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SIGNALS w HAT a lot of time and trouble the world would be spared If people only would take Bote of the thousand and one character signals that every individual hows!" Is an exclamation heard every day. "If I had seen the way my husband sharpened a pencil 1 would never have married him," declared one disappointed wife. "In that most everyday occurrence the sharpening of a pencil lies one of the truest tests of temperament," says a student of human nature who records herewith some of his observations: "The man or woman who puts a little Jagged, stumpy point to a pencil Is of a mean nature, obstinate. Barrow-minded, conventional and mercenary, and do not make the happiest mates for business or marriage.

CURING CRIMINALS by TEACHING Them HOW to COOK

IF most crimes are the result of empty stomachs or of Improperly cooked food, then the kind - of "prison education," criminologists say, that has been undertaken by the Pennsylvania eastern penitentiary is truly of the right sort In this penal Institution an interesting and apparently successful experiment has been made ln an attempt to cure crlminality by instruction in cooking. There Is a familiar saying that a great deal of crime is due to badly cooked food, since,' it is pointed out, improperly prepared and unappetizing food drives many a man to drink, and drink makes him a criminal and eventually lands him in prison. "Without doubt there is a lot of truth in this statement," says Mr. J. B. Harrington, a writer ln The Forecast magazine, and probably

even more truth ln the assertion there seems no reason to doubt the that women find themselves behind assertion that If every woman conprison bars because they do not know vict left the penitentiaries when ber how to cook. It is a fact that the term was up with a thorough knowl-

Urger percentage of women convicts are women who were entirely un trained in any of the household arts. They knew nothing cooking food, they of buying or knew nothing about tbe management of a home, and when such women were, for one reason or another, thrown upon their own resources, it Is quite natural

Just How BOOKS May SPREAD DISEASE

LIBRARIES and school authorities in cities that supply cbil- . dren with books from a common stock, as well as those who use such books, should be interested in a recent laboratory Investigation of books as possible vehicles of disease," says a medical authority. "In this Investigation three approaches were made to the subject: (1) An investigation of 75 soiled and torn library books that for several years had been passing through- the hands of children who were living under most undesirable sanitary conditions; (2) a search for diphtheria bacilli on 150 books that were known to have been handled by persons ill with diphtheria, and (3) a study of books artificially contaminated with bacillus coll. S. typhosus, and B. diphtheriae. "In tbe case of the 75 library books, the only organism found suggestive ot danger was the colon bacillus, In two Instances only. "The search for diphtheria bacilli on the 150 books handled by diphtheria patients failed to disclose the organism in a single instance. "In this connection the investigator adds the results ot a brief and inconclusive study of books open to contamination with tuberculosis to the result of a more extensive investigation by Prof3. Kenwood and Dove, quoting them as follows: 'There is probably no material risk involved in the reissue of books recently read by consumptives, unless the books are obviously soiled.' "The books artificially contaminated by rubbing them, inside and outside, with cotton swabs saturated with broth suspensions of the organisms studied, were held at room temperature under various conditions: dry ln diffuse daylight and moist ln diffuse daylight; dry in darkness and moist in darkness; at low temperature, and exposed to direct sunlight. It was found that bacillus, coli, bacillus typhosus and bacillus diphtheriae

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"Long, sweeping strokes denote generosity foolish generosity at times a disregard for consequences, a headstrong temperament, but withal, a very lovable nature. "The person who sharpens a pencil carefully and evenly, at a medium distance from the top, has a well-balanced temperament; he looks before he leaps, is a sticker for detail, a reliable worker and a cool and calm thinker. "Hotel keepers say that if you would know people watch them eat. "The man who eats quickly thinks quickly, too. The slow, methodical eater betrays his temperament; he is placid, takes a lot of rousing, but is generally very reliable. i "Be wary of the man who wets his mouth when eating, for this is said not only to betray the fact that he Is not the most refined of temperathat they should have turned to crlminal ways in order to keep themselves alive. "Of course, the best method of removing this cause of crime is to see that every girl is taught the household arts in the elementary schools. This is being done at the present time in practically every school in the country. The next step is to provide facilities for instructing grown women in cooking, and the next is to teach the women who are already paying the penalty for their misdeeds. "For many years it has been thecustom of prison authorities to teach the men convicts some useful trade or occupation, and lately there has been a widespread attempt to do likewise for the women. "No organized effort, however, has yet been made to teach the women convicts the elements of cookery, but edge of the methods of preparing nourishing, wholesome and appetiz ing foods, not nearly so many of them would find their way back to the prisons after a few months of liberty. "In order to see just what effect a lesson in cooking would have upon women convicts, officials of the east-

