People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — GIANT MODELS OF INSECTS. [ARTICLE]

GIANT MODELS OF INSECTS.

They Are Shown In the Anthropological Building at the Fair. Back in a far corner of the Anthropological building are some enlarged papier mache models showing a section of honeycomb, with several bees, each the size of one’s palm. These may be unhooked and opened like little boxes and the difference in construction of the various kinds of bees noted. For people who are always loudly shrieking for the equality of all people this model is a great object lesson. Here is the honey-maker, here the cellbuilder. The servant bee is physically formed for its work. See othe contrivance for the pollen gatherer? Tho queen bee’s larvae are deposited in a cell differing from the others. She, with her sisters, is fed upon royal food. The first one that hatches of these possible royalties, realizing that, for bees or men, no one can serve two masters, kills the others and reigns supreme. All these peculiarities of bee life the models show, for they are made by celebrated naturalists. A snail in his spiral house is shown and can be taken apart, making about seventy pieces. Who would think the stupid thing had such beautiful organs?