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Show THACKERAY -WAS ANGRY. She Sailors Who Intended to Play a- TrlcJ. Changed Ihelr Minds. Once upon a time the daughters ol Thackeray saw thatood man thoroughly thorough-ly and heartily angry angry to the point of profanity. It was during thob? Italian journey, when they were returning re-turning to tho shipn Genoa harbor afb er a day on the shora "Wo had to be on- board at a certain time," Mrs. Ritchie says in her Mao-Diillan Mao-Diillan paper, "so that we engaged a carriage and drove puickly to tho quay, whore the convicts olanking in their chains, were still atwork. A boat wa3 found, rowed by sonie sailors, who certainly cer-tainly did not wear chans, but who were otherwise not veiy unlike those industrious convicts in appearance. The bargain was made, wo all five enteied the boat, and a3 we wero getting in we could seo our great ship in the twilight, looking bigger than ever, and one rock-It rock-It and then another going off toward the dawning stars. "'They are signaling for us,' said ono of our companions. 'Wo shall scon be on board. ' "We had pulled some 20 strokes from the shore by this time when snddenlj the boatmen loft off rowing. They put down their oars, and one of them began talking v olnbly, though I could not understand un-derstand what he said. 'What's to be done?' said one of the young men to my father. They say they won't go on unless un-less wo give them 50 francs more, ' and ho began shaking hia het.d and remon strating in broken Italian. Tho boatmen boat-men paid no attention, shrugging their shoulders and waiting as if they were determined never to row another stroke Then tho steamer sent up two more rockets, which rose through tho twilight, twi-light, bidding us hurry, and then suddenly sud-denly my father rose, up in tho stern of tho boat whero he was sitting, and, standing tall and erect and in an anger such as I had never teen him in before or after in all my lifp, he shouted out In loud and impatient English, 'D yen, go on !' a simpl j malediction which carried more foroe tnan all the Italian polysyllables and expostulations of our eompanionsTOiOnxsurjirigaand groat took to their oars again and began to row, grumbling and muttering. When tve got on board the ship, they told us it was a well known trick the Genoese boatmen wore in tho habit of playing apon travelers and that they would Lavs sent a boat for us if wo had delayed anj VaiKer. " uro Thnntts Cnnecessaiyj "A great deal is said about men b mg thanked for giving up their seats In the street cars to women," said a man In conversation with a friend "Now, for my part, I don't want to be thanked for simply doing my duty. " "But is it your duty," asked tile friend, "to givo up a seat for which you have paid and stand up the entire trip to accommodate a strangor?" "I look at it as a duty. It is a deal easier for a man to haugo a strap than it is for a woman. The fact that a woman is standing while I sit annoys me. It does not matter in the least to mo that she is a stranger. I feel under obligations to givo her my place." "That is gallantry," eneered hw friend. "It comes nearer to being reciprocity Every fowdays somoman gives my wife or mother a seat in a crowded car, so I try to pas3 tho courtesy on. Only yesterday yes-terday I saw every man in a Gratiot avenue car give up his seat to some woman. Not one was thanked, or look ed as if he expected to be, or indeed gave the woman in tho case a chance to thank him. It was done as if all be-lougt-d to one family, but the true spirit of politeness was in tho atmosphere, and thaukc. though not audible, wero felu To tell the truth, it embarrasses mo to havo a woman repeat that set formula, 'Thauk you, sirl' " "I guess you'ro not often embar rassed, " retorted his friend cynically, and there tho conversation ended D troifc Frae Press? Tha entomolo 4ists havo detected ant duly noted a singular development o? the sense of taste in insects of tho bul terfiy family. Tho larva of butterflies and moths all eat foods which are not adapted to the wants and tastes of the perfect insect, and which, in some instances, in-stances, is positively obnoxious to tho fully doveloped creature. Take, for an instance, the horrid "hog nosed caterpillar," cater-pillar," which lives on the leaves of the prickly ash and also makes life burdensome bur-densome to the orango grower. Its parents par-ents are Mr. and Mrs. Papilio Ores-phontes Ores-phontes of the order L9pidoptora, family fam-ily Papilionidse, and aro the largest and most boantiful butterflies found in tho latitude of Micsoori. Tho full grown Insect of this species "ill not touch tho leaves cf either of tne trees mentioned abrwe, but on them it deposits eggs, and when thoco hatch the substance of the leaves furnish the proper food for th larva?. Are wo to infer from this curi 0U3 habit that the female butterfly of this specie3 remembers her early existence, exist-ence, aud from that argues that priokly ash and orange loaves aio tho propel food for her youugi or aro we to say that "instinct" guides her to a propel selection of food for her progeny? Is i not a fact that we attribute things to "instinct" because we aro ignorant that is to say, because we do not know Where "instinct" lems off aad roasai begins7 St. Loui9 Republic |
