| Show homemakers PAGE marie alarie M ogden note an article clipped from an ail eastern paper many weeks igo ago attracted our attention since it deals with a seeming mystery as we watch a spider spinning a web or walking in space or so it seems wie there seems to be no visible means of transportation how a spider makes a web between bushes some distance apart is the title to ail article written by mrs M M B of stuart florida who says 1 I have often wondered how a spider could make a web between two bushes which are some distance apart since lie he cannot fly or jump that far to begin with small spiders can fl fly y they fly in a parachute contrivance of their own making perching on a post top or other high point when a brisk breeze is blowing the spider faces the wind and holding on firmly with all eight legs tilts up his spinneret and spins out se several veral silky threads when the threads become six eight or even ten feet long and an extra strong gust of wind happens by the spider jumps into the air and the flight is begun As he be jumps he be turns on his back and makes a balloon basket of threads so that he may ride comfortably borne by breezes and upward current of air these tiny eight legged aviators travel great ds distances mariners marinero Ma have reported seeing such spiders alight on the decks and rigging oi of a ship a hundred miles from shore A spider which wishes to build his nest between two bushes does not need to leap or f fly ly across the intervening space he merely climbs to a high point on the windward bush and begins to spin out a long strand of silky thread the spider then fastens the other end of the strand to the hush bush on which it is standing and hanging back down crawls back and borth forth several times along this swaying n g thread additional strands to make it stronger to run a lower line between the bushes the spider may attach a thread to the first bush and then crawl to the other trailing out silk i ilk as he goes until the desired point on the second bush is reache cd with two boroz parallel cables cable in place the spinning of the rest of the familiar wheeland wheel wacel and spokes web isa is a relatively simple matter W P keasbey I 1 our oar loyalty is the key to our character to bow the knees is an ail act symbolizing allegiance and obedience the heart of religion is loyalty to christ high living and high lives comes out of high loyalties and the nobler the subject or the object of those loyalties the more noble and worthy will be the life and character of those who profess and practice their fidelity our lives are greatly influenced and largely shaped by the principles and the persons to which and to whom we yield allegiance our relationships have much to ido do with our destiny I 1 the goodness and the greatness lof of this cause so powerfully appealed to st paul as to lead him to subordinate all other causes it reorganized his whole life and unified his personal energies everything else had to be related to this one central burp purpose ose and for this reason he became a iman man of the undivided mind he laid the sum total of all his powers I 1 upon the altars of his lord his lord saw and blessed and used the offering un highest ends humanity magazine 0 john greenleaf whittier author of the barefoot boy and other cherished poems was color blind according to the better vision institute he could not distinguish between the shades of led and green his mother discovered the defect when as a boy he was picking strawberries he could not distinguish the difference in color between the berries and the leaves the poet however had an unusual appreciation of yellows and for that reason nature to him appeared 1 most beautiful in its autumnal colors 0 I low ilow the average person forms an ail opinion to a small measure of f information he be adds a dash of imagination and a large quantity of prejudice and shakes well with emotion selected 0 life is short time is precious and if our desire is to get somewhere we ve must learn to choose between the husk and the kernel julius jalius may silent thanks at least to god be given with a full heart our thoughts are heard in heaven wordsworth 0 the greatest friend of truth is tinie time her greatest enemy is prejudice colton |
