Physical Culture: The Personal Problem Magazine (April, 1935)
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ID A , - MACFADDEN | PUBLICATION - ba iar EERE Albert Edwar sitersiies aa Nt) setae iat pitts Soh Ce TG ME Ea aaae bao ana ienctcesuah oa i
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Physical Culture for April, 1935 Known to the Medical Profession as Vege Mucene is a‘revolutionary new, DRUGLESS Treat- ment for various © gastro-intestinal . ail- ments—for stomach and: duodenal ulcers and inflammations—for~ irritable colon and ulcerative colitis—for acid stomach (hyperacidity), etc., etc. More than 2,000,000 tablets of V. M. prescribed to date V.M. is not an experiment. More than two million tablets of. V.M. have been used to date—every one of them on doctors’ prescriptions—every one ad- ministered under the direction of trained, scientific medical men. Now we offer this treatment to you on the basis of the actual experience of these physicians as reported by them and many lead- ing hospitals where these tablets are today being used—sworn-to, bona fide reports, copies of which we stand ready to put into your hands without cost or obligation to you—reports which read like this: “Have used V.M. in 10 cases with very gratifying results.” (Signed) Dr.———Chicago, IIl. “V.M. Tablets have done what no other medicine has ever done for one of my ulcer patients.” (Signed) Dr.———Union Hill, N. J “V.M. Tablets have given my wife complete relief from stomach gas.”’ (Signed) Dr.———Cleveland, Ohio “Patient suffered from gastric ulcers for 10 years—completely relieved in one month.” (Signed) Dr.———Chicago, IIl. “Patient with non-specific ulcerative colitis makes splendid recovery.” (Signed) Dr.———Chicago, IIl. These reports, and hundreds of others like them, all from physicians—not from just ordinary men or women— but from trained, experienced, scientific medical men! The V. M. Treatment is simplicity itself . . . V.M. is compounded in tablet form. These tablets are pleasant tasting, easi- ly taken. Five or six a day—at two- hour intervals is the treatment usually prescribed. In most cases the diet re- strictions are few and simple. Ordi- narily, patient may eat a full meal with the exception —of vinegar, mustard, pepper, and other strong spices. Otherwise, patient may go about his business in the regu- lar way and eat normally like any other person. All of which is fully explained by the free book we offer to send you. V. M. Tablets are PURE VEGETABLE MATTER - In the booklet we send you, we give you com- plete: laboratory analysis of V.M.- No secret for- mula here. You know just what you are taking when you: take V.M. Maybe that is the reason doctors prescribe the V.M. treatment with such confidence. Maybe that is why so many of them use V.M. in their own cases and in the cases of members of their own families. V. M. causes an increase in bile secretions 255.000 oratory and clinical tests. Your doctor will tell you that an increase in biliary secretions is an aid to digestion. Ask your doctor about this. Ask your doctor about any other point having to do with the V.M. Treatment. Have him write us. We invite the most critical, searching investigation. V.M. is free from alkalies Most so-called stomach tablets are compounded almost altogether from alkalies like bicarbonate of soda, subnitrate of bismuth, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, etc. Such preparations may give temporary relief. But, invariably, there comes what is known as a “‘secondary reaction,” which brings with it an increase in acid secre- tions, thereby making necessary the taking of more alkalies. Then comes a vicious circle— more acid, more medicine; more medicine, more acid. However, V.M. is different. Containing no baking soda or any other alkali, it causes no such unfavorable reaction. It has been demonstrated in both clinic and laboratory that V.M. actually causes a reduction in hydro- chloric and other free stomach acids. It has also been shown that V.M. hastens the ‘“‘empty- ing time” of the stomach. This is very helpful to most stomach sufferers, particularly ulcer sufferers. Ask your doctor about this. PATIENTS ON V. M. ALMOST ALWAYS GAIN WEIGHT Of course, there’s a reason for this—a simple, understandable reason. V.M. Treatment gives relief from pain and associated symptoms of ulcer and other stomach ailments. As a result, the patient can eat more freely and more fully. With an increase in the food intake and a de- crease in distress, there invariably comes better assimilation, better nutrition, and an increase in the patient’s weight. This is just part of the story. There’s much more to it. All of it should be read to every stomach sufferer. The facts are free to every such sufferer—SCIENTIFIC, PROVEN, SWORN- TO FACTS as reported to us by eminent medi- cal men—by practicing physicians as well as laboratory research scientists. We want every stomach sufferer to get a copy of these reports. If you’re such a sufferer, a copy of it is yours free for the asking whether or not you buy the V.M. Treatment... . . The price of ‘V.M. is $3:00° for ‘100*tabléts=>s $5.50 for 200 tablets. That is the price for which these tablets are - now being sold in many of America’s finest presesipeicn pharmacies—in stores like Nau- eim’s of New York City—F. E. Morgan & Sons of Philadelphia—the Leonard Seltzer Phar- STOMA SUFFERERS AT LAST! Medical Science = Offers You a DRUGLESS fee Treatment for ACID STOMACH, eee and other Gastro-Intestinal Ailments 1 : he ¥ macy of Detroit, Liggett’s and Walgreen Stores, Sargent’s, Wright & Lawrence of Chicago— Horton & Converse and Thrifty Stores of Los Angeles, etc., etc. 200 Tablets are sufficient for a month’s treat- ment even in the most severe cases of ulcer, ulcerative colitis and severe acid stomach. In milder cases, 100 tablets will last a long time —a month, or even more—particularly, if case begins to respond to treatment immediately, as so frequently happens, In the. booklet we will send, “you will observe how frequently doctors report relief “from the taking of the very first tablet,” as they themselves express it. You will observe further, how, many of them report “‘sustained relief” and disappearance of all symptoms after compara- tively short periods. of treatment. And, with special interest, you will observe how many of these reports tell that the doctor has used or is using -V.M. on his own case or in the case of some member of his own family. A most sig- nificant fact that—as you will realize. Considering these facts—SWORN-TO FACTS as you will please remember—your decision will be easily reached. In fact, as we see it, there is really only one thing for you to decide. It is this: Have you Stomach Trouble? Are you afflicted with Acid Stomach—with an Ulcer—with some form of Colitis, or with what the doctors call an “Irritable Colon’’? Are you unduly dis- tressed after eating—with belching, bloating, excess stomach gas, etc., etc.? If your answer to any of these questions is “VYes”—if you actually know yourself to be afflicted with any of these conditions—then, as we see it, ALL THE EVIDENCE CONSID- ERED, there can be only one decision you can reach regarding V.M. TO USE iT—as other sufferers have used it and benefited from its u<c, as reported by their own doctors and by so many hospitals. It then remains but for you to determine which size to order: A bottle of 200 tablets at $5.50 —or a bottle of 100 tablets at $3.00 only. That is up to you. But, whichever size you order, this we want you to remember: You take no risk in ordering V.M. If, after using the tablets for 10 days you do not get the relief you yourself expect, you have but to send back the unused portion of the bottle and we will return the money you have paid us, in full, every penny of it. V. M. PRODUCTS Dept. 75, Chicago 500-510 North Dearborn Send Your Order for V. M. on this Coupon V.M. Products, 500 North Dearborn, Chicago 75 Gentlemen: Please ship V.M. Tablets as checked be- low. Also include SWORN-TO Reports from Doctors and Hospitals telling of their experience with V.M. 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PHYSICAL Linas CULTURE € Ott "o WOM Ss eR RT 1. oO 2g APRIL 1935 Mont Wl In This Issue < Dynamic Health for Children................. Bernarr Macfadden 4 Wanted to Be "Free How to Decide Your Moral Problems....... Albert Edward Wiggam 13 The story of a modern woman's Helping Mother to "Grow Up"........ 16 struggle to attain what she thought was F ‘. ee Cl ae te ae aie OT eee en a her heart's desire—liberty, equality and Drink—My Prenkensteit.. 8! ts | 4) ood ryaeige, palaeiavwee 18 nhed aides os ee an The Natural Treatment of Bronchitis st ae ais Charles A. Clinton, M.D. 21 changed? Or will women always be in Your Dreams Expose Your Real Self.............. Lawrence Gould 22 bondage -to love: thesPrustated, Peres: pic cise ne) een tS ee ae oe 24 Dietetic Fads and Fancies............ Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, M.D. 27 What Twins Tell Us About Your Superstitions and Your Health............. Wainwright Evans 28 Human Nature What t'verbedriiedAbout lave\f OSS eee es 30 myer the — of ete ane eit ~The Body Beautiful. : 2 .2c2 Stic: ~ ae. Ol Cees Pictorial 33 i t , Albert ig- aie Helly what ‘these. "personalities ea Beauty on Nothing a Year. ............... Carol Cameron 38 duplicate"’ reveal about many problems i ; : a _ peor spel ies 2 The Happiest ROME) 5 tik Hesen:- wok FG kk ce _...Baby Pictorial 40 My Neurotic Parents...... ...... Personal Problem Department 41 Be the Picture of Perfect Posture.................... John Brennan 42 Exercise to Retain Youth Shall My Child Take Music Lessons?................. Carol Stone 44 ak poner ey Sarre. . ee Victor Herbert Died Too Soon..................... Joseph Kaye 46 mstTeqaqd, resents a.sane HiOSO ial nig for recepturing ond Ft How Much Strength Do | Want?.......... Samuel Edwin Olmstead 48 keeping the physi tal integ- : : : sie oF voile a Paty oa Shall We Economize on Meat?.................... Milo Hastings 51 exercises demonstrated by the author. Long Lite on Soultured: Milk. 5 oes... os ek Stoyan Christowe 52 2 Are Spices Devoid of Food Value?.............. The Nutrition Staff 54 PE sa. ithe. hatesiecins Take a 300-Mile Walk with Bernarr Macfadden............ grt x04 71 Lawrence Gould, consulting psycholo- ist, ts that th ti | dri bat ean ipicel sehen eas sklic te SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS private, arises from some guilty con- sciousness of his own more or less re- Physical CANure Suveaurs. fe er rae eh Tete gy 5 pressed, impulses... Questions from Health Seekers........... 6 Our Physical Culture Girls....... Mote 30, spe bAE Ais, bine: 10 Our Educational Cruelty to The Joyous Physical Culture Life..... .... ba apt tates ite tae Ue eg 68 | Children us. Mathers. and. Babies. oc: . . | ZO tee esterases qhanic:} 78 We profess to be good parents, yet The Physical RE AAP OS ohcsts Be ee 81 look at the sheer brutality of many things we do to our children "for their good"! Cover Design by Victor Tchetchet P Bell} HE 1D BY MACFADODEN Poa Se: biG A Tee On Ss. i hoe Bernarr Macfadden, President Irene T. Kennedy, Treasurer Wesley F. Pape, Secretary Business and Editorial Offices: Macfadden sullen. 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y John F. Carter, Advertising Manager, Graybar Bldg., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N London Agents: Macfadden Magazines, Ltd., 30 Bouverie Street, London, E. C. 4, England. Subscription price in the United States, $1.50 per year. In U. S. Possessions, Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, $2.00 Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Equador, Guatemala, Haiti, In Continental Europe and the British Empire (except Canada), Price in the U. S. A., 15 cents a copy. per year in U. S. Funds. In Argentina, Bahamas, duras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela, $2.50 per year. $3.50 per year. In all other countries, $4.00 per year Copyright, 1935, by East Indian Agent: P. C. Eranee Sons, Bombay, India. Macfadden Publications, Inc. Copyright also in Canada and Great Britain. Entered as second class matter June 10, 1908, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Dunellen, N. J. Contributors are especially advised to retain copies of their contributions; otherwise they are taking an unnecessary risk. Every possible effort will be made to return unavaile able manuscripts, photograohs and drawings (if accompanied by first class postage); but we will not be responsible for losses of such matter contributed. Printed in the U. 8S. A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J. Chicago Office: 333 North Michigan Ave., Charles H. Shattuck, Manager Hon- a |
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Physical Culture for April, 1935 IN VITAMIN B tc worth of 3 oatmeal *gzals yeast ...1ts precious YEAST VITAMIN Bb. combats Nervousness Constipation Poor appetite Youngsters must have the yeast-vitamin! Yet lc worth of delicious Quaker Oats contains more of it than 3 'M HAVING AN AWFUL TIME WITH SUSAN. SHE'S SO SHY AND TIMID AND REFUSES OH SAY / 1 SAW A MAGAZINE ARTICLE ABOUT THAT LAST NIGHT. LET'S GET (IT. cakes of fresh yeast! YES, AND HE SAYS OATMEAL HAS LOTS OF YEAST- VITAMIN B: “CHILDREN NEED THE YEAST-VITAMIN B TO COMBAT NERVOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, POOR APPETITE DADDY, TEACHER SAID YESTERDAY, “WHATS COME OVER YOU, SUSAN ? YOU'RE A DIFFERENT GAL! \SN'T IT SWELL TO HAVE A LOT OF PEP ? WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT DELICIOUS QUAKER OATS HAD THE PRECIOUS _, YEAST - VITAMIN OF THREE WHOLE CAKES OF YEAST - 1 CAN USE THIS BREAKFAST - ALSO! We now find that milk builds growth better with Oatmeal, because of its yeast-vitamin, than with other cereals! | fp a matter only of days since four of America’s leading specialists on children’s diet have said, in effect, these amazing things in public print! ““Yeast-vitamin B is our great protective food, because it combats nMervousness, constipation, poor appetite. And, they say, oatmeal is a fine source of this pre- cious yeast-vitamin! Indeed it is! ‘Nature has stored more of it in 1c worth of delicious Quaker Oats than in three cakes of fresh yeast! Is the appetite for oatmeal instinctive? Now we know why this basic food of Na- ture’s has always had such a deep appeal. : Nature has stored not only -yeast- vitamin B in the heart of the oat grain. But essential, life-giving minerals like iron, phosphorus and lime. Minerals that replenish rich, red blood. Combat anemia. Make heat and energy for the day’s work. Now a second amazing discovery And now, say doctors, milk eaten with oat- meal builds growth better than with other cereals. Why? Because the growth value of milk is largely in Vitamin G. And Vitamin G can perform its task only when eaten with a food that contains the yeast-vitamin B, so richly supplied in Quaker Oats! Order Quaker or Mother’s Oats today. At any store. Here, in Nature’s great protec- tive food, is a most delicious, satisfying breakfast. Let the whole family. benefit by it every morning. Quaker Oats and Mother’s Oats are the same, equally rich in yeast-vitamin B, and both reinforced with Sunshine Vitamin D. The same process makes each a quick, delicious breakfast. Either 2% minute cooking, or regular. MAIL COUPON FOR FREE COPY fof Dr. Herman N. Bundesen’s “Foods For The Growing Child” Compiled from the works of 48 leading world authorities on nutrition and child-raising. Illus- trated with 54 helpful pictures. Sent free and postpaid on receipt of coupon. a eae" QUAKER OATS COMPANY ap Chicago, Illinois, Dept.D-21 Please send me Free and Postpaid a copy of Dr. Herman N. Bundesen’s illustrated book, “FOODS FOR THE GROWING’ CHILD,’’compiled from the works of world authorities and illustrated with 54 pictures. Name Address Re ea a.
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N THE building of a healthy body one must be insured a proper start. The development of a strong man or a vigor- ous woman depends largely upon the proper attention to the require- ments of health-building in childhood. Sunlight and air are perhaps the first requirements. We can live for several days without water, we can live several weeks without nourishing food, but we can live only a few minutes without air. | The growth of many children is stunted because they are being reared in stifling air—at least during the winter—and because of the failure to supply them with vitamin D, an important element absorbed by the body through direct contact with sunlight. In the demonstration which I am now now conducting in Hackensack, New Jersey, with twenty-five children, between the ages of five and ten, play time is unusually important. Properly guided recreation gives the child all the exercise needed, and if sunlight can be supplied regularly, greatly added energy is the natural result. For a child to secure the proper development there must be some means of satisfying his natural desire to climb or to hang his weight from a support of some kind—limbs of trees, fences, parallel bars, rings, or anything that will encourage him to hold his weight with strength of hands. and arms. Such exercise increases the strength of the arms and chest and adds to the suppleness and strength of the entire body. 4 DYNAMIC HEALTH For Children By Bernarr Mactadden And this same exer- cise is valuable at any time of life. Many boys attend gymnasiums early in life and acquire con- siderable skill on rings, bars, etc., and when these exercises are dis- continued they never have occasion to use hands and arms to sup- » port their full weight, and the benefit of this valuable exercise is lost. Then, too, of course, vital foods are very important to a child in this growing period—much more so than in adult life. Foods having the vitality imparted by nature must be supplied. The whole grains in the form of bread, porridge, etc., whether corn, wheat, oats, rye or whatever it may be, is unusually important. In the demonstration we are making with the chil- dren at Hackensack, these grains are specially ground for us, and the growth of some of the children has been phenomenal. One child increased eight pounds in four months, and quite a number have increased from four to five pounds which, naturally, has made an extraordinary difference in their appearance. We are hopeful at the time of the discontinuance of this demonstration, a six months’ period, that there will be a sufficient number of parents who would like to take advantage of a service of this character to enable us to continue this school on a basis where it will be very nearly self-supporting. If we were to take as many as fifty children, they could be fed, clothed and receive regular schooling, including phys- ical training, for about six or seven dollars a week.
