The Washington times., 1922-01-20

The First Steam Engine.
About Ladies' Nerves.
90 and 19.
ne "cobh" Now.

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Latsis real news today and .
chsncs 60 answsr questions.
Mr.. John @. white and others
AK about the Greek inventor Of
me steam engine, alleged to
nave been shown in the Serapion
long ago. Whether It was q toy
steamboat tried on some little
tank or on the Nile, "a toy en-
elne running around on wheels
n the great corridors Of the
Temple, or q tiny engine doing
1osning IN particular, this writer
Soesnt know. Perhaps the
learned Nicholson, Of the Uni
ysrsity Of Chicago, could tell.
John w. Draper. page 3S7.
VcL !, tof his "intellectual De-
yeiopment Of Europe" says: "a
dismal interval Of almost twenty
centuries parts Hero, whose first
steam engine revolved in the
Serapion, from James Watt, who
, has revolutionized the industry
Of the world"
The Serapion, or Serapeum,
was the most magnificent tenn
pie In all the world; its library
possessed the two hundred thou
sand volumes given by Marc An
tony to Cleopatra. It was located
IN Alexandria and was destroyed,
books and all, by jealous early
Christians, who mistook mysteri-
Gus brass spheres for instruments
Of witchcraft, not knowing that
they had been used to measure
the size Of the earth and deter
mine the motions Of Venus. See
Diapers Book for the interesting
details.
There was strange god in
that temple, with the dog Cerbe-
rus at his feet. A serpent prob
ably ia. proclaim wisdom and q
basket to represent plenty on his
head. The Christians were after
him and got him. They knocked
his head off. laughed when he
couldn't defend himself. were
much delighted when rats ran
out Of his broken body. They
revealed all the tricks ami i'm
postures that pagan priests had
used to delude the mob. and even
invented q few new ones. in their
zeal. u;
Part Of what they did was
justified. for the pagans had pre.
viously caught Christians and
burned them alive on the Altar of
Serapis.
The great pity is the destruc-
tion of the magnificent temple,
the statues. paintings, and. above
all. the books that can never be
replaced.
Many work of the Greek
philosophers, poets and drama
fists disappeared forever in the
attack on that foolish old god.
4 Interesting. to us is ..ths fact
that Hero of Alexandria. born
about the beginning of our era.
could describe in his book. the
Pnenndtica, "siphons penny-in-
the-slot machines. q fire engine,
q water organ. and arrangements
employing the force Of steam!
"Will you please lecture women
saffering with nerves." ~.
With pleasure. although space
is limited. Nervous women suf-
fer from too much Cor not
enough) fat. A fat woman is
nervous, unhappy. because of de
fectiye metabolism. which means
the processes that build up tissue.
then break IL down. and ges rid
Z of it when it has served its pur-
pose.
Being too thin is responsible for
more nervousness than being too
fat. Women have a ridiculous
idea that to be skinny" is to be
beautiful. To be NORMAL is the
only beauty. Ask Phidias. From
one year to fourteen a female
should be round and cozy; from
fourteen to eighteen, thin; from
eighteen to twenty-five, plump,
but still comparatively thin; from
twenty-five to forty she should
slowly put on from fifteen to
twenty-five pounds. She should
. stay that way until seventy-five,
when the extra pounds should
gradually disappear, bringing her
back at ninety to the figure and
the weight Of sixteen. And she
can be Just as interesting mental
ly at ninety as at nineteen, to
any man with an ounce Of
brains.
A really thin woman of thirty
five or forty is abnormal, as un-
| pleasant to the knowing eye. and
In as dangerous condition, physi-
cally and nervously, as very thin
baby. Let women remember that,
and eat sensibly, and there will be
fewer nervous "break downs"
Did you ever, long ago, 20 to
Queenstown, drive in a side car TO
Cork, sing "The Bells Of Shandon,"
wonder how IL could possibly be so
rreen in winter, how the people
could be so good natured with feet
and legs bare, and whence came
the extraordinary charm Of Totty