Show young babies show remarkable strength they represent man in his arboreal days it is said that very young babies will grasp one s fingers holding on with remarkable strength so they can be lifted to a sitting position be cause they represent man in his arboreal days when he still swung from limb to limb in the treetops writes J otis swift in the new york world telegram habits stored in the subconscious and handed down generation to gen aeration are so strong in men am mals and plants that they perform certain things even in their sleep beside roads and pasture paths in vacant lots of towns and growing on city dumps the bare sere sw still skeletons of cockle bur clot bur Xan manum marium with sum I 1 in mer er leaves broad ovate mostly three lobed dentate stand aslee asleep P dead lifeless apparently the oblong burs or seed contain ers are armed with rigid prickles little hooks for reaching up and seizing the wool of sheep hair of dogs stockings of human beings that they may ride away and the beads be scattered these ad venturous rides begin as won as ane seeds are ripe in the altur m but millions of years of doing it have made the hab t ao 0 o strong they do it even in midwinter when the stalks are dead like the grasping hand of a miser which reaches out for gold even after the soul has gone where gold is not a medium of exchange in case of the cockle bur weed it is a worthy thing this instinct strong in death for it teaches the weak hearted that there is terrible earnest earnestness nels in life s de termination to persist on earth though the word xanthe lum is from the greek for yellow the plant once used to make that dye the scratchy burs are not yellow in spirit they are brave men in hibernation 0 death |