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Physical Culture for April, 1935 PHYSICAL CULTURE OUTDOORS Bring your outdoor problems to us. The publication is prepared to give expert aid to PuysicaL CuLiureE readers on all subjects pertaining to the Great Out- doors. to go? What to do? outdoor activities? . 1926 Broadway, New York City, and your questions will be answered promptly ~ by mail. DEAR SIR: Due to failing health and the fact that I am out of employment at the present time, I want to spend the com- ing summer somewhere in the West with my wife and family of two chil- dren. I have a little money saved up, but wish to be as economical as pos- sible and can not afford to go to a Dude Ranch. Could you advise me of any place where I could spend the summer outdoors in the West at the lowest possible cost and yet have con- siderable comfort and conveniences. A. H. W., Pittsburgh, Pa. ANSWER— Too few outdoor en- thusiasts, with little money to spend, take advantage of the opportunities presented by our National Parks. If you have a car and a camp outfit you can camp in any one of the National Parks all summer free of all cost ex- cept the entrance fee of $3.00 for your car. At the public camp sites in all National Parks all reasonable conveniences are provided free of cost —good drinking water, stores where you can purchase food and wood for fuel, even bathing places and shower baths at some. As the most convenient and the easiest to reach, and also because of its healthful and _ picturesque’ environ- ment, I would suggest Rocky Moun- tain National Park. The village of Estes Park, the eastern gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, is just 70 miles by good motor road from Denver, and from this valley village you have access by trail to the noblest heights and the most picturesque parts of the Rocky Mountains. Even in the valleys at the base of the high peaks you are 8,000 feet, or more than a mile and a half, above sea level, while the peaks rise to from 12,000 to more than 14,000 feet altitude, and these are divided by streams and small lakes that are full of trout, and beautiful glades that are carpeted with a pro- fusion of wild flowers. This is one of the healthiest outdoor regions in the West with plenty of opportunities for trail travel either on foot or on horse- back. No fee is charged for motor cars at Rocky Mountain National Park, the park being open to cars operated for pleasure. A number of public camp sites are free to all campers (ask the ranger at the Estes Park ranger sta- tion to get you located). Furnished cabins can be rented reasonably at Estes Park and other points. There are also permanent camps and lodges where accommodations can be _ ob- tained, with meals, if you do not wish to camp out or keep house. DEAR SIR: Are there any hiking clubs around Knoxville or anywhere in Eastern Tennessee that one could join for com- Do you want to know the proper equipment to use? In fact, is there anything you want to know about your Just write a letter addressed to Physical Culture Outdoors, Where How to dress? pany on week-end or vacation hikes. I prefer one that has a mixed mem- bership and that indulges in other so- cial activities aside from hiking, though hiking is most important to me. Miss E. C. I., Kingston, Tenn. ANSWER—Write to Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, P. 0. Box 454, Knoxville, Tenn. This club has a large member- ship of both sexes, holds regular monthly meetings, goes on a regular program of hikes throughout the year, and indulges in other social activities such as dances, banquets, hay-rides, etc. Membership dues are $3.00 a year, which entitles you to their an- nual handbook containing regular schedule of events, and membership is open to any white person of either sex, DEAR SIR: Could you map out for’ me a short motor trip in Canada that will take one through a country of small wood- land lakes or along a chain of lakes where there is good fishing and con- stant change of lakeland scenery with good camping spots or camps at which one could stop over night. A party of us expect to drive up to Montreal during the summer and we would like to include such a trip in our itinerary. H. C. H., Albany, N. Y. ANSWER—Probably the best inland- lake motor route in Canada is that up the Trent Waterway System from the town of Trenton, Ontario, to Midland, on Georgian Bay. This takes you along a chain of about sixteen small lakes and connecting rivers right through the woods of central Ontario, a distance of about 250 miles, with the best of fishing all along the route and camps where you can stop if you de- sire. From Montreal drive up the north shore of the St. Lawrence River to the town of Trenton, at the foot of Lake Ontario. From Trenton fol- low the Iroquois Trail, which is plainly marked with a white arrow on which are the words “Iroquois Trail” and below this the words “Trent Water- way System.” You can return by a different route by taking the highway from Midland on Georgian Bay through Barrie to Toronto, then drive along the north shore of Lake Ontario through Hamilton to Niagara Falls, Canada, cross over the Suspension Bridge, then follow U. §S. 20 across New York State back to Albany. Write to Trent Waterway Associa- tion, Peterboro, Ontario, Canada, for map of this Iroquois Trail route. __. Another good motor trip ‘into a‘wil-' derness wonderland from Montreal is the circuitous route that takes you from Montreal north through the Laurentian Mountains to Mont Trem- blant Park and then down the famous (Continued on page 87) YOUR BABY NEEDS THESE VITAMINS! But infants fed vegetables cooked and strained by ordinary home methods re- ceive a lower vitamin content than do those fed Heinz Strained Foods O-CALLED fresh market vege- 7 tables, cooked and strained at home for baby’s diet, are not always’so fully vitamin-laden as you think, Actually far higher vitamin and min- eral retention than those of most home- prepared vegetables is now assured in Heinz Strained Foods, Heinz cooks them for you, strains them finer, vacuum-packs them into enamel- lined tins—all without exposure to vitamin-destroying air. Prize vegetables, harvested at the minute of perfection, go into the steam cookers a few hours from the garden. 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Q. bar | @ D ~s a This valuable book can not be sent to children. : 'TTTYTTITILTITLrirtirrirtrirrirtrtirrirtiittitiitiitittie Hip Dise Physical Culture ASC and Other Questions from Health Seekers Answered by a Personal and Confidential Associate of Bernarr SG ates eae My youngest daughter has hip disease. for some time and now cannot work. Can anything be done for her? WILLIAM T. J. ANSWER: Hip disease is a very seri- ous affection. It may be said that, bar- ring cases caused by accidents, the majority of cases of hip disease are tubercular in character. The disease may occur at any age but most cases develop very early in life, before the eighth or the ninth year. Hip disease starts, as a rule, in one of the bones forming the hip joint, either the upper end or head of the thigh bone, or fe- mur, - “or. in: the pocket in the hip bone with which the head of the _ thigh bone articulates. At the beginning. there is pain in. the hip joint and often in the knee joint, which par- ents are apt to think are either growing pains or rheumatism. Later on there is dif- ficulty in walking, the condition’ gets gradually worse un- til. walking becomes impossible without She has had it Other Questions Answered in This Department Heart Trouble Ozena The Menopause Burns eACactadden ercise can well be continued. An ex- clusive milk diet is often the best diet in cases of this kind, or the combina- tion milk and fruit diet may be taken instead. Plenty of fresh air is ad- vised together with the strict attention to the eliminations from the bowels, the skin and the kidneys. Daily warm baths and massage are to be also ad- vised. Warm baths may be followed by cool sponging and rapid drying of the skin. Heart Trouble UESTION: I have heart trouble. I am told that exercise is bad but I think that if I rest too much my heart will get weaker. Am I right or am I wrong? HORTENSE W. ANSWER: In the main, you are right In your surmise. The heart is a muscular organ and_ requires exercise in order to strengthen its mus- cular fibers and tis- sues just as do other muscular portions of the body. Of course, one must know just exactly what kind of causing the greatest Flatulence heart trouble’ one pain. The joint 7 has. There are some eventually becomes cases in which no ex- stiff and the thigh generally drawn up, producing a certain amount of de- formity and making one leg appear to be shorter than the other. If the condition is tubercular in character, there is often the formation of abscess in the joint, the pus gradually work- ing its way toward the surface of the body, sometimes near the hip joint, or at other times quite a distance from it. In this case, the affected bone gen- erally breaks down and crumbles away, losing some of the substance. In cases of this kind, even though the disease is greatly relieved, there is generally some stiffness left in the hip joint which produces a certain amount of permanent lameness. These cases have to be kept in bed sometimes for long periods of time. The use of ex- tension apparatus often gives very good results and traction is also used to good advantage in most cases. The ultra-violet ray may be used though if regular sun baths can be taken in proper season, it would be very desir- able. When the patient is allowed out of bed, walking is very good if it does not produce severe pain. If there is only a slight discomfort, it should not | get worse from walking, and the ex- ercise can be _ per- mitted, at least until improvement occurs. These are cases in which there is loss of compensa- tion, with dropsical symptoms and dyspnoea, or shortness of breath. Such cases must be kept very quiet. There are, however, many cases of valvular disease of the heart, or chronic in- flammation of the heart muscle, in which exercise is very good. One of the best exercises is waiking. This stimulates the action of the heart and strengthens its muscles. In the begin- ning, one should walk only short dis- tances at a slow pace, walking on level ground only, and resting every few minutes. Gradually the distance may be increased as well as the rapidity of the pace. Later it is good to begin walking up slight grades, resting fre- quently and going very slowly, but gradually selecting steeper grades and climbing more and more rapidly, until finally one will be able to climb fairly steep hills with no discomfort. If, during walking or any other exercise, one becomes at all distressed, then im- mediately stop and rest. In this way many people suffering from heart trouble have helped themselves very greatly and (Continued on page 9)
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Enjoy Perfect Vision ~ Without Glasses What a glorious sense of satisfaction it is to enjoy perfect vision without the aid of cum- bersome eye-glasses. Think of it—folks who have worn eye-glasses for years are now dis- carding their glasses forever. Glasses are only eye crutches. They simply bolster up the eyes—they cannot cure or eliminate the conditions responsible for the trouble. They are useful just as crutches are useful for an injured leg, but they can no more restore your eyes to their former strength than crutches can’mend a broken limb. The real help must come from other sources. In the case of the eyes it is exercise. Over 20 years ago Bernarr Mac- fadden, father of Physical Culture, had a most trying experience with his eyes. Due to many nights of hard literary work under poor arti- ficial lights they became terribly strained. The idea of wearing glasses was intolerable, so always willing to back up his theories by experimenting upon himself, he immediately started in upon a course of natural treatment that he fully believed would help him. The results were so entirely satisfactory that he associated himself with one of the few really great eye specialists and together they entered upon a period of research and experiment covering many years. A System of Eye-Training Upon their findings has been based a remarkable new scientific system of eye- training which quickly enables you to train these muscles of the eye so that you can make them work properly at all times, and without effort or strain. This new system has been prepared by Bernarr Macfadden, in eollaboration with the eminent ophthal- mologist who discovered the real truth about eyes. | {f you already wear glasses, find out how . you can discard your glasses—and see better without them! 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Apri, 1935 APTIVATING, intriguing women... women who are invariably the center of attraction are those who have learned a simple, yet age old secret. The secret of being glamourous. These women are magnetic because they have learned that charm and attractiveness are largely a matter of health. They know that by following a few simple health rules unsightly skin blemishes disappear—their pep and interest in life returns and they are tingling with radiant health. With health as your background, you give your individuality, your personality and charm a chance to assert themselves. By neglecting health you create an impassable barrier that denies you the respect and admiration of your friends. Nature endowed you with a healthy body. Your job is to keep this body in health—to keep fit. And this is so easy, if you but follow the simple teachings as outlined in Bernarr Macfadden’s great book “Keeping Fit.” You will find this book indeed a veritable gold mine of information. A single glance at the contents will convince you of the scope of ‘Keeping Fit.” Almost every disease and illness is discussed. A Few Chapter Headings How to Reduce Weight, How to Gain Weight, Skin Troubles, Exercising for Body Vigor, What to Eat—Suggested Menus, Eliminating Hair Troubles, Backache, Constipation, Colds, Neuralgia Neuritis, Sore Throat, Stomach Diseases, Rheuma- tism, Gall Stones, Heart Disease. etc., etc. Send No Money Now You send no money for your copy of Keep- ing Fit. Merely sign coupon and pay post- man $1.00 plus post- age. If you are not satisfied with this book return it within 5 days and your $1.00 will be refunded. This $2.00 Bock Reduced to $1.00. Exercise Chart FREE i wie | Macfadden Book Company, Inc. Dept. 4, 1926 Broadway, New Yerk, N. Y. Send me your book Keeping Fit. I will pay the postman $1.00 plus postage when the book is de- livered to me. It is understood that if I find the book unsatisfactory I can return it within five days and my $1.00 will be cheerfully refunded. If cash accompanies your order we prepay postage. Name..... Lt ee Poe oe ee ae a a a et ee PACE OE ssy) e Sr aS ioe ace, CLE: wae ae City St ee at (Canadian and Foreign Orders—cash in advance) | iSO a Seay Se a eee emer ema) ene ee ree) ee ee RR CREE (Continued from page 6) have so strengthened the heart muscles that former symptoms have largely disappeared. In addition to exercise, a simple diet is to be selected and one should eat only sufficient to keep from losing weight and strength. It is well to avoid too much heavy protein food, also rich foods, highly seasoned foods, spices, condiments, tea, coffee and al- cohol. Smoking is also very bad. Ozena UESTION: Please tell me what ozena comes from? JENNIE W. ANSWER: Ozena is one form of ca- tarrh in which there is an atrophy of the mucous membrane of the nose. There is a discharge of very offensive muco-pus from the nostrils. Large dry scabs are liable to form in the nose and there is an extremely bad odor which comes from the nostrils resem- bling nothing else which can be de- scribed. It is a sickening odor which is not noticed much at all by the vic- tim of the disease but which is very nauseating to those who come near him. The disease is very chronic and often follows an ordinary nasal ca- tarrh when much inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane has occurred. Many people suffering from syphilitic infection develop this condition. The use of nasal irrigations of watery an- -tiseptic solutions or the use of anti- septic oils either directly applied to the nasal mucous membrane or used in an atomizer are often of great value. The inhalation of steam will tend to loosen the scabs so that they may be easily removed. An ordinary nasal douche of warm salt water is often of the greatest value, using one teaspoonful of salt to each pint of warm water. A fast taken from time to time is often very beneficial, the fast to last as long as the general condition of the person will permit. During the fast a daily warm enema is taken:and quantities of water are to be drunk. The fast is to be broken by a diet of orange juice or vegetable broth and later a simple diet of fruit and vegetables, or better still, a milk diet may be undertaken with good re- sults. Starches and sugar should be avoided in all cases. The taking of sun.baths is to be recommended as well as being in the open air as much as possible, the avoidance of consti- pation and the taking of regular ex- ercise in the form of calisthenics, deep breathing ard walking. The local measures can be used several times daily. The kidneys must also be kept thoroughly flushed, and steam and electric light cabinet treatments are recommended to aid skin elimination. The Menopause UESTION: I am approaching the change of life and I’ve been told that I must expect to have a hard time. Why? I am strong and healthy. Mrs. CHARLES W. W. ANSWER: If you are strong and healthy, you should have no qualms about what is in store for you. Per- sons who live properly, whose blood is pure and whose body is free from toxins, and who have no disease of the pelvic organs, should have no trouble at all during the period of the meno- pause. Of course, it is more or less a critical period because it is the time (Continued on page 12) ABDOMINAL SUPPORTEX PATENTED and ATHLETIC SUPPORTER Reduces waist-line. Relieves constipation. Supports fallen abdominal muscles. Corrects posture. 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OUR 10 Msneeiener CULTURE GIRLS SOS (European Picture Service) Physical culture girls have many ways of keeping fit—but in one respect they’re alike—they all are active, healthy and happy. The young German girl above apparently finds the water cold at first, but it doesn’t dampen her spirits or deter her from her daily swim. The striking group at left are Vassar graduates doing a modernistic dance in geo- metric design at Essex House in New York City; and these lucky girls below, who have escaped the cold weather up north, are lined up for a race on the rubber animals in the water zoo, Miami's latest fad. Our bet is on Old Dobbin (Wide World) (Acme) r ‘i
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Physical Culture for April, 1935 | a This World Needs New Revelation of God. HERE IT IS! THIS TEACHING IS 10 YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME | a What “PSYCHIANA” Teaches Is This: FIRST :—There exists in this Universe today an un- seen Realm of Thinking, Creative, Intelligence so powerful and so dynamic that all other powers fade into insignificance beside it. SECOND:—This Realm of Thinking Intelligence exists for the complete liberation of the human race. IT EXISTS IN ORDER THAT WE ALL MAY HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF EVERY- THING—NOW. IT HAS ALWAYS EXISTED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIRD:—The much-discussed “Cosmic-Ray” is an emanation from this great, Invisible Cosmic Power Realm, which created and still sustains everything in the Universe, INCLUDING THE HUMAN RACE. FOURTH:—This mighty, pulsating, throbbing Power is at the disposal of every one of us at any This Teaching Is Revolutionary there’s no question about that. It upsets all previously conceived notions of God. Yet inside of one year it went into 67 countries, and the files of its founder are literally teeming with amazing reports of results actually achieved through the application of ths philosophy. These results include sceming miracles of healing and material hour of the day or night, and NEVER FAILS TO RESPOND. When the conditions govern- ing its operation are complied with, IT BRINGS TO ALL AN ABUNDANCE OF EVERY- THING NEEDED IN THIS LIFE. (This is a Startling statement, we know, but we teach it to be an absolute fact.) FIFTH:—The existence of this Creative, Think- ing Cosmic Intelligence satisfactorily answers the sadly befuddled question of who and what God is, AND BRINGS THE POWER OF THE COSMIC GOD-REALM DOWN TO US HERE AND NOW, PUTTING THIS STUPENDOUS POWER, WITH ITS ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF EVERYTHING, INTO OUR OWN HANDS. SIXTH :—None need remain a failure with this source of abundant supply so close at hand. DR. FRANK B. ROBINSON who is a Member of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research, is exceedingly anx- _ ious that men and women the wide world round learn what he has to teach of this amazing discovery which is fraught with success,and the founder believes that there Underwood & Underwood tremendous possibilities. If you will send are no limitations whatsoever to this great Dr. Frank B. Robinson, your name and address to us here at Mos- Cosmic Power. It seems to work for one ye ag ag cow, we will send you without any obliga- and all alike, bringing every needed thing eats eo entOee tion whatsoever, a summary of what we to us. Ser caer’ kare one: teach. This comes free of cost to you. THE ANSWER TO THE VEXING PROB- LEMS OF LIFE LIES IN THE GREAT COSMIC OR SPIRITUAL REALM. SEND FOR YOUR COPY OF DR. ROBINSON’S BOOKLET NOW, WHILE IT IS FRESH IN YOUR MIND. YOUR. ENTIRE FU- TURE MAY HINGE UPON IT. Science, Fellow Amer. Soc. Psy. Research, ete. Re. =. DOUG Se eee Sy ee eo ae Riveciwi ee ee ol ee Sn Rae 35 eee Stabe Sy Send this to “PSYCHIANA,” Moscow, Ida. eA Oe ee Copyright 1935, Dr. Frank B. Robinson-
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12 Physical Culture (Continued from page 9) when the sexual organs cease to func- tion. The period of fertility ceases and a general atrophy of the _ uterus, Ovaries and tubes, together with changes in the other generative or- gans, begins to take place. If there is a tendency to the development of any particular disease, it may be more apt to develop at this period and in certain nervous temperaments there are apt to appear a train of symptoms which may for the time being be very un- comfortable. Some of the common- est symptoms appearing at the change of life which are apt to remain for some little time are those attributable to nervous influences. They are flush- ing of the face, or what is known as hot flashes, perspiration, depression of spirit, hysteria, digestive disturb- ances, headaches, shortness of breath, fainting spells, palpitations of the heart. Persons suffering from diges- tive disturbances, or from headaches, or from fullness in the head or from palpitation of the heart at this time are apt to think that they are de- veloping some serious condition such as cancer, apoplexy or heart disease, and this makes them very uncomfort- able and causes them to worry, often unnecessarily. Many women are apt to be very irregular during this period; sometimes there may be quite severe hemorrhages at this time. These should be looked into because occasionally malignant growths may be found to be developing in such cases. The change of life, however, is not an abnormal process; it is entirely normal. Burns UESTION: Please tell me what can be done in cases of burns. THEODORE H. ANSWER: Much depends upon the degree of the burn. There are three different degrees of burns ordinarily recognized—the first, the second and the third. In burns of the first de- gree, there is only a redness or ery- thema of the skin noted, although there may be a good deal of pain. There may be later a peeling of the skin. In burns of the second degree, there is more or less blistering of the skin with the formation of blebs con- taining serum. These burns if prop- erly treated should heal without leav- ing any scar or blemish on the skin. In burns of the third degree, there is severe burning of the skin and the tissue beneath, and when such burns heal, there is considerable loss of tis- sue and the formation of ugly scars which are often quite deforming. Slight burns are treated by the use of sooth- ing applications such as_ carron-oil which is composed of equal parts of lime water and either olive oil or lin- seed oil. This is applied on top. Wet boric acid dressings are also very good, or dressing the part with boric acid or starch or flour is oftentimes sufficient. For deeper burns espe- cially, the application of gauze pads helped with a saturated solution of picric acid is of the greatest value. When there are broken blisters and raw surfaces, the dressings are apt to adhere to the flesh and when they have to be removed for changing they should be moistened with a _ solution of boric acid in boiled water. When there are ulcerations, some soothing and healing ointment may be used to advantage. It is a good plan to ex- pose the burn every day or two to (Continued on page 104)
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How To Dect Of the Indian drifting over Niagara Falls who stood up in his canoe, calmly folded his arms and went to his death, all races exclaimed— ‘‘He was a good sport!” By Albert Edward Wiggam ILLUSTRATOR: HUBBELL REED McBRIDE HEN I was planning to get married I brought my prospective bride to visit my dear old step- mother, who in many, many respects was the : most remarkable woman I have ever known. After I had given her ample time to size up the young lady, I said, “Well, Mother, do you think I ought to marry her?” She replied, ““My dear boy, you are the one and not I who will have to live with her; so you will have to decide that question yourself.” I do not suppose my mother ever heard of those fellows who call themselves “‘psychologists’’; or if she had she would probably have considered them a nuisance. She was always so well-balanced, so clear- headed, so even-tempered and so self-reliant that I cannot imagine even today what possible use she could have ever had for them. She would have probably put them to work on the farm earning an honest living. It is certain at least that this wise and good woman’s idea of education has received the abundant support of all modern psychology. Her idea was that the chief object of education should be to develop clear-headed, courageous, self-reliant men and women, who in every 13 4 ae
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situation in life could stand on their own feet and make their own decisions. She was always willing to counsel with each one of her eight stepchildren; and she had the further good sense to discuss each one’s problems in complete confidence without the knowledge of the other children. But she always wound up her counsel by saying: ; “Now, you have all the facts before you; I have tried to help you to see all sides of the question; but when it comes to deciding what to do you will have to decide that yourself, because it is you who will gain or lose more than anyone else by the consequences.”’ If any educator has any higher ideal than this as to what his education should do for a person, I have never come across it. It seems to me education should endeavor first to supply an individual with as large a body of information as possible that relates to and is interwoven with the kind of life he is most likely to live; and second, it should teach him the devices, tricks of the trade and mental habits by which he can take this in- formation and _ develop ‘problem-solving techniques’ which will enable him without unnecessary worry or nervous strain to solve not only the practical but the spiritual prob- lems of life. In the hundreds of thousands of letters I have received from my readers it is perfectly evident that education has failed both to give the knowledge and develop the problem-solv- ing techniques necessary for the solution of life’s problems, at least for vast numbers of people. The problems I am called upon to solve range all the way from what kind of face powder to use up to the theory of rela- tivity and the problems of birth, sex, mar- riage, death and immortality. The thing that stands out in all these in- quiries—many of them utterly heart-rending —is that they wish me to tell them what to do. They want me to solve their problems. This I always refuse to do. I try to take my mother’s plan of helping them see all sides of the problem but the final decision must. be made by themselves. One young man writes me in this morning’s mail about the problem of his marriage, and winds up by saying, ‘‘My whole life rests on your decision.’ No, it does not, because I refuse to accept the re- sponsibility. I shall try to help him see all sides of the questions and also show him that he must make the final decision. If I made the decision for him, besides the undeserved responsibility thrown upon me, it would do two very bad things to him: first, it would weaken his will-power because he would have given up his own will and relied upon some- one else’s will; and second, it would have taught him nothing as to how to solve the next great problem that should come up. Parents who solve the problems of their children for them are doing everything they ean to weaken their wills, fill them with fear and destroy their confidence in themselves; and they would be far kinder if they actually broke their limbs and maimed them for life than to destroy their self-reliance and confi- dence in themselves. All this does not mean that the principle should be carried to the foolish extreme of a mother here in New York who permitted her four-year-old boy to jump out of a second-story window. She said he must decide for himself. Luckily the little rascal lit in a flower bed and was not seriously injured. This woman, however, had failed in the first principles I have men- tioned. She failed to give the boy the proper infor- mation by which he could arrive at an _ intelligent decision. She also failed, as so many parents fail, to give him any good ready-made rules by which he could quickly organize his information so that the moment he needed it, it would be ready to hand. It is for these reasons that I venture here to set down for you ten of these ready-made rules, most of 14
