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Manhattan's ingenious American Museum of Natural History last week got ready to exhibit the newest trick in museum educational work. Back of a picket fence the visitor sees a stuffed hen looking at a painting of other hens and a rooster in a barnyard (see cut). As the visitor looks a loudspeaker narrates: "The hens in the barnyard seem to us all very much alike. We would have great difficulty in distinguishing one from another if we did not put rings or other identification marks on their legs. But to the hen every other hen in the yard...
...that instant a stage trick of lighting makes the background fade out, and a scene of a barnyard as a hen sees it comes into the visitor's view. The rooster is enormous (see cut). The loudspeaker continues: ". . . for there is a social system in the barnyard. One hen ... can peck another hen . . . without being pecked back, and a third hen can peck still a fourth . . . without fear of retaliation. The rooster stands at the head of this social system, but beneath him,' in a definite social order, are arranged the various hens. This social system does...
...workers assigned to the museum by the Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes...
...hours, but it has gotten to be a habit to talk for days and sometimes weeks. ... I may be wrong, but it's a good bet that nothing like that will attend the meetings of Walter Chrysler and John Lewis. They are too much alike in plain barnyard common sense...
...informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...