VOL. LI
36 INSANE PARETICS
CURED. BY MALARIA
Hospitals Report Success
of New Treatment.
New Tork. —Thirty patients regard
ed as hopelessly insane are back Vt
work and leading normal lives after
being artificially Inoculated with ma
laria, allowed to suffer chills and fe
ver for two weeks or so and then
treated with drugs, according to an
announcement by the Long Island
College hospital.
The 30 patients belonged to a group
of 60 sufferers from paresis who have
received the malaria and -drug treat
ment at the Long-Island College hos
pital. Of the 30 who have not recov
ered sufficiently to return to work,
several have shown marked benefit.
Some of the patlpnts failed to respond'
to the treatment. The percentage of
Successes, however, is considered re
markable because of the fact that
paresis was regarijfd as Incurable up
to the time that the malaria treatment
was discovered in Austria. St. Eliz
abeth's hospital in Washington, D. C.,
the largest hospital In the world for
mental cases; the State Hospital' for
the Insane on Ward's Island and the
Brooklyn State Hospital for the In
sane have been employing the malaria
treatment with results equal #o those
achieved at Long Island College hos
pital.
. The treatment was worked out by
Doctors Wagner von Jauregg of the
Psychiatric Institute of Vienna and J.
Kyle of the" University of Vienna dur-
ing the war. The experimentation was
sturted to test the truth of reports
which had been frequently made of
sudden and remarkable improvement
by sufferers from paresis after they
had had attacks of malaria. A num
ber of paresis patients were deliber
ately Inoculated with malaria. Some
died, some remained unbe.nefited, oth
ers were helped to some extent and
still others were so Improved that
they were able to leave the hospital
and return to their old occupations.
Show Improvement.
Patients treated at the State hos
pital at Ward's island showed marked
Improvement on treatment with ma
laria only, But drug treatment by mer
curial and "arsenical compounds also
was used at Long Island College hos
pital. There is some difference of
opinion among students of this treat
ment whether the combined malaria
and drug treatment Is better than the
simple malaria treatment.
"Paresis accounts for a tremendous
fot of Insanity and a very great num-
ber of deaths each year," says a Long
Island (College hospital physician, "so
that the success of this treatment
Is a thing of the utmost Importance to
the world. Paresis usually sets In at
middle age with symptoms which are
hard to recognize. We suspect It
when marked queerness of behavior
develops at middle age In a man who
has theretofore been normal. A typ
ical picture of the disease Is that of
an Industrious, conservative man who
stands well In every way, but who sud
denly forgets careful business habits
and begins to Invest In wildcat stocks,
to dissipate and go to pieces generally.
The disease Is always the result of a
long-standing condition, but many pa
tients appear to be absolutely Ignorant
of the fact that such a condition had
ever existed. Various remedies have
been tested heretofore, but the dis
ease has previously been quite hope
less to treat.
"Just what the effect of the malaria
may be Is .pot understood, but It seems
to prepare the central nervous system
In some way for the beneficial action
of the drugs. The drugs fall to pro
duce benefit unless the patient is pre
pared for them by the malarial treat
ment"
Dr. George H. Kfc-by, who Introduced
the malaria treatment into the State
Hospital for the Insane at Ward's is
land, said that the malaria treatment
was continuing there with gratifying
results, and that some patlenta Who
had been treated as long as two years
ago with malaria and returned to their
normal occupations were still at work
and showed no, signs of the recur
rence of the disease.
Of Great Importance.
"About 15 per cent of the admis
sions to the Insane hospitals are due
to paresis, so that thla treatment la
a matter of the greatest Importance,"
he said. "The average life of the
paresis patient after he reaches the
hospital Is one year. A few years
ago all of these ccses would have
seemed quite hopeless.
"The action of the malaria ia very
obscure. It may produce resistance
In the body which- destroys the dis
ease, or it isay attack the disease di
rectly. It is not correct to say that
it prepares the central nervous sys
tem for the action of drugs, and there
is nothing to show that the malaria
» itself Is not quite as effective without
the help of drugs.
