Newspapers / Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, … / May 16, 1930, edition 1 / Page 14
Part of Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Silent Triangle Drama Speaking Hands How Mute Wife No. 1 Charged Mute Wife No. 2 A MUTED SIGN This 1* How a Deaf-and-Dumb Girl Signifies "I Am Lonely*—Posed by Grace Bowen, Famons Artist’s Model. They Are Often the Fint “Words” Exchanged Between a Lore-Smitten Mute Pair. THERE iSi4#other country, near and yet^cut off from us, a country that lives in total si lence. In the United States alone there arc more than 13,000 people who must converse, be ahiused, make love and go about their daily tasks without being able either to speak or hear. Around three members of Chicago’s deaf mute colony recently arose a tri angular drama. which, like the old movies, was not a “talkie.” It was a TRIANGLE Mrs. Louis* Rutherford Mickonhom, Who is Charged by Mickonham’s First Wifo With '‘Pantomiming" Hia Lora Away. At Right: Tr*asnrod Old Photo of tho First Mickanham Marriag* When Lena Was th* Brid*. curious situation. Mrs. Lena Mieken ham sued the woman who married her ex-husband—now Mrs. Louise Ruther ford Mickenham—for alienation of af fections. Lena charged that Louise stole the love of her husband and wants $25,000 for it. In the swift, graphic sign-language of mutes, the former Mrs. Mickenham told how the present Mrs. Mickenham met her husband. According fo Lena’s complaint, she was happily married un til 1927. Then, she says, at one of the parties attended only by the deaf, Ash ley Mickenham met Louise Rutherford, the divorced wife of a Protestant min ister, also deaf and dumb, who tours the settlements of people similarly af flicted, sermonizing with his hands. Ashley’s infatuation, Lena declared, began from that first bridge game. She noticed that he enjoyed enormously be ing her partner and that night at sup per saw to it that his place was next to hers. Mrs. Rutherford, Lena charged, did nothing to discou rage the attentions of Ashley. More parties followed. At - bridge, according to Lena, Ash ley, he and Mrs. Rutherford de- V veloped a set of signals that had nothing to do with Hoyle. V Of course, all the bidding was V carried on in the sign language. I And from time to time Lena said ^ she was conscious that when Ash ley bid, “Two hearts,” he was em broidering the gesture with “I love you.” In sign language this also involves the “heart sign,” and Lena contended that Mrs. Rutherford un derstood and returned the silent en dearment. It was all done so swiftly that the other ■ players might not have seen, Lena said, but she saw and was deeply hurt The spectacle of a. gathering of deaf mutes, two of them carrying on an in terchange of sweet nothings airily ges tured when no one was looldng, offers a rich field for the imagination. How did Ashley—or Mrs. Rutherford, if, as Lena implied, she was the aggressor— commence the traditional first stum bling phrases of affection? How did the pair manage to sandwich in “I am not understood” or “Meet me at three” between the casual gossip of the parties, where eyes were glued to elo quent hands and »o much as the drop ping of a semicolon would bo apparent to the trained mutes? Anyway, if Mrs. Lena Mickenham is to be believed, her relations with Ash ley from that time on became strained. He wasn’t as rood to her as he had always been. Finally ho sued her for divorce. She maintained in her charges that he never would have done this if . he hadn't been prompted by Mrs. Rutherford, who, with agile fingers, was pantomiming him away from her. Lena answered her husband’s divorce suit with a cross-bill and won a divorce. Mrs. Rutherford subsequently be came Mrs. Louise Rutherford Micken ham, and later Mrs. Lena Mickenham said it was all unfair—a literally "underhand” affair—and ahe wanted “Don’t Play to the Gallery” ■Simpson ing else. It that is absent the money part of the reward is too small, no matter if it is millions.” About thirty-three years ago a tow headed Scotch lad of seventeen got a job in Marshall Field & Co. as an errand boy at five dollars a week. After a few years had passed he was getting ten dollars. The story is told that he became dissatisfied and went direct to Mr. Field for an increase in wages. The great founder of the com pany looked at him and said: “Why, when I was your aye, I made only five dollars a ■week.” And then, the story has it, came the reply which made the boy famous: “Well, sir, perhaps that was all you were worth.” The boy was James Simpson, and (whether the story is true or not) in a short time he was