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Make Man as Much a
Quadruped as the Horse

preference for the right leg and are many
who think that such not always the case.
Our siman cousins have great agility and are equal.
handed In doing everything they do. history gives
assurance that the family Of man was at any time
ambidextrous Man climbs tree or ladder using either
hand like tho monkey he eats carries any
thing either hand like the monkey II y part of ina
body would be more comfortable with a little friction
from the fingers, both and monkey employ the hand
the monkey stops here--but these are not acts that
would have coined the word dexteriy the only
he is the only animal that has two hands exclusively
for skillfu work, and srilfu demands two hands
The skill Of the left hand as an assistant is equal in
every degree to the dexterity OF right hand Mani
began to show preference for the right hand when
he began to stand
No other animal stands erect in tho sense that man
stands erect and other animal shows preference for
one hand over the other. The erect posture broadens
the nlpS and shoulders, makes a four.cornered
animal, and compels him to be either right or left
handed His fourcornered shape makes it easy and
natural for either hand to act alone whom one
cannot accomplish its end the other assists
with the infant preference for the right hand begins
say that the mother who carries child on the left
arm hampers the movements of the chid's right arm
and thus makes it lefthanded. As soon as n child
dextraI preference.
Young of every animal selfreliant the earliest pos
slbe period In the infant at birth the legs only
onefifth of their destined length p
AT birth the liver oneenghteenth OF the entire
weight OF the body, and do think it much to
that its weight and position will have the OF
making the infant when 1t first begins walk, stronger
In the right leg than in the left. Were half-pound
weight placed in the childs right hand when it took
Its first step is it too much to that the first step
on the right foot would be rmer than upon the left?
If the infant were compelled to carry the hafpound
weight in the right hand at every attempt to walk.
would not the result be to make the right leg strong
est? The weight of the liver is placed the right
side and gives it stability, and thus predisposes
man to become rghthanded.
The liver is below the right arm and one may sup
that the theory would apply the arm The
is that the weight OF the liver makes the right
leg reliable and the the right arm located
Of gravity
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and the same operation is repeated over and
over again. 1t does the work surely and cheaply.
The inventor Of this type Of pump has drawn
plans for squirt gun propeller that will get the
push on the water from two or three Of these
pumps.
Still another revolutionary idea is that of
operating ship by having motorman in the
pilot house use controller just as the motor
man does on an electric car. This idea has
already been applied in modified form on a large
freighter which is going into commission on
the Great Lakes this season.
Arrangements have been made on this big
cargo carrier for Just such a motorman, but he
stands with his controller in the engine room
instead Of up in the pilot house. A longer cable
attached to his controller is all that is necessary
to enable him to do his work in the pilot house.
OIL engines are used to generate electricity
and the electricity Is used to turn the pro-
pellers; SO electricity runs the ship In much the
same way that 1t does-a trolley car And the
motorman in the pilot house on the bridge
is all that Is needed to make the resemblance
between the operation Of an ocean liner and a
trolley even closer.
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Should We ABOLISH KITCHENS and Eat All Our FOOD RAW?

A CCORDING to the views held by some
~ authorities We would all feel better
{" - and live longer-to say nothing of
saving no end of trouble and e1pense-if We
abolished our kitchens. threw all our pots
and pans on the junk heap and ate our food
raw.
Instead OF making our food more healthful,
they declare that it produces just the opposite
effect by destroying certain substances found
in raw foods which our bodies need.
One OF the substances destroyed in the
process OF cooking is the curious known
as vitamine. Although the nature OF vitamine
is not yet thoroughly understood, there seems
to be little doubt that its presence in food ia
of great Importance. a diet from which
vitamine is absent is likely If long continued,
to lead to scurvy, ricketts,, beri-beri or another
Of the so-called deficiency" diseases. This
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How the CAMERA CHEATS us

