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Why an EGG
For Breakfast
Is NATURE’S
Best MEDICINE
E GGS have long been regarded an extremely nourish
ing, a good food for tovaiid* and also a good,
light food tor breakfast, bat it la only recently
that the important discovery was made as ta just why
the egg Is actually one of nature's beat medicines. It
has been learned that In th*e yolk of the egg there are
16 grains of lecithin tpronounced “leek-wh-tbin'"! and
for a long while physicians hare been administering to
certain nenroos paUnnta daily doses of this valuable
lecithin amounting t» 15 grains!
Just how long people have been eating eggs !b not
known, certainly long before breakfasts were “invented”
or made a custom. There is no doubt mankind in a
barbaric state had learned of the use of certain eggs as
a food.
To-day it is safe to say that in the majority «of homes
eggs in some form or other, generally soft or medium
boiled or “dropped" oa toast, arc served at every break
Important Discovery of Sufficient Lecithin in an Egg to Feed Our Nerve Cells 0»e Day
fast. This ts an otd custom, [hiring the Lencw* season
eggs are made to take the place of meat and are eaten
after long fasts. They have been used b> this manner
probably since the observance ot Lent.
This hi another of many examples where people seem
to do the right thing naturally as far a» their own physi
cal welfare k concerned. Scientist! have discovered
lecithin in eggs and declare they are really a wonderful
medicine for nervousness and! mahustrttion. Bat peo
ple have been iirrconsetmwly taking this valuable medi
cine for centuries, long before science or scientists wore
known.
Lecithin is a glycerophosphate. Ks exaet chemical
name Is moao-amino-phospltatide. It to found, as already
•old, ip eggs, shoot 16 grains to the average sixad hem's
egg. But lecithin is also fnond largely ba brain cells.
That Is, there are certain cells of 0L« brain that are
made up of lecithin. It ks ala* found in much nmailer
quantities in njany other body tissues
It is now recognised that K we atorre our body, evil
results happen. Our body demands many different
chemicals to feed it these chemicals being the same
matter as constitute our various cells. U it should so
happen that hi all we ale there was nothing to feed these
cells, death would quickly follow, if we atgrve part of
these cells, Illness follows. Bach of the cells needs
building up with the same chemicals as it U actually
made of. Thus a medicine made from the thyroid gland
if a sheep works wonders with human beings whose own
thyroid glands are deficient
And so it is with nervousness, really a very dangerous
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disorder The cells that control nerves must not be
starved. For nervous people physicians have been ad
ministering from three to fix* grains of lecithin three
times daily, thus the maximum amount of lecithin given
nervous people has been fifteen grains.
This is what makes the discovery that there is leci
thin in eggs so remarkable, ter whoever eats an egg in
the morning is taking into the system sixteen grains
of lecithin. .
Some authorities have gone so far as to maintain that,
our nerve centres depend upon lecithin, which is really
a phosphatimed oily substance found in the yolks of eggs.
They declare that without teeithta our nerve centres
cannot perform their proper functions and that nerve
and brain exhaustion really results from a poverty of
lecithin hi the system. This may be caused through
taking no diet that supplies sufficient lecithin, or
through some fault that makes us expand more of the
lecithin than we can repay.
In cases of nervous people physicians have found that
the administration of lecithin eorreets their nervousness
and also causes such patients to gain in weight and to
tbe! extremely well. If this is the case an egg diet is
extremely! valuable, not only after fasting, as the early
observers of Lent learned, hut in the case of people
suffering with nervousness and also malnutrition, for
lecithin in a great aid to those who are not sufficiently
nourished.
The most fruitful source of lecithin is the egg, and it
is also* tbe easiest to procure. People who have been in
the habit of eating an egg every morning and yet are
suffering with some form of nervous disorder should
probably increase their egg diet. It contains the extra
lecithin that physicians now find is needed for building
up brain cells.
Mind, of coarse, has a great deal to do with the effi
ciency of medicine. Many people wouhl prefer io take
a drug given by a doctor than to take up an egg diet,
believing the pure drug would he more effective than
the same chemical in the egg, but when they under
stand that the average steed hen’s egg really contains
a grain more of lecithia than the physician would ad
minister as an isolated chemical or medicine, there
should be uo hesitance on their part, it has keen do- i
elaroth to take up the egg diet.
Lecithin is not a food, but its presence in some
foods, meaning in eggs, has a singularly good influence
on growing organism, according to the scientists who
have made these discoveries. Of course, lecithin is
present in a good many food substances, but Its quan
tity is so very slight, as compared with the quantity
in an egg, thar, for benefits from it. the eggs should
be eaten. I
And so, these scientists have discovered your morning
egg contains a substance which their hnwgtigations
have shown is peculiarly adapted for cases of ner
vousness and malnutrition. In other words, the break
fast egg, held in such high esteem by so many millions
of people for so many years, really takes on an added
value and becomes more than merely an easily digested,
nutritious food—it becomes an easy-to-secure remedy
for malnutrition and for nervousness, building up cer
tain brain cells, enabling emaciated, nerrma people to
gafn in weight and health.
