their el-
bows and knees and ate •meet'
raw, The younger was gradually
humanized by a missionary, but
died a few months afterwards.
The elder, who lived for nine
years, stayed little more than an
animal.
Then there was the boy fuund '
some sixteen years ago running
-. with a herd of gazellesin the
Arabian desert' He was captured
with great difficulty because, al-
though only about fourteen, he
ran as fast as the deer!
In a Damascus hospital he was
persuaded to eat food other than
grass and milk.
But he could only make noises
like a gazelle in pain to the
end of his short life.
Statistics can be used to sup-
port anything - especially sta-
tisticians.
(Fl S WORST ENEMY -- This pugnao!trus peacock unleashes his
4ury on his own image in a mirror. The jealous bird clawed
end pecked In vain. -
TilL FAIN FRONT
•Jolva
°ter
Discriminating tastes of the
Canadian consumers are being
pampered - even to the shade
of yellow of egg yolks. '
Though the color''•of the yolk
has no effect on the food value
of the egg, many people find a
pale yellow yolk unappetizing
and others object' to a dark yel-
low color,
With this in mind, the Poul-
try Products Division of the
. 'Canada Department' of Agri-
culture has come up with a yolk
'color chart which may yet be-
come a standard in the industry.
* « *
Color of an egg yolk' is de-
termined by the pigment in the
feed offered to the hens.-
Thus,
ens.Thus, 'if the eggs being laid
by a specific flock are proving
unpopular with housewives be-
cause of the color of their yolks,
the problem can be overcome •
easily by altering the diet.
4. * r
D. A. Fletcher, special pro-
jects officer with • the Poultry
Division, started the task of
creating a new yolk color 'chart
snore than three years ago.
Working closely wi t h the
National Research Council's
paints and oils research labor-
atory,,he tested about 200 shades
of yellow before settling 'on a
'representative group'of 15.
Having determined the 15 •
shades of yellow, Fletcher and
his colleagues put the colors
on metal disks, each of which
contained a hole the size of a
'yolk to facilitate the job of
identifying the kind of eggs
preferred by, the average con-
. sumer. « * *
'Visitors to the Royal Winter
Fair in Toronto, asked their
preference in yolks, unanimous-
ly selected numbers six to 10
on the color scale - rejecting
the top five as too dark and the
bottom five as "anaemic."
* *
Not only could the new color
chart set a standard for all of
Canada, but it could be used
to good advantage in the frozen
egg business where the color of
the yolk is an important factor.
Given wide application, the
chart should result in even
more palatable eggs for the
breakfast table.
Charts can be procured from
Canadian Government's Specifi-
cation Board, Montreal Road, •
Ottawa 2, at a cost of $15 per
set, * *
'One of the many jobs that
should be carried out on a
farm in spring is the treating
of green fence posts, states Dr.
W. B. G. Denyer of. the Canada
Department o f Agriculture's
research station at• Saskatoon..
And just'. in case yoy did not
know it, green posts and sea-
soned posts require different.
treatment, Both are satisfactory
if treated properly.
* * e
To treat green posts effective-
ly, says Dr, Denyer, the butts
are stood in a tank of unheated
preservative for three or four
days in warm spring wedher.
The butts should be immersed
to about eight inches above the
expected ground level.
The preservation solution re-
commended by him for green
.posts is made with haef a pound
of dry clromated zinc chloride,
or one pound of a 50 per cent
commercial solution of this
chemical in one gallon -of water.
The posts must be fully green
and should be peeled immediate-
ly, before treatment.
* *
Seasoned posts must be peel-
ed and dry 'before treatment
and may be treated at any
time. They are effectively treat-
ed by standing in a tank of
creosote for one or more days.
The creosote will penetrate
better if 'the tank is heated for
about four hours. After standing
in the heated creosote the posts -
should be transferred to another
tank of cold creosote and left
for a few 'hours.
* * •
It is not necessary to use pure
creosote, says Dr. Denyer Half
creosote and half diesel or fuel
oir, or waste crankcase oil, is
satisfactory. Another solution
that has proved satisfactory is
a mixture of diesel or fuel oil
with five per cent, by weight, of
penthachlorophenol added. Also
recommended •by Dr. Denyer is
copper napthenate mixed with
diesel' or fuel oil to give a solu-
tion with two per cent copper.
Poplar, pine, spruce and tam-
- arack ' all give long service as
fence posts if properly treated,
he' reports.
* * *
A Montreal man and a meat
wholesaling firm were fined at
Montreal for misbranding and
offering for sale several cuts of
beef.'
Pleading guilty to charges
that he misbranded the beef
• as "Canada Good" when it was .
of an inferior grade, L. Abramo-
wicz, of Montreal, was fined
$200.
