NATURE WORSHIP 



NAUTILUS 



Beetle 



Bird (with list) 



Botany 



Butterfly 



Cat 



Dog 



Fish (with list) 



Flowers (with list) 



Fly 



Frog: 



Gardening 



Geography 



Geology 



Insect (with list) 



Kindergarten 



Language 



Mosquito 



Physical Geography 



Plant (with list) 



Rabbit 



School Garden 



Seeds 



Story-Telling 



Toad 



Tree (with list) 



Turtle 



Weeds 



ZoOlogy 



NATURE WORSHIP, the adoration of ob- 

 jects and forces in nature has been a part of 

 the religion of many peoples. The mythology 

 of the ancient Greeks and Romans, which was 

 their religion, has numberless stories in 

 which objects in nature are seen as gods. The 

 Greeks, for instance, said that the sun was a 

 god who drove a chariot of gold across the sky. 

 (For a full discussion of this see the article 

 MYTHOLOGY.) The Persians worshiped fire, the 

 Kcyptians considered the serpent a good genius, 

 and in Hindu temples to-day the sacred cobra 

 has its devotees. The ancient Britons, Norse- 

 men and Slavs held the oak tree sacred as the 

 home of a god; our own Maypole dance is the 

 reminder of the old ceremonies they used in 

 tin ir worship. 



NAUGATUCK, naw'galuk, CONN., a town 

 and borough in New Haven County, situated 

 in the southwestern part of the state, five miles 

 south of Waterbury and twenty-seven miles 

 northeast of Bridgeport. It is on the Nauga- 

 River and is served by the New York, 

 New Haven & Hartford Railroad and electric 

 interurban lines. In 1910 the population was 

 -'2; in 1916 it was 14,093 (Federal estimate). 

 i was incorporated in 1893; it has a 

 Federal building, constructed in 1916 and cost- 

 S53,000, the Whittemore Memorial Library, 

 \\luttemore Memorial Bridge and a fine 

 hmh school, also the gift of .1 II Whittemore. 

 Here arc important manufactures of rubber 

 goods, woolen goods, underwear, malleable iron, 

 acids, tools and shade rollers, 

 of manufactured products ex- 

 $12.000,000. 



NAUSEA, naw'ihea, a disagreeable scnsa- 

 that is best described by the familiar 

 phrase, "sick at the stomach." The word is so 

 trongly associated with seasickness that the 

 ;sed as a uyiuinvm for the for- 

 d this M>ems not illogical when one con- 

 siders t ion of naturra. It comes from 

 and Latin root* whi< h m< ;u> peri 



to the sea, and is closely related in origin to 

 both nautical and navigate. The typical ac- 

 companiment of nausea is expulsion of the con- 

 tents of the stomach (see VOMITING), and the 

 sensation itself is always referred to the stom- 

 ach, but the ailment is not necessarily due to 

 stomach disorders. Revolting sights, disgust- 

 ing odors, shock, sudden fright and painful, 

 sudden blows are common exciting causes of 

 nausea ; the sensation is produced by the stimu- 

 lation of certain nerves which have their cen- 

 ters in the medulla oblongata, and are con- 

 nected with the stomach. Tendency to nausea 

 varies widely for different persons. Some can 

 endure without discomfort the tossing of a 

 ship on the roughest sea, and others are nau- 

 seated merely by the gentle motion of a swing 

 or hammock. As a tendency to nausea is 

 sometimes a symptom of disease, anyone who 

 suffers from chronic attacks should consult a 

 physician. 



NAUTILUS, now' til us, a genus of deep-sea 

 animals, consisting of four species, the best 

 known of which is the chambered, or pearly, 

 nautilus. These names refer to the many- 

 chambered shell in which the nautilus dwells, 



CHAMBERED NAUTILUS 

 In illustration at right a portion of the shell 

 has been cut away, disclosing the chambers. 



and to the inner lining of the shell, which is 

 mother-of-pearl, or nacre. Millions of years 

 ago, when the earth was in the early stages of 

 geologic history, and the race of man had not 

 yet appeared, the sea contained hundreds of 

 species of nautilus, the fossils of which show 

 m:irkl resemblances to the existing species. 

 The chambered nautilus lives upon the sea floor 

 in tin- South Pacific and Indian oceans, notably 

 in tin- vicinity of the Philippines and the island 

 of New Guinea. The shell of the young animal 

 looks like a small horn, but as the animal de- 

 velops, its little home assumes the form of a 

 spiral, and each stage of its growth is indicated 

 by a chamber closed at the rear. That fo. 

 nautilus moves forward as it grows, fashioning 

 a partition behind it \\hrn it enters a 



thus in tin- outermost compartment 



will be found th<- living animal. The closed 



: iibers are supposed to be filled with a nitro- 



