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The human race has practised almost everything EXCEPT
THINKING.
Thinking and writing or speaking must go together. There is
no real thought that is not expressed in words. You cannot think
EXCEPT IN WORDS. Try it.
The animals cannot THINK, they can only feel, because they
possess no language with which to express and formulate thought.
Men deal with each other, convince each other, by thought
; nd through the expression of thought in words.
The man who can think well and express his thoughts well and
simply and find a SHORT, EASY ROAD TO THE MIND OF THE
OTHER MAN is the man who succeeds.
PRACTISE THOUGHT AND THE WRITING AND SPEAK
ING OF YOUR THOUGHT.
The Easiest Wav
Only a few days till Christmas. While there are persons
who would go the society for the suppression of useless giving
one better and start an organisation of vigilantes for the purpose
of catching and lynching Santa Claus, the fleeting desire to do so
generally is born of the knowledge that there is too little to do
all we wish, A good way to get the Christmas business over is
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to sit down quietly and read the advertisements. Then with a
list of those you are to remember, decide what you want for
them. Shop early and have it over. Then after that, picking
up the presents for those you forgot will be easier.
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© The First Woman Doctor «> rev. thomas b. Gregory
I T was 64 years ago that Eliza
beth Blackwell, a young
Englishwoman who had made
America her home, resolved that
she would enter college with a
view of studying medicine and
surgery.
In endeavoring to carry out her
resolution Miss Blackwell met
with Herculean difficulties. She
whs told in emphatic language by
her best friends that it was high
ly Improper f«*r a woman to study
medicine, and that no decent
woman would think of becoming
a medical practitioner. As for a
lady practicing surgery, that was
absolutely out of the question.
In addition to ail this was the
very much more serious obsta
cle of prejudice among the medi
cal school people. Where would
she find a medical college that
would admit i woman to its lo.
ture rooms and laboratories? The
young woman appl.ed to more
than a dozen *>f the leading medi
cal schools of the country n.d
was invariably turned d<>\vr..
They had no use for her They
greeted her appeal w ith the mos;
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derisive laughter. Finally, how-
ever. she received word from a
small college in Geneva, N. Y.,
announcing that her application
had been favorably considered,
and that she would be admitted
as a student whenever si e should
present herself.
The students treated Miss
Blackwell with kindness and re
spect. but the women of Geneva
were ‘*s ockdri " They “stared at
her as though she had been a
curious animal.” and declared she
was “either a bad woman, whose
designs would gradually become
evident, or that, being crazy, an
outbreak of insanity would soon
manifest itself."
Graduating at the head of her
class, Miss Blackwell, after study
ing in the hospitals of Europe,
returned to New York and be
gan the practice of medicine—
the first woman doctor in the
United States. As a practitioner
she was u marked success, and
hers is the honor of having found
ed the institution out of which
grew the present "New York In
firmary and the College lor
Women."
Write out for yourself the best way in which YOU could ex
press the idea that Edmund Gosse wishes to convey.
He might have said, for example:
'' The critics who say they ‘ discovered ’ Kipling are as ridicu
lous as the hoptoad on the railroad track who said he discovered
the approaching locomotive headlight.”
Or he might say:
When the lighthouse keeper sends the light across the water
the little fish says, ‘I have discovered the lighthouse.’ That fish is
the critic who said, ’I have discovered Kipling.’ ”
Or you could compare the little unimportant critic who ” dis
covers” the great writer to be beetles, moths and other tiny flying
creaures of the night that flock to and discover the electric arc
light. Except for that light THEY wonld be invisible. And ex
cept for the light of that which they criticise, the critics as a rule
would be invisible.
Many a critic who “discovers" a gTeat man is simply an
obscure little fluttering moth, lighted up for a moment, made visi
ble by the light that the great man casts upon him.
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THE CRUISE OF THE “PIFFLE”
How Would YOU Write This?
A lesson in Expressing Ideas for Our 'l oung I roplr.
r'aewt^. l*ta to hua Conwenj
To write well is, first, to HAVE a good idea and then know
how to get the idea from your head into another man s head, simply
and easily, without waste of words and without effort on the part
of the man who reads.
The art of making YOUR thought plain and clear to others is
highly important—not only to the writer, but to every human being
The clerk is a good clerk when he can put his idea easily into
the mind of a customer.
A good mother can get her thoughts, the goodness of her heart,
easily into the minds of her children.