Meirose Packers Corp. plead-
ed guilty to having misbranded
beef in their possession and
offering it for sale. The firm
was fined $100.
The beef was sold by Abratno-
wicz to Melrose Packers who
delivered it to the DVA Hospital,
St. Anne de Bellevue, Que.,
Canada 'Department of Agricul-
ture graders who were called to
examine the beef, had the
charges laid under the Canada
Agricultural Products Standards
Act.
Pleading guilty to six counts
of selling and possessing butter
containing fats other than milk
fat, Laiterie Picard and Fits,
Inc., St. Gilbert, Portneut' Co.,
Quebec, paid fines totalling $450'
in a Quebec City court.
Judge Henri Jolicoeur fined
the firm, $75 on each of the six
counts. The adulterated butter
was ordered confiscated.
UNDAY
LESSON
- fly Rev. It. Barclay Warren
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When God's Wisdom Prevails
Job 42. 1.12a
Memory Selection: Let net the
wise man glory in Isis wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory
in his might, let not the rich man
glory In his riches: but let him
that glorieth glory in this, that
he undei'standeth and knoweth
ase, that I ant the Lord.-Jerernl-
ab 9: 23-.24. _..w
We learn a great deal through
affliction. Someone has said,
"Sometimes God has to lay us on
our back so that we can look
up." We see life's meaning and
purpose and its real values more
clearly when we look up to God.
Job was a better men when
his affliction was over, He said,
"I have heard of thee by the
hearing of the ear: but now mine
eye seeth thee." While he was a
good man at the beginning of the
trial, he was a much better man
at its close. As his understand-
ing of the greatness of God in-
creased, so did his humility,
God commanded the so-called
friends of Job to upfor
offer
themselves a burnt offering and
Job would pray for them This
was a complete exoneration of
' Job inspi a it of the hard things
which these men had said about
him. Then we have this signifi-
cant statement, "And the LORD
turned the captivity of Job, when
he prayed for his friends: also
the LORD gave Job twice as
much as he had before." Pray-
ing for one's critics is good
therapy. It helps to cleanse the
mind and spirit. If he had en-
tertained a bitter attitude toward
them, -and by worldly stand-
ards, he had good reason to do
so, -he would have died very
unhappy. It's the forgiving spirit
that wins. If we do not forgive,
we cannot be forgiven of God.
Following the standards set up
by our Lord Jesus Christ by His
example and. teachings is the
best way to live, for spirit, mind
and body. But how can we do
it? We must be changed from
Check fore and Aft
the Traffic flow
Then Decide
When to Gof
our sinful nature' by the miracle
of the new birth. If we turn
from our sins and fully commit
ourselves in faith to Jesus Christ,
we shall have the disposition and
the power to live the life that is
pleasing in God's sight.
Let us remember the patience
of Job. It we keep loving God
In the midst of our 'afflictions,
we shall come through victor!-
'
ictort' 'ously and shall receive the
crown of life.
Anniversary Of
A Great Bible
There have been good and
poor Bible translations. Some
have contained ludicrous errors
which have marked them for
posterity. But 350 years ago this
year, in 1511, one of the recog-
nizedly great translations was
published -the King James Ver-
sion.
It isn't without its obscurities
and its errors -one whole chap-
ter is used twice. But its lan-
guage not only fitted its time but
echoes until today, Probably
most Bible quotations in English
come from the King James Ver-
sion because it is the most quota-
ble. '
It was written in the style
born in the Elizabethan Age. II
Is filled with passages stated so
memorably that they have be-
come a part of the thinking of
every English-speaking person.
Modern versions may set forth
in simpler words such utter-
ances as Ruth's to Naomi- whi-
ther thou goest, I will go" - or
Paul's injunction to the Hebrews
that it is better "to suffer afflic-
tion with the people of God, than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for
a season." But no translation is
ever likely to capture the imag-
ination of the faithful as has the
King James Version.
It had a number of things in
its favor from the start. It came
at a time when English-speaking
Christians were hungry for a
Bible of their own, It gave its
readers mind -filling phraseology
which has endured through 334
centuries. It had the name and
the blessing of King James, "the
most high and mighty prince."
It was accomplished by indubi-
table scholars who went at their
task humbly, "supported within
by the innocency and truth of a
good conscience!'
This is not to detract from the
Revised Standard Version or any
of the other translations of the
Protestant Bible, nor from the
Douay Version of the Catholic
Bible. But it is to agree with Dr.
Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop`
of Canterbury, that the band of
Scholars who put together the
King James Version produced "a
version of such superb merit that
It (has) entered imperishably into
the language, thoughts and lives
of English-speaking peoples ever
since." A r i z o n a Daily Star
tTucson)
ISSUE 11 - 1901
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7. English letter 30. Strolls 45. Singing
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