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iSaVe the Birds Beauty Seets of Beautiful Women New Light
, 9 F 1 Sprightly Bessie Clapton Tells Girls How Scientific Dancing Can Benefit Them QXi "tflC DC
, MkJlLL &f(3 jLb& By LTliIiIAN IiAUFKHTY. ifjS SCCtlt Of IVlcijtl
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.
Y Tliat Is great and good worlc -which Is
being done by the widow of one of AmerJ
lea's multl-mllllonalres, Mrs. Russell
. By a special contribution to the Audu
v.bon society in one
fyear she pave se
,. r tematlc instruction
" "jto 10,600 children In
bird lore.
J.'?Hcre are somo
foots about birds,
and their value to
the world, which,
these children learn;
but which older peo
ple do not know or
else there could be
no such wanton de
struction o t our
beautiful birds as
now exists.
Ninety per cent of
of the normal bird
life of tills country
already has been destroyed, and the other
10 per cent will bo in the next five years
unless drastic measures nro employed to
stop the slaughter. The farmers and
fruit growers of this country are losing;
oyer tl.000,000,000' a year by reason of the
ravages of Insects. Here are a few
items In this appalling expense account:
The cotton growers of Texas are losing
HO.OOO.OOO to $50,000,000 a year by. reason of
the ravages of the boll weevil, and all
because the quail and the prairie chicken,
the natural enemies of that bug, have
' been . practically exterminated In that
great state. Tho cotton boll weevil Is
moving like a great army to the east
ward and to the northward, and scientists
sent down there to study the situation
tell us It will go to the Atlantic ocean
before it stops, and as. far north as. cotton
is grown, unless all killing of birds Is pro
hibited. The wheat growors of the United
States are losing over (100,000,000 a year
by reason, of the ravages pf the chinch
bug. Why?
Because the quail, the natural enemy
of that bug, has been almost extermi
nated. The farmers of the middle and
eastern states are palpg out $15,000,000 a
year for parts green to put on their po
tato vines. Why? Because the quail, tho
natural enemy of that "bug, has 'been
killed off.
.Each of the great apple producing
states is paying ii,wo,wo to 3.wu,ww a
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4 ir-r j , 5- 1 f vzJ 'THVaTH CKEN s
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year for spraying applo trees to keep
down the codling moth. Why? Because
the woodpeckers, the Bapauclcers, the rob
ins, the bluejays, the bluebirds, tho ori
oles, the tanagers and other birds that
formerly preyed on that Insect have been
killed off. And every man, woman and
child who eats nn apple or a potato helps
to pay for this poison. Here are a fow
t'ecords as to the value of certain bun;
eaters. A quail killed In a cotton field
In Texas had In his crawthe. remains of
127 cotton boll weevils. Another killed in
a potato field in Pennsylvania had in his
craw the remains of 101 potato bugs. An
other killed In a Kansas wheat field had
In Its crop the remains of over 1,200 chinch,
bugs.
House martins, swallows and swifts eat
rose beetles, May beetles, cucumber bee-
tles and house flies, practically all of
which are caught on the wing. Otto Wld
man says thirty-two parent martins made
3,277 visits to their young with insects In
on days C. C. Musselman saw martins
feed their young 312 times in sixteen
hours. Mr. Mother made a record of a
pair of yellow throat warblers eating
plant lice In a birch tree at a rate of
sixty-eight a minute for forty minutes.
At this rate, this one pair of birds would
destroy 73,000 of these lnrricta In a week.
Harvey found ECO mosquitoes in luu
stomach of a nlghthawk and sixty grass
hoppers In that of another bird of the
same species. A scarlet tanager ate
thlrty-flve gypsy moth caterpillars a
minute for eighteen minutes, a warbler
ate ninety plant lice In a minute, and a
pair fed at this rate for forty minutes.
A red-winged blackbird had twenty-eight
cutworms In Its stomach.
