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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN I~' HAVE changed my winter book on the presidential race of 1936 My long shot special sleeper now is Glenn Prank of Wisconsin on the Republican ticket. Dr. Frank spoke here before the convention of the National Education Association. Monday night, and It was Just the speech a Republican long-shot sleeper should have made. I told him I had already bet 5 cents on him against 1230. And it is true that Dr. Frank hailed me as a spendthrift plunger. Indeed, he asserted that he would lay me even longer

odds and that my notion of his political ambitions and potentialities was fantastic and ridiculous. But I know better than Dr. Frank. More than 10 years ago Mrs. Frank said to me, “Os course, Glenn is eventually going to the White House.” And she didn’t mean for supper. Mrs. Frank is a determined woman and has the gift of intuition. Asa matter of fact, Glenn Frank fits, the Republican requirements exactly. He is liberal enough to fall into the group which the Herald-Tribune vaguely labels

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“the younger element” and yet there is nothing In his program to cause the old guard much alarm. Although not exactly the buddy of Phil La Follette and Young Bob. they might be forced to string along with him compelled to choose as an alternative either a right swing Roosevelt or a Fascist Huey Long. a a a Potential Standard Hearer ,TN spite of his laughing denials I must insist that X his address was the document of a gentlelnan who has heard the buzzing of the bee. Dr. Frank apoke for more than an hour and said not a single word which could have offended any one of the thousands of school superintendents who have been sitting on the crater-edge of controversy since Charles A. Beard tossed in Hearst and blew the whistle to announce the beginning of hostilities. In all fairness to Dr. Frank it should be added that he did speak out boldly and forthrightly against the red-baiting of the publisher. But these things were no* in his speech and came out as replies to questions. ■'That was certainly a magnificent speech we heard tonight.” one of the educators said to me in the lobby of the convention hall. "What was great about it?” I asked crossly. “What did he say?” "Well. I can t exactly remember anything he said, but it sounded good.” Where could the Republican party find a finer and more appropriate standard bearer? Asa matter of fact. I can remember one thing Glenn Frank said. He declared in ringing school or college manner that the remaining resources must be administered with the greatest passible wisdom. And nobody will ever come to blows on assertions of that sort. As yet no blows have been struck on the convention floor or along the corridors of the Hotel Traymore, but the educators certainly stand in embattled array along the shore of the Atlantic. But for the fact that nobody is firing gin bottles out the window the casual observer might almost mistake the assembled teachers for a group of Democrats about to deadlock. a a a Gire ns Up in Arms SO far the credit for this pleasing liveliness belongs to the so-called "radical” group. Teachers are traditionally a little timid when suddenly assailed bv an> such powerful force as the whole weight of the Hearst press. But this time there has been no disposition to take the attack lying down. Certain eminent and orthodox old gentlemen with long gray beards are suddenly breathing fire and shouting, “When you call me that, smile.” For instance. Willard E. Givens, w'ho comes from Mr Hearsts owm kingdom of California, has never by the most remote fantasy been Identified as a radical and yet he is up in arms with the rest. He was startled yesterday to find himself quoted as criticising those "who are trying to put a soap-box in every schoolroom.” Mr. Givens' mild objection is that he never said It and that he feels he has a right to be consulted before being quoted. He doesn't want to be surprised again. But I think Mr. Hearst is deserving of at least one compliment. As King George was the instrument which drove scattered colonists into a united nation, just so has the attack of William Randolph Hearst brought to American educators for the first time the necessity of solidarity and organization. • Copyright, 19351

