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Remarkable Puzzles in CoIors.

Pearson's Weekly.
 In summer weather ladies. and men, too. when possible. wear white. Why? To keep cool, of course, you will say.
 If this be so. why, then, are almost all the creatures that live in Arctic re- gions clothed in white? The usual re- ply is that the white color is for pro- tective purposes-in order, in fact, to make them invisible to their enemies in the midst of the wastes of snow.
 But consider again-is this reason able? From whom does the Polar bear need to hide? He has no enemies to fear And as for the birds which as- sume q white plumage when they mil grate north, surely they also have far fewer foes in the Polar regions than when further south.
 Again, if white be a cool color. this is surely another reason against the inhabitants of the coldest regions turn ing white at the approach of winter. It is easy to strengthen this argument. Visit the tropics and you will find hard ly any white animals or birds. In the very hottest regions of the globe not only is man, as rule, black, but the birds and beasts are either very dark or else extremely brilliant in color. Of tropical birds the commonest colors run as follows: Brown. dark green and dark blue, emerald green, reds and yell lows.
 Speaking of birds again, why is it that land birds are mostly dark-hued, while so many sea birds are white?
 Here Is another color puzzle AL most all sonRbirds are somber in hue. while the brightly-colored species. such as the jays, the parrots and birds of paradise have naturally harsh voices.
 The colors of flowers and leaves offer numbers of interesting problems. No one quite knows why the prevailing tint of early spring flowers is either white or yellow. Yellow. indeed. holds it's own to some extent all through the summer. but the typical color of sum mer blooms is pink. while as the au- tumn advances richer crimsons and all the rich. glowing hues of dahlias and chrvsanthemums are seen.
 Horticulturists have produced pop pies of pretty nearly every shade under the sun. and with many flowers they seem able to alter the colors almost as they please. Yet the blue rose, the black tulip, and the green carnation seem as far off as ever they were, in spite of constant efforts to arrive at them Nearly three centuries ago Dutch gardeners imagined themselves on the verge of inventing black tulip.
 The colors of the blossom of fruit trees are limited to white, pink, bright scarlet and purple. The reason no one knows. Nor is 1t clear why nearly all plants with purple blossoms have pois- onous properties. The deadly night shade is an instance which will be fa- miliar to country readers.
 It used to be said. and many still i'm agine. that intensity of colors depends upon intensity of light. The brilliancy of tropical landscape seems in some measure to bear this out But any amount of arguments may he deduced against it. Rubies, opals and other ex- auisite gems are dug from the depths of the earth.
 The rays of the sun have never touched them. The pulp of some fruits are more richly tinted than the outer rind, while the crimson blood of ami maIs is hidden from the light. What could be more rich and magnificent in color than the wings of many moths? Yet<these are all night flying creatures