Show By Ily ARTHUR N y PACK P The TIie American Nature AssocIatIon Most Moat birds even the hardiest nut nest t In tho the warmer warme months for tor then only can they bring up their tender young But the tho Emperor penguin chooses midwinter as its Ita nesting time Its chosen home Is an Ice tee field near th the south pOlo pole The Emperor Is la the largest and handsomest of ot It Its I group and ln In Inmany Inmany many ways the tho most remarkable It weighs weigh as much as 30 90 pounds It never visits land and It nests In the bitter cold of ot tho the Antarctic Antarctic tic Such a bird may well chal clISI challenge lenge admiration We may won won- wonder wonder wonder der why the great bird abhors the land hind but since it has cho cho- cho cho len Ion to nest neat on the Ice surely It dou well to the time when the tho floe Is not likely to break up beneath It I So So In the cold and darkness of the tho winter tho female lays her single Ringle egg egR There Thero being no ma material ma- ma material with which to build a n nest she sho places the egg on tho the small platform formed by her legs ns as she sho stands on the tho Ice A fold told of ot thick Valm feathers covers It and the two-month two tn- tn Incubation In Incubation period begins But the moth mother r must mut seek leek the open water for her food fishes and crus crus- crustaceans cius crustaceans No Now It Is so BO Ordered In penguin economy that every member of tho the colony has Ms the tho mother Instinct highly developed though only a small portion have eggs So when she ohe la is hungry the brooding bird has merely to hand the egg over to someone In the waiting line euro luro that It will 1 betaken be betaken betaken I taken care of ot When the tIle chick finally hatches It lt Is treated for tor 8 several veral months much as the egg has been Un- Un Unfortunately Un Unfortunately fortunately for tor some of the youngsters they lire are In such de- de de demand mand inand by their foster parents that they are roughly handled In the c- c cy y t Penguin frequent exchanges and some some- sometimes sometimes sometimes times one dies neglected In an Ice crack while two old birds quarrel over Its possession After Arter such guch an Infancy the the bird surely deserves the long life liCe which Is thO lot of ot the Emperor penguin |