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HOW ANTS PUT OUT
A FIRE.
SCIENTIST GIVES INSECT. COLONY A TESTING.
REMARKABLE, WORK.
JAPAN'S TOLL OF SUICIDES.
WATERFALL'S LURE TO
DEATH.
* DEATH PACTS BY LOVERS.
The authorities in Japan, at Ants make good firemen, using their own uuaided efforts, and devastations wrought by the preva tetapting to check the appalling freely giving up their lives to save lence of love auicides, have recently their fellow workers from destruc-undertaken an intensive campaign
tion,
of propaganda.
Exactly how they proceed when
This campaign takes the odd a fire is to be put out is descri- form of propaganda films and of ed by Friedrish Geddo in Kosmos posters, which are parated' through (Stuttgart). Mr. Gedde tells us the streets and stuck on walls in that what he did was by way of public places, with such inspiring. verification of statements in vari-
abjuracions as "Don't Die of ous periodicals about the extin-Love!! Until now these efforts guishing of fire by ants. He probave been without any effect, and
ceeds: }}
.....
"In a fir-wood at an altitude of about 3,000 feet at the Pfander Hotel in the Austrian Alps, there is, under a fir-tree, leaning against the trunk, an ant-hill with a' solid· content of about ten cubic feet, consisting of needles, dry, broken branches, withered folinge, and small pebbles.
"At 9:45 am. I stuck into this stearin candle so that it project ed a little more than an inch. On the hollow under the wick appear. ed immediately industrious wood ants which drept parasitic mites. The light-brown mites moved al most as fast as the ants themselves; 1 could observe them clearly as minute dots about one-hundredth of † aa inch in size.'
now that spring is here, while the proverbial young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love, it is expected that the toll of deaths will be even greater.
.
This extraordinary state of affairs arises from pumerous canses.
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Per as Taiyb Maru from Shang hai on May 6-Mr. P. S, Capri- han, Mr. E. Banaag, Mrs. Lee Shee, Mr. Fong Thick Tang, Mrs. Yee Shee, Rev. J. C. Smith,-Mr. G. C. Soliduni. Mr. Lee Park Wo, Mrs. Lee Ng Shee, Master Albert Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Quan Lini, Mr. Young Yuen Yin, Mrs. Chow Wong
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Per 5. General Metzinger from Marseilles vit ports:-Mr. and Mrs. Middleton and child. Mr. M. There is first the "Kazoku siedo," Matute, Mr. Thomas C. Britton, a kind of family system, which even
Mr. W. M. Henry, Mr. L. Schultz, to-day is customary among a great D. Parshall. Mr. D. Parshall, Misa Mr. J. Nakakuma.. Mr. and Mrs. acido" forbids the free choice of a Thomas J. Laden. Mr. T. Nagel. number of the Japanese. "Kazoku
C. Parshall. Mr. Dempster. Ir. husband or wife, and its tradition Mr. A. Pressel, Mr. M. Gluck, Mr. imposes that the heads of the family. Gluck, Mr. and Mrs. Charlier. should choose the husband or wife for, the aspiring adolescent. A marriage which is childless is an to the Kazoku seido," aulled after some time, according even when other dearly. the couple happen. to love pae un-
Emotional Japanese,
"At 9:35 a.. I lit the candle. The wick sent forth a flame about
This means often a great deal of one and one-half inches in height. unhappiness, which, with the emo-
"Immediately the ants nearest to
tional Japanese, leads to suicide it leapt away and watched the fre
pacts. In a little town in the in- "After a few seconds I saw some there is a celebrated Lovers' terior of Japan called Myanoshita. of the excited insects spring into the fire, scorching their limbs and
Leap," higa, waterfall, which henda, and then drawing back Pre-annually receives numbers of lovers sently there "lay, six half-charred
1.