Mankind Is Slowly Developing a SIXTH SENSE
T HE! most amazing development of the Twen
tieth Century so far has been the realization
that a "sixth sense." that Is to say, some
sense other than taste, smell, touch, bearing and
sight, is beginning to operate powerfully upon our
lives. "The Influence of mind over matter'' has
come to be a catch phrase, and people are greatly
Interested in dteeussiug the several ways in which
this curious Influence shows Itself, but. strangely
enough, little attention is giveD to the idea why the
human race is developing this sixth sense.
Without going into biology closely, it may be re
membered that touch was the first sense to be de
veloped, then taste and the other senses in varying
order in different organisms. But at the same time
it must not be forgotten that all these senses came,
in response to a need. Touch, for example, devel
oped with free motion; taste with the requirements
of a diet that had to be selected. So this sixth
sense doea not spring front nowhere, but is devel
oping steadilj in response to a need, and is pro
duced by that need.
The one force that is creating this sense is social
intercourse. Gestures sufficed to the day* of primi
tive mao, for hi* wants were few and the matters
which his neighbor! could communicate to him
were fewer still. A little later words eame and they
were necessary because ahstract ideas came which
gestures could not express. Tbe sense of hearing
then became highly aewte, so that not only conk!
words which sounded much alike he distinguished^
but even the same word to different tones con
veyed a different meaning. Now, thought processes
are so rapid and the urgency of communication is
so great that words seem cumbersome sad alow.
People who know each other well and are both
quick witted can often tell the end of a sentence
their companion has just begun.
This is especially true in business life. The good
salesman is by so means always the most fluent
talker, but is the man who can project Into tbe
mind of*the man to whom he is trying to sell goods
the general Idea of his purchasing the same. The
big employer, the master of men, is the master sot
by his oratory but by his sense of mastery—a thing
projected by the mind. There are non and women
who simply cannot help making love or being made
love to, not because of anything they say, hut be
cause either their charm or their forcef tlness oper
ate* consciously or unconsciously by the fcstb sense.
Bach year sees this sense growing stronger, be
cause every year the circle of social intercourse
Increases. Not long ago it was rare to kmyw people
of different nationality than ourselves, anti a cen
tury ago any person who had been on two conti
nents was a wonderful traveller. The literature of
foreign nations then were little translated Now
all great writers can be read in the iirineipal
tongues, no matter what the language In which theft-
works were written; now, nearly every Americas
count* among his or her friends people of a 1 dozen
different nationalities with different points of view
and thought The world is growing wider, Mggetf,
more engrossing, and it -is In order to keep, pace
with advancing needs of communication that % new
sense route is being opened. America ham the
greatest opportunity and tbe£greatest need, aud it
is in America that this great new mind develop
ment should reap its finest fruit.*
fOUNTAIN peaks of such height as to
be capped perpetually with snow, or
even of gray, hare crags, will take on
the most delicate of rose tints at sunset, al
though during a fair day they have been blue-
tinted.
This is because some of the rays of the
sun have a greater penetration than others.
For instance, during the day the blue rays
are able to reach the mountain tops and give
the hazy bluish tint to mountain ranges, but
at the setting of the sun its blue rays are
not able to penetrate the increasing distance,
leaving the more powerful yellow and red
rays unmingled with the blue.
Gradually, as the sun sinks in the West, all
the other color rays are left behind, that is,
they are unable to penetrate to the same
depth as the yellow and red, and so these lat
ter rays mingle and light the mountain peaks.
Seen through the great space of air which
always contains a quantity of minute parti
cles, these yellow and red rays blend and give
to snow-capped mountains the wonderful rose
tints. By watering these sunset tints it will
be seen that finally the delicate rose tint dis
appears, and the peaks actually take on a
crimson color. But this lasts only a few
moments. It means that the sun has so far
set that even the yellow rays cannot pene
trate, leaving for a brief moment the red rays
alone, and these rays of light suddenly hold
the mountain peaks all to themselves, making
them crimson.
With mountains that are wooded this phe
nomenon does not occur, as the colors, blend
ing with the green of vegetation, lose their
power to make the delicate tints.
The Value of Applying
Hot Oats For Pneumonia
Just What Causes TYPEWRITERS’ CRAMP
W HEN a person has pneumonia and an
application is desired that will sup
ply heat to the chest, there is noth
ing known that is equal to a sack of dry, clean
oats.
