Show hibernating ANIMALS HOW THEY PASS THE WINTER WHILE HOUSED UP they prepare thurell Thur Thein elv selves for the lung long fact rast by tat lutT thon lion they uro on ilia lie rat bt timy they ibave thus ie Is there any food good reason why man should not pass tho the u winter inter in a santo of hibernation if ho he fools liko like I 1 it ne as well as M tho the bear or tho the groundhog ground hog to hibernate bo be it remembered simply mean means to pass tho the winter in a state ot of 61 housed up oe rw wo might expressively put it no man could hibernate for six months ne as southey south oy felt inclined to do but neither could a bear boar our winters anro short it amny safo ly bo be euid at loat that tho the lilb ina period of tho the bear and other mammals in our latitude on ens s tho the philadelphia times ie Is not more than ton weeks now thoro thera are althon authon cases of mone mens fastic sIx weeks or more mom whilo allo taking considerable ov cry day fv cry movement in tho the way of exercise drains tho the 1 surplus vitality to a certain extent J just us as every revolution of a locomotive wheel requires some ron consumption of fuel in tho the furnace if i healthy man ua u to fatten him bif if as iho ilia hibernating mammals do ind and then keep ae as quiet as is tho the bear in his winter den possibly ho he might 11 0 through a ton weeks fast sued SLIM tho italian fasted six and a halt now york in a badly ventilated room and while taking liberal 1 0 cry day maroc and a halt half weeks more under euch such conditions aa as tho the bear fasts might therefore bo be possible for man man la Is so constituted that ho he can provide tho food and clothing and warmth necessary to carry him through tho the period of cold this nis is not so with many other animals and so nature has mado made provision for helping through tho the winter thus all reptiles serpents toads lizards and tho the liko mako nests in tho the ground when cold weather approaches then they go to sleep bleep and snooze comfortably until tho the sur ishino of spring time again warme warms them into activity hate bats and some fishes also pass tho the winter in a state of torpidity it is commonly beloved that such of our well known mammals oj tho boar bear ud bud tho the groundhog ground hog hibernate in winter in the same benso that tho the reptiles do but that Is a mistake many P a hunter has verified veri flod tho the truth of this statement by his exper lenco in stirring up a bear boar family in midwinter tho the difference between tho the lilb hibernation of the warm blooded animals and tho the cold blooded reptiles is very great tho the latter may romr in torpid for six months with very ute loss of weight this Is because their blood temperature Is nearly as low as that of tho the air that surrounds Bur rounds them and therefore but little animal food needs to bo be consumed in keeping them alive but tho the temperature of the warm blooded animals approaches approach da that of man which la is about ninety eight degrees no matter whether he IMS under tho the equator or within tho the arctic circle cirelo in this respect there Is not much differ once between man and tho the bear for example amplo ex from tho the moment tho the bear bouses houses up in his winter quarters qu artera ho he begins to loso lose flesh which Is the fuel that must constantly bo be consumed by both man and bear when fasting this is necessary to keep tho the high temperature of tho the blood instinct tells the hibernating mammal in tho the lato late autumn that ho he must make preparation for tho the time when enow snow and ice will prevent yua from gathering food ho ile responds to this warning by gorging himself as a pig docs in fattening timo time in the caso case of tho the bear he gets so st eu A at the beginning of winter that his body Is covered with a layer of fat sometimes an inch thick this mils Is the f el chiefly whose whoso consumption Is to hoop u him alvo dailve until tho the warmth of early spring will enable him to cam or steal his living again As an evidence tha that beara bears and tho the liko like are not actually torpid in winter wo we know that a warm spell arill alwag alwa s cause them to como come out of their dens and skirmish about for something to cat after an exceedingly cold winter a bear lear on his spring ring debut Is so lean and weak that le bo can hardly walk ho ile is I 1 liko like a man physically run down by long illness but ho he soon recovers rec overa from this condition it ho he can cart find somo some nuts or succulent roote roots or a convenient hen roost or pigsty pig sty the hibernation of the groundhog ground hog la IS similar to that of tho the bear of course courso you know the tradition that the arc ground nd hog bog always emerges from his hole holo on da tho the second of february then if ho he sees his shadow bo ho returns to winter quarter quarters knowing that the shadow portends many more da a of winter the trouble with this tradition ie is that it was banded handed down to us wrong end jore foremost most tho the groundhog ground hog pokes his nose out of his winter door jut just as the bear does as soon as ho he thinks there Is a possibility of finding something to fill hie his empty stomach if tho the conditions are am faNo favorable rable ho he will go in of food as a the bear does but if them li ii no encouragement he goes back in disgust like a hungry and die dis appointed tramp I 1 |