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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
NOT NOBLE ANIMAL
Man Not Such Finished Product
as Imagined, Says Savant.
Human Body Has Points Of Decided
Inferiority to OespIsed Mammals,
II Is Asserted.

Investigation is proving, declares
DR.. +. Wood Jones, professor of anat-
omy at the university Of London, in his
new book, "Arboreal Man." that the hui
man body Is no such finished product
Of evolution as we have fondly imag-
ined. 1t has points of decided Inferior
ity to the physical frames Of mammals
upon which we look with disdain as
less finely formed than ourselves.
Some of the lower animals r more
capable of exquisite adaptations than
are We ourselves. Their bodies are
more splendid instruments than ours
are, more complex. Indicative Of a
higher stage CT evolution OH the physi-
col plane. The upright attitude of man
has been employed as an argument in
favor of his superiority to the four
footed beast physiolOgically, although
the evidence makes such an argument
ridiculous. 1t would tend the other
way, says a review In the Lon
don Lancet.
Ii we compare mans body with the
body Of so-called slower organisms"
we are astOnished to find that his
points Of resemblance are with the
lowest In the scale of conscious being.
Man Is oddly unlike the noble beasts of
the jungle; but he is amazingly like
the creatures of a primitive type that
infest the bog, the pond and the
swamp. His relatives are not the lords
of the forest, not the kings of the
jungle, 0 the mighty eagle, but the
creatures of the slime.
How is it that the various elements
of the remote ancestral limb have been
preserved in human limbs? Professor
Jones' answer is that the primates
broke away from the early land living
mammalian stock while the primitive
bones and muscles were still preserved
in that stock. These primitive ele-
ments proved useful and were pre-
served in that particular form which
adopted an arbOreal life and used the
hand and foot to grasp with. The prim-
tive plan on which the hands of man
are built can be accounted for only by
suppOsing that mans ancestry spent a
long pilgrimage in the trees. 1t was
during mans arboreal phase Of exist
ence that the vast majority Of those
anatomical characters which we re-
gard as adaptations to mans upright
posture were evolved. These anatOmi-
cal traits indicate how low we are
Current Opinion.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

ternal Mortality was published re-
Gently, believes that the first essen
tial everywhere is a better understand
Ing Of what mothers need.
Few women seem to realize, for ex-
ample, that a mother needs special
care before the baby comes. And yet
the principles of personal hygiene
which have been worked out by mod
ern science are of the utmost import
ance in preventing complications for
the mother and illness or weakness for
her baby. Further, the %expectant
mother should be under the super
vision of a physician, and she should
have certain periodic examinations by
which any symptoms of complications
may be discovered and treated while
they are still comfortable.
And the mother needs skilled at
tendance when her baby is born. Doc
tor Meigs emphasizes the fact that a
difficult maternity Ease is N Of the
gravest surgical emergencies and re-
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

Is a liver stimulant and Il gen.
tie laxative, for its virtues are
too well known. The mineral matter
stood, and this is the chief or n of
the chief important elements which
make the fruit highly valuable. Dram
ges contain phosphates, which are a
nerve food and are most useful in
cases of insomnia. AS a refreshing
tonic, to be entirely successful it should
he eaten at least Il half hour before
breakfast. The juice strained may be
given to very young children, not too
near the milk feeding. The orange
may be served in such n variety of at
tractive ways. Sliced oranges make a
most attractive dish. Peel the orange
and remove all the white skin. Slice
very thin, removing any seeds if pres
ent arrange the slices overlapping on
a small glass platter or OblOng plate,
sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar
and garnish with candied cherries.
AS a salad, a most delicious combina-
ton is oranges, pineapple, a few dates,
and quartered marshmallOws served
with any dressing made thick with
whipped cream. When oranges are
used as salad for fish or duck, the
dressing should be a French one, using
lemon juice for the acid.
For serving an invalid, the orange
should be peeled and all the skin
from each section removed; then ar
range around a mound of sugar and
serve. An orange prepared flower fash
ion is a most dainty way to serve the
fruit to an invalid. Cut down the skin
in eighths to within an inch from the
blossom end, then strip down in points
and fold OF turn them in. The orange
may then be pulled apart in sections.
Another method is to peel the orange,
leaving an inch or half inch band
around the fruit, equator fashion.
Then spread open and the sections are
easily removed.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Ohat.Nen Dressed ! y
UbmenUlll UeaHzW