on the Inside ot books remained alive tamination books do not offer a faand virulent for months, and also on vorable ground for the lodgment and the outside of books when they were growth of bacteria, yet in view of kept in the dark. Exposed to diffuse the fact that typhoid and diphtheria daylight, bacillus typhosus and bacil- germs have been found alive and lus diphtheriae survived not more virulent after tbe lapse of months

than 12 days, while direct sunlight killed within a few hours. "From this it is concluded that while in the course of natural conWhere ISLANDS I N the Bismarck ArchlDelaso are two small islands that the Germans, with characteristic resource fulness, built up for themselves in a sea where formerly no land was. This, however, is not quite so difflcult as it sounds. One must have a foundation, of course a coral reef for preference. Given this, and also an unlimited supply of native labor, and Island building in these comparatively calm and tideless waters becomes almost as easily possible as doeB house building elsewhere. The Solomon islanders, for Instance, are said to be adepts at the art. When tbe population of any island of the group becomes too big for comfort they just set to work and build another one, and the surplus families emigrate to it and settle down there. The usual plan is to choose a coral reef, which must not be submerged more than three or four feet. A raft is first constructed and anchored near the centre of the reef, where the water is shallowest. To this, coral, torn from the outer fringe of the reef, Is brought and piled up pyramid-fash ion to form the nucleus of the island. Lastly, earth is carried in canoes from the nearest land and spread over the coral, cocoanut trees are planted and houses erected. Shipwrecked British sailors once S3-

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jri "The Woman Who Searches Frantically for a Lost Article Cannot Meet a Crisis with Courage." ments, but that a deal of coarseness and cunning lurks in that quarter. The individual who plays with his food is inclined to be finicky, argumentative and difficult to please, many a waiter will tell you. "No man with a love of freedom and the open air chooses a pointed era penitentiary, in Philadelphia, recently arranged for a cooking expert to come to the prison and give a number of the women inmates a practical demonstration of proper methods of preparing a number of simple dishes. "Several months before this a plan had been introduced into this penitentiary by which the women convicts were allowed to prepare and cook their own meals. The plan worked admirably. The women took up tHe work with enthusiasm, and it

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was not long before tne cost oi ieeaing the women inmates was considerably reduced and a better feeling and spirit of co-operation among them made manifest. The plan had its drawbacks, however, inasmuch as there was no expert to teach the woman the better methods of doing things culinary. "Here is where the appointment ot a cooking expert came in. The first thing she did was to give a demonstration before the women convicts. "Every move she made in preparing the meat and vegetables for the soup and the stew, every motion in compounding the pie and the jellyroll, was watched with the closest attention, and it was not long before the prisoners were laughing and talking and asking questions in just the same manner as if they were young girls in a boarding school instead of women who were serving sentences under the conditions mentioned, it would be safest if books handled by patients were thoroughly disinfected."

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built for themselves an Island of refuge after this fashion. In 1884 the Queensland labor-recruiting schooner Stanley was cast away and battered to pieces on the Indispensable reef, which is completely submerged, and 'fm miles from situated more than 300 the nearest inhabited land The plight of her crew seemed hopeless. But instead of giving way to despair, they set to work to manufacture an island and lived on it for several months, subsisting on clams and sea flsh dried in the sun, until they were finally found and rescued MEASURING the T i HE ordinary sewing room tapeline promises to bring about a small revolution in the musical world as the result of the discoveries made by a Minneapolis musician who believes he has found an infallible mean3 of determining the true qualities and possibilities of the human voice. By measuring the, reson ating cavities of the singer or would De Bmger he says that has been able to answer with precision many of the questions which perplex the singer. Four years have been spent in working out the theory that the human voice can be measured and prop erly catalogued as to its possibilities