The art of making yourself clear in speech or writing, and
easily understood, is like every other art, ONE THAT MUST BE
PRACTISED.
So here is a lesson to-day for the boys at high school and the
older men who wish that they were at high school LEARNING
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We take an extract from an advertisement ot the works of
Rudyard Kipling. The extract was written by Edmund Gosse, a
well-known writer. Here It is. Read it quickly, without stopping,
and see if you understand immediately just what the writer meant.
"Not fewer distinguished men of letters
profess to have ‘discovered’ Mr. Kipling
than there were cities of old in which Hom»r
was born. Yet, in fact, the discovery was not
much more creditable to them than it would
be, on a Summer night, to contrive to notice a
comet flying across the sky." 4
That was intended as a very simple statement, one to be in
stantly absorbed by the reading mind. But IS it such a statement'’
Take your pencil and paper and see for yourself just how much
better, how much more simply, how much more briefly, YOU can
express the thought that Edmund Gosse tried to get from his mind
into your mind.
The
This is a good chance for readers to practise the art of ex
pressing a simple thought simply. For the idea is to make a simple
strildng COMPARISON
Imagination that invents or spontaneously expresses thought
in apt comparison is the good imagination.
The writing quoted above is bad, because it begins with the
word "NOT.” You will feel instinctively that to begin by saying
NOT is something like harnessing a horse with his nose against the
dashboard.
You will also see that the dragging in of a number of cities in
which Homer was supposed to have been born checks the thought
that the writer wanted to express and makes the reader stumble
and hesitate, instead of getting the idea into his mind IMME
DIATELY.
We give you this quotation from the Rudyard Kipling adver
tisement not in a spirit of silly critioism, but wi,th a desire to have
a good many young men PRACTISE THOUGHT and expression.
“Hooray!” “Avast!” “Hip, hip!” “Oh, you Juice!” “Shiver my binnacle lights!” This outburst
of sailor-like expressions was uttered by the gallant crew of the peace ship “Piffle.” The occasion was the
annual banquet of the “Society for the Prevention of Hurting the Feelings of Mexicans!” When the
applause had subsided Admiral Juice arose and said: “We have with us to-night as our honored guest one-
of the most peaceful men on record. Our old friend Rip Van Winkle went away from home in order
to have peace and slept twenty years! But he has nothing on us! When it comes to peacefulness we
have got him faded!” As the fearless Admiral ceased speaking the mellow voices of the ship’s quartette
were heard in the following chorus.
“Way down in distant Mexico they’re having quite a time,
With murder-fests and arson-fests and other brands of crime!
But it can’t go on forever, and we’ll give a joyful whoop
When the frost is on Carranza and Huerta’s in the soup!’
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Mince Pie Time
MYSTERIES OF
SCIENCE AND
NATURE
Question Again Arises
Whether the Pithecan
thropus of Java Was a
Man or a Monkey, or
a Being Intermediate
Between Them.
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS
T HE problem of the famous
ape-man of Java, the “pith- ■
ecanthropus erectus," la :
a pain under discussion by the
paleontologists (students of an
cient life), and they still are tm- |
able to agree whether this mys
terious creature was a kind of
primitive human being or only an
extraordinary specimen of the ape
tribe who happened to he horn
with a big head.
A French wrtter has put the ac
tual situation among the learned
men In a few word3: “For some
the pithecanthropus Is a man; for
others he Is a monkey; for others
still he is an animal intermediary
between man and monkey.”
The average reader may say to
himself that he doean't care what
the pithecanthropus was. Bother
the pithecanthropus! But that
would be a very unintelligent atti
tude to assume. We have arrived
at a period of intellectual develop
ment when what is called pre-his
tory has as great (If not greater)
Importance for us as history Itself.
The Pithecanthropus, if
In Ancestral Line, Is
Interesting.
If the pithecanthropus really be
longs In our ancestral line he Is as
interesting a figure as the remote
past contains. We see him, with
his big bushy head, his crooked
legs, his bent back, his long arms,
away back there close to the point
where the paths divided which led
in one direction to the cities of
men and the wonders of the mind,
and in the other direction to the
tropical forests and the haunts of
climbing creatures to whom na
ture gave, as In mockery, human
masks hiding only brute bralne.