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which I got as a boy from my counsels with my mother, although, of course, she did not state them in any formal way; and I know she never dreamed that her home-made but thoroughly sound psychology might some day reach many thousands, even millions of people. These rules have stood by me in many a tight place and so I set them down here hoping they may be of the same ser'vice to you. I call these rules, “How to Solve. a Moral Problem,” but there is hardly any problem that is not to a great extent a moral problem. If we can get that part of it solved, very often the remainder either. solves itself -or else becomes much easier of solution. These rules are as follows: 1. How WILL My DECISION LOOK TO ME TEN YEARS FROM Now?—The hardest thing we have to do, and the bitterest, is to look back at our own mistakes. Now that all the emotion and turmoil that surround them is gone, and we can look at them with a cool head, we honestly wonder how we could have been so foolish. fascinating The guest rose to leave. **Who are you?” he asked. Looking at him with his eyes, seemed to penetrate Mr. Smedley’s soul, the guest replied: “Il am the man you might have been!” We often say with complete sincerity that we hardly see how a child could have made such mistakes. But if we analyze our mistakes carefully we see many of them were caused by the mere fact that we did not think then: “I wonder if what I am going to do now will not look very foolish when I am ten years older.” If we had just stopped long enough to picture ourselves in the future, looking back calmly on our decision, heaven only knows how many of our mistakes would never have been made. 2. WOULD I WISH My DECISION TO BE MADE INTO A GENERAL RULE FOR EVERYBODY TO FOLLOW ?—Any student of philosophy will recognize that this is an almost too popular re-statement which the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, drew as the practical application of his famous ‘Categorical Imperative.” This is too technical to discuss here, but as my boy- hood teacher in philosophy, Francis Bowen, translated it: “Let thy rule of conduct in every case be such that it might become the universal law, to govern the ac- tions of all mankind.’”’ Or, in other words, ‘‘Always act as you would wish every intelligent being, God Himself included, to act, if He were in your place.” Of course this is a solemn and tremendous injunction; but every moral decision is a solemn and tremendous thing, and while you cannot know what everybody should do in your place you can say to yourself in a less grand and_e uni- versal way, “I wonder if I would advise Jones or Smith or my father or mother or my chil- dren to do this.” I have found by thinking along these lines that it often gives me a great deal of light on what I ought to do. 3. WOULD I WISH EVERYBODY TO KNOW My DECISION ?—It is an old and true saying that very few of us practise fully what we preach, but this question asks: Are you willing to preach what you practise? There is no greater nuisance than a person who is always telling about his inner life, motives, etc., but the test of one’s inner righteousness is whether he would be willing, if the occasion came, to wear his heart on his sleeve and let his fellow men know what he was really practising in his inner life. 4, WILL IT BRING OUT THE BEST THERE Is IN ME?—The answer to this question must come entirely from within yourself. It is not very difficult to tell when we are follow- ing the better or the worse angels of our nature. No one else can tell you this. In the quiet of your own conscience you must work out your an- swer to this question alone; but once you ask it honestly, even if you could “take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea’’ you cannot escape giving it some kind of an answer. 5. WHAT FURTHER CONSEQUENCES WILL IT LIKELY LEAD TO?—Professor William James, the philosopher, said that many people, when they begin to see what the consequences to which their decisions have led, exclaim, “T didn’t think!” But, as he adds, “What were you there for but to think?” Very often it was because you did not have any habits or ready-made rules in your head which bade you to think or which furnished you an outline by which to think. But even when people think of the immediate consequences that may follow their (Continued on page 101) 15 that
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‘home from his funeral that cold We came night and found Mother lying on the sofa in hys- WISH I had realized what was the matter with my dear old- fashioned Mother when we lost Father. When we came terics. me! me!”’ she spring afternoon in 1931, she ran to her bedroom, clutching a small wet handkerchief rolled in a ball against her cheek, curled up on the far side of her bed and hugged “It might have killed Oh, it might have killed repeated over, sobbing spasmodically. The gas oven had exploded when she tried to light it to prepare supper a little while before. hurt, but terribly frightened. A sense of desperation assailed in one how could you suggest such a thing !” “But, Mother, dear, we cannot afford to live here,” I protested. “Mr. Harris will simply have to arrange it,” she replied indig- nantly. “I know your father left us provided for.” Mr. Harris was Father’s attorney and lifelong friend, a kindly older man of scholarly leanings whom over and She wasn't a pillow, sobbing hysterically. Her me. “What: should we: do we always looked to for advice in body shuddered convulsively. She about it? We could not family matters. It was he who per- seemed gripped by a paroxysm of fear. go on like this! suaded Father to let us attend busi- No assurances assured her, and for days she remained there weeping. I was __ alarmed and perplexed. Her unhappiness did not suggest the grief of a widow who had lost her sweetheart-husband of a lifetime, it was rather the terror of a little girl who has been left alone in the dark. Serious financial troubles confronted us after Father was gone. We were living in a fashionable suburb near New York City and our ten-room house with its elaborate garden and tennis court was costly to run. Father’s brokerage business had been wiped out by the depression and likewise most of his invest- ments. There was nothing left .but our home and a few oil stocks which no longer paid any dividends. Fortunately, my younger sister, Kitty, and I were working, but our salaries had been cut to twenty dollars apiece. It was clear that we could not main- tain our home. When Mother had become quieted sufficiently to be approached on these painful matters I suggested that we try to rent the house and move to cheaper quarters. “Allow strangers to live in our home? Oh, Helen, 16 ness school, and who later aided us in finding our secretarial positions. Mr. Harris could always be relied upon for a sen- sible view of any matter. “But he can’t arrange it, Mother. everything.”’ “Do you mean to say that we are penniless?” she asked in shocked surprise, her blue eyes filling with tears. “Yes, but darling, Kitty and I still have our jobs. We can manage all right.” I tried to say this with conviction, but in my heart I knew that unless busi- ness picked up we were apt to be discharged any day. I was startled to learn that Father had kept her entirely ignorant of his affairs. He never spoke of his troubles, and during the last few months of his ill- ness we tried to put up a brave front and never men- tioned financial matters, but I believed that some time in private he had talked it over with Mother. I should not have been surprised. My mother was raised in the lavender and old lace atmosphere of a Philadelphia parsonage. My grandfather, a clergy- man, was a stern man and (Continued on page 79) Father lost nearly
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EVIEWING my life, it seems to me that every man, and every woman, for that matter, is a kind of Frankenstein, with the power of creating a monster who can destroy him or her. Somehow I always think of drink in this manner. Once we let it get the upper hand of us, we have in all truth created a creature with all of the traditional powers for evil that the famous character in fiction 18 And it had; a creature who could destroy us at will. isn’t easy to subdue the monster once you have created him and he is dominating your life. My story begins, I guess, with my marriage. Before I was married, I had made the acquaintance of John Barleycorn, but it wasn’t a speaking acquaintance, exactly—it was more of a nodding one. That was back in the pre-war period of nineteen-ten and twelve. Those
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Some of the girls were laughing hysterically and one of them was doing a solo dance that I'm certain she wouldn’t have wanted her father to see. ‘Get hot!’’ someone shouted and she raised her skirts higher as she redoubled her efforts were the days when drink.was freely accessible—one found places to imbibe practically on every corner. The War, coming along two years later, left us un- touched for quite a while by anything except pros- perity, until our active participation in 1917 brought a number of changes, and possibly the biggest change of all resulting from the War was the enactment in 1919 of the Eighteenth Amendment. That little inci- dent was significant, for it affected our collective point of view regarding drink. Formerly, it had been a curse, and was considered so by everyone. Now it was no longer a curse. Our national viewpoint had changed. I’ll explain presently how this affected me, but first I want to tell about my marriage. I was married in 1916, and our first baby was born at just about the time President Wilson was deciding that America should no longer remain neutral. So that—the fact of my marriage—gave me what was called a “deferred classification”; I was a husband with dependents; and this managed to keep me from wearing brown during the entire period of hostilities. I was rather glad of it, too, I’m honest enough to admit. I don’t meet many today who’ll say the same thing, but that’s beside the point. Jean, my wife, was a Brooklyn girl. We came to know each other at a dance, where another fellow and I scraped an informal acquaintance with Jean and her girl friend. Oh, it’s an old Manhattan custom, believe me! You’d be surprised, I suspect, if you knew how many marriages traced to just such unconventional 19°
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si itt I took her in my arms, kissing modes of acquaintance. When young people see each other and desire to know each other, they don’t let little punctilios keep them apart. They didn’t back in Benjamin Franklin’s time, either, and I’ve an idea they won’t have changed much fifty years from now. So, Jean and I looked and smiled and spoke, and, in the course of a year, we were married. Just like that! She was a peach of a looking girl, too, when I first knew her. She is now, for that matter, only then it her fiercely. She did not even pretend that my advances were unwelcome, but met me half-way in a clinging rapture that made me forget all sense, all reason Physical Culture for April, 1935 was a beauty that was radiant and that had bloom. Her hair was a lovely soft brown, and her eyes were blue-gray or gray-blue, I’ve never been able to decide which, and her skin was like a tea-rose—a creaminess that was faintly yel- ijowish in tone. For years I never tired of just looking at it and marveling at the warmth and loveliness of its color. Had anyone told me then that the time would come when I’d be the vicious cause of covering that lovely skin with bruises, I’d have thought them crazy. And yet—but I don’t want to an- ticipate. I wish to tell this story, which is the document of a modern-day Frankenstein who created a monster of drink-desire, coherently and with due regard for the proper sequence of things. You’ll know better what strange and abominable things that monster forced me to do before I’m through with this. It’s his story, really, that I’m telling, for he is the motivating force back of all my folly during the period of which I speak, After our marriage, Jean and I took a little four-room apartment in Brooklyn. Jean wished to live there and I rather liked it, too. The street on which we lived was wide and pleasant, and there was a happy freedom from tall build- ings and the cluttered, crowded sense of life that obtains on Manhattan Island. Then, our baby was born, a girl named An- nabel, after Jean’s grandmother, and life for us was a fairly smooth affair, oecupied as it was daily with my trips to Manhattan, where I worked in a publishing house on lower Fifth Avenue, and nights, either calling on friends or being called on in turn, or in going to the movies over in a picture house on DeKalb Avenue. Let me ex- plain this here, for it’s rather vital: We never drank then, nor did we have it in the house. Jean had never learned to drink, and I im- bibed, so to speak, only as a mat- ter of course, and because I was with someone who pro- posed it; not because I wanted to myself. I never, for that matter, went into a saloon alone—even to get a glass of beer. And a highball or a cocktail I only took, as I’ve said, when in the company of others whose custom it was to drink. Then I found it to be exhilarating, to be sure, but usually it gave me an unpleas- ant feverish after-effect. I felt better, really, when I didn’t touch it at all. And we never, I repeat, had it in the house. But that was before the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. After that, everything changed curiously, and we seldom knew what it was to be without it or to drink it upon every occasion. I’ve thought a lot about that change which took place, and I don’t believe I’ll ever be able to tell just what it was that happened. Was it solely a matter of psychol- ogy—the elevation in values of something that was forbidden? It seems so. (Continued on page 89)
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Lhe LVatural Treatment of BRONCHI period for many people. The poet speaks of “gentle spring’ as being a season in which the young man’s fancy is supposed to lightly turn to thoughts of love. Well, perhaps when these words were written, spring was a different sort of a season than it has been, almost within my recollection, but I very much doubt it. Spring officially starts on the 21st day of March. But it seems to me that the very worst blizzard I re- member occurred in March—not the 21st, to be sure, but not so far ahead of that date—the 12th and the 13th, to be exact, but aside from that, we have to be prepared, throughout the entire month of March, for almost anything which the weather-man desires to supply us with—snow, rain, hail and wind, and more wind. Then comes April, with its supposedly gentle, warm showers, to prepare for the flowers of May. Well, the showers are there all right, but as to being gentle and warm, that’s another thing again. We seem, in the last few years, to jump from winter directly into the lap of summer, but not until well on in the month of May does the weather become continually mild. Early spring weather is very uncertain—one day warm, and the next day cold—one day sunshine, the next day rainy and wet, and one has to be particularly careful in order to pre- vent the occurrence of colds, which may lead to some more severe respiratory condition. Bronchitis is one of the diseases which is quite prev- alent in the spring of the year because of the uncer- tainty of the weather, for one thing, and for another, , NHE spring of the year is often a very treacherous the fact that it is hard to know just how to dress for: the various kinds of weather handed out during that season. Many people go to Florida and remain during the winter and come back in the spring, and they seem to run into almost wintry weather, and the change from the mild weather of the South to the unpleasant and sometimes quite severe weather of the North in March or early April, is such that-many of them contract bronchial or pulmonary diseases, ‘and sométimes suc- cumb to them. Again, other persons who have passed through a severe winter and have become more or less run down because of being indoors so much,’ remaining«,- “get enough exercise, and those following sedentary oc- in poorly ventilated and over-heated houses and rooms, and getting insufficient exercise, render themselves more liable to contract respiratory diseases later on, and one of the commonest, but fortunately one of the less dangerous, of these diseases is bronchitis. Of course, there are some forms of this disease which are extremely serious and dangerous to life. In this article, we are dealing with the ordinary attack of bronchitis, both in the acute and the chronic form. The chronic form of bronchitis usually follows an at- tack of the acute form, although, under certain condi- tions, it may be chronic from the very start. Acute bronchitis is an acute catarrhal inflammation attacking the trachea or wind-pipe, and both the large and smaller bronchial tubes. When it attacks the smallest bronchi, it is generally known as capillary bronchitis, and if the alveoli of the lungs are also attacked, the disease de- velops into what is known as bronchial pneumonia, catarrhal pneumonia, or lobular pneumonia. Bronchitis is one of the diseases which is no re- specter of age or of sex. No age is immune, and when it attacks very young children and real old people, it - ment of this disease. By Charles A. Clinton, M. . General Vitality-Building Measures—Exercise Out-of Doors, Sun Baths, Proper Diet — Will Conquer this Disease of Early Spring constitutes a very serious and frequently fatal disease. It most frequently occurs at the change of the season. More so, probably, when winter is merging into spring and when fall ‘is merging into winter than at other times. It may occur as a bronchitis, pure and simple, from the very beginning, or it may develop after an ordinary cold in the head or an influenza. Some per- sons seem to be much more susceptible to attacks of bronchitis than do others. These persons are usually ~ not in fine physical condition and have less resistance than others, being probably affected with a certain amount of systemic toxemia, due to improper living habits and having neglected themselves to a greater or lesser extent. | AGAIN, there are dertatn predisposing factors which often have a considerable influence on the develop- There is also sometimes an her- editary predisposition. to bronchitis. Some families have the misfortune to catch colds very easily—again, * certain weather, or other conditions, seem to predispose to epidemics of respiratory disease and infection—then again, thére are.certain occupations which predispose ~ to bronchial disease from inhaling of dust and dirt, ir- ritating. vapors and gases and overheated dry air. Per- sons:who are employed largely indoors and who do not cupations are more apt to contract bronchial affections than those who have been able to be out in the fresh air and sunlight, and who are accustomed to a more active life. There are also certain general diseases which pre- Gispose to attacks of bronchitis, and under these cir- cumstances, the disease is often apt to become chronic. Such diseases are heart and kidney trouble, diabetes, gout, and in children the occurrence of rickets. Bron- chitis is also always present in such diseases as measles and whooping-cough. Sudden exposure to unfavorable weather, when in a more or less toxic condition, also -naturally tends to the occurrence of acute bronchitis. Recurring attacks of acute bronchitis very frequently lead to the development of a bronchial catarrh. The symptoms of acute catarrhal bronchitis are fairly well marked. The disease generally comes on as a common cold, with a feeling of general debility, fullness in the head and ears, and sometimes headaches. There is frequently digestive disturbance and often nausea. Food loses its taste and there (Continued on page 56) 21
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oJ leep, “that Knits Up the Ravell’d Sleave of Care,” also Reveals Desires which in Our Conscious Life We Suppress UPPOSE you were given a chance to make the whole world over into just exactly what you want it to be? Suppose that in doing this you had absolutely no one but yourself to consider, and could do precisely what you felt like doing without fear or favor! Perhaps you have even thought of such a possibility (though of course you know it is impossible) and imagined how completely happy you would be if it could “come true.” To be sure, you may not be entirely dissatisfied with the world as you find it. If you are a healthy person, mentally and physically, you probably feel that after all it isn’t such a bad place, and perhaps that you 22 would rather leave it as it is than try to change it— or anyhow, change it more than just a little. On the other hand, if you are sick in body or mind, or if your hopes have been disappointed and your wishes denied, you undoubtedly would like a “new deal’ on a ‘larger scale than even the most optimistic statesman would venture to promise. You would like to “scrap the whole works” and start over. The fact is, however, that although you may never have realized it, you already spend about a third of your life in a world that is entirely of your own mak- ing—a world in which you are bound by no laws except those of your own nature and can have things just as
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By Lawrence Gould Consulting Psychologist ILLUSTRATOR: CARL LINK you please. Neither facts nor logic interfere with the fulfilment of your desires. You can jump from San Francisco to Kamchatka literally faster than a flash of lightning. You can take the City of New York in the palm of your hand, dump it in the middle of the ocean, and then, if you choose, can fish it out again without knock- ing a brick off the cornice of the highest build- ing. You can be the King of England and the Emperor of China at the same time (and this even though there is no longer any Emperor of China). You can actually bring the dead back to life, and create new beings who have never been born. : Doubtless you have guessed by this time that the world I speak of is the world of your dreams, in which, as I have said, absolutely nothing outside of your own mind can interfere with the fulfilment of your wishes. - It is your world, to do as you please with. But perhaps you doubt that statement. You have probably been in the habit of believing that your dreams were the result of pure chance, or else came from bodily conditions like fatigue and indigestion. Actually, there is no such thing as “pure chance” in a universe of law and order, and while bodily conditions doubtless tend to induce dreaming, the things that you dream about can come from nowhere except from within your own mind. For even supposing that three people overeat before re- tiring “and suffer in consequence from night- mare, still no two of them will have the same dream. One will dream of falling off the top of a skyscraper, another will try with para- lyzed limbs to run from an escaped lion, while the third will see himself about to be engulfed by an enormous breaker. And what is more, the same personal difference will appear in dreams which are directly the result of an external stimulus—an alarm clock, for example. In one person’s dreams the jingle will appear as church bells, in another’s as the telephone, and in yet another’s as fire engines. Always, in a dream, the personal element predominates, and of course in the majority of cases there is no provable physical cause for dreaming at all. And yet if we make our own dreams with little, if any, interference from the outside, why do we do such a queer job! Only rather seldom is the world of our dreams the sort of world that we should care to live in during our waking hours. For the most part it seems foolish and fantastic, and quite often it is actively un- pleasant. Certainly (Continued on page 72) DREAMS EXPOSE YOUR REAL SELE 23
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OW they parade before my eyes, as I give myself up to remembering. My hardworking father, my dear mother, my old husband, Carter Ar- buthnot—and Michael, my darling, whom I loved the very first day I saw him as I went to my desk in the publishing house of Arbuthnot and Crosby. And though Mr. Arbuthnot had proposed marriage to me before he went for a trip abroad, asking me to give him my answer on his return, it was Michael that I loved and wanted to belong to forever. Then came the night that Mr. Arbuthnot took Mother and me to the Symphony Concert. Mother had been flattered by Mr. Arbuthnot’s attentions to me and I could not refuse her this pleasure. While we were in the lobby, Michael. passed me, dark and scowling, and 24 ‘ when I returned home the-telephone was ringing. “I’ve called to say ‘good-by,”* he said? And when I begged him to give me a chance to explain, he retorted, “I never want to see you again.”’ So that night, I told Mother that I had decided to marry Mr. Arbuthnot and I like to think that at least the money which I now had at my disposal made things easier for Mother before she died, a short time later. But my life, I know, was a barren thing. The dispar- ity in our ages seemed greater now than when I was flattered by the attentions of this distinguished man who was the president of our firm. I was irked by many things, but we had no open quarrel until the night I told him I had invited a man from the office to a din- ner we were giving. He demanded that I telephone the
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yr ILLUSTRATOR: CHARLES DeE FEO Sictitinmam mance Dr. Carson was leading my niece to a table at > the edge of the pavil- ? ion. They had just fin- ished dancing. With a stab across my heart, I told myself that he had never danced with me man and recall the invitation. I refused and started to leave the room. He grasped my arms and then as I| strove to get away from him he suddenly released his grip and crumpled to the floor. “Your husband,” said the doctor, when he came, “has had some sort of nervous seizure, perhaps a slight shock. I’m not quite sure yet. But nothing to worry about unduly, not till we see, at any rate. Mr. Arbuth- not’s father lived fifteen or twenty years after he had— something—very like this.” He looked at me, the Arbuthnot family physician, A WOMAN’S DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE 25