Science —T BY DAVID DIETZ

/ T'' HE medical world next month will observe the x 800th anniversary of the birth of Moses Maimonides. the greatest physician of the Middle Ages. Maimonides. great Jewish scholar and philosopher, as well as a mathematician, astronomer, and physician, was born in Cordova. Spam, on March 30. 1135. Persecution of both Jews and Christians by the Moslem rulers of Spain caused him. his brother, and his father to flee to Cairo, and there, he rose to* fame, first as a great Jewish teacher and rabbi, later as a physician. So great was his fame among the Jews of his day that they called him “the second Moses." indicating that he could be compared only to that Moses who brought the Ten Commandments down from Mt. Sinai. His skill as a physician grew rapidly and in time he became the physician to Saladin. the great and powerful ruler of the Moslem world who defeated King Richard the Lion-Hearted in his attempts to wrest Jerusalem from Moslem control. Not onle the court of Saladin but the common people as well knew of Maimonides and continuously •ought his professional advice. * * M A N interesting light is thrown upon the life of Maimonides by a letter which he wrote to one of his disciples in 1199. He was then 64 years old. He wrote: "Now God knows that in order to write this to you I have escaped to a secluded spot, where people would not think to find me. sometimes leaning for support against the wall, sometimes lying down on account of my excessive weakness, for I have grown old and feeble. "My duties to the sultan are very heavy. I am obliged to visit him every day. early m the morning; and when he or any of his children, or any of the inmates of his harem, are indisposed I dare not quit Cairo, but must stay during the greater part of the day in the palace. It also frequently happens that one or two of the royal officers fall sack, and I must attend to their healing. Hence, as a rule. I repair to Cairo very early in the day. and even if nothing unusual happens. I do not return to Fostat until the afternoon, t Maimonides resided at Fostat about a mile and a half from Cairo.) “Then I am almost dying with hunger. I find the antechambers filled with people, both Jews and Moslems. nobles and common people, who await the time of my return. I dismount from my animal, wash my hands, go forth to my patients and entreat them to bear with me while I partake of some slight refreshment. the only meal I take in the 24 hours. Then I attend to my patients, write prescriptions and directions for their various ailments." m m m MUCK of Maimonides' medical advice has a surprisingly modem flavor. Thus, for example, he summed up his theory of health into two simple rules: "A man should not eat too much, nor should he give up exercise." And again, he saw “If a person took as good care of himself as he does of his domestic animal, he would avoid many diseases." How many modem doctors have observed that their patients gave better care to their automobiles than to themselves? Maimonides was an observer of Nature and like the modem physician he believed In giving Nature A chanca.

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The LOVE LETTERS o} NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Retreat from Moscow “'TNIE mood of lethargy and self-deception in which Napoleon seemed to acquiesce” so Jomini writes “was bound to come to an end, and the awakening was terrible.” Any sort of offensive against St. Petersburg was out of the question. Could Napoleon have proceeded to Volhynia, by way of Kiev, he would have been able to get fresh supplies for the army; but, in that case, he would have had to leave the three army-corps on his left wing at the mercy of the Russians. Napoleon was in doubt what to do He recalled the adventure of Charles XII of Sweden, and his hopeless wanderings in the Russian deserts—for he had read an account of these in a work by the Swedish Chamberlain Alderfeld. He had made a point of borrowing it from the imperial library. Napoleon contented himself with returning to Smolensk by a new route which had not been laid waste by the invading army. The sick and wounded were evacuated to that town from Oct. 15 onwards. Ma chere Louise, I have received your letter of Oct. 1. lou were perturbed at not having any particulars about my entry into Moscow. I hope you will have had some on the 2nd. You will have observed the folly of these people who have set fire to their own country and thus ruined it for centuries, for Moscow was all the more beautiful and astounding a city in that it was almost the only one of its size in this immense country. Let me hear from you soon that the Little King is well and that you are satisfied and more particularly that you are in good health. Adieu, mon amie. Tout a toi. Your faithful and loving husband, NAP Mo!\ow, Oct. 18 (1812). a a ON Oct. 19 Napoleon informed the empress that he was going into winter quarters. The one thing which he would not admit, and could not bring himself to write was that the army was retreating. Ma bonne Louise. I am writing to you just before setting out on horseback to visit my outposts. We are having warm weather here, glorious sunshine, as bright as one can have in Paris in April. We have had no cold weather as yet, we have not yet experienced the severity of these northern climes. It is my intention to go into winter quarters shortly and I hope to be able to have you come to Poland so that we may meet. Kiss the little King for me and never doubt the feelings of your loving husband. Nap. Moscow, the 19th, 7 a. m. (October, 1812). This was the last day spent at

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Dreiv Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Latest cloakroom report is that the government has completed its protracted secret probing of Huey Long's financial affairs and a sensational denouement is due. Administration men contend Huey knows this and that is why he is raising such an uproar for investigation of Jim Farley. He can then claim that any Administratior attack on him is in rataliation for his attacks on

