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Why an EGG
For Breakfast
Is NATURE’S
Best MEDICINE
E GGS have long been regarded as extremely nourish
ing, a good food for Invallda and also a good,
light food tor breakfast, but It la only recently
that the Important discovery was made as to Just why
the egg la actually one of nature's best medicines. It
has been learned that In the yolk of the egg there are
It! grains of lecithin (pronounced "leck-eb-thln") and
for a lorfg while physicians have been administering to
certain nervous patients daily doses of this valuable
lecithin amounting to 15 grains!
Just how long people have been eating eggs is not
known, certainly long before breakfasts were “Invented”
or made a custom. There is no doubt mankind in «
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” on toast, are served at every break
Important Discovery of Sufficient Lecithin in an E{jg to Feed Our Nerve Cells One Day
fast. This is an old custom. During the Lenten season
eggs are made to take the place of meat and are eaten
after long fasts. They have been used In this manner
probably since the observance of Lent.
This Is another of many examples where people seem
to do the right, thing naturally as far as thelf own physi
cal welfare ir concerned. Scientists have discovered
lec'thln In eggs and declare they are really a wonderful
medicine for nervousness and malnutrition. But peo
ple have been unconsciously taking this valuable medi
cine for centuries, long before science or scientists were
known.
Lecithin is a glycerophosphate. lts exact chemical
name is mono-amlno-phosphatide. It is found, as already
told, In eggs, about 16 grains to the average sized hen’s
egg. But lecithin is also found largely In brain cells.
That is, there are certain cells of the brain that are
made up of lecithin. It Is also found in much smaller
quantities in many other body tissues.
It Is now recognized that If wc starve 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. If it should so
happen that In all we ate there was nothing to feed these
cells, death would quickly follow. If we starve part of
these cells, illness follow^. Bach of the cells needs
building up with the same chemicals as it is actually
made of. Thus a medicine made from the thyroid gland
>f 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 five grains of lecithin three
times dally, thug 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, for whqpver 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 phosphatized oily substance found in the yolks of eggs.
They declare that without lecithin our nerve centres
cannot perform their proper functions and that nerve
and brain exhaustion really results from a poverty of
lecithin in 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 corrects their nervousness
and also causes such patients to gain In weight and to
feel extremely well. If this is the case an egg diet is
extremely valuable, not only after fasting, as the early
observers of Lent learned, but In the case of people
suffering with nervousness and also malnutrition, for
lecithin is a great aid to those who are not sufficiently
nourished.
The most fruitful source of lecithin is the egg, and it
is also the 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 course, has a great deal to do with the effi
ciency of medicine. Many people would prefer to lake
a drug given by a doctor than to take up an egg diet,
believing the pure drug would be more effective than
the same chemical In the egg, but when they under
stand that the average sized hen’s egg really contains
a grain more of lecithin than the physician would ad
minister as an isolated chemical or medicine, there
should be no hesitance on their part, it has been de- 1
dared, 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, that, for benefits from It, the eggs should
be eaten.
And so, these scientists have discovered your morning
egg contains a substance which their investigations
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, nervous people to
gain 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," thal Is to say, some
sense other than taste, smell, touch, hearing 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 discussing the several ways in which
this curious influence shows itself, but, strangely
enough, little attentlou is given to the Ides why the
human race ts developing this sixth sense.
Without going into biology rlosely. It may he re
membered that touch was the first sense to be de
veloped, then taste and the other senses In varying
order In different organisms. Hut at the same limo
it must not. be forgotten that all these senses came
in response to a need. Touch, for e ample, devel
oped with free motion; taste with the requirements
of a diet thal had to be selected. So this sixth
sense does not spring from nowhere, but is devel
oping steadily in response to a need, and Is pro
duced by that need. ,
The one force that is creating Hits sense is social
intercourse. Gestures sufficed in the days of primi
tive man, for his wants were few and the matters
which his neighbors could communicate to him
were fewer still. A little later words came and they
were necessary because abstract ideas came which
gestures could not express. The sense of hearing
then became highly acute, so that not only could
words which sounded much alike be distinguished,
but even the same word in different tones con
veyed a different meaning. Now, thought processes
are so rapid and the urgency of communication is
so great that words seam cumbersome and slow
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 ts especially true In business life. The good
salesman Is by no means always the most fluent
talker, but is the man who can project into the
mind of the inau 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 not
by hlB oratory hut by his sense of mastery—a thing
projected by the mind. There are men and women
who simply cannot.help making love or being made
love to, not because of anything'they say, but be
cause either their charm or their forcefulness oper
ates consciously or unconsciously by the sixth sense.
Each year sees this sense growing stronger, be
cause every year the circle of social intercourse
increases. Not long ago it was rare to know people
of different nationality than ourselves, and 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 principal
tongues, no matter what the language in which their
works were written; now, nearly every American
counts amo^ig bis or her friends people ot a dozen
different nationalities with different points of view
and thought. The world if; growing wider, bigger,
more engrossing, and it is In order to keep pace
with advancing needs of communication that a new
sense route is being opened. America has the
greatest opportunity and the greatest need, and it
is in America that this great new mind develop
ment should reap its finest fruit.
