The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-24
Today
Theory, Not Practice.
What Cave Men Say.
A New Shakespeare
Cinnamon Too Polite.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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You may wonder that a man
knowing 30 little about finance
should be chosen Treasurer Of
the United States. However. a.
man may be excellent in theory,
worthless in practice. The man
that invented the sewing ma
chine couldn't sew. The in
ventor Of the spinning Jenny
was no weaver or spinner.
Abraham Lincoln won the civil
war against Lee. one Of the
greatest generals in history.
yet Lincoln was no soldier.
A few Wall Street brokers
failed yesterday. That was
bound to happen. after a long.
dreary pull. It doesn't mean
much. Far more interesting are
cave man drawings on stone.
discovered by DR.. Caudoin. Of
Paris.
They represent accurately
that wonderful group Of suns.
the Pleiades. that seem 50 close
together. and are billions Of
miles apart.
What puzzles prehistoric ex-
perts Is that cave men saw and
accurately drew ten stars in
the Pleiades. whereas the naked
eye sees but seven-unless you
20 to the ton Of a mountain
where the air Is very clear.
Did cave men climb to the
mountain tops to study the
stars3 Was the atmosphere
clearer, twenty thousand years
ago than at present? Did those
ancient ancestors Of ours have
sight better than our own, COM
parable to that of the eagle?
Those are questions that agitate
the scientists.
Study the Pleiades; they are
worth it. The astronomer
Flammarion in Paris, q few years
ago, told this writer that the tele-
scope, instead Of seeing only ten
stars in the Pleiades, sees at
present shout forty thousand
suns there, and there are more.
He added, a. well he might, I'VE
are only on the threshold Of
knowledge" .
A portrait Of Shakespeare, be-
lieved' to have been painted in
his life time, has been identified
in London. Taken thirty-three
years ago from heap Of rubbish
In a cellar, it had been lying be-
hind a piano. Many would give
. great deal for that portrait, if
genuine.
After Shakespeare died, his
wife or a daughter, that could
neither read nor write disposed
Of all his papers and letters, in
cluding possibly unpublished
plays, as "old waste paper"
What would that Junk" be
worth?
Mr.. Chett, from China, prone
hading in Seattle, Wash, saw a
policeman and bowed courteously
twice. The policeman arrested
him. Arriving at the police sta
tion, Mr.. Chett bowed in rapid
succession to every policeman,
from the presiding genius down.
The learned policeman immedi-
stely sent him to the insanity
board. Through an interpreter
Mr.. Chett explained that he was
only being polite and bowling to
grandeur. Now he is free again
and will learn to stare at uni
forms. without bowling, in the
American way.
Certain mineral salts in vege-
tables and meat are necessary to
life. So important are they that
II you ate food, plenty Of it,
without such salts, you would die
sooner thss IL you ate nothing
at all, and took only pure water.
DR.. Copeland, health official Of
New York city, gives this good
advice:
"Cook potatoes with their
jackets' on, TO preserve the valu-
able mineral salts"
Many in ireland and on Amer
can farms have done that always,
and have eaten the skins 40 we'll
rs the inside Of the potatoes.
About three-quarters Of Ameri-
cans cut away 20 per cent Of the
potato with the skin-being in
such q hurry-then boil out the
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