"Tfte only useful drag that we have
found is the arsenical combination
which was produced by the Rockefel
ler Institute tof the treatment of Af-
THE ALAMANCE (CLEANER
rlcan sleeping sickness. That has had
a good effect In many cases of paresis.
We have been able to discharge a num
ber of patients who have receFved this
treatment On the other hand, some
patients who were not benefited at all
by the Rockefeller product have been
greatly Improved by the malaria treat
ment.
"We do not speak of the malaria
treatment as a cure In any case. It Is
too early to say that It does, how
ever, bring abogs a remission of symp
toms in many cases. It Is too soon to
tell whether the remission of symp
toms Is permanent or not"
"At this season on my South African
ostrich farm," said an ostrich farmer,
"you "Will see some male birds strut
ting proudly about with three or four
broods in addition to their own, while
other males mope wretchedly without
any broods at all.
"The male ostrich, you see, Is a very
fond parent. He swaggers away frota
the nest In the morning to give his
young ones an airing, and when he
spies another male occupied In the
same way he puts up a fight and, If
he wins, he collars the -beaten bird's
brood.
"To see one of these proud males
In the spring of the year swelling
round with goodness knows how many
little ones Is a sight to bring tears
to a true father's eyes."—Rehoboth
Sunday Heralil.
There Is a tradition of a boy from
London who was disappointed with
the country, where he went for a holi
day, because he saw them "pump milk
from a dirty old cow."
The boy's idea of artificial milk is
within realization, for after manufac
tured butter we are to have artificial
milk. It is'already consumed exten
sively iii China and a mill Is to be
set up In France.
The Chinese drop a powder Into
water, stir It and it becomes milk. The
powder Is a soja bean crushed. The
French mill is to treat the bean so as
to enabl? the milk powder to be sold
In packets. It is said that cheese Is
obtained by the same process.—Lon
don Globe.
How Mail Box "Travelj"
On a R. F. D, route at Meredith,
N. H„ there is an ingenious traveling
mail box on the Robinson place. The
box runs on wires, through the woods,
the trees having been trimmed to al
low the progress of the mall box from
the highway to the picturesquely situ
ated farmhouse. When the carrier has
placed the mail in the box he gives the
wire a tug and a member of the
iurashoid, perched on a bicycle thr«&~
quarters of a mile away, pedals the
machine and draws the box to It*
destination.
Ducku Delay Train
In the springtime beautiful black
anf white shelducks fly across the
North sea from Holland to lay their
eggs In the rabbit burrows on the
royal domain at Sandrlngham. Later,
when the eggs are hatched, and the
youtjg birds are a few weeks old, a
slow trek Is made across the marshes
to the Wash. The little ones are still
um ble to fly, pnd in waddling across
the railway llde which runs between
the royal estate and the sea, they hold
up the local trains that crawl between
Derslngliam and Wolferton, for the
drivers pay great respect to these
spring visitors.
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Porcupine Not Particular
The porcupine has a voracious appe
tite. In his omnlvorousness he i»
nearly as bad as a goat He will eat
almost anything.
He has an Insistent craving for salt
In his camp raids he will gnaw any
thlrtfc that has the semblance of a
saline flavor, says Kephart. He will
chew up ax handles, gun stocks, canoe
paddles and other articles that have
been touched by perspiring hands.
lie is also fond of leather and will
eat your shoes, gloves and ersn the
■went bnnd of your hat
Preserving Wild Fowl
A tract of 26,000 acres In Louisiana
has been given to the National Associ
ation of Audubon Societies, together
with a large endowment for the plant
ing of cereals for food, for the cre
ation of a sanctuary for the preserva
tion of wild docks. Dr. T. G. Pearson,
president of the society, stated that
this was the most important step ever
taken for the preservation of wild
docks, because of the prorlalon for
keeping the land constantly under cul
tivation and growing enormous crop*
exclusively for the wild fowL
Penny Fines Mount Up'
Pennies collected as fines from
those who kept books overtime, with
accumulative interest in the last nine
teen years, has enabled the ICast
Cleveland (Ohio) public library to
purchase adjoining property. 1C by 120
Um, tor *B.OOO.
