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graphs show at least mother that delights
in having her family scramble over her with
out HARM perhaps she isn't hungry. Fish
have lice, and sharks have suckers attached to
them. Naturalists tell us that shark cannot
swallow a man; we have photographs that
prove otherwise.
In the bad lands of the cattle country rattle-
snakes live in great numbers in dens. Cow
boys destroy them zen masse" with dynamite.
Rattlers usually travel In pairs. They cam
not always be depended upon to give warning;
sometimes they strike first. Rattlers can and
do charm birds. This Is accomplished by the
snake protruding its eyes, which shine and
glisten like scintillating diamonds. This has
a peculiar fascination for the birds, and ap-
parently they cannot resist its spell. They
slowly advance upon the serpent, apparently
against their will, and when within reach are
caught. snake kills by constriction-that
it, it throws its coils about its victim and then
constructs its coils: this also crushes the bone
preparatory to devouring. The poison OF
snakes acts as digestive in the assimilation
Of food. Big snakes IN capturing big game.
strike them down with q blow Of their heads.
The construction follows, crushing the bones.
R1RDs migrate; 50 do seals salmon, caribou
- and even butterflies and "darning-
needles" Some animals sleep standing up and
some birds sleep in flight, the albatross being
one Of them. It has an immense wing ex-
pansion and will keep on the wing for days
without alighting.
The animal called the platypus has a duck
bill, webbed feet dat tail, lays eggs and is
q night prowler.
The harpy, crested or tufted eagle, Is the
most terrible of our eagles. It can kill in
stantly any living thing that flies. 1t kills
with a blow of its feet, doubled up like fists.
striking from above at terrific speed. 1t then
easily picks it victim from the air The peli-
can catches fish In a big pouch attached to its
lower BILL The California vulture has wing
spread of 10 feet the bald eagle a spread of
3 feet
Among the oddities In nature is the Ameri-
can merganser duck, with teeth on its bill.
Some fish have teeth on their tongues A
mole is blind. Beavers can cut down trees.
Squirrels can fly. Pack rats swap gifts. One
camper found clam shell in place of his false
teeth Waxwings play ball. using cherries.
The cardinal wears q scarlet coat. The water
ouzel walks along the bottom of running
streams Hawks and eagles eat snakes. Wild
ostriches have been killed with their gizzards
full of diamonds.
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+ HlLZLI DearS cannot cllInD ueeS. some
~ grizzlies have such q heavy hump on their
shoulders that they are called roach-backs.
Some animals hibernate for q period Of seven
months Bears fear porcupines and slrunks
and avoid them.
Male cougars, also called mountain lions,
waylay their own offspring and kill the males
of their union. A cougars hide Is 30 tough
it. Among themselves the males fight vi
cously; their hides show frightful injuries A
cougar kills 100 deer or elk annually. 1t can
kill, skin and eat a porcupine without injury
to itself Coyotes, when caught in traps, will
occasionally actually wag their tails and whine
like a dog at the approach of the trapper The
next one in line may fly at his throat; that IS
the individuality in animals Occasionally
young bobcat, when caught in trap, may be
handled and played with and will become a
great pet; but look out for the next one
Wild animals are not always as sure-footed
as we have been led to believe Even the sure
footed mountain goat takes an occasional
tumble
Both elk and moose have been known to slip
and fall to their death A half-grown moose
slipped on high cliff just after silver
thaw" and crashed to the beach below, break
ing its neck in this unusual manner.
full-grown moose, having broken its leg,
staggered into civilization on the three re
naming A rancher finding it in his front
yard at dawn. called veterinary and ranger.
They found its hind leg broken. A game war
den and the veterinary set the leg and the
animal released. That showed intelli-
gence in the moose. The same Summer deer
and fawn were seen crossing lake mile
wide. When almost ashore the deer turned and
realized her fawn was having trouble making
shore. Noting its distress, she at once turned
ND la6 4 hop oir1 f1n 1nyn Thot
was not intelligence. Moose like to walk on
railroad trestles over streams and lakes; that
has been the undoing of many. Only few
weeks ago wild moose trotting along a
railroad track In Canada 1t was the rltting
season Of the moose. As the train approached
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DOLLAR or white bears, in the Arctic regions,
! live principally on seals. Polar bears have
been seen off Point Barrow, Alaska, two miles
from shore on the nearest floating ice cakes.
They seem perfectly composed and not at all
uneasy over their unusual situation. When
cubs accompany their parents on long swim
and they tire the parent slows down and lets
the young one grab it by the stubby tail and
1t is towed to the nearest ice cake for rest.
Fur seals are now increasing under the United
States Government supervision on the Pribfof
Islands. Seal pups are born shortly after ar
irving from their southern migration. Bulls
fight one another for the COWS for their
harems Occasionally two males. or bulls, will
fight for the same female. They each grab
her in their teeth and pull in opposite direc-
tons She is soon torn apart the pieces cast
aside and the matter forgotten.
THE beluga IS the white whale Of the Arctic.
These small whales gather at the mouths
Of rivers in schools. They are the ice cream
and cake Of the Eskimos. being considered q
great delicacy; though occasionally for some
unexplained reason, one Of these whales will
poison an entire village kill an entire family.
Wright whale taken at the Port Hebron.
Alaska whaling station, weighed $50 tons, was
Is feet high and "a feet wide. The ele-
phant, now almost extinct, is stin found in
small numbers on the Mexican coast Of the
Pacific Ocean,
They are protected by the Mexican govern
ment. The males have q short trunk or snout
and sometimes weigh two tons.
A salmon can leap high falls. Fish idling
in a river always face upstream. 1t Is seldom
that any bird lays more than 20 eggs at set
ting, while fish win lay thousands. Fish, turtles
alligators and snakes all lay eggs. They
are of the soft-shell variety. Sea gulls,
ravens and crows will pick the eyes out of a
spawning salmon. Naturalsts tell us that al
hgators devour their own young, while photo
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Birds Initiate Each Other; Ratlesuakes, Like
Gangsteyy, 7ruvel in Pairs; Seals Fight
Each Other for the 'Ladies" Of Their
Harems, and Big Buck Moose Is So
Proud of His Strength He WiH Charge
a L00m0tiUe!
BY H. L. DILLAWAY
American NaturaHst Forest Ranger and Auth0r

