The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-30
Curios and Oddities
co11EGE GIRLS Make BEST MOTHERS.
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N INSTRUCTOR Vassar college has odd and IN
n teresng collection Of photographsthe photographs OF
the babies of young who college graduates.
The babies in this collection strong and beautiful
They three hundred The instructor said Of
them: ~ ~. ...g . -.,az.. ri. .-.->. #-
g" began to collect pictures of the children Of female
ABB and ANS because had heard much talk about
gher education uniting for her natural sphere,
and .~E. +.
'My collection proves that the higher education makes
mothers of excellence hitherto unknown. Highly ed-
Gated women don't weaken themselves with tight corses
with overuch dancing and cardplayng They athletic
and strong Their bodies well their minds are de-
veoped. .<..~- 49,. ~..~..s@ ...-1 -
'They enter upon the duties of motherhood with unique
courage and wisdom and strength and the result is that
their babies the biggest strongest handsomes Little
creatures--' :.9~ .s...... 4 .5 4s.
She pointed towards the 300 photographs
"But just look at those pictures she craed Just look
st them"
oAMPANoLoGY, OR CHURCH BELL, RINGING! Cor
T WAS Sunday morning. and the bellringer had just
finished ringing the chimes that called the cody to
church. ~. . ..":. - :. ..,.-.z. .s.@ =
'sBelrnging is science. Did you know thatq'' he
said I is called campanology, and there absruse
and technical terms in it, like Kent treble bob 'Stedman
cnques' double court bob dodges' nois and sngoes'
Each Of these defines certain phase kind Of bell
ringing. ...e@e" e. ~ ". ...s~
England there society," the Central Council Of
Bernge that every campanologst desires ardently to
belong to. >@...- z.*..@ ~. .t... ~.>'
t*Maybe you think belrngng is simple9 Do you know
what peal is? peal in ringers parlance is series Of
5000 changes rung upon chime change occurring
than once.' ..
T. FRUSTRATING PLANTS.
ttTHE leaves Of this plant curious" the botanist
said. Each had lot of long, hairs it, and
knob in the center covered with rnucilage
IA bee lighted Of the hairs. Then strange
thing happened The neghborng hairs seemed to
life They reared up and bounced upon the bee they
red the knob and they pressed it firmly into the
mucilage Life then left them. They simple hairs
again -, - ~:-.H
''The bee struggled helpessly, like fly stuck fly
paper The leaf gradually folded round it, envelopng it
last as, in appledumpling the pastry envelopes the
fruit And few hours later the leaf opened again. but
! sign of the bee remained. It had been devoured
'This plant the sundew, the fesh-eating sundew,
! about which Rossetti wrote his best poem.
@@There many .fesh-eaters among plants
derwo the oohwor and the butterWort attract insects
and anmalcule and imprsonng them by means Of hairs
| and muclage, devour them at leasure.
Gin Borneo and South America it is said that there
large fesh-eang trees, powerful enough to capture and
digest foxes, gus children, even But we have no
scientific proof that such trees exist They could exist
course, but, till actually them regard
stories about them native twaddle."
FAR WESTERN JOURNALISM
tIT SOUNDS like yarn said Chicago anquary, t'but
/ i here is the proof. Look at it for yourself
He opened his scrapbook to clipping yellow with age
It clipping from newspaper Of Tombstone, and il
! said:
Wx hopx that rxadxrs will pardon thx appearance
Of this wxxk Intxllgxncx and thx sxxmngly mysterious