Ostrich Father
Mills for Milk
GRAHAM, N. C.* THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1925
Claims Art Had Its
Genesis 50,000 B. C.
Heidelberg. The Ideas of
mankind 50,000 years ago were
the subject of a discourse by
Professor Bern of Bonn univer
sity ~at the congress of German
philologist's.
About 20,000 B. C. the art of
the glacial period began to flour
ish in Europe, said the speaker.
This art, he asserted, had its ori
gin somewhere around 50,000 B.
C. He claims It has been fairly
well established that 40,000 B.
C., or thereabouts, the Neander
thal beings were superseded by
a race resembling that of the
present day.
This race had a well-defined
cult of the dead. Thesfe early
progenitors of our present race
firmly believed Jn an existence
after death. It has been clearly
proved that they feared the
dead, as their limbs frequently
were broken before burial to
prevent them from harming the
living, according to the speaker.
Elephant Most Brainy
of the Lower Animals
The elephant Is probably the shrewd
est and most adaptable of living ani
mals and has no enemies except man.
He eats anything that is green, and
se*ms equally at home on the plains
or In the forests and Jungles, on the
high mountain slopes or down In the
swampy lowlands. His trunk Is one
of the most extraordinary organs of
nature. It contains the finest smell
ing apparatus on earth, and when the
proximity of man is suspected the
trunk Is raised in the air and care
fully turned In all directions, "feel
ing" for the man-smell in the wind.
Once an elephant gets that smell he
does one of two things. He either re
treats quietly and rapidly or charges.
Years of experience in matching his
wiles with those of man and his high
powered rifle has taught the elephant
that it is safer to remain In the dense
forests. An elephant can move through
these forests with no more noise than
would be made by a mouse, and the
growth in these forests is frequently
so Impenetrable the hunter can make
progress only by following the wind
ing elephant tralL
Look for Treasure
Hidden by Alexander
When Alexander the Great was
marching against the Persians In 881
B. C. a part of his array mutinied on
the shores of the Caspian sea. There
is a legend that be hid all his gold,
royal possessions and spoils of war
somewhere In the vicinity to keep
them from falling Into the hands of
the mutineer*. The Archeologlcal so
ciety of the Republic of Azerbaijan
has began a search for this treasure.
It Is believed to be burled about sixty
five miles from the city of Baku. There
are DO hlstorlctfl data on the subject
as to the location of the treasure, bat
an old man eighty years old living at
Andrlevka says he owns an ancient
map which was stolen from a Turkish
sultan many years ago. This map, he
says, indicates that the treasure was
bailed near his village. Whether or
not the archeologlsts locate the treas
ure, It Is believed that they will at
least excavate many valuable relics
throwing light on the peoples and na
tions which Inhabited the country be
fore the time of Christ—Pathfinder
Magazine.
When Bride» Were Bought
Wedding gifts apparently have de
veloped from the earllv custom of ex
change of gifts between bride and
bridegroom. In tarn based apon mar
riage by consideration, where the suitor
had to give to the father «f his In
tended wife a bride price or present
and the daughter was provided with a
dowry as a return gift.
The price for a bride shows consid
erable variation, according to the
wealth of the Interested parties and
the accomplishments of the bride.
'Among certain tribes a couple of pigs
or goats seemed to be sufficient cap
ital necessary for Investment In one
good husky helpmate. Among the
Bedouins of Moant Sinai Westermarch
tells as the price of a girl Is "from $5
to $20," but sometimes amounts to S3O
"If the girl u well connected and very
handsome."
Why Hide Coet With Bacon
It has been found more practical to
cure bacon with the hide because In
this way the meat Is better protected
both for caring and for keeping. The
hide, moreover, i» not worth enough
to nay for the trouble of skinning
the animal.
Why Falsehood Multiplies
A. willful falsehood Is a cripple, no*
able to stand by Itself without another
to support It It is easy to teU a lte,
feat bard to MO s*»y one lie.—Fuller,
WHY
Wealthy People Are Giving
Up Homes for Hotels*
D. Robeley Hite, a San Francisco
architect foresees an era, not far off,
when It will be unusual for wealthy
Americans to have homes of their
own.