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not bald, but has a head covering OF
white feathers. The wood duck
builds its nest in the hole of tree, usually
high up over the water. There are white
crows and white blackbirds
There are white robins, meadow larks and
pheasants. There are white mink, raccoons.
woodchucks and squirrels. The chimney swift
keeps up a continuous flight from dawn to
dark without alighting. Its feet are mere de-
formities from nonuse. 1t builds its nest OF
twigs inside a disused chimney using saliva to
make it stick. The Chinese make soup Of these
nests considering them great delicacy.
The cobra, splitting snake OF Africa, can
eject its poison with accuracy into the eyes OF
its victim by splitting it considerable distance.
Such an attack leaves its victim helpless before
what is to follow. Butcher birds kill other
birds, also beetles and mammals, and impale
them on thorns on tree. Birds initiate one
anothers calls; this is especially true OF the
mocking bird, magpie, crow, raven and bluejay.
In countries where stock is plentiful the raven,
crow and magpie have an unpleasant trick OF
picking out the eyes Of newborn stock,
especially sheep.
The purple bird of paradise, in showing on to
its mate, displays its fnery by hanging upside
down, shaking and shivering its plumage, con-
tinually whistling during the show. Chicadees,
nuthatches and bushtits enjoy feeding upside
down. The penguin is sometimes called the
jackass penguin, from its braying call. The
kingfsher Is also called the laughing jackasS
for the same reason. In China cormorants are
taught to catch fish for their keepers.
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MONG the ducks there are redheads,
blackheads, greenheads and bald
heads. The baldheaded eagle is not
bald until two years old, then it is
not bald, but has head covering Of
white feathers. The wood duck
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Couple Will
Be Married in
Rites Tonight

Miss Margaret Stanley, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert E. STAN
ley, 2425 North Olney street, will be
married tonight at her home to
Ernest Voelz, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Voelz, with the Rev. John
Higinbotthan of the Holiness
church, officiating.
Miss Mary Clapp will be brides
maid, and John Elsea, best man.
The bride and her bridesmaid will
be dressed in white. The bride will
carry white roses, and Miss Clapp
will carry pink roses.
Mr.. Stanley will give his daughter
in marriage.
Following the ceremony, a we'd
ding supper and reception will be
held at the home of the bride
groom's parents.
Out-of-town guests will include
Mrs. William Hall of Franklin,
grandmother of the bride, and Mrs.
Carrie Voelz of Columbus, grand
mother of the bridegroom.
After short honeymoon in Chi
cago, the couple will be at home at
2315 North Dearborn street.
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SOCIAL ADVENTURE
CLUB PLAYS SANTA

