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A y. of z. man has written to iis suggest
ing that the staff of the Punch Bowl be
given the task of running the Dish for one
day. If that means day of for us, why
not?
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and provide for their Judges, while it
would permit the Legislature to create
petty courts or TO abolish them at its
discretion.
It would grant to the Legislature
power to legislate freely within certain
well-defined limits and it would forbid
it to legislate on certain matters the con-
troll of which the people wished to keep
directly in their own,hands.
And it would assure to the cities of the
state the kind of homo rule enjoyed in
Michigan and Ohio, where, under clearly
expressed regulations, each city may
draft its own charter and may amend it
whenever amendment is desired by q
majority of the voters.
Such constitution, increasing the
powers Of the Legislature, would inevita-
bly, raise the standard of that body. 1t
would attract to it men who now refuse
to spend their time in a body that is
hamstrung and hobbled by multitude
Of constitutional provisions conceived in
distrust and born in contempt Of the
capability Of people to rule them
selves by their elected representatives.
And it would at once raise Pennsylvania
to the front rank of progressive states,
free to legislate in accordance with the
spirit of the times.
The whole tendency Of constitutional
revision for a generation has been in the
opposite direction. 1t reached its depth
Of degradation in Oklahoma, where the
worst hodge-podge of Stiffness ever con-
cocted is now serving as horrible eX-
ample to the rest Of the nation.
But the ladies and gentlemen at the
Harrisburg conversazione do not thus
far seem disposed to do anything but
admire the Oklahoma example.
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nnInns In the World of And

Dear Socrates; l notice that one of your
vvide a Wake Client Mr.. T. n. 4 Spled my
aa advertising my Oh Painting at Watson
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Now, if the commissioners would set
about the task of drafting state con-
stitution with the federal constitution as
a model, discarding the form of the pres
ent document and turning their backs
upon its multiplicity of contradictory
and confusing provisions, they could do
something which would justify their
activities.
Such constitution would provide for
the fewest possible state officers, while
giving power to the Legislature to create
such new officers and departments as
circumstances should from time TO time
make advisable.
II would establish the principal courts
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The hind limbs of the apes are used for
grasping and the feet serve as hands. The
apes feet have big toe acting as thumb
in more marked degree than the first
fingers of his forehands. In man ths
relatively long posterior extremities are
used solely for walking or running The
human hands with their wonderful op-
possible thumbs serve the head mainly.
They are sometimes used incidentally to
help in climbing or In crawling on the
ground, but their primary function is now
to carry out the conceptions of the mind.
The opposabie human thumb is special
ICED to high degree and freedom from
use in locomotion permits the hands q
great development Of skill in many direc-
tions. In apes there are really four hands,
but the pair with opposable first digit is
situated on the portion Of the body farthest
from the head, so that neither pair is ad.
yantaged to specialize after the manner of
the hand OF man. This physical condition
alone would prevent the ape from reach.
ing the same mental development as man.
The foot portion Of the posterior ex.
tremity Of both ape and man represents in
its fundamental plan the typical extremity
of all vertebrates above the FISH. It has the
same elements arranged in the same order
with relation to each other. II is charac-
terized, as in normal mammals and rep
tiles, by FIVE digits or fingers, in which the
inner or first digit corresponds to the
thumb and is composed Of a smaller mum
ber OF phalanges or finger bones than the
other digits.
In the apes the first digit of the foot is.
as in normal mammals and reptiles, mucn
shorter than the other, but is distinguished
by extraordinary mobility, including oppo-
stability to the other digits, as seen in the
thumb of the human hand.
In the foot Of man, with the same funda.
mental plan seen In the apes, we find an
extreme modification rarely seen In the
vertebrates in that the normally short first
digit, while retaining the normal number
OF joints for mammals, has been greatly
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out, the weight Of the body being borne
very largely upon the end of the big toe.