He stands there the most an
cient, the most distant, of the crea
tures which felt the Impulse of
awakening humanity. He Is
almost at the bottom of the long
hill. He Is striking Into the nar-
row path which leads continually
upward. Around him are other
beings to whom the same oppor
tunity came, who were led to the
beginning of the same straight,
mounting way, but who turned
aside, leaving him to pursue alone
his pilgrimage.
It Is a curious and significant
fact that after the discovery of the
remains of the pithecanthropus In
1892 an anthropologist undertook
to reconstruct, upon anatomical
principles, the missing law (for
nothing of the head was found ex
cept the top of the skull and a few
scattered teeth), and several years
later there was discovered at
Mauer, In Germany, a human jaw
precisely corresponding with tha*
which the anthropologist had at
tributed to the pithecanthropus.
To which must be added tfee fact
that the best authorttlee assign
to “the man of Mauer'" an antiq
uity corresponding with that which
has generally been assigned to the
pithecanthropus.
At the same time there are au
thorities who deny to the pithe
canthropus a place In the tine of
human descent. Among these la
Professor Ronle, of Paris, who
thinks it probable that the pithe
canthropus was a species of giant
monkey, allied to the gibbons, and
superior to Its congeners not only
In stature but also In slxe of skull.
In which tt approached the lower
limit for man.
There may have been a group
of theee overgrown gibbons de
veloped In Java, thinks Professor
Boule, and they may have been
driven Into extinction by virtue of
the very fact that they were not
physically developed In accord
with their environment.
Admits There Is a Great
Resemblance to the
Human Type.
Professor Boole" himself admits
that there are resemblances to
the hnrnan type In the pithecan
thropus, and that its skull seems
to have been intermediate In form
between that of the monkey and
that of man. but he denies that
such resemblances and correspon
dences necessarily prove a real an
cestral relationship.
But even If this view of the
Paris anthropologist be admitted
as probably correct It hardly at all
diminishes the Interest of the
pithecanthropus, because It only
reveals In that creature a being
which oortatnly made a start to
ward Iranian evolution, though
*t may never have fairly entered
upon the path.
Type Serves to Show
How Difficult Was the
Development.
It serves to show how difficult
was the work of developing man
out of a lower animal type. Na
ture had, apparently, to try again
and again, with that patience and
that contempt of expense which
. she always exhibits, and at last
she succeeded.
So whether the pithecanthropus
was a primitive man, carrying
locked up in him all the wander
ful possibilities of evolution which
that state of being wonld Imply,
or whether he was only an aspir
ing ape who could npt make good
his hold on a higher level of exist
ence, we must read about him and
the controversies he excites with
i equal interest.
Questions Answered
THE LOMBARDS.
F. O.—The Lombards were
originally a Teutonic, or rather
Scandinavian, folk. Gradually
they worked their way south
ward from the land of Odin and
Thor to the fair plans of North
ern Italy, which they entered
about the middle or end of the
sixth century. They changed their
Paganism for the heterodox form
of Christianity known as Arian-
lsm, and between 750 and 800
were conquered by Pepin and
Charlemagne. For conquering the
Lombards Pepin was crowned
King of FTance by the Pope, and
Charlemagne, later on, was made
Emperor. In return the Popes
were given a big slice of terri
tory around Rome.
THE EVERGLADES.
G. H. R.—The region down in
Florida known as the “Kver-
glades” is not as yet available for
cultivation, although it is under
stood that an attempt is being
made by the State to reclaim the
territory. The region is 70 miles
long and 60 wide, the water being
from one to six feet deep, studded
thickly with ridges, or islands,
from one-fourth of an acre to
hundreds of acres in extent. Out
of the water e-rows a rank grass,
frqm six to ten feet high. The
vert-table deposits of the Bver-
glades arc enormous, and beyond
a doubt the great swamp, when
thoroughly drained, will produce
amazing crops, especially 0 f ba
nanas and plantain and other
subtropical fruits.
STARS AND STRIPES
“The storking is a bad purse,”
savi Major Sylvester, the Capi
tals head cop. A roll does make
it look kind of lumpy in these
days of slit skirts.
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Mayor Harrison says Chicago
restaurants are places to eat, not
dance. Quite different from many
In New York.
Statistics show 88.000.000 ani
mals are killed annuallv in t-he
United States. And the'automo
bile slaughter is keeping pace.
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Naval Note—Secretary of State
afraid receive Secretary
of the Navy Oaniels on board the
tub Grapejulce” with ail the
honors of-—.peace, *