HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
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Save the Top and One Profit 
This is a practical table — 28 x 42 inches. The 
slatted top will keep it from warping after a rain — 
will keep water from standing on it and rotting the 
joints- — will keep the fine weathered oak finish from 
roughing up. 
We save you one profit by selling you this table 
direct from our factory to your door — no middle¬ 
man — no freight charges. 
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of outdoor furniture, ingeniously built by experts to 
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OWN AT LEAST ONE 
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Place it in your living room and give it 
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Other floor coverings will come and go 
but your Antique Oriental Rug lives on. 
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to make you a customer for life. I buy 
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which differ in the several orders, accord¬ 
ing to the nature of the food. It will be 
understood that in many insects whose 
habits change during their life period con¬ 
siderable modification takes place in this 
system. 
There are still a considerable number 
of people to whom the mention of senses 
in insects must appear to be the purest 
nonsense. Believing that it is derogatory 
to man’s status, as the “lord of creation,” 
to concede the possession of intelligence 
to the lower animals, insects are consi¬ 
dered by them to be mere automata moved 
by instincts, and, therefore, not in need of 
senses. Perhaps, also, there may be a 
difficulty in believing that it is possible to 
crowd into such minute bodies the organi¬ 
zation that is necessary for the develop¬ 
ment and exercise of sense. That insects 
are not quite so plentifully provided with 
different senses as man may be admitted, 
perhaps; on the other hand, there is rea¬ 
son for believing that those they have are 
finer than the corresponding ones that we 
possess. 
Many insects have the power of sound- 
production, and that power is usually con¬ 
fined to the male sex. This implies that 
it is of use in the courtship of the species, 
and further that the other sex at least 
must be provided with organs of hearing 
to render this sound-production effective. 
Some naturalists have argued that insects 
are without ears, and can only appreciate 
sounds as air vibrations by the sense of 
touch. Against this we have the fact that 
in many of the grasshopper family there 
is a distinct ear, imperfectly formed in 
those species that do not produce sounds, 
but highly developed in those that do. In 
some species these ears are situated on the 
upper side of the hind-bodv, just above the 
base of the hind-leg; in others they will 
be found on the shank of the front pair 
of legs, a little below' the knee. There is 
a tense membrane or drum covering an 
inner chamber in which are auditory rods 
connecting with the nerves of hearing and 
collecting impressions from the vibrations 
of the drum. In other insects it is be¬ 
lieved that the sense of hearing has its 
organ in the antennae. Ants and certain 
species of bees have in their antennae flask¬ 
shaped organs known as “Hicks’ bottles" 
(from their discoverer, Braxton Hicks), 
and Lubbock believed that they act as 
microscopic stethoscopes. Some of the 
hairs on the wonderful antennae of the 
male mosquito and gnat have been proved 
to respond to the vibrations of a tuning 
fork giving 512 vibrations to the second. 
Other hairs were found to vibrate to other 
notes, extending through the middle ancl 
next higher octave of the piano. It was 
found that the hum of the female mos¬ 
quito was of just the necessary pitch to 
set these hairs vibrating. Mayer found 
that the song of the female affected the 
hairs of one antenna of the male more 
than those of the other, but by altering 
the position of its head until both antennae 
were evidently affected the male knew in 
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makes an attractive center- 
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