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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27
NATURE AIDS SICK BABIES
BY ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.
United States Senator From New York.
Former Commissioner Of Health, New York City.

If there is one thing more than
another that will upset a household
it is a sick baby. Mother goes about
with sunken eyes, her face the pic
ture of distress. Father has a
strange leaden feeling about his
heart and is not a cheerful associate
at the office. Even the little broth
ers and sisters tiptoe about, wonder
ing if something more terrible can
happen.
In a home where / spend con-
siderable time there is lovely baby.
He is strong and vigorous, smiling
and happy. A few weeks ago this
little chap fell i'll and declare 1
was as upset myself as il he had
been my own baby. We all felt
like celebrating when he was back
on his feet.
Most Of the troubles babies have
come from two causes-taking cold
and contaminated or wrong food.
The breathing apparatus of baby
is a pretty delicate piece Of ma
chinery. The nostrils, throat, wind
pipe and bronchial tubes are small
and ,he air cells are tiny almost be-
yond belief.
The lining mersbrane Of all these
parts is delicate and rich in nerves
and little blood vessels. You know
how sensitive your throat and chest
are to smoke, dust and irritating
fumes. If your strong tissues are so
easily disturbed, think how much
more sensitive must be the same
parts of little baby.
Much the same may be said Of
the digestive organs of the little
one. Your stomach is upset If you
get bad food. You make a terrible
fuss over little Indigestion or gas
formation. Yet your organs are
strong, accustomed to all sorts Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27
Rest Yourself By Reed Hsa.ti.

youngster Cyrus Gbbon tod through rain and and
N Flowing the meadows; nghl rarely him done
Picking stones building ong tong; stopped
beayed in chorus, then unanimously dropped
Cyrus made money folk far and folk from
cleaning with applause and hearty cheer;
Cheering quite wizard, claiming that he knew his SOIL
But kept workingnow little need for toll
Cyrus beatngs when they murmured u" is true
pile up golden well equipped you.
footed why aching frame?
quit striving? You'll be wealthy just the
oang? You have loads Of pe
cushions and sit down and yourself"
rested Lo the round him
prang him. hid him from the public
and sweeping from the
annoy Cyrus cant you need rcsE'
day found him. a within his jeans,
yictual in the pantry, Boston beans
neighbos him, laid lilies his chest
what sap, they other rest!"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27
Freaks Of Nature

The gangetic dolphin, sometimes
reaching twelve feet in length, is
rather a large creature to be found
in fresh water. Its habitat is in
India. mainly in the Ganges river,
whence it gets its name. The crea-
ture burrows in the mud with its
long snout. exploring tiny tribu-
taries Of the great rivers. In color
the dolphin is as black as the mud
into which it digs. Sometimes il
ventures into too shallow water and
runs aground wallowing about in
frantic effort 10 free itself. The
dolphin is fond Of sticking its head
out Of the water and blowing like a
whale. frightening bathers out Of
their wits.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27
What WeCanPo POSSESS
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

think it is Goethe who said that
what we do not understand we can
not really possess.
We may 60 a step further back,
and say that what we do not love
We cannot understand.
And then we have got down to the
roots of property. For there is but
one real property owner in the
world, and that is love.
There is but one sort of Real
Estate, and that is Human Souls.
You do not really possess any
thing else. This is proved by the
great test of all human values,
Death.
You cannot own land or houses or
books or pictures or castle or cloth
ing, for Death strips you of all
these things.
We say there is no such thing
nowadays as one person owning an
other; on the contrary, that is the
only kind of ownership there is.
II 1 love you 1 own you. You
are mine and no force or legal pro-
cess can deprive me of you. Be-
cause if 1 love you 1 understand
you, and if 1 understand you pos
sess you.
Who steals my purse said Shakes
peare, steals trash; twas mine, It's
his, and has been slave to thousands.
And the same thing holds true with
all material goods. You can keep
them. You can keep others away
from them. You can destroy them.
But you cannot have them unless
you understand them.
Walt Whitman owned America,
for he understood it. Jesus Christ
owned the world, for he loved it.
What right have you to that beau
tiful set of books in your library?
You never read them. You never
fondle them. They stand there
where they have stood for years in
their glass coffin. All you ever did
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27