Farley. . . . The Kingfish is more closely guarded than the President. Several of his bodyguard accompany him everywhere, armed with sawed-off shotguns carried in specially made brief cases. . . . The large staff of extra clerks and stenographers in Huey's office, needed to take care of his daily flood of mail, are on the pay roll of the state of Louisiana. No other member of Congress enjoys such a privilege. If they hire extra clerical help they pay for it out of their own pockets. • 0 a tt AFTER Huey had finished his investigation into the plot against his life, he sat down in a Baton Rouge lunch room with Paul Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ordered a huge planer of cabbage and spare ribs and opined: “Well. I've picked a lot of political candidates in my day and there's one lesson I should have learned: Never pick one who has a happy home and family.’’ “Why?” queried Mr. Anderson, who is happily married. “Well, you take some fellow who has a nice little wife and a nice little home and put him in office and after a few days the papers begin shooting at him and the opposition begins calling him all the names under the sun and pretty soon he comes to you and weeps on your shoulder. “His wife, he says, wants him to quit. The neighbors won't speak to her. The neighbor's children raise hell with her children. And so this guy gets to be a regular washout. “But. on the other hand,” continued Huey, “you take some horny-handed hard-boiled guy who doesn’t get along with his wife and put him in office and the papers can call him names and the opposition can lambaste him, but does his wife mind? "No! Nothing they can say is hal f as bad as what she calls him every morning.” 0 0* ONE of the tragic things about every White House incumbent is a condition which best can *

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Bitter as the hardships yet to come upon the: retreat from Moscow, the few days just before the first of November were among the most tragic of all. For at that time the frustrated French forces came again to Moskowa, where, on Sept. 7, nearly two months before, one of the fiercest engagements of the invasion had been fought. The grisly scene came suddenly before the troops. It was like an extinguished volcano, a volcano strewn with helmets, cuirasses, broken guns, tatters of uniforms and thousands of dead bodies. A few wounded still lived and held out their arms in supplication. The illustration above shows the field of M ot'kowa as Napoleon saw it.

Moscow by the Emperor. Since the previous day the Army had been leaving the town uninterruptedly, a huge column of 140,000 fighting men on the march in the van with 550 guns still preserved the fear-inspiring appearance of old warriors, the rabble that followed looked like an army of Darius, or a horde of Tartars. There was to be seen, making their way along in three unending files, a confused throng of coaches, gun-limbers, Berlins and carts of every description, with trophies of flags and the gigantic Cross of the Grand Ivan Church, with which Napoleon intended to adorn the Dome of the Invalides. Mortier, who covered the retreat, had orders to blow up the Kremlin. This was done on Oct. 23. “A vendetta!” writes Jomini, the severe censor of Napoleon. Nay, in order to form a fairer opinion of this deed of Napoleon’s, read his letters to Marie Louise. Mo bonnie amie, I have not heard from you these last two days. I have given you warning that I was moving on and that you must not be uneasy should you be three days, as you may be, without hearing from me. My health is good, my affairs are going well. I have left Moscow after blowing up the Kremlin. It would have taken 20,000 men to remain in possession of the city, destroyed as it is; it interfered with my operation. The weather is very fine; it is misty from early morning until 2 o’clock in the afternoon; then it becomes very fine, and the sun is very warm; in the evening, there is a fine moon until midnight. Such weather is unprecedented. Adio, mio bene, be cheerful and keep in good health.

be summarized in the advertising slogan: “Even his best friend won't tell him.” No one of a President’s many friends and advisers seems ever to be quite willing to step up and tell him that he is slipping. This was particularly true of Hoover; and already it is beginning to be true of one of the shrewdest political observers ever to sit in the White House —Franklin Roosevelt. Within the past month there has been a, sickening feeling in the stomach-pits of a host of New Dealers which told them that with the country at large their leader had lost ground. Despite the favorable gold decision from the Supreme Court, despite the definite business upturn, this feeling has increased. The fear that the President, in trying to straddle both the Right and the Left, may fall in between. The sardonic thing is that the Democrats apparently don't realize that he who destroys his leader destroys himself. For the Democrats are doing most of the undercover knifing. 000 ' I 'HERE was a day when Mr. Roosevelt would have sensed this undercurrent immediately. During the campaign, for instance, he had his ear to the ground every minute. Moley. Louey Howe, and Roosevelt himself were getting hourly bulletins from evgry part of the country. But now Moley has become a worshipper at the shrine of Big Business. Louey Howe is sick and more isolated than Roosevelt. And the President, himself, necessarily is engrossed in the terrific strain and routine of office. All he hears is the raucous voice of that machine politician. James Alovsious Farley, who thinks that to win in 1936 he only has to appoint an Irish Democrat as ’Postmaster and another as county chaiftnan throughout the United States of America, and who already is braggjng: “1936? Aw, it’s already In the bag!”