A couple of quarts of ffhe grain can be
placed in a sack made of some thin material,
and this can be heated by placing in an oven
until the oats are so hot they wtll burn the
hand.
The sack can then be applied to the spot
desired and the heat from the grain will be
imparted to the body.
Oats have the power of retalnifig the
heat longer than most other applications, and
they are easily reheated as often as desired.
Two sacks can be made, and In urgent cases
Crows Should
Not Be Killed
T O those who know how difficult it is to
kill the wary crow, this will sound
laughable, but It is a fact that thou
sands of crows are killed every year by
farmers, either by traps or shooting or poison.
But experts, who have made a thorough in
vestigation into this, declare that while the
farmer is justified in scaring the crows away
from his grain and corn fields, he should not
kill the bird, because a stogie crow can and
generally does destroy more cut-worms in a
day than ten men, could dig up and destroy
in a week.
Man cannot locate the wiry, soil-colored
little cut-worm; he can only find it by chance,
while the crow can locate them with ease
and locate their tiny holes in the soil, and
with one bang of their strong beaks drag
Mr. Cutworm forth from the ground to add
him to the daily repast.
A crow- weighing two and a half pounds
was experimented upon, and it was found
this bird actually ate hia weight to cue-
worms in one day, and apparently could have
eaten more. The crow, therefore, can save
more crops from the ravages of eat worms
In a day than he can destroy in a week.
Crows are heavy eaters. It is true they
will pull up tender shoots ot eoru if they have
the opportunity, hut they will also eat the
worms, and apparently prefer the worms.
A very young robin was also experimented
with He ate aixty-eight earth-worms to a
day. _these making a balk larger than the
bird. Robins will strip a cherry tree of its
fruit in a few days. but. with netting oxer
the trees, these robins will also denude a
garden of insects that would have otherwise
prevented at least half, if not alt. id the
planted tilings from growing to maturity.
where constant heat Is needed, one may be
heating while the other is being used.
The oats have an advantage over many
other applications, some or which are good,
owing to the fact they are dry and not damp
or nMissy, and the clothing cannot be soiled
with them.
Another feature in their favor is said to be
in the fact that where liniments are used on
the patient the oats will drive the liniment
in where it is needed, and any excess is ab
sorbed by the chaff on the grains of oats.
Should the grain become greasy or sat
urated with the elements nsed In the Hni-
ment application, they can be discarded and
new oats placed In the sacks. The price of
oats makes this remedv within the reach of
all.
By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, M.D.
W HAT is known as writers' cramp, teleg
raphers’ paralysis and similar conditions
where the worker becomes useless because
of physical incapacity of his hands or arms, is now
found ta be an affection of certain brain cells. The
recent marvelous discoveries in the physiology ot
the brain and nervous system which modern psy
chology has stimulated show us that all attempts to
regain the loss of'power in the hand or arm by
electricity, massage or drugs are wrong.
Any individual who is daily occupied in work
which calls for a constant, automatic use of any
particular member of the body, such as the typist,
the telegraph operator or the linotype man, is liable
to what it is customary to call “cramp, or paraly
sis,” of the particular member. The truth is that
the muscles or tissues of the affected part are not
to the least affected—nothing is the matter with
them. '
Hut why do they become so difficult to use and
finally useless?
Because the battery which sends them the power
is temporarily exhausted. This battery is a certain
group of brain cells. Every limb and organ in the
body has certain brain batteries which send them
the power to work or function. When you walk
you do so by the nervous impulse sent to the mus;
cles from the centre of the brain. When you reach
out your arms to catch and grasp some object to
keep from falling, it is the impulse from the brain
which so rapidly moves the muscl^j. The instinct
to do this lies deeper, way down to past existences.
The muscles are developed and enlarged by move
ments which carry food and juices by means of
the blood stream to every tiny muscle cell, but no
matter how large or powerful these muscles are,
they become useless if the brain batteries are weak
or exhausted.
Some PHYSICAL TROUBLES Man Inherited from the APE
S CIENTISTS now believe that many of the func
tional and physical disturbances in man are due
to changes following his evolutionary stages from
walking on all fours to the upright position. That is,
there are many of us who still retain in our internal
organs and blood vessels the effects of the disturbance
or injury inflicted upon our arboreal ancestors when
they left the trees and attempted to walk upright.
Of course this change spread over many thousands
of years, but nevertheless there were individuals or
families.which had a hard struggle to adjust their inter
nal organs to work property in the upright position, and
did not succeed without leaving some trace of injury
to them.
The modification of man's body from his ancestral
type which went on all fours, involved structural re
building of millions of cells, and it is not strangu that
some of this rebuilding was faulty.
