Students of Baby Culture.
Not only may Los Angeles, Cal., girls learn to cook and sew in the public schools, but they may become students of baby culture with real live, gurgling, wriggling babies to practice on.
A course in the care and nursing of infants has been added as a permanent feature of the curriculum of the Polytechnic night school, and the first class, numbering thirty-five pupils, includes a dozen young mothers and prospective brides as well as younger girls.
Bird is Killed by Golf Ball.
While “teeing off” at golf, S. C. Pettit, of Topeka, Kan., brought down a sparrow with the flying ball. The bird was dead when it reached the ground. It is said by golfers that such an incident has occurred only once before. A professional golfer on a large course in New England once killed a bird with a golf ball.
Bird Rings Burglar Alarm.
A mischievous bird known as a flicker, belonging to the woodpecker family, has taken a fancy to sounding a burglar alarm over the First National Bank at Wrightsville, Pa. The first time or two the bird indulged in this prank it[Pg 58] caused a stir in the neighborhood. It is thought that in the first place an insect on the surface of the gong was pecked by the bird, and in this way the bird became acquainted with the musical qualities of the bell. The beating of the bird’s bill on the bell produces a sound exactly like that produced by the electric tapper of the gong.
Mouse Scares Girl to Death.
Miss Edna Engel, of Kenosha, Wis., the seventeen-year-old daughter of Caspar Engel, was scared to death by a mouse. The mouse ran out from under a piece of furniture as she entered her room. The girl fell unconscious and died without regaining consciousness.