The Social Adventure Club of
Third Christian church will have
charge of the Sunday school services
of the Children's Guardians home
on University avenue.
Following the services, the club will
entertain the children with a Christ
mas party. Gifts will be given to
the children, and program will be
presented.
Appearing on the program will be
Jesse Hall, whistler, and mixed
quartet, composed of Misses Mildred
and Mabel Krentler, and Paul and
Byron Stroh.
There also will be reading by Miss
Mary Florence Fletcher, and violin
numbers by Miss Martha Deane
Lesher. Miss Irene Bishop will have
charge of the program.
Miss Vera Kepple will have charge
of games.
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Dance Will
Be Given by
Sorority

A dinner-dance at the Indianap-
oils Athletic club will be given Sat-
urday night by the Butler univer-
Sity chapter Of Delta Gamma sor-
ority. Comics orchestra VIII pro-
vide the music.
The tables will be entered with
arrangements of holly and tapers.
Favors will mark the places of the
guests. The room will be arranged
with Christmas trees and holly
Miss Virginia Carr is chairman
assisted by the Misses Wilma Aule1-
bacher, Margaret Mattingly and
Mary Catherine Ware.
ChaperonS will be Mrs. Josephine
Fry. house mother; Miss Corine
yelling, faculty sponsor, and Pro-
fessor and Mrs. c.. R. Redding.
Fathers and mothers Of the mem
bers will be entertained at 8 to-
night at the chapter house. 269
Buckingham drive.
The committee is composed of
Miss Carr and the Misses Maxine
Ingram, Helen Baker and Virginia
Wells.
A program will be given by Misses
Jane CARRIER pianist; Winifred Zieq-
Ter, soloist, and stunt by pledges.
The house will be decorated with
a Christmas tree, holly and tapers.
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Choir Will
.GiveCOncert
at College

The annual Christmas program of
the college of education choir of
Butler university will be given at
1880 Thursday, on the Teachers
college campus at Twenty-third and
Alabama streets. under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Ruth o. Benedict, an
instructor in music.
The choir is composed of thirty
four students at the college. They
will present twenty-four choral
numbers, and will be assisted by
guest soloists.
The brass quartet of the Arthur
Jordan Conservatory of music will
assist with the program. Members
of the quartet are: r. Bernard Fitz-
gerald, first cornet; Miss Mary Ro-
land, second cornet; Fred Jaehne,
French horn and Charles Payne,
trombone.
Special numbers will be given by
Miss Mary Rudicel, harpist, and
Mildred Trueblood, Miss Virginia
Elliott, and Miss Ruth Mauzy,
sopranos.
Eight-year-old Betty Jean Ross.
and 11-year-old Jack Crickmore,
pupils in the Baker Demonstration
school, will assist as violinistS.
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COLONIAL BOSTON
CHAPTER MEETS

Mrs. K. L. Woodring, 42O7 North
Pennsylvania street, was hostess
Tuesday to a meeting of the Colo
NAL Boston chapter, International
Travel and Study Club.
A musical program, consisting of
carols and solo by Miss Joan Fer
guson, was in charge of Mrs. w. o.
Sticks. Decorations were in Christ
mas colors, with Christmas tapers
lighting the luncheon table.
Following the luncheon, gifts we're
exchanged, and cards played.
The committee included Mesdames
Charles Hatton, Joseph Mcdonald,
K. L. Woodring, Normand LOOMS.
Elmer johnson, w. A. Ferguson and
T. Paul Jackson.
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BLOCK INITIALS
CUT IN BRACELET

