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Show cm muu6 hum I r i. A A -t . It's If you believe you can tell a rattlesnake's age by rattles, or that bats like hair - you're very wrong lot True! ft's merely coincidence when persons get warts after handling a toad. lS NOT TRUE when someone tells you that snakes don't die until sundown. sun-down. Or that bats like to get into rjr 'air. Or that a crow will talk if you i(t Its tongue. f 4 and tales told again and again . . . 4 raver told exactly the same at each "l" . . . have resulted in a lot of cm at ions and misunderstandings re-: re-: i animals and reptiles and birds. So 'l etplode a few of those myths, which h-;4 even you have accepted as fact. i 1 the authority for this correct in-1 in-1 ion is no less than Marlin Perkins, t of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, 1 r Ked internationally in his field. f'i t of all, what about the belief that ' snake will not cross a hair rope. If J r, A true, and zoo people have many times proven it by having rattlers craw! across such a rope. There's another myth that you can tell the age of a rattlesnake by its number of rattles. Not so. Fact of the matter is, a rattler gets a new rattle segment every time he sheds his skin, and that may be three or four times a year. In addition, these rattles break off very easily, so during dur-ing a year the snake may lose one or more. And it is just cruelty when someone splits the tongue of a crow in the misguided mis-guided thought that such an operation will help the bird to talk. Any talking a crow does is in his voice box, which is much deeper in a crow's body than in the human body. So splitting the tongue has no effect upon the speech, and you can cross that idea off your list Shout your protests if you want to, but -you're shouting in vain. Because toads do not cause warts. Toads have a warty skin, and in past ages people who have handled toads have later by coincidence had warts. But it's merely coincidence, and medical science has proved this time and time again. One of the silliest myths is that bats enjoy diving into a human's hair. That's not true either. Consider the facts. The present radar system used by our giant airplanes to "fly blind" is patterned after the bat. Flying in the dark, a bat gives out frequent high-pitched calls, and then directs its flight and locates objects from the resounding sounds as that call "bounces" back to his ears. Bats have been tested in a lightless room which was crisscrossed with many fine wires . . . and the bats flew through the room without ever touching touch-ing a single wire. So common sense will tell you they'd miss your head a mile. Another group of people insist you can always tell poisonous snakes by the fact they have triangular-shaped heads. Take just one example; the cobra, as deadly a snake as there is, doesn't have a triangularly-shaped head. What does that fact do to that old myth? And the wonders of nature have given rise to another commonplace belief name ly that a mother snake if frightened wfll swallow her baby snakes to protect them. Not so either. How that idea probably started, experts believe, is that baby snakes are born alive. Then around August a mother snake has been caught, and when cut open, live baby snakes just about ready to be born into the outside world-have world-have been found wiggling inside. When this happens a few times, a new superstition super-stition begins to grow. So the next time you are ready to pass on some piece of animal lore, think twice. It may not be true. "I'm going t'shovel off the walks now, mom Eddie's going to help me." a" .aii h n i i i m. H i lb ' to v-V t r Jk '3. ' t - r- Here are complete instructions to crochet this linen tray . cloth with its delicate lace edging from a linen scrap. Flowerets are worked into border at each end. f 1 MATERIALS lof Urge ball of White or Ecru, or i balls ny color. teel crochet hook No. 10 or 11. i piece of fabric 12Va x 12V4 inches. , I TO BEGIN i 11 and whip edges of 2. opposite sides ric. Fold piece in half (rolled edges measure 1V4 inches up from raw f mg fold of fabric and mark with a . asure IVi inches up from same raw nit .n1fJ J. .... -s luiieu eages ana mars witn an-K an-K With a compass or a saucer or Id draw an arc from pin to pin. f "long pencil line through both es of fabric to form a double scal-f scal-f nd of mat. Machine stitch along Wge, then roll and whin mAom rf le scallop. Finish opposite end in same '""! 