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I EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PARER T5AY,HUERTA Q 'rbU Rt A &oNEHtAD Anj> Your lecturer f \GrivtL HIM A PAIN! I ■^rO\\yy^ 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 * 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. I ‘ © 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; 4 T 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. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN * Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Past Ala bam a St. Atlanta. Ga. Unferert a« second-class matter at poatnfflre at Atlanta, under act of March J. HEARFTF SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE AT I. A NT A GEORGIAN will be mailed to subscribers anywhere In the United States. Canada and Mexico, one month for I so three monthe for 1176, six month! for tl SO end one year for 17 00. chanKi of addreaa made ae often i> desired. Foreign subscription ratea on application. I I I 1 I 1 mil m 1 11 M- 1 - 1 1 ‘ ■ ■ " a-aa.u.u....u..t^-i-i-a-4-M-d-t-d-t-M-KI-i'I II I I I I I M 1 II H HI I I 1 I I I i I I 1H ! i "H-l-H-H-H-F 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 < «*rrrUkt. 1*13. IntrrnatkmaJ N*""* R«rrtr« v v - ^ T / l HA,VC. HERE A COMMUNtCATlOK ' . _ / SlObJATclRE Of v/MiCH IS ILLE.&I5JUE. IT LOOK'S' LI K£ ' VU&WU& 5 od'VAV-RUS'i IT 15 A^> FoLLOW5;— “AT THE PRE5EKT lMPIN&EMEMT of AFFAIRS The' UNITED S>TATE5 WILL PUR&UE. A PouicY'oF < FLa^M^UnIKTioUS CoNSERv/atori0ilITV 3LENj)tDj VlTW A Touch of AB5QUATULOU5 J WATCHFUloSrrr AMD WArrFULNESS! ^ ^ /O fVoT Does) ^ (3>ot mfahu 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!’ X-!, H-H-M-H-H-1-1 H ■H-I-I--H MIHH! I H-S- -W-H-M-t I I 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. — 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. * * * 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. * * * Naval Note—Secretary of State afraid receive Secretary of the Navy Oaniels on board the tub Grapejulce” with ail the honors of-—.peace, *