JUPITER PL U VI US. 
75 
Insects and Stick Insects are trying to cheat death by 
quaint disguises, and fierce Mantises are using disguises 
as strange that they may compass the death of others. 
The Mantis and the Phasma, or stick insect, are very 
interesting in their relation to each other and strike me 
as apt symbols of us and our Aryan brother. They 
are plainly of the same stock, and, as an evolutionist 
would say, have had a common ancestor ; but on what 
widely divergent lines have they developed ! The Mantis 
feeds on flesh, his hands are weapons of war, and his life 