This peculiar modification of the human
foot has been a most important part of the
evolution of man into a long-legged, two.
footed creature running with outturned
toes. The development of these rigid
the hands free to serve the head and of
developing the head.
Thus we owe our proud position as the
powerful feet has had the effect Of leaving
highest of thinking animals largely to our
big toes.
This difference between the human foot
and the apes foot is, in the opinion of
present-day scientists, the strongest evil
dence Of wide separation between man and
the ape The attractive chimpanzse can
only be regarded as our distant cousin. Pro-
fessor Merriam considers that the. separa
tion is wide enough to indicate that the
beginning OF changes leading toward the
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human type OF foot must have occurred at
a very remote time, at least as early as the
incipient specialization of the ape group.
That specialization tended to produce a
peculiar adaptation to tree life through
use Of the fore limbs for swinging or cl NIB
ing, with the hind limbs used for grasping.
There is another view, however, which
has been taken by Or. w. K. Gregory. that
the human group may be derived from an
ape type which had gone far in the direc-
tion of tree dwelling and later left the
trees and passed through RAPID evolution
ary stages, producing long-legged moving
type with greatly developed big toe
According to Gregory, the erect position
OF man has been made possible by great
elongation of arm, permitting fairly erect
position of the body in, an ape-like ances
tor who rested his weight in some part
upon the fore limbs in walking, as the
modern gorilla does.
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should ths View expressed by GreEory

should the views expressed by Gregory
prove correct, man might be derived with
changes Of relatively little significance
from the most man-like Of modern apes.
If other views are correct the gap is wider
and the modern apes viii be assumed to
represent type built especially for the
trees, while man will be considered type
practised in running, long accustomed
with free hand to serve a brain given
wider opportunity for range of thought.
Professor Merriam makes the interest
ing suggestion that the missing links" in
mans chain of evolution may be found in
the 16.000foot deep Siwalik beds in north
ern India, which are filled with uncount.
able fossils Of extinct animals accumulated
during hundreds OF thousands Of years and
which have as yet been barely touched by
the hands of scientists.
That mans evolution has been deeply
affected by his ancestors life in trees is a
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The quadrupeds, Professor Wood Jones
points out, are generally marked BY rigid
limbs only suited for backward and for
ward movements The head is connected
with the neck and shoulders in a manner
that makes easy rotation Of the head i'm
possible.
Mans anatomy is remarkable for its
freedom from such restriction. This may
be explained by the fact that an early an
oestor Of man, a lemur-liIe animal. left
the ground and took to tree life. BY
climbing with his forearms and hanging
from branches HIS arms acquired their
flexible character and freedom Of rotation
at the shoulder.
As he hung from trees by the hands a
great deal. his hind limbs became straight
and acquired freedom Of rotation at the
hips. which ordinary mammals do not
possess.
When at rest in the trees he sat on
branches and revolved his head or lifted it
up to look at his surroundings.
The mere fact that this tree-dweIling
creature could sit on a branch and turn
his head around freely was Of vital i'm
portsnce in stimulating brain development
The brain In such an anatomical position
could grow much larger than n Il were
eneased In a head fastened closely to the
shoulders by ligaments, as It is in the sur
face quadrupeds. As the tree dweller sit.
ting among the branches turned HIS head
around and then gazed upward at>the sky
n reasonable TO believe that the first
Tudiments Of really human thought orig
mated In his brain. The high intelligence
OF the birds may be traced TO the same
freedom OF the head articulation.
At later stage food conditions led him
TO descend to the ground. where he found
his upright hind limbs Of great service in
running and walking. The freedom Of
movement at the shoulders and hips gave
him enormous advantages in life Of war
fare and thus he rapidly evolved into
man
When pursued by a stronger enemy
one, perhaps, who had caught him un-
armed-the primitive man could always
turn his head while running and look at
his pursueT and decide what was best 20
do. No quadruped possesses the same ad-
vantage and naturalists know that hunted
animals often lose their lives through turn
ing their whole bodies to look at their pur-
suers. Mans hand then enabled him TO
handle and throw a weapon. which gave
him his most decisive adyahtag over all
other animals.
