Evening star., 1947-07-22
This and That
By Charles E. TraceUeN.

Happy days in the wren family are depicted
IN letter from Hamilton street:
Some weeks ago robin began building her
nest in Paul's Scarlet rosebush just outside
our sunroom windows. For some reason the
project was abandoned after being nearly
completed
"one day a week or two later, Mrs. B. saw
house wren inspecting the nest, and the
next day the visit was repeated.
'The following evening she remarked, Z
wonder if that little wren will come back to the
robins nest soon?'
II replied that she probably would not, but
along about o'clock while was working near
a rose bush, heard wren chatterng
Looking up, saw her perched near the nest
She continued chattering, and young wrens
focked in until there were five OF them put to
bed in the nest. (They had been Matched in a
wren house in the yard next door,
II II
"For time she scurried about getting insects
to feed her hungry brod-then she crawled into
the nest with her babies
''The next night the procedure was repeated,
except that only the young ones spent the
night in the nest
1.-THE third and fourth nights, the little
fellows appeared to come without calling and
went to sleep without being fed, but there
were only three in the party.
Then for the next two nights only two ap-
peared, and thereafter only one came and 1t
only for two nights.
1.-The time of arrival never varied more than
few enthusiastically between $40 and 800
and the little fellows were soon fast asleep.
They rose early-about $40 Eastern day
light saving time.
"One morning, after only two had spent the
night in the nest the first to awaken left
after stretching time or two; then the other
awoke, stretched himself, and climbed out
But apparently he was still sleepy, for he
turned around, got back into the nest, and
snuggled down for moment or two.
Then he evidently decided he might as well
be up and about for he promptly left the
vicinity. Sincerely, E. E. B."
Wrens and others do not keep to daylight
saving time at all.
They run their lives by what might be called
real or natural time, and we suspect that
many other two-legged beings, feathered or
otherwise, do the same.
Hence the wrens observed really went to bed
shortly after o'clock. and rose at 4:40 o'clock.
Light is their great barometer. 1t establishes
the rhythm of their lives, and would do as well
for us as for them, if we had as much natural
sense
There are two sorts of senses, the natural
doing what comes naturally"-and the intel
lectual
Too often both of these senses let us down
Sometimes people who do what comes ma
turally, land IN jail; and again, thoSe VINO
stick too close to book learning" find that
cruelty sticks too close.
Intelligence, alas often does not lead to
kindness. Observation Of the animal world
shows this. The most intelligent creatures,
especially among the fishes, are the meanest
The birds happily know nothing of human
laws, time changes; they live as they always
have lived, and show how silly the liberals,
with their desire for change, change, change,
for new ways, anything just SO it is different,
really are.
The birds know-with that deep knowledge
of animals-that one only fools himself and
others when he deliberately changes the
clock" Daylight saving time is hokum, the
birds tell us, which fools nobody but ourselves.
Clocks mean nothing to the birds. The great
flying disk of the sun is their only timepiece,
and so far it has been very good one.
How do you know" asked the captain OF the
sergeant. that your morning gun is correct?"
81 set it, sir, by that clock at the jewelry store
The next day the captain, in town, asked
the jeweler. How do you know your chrono-
meter is right?"
st set It," smiled the jeweler, confidently, 'by
that morning gun ut the fort"