private secretary to Marshall Field. Now, at the aye of fifty, he is president of the com pany and one of the outstanding mer chants of the world. ^ JAMES SIMPSON (President of Marshall Field end Co.) JAMES SIMPSON, president of Marshall Field & Company, in Chicago, has two outstanding rules for success. They are: “1. Don’t play to the gallery to cover up shortcomings. You seldom find a man getting to the top, or near the top, merely by a few brilliant, dra matic strokes. These may help him to achieve his ends, to be sure. But be ' hind the brilliant drama you will find the other things—correct principles, ' right living, sound thinking and hard work. i “2. Try to find adventure in your work. Without it you cannot acquire the zeal which is part of the equipment of the man who makes money. If a man likes adventure he ought to find it in his business. It is there. All he , needs is the wish and determination to discover it. “The profit has to come, of course. That is the proof of clever playing. But the game itself, the sport and zest of .playing it, ought to be a big part »f the reward even if there were noth r BY HERBERT L. HEttSttUB.PiSUU.'S (Phrticien end Surgeon) THE normal temperature of man it considered 98.6 deg. F. In health, it seldom rises or falls more than one degred during the day. Late in.the afternoon the temperature is highest, and in the morning, lowest. Muscular activity tends to elevate the tempera ture, while starvation and loss of sleep tend to lower it. The greatest amount of heat within the body is due to the use of the mus cles. Over three-fourths of the total energy set free during the action of a muscle appears as heat. A smaller amount is produced when the different organs of the body are active. For ex ample, during the digestion of a meal, the work done by the stomach and in testines causes a certain amount of heat to be formed. Since heat is pro duced so easily, there must be some ready means by which an equal amount of heat can be lost. About eighty per cent of heat is lost chiefly through the skin in the form of sweat, a small amount being lost in warming the air that is breathed in. The sweat is a clear, colorless fluid composed of ninety-nine per cent water. It is excreted through the sweat glands which are present everywhere right under the surface of the skin. As soon as the temperature of the body ✓ ! SWEAT BLOOD VESSEL SWEAT, gland A—Cold Atmosphere Causes a Con* traction of tho. Blood VomoU in the Sldn So That Only a Small Amount of Sweat Is Formod by the Glands. B—Hot Atmosphere Causes the Blood Vessels to Widen Se That a Greater Amount of Sweat Is Formed. rises a half to one decree above normal, theprocess of sweating; begins. The loss of heat from the skin can take place in any or all of the follow ing ways. The waves of heat can pass into the atmosphere In all directions; the heat in the skin can be transferred to objects with which it is in contact, such as the clothing; finally, the heat can be lost by evaporation. The greatest amount of heat, in fact, is lost when the sweat is evaporated. fhanSsht It*# fs'srmtlmil t«bM Ism With Luring Away Her Husband’s Love With Tender Gestures OLD. OLD STORY Th* Tiara* Moat Famoua Spokan ar Writtan Worda in Any Language. “I Lot* You," Tranalatad Into tha Sign Languag* of Mutaa lay Graca Rowan (Right). —"I" —Mada With tha Thumb and Littla Finger of tho Right Hand, aa Shown in Firat Pictur* Below; “LOVE” —Mad* hy Claaping Handa Orar tha Haart; “YOU"—By Pointing at tha Paraon, aa Shown at tha Right. ra*e. At tho hearing of the suit each will have a dozen witnesses, not one among whom can speak normally, al though a few have learned to read lips and to utter words. All the testimony must be interpreted for the judge and jury. The first Mrs. Mickenham has gone to live with her stepfather in Chicago since the divorce. She has adopted her maiden name of Lena Miller. Her brother, John, is also a mute, but her stepfather can speak and hear nor maDy. Ashley operates a tire shop in Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Louise Rutherford Mickenham, defendant in Lena’s suit, is well-pro portioned and matronly. She hks large, engaging eyes and long hair streaked with gray. Well educated, sha reads lips and speaks in a clear, articulated but toneless and expressionless voice. She cannot hear and has learned to speak by carefully watching others, whenever she can she uses the sign language—it’s much less effort. Ashley has never become an accom plished lip-reader and he has never learned to speak. He maintained that he was not lured away from his