WYE face the camera to get truthful
W. record Of what we look like but the
result in most cases is picture not
nearly so good looking as we really are. So
persistently does the camera cheat us out of
whatever claims may have to beauty that
there is serious danger Of our descendants
comparing our looks unfavorably with those
OF our own ancestors.
When our ancestors wanted their portraits
made they went to artists who knew how to
diminish the defects Of their sitters. But we
have TO rely on the camera. which, instead OF
fattering us the least bit, does just the
opposite.
In spite of all the wonders Of modern pho.
Biography and the fact that many photogra
piers are not only masters Of their trade, but
artists in the true sense of the word, the cry:
81 Just can't get good photograph is fire.
quently heard.
The real reason Is that the camera is too
speedy--it registers too brief an expression.
The portrait painter seldom took less than six
sttngs, lasting an hour each. This meant
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that the impression on his canvas was a Co.
ordination Of six hours observation. The
photographer rarely gives much as half
minute to single negative.
The result of photography is, therefore. one
hundred and eighty times as incomplete.
When, moreover, we remember that the six
hours spent while sitting for portrait, or the
thirty seconds for photograph, represents
only small fraction of our lives, and that
we may often have hundred different moods
an hour, it is no wonder that photographs so
often fail to look like us.
TO a very great extent, the difficulty of get
ting a good photograph is compliment.
Those people who take" good photographs
are generally those in whom facial expression
either changes very little or changes very
much. The subtler and more delicate ex-
pressions do not appear in photograph and
frequently 1t is those by which we are remem-
bered rather than by some Of the actual weak
nesses of feature which the camera so faith
fully records. The greatest Of all virtues Is
charity, but the camera has no charity-and
1t Is often liar.
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fact has long been known although Just why
1t should be is not yet clear.
Now vitamine is destroyed at temperature
ar lower than that to which most OF our food
has to be raised In cooking. IT. therefore, this
substance is necessary to our health, the raw
food advocates have won their case and we
ought to eat nothing that is cooked
To eat only raw food will strike most people
as distasteful, especially in the case of meat
It Is interesting, however. in this connection to
remember that cooking does not increase the
digestibility Of animal food. The role of cook
Ing is really to make the meat attractive, to
develop favors, and to give it some preten-
sions OF aesthetic qualities. Furthermore
cooking preserves animal foods and to some
extent sterilizes them.
Il vtamine is as necessary to our health as
1t Is believed to be we are face to face with
some curious and perplexing problems
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bees. The inside of the can is perfectly smooth
and the insect which has ventured too far inside
finds too late that 1t has walked into trap No
escape is possible. Tiny spines line the edge of
the can, all pointing downward and forming q
phalanx against which. in addition to the smooth
inning OF the can, the insect offer no re-
sistance.
DR.. konrad Guenther relates that invariab bly, he
found these little half filled with liquid
which Is nothing more or less than pepsin, which
is the digestive principle in the stomach of all
animals. At the bottom of the liquid was a thick
sediment consisting OF insects. flies, worms and
oeeS In various stages of digestion Some OF
these insects were dismembered wings and legs
and heads severed from the body Just as a beast
OF prey dismembers its prey before eating it.
In this semi-digested food we're the larvae of
flies and other insects. These larvae, although
not bacteria, may properly be classed az in
testinal fauna because they have developed the
power to secrete poison which neutraizes the
action OF the pepsin just as the intestinal
microbes OF human beings and animals do in
order to successfully resist the destructive power
OF the digestive agents of the intestines.
In order to convince himself of this, Dr.
Guenther placed bit of albumen in the pepsin
obtained from this plant AS he expected it i'm
Of the larvae which he found fourishing in the
food In the stomach of the nepenthe and
crushed them. The liquid extracted from the
crushed mass, on being added TO the pepsin in
which the albumen was dssoving, Immediately
stopped the digestive action of the pepsin on the
albumen.
These intestinal larvae grow fat and wax in
numbers IT the stomach Is plentifully supplied
with food, so that this condition also is analogous
TO the condition existing in the human intestines
when the stomach has been overloaded with rich
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Why All MUSICIANS Are 'sFREAKS''o

TsHAT all musicians are freaks"
80 far as their physical ap-
pearance goes, Is the opln-
ion OF DR.. Paul Sohn, the German
scientist. Not only this. but he finds
that. regardless OF their race or ma
tionality. all persons Of marked mu-
steal ability show close resem-
blance to one another in the shape
OF their heads and faces. The head
and countenance Of the typical mu-
stefan often look very much like
those Of the lion or the sphinx.
The peculiar shape OF musicians
head Is due. Dr. Sohn believes. to
the gradual expansion OF the sound
centre of his brain and the conse-
Quent change in the conformation
of his skull. This Is why the heads
Of Beethoven, Wagner, Robert Schu-
Richard Strauss and other
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SQUIRT GUNS to RUN SHIPS