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935

Tout a toi, two kisses for the Little King. Nap. Flom(in)koie, Oct. 22nd, (1812). Ma bonnie amie, I have no letters from you for three days, because three of my couriers have arrived and are detained at a post, on account of the appearance of a few regulars. I have sent out for them and I shall receive them today. My army is on the inarch. I have had the Kremelin blown up and departed from Moscow. It did not fit in with my plans to go into winter quarters there. My health is good, the weather is fine, my affairs are going well. Adio mio bene. Tout a toi. Nap. Borosk, the 24th, 6 a. ra, (October, 1812). tt tt tt AT Tarontino, Koutousof was unaware of the general retreat of the Grand Army. Under the impression that the Fourth Corps of the Viceroy of Italy, Eugene de Beauharnais, was the only one on the march towards Borovsk, he had detached against it the 25,000 men under Doctorof. But a Cossack having captured an officer of the young guard at the gates of Borovsk, Doctorof heard that he was running up against the whole of the Grand Army. He determined to forestall the latter of Malojaroslavetz, and gave notice of this at the same time to Koutousof, w'ho set his troops in motion concurrently. Early on Oct. 24, a furious fight was started in the streets of Malojaroslavetz, which was taken and lost no less than seven times in succession. At the end of the day what was left of it remained in the hands of the Viceroy, Eugene. The next day a letter of Napoleon’s addressed to his dolce amore announced this victory, without mentioning how costly it had been for the 18,000 French and Italian troops engaged against 50,000 Russians posted above them; without referring to the humiliation of having had his maneuver forestalled and thwarted by an old man, “by a Scythian!” and without revealing the fact that he had come within an ace of being carried off by a party of Cossacks: Ma bonne amie, I have received your letter of the 9th. All the particulars you give me about the Little King give me great pleasure. and all you tell me of the sentiments you feel so well because they are sincere and pure

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just as you are, are a great comfort to me. If it were possible may my love for you add to your good qualities. And the regard in which you are held by all is calculated to do so. You will read the news in the Army Order. I am drawing nearer to you and I will think about having you come to Poland if your health permits bearing such a long journey. Adio, mio doulce amore. Tout a toi. * NAP. Borovsk, October 26th (1812). Write to the Vice-Reine that the Viceroy has had a fine fight, that he distinguished himself and that he is in good health. Ma chere amie, I have received your letter of October Bth. I am glad to hear that you are in very good health. I share your desire to see the end of all this; you must not doubt the happiness it would give me to kiss you; you must not be anxious or worry too much. It may be managed provided your health is good enough. The Viceroy has had a glorious fight, in which he inflicted 5000 or 6000 casualties on the enemy. He is in good health, inform the Vice-Reine of this. Kiss my son twice and never doubt your faithful husband (?). NAP. Borowsk, October 26th (1812). tttttt Between Oct. 26 and Nov. i there is a gap in the emperor’s private letters. These days were some of the most tragic of the retreat. After Malojaroslavetz, both adversaries had fallen back. And all of a sudden there loomed up, with its trees lopped off a few feet from the ground, and its hillocks ravined, a sort of extinguished volcano—a volcano strewn with helmets and cuirasses, broken guns, fragments of uniforms, of

I COVER THE WORLD tt tt tt tt tt tt By William Philip Simms

117ASHINGTON, Feb. 28. The furious dashing from capital to ’ ’ to capital by Europe’s foremost statesmen, a race they’have kept up ceaselessly for more than a year, is approaching a climax. Futile though it may seem to the man in the street, the outcome will vitally affect every American.—

If these visits culminate in a pan-European entente based on the proposed series of non-aggres-sion and mutual aid pacts between the Great Powers and groups of powers, peace will be more nearly assured that T has been since 1918.