A new idea in initials is found on
a sterling silver bracelet with sim
pie block initials cut through the
metal. Worn over a bright COL
ored silk dress, the initials stand
out against the bright color.
Winter resorting folks are wear
ing these bracelets, too, as they &C.
quire their sun-tan, indelibly burn
ing their initials into their arms
through the cutouts.
The bracelets are an inch wide
and have singed clasp with three
Sits for adjusting it to the size of
your arm.
Your own initials, or those of
any one to whom you wish to give
bracelet, are, cut to your order.
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obliged to listen to recriminations
at each end of the line.
This is true, but it is not con-
slant, anything that tends to dimin-
lSh active quarreling can not be far
wrong.
10 quote Mrs. Gerould again, "a
child who divides its time between
divorced parents who hate each
other is in sorry case. But that
it is in less sorry
case than the Condition Is
with two undi- Bettered
vorced parents by Divorce
who h a tie each
other, 1 have come, after many
years, to believe absolutely"
1t has been truthfully said that
the poor mans divorce is desertion.
Only the well-to-do can afford sep
arate establishments. Therefore,
parents remain together from sheer
economic necessity. AS yet, there
is no mechanism in our society to
make the deserted mother secure.
The resources of charity are
strained to the uttermost, and there
aren't enough jobs to go round. At
present, the only thing to be accom-
plished is clear, unprejudiced view
of the problem and a shaking off of
the sentimental conviction that par
ents are irrevocably committed to
each other when child is born.
Dear Jane Jordan: I wonder what
some folks would do if they were in
my place. I am % years old. Drinking.
smoking, profanity, and 1 disagree.
have a fine home, a car and plenty to
eat. But I have no job, no brothers or
sisters no girl companions, and, worst
of all my mother gets drunk. but It
doesn't. do any good to say anything
about it.
She doesn't care or understand that
from the loss of love from mother
BIG BABY.
Dear Big Baby: Your plight de-
mands that you grow up. When
you do, you will find love to take
the place of your mothers. Many
persons who have no jobs are cult
waiting avocation and in some cases
they promise to become profitable
vacations later on.
One woman know took UP
photography. Her photographs are
so striking that she has sold many
of them, and the occupation has
been a life saver.
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Friends Guests
at Party Given
by Mrs. Wilcox

Mrs. Harold H. Wilcox enter
tanned with a luncheon bridge party
today at the Indianapolis Country
Club. Mrs. Wilcox, with Mr.. Will
cox, will leave next week to live at
Seattle, Wash.
Decorations were in keeping with
the holiday season.
The guests included. Mesdames E.
NJ Chamberlin, John w. Davis, Lee
Strong and her house guest, Mrs.
James G. Hofgaard of Charleston,
w. Va; Walter Myers, Elmer E.
Roesner, Francis Pickens, L. E.
Stage and Robert Fogey, both of
Lafayette.
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Mrs. ANGEL P. Harvey, 1856
Guilford avenue, is a member of
the Sunnyside Guild, which is
assisting the Marion County
tuberculosis Association in the
annual sale of Christmas Red
Gross seals.
The association was instrument
tai in establishing Sunnyside
sanatorium, for tubercular pa
TENTS, in 1917. Since that time
the association has been active in
keeping the sanitarium operating.
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New JERSEY
Man, City
Girl to Wed

A home ceremony will mark the
marriage Of Miss Dorothy Patter-
son to Robert j. Mack of Trenton
n. j. at $3.50 today. with the Rev.
Robert G. Alexander, pastor Of All
saints Episcopal church officiating.
me wedding will take place at the
nome Of the brides grandmother.
Mrs. Lena Mummenhoff, 1903 Park
avenue.
The bride will enter the living
room from the stairway. entwined
with smilax, to the altar, improvised.
BEFORE the fireplace with palms
Terms, white roses and chrysanthe-
nuns. Two seven branched cam
delabra viii burn at each side.
Mrs Alberta Mccain Gaunt. harp
ist will play oh, My Heart Is Thy
Sweet Voice 20 Promise Me"
Liebetraum, and during the cere-
mony TO a Wild Rose"
Bride to Wear Ivory Satin
The bride will wear an ivory satin
gown, cut on princess lines with
long tight sleeves and train, and
Trimmed with seed pearls. Lace
will band the front of the veil cap,
shirred at the back and caught with
orange blossoms at the sides. She
will carry shower Of white roses,
gardenias and lilies of the valley.
The only attendant, Mrs. Harold
Richard Victor, will wear a coral
crepe gown, fashioned with short
inrl-rf Il IN 14fyfIJ
wear matching slippers and carry
an arm bouquet of Talisman and
Johanna Hill roses with smilax
streamers.
Reception to BE Held
George Hartwick will be best man.
Mrs Mumnenhof will wear
gown of black velvet and cream lace
and shoulder corsage of gardenias.
At the reception the brides aunts,
Misses Nannette Mummenhof and
Jessie I. Patterson, will assist
The bridal table will be arranged
with white roses and sweet peas
and smilax A TERED wedding cake
will center the table. ,
AT Home After Feb.
The couple will leave for a trip
through the east, the bride travel
ing in a gray sheer wool dress,
trimmed in brown. Her coat
trimmed in blue fox will be brown,
as will her accessories.
After Feb. / the couple will be
at home at East Thirty sixth
street.
Out-of-town guests will be Miss
Dorothy r. Mack of Robbinsville,
N. j., Miss Alice Mummenhoff of
Washington, and Mrs. Fred Johnson
of Chicago.
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Dear Jane Jordan-I am one of the
don't believe in it as some people believe
in asperin-to be used for any and all
minor ills. It is an emergency operation,
but it is as vital to perform it promptly
other times.
In my family it happened sixteen years
too late. My mother stuck it out be
cause of the child for sixteen years and
with the nerves of a shell-shocked SOL
dier and an inferiority complex to battle
the rest of my life
1t cut me off frnrn NV school friends
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Aid to Serve Dinner

