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be a dminutive degenerate tho ferocous Swise
qarircsser the thief the infamous Marat Marat was
probably degenerate, at any bodily degenerate,
and the eugenists might Such person would be
impossible il our suggestions acted upon and
therefore you would never have mad such bodily
mental degenerate; but cruel and boodthirsty as
Marat was. he yet the of the moment and he
may nave been useful by bringing about the safety OF
revenge which was the turning point tone of the
environment and led change atmosphere de-
manding a different OF agents
Tho brainy person is driven forward to continual
striving and knows rest and IT, infrequent
his bwfninoss is Joined n bodily accompani-
ment mis- life is continual effort war against dis
comfort; IT, Notwithstanding this personal bodily degen-
crazy he is yet able to add to the progress the race
wen ana Sood--let him live and offspring II he
desires, for, though eugencay Unfit he NAV produca
fairly healthy stock, which. brought up a healthy
intellectual atmosphere, may though not perhaps most
desirable from the physical point of view. use to
MS social environment
The of frstrate physique is always proper
Gnate!y endowed intellectually he too. is wanted
ana called upon to energize to an excess which is not
good for him. His strength tempts despise
moderation and before long he is landed difficulties
which the more moderately endowed person feels,
and so the strong man at early stage
practical asset Which is the better for a nation? To
have good physique and moderate unsensaonal brain
development, Or to have extraordinary intellect and
poor or Indifferent bodily quality?
The really troublesome people often those whom
the law seems unable to touch especially when alcohol
man. married and with healthy family, who is really
morally inbccilc and whom his friends would wish to
49, 'i'iI'' '" no ieuCf man VIII take the FISK OF
doing it, He is a graduate OF university. distin-
gushed athlete and free from dclusions any
nav which would pass current insanity; get
is an habitua drunkard easily imposed upon by design
ing persons, and would be with advantage restrained
but there would be great difficulty in doing
ing but consei de familic could effect it, On the
other hand all know OF people who low intel
ectua standard but morally correct; these the
people whom the law would enable sequesrate,
and it is just these whom, for many reasons not
tas nave tried 10 show desirable to out OF
the community.
1t almost looks as il intelligence and morality were
Slf tO have infa1
igence than morality. a person who has the former
may get off scotfrec but to him OF weak intelligence
his morality is OF little avail when suits the purpose
OF those who have the power OF sequesratng him to
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Why May Be FORTUNATE STUPID Of VERY