was to pay for them. Their real
lovers wander about separated from
them.
You do not own that park you
call yours. There is a little raggedy
boy that looks at IL through the
iron fence every morning. He
owns it. And the squirrels scurry-
ing up the trees, and the robins
hopping on the lawn, they own it.
If you would be rich you must de-
velop the only thing that can en-
rich you, which is your understand
ing. 1t does no good to heap up
jewels and furniture. 1t is vanity
and vexation of spirit.
If you develop understanding you
will find plenty Of riches to hand.
For the greatest treasures are pub
lie. Why should you think that
you can attract the sage with goods
and chattels, when he owns the i'm
perial sun and the uncounted stars
and all the woods and fields along
the broad highway? Can you lure
him with q dollar when he owns the
city?
Those who have scaled the
heights of life and breathed the
mountain air Of wisdom have passed
through remuneration. They had to
learn poverty that they might learn
the nature of riches.
The Nazarene had to pass His
forty days in the depth of want.
Buddha never saw the great Truth
until, stripped of the delusion of
property, he meditated under the 30
tree.
Have you learned remuneration?
Not until you do learn it shall you
understand possession.
1t has two secrets to impart to the
soul. The first is that the real joy
of possession comes through under
standing. afra
And the second is like unto it,
that the power to understand comes
only through love.
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SAN ANTONIO,
NOV. ~, 1925.
Queens Counsel
What's to Come?
y MARIE, QUEEN OF ROUMANII
Registered United States Patent Office.


Manners certainly changing.
said forbidden May add postscript
forbidden than it
e forgiven voice the impression that who
breaking down the barriers?
The did much release imprisoned passions We have all
things the did before We have
tient with ndances Things think
Thoughts frankly
light and dcussed-even upon.
We used to think of the pursued Now is the
You look
powdered her public girl with
mans shoulder thought A
sitting casually a
We have look all these things with
tolerance if approval
What does it mean? What o follow?
frankly confess do know. In
grlhood days used dream dams Picture
beroin of thrilling Nowadays seems to me
girls live the adventures
Is it better to have the thoughts them?
them sand get it out of the SYSTEM" ~
often wonder when hear
that welbhaved they
scany rament and plentiful freedom mpress
And man amazes me-that he is than he is!
Copyright 1925, Famous Features Syndicate, Inc)
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=,xSAN ANIoMo--
L![.IH!:lEE!E:l1l15!EE:!!lG!:H!T
What Jimmie Did For
San Antonio

- MILLING Jimmie English back in San Antonio
in time for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday.
Jimmie English doesn't need to be identified in
Southwest Texas, for that matter is she unknown
in any part of the United States where city newspapers
are read.
San Antonio's generosity has done much for jim
mic. She back to the arms of her mother
healthy little girl in place of that invalid child who left
San Antonio last spring with the possibility of
returning.
San Antonio has done much for Jimmie, but Jimmie
has done more for San Antonio.
Jimmie gave San Antonio chance to prove that
beneath the seeming indifference concealing city even
from itself there beats big generous heart.
Jimmie gave San Antonio opportunity to feel
the warm pleasant glow that enables one to understand
unselfsh deed.
With the alchemy of her brave smile Jimmie has
left flakes of gisenng gold in hearts that have been
dark and dull with too much cynicism and too much
WEAKNESS
Then, too, Jimmie has introduced the best side of
San Antonio to the world Wherever Jimmie is known,
and that roughly comprises the covered by the
foryeght states her sunny smile is the refec
ton of San Antonios generosity. Just between our
discovered by San Antonio.
San Antonio buy space to advertise its climate
its parks its Fairgrounds and it business, industrial
and agricultural resources But San Antonio can not buy
the publicity given it by Jimmie English the little grass
girl"
Jimmie has done lot for San Antonio.
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abuses. On the other hand, the
stomach and intestinal tract il
baby arc tender, easily disturbed and
capable of putting the whole nerv-
GUS system out Of order.
Babies do not respond to an
noyances in just the same way that
adults do. II you have taken cold
or have eaten infected food, the first
sign may be chill. That is not the
way with a baby. In his care the
first sign Of trouble may be con-
vulsion.
Even a single indigestible thing, a
clot of milk, or in an older child a
chunk of meat, may produce such
a violent nervous reaction as to
throw the child into n violent con-
vulsion, or series of commissions.
Fortunately, the recuperative
powers Of baby appear to be out
Of all proportion to his size and
fragile appearance. The baby, so
sick as to seem to be at deaths door,
will respond to treatment and in
three or four days, or a week will
be as we'll as ever.
Remember, dear mother, Nature
is on your side. All the time she is
doing her full part to make your
baby well. With the doctors help
everything is likely to be all right.
Copyright, 1925. by Newspaper
Feature Service, Incl
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27
Mass Education
By "The Spectator"

