Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-04
Inherited Ant,pathies.

g.. James Gazette.
Cows hate dogs instinctively from
their earliest calfhood upward. | used
to doubt once upon time whether the
hatred was not of artificial origin, and
wholly induced by the inveterate hu-
man habit of egging on every deg to
worry every other animal that comes in
its way. But l tried a mild experiment
one day by putting a halfgrown, town
bred puppy into a small Enclosure with
some hithertc-unworried calves, anu
they all turned to make common head
way against the intruder with the same
striking unanimity as the most ancient
and experienced cows. Hence am in.
clined to suspect that the antipathy
does actually result from vaguely.in-
herited Instinct derived from the days
when the ancestor OF our kline was
wild urus, sand the ancestor oil our dogs
a wolf, on the wild forest-clad plains OF
Central Europe. When COW puts up
its tail at sight of dog entering its pad
dock at the present day, it has probably
some dim. instructive consciousnesst that
it stands in the presence OF dangerous,
hereditary foe; and, as the wolves could
only seize with safety single isolated
urus, so the cows usually make common
cause against the intruding dog, turning
their heads in one direction with very
unwonted unanimity till his tail finally
disappears under the opposite gate.
Such inherited antipathies seem COM
mon and natural enough. Every spe-
cies knows and breads the ordinary enc
mics OF it's race. Mice scamper away
from the very smell of cat. Young
chickens run to the shelter OF their
mothers wings when the shadow OF
hawk passes over their heads. Mr.. bar.
win put small snake into paper bag,
which lie gave to the monkeys at the
Zoo; and one monkey after another
opened the bag, looked III upon the
deadly foe Of the quadrumanOus kind,
and promptly dropped the whole pack.
age with every gesture Of horror and
dismay. Even man himseif-though
his instincts have all weakened so great
" with the growth OF lis more plastic
intelligence, adapted to wider and
more modifabe set OF external circum.
stances-seems to retain vague and
original terror Of the serprntine form.
The Fear Of Fat.
Lancet.
No doubt il is unpleasant to be excess
sively obese; but the morbid dread OF
fat, which has in recent years become
fashionable, has no foundation in phys
biological fact. Fat answers two pUr-
poses; il acts as a non con !ucting en-
vclope for the body and protects it from
too rapid loss OF heat, and it serves as Il
store OF fuel In the course OF exhaust
irg disease it not inirequently happens
that the life OF 4 patient may be pro.
forged until the reserve o! Tat Is eX-
hausted, and then he dies OF inanition.
Fat supplies the material oil the heating
process upon which vitality manly de-
ponds. In great excess il Is inconveni-
ent; but the external layings.Gn Of lat
is no measure of the internal develop.
ment OF adipOse tissue. Much less does
4 tendency to- grow fat imply or even
suggest tendency to what is known as
siatty degeneration" ii il time 10
speak out on this point, as the most alb.
surd notions seem 10 prevail. Again, 1t
is not ,rue that special forms OF food de-
termine fat. That is an old and exploi-
ell notion. Some Organisms will make
fat let them be fed upon the ieanest and
and scantiest and least sacChernc de-
scriptions Of food, while others will not
be "iattened" let them feed on the
"most fattening' OF diets. The matter
is one in regard TO which it is supreme
~ desirable and polite to be natural,
adapting the food taken to the require
ments or health rather than substance
Simple food, sufficient exercise, regular
habits, with moderation in the uso OF
s,imulants, compose the maxim Of q
safe and healthy wav OF life.