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The Washington times., 1921-12-25

and swung into the sunshine every
chance we could get we should be far
healthier and happier.
Plants, through the green of their
leaves, soak up sunlight and use 1t
to build starches. sugars, oils out OF
tho salts of the soil and the gases OF
the air. Animals eat plants and
rob their savings banks to make
meat and milk. All our food Is solidi-
fed sunshine. manufactured sun
Hight, secondhand sunbeams. We
are engines run by sun-power and
we must take some of it direct. at
first hand. through our skin-pores
20 to speak.
For a long time We were some
what in the dark as to how the
exposure Of just our faces, or our
shoulders, or a hand and an arm to
the sunlight could so build up and
stimulate our whole body and sys-
tenn. We were inclined to lay chief
stress on the ruddy complexion
which it produced. the ROXY blaze
Of sunshine. deepening to a warm
red brown or tan; the chief changes
seemed to be upon the surface.
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by NABOTH HEDIN,


Special oorr''D''d'n'' Universal Service
nARIS, Dec. 24.-Observance of
Christmas as lay as we'll as
church festival seems to be
gaining ground in France. Though
tho state Is now entirely separate
from the church. as 1t is in the
United States, Christmas is still q
legal holiday.
In the world Of business extensive
preparations for its celebration are
made, Jointly with that Of New
Year. which is the time for merry
making.
The big stores have special Christ
mas departments, with decorated
trees. candles, electric lights, say
paper ribbons, "expositions" OF toys
and Christmas" sales. The peri
odicals issue special numbers and
the church services are exception
ally well attended.
Santa Claus is not originally a
French character. In former days
his place In the French infant world
was taken by the child Jesus, who
visited little children that night,
bringing them gifts of toys and
cakes besides His blessing.
But somehow the Santa Claus fig
ure lends itself better to the COM
mercial exploitation of our times.
and nowadays one sees the familiar
gray-whiskered figure moving In
and out among the shoppers in the
Christmas sections of the depart
ment stores, and instead Of being
taught to offer devout prayers to
the Holy Child, the little French
children. particularly IN the cities,
are brought downtown and intro
duced to "'tere Noel" direct trans
lation of the English Father Christ.
mas" He is the same symbol of
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LONDON, Dec. -.

AONDON, OSS. 80
ASI am again on my way back
"a to the Pacific coast to continue
the supervision of my screen
stories, / welcome this chance to
say something about those people
who provide so much Of the present
day public's entertainment - the
cinema actresses and actors.
II is tho fashion for some part
of the American nation (which must
take up one fad after anotherD to
believe that the capital Of the NOV
ing picture business - Hollywood,
Los Angeles, Calls a sink Of in
iauity. where such a thing as mo-
rality does not exist.
Perhaps an echo Of this attitude
of mind has reached England; 30 it
gives me pleasure to be able to tell
the truth about It all.
Every profession has it's black
sheep, but a whole industry should
not be damned in consequence Of
one or two offenders-and the NOV
ing picture people ought rather to
be praised for being as good as they
are than blamed Tor badness.
Imagine a center where hundreds
Of thousands Of people are gathered
together-all more or less beautiful,
and all extremely young. Give
them perfect freedom Of action, un-
hampered by chaperones. and with
work to do which entails their hav-
ing several changes Of stage love-
partners in a year. and then picture
what, in any country, would be
likely to happen.
Not steady work, either, but inter-
mittent, and often In the most ro-
mantle surroundings and enveloped
I'm the glamor of make-believe.
OF course the rigid conventions
OF more stable avocations are not
observed in the same measure. and
life slips along in a holiday mood.
Perhaps this produces their kind
ness Of heart-fOr 1 have never
come across SO much charity or
good fellowship among human beings
in any other place. 1t seems as
IL existence had gone back. good
deal to the primitive, and the mat
ing is from inclination and not from
mercenary reasons or ambition.
The air seems filled with affection.
JUNE IN WINTER.
Imagine also climate in the
winter like an English June, grow
ing a little warmer in the summer
months, and with the air so clear
that when one stands on the hills
at night and looks down upon Los
Angeles and Hollywood the lights
appear like countless brilliant dia-
monds.
Imagine an immense collection of
little bungalows. each pretty and
spruce and up to date. with perfect
electric appliances, SO that labor is
no difficulty.
Imagine wages SO good that
every family possesses a motor car
and can get about-and all this
combined gives you some idea OF
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CHRISTMAS I'm FRANCE.
MORE RELIGIOUS NOW

