The sun., 1918-07-28
Highly Dew loped
Thyroid Cartilage
Has Indicated Men
of Drawn and Brains
Since Caesars Time


testimony to great truth. A man with
out an Adams apple would be poor fish.
You remember the poem by Denver
Smith in which he referred TO that age
of long ago when he dimly remembered
having fins? Well, the original Adams
apple is the fruit of the evolution of the
fourth and fifth gill arches. The anatomy
of the very young shows how we got the
Adams apple from an early fish, just as
we are supposed to have derived our
faces from the ahark.
Life on this earth began in the water;
if not in the sea itself, probably in some
tepid spring, eventually finding its way
into the ocean, which is so much like
human blood in certain ways. Then the
more daring types got to the land, as the
reptiles and the amphibans. From the
reptiles came mammals and birds. Out
of the mammal class emerged the types
from which the scientists believe the hu-
man species was evolved.
None on Any Lounge Lizard.
It's far cry from a tiny sea creature
to fishes and reptiles and TO mankind, but
as we go up the scale we find that the or
gans of the throat are growing to perfec
ton, and the apple of Adam comes into
its own. Did you ever see a lounge lizard
with one which could be noticed?
One of these days look through the
Hall of Man in the American Museum of
Natural History. The primitive man was
short, thick neclled. but the higher pre-
historic types, such as the Cro-MagnOn,
reveal the full corel Adams apple, ac.
cording to the reservations now on view.
The tradition is that in the Garden of
Eden one Eve gave to the great forebear
of us all the fruit of the Tree Of knowl
edge. Even if some of it did stick in his
throat, he gained wisdom in the eating.
Ever since that day men of Drawn and
brains have had their necks strongly
marked by the proluberance.
The Adams apple denotes highly de-
veloped vocal range. 1t goes with deep
voices and firm convictions. AnatOmi-
cally it is the projection of the thyroid
cartilage Of the larynx, triangular bit
of gristle which protects the vocal cords.
Just above it is a curved bone called the
hyoid.
Place your finger in the V shaped notch
in the top of Adams apple and press up
ward and you will feel the hyoid slipping
about in easy fashion. The hyoid is the
stem of the apple. In the primitive races,
especially in American Indians of the less
developed tribes. the hyoid is poorly de-
veloped, and is in three pieces instead of
in one, as is the ease with the European
races.
Better the Larynx, Better the Type.
The better formed the larynx of a man
the higher his type, and unless he has i
thyroid cartilage noticeable on the front
elevation he is not entitled to the palm
for the highest virility and intelligence.
Few of the brute creation have the sug-
gestion of the Adams apple, except some
of the most capable apes who have cult
waited deep, booming voices. Any man
with high falsetto has not partaken of
the fruit Of the Tree of knowledge
The fair sex is noted for the lack of the
visible sign of the swallowing of the for
hidden pome. Eve had her share first and
ate it SO lcsurely that no one would ever
have noticed ii. The soprano does not re-
quire the great vigor and vocal compass
of the bass, and the larny1 Of women is
always more or less concealed in the soft
muscles of the neck.
As the boy becomes the man the vocal
cords enlarge rapidly and he struggles
between notes high and low until he drops
into the right pitch. If he is rather thin
and wiry The enlargement of the larynx
which takes place Is very noticeable.
Often the thyroid cartilage is so strong,
especially il til" you'll, has unusual energy.
that it presses out through the tenderer
tissues and the man seems almost de-
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