But how are we related to the apesf
Certain Of the tree dwellers, according to
this theory, specialized very intensely in
tree climbing and thus developed hind ex-
tremities, which could only be nsed for
tree grasping. They could not live on
the ground conveniently. thus they do
yeloped into apes, which are mainly tree
iwellers.
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enlarged and elongated
until 1t equals or ex-
ceeds the longest Of
the other digits. This
Is what we call the big
toe.
The big toe has rsl
atiyely very small mo-
bility and is not in any
sense. opposable. The
type Of modification Is
so extraordinary among
the great number Of
foot forms known
among different famI-
lies Of animals that
we must assume for It
an important relation
to an extraordinary
use. This we find, says
Professor Merriam, in
the usual position OF
the fore and aft axis OF
the foot, which runs
obliquely across the
foot and through the
great toe, instead Of
through the middle toe,
as In most animals,
thus giving US a foot
with the toes turned
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the largest apo, Is und
cubic inches, while tina
telligsnt male Amer
ninety cubic inches,
even the brain Of q
dab woman OF CeyIo
one Of the lowest Of
human races, meas
ures ifty-seYen cubic
inches,
Differences In skull
are marked by the
enormous and very
prominent Jaws Of the
apes, the relatively
very high top head of
the man and BY the
position in which the
head Is placed on the
neck
Professor Merriam
says that the diRer-
ence in limbs be-
tween man and ape
is fully as marked as
in the skull. Tue diff
ference In limbs are
not merely In degree,
but in kind and fuuc-
tion. In most apes
the relatively long
forelimbs are the
principal structures
for moving about
which is by springing
through the trees. To
some extent, however,
the forehands Of the
apes serve the head.
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enees In the extremities Of the legs
they can hardly be called feet in thu
apes. The brain capacity Of gorilla,
the largest apo, Is under thirty.six
cubic inches, while that Of an In.
telligent male American Is
ninety cubic inches, and
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%sAsai Sfss,fI

Washington. United States Employees
Compensation Commission. DR.. jose
phine Baker. New York City Depart
ment of Health. Health an Intcrna-
tiOnal Problem" Jane y. Rippin, di-
rector OF section on women and girls.
Commission on Training Camp ACtiv-
tiles. Washington, d. c., Social Hy-
EIene a a Factor in International
Health" discussion opened by DIR.
Martha Tracy. dean Of Women's Med
ical College. Philadelphia. Pa. Jane
Adams. Hull House. How to Feed
the World" discussion opened by
Martha Bensley Burere. New York
Afternoon Session, 2 p. m.-Mrs. f..
Louis S'ado. presiding New York. iIOr.
Franklin d. Lane. Secretary of In
terror. "Women's Part in RecorstTuc-
ton" Elsa LELAND. president OF Car
son COLLEGE. Philadelphia. Pa. "Edu-
cation for a New Democracy. dis
Cusslon opened by Mrs. Beverley Nun
ford. Virginia. Melinda Scott. spccia'
advisor L. 5. Employment Se~vIce.
president OF the United Hat Trim
mers' and Operators Union. The
place of Women in Industry" discus
sion opened by Miss Mary Mcdowell,
OF Chicago. Charlotte Perkins Gil
man. "Women's New Economic
Status"
Members OF the Washington COM
mittcc on arrangements are: Mrs.
Alexander Graham Bel. honorary
chairman; Mrs Frederick H. Brooke.
chairman; Mrs. Newton II Baker,
Mrs. Louis Brownlow. Mrs Frederick
a. Delano. Mrs Gilbert II. Grosvenor.
