Show SNAKE SAND I GREAT T DELICACY Guests of a Scientist Surprised That Dish Is Not Chicken SERPENT HAS NO WISDOM Actuated by hr No So Love Lo of Iron Iun In Giving Chins Him ilium Warning i Chicago March l Snakes Snakes are arc all allright allright rl right ht as ns food but hut very unsatisfactory as pets for the rea reason on that the they have have- no psychological nature said a 11 scientist now connected with Harvard university Durin During u. u six year years years' residence resilIence In ht the west vest he lie made a close study of snakes and timely their ways wa s Having lIa them In hi hi his stud study and about his premises premises prem prem- In numbers ho became familiar with them The wisdom wl of the serpent he pronounces pronounces pronounces pro pro- a myth though h he hc admits that snakes have much cunning art arc wily wll to a u degree and perfectly understand understand un un- their powers and limitations For FOI example a rattlesnake docs does not retreat at In iii haste hasto when disturbed Realizing that its bite bile ends the game gamo it Is Invariably deliberate but If It left lef to itself In III its ls own good time lime It makes off Other venomous snakes also recede slowly understanding as does the rattler that they are arc equal to tu most emergencies Contrary to the common cotmon com cot mon notion snakes are arc not hostile U tl Uman man The most venomous ant ane powerful will run from fromn man if IC pos pos- sible It is only in defense self that any poisonous snake strikes es That Thal a rattlesnake rattles to 10 give warning of Its presence Is a popular fallacy It really does docs nothing of th kind The fhe tails of or all snakes when thoy are excited and the thc rattler is heard when disturbed Vh Why Wimy it has rattles on its lis tall tail no one has been able to find out Snakes Always lI It would be accord according In to this stu stu- student student student dent of snakes quite absurd to conclude con elude clude that the handsome Independent husk husky Rattlesnake Is ls Instinctively cly 01 of otherwise othel considerate of oC others In giving tIn t In lug ing warning of its Us presence As arall ar at all nil snakes it Is simply negative e in ht It lb attitude toward to others save when the tin instinct of oC self preservation is aroused arous I ed cd when it becomes positive In self self- defense The Tho chief chic difference between tin till wa ways gays of a poisonous snake nale and o of 01 one whose bite Is no more than the thc sting of a mosquito mo I la is In the time deliberate withdrawal of oC the time one ane and the host host- retreat of the time other In case casc of llan danger er erThe The lal largo o majority of snakes arc quite quilt harmless and slip awn away with all spoof at nl time tho approach of oC either cither a human Lerman be he beIng belog heInl log Ing or 01 an animal knowing that tin ilia t to conceal thern themselves Us is theli only men means ns of preservation atlon While not crediting snakes with wis wis- dom It Is said suhl that In mil mall many way they tare are the reverse of or stupid rime Tho are arc vcr very curious and when they elm ef do without danger clung to them themselves the thC examine an unfamiliar object will wit l keen and ancl repeated attention It Is related by this scientist tha thaIn In Ill attempting to capture a a water snake he lie put his foot on it In the tile 10 sot ooze olze at the creek creele side sale but fa failed II Id I'd tr U r hold It lt To see sc what th the lie snake e would do he stood perfectly still and in a afew afew i few moments It U came back baele and amI swimming swimming swim swim- ming slowly round and his hiM boot examined it most carefully not nol a as might be he supposed cd It by looking at It It but by b touching It at em every point with Its Ils tongue not once but a again aln and again |