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This Day in Our History
JOSEPH JEFFERSON was born on February 20, 1829, in PhUa
delphia. He was one of the most famous of American actors.
His chief role was “Rip Van Winkle,” in the play dramatised by
Mmself and Dion Boucicault from Irving’s tale. »
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ONCE upon a time little shorty Cupid struggled his way
through a labyrinth of muslin, silk and tulle when he went
# for a promenade. A winged atom battling with billows made
•f countless petticoats. Like a midget monoplane shouldered by
innumerable, swollen, white clouds. His daily stroll was through
of swaying draperies. And all he saw of feminine loco-
HOUSEHOLD
► HINTS
Grapefruit
•There is nothing better with
Which to start the day than grape
fruit, which is becoming more
and more popular as a breakfast
dish. In addition to containing
the much-discussed vitamin, grape
fruit. according to dietetic experts,
possesses certain medicinal prop
,vu«a to which the orange, valu-
able as it is, can lay no claim.
| Kgga used for- cake-making i
should be beaten on a plate in a
durrent of air, to insure light
■ess. _____
t When cleaning knives, add a
little bicarbonate of soda to the
Cleaning powder. This helps to
femove stains.
When washing silk, or artificial
•ilk. stockings, add a few drops
of methylated spirit to the last
Water in which they are rinsed,
and when ironed they will look
Bke a new pair.
‘ When washing sateen or any
gotten goods with a satin finish,
rinse in borax water to give a
gloss. •?
A heated poker placed on a
piece of camphor will rid. a- roOm
•f fUes.
Inflatable rubber bags have
been invented for attachment to
canoes to make them unsinkable.
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Why We Behave Like Human Beings -:- By Dr. G. A. Dorsey
By George A. Dorsey,
Ph.D., LL.D.
CHAPTER 7
MOST of us have, about 310
muscles on each side of our
body. They are subject to such
variation that Testut, a noted
French anatomist, required 900
pages to describe them. Some of
us may have three muscles an
ape would be ashamed to own,
hangovers from such a remote
past.
We marvel at the agility of
monkeys and are astonished at
the human quality of their ac
tions. ’ Do we not often expect
them to smile? The smile never
comes; they have no muscle to
smile with. Even the cham
pahsee cannot- express with its
the emotions we think it
should; its facial muscles are less
perfectly developed, less sharply
defined, than ours. In monkeys,
they are even less differentiated.
One-fourth of all our muscles
are in our neck and face! The
human face can light up or cloud
'over because its muscles are at
tuned for complex action —keyed
» to the human pitch.
Facial muscles in mammals be
low man are more simple.- -We
look for intelligence in the eyes
of a horse, not in the -expression
of its face. When it needs to
flick a fly from its "fac-fe •dr
shoulder, it moves a muscle
THE WASHINGTON TIMES _ Tha MONDAY, FEBRUARY £O, 1&28
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motive power then was little mice of feet moving in and out, an
inch or two of ankle laced with velvet and silk ribbon, and—slay
ing incident —once in a blue moon a moment’s flash of a pair
of shrouding, lacey pantalettes! For even so short a personality
as he, there was no more; for him, and the rest of the world
of lovers, girls HAD no legs; in common with, the “Queep of
Spain.”
buried in the skin. Such a <
muscle covers many animals like,
a blanket.
We all have bits ot this skin
muscle —some of us more, some
less,- even on the chest and back.
Usually we ,cannot twitch it; we
send a hand after the fly. We
have traces' of it in our scalp; a
few have enough to move the
ecalp. Most of us can
Wrinkle our forehead —and do,
when perplexed. Apes use this
muscle both in pleasure and to
frighten enemies. We all have
vestiges of the muscles dogs use
to pull, push and lift their ears;
some can even wriggle them.
So, while the skin muscle of our
face and shoulders tends to disap
pear, the deeper facial muscles
show progressive variation. They
are among our most recent acqui
sitions. We retain the muscle by
which the dog shows its canine
tooth; we can all snarl. But. the
muscle hy which we smile is not so
regularly present; the man of
gloom may have no risoriua.
Variations in muscles about the
Learn to Appreciate Your Own Worth
By L. Lamar Matthews ♦
SAID a young insurance man
who finished college five
years ago, “If I ever have a son,
I doubt whether I’ll send him to
college. If he Is going Into busi
ness, the sooner he starts In the
business world the better. And
with the drinking, gambling and
foolishness tnat goes on in most
colleges, a boy is better at home
than he is in school.’
A man who. had meager ad
vantages in his youth, and who
recently paid for his own son's
education with the sweat of his
brow made this reply.
"You will feel differently when
your son is ready for college."