Just as we conclude that there Is
nothing new that eau possibly happen
to summer blouses, along comes an
attractive surprise and we are forced
to concede that another beautiful nov
city has made its appearance. There
are inexhaustible reservoirs of ideas, it
seems, that designers know how to
draw upon to provide us with that va
riety which is the spice of life and
blOuses.
Here is a new, midsummer model,
made of fine cotton vOile, embellished
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Waste Of Mothers Lives and
Health Altogether Unnecessary


More women fifteen to forty-five
years of age die from conditions con-
nected with childbirth than from any
disease except tuberculosis. Some 49,
600 mothers lives are sacrificed yearly
to ignorance and improper care. In
connection with Baby Week, the Chill
dren's bureau calls special attention to
these facts, for three easOn
1. The life and health Of the mother
are essential to the health and we'll
being of her children.
2. The majority Of these mothers
lives could be saved.
3. The. number Of deaths among
mothers Is merely a rough index of
unmeasured p%reventable illness and
suffering.
Just how adequate care for mothers
is to be assured depends, Of course, on
local conditions, but DR.. Grace L.
Meigs of the federal Children's bu-
reau, whose special report on Ma
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

quires special skill and training.
Many people do not seem to under
stand that in any case complications
may arise which car be met safely by
prompt and skillful scientific care, but
which at the hands Of an unskilled at
tendant will cost the life of mother or
child or both.
Doctor Meigs admits the difficulties
Of making accessible to every mother
in the United States these essentials
Of maternity care, but she says:
"When women and their husbands are
convinced Of the need Of such care.
and when women demand 1t, physi-
clans will furnish 1t; medical colleges
will provide better training for physi-
clans; and communities, rural and ur-
ban, will see to 1t that mothers are
properly protected"
The difficulties are perhaps greatest
In rural districts. The Children's bu-
reau has had letters from mothers who
are Is, 25, 80 and ever IS miles from
a physician, and for whom any trained
nursing has been utterly impossible.
Other countries have been at work on
this same problem, notably New Zea-
land and Canada. From their expert
ence and from the experience of those
American cities in which special ma
ternity work is tsing developed, Doc
tor Meigs has drawn up the following
suggestions for a unit of service to
meet the needs of mothers in rural
districts:
The unit would provide a center for
a rural nursing service with visiting
nurses especially trained to recognize
dangerous symptoms In expectant
mothers. At such a center mothers
would be able to obtain information as
to the proper care of themselves and
of their babies. If a suitable general
hospital Is too remote for use, the
county center should include a cot
tage hospital for difficult maternity
cases and for the care of normal
cases when it is convenient for the
mother to leave her home for confine-
ment. In general, skilled attendance
should be obtainable by every woman
in the county.
Little has been done as yet to show
women that much of the waste of
mothers lives and health Is unneces-
sary. Even less has been undertaken
by communities to provide protection
for motherhood. Many communities
which have studied their typhoid and
tuberculosis death rates and have I'M
dertaken costly measures to reduce
them have been needless of the death
rates among mothers. It is not
strange, therefore, that since 1900 the
typhoid rate for the country as a
whole has been cut in half, and the
rate from tuberculosis has been mark.
eddy reduced, while the death rate
from maternal causes has shown no
demOnstrable decrease. But maternal
deaths are largely preventable, and
Baby Week should mark the beginning
of definite work for their prevention.
Doctor Meigs' report on Maternal
Mortality may be had free upon re.
quest, from the Children's bureau.
Washington, D. G.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

