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...sees in the accomplishments of Florie and Margie, Johnny and Jimmy continuation of his observations on nerve growth. A baby is not born with a fully developed brain or with nerves fully developed to carry messages from the out-side world to the brain. As the brain and nerves ripen, the infant becomes able to learn more & more useful things...
...said, theoretically at least, that mental deductions, like good cheese, ripen and become richer with...
...which has passed over an apple . . . contains some subtle emanations which profoundly influence other vegetable forms. Potatoes placed in the stream either do not sprout or, if they do. the sprouts are misshapen dwarfs, more like warts than anything else. Bananas are excited to a much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...
...influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...
Ragweed began to ripen and send its pollen (ten billion grains to the plant) into the air last week. In consequence, some two million peculiarly sensitive residents of the U. S. began to snuffle & weep with their annual attacks of hayfever. New York City, Chicago and smaller communities hired men to pull up every stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust...