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The Intellectic! He's a New
Type Who Can Do Anything
But Make His Own Living
Bv ELBERT HUBBARD
BW type of man has been dig-
Hcienoq haa placed him on the
alide, analyzed, diagnosed and duly
labeled him. He In known a* the
‘•Intellectic.’’
The type is as clearly defined as the
paranoiac, the dlpeomnniac or the
kleptomaniac.
The Intellectic la a by
civilization. He 1«* h man ’
bia roof, as compared wit
product of
ho Uvea on
i t he oppo■
basement,
ut no bane,
it the ob-
He h
He know:
Vloua, and
1 living.
Savage, barbaric and pioneer peo
ple never produce a man of this class.
He seems to be a sort of sport of civ
ilisation, one of nature’s little ironies.
He has Intellect, but is deficient In
common sense. To that decree science
rightly clasalflea him as a defective.
When you get the “highbrow
lacks common sense you hav
telleotic.
Common Sense.
Common sense la the common and
natural utilization of the senses. Com
mon sense is the sense which
common people possess In fa
have to possess it, otherwb
would perish. It is a part
ureal law of self-p
intuition wisely dir
Common sense means the ability to
t he
rt, they
*e they
of the
reservation. It la
acted
cans tt
take care of yourself. And. Inasmuch
as man is a herding animal, common
sense implies an intuitional right ad
justment of man to his fellows.
The first item of common sense is a
cheerful willingness to make yours
useful to other people. Without
ability the individual would star
death were he not taken c
the hands of charity.
Stanley Hall, in his wonderful book,
“Adolfs- cnee.” makes the statement
that all of the common sense an in
dividual ever possesses he acquires
before he is 14 years old. After that.
«o far as common sense is concerned,
his case is hopeless. You can send
him to college and he will acquire
learning, expanding his intellect, hut
pil you will ever get will he an Intel
lectic- :hat is. an Individual morally
and mentally defective.
Where Intellect Fail*.
It Is said that there are more of
them now than ever before In all his
tory. this on account of the fact that
inherited wealth makes. In many in -
stances, individuals free from the
necessity of earning a living And
one so handicapped will be apt to
evolve these primal Instincts which
we all should i>o*»eHS.
Children born in the country of
poor parents or in villages where
every one works for a living run very
small risk Indeed of evolving Into
intellects s. The product comes from
the cities To a great degree the
habit of paying honors and doing
deference to certain professions no
doubt has had a good deal to do with
evolving the intellectic
A Parasite.
Always and forever, the true type
of intellectic is a parasite usually
a respectable mendicant. He lives
off the labor of other people. He
wastes, he destroys, lie consume* —
he does not create.
The safety of the race lies In the
fact, that the intellectic has been lo
cated and the psychic domain that
he inhabits ban been. In degree,
mapped and the life buoys placed. We
have been duly warned.
The paranoiac may show a seizure
and work dire mischief or sudden
death. The intellectic is Just as
dangerous, and perhaps more w, be
cause the poison that he distills is
insidious and slow in its action. He
is the man who upholds tli»* religio-
medlco-legal fetish and spread^ their
baleful influence.
Any man who is unfamiliar and
out of sympathy with the simple,
little, common, every-day things of
life, who is not in touch with the
multitude and whose heart does not
go out to the many, is on the pre
serve of the intellectic, and is a good
man to let severely alone. No matter
how plausible his arguments, give
him 'absent treatment. Klee any
man w ho does not have common cense
no matter how great his mental at
tainments
Wher© Safety Lies.
Safety Ups In living like a poor
man. no matter hoy much money you
have, and. above all things, bring
your children up to he useful, to per
form the necessary ta^ks of life,
never to he above doing good, plain,
old-fashioned work.
Any one who uses the term "me
nial” is touched with intellecticism
There are no m nisi tasks. The n*v-
' ary Is the sacred und the useful
if the divine.
Keep your feet on the earth, even
though your head is in the clouds. Do
-! hr exclusive and •set yourself
ipart as something special and pe-
‘uliar. The high and lofty ways of-
n seen in the poet, the artist, and
ic musician, all token the Intel-
die. Have intellect, of course, hut
mild it on a basis of enffimon sense.
A Prize-Winning Baby!