40' j . e at end of a double scallop work sc closely around entire piece. Join with si st in 1st sc made. Now work end designs as follows: 1ST ROW: Ch 1, sc in same place as si tt, ch 5, skip about inch, sc in next st. Repeat from until there are 21 loops, work sc across to Va inch from point between be-tween scallops, ch 12, sc in st on next scallop scal-lop to correspond with st at beginning of ch-12. Ch 1, turn, work 16 sc over ch-12, si st in next sc, ch 1, turn, sc in next sc, (ch 5, skip 2 sc, scin next sc) 5 times; now work sc and ch-S loops to correspond with 1st scallop. Fasten off. 2ND ROW: With right side facing attach thread in an sc IVi inches from center point (between scallops), ch 5, holding back the last loop of each d tr on hook make 5 d tr in next ch-5 loop, thread over and draw through all loops on hook (cluster made); (ch 5, cluster in next loop) 4 times; ch 5, si st in st to correspond with other end. Ch 7, turn. 3RD ROW: Sc in 2nd ch-5 loop, (en 7, sc in next loop) 3 times; ch 7, si st in same place where thread was attached, si st across next 3A inch on fabric Turn. 4TH ROW: (Ch 5, in next ch-7 loop make cluster, ch 5 and cluster) 5 times; ch 5, si st in st to correspond with other end. Ch 7, turn. 5TH ROW: Skip ch-5, (sc in next loop, ch 7) 9 times; si st in base of ch-5. Fasten off. FIRST MOTIF . . . CK 10, join with si st to form ring. 1ST RND: 16 sc in ring. Join. 2ND RND: Ch 1, sc in same place as si st, (ch 5, skip 1 sc, sc in next sc) 7 times; ch 5, si st in 1st sc. 3RD RND: SI st in 2 ch, ch 5, d tr cluster in same loop, ch 6, sl st in 2nd ch-7 loop on last row on fabric, ch 4, d tr cluster in next loop on motif, ch 4, sl st in next ch-7 loop, ch 6, (cluster in next loop on motif, ch 10) 6 times. Join last ch-10 with sl st in top of 1st cluster. Fasten off. ' SECOND MOTIF . . . Make-another motif 'and join it in same way to .corresponding .corre-sponding two ch-7 loops at other end of last row on fabric. Fasten off. CENTER MOTIF . . . Work 1st and 2nd rnds same as pn 1st motif. 3RD RND: Sl st in 2 ch, ch 5, d tr cluster in same loop, ch 6, skip one ch-7 loop on fabric, sl st in next loop, ch 4, d tr cluster in next loop on fabric, ch 6, d tr cluster in next loop on motif, ch 5, sl st in corresponding ch-10 loop on 2nd motif, ch 5, (cluster in next loop on motif, ch 10) 4 times; ch 5, sl st in corresponding ch-10 loop on 1st motif, ch 5, sl st in top of 1st cluster. Fasten off. Work other end of mat same as this. EDGING . . . 1ST RND: With right side facing attach thread in 1st sc on straight edge of fabric, ch 1, sc in same place where thread was attached, ch 10, skip about Vi inch, sc in next it. Repeat from across to last st on straight edge. Now work along scallop as follows: (Ch 10, holding back the last loop of each d tr on hook make d tr in each of the next 3 loops, thread over and draw through all loops on hook) 7 times; sl st in next free loop on motif. Fasten off. Attach thread in corresponding corre-sponding loop of motif on other end, (work OFFER MORE This is the first of many make-it-yourself patterns and instructions presented to our readers. .There will be complete knitting and crocheting instructions instruc-tions for many more lovely items in forthcoming issues items you'll want to make. Watch for them. d tr's in next 3 loops as before, ch 10) 7 times; sc in 1st sc on straight edge of fabric. fab-ric. Work remainder of 1st rnd to correspond. corre-spond. 2ND RND: Ch 1, in next loop make sc, h dc, dc, tr, 8 d tr, tr, dc, h dc and sc (shell made). Repeat from across straight edge and in the next 6 loops; in next loop (between (be-tween the last 2 groups of joined d tr's) make sc, h dc, dc, tr and 4 d tr; in next loop (on motif) make 4 d tr, tr, dc, h dc and sc (2 half shells made). (Work shells in each of the next 2 loops on motif and half shells on each of the following 2 loops) 3 times. Continue thus around. Join and fasten off. Abbreviations In Knitting & Crochet t () . . . . stitch (es k '. knit P purl inc ................. increase dec decrease Ch chain incl ................. inclusive C . single crochet half dc half double crochet I St slip stitch asterisk) . . . Repeat instructions following follow-ing asterisk as many times as specified. Repeat instructions in parentheses as many times as specified. For example: "(P 2, jit 3) 3 timetP means to make whatever is in parentheses par-entheses 3 times in all. ly accepted, and both are being used every day in police . 1 . V.n |