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Diagram of the Human Eyes Showing the Optic Nerve Stalks,
and Beside It a Photograph of a Lobster Showing
Its Similar but External Eye Stalks.
"rOUR eves like a lobster's?
They are, indeed. If vou don't
believe it, look at the accom
panying diagram and be Cons inced,
This diagram shows & lateral
would be revealed if the top of the
head were removed. As will be ob
served, there is a considerable
space between the eye-balls dnd the
brain, this space being traversed by
Although the c¢ve and the optic
nerve may be regarded as an ex
tension of the brain, the eyeball is
really a considerable distance from
the brain, the combined anatomy be
ing very similar to that of the lobs‘er.
Of course, in the case of human be
ings the fact that the eye projects
to such an extent from the brain is
not patent as it is in the lobster
because of the difference in the two
skulls.
It is because of this peculiar
structure of the human eye, with
whieh the average individual is
quite unfamiliar that many attempts
at suicide prove futile, the victim
making himself blind instead. This
occurs when the would-be suicide at
tempts to blow ‘his brains out by
shooting himself '.hn;ugh the tem
ple.
The temple, as a most casual ex
amination of a skull will show, con
sists of bone no thicker than a sheet
of paper. It is easily penetrated. The
temple is the weakest point in the
skull.
Relying upon these facts, the
would-be suicide hoilds the gun at
right angles to his temple and fires.
The bullet emerges from the opposite
temple. Instead of crushing into the
brain and causing instant death, as
the would-be suicide expects, the
bullet passes between the brain and
the eyes. It severs the optic nerve
and causes instant blindness, but
death does not necessarily follow.
As the diagram will show, your
eyes, like those of a lobster, are set,
as it were, on stalks. The brain is
a considerable distance in the rear—
which accounts for the fact that
there is plelit,v of room for a bullet
*oo pass behind the eyes and in front
of the brain, without necessarily in
fiicting a mortal wound.
Copyright, 1914, by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved
LOVE
ME.
LOVE
MY
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Young Dietrich was not daunted by the unusual con
ditions with which his love suit was beset. As a matter
of fact. long before he met Miss Costillo he had earned
the nickname “‘Daredevil Dietrich,” because of the many
reckless adventures in which he had engaged, and play
ing with death had ever been the boy’s passion.
From the time he left high school his reputation for
fearlessness and daredeviltry was constantly being forti
fied by new feats.
When he was seventeen years old he became inter
ested in a pair of lions that Bob Fitzsimmons, the prize
fighter, kept in his Bensonhurst home, across the street
from the Dietrichs, He frequently saw Fitzsimmons
wrestle with the lions and begged a chance to try con
clusions with them.
Young Dietrich was given the chance he asked, and
wrestled with the lion cubs to his heart's content. He
became so fond~of the sport that he begged the prize
fighter to purchase more lions and go into vaudeville,
promising to enter the lions’ den and tussle with the
beasts single-handed.
When this suggestion was turned down Dietrich ap
plied for a position with the Bostock Animal Show at
the old Dreamland, Coney Island, and was allowed t©
take a hand in the training of the lions.
Soon, however, he found the cccupation too tame for
him, and he began to practise diving into shallow water
from great heights, and organized a troupe of high
divers to give exhibitions at Summer gardens. Several
times ne came near to breaking his neck, but even that
didn’t satisfy him.
Then somebody invented auto polo, and young Die
trich saw in the dangerous game a better chance to
secure the thrills he craved for. He learned how to
play the game, and then joined a team which toured
the country giving exhibitions.
It was while on one of these tours that he met Miss
Adgie Costillo, the lion-tamer. Always interes‘ed in
lions, he sought an introduction to Miss Adgie’s “pets,”
and speedily found that they were the fiercest, surliest
and most dangerous beasts he had yet run across in all
his vaudeville experiences.
As fate would have it, Miss Adgie needed a chief
trainer at the time, and when she saw how interested
young Dietrich was she offered him the post, warning
him of the dangers he would run.
“If you want to play with death.” she is quoted as
having said. “here is the very best epportunity you
could have. Remember, though, it is a game in which
death sometimes wins!” <
No greater inducement could have been offered the
fearless Dietrich than the danger this position seemed
to involve, although he had already become so fasci
nated with Miss Adgie that had he been ey n less fear
less than he was it is doubtful whether the hazard of
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. Copsright by the Baker Art Galleries, Columbus, Ohio.
Tragic Romance of the Young Mil
lionaire Who Fought His Way to
His Lady’s Heart Through the
Lion’s Den---and Died.
HE attitude of the dog-lover.
whose motto is. “Love me, love
my dog.” is a familiar one.
When Malcolm D. Whitman. the
millionaire tennis erack, wooed Jen
nle Crocker, the wealthiest heiress of
the Pacific Coast, daughten of the late
Colonel Frederick Crock;\\ he was
confronted with that proposition on
rather a prodigious scale, for Miss
Crocker was the devoted owner of
over one hundred biue-blooded Boston
bull terriers. .
“I might marry a beggar, a burglar
or a nobleman,” the heiress was
quoted as saying, “but never a maa
who did not love my dogs!”
