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MVIICVERILS
BOYS AND
GIRLS CAN’T
HELP RUNNING
By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, M.D.
ANY mothers are frequently much worried over
M the tendencies of their boys to wander away
from home. Sometimes these boys get to towns
or cities far from home. Frequently they ship on cattle
boats for foreign lands; a few will join a camp ot
hoboes, ruh away with a Wild West show or follow a
circus. Others disappear for a while, return, and in the
Spring again disappear for months. Once in & while a
boy will disappear forever.
This nomadic or wandering impulse I 8 natural to all
healthy boys and youths between twelve and eighteen
years of age. It is an hereditary Instinet,and cannot
be successfully eradicated. It is generally kept under
reasonable control by our educatiomal methods, and
sometimes unjust legal means—unjust because the boys
are punished for acts whose motlves ocome down to
them from ancestral stock that was nomadic or wan
dering. All animals, including men, have this impulse.
We human beings spring from' the steck of the
primal apes Don’t make the common mistake of
H»inking\ that we sprang direct from the monkeys, for
we did not. The accompanying diagram shows very
clearly just what I mean.
Now, all the primates were wanderers. They had no
fixed place of abode, When primitive man branched
off to form a distinct race he carried through inheri
tance this wandering impulse, just as he did lhunger
and other primal instincts which we now possess. For
hundreds of thousands of years he wandered, migrated
from north to south, east to west. Even during the
dawn of primitive civilization and further into a state
of domestic and economic culture he was a great wan
derer. Only then it was by tribes and nations. The
:nvasions of the Huns, Vandals, Goths are examples.
The real basic motive of the Crusades was the wander-
Ing instinet. This was why the Crusades appealed to
What Your VOICE LOOKS LIKE
F Dr. Conta, of Paris, has his way, every
I prospective helde will have to furnish a
photograph of her voice before marriage.
This French psyéhologist has tested the
voices of a large number of people who have
appeared in the French courts as defendants
in divorce actions, and he declares that most
of them have voices which “set one's teeth
on edge.” He has worked out a combined
recording phonograph and camera, calied a
photonograph, which shows exactly what a
voice looks like.
The invention is apt to prove of great
value in the musical world. A singer cannot
hear himself sing, but has to take the advice
of a teacher—and teachers are human and
might err. Suppose Caruso were told that
one of his notes was harsh. He might believe
it, but, on the other hand, he might only be
annoyed. If, however, after he bad sung the
note, the photonograph showed him that,
CURING ASTHMA with EGGS
HERE are many children and women
I who need the nourishing element of
eggs yet cannot eat them without dis
tress and unpleasant effort. Sometimes even
the sight of cooked eggs i repulsive to these
people.
The real food value in eggs is the proteld
substance. Proteld substances are the main
fuel for work and growth. A person to be In
good‘ health must have a certaln amount in
their daily food.
There is a chemical condition In most per
sons at times which causes 4 repugnance to
certain foods. It is a body reaction. The
doctors cali it anaphylaxis. It !s really a
susceptibility to poisoning by certaln foods,
or in a psychologic sense, a reaction of normal
instincts.
For cxample, some women canmot eat
Why You Are SAFER ON THE OPERATING TABLE Than in a CROWDED STREET
By Dr. Leonard Keene Hirshberg,
AB, MA, M.D. (Johns Hopkins
University,)
OU ought not to fear the surgeon
Y and his knife any more. They are
less dangerous than crossing a
crowded street when you are well or riding
fn & trolley car. Many more people suffer
Injuries and accidents from street cars,
automobiles, or trains, than meet with
mishaps from operations.
The reason some people are still afrald
to save their health and thelr lives by
submission to the knife is because they
are hidebound with memories of twenty
and more years ago, when surgery was
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the thousands of boeys who died,
starved and suffered on the way to
Jerusalem,
Individual Impulses to move
about, to be going somewhere, to
search for new lands and seek
slrange peoples, are expressions
of this ionerited instinct. And it
is a very valuable inheritance.
Without it America never would
have been discovered, or Africa
come under the control of clvilized
nations.
From tnis inherited trait there
was caused to spring up a race of
distinct nomads—the gypsies. Now
keep in your minds the fact that
this race of nomads roamed all over
Furope, and especially in England,
even up to a half century a o.
There was certain to be much of
thelr blood gcattered among families
not belonging to the various gypsy
clans. As the majority of the boys
in this conntry who are confirmed
roamers and wanderers come of the
English stock of American settlers,
you can readily comprehend the sig
nicance of the following state
ment:s:
Tne reason so many American
boys become wanderers, some
tramps or hoboes, circus followers;
girls run away from home to mix
and be lost In the maelstroms of
the citles—{s because somewhere In
their family inheritance there flows
the blood of gypsles.
