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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Finding How OLD Your BRAIN is

various classes of subjects these tests nave now
been boiled down to simple and certain tests OF
mentality by means of which a person may be
ticketed with his proper mental age and treated
accordingly.
Binet has a good many tests that nave been
modified by experience into what are known
generally as the Binet tests. They run all the
way from recognizing a hand waved in front OF
the eyes for a tiny infant to remembering Sc
quences of numbers and describing the various
articles seen in picture but for a moment .or
older ones.
1t is the endeavor of some humane societies
to have a law passed to test all criminals, and
that if found Of small mental age, they snail
not be punished in the ordinary way. 1t has
also been suggested that our own civil service
use these tests instead Of the oftentimes aD
surd examinations now used,-
Results from testing criminals have oeen
startling and peculiar. In a great many cases
grown men and women have not gone higher
than ten or twelve years in mental age. In
the case of children the tests have indicated
other things besides their mental agency
have indicated the general vocation for which
the child is best adapted.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

in Europe and America, it is shown that of
those in which men were deemed to have been
the victims of love melancholy, nearly so per
cent were in financial difficulties, having either
lost job shortly before or having been unfor-
tunate in some speculation. This leaves but 20
per cent to be considered. All cases of feeble
mindedness were, of course, eliminated. OF this
remainder more than half were drug fends or
users of alcohol, leaving but a few doubtful
cases which could be classified as love suicides
Careful investigation into the families of each
of these showed an essential constitutional
weakness, or a high degree of nervous irritable
ty man suicidefor-love, broken heart and
snakes in Ireland according to DR.. Kahane, all
belong to the same group of myths.
Where women are concerned it is impossible
to secure conclusions as definite DR.. Kahane
suggests that since winning a mans love is
woman's principal business, failing to do so must
be classed as business failure. From an Amer
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

TN a well-reasoned analysis of the causes OF
1 suicidal depression, DR.. H. Kahane, of Wen
ma, advances substantial proof to show that
there is no such thing as a man committing sui
eide because of an unfortunate love affair, and
that the cases in which women have done so are
extremely rare. DR.. Kahane opposes the mod
ern idea that love is an important element in
conditions of health and Illness and remarks
that lin man the fame soon dies down, and the
comfort of the family table, regular habits and
the warm, quiet home are all consciously or
subccnsciously blended in the love passion"
So far as women are concerned, he declares
that, consciously or unconsciously, the average
woman is aware that she has to depend for her
food and shelter for her living, in fact, on at
tracing a man to provide for her through love.
Consequently he asserts that to woman love
is largely a side issue of the general instinct for
self-presefvation.
1t is for this reason that DR.. Kahane regards
suicides as being almost invariably evidences of
lack of material success, rather than the result
of an over-ardent passion. He declares that the
love-;mpulse in the soul is no greater than 1t is
in the body. 1t is only momentary in the latter,
and has comparatively little effect .on ones gen.
eral health He believes this holds true of the
soul as well, and that mental disturbances of
any sort can seldom, if ever, be traced to the
loyeimpulse.
In analyzing a large number of suicides, both
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Microbes but Makes 1t Less Easy to Detect Filthy
Methods on the Part of Dairymen and Dealers

