The Washington herald., 1907-01-27

When noted statesmen stoop 10 folly,
And md too late that what they say
Is not TrceiVed with commentator
What art can turn TeIToach away
What artg One reads il in the papeTs
It's tue that thus and thus J spoke,
But really, sin. you must excuse me,
A man must have has little Joke
Why roast the governor at Kingstqn2
Why sag that he has gene TOO faTg
For has he not explained his letter
By saying he loCuart
WHY, when a man has just been witty.
Should be be forced 20 take things backY
The fault is ours Wy not confess 1t.
A sense Of htHnor's What We lack.
An old friend OF the late Josiah Flynt"
Willard has been telling me an extraor-
binary story Of Mr. Wizards youth. VIII
lard, as a boy, was incOrrigible not in
the sense In witch eriminoiogists use the
word, but as discouraged mothers use il.
RE was exceptionally brilliant, but
neither teachers nor his family could
control him. When he was about to be
graduated from college an objectionable
escapade led 70 has disappearance He
Jramped from Chicago 10 Boston His
family. In despair, finally persuaded him
10 go abroad. On the steamer. 50 his old
friend says. he climbed 10 some height
OF other and fell. injuring his head so
severely that trepanning was necessary.
Perhaps there had always been some alb
normal pressure on his brain. but, al any
rate. trepanning changed the boys dis
position absolutely He took his uni
versity. degree in Europe without causing
anybody any anxiety. The wander spirit
was in him always. but the irrespOnsi-
bility Of his boy days never returned. 1t
is said that many incidents Of his youth
were never a part Of his recoIlections
after the operation. The fail was in
reality the making OF him.
I haven't a doubt in the world that the
time viii come when the commission Of a
crime will lead the cuIprit TO the oper-
ating table and not to the peuitentiary
Future man may Well be born with his
skull covered with neat little trap doors
50 that he can have his brain kept in
good working order without any incon-
veulence. Doubtless many a man gets
himself disliked because something is
wrong in his brain and he cannot control
its workings. / recall the case Of a man
well known in Washington who. during
the five years preceding his death. lost
one by one, all his friends, because of
his irritable temper. The slightest prov
rar a4 oil
make him insult grossly his nearest and
dearest / think even his family scarcely
regretted his death, and il was not till the
post norton had disclosed an uususpectcd
difficulty with the brain-a pressure, OF d
growth, OF something else abnoTmal-that
any one guessed he was not 10 blame Tor
his unreasonableness. Everybody was
sorry then that he had not received
greater kindness and forbearance. Peo-
pie always are sorry when its too late.
Future generations viii be wiser They'll
know why a man Is unreasonable. And,
perhaps, with the threat Of a surgical
operation before him the future man
won't give way TO temper quite so freely.
Sreaking about brains, reminds me ot
a conversation heard in a hair dresser S
establishment not long ago. Madame was
busy melting Miss Blanks hair and cast
ing it in a Marcel wave mold. and Miss
Blank was complaining because the hair
on the left side OF her head was thin.
She reproached madame, too. remarking
with some aspeTity that madame's mas
sage and tonics were costing a lot Of
money and not doing q bit OF good.
You play golf too much said madame.
4 don't see what that has TO do with
making my hair Thin" objected Miss
Blank L don't knock it of playing
golf"
1t is the brains, madame explained.
The right arm is controlled by the left
side Of the brain. You use the right arm
too much. The brain is OverwOrked. the
scalp is Overheated. the cells which nOur-
ish the roots Of the hair are dried up,
and the hair falls out If you viii rest
your right arm and take massage the hair
will stop falling.
It was such a beautiful explanation and
it had such a scientific sound that I was
tremendously impressed, but Miss Blank
was obviously one of those people who
are born to upset things.
HUH she said scornfully. DO you
think I play golf with one hand? Right
arm, Didn't you ever notice that I'm left
handed
Aunt Jane is one OF those women who
have TO have an abiding faith in some
thing" says Aunt James niece. she
used 70 be a theosophist, but now she's a
germist. The only place she'd be really
happy in is the formaldehyde room in a
hospital Ne other place is quite sterilized
enough to make her mind easy. The sec