Is tender; take 1t out and lay it in a
roasting pan. Strain the broth; there
should be two quarts. Put a half cup
full of butter In n frying pan; in this
brown two tablespOonfuls of -four, then
add the hot broth and stir until smooth
and creamy. Pour this over the roast
and put into the oven to brown.
stewed Lettuce.-This is a dish
which will use the broken or insight
ly leaves of lettuce and give the fam
lily an economical green. Cook the
well-washed leaves until tender, drain,
then put into a stewpan with thin
slices of salt pork and n cupful of veal
Or chicken broth. Cook gently for an
hour. Drain in a sieve, slightly thick
en- the sauce and pour it vel the let
tuce when ready to serve.
German Carrots.-Cut four small
carrots into shoestring shreds. Put
two tablespoonfuls of butter into a
saucepan with a small onion finely
chopped and cook until tender, then
add the well-drained carrots, a tea
spoonful of sugar. and let them simmer
tightly covered. Do not let them
scorch; add a little lemon juice and a
s%prinkling of parsley when ready to
serve. Cream instead of lemon juice
may be added for variety. Cooked
peas may be added to the dish also,
giving it variety. A.heavy strip, into
which is stirred two or three table
spoonfuls Of pineapple finely shredded,
may be used as a sauce with cherry
jellO, If no cream is at hand.
Chocolate and Checkerberry Pud-
dinq.-Heat a pint Of milk with a
square of grated chocolate; mix half a
cupful of sugar, three tablespoOnfuls
of -four, the yolk Of an egg and a pinch
of salt, with the milk to make smooth;
add to the boiling milk and cook until
thick. Beat the white of the egg to a
stiff froth, add one tablespoonful Of
sugar and a half t%easpOOnful Of check
erberry essence. Put %spOOnfuls of this
in a pudding dish and pour the cream
around 1t.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Proper Furniture
for the Children
Prepared by Childrenis Bureau. u. S.
Department Of Labor

Too many homes, even those where
there is no lack of means for the lei
essary margin Of choice, are furnished
without apparent regard for the needs
or rights of children, and in these 1t Is
hardly possible for a child to find a
place to play or use his own things
without having to be continually
warned against breaking OF harming
something. 1t is plainly not just to any
child to surround him with furnishings
designed entirely to accommodate
grOwn-up people and ask him to re-
a place In which he has equal rights,
and where the grown-ups must pay
equal respect to his possessions. For
this reason there should always be
some room, or at least a corner Of the
family living room, where the children
may keep their own things and use
them in comfort.
The ideal rooms for children contain
only such furniture as they need for
comfort or convenience, and this will
be simple and easily kept clean. WASH
able painted walls, bare hardwood or
painted floors, simple curtains and
painted furniture are suitable. II wall
paper is used it should be inexpensive,
so that 1t can be frequently renewed.
All the holdings, door panels. window
and door screens should be made with
plain painted surfaces so that they can
be readily cleaned.
Only the lightest curtains should be
used, and they should not owe the
windows, save when necessary to shut
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

they take part in getting things ready.
This Is also a time to let the man of
the house use his ingenuity as well
as the children, everybody loves to
watch a meal in preparation especially
if all the appointments are pleasing.
For the server at the chatting dish
table the chair should be high, so
that all the stirring and seasoning may
be done with ease. The chatting dish
should set upon a metal tray, the lamp
carefully filled, all utensils needed
near at hand. Pure alcohol should be
used In the lamp, as an inferior one
gums and spOils the lamp. One Of the
essentials in all work, especially in
table preparation, is noiseless work,
so the wooden spoons are better to
use than metal ones. The carved Sill
yer affairs may be used for serving.
With the spoons as utensils for
preparations should be small recepta-
cles Of salt, pepper. celery salt and
paprika. If onion is used 1t should
be finely minced and placed in a small,
attractive dish. All ingredients should
be prepared beforehand. and placed in
pretty receptacles within easy reach.
A wheel tray is a most convenient as
sistant, saving many steps, the soiled
dishes may be quickly gathered and re-
moved and all the supplies kept on it
IL wished. Dainty finger rolls or sand
witches are the usual accompaniment
to any dishes served from the chatting
dish, these are prepared beforehand.
A salad is another well-liked dish.
This may be either sweet or more sub
stantial, depending upon the other
dishes served.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

