Newspaper Page Text
® ® The Greatest Deeds in History Have Been Performed by Those Whose Love of Mankind Exalted Ther Souls to Forgetfulness of Self e
D . :
+Thlt GEORGIANS MAGAZINE PAGE—>
LWty Seriel.of B B)e .
The Unchastened
. Woman :-
Novelized from the play by Louis K
Anspacher, now running at the Thirty
ninth Street Theater, under the direc
tion of Oliver Morosco. Copyright, 141 J,
by the International News Service.
By ANN LISLE.
(Continued From Saturday.
“What do youa mean!” cried Mich
ul,'fiaensing her undertone at last.
“That isn't argument. That's eva
sion.”
Lawrence sprang to his feet and
burtled out an order: “Emily and
Michael, vou've =aid abhout enough
now; please go!'"”
Hildegarde's tone of quiet dignity
attempted command of the situation,
“By nc means., Mrs, Knolvs will be
good enough to explain herself.”
Caroline knew, however, that it was
she who dominated the situation. She
was the focus of attention now. The
center of the stage, a position which
she had commandeered all her life,
like the true pirate she was, was
again completely hers. |
She smiled very charmingiy. “Since
You insist, it is simply because I re
fuse to sit at the same table with my
husband's mistress.”
There was a moment of absolute
silence while each nature reacted to
the audacity of Mrs. Knolys' state
ment. To anyone who had looked &t
her Emily must have delivered at
once the confession of her own gullt,
She fairly drooped before the fusil
lade Mrs. Knolys had directed at her.
Krellin was the first to recover
himself, and, obvious for the first
time, he shouted his flerce denial.
“That's a lie! A black, malicloas
le!"
“Oh, no!" returned Caroline, still
smiling with an effect of indifferent
ease that tormented Emily the mage.
“She doesn't even know your hus
band!” cried Michael, stumbling on
blindly in defense of his sweethear:,
Caroline’s taunt was absolutely
confident. If everyone else were star
ing at her, she, at least, was devoting
her attention to Emlly.
There was something rather mag
nificent in Krellin's qulet dignity as
he towered, dark and menacing, over
the woman who was managing at last
to elude him and to conquer him be
cause he must now of necessity lose
his sense of humor,
What was life and death to him
was nothing % Caroline but a sii
uation which other situations less
pleasant to herself had at last en
abled her to create.
‘*Ask Her!'' Cries the
Triumph Caroline.
“Madam, I am not here to insult ner
myself, but to defend her against your
attempt to do so!” stormed Michae!
Krellin.
“Ask her, and you will learn it was
for my husband's sake your article
was repressed.” concluded Caroline,
turning her final dart upon the man
himself. “But he no doubt has paid
Miss Madden for any loss you may
have suffered. Come, Susan.” She
turned to the Sandburys with a mad
dening air of social grace which had
not “for one moment deserted her.
*“l've had a delightful luncheon. My
wrap, please, Lawrence.”
“Mre. Knolys,” sald Krellin quietly,
“of course, you can not go until 1
have relieved your mind from any
misapprehension about your hus
band.”
Caroline decided that it was time
to direct the attention of the com
pany to Miss Madden. She managed
it with a word. “But unfortunate.y
1 seem to affect Miss Madden dis-
Agreeably.”
Emily Madden staggered to her foot
and suddenly the kind old arms of
that ignored derelict, Mrs. Murtha’
went about her,
“Fer th' love o Gawd, th' poor
gurrls goin' t' faint!"”
“Take me home, Michael-—take me
home.” cried Emily.
~ “Take Miss Madden home. " was
Michael's order to Mrs. Murtha, iHe
himself proposed to stay and deal
with Caroline for Emily's greater
500 d. But though he was a man and
fould not know it, Emily's Ereater
§ood at that moment lay in just one
thing—the comfort of hix arms about
her,
. Susan Ambie was vociferating her‘
e
‘ A:\ .