blood, stained colors and thousands of dead bodies, half devoured by wolves—the battlefield of the Moskowa. The emperor went by quickly and nobody stopped. Here and there wounded men, who had been left behind and were still alive, held out their hands toward him in supplication. “The retreat became a rout, an entirely novel sight for Napoleon,” wrote his aide-de-camp, Count de Segur. The emperor’s only thought was now to go into winter quarters in Poland as quickly as possible. And he urged the empress again to obtain reinforcements from her father for Schwartzenberg’s army, which was hard pressed by the Russian Admiral Tchitchagoff and was falling back behind the Bug: Viasma, November Ist (1812) Mon amie, You will see ’oy the date of this letter that I am nearing Poland in order to establish my winter quarters there. There will thus be 100 leagues fewer between us. The weather is splendid, 3 or 4 degrees below freezing point, glorious sunshine. My health is perfect, my affairs in good shape. All I lack is the happiness of seeing you and telling you how I love you. Kiss the little King for me, write to your father that I request him to remember of Schwarzenberg, to have him supported by the corps in Galicia, and to reinforce him. When you write to the Empress, tell her I am at her feet. Adieu, mon amie. You know how r I think of you. Tout a toi. NAP. Tomorrow—“A Dying Army in a Dead Land." (Copyright, 1935, in France by Bibliotheque Nationale; in all other countries by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.)

Upon their success likewise, to a large extent, depends the peace of the Far East, if not of the Pacific. For the best informed diplomats agree there is a definite link between the peace of the Orient and the peace of the Occident. Success, the scurrying statesmen insist, will mean the birth of anew world confidence which will set in motion forces leading to business recovery, better times and re-employment clear around the globe. B tt tt 'T'HE visit of the Austrian leaders to Paris and London is merely the latest of the journeys which seriously got under way about this time last year. Then Europe was on the point of dividing into hostile camps, any one of which could easily start another great war. Louis Barthou, then foreign minister of France, feared the explosion might come at any time. He set out to prevent it, if he could. Already there were the Locarno treaties safeguarding Western Europe If similar pacts could be devised to do the same for Eastern Europe and the Danubian states, he believed, the peace of Europe would be fairly secure, included, of course, would be Germany. To put this idea across, M. Barthou set out to visit practically every capital in Europe. Other diplomats took his cue—some to help his cause, others to wreck it. One could hardly board any of the crack continental expresses without running into some group of the traveling statesmen. It was on one such junket that King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated with M. Barthou, in Marseille. But the visits kept on. M. Laval taking up for France the job left unfinished by his predecessors. The visits are almost over. The powers of Europe are now beginning to take their pieces, on one side or the other. The big question of the moment is what Herr Hitler will say to Sir John Simon.

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Fair Enough RMFKIfe IN a recent essay on the subject of honorary titles, your correspondent confessed to being an honorary deputy sheriff of Fairfield County, Conn., believed to be the only rank in the world inferior to that of honorary Kentucky colonel, but completely forgot another honor which was conferred oj him without warning about a year ago. Your correspondent is a mail-order bishop and a D. D. of the Liberal Church of Denver. Colo., and empowered to perform marriages, although forbid-

den to charge fees or accept gratuities for his service. On the theory that a free marriage would be worth no more than it cost and probably would come unstuck in a short time your correspondent has performed no marriages. In fact, the warrant was put away among the letters which are going to be answered one of these days and was forgotten until this day when a reminder come from the Rev. Frank H. Rice, D. D., the founder and proprietor of the church of which your correspondent has the honor to call himself bishop. Bishop Rice’s memory' is short,

