The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-06
When in Butte lunch at Sherman s.
FISH. THAT USE PARASoLS.
Young Pollock on Cape Cod Shores Get
Under the Brilliant Jellytish.


Under the Brilliant Jellytish.
Fish are a good deal like men and
women, after ALL" observed an old, re-
tired Cape Cod fish dealer the other
evening, recounting some odd things he
had seen down East. There are busy
fish and idlers, plain ones and others
rugged out in more colors than
Frenchers smack new painted. I've al
ways thought they picked up good
many tricks from us human beings.
Here some 20 years ago no one down
our way ever dreamed of fish carry
ing a sunshade, or of people doing 1t
either unless it was an old lady's PLAIN,
black umbrella affair. but nowadays
we'll, say. the fish in Cape Cod bay
protect their delicate compilations from
the summer sun with the most gor-
geous. rainbow tinted parasols you ever
saw. You folks needn't raise your eye
brows, for this is solemn, everyday
truth"
The old gentleman reflled his pipe,
and continued by way of explanations:
ITS all owing to the summer girls
from the big towns, who have been
waving their pink, green and yellow
sunshades around our shores these last
Is years They've broke the men folks
all up from Buzzards Bay plum over
to ProyincetoWn, and what wonder II
the fish get their heads turned. I am
not going to disgrace the whole finny
society of the coast however. for it's
only one branch of very sensible and
hard working family that puts on such
airs. The pollock are the chaps l have
in mind, second cousins to our well be-
loved cod of Sunday morning fishball
fame. They are cOarser and poorer as
food fish than the latter, less palatable
even than the haddock, another cousin
with whom they render good service
| TIL. TO
more) in much of the homeless Goldfish
sold in the big cities. Lively, quick
biters, and good runners for a short
| time, they offer sport to the line fisher
men, particularly when school strikes
| in.
This parasol craze is a childhood af-
| Fiction, too, l ought to add, and most
| likely it's the young women of the
| tribe which affect it, and when they
| grow older they drop all such nom
sense and confine themselves to roofing
| along the reefs and lodges for their
| daily provender and lodging hooks and
| lines Whether it's because they like
| to lie near the top in shoal water and
| the heat of the sun hurts them or
whether the reflections bother them no
man may say, but every man who uses
| his eyes will tell you that on sunny
| days the harbors and inlets are alive
with young pollock fry, all swimming
| around under the shade of the most
gorgeous jellytish umbrellas imagina-
| BILE.
1.-THE cape waters are famous for the
| variety and splendor of these radiant
| creatures, which certainly resemble
| dainty glass parasols. There are pale
green, yellow, pink, orangewhite. red
and purple ones, fringed, embroidered
! scalloped and notched with knob han
| dies, carved handles and silver and gold
| handles. Under nearly every one of
| these, according to size will he from
one to 10 young pollock, all blinking
their fins idly and moving just enough
| to keep under their fancy shade. When
| one considers that most of these gay
co1ored things are armed to the teeth
| with a formidable sting and a sac OF
| poison, it seems as if there may be 9th
| er protection than that against the
| suns rays. At all events nobody med
dies with the small fry, and they drift
boldly past weakfish. bluefish, mack
erel or sea bass, all hereditary enemies
| without single attack
THE sight is very beautiful, and
am surprised so few city people appear
even to have seen it. AS a spectacle
the jellyfish themselves, when an in.
shore wind has driven thousands OF
them shoreward, are wonderful. and of.
ten so thick that it is hard to row {
boat through them. At night they are
| brilliantly phosphorescent and by day