R, i. Dr. Hutchison, the famous
La g dietitian, says that macaroni
hx 7 a 4 ils absorbed by the system al
age, S f// mostinitsentirety. Think what
lOc \ N ¥/ that means. Faust Macaroni,
-g/ nich in gluten, is practically ali
o B utilized in theé building up of
\ T 4 “ muscle and tissue. And Faust
¢ 4 Macaroni is easy to digest. too. Get
Y b 7 our free recipe book and find out
s Y the many savory dishes you can pre
‘*P' pare with Faust Macaroni.
&
MAULL BROS., St. Louis, U. S. A.
terror over and over again in de
lmandfl to her Carrie to come away
from these awful people. Lawrence
]v as apologetically trying to extract
| Caroline from the difficulty he per
sigted in thinking someone else had
made, Hildegarde wag besieging
Michael to go with Emily,
But the two 2n agonists were con
scious oniy of each other,
Wild with rage, Krellin was facing
his insolently smiling enemy. “Mrs.
Knolys has permitted herseif to utter
a filthy, common, vicious lie! And
Pl
Krellin in a Rage
Gives Her the Lie.
“But this is not the time to discuss
it,_ began Hildegarde,
“A filthy LIE!" went on Michael in
fury.
“See here, you can't use that kind of
larguage to my friend,” cried Law
rence,
But Krellin swept him aside sav
agely. “Your friend! You Ilittle lap
dog! 1 want nothing from you—jugt
Ilnuk to yourself!"”
But now Hildegarde came to Mich
ael's side and turned him to the door
way through which Mae Murtha was
helping Emily-—and Emily, so weak
and shaken that Michael could hardly
recognize the truth of his perceptions.
But he knew where he was needed
now, and as Hildegarde urged him on
’he turned with suppressed vehemence
to the woman whose words had had
the malign power so to alter Emily.
“Mrs. Knolys, I shall do myself the
pleasure of continuing this conversa
tion in the presence of your husband.”
Then, as he went, a new antagonist
approached Caroline, 1t was Hilde
garde, qulet and sure of herself. No
more was she held in check by the
difficulty of acting as hostess to this
aloof and censorious woman of the
world. The lawa of hospitality could
hold her no longer. Now she could
dismiss the dragging necessity of he
ing agreeable to Lawrence's friend,
The situation had given her again the
privilege of being supremely herself,
“Mrs. Knolys, I must have a word
with yoa" Hildegarde's volce was
very qulet and very sure. Instinc
tively Caroline telt respect for any
adversary who did not rely upon
shouting and the emphas's of the
raised volee for victory,
“Now, she's going to begin'” cried
Susan dizzily, more hectic than ever
from the Scoteh and the excitement.
“Of all the frightful experiences!
Carrie, you must get out of this."”
“Hildegarde, don't you think we'd
better drop 1t?" asked Lawrence an
grily.
6¢ JU isn't only in reference to Miss
IMndden that 1 wish to speak,”
returned Hildegarde, meaningly,
Caroline smiled loftily. 8o Law
rence’s wife was really jealous! That
bad its effect on her—but not quite
the effect poor, addle-brained Susan
Amble seemed to think.
Hysterically that individual shout
ed: “I knew it, Carrie! But you're
wrong, Mrs. Sanbury! No matter
what you think * * * people have such
vile minds!"™
And, not at all suspecting that in
her suspicions of other people's view
points she laid her own mind open to
the criticism of not ‘being quite free
from vileness, Miss Ambie made a
mental clutch at her somewhat dislo
cated faculties and went on, specifi
cally: “I was with Mrs. Knolys all
the time. except once when 1 took sick
* * * vour husband knows it * * * ang
80 does Mr. Knolys ** * and——" |
. “What are you talking about ?* ask- |
od Lawrence witha stupidity that ac
tually was not entirely feigned. He
“had boyishly idealized his relation with
lt‘nmunn into a lofty friendship, which
that lady would utterly have scorned.
And, since he hardly knew his own
‘mind in the matter, he could scarcely
have been expected to guess hers o
the world's.
