Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 210, 12 July 1913 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE "Sitting Out" the Dance Two Ways the Old Stairs Have Seen it Done:Then, "The Minuet" Now, "The Tango" Copyright, 1913, International News Service. BY NELL BRINKLEY Daysey May me And Her fiolks

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THE continued demand mad upon the time of Mrs. L.yander John Appleton and her daughter. Paysey Mayme. to reform the world has proved a blessing to Lysandor John, leaving him uninterruptedly opportunity for research work. "1 lee!." he said, calling the two fat pillow cushions to order, "as if my

'hands wire being uplifted and

str iiKthened by unseen forces; as though 1. too, a mere man. have a hand in the progress of the world." He paused. The two fat pillow rushions looked at him with such blank expressions he realized that they had reached the highest dettree of culture. It meant so much to be understood, and they understood him! "As a result of a week's deep study and untiring poring over old manu-' scripts. 1 have found that the following problems of life remain unanswered. I open my hand, as it were, and fling them broadcast to my sex for solution. I-et them come nobly forward and take this share of the world's work on their shoulders! "Let them 1 say. relieve our poor struggling mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of some of the burden of exploration of the unseen that now rests with them. ""first, I would ask: Which Is preferable to sleep with A baby, or one of those insects the commonplace call a bedbug, but which we, who are more temperamental, know as a crimson rambler?

"A woman will leave guests at the table, or her husband on his deathbed, to run to the window to see the fire engine go by. but would she run if In the midst of a marriage proposal? "Itoes a wtKKien-legged man take hit wooden leg to bed with him? "Is there more reason for a man to be grateful to his wife for cooking a steak well than there is for her to be grateful because ho bought It? "If it is true that the spirits of ocr ancestors are constantly flying around us, are our women ancestors up in the air all the time because of indignation over the scraps wasted that would make quilts and rag carpets? "Who is the more wasteful: The boy who cuts up pumpkins for Jack lanterns cr the woman who makes them into very poor pies?" He paused to give bis next question impression and weight. It was a problem older than the world itself, and no one has ever solved it. "On w hose head," he asked then he paused to scratch his head after the manner of those who are deep thinkers "On whose head did a certain pair of insects travel on that famous journey in the ark?" FRANCES L. OARSIDE.

-Nell Brinkley Says-

THE other night at a pretty dance I came out of the warm, perfumed ballroom, where the sober-garbed men and the girls, like so many brilliantly-hued butterflies, were jerking and spinning about in the mad, fascinating, grotesque antics of the tango and trot. They looked like an aimless company of bright insects at play, with no longer life than they, and no more care for another day than they. I slipped between the curtains of the big hallway, hunting for an open window and dreaming of all the crystal fountains I had seen in my life and wishing myself under their cool rain. For, let me tell you, this tangoing is lively work! And out on the old stairs that have felt the tread of centuries of light girlfeet that have heard whispers between a man and a maid that are never

told I saw something that gave me an idea for a picture. Sitting out the dance was a man and a girl on the bottom steps. She and he both sat with knees carelessly crossed, in distinctly masculine attitudes. A foot of seagreen silk stockings thrust from beneath her slashed skirt. Between her white fingers smoked the live end of a cigarette, between his also-white fingers a thin veil of smoke rose, too; between both their careless lips crept a blue veil to mingle above their heads. One of his hands was thrust deep and negligently into a pocket. It was rather a tasteless picture dry to the taste of a Lover of men and maids and their affairs. If Romance was there, you might not see it! There was no leaning, tender grace about the girl, nothing

Education Is the Cure for Fee-ble-Mindedness in the Child, but It Must Be Begun in Time.

What Sight More Pitiful Than a

Child Who Goes Into the Battle of Life with Its Mind Its Only Hope Disabled?

By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

THE great study of modern times is that of the peculiarities, the workings and the weaknesses of the human mind. This involves the entire future of the race of man. I have been learning something about a new science, or what aspires to be a science, which has this for its object and -which is called by its disciples "clinical psychology" (clinical from a Greek word for bed, implying that the subject of attention is a person who is ill, and psychology "science of the mind"), the whole phrase meaning practical study of mental illness. No Sight Is So Pitiful as a Feeble-minded Child. This is something of supreme inter

est to parents, because those who are particularly, if not exclusively, the subjects of investigation by clinical phychologists are children. There is no sight in this world more pitiable than that of a feeble-minded child. It is his MIND that has placed man in the proud position which he occupies at the head of the Kingdom of Life on our planet; it is by virtue of his mental powers alone that he has achieved all his triumphs; they only have brought him up from his original brotherhood with the ape; in the further development of his mind lies the only hope that he can have of still greater progress in the future; each individual, as he faces the struggle of life, must depend upon the strength of his mentality, and that the more in