Investigation has shown that, the quantity of dirt
which finds its way into milk between the time of
milking and the time of consumption is considerable
1t has been estimated that Chicago annually consumes
twenty-five tons of dirt in its milk supply few
years ago Professor Delepine calculated that LOG
pounds of dirt contained in every 10000 gallons
of milk supplied to the city of Manchester England
OF the grading and handling of milk for consumption
in large cities, DR.. Pritchard writes
1.-THE sooner the public learn that milk must be
graded the better will it be for all persons concerned
it quite impossible that the sale of milk can remain
commercial laws. In all other business transactions
there is relationship between quality and price; IN
the milk trade such relationship is acknowledged
In the grading of milk there is and probably always
will be, a considerable difficulty; the difficulty
presents itself in arranging sliding scale Of charges
to correspond with the varying qualities of the milk.
"But If clean, properly pasteurized milk is delivered
in efficiently washed and serlized glass jars there
be question of the superiority Of such method
of delivery that customary in this country.
AS the delivery of milk In this manner is only
coming slowly into vogue 1t would be great gain If
proper requirements in this connection to be
mediatey formulated before their enforcement could
be opposed as a hardship.
Although think could state fairly accurately
number of bottles of milk of the quality of certified
milk sold in London daily, refrain from dong for
very shame Milk of slightly inferior grade to 'cer
fed milk is sold in America under the designation of
inspected milk at a considerably lower price Such
milk must be derived from nontubecuous cows, show
count of not than 100000 bacteria per cubic
cenmetre and be produced under approved conditions
Milk of lower grade than this is sold as market milk,
should not contain than 100000 bacteria per
cubic centimetre New York; 100000 per cubic
centmetre (Boston) 100000 per cubic centtmetrs
(Rochester)."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

should such be present, by heat other means
make milk perfectly safe. Further
guarantee that any particular sample of milk has not
been thus exposed indeed quite serious outbreak Of
scarlet fever occurred little time ago in America
among persons who consumed certified milk OF the
highest quality, obtained from seemingly unmpeaeh
able source. On the other hand, far as am aware
no case of neove disease much less epidemic, has
ever been traced to the of pasteurized milk.
EFF the heating pasteurization of milk can thus en-
immunity from the dangers due to its accidental
contamination with the germs of disease it well be
asked why should all milk be treated before con
sumption One of the arguments is that this procedure
can effectively cloak dirty production and careless dis
trbution. Dirty milk is always teeming with bacteria
and within limits the number is proportional to the age
of the milk, the temperature at which has been Kept
and the amount Of dirt present. The more numerous
the bacteria the sooner does milk become sour; but
when milk has been pasteurized it does not readily
turn and the public thereby may be deprived OF
useful and practical criterion of the extent of the con-
taminaton-
"The same argument, however could be advanced
against the practise of refigerating milk Immediately
after it has been drawn from the cow. This danger,
namely that the pasteurization OF milk may cloak con-
tanned dirt is theoretical than real for stale and
dirty milk in spite of pasteurization would betray it.
self to the palate and would easily reveal itself in
laboratory examination by the number of mouds and
liquefers and by other evidences of contamination
present in the sample.
without being of the fact, Londoners consume
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
HUMAN MOTHERS Can Learn from ANIMALS

the damp earth with her own body until the
young emerge into the world.
The most interesting feature OF care for eggs
and young is the carrying around OF either or
both. Among the worms there are a large mum
Der which carry their eggs and young on inc
under side of their bodies. Some starhsh nave
sacks on their breasts, in which the young grow
for a time Many of these are found IN Arcuc
or Antarctic waters, where cold has brought
about the necessity for this special care MANY
species of crabs have these breast sacks TOR the
young. Certain water insects have pouches toi
the eggs, either on the breast or towards inc
tail.
There are many kinds of verebrates whlcp
carry their eggs or young. The frog hsn' o.
Surinam, carries its eggs on the under sue Oh
its body, holding them on by special blood yes
sells. Here it is the female that carries the eggs
Certain species of shad carry the eggs IN tne
mouth and around the gills, which are greatly
expanded for the purpose. Here 1t is the maze
who does the carrying. In the sea needle anu
sea horse the male has a brood pouch on Uue
under side Of the body.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

pears TO be fresh.
at must be remembered, however,
that efficient pastedrization greatly
increases the cost of production, espe-
cially to the small dairyman with a
limited business. The best modern
plant is very expensive. while in
creased standing costs for rent, rates,
taxes, labor, fuel. power, refrigeration
and greatly increased charge for
bottles necessarily make pasteuriza-
tion very costly procedure. 1t is
the apprehension of these facts that
makes the average dairyman oppose
the practise of pasteurization. If the
pasteurization of milk comes into
general vogue it will inevitably ne
cessitate the concentration Of the
dairy business into few hands, and
this would doubtless be to the benefit
of the public. for the Clearly produc-
tion of milk must entail constant SUI
pervision and inspection"
Most persons will be ready to be-
lieve that the Capitalization of steril-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

