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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



backs and gluing it there "for keeps." 

 These pollen packages tied up in the form 

 of clubs with adhesive handles lie ex- 

 posed and waiting in little grooves or 

 pockets close to the opening of the honey 



well, and the flower is fertilized. 



The third sketch shows the front view 

 of the flower of the orchis with pollen 

 clubs lying in their pockets above the 

 honev well. 



PURPLE FRJXGED ORCHIS. 



wells where the_\" will surely fasten them- 

 selves to the head or the eye of a thirsty 

 insect. 



In the first sketch, representing a sec- 

 tion of a flower of the purple fringed 

 orchis, is seen a pollen club being with- 

 drawn from its pocket by the head of a 

 departing butterfly. 



The second sketch shows a similar sec- 

 tion of another flower where we see that 

 the stigmatic surface is so low and so far 

 back that the pollen club, erect upon the 

 butterfly's head, could never strike the 

 mark. But nature so plans that as soon 

 as the pollen club is withdrawn from the 

 first flower its slender stalk withers, its 

 head droops forward and, carried to the 

 second flower, it unfailingly strikes the 

 stigmatic surface in the roof of the honev 



Recipe For Troubles. 



Would you like a recipe for the little 

 vexations and annoyances of life that 

 keep the mind uneasy and disturbed? 

 Let us give you one. Go out in the 

 silence of some starry night and look 

 up at the stars for a minute or two. 

 Get within their influence for a mo- 

 ment. Take in the spirit of their tran- 

 quility and peace. Think \vhat they 

 are and where they are, and you will 

 soon lose yourself in the infinity of 

 their being. You will begin to feel 

 God has made this world big enough 

 for you and that the little cares that 

 vex you are only intruders that you 

 should despise and scorn. Just try it, 

 and if it does not cure you you are not 

 the man you think you are. — "Ohio 

 State Journal." 



