Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1940, Page 50

Nature’s Children Jumping Spider (Family attidae) By LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Almost anywhere is home for the bright - colored jumping spiders. These spiders are rather small, having a short body and sturdy legs finished with tarsal claws. You become aware of their presence, as & rule, by having one or more leap | into the air before you as you ap- proach either a plant, fence, log, or even the side of a building upon which some of them had been resting. No other spider has such | conspicuous eyes. All members of the family may be identified by the | characteristic arrangement of them | ®s well as the relative size of the| different pairs. They are in three rows. The anterior eyes are large | and are on the vertical face; the anterior median eyes are very large; the posterior median ones are small eyes and in front of the posterior lateral eyes, and as these jumpers are day workers, their eyes are the diurnal type. Neo Money Down THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940. A thick hair or scale coat covers the body. Many members of the family are brilliantly colored, some even iridescent. While the sexes differ greatly in color and clothing, they are almost the same size, which is unusual. During courtship days the males, who possess strange littlz bunches of hairs on their front legs, put on nuptial dances before their lady loves, In some fashion they manage to display their leg ornaments by holding their legs over their heads or swinging them sideways. These jumpers catch their prey District Girl fo Compefe In Oratorical Contest Miss Gloria- Regan of Immaculate | Conception High School will go wi Baltimore Sunday to represent| Washington in the finals of the| eighth annual oratorical conteslj sponsored among Catholic schools of | the Baltimore-Washington arc! diocese by the Catholic Universitv | Conference of Clerics and Religious | of the Catholic Students’ Mission | Crusade. | She will compete with four re-! gional winners from sections of Maryland for a $50 prize and one- | year possession of the of the Arch- bishop Curley Trophy. The finals will be at 8 p.m. in the Seton High School, 2800 N. Charles | street, Baltimore. Other finalists are Miss Adelle Ralston, Institute of | Notre Dame, Baltimore; Miss Mary Catherine Adams, Notre Dame Academy at Bryantown of Southern Maryland; Miss Jacqueline Bruneau | of St. Mary's High School, Hagers- town, Md., of the Blue Ridge sec- tion, and De Sales Cook of La Salle Institute, Cumberland, of the west- ern section. Gov. O'Conor will be chairman | and the Right Rev. Msgr. Robert J. | Achstetter, presiding prelate. | Judges of the contest will be the Right Rev. Msgr. Charles F. Morris- | sey of St. Ann's Church, Balti- more; Miss Tina Marranzgno of the ‘Washington Times-Herald ana Daniel McCullum, Cumberland at- torney. The orchestra of Mount St. Joseph's School in Baltimore will play Brazil has an egg shortage, and the government is investigating. LOW SPRING PRICES Highest Quality—Lowest Price 2,240 Pounds to the Ton BLUE RIDGE VA. HARD Buckwheot BITUMINOUS BLUE EGG Hard Structure, Light Smoke Egg Size $7.9 5% --.$7.15 50% _ $6.75 BLUE RIDGE SMOKELESS No Smoke. 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Perhaps you have passed many of them 4 LIBERAL FOR YOUR OLD FURNITURE! They are sac-like in'form and com- posed of several envelopes. There are usually two exits. the :sac-like nest, and remain there until the young spiderlings lesve them, The cocoon is lens-shaped and suspended hammock fashion from, the walls of the home. Some- times you may find several of them, usually only one to each dwelling. The eggs are laid early in the sea- son and hatch shortly after they are laid. The mother guards them until they leave for the new life awaiting them, By autumn they are ready to bulld a winter resi- dence for themselves. _ . This is one ‘of the Iargest most - widely distributed’ of families ofspiders, and some rep- resentatives of it miay be found in all parts of the world except the polar regions. Several thousane, species have been described, so you should have no difficulty in finding and studying a jumping spider close by your home. 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