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I Copyright, 1913, by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved. AEL OVE 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 LECITHIN I36RMN9 UCTT POStTD" 15 DOCTORS DAILY — people: uRAINb .-XCITHIN INVOLKOF 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 rroM-ndc Donrrj® 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.