! What Makes Mountains
Rose-Tinted at Sunset
M OUNTAIN peaks of such height as to
be capped perpetually with snow, or
even of gray, bare crags, will take on
the most delicate of rose tints at sunset, al
though during a fair day they have been biue-
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, ail
the other color rays iye 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 watching 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 thei:
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
•111! known that Is equal to a sark of dry, clean
ouls.
A couple of quatts of the grain can lie
placed in a sack made of some thin material,
and i his can be heated by placing in an oven
until the oats are so hot they will 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 retaining tho
heal longer tlmn most other applications, and
they are easily reheated as often as desired.
Two sacks cuu be made, and m 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 tn
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 single crow can and
generally does destroy more cut worms In a
da> 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, amt
wit! one bang of their strong beaks drag
Mr. Cutworm forth from the ground to add
him to the dally repast
A crow weighing two and a half pounds
was experimented upon, aud It was found
ibis bird actually ate his weight in cut
worms in one day, and apparently could have
eaten more. The crow, therefore, can save
more crops from the ravages of cutworms
in a day than he can destroy tn a week
Crows are heavy eaters. It is true they
will pull up tender shoots of corn if they have
i he opportunity, but they will also eat the
worms, and apparently prefer the worms.
A very young robin was aiso experimented
with. He ate sixty-eight earth-worms tn a
day', these making a bulk larger than* the
bird. Robins will strip a cherry tree of its
fruit in a few days, but. with netting over
the trees, these robins will also denude a
garden of insect* that would have otherwise
prevented at least half, if nof all. of the
planted things front 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 niussy, and the clothing cannot be soiled
wdth 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 used in the lini
ment application, they can be discarded and
new oats placed in the sacks. The price of
oats makes this remedy 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
1 found to be an affection of certain brain cells. The
j recent marvelous discoveries in the physiology of
the brain and nervous system which modern psy
chology has stimulated show us that all attempts to
regain the Iosb of power in the hand or arm by
) electricity, massage or drugs are wrong.
Any Individual who is daily occupied in work
, which call* for a constant, automatic use of any
particular member of the body, such as the typist,
tho telegraph operator or the linotype man, is liable
to what it ts 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
in the least affected—nothing is the matter with
them.
But 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 muscles. 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.
Every one knows that a battery kept in constant
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
longer intervals of rest. While taking this period
of rest one should be employed in 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,
Some PHYSICAL TROUBLES Man Inherited from the APE
S lIENTISTS now believe that many o£ 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 bourse 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 properly in the upright position, and
did not succeed without leaving some trace of injury
to them.
liie modification of man’s body from his ancestral
type which went on all fours, involved. structural re
building ol millions of ceils, and it is not strange that
some ot this rebuilding was faulty.
Concerning this, Professor Keith, of the Royal College
of Surgeons said recently; “Investigations bad made
it clear that the muscles which maintain the posture of
the hotly are regulated by a complex and delicate nerve
mechanism, which served to maintain the posture of
four-footed animals, and would require a radical adjust
meat to meet the needs ol upright beings like man. it
has been proved conclusively that the imrt of the ner
vous system which regulates the distribution of the
hlood throughout the body has been modified and elabo
rated to meet the conditions necessitated by the up
right position.”
In other words the blood vessels in our ape ances
tors had no standing pipes up which the blood must be
forced. They were horixonthal and nearly on a level.
This oi course, did not require extra efforts on the
part of the great body pump-—the heart. Under these
circumstances the nervous system which controls the
1 irt and blood vessels was less delicate and less com
plicated.
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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 1 said, was brought about gradually, hut. too
rapdily for man’s perfect adjustment. There were
many little adjustments which never reached perfec
tion, aud 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
was at one time in the ape's life of invaluable use, but
is now worse than useless—it is a constant menace.
We have to pay for everything in this life and are
now paying for the strain and pull ot present civiliza
tion before our organs and nerves have really adjusted
themselves or grown to meet it. In fact our upright
posture has placed us under too sudden strain; it is
not yet ready for all we force upon it. Flat foot, twisted
spines and many disabling but obscure phyiscal con
ditions simply show that we have overworked 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. All 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 fad 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 hean a res*, the muscles of the back and
abdomen are relaxed and the internal organs return for
a time to their original positions.
The Reasons
Spiders Fight
W TEN two or more spiders tight there is
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
die web producing powers of their younger
or more fortunate neighbors, aud this they do
without any scruple whatever.
As soon as a spiders web-constructing
material lias 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 and
skill in 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 in the form of different
kinds of insects.
Spiders that are very successful in captur
ing food are often set upon by other spider
which have for some reason not been as sue
cessful as their neighbor.
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