"I know a lot of successful men
who did not have a, college educa
tion and who think it is useless,”
answered the young man.
“Do you know any successful
men who practice that plan
where their own sons are con
cerned?" asked the old man.
“No,. I believe not," was the
reply.
“That is good talk for the
other man's children,” the older
man continued. “But when it
comes to your own flesh and
blood you want to give them the
best weapons possible to fight
with. Business is a struggle from
beginning to end. The boy vuith
a college education holds a weapon
that others lack. Even if he
doesn’t study at school, he ac
quirer a certain polish and grace
of speech and manner that is a
mighty help in an executive post-
HOW’S THE
OLD BEAN?
IN the following indicate what
word in the list has the same
meaning as the capitalized word
in the sentence:
1. The girl's BETROTHED
called upon her. (1) husband, (2)
cousin, (3) sweetheart, (4) chum, (5)
friend.
2. The child STEPPED across
tho street. (I) jumped, (2) leaped,
(3) walked, (4) swam, (5) flew.
3. Mary BOUGHT bread and
butter. (1) sold, (2), sought, (3)
purchased, (4) brought, <s> ate.
4. Suzanne was LYING on the
couch. (1) sitting. (2) leaning, (3)
reclining, (4) stooping, (5) reading.
5. The NUPTIALS took place
at high noon. (1 > festival, (2) wed
ding. (3) betrothal, (4) reception,
(5) funeral.
«. lie FORCED the slave to do
his bidding. fl) begged, (2) co
creed. <3) sent (4) asked, (5) bought.
7. The fisherman CAUGHT some
trout. (1) fixed, (2) saw. (3) cap
tured, (4) missed, (5) cooked.
nose and mouth, necessary for
speech, are usually, forward-look
ing; they give the “sperfkiqg like
ness” to man. Often they reveal
what the mind is trying to hide.
Only as we grow In e /erienefe can
we make our face a mask to belie
our emotions. This Is because the
face is primarily under the control
of the autonomic nerves; they act
of their own sweet will and are by
nature honest. But by and by our
brain learns to get control of them;
we force our face to wear a smile
when our heart would bid our eyes
to weep.
Our arms are free; they have
not forgotten that they were once
legs. Os 36 bodies examined, 292
variations were found in the arm
muscles; 119 in the leg. Our im
mediate ancestors were four
handed. we are two-footed. But
when the baby gets on the floor,
it pulls with its force and pushes
with its hind limbs; just as we
once crawled up out of water on to
dry land.
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Palmists rarely read the pad at.
> tion. Besides that he absorbs a t
great deal of knowledge, whether
he makes any special effort or
not.
“ Another thing,” the man
laughed, “is that he finds out
that the other fellow knows just
as little as he does. If he never
goes to college h$ thinks college
men have something on him that
makes them superior. When he
finishes himself, he knows just
how little they know, so he never
has to contend with a sense of
inferiority.”
Few people seem to realize
what a tremendous handicap this
feel of Inferiority can be to a
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Now! Now the same, the very same immortal young gentle- *
man goes for his trek upon the street, any street. And his
progress is through a more realistic forest. An animated thicket
of vari-colored silken uprights, the feminine leg by dozens from
the sole of a dainty shoe to an inch or two above the knee.
the outer edge of our palm—or
know that wo have one like It on
the sole of our foot; both protect
deep-lying muscles from Injury in
walking. The palm pad has its
own palman muscle in one man
out of every 10. It helped to work
the pads which protected the mus
cles and tendons beneath. Today, it
is as atavistic as the pad itself; we
gave up walking on x>ur hands
bout 2,000,000 years ago. Aa for
“•lines” of fate and marriage, and
the ••girdle of Venus,” they can
all. be “read” in the hands and
feet of monkeys, and to a certain
extent in a baby’s foot—or in the
fetal hands and filet. Palmistry
is. as dead as phrenology. Anyone
who can read "character” or
"mental capacity” from head
bumps or palm lines is a wizard
and should be paid accordingly.
What does it all mean, this as
tounding range of vriation, on
which I have barely touched?
There they are. by the. thousands,
by unnumbered thousands. Shall
we say that they lie. that our
levator coccygis never lifted a
► child or a grown-up. There are'
plenty of well-rneaning people who
are constantly reminding their
children that “Self-praise is half
blame..” If the children show any
disposition to tell of their achieve
ments or to gaze Into the mirror,
they are immediately wet-blank
eted with a cure for vanity.