Jim Hawthorne, in the novel,
~Soundings," says:
"The fate of the human race de-
ponds, finally, upon individuals"
That is a sentence to null over
and think over.
Seed corn comes from the biggest
cans. The mass is just used up and
disappears. The advancement to a
better type depends upon a few ears.
Is not the same thing true about
people?
Isn't it the very few who carry
on learning and bring higher stand
ards of living, and do not the great
mass of individuals act merely as a
transmitting medium?
Then, If this be true, is not the
whole system Of popular education
and trying to raise the entire level
Of mankind a little way instead of
developing entire attention to the
favored few and letting the others
profit by contact and example, a
wrong method of procedure?
There are many sincere people
who believe that it is.
However, the world had a prac-
teal experiment in the exclusive
kind Of education during the period
OF the Renaissance.
A few individuals lowered intel
lectually above the masses like
mountain over a plain. Bacon and
a few Of his contemporaries had a
comparative breadth of learning
unknown to modern scholars.
But the masses lived in the black
est ignorance, and the learning Of
the few, profound as it was, had
little widespread effect until years
later when the many began to catch
up TO a point where they could
better grasp their ideas.
II. 6. Wells once wrote q short
story which he called "The Coun-
try Of the Blind"
In it he disputed the truth of
the old proverb, in the country
Of the blind a one-eyed man is king"
Because everyone was blind, said
Wells, they would not believe what
the one who could sec told them,
and they would prosecute him for
radical. Only when they could
begin TO see themselves would they
begin to trust the one who had per-
feet sight.
The same is true with education.
II the great mass Of the people are
completely blinded by ignorance
they cannot be expected 70 under
stand or believe what the few who
have a more perfect sight Of know
ledge tell them.
The few leaders arc always a
century or two ahead of the ma
jority Of the people. And only as
the masses are elevated little by
little are they able to grasp the
ideas Of those ahead Of them.
Real advancement takes place
not when the few reach out into new
realms Of thought, but when the
many have been made 10 see.
To keep the mass Of the people
progressing from stage to stage
when they are able to grasp and ap.
ply the ideas Of the few intellec-
tual leaders, is the function and inn
portance Of universal education.
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YE TOWNE GOSSIP syK: c: 3:

WHATEVER HAPPENED.
TO THE crossword puzzles.
AND THE comic pages.
I DIDN'T care.
AND SINCE it happened.
I'VE HAD no cause.
TO MAKE complaint.
ALTHOUGH AT times.
I'VE FOUND the paper.
WITH THE folds askew.
AND HAVE suspected.
THAT THE rule I'd made.
HAD BEEN violated.
AND INDIGNATION.
WOULD ARISE in me.
AND I'D hold it back.
AND CALMLY say.
WHO'S BEEN monkeying.
with THIS morning papcr:"
AND EVERYBODY.
WOULD DENY the charge.
AND YESTERDAY.
DID this thing.
AND DENIALs followed.
AND THEN all at once.
ON PAGE sixteen.
WAS THE crossword puzzle.
AND 1T had been done.
AND EVERY square.
HAD BEEN penciled.
AND / held it aloft.
AND ALL they did.
FROM MOTHER down.
WAS TO laugh Mt me.
7 THANK you.
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BucOGc Press

His feet was all the more re-
markablc when it is known that he
hurt his leg in crossing first base
and had to have a strained tendon
attended to during one of the scna-
tors turns at bat.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-27

