Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — Ants’ Nests Divert Fashionable City [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ants’ Nests Divert Fashionable City

To vary the program the ants are made to engage in a pitched battle as one swarm is Introduced into the nest of another.- Invaders and invaded lock in fierce combat, and a hastily improvised hospital and ambulance service for the injured Is organized by the non-combatants. This idea was introduced into Pariffe, society by a| wePknown singer. Another innovation which is having an immense success is a dog's training college, which was opened in the most fasihonable Quarter of Paria Here a society woman's dumb friend is lodged, fed, and educatetd in all that he should and should not do at the trilling fee of about |3O a month, though day pupils are admitted at ai lower rate. Many graceful accomplishments are! Imparted in the course, which is divided into school and college grades,, and diplomas are awarded on a certain standard of proficiency being at-; tained. It is jokingly said that the time-honored French polish Is going; to the dogs.

pARIS. —With the approach, of spring ft the rage for novelty has descended on fashionable Paris. On all sides new forms of the entertainment of guests and new ways of doing things are being subjected to experiment One of the most curious of the new . fashions is the ants’ jiest craze. No hostess thinks & drawing room complete unless it contains a glass case Inside of which are a few pounds of earth, a large number of ants and their eggs, and a supply of more or less suitable food. Guests are provided with magnifying glasses and are Invited to watch the industrious insects carrying on their domestic and civic duties, much as if still in a country field.