A certain woman, came up In
poverty and without the social
recognition that she craved dur
ing her young days. She says
that it gave her an inferiority
complex ihat still bobs up oc
casionally to defeat and infuriate
her. That is*why she never fails
to praise her children on the
ADVICE TO
LOVELORN
I—By Beatrice Fairfax—
TYEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am a girl of eighteen and
am considered good-looking by
all my friends.
I do not go out with beaux. I
go to a movie once a week with
a girl I know, of my age. But I
always have to put up a fight in
order to go skating once a week
even if I take my younger sister
with me and agree to be back at
ten.
Once or twice I have had a
ring on the ’phone while I was
out, from some young man try
ing to kid me along. My parents
think this is a crim?. Will you
please let me know whether it is
all right for a girl to go out
twice a week when she is back
home at 10 o'clock.
DISGUSTED ROSIE.
If your parents are willing. I do
not see why you should not go
to a movie or skating twice a
week with a girl companion, pro
vided you conduct yourself in
such away that your parents
would be pleased and proud of
you if they were along. Remem
ber your parents love you and in
all they too are thinking of your
Interest so be very patient and
sweet with them won’t you,
Rosie?
Obey Your Parents.
TjEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am fifteen. I have had
several chances to go about with
boys, but nry parents think I am
too young. Do you think I am
too young? WONDERING.
YOUR parents are the persons
to decide whether you are old
enough to go about, with boys.
You see they understand you and
the particular circumstances of
the .case, better than an outsider.
Respect their Judgment, my dean,
>*> and fbrnTWMtibnllri advirq. 11 • rFT<
> tail, that our curvator coccygis
never curved one, and that our
attollens auriculam never lifted
an ear? Or shall we say that we
are walking museums of compara
tive anatomy and try to find out
whence <we came and whither we
are going?
This is certain: there Is no
fixed, standardized, perfect, or
biologically ideal human body,
there are no two human bodies
quite alike. Each one of us reeks
with evidence that our ancestors
were not the two-handed, two
footed creatures we are now; that
they had no talking muscles; that
they could not back up their talk
with a speaking countenance; and
that they could not balance their
heads on their spines.
Some variations are atavistic
or vestigial. Like the buttons on
our coat cuffs, they no longer
function; like parlor boarders,
they often make trouble. They
are hangovers from a remote
past. They are prone to disease;
we should be better off without
slightest provocation. ‘ ' She has
also convinced them .that their
lineage is the finest in the coun
try: and that they have a little
better reason to hold up their
heads and take.what is their own
than most of their fellows. She
declares that other people value
you at your own estimate, and
she proposes to make her children
place a high estimate upon them
selves.
There are men and women who
come of good blood; who have as
much sense as their neighbors;
whn have the gifts of an
attractive personality ant,, yet
they are shrinking and backward
and afraid to assert themselves.
It must be due to the training or
the atmosphere in which they
spent their childhood.
Contrast them with the many
up-and-coming American citizens,
who have nothing to recommend
them except their own determina
tion to outshine others who have
less energy, less ambition and less
Impudence than they..
Between the overly-tlmid and
the overly-brasen there is a happy
medium. The proper attitude to
ward others and toward oneself
can be acquired. If a child can
be trained at home to consider the
rights of others and at the same
tlnia command his own just des
serts, he Is lucky. If he fails to
receive the training at home, a
good education is the next best
thing in that direction that his
parents can give him.
SKY WRITING
IMPROVED
A new projectograph has been
developed to -write advertisements
in the sky at night. The projec
tion wheel takes six different pic
tures in the form of circular discs.
Bach picture is in view for 45
seconds and the picture discs are
made to revolve so that the pro
jected picture, about 170 yards
wide at a distance of 500 yards,
turns around a cloud.
Here And There
The British stock of cows is in
creasing. It is 82,000 higher than
it was two years ago.
London has thousands of base
ment stores, kitchens and cellars
well below the high d’ater level of
the Bi ver Thames; the fact that
these are rarely flooded is due to
the main drainage scheme, which,
experts stgt&Ja.the
world* *■; ; .. -
A RECENT survey of Juan Fernandes Island, on which Alexander
Selkirk, the original of Robinson Crusoe, lived for four years,
showed it to be one of the most fruitful spots m South America.
Every imaginable plant seems to grow there.
Through these he wends his and marvels, perhaps, along with
the rest of the lovers of the world, at the diversity of shape*
and sizes and manner of progression that a fellow sees.
It’s hard for him, along with the other lovers of the world, to
believe that legs were always like this; it was just that •
fellow didn’t know it! —NELL BRINKLEY.
them. Some are retrogressive,
week sisters of our body, function
ing in a. half-hearted way: we
could do without them—many of
us do. Some are progressive, a
little bit more than human;'they
point to further change in man’s
physical structure.