The craze of certaln women to
leave home and go uselessly
shopping from morning to night is
the gypey Instinct for bargaining
and bartering. The same instinct
further removed from the original
s what sends them from tearoom to
tango hall, from funeral to funeral
of people totally unknown to them;
in the country to run from neighbor
to nelghbor gadding, gadding, gad
ding, hating to return to home and
domestic work.
The United States Station for
Experimental Evolution has made
and is making intensive studies in
While all his other notes were smooth and
round, that one was jagged, what a boon to
him it would be.
Public speakers would have to file with the
Commlttee on Arrangements photographs of
their voices. Then the rest of us would never
bave to listen to a squeaky utterance, nor
would they have to straln their ears to hear
what the speaker has to say. His manner
of dellvery would have to be up to the photo
graph of his volce.
The photonograph would be a boon to
teachers. Instead of having to listen to all
the children speak their “piece,” they could
make them talk it into the machine and then
Igok at the photo.
Dr. Conta belleves that his inventlon can
be made to record a difference in vibration
between the utterance of a falsehood and of
the truth,
underdone eat or wellcooked fish—any
albuminous 3:,0 Others cannot bear the
assoclation men, while others desire to
have all the rights and privileges of the
male with nome of the responsibilities of
women,
Dr. Fitz Talbot, of Boston, has discovered
that asthma In children is generally due to
“egg polsoning,” as mothers say. That is, In
these children the proteld substance irritates
the nervous system and asthma results.
As In most conditions of body polsoning
80 In this, the body can be Immunized by the
cause (tself. To immunize the body so no
reaction will take place from egg eating, you
can vaccinate the child with the white of an
egE. After the skin has been washed with
soap and alcohol the white of an egg is rubbed
into a slight seratch. One appligation will
.generally cure the asthma.
far different from what it is to-day.
Although Lister, the ingenious English
physician, had discovered as early as 1867
that the “blood poisoning” and other il
effects of surgical operations were due to
germs and dirt, the enmity, bdigotry,
jealousy and opposition of the medical
profession kept Lister and his humani
tarfan discoveries hidden and suppressed
for twenty years more. /
It was not until 1902, twenty-five years
later, that his medical colleagues in Lon
don ceased to revile Lister and call him
names, and began to give him due credit
for his marvellous discoveries,
Dr. W. W, Keene, the distinguished
Americad surgeon, says that in five years
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heredity as part of this subject. The experinrenters
have shown that the Instinct to wander is ten times
s great in adolescent youths as it is in girls. That is,
ten boys have this impulse to one girl. But the ex
perimenters have not taken into account this masked
form of wandering now so prominent among girls and ¢
Young women—shopping, gadding about, the feminist's
desire to be free to g 0 and come at will, the unrest
which makes girls “Just crazy” to become actresses
and movle heroines, to travel with shows and circuses,
and those ever ready to run off with the first man who
captures their attention,
All these and other present conditions are simply
modern expressions of the wanderlust which hag broken
through the former conventionalities by;which women
were held to the leash.
But undoubtedly the desire in youths to wander away
from bome and restraint is a far more fixed and tangi
ble trait than in women and girls. It really shows a
sex link. That is, the instinct I 8 connected with the
mating instinct of ail animals, who about Spring time
"wander in search of mates.
But, of course, in the case of the boy or girl this is
an unconscious—a subconscious—condition., The de
#ire to gét away from home and school restraint and go
,Where the new spirit moves them is the comscious
‘motive. g
. Now we come to why all children born of gypsy
mothers or mothers with a taint of gypsy bdlood are
always gypsies. I now use the word “gypsy” In its broad
senseé-—all rovers and roamers. Every child of & wo
man of wanllering instinct inherits this instinct di
rectly., If two chlldren are born of a domestic woman
and a father with gypsy, of wandering, spirit in his
blood, the girl will be a home-loving girl, the boy an
incurable runaway. If your children are born of the.
same kind of parents, two will be contented to remain
by the fireside, two will be nomads. ‘
On the other hand, it the mother is a gypsy or of
gypsy blood, and the father a steady, home-making man
from steady ancestors, EVERY child born will in
herit the mother's wandering impulses.
This implies, if it does not prove, that the primal in
stinets coming down from arboreal ancestors in the
female line are less changed In fundamental by- evo
lutionary and civilizing effects than those of the male.
Going on sprees, certaln forms of hysteria, where the
girl wanders away and tells the police such wonderful
tales of poisoned needles ahd abduction by dark-hued
CITY GIRLS PRETTIER as They GROW OLDER
' HEN It comes to looks, the country girl of
W eighteen years has a great advantage over her
city cousin. But she loses in the race every
year after that. At thirty and over, the coity woman
doesn’t even take the trouble to notice whether there's
an “also ran” from the country,
Attractiveness in a city woman may be of three kinds.