"It's an architect's business," said
the visitor, "to study the habits and
customs of the rich, that's why I
feel I'm not far wrong in my expec
tation of a general change in their
way of living. The hotels are going
to be the homes of the wealthy In this
country. Aside from being monuments
to a great fortune, great family seals
are no longer useful to rich people.
"Home, to the wealthy American,
must be defined as the city where his
financial interests are centered. His
fireside is always on the move, to
California for the winter, where he
net(ds no fire, to Europe In the sum
mer,"~>r maybe farther, and to some
club or hotel at home.
"At a hotel the rich can have all
the service they want 'cheap,' accord
ing to their outlook, and be saved the
trouble of shifting servants about.
"You can see the drift of things In
the new apartment hotels, where
even some of the rich can hardly nf
ford to live, and In the glided suites
which are being provided as the 'best
rooms' In the palatial Inns contemplat
ed in the country's hotel building pro
gram."
Why Mold era of Public
Opinion Are Repetitive
Jnmes R. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield, told one of the edi
tors of the American Magazine the fol
lowing story about traveling in 1878
as a boy with his father, who was cam
paigning. One night, after a speech
In Michigan, young Garfield said to
his father: "Why do you repeat so
much? Do you know that you said the
same tilings several times tonight?
Do you know that you said the same
things tonight that you said this after
noon in Detroit?"
General Garfield 'made this reply:
"You happen to be an especially Inter
ested party and notice these Repeti
tions. Others do not. 1 repeat the
same statements deliberately in order
that people may finally get them. Any
thing that I want an audience to get
and remember I repeat several times —
in somewhat different form, perhaps.
This practice I have developed out of
my experience, which has shown me
that people's attention Is distracted in
various ways, and that a first or a
second statement may not really get
to them. You must Insist on an idea
er fact if you want to get anywhere
with It"
Why Patent Ofßce It.Weak
The patent office recently Issued pat
ent No. 1500000. The numbers began
in 1836, but since 1010 the application!
for patents have reached a volume
that greatly taxes the resources of
the office to handle. The examiners
have long complained of Inadequate
salaries and unsuitable quarters for
doing the work. The secretary of the
Interior has now asked a committee
of the American Bar association and
the leading patent bar associations to
formulate a plan to simplify and ex>
pedlte the business of the office. Con
gress has provided for one hundred
additional workers, but the beginner's
salary of $1,860 a year Is not attrac
tive to the kind of men that the work
requires.—Youth's Companion.
Why Drag Store Colors
Those huge bottles filled with bright
and green fluids in the front win
dows of drug stores are relics of the
days of alchemy when alchemists
were under suspicion. These alchem
ists were searching after the "I'hllos
opher's Stone," to turn sand Into gold
and they fllled'their shelves with bot
tles of various colored fluids to make
th£lr shops look all the more Impor
tant. The object was to Impress the
layman. The modern chemist or apoth
ecary adopted the Idea as a means of
dressing up his window. These bot
tles are his "barber pole."
Why "A Year and a Day"
The Department of J nut Ice nays
that tberfe Is no federal statute (flak
ing It compulnory to (five a sentence
of a year and a day. Thl» »«* the
time fixed by ancient law to which
certain action* were limited. A stray
horse or other animal had to be
claimed within this period or It be
came the property of the lord of the
manor. A person wounded had to
die within this period In order to
make a person Inflicting the wound
guilty of murder.
Why Brides Favor June
In the time, of ancient Itoine, Juno, i
the wife of Jrtpiter, was the patroness
of happy maiYiases. May, named for
the goddess Mala, was considered un-.
propitious, while March was named -
for Mars, the god of war, and would
therefore be a poor time to marry,
since family disputes might follow. >
53 BELLS IN NEW
YORK CARILLON
Gift to Church Is Largest in
World.
New Tork.—John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., U preseffting the largest and
heaviest carllLen In the world to tbel
Park. Avenue Baptist church In 1
memory of his mother.
