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Birds Use Sun as Clock and Compass
Andy tends a complete, 20-volume $et of the World Book
Encyclopedia to Lisa Bernard, 9, of Portland, Ore., for her
question:
. What wakn op the birds In the morning?
Most birds, it is true, sleep on their leafy pearchei through
the night and wake up with a cheerful "Good morning" to wel
come the new day. Sometime! they join in a glee club sea
lion and sing a few songs even before breakfast. But the old
owl with his soft Who-Who is awake through the night and
goes to bed at sunup. And sometimes Mr. Mockingbird, the
opera star of the bird world, sings an aria by moonlight in
the middle of the night.
There are a few night-prowling birds like the owl. But most
birds make a living, do their chores and attend their glee
clubs and other activities during the daytime. Their busy day
is done just before sunset and off they fly to bed.
A bird, of course, has a feathery blanket to keep him warm
through the chilly night and sometimes a parent bird sleeps
In a nest which we could call a bed. But as a rule, most birds
sleep perched on a twig in the shelter of a leafy branch.
Sometimes many birds will choose a leafy tree, often an ever
green, and use it as roost night after night. If you discover
one of these favorite bird motels, you can watch and see
them come to check in at sundown in ones, twos and threes.
Each bird dives through the leafy foliage and settlea himself
for the night. Soon there is quiet. Each little head nods, per
haps tucked under a feathery wing, and the bright bird eyes
are closed in sleep. A loud noise, a fire or other upset can
Andy awarda sscb day a luU ael of thm World Hook Kneyelopodla
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la anawared a largo world globe or atlaa la awarded. Queatlons are
accepted from teen ge ur less-than'teenage readera. Tbay sbould
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waken the sleeping roost but if all goes well the feathery
creatures will sleep safely until morning.
Scientists leach us that we should never believe a fact
unless we can yrve it and this is sensible. Very often they
prove a fact which does not surprise us because our common
sense told up this was so all the time. It is common sense to
say that sleeping birds are awakened by the long, bright rays
of the morning sun. The rooster wakes earlier, when the sun
begins to drive back the darkness, even before it rides into
the sky.
A bright light wakes us up from a deep sleep and it seems
common sense to say that birds are awakened by the light of
a new day. And in this case, science seems to agree with com
mon sense. Expert! now have enough facts to be sure that
birds do a lot of things when the sun is right. We can be almost
sure that the pale light of early dawn wakens the roosting birds.
Bird experta have made many tests to show that birds often
use the sun as a clock, as a calendar and even as a compass.
The feathery travelers may time their migrations on the sea
sonal position of the sun and take their bearings from its
daily path over the sky.
Andy sends a Hammond's International World Globe to
Christine Allen, 12, of St. Boniface, Manitoba, and to Paula
McDonald, 13, of Pulaski, Tenn., for their question:
What cause the colors of the sunset?
Sunlight is a blend of rainbow colors, all pulsing along on
different wave lengths. The deep blue rays are the shortest
wave lengths and the red rays at the opposite end of the rain
bow spectrum are the longest. When the sun is overhead in
the daytime, its light comes straight down through 1,000 miles
of atmosphere. In this distance, the gaseous air particles man
age to bend and scatter the shortwave blue rays over the sky.
At dawn and sunset, the sun is low in the sky and its light
slopes down through perhaps 4,000 miles of air. In this dis
tance, the extra air particles manage'to bend and scatter some
of the longer wave lengths and we see the sky colored with
yellows and golds, pinks and rosy reds.
Tourists Aid Britain's Stately Homes
WASHINGTON A choleric
duke of the old school would
doubtless turn purple with rage
at the state of affairs these days
in the stktely homes of England.
Cars and buses fill parking
lota in the very shadows of
Ditchiey Park, Ash de la Zouch
Castle, Dodington House at
Chipping Sodbury and other
monuments of a bygone age.
Queues of curious visitors
wind through once-sacrosanct
drawing rooms, libraries, pic
ture galleries and bedchambers.
Some sight-seers even stay for
tea at sixpence a cup.