munificence. however, as Santa
Claus" who is of Dutch origin.
In the churches the much less
materialistic personality Of the
Christ child is still emphasized a.
the symbol Of Christmas, a custom
that might well be followed else.
where. In the country districts,
particularly. 1t is the new born babe
rather than the giftbearing old
man that is made the central figure
In the Christmas celebrations; and
throughout the year the greatest
compliment a country dame can pay
to pretty nan-chnd is to call
him "un petit Jesu," that IL II his
eyes are blue. II they are dark he
becomes q petit Saint JEAN" . dis
tinction presumably adopted from
conventional church art.
In reviewing the story Of the Holy
Night, the French churches do not
limit themselves to word pictures in
song or sermon, but according to
the characteristic French bent for
dramatization they often stage tho
manger scene In the church itself.
This is another custom that might
we'll be adopted In other countries,
with a gain In realistic impression
on the child mind, and others, pro.
vided It be well done. On a tenn
porary stage in corner or in a side
chapel the figures of the Virgin
Mother, st. Joseph, the shepherds,
and the animals are represented In
wax. while In the stable scenery the
degree of realism depends on local
talent and local resources.
In some Of the Paris churches,
notably the Madeleine, the staging
OF the birth scene of Christ has be.
come an annual event In the world
Of art as well as religion. .4
The Washington times., 1921-12-25
By WOODS HUTCHINSON
ls Health, Hygiene and Disease
~ Haze Been FoA0Ued With General InteTesf)
III We Had Half Much Sense Big YELLOW Sunfow and
Swung Into the Sunshine Every Chance We Could Get We Should BE
Far Healthier and Happier-SunBahs Make Big Difference"

They took babies who were still
rickety after weeks of proper diet.
cod liver oil and phosphorus. and
just put them out in the sun every
day on the hospital roof. The
youngsters began to improve at
once. To be absolutely on the safe
side, as the little tots were very
weak and sick. they began by ex-
posing one foot, next day another
foot. then a hand and arm, until the
kiddies were brown all over and
could stand two or three hours a
day in the full sunshine. Their rick
cts simply melted like snowballs;
three to six weeks saw them prac.
tically well.
The astonishing thing about the
process was the benefit given by
sun-burning small areas. Just
browning one foot and one hand
was enough to start the baby i'm
proving.
So impressed were the doctors
that they tried exposing only one
arm and found the ricketty bones
of the other arm improving at the
same time within ten to twelve
days.
Apparently the skin or the mus
cles of the little bambino's arm were
able to manufacture their own cur
alive vitamin, with the aid Of the
sunshine. And then the blood car
ried it all over the body.
SO mop up all the sunshine
you possibly can, everywhere you
can find 1t. Don't despise even the
smallest contribution.
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Foe of tuberculosis.

Walk on the sunny side of the
street. Sit on the sunny side Of the
car. Put your desk or bench on
the south side of the room, but
don't let it get between you and
the sunlight! Pull the head Of your
bed right up to the open south win
dow and let the morning light pour
in.
Send your babies and your chill
dren out doors. with their eyes
properly shaded, at least two, and
better, four hours every day. ex-
copt in heavy storms. Even IL the
sun is not shining we get five times
as much sunlight under gray sky
out of doors as we can in the best
lighted room. ..
OF course, for thirty years past
sunlight has been our sheet-anchor
In tuberculosis, sunlight combined
with food. Again we have to do
with a deficiency disease, for it's
chief cause is a shortage of certain
foods in the diet, milk, butter, eggs
and meat. And the strength which
arnorplates us against the bacillus
and enables us to throw off it's at.
tack comes solely from good food &C
tivated, as the Psychologists say, by
sunshine.
Again, the body manufactures
it's own vitamins with the electric
power from the great sun dynamo.
Particularly in the bone and joint
tuberculosis of children, white
swelling" hip disease and spinal
carries heal like magic in the sun
shine. Sunshine Is one of the four
good things we can hardly have
too much of. short of over-heating
and sunstroke.
Copyright, 1879
(Other articles by DR.. Hutchin-
sOv will follOxul
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Give Children Sun Baths.