The Way to Raise One
Natuially if you’ve got a baby, he’s
ciect. Now we are not saying that
realise he's your baby, but because
really is. John William Is certain-
.• in exceptional chilli, and everybody
viO knows anything about him gays
he same thing.
Hut in ruse you would like to raise
real prize winner or make one out
f John William a child that would
.dually get the blue ribbon pinned
cross his manly young chest at a
>aby show, herewith are a few diree-
lons how to accomplish the feat. (Of
nurse you have to have the batov
InM. >
Help Child’s Health.
If you haven’t any ambition to
min' up hist, prizer. these rules
\il] help to keep your own chiM
at. They were furni»ned by Dr
. nrion >1 Hull, who with Dr. I,. R.
:\> • has charge of making well
>; nut of the little sick ones
:o Grady Hospital. The Sun -
\:u rv.n asked him to talk,
i . i what lie said might benefit
h’dii' • « and children.
'• doesn’t count a single point
n ; only health. Here are
THINGS TO DO.
Mother should nurse child at
regular intervals until it is 10
months old. If bottle must be used,
medical advice as to necessity and
quality of feeds should be secured.
Use good pure milk.
After first year start gradually
with cereals ana proper solid food.
Child should have abundance of
fr«*h air and sunshine.
should be taken out every day
after first month.
Should sleep outdoors eight
months in year, except »n bad
weather, and part of day for other
four months.
Should be kept properly and
comfortably clad winter and sum
mer.
For first year should wear some
w ool over abdomen.
Should be kept quiet and not
taken up every time it cr'es.
Should be given daHy bath, with
especial care of eyes, ears and
Should be taught good habits
THINGS NOT TO DO.
DON’T nurse it whenever it
DON’T take it »nto the bed to
alt n'ght.
it food or treatment
the advice of prac
tically anybody or every woman
who offers it.
DON’T nurse the baby or give it
the bottle longer than 10 months
or a year.
DON’T have its clothing too
tight, too hot or thin.
DON’T keep child indoors and
keep the windows closed.
Easy to do.
"If parents only knew it," Dr. Hull
said, "it's just as easy to have a
strong, happy child as it is to have
h sickly one without, of course, it
is born abnormal or with a natural
weakness. Even then, many times, It
can be brought arourid with the right
care."
The physician said it had been
proven that it was usually possible
for healthy parents to raise healthy
offspring if (hey brought common
sense to bear on the question. The
children could be taught good traits
as well as had.
"Most people think that when f
child cries it should be taken up im
mediately. or trotted or otherwise
disturbed. Fact of the business is a
child should be kept quiet and not
excited. Kor the first three months
it should not he held in the arms
very much
"In putting baby out in the freon
air. it can be laid in a carriage or
cart or its- little bed, but cure must
be tak'-n to j- e that it If comfortably
clad, for children are more suscepti
ble to changes In temperature than
older people."
It was for this reason I>r. Hull sail
that something wool over the abdo
men must be worn winter and sum
mer for the first year of the child’s
life. In hot weather the baby could
wear a little silk and wool shirt, low
neck and short sleeves with a piece
of silk flannel sewed across, a dia
per and a slip.
In cold weather, he should have a
high neck and long sleeve wool vest,
flannel shirt, stockings or mittens, a
diaper, white skirt and dress, and of
course a coat when taken out.
A'r Not Drafts.
"Sleeping with windows open for
plenty of fresh air does not mean
draft." explained the doctor. "And
putting him out in the open air does
not include east wind and rain. Rea
son must always govern all rules."
Dr. Hull gave the following direc
tions for feeding the usual perfectly
normal child:
For the first month let it nurse
every two hours during the day,
and every four hours during the
night.
The second month it should
nurse every 2' 2 hours, a»*d once
during the night.
After the second month, tht
feedings should be every three
STEPS TO KNOWLEDGE
By Nell Brinkley
So wo climb- -big chaps and small women—and on the top step, all unsuspecting, in the midst of untamed
laughter, when we are thinking we are the least wise, we take down the book of REAL DREAMS, and, turn
ing. look into the wide, deep eyes of knowledge.
Hours until the baby is 10 months
old. Then some carefully selected
cereal or Tuel once or twice a
day should be added. A one-min
ute egg or a little beef juice.
