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...score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their wanton beauty to delight the discerning eye. The honeysuckles have saturated the balmy air with the odor of the nectar of the gods, and the songbirds have awakened the echoes of music with their renewed message of light and love and life...
Better Mousetrap. A disposable, plastic, cylindrical trap that relieves the housewife of having to touch a dead mouse was brought out by Shaw-Randall Co., Inc. of Pawtucket, R.I. (The mouse, attracted by odor of grain, walks into "Sanitrap," eats poison pill, is paralyzed and killed. Tube, mouse and all are then thrown away.) Price...
Nuworld (a generic, not a trade name) is a light, cream-colored cheese with little odor. Tasters describe it as "neither sharp nor mild, and not as bland and flat as American cheese." Cheese specialists agree that it is a distinctive cheese. Toledo buyers have been coming back for more...
Invaders & Guests. Ants have scent-glands on their backs, and in the course of their constant caressing, all the individuals in a colony acquire the same odor. Since ants depend chiefly on smell, rather than on sight or hearing, the colony odor is equivalent to the recognition signs that humans use to identify members of their social groups. If an ant that does not smell just right is introduced into a colony, it is usually treated roughly...
Proofs of ant citizenship can be falsified rather easily, and many intruders take advantage of this fact. A newly fertilized Jet Black Ant queen sometimes hangs around the door of a foreign colony until she takes on some of its characteristic odor. After a time she marches in boldly. The defenders, thinking she is one of them, do not stop her. When she finds the resident queen, she climbs on top of the incumbent and bites off her head. Then she starts laying eggs. Her young can eventually become so numerous that they dominate the colony...