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Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Regime and Tribune
Syndicate- '.963)
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HORSESHOEING-Fairette Marilyn Sand- second week end of the Los Angeles Coun-
ers, 19, of Covina, Calif., gets a "go ahead" ty Fair, the Palomino Exhibitors associa-
with the horseshoeing bit from Palomino tion will show some of the world's finest
Sac's Morrgold in Pomona Sunday. During palomino horses. (UPI)
Rolling on the Floor
New Adult Physical Fitness Book
Allays West's Fear of Exercise
were so poor
Washington - MM - When I
was but a toddler, my parents
they had to take
in boarders to
make ends
meet. This
made the im
i n g impres
sion on me. It
wasn't being
poor that
made th im
pression, how
ever. It was
wst one of the
boarders. Miss Hippie lo be
exact.
Miss Hippie was a school
teacher and a woman of con
siderable girth. Every night
after supper she would go
Into the living room and roll
around on the floor. Some
nights I would go in and roll
around, too.
Miss Hippie rolled around
because she was trying to re
duce. I rolled round because
I just happened to like roll
ing around.
Gets Rolled Over
Our living room floor was
sort of canted and when Miss
Hippie started rolling she
sometimes had trouble stop
ping. One night, quite acci
dentally, she rolled over me.
Childhood affects people in
different ways. Some people
who come from poor homes
re obsessed with making
money. I grew up with a mor
bid fear of exercise.
Being rolled over by Miss
Hippie gave my psyche a
permanent scar. Not to men
tion what it did to my sil
houette. After that night, whenever
T saw anyone taking exercises
it was all I could do to sup
press a scream. Only recently
have I been able to conquer
the phobia.
For this I give credit lo a
new booklet published by
President Kennedy's Council
on Physical Fitness.
Program Of Exercises
Titled "Adult Physical Fit
ness," the booklet presents a
program of exercises in such
a way "that even the elderly,
the inactive and the over
weight can perform them."
A funny thing, though. In
the photographic illustrations,
the models who are demon
strating the exercises are
young, ebullient and svelte.
Anyway, I took the booklet
. home and turned to the page
of warm-up exercises. They
consisted nf 10 bend and
stretches, 20 knee lifts, 20
wing stretches, 10 half knee
bends, 30 arm circles and 20
body benders. That left me
completely out of breath.
I figured that if I got nut
of breath just reading about
, t h e exercises, there wasn't
much point in doing them. So
I got down on the floor and
rolled around for awhile.
It was like old times. Roll-
. Ing was fun again. The book
let had stripped away all of
my inhibitions,
This shows whnl exercise . as flabby as ever, but I'm
can do for a person. I may be ' not afraid any more.
Ants Refused A Drink And
Set About To Foil Poisoner
There they were, the dumb
jerks - greedily drinking the
poison brew. They were too
stupid to know this was to be
their last meal.
I watched them gleefully.
At last I was getting even
with the little pests.
Why hadn't someone told
me before about this method?
It was fun to watch them,
knowing they were killing
themselves right before my
eyes. I gloried in their num
bers, for ants were coming
from every direction to drink
of the poison. 1 hadn't realized
until now how many there
were ... it must have been
hundreds.
This story was told by a
gentleman who had been
having ant trouble. At the
question, "Did you get rid of
them?" he shook his head
and answered, "Well, no, I
think there was something
fishy there, for I have just
as many as before, and I don't
know exactly why."
"I'll tell you what happen
ed," he continued. "I was
told to put this poison - a
sweet-smelling, syrupy liquid
- in empty bottle caps. 1 got
the bottle caps, punched sev
eral holes in my thumb re
moving the corks, but I didn't
mind because getting even
with the ants would be worth
some pain.
"I put the bottle caps along
the edge of my driveway
about two yards apart, and
filled each cap with the
poison. When I finished, I
went back to the first cap 1
had filled and there they
were - a dozen of the little
pests drinking the liquid.
Who Is Smartest?
"I walked along the row
of bottle caps; there were ants
drinking at every one of
them. I gloried in their stu
pidity; I would show them
who was the smartest.
"Finally I got tired of
watching and I went into the
house and took a nap.
"A couple of hours later I
thought maybe I had better
fill the bottle caps again. The
dumb ants must have emptied
all of them by this time. By
replenishing the poison I
could complete the killing.
"But that's when I noticed
something fishy; Every one of
those bottle caps was full of
sand, small sticks and bits of
leaf.
Lively As Ever
The wind wasn't blowing
and there wasn't a child in
sight. So, I asked myself,
how did the caps get full?
I found the answer in one of
the last caps I had filled.
There seemed to be as many
ants as ever running around,
and they were supposed to be
dead.
"Then I saw the little
monsters carrying grains of
sand, small sticks and bits of
leaves, and dumping them
into the caps. They filled
them full, right up to the top
rim, and then scurried away
just as lively as ever.
"They had completely fill
ed to overflowing every sin
gle one of those caps. Other
ants were coming along all
the time, but they didn't stop
to sip at the wet sand. They
merely ran over the top. Not
a one acted the least bit sick
or indisposed.
No Answers
"Now," the man said, "what
I would like to know is, how
did the little pests know it
was poison, and did they
cover it up so that some
young, inexperienced a n t
wouldn't be tempted to drink
from that poison cap?
"Was this some sort of ant
insight, or an appreciation of
what poison could do to them?
"Was there a 'head ant'
back in the hive somewhere
who gave an order?
"You know, I've come to
the conclusion there is more
going on in ant-society than
we humans would want to
admit."
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