Dr. Clarke, for years one of tht
city's best known baby experts, bus
frequently said practically the same
thing in his lectures before Atlanta
Mothers’ Clubs. He lias emphasized:
"Let a child's clothing be suspend
ed from the shoulders so that it does
not bind bin; in any way. A child
is developed by being able to cry,
kick and wave its arms.
"If a baby is asleep when his feed
ing time comes wake him. It will
make him able to sleep better it
night.
Mother’* Milk Best.
"Mother's milk Is the best for a
child. The only substitute is cow’s
milk, and this is not a substitute it’
simply water is added to it. It must
be what physicians call modified milk,
which means that by process the
cow’s milk has been made to conform
in all ingredients to a mother’s. This
milk should be given slightly warmed
only.
"Avoid infant foods, as they are
not fresh and may cause rickets,
scurvy or other diseases."
Don't subject a child to loud noises,
as it may ruin his nervous system.
It may seem that ho enjoys hearing
Back to the Old Days: Re-enter the Chaperone
Gen. George Pickett’s Widow
fells of the.Friendships
Civil War Couldn’t Sever
rpHH most impressive thing In
I Genera! George E. Pickett’s let
ters, as they are revealed in
"The Heart of a Soldier,” is the pic
ture they presented of their author.
The latter is revealed by turns as
an ardent and charming lover, an
Ideal husband, a gallant military
chieftain, and a klndhearted and
right-minded gentleman. Undoubted-
!y, it was for the purpose of pro
ducing this impression that Mrs.
Pickett caused the publication of this
volume and wrote the touching memo
rial of her husband which appears as
Its introductory chapter.
Another impression the book con
veys Is that of the kindly and gene
rous feeling that existed between
Confederates and Unionists, graduated
from West Point, who had been
friends before the war. An exhibition
of this feeling was made at the time
of the blYth of General Pickett’s first
baby. Mrs. Pickett, telling the story,
says:
On the occasion of my son’s
birth bonfires were lighted in cel
ebration all along Pickett’s line.
Grant saw’ them and sent scouts
to learn the cause. \Vhen they re
ported he said to General Ingalls:
“Haven’t we some kindling on
this side of the line? Why don’t
we strike a light for the young
Pickett?”
In a little while bonfires were
flaming from the Federal line. A
few days later there was taken
through the line a baby’s silver
service engraved: “To George E.
Pickett, Jr., from his father’s
friends. IT. S. Grant. Rufus In
galls, • George Suckley.”
Genera! Pickett, in a letter from
Washington, relates another incident
in which this same kindly feeling was
manifested:
After breakfast we went, as ar
ranged, to see Grant. I can’t Just
tell you, my darling, about that
visit. You'll have to wait till I
see you to tell you how the warm
hearted, modest old warrior and
loyal friend met me; liow he took
in his the hand of your heartsore
soldier—poor, broken, defeated,
profession gone—and, looking at
him for a moment without speak
ing, said slowly: “Pickett, if there
is anything on the top of God’s
green earth I* can do for you, say
so. * * *
When I started to go Grant
pulled down a check book, and
said: "Pickett, it seems funny,
doesn’t It, that I should have any
money to offer, but how much do
you need?"
“Not any, old fellow; not a cent,
thank you,” I said. ”1 have
plenty.”
“But Rufus tells me that you
have begun to build a house to
take the place of the one old But
ler burned, and how can you build
it without money? You do need
some.”
"I have Sold some timber to
prf.v for it,” I told him, and to
show my appreciation and grati
tude, unobserved, I affectionately
•squeezed his leg, when he called
out: “Rufus, it’s the same old
George Pickett. Instead of pull
ing my leg. he’s squeezing it.”
In a letter written just after the
battle of Seven Pines, General Pick
ett expresses his very Warm regard
for another American general:
I have heard that my dear old
friend McClellan is lying ill about
ten miles from here. May some
loving, soothing hand minister to
him. He was, he Is, and he al
ways will be, even with his pistol
pointing at my heart, my dear,
loved friend. May God bless him
and spare his life.
There Is no lack of reference to the
great men of the war time In the
book; the General and Mrs. Pickett
between them have something to say
about nearly all the famous fighters
and civilians. In Mrs. Pickett’s Intro
ductory chapter we find an extremely
interesting story. It appears that
while at Richmond, Just after the sur
render, she was summoned to the
door by a sharp rap. She gives a
charming account of what followed:
With my baby on my arm, I an
swered the knock, opened the
door, and looked up at a tall,
gaunt, sad-faced man in ill-fitting
clothes, who, with the accent of
the North, asked:
“Is this George Pickett’s place?”
