Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-13

ut doesn't take intricate experiments
to find all that out" Mr. thinner said.
Especially this thing of their love-
making. I knew that all the time.
Sure, they make love like a moving
picture man" he said today, wher a
reporter invaded his bucolic kingdom
at Kimballville farm. They're the ones
that put the woozy stuff in wooing.
They invented dove cotes and the
won't you be my turtle dove? bust
ness.
No Affnities Here.
"Of course. now" he broke off sud
denly, you must be careful to quote
me correctly on this. There are pig
cons and pigeons. Take the Zenaidura
Carolinensis, for instance. This partic-
ular species of pigeon are lovers, all
right. But they are this clinging vine
sort, you know, and it would be well for
all self respecting male pigeons to stay
away from them. No affinities in the
zenaidura Carohnensis family; they're
too domestic. just bill and COO forever
I imagine it's tiresome. Lord knows
what It must be for hubby Pigeon. But
he's mighty faithful. at that"
So. susceptible little pigeon, beware
the Zenaidura Carolinensis. Life should
not be an one honeymoon.
Mr.. thinner spoke Of Columbia do
mesticae.
The Real Best Seller Effect.
Nov, there is a family Of pigeons"
he said with a note of pride in his
voice, that 1t is a pleasure to know.
There's something to their love-mak-
ing. For the real Robert W. Chambers
effect, for coquettes that almost could
love myself, for Don Juans who are
bold and dashing and cavalierlike, give
me a Columbia domestica"
Mr.. thinner explained that to a low
brow these Columbia domesticae are
the ordinary pigeons OF Atlanta back
yards and Georgia farms. They are
just plain pigeons, not tinid and fiut-
tering to any great extent, but loving
and lovable. The females of that spe-
cies are suffragettes, and the males
stay out nights. and all that And when
they love-but hook out: the national
board Of censorship would have a Job
hera There are no Anthony Com
stocks In pigeon land.
But when once they mate, they are
married for keeps, Mr.. thinner ex-
planned. There is no Reno in their Ut
tie world. They may have minds of
their own, but the head of the family
tends the children. sits on the eggs, and
won't look at another dove for any con-
sideration.
Keep Steady Company"
Before they are mated, their antics
that they kiss, keep steady company.
preen themselves in the best of their
glory, and otherwise seek to make i'm
pressions.
All the time he was talking two
pigeons strutted together, wings touch
ing, soft breasts throbbing, and that
purrtng sound was audible.
you see that" he indicated. There's
an example of that ordinary pigeon
stunt. None of your Zenaidurae there
know for fact that the man pigeon
has been counting her for a long time
But that little thing with the gray
feathers, she's regular little firt. It's
great to watch them. but I'm bit sorry
for the little brown dove up there in
the pigeon house. She loves him, too"
Pigeons have other emotions as we'll.
said this John Burroughs of Atlanta.
They are angry at times, exhibit Just
as much fear upon occasions as a little
girl in the dark, and are very, very sad
rhAf &c HI
the most noticeable fact, he said, is the
fact that pigeon love is just as we'll de-
fined, just as complicated, just as APP
parent, as the affection of human kind.
Mr.. thinner has an intense interest
in the study of pigeons, and much of
his talk was serious. Mankind can fur
nish no more interesting study, he said