El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-12

~ = Z have decided SEQ Ma 10 IA
M at dinner last mite. we have
w decided to spend this winter
lerning useful things insted OF play
ing cards at our lady's club.
Well enuff, sed Pa, that thought
is sensibul enuff to have cain from
a man, sed Pa. What sre you going
to 1ern2
All we can, sed Ma. I am going to
read a paper at our next meeting.
called Do Plants Have Feeling? Sew
eral Of the ladies at our club are sure
that sum day Mister Burbank or
Mister Edison or Mister RuseveiL will
find out that plants have a nervous
sistem jest like human beings.
believe IL, sed Pa, saw a cante-
lope with the melon collie, sed Pa,
& IL was so cranky that il wuddent
give a lemon aid. sed Pa.
That is vary poor wit, II you meen
II for such, sed Ma. am glad in
deed, Ma sed, that the other ladies
Of our club have sensibel husbands
that is reddy to help them insted OF
poking fun at them. I am going to
find out, sed Ma, II plants have nerves
S the sense of feeling.
Why doant you pinch that palm
oaver thare neer the window & see
il it yeIps, sed Pa. I remember one
time wen was a kid, sed Pa, ate
green appel & the poor little thing
hurt so, sed Pa, after beeing all
chewed up. that ! cud feel It hurting
way inside Of my stummick.
Mister Vane was at our club & he
sed plants can feel pain, sed Ma, 6
I am going to study up on the sub
jec, all this week. Every time I
peel potato I am going to watch its
eyes. sed Ma
You ladies' are a buoy lot in these
tense times. to be sure. sed Pa. You
are going along grand, helping the
nashun in its hour OF need. sed Pa,
by finding out IL plants have a way
OF hollering Ouch The President
ought to send you vote Of thanks,
sed Pa.
There are many things about Mater
that Man hasent found our yet. sed
Ma, so Woman is going to talk I'd
the work. One OF the points witch
was brot out at our meeting. sed Ma,
was the way trees act in a big wind
storm II you go into a forest dur
ing big wind, sed Ma, you can hear
the limbs moaning jest as plain. Can't
you? sed Ma.
Yes, sed Pa. wen the tempest e
shreeking the trees moan. but I new
yer happened to think that thay was
moaning with pain. sed Pa, until you
ladies got together & worked Il out.
lnaL SHOWS what LnOuEnr can do.
sed Pa, or what thought thinks il can
do.
Now that you menshun Il. sed Pa.
remember many things that Wud 20
to show that plants have feelings.
The first time I picked a poor littei
nettle. sed Pa. I must have hurt II
quite a lot beekaus I cud feel It hurt
ing in my hand. felt so sorry for il
sed Pa that dropped It like a bum
belbee.
By George. sed Pa. I believe YOU
brite ladies have hit on a crate truth
OF Mater. That shows what thinking
can do. am proud OF my brite wife.
sed Pa. Yure mental grasp Is wuu-
derful. sed Pa. & all these yeers I
have newer fully reelized II.
You are a deer boy to say so. sed
Ma.
Not at all, sed Pa. BY the wav.
sed Pa, thay are going to have a littel
card party at old Ben Billings bache-
Tor flat tonite, sed Pa I wud like
to go. sed Pa. & vile there I will tell
them Of yure wunderful discovery
that plants have nerves & feeling. It
will surprise old Ben, sed Pa, to lern
that anything in the wurid has feel
ing. He has played cards so long, sed
"a, that he Is proof to pain.
Vary well. deer. sed Ma. run along
& remember. sed Ma. that even
ards may have feeling so doant pinch |
them too hard.
Female operatives IN the shirt and col !
lar Industry Of Derby. Eng. are demand