* That the dogs proved no real ob
stacle in this particular love suit.
however, was very clearly shown not
only by the marriage, but by the fact
that sixty-five of the animals accom
panied the couple on their honeymoon.
Suppose the dogs had bheen lions?
“Love me, love my lions,” is a con
siderably more formidable proposition
than “Love me, love my dogs,” espe
cially if the lions in question happen
to have established a reputation for
surliness an" a taste for human blood.
That love may rise superior to
even such a test, however, has been
recently demonstrated in the tragic
romance of the wealthy Brooklyn
yvouth who wooed a lion-tamer: and
was chewed to death by his sweet
heart's pets.
The lad was Emerson Dudley Die
trich, son of Ernest G. W. Dietrich,
a prosperous architect living at ‘Ben
sonhurst, Brooklyn, N. Y. Adgie Cos
tillo, a well-known lion-tamer and ex
hibitor, was the woman he loved and
the way to whose heart lay through
the lions’ den.
the enterprise would have deterred him.
If at this time young Dietrich ever dreaméd of bis
lady-love in the jaws of a lion luring him on to tel!;
the strengih of his love for her he proved himself equal
to the test and joined the troupe.
This was last September. One Sunday in the fol
lowing January he paid a short visit to his parents,
but that was the las:¢ ihey saw of him, From that time
he was constantly on the road with Miss Adgie and her
“animal act,” and his love suit was so industriously
prosecuted that within a very few months the coup's
were engaged.
Of all the lions which Miss Adgie owned and exhib
ited, Teddy, a powerful young beast just grown from
cubhood, was the fiercest and the one she loved best.
She was very anxious for Emerson to love him, too,
and the lad spent much time ingratiating himself with
the beast. !
Although it was no part of Dietrich’s duties to enter
the cages, he made pets of the animals and frequently
antered their den. In addition to Teddy, Trilby, an old
lioness, received considerable attention at Dietrich’s
hands.
A few weeks ago, while the lions were encaged in &
special animal ear in the yards of the Santa Fe Rail
road in Chicago, where they werz to be shown at a
Chicago theatre, -the end of young Dietrich’s romance
was epacted.
In the car there was a large cage known as the “arena
cage,” where Teddy, Trilby and four full-grown lions
were permitted to roam at will. In another cage was
a year-old cub which had been injured in an accident.
Dietrich visited the car to see how the injured cub
was faring, and opening the cage took the cub out that
it might extend its limbs. Then he visited the arena
cage to pay his respects to his pets.
In hot weather lions and the other “big cats” are not
fed while travelling, except on very long jumps, and
the six lions in the arena cage greeted the appearance
of Dietrich with yawps and roars, as they were une
doubtedly half-famished.
When Dietrich opened the door and snap-locked it
behind him the lions were pacing about, baring their
fangs and growling discontentedly, and they drew back
and fenced at the bars as the scent of a human being
filled their dry nostrils. Dietrich undoubtedly saw
trouble ahead, but he was much too courageous to re
n_re. Such cowardice his fiance could never have for
given,
Trilby, the old lioness, paced past Dietrich, seemingly,
without recognition, but Teddy, the grown-up cub, rec
ognized his friend and playmate with a roar and
launched -his tawny body at him with a spring that
took him half way across the cage.
The heavy padded paws of the young lion struck
Dietrich fairly on the shoulders, and he was carried
go:—n to the floor with the young lion astraddle of his
ody.
Teddy cleared himself from the prostrate form of
Dietrich and rolled over on his side, But another tawny
body flashed through the air and a great paw with
claws unsheathed raked the side of the fallen man from
scalp to thigh. '
Blood sprayed from the frightful wounds, and the
smell of it called the atavistic cry of the “kill” from
the throats of the quintet of “tamed” lions caged with
the prey, and set in quick motion the heart of George
McCord, a trainer standing at the steps of the car, who
had heard the cry in the jungle and knew what it
meant.
When McCord reached the door of the arena cage,
armed with a pitchfork he had picked up, he found it
locked against him. Trilby, the old lioness, her hide
striped with blood and her jaws agape, stood beside the
bleeding form of Dietrich trying to fend off the deter
mined attack of the blood-mad beasts. She was sorely
beset and fast losing strength. pietrich was lying on
his side, huddled up to ward off as long as possible
the impending fate. \
So quickly did the bloodthirsty animals paw their
victim-master to death, says McCord, that it had seemed
to him but a moment between the time Dietrich had
been heard saying: ‘“Here, Teddy: get down, Teddy;
lie down, Mutt,” and then the last cry for help from
the overpowered man.
“My God, McCord, my God, get the fork! I'm gone,
I'm gone! Teddy, Teddy, Mutt, Mutt!” he finally “ut
tered faintly. ~
When help arrived the lions were snarling over the
first morse] of food they had had for many hours. One
nibbled with blood-moistened fangs at the foot of the
victim: another was tugging at an arm; a third was
ripping asunder the left breast of Dietrich, and the
others were sparring for better positions to find theis
share of the meal.
Young Dietrich’'s romance was over.