Show HANDED DOWN PROM from EVE dread of Is almost universal Uni versa I 1 and must date sack back to the cradle of the ra ram race M not for five and probably pot not tor for years yeara has any ancestor ot ours lived in a country or zone which was inhabited by a single dangerous venomous serpent or a snake of any kind big enough to kill bill a jack rabbit yet the dread of serpents is as aa vivid na as it was in the days ot of the garden carden of Eden ed ene nys says dr woods hutchinson in an article on the dread of cats snakes and mice in success magazine their baleful eyes their stran giang colls coils the ghastly sinuousness ot of their movements the noiselessness of their approach the agony and deadliness of their sung sting throb and echo like a wagnerian wag idt motif through all literature and legend aro are bitten and branded into our deepest consciousness ness as aa it if by fire an imitation of their hiss has bait become the expression pre silon of our deepest contempt and loi loathing thing A hiss is understood in every language under heaven and every three year old to express derision and di silke thrusts out hlo his little pink tongue and with it imitates the flickering movements of the serpents tongue the aversion to lo snakes has no appreciable prec preci able lable present utility for the risk of any modern american or european being killed kille d by anaka bite even tn in the most rattlesnake ir trusted sted and pro community Is about one thirty fifth that of d death hi by lightning stroke it IL must date data back to at kast cast the cradle of the rate raca ra ca in the tropics but even here lu its distribution Is a singular one ond 01 0 all suir nals above the alz ilz of a squirrel one two display it in any vivid or paralyzing form it is at ar echo til cd the days when ben our common ancestor anc eitor taped covered with hair and probably arboreal in its ita habits babits swung and rollic rollick iteA I 1 ty the he tree tops topa ia arm 4 iv w 0 |