| Show I AN EDITORIAL BYI BY I I FLORENCE DAVIES j ANOTHER FEAR rE EXPLODES Once gain again an old m th has baa b been en put P to rout This time lime It Is for the tear of the dread tarantula For tears ears that great grent spider r hILS haa be n thought to be so deadly that 1 the presence of ot a vagrant agrant tra r ron rI I on a bunch of ot bananas far tar from Its homo home land was as as considered a neigh neigh-I neigh neighborhood s sensation 1 let et actual proof of death Math from Its lis bite seemed to bo be lacking So recently a knight of science a little bras bra braver er than the rest ha has faced the tarantula In Its lair and fought the question out with Ith him with the tho happy result that the professor proCessor lives to tell the tale After i r i upon animals Professor W IV J I I Bearg Bearl of the University of Arkansas Arkanas Actually forced the to sting him 1 The I he fang pricked ha sharply and the toI I professors protessor's finger linger became slightly poisoned and S swollen Sollen ollen But nothing else happened I I ISo So there goes goCS one more old tear fear blown to bits and lOd the heart of ot It found to be only a 11 phantom I It Its s I happened 0 o o er er and 01 o er again with f tears fears ars Most lost of ot them I Iare are aro only phantoms E Een E en rattle rattie- rattlesnakes snakes snake don t I kill as often orten as rattle rattle-I the theare are supposed to and draughts ben been robbed of half halt th their lr terrors by bythe bythe bythe the modern doctors while night air lr hu has long ago lost P Pen en en its mythically ly poisonous mythical I poisonous properties s I Who ho can cami tell how hoa many other fears e are which belong In inthe lh the limbo of exploded theories I Yet in spite spile of ot professor Bearg s ou will silI III find that some p People ol le will III ili be loath to belle believe that tarantulas ar are harmless harmles Th They y would I lather mather cling to the rais huir-rais- rals Ing Ing possibilities of the old tradition tion jut just as a some Borne people 8 seem em to prefer to hug their fears most ot of which haic bae ba ba e Just as na little foundation foundation liin greatH In fact fet as the fear tear of ot these thue great U n I 1 h hey y fear loneliness and nd debt and po and disease and nd a lot of other perfectly empty possIbilities until their very el er fearIng lerine actually i I makes some of ot their pet Iet dreads dread tome come true I Fear ear Is a 8 cry ery bad thing for us It Is In fact tact one of ot th the things wrecks us ner and If It iou ou have no tears fears the are that iou OU are fairly airly well neIl ell and happ If It YOU OU have any It II be well weli to take stock of or them While most good lively fears tears are like skeletons to be kept hiding In iii dark closets It Is a good thing to get lIet them out Into the sunlight once In a while ehile and look at them squarely Just what shat hat are the thc 7 1 Could th they y stand a straight look right bet beta sen een the eyes eru or if ou looked at them that hard would the fly awa away Probably most moat of them are like Professor Bearg's tarantulas ou thought them fatal But take a 11 chance like he did and let letone letone letone one of them sting ou and you II 11 bh find out that they are I quite harmless |