izng plants under scientific management would mini
mize the dangers Of dirt getting into the product new
process recently invented by Dr. Lobec of Leipsic ap-
pears to limit the dirt bugbear while preserving the nat
ural qualities of the milk treated.
The ordinary method of pasteurzation consists in
heating the milk to temperature OF from l44 to !4S
degrees. The new method consists of a more sudden
heating to about 1876 degrees followed by an lmme-
date cooling the theory being that harmful bacteria
are instantly destroyed by the right temperature, while
change in the flavor and other qualities OF the mix
requires longer time to effect
The apparatus consists of two cylinders, one inside
the other. The milk enters the inner cylinder through
bast-pipe in the form of spray The space between
the two cylinders serves a heating champer lnto
which steam by lateral tubes and heats the mix
to the desired temperature. The two compartments
are closed by tightly fitting lids caps. The aces
refrigerating apparatus This last is provided with
hood prevent infection from outside and contact Oh
the air with the cooling surfaces.
The force-pump draws the milk, and throws IL INTO
the reservoir where it finds pressure or three or TOUR
atmospheres regulator prevents this degree OF pres
sure being exceeded and pushes all excess OF mink To-
ward the reservoir.
An excellent feature of the machine is the ease with
which it is cleansed and sterized. This is accom-
minutes with very hot water instead OF MIX Inc
sterizer then be set to work ana VIII run TOT
hours without interruption and without attention.
convenient way of testing milk to determine its
proportion of dirt is to strain a given quantity-say
pint-through disc of cotton cloth. The amount of
dirt remaining the surface of the cloth disc will
enable you to calculate the proportion The best of
the dairy products called nursery" milk will leave
hardly any stain upon the disc through which it is
strained, while ordinary milk supplied by New York,
Chicago and London diaries will leave papable lump
of dark colored sediment.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
STAMPING OUT TYPHOID Helps Prevent TUBERCULOSIS

fected with human refuse increase the death
rate from tuberculosis and purified drinking water
lowers it.
Dr. Woodruff has definitely found that tuberculosis
follows typhoid fever far frequently than doctors
have even suspected He cites the fact that tubercu
losis is not inherited but that babies begin to acquire
the disease they begin to crawl around and
pick up its bacilli from the ground and floor.
A startling claim made by DR.. Woodruff is this: He
says there is undisputed evidence that any adult
ever acquires tuberculosis. 1t all caught in child
hood When grownups develop active tuberculosis it
is not infection 1t is only bringing into action
germs which they have had from childhood Drinking
impure of the chief of bringing about
this unhappy result
One in every eight persons dies of tuberculosis
Seven in every eight have tuberculosis Persons like
the Indians who used to outdoor life are less In
sected at first but when they do become housed up
and brought into contact with these microbes they
have no immunity with which to fight them, so they
die like flies.
tuberculosis never became a human afflicton Dr.
Woodruff AYERS until long after began to cluster
together in confined shelters, in monaseries, in tene
ment in dusty Cities where water and milk had to be
hauled great distances and became contaminated on
the way
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Does Killing
the GERMS i'm
MILK Make
Us EAT
MORE DIRT?