The carillon comprises fifty-three
bells, which run four and one-hair
chromatic octaves. The bell metal
weighs more than fifty tons, and the
steel work and fittings will bring the
gross weight the church tower must
support to more than one hundred
tons.
The bells were made by Glrtet &
Johnston, bellfounders of Croydon,
Surrey, Englaud, where the carillon
was first tested in public last May
in the presence of King George and
Queen Mary, the American and French
ambassadors and other guests of
note. »
Size determines the tone of a bell,
according to the makers. The largest
Rockefeller bell Is accordingly the
lowest In tone —"low E"—weighing
nine tons. The top not*, "high A," floats
from the smallest of the bells, a pigmy
of only 15 pounds.
The Secret of the carillon's success
lies In the tuning, the British makers
say, The "Rockefeller peal," the
makers' own phrase for this belfry
choir, Is tuned according to the "Simp
son flve-ton principle."
A. bell Is "cast on the heavy side."
they explain. It Is then reduced to
weight and tone by experts, who lathe
out the Inside surface of the bell ac
cording to the Shnpson method. Once
a bell Is tuned, It stnys tuned forever.
The carillon Is played from a key
board similar to the pianoforte. The
Instrumentalist Is called a "earlllon
eur," who plies lever-keys and foot
pedals with such might and main that
n vigorous hymn leaves him In much
the state of aft active college half
back on a warm day.
Nevertheless the art of the carllion
eut- Is one of the oldest "and most
cherished In sacred music. The Bel
gian players have virtually a monopoly
oh the profession, the Croydon bell
founders say. They serve an ap
prenticeship of years before they are
pronounced masters In the cathedral
school, where they are trained.
England to India in
Three Days by Air
London.—All-steel airplane* now un
der construction here will make the
trip from England to India, roughly
8,000 miles, In three days and some
odd bourn, according to recent an
nouncement of the air ministry under
whose supervision the machines are
being built.
The specifications provide that the
planes be equipped with three motors
developing 2,000 horse power, and it
Is hoped they will be able t'o accom
plish 100 miles an bour.
A crew of four or five will operate
each machine, which will curry twenty
to twenty-five passengers.
It is proposed that these giants of
the air travel day and night', there be
ing sleeping accommodations, and hot
meals by means of an electric cooker.
Find John Brown's Seal
West Chester, Fa.—Tbe original let
ter seal made for John Brown, of Har
pers Ferry fame, before the Civil war,
has been discovered In the possession
of Frank Closson, a dealer in antiques,
who prizes It so highly it Is not for
sale. The seal is of solid gold, about
two Inches in height and an inch in
wldlh.
Artists Use Prison
Iteval, Itussla. —The old prison tower,
referred to In popular parlance as "Big
Margarete," and used as a stats prison
under former Itussian governments, Is
to be converted Into a home for artists. Fattening Lambs On SOV
It will have a number of studios and _ . f ,
ex titt.itlon rooms and living quarters Beans IS satisfactory
for a number of Esthonlan painters Soy-bean hay Is somewhat Inferior
and sculptors. to alfalfa hny for fattening lambs, ac-
Fit Yacht With Rotor
Potsdam. —The world". I\r*t rotor Q""™ 1 w «" » bo l ut 20 por cent greater
yacht was a feature of the exhibition w,th "joy-benn hay than with alfuifa.
for ajiiatlc «i>orta held recently. It The edible portion of the soy-bean hay
made a trial trip each day of the ex- wn "' P a, " ,ahle 88 alfalfa,
hlbltlon on Templln lake and per- ,n Producing gains, but
formed satisfactorily. " contained more refuse.
Soy-bean oil meal, when used as a
supplement to shelled corn and soy
bean straw, gave more rapid gains and
required less grain than Bd Unseed
meal.
Soy-bean straw proved superior to
oat straw as feed for lambs. When
oat straw was fed with shelled corn
and soy-bear olhmeal, the gains vere
leas than with soybean straw und the
same concentrated.