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26 and his look was not unkindly. Yet there was some- thing withheld in his manner which implied—‘“Well, if these old men will marry ardent young women.” I knew, then, that he imagined a very intimate relation had brought on my husband’s attack. And I burned under his glance. And when he said, “If you would tell me just what happened to set him off,” I willingly complied. He listened, with what I felt was sympathy. hesitatingly. “Of course,” he said, ‘‘you will call in the invitations for that dinner. It’s unlikely that Mr. Ar- buthnot will ever go about his business as he has up to now. Or’—I could see he was forc- ing himself to say this next—“or ~& - that he will ever be able to live with you again, as your hus- band.” Then he looked at me, as though he was trying to make out how I felt about this. I gave no sign of my feelings though within me surged up a tug- ging thrill of relief. So that was over and done with. Thank God for this res- Site. bat to what a negation it consigned all the rest of my days. I would be a wife, but not a wife— a woman in _ her most fruitful years, living all her days un- fruitfully. And, so the doctor had just said, if I gave my husband excellent care, he might “be with me” for twenty years; almost as many years as I had already lived. Ah, those years of sterile living. They stared at me sol- emnly, blankly, horribly. And then swept over me fear of my- self, and contrition. Had I, for one shameful moment, hoped for my husband’s immediate death? Oh, shocking, heartless woman, who had for an instant hoped for release by speeding that unfor- tunate old man on his way. All the New England of me, that de- cent sensitiveness called the New England conscience, it clamored at my heart. Poor old man, who had loved me and wanted me, and the day before we were married, had made a will leaving me every dollar of his possessions. Surely, when I reproached him for his niggardliness about some things, I would set that up as a balance, if I had any justice in my heart. I got up and went into my husband’s bed- room. The nurse had made all quiet there. I dismissed her, then sat down by his bed. I took his hand. He seemed to realize I was there, for he opened his eyes and tried to smile at me. I whispered to him. “Darling,” I said, “forgive me. I am so sorry. I am so fond of you. IJ’ll—I’ll not leave you. TI—T’ll do my duty, if you still want me to.” Physical Culture for April, 1935 Then he spoke, pina He wanted a wife. He was wistful with an old bachelor wistfulness. But he was also cagy. I felt this caution in every breath he drew He knew what I was saying. He seemed touched, for I spoke sincerely. I noted a little later the questing of his eyes, as they followed me when I went to ad- just a curtain, flapping in the breeze. But at last morning dawned. And the doctor was with us again. “The Chief is like his father,” he said. ‘‘He’ll always be more or less of an invalid. But with good care——” “He shall have the best care I can contrive to give him,” I had Said. And he did. Years and years, day after day ... the Cape house in the summer; Beacon Street in the winter . . . the Lincoln farm spring and fall, till a set schedule and a standardized routine became my very life. Till, day, by day, month by month, my youth was offered up on the altar of my husband’s well-being. To be sure, I did send my broth- ers to Harvard, providing them with luxuries I had never known in my lean college years. To be sure, when my poor father died I was able to ease his pass- ing with all the comforts money can provide. But all the same I paid, with those productive years of my life, when other women were (Continued on page 61)
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Here Are Simple Rules Based on Sound Nutritional Laws Outlining Cor- rect Dietary i Practise a comparatively new science. Until about ten years ago, doctors and medical scientists di- rected but little interest and attention to the food requirements of the human body. thought that so long as the dietary provided so many calories or food units and contained a certain amount of fresh vegetables or fruit, then all would be well. Dietetics was a simple, straightforward matter, to be left to the discretion of so-called common sense. It was regarded as a subject beneath the dignity of the medi- cal profession and doctors left their training schools with the scantiest knowledge of nutritional theory and practise. With complete accuracy, dietetics might then have been described as the Cinderella of the biological sciences. Happily for the welfare of humanity, in the last dec- ade there has been a revolution in the attitude of the medical profession to the study of diet and all that per- tains to it. The science of nutrition has come into its own and its vital significance in determining the wel- fare of the individual and the nation is being realized as never before—not only by physicians but also by statesmen and legislators. Dietetics has at last emerged from obscurity and it can be safely asserted that no other branch of physiological science is claiming more attention from research workers all over the world than the science of food in relation to health and dis- ease. In the nineteenth century, the great French bacteriologist, Pasteur, discovered the nature of germ infection and infection became the master word of path- ology. Today, it is not infection but nutrition which has become the master word, and more and more it will become so as our knowledge of the intimate relationship between diet and disease becomes more complete. — As is inevitable during the birth of a new science there has arisen a great mass of theory which has led to a deal of confusion in the minds of interested people concerning the rights and wrongs of diet. Like psy- chology, dietetics is a subject in which every intelligent person should be interested. What we eat and how we eat it is our every-day concern. Unfortunately, medical journalists, quick to lay hold of what is novel or un- usual, have presented to the public innumerable theories of diet, which in our present state of knowledge must be ranked as not proved. The “man (or woman) in the street” is apt to seize upon some theory which specially appeals to him and with unjustified enthusiasm develops into an ardent devotee of the new idea of which he becomes the proselyte. It is in this way that the dietetic faddist arises (and no subject is more capable of creating faddists than diet), and so we have cults of people who eat no salt, drink no milk, never take starch with fruit, and endless other strange practises. In the midst of all this apparent confusion, what is the intelligent and conscientious person to do? It is a perplexing dilemma. If we are to listen to all the ]) scores in the modern sense of the word, is It used to be. weteti7 EADS an FANCIE By Sir..W. Fie inot Lane, feet), Bart., C.B., M.S., F.R.C.S. President of the New Health Society, London, England so-called authorities, we would seem to be in great dan- ger of dying a lingering death from starvation! On the other hand, if we listen to none we would be certain of an equally unpleasant fate! How are we to avoid an untimely demise in the welter of dietetic fact and fancy? Now, it is beyond a shadow of doubt that inadequate knowledge of the first principles is, the real cause of so many people going astray in the field of dietetics. In spite of a popular belief to the contrary, these princi- ples are by no means difficult to grasp.. As I have observed, there has been much complicated and elabo- rate talk about scientific dietetics of late but the fact remains that a reasonable understanding of the elemen- tals of dieting plus the application of common sense are quite sufficient to guide any person to nutritional safety. , There are many people who lose their sense of per- spective in all matters pertaining to diet. They fail to see the wood because of the trees and they lose them- selves in insignificant details while ignoring the main principles. It is admitted that there are some fine points in the food problem but the averagely healthy person need not unduly worry over these. A few sensi- tive individuals may find the combination of starch and fruit in one meal disturbing to their digestion but the possible harm is infinitesimally small as compared with the constant over-eating of animal flesh foods or con- centrated starchy and sugary foods. It is surely foolish to be excessively scrupulous in avoiding the little dietetic sins while gaily committing the really serious ones. A sense of proportion is just as necessary in the realm of diet as it is in all other human affairs. O clear the air, I will briefly enunciate certain of the basic principles of human dieting. If these are ful- filled in a common sense fashion there need be no cause for anxiety as far as nutrition goes. A balanced dietary should be our aim. Quite simply this means that we must eat foods which supply the body with heat and energy: such foods include starches, sugars, fats and animal products. Also, we must have building and repair foods amd these are obtainable from animal and vegetable proteins, but it has to be kept in mind that meat, fish, milk and eggs provide certain essential ele- ments not found in vegetable proteins. That is why the former are described as first-class proteins. . We need, too, a supply of mineral salts and vitamins, indispensable elements which are found in a great many food stuffs, but most abundantly in uncooked green vegetables, fresh fruits, milk, butter and whole-grain cereals. No single foodstuff (other than milk) is a complete food for a human being and so the incom- pleteness of one food requires to be made good by some other kind. In other words, we must partake of a mixed dietary. Actually, all the nutritional require- ments of the body can be (Continued on page 103) 27
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Go where you may, you will find the idea that the ghost of a murdered man hounds the murderer to avenge his act NERVOUS, distraught woman hurried into the office of a consulting psychologist. “Oh, Doctor!” she exclaimed. “You must help me! If you can’t, I don’t know what I’ll do!” “T’ll do my best for you,” said the psy- chologist. ‘Tell me what’s the matter.” “Please don’t laugh at me, Doctor. I know it will sound foolish. But I can’t help feel- A pr ing asI do. I’ve broken a mirror. You know L ape Niife sdic q yal ot ate that means seven years of bad luck. I’m his heaxt SH the ieee isa See superstitious about such things, and I keep he could not to a human being worrying about it and brooding. I can’t ‘ sleep much, and when I do I have bad dreams. My digestion is upset. I have nervous headaches. I’m all to pieces. A friend told me you might be able to help me. Of course I know it’s a mental condition. But I don’t know how to man- age it.” The psychologist smiled. ‘Superstition does things to a great many people, Mrs. Brown. I think I can help you. It may take time, but it can be done.” “But I don’t want it to take time, Doctor. I want some relief now. These fears are making a wreck of me.” The psychologist looked at her thoughtfully. “I can suggest something that will help, Mrs. Brown; but it will be a mere palliative. It won’t cure you. That would probably involve some exploration of your mind to find out what submerged ideas are back of all this.” “What is it?’ she demanded Private property breathlessly. ‘Tell me. I'll do among some primi- anything.” tive races is pro- “Well. Mrs. Brown. I’ve al- tected against theft ways had a superstitious streak by ie 5 ange myself. I know the supersti- eure with obit of tion about thirteen at table is flax, is quite safe 28
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SUPERSTITIONS and Your Health nonsense; and yet I think if I were to sit down to a meal with twelve other persons I could not feel one hundred per cent comfortable about it. I would have to overcome some slight internal resistance. Also, Il don’t especially like to walk under a ladder. But I always do it when I have the chance, just to break away from the old notion about ladders. If I were renting office space in a high building, I think I’d try to pick one on the thirteenth floor, for the same reason. Of course you know that there are many office buildings that have no floor numbered thir- teen, because of the diffi- culting of renting on such a floor. They call it four- teen and avoid argu- ments. I think that if 1 had your mirror obses- sion I would buy a lot of cheap mirrors and break one a day till I got over it—just by way of defy- ing the iightning. Maybe we can try that later. In the meantime, just as a palliative, I’m going to suggest a less he- roic course for you. I suppose it pleases you when you find a four-leaf clover, doesn’t it? And you think it brings good luck ?” s'Y on?’ “Good. Go spend a day in the country, and find ‘some four-leaf clovers. I am told—’’-: He looked at _ her solemnly, but with a twinkle in his eye. “I am told that if you find seven four-leaf clovers, they will offset the curse put on you by that broken mirror. That ‘sounds logical, doesn’t it?” The patient’s eyes widened with pleased surprise. ‘‘Why, Doctor, I never thought of that. Of course—that would be just the thing. Thank you so much.” The psychologist nodded. “Next time you come [’ll tell et — Find. seven four-leaf clovers— and they will offset the curse put on you by a broken mirror By Wainwright Evans ILLUSTRATOR: FRANCOIS PASCAL you a charm that will offset any number of broken mirrors, thirteen at table, or any other evil omen that comes your way. You could break a mirror a. day, and nothing would hap- pen. Nothing would happen anyway—but that doesn’t mat- ter. The plan of using one kind of magic to offset another is very old.” The incident related above was told to me later by the psychologist. It is worth telling here because it brings out very clearly the conflict that exists in the minds of people who are superstitious in spite of their education and training. What makes the whole matter important is simply that supersti- tion in one form or an- other is the main thing the matter with a very large proportion of neurotic persons; and that it makes many so-called “‘nervous”’ peo- ple into physical and mental wrecks, a burden to themselves and to society. Most persons have the idea that there is no. particular harm in superstition. They would admit that superstitions are probably silly; that they in- volve the acceptance by the mind of many things which are both improbable and unproved; that they are an impeachment of the intelligence of the peo- ple who hold them; but that aside from that they are harm- less, and have nothing in par- ticular to do with anybody’s mental or pvhysical health. And yet consulting psycholo- gists, whose work consists in tracking to their source all. sorts of irrational ideas buried in the subconscious, where they oppress, obsess, inhibit, and injure their victim both physi- cally and mentally, know that a large proportion of such irra- tional ideas can be classed as (Continued on page 58) You May Scoff at Signs and Portents, and Pride Yourself on Intellectual Emancipation, But You May Sull Cling to Superstitions— Many of Them Extremely Harmful, Not Only to Your Mental but Your Physical Health 29
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HEN Richard asked me for a divorce so that he might marry young Rosalie Day, I was amazed. We had been married for fifteen years, we had the children, our life seemed destined to con- tinue on its tranquil, even way in the suburban town where we were established—until that day when he con- fessed his overpowering desire for this girl. I could not understand it then—later I came to a clearer real- ization of exactly what had happened to my husband. My life changed completely after that. In the sum- mer, when the children were in camp, I went to New York. Soon I was caught up in a gayer life than I had ever known. One man, Max Hartmann, paid me marked attention, and I was flattered— but it was not until I went into a beauty shop one day and there met Eric that I realized what foolish things a woman might do when she meets a man—no matter who he is—who has the power to stir her deeply. I was ashamed of my feeling for this man, and yet one afternoon, when I was leaving the shop, I asked him if he would have dinner with me a few nights later. He looked at me in silence for a moment, but before I had time to wonder what he would do or say next, he put his hands on my shoulders and leaning down, kissed me on the lips. “Do you still want me to come?” he asked. I drew away from him, my senses throbbing, my head reeling in surprise at what he had done. He had dared to kiss me; a servant, a mere hairdresser, a man who had taken tips for his services. And yet, I was thrilled because he had done so. “IT want you to come, of course,” I said confusedly, looking up into his face whose strange, eager expres- 30 : - sion still baffled me, A Woman’s Intimate Story “That is, if you would enjoy such dares thing. I have a pretty place overlooking the ar Oe “Where is your husband,” he asked unexpectedly. “We are divorced,” I said simply. ‘The boy and girl are away at camp. I am all alone.” “You were kind to ask me,” he said finally. “I won’t let you be sorry for it.” The professional look was back on his face again as he bade me good-by. During the days that followed there were many times when I persuaded myself that I was an impulsive fool to be so carried away by a passing in- terest in a romantic looking hair- dresser. “T must be losing my mind,’ I said to myself the afternoon that I drove out to Forest Hills with Molly Brant for a tennis tourna- ment, and her smart little coupé was held up by traffic just outside of Armande’s while I thrilled to the thought that Eric, whose strong yet gentle lips had touched mine, was just beyond that grilled entrance. “Here I am, at an age when women ordinarily put such things behind them, and I am as excited as a schoolgirl who’s going to see a movie star. How my Barbara would laugh at me!”’ As soon as Molly had directed her car away from the heaviest lanes of traffic she turned to me with an odd laugh and said: “T’ve played a nasty trick on you, Margaret, but it was done unintentionally. I thought at first I wouldn’t tell you about it but just spring it on you at the tourna- ment, as though I hadn’t known, but all the way up here my conscience has bothered me. Your ex-husband, it seems, is taking Kirk Haviland’s place today. I just
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RO cs ‘$i CEE A few moments later I found myself talking to Richard. | congratulated him upon his game, and gave him news of the children. I recog- nized no one in the crowds surging around us learned of it this morning. Will you mind very much? Would you prefer not to see him? Hardly anyone there will know you. It’s not likely he’ll recognize you in that mob.”’ . “I don’t mind,” I answered imperturbably. ‘Richard and I have run into each other before and it didn’t upset either of us. I’m surprised to know that Richard is doing so well in tennis. I’m very glad to hear of it.” Molly’s face relaxed in a relieved smile. “Kirk says your Richard plays a swell game,” she said. “That long, lean, rangy kind generally do.” It was an interesting ex- perience to see my ex-hus- band on the court knowing that he hadn’t the remotest idea that I was. sitting among the spectators. I looked about for Rosalie but saw no trace of her. Richard appeared to be quite well and his figure was as Molly had described it, long and lean and well proportioned with no ounce of superfluous flesh. He was more tanned than when I had last seen him. Without his eye glasses he looked years younger. With his bared throat he seemed strangely alive and boyish in appearance. “He’s actually hand- some,” I said appraisingly, as his tall figure moved agilely about the court. “And yet, while we were married he seemed just or- dinary looking. I never thought of him as being particularly nice in his ap- pearance. I guess that’s what Rosalie’s done for him,” I conceded. finally. “He doesn’t dare settle down now.” A few moments later I found myself talking to Richard. I congratulated him upon his game, and gave him news of the children. I recognized no one in the group of people surging around us. Molly, at my elbow, was at a loss to decide whether to thrust herself between us for the sake of appearances or to - vanish in the crowd and leave us to- gether. I introduced her to Richard as an old school-mate. I told Richard of Junior’s opera- tion, of Barbara’s successful swim- 31
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32 ming record, which was interesting news in view of the fact that as a child she had always been afraid of the water. | “Do you remember how she always clung to your hand when she went in at Bayhead?” I asked remi- niscently. He nodded and the boyish look suddenly went out of his face. I was sorry that I had spoken. In another moment strangers had come between us and Molly and I were on our way to the car. “I don’t really know what happened to you and your husband, Margaret,” she said to me as we drove back to New York. “But it seems like a dreadful mistake your not being able to hit it off with a swell person like ne’ I declare it handed me a thrill just to talk to im.”’ I gave her a strange look. “T had very little to do with it, Molly,” I said im- patiently. . “It just happened that he fell in love with another woman and I gave him up. It hasn’t wrecked my life,’ I added with a dry laugh. “TI’ll not let it wreck my life,” I finished proudly. Molly started to speak but for some reason changed her mind. | For the first time since I had been living in New York the apartment seemed almost unbearably empty on my return. There was a storm early in the evening that later settled down into a dreary, drizzling rain. I went to bed but could: not sleep. I was glad to know that it was growing near time for the youngsters to come back from camp. And with the realization came the sharp knowledge that our return to Edgeworth would mean the end of my relationship with Eric un- less—I could not bring myself to finish the thought. What did I really want of Eric, I demanded of myself later on in the night as I turned my hot pillow and lis- tened with a growing feeling of irritation to the banging of ash cans on the. street below. Was I being amused by this personable young man with the serious dark eyes and pleasant smile simply be- cause I was lonely and bored Physical Culture for April, 1935 and it was fun to play the part of a grand lady giving her favors to a handsome page? Or was there such a thing as physical desire which transcended even such barriers as caste and deep-rooted standards of conven- tion and morality, eventually coloring and controlling one’s actions as well as one’s thoughts? Could it be that I really cared for Eric, or was my feeling after all no more than an indication that from the standpoint of experience I was still a romantic adolescent? I blushed at the thought that I, Margaret King, col- lege graduate, woman’s club president, a member of the D.A.R., mother of two tall children, could be so ecapti- vated by a handsome youth whose maleness was possi- bly his most attractive characteristic, that I had blithely stepped across the barriers of social etiquette and had invited him to an intimate dinner with hardly any knowledge of who or what he was, or awareness of what risk I might be taking. Would he be likely to assume too much from the invitation and the unrebuked kiss? He had kissed me (I still thrilled at the remem- brance) and had done so with the obvious intention of letting me know in advance of our next meeting his interpretation of my friendly overtures. And I had not minded. I had given him no indication that his demonstration of. affection was unwelcome. I went off to sleep resolved to greet Eric on a basis of the most dignified friendliness. He should not fail to notice my gracious yet unmistakable reserve, and it would probably result in both of us spending a rather uncomfortable evening, not because we shared any feel-. ing of wrong-doing, but simply because we had per- mitted a situation to develop that of itself created a sense rather than a belief of guilt. I had told Eric to come to the apartment at seven o’clock, and had dismissed my little maid an hour earlier, thinking that the situation could be handled more tactfully if I served the dinner myself. At seven o’clock Eric arrived, clean shaven, his dark hair me- ticulously groomed, his nails nicely manicured, his suit pain- fully well pressed. He was ob- viously ill at ease, but presently relaxed under the soothing in- fluence of. a cocktail, and we sat in the two big chairs of the living-room and (Continued on page 75) For one mad, delicious moment, | made no effort to fight off his caresses. I adored his strength, the realization of -his' nearness
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a Se Because there have been so many inquiries regard- ing his reported death, we are happy to publish this recent photograph of Charles Atlas, which will assure his many ad- mirers and friends that he is still with us, suc- cessfully defending his title, ““The World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man”
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(Achille V olpé) ewe eae Reyeeas wo <i: EN % a %. TR There is a charm and vivacity about these active outdoor girls that is lacking in synthetic types of beauty. Antoinette Bertrand (above), of New York City, is an all-round sports- woman, model and an accomplished bal- let dancer. At right, Muriel Evans, of the movies, demonstrates in a very pleasing fashion what swim- ming will do for the feminine figure 34 (Keystone)
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The beauty and vigor of the modern German girl is clearly shown in this artistic photograph of the famous Reich-Rhén wheel troupe, training in the Tiergarten, Berlin, for their early spring appear- ance at the Scala Theater At right are shown the introductory movements on the Rhén wheel, bend- ing and stretching while the wheel is in motion (European Picture Service) The boy seems to be a bit skeptical as he holds the hoop— but the girl hasn't any doubt of her ability to come through in safety
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Like a sculptured bronze, this striking study of Monroe Brown, of Brooklyn, N. Y., challenges the works of the Greek masters (Townsend) Herbert Seelig, of New York City, proves that the ideals of physical development did not die with the Roman Gladiators of old
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This photograph of Fred Ritter, of Astoria, Long Island, New York, surely needs no explanation. It shows strength, poise, and the mental alertness for which all physical culturists are striving, and -which are within the reach of all who will exert the will and effort needed to attain their goal (Twin Arts Studio) 37
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(Marinello) LEAR, radiant loveliness today, when prices are high and purses are lean, is an unmistakable credit to its owner. Yet there is no question but that at the present time women are learning more and more how to develop and care for their own beauty, and when the pinch of economy is more keenly felt have discovered ways and means not only of mak- ing their precious dollars go twice as far in securing the essential beauty aids, but also of conserving their own resources of good looks to an extent where artifice becomes less and less necessary. This does not mean of course that we moderns are ever going to have such flawless skins that face powder can be dispensed with entirely, but it suggests the ad- visability of keeping our natural beauty assets in such topnotch condition by intelligent daily care that time and money hitherto devoted to our good appearance as a whole can henceforth be directed to camouflaging our liabilities or to procuring the dainty grooming acces- sories which every normal girl craves but which make such devastating inroads upon one’s budget. A farmer’s pretty wife recently told me that she envied city women in having every opportunity at hand with which to preserve and enhance their good looks. I said to her: “Do you realize what you possess out here in the country that your city sisters have to pay to get? Or are forced by their mode of living to do without?” She looked at me rather dubiously. ‘“Exer- cise, I suppose,” she retorted with a somewhat ironic smile. “And having to get up before six in the morn- ing. I’m certain that I don’t know of anything else.” I had been looking meanwhile at her clear, fresh skin, her bright eyes, her strong, capable hands, her rested face. I thought of the taut mouths I so often saw on city women; their weary eyes, their restless, nervous fingers. “You have the oppor-_ tunity to relax,” I said finally. “You can stop working whenever you care to and rest your eyes on that green, misty hori- zon line, or that splash of color made by your 38 Mother Nature's treat- ments, sunshine and fresh air, do wonders for a girl's complexion. Spend a few hours outdoors every day and note the improvement in your health and beauty (Saks Fifth Ave.) Soap and water, a pat of cream to restore its texture, is sufficient for external complexion treatment. don't neglect your diet! green vegetables But An abundance of water and is the foundation for real beauty marigolds and the phlox. You can breathe air that is free from noxious gases and soot and particles of street filth. You can wash your face in soap and rain- water, which is one of the oldest beauty secrets in the world. You have right at hand delicious fresh vege- tables to keep your diet balanced, another beauty secret which few women heed sufficiently. Your garden exer- cise is splendid for keeping your digestive system in good working order, so that accumulated waste products won’t give you that abdominal bulge which is the bane of a woman’s existence. If you care to, you can take an I know a business afternoon nap in a quiet room.
