Show if PARTICULAR R INSECTS ANTS ARE NOT SO WISE AS THEY ARE CLEAN Solomons Advice to the Sluggard Is Disparaged by German Scientist Scien-tist Facts of Interest In-terest According to Dr Escherlcli a learned entomologist of Strasburg university uni-versity Solomon erred In commending commend-ing the ant to tho sluggard as a shining shin-ing example of wisdom and Industry Tho German savant thinks Solomon I would have better Justified his claim Ito I-to bo regarded as the wisest man that ever lived had ho cxolled the ant as nn exponent of cleanliness lie ball just published the results of an ex initiative study of these wonderful Insects In-sects He combats tho views of those Investigators who assign to them almost al-most human Intelligence Hut as ex ponents of that virtue which stan Its next to godliness he maintains that ants stand preeminent and If the human hu-man race would pattern after them In this respect half the diseases on which doctors thrive would vanish Ants he declares abhor dirt In any form about their bodies Nature has provided them with Implements that serve the same purpose as combs and brushes In the hands of civilized folk and they make far more effective use of them They are never too busy to clean themselves No job Is so Important Im-portant to an ant that he wont knock off work to clean himself He does not wait until his days labors are finished fin-ished to perform his ablutions He I Is never too tired to lend another ant a hundor rather a legto effect a thorough scouring He will toledato loafing l occasionally for the professor profes-sor asserts it Is a mistake to suppoSo that ants are everlastingly hunting up jobs but he wont put up with dirty neighbors Cleanliness Is the supremo law of tho community nut the professor rather detracts from the credit one would otherwise bo disposed to give them for the practice prac-tice of this most exemplary virtue by telling us that ants aro driven to it by tho conditions of their existence Without tho most scrupulous clcnnli floss ho says they could not recognize recog-nize each other nor communicate anything The cohesion of tho Indl vldual with Its fellows is maintained solely through tho medium of tine sense of smell If tho ant is covered with dust tho possibility of its being recognized Is diminished to an extraordinary extra-ordinary degree The antennae In particular must always bo kept clean for It Is only with their aid that tho ant remains In close communication with Its tribe It Is their highly developed sense of cleanliness the proiessor says which also explains the ants funerals about which so much has been written writ-ten Ants It Is well known carry their dead to definite burial places where they arrange them In most careful order Tho little creatures do not however do this with the object ob-ject of providing their dead comrades with tho last resting place Dr Es cherlch states they merely obey tho Instinct of cleanliness which ins pels them to remove all refuse from tho nest and carry It away to a definite defi-nite spot |