FROG 



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FROISSART 



A frog does not attain full growth for three 

 or four years, however, and it is supposed to 

 live ten or fifteen years. Tadpoles live chiefly 

 on vegetable matter, but grown frogs live on 

 insects, slugs, snails, etc. Most frogs live on 





FIRST STEPS IN DEVELOPMENT 

 (a) Egg, drawn to show first two vertical 

 grooves corresponding to two partitions which 

 divide the egg into four cells, (b) Afternoon of 

 third day ; egg as seen from right side, (c) Next 

 day ; folds are closing in over grooves, to form the 

 nerve tube. The front of this tube will form the 

 brain, and the remainder will be the spinal cord. 



(d) Afternoon of fifth day ; embryo in same posi- 

 tion as 6 and c, though more fully developed. 



(e) Tadpole just hatched. 



both land and water and are therefore amphibi- 

 ous. The tree-frog lives almost wholly on 

 land. Like toads, frogs frequently change their 

 skins, and they eat their old suit of clothing 

 while pulling it off over their heads. They 

 also change color, somewhat to match their 

 surroundings, from the green of lily pads to 

 a duller shade nearer the brown of fallen 

 leaves. Toads differ from frogs in having no 

 teeth, being broader, flatter and darker, and 

 in having larger eyes and a warty, more poison- 

 ous skin. The 

 best known frog 

 in America is the 

 bullfrog; other 

 species are the 

 green spring-frog, 

 the leopard-frog, 

 the wood-frog 

 and the edible 

 frog. 



Frogs are not 

 only relished by 

 fish and birds, but 

 man, both civ- 

 ilized and savage, in addition to using them as 

 bait in fishing, regards them as choice food. 

 In France they are so highly-prized they are 

 bred for the market in large quantities. In 

 America both the bullfrog and the spring-frog 

 are sold. Only the hind legs are eaten in 

 America and in France, and they are usually 

 served fried. In Germany all muscular parts 

 are stewed. V.L.K. 



SKELETON 



FROHMAN, fro' man, CHARLES (1860-1915) 

 and DANIEL (1853- ), theatrical managers, 

 members of the theatrical syndicate organized 

 in New York in 1895. Both brothers were 

 born in Sandusky, Ohio. The elder, Daniel, 

 began his business career in a newspaper office, 

 where he worked for five years. Subsequently 

 he became manager of a traveling theatrical 

 company, and since then has managed many 

 New York theaters and theatrical companies, 

 including the Lyceum Theater, Daly's and the 

 Daniel Frohman Stock Company. 



Charles Frohman has been called the "the- 

 atrical Napoleon" of America. Although given 

 little early education and ignorant of the the- 

 ory of dramatic art, he instructed many accom- 

 plished actors in the proper methods of read- 

 ing their lines. He advanced Maude Adams 

 to the place which she holds to-day, and was 

 instrumental in bringing forward a great many 

 well-known American actors. After managing 

 several road companies he obtained control of 

 the Criterion, the Museum, the Garrick, the 

 Savoy, the Madison Square, the Knickerbocker, 

 and the Garden Theater in New York City, 

 besides the Duke of York Theater in London. 

 In 1895 he organized the syndicate of which 

 he was the head. During one typical season 

 he put on twenfy-nve stage productions, em- 

 ployed 795 actors, and paid out salaries amount- 

 ing to over $25,000 a week. Up to the close of 

 the season of 1912 he had produced more than 

 600 plays. 



He lost his life in the Lusitania disaster, on 

 May 7, 1915. His last known words, spoken 

 on the deck of the sinking ship, have become 

 famous: "Why fear death? It is the most 

 beautiful adventure that life gives us!" 



FROISSART, frwahsahr', or jroi'sart, SIR 

 JEAN (about 1338-1410?), a courtly poet and 

 historian of the time of Edward III. As one 

 editor remarked, "Froissart's whole business 

 was to live in the fourteenth century, and tell 

 us what he saw there." His name stands for 

 chivalrous adventure in the minds of all read- 

 ers of history. His most famous work is the 

 Chronicles, four volumes of vigorous, pictur- 

 esque tales of the wars and other events of his 

 century. In the poem L'Espinette Amoureuse 

 he has given an account of his school days and 

 early love affairs. He studied for the minis- 

 try, but his inclinations were always toward 

 writing stories and poems of chivalry and ad- 

 venture. In 1361 he went to England to pre- 

 sent one of his books to Queen Philippa, and 

 spent five years in the English Court as sec- 