Those inexorable twins, death
and taxes (plus the death-watch
beetle), are transforming the
old "great houses" into common
property. About 450 historic
homes in Great Britain are open
to the public, for a fee, the Na
tional Geographic Society says.
Peers of the realm have
thrown open their ancestral
homes to the masses because
they need help to run them. A
young lord who inherits a vast
estate may find himself sad
dled with millions in death
duties. Add $50,000 or so a
year for routine maintenance,
and the burden is obvious.
Special upkeep on a 500-year-
old house can be staggering. At
the Manor House in Curry Mat-
let, Somerset, for example,
death-watch beetles are chewing
the massh Norman beams in
the banqucli.ig hall; woodworms
infest the minstrel gallery; fur
niture beetles are in the furni
ture. And, The Times of London
glumly reports, the roof leaks,
too.
The beleaguered aristocrats
are carrying on in the best tra
dition of stiff upper lip and all
that. Said Lord Montagu of
Beaulieu (pronounced Bewly):
"Deep in our hearts we hate
having people !:uo our houses,
but it would be absolutely
wrong to run out and give up
the fight."
To Your Good Health
Heat Eases Arthritic Pain
By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER
Dear Dr. Molner: Is a heating pad good
for arthritis? It seems to relieve the pains
in my arms and back at night and In damp
weather.
But I was told its use dries up the bones.
Now I am worried. A. M.
Go right ahead with your heating pad. It
won't dry up the bones or do any other dam
age. Heat Is one of the universally approved
ways of helping arthritis victims. It doesn't
make very much difference how the heat is
applied by pad, hot water bottle, heat
lamp (with discretion), sitting near the fire
or whatever. Any method that Is handy ia
fine.
I hope whoever gave you the dismal mis
information about the bones "drying," sees
this article and stops passing that story
around. It would be too bad if anyone sac
rificed the help of heating pads because of
such an incorrect scare-stoy.
(My leaflet, "Don't Quit Because of Arth
ritis," is available to any reader in return for
a stamped, self-addressed envelope and five
cents in coin for handling charges. Requests
should be addressed to Dr. Molner, in care
of this newspaper.)
Dear Dr. Molner: Please explain impe
tigo? Once someone has it, how do you get
it out of the house? Mrs. E. R. L.
It's caused by the staphylococcus germ,
and if it keeps recurring in your home, sus
pect a "staph" carrier.
Meantime a patient should be isolated in
one room, with utmost attention to prevent
contamination from spreading.
In nursonea where impetigo recurs the
cause has been traced to attendants who, al
though not ill themselves, carry the staph
germ in their noses and innocently spread it
to others.
As added attractions to the
13th-century abbey on his estate,
Lord Montagu has opened a
"fully licensed" restaurant and
antique automobile museum.
The museum honors Lord Mon
tagu's father, an early motor
ing enthusiast who gave King
Edward VII his first auto ride.
Woburn Abbey, seat of the
Duke of Bedford, Is reputedly
England's most popular stately
home. It draws some 350,000
person a year. The Abbey of
fers a zoo featuring American
bison, a merry-go-round, slot
machines, a miniature golf
course and paddle boats on 14
assorted lakes.
For about $95, a tourist can
spend the night at Woburn Ab
bey a bargain, the Duke says,
compared with a suite at the
Savoy.
The Duke of Bedford, who
incurred inheritance taxes of
$14 million on his father's
death in 1053, shrugs off com
plaints about flouting tradition.
What I owe to history, he has
been quoted as saying, "isn't a
patch on what I owe to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer."
Blenheim Palace, home of the
10th Duke of Marlborough and
birthplace of Sir Winston
Churchill, attracts visitors more
discreetly. Bleheim recently ad
ded a motor boat for trips on
the manorial lake. "But a small
motor boat," it was emphasizzed
by the Duke's agent. "We don't
want to turn the old place into
a fairground."
His Grace is aware of his
drawing power, however. "After
all," he confided, "a duke with
a palace tagged after his name
has a pretty strong appeal, par
ticularly if he's living in the
palace."
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