Concerning this, Professor Keith, of the Royal Codec*
of Surgeons said recently; “Investigations had made
it clear that the muscles which maintain the paotm ef
the body are regulated by a complex and delic.'.t*’ nerve
mechanism, which served to maintaiu stature of
four-footed animals, and would require a radical adjust
meat to meet the needs of upright beings lik* —— t It
has been proved conclusively that the part ot the ner
vous system which regulates the distribution ot the
blood throughout tbe body has been modified and elabo
rated to meet the conditions uecesaitated by the up
right position.” /
In other words the blood vessels in our ape ances
tors had uo standing pipes up which the blood must he.
forced. They were boruontbal and Marty on a level.
This, of course, did not require extra tlutu on the
part of the great body pump—the heart. Voder these
circumstances the nervous system which controls tbe
heart and blood vessels was Kv-s delicate and leas com
plicated.
NOW THAT MAN
STANDS UPRKSKrr
HIS HEART tTOST
PUMP BLOOD
ASAIN3T 6RAVITY
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B
■WHEN HE. WAS A FOUR TOOTED ANIMAL HIS
HEART DID NOT HAVE SUCH HARD WORK
So when the human machine had to work standing
up on its end, an entirely new method of strengthening
the internal pipes, valves and lungs had to be devised.
This, as l said, was brought about gradually, but too
rapdily for mans perfect adjustment. There were
many little adjustments which never reached perfec
tion, and groups of tiny muscle cells failed to fulfill
their function.
But what has this to do with man to-day? This; that
probably many of the weak spots now found in man’s
arteries are the effects of the evolutionary processes;
just as the appendix was left to trouble man and enrich
surgeons. This latter offshoot of the lower intestine j
was at one time in. the ape's life of invaluable use, but j
is now worse than useless—it is a constant menace. j
We have to pay for everything in this life and are
now paying for the strain and null of present civiliza- 1
tion before our organs and nerves have really adjusted l
themselves or grown to meet it. In fact our upright )
posture has placed us under too sudden strain; it is ’
not yet ready fpr all we force updn it. Flat foot, twisted *
spines and many disabling but obscure phyiscal con- J
ditions simply show that we have overw orked the human >
mechanism in a posture that cannot meet all the de- (
mands.
The postural mechanism of the human body is very
complex, and requires a tremendous nervous force to
keep it upright. Ail this nervous output is, of course,
unconscious effort. But add to all this nervous energy
the demands of our present ambitions and we can under
stand why so many fail in health and morals.
The present .ad in France of walking on all fours
an hour every day as a system of exercise, is not so
ridiculous as it at first seems. This going on all fours
gives the heart a rest, the muscles of the back aud
abdomen are relaxed .md the internal organs return for
a time to their original positions.
The Reasons
Spiders Fight
fir^TT'lEN two or more spiders fight there is
\A/ usually a good reason for the furious
* attack and vigorous defense that al
ways follows.
It is not generally known that after a cer
tain time has elapsed spiders become incap
able of spinning a web from lack of sufficient
material. The glutinous substance from
which the spider spins its slender web is
limited; therefore, spiders cannot keep on
constructing new snares for their prey when
the old webs are destroyed.
Very often when the web material is ex
hausted they are able to avail themselves of
the web producing powers of their younger
or more fortunate neighbors, and this tliev do
without any scruple whatever.
As soon as a spiders web-constructing
material has become exhausted and its last
web destroyed, it usually sets out in search
of another home and unless it should find one
that is unoccupied a battle usually ensues,
which ends only with the retreat or death of
the invader or defender.
Such a struggle is intensely interesting,
and will reveal some wonderful tactics aud
skill to spider warfare. The invader usually
comes off victorious, although in some cases
the defender puts up such a stiff fight it is
able to hold its own in spite of the attack of
the intruder which is in desperate straits.
One strange fact is the web material will
increase after so long a period, and the spider
will spin a net in which to snare its many
varieties of prey ta the form of different
kinds of insects.
Spiders that are very successful in captur
ing food are often set upon by other spiders
which have for some reason not been as sue*
cessful as their neighbor.
What Makes Mountains
Rose-Tinted at Sunset
M c
Every one knows that a battery kept ta ccyistant
use will become exhausted. We have to restore it
at certain intervals if we want to get power.
This is equally so with the batteries of the brain.
Now, constant demands upon the battery which
sends power to a certain set of muscles exhausts
it First there is a feeling of extra effort to move
the hand or arm, and finally almost complete loss
of power. Then comes the fear that paralysis has
set in, and the fear increases the trouble.
Some individuals have batteries which need fre
quent restoring—rest from their particular work—
others fight against the frequent warnings and so
make matters worse, and sometimes irreparable.
The remedy is simple—shorter periods of work or v
longer intervals of rest. While taking this period
of rest one should he employed to matters which
have nothing to do with their work.
Do not worry about the condition of the hand or
arm, but give the brain batteries a chance to be
come restored and all will be well with you.