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PACE TWO
St. Louis Savant Works Half
Century on Aristotle’s Book.
Dr. Denton J. Snider, Leading Writer
on Philosophical and Psycho¬
logical Subjects, Finally
Completes Long Task.
St. Louis, Mo.—Dr. Denton J. Sni¬
der, St. Louis savant, who has been
pronounced by eminent American
and European critics the leading writ¬
er on philosophical and psychological
subjects, has Just completed the final
work in hiB system of universal psy¬
chology.
The new book is entitled “The Bio
cosmos,” and is an exposition of the
life of nature psychologically treated.
Specifically it treats of the science of
biology in its widest sense. In Dr.
Snider’s system this is the third part
of nature, as the whole is conceived..
Scientists and the world of letters
have been following the progress of
Dr. Snider's labors during many
years, and his announcement that the
entire work is completed is one of
the important literary items of the
season.
In this tremendous work the dream
of the Greek philosopher Aristotle,
and later that of Herbert Spencer, of
accumulating all there was of definite
knowledge and weaving it into a vast,
comprehensive system, to be a monu¬
ment for future ages, has been realiz¬
ed by the St. Louisan.
Aristotle accomplished what he set
out to do, and in a measure Spencer
was successful, but in the system of
the English thinker there are certain
gaps, such as history and esthetics.
These gaps are filled, and the prog¬
ress in learning since Aristotle’s time
is supplied In Dr. Snider’s new sy»
tem.
The works of L.. Snider number
more than 86, but the essential ones
Included in his new science are 16 .
The entire subject is grouped under
seven general heads: Organic psy¬
chology, psychology of philosophy,
psychology of nature, psychology of
art, psychology of institutions, psy¬
chology of history and psychology of
biography.
For more than half a century Dr.
Snider has been gathering the mate¬
rials for and working upon his sys¬
tem. Most of his labors were per¬
formed in St. Louis, but in the course
of his investigations he visited for¬
eign countries, where he was able to
bring into play thd dozen or more
languages of which he is master.
During the years of toil he was not
the absorbed, solitary scholar, such as
Faust is represented, “buried in mus¬
ty volumes and away from the world.”
He has taught a large following of
students in classes that at times num¬
bered well Into the hundreds.
These classes were unique and were
the beginnings of a sort of world’s
university which Dr. Snider hopes will
survive him and use the materials he
has created. In recent years the
classes, open to all, have been held in
the branch library buildings.
Books were given to the students
without charge by their author, and
the talks and lessons were by Dr. Sni¬
der himself. Now there are a number
of classes conducted by former pupils,
who have mastered the system.
BREAKS HER LEG ON A BOAT
Woman's Physician Happened to Be
on Same Vessel and 8he Is
Given Quick Attention.
Philadelphia.—Just after she had re¬
marked to a fellow passenger that she
had enjoyed her outing Immensely
and was glad that no accident had
marred the Journey, Mrs. Mary E.
Fries, seventy-three years old, of 855
North Fortieth street, who, in com¬
pany with her five sons and a daugh¬
ter, had been attending a church pic¬
nic at Burlington Island park, tripped
over a hawser on the boat in which
she was making the return trip and
fell to the deck, injuring herself seri¬
ously.
Seeing her mother Blip, the daugh¬
ter, Cynthia Fries, made an Ineffectual
effort to save her from striking the
deck. By a remarkable coincidence,
Mrs. Fries was treated for her in¬
juries by Dr. William C. Barrett, who
for thirty-five years had been the fam¬
ily’s regular practitioner, and who
was returning from Trenton on the
same boat, unconscious of the prox¬
imity of his friends.
The aged woman had secured a good
Beat on the upper deck as the vessel
left the landing. When they were in
midstream two attaches of the boat
line asked her to move. As she arose
from her seat Mrs. Fries lost her bal¬
ance and fell to the deck. While Dr
Barrett was examining her injuries,
which proved to consist of a fractured
leg, Dr. R. B. Wolf of St. Timothy’s
hospital, Improvised splints from
pieces of wood lying near by. Upon
reaching the city the woman was tak¬
en to the Presbyterian hospital.
Onions Are Enjoined.
Des Moines, Iowa.—Judge De Graff,
who, by a mandatory injunction a
few weeks ago, effectively ended the
street car strike, has Issued an in¬
junction against the odor of cooking
onions. Lawyers who have offices in
the Iowa Loan and Trust building
told the court they did not relish the
odors which escaped from the chim¬
ney of a restaurant across the alley.
Judge De Graff ordered the restaurant
company ot raise its chimney high
enough to carry the odors above the
attorneys' offices.
WHY CHILDREN TELL STORIES
Egotism and Vanity Are Chief Causes
of Falsehoods and Habit Is
Difficult One to Cure.
