Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-15
This and That
By Charles Z, Tracetoeu
= fs,v,k ~~xRaa HAHv


Let me know how to keep rabbits out Of my
garden. ~..>..:.. ~.
These pesky animals are frst-class MUS
ances but agree with you that killing seems
to settle nothing, as witness World Wars and
II. 20. 80
IT there is any real way of getting rid of
them, please tell me- or else will have to get
out the old gun In despair. ...s
1T seems to me there ought to be some way
OF inducing these varmints to 60 elsewhere
Perhaps am not unlike many other people,
in that if I can shoe them away, don't care
where they 60, or how much of nuisance they
make Of themselves. -
1T all depends, as some one has said, on
whose OK is gored. Only this time the OK hap
pens to be yours truly, E. s. L"
One Of the best ways OF keeping rabbits ,alt of
a garden patch is to run long lines on stakes
about q foot high, and to these lines fasten
pieces OF white cloth.
Another good way is to work up philosophy
of everyday living in which q few rabbits do not
worry one. ...'-. --
This is it must be admitted, easier to talk
about than to do. -
But something may be done in purely phys
ical way, which in turn reacts on the mind.
This way is easy. 1t is simply to watch the
creatures and get to admire them
Once this is achieved, the rabbits become, not
nuisances. but guests. Usually one does not get
after ones guests with a gun.
There are few creatures that visit the aver
age suburban garden that are more downright
interesting to watch than the wild Dummies.
When one thinks of the many hazards they
must face, some of them faced also by man,
notably the motor car. one must feel certain
admiration for such little Things at large IN
such great world.
And then one suddenly realizes. as in a flash,
that mighty man, himself. Is no less little
thing, when compared with all creation and
the spirit of the Creator; and that he Is equally
alone in all that vastness of space, mind and
spirit 1t is easy then to realize that one needs
protection as much as the other.
If a little of this spirit of oneness manages to
get into the mind, the safety OF the rabbit IS
secured-at least in that yard.
The damage these creatures do in any one
place, is negligible.
What are a few carrots, after all?
The damage done by rabbits, except in few
cases land these are exceptionally is small, IN
comparison with what invisible enemies OF plant
life can do.
The things we cannot see are by far the most
harmful.
Yet most of us insist on feeling that seeing
is believing, as the old saw had 1t, properly
enough when it first was conceived. In those
days, before the microscope had been invented,
the invisible life in a drop Of water was un-
known.
Today we look far, far into space, and even
farther into the famous drop of water.
The invisible killers now are known to be the
worst of all.
One small bunny in back yard; compared
to them, is pure creature of light.
He too, is victim of invisible killers.
He will do us no harm. If We let him alone,
ond very little n the garden really
When this years crops are eaten, who will
miss the little the rabbits took?
It is all very silly. this incessant harping
about rabbits eating ones carrots and squirrels
taking ones sweet corn, and some other crea-
lures doing damage of some other sort
All the damage the animals and birds have
done In all time is far. far less than single
4tom bomb is capable of INJECTING.
Maybe If We begin to spell 1t "atomb,' We viii