I'LL CONFESS it's foolish.
But EVERY time.
1 SIT me down.
AT THE breakfast table.
AND FIND ny paper.
HAS BEEN tempered with.
AND BEEN unfolded.
AND THEN refolded.
IN A careful effort.
TO MAKE it appear.
1T HAS been untouched.
1T MAKES me as mad.
AS ThOUGH L came.
AND FOUND it there.
ALL CRUMPLED up.
WITH PAGES gone.
AS 1T used to be.
BEFORE THE day.
THAT 1 arose.
AND ISSUED forth.
A PROCLAMATION.
THAT FATHERS paper.
SHOULD COME to him.
JUST AS it came.
TO THE front door hall.
AND BE then picked up.
AND LAID aside.
TILL THE breakfast table.
HAD BEEN set.
AND THEN be put;
BESIDE HIS place.
AND THERE remain.
UNTIL HE came.
AND AFTER that.
Evening star., 1925-02-05
Take San-LSal baths for one
mOnth-waech the resulfs

Take 4 San-I-Sal bath twice 4 week for
one month. Watch your figure regain in
smoother md softer, your entire system
more buoyant and energetic. One month
from today sse bow much younger yos
VIII fed and look.
Evening star., 1925-02-05
Our Children-By Angelo Patri

should know what the principles Of
training have been, SO that she can
follow them and continue their
growth instead of wrecking the plan.
1t is right and wise that the par
ents should know just what the
school has to offer the children and
how they intend to set about giving
1t. 1t is rather late in the day to
fnd that your child will be graduated
next term and without the qualifica-
tions that entitle him to enter the
school you have selected for him or
without the experiences that might
enable him TO tackle intelligently the
job that is waiting for him.
The education of children Is of
necessity a partnership affair between
the school and the home, between the
mother and the teacher primarily.
One is rs dependent upon the other
as one hand IS upon the other, and
1t won't do in this case to keep the
one from knowing what the other is
doing. They must meet on the job.
That is why parent-teacher asso-
Citations are a necessary part OF the
school administration. There must
be Intelligent understanding between
teachers and parents about what is
Evening star., 1925-02-05

being done and how and why.
Neither must feel that the last word
lies on his side. There should be no
sides, only the one central interest,
the best possible condition for the
children.
Once a month is none too often for
a conference between the parents and
the school people. Troublesome points
should be talked out without per-
sonal feeling, but personal points,
things that concern one child and one
teacher and parent, should be kept
confidential And when the mothers
find that the school cannot give what
they believe to be good for the chill
dren because it has not the equip
ment 1t is their great privilege TO go
out and get 1t. You see, parents and
teachers can vote. Why don't they?
Mr.. Patri will give personal attention TO
inquiries from parents school teachers on
the care and development of children. Write
him in care Of this paper, inclosing self-ad-
dressed, stamped envelope for reply.
Copyright, 1929 }
Evening star., 1925-02-05
What Tomorrow Means to
You.
Aquarus.
BY MARY BLAKE.

Tomorrow's planetary aspects are,
on the whole, fairly satisfactory. al
though toward the latter part of the
day they become moro unfavorable
than otherwise. During the custom
ary working hours OF the day the
signs denote q fair measure of sue
cess for all well concentrated effort
especially along mechanical and in
ventive lines. 1t will be found, as the
vibrations are very stimulating, that
Ideas which have hitherto presented
come comparatively easy Of accom-
plishment. In the evening. especially
in the family circle. there is liable to
be certain amount of disappofnt-
ment or chagrin, but an effort must
be made to meet these difficulties
with nonchalance.
A child born tomorrow will be in
infancy subject more or less to the
ordinary ailments of childhood. but
II will successfully overcome all these
weaknesses and retain robusticity and
very sincere. truthful and persever-
ing. If a boy, 1t should be trained
along business lines. II a GIRL it
should marry at an early age, as all
it's instincts will be of a distinctive
maternal type.
If tomorrow is your birthday you
are brimming over with good spirits
toward everybody and everything,
and your joviality and cheerfulness
are your greatest assets. You are in
every sense of the word a good mixer
and rarely IL ever rub people the
wrong way. You are very slow to
take offense, but when you do SO
your indignation finds expression in
the most suitable manner.
Your loyalty to your friends and to
your belief is one of your greatest
virtues, and no one has ever known
you to say an unkind word to any
Of your associates or to do an un-
generous act. For this reason yoK
friends are legion and they all have
undoubted confidence in you.
Well known persons born on that
date are: Aaron Burr, statesman; !;
William NJ. Evarts, lawyer and
statesman; Thomas o. Selfridge, jr.,
naval officer: Frank Beard. artist;
Henry j. Hardenburgh, architect;
George J. Could, capitalist.
Copyright, 1e25.)
Evening star., 1925-02-05
DEDyTTNfE @cTT0DTEC BY THORNTON
DCD 1lt1L O1OlNAlO w. BURGESS