Even tho men who work out
doors often sleep at night In bed
rooms which have had very little
sun or fresh air during the day
While for town and city jewellers
II takes time and planning to get
their daily draught of sunlight.
One of our troubles has beer
that we didn't realize how vitality
important il was, and how com
paratively little of It would court
for health. I expect most of us
have the idea that IL we are to get
any real good from sun bath. II
must be for our whole body for
at least a couple Of hours and bet
ter for half a day. And We should
try hard for two hours sun every
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day, either indoors or out. or both
combined.
But just recently we have been
finding out that surprisingly short
sun baths will make a big differ
ence. especially in children. 1t
doesn't have to be tub"
a foot-bath, or arm-bath will do.
For hundreds Of years past chill
dren have been suffering from
disabling and reforming slow dis
ease called ricketts,. We all know
II for 1t is the chief. indeed almost
sole cause Of bow-legs, pot bellies,
square heads with big soft spots"
on top, pigeon breasts and beaded"
or lumpy ribs. We have sad reason
to be familiar with 1t. for all author
tiles agree that 1t is found in from
fifty to seventy per cent Of the
children of the poor in our large
cities. These, however, are mostly
European figures and our American
city rates are much lower than this,
but still far too high.
For q long time we have re-
garded it as nutritional disease.
due to improper or inadequate food,
and our recognized cures for 1t were
cod-liver oil, milk and phosphorus,
which last was supposed to harden
the soft bones. So much was this
taken for granted that health de-
partments provided cod-liver oil and
phosphorus for distribution among
the children susceptible to ricketts,.
And this helped greatly.
When vitamins were discovered
we said at once, "Ah, this explains
it," and put ricketts, down as due
to shortage Of the growth vitamin"
or fatty vitamin, "A" because the
two foods which helped it. meat,
cream Tor butter) and cod-liver oil,
were both rich in this vitamin and
no other fats or oils were. Ricketts,
was a deficiency disease, just as
scurvy was caused by a deficiency
or the water vitamin &C." found In
green vegetables and fruit juices,
and the. Oriental disease, beri-beri.
to diet Of too much white rice and
too little of another watery vitamin
3D." found in milk, eggs and meat.
But when we began to test this
out scientifically we found that,
although young rats or guinea
pigs. put on a diet Of plenty Of
starch, sugar and skim-milk, with
lard in place Of the cream SKINNED
off, would soon stop growing, they
would not develop, or any condition
nearly resembling it. Nor could we
produce ricketts, in them by any
kind Of diet, no matter how ILL
balanced. Something else must be
at fault besides the food in the
babies who had 1t.
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Bv MAURICE HEWLETT
u
Weather and the Soul" in the London Daily Neus)
here Good Reason for Saying That the Weter You e the More
Sentimental You A-Wae More So Than England Scotland
Than Wales ireland Than Amy Nation in Europe.

uplands gray. our valleys deep
green: they brim our rivers and fat
ten our root crops. They keep our
people seated in the mean, sober
minded. law-abiding, tradition-serv-
ing. home-staying.
Above all, they have saved US
from materialism, even though in
that kindly act they have made US
sentimental. There is good reason
for saying that the wetter you are
the more sentimental you are. Tho
West Of England IL moro so than
the East; Wales Is more so than
England, Scotland than Wales, Ire
land than any nation in Europe. I
never thought of II until this min
ute, but it seems extremely true.
EFFECT ON LANGUAGE.
It is amusing to speculate what
would have happened to us II such
a year as this had been our common
lot; no rain from January to No
vember, and full sunshine all day
long. I don't mean to our country,
to agriculture and the like of that,
but to ourselves. The influence of
climate on temperament, of course,
even on character, is admitted. and
may be estimated, IL not measured.
/ should like to suggest that 1t
has much to answer for In the
growth and development of Ian
guages. Consider for a moment
the variants of Latin-filius, figlio.
fills, hiji; facere. taire. hacer; ira
vallum, travaglia, travail. trabajo.
What was II made the Spariards
incapable of the f and v sounds.
SO that facere became hacer, and
travallum trabajo? The Law Of
Laziness, 1t will be said, Yes. but
what, IL not climate, induced such
slack enunciation7
Whether IL was climate or some
peculiar palatal formation of the
,ndigenes which turned the liquid OF
Italy into the cultural aspirate of
the Iberian Peninsula / am not
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Cure for Ricketts,.