Flfty-dW species of birds are known
to eat hairy caterpillars, and thirty-eight
species feed on plnnt lice. It Is esti
mated that during the stay of tiie birds
In New York state each season they de
stroy more than 3,000,000 bushels of nox
ious Insects. Think of the consequence!
If the birds were all extermlnlted. And
yet the slaughter of the birds goes on.
In a single season 40,000 terns wero
killed at Cape Cod, Massichusetts, in
order thot their skins might adorn tho
headgear of fashionable women. Tho
swamps in Florida have been totally de
populated of the'r egrets and herons. In
one month over 1,000.000 bobolinks were
killed on the marshes near Philadelphia
by so-called sprrtsmen, who call these
feathered songsters reed birds. And be
sides being one of our sweetest slrlgers,
tho bobolink Is one of the most Industrious
bug eaters wc have. Jn the southern
stntes both the robin and the hobollnk
are clashed as game birds, and slaugh
tered by thourands all through the winter,
Mrs. Margaret M, Nice of Cambridge,
Mass., has made an exhaustive study of
the food of the Bob While. Instead of
killing the birds and analysing the con
tents of the crop, she has worked by the
living feeding test method, That Is. she
has offered different food to the birds
and has counted and weighed the amount
eaten. The total food for a day forms a
natural unit In this worlc. and a great
many of these dally dietaries have been
studied.
Among them we may quote a few: Ono
thousand three hundred and fifty house
files eaten In one day by a laying hen,
along with weed seeds and green food;
also another time 6,000 npbtds and 1.2SS
rose slugs, thirty-seven grasshoppers and
2,400 seeds of pigeon gross, by a 6-week-old
chick; also sixty-five large black
crickets.
Fitch once computed the number of
plant lice on a .single cherry tree to be
U.000,000. Chinch bugs have been found in
a small clump of bunch grass eight
inches in diameter to the number of
20,000. J. F. Parker of Manhattan. Kan.,
says he counted K.0C0 under similar condi
tions, but bad to desist on account of
more pressing duties. Riley once com
puted that the bop aphis, developing
thirteen generations In a single rear,
would, if unchecked to the end of the
twelfth generation, have multiplied to
the number of ten sextlUIons.
Surely it Is great work for a rood
woman to do, this educating' the growing
generation In a knowledge of the value of
birds to the prosperity of the country.
Bend a stamped envelope to Humane
Society. Albany. N. T.. and ask for leaf
let on bird to read to your children.
By L7A.IilAN IiAUFKHTY.
Aro you laxy? Bessie Clayton
says rooBt American women are.
and that Is why we still' lmpo-l
our supreme successes In bo many
fields of Artistic endeavor.
"Success in doing jour work or
In merely being properly healthy'
or alluringly lovely demands con
tant, , earnest, self-sacrificing cf.
fort." said the wonderful star who
is twinkling merry tors at the
Colonial this week.
"You simply don't get anywhere
on tho stago or in the. world un
less you first make' up your mind
where you want to go and then
drive your body so it goes. That
impressed me very forcibly during
tfox glorious,weeks-blch I danced
w)th Madame Sarah Bernhardt In
Puris. She -will never get old be
cause she Is so dauntless; maybe
you think she has a right to ell
back now and think about all she
has done. No sitting back for her
she Is going right ori. That is
the spirit that makes women great r
artists. And It gives them good, !
healthy oodles clean and strong
as the first step toward beauty.
'Not many of us can take all
the steps to beauty Just because
we happen to want to, but I' guess
any one who Is not lazy can man-
ay ! "i"1""1" "c vm&xitm. wnKSi-mii stzrvup a: s.v i
ago to take on step, After that they
como right along pretty naturally."
"You sound like an atheleto In train
Ing." I remarked.
"That Is Just what a dancer Is. No
alcoholic drinks of any sort are allowed
but there are alcohol rub. Then there
is a whole system of massage, bandaging
and baths.
