Spiders As Pets

Spiders are not generally popular creatures with either sex. Yet a lady writer afBrms that they can bcmade the "dearest little pets in the world." She tells how she collected a common g-arden spider and kept the sweet lady mder a glass tumbler f or three weeks. She watched her "building her house of snowy silk" and raising a family, and, says the writer, "she sooh learned to taïce flies from my hand and drink ■water from a leaf which Í gaTe her f resh every day." There are, indeed, according to this lady, fewthings so agreeable as a spider, whether regarded as an architect, a thing of beauty, a slayer of pests or a household pet.