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"ARE FISH HAPPY?
THEY KNOW BUT WILL NOT TELLI
In considering the above problem the student and lover of these aquatić ovipar- ous animals is handicapped at the start by a stultifying complex.
And that is this: Fish are curiously diffident about showing their emotions. When you catch one, and land it on the bank or on the shore, it does not betray by its face or by its eyes whether it is plessed or chagrined..
Even when you proceed to remove the hook from the gills, and, through unpro ficient technique, continue to break pieces off its face, it still shows neither pleasure nor disgust. Now I have been tokl by n man who has been a piscatorial enthu siast-and a good Churchman-for half a century that when a fish is caught and jerked into the air it does not choke in trying to breathe the unnatural element as a man does when drowning."..
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WHAT HAPPENS.
REVERSE.
ASKETCH AT SEA
"Y". PINTORNING POST.").
1935
RED AIR FLEET."
A THOUSAND NEW MACHINES" THIS YEAR.
Startling facts about the rapid growth
in the 1995 issue of Jane's "All the of military aviation in Russia are given World's Aircraft," which has just beca published (423, net) by Sampson` Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., says the Morning
STAY-AT-HOME YOUTHS. BIG DECLINE IN EMIGRATION.. From figures obtained from the Board of Trade an interesting analysis of the The sir Verkende slipped imperinward and outward movements of the ceptibly through a scarcely moving sea population during last year is now made Hey passengers were lounging about the possible. From the projects for group decks as usual. The two girls from settlements and the exodus of families to Sydney, who had been doing a three the Domitions it might have been expect weeks tour of Ceylon, were playing ed that the emigration figures would show deck tennis with the variety entertainer substantial increase, but, in point of one's aeronautical correspondent. It is anil his friend. The itinerant faith fact, there has been an extraordinary shown that the Union of Soviet R healer and the missionary (Seventh-day decline, the total number of emigrants for publics fins embarked upon a very Adventist) walked up and down, dis 1991 being 143,900, against 2911 for the ambitious air programme and that a vigorous attempt is being made to form cussing the gift of tongues. The golden-previous year.
Red Air Fleet which shall be numeri- The largest proportional decrease or really superior to the air force of any haired lady who like the variety enter tainer, was living chielly on the hope of carred among male adults of is years other country. an engagement with Fuller's vaudeville, and upwards, the number of such emi- flirted idly, with the air of a lazy grdhts being 0,031, in 1024, against leopard, with the very small jockey. 130,135 in 19 Of the decline in this whose fingers flashed with very large group the United States accounted for diamonds The afternoon was wearing due to the restricted quota, and en when a Mohammedan, in loose, the British Empire for 18,672, "overclean garments, came up the com
The youth of the migrants is strik. panion ladder and shuffled across the ing feature of the movement. More than deck, a little bundle, under his arm.
"Gee? What's te doing on the shiponehalf of the emigrants of is years aut over did not exceed 30 years of age.. aid one of the tourists, in the harsh Those ranging from 1 to 17 averaged 0 accents of New South Wales.
per cent, for males, and & per cent for Why asked her partner as he
females. dodged after the quoit
They won't let him land in Sydney White Austrylia.
Must be going to trans-ship straight
Bound away for the Islands, Suva, hazarded someone else.
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for:
By far the largest groups are those of the young men who left the country to take up agriculture and the young women who went into domestic service. Nearly 19,000 men emigrated for farm work, and about the same number of women enter ed service - abroad in households, Ate. Commerce and finance absorbed 4 men nad 3,079 women; 7.749 men were workers in the engineering or metal in- dustries, 1,761 professional men, and 2.77 miners and quarrymen.
THE PRAYING CARPET. One or two people lay back in their deckchairs and watched the man idly, The rest took no notice. He was equally oblivious of them, He took the bundle from under his arm: it was praying
The women described "wives or carpet. He spread it out on the deck, towards the sinking sun, and began his housewives" numbered 9.377. The rela evening prayer. The levelling slope aftive percentages of emigrants in relation the rays chiled to worship as clearly to occupations show a steady increase in And then occurred on the proportion of agricultural workers Among men and domestic servanta among women.
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What happens is this. Its" lungh be come chargeil with oxygen, which has a way of reusing the fish to a great state of excitement. All those movements when it alternately hangs its nose and tail on the ground demonstrate a high In the end its degree of exaltation. death is brought about by heart disease, as a result of hysterical excitement. If therefore it accepts death in this spirit, how are we to adjudge how it accepts. life The life of the fish is almost a closed book to us, but to anyone with ingination it is obvious that the query at the head of this article must be an swered in the negative Man has been too quick to regard fish more is fodder than as friend. For the living creatures he has copie in daily contact with he has developed almost morbid attitude of sentimentality. There is the R.S.P.C.A. There are homes for last dogs and socie- of these curious moments when a human ties for collecting stray cats, and there bring, suddenly shakes off the shifting are peaceial sanctuaries for worn-out
Fuss
of diffused complexities which horses. But whoever heard anyone doing forms his habitual sell, and for an in- anything for Esh And yet fish may hestant achieves urity, reality, what you frisky and compacionable. There was the will. The dark-skinned, rather dirty case the other day of a man who kept Asiatic evased to be had in his pince a pike in a pond and trained it. It now
was a prayer. It put out all artificial conies to the surface and feeds out of his circumstance as the sun kills the light
PAUPER ASYLUM. hand. You cannot eat cats and dogs, and
of an arc-lamp. The world turned in- the horse has had his day; but fish re- side out. What was plain grew trans- Friends of Louis Wain, the famous ent mains one of the truest and most import. parent and subeiled like a soap-bubble artist, who is at the moment an inmate ant friends to füan-true and important. what had been hidden iseance plain-of a pauper lunatic asylum,are endea. and yet an onitenst, and a suspect. The str. Narkunda was gone. A ghostly vouring to raise £1.000 on his hehalf. ship was gliding through a seg of light. Mr. Wain has been in an asyluru for more The stenting rays struck through the than a year, and is dependent on charity. phantoms fitting about ber shadowy.
A friend of Mr. Wain told an Borning) decks as if through pants of ding Standard representative that the great glass. The, praying man alone remain-
artist was absolutely without money.
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AS ADY muezzin.
LOUIS WAIN'S SAD PLIGHT.
FAMOUS CAT ARTIST IN A
THE ETERNAL CHASE. Think of the nervous strain of a fish's life. From the instant be is born--nay, earlier than that, even when he is in the Gri staze-until the day he is gobbleded tangible in that luminous world. The artist," he said, "sold the copy
: rau smuring
the
dark and solid against the shining sky. It was only for a moment. 'He knelt, ing through the prescribed movements, touched the rug with his forehead, go. prescribed formulat Quietly he folded his little carpet, and walked slowly to the companion ladder. Time and spaer awung back into their places. All was as before. Yet for an instant they had parted, letting through a sudden shaft of light from a world not realized."*"*
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up, he is being eternally chased by fish larger than himself. fie never geta a for sustenance on his agility in catching moment's respite. He in turn depends smaller fish. When not to hide under the precarious protection of shifting sea- Weel. His life is spent in cold und- dampness and often is a condition of pitch darkness. Think what that means, iles beneath the surface of the ocean where not a ray of light may penetrate, and where many of the poor fish are Actually born blind. Fancy spending all your life groping about in the mud, and slime, and darkness, being scored by molluses and stung by blind white sea The 250-mile automobile endurance snakes, and never knowing whether any test organized, by the Automobile Club thing you touch may not regard you asof Lettonia was preceded by several a potential hanquet! When your friead days of continuous rain and was mark complains to you of the tyranny and ined by a heavy downpour from beginning justice of social life, of taxes and poli- end, as the result of which 'the roads tics and the disgusting weather, say to
were in a shocking condition. him: Very well. As an alternative, how would you like to be a halibut " and watch his face closely to see whether any glib answer to this hypothesis will rise to the surface of his conciousness.
Think of the plaice and the dah flap ping about on the bed of the oceaa off Den pier. Think of their discomfiture when some trick of light through the water reflects their own form, or they behold the form of one of their fellows, and the truth dawns upon them that they could only have been made that absurd shape in order to fit conveniently into a frying-pan
ANATOLOGY.
After all, fish are only a degree in the scale of evolution It has been laid down that all fe is sacred, and there is no livelier living creature than the fish. The time is obviously coming when man will have to humanise his attitude towards Ash very considorably. When one reads of 50 million pounds being spent on eri sers, engines of destruction, which, in any case, will be obsolete by the time they are built, one cannot help but think how much wiser it would have been to have spent all this money on improving: the lot of fish. There might, for instance, have been built large mesh cages at the bottom of the sea where fish of different sizes could have been segregated, and thus the smaller fish could have enjoyed a life of freedom, released from this con- stant and wearing.strain of being etern ally pursued by the unknown.