So another tack was tried. 1t
had long been noted that ricketts,
was much commonest in late win
ter and early spring in all races,
and particularly frequent in races
which had immigrated into our
northern cities from the South
or the Tropics, such as the Ital-
ians, the Spaniards and the West
Indian negroes. Perhaps lack Of
sunlight had something to do with
it? This was suggested several years
ago but never tried out on any large
scale.
Some months ago Drs. Hess and
Unger decided to give it q test.
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TT was not until the November Of
this memorable year that we
recovered our goodly Inherit
ance. the England to which we
had been born. Through spring
time, hay and harvest. we were in
the plight of the little old woman
so roughly treated by the peddler
I'm the song. "Lawk-a-mercy on us,
this is none of t. was tho feeling
in everybody who Travelled through
the corn-lands, saw the drab hill
sides reeling under q sky OF brass,
and the land white or orange to tho
harvest. I went . Journey in late
July from Salisbury to Devices. and
could have sworn I was south OF
Avignon.
But when the trees turned at last
to their falling gold, and one could
see them burning through the fog;
when the rain was coming thickly
from the Atlantic sheets and
driven curtains Of 1t from that quar-
ter whence. IL 1t is to last, It ought
to come; when 1t showed. when 1t
froze before the leaf was off, we
knew that we had not been trans
lated, but might still swear by the
God in Gloucester or the Tor OF
Glastonbury.
CLIMATE AND THE SOUL.
Let us hope that we have done
with abnormality. 1t does not suit
us. and we don't want It. "The
climate of England" I read at
school. in a geography book which
I should revel in now, the climate
of England Is humid, but foggy."
Even in callow youth / appreciated
that priceless remark, and lay
awake at night trying vainly to
solve the use of the privative.
Well. those are what the climate
OF England has been for some ten
months, to our detriment as ma.
ton and discomfort as household
ers and Christians. Humidity and
fog are our staple. They make our
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scholar enough to say. Filius, Ct
any rate. become hiji, and muller
is In Spanish mujer. Shall we lay
that to the sun?
But now comes another considera-
ton. The climate of Spain il not
only hot. it Is also dry. You see
things naked in Spain--and nowhere
else known to me are they half 90
naked. The phenomenal world Ii
entirely without the gracious wrap
page Of pearl-gray mist or blue
rain-cloud In, which all appearances
are presented here. Not only do you
see things exactly a. they are. but
you see things which you DON'T
want to sec.
INFLUENCE ON ART.
Look up at the Giralda of Seville
from the street level--you oouid
count the flies on the bIistering
tiles. Look over to the wan OF the
Sierra Nevada from the Alhambra,--
you would think you could sling .
stone at IT. And then consider the
ghastly reality Of Spanish art. and
ask II that has not bean thrust
upon the Spanish artist by his daily
and hourly habit. And II that =
true of the sensible eye. 10 II nst
likely true of the intellectually
From the like Of all that our We
Atlantic winds and southeaStsriy
HAIRS, our frogs and blankets Of mivt
have saved us. 1t Is fog that ssuti-
mentalizes the things which We -.
and from 1t we have learned b
drape the things that we feel.
SO, although 1t may be true that
our climate relaxes our mental proc
esses and inclines US rather to think,
IT is also very true that with US.
much more than with the sun
goaded Southern people, tempera-
ment has a chance OF coping with
instinct. We may sec men as trees
va. ,>1l, but we don't see them
wilh soat.feet.
tcopyriyht. tssl.)
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Hollywood. Hollywood II what
might be called suburb OF Los
Angeles. but is the real center OF
the movie world-not Los An
geles itself.
Everyone works, 80 that there
are no idle people to make scandals
and mischief. and II II the custom
to leave each other alone. The
American divorce laws permit of
people moving on from partners II
they are unhappy, and you will
find numbers Of Young women
under twenty-three who have al
ready had two husbands!
In spite of. all these aids to
lax state Of fidelity there seem to
be countless. durable. serene mar
riages.
The whole thing IL a happy-go-
lucky, rather. Live and let live.
The curse Of the place and the
real reason which causes these
orgies to take place. like the de-
plorable Arbuckle scandal. 10 the
illicit drinking of poisonous liquor.
Mexico 6eing so near. presume
the drink comes over the border
too easily. But the wild people
are few and far between. and al
ways In the limelight. The rest
of the community are kindly. mat
ural, Woodworking beings. not con-
sciously breaking any laws Of con-
vention, but rather living lives
more as nature suggests. undark-
ened by evil thoughts.
BEAUTY SHOPS.
1t IL quite absurd to Judge one
country by the standards Of anoth-
er, and different work produces
different viewpoints.
Hollywood and Los Angeles are
also the homes of every sort of
new religion-branches from Chris
tan Science, and New Thought,
and Theosophy, each sect with
ideas of its own as to what 10 and
is not right.
The perfect summer days are
passed ION the beach" as much as
possible. The beaches" are about
eleven miles away from the towns.
and all who can spare the time
In the week and every one on Sun
day drives there, and basks in the
lovely notwithstanding in and out
Of the warm water and resting on
the warm sand all day, clothed in
a regulation bathing suit-very n.y.
gienic and scanty-and the salt
water soaks into all the young
strong bodies. giving them per.
feet health and vigor.
Imagine a beach as thickly COW
cred with humanity as Margate. but
not noisy and vulgar. No horrid
remains of yesterdays lunches lying
about, but just everywhere groups
Of happy people, sleeping. or chat
ting. or reading. or walking. or run
ming up and down for exercise. all
in the same costumes of tight stock
ingette of bright colors. with per-
haps q fleecy woollen cloak thrown
over them to keep out the too great
heat Of the sun.
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Sunlight's Virtues.