nature interfered by such drastic remedies ms
the eugenists propound-viz. the tnseXng the de-
sruction of all degenerates the artificial cltiva.
tion of general excellence In the organic kingdom
there is no such thing equality, but graduate sys.
tenn of compcxty and excellence be detected all
through its hidden recesses and in its manifesto
tons whilst in the lower developments are found pc
culiar adaptablity and usefulness which could be
got from the elaborated members the family; do
not indeed, lie within their funconing capacity
Heredty is in many respects blessing. If owing to
1t we have the transmission OF tendencies an adj
vantageous kind ii saves time and work because it
gives the individual flying and lessons the trou
bic of acquisition and of preliminary training not
wthsandng all the difficulties nowadays set I'd TO the
doctrines Of the hereditary disease and
Of undesirable qualities, there be many believers
in It, Else why do the cugenists go such extreme
measures for discriminating the poor specimens which
If it were not for their Of hereditary transmits
son should be treated accidental occurrences with
very limited range OF ability for doing evil?
The greatest hereditary transmission is death-there
is DOUBT about that-und probably disease is the
next The cugenists take refuge for their
der the plea of civilization, but their practice is
all but return savage methods which are drastic
and, they think beneficial social system re.
lieving it from what is rksome it, For what is the
tendency of modern civilization? 1t is really little
than the liberation OF abuses. we let elf MUIR
derers Difference to public sentiment, and seldom
carry out the extreme sentence because we
more "civzed" We treat crime disease and
deal with it mildly. we suffer fools gladly and take
the beneAcent OF them We endure all sorts
of Inconvenience the hands of strikers and allow
violent coercion proceed largely unchecked be
the high civilization suggests liberation and
repression.
There chief classes in civilized communities
those who find the and for work and those
who these, and in the latter want bodily fitness
and certain amount-not too much-ol intelligence.
1t is quite right do what the former,
and If the eugenists confne their efforts to hygiene
they will be working all for good; but to TO the
extremes advocated by Of their members in their
desire to adopt hiaa standard OF intelligence is
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dition TO an extent that can be meas
ured. But the impulse is not in it.
self electrical
Electricity transmits itself from
one point To another mt rate of al
most 100000 miles per second, and
probably would really obtain that
speed were it not for electrical iner-
tia and tho resistance 10 its passage
of MI known conductors. Nervous
impulses never obtain Il tenth of the
speed of electrical ones.
Professor Botazzi. of the University
of Naples. thinks that the alteration
III the nerve is not electrical, but
chemical. He thinks that the effect
OF the impulse is Ia set up in the
nerve chemical reactions which pro-
duce acid substances. These are fol-
lowed by others which seem To have
an oNldiZing effect, and require the
presence either of free oxygen or of
lcrments containing ii. He concludes
that these last operate to destroy or,
ut any rate, To modify. the acid sub.
stances first formed, and thus to re-
store the nerve 10 its first condition,
where 1T is ready TO receive and
transmit fresh impulse.
The nerves. after all, are merely
so many strings To connect the eyes
ana ears and other senses, which
really do the important work, with
the internal vital tissues. In other
words, tile nerves are decidedly less
important than the muscles and the
stomach. the flesh and the kidneys.
Despite the popular belief TO the
contrary. the brain and the nerves
nave nothing 10 do with conscious
ness. They do not think nor have
they anything to do with thinking.
Thought is the sum total of the i'm
pressions received in any given mo-
ment by all the tissues of the body,
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A investigation recently made by Christine
~ Frederick, the expert in household efficiency,
a. showed how inefficient the average kitchen is
and revealed why housewives find their
work so firing and suffer much from backaches and
similar troubles. In seventy-fve apartments and
private houses she found the sinks ranged from p 10
81 inches and i'll not instance sink arranged
TO suit the height of the person who has work it.
Tests made with twenty servant girls and adj
Unstable table showed that the work of washing dishes
can be done with the least effort only when the height
OF the working surface is adjusted suit the height
the sink or table should be 81 inches high, and in
crease or about two inches in the height Of the sink
or table should be made for each increase of four
inches In the height of the worker.
In order to Standardize household task Mrs.
Frederick says it must nrst be separated
ponent elements. For instance, cleaning take the
sweeping busting and hopping. How these done
in the average home? One is swept busted and
mopped, and these processes repeated afterward in
each ROOM In any task requiring bodily adjustment
must keep that adjustment long as possible in
order to acquire speed Every time YOU change your
adjustment from sweeping to busting you lose time
and you lose time whenever you pick up and lay down
broom, duster pail. The efficiency method
then, where there number of processes 10 be re-
peated in several rooms, is to do the process
long possible
To prove this in figures. three rooms averaging 10
by II In size cleaned in respectively 13 and
16 minutes doing the various processes in room
separately. These same rooms cleaned, doing
each process straight through in H. II minutes
with total of IS against A. gain of minutes.
In the first place there handling and picking p
of the broom and other utensils three times; in the
second place,
standardized but it be separated into its elements,
which include stacking, sorting washing, drying and
laying away. The wipng usually takes too long, but
draner will minimize the time. In order to lessen the
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Has the World
SOME USE FOR
STUPIDITY
After ALI?
By I. Clage Shaw. NJ. d.
OF London. Enuland

FaNO argue that the safeguards of marriage should be
frightened so as TO produce only healthy stock is
thing, but to sacrifice everything to the develop
There plenty OF proofs that the comfort and
safety, OF social conditions be violently upset
suppressed looscncd emotional storms which
as much the accompaniment Of higher intellectual
states they OF the lowest.
There plenty of intelligent and educated women
the militant suragcttes, but fact does not
prevent them from breaking the nor from estab
fishing the dread Of unexpected impulsive violent
actions ensendered by bad logic
When the eugeniss have had their way, and when
disease Is no more and degeneration thing OF past
what world OF strife it will be. There will be no
peace and quicness one to do the drudgery. AS
is, the majority OF people commonplace, perhaps
rather stupid. or, ut any rate, not brilliant, this
wholesome cavcning with mediocrity makes for the
routine work which is OF advantage for the
smooth working of the worlds economy.
To carry on the work OF the world do not want
everyone 10 be model OF ability and excellence o
structure; We require certain number who will do
they are told and who. long the conditions under
which they live humane and well-ordered delight
in the benecent compulsion of authority direction and
guidance. and seek for nothing better. When long
was below is placed the top crushing force
OF unknown extent and intensity is developed, a power
which has no experience OF its and unaccustomed
existence, which in its spasmodic writings
modate the environment itself is pretty make
mistakes. because ii tries adjust in what
taken years OF gradual subsistence consolidate.
And this subyerson must occur when the forces Of
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our BRAIN Has NOTHING to Do with THINKING