for he forgets entirely that he addresses a brother in the cloth. "Instead of improving, your articles get worse and today your unjust attack on honorary titles causes me to believe that you have a most WTetched mind. "In 12 years I have conferred more than 18,000 doctor of divinity degrees, and ordained 70 cardinals, 302 archbishops and more than 900 bishops. You seem to be attempting to spill the sacred beans and your damnable story against honorary titles is approaching near the unforgivable sin. However, I will forgive your most unholy utterance provided you will cease to interfere with the good work of one of our archbishops, the Hon. Huey P. Long, United States Senator. nan Forgot About Credentials “■you are an awful sinner to say such mean JL things about Archbishop Huey Long of Louisiana. Now if you do not repent, I may have cause to anathematize you. Amen!” This requires some thought. In the first place, your correspondent did not seek the title. He had never done anything for, or to, the Liberal Church, Inc., of Denver, and never had heard of it until, without warning, he discovered himself a mail-order bishop. The warrant or degree fell out of a long envelope one day with a gold corporate seal in one corner and rather ornate design framing the top of the document. Included in this design were a lady wearing a low-neck dress or slip, an artist’s pallet, a human eye, a swastika, a blacksmith’s forge, an apothecary’s scale, a star and crescent and a snake climbin' a tree. What your correspondent would like to know is, is he or is he not a bishop still and, if not, when was he fired and w'hy w'asn’t he notified? Bishop Rice has been very careless if he has canceled the credentials without formal notification because, for all he knew, your correspondent might have gone about marrying people without authority and that would have led to some rather solemn complications. Possibly the warrant is still good and Bishop Rice just forgot. One who has created 18,000 mail-order D. D.s, 70 cardinals, 302 archbishops and more than 900 bishops in 12 years must have a busy day every day and can hardly be blamed if one bishop among the 900 gets lost in the filing system. n n n Bishopric Cramps Style STILL, as a conscientious doubter, your correspondent still feels the same as he did about honorary titles. It was only a faint thrill, at best, to feel that he was a mail-order bishop, but now that it turns out there are more than 900 of us, the honor is thinned out to negligibility. It is scarcely more distinctive than the title of honorary deputy sheriff of Fairfield County, Conn., and just a shade above the title of honorary Kentucky colonel. Perhaps when every man is a king, their majesties will feel the same let-down. Moreover, what is this business about Archbishop Huey Long of Louisiana? Does that mean that Archbishop Long can perform better marriages than mail-order Bishop Pegler, D. D., and that Bishop Pegler is forbidden to criticise him under pain of discipline from the corner of 18th and Larimer-sts, Denver, Colo.? Your correspondent, feeling that he is, somehow, not the type, doesn’t want to be a mail-order bishop of the Liberal Church, Inc., anyway. A nice sight a bishop would be w'alking into a saloon or shooting pool till all hours of the night down at the comer. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE funnel chest, the chicken breast, the round shoulder in children and grownups are signs of bad body formation and result from bad habits of sitting, standing and lying down. They should warn you to maintain a good posture, no matter what your activity may be. An article just published by Hygeia, the ?alth magazine, gives these 10 commandments for - ood posture: Stand tall. Sit tall. Walk tall and “chesty,” w’ h weight transmitted to the balls of your feet. Draw in your abdomen, pulling it back and up. Keep your shoulders square and high, but not hunched. Pull your chin straight back. Flatten the hollow of your back by rolling your pelvis down and back. Separate your shoulders from your hips as far as possible. Lie tall and flat. Sleep tall. Think tall. tt tt tt SPITING occupies a tremendous amount of a child’s time from the day it enters kindergarten until it completes its education. Although it may observe an excellent posture when standing or walking or running and even when lying in bed, the amount of time spent sitting incorrectly in school may overcome all the benefit derived from observing good posture elsewhere. However, the question of posture concerns not only children in school, but all who sit at their work. Another group who suffer with bad posture are singers, dancers, and musicians, who spend many hours in certain positions and so develop strange curves of their bodies. The organ most largely concerned in posture is the spinal column. This is made up of many segments, which fit together in a line with certain curves. These curves are developed by the spine to enable the human being to balance himself properly on two legs. tt a tt WHEN the spine curves in other ways, as a result of disease or of bad posture, symptoms develop in addition to the odd appearance. Many persons get bad posture from wrong habits of standing, sitting, walking and sleeping. They slide down in their chairs or develop strange attitudes to meet the fashions. This is particularly the case in girls. Bad posture also results in cramping of the organs within the abdomen, interfering with action of heart, lungs and diaphragm. Another factor involved in bad posture is strain on the eyes. If a child sits in proper relationship to its work, the eyes will be at a correct distance from the work and the illumination will be thrown on the page satisfactorily. The most modem schools take account of all these factors, and arrange both pupil and desk properly. Q—From what animal does nutria fur come? A—lt is the plucked fur or pelt of the coypu, a South American beaver-like rodent.

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