Then We thought sunlight was
sunlight, Just a simple yellow
beam; now we know that 1t is
marvellous mixture. not only Oh
all the colors Of the rainbow, but
of all Imaginable sorts of lights
and rays, Photographic rays. 4
rays, alpha rays and even the
magic emanations OF radium. 1t
can not only redden our cheeks and
tan our foreheads. but penetrate
clear to the marrow of our bones,
where our red blood cells are made.
II there be any healing virtue in
rays or radiations, Of any sort,
we can get 1t right on our own door
steps. Not In as concentrated form
as from x-ray tubes, or Walls Of ra-
dunn, but that's a real mercy.
Even in the most expert hands
radium and the x-rays, so far have
proved almost as powerful for harm
a. for good. The x-rays. for in
stance. have caused at least thirty
known cases of fatal cancer in re-
searchers and operators.
1t is doubtful II they have cured
q single case of cancer, except of
mild and superficial types which
were already durable by other
means. They arc of great value
In relieving the agonizing pain Of
cancer, especially of inoperable
cases, and In lessening the chances
of return after surgical removal.
But apart from the knife they are
q broken reed-so far.
When you take q sun bath,
whether partial or complete. you
are getting all the electric ultra
violet light, X-ray and radium en-
anation baths which have ever
been invented, combined and usu-
ally in doses which will not do
you any harm.
So please remember that sun
baths arc worth five dollars apiece
and conduct yourself accordingly.
But don't for q moment imagine
that you can get them for nothing
Or "as EASY as falling off 4 log"
Sunlight indeed Ia free. but bring
Ing It to yourself. or yourself to
Il costs sharply in time. in trouble
and in thought in this house
dwelling indoor-worlSing age.
Even in the open country only
about one-fourth Of the people get
aIl the sun baths they need au-
tomatically, without thinking about
It. For tho women are shut up
indoors practically all day long
and the children half Of the day
In schoolhouses.