Susan ambled on, seeing in herself
the noble defender of an innocence of
which she had, after all, no reason to
be very sure. “And if her kKindness is
10 be misinterpreted * * ¢ (hep—.. ™
“Say, Miss Amble, what's on vour
mind ™ demanded Lawrence, angriiy.
But Caroline stlenced him with a
Resture. There was too much of ob-
® S M., M. D
OUR MISUNDERSTOOD NERVES § By WOODS HUTCHINSON, A. M., M. D.
Republished by Permission of GOOD HOUSEK EEPING MAGAZINE for December, in Which It Is One of Many Notable Features
T e T Py TT BT
L PR 5 L A SR % o 5, < PaTETS . L e
7 . i "‘,, f"’_: 4”, ’ s P A -'z,‘;-'}x(‘§3i ;,3"4 % L 4 i -~ g 3 g 5 s““&' W’ “ 3 ffi"
i/‘ f, \g %l sy A g Byt %( - 3 1 B o iAy ; ) ge e B :
‘n"‘r ; b N fl)\ j /"‘ L i s i‘*” ;- g W- o N f 3 ‘ P v¢ e A:»i‘»x ¥‘& :
; 4:\ 1 7 4t il s :2 3,‘" T :&‘ o. l '.,‘ o&5 7, 3 = “'Q' J : g ¥ “’%\( : ;‘_\,zz,vfg,wp_;. N‘s‘ ,&?A h
; 4 A / 7 % el = ’ g, o 4 4 P - B, : ot L % R ko koo
L e ; ; i ‘ ; i, .Ay e ety ; TN, TMR T E S i 3
i S ; e L Bsk ? ] ¥ His . " BRI R O o e ’ e T
_ .o i i A wO, W .. ~ a 2 Lg B S S eT g e
s & i / s B : GVN Peal LRerE R v . ;
p ' j t‘ o 2 g nll e L oA L A . g ’
4 2/ :;4 \’ b 1 A gii .b o 3£ P ; > i % 8 3
1 /) s ‘,, i ; i A 3 } f § i £ :
4)GLA!PO | i . » s ;
ve p i & 7 % 3 / g "{‘:'. \IA ’;‘ ‘V.‘." i con - S g ;
g g ' . - T ; . o W/ . ey A
i i , T T / Y , - . s iE Y s
e P ¥ P o Larin, T \ » - W g R
~0.% W s R
: £¥ B lrfl‘ i 1 , f?fl » .ol iB i ‘»f\':{-:; 4+ GG S 2 5 3
: (ot G i j v g R e g E s
i 5% 4 § oA By G 3 Bk RS n
7 # { ;‘~~,-; w"% ‘h{h“" ,g’% ~ 7 ,-f S 5 t:;: 5:%5%2:3 ._”;’ o d S R \
Ve SRE Vg gl R : GRE L e S ; . Ge L ;
il L m ol =, B i B LAR e '
[t’s mot a “‘killing pace” we live to-day. Asamatter of fact, modern business life furnishes the brain and nervous system more wholesome exercise than did any pre
vious condition of man—which is to say that men and women whose nerves are a ‘*wreck’ would better look less to ‘‘business cares’’ for the
cause and more to'their habits of eating. sleeping and exercising.
vious innocence i.n his attitude, It
did not fit in with the sudden, rather
desperate inspiration that had come
to her. On Hildegarde's face there
was an expression of puzzled doubt,
With that Caroline Knolys intended to
deal.
Susan collapsed suddeniy. The last
flare o/ emotion had left her guite
wetak. She was guilty of more mand
lin tears and a sobbing, “Oh, every
body's crazy!"”
Lawrence answered her, disgusted
ly: “You're right there!” And (henl
he turned, rather helplessly, to Hilde- |
garde: “Hildegarde, I hope that you |
don’t think-—oh, what's the use?’ But |
the expression on Hildegarde's face
had startled him, too; it was quite un
like the sweet placidity that was ac
customed to dwell there. |
Abruptly, Caroline broke in: “Quite
so! Lawrence, get Susan home " 1‘
Lawrence attempted to protest, but
orders came to him from a new quar
ter. It was Caroline who dismissed
him!
