The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-13
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ANIMAL ooLoHs
RY 4. u. INcRAHAM, n. n.


Beauty crowns everything that ma
ture has fashioned, whether NC soon
slider the lilies" whose unassuming
glory surpasscs the glitter Of Solo,
mons court, or the gorgeous rainbow,
or the summer clouds swimming in
silent ether, or the evergreens nour-
ished by the gray crags Of the noun
tain, which strangely contrast with
the foliage of the forest below. Con-
templating these, we exciaim with
the poet, Thompson:
"who can paint like nature"
There is nothing that she has made
in vain, and she quickly destroys
whatever becomes useless, or fulfils
not benignant purpose. In the dark
caverns Of the earth or in the dusty
chambers that underlie the pyramids
no bod or flower has existence, for in
such gloomy retreat no eye could
ever see them. The selfsame agent,
sunlight, which ministers to the eye,
adorns and embellishes everything
that the day can shine upon.
The sickly geraniums that grope
in dark cellars are pale and colorless.
So, also. the sickly daughters of fash
ion, who live iii the light Of the chan
delier and emerge from their dark
ened rooms at midday. Is il marvel
Gus that their faces require paint?-
Look now at the garden flower which
drinks the daylight from dawn till
dusk. Or the rustic girl who runs
bsre-headed under the skies of june,
unshaded and unveiled, both flower
and face assume the fair hues that na-
ture designed. Come out Of your
caves We fashionable ghosts and let
nature touch you with her paint
brush.
There is nothing that can equal
sunlight in purging the system of
that hydraheaded disease, scroiula.-
Vicisitudes of atmosphere and diver
sites of climate have much to do
with the varieties Of complexion
Temperate zones develope fair skin.
As we enter higher latitudes and fro
zen regions we find faces coarse and
dusky. As we approach the equator
darker still, and in Abbysinia, black
For though Ham was brother Of
Japhet. the singularities OF habits,
food. and climate, have. so changed
his descendants that we Of the can
casion race d;sown relationship, and
scarce concede to them the rights If
men
AS we turn TO III. brute creation
our observations on color are confined
to fur and feathers, as animals have
little of complexion to exhibit. The
color Of the hair, however, cor. esponds
with the eyes and the skin from
which it grows. 1t is a misguided
taste therefore which suggest diving
the hair or beard: nature has chosen
color for these which we cannot al
ter without destroying the original
harmony. Several well known drugs
when used persistently are observed
to act specifically upon the human
hair and to change its shade, and
even restore the color in youthful
persons who have become partially
gray. As this last has seldom been
accomplished, except by dii"tedmed.
icine, the fac, has been cited by ho-
meopathi>ts in iluSratinn Of mvs-
tery 81 long unexplained, VIZ: med'-
cine ,,otenti=ed by dilution.
In every country the color oi ami
mails is adapted to the co'orby which
they are surrounded. Polar foxes,
birds and bears, that live amid snow
are white. Some tropical birds and
reptiles are green. because 'hry live
in perpetual verdure Wild animals
of temperate climates resembles in
color the dead haves and grasses
Especially those whose safety is in
concealmerrt. The t:cetoad fasors
the bark of its tree. the ground toad
favors the clod. The bird known as
the blackjack, inhabiting Russia AID
Siberia, and several dark colored ami
mails of thai country become white in
winter, or if taken before the meta
morphosis is complete show mixture
of white aid black fur or plunge
The chameleon, species OF lizz ,rd,
changes color slightly as it moves
from place to place. Animals If the
same family. with the same food and
climate and in wild state, are pre-
cisely uniform in color. But under
the control Of man they deve!opr in
never-ending variety.
Compare the dog with the wolf
the domestic pigeon with the wild
the barn fowl with the prairie hem -
Animals such as the maltese ca, and
guinea fowl. which retain uniform
colors, maintain also, a degree OF
headstrong Independence. Every
hunter has noticed that the males OF
wild animals incline tn mixed black
and white, while the female have the
intermediate colors with more variety
and less of contrast. Coincident with
this in an assembly OF men and wo-
men you will observe the same thing
in their choice Of appare.. OF this
last phenom"non phrrnol'gv affuris
the only solution. Men have less