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It takes the cargoes from the "mother ship" and "slips in at
The undersea craft is believed to be operated by a group of liquor The Japanese family system re- Ensenada, Mexico. Federal pro- barons in Vancouver, B.C., and "The whole tribe grew excited.
cognises only those in the direct line hibition officials admitted that they "Then the jumping ceased, and
or in the next direct line. If a wife had received word of the craft. I noticed from time to time several 15 chosen for the eldest son of a ablebodied-an-cautiously approach mains in the house of his family, tached to a liquor steamer, cruising According to reports in the dry family, the young married-man-reagents hands, the submarine is at the flame and place themselves at the young wife takes his family far out at sea. the edge of the candle, so that, they could cling to it with name, and lives in the house of her their hind legs, while they held high sume from this that one's relations. parents-in-law. One can but as- their heads and outstretched fore-acquired by marriage in Japan arc legs. By means of the hindlegs of a more amendable disposition they directed the posterior portion than is proverbially the case in the of the body toward the flame.
Western world. at any
Although the sexes in Japan were, segregated before they married, so the day, when coastguard cutters or
rate formerly, absolutely
The submarine submerges during "It was not easy to extinguish bridegrooms had never seen one aning up when the sea is clear.
that often the zukue" brides and suspicious steamers are near, com- the fire. The candle still projected other before their marriage, it hap above the firneedles, so that thepened now and again that they met ants bad to climb up along the and fell in love. If a union after ble, then nothing remained for them the "Kazoku seido" was impossi- but to take their lives, a form of suicide which the Japanese call
'Shinju
"In this position "the courageous insects squirted a fluid against the wick so that each time the flame emitted a hissing sound.
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then within reach of the heat, which burnt the feelers and forelegs of the brave insects.
"Steadfastly they maintained each time this extremely dangerous position for two or three seconds, again and again squirting the li- quid exactly upon the wick, not only against the flames itself.
"Already the flame burned per- ceptibly lower.
Again and again injured ants fell and ran back, or remained lying in the liquid stearin.
"At the same time the ants filled the space between the side of the candle and the mound of needles with needle substance as high up As the edge of the candle, so that now they could stand a litt lar ther back on top of the needlės, and were then not so much exposed To danger.
state.
Now the ants "were in better
The fame hissed constantly, but there still wore some injured and
burat cats
"Nothing would keep the insects from saving their colony through constant fighting of the fire. Around the candle were 150 to 200 ants, each ready to spurt against the flame, or to suffer death. Her and there a fir-needle caught fire, but the ignited needles were im- mediately extinguished by the ants: "Now the brave insects came from all sides.
"The flame was still over an inch high when there was a loud stropg hissing sound, and the danger was over; the fire had been extinguish. ed in four and one-half minutes.
Influence of Films,
The strict old customs have natur- ally been mitigated by the inroads of Westernisation. For although it' is nothing unusual to us Westerners that any one should take his life for love, the imagination of the Japanese is a much more tender or emotional experieners, more readily ganisation, more easily swayed by warped by things calculated to de- form the mind like the average rua of present-day films. In a word, the Japanese is more spiritual than the coarser American or European. Government, based on careful and It is the opinion of the Japanese
epidemic of "Shinju" i directly exhaustive inquiry, that the present attributable to the flood of Ameri- can films recently loosened on the Japanese, who have, it appears, ed by the cinema as are children be been in general as strongiv influene. low a certain age with us. the import of films by higher duties. Attempts have been made to check The censor has deleted all scenes dealing with passion and jealousy, and the Japanese have even made their own films with morals point ing to horror of the things which Hollywood holds out as tempting world. plums of diversion to the rest of the
"Presently the insects wriggled.
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Then the Insects attempted to cover forth from all sides, and the tribe DON'T LEAVE HONG KONG the candle from the hillside; and was again in a turmoil.
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This time the work of extinguish-
And squirted at the black wick asing the fire was accomplished quick- if to enable it to resist fire. Some ly, and in thirty seconds able-bodi ants made an effort to carry offed ants had put out the flame by those that were burnt, but could squirting with their abdomens. not extract them from the sticky. stearin.
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The substanco squirted by the ants"It was easy to distinguish the
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