Taken together, they bridge
every gap and make a complete
story. They prove that, while our
eyes look forward, our body has
not forgotten its humble origin—
and carries' some d«id Wood we
were well rid of, such ae< appen
dix, tail, snarling muoele. Our
proneness to hernia and prolapse
of the uterus is only one of the
many proofs that our body is not
yet perfectly adapted to an up
right gait.
(Copyright. I#2«. by fleers* A.
Tomorrow: When Full Brain Weight
Comee—florillae And Bahiee—The Fat
Lady’s Dilemma.
Dr. Caldwell’s 3 Rules
Keep You Healthy
Dr. Caldwell watched the results
of constipation for 47 years, and be
lieved that no matter how careful
people are of their health, diet, and
sxgrciae, constipation will occur
from time to time regardless of
how much one tries to avoid it. Os
next importance, then, is how to
treat it when it comes. Dr. Caid
well always was in favor of getting
as close to nature as possible, hence
his remedy for constipation, known
as Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, is
a mild vegetable compound. It can
not harm the most delicate system
and ia not a habit forming prepara
tion. Syrup Pepsin is pleasant-tast
ing, aqd youngsters love It. It does
not gripe. Thousands of mothers
have written us to that effect.
Dr. Caldwell did not approve of
drastic physics and purges. He did
not believe they were good for hu
man beings to put into their system.
In a practice of 47 years he never
saw any reason for their use when
a medicine like Syrup Pepsin will
empty the bowels just as promptly,
more cleanly and gently, without
griping and harm to the system.
Keep free from constipation! It
robs your strength, hardens your
arteries and brings on premature
old age. Do not let a day go by
without a bowel movement. Do
not sit and hope, but go to a drug
gist and get one of the generous
bottles of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pep
sin. Take the proper dose that
night and by morning you will feel
like a different person. Use Syrup
Pepsin for yourself and members of
the family in constipation, bilious-
To All Thin Blooded People
Doctors Say: “EatMoreLiver”
Hundreds of Thousands Eat
ing Liver to Get Riclu
Red Blood * -
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Hundreds of physicians in
York and other cities who have
tested and prescribed a diet of beefs
liver in cases of poverty* of the
blood or anemia are now prescrib
ing a preparation called Heme-
Liver which Is made by a scientific
process from fresh beefs livers.
By this process all the “mysteri
ous Substance” or vital elements
that are obtained by eating liver
are extracted and put up in the
form of an elixir which is very
palatable and pleasant to the taste.
Hemo-Liver is full of the vital
elaments nr "mysterious substance”
that is one of the great discoveries
of recent years and by taking a
tableqpoonful three times a day
you’ll get more an<L quicker benefit,
than nnunds-nf
DO YOU KNOW
THAT-
The oven should be just right
when cakes or pastry are put la.
The secret of good cakes lies mors
in the' baking than ths making.
To know if the oven is hot or
cool enough, open the ’door aWt
put a pigee of white paper on tho
hottest shelf. If it turns black
leave the door open for a short
while—it is too hot for anythin*.
If it turns dark brown, it is hot
enough for buns and scones,
which require the greatest heat
for the shortest time. If it turns
a deep yellow, it is just right for
meat pies. If tinged light brown
all over, the heat is right for. jam
tarts, large cakes, ginger bread,
and fruit pies with thin crust.
Gold has been discovered fcl
Australia that is silvery whits
when mined, but turns black OB
exposure to the air.
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nets, sour and crampy stomach,
bad breath, no appetite, headaches,
and to break up fevers and colds.
Always have a bottle in the house,
and observe these three rules of
health: Keep the head cool, the feet
warm, the bowfl* open.
We would be glad to have y<M
prove at our expense how much Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin can mean
to you and yours. Just write “Byrup
Pepsin," Monticello, Illinois, and we
will send you prepaid a FREE
SAMPLE BOTTLE.
Every progressive druggist Mils
Hemo-LfVer in a big 12 ounce bottle
that will last eight days.
Men and women who are suffer
ing from lowered vitality, general
weakness, overwork, nervous break
down or anemia ean put their faith
in Hemo-Liver. For feeble old peo
ple, girls IS to 18 and in convales
cence it won’t fall. It strengthens
the nervqe, increases the red blood
cells, promotes health and rebuilds
energy so quickly that often physi
cians aye astonished,
Whv not get a big bottle of
Hemo-Liver today—eight days treat
ment—and If after you have taken
one bottle you don’t say Hemo-
Liver is the greatest health builder
you ever heard of—get your money
b&ck.
Not a patent medicine; mind ypu
—but the vitamin** extracted from
fresh beefs liver.
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