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on Nothing a Year a By Carol Cameron self-pity because I was trying to be good-looking on ee practically nothing a year, and I hadn’t the slightest ie Director, Department of Beauty Hygiene idea what ways and means there were right beside me.” It has been surprising to me as a beauty editor to discover during the past few years how many women go about bemoaning their scanty resources for buying beauty, all the while failing to comprehend what good material there may be right on hand if they will but try to use it. The depression, as I intimated earlier, has finally opened a number of feminine eyes to an understanding of how much can be accomplished in increasing one’s good looks by intelligent home effort, but there still remain legions of women who do not seem to grasp the fact that the foundation of a pleasing appearance is a healthy mind in a healthy body, and no human being in the world can achieve either one for you with- out sufficient cooperation from you. Do you realize that a fresh, clear complexion and a graceful, nicely proportioned figure can be yours with- out costing more than a cake of pure soap, a jar of nourishing cream and persistent determination? The complexion of petal-like beauty won’t be achieved overnight and its flawlessness will be constantly jeopardized if you have a penchant for cocktails, sweets, and starches, but you can make your skin as smooth and in- viting to the touch as the patina on a flower by (Continued on page 102) (McCreery's) woman whose salary runs to three figures a week, yet she would gladly relinquish half of it to have the op- portunity to sleep a few minutes every afternoon, her nerves are so ragged. Every luxurious’ beauty salon in New York offers as part of its facial treatment a short nap in a cool, quiet, darkened room. Many wo- men I know take several such treatments every week because of their restful and rejuvenating effect. They leave the salons look- ing like their younger sis- ters. What has occasioned the change? Certainly not just the fresh make-up, for ladies with time and means at their bestowal usually come into the salons with their faces in perfect or- der. No, the secret is that they have been coaxed into relaxing and the nerve strain or tenseness which causes facial sag and un- becoming pouches’ and wrinkles has been at least temporarily removed.” My little friend gave a relieved sigh. “I’m so glad you told me,” she said gratefully. “Here I’ve been having a grand *case of Any woman can _ have beautiful hands, if she will use the proper tools for her manicure at home, and will spend as much time on it as does the operator in a beauty parlor. For beautiful hair, brush for ten min- utes every night. This will free the hair from dust, and will enhance the natural luster. It will not hurt a permanent, but will add softness and sheen to your waves (Prophylactic Brush Co.) 39
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The | Happiest Little Marion Long, of Middle- - boro, Mass., has al! the thrill of an explorer as she peers into a@ market bag almost as big as she is. Young Thomas Willem- styn, Jr., who lives in Mt. Ver- non, N. Y., is very happy with his black-eared woolly dog James Batten, of Oak Ridge, N. J., is a dog fancier, too, but though fascinated by his play- mate, Jimmy isn’t quite sure bow-wow won't bite A cheery ‘Good morning’ to you from Jackie Slade, of New York City, interrupted in the midst of his bath; while over here, Mary Jane Marchand and Edward Mayhall, of Middleboro, Mass., show restraint in their greetings. They'll per- fect their technique in a few years
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My Neurotic ARENTS— Shall I Leave Them? EAR EDITOR: I am a boy of twenty and live with my father and mother who are both in their fifties. I have no brothers or sisters. My father has a quick temper and as long as I can remember there have been flare-ups, usually over non-important subjects. What I have learned at home was due to my mother’s efforts. When I was a small child and wanted anything in the way of instruction and went to my father he would very often say, “Go to your mother, she will help you.” I now think that, although not actually aware of it, I had developed a fear of my Dad due to his temper. During my later boyhood most of my spare time has been spent away from home. I have been reluctant to bring my friends-home. I never quite knew why unless it was fear of disapproval. My father works in a downtown business firm and as long as I can remember he has come home cross over something at the business or some of the firm. He always thinks he is being made the “goat” for someone else. When Dad is cross, Mother is always there to get the brunt of the affair and she is of the neurotic type and these affairs do not help anyone in her condition espe- cially at meal-times. If I am at the table I will probably come in for a raking over the coals, also for not talking to him more. This he always brings up when he gets cross. I am quiet and keep a great deal to myself. This trait is probably inherited, as my mother’s father was like this. When I am with Dad he never seems interested in what I do except to ask seemingly foolish questions which sound as if they were only intended to make con- versation. It is getting so that I can hardly hold my temper when my father loses his, because it is ruining my mother’s health and giving me a distorted outlook. I have been forced to ‘“‘fly off the handle” several times during one of the episodes and this seems to make him realize for a short time what is going on or else shows him a picture of him- self. I have often wished to stay away from home at such times, in fact, the only peace seemed to be away from home. Is it any wonder I don’t talk to him more than I do? My Dad seems to me very incon- siderate of others in public and sel- dom goes out but constantly works on his budget work and says all he wants is a specified sum of money so he could be independent. This is what I get practically morning, noon and night until I think that if I am not a. neurotic now, I soon will be one or some other kind of a wreck, to say nothing of my mother who has not been well since I knew her. What will become of the situation is more than I can tell, but I think maybe a psychologist might be able to help, and I hope you can tell me what to do. A READER. honestly. Exploring Your Troubles with Our Psychologist This department does not pretend to solve your problems. help you to analyze them, so that you may more successfully grap- In writing you need not sign your name, but you should state your case frankly and We do not undertake to answer letters. We cannot give free psychological advice by mail. ._ This is, rather, a magazine fea- ture in which, especially when a number of persons ask for help in solving a certain type of difficulty, we will try to have it discussed by an authoritative psychologist. ple with them. “THs boy of twenty brings to us an all too common picture of American family life. Without quite admitting it, he is asking: “Shall I clear out? What’s the use of living in such a home? Shall I leave my neurotic parents?”. Very often this is the best solution when families begin to “get on each other’s nerves”; sometimes boys or girls who find home intolerable dis- cover that after a few years of being away on their own they can return to their homes in the dignified position of adult wage-earners and can enjoy a new relation with their parents. In other cases, children find much greater happiness with their parents when they live in another house and merely visit in the old home. This argues no lack of affection, merely different attitudes and approaches to life. © But it is very difficult, and. often painful, having to decide to break away from the family circle. The psychological costs of staying need to be compared with the costs of going away. But there can be little ques- tion that a neurotic household can be damaging to every member of the family and that the damage is often par- ticularly great for an only child. The great French psychiatrist, Janet, has pointed out that’ unhealthy men- tal attitudes are contagious. A psychoanalyst in Amer- ica who works particularly with children has found that children “borrow” their parents’ complexes. It is dan- gerous to live with seriously neurotic persons, particu- larly when these persons are closely related to us or when we care for them. One of the dangers grows out of the fact that chil- dren often observe results without understanding the causes. One girl grew up hating her father because she felt he prevented her mother from doing any of the things she wished to do. At an early age it became a . part of her pattern of life to plan for the time when she would be able to support her mother and the mother might leave the father. The great day finally arrived, and the girl, grown to be a woman, found to her chagrin and astonishment that her mother did not wish to leave her father. This girl had seen only the outer aspect of her parents’ lives, the bickerings over money, etc., and had not as a child perceived the reassurance and protec- tion which each parent gave the other and needed from the other. Some- times parents feel ashamed to allow the children to see the reality of the emotional bond between them and this gives the children a very false picture of the home. The boy writing in this month sees the irritability of his father, his habit of developing an alibi and blaming other people, undesirable traits cer- tainly. Then he sees his mother’s in- validism, apparently of a chronic sort. Like so many American children, he is closer to his mother than to his father; he concludes that his mother is ill because his father is disagree- able. He (Continued on page 83) 41 We only
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be the Picture of PERFECT POSTURE Tue Backwarp BENp: For beginners, have a wall back of you on which to rest the finger-tips. Continue backward as far as possible, raising one leg for balance. Use legs alternately. Inhale as you bend backward, exhale with forward movement. Do this a dozen times at first; increase as you grow proficient Tue Backwarp ReacH: Stand erect, feet together and nearly parallel. Stretch arms downward and backward. Begin with an upward swing of arms to high- est possible reach overhead and back- ward, and continue until arms are spread as far apart as possible. With the up- ward movement, raise heels so weight of body is sustained on tiptoes, meanwhile arching back to the fullest degree—this is important. Return to original posi- tion. When the exercise is performed slowly, inhalation may be completed as hands swing upward and exhalation as they return to original position. Do this exercise ten or twelve times at first, later increasing the number of times THE Sipe Benn (Extreme Right): Stand erect, feet parallel, with arms _ out- stretched at shoulder height and palms dcwnward. As you bend over to one side to touch the floor with the finger- tips, raise the leg on opposite side to maintain balance. Returning to stand- ing position, bend down to opposite side. Repeating the entire movement in this manner by alternately bending from one side and then the other, the leg is brought into play with each bend. Exhale as you bend downward and inhale while return- ing to standing position. Ten times to either side will serve as a beginning, in- creasing number with skill in exercise 42
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Here’s a Series of Daily Exercises that, Performed Faithfully, Will Develop Feminine Grace and Charm By John Brennan Poses by Bernadette Pearse Photographs by Macfadden Studio THE Lec Swinc: This is performed in standing position, hands on hips or arms swung at full length to maintain balance. Standing on one foot, swing the other leg as far forward as possible, then as far backward. As leg swings forward, bend upper body backward, and as leg swings backward, bend upper body forward. If necessary to maintain balance, one hand may rest on a chair-back. Exhale as the leg is swung forward and inhale as it swings backward. Try ten such swings with each leg when beginning the exer- cise. With practise, increase the number THE TELESCOPE: This exercise may be performed in standing position or lying down, as preferred, or you may alter- nate with standing and supine positions. Begin with arms outstretched overhead, then bring them down to the shoulders, as the knees are bent to telescope or shorten the body-length as much as you can. Then extend arms and legs to full length and repeat the entire movement. Inhale while lengthening and exhale while telescoping the body. From a dozen movements when you first do this, you will soon develop the ability to perform it a greater number of times 43
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Shatt My Cie” 1 iy? oe ees Slere is the Answer to a Question that Perplexes Y BEST friend bought two tickets to the violin concert benefit our club was sponsoring last spring, and promptly gave them away. She wasn’t going, she said with a little shudder, because she loathed violin music. For months her mother had forced her when a child to practise on a> violin. She added. it was a blessing that wholesale music lessons for children were ‘‘on the spot” nowadays. Her remark came home forcefully to me, because the daughter of my neighbor across the street actually had fainted over her music lesson a few days before. Ten-year-old Mary Lou was fond of me, and I had heard her side of the music lesson problem many times. Relentlessly her mother tacked on an extra hour to her piano practise time as a penance for small mis- deeds until Mary Lou had little time to play with the neighborhood children. Meantime her parent regaled us with stories of how she had spent thousands of dol- lars on her older daughter’s musical education, and that she intended to do her duty as well by Mary Lou. Usually the problem of the child and his music les- son is settled with regard to every angle but that of the child’s main business, which is to grow. Musical education has been costing the grown-ups in America over two hundred millions yearly. It has been hy Many children really detest music lessons. Do not insist on this point. It is better, perhaps, _ that their time be spent in happy play outdoors (Globe) Ad Countless Parents costing our children in every state, city, and town in the union, small eternities in time. Parents are asking in these days of economic stress and child psychology, what price music lessons? And shall my child take music lessons.at all? If so, when? Music lessons had broken out in my own neighbor- hood last year with a vengeance, thanks to Mary Lou’s mother. All the children were taking music lessons. So far, Mary Lou was the only one who had succumbed physically under their. pressure. Even my colored laun- dress told me that she was musically ambitious for her child. One morning she appeared worn and sleepy, and announced that she had been up all night ironing so that her son could take music lessons. Her child hap- pened to need fresh fruit, milk, and a rested parent too. He was so thin that it hurt me. Now I didn’t want my child to detest music when he grew up. Or to remember years after I was buried that I had forced him to practise against his will. I didn’t want to upset the harmony of my home with an every morning or afternoon squabble over his failure to practise. I hadn’t the time or the heart to sit like a watchdog, as Mary Lou’s mother did, and shoo away his small companions who gathered: to sing disdain- fully, “There’s music in the air,” when my child prac-
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| (Ernest Robson) tised. Certainly I didn’t want him to injure his rather glorious health by exhausting, prolonged practising. Yet I’d have liked for him to be musical. On every hand we read that the adult of tomorrow will haye more leisure on his hands than we, his par- ents, did; that he must be trained to enjoy his leisure. Surely music is an activity for leisure hours. Person- ally, I had found it both relaxing and refreshing to my spirits, something in which I could lose for awhile the too crowding world when I was weary. These are the old, familiar values of music, but still true. I know, too, that every absorbing interest an adult has makes the world that much more worth while to him. Too, music is on every side in modern life. With every whirl of the radio dial, at every movie, in every home, there is music or the means of getting it. Tastes are cultivated and childhood is seeding time. By right direction I hoped my son would enjoy the symphonies at least a little more than the shoddy stuff that is so omnipresent. Then too, I had to settle on a plausible reason for denying the music lessons to my seven-year-old, if I decided to do that. So I asked a psychologist about music lessons for children. Professor Milton Metfessel, Chairman of the Department of Psychology of the University of South- ern California, has published a score of articles on the psychology of music, a book, and a monograph. He has studied the field thoroughly here and in Europe. From him I secured material that I could pass on to other parents, likewise confronted with this problem of music lessons. “No problem exists with music lessons in the case of the child who wants to take them,” he said, “no prob- lem but that of health, and its possible impairment by lack of sense in practising.” That sounded like wisdom. No ology or ism about that. “The parent’s problem is with the child who doesn’t want to take lessons.. You’ve either got to let him alone, or make him want to.” “Have you any suggestions how a parent can make a child want a thing he doesn’t want?” I asked. “Every child is different. What’ll work with one, won’t with another. You know how Tom Sawyer got his friends to whitewash his fence, don’t you? He If your boy and his chums enjoy ‘close harmony,” it may _ indicate a real _ interest and aptitude for musical training made a tiresome job appear attractive and interesting.” I remembered about Tom Sawyer all right. “And then, if the child still balks over his music lessons, measure his musical capacity.. You can’t make bricks without straw, or a musician out of a non- musical child.” University professors always mention mental tests and statistics. Their world is peopled with them. But : didn’t mind, so long as I found out what I wanted to now. “You can get the Seashore Musical Talent Tests from any dealer in phonograph records. If he hasn’t them in stock, he can order them. They were worked out at the State University of Iowa, and being scientific, no profit is made on them. A book of complete instruc- tions comes with the records.” “How much will the tests cost?” I asked next. “The tests cost a dollar or two. About the price of two music lessons perhaps. They have saved some mothers a lot of money. Some of them have found out that their children hadn’t enough musical talent to make it worth while to spend more money.” Certainly these suggestions were practical enough. “There’s no hurry about any child beginning his les- sons at seven years of age, either. At eleven or twelve, he’ll be able to learn in one hour what it’ll take him about_an hour and a half to learn now, roughly speak- ing.” But I knew, too, as did the psychologist I’m sure, that when you want to-learn a thing, you learn it more quickly than otherwise. And my seven-year-old wanted to take music lessons. This being the case, all I had to watch out for was his health. - Mary Lou had been practising as long as two hours at a time. She is ten years old. Her muscles and brain are growing, and growing muscles tire easily. Pro- longed sitting day after day can do a lot of physically evil things to the growing bodies of children, if the posture is poor. Among the troop of posture ills with which we are all familiar are round shoulders, cramped lungs, and curved spines. — A child who takes music lessons is bound to spend considerable time on a none too comfortable seat. If he persistently slumps at (Continued on page 92) 45
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VICTOR HERBERT 3 (Keystone) HEN Victor Herbert died at the age of sixty- five he was one of the most youthful spirits on ‘Y Broadway. He was immersed in work, his in- spiration was as fresh as ever, his interest in the world vital and keen. As a man he was magnificent: tall, imposing, hand- some, admired by all. But physically he was worn out. His physician, Dr. Emanuel Baruch, told this writer that nothing could have saved him. “His body had’reached its limit,” he said, “and just gave out.” , So unexpected was his death that Broadway could not realize it. | “Victor dead!” People stared at the bearers of the unhappy news incredulously. Why, we just saw him yesterday—today! He was so happy and genial! He gave us that lovely smile of his, and greeted us in that hearty and comradely manner! Why, how could it be? Dead! xf It was not as if a man had reached the end of his career and had died. Only a year before he had written “A Kiss in the Dark,” which is second only to his “Kiss Me Again.” Assuredly Victor Herbert kad died early. If he had lived he would have entered the greatest period of his life, and this is one of the pathetic phases of the life of America’s greatest composer of light music; more pathetic indeed because he could have lived, had he chosen to live differently. When Herbert died the jazz age was just beginning to show strength. Dance bands and their syncopated music were crowding out the sweetly sentimental melodies with which Herbert had so dowered his coun- try. The romantic operetta was in a decline. Herbert found himself less and less a drawing card. He tried his hand at the new style in music and was not suc- 46 The Most Delightful of Our American Composers Might Have Been Alive Today Had He Learned the Lessons of Right Eating and Keeping Fit BY Joseph Kaye Two outstanding figures in popular American music— Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa cessful. Two incidents will illustrate his fading glory. He was engaged to conduct the orchestra at the theater in Columbus Circle known then as the Cosmopolitan, which was used to feature the pictures of Marion Davies. He was given a year’s contract at $60,000, but before the year expired the management canceled the orchestra. Herbert did not bring the expected money to the box-office and it was thought wiser to pay him his salary even though he did nothing to earn it than stand the expense of his orchestra. So there was the spectacle of Victor Herbert, the magnificent, coming to the theater every Saturday morning, just to make the formal statement: “If you want me, I’m here,” and draw his pay, knowing that it was being given him not because he was valuable to the theater, but because the management had made a mistake. In the same year the late Florenz Ziegfeld thought of engaging Herbert to write the music of his new Follies—the 1923 edition—but after consultation it was decided that Herbert was somewhat passé. Not to discard him altogether, however, he was asked to write only the finale of the second act—finales being a form of composition Herbert was known to be particularly adept at. TRE first night of the revue was spotted with diffi- culties and Herbert’s finale, which he was to conduct, came at five minutes after two. The composer had arrived at eight, and for four hours he waited in a closed dressing-room. In the old days he would have gone away in disgust, but it was not often now that he was called upon to conduct an orchestra. And go he could not bring himself.to leave. His big body swelter- ing in heat, tortured by the stiff evening clothes he wore, he waited, he, the great Victor Herbert, waited. for the opportunity to appear in an orchestra pit for
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Diep ‘Loo Soon a few minutes. When he finally emerged into the theater half the audience had gone home and those who remained were weary. And in these discouraging circumstances Victor Herbert conducted an orchestra for the last time in his life. He died a year later. But had he lived! Only a short time after his death “The Student Prince’ revived the romantic operetta. and brought the Herbert style of music back to pop-' ularity. Then, not long after that, the radio came into its fuller development and Herbert’s music into: a vogue which surpassed all his previous popularity. Herbert’s melodies seemed to have become as neces-.. sary to radio as its microphones, and not a day passed © but they were heard on many stations. And shortly” after that appeared the talking pictures, Herbert lived only a few years longer he would not only have been the leading musical figure in Holly- wood, but might have given the production of musical pictures a new direction. When Herbert died he weighed two hundred and fifty pounds, and it can be said that he ate himself to death. There is something appalling in the sight — of such a large man crashing to the floor and dying. There lies that great mound of flesh, gasping for~ air! That helpless mound of humanity! Involuntarily you picture the effort to lift up that huge dead mass and while your heart goes out in sympathy there is, too, a feeling of resentment in you that such a cele- brated man should have reached this condition. Your mind cannot dis- sociate itself from a vision of heaping plat- ters, and you feel a dull anger. So much _ en- chanting music could have poured out of that brain, and instead, there he lies, the eyes glaz- ing, unable to raise a hand. Victor Herbert was inordinately fond of food and drink. In his earlier days, when he toured extensively with his band (Gilmore’s band) and then with his own orchestra, he had a musical aide who ful- filled one of the strangest duties to be found in the records of famous men’s lives. This man was named Thome, and he was a_ tuba player from _ Bavaria. Thome, besides being a musician, had the instinct of the servitor, and Herbert selected him to carry around from town to town a large wicker basket filled with cold cuts, cheeses and imported Pilsener beer. The basket was never allowed to be empty. Thome had a regular allowance for supplies and kept check on the contents of the basket carefully. This food was kept in reserve in case Herbert grew hungry and there was no time or opportunity to eat at a restaurant. New bandsmen were amazed at the sight of Thome lugging his big basket and it became the joke of the organization. A recurrent event in Herbert’s life was his birthday celebration. On the first of every February, before his Broadway activities changed his mode of life, his bandsmen gathered in front of his home to serenade him and then crowd into his rooms to eat and drink, and had. > (Brewn Brcthers) No one else ever wrote such music; no one else ever will. The picture at the left shows Victor Herbert as a young man, then ’cellist of the old Damrosch German Opera Orchestra There was a surprising quantity of meats and beer, the kegs being enthroned all around the dining-room. Few speeches were made, and there was little entertainment, but Herbert took meticulous care that there should be an abundance of things to eat and liquors to drink. Herbert was one of the main patrons at Luchow’s restaurant, a dining-room on East Fourteenth Street famed in New York social history. He was the chef’s delight, and the waiters never took back a plate from his table that was not empty. Luchow was Herbert’s main importer of Pilsener beer, which was the brew he idolized. He drank enormous quantities of it and when he settled down for a lengthy engagement at some summer resort or theater, he invariably ordered an ice-box installed in his dressing-room for the purpose of stocking beer. Herbert did not confine himself to beer alone. He was also a prodigious drinker of spirits, particularly in cocktail form. His ability to consume liquors is one of the traditions of Broadway. One of his old bandsmen told of an occasion in Montreal, whither Herbert had gone to attend to the opening of one of his operettas. The musician was sitting with Herbert in the (Continued on page 69) 47
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sow STRENGTH TRENGTH is a peculiar commodity. It is hard to understand or explain just where its true source or generation exists. Sometimes huge, muscular chaps will disappoint you in a test of strength; then again a small man, with no pronounced musculature, will absolutely amaze you with his un- suspected, superhuman power. We have learned definitely, during the last two or more decades, that by the utilization of progression, weaklings may be converted into prodigious Samsons. The inventive genius of man has devised apparatus that has replaced the crude modus operandi of Milo of Croton. The whole story of Milo and graduated weight-lifting exercises is concisely conveyed in this little couplet: “Milo, ’tis said, by carrying a calf, grew strong; | Until at last, with ease, he bore a bull along.” If every one of us who goes in for progressive Hold bag as shown in first position. Take a deep breath and, with arms straight, weight-lifting exercises had to keep a growing calf in the bedroom, it would offer a few slight inconveniences; not to mention feeding the animal! A big objection to carrying a growing calf to develop strength, from a scientific standpoint, would be the restricted nature of the exercise. The modern way of lifting from the floor to arm’s length overhead; the bending and twisting in all directions; the pushing and pulling from all angles, utilizing the muscles, joints and sinews in every: possible range of action is ideal. It is small wonder that we are developing some athletes today that are actually eclipsing the idealized, sculptural masterpieces of the ancients. There has been a big bone of contention among ad- vocates of. physical training as to the nature of the exercises. best suited to the continuous welfare of the body. ‘Some advocate light calisthenics, while others scoff at light movements and staunchly champion weight-lifting exercises or weight-lifting proper. Every weight- lifter. or adherent to heavy muscle-building systems must expect a great deal of deroga- tory criticism of such forms of training. Peo- ple who know little or nothing about the phys- liology or anatomy of the- human body will warn you of dire con- sequences resultant from building strength and muscle. I. often think ‘that such people are salving their own lazy consciences for neglecting their own bodies. Actual statistics fail to verify any of their pessimistic predictions. We frequently read in our daily paper about business men who drop dead of heart disease. Many doctors are num- bered among the vic- tims of such sudden Sand bags of various weights will prove a fair substitute for dumb-bells. Do not make bags too big and heavy to use easily and correctly. If possible, weigh the amount of sand used, so you can keep ac- count of your accomplish- ments. Make a_ canvas tube and tie both ends, so that a tag is left which is to be used as a handle on each end. Experiment at first to find the “exact weight suitable for the ex- ercises shown here. Do not use a weight too heavy to allow you to do the number of movements ad- lower the weight to second position. Return to first position and exhale. Repeat vised. Other exercises may ten times without raising hips off the floor. Next, use a lighter weight and grasp be performed with the the tag ends as shown. From a straight-up position, as you started the previous bags. Make up several bags movement, lower weight to thighs. Inhale before starting and exhale after the of various weights and weight is returned to first position. 48 Do ten complete movements invent your own repertoire