It Large Territory
Bird Census Takers
In all civilized countries where
game Is being protected there are
trained men employed in taking the
census of the virions birds and other
protected wjld game. In the United
States and Canada the preserve war
dens do the work with the aid of com
petent helpers. The task is a patience
trying one. In Europe the count Is
actual, just as when- a human census
la taken, but tn the United Btates It Is
largely by estimate. In this way re
liable figures are obtained, as for In
stance the statement tliat In Peru may
be found 4,000,000 llamas.
ALFALFA FAVORED
FOR HOG PASTURE
Alfalfa* Is the best pasture crop for
hogs where conditions are favorable
for its growth. _ It not only has a high
er feeding value than clover or blue
grass, but remains green and succn
lent during the hot summer months
| when blue grass has dried up and
clover is often hard "and dry.
Alfalfa is ready for pasturing early
la the spring and continues until late
in the fall. It'has the advantage of
lasting through a number of seasons
while clover and rape must be resecd
ed. When alfalfa is not pastured
heavily one or two light crops of hay
can be cut during the season. This
Is good practice in pasturing because
heavy grazing tends to kill out the
stand. Alfalfa Is a suitable pasture
crop for all classes of hogs, but is
especially valuable for brood sows and
young pigs. Its high protein and lime
content makes it valuable for growth
and milk production.
A good stand of alfalfa will graze
eighteen to twenty full-fed hogs per
acre, while the number will be reduced
to six or seven when the hogs are be
ing grown on a half-feed of grain. Un
der average conditions four or five
brood £ows and their litters can be
pastured on an acre of alfalfa. Al
though alfalfa ranks at the top of the
pasture crops al a supplement to corn
for hogs, it is usually advisable to
add tankage or some other high-pro
tein concentrate to the ration, espe
cially for young growing pigs.
Recent tests at the Purdue experi
ment station show that spring pigs fed
for market on alfalfa pasture made
moro rapid gains nhd saved more cbrn
and tankage than those on clover.
In two trials the pigs on alfalfa gained
an average of 1.70 pounds dully and
required 331, pounds of corn and 30
pounds of tankage per 100 pounds
gain, while on clover the average daily
gain was 1.08 pounds, with a feed re
quirement of 330 pounds of corn and
80 pounds of tankuge per 100 pounds
W gain.
A good pasture crop Is essential for
the most economical, pork production.
In fact, It Is so Important that it often
makes the difference between profit
and loss in the business.
For Proper Development
Young Colt Needs Care
The colt, to develop Into a strong,
rugged, growthy horse, must not be
■tunted the Apt jyear of Its life. If
the feed bor 1* placed low, the foal
will begin eating with Its mother when
three or four weeks old and will ac
quire a taste for grain. The earlier It
learns to eat the sooner it wfll relieve
the mare to the extent that she will
be able to do more work. If the mare
Is not being forked and Is running on
grass, a creep shquld be made to
allow the colt to eat at will while on
pasture. Good rations for the creep
are crushed oats with bran or 4 parts
crushed corn, 3 parts bran and 1 part
linseed meal. Colts should be given
| alfalfa hay as soon as they will eat It
When the mare |h being worked the
colt should be kept In a cool, dark
stall during the day where It will not
be bothered by flies and where It will
be safe from Injury. Colts should not
be allowed to follow the mare In the
field. When the colt la small the mare
Should be brought' to the barn to
1 suckle the colt In the middle of the
forenoon and again In the middle of
the afternoon. After the colt becomes
older It may be allowed to nurse only
when the mare Is brought in at meal
time.
Mares at ban! work and nursing a
Strong foal should be f«d heavily to
Insure a good flow of milk. If the
mare Is worked during tho day the
mare and colt should be turned on
grass at night If a creep Is not used
for colts while running in tho posture
they should be given a good ration of
grnin In the barn twice n day.
cor dine to te*tn conducted by the lUl*
nols experiment station.
