The wonderful story of life : a mother's talks with her daughter regarding life and its reproduction / reprinted by the British Social Hygiene Council ... by permission of the United States Public Health Service.
- United States Public Health Service
- Date:
- [1933]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The wonderful story of life : a mother's talks with her daughter regarding life and its reproduction / reprinted by the British Social Hygiene Council ... by permission of the United States Public Health Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAPTER III. In our last talk, Helen Elizabeth, I told you about plants—how each particular part, leaf, stem, root, and flower, has its work to do. We love flowers so much that we were particularly happy to know about flower seeds. Even it all the plants now living should die, these seeds would grow into new plants with the same beauti- ful flowers. And I told you about how the seeds were made—the little specks of pollen finding their way down through the tiny passages in the pistil to the little white eggs, which then grow into real true flower seeds. To-day I have another interesting story to tell you. It is about fishes. I wonder how much you know about fishes, Helen Elizabeth. You know they live in water, and you like to see them swim about. But you don’t know what fishes do in their watery homes, and you don’t realise how they live. There are thousands and thousands of fishes in the world, however, and many people depend on fishes for food. So you will see that they have quite an important place in life. Let us take one kind of fish—the salmon—and I shall tell you some of the things I know about it. Salmon live in the great Pacific Ocean and spend most of their lives far from the sight and knowledge of people. They swim about in the deep water looking for food. Day after day they spend in this way, eating food and growing bigger and bigger. There finally comes a time when each salmon feels an impulse which it doesn’t understand, that it has a work to do up a fresh-water stream. So the salmon turn toward the land and start up [13]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32172060_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