proportion as the struggle increases in intensity. What, then, can excite a compassion" equal to that aroused by the spectacle of a human child which, as the result of causes that might be avoided, enters the battle of life maimed, crippled, disabled, palsied, impuissant, in that which constitutes its only hope, its only real strength its mind? Why This New Science Makes an Instant Appeal. The reason the new science that I have mentioned makes an instant appeal to any person having the good of his kind at heart is that it comes with the assurance that the terrible evil of feeble-mindedness may be eliminated. If it did not promise that, if it presented itself merely as another form of curious investigation having little or no practical application, it would attract only the inquisitive, seeking for novel subjects of thought. But when it says to unhappy parents: "Right education is capable of developing the dormant mental energies of your child; only begin in time, and know what you are about," then its call must be listened to everywhere. It is this supreme word "education," which I find on every page of what I have been reading of the work and the aims of the clinical psychologists. The body can be educated out of many of its illnesses, and so can the mind. It is not worth while to stop over any discussion of the question whether, as

some put it, "the mind has a body," or, as others would say, "the body has a mind." We all know what is meant when a person is said to be "feebleminded," and the one thing of pressing, immediate importance is the question whether either by medical or hygienic treatment, or by mental or psychological methods, or by both working together, the evil can be remedied. Mental Hygiene Is Now Prescribed for the Insane. I read this extremely interesting statement from Prof. J. E. W. Wallin:

"Irrespective of whether the cause

is chiefly physical or mental, it is be-' ing recognized by a number of the leading present-day psychiatrists" (those who study mental diseases) "that drug treatment for the majority of the insane, whether juvenile or adult, is secondary to the educational treatment. Instead of merely prescribing physical hygiene for the insane, leading alienists are now prescribing mental hygiene. The cure is being conceived in terms of a process of re-education. Moreover, so far as concerns the mentally unstable child in the schools, the chief reliance is obviously on hygienic and educational guidance." There you see in almost every line the magic word "education." We can all understand that. We must accept this term in a virtually new sense. We must cease to regard it as sim-

of the unsure seeker about the boy. They had just come away from a TANGO they were decidedly nineteen-thirteeny and they were sitting out the dance. And it made me think that perhaps the old stairs 8tirred and groaned under, a memory of other sittings-out when romance was like a perfume on the air, so tangible was it; when a maid hung her head and a man .sought and was tender and had other things for his hands to do than dig into his pockets and hold a cigarette; when the maid's lips were untainted by smoke and the man watched them under cover of dim lights and thought them sweet. The old stairs creaked and methought the old clock Bighed!

After the Honeymoon Married Life the First Year.

BY MABEL HERBERT URMER. HELEN laid down her sewing, adjusted the shade of the drop light beside her, walked over to the window and gazed up and down the dark and almost deserted street. Then turned around, looked wistfully at the clock,

1 and again settled herself in her chair.

It was foolish to expect him so soon, she told herself as she once more picked up her sewing. It was only half past eight and he would not be home before ten and probably later. He had dinr-d out again tonight leaving her to another lonely dinner and evening. He had telephoned that it was a matter of "business policy" that he was dining at the club with some men whose acquaintance might be useful to him later on. But this had happened so often lately. And once or twice

when Warren came home the odor of liquor had been very strong and his face more flushed than she had ever seen it. Helen was neither narrow nor overprudish. She knew that Warren had wine with his dinner when he wanted it. Her own father always had, and she thought nothing of it. There had always been some light wine on their dinner table at home. All her people, while not "temperance," were most moderate in their drinking. She had of it none of the horror and dread that a more unfortunate famly experience might have given her. And yet she felt vaguely uncomfortable when she thought of those nights Warren had come home flushed and with the odor of liquor so strong. She had not spoken to hi mabout it. She

ply signifying a process by which a certain, very limited, amount of knowledge is instilled or forced into the mind of a child, and we must come to consider it as the key to the mind itself, and the means, when wisely used, of opening and developing the mental powers, even when they seem

to be absent or defective. Education Is not a sausage-stuffer: it is a ladder by which man mounts toward the summit of his destiny. And when the feeble are helped upon its rungs they are stimulated and inspired with new strength at every step upward.

had not known what to say, or how he would take it if she had. Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a sharp ring of the bell. She started up with another glance at the clock. It was almost nine. Could it be he? "Is it too late for a moment's call? The elevator boy said be did not remember ringing Mr. Curtis up this evening so I thought perhaps you were alone." It was Mrs. Bennett from the floor below. Helen was lonely enough twelcome almost any one, but she had heard of Mrs. Bennett's love of gossip, and the fact of her asking the elevator boy if Mr. Curtis had come In lessened the cordiality of her greeting. "How cozy and cheerful this room looks! I think it's your paper. I've never liked the paper on our sitting room. I told Mr. Bennett we'd have to have it done over In the Fall. But suppose we'll have to do it ourselves. It's so hard to make this landlord do anything. But I guess you've found that out." "Why no I thought they were rather obliging." "Oh, you're new tenants. Wait until you've been here a year or so. We were the first people in the building leased our apartment before It was finished. You'd think that would make them favor us but it's just the other way. The new tenants are the onea that are always catered to. But we stay because we like the apartments. You can't get six rooms and bath like these anywhere else for $1,200. I presume that's what you pay? All those front ones are supposed to rent for that." Helen recognized that as a clever ruse to find out the amount of their rent; so she answered evasively: "I believe it is something like that. Mr. Curtis signed the lease before we were married, so I really know very little about it." "Well, it's a very good house. The

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