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Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ringer-Naturalist In studying animals, one is al-. about four-inches and live on ways baffled: where does blind ' nectar. When excited they give instinct leave off? And where, off a warning ordor. Their sting possibly, does reasoning begin? is potent, much worse than that Take the deadly relationship of a bee. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBT United Press Correspondent of the tarantula spider and dig ger wasp of our Southland. Customarily tarantulas live in deep burrows from which they emerge at dusk and into which they retire at dawn. Although the male dies in a few weeks after mating, the female lives many years and lays from 200 to 400 eggs at a time, thus is capable of producing several thousand young. Upon birth, each of these young are im mediately independent. Although tarantulas have no toriously poor eyesight and littl or no sense of hearing, they have an extremely delicate sense of touch and when touched. hungry, attack immediately. So swiftly, in fact, that when seizes a cricket the human eye is too slow to record the swift assault. But when not hungry, an insect can walk under its hairy body unharmed. Now, for its deadly enemy, our digger wasp Pepsis. These solitary wasps of beauti ful blue have a wing span of On The Side By E. V. DURUNG (Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.) The average Danish bachelor would not think of accepting a young woman s proposal of mar riage- unless she could display a diploma indicating her gradua tion from a "housewife school. In these Danish schools young women are given a thorough six-month course in housekeep ing, cooking, child rearing and interior decoration. Similar courses are given in this coun try in so-called "brides schools. But they are not greatly attend ed. The average American girl waits until she is married to learn how to cook and be an ef ficient housewife. Among The Married What did your wife weigh on her wedding day? What were her measurements on that happy occasion? Has she still her bride's figure?" A marked in crease in weight on a wife's part frequently develops a dangerous situation. Her spouse's love may begin to fade. He may permit his eyes to wander longingly in the direction streamlined beau ties passing by. In Chicago a husband offered his wife's in crease in weight as grounds for divorce. What's more the judge presiding expressed the view there was justice in this plea When married, the wife in ques tion was five feet, two inches, and weighed 137. Eighteen years later she was still five feet, two. but weighed 190! The judge ask ed the husband if he would agree to cancel the divorce plea if his wife would reduce her weight to what it was when she was a bride. The husband agreed to that. The wife was given six months to affect the reduction. She did it. Profitable Disc From one recording of the song titled "Little Things Mean A Lot, Kitty Kallen has col lected royalties amounting to $80,000. Remember when they said the introduction of the ra dio would kill the phonograph recording business? Please Note . The whining excuse that carrying 132 pounds would be a menace to Nashua's future health and breeding ability is an insult to any well informed turf fan's intelligence. Discovery who earned 136 pounds to vic tory in the Brooklyn handicap is now 25 years old, in good health and the possessor of a remarkable breeding record. Asides William Franklin Beedle. Cinema luminary professionally known as William Holden. He is a native of O'Fallon, 111. His future is well taken care of. He has a 14-year contract calling for a salary of about $6,000 a week. Not bad. Still Tom Mix, the great western star of the yesteryear, had a contract call ing for $20,000 a week. And that was when the dollar had three times its present buying power and the income tax was much less . . . Charles B. Wrightsman. Texas oil tycoon. He is a graduate of Phillips Exe ter Academy, the second best preparatory school in America. Now quite an art collector. Re cently paid $350,000 for Ver meer's "Portrait of Young Girl." Princess Grace Kelly is now a princess but indications are that her feelings are still 100 per cent American. She sailed to her wed ding on an American ship and plans to make her first trip home on another American ship, the S.S. United States. More power to her. I In the adult stage, the wasp lives a few months and the fe male produces but a few eggs. one at a time every two or three days. One for Each Egg And now for their deadly re lationship. For each of its eggs, the mother wasp must provide one adult paralyzed tarantula This tiny egg, the mother wasp attaches to the host. Upon hat ching, the immature young feeds on the tarantula's body it takes no other food or water and by the time It has finished its en ormous meal, it is ready to take up wasphood and the female to lay her eggs in other tarantulas As soon as the egg within the female wasp is almost ready to be laid and note the timing the mother wasp at once goes tarantula hunting. Mind, it is a solitary wasp and has never seen a tarantula before. But flying low over