Mrs Charles : IIau,liD '..s Herbert
Hoover and Mrs. V. I.vcrIt Macy
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MATRIMONY ON A BUSINESS BASIS
BY DOROTHY DIN
THL WORLDS HIGHEST PAID NCALA\ uRITLE

ami de'otion that makes O woman
sa'TiiI"' herself al every tI~u for hnr
husband. that uaF.s her con. der p a
pleasure and l-I0' C-s on ,snr. act
nav S0" G"' -. tr.t makes It- watch
over his boa lh AID his 7or.-..locs Is
as no hirr.lr. would ev.r Qr
Tho~~ ar" l,vond at D-ee. beyond
tho possibility az an. man Davir.-
fo" -"' fCr ~--- % thlaE thar Is
u1r. .r"u Offsets them rarau-. Pc
FURNISHES rn" rUv.sr tE-r ---s rla
hp'u. g. .F.cU.o..
sM. 5... O. r.'.r- the '-mc on 2
. .sl.".- .- w.u# .. raa ba.-
rHa. b. ... 3. .. '. l..a.ar. Tne~7
a~' wH.m..- 90 wnu.. married 10
"' "-'o- '' u.r -na u,v.. have 3D.
I'.'. d" 'i"f % r r, spend Who
'v.r. ~aru.d.y u.-1- ,aas could .ol-
..'r, .... a.#'.-as 20. o.u- Women
mn. ' L" lHl.ua.oa- E.en v.n v1rIf
ramnl- '-'w~''y, lucky D. they svg-
got q Thursday ort ln wr.cr t-e-
re free 'u dn q They pleased. as g
Tired girl Zoo. and fnrr- -re r. r..rrz
.H". -l .nus .- women married rn
-~ourh'. p. l..a. who ~...- sa- r
r,' .ar.' E.n.a g.. .rau who would
."laE -h'Z &c.. -. 'F7 >..s-.- E"ry-
e. If their husbands wcr. as pleas
ant NJ NOmn f'.- ... .a .ha.. ..r-
f5,os and treated them w.th as much
courtesy a~ they do th.r ~.rao--
rl~har~
C,.'a ..ly f. nan thinks that ra
IS ,m,fhd 10 no-> his vic -.ocauso
Dc CONSIDERS thar ro pays s-- be-
-, ..l.' sa, .~ ,n'.-I.E ro GOOD f-rE
cash aS tho .r.o. %. hg- obedience
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Confessions of a War Bride
CHAPTER 14S.

Don't decide that now. You're
too tired TO think straight. Why,
YOU haven't had a minutes sleep
since night before last, Go right
up to bed. I'll send up your din
ner. And then go to sleep" And
Mary reached out her pretty hand
and gave my fingers a quick pres
>ure of sympathy as | passed her.
I was too tired to eat and too tired
10 sleep. BY 9 o'clock | was too tired
to stay in bed. l threw my kimono
around me and sat down at the win
dow, which faced the moonlit bOulc-
ward. I raised the shade just in time
to see DR.. Hamilton Certeis' roadster
turn the corner. 1t stopped in front
of Mary Thomas terrace.
"Oh. la, la ] said under my breath.
as DR.. Certeis mounted the steps and
rang the bell. Then I heard him
speak of Tiny" Mary's compact.
six-room suite has walls like sounding
boards. I closed and locked my door.
went back to bed and pulled the COW
err over my ears.
But my poor brain was wound up
tight, and i Kept whirring al 4 whir-
ring, 20 the effect that I didn't want
Hamilton Certeis to make love to me.
] had told myself that same thing 500
times in the last six months; never
theless, it made me perfectly furious
to have him pose as my devoted cav
ai!or while he was at the same time
the .Unhii&E fyss'Ed of Mary Thomas
FGasS, T. oEEIrred to me that DR..
Cer.elS was ddy Lorimer's best
frio01 a. sell e. his medical adviser,
and tnat he r''Eht call on Mary for
business, rct social reasons. But
forHo small comfort in the logic.
