Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1937, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, LABOR STANDARDS BILL CHANGE T U. F. W. A. Scores Amend- ment as Merit Principle Nature’s BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. A UGUST kard month snakes. There are so many people is a on | | Children Red Barred Garter Snake (Eutaenis sirtalis parietalis). avoid and give the right of way. Even so they are friends of ours so long as we do not interfere with their liberty or cramp their style of life. bars, speeds over the ground in search for its food. This variety of the garter snake can easily be identified because the black spots on each side run together into a solid black area above. The ground color is seen between the narrow bars of brilliant hue. The center stripe is yellow or green or red. As the side stripe joins the red bars there is a wavy, chainlike outline. The crown of the head is pale olive green. Some specimens are reddish D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937. . should meet several of these harmless snakes. beautiful, [ preferred and also where the sun beats down upon it. Below the frost line the garter snakes huddle together for warmth, a strange mass of sinuous coils. Some members of the family have been found in deep fissures and clefts. Sincethey are very sociably inclined among themselves, you can see large numbers of them taking a sun bath upon the flat surface of a warm'stone, or come upon them as they gather for | the Winter retreat. B—7 days are their courting time, oo, and you may see very beautiful pairs together. There do not seem to be battles among them for the favor of the fair snake maidens. The number of young may be as many as 50. They are born in Au- gust and shift for themselves when a day old. How they love earth- worms! Tiny toads and wee froggies are stalked, too. If you try to make friends with the small garter snakes they accept your overtures with the to them. They take anything from their keeper's fingers and seem de= lighted to be petted In this family albinos are not un- usual. They are a beautiful creamy white and have pink eves. If you hold them to the light they seem to be almost transparent. (Copyright, 1 They are a sturdy crew and are among the last to seck Winter quar- ters. When the warm days of Spring arrive, they are among the first to come from their seclusion. Soft soil. where the snake can burrow easily, is | on their vacations this time of the year | DUtice thewarm Springadaveithey | scatter to the thickets, ravines, clo to brook edges and stream borders. They love the creatures that flourish about such places, frogs, toads and earthworms being favored. Spring WOODWARD & LOTHROP 10™11™ F AND G STREETS PHONE DISTRICT 5300 | proper spirit In captivity they are stronz and . 20od natured and unconcerned | U their prison walls. They raise | their families successfully and watch eagerly for their dinner to be breught Throughout the plains of Montana and from this State to Texas and wdment to the | friends and not focs to be stoned to | westward to California and Washinge which makes | death. The rattler, copperhead, coral | ton, this handsome garter snake, stering Board | and water moccasin are the four to | known on account of its bright red ation if they | more, the United Fed- | America de- rlates the principle of on merit.” The amendment, sponsored by Sena- tor Bailey, Democrat, of North C lina, was adopted by the Senate, 73 to 11 Violation, yellow. Some member of the garter snake family can be found in almost every part of North America, Mexico and Central America. Therefore, you tense itching the fungi 1t comes in contart with. Insist on Dr. Scholl's Solvex. 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