& QUIRT guns may supply the power for the
ocean liners Of the future. The newest
idea in marine engines-one which is now
receiving the serious attention of ship builders
is based on exactly the same principles as the
squirt gun of your school days.
The squirt gun idea is to prope ship by
squirting out water through pipes at the stern OF
the ship. where propellers ordinarily are To-
Gated. Water would be taken in from the front
end by great pipes, given push when 1t reaches
the engine room and then sent rushing out at
the stern OF the ship. This scheme has
been thought OF before, but never put into use.
because it cost SO much to give the necessary
push to the water.
The wonderful efficiency OF new pump.
which now pumps some OF the water supply Of
London and has attracted the attention OF engi-
neers everywhere, makes the scheme appear less
absurd. In this pump water is admitted into
chamber until the chamber Is nearly full and
then gasoline other OIL in the form of
vapor, IS admitted into the chamber and en-
ploded. just as an automobile uses gasoline. The
explosion of the vapor forces the water out,
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HE recent order Of the German Emperor request
ing the wives of all German army officers to
discontinue the practice of riding their horses
astride gives interest to question which
doctors and other scientists have long been sharply
divided.
On the hand authorities who claim that
habual riding astride is serious menace TO a
woman's health The seat they maintain, involves
severe strain to the abdomen and tends dgpace
tain vital organs at least to weaken their supports
On the other hand authorities of equal emnence
who say that riding side saddle results in
vature OF the spine and other deormities is, they
further charge dangerous the rider because there
greater danger of her being dragged in the horse
falls and bad for the horse because it is liable
make the animals back sore.
mo doubt with the od-fashioned style of riding
habit and stirrup there very considerable risk OF
the rider being dragged If her horse FELL says writer
In the Lancet, in summing up the various arguments
for and against riding astrde; "but with the modern
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safety skirt and safety strrup this danger has pract
cay disappeared. 1t Is usually said that good lady
rider side saddle is in danger Of being thrown
unless her horse falls No doubt the seat is safe
one but 1t Is difficult to ride
we'll side saddle, and with Indifferent rider the
strain the horse is certainly than when he Is
ridden asTide.
'At first sight it might appear that the astride 20.
sition, involving 1t does, separation OF the
thighs would relaxation of the muscles Of the
pelvic floor and predispose to dspacemens. In the
Of rider with stirrups of the ordinary length
with proper seat, there must be amount OF
pressure the pelvic floor than sufficient in
opinion to counterfeit relaxation due to the separ
alton OF the thighs Further than this, whenever the
saddle Is grpped 1t instinctvely is the contraction
Of the muscles Of the thighs is accompanied by
traction Of the muscles of the pelvic floor At the
time then when a displacement appears be most
likely to occur for instance, in taking jump
straning FESTIVE horse the thigh muscles maintaining
the grip upon the saddle into action. Their con.
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Why MAN
IS REALLY a
FOUR-FOOTED
ANIMAL

wv HY; strictly speaking man is not bped
M why most OF righthanded; why
work better with one arm at time
all these and many other things explained by
examination of the ingenious way Nature has fitted
the higher animals to maintain their centre gravity
with the least possible effort.
The fish rests in the water, balanced motionless.
1t costs the animal tedious muscular effort main
tain the centre of gravity lies in fluid the specific
gravity of which approaches very nearly its specific
gravity, and difference in the two be adjusted
by special apparatus that Is calculated to relieve all
muscular strain. Hence. whether the fish is
in flight full or empty the problem of maintaining the
centre OF gravity Is not of resome muscular effort
The bird is mid creature, and a rule cannot
contend against terrestrial animals It's wings pro-
vided as means of escape from danger and much
OF its time is spent In unstable medium the problem
OF equilibrium is an important Strength and light
ness important factors in the construction birds
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SOAP the Newest CROP for FARMERS

