WALRUS 



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WALTHAM 



Again in his old age Walpole wa> 

 of peculation, but the charges, as far as he per- 

 sonally was concerned, were false. He did, it 

 is true, openly justify Parliamentary corrup- 

 tion, not as desirable, but as n- but he 

 proved his own uprightness by leaving office 

 poorer than when he entered it. A.MCC. 



WALRUS, wol'rus, an animal of the North 

 Polar regions whose name comes from a Scan- 

 dinavian word meaning whale /lor.sc. The wal- 

 -ombles the seal, and when full prown is 

 about ten feet long. Its distinguishing feature 

 is its tusks, extensions of its two canine teeth 

 which extend straight downward sometimes 

 thirty inches. With these tusks the walrus 

 grubs on the ocean bottom for its principal 



both sides of the Charles River, ten mil* 

 of Boston, on the Boston & Maine Railroad 

 and on interurban lines. Its population in 1910 

 was 27,834; in 1916, 30,570 (Federal estimate). 

 Among the attractive features of the city arc 

 Prospect Hill, a park of 136 acres; Robbins, 

 Fitch and Appleton parks, Waltham Common 

 and several public playgrounds. The Charles 

 River Reservation of forty acres, a part of the 

 Metropolitan Park system, extends aloni>; tin- 

 river, and the city has also the Beaver Brook 

 Reservation of forty-three acres. Canoeing on 

 the Charles River is a popular sport, and near 

 the city is held an annual water carnival. 



Waltham is the home of the Massachusetts 

 School for the Feeble Minded (established in 



THE WALRUS: BULL AND COW 



food oysterlike animals, shrimps and marine 

 vegetables. Working with its tusks and the 

 vacuum soles of its feet, the walrus can climb 

 an almost perpendicular iceberg. The tusks 

 also arm it against polar bears. On its upper 

 lip it has a mustache of thick bristles. The 

 walrus is found in herds, near the shore or on 

 large masses of floating ice. Its bellow can be 

 heard for long distances. It is harmless if un- 

 molested, but if one of a herd is attacked the 

 whole number come to defend it. 



Usefulness. The walrus is very valuable to 

 inhabitants of the Arctic coasts. Its flesh gives 

 them food; its fat, light and heat; its skin, 

 clothes, thongs and boats; its tendons, thread 

 and bowstrings ; its teeth, hunting implements ; 

 the lining of its intestines, windows for ice huts. 

 The oil, hide and tusks are commercial prod- 

 ucts, but the ivory is inferior to that of the 

 elephant. 



Consult Allen's North American Pinnipeds. 



WALTHAM, wol'tham, MASS., a city in 

 Middlesex County, noted as a manufacturing 

 center of high-grade watches. It is situated on 



Boston in 1848), the first school of its kind in 

 the United States, and of the Waltham Train- 

 ing School for Nurses, Notre Dame Normal 

 Training School, and the Horological School, 

 which teaches watchmaking and repairing. The 

 benevolent institutions include the Leland 

 Home for aged women and the Waltham and 

 Waltham Baby hospitals. Among other promi- 

 nent features are the public library, state ar- 

 mory and several churches. 



Waltham manufactures more watches than 

 any other city in Massachusetts, "and its Ameri- 

 can Waltham watch factory is one of the 

 largest of its kind in the world. The first com- 

 plete cotton mills producing finished cloth from 

 cotton were established in Waltham about 1814, 

 and cotton cloth is now an important manu- 

 facture. The city has also large bleacheries 

 and dye works. Other factory products are 

 automobiles, pearl buttons, watchmakers' tools, 

 iron- and brass-foundry products, woolen yarn, 

 sweaters, canoes and chemicals. 



Waltham was settled in 1640, and was a part 

 of Watertown until 1738, when it was sepa- 