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Do | WANT? By Samuel Edwin Olmstead Exercises Originated and Posed by the Author demises. You would not say that business and doc- toring are fatal occupations, just because some die suddenly and prematurely. Let one athlete or ex- athlete die from anything, from blood poisoning to a broken neck, and you will hear a lot of, “I told you so’s.” Believe me, when the heart or any other vital organ gives out, there is unquestionably some other under- lying cause than physical exertion of any character whatsoever. Go ahead and get all the strength you can, even though it may not be all you want! Just as long as you keep feeling stronger from the method you are following, you can rest assured that you are not being injured. Strength it- self is not always barometri- eal of a splendid internal vitality. Feeling strong and topping such a feeling off with actually being strong is the combination par. ex- eellence. There are two things that I wish to bear on very heav- ily in my advice to either a novice in physical cultivation Hold bag behind neck as shown, and without bending knees go forward to the second position; then rise erect. Inhale before bending forward and ex- hale after you have returned to erect position. Repeat exercise twenty times Hold bag by the tag ends, straight above you, while lying flat on the back. Now let the arms go well forward and come to a sitting position. The bag comes against the chest and the arms are completely bent as you attain the sitting position. same time straightening the arms. at sitting position. when weight is at straight arm rest position. or the one who has reached the pinnacle. Do not be too precocious or impatient and try to force the matter during the progressive stages of your climb. Do not. let anyone persuade you to exert yourself when your good judgment tells you that you should rest. Always remember that strength is dependent upon energy and vitality. If a man puts a hundred dollars in the bank today and withdraws it tomorrow, he is left with no reserve. Watch out that you do not place demands on your energies faster than you can generate more. in physical Remember that the first consideration Return slowly to reclining posture, at the Inhale before coming up; exhale when Inhale before starting the backward action and exhale Repeat ten times training should be to possess a superior fitness of the body as a whole. A beautiful body is a thing of delight, but we cannot continue to admire it if it is not backed up by stamina that is commen- surate with our expectations. I have seen several types of mistakes made by those _ pursuing exercise or _ sports. - First of all, there is the business man who may or may not be an ex-athlete. He takes virtually no exercise at all, five-sevenths of the week; then during the week- end he plays golf or some other game until he is so exhausted that he returns to his business on Monday depleted in both mind and body. There is far more chance of such an _ unbalanced program’s proving injurious than even competitive athletics. Consistent training builds strength and energy; spasmodic straining militates against them. How much more sensible it 49
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Grasp’the tag ends of the bag well back between the legs. Take a deep breath, and with a vigorous swing lift the weight overhead in one movement. Exhale as you lower the weight to the floor for the next repetition. Do ten times would be for the busi- ness man who desires to play a couple of rounds of golf on Sat- urday and Sunday to do something during the rest of the week, even though it may only be a vigorous walk to his business each day. In this way, he keeps prepared for his week-end activities and benefits accord- ingly. Then we have the chap who has very enthusiastically gone through the intensive, progressive stage of building a superb physique. He has reached his limit in strength attain- ment. His enthusiasm does not completely wane, but he may not adhere to his former program of working out on alternate days. He takes to letting a week or even more go by between practises, and when he gath- ers with a bunch of strength enthusiasts, he enters into an impromptu lifting competition. This sort of thing cannot be commended by those who are experi- enced in such matters. We also have the athlete who has been outstanding in college, or for his private, individual achievements. He either leaves college and enters business, or lets other interests divert him from keeping in condition. A magnificent body is allowed to fall into disuse and become a stagnant, rusty machine. Such thoughtless neglect and abrupt termination of conditioning ex- ercise is unthinkable to one who has keeping fit as his | primary objective. When the heart has been developed into a larger, stronger organ to take care of the greater blood-pump- ing that vigorous activity calls for, it is unwise to abruptly cease such activities. Every organ, yes every cell and fibre of one’s body, becomes accustomed to forced functioning during physical activity. This can- not be suddenly stopped without some deleterious aftermath. Common sense should tell anyone that 50 exercise to the body as a whole. stand ‘that by strengthening the very organs and the wise procedure for the athlete who wishes to cease his strenuous, intensive activities is for him to make a gradual transition from his peak to the condition that he desires to maintain.: Certainly there is nothing more deplorable, to me at least, than to see a man who but a few years back was a superior athletic specimen, now carrying a spare tire around his midriff. . | The world is full of another type of. individual who’ never was athletic and who cares: naught about such things. These people range all the way from sedentary specimens who are more or less: physically neutral, to the human jelly-fish that a fit person views with palpable disgust. There are actually people so poorly informed or so self-opinionated as to act on the premise that exer- cise exhausts energy that is irreplaceable. Such people totally disregard: the physiological benefits of They do not under- functions that are mediums through which energy is manufactured and stored they can cultivate it simultaneously with other physical improvements. A strong man, who is truly fit from the core out, always possesses a boundless degree of energy that is even more conspicuous than his other attributes. Such energy, backed up by a_ strong, handsome physique, is a combination that any ordinary man must envy. It is possible to understand how a man who has never enjoyed having super-strength and fitness may be apathetic about going after it. I can never forgive the backslider who wilfully allows a magnificent body to deteriorate to mediocrity through downright neglect or laziness. One may become broke financially, but he should never feel broke un- less he is broke physically. (Continued on page 99) we Hold the bag with the hands placed underneath as pictured in first posi- tion. Now, while holding the elbows close to the sides, raise the weight steadily to second position. Repeat until biceps tire. Keep your elbows in the same spot throughout the movement. Inhale on the upward lift and exhale on the down. Do not lean back. Do at least ten times
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ON T WAS only last summer that the most terrible drought in American history devastated the food- producing Central West. But today, outside the actual farm regions that suffered and are still suffering from feed shortage for farm animals, the American people have pretty much forgotten it. For the city dweller, only one effective reminder of the drought remains. That is his butcher’s bill. That such a sweeping crop failure could spread over our major food-producing lands and result in no greater disaster to the nation’s food supply than raising the price of meat is remarkable. However, as a people, we have little right to pride ourselves in the matter. Whatever facts there are to be thankful for in the situa- tion should be credited to luck rather than to wisdom. Our national economy has been suffering for twelve years from an unmarketable surplus of food products. Then Nature took a hand and wiped out the surplus by crop failure. During the height of the slaughter— a literal. slaughter of starving farm animals—there was some alarm among city people. Was it possible, they asked, for that thing called famine—which. one had read about in press dispatches from China, India or Russia, or in the Bible—to be inflicted upon people in these modern United States? But reassurance came from Sec- retary Wallace and his co-workers at Washington. “No,” they said, By Milo (Ewing Galloway) Shall We Economize “there will be no famine for man, but there is a famine for animals.” So the Government speedily set up a wholesale procedure for converting starving animals into canned meat. The unemployed are now living on the “lean of the land,” for there wasn’t much fat on those canners. That the season’s food supply was not dangerously depleted by the drought, or even the proportions and balance of the diet seriously disturbed, was due to the fact that the drought was limited to the interior regions of the country—regions devoted almost en- tirely to the production of grains and meat, the very products of which we had the most surplus. The entire coastal region, and practically all the land east of the Mississippi escaped. The Pacific Northwest was more abundantly watered than usual. California suffered some water shortage, but there was no general failure of the irrigated lands. In those widely scattered lands, practically all our commercial vegetables and fruits and nuts are pro- duced, and much of our milk and eggs. The continen- tal United States imports most of its sugar and what we do grow is either in the wet Mississippi delta or in irrigated beet fields. The potato crop for the most part escaped the drought and was about ninety per cent normal. | The wheat crop is raised almost wholly (Continued on page 96) 51 Hastings
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They grow men in the Balkans. Here is a typical shepherd and, above, a group of powerful mountaineers all ready for wrestling bouts at a sports field day LL Balkan peoples are fond of sour milk and consume liberal quantities of it, but to the Bulgarians sour milk is one of the primary essentials of life. The two absolute requisites at a Bulgarian table are not bread and butter (bread is not buttered in the Balkans, but- ter being used exclusively in cooking, never 3 in its raw state) but bread and sour milk. And the inevitable appurtenance to a Bulgarian village house 1s a cow. If one can’t afford a cow, then there at least should be a couple of goats, or sheep. Goats are easy to keep, they live on dry oak leaves and leafless sprigs of willow and poplar in the winter, and for about seven months of the year they yield an average of half a gallon of milk a day. Goat’s milk is highly prized. When I returned to the Balkans after a continuous residence in the United States of more than a dozen years I went out in the morning to have my breakfast. The closed doors of the first few restaurants I tried made me recall the fact that no restaurant is open for breakfast in the capital of Bulgaria. Whoever eats breakfast out has to eat it in a mlekaria. A mlekaria (from mleko, Bulgarian for milk) is a type of eating place where only milk and milk products are served. So numerous and so popular are these small dairy shops that they outnumber the regular restaurants and cafes. They keep open all the time and people who would never think of dropping into a restaurant between meals do go into a mlekaria for a chat and a treat of yogurt, or as the Bulgarians call it kisselo mleko, the famous Bul- garian sour milk which Professor Mechnikov made famous the world over. I have been eating sour milk in the United States pretty regularly in the Bulgarian, Armenian and Greek restaurants where it is uniformly served. At the slight- est stomach disturbance I hie myself to one of these Balkan restaurants and have a meal on bread and yogurt. I find, however, that the yogurt in America is far from being as tasty as the product in the Balkans. The apparent reason for the tastiness of the home article is of course the Bulgarian bacillus, but I believe it is also due to the fact that most of the yogurt in the Balkans is made from sheep’s and goat’s milk, and to the condition of the pastures there. Sheep and goats ‘pastire over flowery hills and -glens in the old country 52 my friends in America. ultured ILK By Stoyan Christowe and feed on a variety of plant and aromatic herbage that is bound to give the milk a scent that milk from cows fed chiefly on plain grass and bran cannot be ex- pected to have. Personally, I am so ardent a believer in the yogurt that I have done considerable missionary work among Many of them consider them- selves in debt to me for my zeal in urging them to de- velop a taste for it, for since accustoming themselves to yogurt they have forgotten what it is to use drug laxatives and they enjoy better health than ever before. The therapeutic values of yogurt and the general health benefits from it are so pretty generally known by now that it has always seemed a puzzle to me why yogurt is not more widely consumed in America. Per- haps one of the reasons is that many people in America think that sour milk is just milk that has turned sour. People are generally prejudiced against sour foods. This prejudice could be counteracted if more people regarded yogurt not as a milk that has been left to get sour, but as a deliberately and carefully prepared product like cheese and butter. Yogurt is not clabbered milk, but milk fermented by the action of the right amount of culture introduced into it at optimum temperature and can therefore be compared to leavened bread. The use of sour milk is repeatedly advised in cases of intestinal disorders, particularly in cases of consti- pation, colitis and diarrhea. And I know a Bulgarian in New York who had been suffering from a severe stomach trouble. Failing to find relief in other treat- ments, he used his old Balkan horse sense and went on a diet of sour milk for a week. He tells me he has never been bothered since. The chief benefit to be derived from liberal use of sour milk is due to the lactic acid content which combats intestinal putrefac- ~ tion and regulates the action of the digestive organs. But in addition to the lactic acid, milks fermented by the action of cultures contain lactic bacilli that modify
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There cAre -Many (entenarians in the Balkans. Here Is the Whole Story of Bulgarian Buttermilk and Its Benefits the action of the intestinal bacteria and pro- — disinfecting organisms in the digestive ract. Bulgaria enjoys the unique distinction of having one of these lactobacteria named after it. It is the only country in the world to have a germ as a namesake. Needless to say, the Bulgarian peasant who daily consumes quan- tities of sour milk and in some cases prac- tically lives on it, does not know all of this. He would perhaps refuse to believe that his sour milk is beneficial because it is full of bacteria. Long before Ilya Mechnikov named the ferment of the yogurt Bacillus Bulgaricus, kisselo mleko was a staple Bulgarian food. The yogurt type of sour milk is superior in lactic acid content to any other fermented milk. This is due to the special action of the Bulgarian bacillus. It is true that Professor Mechnikov in his high admiration of the Bul- garian Kisselo mleko attributed to the Bacillus Bulgaricus more qualities than it possesses. He claimed that it remained in the intestines long after one discontinued the use of yogurt. It has since been’ shown that an- other’ bacillus, the Acidophilus, remains in the digestive tube. But the fact remains that the Bulgarian bacillus: is the liveliest ferment known, mak- ing sour milk much more quickly than other ferments and produc- ing almost three times as’ much lactic acid as any. other culture. Bul- letin: No. 319 issued by the United States De- partment of Agricul- ture says that most ordinary ferments pro- “*Mary had a little lamb’’— they are com- monly used as pets in the Bal- kans, where they milk sheep as well as goats. When the author told a Bulgarian shepherd that in America sheep were raised for meat and wool only, he mar- veled for hours. Above is a group of shep- herds all dressed up for market day duce about one per cent lactic acid while the Bacillus Bulgaricus produces as much as three per cent. More- over, it forms no al- cohol or acetone, which are frequent in lactic fermentation, and has no action on the fat of the milk. All of which makes it an ideal cul- ture. Still a more perfect culture could possibly be produced by a cross of Bulgari- cus and Acidophilus bacilli, the former possessing all the ad- vantageous properties already mentioned, and the latter having the special property of re- maining in the diges- tive tube. The objec- tion to some_- sour milks, like the Egyp- tian lebon and the Cau- casian kephir, the lat- ter a rawcurdlechurned in skins that hang in the doorways where one can give them a swing as one goes in and out, is because of- their alcoholic content. (Continued on page 85) 53
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Are SPICES DEVOID > of HOOD VALUE? By the Nutrition Staff and wants to know their chemical composition and particularly their vitamins and acid and alkaline minerals. The list contains pepper, mustard, cin- namon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, etc. Now it is quite possible by digging through reference books to find information as to the chemical composition of most of these spices. Such data would not. be found in texts or tables of food values, but rather in books giving the analysis of products for the guidance of the inspectors whose duty it is to enforce pure food laws and prevent the adulteration of spices by cheaper material. This knowledge enables the chemists to detect black pepper adulterated with ground buckwheat hulls or mus- Anes sends us a list of the common hot spices tard mixed with common flour that has been dyed yellow. But that is about all it would have to do with food values. The pur- pose of the law in this case is to protect the buyer’s purse, rather than his stomach. Indeed his stomach might be better. pro- tected if the adulterations were permitted. The interesting aspect about our reader’s question is that it shows a natural,and plausible misconception about what might be called food supplements. Spices, salt, condiments and the like were the important food sup- plements of a pre-scientific age. They were things which, when added to food in small amounts, were prized and valued in the diet out of all proportion to the amounts actually consumed. Spices were the rare metals of the old food world. It was largely for the profits of the spice trade that Columbus tried to reach the East by sailing west, and for which other navi- gators sailed unknown seas. A counterpart of this medieval spice trade has for centuries existed in the town of Timbuktu, to reach which numerous caravans cross the Sahara Desert laden with salt, the most prized merchan- dise over a vast interior region of Africa. All this seems to testify that men will pay handsomely to make their food taste better. But spices, as well as salt, also served for the preservation of food, which was quite important in days before the arts of canning or refrigeration, or even of preserving foods with sugar. In- deed sugar itself was at one time in the condiment class and was brought to Europe from India and sold at fabu- lous prices. One principle of the psychology of values is that when. anything for any reason commands a high price, the human mind tends to ascribe many imaginary valuable properties to the high priced substance, to justify the user’s conscience for paying so much for it. Rarity alone, if a substance is used at all, tends to add to its price, and so people conjure up all sort of imaginary attributes to further justify the rare thing’s value. A great many medical substances have had their curative reputations thus enhanced by rarity and high price. : Spices and condiments partake of many of these qual- ities. And now when modern science discovers minerals and vitamins that exist in foods, often in minute quanti- ties but said to be highly important, there seems indeed a similarity between nature and functions of the old rare dietetic elements or supplements and the new. It would not seem illogical to suspect to find some scientific basis for the age-long reputations of some of these things for 54 Other Food Questions This Month Do Baked or Boiled Potatoes Contain More Starch? What Will Make Bread Keep? Is Nut Butter the Same as Nut Margarine? Will Orange Juice Make the Blood Thin? which men have gone to so much trouble to add in small amounts to the food they eat. But almost .without exception the prized rare food sup- plements of past ages have failed to disclose to modern scientific research any elements of distinctive nutritional value. Salt, the most universally used food flavoring, is an essential nutritional mineral, but not a rare one, as it is commonly present in most natural foods. Sugar, once a rare condiment, comes to be classed as ‘a food substance about on a par with common starch; as found in all grains and the most abundant and commonplace of human food substances. ! The hot spices come in quite a different class. Their dis- _ tinction lies not in any nutritional substance at all, but in a drug-like substance, that is. a substance that causes physiological disturbance rather than supporting normal _ physi- ological processes.. The easiest way to explain the effect of hot spices as a class, is to say. that they cause.an inflammation of the mucous membranes. Pepper in your eyes and nose is not a sensa- tion one seeks after, for it is merely the pain of the local tissue being injured or poisoned. : But, such is the perversity of human nature, a mild degree of the same symptoms in the mouth seem to give pleasure. This idea of man that he can get pleasure out of mild doses of pain seems to be a habit that can be cultivated. Trav- elers among’ primitive tribes often avoid having their food stolen merely by keeping it all well spiced or salted. Most spices are made from hard woody seeds and contain no more food value than nut hulls, which they much resemble. Others are ground bark. They merely have in common some “hot” biting chemical, usually combined with an aromatic or odorous substance, the latter effect giving them their individual distinctions. Like plant substances in general, all of them doubtless contain some of the nutritional minerals. Those that are seeds, like black pepper or nutmeg, would probably also contain some vitamin B, like seeds in general. But for either of these purposes such seeds as grain, beans or peas would probably be better sources, ounce for ounce. There would be no way to test spices for vitamins because it would probably be impossible to get the test animals to eat enough of them to demonstrate the point or, if they were forcibly fed, the inflammatory effects might kill the animals. The use of all such substances seems to develop in the crude early stages of civilization when food supplies are monotonous and tasteless. With the growth of greater food variety and the increasing use of foods of proved valuable qualities that also have pleasing and distinct flavors, the place in the diet of valueless or harmful condiments tends to decrease—at least among well-informed and food-cul- tured people. Do baked or boiled potatoes contain more starch? The method of cooking potatoes does not alter the amount of starch in them. The question arises out of two other ideas. One is that baked potatoes are more healthful than boiled potatoes and the other is that starch is an objection- able food. Both ideas are exaggerations. Baked potatoes, because they are more mealy (Continued on page 94)
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During this stage, there is practically no expectoration on cough- ing, although in some cases a very small amount of sticky mucus may be brought up.: Later on, the character of the cough changes and it becomes very loose, the expectoration being quite profuse and consisting of a mixture of mucus and pus. When this stage is reached, the other symptoms, which have been sometimes quite severe, gen- erally begin to subside. I N THE beginning of the disease, there is usually a certain amount of fever, but not very much, although in some cases the temperature may rise as high as 1038 degrees; the pulse is more rapid than normal, and is full in char- acter. In the latter part of the disease, the cough often becomes more or less spasmodic and the expectoration con- tains a considerable amount of pus. The symptoms gradually subside, al- though the cough itself may remain for some little time. Unlike pneu- monia, blood is rarely seen in the ex- pectorated sputum, although occasion- ally following a very hard attack of coughing, a slight streak of blood may be seen mixed with the sputum. Dur- ing an attack of acute bronchitis, the breathing is slightly more rapid than normal and there is often a wheezing sound to be heard during respiration. An ordinary attack of acute bron- chitis takes about one week to reach its height, and it then gradually sub- sides, clearing up in about one week more. Of course, there are many per- sons who suffer much longer than this period, but they are usually those whose resistance is quite low and who are unable to throw off the disease readily. In children, the inflammation may extend beyond the larger bron- chial tube into the bronchioles, in which case the condition may become very serious. In elderly persons, es- pecially those who are more or less below par, the mucus which forms in the bronchial tube is apt to collect at the base of the lungs, with the devel- opment of a low grade pneumonia. Chronic catarrhal bronchitis fre- quently follows successive attacks of acute bronchitis, and is often present with kidney and heart conditions, and other lung affections, as well as in cases of gout. Chronic bronchitis is more apt to occur in middle and later life, rather than in early life. What is known as a “winter. cough” is gen- erally a bronchial condition, which is more or less chronic in its nature. The symptoms of the chronic form of disease are somewhat similar to those of the acute form, except there is usually absence of any fever. There is often some loss of weight, but the general condition remains fairly good, except when the disease is associated Continued from page 21 with some other chronic complaint such as were mentioned above. Many persons, however, who develop chronic bronchitis are affected with too much fat. These persons usually have a rather hard time of it and suffer more inconvenience than do those who are slender. There is often considerable shortness of breath in the chronic form, which becomes quite marked on exertion. These patients cough con- siderably, and the cough is often very troublesome. If it occurs in parox- ysms, as it generally does, it may produce a certain amount of vertigo or dizziness. A considerable amount of muco-purulent sputum is expector- ated as a rule, in the chronic form, al- though there are some cases in which little or no sputum is raised. The cough is apt to be quite severe in the morning, there naturally being a con- siderable amount of phlegm which ac- cumulates during the night and which has to be disposed of. Many of these patients, however, cough quite a good deal in the night, and their rest is frequently greatly disturbed. In many cases of chronic bronchitis, there is a certain amount of emphy- sema present, and this somewhat com- plicates the condition. In emphysema there is a dilatation of the fine alveoli of the lungs and a thinning and an atrophy of their walls. These cases have considerable difficulty in breath- ing at times, they being affected with more or less dyspnoea, which is quite distressing and gives symptoms some- what resembling asthma. In cases of chronic bronchitis, there is generally a certain amount of distention of the chest walls, with very slight chest ex- pansion. The respiration is not en- tirely normal, the expiration being much more prelonged than normal and there is a more or less marked wheez- ing sound to be heard. [HERE are various types of chronic bronchitis, such as the dry form, in which there is very scanty expectora- tion and severe attacks of coughing, which are persistent and very trouble- some. Another type is that in which the expectoration is extremely profuse, sometimes amounting to two or more pints a day. This form is very chronic and sometimes persists for a long time. In still another type, sputum is very putrid and very offensive. In the treatment of the acute form of bronchitis, a complete fast is of the greatest value and this should be be- gun as soon as the symptoms of a cold develop. If this is done, the attack may be cut short in many cases, and disappear within a few days. The fast is to be continued until the acute symptoms, especially the fever, have disappeared. It is generally well to continue the fast for at least one day after the subsidence of the fever. Dur- ing the fast, a warm enema is given once or twice a day and plenty of water is to be drunk. This water may be cool or may be warm, as desired. The use of cold chest packs is fre- quently followed by splendid results, and these may be used daily for sev- eral days. For a troublesome cough, however, hot chest compresses may be applied, letting them remain upon the chest for from fifteen to twenty min- utes, and following them by a cold