There is the girl who is atiraétive because she is soft
and sweet and fluffy and conveys a sense of youth. She
usually gets married quite young, and thers's an end
of it.
r The second kind of attractive woman is the girl who's
A “jolly good fellow.” At her best she is high-spirited,
ready to romp and have a good time. Under other sur
preceding the Introduction of ether at the
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
the entire hospital staft performed in all
only 184 operations, or three operations a
month!
To-day operations are so safe and pain
less that a eingle surgeon performs thou
sands of them !n a similar period without
loss of life.
You may now with confidence go to al
most any good hospital for any Xkind of
an operation. In the days when the
patient was not protected from bacteria
and pain, only one person in two esecaped
with his life.
Dr. Larney, Napoleon's great surgeon,
according to Professor Keene's researches,
Copyright, 1915, by the Star Company. Great Britaln Rights Reserveds
A DIAGRAMMATIC PICTURE OF MAN'S FAMILY TREE.
fn the Russian campalgn performsd not
less than 200 leg and arm amputations.
Nowadays of 200 exactly similar cases,
with deep wounds of the Jjoints, tmh
to antisepsis, the great majority r er
without amputation.
Eryeipelas was formerly the cause of
blood polsoning during operations, Tumors
or wens, so-called simple cysts, were
tosched only with great danger to life at
that time. Thousands upon thousands of
these are now cut out without interfering
with a day's work.
The Doctors Mayo of Rochester,
Minnesota, who just gave $2,000,000 to the
University of Minnesota for a Medical
Foundation, show a mortality rate of
NirJHL LAKTY
men--gypsies are a dark-hued race, remember—are
only forms of the suppressed Impulse to get away and
be care-free—to wander at will, sleep where the night
finds them, to give free rein to primitive instinct and
desire, mixed with the romance complex.
~The laws of man-made society, conventions, too high
culture pressure on unripe brains cause a riot of re
bellion and the pushing of primal impulses, and the
boy or girl flees the painful restraint. : < R
i When a boy cannot be kept at home, when he is a
‘chronic truant, try to get into his soul, his thoughts,
his feelings. Don't blame or punish him. Look into
your own family history.
The cause is somewhere in his mother's family—'way,
'way back. The blood is in your lad, and unjust pun-
Ishment will only sour him, and when the opportunity
comes he will go away.
Sometimes this inheritance has so long been sup
pressed that a man happily married and successful
breaks out into a long spree. He I 8 the one who loses
for the time being his identity, wanders under another
name, takes up jobs or does work entirely strange to
his ordinary lite, and when he comes to himself has no
memory of his spree life—of his other gypsy self,
It is due to the wander blood his mother transmit
ted to him. Of course, she did not know she had this
blood in her velns. It had skipped several generations
as far as she was ooncerned. But not entirely, for it
the facts were obtainable it would be found that some
of her Immediate ancestors had been rovers in the
world.” In this country it is not usual to know just
what kind of lives our ancestors of three hundred years
past lived, but a large number of the Anglo-Saxon stock
must have Gypsy blood flowing in the maternal lines.
As a general proposition we can say that most of
them were real wanderers or female followers of elan,
tribe and camps. The development of what we are ac
customed to call civilization gradually forced men to
abide in a community and settle there. The majority
had the wander desire controlled, but not killed. Their
wives and daughters were compelled, willy nilly, to
stay by the distaff ‘and firesfde. Those who rebelled
were sent to the convents or otherwise disposed of in
an effective manner. But the desire to wander, be free,
to live a nomadic life, was always smouldering, for
many of these women were direct descendants of or
themselves captives from wandering tribes.
80 now that individual freedom for the woman {e
the rule, these ancestral female traits are breaking out
roundings her good time means late hours, a lot of
dancing and just a cocktail or two to spice the eve
ning. It she doesn't get married before she’s thirty,
the chances are that the artificial good time becomes
hectic, rouge has to take the place of natural color,
belladonna in the eyes is made the substitute for a
£ood night's aleep, and the nerves are apt to get out
of tune. . ]
The biggest majority of city women, however, business
girls especially, are of quite a different type. They are
not as rosy-cheeked as their country sisters, not as viva
clous as their gayer city cousins. But they are a lot
keener, and In a quiet way suggest efficlency. There's
something very satisfactory in the friendship and the
love of a business woman, who 18 acoustomed to meet-
eighttenths of 1 per cent in one of the
most serious of internal operations oa
women.
