Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 17

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, AUGUST 23, 1931—PART ONE. m msnm:]' The Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co. Entrance—909 F St. ‘E ‘WSHWN; Last Week! : - | ' " (- A New St —at the Julius Lansburgh Furni- i \ ture Co. For those who want 10% to 409 : new style in place of their old Discounts ' : v . A Liberal Trade-in On Entire e L k e Allowance Stock, o F i . i —oen your old furniture will be o R Excepting i i i f i made through an arrangement BY THOMAS R. HENRY. . S # i i dogn 4 i with local auctioneers, who will 4 { Nationally i 3 i sell such old furniture for us. Experiments showing remarkable = . ¥ou can take advart ' #bility in mice to return home over | Advertised : ; ntage of our long distances have just been reported | August Sale prices and cash in fo the American Soclety of Mam- Items your old furniture, re. A sense of direction or homing in- | ) stinct l:::xo:ou: lu; :mnhor heezqt o\;\ ° ° , Plgeons is suggested in the report of | - the experimers in the current issue of t t E t J l b h e Journal of ‘he socisiy T o | A n I"lpO" an ven in uitus Lans ur S by C. J. and Adolph Muric done with the deer mouse, a com. various distances !drum camp i ; i 5 nifi"z":u“,?flxfi:“i’nfi‘l?-pi: on"the | For Monday only, of the last week of the August Sale, we offer these 4 fine suites, as photographed below, at the lowest prices on suites of such locad . One returned to the . . . . ety 3 mies n two gava” our ovi || high quality. Former prices were $149 to $179. Monday only, your choice, $100. Convenient deferred payments easily arranged. You et over & mmile” o gei Jome. Many tversed shorier di- || are welcome to a charge account. » necessarily very incomplete, because not all who returned ventured into the traps T i e o o $10 Delivers Any Suite—Balance mals on the way, and it was shown | i | - $3 Seml-Monthly. No Interest Experiments With Rodents ‘Prove They Can Return Over Long Distances. ‘mere aimless wanderings. Range Over Wide Area. Another possibility considered by the enters was that these mice - SeEgaes 4 | 10-Piece Genuine ped at ‘the camp, their ears marked, and immediately released. Then traps were scattered about the place to de- , ! ™ = = the ‘extent of their ordinary . oo ‘wanderings by the points where they i i u lnln u' e were recaptured. It was' found that the great majority remain within a k! Tadius of about 100 yards. mouse which returned from distance c;x;umue lnd‘ the ;.nlmsnl t . : i g Teturned les were from 6 to 8 weeks 5 o old. The animals spend considerable . ; : (Exactly as photographed) time in the nest after birth, so that 1 ‘ could not possibly have had time become familiar with the outlying . They saw nothing of the ' through which they were 1 4 taken, so no landmarks could have 1 been fixed in their minds. < investigation started with a . - > experiment two years ago in § % : ¢ marked mouse unexpectedly Bt retonsed From the ttar, " The tas & slendids i £ h i - & s U e splendid suite of 10 attractive e repeatedly releas > - g them a prenier and gresier distances pieces. Durab]c construction. Beauti- was 1 mile” This was open tion that the animals familiar with the landmarks of the trail ful carved overlays heavy built-up stock. s o Handsome walnut veneers on oak. All rolonsd : Summer the biologists re- . 5 pieces as photographcd. mcluding four additional side chairs. 3-Piece Jacquard $1 Delivers Any of These Items q VC'IOI.II' High-Grade : Bed-Davenport Suite (Exactly as photographed) (exactly as photographed) 247 | B *100 e ‘mext e oz several f e — . , _ o i 5 Long li‘ed davznpfri- l:ngh bick recaptured w a short ; Choi r* o . _ s explained that most of R e 2 . v um.:':’l chair and cl ;: c ‘"i} 3 T area TR by Inut | 2 L G |- R iy S l::lwmmmers mwedund taupe. gree l-nw:!;m“ nut : 1 s . verud e sp}rlx.nlfll cus 1§ns. ; pho! ‘abandon: it i Whetber ,mu;?j‘:,'é,'fi,, i stelre in high grade jacquard deer mouse is x’:‘n.xrncmn. ;ome{ | veiour. the kind has been observed of domestic degs, who seem | B ot aiance s )| Gove Winthrop amiliar country. { Mahogany Homing Instinct Seen. This data, the report says, “appears &Cmtary %o show that although various fa-tors | : ) . ; Four"Plece Butt Walnut probably influence the behavior of the | Exactly as photographed) ( y » ¥ EEfE ‘isififl'z e : BT e | $3 850 | Y oo : ' ‘ Bed Room Suite of 1 to 2 miles. One is tempted to believe %m‘a'fl;u of direction or plays some part. A true reproduction. Auto- “It s diffieult to define exactly & i . rts. .. Winthrop 3 it homing instinct. We are familiar with | matic lid suppot 2 ¢ $ the abilities of homing pigeons, migra- | interior S-ply mahogany. \ > tory birds and certain insects. What- || Colonial hardware. > ever such sbilities may be called, n| seems likely that mammals share them | o certain degree. The desire to re- | umn to the home range no doubt | 7 ! = ~ varies with specles as well as with in- | (Exactly as photographed) dividuals, but at any rate our data i . appear to show that the deer mice : have a remarkable ability.” Purther work with the homing ability | Windsor Chair i ; Large size pieces, attractive de- of mammals, especially other varietics of mice, is urged to clear up some con- . : sign. Center drawer guides. Oak fusing factors in this experiment. The (Exactly as photographed) natural dangers to which mice are ex- posed in the open country where such e i nter i ors. 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