“Please go. 1 wish to talk with your |
wife,” ordered Mrs, Knolys. “Send th]
motor back for me immediately, * * ‘l
Oh—and remember you have engage
ments for this afternoon.” ’
Lawrence obeyed orders, and, even
as he went, he was mystified by a'
look crowded full of meaning which
passed between Hildegarde and Caro- i
line. As he left the room Hildegarde
closed the door after him with a
strange air of finality. There was a
pause as the two women stood tak
ing mental measurements of each
other,
Into the somber silence Caroline in
terjected a sudden remark: “You're
not going to lock me in, 1 hope!"
Gravely, Hildegarde replied: "N’o;'
but after you leave this room. | want
You to pass out of our lives forever.”
“Your life, that's very simple. You
have something else to *ay to mo‘.‘"l
asked Caroline lightly —so |inh|l,v‘
that the studied insolence of it struck
Bfdegarde like a Mow. !
“So many things—l hardly kn,rai
where to begin.” |
“Let me help you. We'll eH‘mlnmn
Miss Madden.” returned Caroline
“We will not ellminate Miss Mad
den. We-have a different sense of
values—you and l—-but we are both
married women. Emily is differen:’
She has nothing but her friends, Mi
chael and me, and we together will
force you to retract”
Hildegarde had chosen at last to
project herse!f from the background
Jin which she had remained quietly
jand patiently during the long hour
when Caroline had dominated the
unfortunate luncheon party,
When there was nothing more ut
stake than her own discomfort and
belittlement, she seemed quite con
tented to endure in silence. Many a
| good woman is like that. For herse'f
she will not fight, but when someone
she loves s involved her sense of
Justice compels her to take the fight
to her unwonted center of the stage
and to battle for what she considers
A cause worthier of conflict than her
own mere self might be
Hildegarde's quietness was very av.
ident to Caroline. And Mrs. Knolys
had very little respect for martyr
folk. But Hildegarde's strength es
caped Mrs. Knolys entirely.
“Retract the truth? What else?’
demanded Caroline, scornfully.
But Hildegarde went on with quiet
determination. She was not welf.
conscious in her strength and fires
ness, but she knew that she meant to
stand by Emily,
“And make a full apology to her "
“1 have never apologized in my life”
Mrs. Knolyw's tone dismissed the sug.
gestion. what had never bheen most
assuredly would never be
(To Be Continued.;
UR mnerves are the most misun
derstood things about us—and
the toughest. They are a sin
gular mixture of mother's darling ana
tough kid, .
" They are not misunderstood in the
‘suffer-in-silence, hugging-their-cross,
;Chrlstlnn—marlyr sense of the term. On
the contrary, they scream =o loudly be
fore they are hurt, and faint so con
vincingly whenever ‘‘chores” are men
!Honed. that they escape all discipline
and dirty work in the body household,
i And as they are abundantly able to
‘llrk anybody else in the body family
that makes faces at them they have the
casiest time and “softest job” of all our
body tissues,
It is the business of the mnerves to
%be sensitive, to respond instantly to the
’nm whisper or thrill of danger, and
their paradox is that the healthier they
are the more delicate they are. “'Steady”
nerves. in the sense of stolid, dull, slow
respondfng neurons, are the worst and
“unhealthiest” kind that anybody can
have
Civilized nerves are far more sensi
tive than savage nerves, but civilized
man, by virtue of more sensitive nerves,
has grown taller, stronger, more endur
ing, become less subject to disease than
the *“noblest” savage ever vet discov
ered and lives nearly three times as
long. . .
The trouble is that we have allowed
our nerves to impose on us. Not con
tent with being of great and real im
portance, they have insisted on being
considered the ‘“whole show” and
crowned dictators of the body republic.
Just as one given an inch of advan
tage is prone to make it a vard. so our
'nervoun system has gradually presumed
upon its privileges until it has hypno
tizéd us Into the belles that the state
of our nerves is the most important
consideration in the world.
