The Washington times., 1919-05-04

contrast her with other mothers
good suggestion and here's'the editorial
First let us consider in what diverse and strange
the wisdom Of Nature solves different problems OF mother
hood.
Three kinds of mothers with three kinds of methods are
in this picture There millions of mothers OF different
kinds the earth including already classified three hun
dred thousand kinds of insect mothers
And all Of these mothers, the moment the maternal
instinct wakes up follow the wise law that compes the
living generation provide for the next generation
through the devotion of the mothers.
In the picture the toad much enlarged that you may
see the heads of the little tOads coming out of the skin
her back you not acquainted with this stranges
Of all mothers, you will want to hear about her.
s The SURNAM TOAD is her name, and this is the
marvellous thing about her
She does not hatch her eggs give birth to her young
living drop the eggs In the water as other toads and frogs
do let them hatch there bury her eggs in the sand
turtles do, to be Matched by the sun
The Surinam Toad lays her eggs about a hundred at
time and with the assistance of the father the eggs
spread out over the back of the mother toad.
rough skin the toads back In that skin
exaggerated pores tiny holes in the skin The eggs sink
into these holes which gradually become enlarged the
eggs develop.
= For certain length of time the mother toad hops
about going and slowly the little toads in
the skin of her back grow and become big enough to take
Of themselves She eats voraciousy and the young
live in some strange way what she eats.
Toward the end her movements become slow and diff
cult for she is carrying from fifty to hundred young
toads.
One fine day the work is done The young tOads crawl
of the holes in the mothers skim completely formed
They all ready for toad he and poywogs with
tails at first In that they unlike their cousins hached
in the water
They come out leave the mothers back full formed
toads and like many human beings forgu of what they
the mother they hop of, with word of thanks
and start in the toad business for themselves.
Next year. each of the young that survive if she
is lady toad carries her load of young toads and
of
tity carrying out her most important task which is
PREPARING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION through
the devotion of the mothers in this generation. ..
the story of this toad should interest you the study
Of natural history it will have rendered you good service
For does not really know the earth which he
lives or the endless wisdom that controls it, unless he knows
about his humble brothers in the sea- the air. the land
and below the ground.
Read about the mother spider who devours her husband
She wraps up her eggs in little ball tightly wound with
spider web This little ball. bigger than herself is like tiny
golf ball
She drags it about with her. gigantic weight for a
creature of her She from hole in the ground
lin which she hides the precious ball at night During the
hours Of sunlight the great French naturalist tells you
she stands the entrance of her little cave with her head
and foreet down In the dark the hind feet outside holding
the precious ball of future spiders up the sum- and turn
ing it slowly round and round that heat and light may
to ali the young unborn spiders There is wonder of
nature
The toad that carries her young with her. fastened
to the skin of her back represents devotion that does not
think but obeys instinct and represents above all the in
conceivable wisdom that rules the creatures of this earth
through the instincts desires passions implanted in them
and arranged to meet their necessities.
The squaw mother with her papoOSe represents lower
form of maternal affection among human beings But it
courageous, deep affection.
This redsdn mother before her child is born goes off
into the wood alone; surgeon midwife helps her
through her trouble her child is born the march she
rejons the tribe picks up the heavy load that she dropped
half hour and goes with the baby added to
the load
The third picture representative of higher woman
gone astray and devoting to dog other animal
the affection that should go chd-her own child or the
child Of anotherneed not be emphasized too strongly
Shadows and the darkness make you admire the sun.
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