up the lOveliest of midsummer mil
linery. There never was a summer
when bridesmaids could be more en-
c%hantingly dressed.
In the group of hats shown in the
picture one, of hair braid, is a famil-
lar, picturesque type that never fails
to captivate everyone. 1t is of the
laciest amethyst braid, bound with
satin and with ties Of amethyst col.
ored velvet ribbon and a wreath OK
pink roses against the under brim ut
the side and back. Would be pretty
in any Of the light colors.
A hat with braid crown and double
fiounce of plated crepe is very new
and an ideal for the bridesmaids wear
1t has two bands of narrow ribbon
about the crown, tied in a bow Mt
the front where a cluster of small
flowers Is posed. Imagine 1t in my
color that you may choose for a we'd
ding-it is sure to be pretty.
The lovely hat Of ~sand-cOlored crepe
with a fall Of scallOped crepe about
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Preventing Wrinkles.

Light should fall over your left shout
der when you are reading, writing or
sewing. If out in the sun when there
is snow on the ground it is best TO wear
slightly smoked glasses to soften the
glare. They will be very restful to the
eyes. will not attract unpleasant atten-
lion in the country. and will prevent
chronic wrinkles. When the eyes are
very tired. battle them with hot water
and boracic acid.
The habit of raising the brows con-
tipually will tend to produce wrinkles
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

out the hot sun. The chairs, tables,
beds, shelves, bookcases and all other
necessary articles Of furniture should
be small and low, so that the children
may find them comfortable and con-
venient. The continual effort to use
tables and chairs which are too high,
to get things that r out Of reach,
and to be under the necessity of trying
to adapt the strength, size and skill of
children to the furniture Of grown per-
sons results in. no little irritation,
some of which might be easily re-
lieved. The washbowl in the bathroom
is usually too high for a child to use
without getting his sleeves and the
front of his clothing wet. A stool or
hassock, or eve a low box on which
he may stand, will save much trouble.
After the baby's high chair has been
discarded the child should be provided
with a dining chair which is high
enough to bring his elbows about on a
level with the top of the table, and he
should have a stool or a footrest. An
ordinary kitchen table or common sew
ing table with the legs sawed off about
half way will afford untold comfort to
the children at their work or play. 1t
should be painted white and should
rest firmly on the floor. Low chairs
should also be provided. These may
be pine kitchen chairs with the legs
sawed off. Added to this, there should
be some shelves with drawers where
work and playthings can be kept with
in easy reach. Such an equipment as
this, in a sunny, cheerful room, with
plenty Of fresh air, and warmed In
winter to 68 degrees, will provide an
amount of happiness to the child quite
out Of all proportion to the cost.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

of lettuce on a platter. Around these
arrange the onions, and the beets out
side against the green of the lettuce.
Mocha Macaroons.-Make a custard
with the yolks Of four eggs, one-half
cupful of strong coffee. Add six table
spOonfuls of powdered macaroons to
this and bake the custard until set.
When cold, cover with the whites OF
the eggs whipped stiff with a quarter
Of a cupful of boiling hot strip and a
half cupful Of whipped can Gar
nish with candied cherries and an
gelica.
Crumbs Of brown bread rolled fine
and stirred into cream makes a change
which Is well liked.
Winchester Nut Bread.-Dissolve a
half cupful of brown sugar and three
fourths of a cupful Of hot water; add
a half cupful of molasses and three
fourths of a cupful Of milk; stir two
cupfuls Of entire wheat flour and a
cupful of bread -four sifted with two
and a half teaspoOnfuls of baking
powder, three-fourths of a t%easpoonful
of soda, n and a half teaspoOnfuls of
salt and three-fourths of a cupful Of
coarsely chopped walnut meats. Turn
into a buttered pan and bake an hour
and a quarter.
Cheese Eogs.-Butter a baking dish
or six ramekins and spread the bottom
with grated American cheese; slip In
six eggs, dust with salt and pepper
and cover with more cheese, using
three-fourths Of a cupful cover with
buttered crumbs and barely cover with
cream. Set in hot water and bake
slowly until the eggs are set-about
ten to twelve minutes.
German Filled Noodies.-Cut noodle
dough into strips four inches long and
three inches wide; spread with sea-
soned, cooked spinach and place an
other piece of noodle dough on top;
pinch together like turnovers and drop
into ~well-seasoned soup stock to cook
about ten minutes. Any leftover may
be rolled In parmesan cheese and fried.
Apple Sauce cake.-This is such a
popular cake that everyone should
have the recipe. Take a cupful of In
sweetened apple sauce, IL cupfuls of
sugar, yolk of one egg, half a cupful
of shortening, a teaspoonful each Of
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

