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Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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said anything about your patients clothes.You must make him wear light-colored things,and loose-fitting, as they do in all hot countries.But the hats the most important part of all. Oh, yes, interrupted John; it should bestraw. Yes, and one that will let the air in, saidMr. Wilson. And if you have to be out inthe sun, it is a fine thing to put a wet handker-chief or some damp leaves on top of yourhead, under your hat. When I was a boy, wealways put plantain leaves in our hats when wewere out playing. But even if you ve done allthese things, and begin to feel queer out in thesun, what would you do? I d run for a cool, shady place, and rest,and drink some cold water, said Jerry. That is about the best thing you could do,said Mr. Wilson. Guardie, what would you do for sunburn?said John. Apply the same treatment that you wouldfor any burn, replied Mr. Wilson. Put onplain baking-soda, or vaseline mixed with soda.This will take out the smart. A DIFFICULT SUBJECT. Drawn by E. Warde Blaisdell
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PHOTOGRAPHER: WELL, MADAM, IF YOU INSIST UPON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT, I LL HAVE TO TAKE YOU IN SECTIONS. BEES AS DESPATCH-BEARERS. By James C. Beard. A very curious and interesting investigationhas been going on for some time past amongnaturalists with regard to the senses of thelower animals. It has been found that in mostcases these are very different from ours, and itcannot any longer be denied that instancesoccur in which special senses that are not pos-sessed by human beings are developed in ani-mals. One of these, called the sense of direc-tion, enables bees to return from long dis-tances to their hives, unaided by any of thefive different ways we have of recognizing oursurroundings. To test this matter thoroughly, the littlehoney-makers have been taken considerable dis- Vol. XXXII. —117-118. 929 tances from their hives, to localities which itwas certain that they had never before visited;yet when set free they flew as unhesitatingly,as directly, and as unerringly home as from

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