Evening star., 1914-07-26
THIS GIRL MAKES
BUTTERFLIES TAME
Also She Has as Pets. Rare
Moths and Hairy
CaterpiI|ars.
HER COLLECTION RANKS
HIGH AMONG SCIENTISTS
Miss Sarah E. Maui, Aged Thirteen,
Among Youngest Members of -.
chronological Society.
has a real butterfly girl


Washington has a real butterfly girl.
Not such one as is frequently refer
red to as a butterfly of society,"
though she can tell you how that ex-
preston came to have it's meaning; but a
wholesome ambitious. nature-loving girl
who is specializing on butterflies and has
entire fairy kingdoms of them working
day and night to send her through COL
lege.
She Is but thirteen years old and for
two years has been a close student of
moths, butterflies, cocoons. chrysales,
worms and all else that makes up the
chronological world.
She can tell you many Interesting, ro-
mantle things about these little neigh
bors that you never thought of.
Love Stories of the Moths,
She can tell you love stories of the
moths, how, if female is left on a win
dow screen. a male mate, no matter how
rare the species. will come flying through
space to his lady love-
She can tell you of the jeweler butter
ny. that spins one small silken hook and
therefrom hangs a chrysalis of male
green. onyx-like, banded with golden
dots' more beautiful than any lavalliere
worn by society leader
She can tell You how butterflies go
away on vacations, just as human beings
are doing this summer
She can tell you of moths that snin Of
moths that do not eat at all.
She can tell you of moths that live but
Tor Few days and spend their entire life
in propagating their young.
She can tell You how caterpillars cast
tramp.
She can tell You of surgical operations
she herself has performed in preserving
the lives of her little worm friends.
This girl Is Miss Sarah E. Maui. who.
when she returns to school in September,
will be in the sophomore class Of Cen
trail High School. She is the only daugh-
ter of Allan Maui II Claiming street
northwest. who is employed in the gov
ernment printing office.
Honored by Entomo1ogists.
Miss Maui was in June elected a mem
ber Of the chronological Society Of
America and is one of it's youngest mem
bers.
She has-a. collection that is considered
by lepidopterists to be the most complete
of moths and butterflies that fly in this
locality. Her collection includes more
than 100 species. and She has added about
a dozen this season.
She has three fine specimens of the
rarest moth in America, the citheronia
RECALLS, which scientific authorities say
is not common anywhere and which
Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter. -one of the
greatest authorities calls The King of
Poets" ,
Miss Maui obtained her specimens during
her first season. and caught them in the
vicinity of her own home. She is sup
plying a number of the most noted ento-
mologists in the United States with speci-
mems and eggs. and has orders for more
than she can furnish. She hopes in this
way to earn sufficient to put nerselI
through college.
books. the story of a girl whose love for
moths and butterflies made her whole
this little moth and butterfly collector.
She not only chases butterflies through
the broiling sunshine and the moths in
murky, damp. overgrown places in the
early morning hours, but she mates
their eggs and hatch them in from nine
to twelve days. The caterpillars she
mothers during their life of from forty
to fifty days before they enter the pupa
state. while they moult sometimes four
or Ave times, each time coming out larger
and more beautiful. Here 1t is that she
exercises her skill as a surgeon, for, after
they have thrown off their face mask, she
helps them strip off their old coating lest
they strangle themselves in the process.
1t is delicate work, and few girls would
relish handling the crawley worms, but
this one enjoys 1t.
Busy as Collector.
She spends her vacations in catching
new specimens, and this summer on a
trip of about 500 miles. which she has
just completed, she carried several large
boxes of ugly looking green worms with
her, so as to give them daily attention.
While pursuing her study Of caterpil-
lars, moths and butterflies Miss Maui has
collected as fine an chronological library
as any girl in this country. And she has
taught many other little girls in her
neighborhood not to fear worms, but to
love them and care for them.
This little seeker of moth life is known
well by all the caretakers on the govern
ment reservations about Washington, and
many of them have warned her against
touching the worms for fear of being Bit
ten. only to be won over to helping her in
her search.
The majority of her best specimens were
caught at Great Falls where conditions
are best of any place around Washington
for capturing the large night moths. many
of which fly only in the very early morn
ing. Miss Maui has forty-one specimens
of the large moths. more than twenty of
them extremely large.
Neatly mounted in a large cabinet. this
little Washington schoolgirl has winged