Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — How Japs Overcome Nature. [ARTICLE]

How Japs Overcome Nature.

The Japanese are ruthless In their tampering with nature. If they decide that they want a bird or an animal of a certain shape or color they set about manufacturing the article, so to speak, by the exercise of exceedingly clever Ingenuity and untiring patience. Here, for example, Is how the white sparrows are produced: They select a pair of grayish birds and keep them in a white cage in a white room, where they are attended by a person dressed in white. The mental effect on a series of generations of birds results in completely white birds.