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TWELTB MEDFORD (ORBQOK) MAIL TRIBUNE
Vtt&n4T. October 19, 1951
Is That So?
Think you've had a hard day
at the office, brother? As far as
fathers go, we humans are down
right lucky! Consider.
- The male sea catfish not only
broods the eggs in his mouth but
also does not feed until those
eggs are hatched.
A small Chilean frog manages
slightly better. The male gulps
down the dozen or more eggs
the female lays and keeps them
in his vocal pouch, under the
tongue. This permits him at least
to eat whenever he gets a chance
without the danger of swallow
' ingcfcis and her offspring, but he
cannot croak.
The giant water bug carries
his unborn on his back where
they have been placed by the
female.'Until they hatch, father
bug is unable to fly bepause the
tggs seal the covers of his wings
together.
The European midwife toad
wraps his wife's eggs around his
legs where they remain for three
weeks until they hatch.
Father ostrich lives a double
life not only does he wear the
pants in the family but also, in
season, he wears an apron over
them. It's like this: As the mat
ing season advances, he fights
aggressively with all members
of his sex, pounding around the
arena with feet and beak in vic
ious combat. The winner takes
all and for the time being,
he is master of his harem. Then
the bully turns sissy. After mat
ing with his group of females, he
makes the nest admittedly not
much as nests go, but he does
scratch out a hollow in the sand.
Then each female in his harem
lays perhaps a dozen enormous
eggs withincthe nest until there
are well over 30, sometimes even
60 or 80. After a week or ten
days, the master calls a halt The
nest is closed, and the male sits
in splendid isolation and
hatches them within six to sev
en weeks.
Exchanger, Parental Role
THie female phalarope lays her
eggs and ' goes her way while
(Her drab little male sits upon
the nest and incubates them.
Not only have male and female
exchanged their parental roles,
apart from laying eggs, but also
their dress he is drab while
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she is colorful. Poor chap, while
minding the baby he has to put
on a skirt!
The male New Zealand kiwi,
a flightless bird, has a more dif
ficult role. He must sit on his
wife's eggs for 80 days . . . and
during his lonely vigil loses up
to half of his weight.
What's that, again, about a
hard day at the office?
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As We Live
y ELIZABETH HU9LOCK, PH.D.
Help Wife With Duties
And Have Time For Talk
Children make a great differ
ence in a household and necessi
tate adjustments on the part of
the husband as well as the wife.
(Q) "I was married five years
ago to a girl I had heen in love
with since school. One of the
TJ things that at-
tr act d me
most to her
was her inter
est in every
thing I did. I
felt she was a
person I could
turn to with
my problems
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Dr. riwlock tv:.
was true until our children
came. We now have two chil
dren and my wife is so preoc
cupied with them that when I
try io talk to her. I feel what I
ant saying is falling on deaf ears.
It seems she barelv knows I
exist Of course, I realise that
young children take a lot of time
and work, but I rather resent
the change that has come over
my wife. Am I being unreason
able about this?" D. P. .
(A) You are unreasonable if
you think this change is inten
tional on your wife's part. I am
sure she does not mean to neg
lect you, but she is overburdened
with work and preoccupied
with things that must be done
to the point where she does not
stop to think that you need her
too.
It is very hard for anvone to
sit down and talk calmly about
problems when at the beck and
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CAR TROTTBLE
Providence, R. I. U.(5 By
selling his automobile for $8,
Melvin James had enough money
to pay a fine for driving an im
properly registered car. After
pleading guilty, James told the
judge that the car had caused
him so much trouble that he had
sold it following his arrest.
Obligingly, the judge cut the
fine from $10 to $8.
PROMISE KEPT
Pittsburg (U.PJ Three young
hoodlums kept their word when
they told Edward Klein he would
get his stolen car back if he
went to the corner of Sixth and
Penn Avenues. Klein went to
the spot and found the car. A
few minutes later, the youth?
tossed his keys at him from the
window of the auto in which
they drove past another stolen
car.
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DOUBLE COUNT
North Platte, Neb. (UP.)
Youngsters in one North Platte
neighborhood drove highway de
partment traffic computers crazy
trying to discover how a quiet
neighborhool street suddenly at
tracted 3,164 cars per day. They
found the youngsters caught on
to the trick of jumping twice on
the cords stretched across the1
street to count traffic.
OTHER PIGEONS,
NATURALLY
Rockford, 111. (U.R) Alder
man Eugene Vestal led the op
position to a city ordinance gov
erning the hours of pigeon
flights over Rockford. "Who's
going to tell the pigeons about
these things?" he asked.
call of two young children.
When you finish work, you are
through for the day but that is
not true of a wife and mother.
Why not help your wife with
home duties after you return
from work so she will be free
to sit down quietly after the
children are in bed? If her work
is finished for the day, then she
will be able to give you her
undivided attention.
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