"That Is the physical part of being a
dancer, and It has a reward beyond the
ability to dance It gives a sound body
and firm white skin. Are not they worth
any woman's trying for, even at a little
sacrifice of food and drink and any
pleasure that even verges on dissipa
tion?" They are, indeed, for M1m Clayton's
smooth white dimpled wrist, and the firm
white fltnh of arms, legs and throat be
peak a health and vigor that are charm
ing to eye &hd mind alike. And health
on4 vigor am a first bir step toward
beauty.
"No irwcets on your menu. I .notice. Is
that becauc you consider them injur
ious? I can't be that with: all your vio
lent exercise ta dinting reu bart to con-
Two Plcturcw of UcanIo Clay
ton, tho Dancer, Wlio Won Faino
liy Her Eccentric "Yuma Yanm"
Dan re.
Idrr warding off the white woman's bur-
den fat"
"A little of both." said Mian Clayton.
"Dancing doe Dot keep me thin It keeps
m too well to tfome anaemic or run
down and fat I dare not get. If a few
extra pound make their appearance, hot
bath at night will do wonder really
they Just fairly melt the fat oft I recom
mend a fifteen or tventy-mlnuta hot bath.
Drawn for The Bee by George McManus
each night to tho woman who
wants to reduce wJth comfort and
case.
"You have born called the Ameri
can Oenee What do you think of
the titlor I ventured into these
new fluids of questioning boldly.
"My dancing," said the earnest
women before me seriously, "U
not Just a gentle art It Is athlet
ics, too. You see one must study
one's public in all the forms of
beauty and of endeavor the Ameri
can public likes flr-inger daah
go; call it what vou Wll. Anil If
anything American is to be beau
tiful It mum be In an American
way. No girl is any prettier fo
trying to look like some one else
And my dancing must bo mine
and American.
"And If you like a clear skin und bright
eyes, and firm healthy flesh better than
you do goodies and dissipation and lasl
nrnn. you can have them. I really know
more about dancing steps than steps to
beauty, you tee. But I think the rosd
rucrtts la ambition, whether It 1 to tx
a prvtty picture or a moving picture, It
to work. Ml Claytdn laughed lufec
Uouly, and I decided that her sign poatr
to success weri worth, noting.
I
lly GAKRKTT P.-SERVISS.
The affirmation of selenco that npn
and monkeys are our collateral relattvos,
sprung from tho same ancestral Mock,
was once very offensive to many good
' -me of
vrhpm still ohstin
ntoiy refuse to nc
crpt It. Thoy
thlnk that It rolm
rr- .V his dignity.
What. then, will
ti.v. . .j when told
that )ho ancestora
of vitplden) iiml
Scbrplonw . miint
now bo included
In tho main trunk
of tho great gen
ealogical tree
i. .i ii e topmost
hinuch terminates,
for the present, in man, and thnt vith
i ul tholr Intervention neither man nor
monkey would have existed?
This assertion Is based upon the dis
covery by Professor William Patten of
Dartmouth college, of tho long missing
link between the vertobruo, ur back
boned nnlmnls, and their predecessors,
tho Invertebratos, or nnlmnls without
backbones.
Until nature Invented the backbone
there was no possibility of tho existence
of an upright uninuil constructed on tho
plan of tho human skeleton, nut the
first back-bonod animals wore- fishes. Af
ter the fishes came the amphibians, liv
ing part of the time In the wuter und
part of tho time on land. From the am
phibians sprang tho land reptiles and
the birds, and from tho reptiles aroso
the mammalians, .or "mother animals,"
rourlshlng their young with milk. The
most progressive branch of the mam
malians gave origin to n partially up
right creature, which became the com
mon ancestor of ape on the one hand
and meri on tho other.
Thus the line pf descent Is clear from
man back to first vertebrate, tho flshen
Hut ever since tho, days of Darwin to
ologlsts have been puzzled by tho ques
tion: "What animal was It that marked
tho change from the Invertebrates to the
flhes7"
There was the great "missing link" In
the chain of animal life on this globe
Professor Patten believes that he hus
dlacovered this link In a curious oxtlnct
animal called the oatrucoderm, which
was developed out of the family of the
arachnids (Greek arachne, "spider"), to
which tho scorpions also belong, The
nfaohnlds themselves are not vertebrates.