~ ROWING soap promises to become a profitable
I industry on the praries of the Southwest.
The soapweed, Spanish bayonet fourshes
in Western Kansas, Southern Colorado Arizona New
Mexico and Texas Until lately this plant has been
garded only a troublesome weed. Farmers and
ranch owners took great pains to exterminate it
account Of its habit OF spreading large and
killing off other vegetation.
Now science has discovered that what has been de-
spised as weed is really plant having high market
value as raw material for soap Soap manufacturers
are ready to eight dollars ton for tho roots and
tops and as 1t costs not than five six dollars
to harvest, dry and bale on there is handsome
profit for the farmer.
Copyright 1914. by the Star Company. Great Britain
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great musicians all have an eccen-
trio. abnormal and sometimes fan
tastic appearance. A musicians
sound centre develops abnormally
because it is there that everything
in his life finds It's motive.
The musical head and face are of
primitive type, because musical
genius Is reversion to the time
when men communicated their
ideas by means Of more or less
inarttculate sounds. But although
the musicians physical appearance
Is barbarous in its lack of beauty
and regularity. 1t contains no hint
OF degeneracy
The typical musical head is char
acterized by the horizontal breadth
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of the forehead, the broad nose and
chin and the wide, extremely mobile
mouth. The brow often overhangs
greatly, as was so notably the case
with Beethoven. The eyes are lus-
trous but bear separated, dreamy
expression. The hands are broad
and strong.
Musicians" says DR.. Sohn, "are
absolute slaves to their sense OF
sound and ii is this that not only
affects their physical appearance.
but makes them mentally so ncr-
vous and eXcitable. The main fea-
ture OF the musical intellect is that
mental excitement seeks a different
outlet than in the case OF ordinary
men,"
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TN the jungles OF the tropics is found meat
eating plant called nepenhe. On It's stems
-~ curious, tube-like appendages, shaped
almost like tiny can, which serve the plant as
stomach, intestines and mouth as WE'LL In much
the same way polyps, which represent the low
est form OF animal life, have sac which answers
the purposes for which more highly organized
animals require three distinct organs.
This originally the leaf OF the plant
and presents curious instance of change OF
function. Plants bteathe through their leaves
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proved. the ovens heat destroys 1t long before
the loaf is cooked. 1t therefore can make little
or no difference whether we eat bread made
from the whole wheat -four, which is rich in
vitamine. or that made from the ordinary
white -four.
The chief difficulty with the position of
those who maintain that cooking destroys an
essential element in our food is the fact that
we have been eating cooked food so long with
out having suffered more from scurvy. ricketts,
and other similar diseases
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The work of cutting and shipping soapweed has
already been begun large scale in Western
Kansas. and the United States Forest Service Is doing
its best to the attention OF other localities
importance of this new industry
The discovery of the good to which soapweed can
be put due to the fact that for long time Indian
and Mexican women have used decoction OF 1t for
let purposes particularly for washing the hair is
especially suited for this purpose because 1t is wholly
free from alkali Soap manufacturers find 1t excellent
for making fine toilet soaps and soaps intended for
washing woolens.
Ordinarily harvest ton of soapweed
in day. After cutting tho plants allowed to dry
for two three months and then baled UP in tho
ordinary broom corn baling machine.
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Just as human beings do through their lungs
When the nepenthe began the gastronomic feat
of swallowing insects and worms, wrapping It's
leaf around Ats hapless victims to prevent their
escape, nature came to it's assistance and
allowed 1t to grow new leaves to be used ex-
clusively as lungs in place Of the leaves which
had been perverted to the use Of stomach and
intestines.
The edge OF this little secretes a honey
like liquid, which attracts small insects flies and
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In the first place. man has been living for
centuries largely on cooked food. We eat
very little food in its raw state and all the
foods which are richest In vitamine-meats,
cereals, potatoes and carrots-are almost in.
variaby cooked. Despite this fact the race
as whole has never been ravaged by scurvy,
ricketts, and other diseases produced by the
absence OF vitamine which is destroyed by
cooking.
Wheat liz rich in vitamine but bread made
from 1t has no vitamine because, as has been
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have been said that it was a review of a
new book by DR.. Forsyth. Children in
Health and Disease" is the name of DR..
Forsyths instructive new volume. published
in London by P. 9lakiston's Son &c Co.
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traction is accom-
panied by a COR
responding con-
traction Of the
muscles OF the
pelvic floor, and
any tendency to
a displacement of
the pelvic organs
is in this way
counteracted.
Our objections
to riding astrlde
for women, if we
were asked our
opinion, would be
based not upon
any possible dan
ger Of injuries to
the pelvic organs,
but upon the view
that the seat IS
not nearly so Sc
cure q one for
tho average WON.
an rider as that
on a side saddle,
and because the
danger Of being
thrown is much
greater. AT the
sa me time the
risk of being
dragged if thrown
is certainly less.
although, with n
properly III a q e
safety ha bit and
ctirr,,D N,,o, an a
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DIR. Forsyth's New Book

~ N this page recently was printed an in.
Z y terestng article entitled "How the
Child Becomes Man." BY an error
the article appeared as If written by Dr.
david Forsyth, of London, when it should
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In the quadruped the OF gravity lies between
TOUR points or support The horse standing, walking
running upon level surface puts forth little no
effort to maintain its equilibrium horse to exert
all It's force upon load it must work level The
instant 1t Is made to take the load up or down
hlll then part OF the muscular energy taken
from the load and employed in maintaining the dis
turbed equilibrium.
In applying these same principles to man new
element has to be considered. the fish, bird and
quadruped the principal axis OF the body is horizontal
and IN the quadruped 1t Is supported points, In
man the principal axis of the body is perpendicular
supported at only two points and these placed
lower portion of the trunk
Another point bearing the question of eauili-
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brium is the qualifications for pro-
erosion in young animals Among
the four-footed the problem OF sup
port is reduced to its simplest ex-
preston, and it is well-known fact
that the young often follow the pa
rent within few hours after birth.
In the ape family the question be-
comes moro complicated, and the
young require several months
before they become active. With
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side saddle this risk Is very small one.
ANY danger of Injury 10 tho pelvic organs when rid.
ing astrde must be associated with the greater in.
security Of the scat and the increased risk of being
thrown and not with the position ITSELF which we dol
not think in the case OF healthy is likely Sol
have any injurious effect upon the pelvic organs" III
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Making Your Own WASHED 9th.

SATISFACTORY washcoh
- quito netting The finished
II F 49, ptAD
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Buttermilk for Rolls.

insure much softer and lighter rolls than II plain