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April, 1935 compress, which is kept in place for only one or two minutes. This treat- ment may be applied in addition to the cold packs already mentioned, but there should be an interval of three or four hours between the use of the cold packs and the hot compresses. It is also well to keep the person in bed until the fever has abated. When the disease is a result of exposure to the elements and there is chilling of the surface of the body, hot blanket ‘packs are often better than the cold packs. Sometimes the application of ultra-violet rays will give remarkable results. For the cough, equal parts of honey and lemon juice in teaspoonful doses, are of great value. When the fast is to be broken, a diet of fresh fruit juices is instituted to last for one or two days, and this may be well followed by an exclusive milk diet, which is kept up for several days; then a milk and fruit diet is given, the patient gradually getting back to his regular diet. In eases of chronic bronchitis, the fast is also of considerable value. It may be continued for from seven to ten days, if desirable, and the reaction is good. This, together with the drink- ing of large amounts of water and the use of daily enemas, will tend to elim- inate toxins from the system and help to purify the blood stream. A. milk diet is also of great value in these cases, continued as long as results are being obtained. If a person is under- weight, the milk diet may be kept up for a considerable period of time. One has to be careful about the use of starches and sugars in most catarrhal conditions. After the milk diet, a fruit diet may be taken to advantage. YDRO-THERAPEUTIC measures are of the greatest value in cases of chronic bronchitis. These may consist of graduated cold baths, cold sheet packs, vapor or electric light cabinet baths (unless the heart is affected), and steam inhalations. The use of the ultra-violet ray and infra-red irradi- ation are also to be recommended as is also massage. General vitality building measures are of the greatest value, such as being out in the open air, tak- ing sun baths and long walks and deep breathing exercises. One should not bundle up too much around the throat but should keep the feet warm and dry. The climate one lives in will have considerable influence upon this gen- eral condition. Those suffering from bronchitis in which there is profuse expectoration will do better in a warm and dry climate, while those with scanty expectoration will improve more in a warm and moist climate. Persons suffering from either acute or chronic bronchitis should avoid smok- ing, and should be particularly care- ful to sleep in a room which is well ventilated at night. Strict. attention is to be paid to the elimination from the bowels, the skin and the kidneys. Parents should be particularly care- ful of children who show a tendency to catch cold easily, as the bronchitis of infants and young children may easily develop into a more serious form of respiratory disease. Old persons should also take particular care of themselves during unseasonable or in- clement weather, remembering that as a rule their powers of resistance are possibly more or less below par, and that under such conditions it is fre- quently very easy to contract such dis- eases as bronchitis but it is often very difficult to throw them off. 57 Vike has forgotton comilhing Unknowingly, she served the MINUS MEAL Hap she forgotten to season the vegetables? Was the meat salted? Did she leave the flavoring out of the pudding? ... No! Nevertheless, the meal had one important item missing: the “bulk” that is neces- sary for regular habits. You may be serving your family the “minus meal.” Frequently, it re- sults in constipation due to insufh- cient “bulk” in the diet. 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58 Q Your Superstitions and Your Health superstition, pure and simple; and that superstition, in one form or an- other, constitutes one of the. major mind and body wreckers that beset the health and happiness of the hu- man race. At first sight this may seem rather absurd, to say the least. For instance, nearly all of us cling to a few minor superstitions and apparently take no harm from it. Quite so. But there are superstitions and_ superstitions. Some of them doubtless do little or no harm; but others are so poisonous in their hidden workings on the mind and body that they certainly deserve to rank as among the greatest curses that afflict humanity. Not only that, but hardly anybody is wholly free from them; and among their victims must be counted thousands of highly cultured, highly intelligent persons who would laugh at you if you seri- ously suggested there was something in the broken mirror superstition, and other similar crude beliefs. They are too intelligent to be troubled by such nonsense as that; but they are not too intelligent to be dominated by other superstitious obsessions far more deadly. -I repeat, there are superstitions and superstitions. Let’s consider a few of them. fIRST of all, there is that group of superstitions which are really noth- ing more than charming, graceful fancies that gratify the desire for wish- fulfillment. Children, for wish by breaking a wish-bone; a young girl plucks the petals from a flower: “He loves me; he loves me not; he loves me!” A youth, his heart on fire, wishes on his sweetheart’s ring. I knew an old-fashioned bee-keeper who, when his wife died, crept, bowed and stricken with grief, out to the hives to “tell the bees”; and there he poured out his heart in a way he would never have done with any hu- man being. Any harm in all that? Perish the thought! One can believe such things as one believes some charming tale that one knows all the while never happened. Real superstition is some- thing else again. It is grim; it is basically terrible; and it has its roots in fear, which is probably the most de- structive of all emotions. perstition, the poisonous kind, is a lie right on the job. We come now to a second class of superstitions which may or may not work injury on persons who hold to them. They have some sort of hold on nearly everybody, but their hold is greatest on untrained, ignorant, and immature minds. When they have the effect of arousing extreme fear, as in the case of the woman who had broken her mirror, they may have disastrous effects; but generally speaking persons who hold to them probably take no special harm from them. Try. yourself out with a few questions, if you would know how far you belong in this class: Would you think twice before start- ing. a journey on Friday, especially on Friday the Thirteenth? Do you carry a rabbit’s foot or some _ luck-piece? Would you derive comfort from sleep- ing with a piece of wedding cake under your pillow? Have you some degree of faith in the prophetic vir- playing cards, and the like? you go a few steps out of your way ‘crossing the instance, . _ sence of it les in an internal belief A real su- numbers, Would tues of teacup grounds, to avoid having a post come between you and a friend with whom you were out walking? Would you do the same to avoid passing under a ladder? Do you pick up a pin now and then for lueck—or a horse-shoe? Would you prefer that a black cat should not cross your path? Would you avoid road in front of a funeral? Have you a fear of being in a room with a dead body, or of touching one? Do you fear bogies in the dark, ghosts, graveyards, empty houses, and the like? Would you rather not open an umbrella in the house? Do you feel that spilling the salt is unlucky, or that trouble may be in store if you put the right shoe on the left foot—and so on? One could continue this list indefi- nitely. There are hundreds of such popular superstitions. The ignorant and the uncultured believe them liter- ally. There are also many highly educated persons who accept some of them literally while arbitrarily re- jecting others. This was the case with the woman who worried over the broken mirror. She had a few pet superstitions, but had no difficulty re- jecting others.. Her reason recognized the falsity of those which she ac- cepted; but the obsession remained in spite of every effort she might make to pooh-pooh it. What happens psychologically in such a case is interesting. The es- in some outside power ready to get on the job in response to certain magic stimuli, so to speak. This class of su- perstitions are what Freud calls ‘‘for- eign bodies” in the unconscious mind. Such “foreign bodies” are submerged ideas, fancies, images, desires, repul- sions, and so on which originate out- side of our minds, and which never establish for themselves any genuine or rational relationship with the normal, conscious mind. They do not originate in the reason. Hence they become ir- rational obsessions, and a cause of inner conflict, of ungovernable fear, of internal anxiety, of dread, of un- happiness, and of the untoward physi- cal conditions which it is now well known inevitably result from such mental states if they be sufficiently intense and long continued. L* THE conscious mind could accept them, there would be no conflict and the harm done would be much. less. The conscious mind of a_ primitive man, for instance, has no difficulty in accepting uncritically a great deal that the conscious mind of civilized man—particularly a cultured and edu- eated civilized man—necessarily re- jects. Consequently, though primitive tribes live in an atmosphere of super- stition whose ramifications pass any- thing we can imagine, they apparently do not acquire mental and physical disorders as a result of it. But what is comparatively harmless for the sav- age—a part of his daily meat and drink—becomes a virulent poison when science and factual knowledge assert themselves in a hitherto superstitious civilization. The most superstitious people, un- doubtedly, are those who have grown up in superstitious surroundings, and have had the whole viewpoint of magic Physical Culture Continued from ' page 29 and superstition ground into them from childhood. Such childhood con- ditioning never gets wholly eradicated. But there is another reason for this persistent tendency of the human mind to turn away from reason and toward magic and superstition; and that is that the individual wants to be free from the strain of incomplete thinking. He wants comfort. He wants things’ authoritatively and finally settled. He wants the easiest way. Thus superstition becomes, as_ it were, a defense mechanism, in that it gives the mind the temporary satis- faction of resting in some positive con- clusion that has been arrived at with a minimum of trouble. One thing that greatly increases this tendency of the mind to seek easy explanations in magic is that under- lying many superstitions there is some slight basis of truth. It is well known, for instance, that “pride goeth before a fall,” and that over-confidence is a dangerous thing because it implies lack of caution. And so, one knocks on wood. It is another way of saying, “T must watch my step.” But it also hooks up with the ancient idea that unseen, supernatural powers all around us are envious and spiteful toward human beings who fare too well or become too prosperous. Par- ents must not be too fond of their children, for the gods or the spiteful ghosts of the dead will take them. Power, wealth, happiness, and so on are all regarded as subject to this threat. HERE is a saying, “Sing before breakfast; cry before night.’ Here again is a half truth. Persons who start the day in a high state of exul- tation and emotional excitement often exhaust their nervous energy to such an extent that they wind up the day in depression. It is easy to switch such a fact over into an easy generali- zation that transforms the whole thing into magic. To spill salt is unlucky. The prob- able origin of that lay in the fact that spilling salt is unthrifty, and hence unprofitable carelessness. Breaking ' mirrors, failing to pick up pins, and so on, all probably come under the same head. Putting the right shoe on the left foot brings bad luck. Quite true. It does. Try it yourself—especially if you have corns. It’s very easy to turn such a fact into a magic generaliza- tion. But, it may be asked, how can such trivial absurdities as these hurt any- body? Why take such nonsense seri- ously? They may be _ foolish, but what harm do they do? Above all, how can this sort of thing injure the physical or mental health? The answer to that seems to be that minds which become obsessed with such notions are inevitably inclined to be hospitable also to other ideas which, far from being trivial or merely ridiculous, are often highly destruc- tive—by reason of the internal fears, stresses, strains, and conflicts they produce. Sir James J. G. Frazer, the noted authority on superstition and magic, records in his book “The Devil’s Ad- vocate,” the case of a Polynesian wo- man who ate a peach, not knowing that the peach was from the basket
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Apri, 1938 of the chief of the tribe, and was therefore taboo. She was told in the afternoon of the day she ate the peach that it belonged to the chief. To her that was equivalent to a sentence of death—for sure death was suppose to follow such a mistake, whether in- tentionally or unintentionally com- mitted. She died at noon the next day. Nobody so much as laid a finger on her. Fear, and an utter conviction that death was the penalty imposed by supernatural powers on her sin, was definitely the cause of death. Frazer mentions also the case of a man who died of terror after he found he had made use of the chief’s tinder box. These instances are extreme, but they are typical of the power which religious superstitions may have over people’s minds and bodies, and they seem to suggest that the freer people can keep themselves from mixing su- perstition with their religion the bet- ter off they will be. Among primitive peoples, according to Frazer, the belief prevails that if a member of the tribe commits adultery, the crops will fail, drought will come, cattle will die, plagues will come, and disaster of one sort or an- other will descend upon the tribe. Now of course no such results follow the committing of adultery. And the most that can be said for such a supersti- tion is that it throws sufficient fear into the hearts of a good many would- be philanderers to keep them at home. "PRE same thing may be said of many features of our own social code. In many respects that code is based, not on reason but on supersti- tion; and when people who have been reared in it dare to break away from it in some respect, they are quite likely to be torn by superstitious fears that can wreck them, make neurotics of them, and make them physically ill. Here, for instance, is a woman who has been brought up to believe that divorce, save on scriptural grounds, is a deadly sin; and that the remar- riage of a divorced person constitutes adultery. Suppose she reasons her- self out of that attitude, so far as her conscious mind is concerned; and sup- pose she obtains a divorce on grounds of incompatibility, or mental cruelty, or on some faked evidence of infidelity, furnished by her husband, who, let us suppose, wants his freedom too. Now I don’t want to give offense to persons who have strict ideas on this subject of divorce by saying that their viewpoint is necessarily a_ super- stitious one. It is quite possible to have strict ideas about divorce for purely sociological reasons, having to do with the stability of the home and of the family. There are many very practical reasons that can be advanced against divorce, and they have noth- ing to do with religion, or with super- natural sanctions or taboos. But this woman, let us say, has been brought up to believe that divorce is a sin, and the remarriage of a divorced person adultery, and therefore a deadly sin—a sin which will incur the wrath of supernatural powers, a sin which will bring punishment in this world or in the world to come. Sup- pose she has also been taught the good old-fashioned idea that a remar- ried divorced woman is impure, un- chaste, living in sin, little better than a prostitute, an object of shame. Sup- pose the community where she lives gives her the cold shoulder in order to There are two ways of looking at Dentyne as an aid to mouth health Long ago people got necessary mouth exercise from chewy foods — but not today. Dentyne’s extra firmness supplies this vigorous chewing everyone needs... It strengthens the mouth muscles and also encourages the mouth to keep itself clean, fresh, toned up. Chewing Dentyne is a health habit that is often recommended by dentists and doctors. as a delicious gum You can recommend Dentyne because of its delicious flavor, also. Everyone will agree that its delight- ful spiciness is completely satisfy- ing. Its firm chewiness makes it still more enjoyable. Your friends will be delighted to learn of such a dif- ferent, distinctive gum. Dentyne, you know, comes in a handy vest- pocket package — a shape that originated with Dentyne and has identified it for many years. DENTYNE KEEPS TEETH WHITE: MOUTH HEALTHY 59
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All this hooks up with the well-known doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, the King’s Touch for the curing of dis- ease and, in fact, all the divinity that “doth hedge a king.” Private property, among primitive peoples, is protected from theft by means of taboos. When a taboo is placed on any piece of property, no tribesman would dare touch it. house door, secured with a bit of flax, or some possession with a wisp of grass tied to it, is perfectly safe. There is a great variety of these taboos. In our own civilization we have spells and curses pronounced on all who desecrate certain supernat- urally protected spots. Probably a man who robbed a church is commit- ting no worse crime than the man who robs the house next door. But there is many a_ superstitious thief who would rob the house without a mis- giving while he would not rob a church for all the gold he could carry. FINALLY, superstition has put the brakes on homicidal tendencies and has thus inculecated some respect for human life. It has done this through ghost fear. The belief that the venge- ful ghost of the murdered man can do things to murderers is one that ob- tains all over the world. Savages believe it implicitly, and civilized peo- ples are obsessed by the same idea, though they try to get away from it. In New Zealand, in Congo Free State, in the polar regions among the Eski- mos, in New Guinea—go where you will, name what corner of the globe you will—and you will find this idea that the ghost of a murdered man may hound the murderer and avenge his act. But here again, whatever practical benefits and restraints may come from such a notion, it is never- theless a total and complete lie, and is therefore no fit foundation on which to build a respect for human life. In fact no superstition is a fit basis on which to build anything. The Devil’s Advocate to the contrary notwith- standing, the thing is wholly and com- pletely bad, and whatever seeming benefits may come from it are bought at a frightful price. Superstitions profoundly affect the relations of parents and children, of husbands and wives, of religious peo- ‘ple and the churches of which they are members, of children with the world to which they are learning to adjust themselves, and—above all— of the individual’s own relationship, so to speak, with himself. And in the long run, they are _ trouble-makers, mind-wreckers, body-wreckers, _ life- wreckers. By all means get rid of as many of them as possible.
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ae Ses eer. April, 1935 Q The Frustrated . Continued from Forties —~ page 26 living with their young husbands and bearing their children—yes, with those years I was paying for that which we exchanged when my old _ husband promised me, “with all my worldly goods I thee endow.” One episode, painful and poignant, ruffed the routine of my years. Once on a hurried shopping trip to New York, I ran across the name of Dr. Michael McGowan. He was about to sail on an expedition, sponsored in part by a New York newspaper. I sat long in my room at the hotel, that night, living a part of my life again. That part with Michael. Old ghosts, an old love, yearning solicitude held me till I wanted, terribly, to talk with him again. He would, I felt sure, be glad to see me. Next morning I found out he was keeping office hours at the newspaper that was sponsor- ing his expedition. And so that day I dressed myself in a handsome street costume and drove to the newspaper office. I smelled the sharp smell of chemicals, the tang of printer’s ink, as I rode up in the elevator. Contrary to the usual rule, they let me in un- announced. I crossed a wide space to- ward his office, then stopped, midway to his desk, E WAS seated, his head limned against a sunny window, as it had been in the old days back at Arbuth- not and Crosby’s. I looked. He was some grayer, a vital, premature gray- ness which always appealed to me. The same handsome shock of hair fell off his forehead. A girl, who was probably his secretary, bent over his desk. He turned. I saw his face full on, for a short second. His morning face, set— severe—able. Perhaps a little bitter, or was it disillusioned? All about was the whirring of the newspaper, the tap of typewriters, the ringing of tele- phones, the blur of voices about the editor’s desk. I hesitated. I wanted to speak to Michael. But I was afraid to take another step. I turned and almost ran to the elevator. I caught the first train back to Boston, and all the way home, I grieved. For I had not dared to trust myself. I knew why I ran away. “Oh, take me with you. Stop this wasting of my days. It’s ten years, now, ten years, lost, without you,” I knew I might have said. But suppose he had forgotten me? Or hated me? Or, suppose he had re- plied—“‘Yes, Elisabeth, come with me. All these ten years I have been wait- ing.” What then?” Ah, poor woman, who has _ once deeply loved and never will forget. Weeks, months, years. Tranquil routine. Spring. Summer. Winter. And through all those lengthening days Michael never far away. Sometimes, as I lay awake at night, he was there— and I reached out my hand to touch that unruly lock of his hair—and he was not there. Then once at the sea- shore he came back to me with poign- ancy. Mary Meloney, my husband’s secretary, came down on the terrace for a cup cr tea with me, after an afternoon’s business with my husband. There was sympathy between us, for I had known her since the old days. Mary had something she wished to tell 61 Foxy Mary! THOSE NERVES, JIM! PLEASE YOU KNOW | DONT LIKE IT! TRY DECAFFEINATED COFFEE. @ Poor Jim! How he loves coffee! But he can’t find a brand that pleases his taste with- is out plaguing his nerves. He tosses every night .. .wakes up tired. His wife worries. SURE! HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? @ Atrick! Mary gets a can of Kaffee-Hag (the delicious coffee that’s 97% caffeine- free), perks it properly (twice as long as ordinary coffee), and gives it to friend Jim. I'LL CONFESS, JIM. YOUR NEW COFFEE 1S KAFFEE-HAG. | WHY, IT'S GRAND! AND NO WONDER | SLEEP. @ Look at Jim now! Isn’t he looking rested? That’s what drinking Kaffee-Hag Coffee ...and getting good sound sleep... has done for him! Why don’t you try it? (Pronounced Kaffee-HAIG) Send 15° for sample can KELLOGG CO., Battle Creek, Mich. (4) PONS Send me a can of Kellogg’s Kaffee-Hag Coffee and booklet. I enclose 15¢ in stamps. (Only one sample to a family.) Mr. 3 Le SR Oy Re bah RMP EARN Sey STURT Ls ee ae Le Miss yer 82 ic as erie pe se eee ee PEcePTS City & || MEGICAL [OE ER Cale TR RRR: ORR REN Ua AMR cae fa SEES I prepare coffee by Percolating 1 Dripping O Boiling O
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And at length it came out that Dr. Charles Lathrop, the science editor for Arbuthnot’s, had re- cently returned from New York. “And what do you think, Mrs. Arbuthnot? You’d never imagine—”’ “What, Mary?” I asked vaguely. “Well, I'll just tell you as it was told to me. Dr. Lathrop’s secretary told it; you know, they’re engaged now. She said Dr. Lathrop met Dr. Michael McGowan—you remember, the wild boy who used to be science editor. And Dr. Michael asked for you. But you’ll not believe this next! ““The only woman I was ever in love with,’ he told Lathrop. ‘I wish I hadn’t left so suddenly. I should have married that girl.’ “Now did you ever hear the like of that? ‘I was a fool,’ he said, ‘a fool to run away.’ ” 7 It was hArd to say anything, for a little. He was sorry he had run away. .. . Old, terrible remorse, haunting me on that lovely August day, there on the green lawn above the bright blue ocean, And the painful remembering that had Michael not run away, or had I been a trifle wiser, we might have a ten-year-old son by now. HE fifteenth year of my marriage grew into the sixteenth, and other years were added unto these. My young and fruitful years were going. And so they wasted to an hour when I sat beside my husband’s bed as the dawn was breaking. He opened his eyes. “A beautiful day it’s going to be,” he said. I looked out. It was raining violently. His sight must be going, I knew then. I took his hand. I was tender with my husband. Then he spoke: “You’ve been a good wife to me, Elisabeth,” he said. “And I—I’ve been selfish with you, sometimes. But I’ve made it up to you. You’ll not be a poor woman, my dear. And [—I— want you to pay yourself back for all these years you’ve stayed at home with me.” This was a great deal for him, since he seldom acknowledged the difference in our ages or tastes. I patted his forehead. ‘There, dear,” I said with compassion. After all, we had trav- eled a long road together, he and I. So I sat with him, as the sand in his glass ran low. And he clung to me, in the darkening hours. In the midst of a feeling of release which was only natural, I knew great grief. I mourned his passing sincerely. But at last, I was free. At last, life beckoned to me. The world and its riches. Far places, shining voyages into the sun-striped horizon. New peo- ple. Magic castles by perilous seas for- lorn ... all, all, could now be mine. For my: old husband had left me a rich widow. And all the denial of twenty years clamored for respite. Yes, I would travel. I would see the world. But most of all, I vowed to myself, I would overtake living. But I> must hurry. I wanted life, before it should be too late. This was my birthday. And I was forty years old. I sat before the mir- ror of my dressing-table, looking in- tently at the rather anxious woman who looked back at me. Outside, the birds were singing. I had moved to the Lincoln farmhouse, for the sights and the scents and the merry bird notes this blossoming month of May. And hardly had I moved before the very things I came to seek began to pain Physical Culture me. I was almost agonized before the vast parade of nature, renewing itself in vivid youth, while another year was added up for me, who did not renew myself. Yes, I was forty years old. A painful, a heart-rending age, I told my- self, at least, for a woman who has not filled the years up to forty with the experiences which belong to them. So now, I was old, and had little to show for it. At that thought, I bestirred myself. I went to New York and spent long days with the modistes and the mas- seurs and the hair-dressers and the “reduction” experts, and the whole army of “beauty” purveyors who make the richest part of their living from the wistful women turned forty. Much money I spent in New York, a new face, new courage, I tried to persuade myself I brought back. And for what? For my woman’s hopes and schemes, for a husband, I acknowledged, in the moments of my letdown, when I was brutally frank with myself. Oh, it was sad, it was almost the end, to be forty. My time for real living was growing so very short. I sat later on the terrace of my Lin- coln farmhouse. A_ scarlet tanager within the lilac bushes was singing busily about its nest. The tall iris gave out their lemon-scented perfume. And Dr. Philin Carson sat opposite me, sipping his tea out of an old Eng- lish cup, relaxed against the big back of my Canton willow terrace chair. The hour was twilight. The last glorious track of the sun was crimson in the west. The countryside was sweet. And Dr. Philip Carson was a sturdy male, with soft gray eyes and burly English tweeds, who looked at me pleasantly and sent out a general air of being glad he was where he was. Dr. Carson had been “coming to see me” for three months, now. He was, in fact, the reason why I planned a long stay at Lincoln this year, perhaps even a stay all summer. Dr. Carson was a bachelor in his forties, not too brilliant a doc- tor. Not too stupid. A solid man. Kind- hearted, level-headed. Shy, as_ bach- elors are shy. And yet arrived at the time when he was, as somebody said before me, “ripe to be plucked.” He wanted a wife. He wanted a woman fussing a little with his life, and about his house. He was wistful with an old bachelor wistfulness. He was _ also cagy, with an old bachelor caginess. Why, I breathed in this caution of his, with every breath he drew. S SHE safe?” I could hear him ask- ing himself, inside that tanned and curly head of his. “I wouldn’t be making a mess of things to ask her, would [?” And while, as I imagined, he talked so to himself, I was wondering also. “Will he ask me?” I was wondering. “What can I do to make him want me? Am I, even, sure I want him? Could I do better for myself with all my money? Oh had I best concentrate upon this, on the whole, rather de- sirable male?” Oh, the thoughts of forty years, the sensible, less imaginative, forthright thoughts of forty. I struggled with myself. I weighed the question back and forth. And I decided. This tall, broad-shouldered, rather practical country doctor was a worth-while male. He had been a farmer’s son. He had, in early years, followed the plough himself. From the earth, he was earthy. Well, I liked earthiness. I could do with considerable earthiness
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April, 1935 in my: life. Too many years I had lived celibate, a married woman denied and sterile. So I poured Dr. Philip another cup of tea and pressed upon him more little chocolate cakes with their soft, thick frosting. And he stretched his long legs and told me gossip of the countryside. I listened, pretending to hang on his words. Actually, I didn’t hang on them. Often I was casting about to try to find out how I would manage him, how bring him to that important question. I had not decided when, one night, the fire bells rang and soon our house was thrown into confusion by the summons of the tele- phone. In the blast furnace connected with the factory of the town beyond Lincoln, there had been a bad accident. All available men were needed to put out the fire and rescue many workmen caught in the blazing building. I drove over with six men who worked on my farm. Darkness had descended when we got there. The state police were just arriving, and an ambulance corps. But, before these had come, Dr. Carson had driven up. And when I offered my services to the ambulance unit, everybody about me was praising Dr. Carson. Even while they worked, they praised him. He had been into that burning building twice, to help bring out an overpow- ered man before the rescuers had ar- rived with their equipment. He had applied rough splints and necessary bandages, while sparks were flying and men were screaming with pain all about him. Others had lost their heads —but he had kept his. The country doctor had given a good account of | fae as country doctors so often 0. ° E’S a real person,” I heard a Red Cross nurse say, as she rested a moment, waiting for the new stretcher. In the meantime, I helped in all the ways I knew, or was told. In three hours we had the thing organized and patients moving easily from an im- provised dressing station into the two ambulances, which were all we could get before midnight. Then, at mid- night, Dr. Carson suddenly loomed up before me, with soot on his face and sweat on his brow. He looked down at me. And his fine bass voice boomed out. “What, you here yet?” he asked. “This is no place for a lovely lady.” “T’m not a lovely lady,” I answered. “T’m just trying to be useful.” He grinned. In the midst of death and suffering, he was cheerful. He could grin and I could understand him, for I knew all he had done to alleviate the suffering and death. But at length more ambulances arrived, and the dressing station was nearly emptied. Dr. Carson showed up again, out of the darkness. “You’re a trump, Elisabeth,” he said. “I’m going to drive you home now. And if you'll find me a cup of coffee. 222° He touched my elbow. Then, when nobody was looking, he kissed me. And so, that morning before dawn, while he drank his coffee with soot not entirely wiped off his weary forehead, he asked me to marry him, and I told him that I would. And my heart had peace, for a little. I told myself it would be good, it would be satisfying, at last, to have a man about the house who was vital, young enough, my own age, of the liv- ing world. Not tied down on a bed or in a long chair, half an invalid. Nurses now tell how famous medicated cream Corrects ugly skin faults Thousands use it for Pimples, Large Pores, Blackheads, Cold Sores, Chapped Skin VER 2 million women today use this famous medicated cream to relieve skin irritations, to help clear up blem- ished complexions—to help restore their skin to normal healthy loveliness. Of this vast number of women, thou- sands are nurses, whose training and experience have taught them what is best for the skin. What it is This famous medicated cream is Noxzema Skin Cream—a dainty, snow-white, grease- less formula that doctors first prescribed . to relieve eczema, sunburn and other skin irritations. Red Chapped Hands Relieved Overnight ...OR NO COST Make this test tonight on badly Chapped Hands. Get a jar of Noxzema from your druggist—apply it tonight—as much as the skin will absorb. Notice them in the morning. If sore- ness has not disappeared—if hands are not softer, whiter, your druggist will gladly refund your money. Nurses discovered its value in helping to correct skin faults. ‘‘It clears my com- plexion as nothing else does,’’ one nurse wrote. ‘‘It’s the best thing ever for rough, chapped face and hands,” wrote another. If your skin is Rough or badly Chapped —if you have Cold Sores, Pimples, Black- heads, Large Pores, just try Noxzema Cream—and see what a big improvement it makes in your skin. Apply Noxzema at night. Wash it off in the morning with warm water first, then cold water or apply ice. Apply a little Noxzema during the day—as a foun- dation for powder. Use Noxzema until skin is relieved or blemishes disappear. Special trial offer Ask your druggist for a small trial jar—if he cannot supply you send only 15c for generous 25c jar—enough to make a big improvement in your skin. Ad- dress Noxzema Chemical Co., Dept. 34, Baltimore, Md.