Tho story of this discovery Is Intensely
Interesting, Professor Patten was led to
It by observing the peculiar way in
which the eyes in the embryo of a scor
pion are transferred from the outside at
tho head to the blind ends of medium
tubes projecting from the brain This
niis so. similar to what takes place in
vertebral animals that he began to study
the embryonic development of other spe-
Iwi of uraohnlds, und was aotontshed
a find the most striking resemblances
III vertebrates. Among other things
- found that the trains of uraohnlds
.".onoly mlmlo thoio of vertebrates, both
i general Hhnpe and subdivision, and in
heir functions.
HUH. he could not conclude tliat the
vertebrates sprang dlregt from the mod
ern scorpions and spiders, because it Is
known that the first vetebratee were
marine animals. But he remembered
that the arachnids of todu)' ore also of
marine descent, their uncestors linv.n
bt-en marine arachnids; which flourished
before any vertebrate animal had ap
peared. Rvldently he must look for the
missing link' afar back In geological
time.
Accordingly he went back millions of
yiara and fixed his suspicions upon the
mysterious marine animal ostracoderm,
whloh, although It was related to the
marine arachnids, zoologist had always
been puzzled to classify. He travelled
wherever the foaslls of this creature
jould be seen, and studied them minutely
Hut. unfortunately, oil thut had been
r-otlected were more or lens Imperfect
his inquiry might nctcr have been
voiupivtcd, f lit) Uu4 not dlecovetcd, a
Tho Ancestors
of Spiders and
Scorpions
Give Birth to
the Family
of Vertebraes
wonderful deposit of ostracoderms In tho
Devonlon rockH on tho shore of tho Bay
do Chalour in Canada. The deposit was
a small one, disclosed by tho falling of a
ollff. Prof. Patten concluded that, mil
lions of years ugo. It had been tho muddy
bed of a shallow, brnklsh water pool In
whloh the animals had been trapped .bj
the sudden running off of tide water, and
had perished in a heap.
lie bellovcs that their heads were
turned against a gentle current of water,
bernuso tho tops of all the fossil fcrru
foupd In tho same bed were pointed In
nrnrly tho opposite direction. Was there
over so dramatic n plcturo of life on this
earth countless ages ago? And then, to
think that If these trapped creatures h.hd
been tho only representatives of their
kind, tho great race of tho vertebrates
might havo been extinguished In lis
crodlot
Mnny of the specimens wero bo per
fectly preserved that the discoverer wai
able to ascertain the location of their
principal senso organs, of their Jaws,
Kills, stomach, etc., and their mode of lo
comotion, mode of feeding, and the Ma
ture of their food.' In other words, it lit
the long missing link, and It shows that
tho marine arachnids, tho great-grandfather
if the spiders and the scorpions,
gave rlso to a race of creatures In wham
naturo made her flrBt experiments to
ward tho production of a backbone,
which no true arachnid was ever to pos
sess, but which, when set erect In man,
wax topped with a brain that has majdo
Ha possessor tho master of the world and
Its secret.
Ther Were Dear to Him,
Commend us to Senator nodfleld. Not
withstanding all those flippant decorative
reference be stands by hla whiskers. ft
Which recall the story ot old Dip.
Qulgley. Bomeono asked him why ' m
didn't trim off his straggly beard. $
"Not on your life," he replied. "Them
whiskers la th' only thing I ever had any
tuck In raisin' an' it took me seven days
a week an' twenty-four hours a day for
twonty-three years to bring 'em to their
present state of perfection!" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
JS.
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of old soft linen tied on Ills hands to keef?
him from digging and tearing at hla face and
body, I kept hla body bandaged In old Uneii
becauso bU clothes Increased his ufferings
We bad to cut oft every bit of hi hair. Ha
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could not bold him because the beat of my
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