FHE nature OF nervous action re.
\ manned an impenctrable mys-
terry until twenty years ago.
That it's chief seats We're the spinal
column and finally the brain WAS
known but beyond that we could not
go. Senior Ramon. of Cajal. the
Spanish physicist. was one OF the first
10 lift n corner OF the veil BY the
aid of The microscope he discovered
that nervous impulses come in the
last resort from certain nerve cells
in the gray matter o. the cortcX OF
the brain which he called ncurones
These neuroncS are small pyra-
midal or pear-shaped bodies having
a prolongation like the trunk of Il
tree. called TN" cylinder axis, with
lateral qualifications or dendritis. A
small portion OF the corteX would ap-
pear like Il forest thickly set with
trees with waving branches. Each
neurone is, however, an existence by
itself It has only momentary con-
tact with its neighbors. is stirred into
activity by the sudden flow Of blood
to The part, and has alternate periods
OF excitement and relaxation.
These neurones may also be di
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II there are some among the
population who can do the work
which others will not do. 1t may be,
and think is, the duty OF the govern
ing body to protect them; it is GER
tainly wrong to eX.erminate them be-
cause they form part of Il natural
system which is composed OF grad
uated elements of perfection, and
which is as useless without these
lower. but subsidiary, members as is
a house without kitchen or a reptile
with its tail chopped off.
No doubt it is better TO stop bad
and dangerous breeding than to
soQuestrate and try 10 extrpate the
results OF it, but is it possible to
adopt the former course? Not in the
transition stage in which we now
are, and inasmuch as we can never
hope to attain to a fixed and final
perfection il is impossible TO see how
care in breeding can be more than
palliative. Ii every palpable degen-
crate OF the moment were obliterated
the supply would still go on. There
are now going about ali sorts of
swindlers, drinkers, dishonorables,
pleasure-seekers, lazybones, gossirs
and slanderers, men and women
physically fit to perpetuate their
species and who cannot in this par
ticular be denied. but who are
morally and intellectually distinctly
unfit because there is ground for be-
lief that these defects may be heredi-
tarv and capable of influencing
progeny; indeed. this ground for be-
lief becomes n certainty if we remem-
Der that many mental chara cteristics
are the necessary results OF certain
bodily processes, and are in their
sphere only another form Of them.
There is often raised the cry,
"Wherc is the MANI" And when he
is found it is not by looking among
pedigree stock-peoplc who have had
notable ancestors. but by waiting
until the right person arrives
often an unknown growth from some
dark. neglected, and unsuspected cor
ner. the spawn of which has the laten:
endowments, which the new environ
ment seizeS upon and nourishes to
it's own advancement.
There never occurs a crisis with
out its hero OF the moment-it may
be woman. as Joan OF Arc, or it may
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Portrait of Death Mask of marat, Who. Although
Mental and Physical Degenerate, According Eueenic
Standards, May Have Served Useful Purpose by Salts
tying the Popular Desire for Revenge During
Revolution.
early and efficient elimination of the extreme forms of
degeneration by disease and death. We may assist ma
re by placing under lock and key degenerate"
in the country; but it would only be Il respite. the con
dition would itself, because we
try to eliminate it the touch the elc
ments which present i'll many of the lives which
would be passed by the eugeniss though they
may only declare their existence late and the
damage by transmission has been effected.
As Tor the intermediate forms and degrees We turn
them into staple commodity; they provide with
cupation for builders architects governing bodies
besides array OF doctors, and attendants
all the hyproducts OF civilization cleared away
there would be no scavengng be done large
proportion Of Northumberland toers without
occupation. Instead Of exterminatng class which
does not rise in few particulars to the intellectual
level desired by those who think they
ing on fixed principles, it might be deemed more con
ducive to the peace and contentment OF the world
some of the clever" people botted out for
their criticisms of the social much more
clever than their suggestions for remedy
The drawback OF making people in humble crcum
stances develop aspirations for they are quite I'M
fitted is that while the inferior occupations remain as
necessary the people who should them on
become fewer.
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all have the cooling effect For the purpose
nothing is better than the salads-endive, chic
DRY, romaine, watercress, and all the rest
Other foods that should be on every table when the
mercury is high include thin soups better. cold
boulon; fresh fish fowl, roasted brOiled beef,
mutton lamb Tin moderatOn) eggs. soft boiled,
scrambled lightly fried simple desserts OF gelatine,
custard. sherbets and ice
Things which should be avoided thick soups
canned spices and condiments, beans, oils,
cheese bananas. dates, and candies. Can.
dies particularly heating because, like coal they
consist largely of carbon.
Hot drinks kinds of soda fountain beverages
and alcoholic drinks do not quench the thirst. Drink
plenty OF pure. cold water freely meals and
copously between meals
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What To EAT WHEN IT'S HOT

es1r7 lie food in Summer should the kind
! which requires the least energy to digest for
energy makes heat in the body elsewhere
II you would he cool and comfortable possible
even in the hottest weather eat lightly of simple food
Never eat when tired and hot If possible make your
heaviest meal night days toll is and
there is comparative GOODNESS
Eat plenty of juicy fruits which have a rerigerating
effect the blood. Particularly good during hot
weather are grapes. oranges lines and lemons lin
limeade lenonade), cantaoupe, Watermelon peaches
cherries berries. apples pneappes and pears. But be
careful that the fruit is neither overripe.
Leaty hbrous vegetables, such tomatoes. celery,
spinach asparagus rhubarb, lettuce. bees and onions
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Did Che INDIANS Come From ASIA?