O'f hofrid fac' confronted me: Since
Ger .els fHE &c eSs to Mary'S little
hone II 'lie nHTer be a hiding place
for me must leave. Bu- where
could | -!
;Fo BE Continued.)
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1t Seems Impossible for Me
to Follow Mary's Advice
and then DR.. Certeis
Appears.

IF you'll only just scream-or
Thomas as she leaned over my
shaking figure. But if YOU go on
this way much longer. just quivcr-
ing, without making a sound. you'll
develop pleurisy or something. Oh,
my dear. My dear! Please do
stop" she pleaded.
I'm horrid. I know! Ungrat<ul!
Selfish I waited. But your ad-
vice is no good, Mary. No good at
all! l can never, never make Bob
WOO me over again.
IF 1 felt that sure-and if it was
me" Mary stopped for emphasis.
not 70 correct her grammar. If it
wa me-Td play-at bcing-anoth-
er g.rl"
stopped m" crying and sat up
How" l asked.
I'd lose myself Then Id meet
Mr. Robert Lorimer under another
name. Then I'd watch things hap
PEN"
You must have great faith in
predes+ination, Mary Thomas. A lot
more than 1 have! Do you actually
believe that there's one perfect
love affair, and one only, in the
lives of most women and men?'
81 do honestly think that, il any
man had chance to marry over
again. he would probably choose the
very wife he picked the first time.
if he had a chance" Mary insisted.
well, 1 do not" 1 make the
statement positively. 81 know sew
eral types of girls who could snitch
my Bob away from me. once he is
normal, once he gets to thinking
about women and love. instead of
politics and economies"
Better beat 'em to ii, al I've said
before" was Mary's terse comment.
But not as Jane Lorimer, nor az
Jane Ames!" 1 continued in my posi-
tive vein
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WOMEN "INTELLECTUALS" TONIGHT
WILL CELEBRATE VICTORY DINNER
Little Grandmother of Russian Revolution
and Other Notable Leaders of Fair Sex
Will Be Present at Brilliant Fete.

With the sisterhoOd of women ~
the magnet. the largest number of
the most brilliant women ever gath
cred together in America will meet
tonight at the Victory dinner given
at Wardman Park Inn.
CheriShing the interests OF the WON
en- Of the world in the new era Of
democracy, these women interested
m woman's place under peace condi-
tions have come to Washington from
ali parts OF the United States and
Europe.
Chief among the women "intollec-
tuals" of the world who are max
ing every effort to be present are
Nine. Catherine Breshkoowskaya. the
little grandmother of the Russian
Revolution" who will arrive from
New York, escorted by a special DEL
egation of New York women. anil
Miss Julia Lathrop, who lands in
Ne NtTi this morning fr a
months investigation of the after
war work of tho women of England
and France
- a group of Southern women under
the leadership of Mrs. Beverley Mum
ford, of Virginia, have telegraphed for
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Beach capes are favored by some.
but there sCems to be many bathers
walking from the Casino wearing no
wraE this year. Perhaps VIC have
become more used to wearing the
European type Of bathing costume.
but usually tho European wears a
cape from the bath house to the
beach. A visit to the nearby bath
ing houses where tourists usually
20 found the Annette Kellermann
styles in the majority. Here there
was indeed riot for color Will il
influence the masses who 20 bathing
for the real love of it in our sea-
sid" resorts next summer?-women's
Wear
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dinner reservations. More than $50
women have signihed their desire to
be present.
Mrs. Desha Breckenridge, OF Ken
lucky. will preside tonight. Those Of
international renOwu who will speak
are: Hon. Newton d. I:rl..r Secretary
of War: Mrs. Charles RCb-on. Of OF
tawa; Catherine BreShkovskaya, "thc
little grandmother of the Russian
revolution; Julia c. Lathrop. chief of
children's bureau. and DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw. Mrs. Flora McGin Keefer
will sing the national anthem.