It is only fair to recall that we have
ourselves actively assisted in creating
this fllusion of the supreme importance
and delicacy of the nervous system.
Ever since we discovered that we had
A& brain, we have been so enormously
proud of that swollen ecephalic bulb
which houses what we are pleased to
jterm our mind that we cagerly bow
Idn\n befor= it and vorsmb it and de
clare it to be the only thing about our
vile body which is really worth consid
ering.
Mind maketh man, and the brain is
the seat of the mind!
Recently. however we have come to
i'ulml that our mind, whatever we
I mean by the toVn. %o far from being
Imflnod to our /brain or even ehlefy
residing there, pervades every region
of our body,
We Have the Whip Hand.
Fortunately we still have the whip
hapd of our nerves, and possess means
(1o limit their tyranny and check their
delusions of grandeur whenever we will,
While in one senge the brain and nerves
are the biggest and bosslest things in
the body, in another sense they are
the weakest and most dependent,
They have wonderful exécutive pow -
ors, but they have no control over the
finances. Brain may be president of oyr
body republic, but stomach still re.
mains the legislative body which alone
3("!! raise money and vote supplies
We can. at will, starve or poison our
Rerves into wild but impotent revolt,
or we can feed and play them into good
behavior.
In fact. the secret of success in deal
ing with the nervous system is to Pay
little or no attention to it directly, but
to feed and rest and exercise all the
Test of the body into perfect condition;
then the nervous system will “Baa-bas
hoppee long 100,” as the Chinese ver.
slon of “Mary had a little lamb™ hath {1
Nothing that is done to the brain or
mind, or by the mind, has the siight
est permanent effect upon either insan
ity or nervous breakdown. save in so
far as mental impressions influence
physieal conduct.
Food is the master word in neurol.
OFY. Just as much as it Is In cutte.
feading. or egg-production, or factory
output. Take care of your digestion,
your play, amd sour sheep, and your
nerves will take care of themselves, \
Our nerves are not breaking down
under modern civilization; on the con-
Qrary, they are thriving and zrowlng}
fat on it. i
But if this be true, how did we get
such an absolutely contrary impression?
The misapprehension rests mainly upon
two facts,
In the first place, as we have already
seen, we mistake the ringing sentinel
challenge of the nerves at the first foot
fall of danger for a sign of disease or
weakness in them,
It is often the people most “delicate”
in youth who live to the ripest old age,
because their nerves alwavs scent dan-
R ahead in time for them to side-!
step llt.
The second reason for this werong im
pression is that we confuse the recogni
'lion of a disease with its prevalence,
and imagine that because we have had
the wit finally to discover a disease.
therefore it gas only just been created!
It is only within the last two or three
hundred years that humanity has be
come intelligent enough to recognize the
larke bulk of nervous and other chronic
diseases,
Whereupon, with logic positively in
fantile in its feebleness, we dub them
“new’ and declare that they have only
just come into existence, and that if
they continue to increase at the rate
at which we have discovered them,
they will devour us alive and wipe out
the race within a few generations! We
mistake an increase of our ability ta
recognize and talk abou: a disease for
an increase in its prevalence.
The Insanity Bug.
Take, for instance, the widely trum
peted belief in the increase of insanity.
The most thoughtful and competent ex
perts, both medical and statistical, are
now almost unanimous in the opinion
that the increase of insanity in modern
times is almost entirely upon paper.
That is to say, we are recognizing
and officlally registering every vear
more of the ill-balanced minds in the
community than we ever did before.
So far from insanity being peculiarly
a disease of civilization, a penalty of
education and culture, it is precisely the
opposite,
Every savage tribe that has been
carefully studied has shown a higher
percentage of insanity than any known
civilized nation, and every half-civilized
race yields more lunatics than any high-
Iy eivilized one.
It is the lowest and most primitive
class of soclety that sends the largest
percentage of its numbers into the in
sane asylume, both public and private,
and the highest class that sends the
lowest percentage. Our foreign-born
immigrants, for instance, contribute
nearly double the percentage that our
native-born population does.