only in Asia his broad skull is likewise Asiatic
trademark.
AS for of getting the voyage is often
made over Bchring Straits to-day. and in the mild
climate before the last glacial period the trip would
have been easier still Only the other day sanpans
native boats arrived the of California whose
Japan.
Without doubt there was certain European alloy
the Indian before the days of Columbus
The blond Eskimos found the far north bear witness
to this Morse who reached the New England
coast in the tenth century must have fused in some
measure with the natives.
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bT7 HERE has been revival OF interest lately in
the origin OF American Indians and the way in
10 which the Western Continent peopled.
Our great grandfathers satisfied lay the
achievements to those mysterious lost tribes of
Israel; but the scientific spirit to-day
plausible theories These many and varied, but
the old belief that the OF the Indians crossed
the straits and narrow from northern Asia to
Alaska remains the most probable OF all.
The Eskmos OF America almost identical with
tribes of eastern Siberia. The straight,
promising black hair OF the Indian is found elsewhere
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What YOUR EYEBROWS REVEAL

g TRAIGFIT eyebrows show orderly habits and me-
thodcal turn of mind in their possessor. accord
ing to an English writer who has been making
study of the subject.
Arched or pointed brows sign of in the
arrangement OF coors and wonderful ability
shades and lues OF all sorts.
Eyebrows set far apart from another bctoken n
capacity for Judging sizes and proportions with "a
siderable amount of accuracy.
If eyebrows bend down in the middle towards the
eyes, so that they appear if indented, they show
nature that is disposed neither to forgive forget
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travels IN the opposite direction
The nervous impulse has often been
compared To III electric shock. and
electricity will. in great measure imi-
tate its effects by causing contraction
of the muscles ana other phenomena
During the transmission of IN i'm
pulse n nerve alters its electrical con.
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How Much DYSPEPTICS Should DRINK

IN r. LENEN OF Paris, OF the most famous spe-
I calists III disorders Of the stomach. gives in a
recent paper advice how and when
dyspeptiCs should drink.
He says that Nray observations OF the stomach have
proved the of the established belief
that water does not remain long in the stomach but
passes within Il few minutes into the ntestnes.
1t is true that water flows quickly ii the stomach
be empty. cold water taking minutes and warm
Rights Reserved.
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water five on the average But if the stomach contains
me smallest quantity OF food the water will remain In
ii several hours.
Inc A-ray has revealed another error, one OF sensa
oi le by the sick which is the belief the stomach
is ui when 1t IS absolutely empty, orhat it is empty
ana craving for food when it is really fairly full
LIQUID OF any sort added i'll any large quantity to the
1000 swallowed dilutes the nutrtve juices TO excess
eXcues the contraction OF the muscular walls OF tina
storach and tires out an already weary or ILL
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which and inclined to revenge itself for in
iuries. M "
The greater amount Of space between the ridge of
inc eyebrow and its and corner of the ave
me liSher are the powers OF calculation person
When the outline OF the eyebrows is straight il in.
dicates sincerity frankness. H. however il should
be oblique and the hairs spring the root of the
nose, II shows elusive and deceptive tendencies
Very thick hrows denote a somewhat violent and mas.
sioiate character, especially in Il man
Brows that are eNaggeraedy arcled and placed nigh
on the forehead denote dull Unconditional dispo.
Ston op'
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vided into the three categorics of
affercnt. eifercnt and central Every
nervous Impulse starts from the re-
ceptivc organs of the body. travels 10
the ancrcnt neuroncS, from them
through their lateral qualifications %
the corresponding parts of the cffev-
ent neurones, or their central fellows,
and from them passes to the oper-
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YOU MIGHT TRY ----
Cleaning all Oil Painting.

Cleaning Oil Painting.
EEL and make
thin Rub
with small
ton should be a a
For Thirsty Babies.
BABY'S thirst
between feelings will often aid digestion
To Prevent Pastry Searching.
GAIT
- from scorching
For Painful Burns
PASTE OF
"a the nd INN
Better Disinfectant
TriE addition
lime
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For person four feet ten inches
tall the sink or table should be two
feet three inches high. For a person
five feet two inches tall it should be
two feet five inches high. An increase
OF about two inches in its heiaht
should be made for each increase
or tour inches in the height of the
Worker.''
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A. Better Disinfectant.

HE addition OF dilute
lime materially increases effectiveness
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For Thirsty Babies.
To Prevent Pastry Searching.
For Painful Burns.

ASTE OF common baking soda and burn il
ne pain and Inflammation almost mmediatey