Boston.—How lying children can be
cured and the habit prevented was
told by Rev. Robert Swickerath, S. J.,
professor of pedagogy in Holy Cross
college, In one of ten lectures he de¬
livered before the Catholic teachers’
institute which closed recently at Bos¬
ton college.
“Liars must not be taken either too
lightly or too seriously,” he said, "but
every means must be taken by educa¬
tors to cure them.”
Prevention he regards as mofe im¬
portant than the actual curing, yet in
every case lying will crop out from
time to time, requiring the utmost
care, prudence, vigilance and tact of
the best teachers. Said he:
“Lying should .above all, be pre¬
vented. Much can be prevented by
prudence and tact and by systematic
treatment of children. If a child has
caused any disturbance and the teach¬
er, especially one who Is known to
Inflict invariable severe punishments,
angrily charges him with the offense,
the child will usually deny the deed
In sheer excitement. One lie leads
to another.
“A teacher as a rule should not
Immediately Insist on arguing the
case but await a better opportunity,
until the child has calmed down. A
teacher who is generally sympathetic,
patient, judicious in inquiries, reas¬
onable in punishment, will seldom be
told a lie.
“It is much more difficult to assign
general remedies for the cure of the
habit of lying. Here, as in other
cases, a specific remedy Is needed.
It is imoprtant to know that the lies
are different according to the source
from which they flow\
“The most common of all lies Is
that arising from sheer egotism. Lies
are used to shield one from censure
and punishment as the umbrella is
employed to protect one from rain
and hall. Sometimes the source Is
vanity; children boast at times even
of wickedness, to appear bold before
comrades.
“It is certain that some given to
lying, when once thoroughly aware of
the dlsgracefulness of this habit, con¬
ceived such a horror against It that
they became disgusted with every¬
thing dishonest and developed charac¬
ters known for uprightness and hon¬
esty.”
HAREMS ARE FEW IN TURKEY
Mistaken Idea That Each Husband
Takes Advantage of Plural Mar¬
riages—Polygamy Is Rare.
Constantinople.—There exists In
Europe and America a mistaken no¬
tion that almost every married Turk
haB several wives, that he is at lib¬
erty to marry as many times as he
likes, and that it is for him Just as
easy to divorce a wife as to change
an overcoat. Polygamy in Turkey is
the exception, and not the rule, the
majority of the Osmanlis having but
one wife. In the metropolis' Itself
polygamy does not amount to five
per cent. It Is rarely met with In
other big centers of the Ottoman em¬
pire, save among the richest and most
powerful functionaries, and even
then plurality of wives is ap excep¬
tion.
The legal number of wives is four.
Only the padiehah and caliph is al¬
lowed to have more, being a person
beyond and above limitations and re¬
strictions of that kind. The prophet
Mohammed had seven wives, and All,
the fourth in the succession of the
caliphate, had nine.
One of the chief causes of the plu¬
rality of wives being so rare among
the Turks is that, while the prophet
and the Koran permit the faithful
worshipers of Islam to marry four
times, they also provide strict injunc¬
tions of a religious and ethical na¬
ture, which every Mussulman has to
adhere to if he doesn’t want to be
excommunicated from the fold of
orthodox Islamism. Thus, a Turk
who is desirous of contracting a sec¬
ond marriage is bound by an explicit
law to provide for his new life com
panion a separate dwelling place, In
every respect similar to that of his
first wife, as well as an equal num¬
ber of slaves and servants.
FAMOUS OLD HOTEL IS SOLD
Star and Garter of Georgian Days No
Longer Paying Venture—Be Con¬
verted Into Modern Inn.
London.—The famous old Star and
Garter hotel at Richmond, where
lords and ladies of the olden times
danced and made merry, was sold a
few days ago for $90,000.
This hotel was the magnet of fash¬
ion from the time that Lady Betty,
guided to it by her link boys, met
there the beaux of Georgian days, un¬
til the coming of the automobile made
the distance between It and London so
short that persons went to hotels fur¬
ther afield and forced the proprietors
to close the doors.
The new purchasers, however, be¬
lieve that, converting it into a modern
hotel, they will be able to renew itB
prosperity by catering to those who
wish to be near enough to London to
reach the city In a short time and yet
be “far from the madding crowd.”
Sees Record Wheat Crop.
Minenapolis, Minn.—E. J. Welser,
a Fargo banker, sent to Frank E. Hol¬
ton, a Minneapolis banker, an esti¬
mate of the crop of North Dakota, in
which he places the wheat production
at 80.000,000 bushels, the greatest In
the history of the state, with the ex¬
ception of the crop of 1909.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, W EDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911.
Chicago Experts Pooh-Pooh New
York Pessimist’s Views.
Women Here Are Slender and As to
Gotham, Says One Dressmaker,
They May Be Fleshy, but An¬
other Doubts It.
Chicago.—“Why are there so many
fat women?”—Quotation from a New
York dispatch in a morning newspa¬
per. ’
"There are not!”—Answer of Chi¬
cago experts on the figure feminine.