And then these poor creatures who live in complete darkness, would it not he humane and noble of man to lower large are lights, enclosed in thick glass cylinders at various points on the bed of the ocean : Think how this would brighten their lives. Not only could they gather round it and derive warmth from it, but for the first time in their lives they would be able to see each other, and to observe the extraordinary beauty in both colour and Yorm of subaqueous plantlife. And then there is, melody. Do people realize haw peculiarly beni tive fish are to the diatonic scale? Have they thought what might be done f Stacey Aumonier in the Exening Standard
All shades in the hom-poms rosy beige, and. light neutral brick land in popu Clarity, both for day and evening.
The smart colour insinde, besidag the |: beige range, violet (despecially blum velvety, navy-bios, and black and white in combination All-black is not smart,
right of all his pictures, so he has no who admired his work are endeavouring income of any kind. Those of his friends to do something to help him. He has not asked for help, and, indeed, I think he would be rather annoyed if he knew that movement was on foot to raise money for him.
DREW 150,000 --CATS. (
The 1923 programme provides for the. acquisition of no fewer than 1,030 new neroplanes. Of these 30 are to be build in Russia, 330 are to be ordered from the Fokker Co., and 200 from Italian. firms During the first six months of 2, Russia bought about 700 modern aircraft in Holland and Italy.
AEROPLANE MAKERS,
A ̈Russian aircraft industry is being built up gradually. The Dax firm, of Moscow, is said to turn out four aero- planes a week, the Moskwa works, of Moscow, four arroplates a month, and the Anatra Co., of Taganrog, 10 sea planes, a manth. Other companies are the Lébedeff, Schetinia, and Sluzarcaku. The German Junkers Co. has in branch. factory in Muscow.
The original plans for the disposition. of the Red Air Fleet aver
Moscow: 3 obuervation squadrons, ✪ bombing squadrons, 1 air park.
Smolensks: 4 observation squadrons, 1 air park,
Podosinsk:oliservation squadrons, I bombing squadron, 1 air park.
Petersburg: 4 seaplane skuadrons, 2 bombing squadrons, i air park..
Rostoff: seaplane squadrons, I bombing squadron, 1 sir park.
Sebastopol: 5 observation squadrons abombing squadrons, 1 artillery spate ting squadron, à air 'park. `
OTHER SQUADRONS.
In addition, there are 31 observation and bombing squadrons in the Ukraine and Russia-in-Asia stationed at Tambof, Kieff, Kasan, Somura, Orlof, Omsk, and Tashkent.
structional details, with illstrations of Lists of performance figures and cais
British and foreign, are given in "AL rany interesting new machines, both
devoted to modern airships. The volume is a valuable and complete aeronautical the World's Aircraft," besides a section
reference work,
JUTLAND - MOTOR CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Jutland Championship for the Mr. Wain has delighted withens with
year 1025, which was held during his cat studies. Be began to draw. in 1996, and drew practically nothing but August over a distance of 180 miles cate. As a fact, he has drawn early was won by n 10-15 h.p. Fiat drive 150,000 cats, and at one time kept a small by Mr. Svendsen de Herning. The family of 17 cats who were always posing route selected for this contest was voo of the most difficult to be found in as models.
"Although he is well cared for in the Denmark, and the winning Fiat was the the entire distance institution at which he is living, his only car to suver friends" are hopeful thint they may be without the loss of points. able to make his last days more comfort- able and more peaceful than at present they can be."
Another Danish motor event held fast month comprized flying kilometre trial Under these difficult conditions only
at Enudohoved, on the Island of Finia, one ear, a 10-15 h.p. Fiat, entered in
Mr. Wain was assistant master at the when a touring Fint driven by Mr. the 2,000 cc. class, and driven by Mr. West London School of Art in 1881-2, Svendsen won in the third class and n Tekabean, succeeded in covering the full president of the National Cat Club 1801-sports model Fiat handled by Aagaard distance without the loss of points.. and 26, and chairman of the committee of the was the fastest in the 1,300 cc. division. of course won first place in its division. National Cat Club, a member of the The other class winners were a touring Two other Fints, a mode! 505. and a six-grand council of Our Damh Friend's and a sports Essex in the fifth division; cylinder 40 h.p. car, won respectively League, and a member of the National a sports Chevrolet and a touring Exa in the classes for cars up to 2.500 and Asti-Vivisection Society,
in the sixth division; a touring Chrysler. 3,500 cc. In the biggest car class the He always emphasized his faith in the in the seventh division, two Hudsons/ winner was Meirens on a Renault intelligence of cats, and believed ents in the eighth section, and a touring and a small Renault also won in the would eventually become more clever and Citroën and a sporte Mathis in the 1,100 cc division,
teachable than the dog
smallest car class.
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