the ground, towards dusk, the wasp knows exactly where to look for its victim, near the mouth of a tarantula burrow, a round hole edged with silk. And the knowing wasp is a sharp entomologist. Each species of this wasp knows its spiders by heart it requires a certain species of tarantula, and never attacks the wrong kind. To indentify the right species and there are many the dig ger wasp explores the tarantula spider with her antennae, crawl ing under it and walking over it without arousing any hostil ity although the investigation may cause the tarantula to rise up on all eight legs as if on stilts, standing this way some times for several minutes. Satisfied that this is the right species, the knowing wasp now moves off a few inches and ex cuvates a hole up to 10 inches deep, with a diameter just a fraction large than the spider's width the spiders grave. They Roll on Ground Grave finished, the wasp re turns to its ghastly job. Again, she feels over her victim. This time searching for exactly the right spot and there is only one spot where she could pene trate the taranaula s horny skeleton. Finally, spot found, she grasps one of the spider's legs in her powerful jaws. Now a terrifying battle begins: the two roll over and over on the ground. But the outcome is al ways the same the wasp thrusts her sting deep into the soft vital spot and holds it there for a few seconds, pumping in the poison. Almost immediately, the tara ntula falls paralyzed on its back, its lees stop twitching and its heart stops beating. Yet it not dead, only paralyzed kept in a moist place, it can be restored to some sensitivity months later. Next, the wasp drags the help less tarantula into the bottom of the grave, attaches her egg with a sticky secretion, emerges, fills the grave with soil carried bit by bit in her jaws, and finally tamps the ground all around evenly to hide any trace of the grave from prowlers. Her off spring is safely started in life. Contrast the two: the tarant ula's confusion and stupidity; the wasp's seemingly intelligent ac tions. Recognizing this, nature has provided the answer: fertility, To keep the species going, the tarantula is 'capable of giving birth to several thousands; the wasp to less than 1 100th part of this number. And so, digger wasp and tarantula thrive. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please addre your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. xaminer Completes irsf of Hearings Washington (U.R) A Fed eral Power commission examiner Friday completed the first round of hearings on the Pacific North west Power company's proposal to build a $217.4 million hydro electric project on the Snake riv er below Hells Canyon. Hearings before Chief Examin er Edward B. Marsh will resume on Sept. 24. Pacific Northwest is a gener- ting company formed by four Northwestern utilities. It has pro posed a two-dam project which would generate almost 1.2 mil lion kilowatts. The company said it would be the only new devel opment capable of relieving criti cal power shortages in the area in 1960. Use Tribune Want Ads Editor's note: Aline Mosby is on vacation. Sheree North lakes pen in hand today to complain about the lack of comedies in the movies. By SHEREE NORTH Written for United Press Hollywood (U.R) Everyone is so busy contemplating their own navels since the New York Actor's Studio routine; everyone is so darn serious about the thespian art, that people are forgetting the wonderful art of making people laugh. My agent has given me about 60 scripts to read but not one of them made me smile, much less grin or chuckle. It seems to me the only people who still make the art of laugh ter an art are the French, es pecially Fernandel. Everyone else in all the drama classes is working on "Hedda Gabler." Laugh-getting Difficult 1 Take those wonderful scripts which two of us in class will get up and go but not one of us can get up and make someone else laugh. We don't seem to have many performers who can make us laugh. I've seen some of the stuff that's supposed to be great comedy on TV I don't mean a Sid Caesar or indvidual comed ians. I mean a play that has comedy situations. You don't see them. I liked "I Am A Camera." It was a little long, but it had monderful comedy touches. I'd like to see more of that type of thing. Nowadays everyone is interested in taking off their makeup and doing the "Snake pit" routine. More Comedy Needed What the world needs Is more comedy like "The Sheep Has Five Legs," "The Little World of Don Camillo," and the Alec Monday, August 20, I95S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Guiness comedies, and more Cary Grant. Above all, Cary Grant. Remember "Bringing Up Baby" with Cary and Katherine Hepburn? What's Cary doing in a Spanish drama, if that's what it is, like "The Pride And The Passion." Come back, Cary, to what you're the undisputed master of-Iight comedy. Maybe the lack of comedies is the fault of writers rather than actors. When you get some good comedy situations in a pic ture -you're glad you're in it. I don't have the comedy in my latest, "The Best Things in Life Are Free," but I do in the next. 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