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The Home Circle for Our Young People
= Conducted by MRS. G. B. LINDSEY
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Like as a tale that has a joyous ending
The raindy day is drawing to a close,
Cloud upon cloud of blue and bronze
are blending,
The sky is rimmed with rose!
The rain has ceased; the skies that
noon saw ashen
As gray as grief and sorry to the
sight—
Are splendid now; the winds tempes
tous passion
Has faded with the light!
The sky has brightened like a human
brow,
Where Sorrow’s signs are suddenly
erased
The Wonderful Ant and Bee Mother
as Studied by the Naturalist
In their larval stage they are all
precisely alike, both mothers and
workers, and to any one of them is
open the chance to become a mother
ant. It all depends upon the kind of
food which is supplied to the individ
ual after a certain moment of its ex
istence has passed.
The queen bee never works, for she
is surrounded from the moment of her
selection by a crowd of workers whose
business it is to look after her. All
the worker wasps, however, die in the
autumn, and the mother wasp must
pass the winter in seclusion, waking in
the early spring to attend to the duties
of establishing a home. Day by day
and week by week she labors on, until
at last the earliest developed workers
come to give her a well-merited season
of rest.
The ants, however, have still a dif
ferent custom. During the middle of
the summer they all remain quietly
together in the parental home, the old
mothers, the young males, and the
younger queens, until some fine day
the younger ones go away together.
A few hours later the males may be
found on the ground, killed by the un
pitying workers, while some of the
queens return to their natal nest to
increase the already large number of
mothers. Others of them do not re
turn, but find places of refuge where
ever they can, passing the winter as do
the wasps, and setting up their own
homes in the spring, and attending to
all duties until the workers are pro
duced to take this labor from them.
The Golden Age for May 1, 1913
WHEN FAILS THE LIGHT.
—Arthur Goodenough.
By unexpected happiness and now
No gloom thereon is traced!
It is as tho’ the sun at day withdrew
With all tranquility from his domain,
Conscious, the while, beyond the far
thest blue,
That he will live again!
So be my end; not with wild tears
and wailing,
And vain regrets for things undone
—and done —
But with calm faith, tho’ there the
light is failing
That somewhere shines the sun!
The lot of the mother with an estab
lished colony is an easy one, and they
exist even as long as ten years, cared
for tenderly by the workers of the
nest. This is, in brief, the story of
the ant.
In his garden Janet has many colo
nies of ants, and by giving them nice
roofs of stone or tile, he has had the
opportunity to lift this and study the
habits of the creatures beneath it. The
care of the young is one of the most
striking features that he has been able
to observe. There is, it seems, a daily
displacement of the eggs and young
that is very curious. There are cer
tain of the workers who make this
their special business, as Janet has as
certained by spotting the ants with
paint. The purpose of the change is
to give the eggs or cocoons the very
best chance possible for development.
At night they are carried down into
the lower galleries and chambers of
the nest, so as to be sheltered from
the chilly atmosphere of the night. In
the morning, as soon as the tempera
ture is sufficiently raised, they are
brought up again into the higher gal
leries. As the day goes on and the
conditions change and the heat be
comes stronger or the atmosphere dry
er the precious burdens are carried
about and deposited in those places
which are best suited to them. Every
one who has disturbed an ants’ nest
has remarked the facility with which
the creatures seize cocoons almost as
large as themselves and carry them
away; and this faculty betokens the
constant practice in this kind of work,
the moving of the young.
Eggs, caterpillars, and cocoons are
all equally important to the preserva
tion of the colony, so all are cared for,
and are moved about according to a
regular system. This entails much
work on the laborers. Then they have
to keep the nest clean, to remove from
it debris of all kinds, the cast-off coats
of the caterpillars, the empty cocoons,
the dead, and the dirt; they must at
tend to the engineering portion of the
enterprise and excavate new galleries
and chambers, carrying out the soil a
grain at a time; then they must look
after the nourishment of the colony,
and last of all, they must protect it
from invaders and enemies. This
makes for them a busy life, and num
erous as they are, they have all plenty
to do.
THE PURPLE FINCH.
By Mabel Osgood Wright.
The family of Sparrows and Finch
es, like that of the Warbler, Black
birds and Orioles, offers such an in
finite variety of species and disports
so many contradictory fashions in the
cut of beaks and tinting of plumage
that when we have even a bowing
acquaintance with it we feel that we
really have entered the realm of bird
knowledge.
In addition to its rarity, family
Fringillidae is the largest of all bird
fa miles, numbering some five hundred
and fifty species, that inhabit all parts
of the world except Australia.
The one point that binds them to
gether which the untrained may dis
cover is the stout bill, conical in
shape with great power for seed-crush
ing. For, first and last, all of the
tribe are seed-eaters, and though in
the nesting season much animal food
is eaten by adults as well as fed to
the young, and tree-buds and fruits
arc also relished, the tribe of Finches
and Sparrows can live well upon seeds
—seeds of weeds, the seeds conceal
ed between the scales of pine-cones
and the pulp-enveloped seeds of wild
fruits that are called berries.
This ability to pick a living at any
season of the year that the seeded
weeds of waste fields and roadsides
are uncovered makes what are called
“permanent residents” of many species
of Sparrows, and causes them, when
they migrate, to still keep to a more
restricted circle than their insect-eat
ing brethren. Also, alas! this seed
eating quality, coupled with beauty of
plumage and voice, has made them
favorite cage birds the world over.
Happily, freedom has now come to
them in this country, together with all
our birds, and as far as the law may
piotect them they are safe, though
the latest reports say that small con
signments of Mocking-birds and Cardi
nals are still smuggled over seas by
the way of Hamburg.
Run over the list of prominent mem
bers of the Fringillidae, or family of
Finches and Sparrows. Call them by
memory if you can; if not, take a
book and look them up.
The Sparrows are clad in shades of
brown more or less streaked, and their
dull colors protect them amid the
grasses in which they feed and lodge.
The birds of brighter plumage are ob
liged to look out for themselves, as it
were, and keep nearer the sky, where
their colors are lost in the blaze of
light.
Colors of Finches.
First to be remembered are the birds
that wear more or less red —the Cardi
nal, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the
Redpolls, Crossbills, the Pine Gros
beak and the Purple Finch (who is no
more purple than he is blue or yellow.)
Then come three birds who would
seem original and striking in any fam
ily—the Indigo Bunting, the southern
Blue Grosbeak and the beautiful paint
ed Bunting or Nonpareil, clad in blue,
red and green plumes.
Red and blue —then yellow must fol
low as a natural sequence, to complete
the primary colors. It is a fact, in the
oral kingdom .that the three primary
colors never exist naturally without
artificial hybridization in one family;
thus, there are red and yellow roses,
but no blue; red and blue verbenas,
but no yellow, and so on.
In the Sparrow family, however, we
have the three primary colors in all
their purity—the American Goldfiinch