Tens of thousands of hernias or rup
tures, are now cured by operation withous
& death. 80 successful, indeed, is this
operation that trusses are beginning to be
considered .out of date,
Those strongholds of vitality, the heart
#ac and the skull chamber, are now opened
with impunity. The cavities of the brain
itsel? are emptied, foreign bodies are ex.
tracted, convulsions and facial neuralgia
are cured, large goitres are cut away, the
heart is stitched, the lungs sutured, ‘the
kidneys cleaned out, nerves transplanted;
Joints, bones, skin and ligaments are criss-
Without Which AMERICA
Would NEVER Have
} Been DISCOVERED
in daughters not kept strictly under supervision and,
control. From twelve to eighteen years of age is the
dangerous age of the young woman—the only danger
ous age for a normal woman. If during that period a
girl is permitted license, freedom, self-care, we may
expect to see her wander from the fireside, perhaps
never to return, or if so after she has ruined her life.
On account of the uncertainty of really just what
instinots a mother has endowed her daughter, it is
necessary that the dangerous~age .for the impulse to
become a modern nomad should be watched, :overr{ed,
controlled. ) otk i
It parents will remember that in their blood flow
many hidden traits whose expressions of actiyity ja
the primal ancestors, or later on by the cave man a
his hélpmate—your grandparents a few thousand yea
back—were all right, but may break out in gome mo
ern form in the unwatched girl, worry and sorrow will
avold the home.
Most ot our reformatorfes for truant and runaway
girls and Boys are founded upon ignorance and total
lack of appreciation of the power of primitive instinct
in the young. ( : ;
If a boy was born with the remnants of an ancestral
tall~-and there have been such—would you put a muz
zle upon him? }
No; the surgeon would be called to see that the boy
did not carry around optical evidence of his old, old,
great-grandfather’s caudal appendage. 5
To put.a boy in a reform-school because he runs away
from home and school is to admit total ignorance of
that inherited trait which causes him to wander. It
is his psychological tail, just as the other kind would
be his anatomical. ZHere we need the mental surgeon'
to act, understand and try to place the Instinet under
contented #elf-control.
When understanding and kind appreciation of his
psychological state fails to check the instinct, let the
boy do the thing he likes to do. If going to sea, being
a 4 brakeman, travelling with a clrcus or Wild West
show, joining the army or exploring expeditions is what
he craves, let him go,
+ "It may break the mother's heart for the time being,
but any other course will break her heart forever.
In other words, we cannot entirely suppress these
primitive instincts when they are strong enough to
make the boy defy ordinary conventions or laws made
to suppress these Inborn impulses. They are too pow
erfully imbedded tn his make-up, and any other method
except that of guiding them into useful channels means
ruin to the boy for life. ]
Will Do for Yo
ANY physicians are strong advocates of the “salt
M rub.” It 48 splendid for patients not too 11,
and &= matchless in its effects upon the skin
and complexion.
With all these virtues it is the simplest and most
easily managed of all similar measures, and can be
taken at home easily.
Put a few pounds of coarse salt—the coarsest you
can get, sea salt by preference—in an earthen jar, and
pour enough water on it to produce a sort of slush,
but not enough to dissolve the salt.
This should be taken up in handfuls and rubbed
briskly over the entire person. Any one in ordinary
health can do it for herself very satisfactorily.
This being done, the mext thing is a thorough
douching of clear water, preferably cold, and a brisk
rubbing with a dry towel.
The effect of elation, freshness and renewed life is
immediately felt, and the satiny texture of the skin
and increased clearness and brightness of the com
plexion after a salt rub swell the testimony in its favor,
Ing and to judging men, and knows thelr worth,
It's good, after some time spent in the country, to
come back to city life and see the types of its women,
They all show an alert understanding of life. For
these there 18 no age limit; they remain attractive until
well ¢a in life. When you come to think of it, the
difference between the werds “business woman” and
“old maid” tells a big story. The first Is probably
woman who hasn't felt that marriage *was her only out
look. The “old maid” is a case of failure; marriage
was her only end, and she didn't land anything,
There's no getting away from it—except for the few
years of youth the city business woman s vastly more
attractive than ber country cousin, or than any other
Qpe of city woman. ‘
crossed with the ald of the knife. All ot
this 1s made possible by antiseptics, which
destroys germs.
Dr. Almoth E. Wright, the Lord Lister
of to-day, is now at work on the battle
fields of Europe with even newer dis.
coveries. These Include methods whereby
wounds already infected with poisons can
be rendered ‘“aseptic” or “antiseprtic”
without further weakening the vietfeus
When his researches are given to the
world, it will be found possible even to
save by the knifs those timorous persons
who now commit sufelde by postponing
until too late operations In cases of can
cer, appendicitis, ote., where blood poison
ing has already degun,