Show W WONDERS 0 N 0 E R S OF OAF THE SPIDERS SPIDER'S S PI 0 E R S WEB I A great rbt never forgotten ten by bythe byI bythe I the spider is that she must always behind her thread ad that will enI enable enable en en- I able her to find again the tho points that she sho has haa left From this point the ex- ex plow plover lets lotH herself do down suspended I from rain her hOl Inseparable threads to balance balance bal bal- I ance h herself and If she does not find I the sought 1 for point climbs back along alonS' the thread which she a absorbs n In ascending Thero There are necessary experiments at first and useless threads and others that serve C as false tale work The spider r carefully tests each euch thread renewing and repairing wherever when when- I over ever necessary sedge seary The threads thren J which stand stan 1 the greatest strain are UIe larger huge I Ithan than others and no br break breal al i is EI C over eve seen seeni en 1 i 1 In them thom A n net t as a tt rule lasts only I the threads quickly lose for tor a day as their strength th and amI elasticity It is I replaced ev ovens every rl morning except when the spider h his has either a n days day's provision provision provision pro pro- vision in advance or when she Is old and sluggish There se seems ms to be a distinct process pro plO process cess of thought In many man of the tiro spiders spider's actions The first thing thins done one is IH tho the construction of oC the framework the tiro tho the radii arc o in place the Ito worker re returns returns re- re returns I. I turns to the thu center and touches tho thoI threads one by ono one as If It counting I them but she is really seeing seeing- whether one may not be wanting wl and when she sho finds that by mistake too great a space has boen left Ifft anywhere phi h fills Avis it with a supplementary mE thread I a f I When by reason of ot the tile obliquity of ot tho the framework the radii be become omo too long Ions the spider makes a note v trans tan transverse verse line IIno attachment Tho Thu last part of tho the work Is tho the long spiral and demands deman demands de de- mands man 8 patience for Cor it turns about tho the center of or the tho wt web b a n great number num num- number ber of or times and each spire must be fastened to all nil the radii The rhe he latter owing to their theil elasticity uI ar Cl vets very mobile and they must therefore therefore there there- fore foro bo be held In fn place A As a seamstress seam seam- seamstress Seam Seam- stress when putting together two pieces of cloth begins basting them at atthe atthe atI I the principal points point of tact co so eo the spider makes maltell a a. provisional spiral with largo turns which al s her heT inputting in inputting I putting putUna in the permanent spiral and amI andis is removed later f. f j 4 21 2 flo r 1 f |