“Yes, sir,” I answered, "but he
is not here.”
“I know that, ma’am,” he re
plied, “blit I just wanted to see
the place. I am Abraham Lin
coln "
"The President!” I gasped.
The stranger shook his head
and said: “No. ma’am; no ma’am.
Just Abraham Lincoln; George’s
old friend.”
“I am Georg** Pickett's wife,
and this is his baby,” was all I
could say.
My baby pushed away from me,
and reached his hands to Mr. Lin
coln, who took him in his arms.
As he did so an expression of
rapt, almost divine tenderness and
love lighted up the sad face. It
was a look that I have never seen
on any other face. My baby
opened his mouth wide and in
sisted upon giving his father’s
friend a dewy, infantile kiss. As ^
Mr. Lincoln gave the little one
back to me, shaking his finger at
him playfully, he said:
"Tell your father, the rascal,
that I forgive him for the sake
of that kiss and those bright
eyes.”
Mrs. Pickett explains the interest
Lincoln showed In her husband by
stating that it was through Mr. Lin
coln’s influence that her husband re- ^
ceived his appointment to.West Point,
State Explains How to Halt
The Spread of Diphtheria
Dignified and rigid formality must
he the tone of Atlanta society. Its
leaders have spoken.
Which means, for one thing, that
if the plan is carried out which is
now the gossip of clubs and parties,
chaperonage will be more strict than
ever before. Beginning with the next
season, there must he a personal
chaperone for every young woman
who goes out to formal functions >f
society, according to the new code.
Hereafter the escort will go not to
the home of his lady, but to the club,
where he will find her waiting with
her chaperone.
This is the new plan, bespeaking
ultra-formality, which has been fos
tered by at least one leader whose
position is so well established ns to
make laws of her requests and
wishes.
In short, Atlanta society is plan
ning to welcome back into its midst
the duenna.
Duenna, be it known, is the poetic
euohemism by which is designated
that most unpoetic person in the
world, the personal chaperone.
Things have been running very
smoothly for some time, say the
young people in society. Seldom
were there obstacles in the path of
true love. Everything was decorous
and proper enough, always, and there
was never the third figure of the
duenna to make an uncomfortable
. rowd where there should have been
n enjoyable party of two.
v were the days, the days of
j freedom. Dhaperones there were. .*
1 rue. but not personal chaperones
for * very youtv.* woman or two. The
chaperone was truly but an incidental
factor, and everybody was happy,
even the chaperone. She held her
discreet station somewhere near the
edges of the festive crowd, and en
joyed herself.
She was the sun about which the
universe of the ballroom or drawing
room revolved. Ever and anon young
couples looked in her direction. Her
frown would check them in the exe
cution of a novel dance step—say
the turkey trot or something like it—
or her smile would encourage them in
the fact that they were behaving with
her sanction. But in the corners an-1
the little nooks she was not present
to awe or to embarrass. The days
were days of freedom.
But the days of freedom must give
way to the days of formality in At
lanta society. According to the plans
which are credited to certain society
leaflets, this must be changed. The
debutante going to her dances and
parties next season must go witn
her own chaperone, her duenna, if
the plans work out well.
A more rigid formality is the key
note of the new social scheme.
Young women, unmarried, must be
attended. Thus it was in the formal
society of Castile and Aragon. Later,
the elite everywhere adopted the cus
tom of duenna; that is. the portion
of society that is spelled with a great
big S.
Atlanta, it seems, is geting on. Tl\e
courts of kings, and even that of Mrs.
Astnr, will have nothing on the so
ciety of th** Georgia capital when the
new code Is effective.
It goes farther than the specifica
tion that the girl must be attended
by that guardian angel, the persona!
chaperone.
“Guardian angel shucks." exclaims
the Young Thing when she reads this
line. She is not quite sure that she
can heartily welcome the innovation.
But it goes farther than this. At
parties and other places where younv
people congregate, they are talking
nowadays of that other feature of th-'
plan which provides that the esco r t
no longer shall go to the home of the
young woman to meet her. This old
custom of tlie South, they say, is
doomed to fall.