But when all is said and done, and
the very blackest figures are accepted,
the most thoroughly registered and
highly intellectualized of modern com
munities, such as Massachusetts, for in.
stance, show a total insanity rate of
only about four in the thousand, less
than one-half of one per cent.
And even allowing that there are four
mild, or unrecognized cases outside the
asylums for every one In them. this
would make only two per cent of all
grades of ‘mental defectives in the en
tire community.
If the grim eluteh of clreumstance,
and the “slings and arrows of outra-
Reous fortune,” acting upon our de
fenseless nervous systems through more
than five thousand vears of various de-
Srees of civilization, have succeeded in
Crazing only two per cent of us, we
surely need not have any very grave
apprehension for the integrity of our
nervous systems in the future!
The strong probability is that so far
from insanity being on the increase, we
have less of it now than we ever had
in any previous age.
He would certainly be a bold man
who would contend, in view of the dis-
Rusting and degrading superstitions, the
childishly ignorant bellefs, and the im
becile philosophies of the universe,
whieh not merely “got by," but were im.
plicitly belleved by the human race two,
three or four thousand years ugo. that
the prevalence of insanity and feeble
mindedness could possibly have been
less then than it is now.
Indeed, a considerable percentage not
only of the priests, magicians, prophets
and founders of new religions, but also
of so-called wise men, geniuses, states
men and great conquerorS of past ages,
like Alexander, Attila and Genghis
‘Khnn-—to say nothing of their modern
‘would-be imitators—can now be recog
}nlzed as clearly and unmistakably in
‘sane,
| The most charitable view that we can
itake, not.merelv of the heliefs, but of
‘the behavior of our ancestors in that
riot of murder, pillage and pestilence
known as the Dark Ages, is that a con
siderable share of them were really—
not quite responsible.
This interpretation is supported by
the high percentage of insanity and im
becility in the most direct and un-
Ivhanged survivors of that period, the
royal houses of Europe.
| True of Other Diseases.
What is true of insanity is equally
(true of practically all other diseases of
the nervous system. Some of these have
[heen Known by the medical profession
for hundreds of years—indeed, in a
Vague sort of a way, for thousands of
[yeara—rbut the vast majority of them
Were practically unknown to the laity,
land hence imperfectly recognized by the
' profession until about forty or fifty years
ago.
l As a consequence, we have suddenly
discovered the accumulation of centu
ries, S 0 to speak, within little more
than a single lifetime, and the apparent
mass and magnitude of them, not un
naturally, alarms us. But the moment
we begin to get their perspective, to
study them in relation to their com
lparatl\'e proportion to diseases of other
Organs, we are reassured at once.
. Roughly speaking. the body is made
iup of five great systems of about equal
magnitude and importance, the digest
ive, the circulatory, the respiratory, the
nervous, and the N.firepresemed re~l
spectively by the stomach and intes
tines: the heart and the blood \'esulu.!
\lhe lungs, the brain and the nerves,
and the muscles and bones. -
Arranging these five syvstems accord-
Mg to the number of deaths due to their
breakdown or disease, with the weakest
and least resisting at the top, the lungs
occupy that bad eminence--congump
tion. pneumonia and their allies being
responsible for nearly a third of al
{douflmvwhne,lhe nervous system comes
' next to the last,
! That is to say, judging by the fre
iqm-n('_\ with which its discases and
Ibrecl\downu cause death, the nervous
’u) stem is the toughest,
. Not only is this general statement
true, but when we study the returns
2more closely, we find that many, if m)l‘(
‘mosl. of the deaths attributed to the
Nervous system are really due to and
dependent upon diseases beginning in
luome other system. 1
. For Instance, apoplexy, or “stroke of
évlral,\‘all." usually classified, and in a
sense correctly, under diseases of lhnf
' nervous system, is really due to decay ‘
Land rupture of the coats of the blood
vessels supplying the brain, and ml:ln‘
!fuirl)‘ be classed as a discase of the
circulatory system,
~ The control which these and similar
!fncu give us over the prevention of
[m-r\'ons diseases is most important and |
practical. In the first place, in a small
percentage of cases, like Insanity, fee ‘
Ime-mlndodneu. and certain paralyses
of chiidhood, we have to begin, in
Holmes' phrase, “with the grand
parents,” tfor heredity plays a heavy
pare,
But in a large majority of cases con
trol of the causes of the disease falis
l'llh'n the lifetime of the individual.