The Ladies Aid of the Second
Moravian church, Thirty-fourth and
Hovey streets, will serve turkey
dinner tonight. Following the din
ner there will be a quilt and COM
fort display and lantern slides.
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close to the hearth. Log fires
throw out tremendous heat and no
one wants forever to be backing
off from the blaze.
Colorful knickknacks on the
mantle will catch the reflection of
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be brace of chairs that will do
the trick.
But whichever the choice, one
thing to remember is that, unless
the fireplace is purely ornamental,
furniture should not be set too
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TINE woman whose living room
= has a fireplace, be it ever so
humble a specimen, need not
think twice about where the focal
point of interest should be. The
architect has done her thinking
for her and she has only to ex-
pertinent with groupings of furni-
ture to see which combination
looks best.
Couches may be placed either
facing the fire and backed by
table or cater cornered at right
angles fianked by end cables with
another chair opposite. Or it may
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0. E. S. AUXILIARY
PLANS YULE PARTY

Prospect auxiliary, o. E. S., will
hold its annual Christmas party
Friday at the Masonic temple, Pros
pect and State streets.
Reservations for the dinner, to be
served at noon are in charge of
Mesdames Lawrence Pringle and
Raymond Lane. Gifts will be ex-
changed.
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Mrs. Charles Richard Stafford
Dickens, of Datchet, England, is the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank A. Witt, 4426 North Pennsyl-
vania street.
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Child Needs
Harmony in
It's Home

mosphere of love and affection.
But where the parents are ire
concilable, and expose the child to
constant friction, the effect on the
child has been found to be more
harmful than divorce. 1t can be
argued that divorce does not end
the antagonism of the parents and
the child, torn between the two, is
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|MANNtR}ANDM MORALS
goBY JANE JoRDAN /p)

IF you feel an urge to tell the story
of your life, write to Jane Jordan
today and read her comments in
this column.
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Chung to
Home and
Support

she had When she did leave, the bust
ness world was demanding a higher rate
of efficiency. She didn't have me to
take care of. but there were orphanages.
Yes, I would have preferred that.
Right now as times are I suppose it
would be foolish for a woman with small
children even to try to buck the business
world alone. but in normal times never
would advise mother to stick for the
childs sake" SUNNY.
Dear Sunny-The twenty eight
pages of your letter formed one of
the most interesting human docu-
ments I ever read. will have to
answer it in sections. One of the
most striking parts of your history
is your observation that quarreling
parents do the child no kindness by
remaining together, as so many
short-sighted people believe.
Nothing can be more unlucky for
a child than to have the spectacle
of the unfortunate marriage daily
thrust upon it," writes Katherine
Fullerton Gerould. There is no
doubt that the child gets the best
preparation for life when it is
brought up by a mother and a
father who cooperate harmonious
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IT III = N-NNVVA I = II q y
1 couldn't be a very
nice girl" 1t caused
me TO leave school
three months before
l would have gradu-
ated. Mother hadn't
seen the especial
need of education,
but as I wanted it
~ -.
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Lost Her
Chance at
Education

she fought for it. But, after Il
dad took me out. It was the /
blow of my life and I've had sew
have no respect for either
parents. Sixteen years of hear
suits and accusations hurled by
them surely didn't leave anyth
me to respect. There was moth
me on which to build my life. If
change one thing in my life. I
that divorce happen when I v
too young to realize what it was.
yet. before there was a me"
They must have known thel
they never could get along. OF c
divorce was even more rare and S