granted. Millinery for her maids Ii
almost the most important item that
the bride has to consider, outside the
details of her own cOstumfng.
The airy, flower-trimmed and softly
feminine styles for midsummer show
many developments that promise
charming headdresses for the brides
maid. The choice is 20 confined to
hats, but their charm rs so powerful
that chances are in their favor. Hair
braid and tuscan, crepe geOrgctte and
malines, net and flowers 60 to. make
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

The average weight of girl babies at
birth is slightly more than z pounds
and that of boys ~ pounds. The nv
erage baby will weigh twice as much
at the fifth or sixth month as at birth,
and three times as much at the end Of
the first year. At eighteen months
girls will weigh about q pounds and
boys "a; at two years boys will weigh
q pounds and girls % pounds. The
increase in weight thereafter will be
slower. The normal gain of a healthy
child, according ito Doctor Holt, Is
about 16 pounds during the second
year, about 8 during the third, and
about 4 the fourth, girls remaining
about / pound lighter than boys all
the way along.
4 baby hsgsns to laugh aloud at some
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Something Wrong with Child Who
Does Not Come Up to Standard


time between the third and fifth
month; he begins to reach for his toys
from the fifth to the seventh month /;
and at the seventh or eighth month he
is usually able to sit alone and hold up
his body. At the end of the first year
he will stand up by chairs, and by
about the sixteenth month he can usu-
ally walk alone.
At the end of the first year the baby
will be saying a number of words, and
at the end of the second year the aver
age child is putting them together In
short sentences. If a child is making
no attempt to talk at this time it may
be that something is wrong.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Street Suits LONGER.

The best tailor-mades are a little
longer than they used to be a few
months ago, but the dancing gowns
the very few that are reGuired-are
rather shorter, if anything, which is
not a step in the direction of grace.
Sleeves are increasing in length, de
scending often to the k%nuckle, cense-
quently getting rather in the way Of
the wearer. Some of the prettiest thin
sleeves of lace, chiffon and mousseline
err rather on the side of being too
short, that is, they come far beyond
the elbow and a little above the wrist.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
First Aid.

If an artery is cut, the blood is a
bright red color and comes in spurts /;
this is very dangerous; act quickly.
Send for q doctor at once, treat as in
vein cut, crowding gauze into wound,
and hold tight with bandages. Com
press artery by tight bandages near
wound, but between heart and wound.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Nu. M1t~.@
Temper Not Born.

To Imagine that you were born with
a hasty temper is a mistake. The
spirit was fostered in you from in
fancy. Parents often think a display
of "peppery spirit" in their offspring
is cute" and the thought of curbipg
such tendencies seldom enters their
minds. If they would only realize that
they are storing up trouble and un-
happiness for their little one by allow
ing 1t to have sits own way" they
would discourage the first display o.
temper or Observation-Disclosures,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

more quickly than the passing years
Whenever you are home alone, put long,
narrow strips of court plaster just
above the center of the eyebrows, half
way to the hair line. Every time you
raise your brows this will be a silent
reminder, and soon you will learn TO
know when YOU use those muscles that
you now use unconsciously. Wear the
plaster whenever you can until broken
of the habit.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

DeetS OF the Saline Size
and small button onions,
two cupfuls of each.
When well chilled, mar
mate each in French
dressing, roll the potato
balls in parsley and eel
cry leaves finely minced,
and heap them in a bed
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

cover IL. SedSOu
with parsley, celery
and leeks lied to-
gether. the peel Of
one lemon and n
large carrot cut in
dice. Boil for an
hour, season with
salt, then let sim
mpr until the vpOl
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

one years end to the
next. There are seasons
when the fruit is more
plentiful, and then is the
time to prepare for the
season of higher prices.
It is hardly necessary to
mention that the orange