The Most Important,
l The first and one of the' most im
portant ways to prevent and check the
l-wo.d of nervous diseases is to fight
Aguinst general infections and fevers.
Tt would hardly be too much to say that
two-thirds of our definite and serious
diseases of the nervous system are due
to its Invasions by the germs or poisons
of general infections.
First and toremost among them comes
syphills, wirich is the sole cause of the
two most serious forms of general paral.
yale, known as paresih and locomotor
ataxia. 1t also causes between 10 and
-15 per cent of all insanity in men, as
paresis ends in insanity.
Then come the after-effects upon the
brain and nervous system of such dis
eases as typhoid fever, pneumonia and
tuberculosis, particularly, and in a less
degree, scarlet fever, measles, diphthe
ria and even the grippe and tonsilitis,
A careful study of the number of ad
missions into our State asylums shows
a steady increase after each extensive
epidemic of these infectious diseases
in the State.
Nearly 15 per cent of all insanity ‘il
now attributed to the poisons of the
common infections; these are regarded
at least as its immedigte exciting
causeg,
The second commonest cause of:in
sanity is overwork, especially under un
favorable conditions. The percentage of
operatives in our modern factories who
are made at least temporarily insane by
the lomg hours and the monotony of
their work, and of school children in
Germany who commit suicide, is pit
iable.
The next commonest cause of nerv
ous diseases is under-feeding, particu
larly a shortage of certain elements
which will be deficient in any but a
rich and well-varied diet.
Chief among these come fats. partic
ularly butter and cream, which on ac
count of expensiveness are apt to be
omitted or limited in 'mount. Para
PURITY
The ingredients of the food
you eat and give your children
should be pure and healthful
beyond any question.
+ Various food officials and
pure food experts have frequently
endorsed Royal Baking Powder as
being superior to all other simi
lar preparations, and many of the
great chemists of the world,
including most of those of
official position, have given
like testimony.
No other article of food has
ever received such emphatic
commendation for purity, strength
and wholesomeness, from the most
eminent authorities, as Royal
Baking Powder.
Because Royal Baking Powder
adds only healthful qualities to
the food is one of the reasons why
it is always preferred by teach
ers of cookery and “he medical
profession.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.
New York
San Francisco confirms your selection
Awarded Gold Medal
Highest Honor for India-Ceylon Teas
” Sar Francisco, 1915
- .
e Ridguegys Tea
“SAFE.-TEA FIRST" and Always
Awarded Gold Madal, San Francses, 1915
TR b At all L. W. Rogers Stores. P .
doxical as it may sound, nearly i{wo
thirds of our brain and nervous system
consists of fat, a delicate, phosphorized,
fatty substance called lecithin, which
plays an important and most vital part,
not only as a food and protection to
the nerve cells, but by entering into
their chemical reactions in a most inti
mate way. .
We are only just beginning to under
stand the reason for the high value
which man has always placed upon but
ter and cream, or, failing these, 6ther
animal fats in his dietary.
No vegetable fat or oil will fiil the
bill, and animal fats other than butter
or cream will fill it only imperf\ecu.
especially in children,
You can starve your nerves into “‘see
ing things,” not only by fasting as the
founders of primitive religion did when
they wanted to get new revelations and
see visions, but also by living upon a
monotonous, inadequate diet, poor in
fresh meats, fresh vegetables, fresh
fruits and butter-fats.
So that if your child is thin and nerv
ous and excitable the b?t thing to do
is to let his mind entirely alone, forget
that he has a “temperament” and try
to put some fat on him.
(Finish this interesting article in Good
Housekeeping Magazine for December.
You will find a wealth of good fiction
and features there also.)