Some little old New Yorker, with
hla Broadwise eyes, has been making
observations in the eastern city, but
his “profound dismay” at what he
calls "the alarming corpulence of our
middle aged women” finds no sym¬
pathetic echo In Chicago. A reporter
visited half a dozen corset dealers and
fitters and found them agreed that
the Chicago woman, at least, retains
her slim, graceful figure.
"I admit that the New York woman
is a little prone to stoutness,” said
Miss A. M. Nichols, manager of a large
downtown corset shop, "but the Chi¬
cago woman still has the loose, ath¬
letic lines, so much admired and de¬
sired.”
The New York dispatch deplores
that women “waddle ponderously” at
thirty-five, a condition reached by
overeating and drinking. The average
weight—New York figures—is 166
pounds and suit sizes a 38 bust and
24 waiBt.
“The average Chicago woman weighs
under 150 pounds,” continued Miss
Nichols. "She wears a 86 bust and a
24 waist. That has been my experi¬
ence, and I handle all sorts and class¬
es of women.
"How does she do It? Why, by tak¬
ing care of herself. For Instance, she
does not overeat. She has a practical
diet, which everybody should have.
She does not eat at all hours of the
night. She exercises systematically—
that is, when she Is advised to exer¬
cise to keep in condition she does not
go violently pell-mell at it. She uses
common sense.
“Then our leisure class Is a leisure
class in name only. No women take
better care of themselveB than Chi¬
cago society women. However, the
appreciation of the luxurious never de¬
velops Into a mad chase. It Is tem¬
pered with right living. As far as
getting old and ‘matronly’ at thirty
five Is considered—well, she Just
don’t.
"This New York man says he has
counted four stout women to every
stout man. Just go out on the street
any time and make observation and
see how far from fitting the Chicago
condition that ! jw York observation
oomes.”
Miss Anna Snyder, manager of an¬
other shop and an expert fitter,
laughed when she read the dispatch.
“Isn’t that Just like a man?” she
smiled. “Why, with modern lacing It
is beyond any poor man to tell wheth¬
er a woman Is stout or slender. Cor¬
seting has become 6uch a science that
women strike a more symmetrical
average.
"Another sapient remark by this
male person is that the American wom¬
an cannot wear a hobble skirt be¬
cause her hips are too broad. That
New York man certainly should take
a trip outside of his city. Why, the
hobble was made for the slender lines
of the Chicago feminine figure.”
“Well, I Just returned from New
York,” said Mme. Jeanne, at the head
of another establishment, “and while
the New York woman has made a fine
start toward ruining her figure with
immoderate eating and drinking, I
fear she is not so far past redemption
as the New York man would have us
think. Perhaps he has a preference
for the splender type and one or two
stout women seen one right after the
other sent him off in a panic.
"At any rate, we need not worry
over Miss Chicago becoming stout.
She knows how to care for herself and
Is acquainted with the fact that mod
eration in living means moderation in
figure. That is why the Chicago per¬
son is often surprised to hear visitors
comment on the general beauty of the
women of the city. To him it has be¬
come so common that he does not
realize the fairness of the city until
he has himself been on a visit.”
Buffalo Gnat Pellagra Cause.
Lexington, Ky.—The buffalo gnat
has been fixed upon by Henry Gar
man, a government bacteriologist and
entomologist, as the cause of the mys¬
terious disease pellagra, which has
been spreading In the mountain re¬
gions of Kentucky. Mr. Garman has
been conducting investigations into
the cause of the disease In Whitley
county, aided by Dr. Grim, a govern¬
ment expert.
How the gnat communicates the
disease is not known, but both scien¬
tists believe they are on the right
track and eventually will find a cure
for the disease. The buffalo gnat ex¬
ists In great numbers throughout the
south.
Students on the Gain.
Berlin.—According to figures Just
published, the proportion of German
students studying at the German uni¬
versities this summer underwent a
further increase. At all the universi¬
ties there were 67,230 students, of
whom 4,519 were foreigners. This is
equal to 7.9 per cent, of the whole,
against 7.6 per cent. 20 years ago. Of
foreign countries Russia sent by far
the largest number, 2,040. There
were 292 Americans, against 299 last
year.
Wagons
Mitchell one and two horse wagons, Stude
baker two horse wagons, Old Hickory two
horse wagons, Chattanooga one and two
horse wagons.
Norman, Barnesville, Newnan Em¬
pire and other makes of buggies. Tyson
& Jones buggies, the best made, lightest
running buggy on the market.
Home-made harness, harness made
to order, harness repaired.
25 Top Buggies for sale cheap $45.00 to $65.00. Real
Bargains, too many buggies and want to reduce my stock.
These prices for cash. First come, first served.
D. A. THOMPSON, Covington,
Don’t Scrub
Kitchen Floors STAINS
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