The young woman and h£r duenna
personal chaperone, let us say,
to be less exotic—must go to the
club and await there the coming of
the escort. Atlanta has clubs which
be ar the unreserved stamp of so
ciety’s approval.
This system is quite au fait in the
social circles of the larger cities of
the world, where formality’s tne
thing.
But don’t think that Atlanta is
adopting it merely because it«is done
elsew’here. No.
“The tone of society should be :»
dignified formality.” say the advo
cates of the new order, in argument.
"The new scheme is the logical out
growth of a recognition of that fact.”
It will apply, of course, to only the
more formal functions of Atlanta so
ciety, the quasi-official coming out
patties, receptions and dances.
But they do say that it surely will I
pplv. with the opening of the new
season and with the new bevy of
debutantes next fall.
In a general campaign against all
disease the Georgia State Board of
Health is issuing a series of bulletins
warning the public. One of these fol
lows:
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
OF DIPHTHERIA.
The spread of diphtheria can be
prevented. Every case springs from
seme other case, and when the disease
spreads from house to house there is
usualh some neglect somewhere. This
neglect may be due to ignorance or to
willful carelessness. The results are
the game. In no contagious disease is
isolation and quarantine more bene
ficial than in cases of diphtheria, and
it is in diphtheria that the serum
method of treatment has given its
best results. If a. person develops
symptoms which are suspicious of
diphtheria, that person should imme
diately bei solated; that is, put into a
room by himself or herself, with only
one other person to act as attendant
or nurse. A. competent physician
should then be called to moke an ex
amination of the patient. If he de
cides that the patient ha* not diph
theria, or follicular tonsilltis, or any
other contagious disease, of course
the isolation and quarantine can be
immediately lifted.
If the case is doubtful, the doctor
can take a cotton swab and swab the
nose and throat and then rub the
swab over a piece of glass and ex
amine this with a microscope for the
germ of diphtheria. If the doctor is
not equipped to do this work, or ha*
not tinje for it. he can communicate
with the laboratories of the State
Board of Health in Atlanta and they
will send him culture media on which
to smear the material taken from the
nose and throat. As soon as this
smear or inoculation is made, the me
dia should be immediately returned to
the board’s laboratories and as
promptly as possible a report will be
sent to the physician free of charge.
State Furnishes Antitoxin.
If the disease is found to be diph
theria, antitoxin can be obtained di
rectly from the State Board oi
Health’s laboratory or from the Coun
ty Ordinaries, who are kept supplied
free of charge by the State Board of
Health. This antitoxin is put up In
syringes all ready for prompt admin
istration. Members of the household
where there Is a case of diphtheria
should not attend school, church,
shows, parties or other places of as
semblage. aiTd they should not receive
or pay visits
During epidemics schools in the in
fected district should be closed and
children from different houses should
not he allowed to play together. Those
who have been exposed should use
a nose and throat wash several times
a day. Listerine. glyco-thvmoline or
dilute Dobell's solution is useful for
this purpose. The patient, of course,
should have dishes and silverware
for his own use marked in some way
so as to keep them separate from
those used by other members of the
household. These articles should be
boiled and washed in a separate pan.
Keep cats and dogs and other pets
out of the sick room, as they carry ;
the disease and unless it is absolutely
necessary for you to go into the room
you had better stay out yourself, for
you may oatch the disease or you may
carry it to some one else. Every ar
ticle should be disinfected before it
is removed from the sick chamber.
After the patient is apparently well
swabs from the nose and throat
should again be examined, and if the
patient is found to be free after three
such examinations made on succes
sive days, he can be released from
isolation and the room thoroughly
disinfected.
When to Give Antitoxin.
Antitoxin can not repair damage
after it is done, but it can, and does,
prevent damage from being done, if
given early and in proper doses. The
dangers from antitoxin are so small
as not to be worth considering when
compared with the dangers from
diphtheria. It produces the greatest
amount of good when given early, and
in cases where there is a strong sus
picion that the disease present is
diphtheria it is right and proper to
give antitoxin immediately without
waiting for an examination of the
throat and nose for the germ of diph
theria Those exposed to the disease
should be given a small dose of ap-
titoxin to protect them from taking
the disease. To delay in giving anti
toxin in diphtheria is dangerous, anfl
he who hesitates may lose his pa
tient.
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