The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-21
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS
BY HAL BOYLE

every q years. The Foundauofl
for the Study Of Cycles, after
checking wars from $50 B. G., says
there's something TO it. The
wars also seem to come along
about The same time as certain
lie solar disturbances So to
cid wars all you gotta do is cure
the sun Of its spots? Boy,
hand ME that celestial ointment.
Add leap year news: It is illegal
o marry your husbands grand
tather in Georgia. But if yea
want TO wed your first cousin in
Nest Virginia it's okay--if he's
over so years old. You have
10 wait until you're dowdy old
maid of Is before yea can 90 TO
he alter in the hills of Kentucky.
In conservative Massachusetts,
,oweyer, you can be a bride at
he blooming age of u.
A name in the news recently was
Mr.. Alan Garfinkel, who hand-ties
;ncss sealing $4,000 pieces of bo-
logna a week, or 500 an hour.
rhis is knotting? Yes, it is
real ,knotting. -. 1t takes q 2-year
apprentice to learn this skilled Job
right Il. {. There are only IS pro.
fessional bologra knotters in Amer
lea. And they all hate Tic word
arthEitiss
Greenwich Village te,iay is q
tourist lure and a resuae Tor STAR
ry-eyed young actresses, artists
and Wall Street stenographers.
But in 1922 it was so remote from
downtown Manhattan that society
people fled there to escape vel
low fever endemic. Did YOU
ever hear G. the noble lady who
kept a corpse in her coach?.
She was Mademoiselle de Coigny,
an 18th Century French intellec-
tual :. Why the corpse? She
was studying anatomy, and liked
to keep subject handy.
Do you fear the boss frown
when YOU sneak out for a mcrning
cup Of coffee? Well a poll
OF 1,i60 companies in As states
showed that 10 per cent have now
authorized coffee breaks" of their
own accord. After finding that
800 employees were spending IS
minutes a day each grabbing
snacks, the Mutual Life Insurance
Co. installed eight mobile carts
that give s'breakfast-at- your-desk'
service 10 IFS 2,0GJ employees. !.
II figured this saved 100000 In
labor costs.
Did you know that 1000 aliens
are now serving in the u S.
Army? That il is more inn
portant for you 10 he ale to read
well within arms length than II is
To have 1920 visinH which only
means the ability 10 read in eye
sight chart at 20 fcct2 -. That
the first automobile ever sold in
America was Switched in st. Louis
in 1905? That cars are aging
just like peoplc-because in 1850
half the autos on the road were
10 years old or older?
Speaking of the auto industry,
tlcrc were % million passenger
ears in the United States in 1880
27t2 million in 1910. /. 40
million in 1850 and by 1860
there will be some So million. q :.
The traffic prospect this raises
is going to drive an awful lot CT
people back to the pogo stick.
NEW YORK lR People who
complain Of having bad memory
rsten merely are running away
from life.
This Is the conclusion of DR..
Bruno Furst who has taught IS 600
people to remember better.
with many people forgetting is
a kind of escapism, he said ST
they are not satisfied in life. If
they are discontended with their
they want 10 forget GER
tain things. And this decreases
their powers of memory general
ly.''
DR.. Furst is specialist in put
ing muscles back on the memory
power of people who want to re-
member better.
Most intelligent people have the
wrong conception of memory. he
said. They speak of a good mem-
Try or a bad memory. There is
10 such thing. Every persons
memory is good in certain direc.
ions and pocT in others. Like
MUSCLE it can be improved by
PROPER exercise. "
IH. FurSt. former criminal
awver forced to flee Gemany by
he Nazi regime, recalls he had
roVhle with what is called a bad
memory when / was a student
MYSELF
.srhat is why went into this
work. Today ! have no trouble
remembering anything wish.
q ne al his own mental gymnas
ic ifeats Is to glance through a
lex Of cards and then resea.
Lcm aloud IN or,ier, He believes
practically anyone who viii train
his mind can do the same :hing.
William ianlcs:, the psvcl,oio.
list, asicc said Thai people tion'i
use nne-tenth u their real bran
ns,Wcr' he remarked ~ th;ne ho