Rabbit it seemed as If Happy Jack
never had moved so slowly. Run
Happy Jack, run! Oh, run" cried
Peter.
Happy Jack was running. He was
doing his very best But Reddy Fox
was running so much faster that 1t
seemed as if Happy Jack were hardly
moving. Would he be able to reach
that little tree before Reddy Fox
could catch him? It didn't look So
No, sir, 1t didn't look so. Peter was
sure he couldn't.
But he did. Reddy Fox was within
one jump of him when Happy. Jack
reached that little tree and whfsked d
up it. Never in his life had he had a
narrower escape. His heart was
humping against his side as IL it
would thump its way out. He looked
down at Reddy Fox. Reddy glared
up at him. Then Happy Jack began
to scold. He called Reddy Fox all
the bad names he could think of, and.
listening to him, Peter Rabbit
chuckled Happy Jack certainly had
a sharp tongue.
(Copyrf1ht 1925 nv II w RurrpSsf
Evening star., 1925-02-05
Parent.Teacher Association.

The first teaching given the chill
dren is done at home by their
mothers. Mothers are the first teach
ers, the last teachers and the all
time teachers. The school teachers
are filters who do the odd Jobs left
by the master teachers of the home.
If you have that idea the other way
round, you are wrong.
The instruction OF the first FIVE
years is the most important of the
childs career. During that period
the tendencies OF the children are
set, the basis of their habits, the
traits Of character, all laid at home
by the mother and the family. The
teacher takes over the Job to help
a little, not to revoIutionize, not to
undo the work of the home. She
cannot If she would.
But if the child has been set one
way at home and the teacher tried
to set him another in the school, con-
fusion and worse Is bound to set in.
Don't you see that IL the teacher has
one standard for work and conduct
and the home has another and q diff
fering one, there will be no content
for the child all his school life?
The mother and father are re-
sponsible for the growth of their
children and 1t is right that the
teacher should know what. they sex-
pect of her and how they expect 1t
accomplished. 1t is right that she
Evening star., 1925-02-05
Off comes ? to 5 pounds!
Bdthe your nay to slenderness
pine hot springs baths in your
0wn home-start tonight

EVERY day more
and more people dis-
this easy way
to reduce. Pine hot
springs baths athosne
have come to be 'tthe
thing These baths
hsve <,keo oK fnon
Evening star., 1925-02-05
History of Dour s2ame,
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN.
BLYTHE
(Copyright.)
RACIAL oRI0iN-EnaIlsh.
SOURCE-A personal Characteristic.

SoURcE-A personal Characteristic.
This family name is also found IN
the older forms Of Blythman and
Blithman. And its meaning really is
what you might hesitate to suspect,
cheerful" or happy"
1t belongs in that classification Of
family names which were originally
descriptive of some personal charac-
teristic, in this case characteristic
of temperament.
Some people find It difficult to see
how such apparently silly" nick
names were so common or so well
thought of that they later developed
into regular family names. The fact
remains, however, that they did. No
less a parsonage than Joan, sister of
King Henry III Of England, when she
became betrothed to the Scottish
monarch, thereby ending war between
the two countries, was named Joan
Make-Peaoe" by the Scots, and the old
records are full Of such descriptive
surnames as "Goode." Merry" Gay"
Blythe" Make -Blisse' and the like.
In an old wardrobe account there ap-
pears 1927, December 26. To Maud
Make-Joy, for dancing before Ed
ward, Prince of Wales, at Ipswich,
TWO shillings."
Evening star., 1925-02-05
An aid to q
clearer, softer skin

San-I-Sal, by freeing the pores Of pene-,p
waste maeter, lends sof.ness 20 the skin and
aids in clearing up minor skin affections.
San-l-SL baths are also taken by many
people nowadays to relieve rheumatic and
similar pains, break up persistent cold, tone
Evening star., 1925-02-05

The easy mark doesn't know how
easy he II until some salesman of
worthless stocks or bonds has his
money.