Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — SOMETHING for the LITTLE ONES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOMETHING for the LITTLE ONES

SIGHT OF CAT IN THE DARK ' »• When Feline Is In Search of Mouse Where the Light It Dim Pupils /“ of Eyes Open Wide. ~; ■ / .;' Some persons will tell you that cats can see in the dark. Now nothing can see in the dark, but some animals can see with a great deal less light than others, just as some cameras will take a picture with less light than You open or close the lens In a camera according to the amount of light, or else you speed up the shutter or slow it down. The human eye does this automatically, as the pupil or contracts according to the amount of light to which it is exposed; but cats can expand or contract the pupils of their eyes at pleasure, just as you open or shut the stops in the lens of your camera. When cats are not particularly anxious to see anything the pupils of their eyes become nothing but narrow slits, like this:

But when a cat 1b hunting a mouse in a room where there is very little light, or when the cat Is being hunted by some bad boys and wants to see every move the boys make, It opens the pupils of Its eyes until they are perfectly round.

If you happen to be between the cat and the light you will see a peculiar gleam in this wide open pupil, which Is the reflection of the light at the back of the cat’s eye.

Pupils at Ease.

Pupils Open Wide.