The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-08


French medical expert, does not be-
lieye in vacations. DR.. Toulouse,
above ALL objects to the idea that it is
necessary to rest the mind by exercis-
ing the body. This axiom, he says,
is proved by physiology to be absurd.
does n rest. To take long walk,
for inG lance, after several hours of
mental work is simply adding another
fatigue. The less physical exercise
the better. Women as rule do not
indulge in physical exercise, live long
er than men. Fresh air and one
hours walking day is all that is re-
quired DR.. Holouse boldly declares
that no athlete was ever genius, and
no intellectual man can ever be much
of an athlete. You cannot spend your
vitality in two directions. The sys-
TEN of taking a whole days rest every
week and a month or two at time
every year, is physiologically ridicu-
lous. When we take our vacation"
DR. Toulouse says, I'VE generally de-
vote our time to some physical exer-
else, cycling, golfing, mountaineering
or swimming-to which our body is
not adapted. 1t upsets our physique,
and the fatigue reacts on our minds
with the result that nine out of ten
persons feel worse after vacation
than when they started and unable to
resume work properly" We do not
need long rests, we want short ones
Do not rest sixteen hours per week on
Sunday, but four separate half hours
per day. Do not rest one or two
months a year after ten months of in
tense life and work, but divide these
twelve months into half holidays of
delightful laziness. What would you
say of a man who would work unceas-
ingly for six years and then spend
whole year in idleness? Yet this is
exactly what we do on a smaller scale
with our Sundays"
The attempts by the Paris river po-
lice to employ dogs as assistants in
saving persons from drowning has
proved a failure. Most Of the ami
mails are dead, others have been dis
missed as unfit for the service. The
only survivor, Paris, a splendid New
foundland dog, may be seen laZily lick
ing his paws in the sunlit spots of the
guays. 1t was in 1900 that the first
two dogs were brought to aid the riv-
er police, a few months later five more
wereadded and eventually the num-
Der reached IA. In spite Of a long and
difficult training the results, however,
were meagre. One of the river police
agents told me yesterday that the fail
ure was due in a great measure to the
steepness of the guay-walls. Dogs"
he said, ARE more intelligent than
men. They will only throw them
selves into the water from places
which they can readily reascend, be-
sides they are not always inclined to
the dogs can only be credited with the
foundland, plunged from the Pont
Nenuf and to land man who had tried
to commit suicide.
After resting for many long years in
the museum at Versailles, the state
carriage in which the Empress Joseph
inc drove to Malmaison after her di-
vorce, has just made its appearance
once more to the astonished gaze of
the public in the Bots de Versailles as
the ancient "Caresse" was being trans
ferred to the museum at MalMaison.
known as the "Opale" the carriage re-
tains much of it's old time splendor, be-
ing still magnificently enamelled in
Royal and gold, but the springs creak-
ed horribly and tn epair of cabhorses
drawing it from the one museum to the
other got over the ground painfully
and laboriously. The last occasion on
which the Opale was used was during
the reign of Napoleon III, on the oc-
casion of the baptism of the Prince I'm
perial.
If the police find dogs, useless and
collaborators, thieves and other dis
honest gentry would seem to find no
difficulty in profiting by canine intel
| ligence as witness the following Incl
dent A lady, Nine. Dancel, was TAX
! ing her morning constitutional in the
Avenue de Jena. A shabbily dressed
! individual followed by a pretty little
| fox terrier overlook her and asked her
/ to buy the animal, praising its many
| qualities and tricks including that OF
rope skipping and carrying parcels
| The lady became interested and want
ed the dog put to test at once. The
man told her to give the satchel she
was carryingto the dog and she would
see how cleverly he would carry il
for her. Nine. Dancel complied. The
terrier amply fulfilled all its master
had claimed. He did skip, not only
with the cord but with the satcheI
containing 500 francs and in ten SEE
onds was out of sight. The man
needless to say disappeared too and
neither he nor his cleverly trained
terrier thief has been seen or heard
of since.
| There was much talk about g
| false Rubens' in a Paris court dur
ing recent hearing, but the Rubens
spoken of had nothing to do with tho
famous painter and his works. 1t was
all about a Mr. RubeuS a naturaIizeC