British Gulaha covers an areii of 89,-
490 square miles. The capital is
Georgetown. It Is situated on the
north shore of South America, with
Venezuela on the west, Dutch Guiana
on the east, and Brazil on the, south.
t
OLDEST DOMESTIC Hi
ANIMAL IS DOG ,
Marin Faithful Companion
for Centuries,
Domesticated animals appear for the
first.time in the Neolithic af* *n4
the dog is known from the kitchen
middens of Denmark, dating from the
Maglemose, which Is contemporaneous
with the Azlllan transition betweeh
the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
Thus the dog is the oldest domestic
animal and, it may be remarked, the
most thoroughly domesticated animal.
The extraordinary sympathy which
exists today between the dog sad
man Is to a large extent due to the tea
thousand or twelve thousand years of
Intimacy between them. The wild an
cestors of the dog had certain favor
able predispositions in this direction,
since he was a member of a hunting
pack. The hunting efficiency of any
jiack depends directly on the complete
obedience and subjection of each of
Its members to the leader, so that IS
was a small step for the ,puppy of the
wolf, or wild dog, to transfer his all**
glance from the pack master to the
new human master. Even today we
see that a masterless dog Is utterly
lost and helpless.
Long after the dog became associ
ated with mtui as a valuable ally,
the cow, sheep, goat and bog were
domesticated. The remains of these
nnimals are found In the lake dwell
ings of Switzerland and probably were
Introduced from the East The chick
en also was brought In from the East
much later, while the cat was lint
domesticated in Egypt
The horse was tamed and used la
the steppes and grasslands of south
western Asia and was long associated
with the Nordic race before It wa»
Introduced In Babylonian and Meeopo
latnian countries by the Kassltee
about 2100 Is. C. The horse did not
appear In Egypt until about the Six
teenth century B. C. The plants known
frotn the Swiss lake dwellings In the
order of their Importance are: Barley,
millet rye, wheat and oats. Also the
grupe, apple and pear.
When we read over the list of the
plants and animals domesticated by
Neolithic man, we are astonished CD
And that there have been very few
additions since that time In either of i
these classes. Down to the discovery '
of the New world no domesticated ani
mals hud been added In the six or
eight thousand years since tbe lake
villages of Switzerland were con
structed.
Flax was tbe commonest known tex
tllf and was used In the manufacture
of clothing, gradually taking tbe place
of skin garments. Wool was also nsed;
In fact It was the chief drew material
used down through the olasslc Into
medieval times. Linen was much later
in the North and came Into me there
In relatively recent times, while silk
first appeared In Eurtipe during the
Knmun empire.—Madison Grant in
the Literary Digest International Book
Itevlew.
Fame
Lady Crusher's reception was
ed to suffocutlon, for the word had
gone forth that she was exhibiting a
new lion that evening.
Several custofT lions. Including
artist* from Chelsea, complete with
whiskers; long-haired musicians, and
actors with blue chins hung about
gloomily on the outskirts of the
crowd. The rest of the throng surged
wildly round a harmless-looking In
dividual standing beside the tri
umphant Lady Crusher In the middle
of the room. They shoved one another
about, and even jumped up on ailh
covered chairs to obtain a better view
of the hero.
"Who Is.he, my deart" panted *
late-arrivdi dowager to a friend.
"Oh, really, don't you know? He It
Henry Ulggs, the champion croea-word
puzzler of Lower Tooting."—Windsor
Magazine.
Rough and Ready
Mill was u first-year pupil in ooe
of the North-side schools, a&d though
small, was "In Dutch" for fighting on
numerous occasions. One day his
teacher called his mother on the phone
to say she would have to send him to
see the principal. The mother asked
her not to do that, aa It would be (Do
humiliating, but to try to reason with
him and it would be more effective.
"Ileason with him," the teacher said.
"I tried that for fifteen minutes at
my desk, and thought I had won bke
over, hut before he got back to his
sAt. lie had hit a boy In the nose who
was smiling at liiui."—lndlanai>plla
New*
f]
Bones in Human Frame
The skeleton of the ado!? consists
of 200 distinct bones; of thetv the
i spine has 20, the head 'B, the ear* 9,
; the face 14. the ribs and sternum, 201
upper extremities 04, lower i trawl
ties 62.
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