n I4K is the most widely used of all foods and it
MI is also the regarded with the most susp-
~ q cion by science. Unless the greatest care is
used milk becomes the medium through which all sorts
of deadly disease germs find their way into the human
system.
These disease germs be killed by subjecting the
milk the process known as pasteurzaton but many
food experts object this and other sterizng
the ground that they devitalze the milk, spoil
its Gayor and decrease its nutritive Another ar
gumen being made against paseurization is that
this process tends to encourage careless filthy habits
the part of dairymen and Dealers and makes it diff
cult for the tell whether his milk is full of
dirt.
Dr. Eric Pritchard, an emipent English physician is
of the scientists who do not share these views In
explaining why he thinks it wise for all milk to be
pasteurzed, he says;
After reviewing the arguments FOR and against the
sterilization or pasteurzation of milk, to the
general conclusion that, except in comparatively
unimportant and easily remeded particular these pro
cedures in no way impaired the digestibity the
ritiye properties of the raw product On the other
hand adduced evidence to show that the risk OF In
lection with diseases of both human and bovine origin
is real and serious If milk is consumed in the raw
state AS further emphasizing the danger of milk in
lection would add that during the years 1907ll
there were five serious milk epidemies in the city OF
Boston, involving risks to the lives of 409b persons
These epidemcs took the forms of dphtherla, scarlet
fever enterc fever and throat.
IAN examination of the epidemic records of many
English towns proves that this country equally sert
GUS indictments be urged against the use OF raw
milk No precautions short of killing all disease germs
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Why LOVE NEVER DRIVES Any Man to SUE

lean point Of view this would hardly meet gen.
eral agreement, although it contains germ Of
truth.
The Vienna specialist seems to touch more
probable point when he suggests that many Of
the women suicides for love take their own
lives because they have built upon the idea of
their lover the whole fabric of their existence.
When this love goes, their entire universe
seems to fall. That it doesn't fall is evidenced
by the fact that number of the woudbe sui
cides whom Dr. Kahane has argued out of their
suicidal intentions married someone else quite
gaily within few months or couple OF years,
at most.
None the less many women vastly over-empha-
size the importance of love in daily life, and
herein there is danger. With them an unfortu,
nate love affair often proves the spark which
ignites train formed by other circumstances 10
which the victim gives an exaggerated lmpor-
lance.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

N TANY human mothers could learn a valu-
W able lesson in the proper care of their
babies by studying the painstaking at
tention which some of the lower animals give
their young,
Long before the little ones are born the care
of the eggs becomes a matter of'great concern
TO nearly every species of the lower animals.
The infinite pains that are taken in Matching and
hiding them are surprising 1t is not always
the female who is most solictous-sometimes it
is the male who matches the eggs and nurses
the little ones until they are able to shift for
themselves.
One species OF spider rolls her eggs up in
ball and tugs them along after her wherever she
goes. Some fish build real nests in the water,
in which the eggs are deposited. IN this case
il is the male who builds the nest in which a
number Of females lay their eggs. The Chinese
Makropden also builds nests Ia the water and
1t Is the male that keeps watch over them.
Sarasin says of the Ceylonese snake that the
female encroles the eggs that she has laid in
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
How One CITY Has ABOLISHED FOG

of the condensed moisture. It is
not a smoke-infested city, though
having many manufacturing indus
tries, but the health of its half
million population suffers greatly
from the prevalence of mists.
Great blowing machines were es-
tablished upon the heights to keep
steady current of air blowing dur
ing misty days, but the power re-
CURED for this was so costly as to
render the continuance of the
project inadyisable.
1t is estimated that a gallon of oil
is sufficient to cover $50 acres of
water. In spite of the greater
cheapness of mineral oil, 1t is ex-
pected that either an animal OF veg
etable oil will be used, as these
5 possess greater tenacity, and will not
break on the surface of the water,
no matter how thin the film may be.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

b-r-F HERE was time hardly dozen years ago when
doctors made numerous mistakes about typhoid
II fever and tuberculosis. Indeed it was no uneom-
mon error for doctor treat typhoid fever malg-
nant cases of tuberculosis
Although Koch discovered the bacillus of tubercu-
losis thirty-four years ago, and Vidal, Grunbaum'
Pfeiifer and others discovered but short time after
ward the fact that the blood of typhoid sufferers
will clot and kiln fresh mixtures of typhoid germs II
really remained for additional tests and new genera
ton of doctors to make clear distinction net"eeh
some types of consumption and typhoid
Professor w. T. Sedgewick, of the MASSACHUSETTS,
Institute of Technology and Or. Charles e. woodruff
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
How the EARTH DRAWS IT'S BREATH

