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Show IT KILLED THE CAT, BUT New York is installing lire alarm boxes without glass doors. This will Increase the number of falno alarms rung in by mischief-makers who "obey that impulse." Tho Paul Prys will find it hard to resist re-sist a fire alarm handle dangling free outside the red box, just as they cannot can-not resist touching wet pattlt with their fingers to nee if it's dry, or pok ing an umbrella tip in a freshly laid concrete sidewalk. Shrewd psychologists a long timo ago realized that the Paul Pry Instinct could bent be kept in bounds by making mak-ing it .necessary to break a pane of glass before ringing for the flro engines. en-gines. Behold little Wlllip. embryonic Paul Pry, marveling at spring, pestering pa With Questions about what makes the j grass prow, why tho days are getting longer, where the wind goes to when it stops blow Ing; 1 ;iter on, little Willie will be tst Ing dgynefll Ol fresh paint, taking his : wntch apart to see If he can got it together to-gether again, trying to eat everything that looks as if his Jaws could master j it. Children try to taste their wcy to knowledge. Bo thankful for this Curiosity Is the force that lias prodm d all comforts, com-forts, all knowledge, all civilization. All tonus of animal lile constantly are trying to improve themselves. The desire is manifested by their curiosity. Go into tho woods Start chopping In ball an hour ii ou look about, you j Will see an army of eyes among the trees curious squirrels, flocking to see what it's all about. Trapper, laid up with a broiten leg In a trail cabin of the Yukon, drives :a short pole in the snow and to It I fastens a rag. Animals will see the rag flapping in the wind and, steered by curiosity, will come from miles awa to investigate. That gets them within range of the hunter's rifle. Animal trainers differ as to whether menageibf monkeys or human spectators specta-tors get the most fun from watching each other. The instinct of curiosity Is so pow , rrfully developed in man that any-thing any-thing dangerous has to be made fool- proof Pill a "Danger Slav Out'" sign on a shed containing dynamite. Nearly everj one that pauses will either force the door wiiii u Qlub or peer through Crat ks and knotholes to learn what's Inside Wisdom, handed down from the experience ex-perience ol the pest, i disrespected because the average person's curiosin .impels him to find out for himself 'Thus youth ha Its fling, the bootleg-, bootleg-, ger constantly bus a new crop of cus tomers and. in general, man learns 'very little from experience, j The motive force of life is the Paul ; Pry instinct. |