former wife by Louise, claiming that the other marriage went on the rocks as a result of mutual incompatibility and that he made up hia own mind about whom he should marry next. Deaf mutes tend to congregate and form little communities of their own. They seem to like one another’s so ciety, and there are frequent mar riages—this despite the fact that deaf ness is readily inheritable. There are How the Temperature of the Body Tends to Remain at Normal Sweat is continuously being formed on the surface of the skin. Trie extent to which it is formed depends upon the activity of the body and the tempera ture of the surrounding air. In cold weather, when the body is at rest, the least amount of sweat is formed. For that reason it evaporates so quickly that its presence is not noticed. As the weather get* wanner or as the muscles of the body do more work, the perspi ration forms so freely that it becomes more apparent. Evaporation takes place more quickly when the air is dry than when it is moist. The amount of blood passing through the vessels of the skin determines the amount of sweating. The blood vessels are controlled by an automatic nervous system which regulates the width of the vessels, permitting more or less blood to pass through. When the air is cold, the width of the vessels becomes so small that only a little of the blood can pass through. As a result, the small amount of sweat that is formed does not rob the body of its heat. However, when the air is hot, the vessels become wider, more blood enters the skin, per spiration becomes profuse and the sur plus heat of the body is gotten rid of. At birth this temperature regulating mechanism is not fully developed and it is necessary to keep the surrounding air warm or to wrap the infant in warm clothing so that the body does not give off too much heat. many children of mutes who are born into the world with out the ability to hear. Some are com pletely lacking in the delicate auditory nerves and the mech anism of the inner ear. This ldnd of deaf ness can never be cured. On the other hand, there is no cer tainty that mutes will beyet mutes. There are brothers and sisters, one deaf, the other perfectly normal; some times both parents of these are mutes. Again, deaf mutes—when their afflic tion dates back to birth—have no feel ing of loss in not being able to hear. They have never beard a sound, and so they are unable to cdmprehend what sounds are like. Helen Keller, the internationally famous girl who was striaken deaf and blind in early in fancy, learned to enjoy music through vibrations, and to speak and read with the aid of the Braille system of raised letters. r But her ambition waa spurred by the memoiy of sights and sounds in girlhood. The average deaf-and-dumb person ha* no such recollection, and eo is not a bit downhearted about being unable to hear. They are happy and contented folk, as a rule, even though many of them haven't learned to laugh. Meanwhile the Mickenhams are fighting out their differences in court. The current Mrs. Mickenham has a properous son by her first marriage living in Chicago's fashionable South Shore. He is not a mute. dust how the J25.000 would com pensate Lena Miller for the lost love of her husband isn’t clear. It may be that she simply wanted to show the world that he was won away from her by unfair sign-love-making, if such was the case as* she contends. And it may be that she hoped her husband would have a change of heart and begin to make tender gestures at her once more. Such things are hard to probe. They are wrapped in a silence as deep as that which cloaks the principals in the deaf mote damage suit. By CLAREMIMM-GirlPocbArtist r«r--isrr—■ r Tested .... "The dock in the tower is striking the hour.” THE moon it a luminous ball tonight Afloat on an indigo pool. What were you saying, my love, my deart Why do I act so coolt * * * (The stars are drowned in the indigo pool. Leaving the moon alone.) The night wind ill, from over the hill, Chills me through every bone. * * * (Oh, to be rolling through liquid space. Hot. on the lunar trail!) yOV told me before of yourl latest, deal, Of your greatest property* sale. * # * ' Far from the world of wealth and \ woe, Time would mean naught to met) The clock in the tower it striking the < hour. i I must leave your company. * * * * (A brave, true love would ride by my tide.... Ah, 1 am home at last!) A storm is brewing. Goodbye, my dear, (Our love is over and past., •
Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 16, 1930, edition 1
14
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75