This difference pressure probably due to the fact
that in the daytime the atmosphere entering the earth
subjected to the Of light which Barto Max
well and Botzmann proved theoretically TO be actual
factor among cosnic forces lnfatesimal as is the
pressure of light there is no doubt that substance
light as air would be noticeably affected by It,
Syente Arrheniuf, tho famous astronomer, believes
that the pressure of light is the motive which
propes the spores containing life germs from planet
Go another Dr. Arrhenius figures out that, although
barely visible the naked eye these spores large
enough resist being attracted by the gravity Of the
sun and 10 be propelled into nterpanetary space by the
pressure OF light hch In the atmosphere Of the sun,
is prodigous compared quantitayey with the pres
sure of light elsewhere.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

working independently have just brought to light proof
that the methods used to stamp out typhoid fever
at the time body blow to the tuberculosis mon
ster.
When Brutus is sick, it is not daring the 'ye con-
tagion of the night which has made him so, for night
air safe and pure, despite widespread belief to the
contrary. When Brhtus drinks unltered water-theres
the rub Timon of Athens could have given his guests
punishment than to them with the vile,
unhltered water on which too many American cities
still have to depend.
Dr. Hazen, another hygienist, says that for every
typhoid fever death prevented by filtered boiled
water two three lives saved from tuberculosis
and other maladies Statistics prove that waters in.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

-xxyTHILE conducting certain experiments in at
M mospherc electricity, DR.. r. Boernstein has
w made the interesting discovery that the earth
breathes continual exchange Of airs between earth
and atmosphere takes place, just human being dis
charges vated air with one breath and inhales air
with the next.
To ascertain more about the earth's respiration Or
Boernsten sank pipe into the earth to the depth of
one yard and connected this with mercury barometer
in the cellar OF the house in which the experiment was
conducted\ He found that from m until or p. m.
the pressure of air coming from the earth Is greater
than pressure the surrounding atmos phere seek
ing TO enter the EARTH while at night the reverse Is the
case.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

y spreading thin coat Of oil
* over the surface of the rivers
- which surround it, the city of
Lyons, in France, has abolished fog.
II was found that out of every year,
an average of sixty-two days were
sufficiently foggy to cause trouble
to traffic, and the loss to business
was consequently large.
The hindrance to trade resulting
from foggy weather on one sixth of
the business days is estimated at
about $4,000 a year. The cost of
spreading oil on the rivers has been
found to be $29 a day, which, for
sixty-two days, equals $1,79S for the
year. The saving to the city, there
fore. is over $4,000 per year.
For considerable time the city
OF Lyons has been experimenting
with the abolition of fogs. Owing to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

bodily comfort are ineffective. Such
warmth, like beauty goes only skin
deep. In order to get thoroughly
warmed through and through re-
course must be had to electricity
and, accordingly, an apparatus has
been devised which will warm all
the inner tissues of the body as well
as the skin
Heated pads or hot.water bottles
have proved of great value where
comfort only is required, but where,
for medical purposes, it is thought
wise to pump heat into the body
means have heretofore been lacking.
Now, with the new diathermy ap-
paratus, every portion of the body
can be warmed through, inside and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Only ONE WAY to Get REALLY WARM

out. and brought up to any desired
temperature.
Although the electro-motiye force
available for the patient is but 500
volts. less than is used in the ordi-
nary high-frequency machine, an
amount of heat equivalent to 800
watts or more is continuously poured
into the patients tissues during the
time of application, an amount of en-
ergy sufficient to maintain ten lamps
of thirty watts Zone candlepower) at
full incandescence.
In various forms of neuralgia and
neuritis the treatment has been a
great factor In relieving pain, and in
certain forms of rheumatism it is
also of the greatest service.