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toe to his shoes. Pointed toes belong to the dandy, and that most abominable of all human beings, a vain man. "A boot with a lot of ornamentation is a sign of a love of display, and not a little vulgarity. A plain. well-cut boot or shoe says a deal for for various crimes against the community. "As the final touches were given to the raisin pie, one woman was heard to murmur pathetically: .'Gee, I'd never landed here if I'd been taught those things when I was a girl!' And her remark was typical of the thoughts in the minus or every woman in the group. "The meal which was prepared before these women was mtenaea xor a family of four adults, and the matenais ior us preparauou 45 cents. When you consider that such a meal means that each member of the family would get a large Getting "DRUNK" T HOSE who have tried the ex periment say that the same sensations, minus the alconoi. experienced by an intoxicated per-, son who is trying to walk in a straight line or on a narrow sidewalk which is only 30 feet wide, can be had by any one who takes the trouble to draw a straight line on the floor and then look at the line through a pair of opera glasses in a reversed position. After the glasses are focused try to walk on the line as shown in the illustration at the right. You will find it impossible to follow it closely. The line will look like an ink scratch on a surface miles away and the closer you look and try to follow the line the more vexed your vision becomes and as a result your feet wander from side to side, getting farther away from the line all the time. Even with the naked eye it is difficult for some people to "walk the chalk" for any distance without growing dizzy and staggering suspiciously. by a relief 6hip sent in search of them. In Southwest bay, Malekula. one of the New Hebrides group, is situated a tiny sugarloaf-shaped island, which was entirely rebuilt some years as0 by order o t1 English admiralty t tra . ... The original island was selected by the commander of an English warship as a bandy object for target practice. It was practically blown to pieces. The chief of Malekula objected, and the captain of the man-of-war was ordered to make gcod the damage done by his guns.

Human VOICE with a TAPELINE

for future service. In that length of time tne voices or 12,000 singers have been measured, many of them members of the -prominent grand opera companies of New York city and Chicago. Exterior measurements of the resonating cavities of the head will give a true index of the kind and quality of the voice possessed by the subject, it is claimed. Hv tills means it ran he rlotormfnAf? whether the voice haB been developed or trained to its proper range. In many of the tests it was found that persons who had no idea of being singers had voices of unusual range and power. Three such discoveries were made among 100 per-

Such Daily INCIDENTS as SHARPENING PENCILS

the character of the individual. Much, also, can be discovered from the . . 3 V J V. M i i-i losiiV "The man with a love of neatness carefully tucks away the end of his laces, and his love of detail is shown In the precision with which his shoes are laced. He s annoying at times plate of soup, a generous helping of l""11' ui ""Fi O " - hepf stow and a ouarter of a raisin pie, with bread and butter, at a cost of 11 cents, the value of such a lesson iu cooking is obvious." "If only one woman was prevented from again offending against the law through such lessons, the work would be entirely worth while, but all the parties Interested feel certain that many women will be enabled through the gentle art of cookery some day , TOnllij to take their nlaces as useful memv , . a t sinnin bers of society instead of slipping DacK into tne same me oi i nu "--""ius. Without Drinking Try to Follow a Straight Line Without Staggering While Looking Through Reversed Opera Glasses. sons tested in Minneapolis. The lung capacity of the individual has little to do with the power and range of the voice, as one frequently hears a deep bass voice from an undersized man, while a large man will be the possessor of a high tenor voice.

The deceptive qualities of the hu- Medical Review. "Green , produces a nifying hope, the operating room will man voice are being gauged so accu- state of tranquillity, while blue de- be in red, meaning danger, the new rately by the use of the tapeline, ac- presses us. And so on. But now assistant will be green, the patient's cording to a writer in the Scientific the chromatic scheme of things en- relatives will look blue, and the toAmerican, that it is possible to tell tire has invaded the operating -room, ture will appear black, whether the individual has a tenor, that hitherto domain of the strictly "Seriously, however, it is time that contralto, basso, or baritone voice practical. some such restful shade to the eyes without hearing , the sound of the "Dr. Berkeley Moynlhan wrote to as light green should supplant tbe voice. If a person has been over- The Lancet stating that for two and glaring white of many hospitals, the trained, the tapeline will make the a half years he had been using green dazzling operating room, the cheersecret known long before it is appar- sheets and towels instead of white less corridors, and the monotonous ent in the singer's voice. ,ones in the operating room, as they patients rooma."

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Opens a Letter Cannot Be Quelled by Any Amount of Bullying." this man. On the other hand, the flowing shoelace, not necessarily unllQy- denotes a man with more ongt nallty ln his make-up. The man who coughs when' he en ters a room has a good streak of nervousness under an assumption of indifference. "One business magnate makes it a rtlla fn Via... vi j . . ... . . - uia ucck at me ena or a long room. Those who have dealings with him have to wnllr th length of the room before reaching "lm. It Is durine this small nararia . " " ne sums them up, and he rarely errs. "Quick, hurried footsteps show lack of self-confidence. Slightly-bent shoulders and measured tread are a mark of "importance, and show an inlTLl bUt.th! "" "m cicu (iate, iieiiu wen nem, eyes straight ahead, is talten at his own showing. ".Many a man who wonders how he came to marry a 'worry' woman Strange FROGS F UXER than frog hair" has long been a slang method of express ing the suDerlative desrree. Doubtless no one ever gave it a thought whether frogs have hair or not. Probably no one ever realized they did until Prof. G. A. Boulenger discovered in the German Kongo frogs that had growing upon their bodies either hair or a very good imitation of it. It has since developed that anatomically it is not hair, in j the sense in which that term applies to mammals. Our own hair is akin to finger nails; it is a horny gro-vth, whereas the "hair" on the African frogs is an abnormal development cf the tubercles that appear on the skin of the ordinary frog. Tbe ordinary person, however, who places appearance above origin, will doubtless call it "hair." "Were the mammals to lose one of their distinguishing characteristics," asks a writer in the Journal of Heredity, "through its extension to the frogs? Prof. Boulenger admitted that he did not know much about it, but said that these 'villose dermal papillae' were not a nuptial attribute of the males, but were rather more

