Show LITTLE BEES WISE Scientist Says They Can Judge Time of Day Without Trouble Exchange The latest observer of the bees cred its Is them with wih ability to judge the time of or day He Is Augustus Force a a Frenchman and his studies were In Involuntary Involuntary Involuntary voluntary at the outset He lives in a avilla avia avilla villa via not far from Crom Paris and in summer It I is the habit of O his family to take their meals outdoors on a terrace terace At 7 in the morning the te ta table table table ble was habitually set for the light French Fench breakfast hr br A great geat dish of preserved fruit frit was always a feature of this meal meal At noon came the grand or pr luncheon when there was no fruit At 4 something like the English tea was served and then again preserves made their appearance remaining on the table for half to of ot an hour The bees had their colony about a hundred yards from Crom the terrace but until last lat June they never gave the te slightest trouble Then the cook put puta a basin of cherries cheres preserved In syrup to cool in a window near the table There were some flowers fower In the win window window window dow A bee visiting these discovered the cherries cheres and soon came back with wih the whole swarm sar to enjoy them When they came back later and found the cherries cheries gone they went foraging forging and presently discovered the preserves on the breakfast table We are lost said the proprietor we will have to give up eating here At first frt the bees buzzed over the terrace all al day from dawn lawn to dusk Then they began to o disappear in the I middle of the day They made early I I breakfast t and afternoon tea impossible but they were totally absent at the luncheon hour About the middle of July the family gave up using the tho ter terrace terrace terrace race for the te bee Infested meals but I by way of ot experiment the table was set one morning moring as a usual Promptly at I 7 a m in the bees began to arrive arrve and at 10 when the table t ble was cleared as usual they tey ceased coming Not a trace of oC a bee was seen again agin until 4 The luncheon waa was eaten eten without the presence of a a single one But at 4 they began to gather again They were plainly surprised at finding no preserves the table was wa not set but in increasing numbers they kept up the search until about 5 when they gradually took themselves off or This kept on for several days after the table ceased to be set The bees came looking for It between 7 and 10 In Inthe Inthe Inthe the forenoon and 4 and 5 in the after afternoon afternoon noon In fact tact however they recognized recognized recognized the time they observed It i with wih regularity until in the course of or a week or two they ceased their vis visIts visits Is IsIs Its ble Is W altogether finding them tem unprofitable I |