There will be two conferences Sched-
uled for tomorrow, to which the gen.
eral public. both men and women. are
invited. Both will be held at the
Wardman Park Inn.
Program for Conference.
The conference program is rs fol-
lows:
Morning Session. 10 a m-Mrs
Frances Axter. presiding. State of
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articles valued for their connection
with the martyred President would
be included in it.
This year the 10th anniversary of
the birth of Abraham Lincoln will
witness the completion and dedica-
ton of the magnificent Lincoln Me-
mortal in Potomac Park.
Tho superstruCture Of the building,
which is built on the style of the
Parthenon at Athens. of white Colo
RADIO marble. surrounded by thlrty-six
massive marble columns. is already
completed. The interior decorations
and the approaches are now being
finished.
Statue of Lincoln.
The act OF Congress authorizing the
Lincoln Memorial was approved Feb
ruary Q, 1911, but work on tho buildings
was not begun until LIN, oIn'- lirtN-
day. 1914, when the cornerstone was
laid The fact that ITS ConsITGCllu.
has taken five years is due TO the war,
which completely upset the plans of
the Lincoln Memorial Commission.
headed by former President William
r. Taft.
Daniel Chester French. noted New
York sculptor. is working on the
colossal marble statue OF Lincoln
which will be the only object inside
the beautiful memorial. The statue,
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u is reported that many hand tags
chosen 20 D.. wa-~ 20 Ts1n Beach
s.."" grra. @ar'.a0Hv toward gold.
~"n'r.w.E 90 r-u..s..l.r with
bright ,u'ors.
ono j.ro of bag BE- ll..r Of gold
lac with brilliant .uG,rr-.nr.rr..
"hIl" so'Id whit, n-sGoG bags
mounted on gold f~aw,- .-r armed
With white tan-Ia suits. .-EyC-. ar'a
" ,-ir
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1t seems a contradiction to state
that coats for Spring are capes, but
this Is the CaSe. almost every model
shown beng frankly a cape or doIrnrn
coat, loosely draped. and only for
sport motor or steamer wear do We
ind the more tailored regulation three
quarter coats. s.-Nugent's.
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Sweaters for children are as various
in style and material as those shown
for the older generation. Perhaps the
wool coat is more practical. as the
sweater often takes the place OF a
coat both for sport and school wear.
The slip-over is a favorite model
Nugent's
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ITO BE Continued.J

Pottieoats nssde fiat so as to con-
forrh 10 the new silhouette, which
narross es the ankles. are announced
in c''angeGyie tafeta. messaEines, tub
silks and y4sdiNn silk with scaIiope5
edges er 6tep ncunces with lust the
tiniess OF r5tsles at the bottom. Cord
ed Elects sre sometimes used but al
ways avoicsns fauness.
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At the Theaters Tonight.

NATIONAL
Tho Saving GraCc''
SHUBERTGARRICK-
The Climax"
POLLS
Tho Kiss Burglar.
SHUBERTBELAsCo-
A eIecpless Night
KEITH's-
vaudeville-Olga Petrora
GAYETY-
Hip, Hih; Iluorav Girls"
COSMOS
Vaudeville.
LOWS PALACE
William 5. Har IN Breed Of Men %
MoORE's "IALTo-
Ethel RarG more il The Dirorces"
and "CsnnIbsls of the South Seas"
L0Ew.> COLyMrIA-
Dorothy Dalton in Hard Boiled
MooRE.S STRAND
Mrs Charlie chaplin In When 4 Girl Loves
M0ORk's GARDEN
Priscilla Dean IN The Wildcat ct Psris 90
CrN>DALL.S METROPOLITAN
M.lci NoTaaud u ">.s HOPKINS.
MoORE.S PLAZA
Bos-i. Bsrrisc1le in The Hear OF Rachael
THE NAVY
Peggy Hyland in Caught in the Act"
THE ELITE
John Mason in Moral Suicide