strongly developed in the female differences in this regard.' than the male. He suspected them "He believes, although data are of being a seasonal appendage. few, that the hair-like covering is "In 1902 he published another most highly developed during the short paper on the subject describ- breeding season, and that it is to be ing seven more specimens of the considered a secondary sexual charsame species. In this case the fe- acteristic."

SURGERY Now Done in COLORS WILL, you have your appen- were more restful to the eye; he had dicitis operation done in pink, also painted his walls green and cover nile green-? Pink is said to the flor wWl reen material or unc & Tnl8 SUgge8ti0n was copied by some be a more cheerful tone, encouraging American j0urnals. optimism, but green induces tranquil- "in a later number of the same lity, and doubtless has a sufficiently publication Dr. Milligan expresses Lethean quality, when dominating himself as being in favor of such a L ... . scheme, but Dr. Whlteford is much walls and ceiling of the Pat.ng m)re entnusiastic Hi8 opermJ room, to enable you to forget the bill room he bag doiie tastefully in light that awaits your recovery. The point French blue, the surgeons are Is that physicians and surgeons are dressed in white, the nurses in blue, beginning to believe the psycholo- ad the onlookers in red. A Dr. Jeans oeginumg " , , t also states that he is doing his ODergists, who say that color affects our atiDg roomg ln Wue th,8 eJ moods, and also that our moods de- so the chromatic chirureeona rnn.

termine to some extent the success or failure or medical ana surgical experiments with our interior economy. "A saffron tie makes us languorous, while a purple one inspires us to noble deeds.' says a writer In the

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LETTERS might have hesitated, had he eyes tC see. "The woman who franticall: searches for her railroad ticket or who gets her luggage together long before it is necessary, is not the woman who is going to meet a crisis with courage. "Be cautious of the advice of tfce man who gazes up at the ceiling when weighing matters. Better than him is the man who looks down at the floor. But. best of all, Is the man who looks you straight in the eye without any unnecessary tapping of fingers or feet "The way in which a man smokta also is a great indication of character. "A man who puffs away erratically Is apt to err on that score; he does things in a hurry, for which he is sor--ir afterward Extravagance, fickleness and disregard for the feelings of others, is typified by the man who . , vva takes a lew airy puna ai a. and then flings it aside. "No need to pity a man who slov.ly enjoys the fragrant weed, smokes it evenly and carefully; he is quite competent to take care of himself and nthprs Rut do have oitv for the dividual who smokes his weed to the bitter end, placing it on a tooth pick to finish it. This is the creature who wants to know where the housekeeping money goes "FVw women onen a letter Carefill- - i lv. Beine: more impulsive than men. they nearly always tear open tbo envelope and throw it on the floor, "When you find the woman who '.a serts a paper knife into the flap ot tbe e?velPe and carefully opens it. jou nave mei eomeuue iium uu amount of bullying will quell. She walks her own path, has a love of order and promptitude. If you are la4 for your appointment twice you loss." That Have HAIR males showed no trace of the appendages, while in the two males they were fully developed. The specimens were evidently obtained during t breeding season. "Meantime, Dr. H. Gadow had made a microscopical examination of the hair-like structures, and reported that he was unable to find ij nerves in them, although he made out some iEFignificaut blood-vessels and lymph spaces. He concluded that these appendages could not be considered a sensory apparatus, and agreed with Boulenger that their function was a mystery. "There the case remained until W. Kukenthal, working in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, reviewed it by the study of 11 specimens from Kribe, Kamerun. He established that the hair-like appendages were present only in the males, and altogether wanting in the females. This confirms Boulenger's second report; evidently his first one was an error. "It was further found 'that these appendages do not attain the same degree of development in all male individuals, and that even in full-grown males there are very conspicuous tribute their impressionistic ideas of operating rooms, "in time, let us hope, we shall have the perfect polychromatous physlcian; he will bewilder us with some such display as this: The anesthetic room will be in rainbow color.