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ENGLAND:—Dealers listed above. HAWAII:—Wall, Nichols Co., Honolulu (exclusive distributors ‘‘Home Health Library’’). INDIA:—Rusrat_& Co., 26, Batlivala Block, Bombay. . P. Madon, Santa Cruz. J. C. Adya, Simla, India. Others listed above. NEW ZEALAND:—Gordon & Gotch, (exclusive dis- tributors ‘‘Home Health Library’’ for New Zealand), A and, Christchurch, Wellington, Macfadden Shanghai. Ltd., Jo- Macfadden Yes, there was something earthy and relishing to this homespun country doctor who had asked me to marry him. And together we should be able to carve out a life. And there was some- thing else about him, some directness, some male force which reminded me of that other man, who had never been forgotten. Though he had been far away for years on some distant expe- dition. For memory stirred, when the homespun doctor bade me, bluntly— “Come here.” He stayed seated. I was to go to him. “Why,” I asked, “why should I go to you?” I looked across at him, where he sat huge and strong in a deep chair. “Because I tell you to,” he replied. And when I went, he seized me in his strong, kind arms, and in his embrace I remembered other years. And, once more, another man. Until magic almost seemed recaptured, and youth restored to me, for a little. But it was also during this time that I told him my age—and told him seven years too young. He accepted my word gravely and later, when it appeared in the line of our talk that I must be older, I was up against a painful confession. “A woman,” I told him, “is entitled to one lie and no questions asked. That’s about her age.” E STIRRED. I felt he was with- holding some stern rebuke. He didn’t like lying. For a man who knew women in all their varying relations to life, he was extremely set about certain of the old punctiliousnesses. At any rate, nearly a month had passed since our engagement, and the scarlet tanager was thinking about a second nestful in its retreat in the lilac bushes, and the iris were done and the rose-scented peonies had taken their place, that af- ternoon when Dr. Philip sat again with me on the terrace, talking about his work. Country doctoring, he told me, was the only kind of doctoring that ever captured his fancy. It was an ad- venture. To go to poor farm-houses, and bereft homes of factory hands; to make do with what he found there, to bring a woman through the agonies of childbirth, or to ease a weary spirit on to that which awaits after death— that was life. If medicine dealt only with the rich, with neurotic women and men who exchanged health for im- portance on State or Wall Streets— why, medicine would have no pull for him. And as he talked, his eyes shone. I knew his goodness, his sincerity, his essential worth. I was fond of my country doctor. I felt to him almost like a mother. One of those days, he spoke of the need of a hospital, of the lives he was sure had been lost that last year be- cause we had no modern hospital. “T’l] give you a hospital,” I said. “T’ll build one and put it into your charge. You can have any doctors you wish on your staff.” “Thank you,” he said, with a smile. “You could do lots worse things with your money.” That was one of the things about the doctor which warmed my heart. Although I was a very “well fixed” widow, as they say in my part of the country, he was less impressed with my wealth than he occasionally was impressed with one of my new frocks. Money to him was money—something to do things that are necessary, to buy things necessary. But of the snobbery that attaches to wealth, and the servile boot-licking, he knew nothing. He was Physical Culture far too natural and sincere for that. And so, we started building the hos- pital. And as we built, our happiness, our comradeship grew. There is some- thing so heart-warming, so construc- tive and of the future, to building. And it was pleasant to sit on the terrace, warm summer nights, listening to the doctor plan a country hospital to suit country conditions. Or it was also pleasant to sit before the fire in my cozy small drawing-room, looking over blue-prints together. We were closer then than we had been since our en- gagement. And this brings me to an evening when we sat before the fire, while Dr. Carson very seriously and also very boyishly handed me over samples of cotton sent him by a purveyor who hoped to get the contract for the sheets and other linen of our hospital. I tested them in the usual ways, as I had learned it from my mother. I was just about to compare the merits of two, when there was a stir at the door, the sound of an agreeable, light treble, and in a moment my niece, Carolyn, came cheerily over the threshold, fol- lowed by a rather romantic young man whom she proceeded to introduce. “Here’s Dick Pickering,” she said, with a look at him which, I am sure, meant more to him than it did to us. “One of his grandfathers was Irish, the other was Italian. Dick has the worst qualities of both—and besides, he’s all for fighting for lost causes. Anything practical he never fights for.” The young man smiled and shrugged his shoulders. He acted as though he rather liked the fairly astounding bru- talities of my young niece. So we chatted for an hour. But fifteen min- utes, even five minutes, had not passed until I knew some strange thing had come into the room with my niece and her young man. Some alien thing. Some heartless, pitiless thing. I could not put it into words. I would not put it into words. But there it was, perhaps un- felt by anyone but me. Intangible, but horribly present. For Dr. Philip Car- son, my fiancé, could not keep his eyes off my niece, Carolyn. And that child chattered on, her talk a mixture of modern impudence and modern, youth- ful wisdom. While the doctor was im- pressed, interested, amused, challenged. For Carolyn was as natural a woman as he was a natural man; with as little respect; as few fears and reti- cences; with as much bravery and shrewd humor. At length Carolyn got up. ? ELL, we better be getting on to the next stop, Dick,” she said, while the doctor’s eyes clung to her. “Where,” I asked, “where is the next stop?” “That, old darling,’ she said, “was just a figure of speech.” “Old darling’”—somehow, I didn’t like the “old” part of it. When they were gone, Dr. Carson was silent. We talked no more of sheets, nor hospi- tals. Finally he poked the fire, then turned to remark, ‘Your niece is very much like you. I imagine you must have looked just like that at her age.” “At her age’—yes, he also was tell- ing me, by inference, that I was forty and past my best time. I thought of Carolyn’s bronze brown hair. It was my hair, the hair my mother has been so proud of, when I was Carolyn’s age. I thought of her dark blue eyes. A handsome combination, bronze hair and blue eyes. Then I heard her bits (Continued on page 66)
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65 A Phan: LHe Mental and Nervous Disorders on THOUSANDS ARE IN URGENT NEED OF HELP FOR MENTAL AND NERVE TORTURE—AND KNOW NOT WHERE TO TURN FOR AID. NEURASTHENIA Neurasthenia is a rather common term for a mental and nervous disorder which frequently drifts into most trying and acute conditions. It is caused by SOME FORM OF FEAR. You may not recognize the mental state preceding it as one of FEAR, for by fear I do not mean a fear of out- side things, but rather a fear of SELF, which mani- fest in the form of worry, apprehension, over- anxiety, over-seriousness, self-consciousness, in- ability to forget yourself, or some other expression of LACK OF CONFIDENCE. The opposite of confidence is fear isn’t it? These fears have a very stimulating and irritating effect on your Sympathetic Nervous System and soon we find this system of nerves in such a hyper-sensitive state that the least form of emotion plays on it in a seemingly alarming way—to the great discomfort of the sufferer. Gradually, through nerve tension and repression, functional life is interfered with and the circula- tion is disturbed; vitality and tone is lowered; and you begin to experience strange, unaccountable sensations that you, uninformed, cannot account for. This interference with functional activity can even go so far as to materially change the chem- istry of the body and change blood pressure, the character of the urine, and overstimulate or de- press the normal gland functions. Thus, your body becomes fertile soil for the growth of very real disorders. The regular orthodox practitioner has not been trained to combat these disorders originating in MIND, therefore patients frequently drift into states where their conditions seem ab- solutely hopeless. But I wish to state here and now that Neurasthenia is CURABLE and not in any sense of the word hopeless. NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS This is merely an exaggerated form of Neuras- thenia where nerve tension and hyper-sensitive- ness have developed to a point where there are symptoms of great weakness and exhaustion. In this state it is not uncommon for one to experience at times a sense of extreme weakness, a ‘‘passing- out’”’ sensation; uncertainty in locomotion; twitching, jumping or crawling sensations in connection with the nerves in certain parts of the body; poor appetite; possibly insomnia; a fear of heights, or elevators, or cars, of crowds, or to be left alone; fear that some- thing may happen at most any moment; an ex- treme consciousness of self and every little feeling or sensation; a fear of being shut in without a handy exit; fear of disease, germs, dirt, dying, insanity, embarrassment; or many other peculiar fears. The patient becomes so concerned over himself that he watches every little indication of trouble and greatly exaggerates each feeling or thought of an unnatural character which puts in an appearance. The fact that he has tried this, that and the other things with- out success frequently breeds the thought that his case is hopeless and he may then begin to contemplate some drastic way out. I frequently read of tragedies, which they state have been the result of a ‘“‘Nervous Breakdown,’’ and my heart aches for those who are left and the unreasonableness of the act. If such people were to fall into RIGHT HANDS—what a different future and story it would be. Adjustment. CAN BE MADE, happiness restored, and a normal future life experienced. I realize that there is nothing quite so hard to bear as Mental and Nerve Torture, but I unhesitantly state that these troubles are NOT hopeless and that my experience of Twenty-five years in the treatment of such disorders proves that all who build up interest in a future life and show sufficient faith to cooperate and do their part, soon throw off the exaggerated symptoms, redevelop their normal strength, and re- establish confidence. My friend, YOU know as you read this if you could just FORGET YOURSELF that your troubles would be over. But this must come through a process of reeducation, through your gaining a better understanding of yourself and your powers, of these fears, and of the laws underlying life as lived to the fullest. This, along with a different picture of things and an absolute knowledge of JUST what is taking place in you; how it happened that you drifted into your present condition; and JUST what is necessary for you to do to get out of it; will gradually change your VIEW- POINT, and when that is changed, YOU WILL BE CHANGED and the troublesome symptoms will disappear. Now don’t lose heart, but just KNOW that there is help for YOU. SELF CONSCIOUSNESS Those of a sensitive, rather emotional nature are more than likely to become self. conscious. The self conscious are ready victims of these more troublesome mental and nerve states I have written of. This is due to self-centeredness and a pernicious form of introspection. Aside from what self con- sciousness may develop into, it is in itself a most limiting, embarrassing, unhappy state of mind. Those who suffer keenly from self consciousness are limited mentally, physically, socially and financially. Through it they find it difficult to secure as good a position as they might, and through their sensitive- ness to criticism they dislike to show initiativeness and assume responsibility, which means slow ad- vancement. Again, this type is more than likely to make unhappy marriages, if they marry at all, due to their power of selection being limited. This suf- fering is due entirely to a WRONG VIEWPOINT. They magnify every little thought and feeling, associate things with self which they have no business to, and are too concerned about the view that others have of them. Self consciousness CAN BE COR- RECTED. THE SENSITIVE AND EMOTIONAL POSSESS A GOOD TYPE OF MIND So frequently I -hear—‘‘anyone suffering from such a complaint must have a weak mind.” But this is not true in connection with Neurasthenia, Nervous Breakdown,. or Self-Consciousness. In such cases it is a good, active mind that has become turned on self and isin reverse. Napoleon, Presidents Lincoln, Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, in fact, most of those who have really made good in life, have possessed just such a nature. In the case of President Wilson we see the two expressions of such a nature. Strong, active, determined and forceful, while in the ascendancy; and then, when bitter discouragement took possession, illness and death. It represents but one force, but this force can be used construc- tively or destructively, according to its use and direction. Don’t say to self, “I wish that I were born with a different temperament,’’ for if you will just gain a good understanding of your powers and use them intelligently, it will be possible for you to reach heights that a phlegmatic person could never attain. Understanding, training and. development will bring MASTERY and you will then have these wonderful powers working FOR YOU, instead of against you. Your present suffering can be turned into victory and achievement. LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT Nature does not say at birth to one child; you are to live a life of misery, be full of fears and make a failure of what you undertake; and to another— you are to be showered with life’s richest blessings and be most happy and successful. In the early period of development training, environment, com- panions, etc., of course play a big part in forming good or bad habits. But what this represents is ONLY HABIT and tendencies, and habits can be broken and new ones formed. We do not come into this world with the power of thought, but more as a piece of clay which the potter (which is represented by our early training) moulds into one type or @ C FRANKLIN LEAVITT, M.D. C. Franklin Leavitt, M.D. Consulting Psychologist, Physical Culturist, Dietician, author of many books, contributor to many of the leading magazines. another. This may at this moment seem rather vague to you, but I assure you we are NOT “‘fate-driven”’ but to a great extent MASTER OF OUR OWN DESTINIES. It is a matter of first understanding just what to do, and then of being willing to pay the price in effort. & oe THIS WILL CLEAR AWAY THE DOUBTS I have stated that your FIRST STEP toward a different life must come through intelligently under- standing your handicaps, your own powers and just how to use them, and the laws underlying life as lived to the fullest. I have written a 100-page book—JUST FOR YOU— if you are suffering from any of the states written of above. It is crowded from cover to cover with just the information you have been seeking, for it will tell you about YOUR FEARS and their reactions, Nervousness. Your Subconscious Mind, Faith, Success. Habits, and the many different phases of MENTAL AND_ NERVOUS DISORDERS and SELF CON- SCIOUSNESS. The reading of this book CAN, as it has to thousands, mean a different outlook on life and the beginning of changes which can mean real happiness and later success to YOU. The book is most interesting, very startling in its disclosures—but in it there is nothing to fear, for it is written along stimulating and constructive lines. It represents truths which I have gathered during an active practice of Twenty-five years in treating these little understood disorders. A FREE SERVICE. To those who purchase this small book I shall gladly gs a Preliminary Psycho- logical Analysis—WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CHARGE or any obligation whatsoever. This in itself will be worth many times the cost of the book. A complete Analysis Chart for you to fill out and return to me will be mailed with the book. Have no fear whatsoever in filling out the Chart, for it will come direct to MY desk and be opened by ME. Your confidences will be sacredly guarded. 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Send for the SEALED BOOK, free to every serious-minded person. This Sealed Book is of priceless value to you if you have studied either Astrology, Psychology, Mental Science, Correct Living, New Thought, Humanism, Metaphysics, Religion with Science, Health Living, Christian Science, Yogi or Her- metic Philosophy, Theosophy, Numerology, The Science of Christianity, Psychic Research, Sug- gestive Therapeutics, Mental Healing, Psychoan- alysis, Rejuvenation, The Art of Living. Edwin J. Dingle, F.R.G.S., Founder of The Institute, 2{ years in India, China and Tibet, was taught the secrets by Masters of Far East. Dept. PC-4. INSTITUTE OF MENTALPHYSICS Second at Hobart, Los kage: California, US S. A, ee Se ea a BE AO ears eC EOS Physical Culture (Continued from page 64) of conversation again, and caught the unafraid look of her eyes. “Well,” I allowed, “she may look like me. But otherwise, Carolyn is not very much like me.’ “There’s a daring to these young things,” the doctor added, “which peo- ple of our generation—” Yes, he was putting me away on the shelf, with worn-out women past their prime. ... And of the rest, I think with gravity. For it began that very evening, something different, something most estranged, in the doctor. When he was cheerful after that, I fancied he was forcing his cheerfulness. He was trying to spare my feelings. When he was silent, I imagined he was think- ing how much I looked like Carolyn— my younger, my pleasing modern edi- tion. And as I thought such harrow- ing thoughts, I tried to slough them off. I tried to have sense. I tried to tell myself that I was morbid about my age, that I was suffering the aftermath of those twenty years of my death-in- life, those years of my marriage. It was then, sometimes, that I almost did achieve sanity again. But it happened on so many such occasions that Caro- lyn came in just after the doctor ar- rived, or just before, and then the spell was broken. And then I lapsed into silence and brooding. In those days I felt all his old, playful, loving brutality was changed. Seldom now did he seize me in both his great arms and put me down on a sofa, or lift me suddenly off my feet. Playfulness was gone between us. Till I ached to have him express his love for me, until at last, madly and foolishly, I asked him as he was leaving one night— “Don’t you love me? Do—you love me?” He seemed surprised. Even rather put out at such a direct question. “Well,” he asked me, “what do you think?” But he would not say, himself. On another occasion, I asked him, from a desperate heart, “Whose boy are ou?” ‘“What—what was that you said?” he queried, turning sharply, looking ee H, NOTHING,” I answered. I could not bear to repeat my words. Could not bear, again, to make that much of a fool of myself. For he was withdrawing from me, there was no mistake about that. Even, perhaps, he would be pleased to be free of this en- gagement. One entire afternoon I lay in bed with darkened blinds, ill with fear and headache. Late in the afternoon Dr. Philip called! Would I excuse him from dinner that evening. Something had come up— Suddenly, I knew. Something was probably another wo- man. Well, why fight against it? Why be silly? Of course it wasn’t another woman. It was only my foolish neu- rosis. So I forced myself to answer cheerfully. “Of course I understand, dear. A busy doctor. I’ll miss you, but I know how work comes first.” He murmured something pleasant in return. He was changed enough with me now so he murmured, where in the old days he had boomed out, clean cut, emphatic, very male. So I ‘turned my face to the wall, after talking, and shut my eyes and tried to nap. But more and more I wakened, as more and more I tried to sleep. Until finally I got up. I had decided. I would get out my own roadster and drive myself to a country inn where the doctor and I had sometimes dined. The air would do me good, and a dinner in different surroundings would be a little change, now that I must spend the evening by myself. So, through the murmuring August night, I sped along to the little inn, up a winding pathway, where an old farm-house, restored, offered a country dinner to the wayfarer. The good woman who kept the place re- ceived me at the door. She showed me to the table in a far corner of the rear porch, where the doctor and I sometimes sat. I ordered country chicken and a jellied soup, first of all. I sat back in my chair, waiting for the waitress, when all of a sudden, I no- ticed. Out on the lawn at the rear of the house was a pavilion, with a gay canvas for roof. Underneath were tables set about a small dance floor. And as I looked out idly, I saw that which made me suddenly not wish for any dinner. 1. PHILIP CARSON was just lead- ing my niece to a table at the edge of the pavilion. They had just finished dancing. And, with a stab across my heart, I told myself, he had never danced with me! Why I—I—did not even know he could dance. My hands dangled at my side, limp. My head, my heart seemed suddenly emptied, all feeling ebbed out of them, all sensitiveness. Only the dull truth remained there. The man to whom I was engaged was dining with my niece—the girl who was so much like: me, only younger. The man I had promised to marry did—not— want me. And I—I wanted him. But I knew things could not go like this. When the waitress came with my chicken, I told her I had been taken suddenly ill and would not stay for dinner. “We could telephone,” she said, ‘ better—Dr. Carson is in the ti Would you—?” “No,” I said, “I’m well enough to get home. Please don’t speak to the doctor.” I was thankful that we had been there few enough times so that they did not, apparently, connect me with him, or feel anything that I was feel- ing then. So I drove home again, with that picture before my eyes, of a vi- brant, happy girl, not quite yet in her prime, pulsing with life, laughing, honest and frank. And the big, burly doctor leading her back to their table, his nice gray eyes shining, as they rested upon her, All night long, I tossed and turned. I heard the clock strike twelve, and dawn break faintly rosy beyond the pine trees far down the east meadow. Then I knew what I would do. I was engaged to him. He was suited to me and I to him. We were of the same age. It was as mad for him to marry a girl twenty years his junior, as it was for me to marry that old husband of mine, thirty-five years my senior. Well, I would save Dr. Philip from that in- equality. First of all, I might well send Carolyn on a trip—perhaps to Europe with her mother. They would accept such a gift from me, I knew. And I’d buy the child a handsome ward- robe. After all, she was my favorite niece, I loved her, and I wanted her to be happy. But I was experienced woman enough to know that her feel- -ing for Dr. Carson was probably not deep or important.
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—s —- ) e April, 1935 The hills, in the distance, took on the violet blues of afternoon; and the August hollyhocks were ruddy against the country barn, up the hill, when I had my plans well arranged and ready to be broached, my life all snug again. For the doctor had telephoned and said he was coming to dinner, as usual. His voice had even sounded as it was in the old days. Steady. De- cided. Plain and simple. Of course, plain and simple. Why, since that first meeting between Carolyn and the doctor, I had been poisoning myself with my own fears. I felt this then. It was just a part of the natural alarm at turning forty. So I stretched out in my long chair in the sun, and waited for Nora, my staunch Irish maid, to bring in the tea. But another caller came, before the tea and Nora. There was the usual little flurry in the hall. The whir of light feet coming fast. And the next moment my niece, Carolyn, was bending down to kiss me. = ELL,” I asked, “how’s my girl? I’m awfully glad you dropped in, darling. I’ve a wonderful plan all thought up for you.” I smiled. I felt happy at what I was about to offer the child, for I knew it would bring her happiness. She looked at me, with less of the chatter that she often brought when she .came. So, be- fore the tea arrived, I began. “Darling,” I said, “I want you to have a trip abroad. To Europe. And North Africa. With your mother. I’d—lI’d planned to take you myself this sum- mer, and then—then—something kept me from it. I became engaged to Dr. Carson. I might as well tell you, though it isn’t yet announced. And—” Then I stopped. I couldn’t go on. Something held me. She was looking at me with such a look. Then her young cry rang out across the sun- room. “Oh, Aunt Elisabeth, I can’t go! I can’t go. For I’m in love. With Dr. Carson. The man you say you’re en- gaged to. And I want him. I want him terribly. I can’t live without him. That’s what I came to see you about. About helping me. You—you’ve never failed me before. But then you told me. So—that’s why he has never made love to me. Because of you. Oh, Auntie, don’t take him from me. After all you’ve been married. You’ve lived your life. And had your chance. But Rae I had lived my life. I had had my chance. Why—why—because I had not had my chance, I desperately was grasping at it now, stretching to it the wistful fingers of middle age. “Oh, why,” I asked, “why, with all your years before you, did you have to fall in love with the man I want?” She looked at me beseechingly. “Oh, Aunt Elisabeth,” she implored, “T love him so.” With passion, I answered her back. “What,” I asked, “what do you know about love, at your age?” She dropped her head upon her arm. Now she was weeping. I got up. I walked into the next room. What would I do? What could I do? Poor Elisabeth, reaching out for love and life before it is too late. What will she do now? Will she give up Dr. Carson to Carolyn, or will she fight for the man she wants? You will find the answer in the third instalment of this absorbing story in PHYSICAL CULTURE for May. 67 The Fast Can Often Restore Heaita Where Everything Else Has Failed HEN food enters your stomach it must be digested. The process of digestion occupies, for several hours, the entire attention of a large part of your blood supply. Nature fights disease or weakness in your body through the medium of your blood. Blood is your army of protection. When not occupied otherwise it gives its time and atten- tion to fighting disease, killing off obnoxious germs, expelling foreign matter, removing dead cells—in a word to freeing the body of everything detrimental to perfect health. But if practically your entire fighting force is called away to lunch every six hours or so, leaving your front line trenches empty, your artillery without gunners, your aeroplanes without pilots, it is to be expected that the enemy will make marked progress during their absence. And don’t forget this—every time you fill your stomach with food you create exactly the situation described above. As compared with human beings there is almost no chronic functional disease among animals in the natural state. When a horse is sick he “gets off his feed.” Natural instinct tells him to fast and he obeys. Not another mouthful does he eat until natural hunger returns. And natural hunger returns only when health is restored. Man no longer recognizes instinct in matters affecting health. Instinct has been replaced by reason and reason is often wrong. Humanity has departed from the ways of nature and is paying a terrible price in sickness, misery, disease and death. Nature is inexorable to those who break her laws but she is not vindictive. Even in the eleventh hour you can turn to Nature for help and get it and in no way can she help you more than through the fast. Hundreds of cases of desperate functional diseases have been cured by a careful and skilled administration of the fast after every other means of treatment had failed. Thousands of other cases, not so far ad- -vanced, have responded quickly and easily to Nature’s most powerful factor in driving out disease. Learn Healing Power of the Fast There are millions of people today ailing, weak, diseased, discouraged, who could be in perfect health within three months—new men and women—if they knew the wonderful power of the fast to heal and how to administer it properly. If you have a health problem to solve it is very probable that you are one of them. For many years, Bernarr Macfadden, head of the nation-wide Physical Culture movement, has known the tremendous value of the fast in curative practice. Regularly, several times each year, he has renewed and cleansed the tissues of his body by fasts of from three to fifteen days’ duration. At the same time he has supervised and ob- served the results of the fast upon thousands of men and women afflicted with a long list of diseases, many of them seemingly beyond help, and the astonishing results achieved long ago convinced him that if an authentic book on fasting cou!d be placed in the hands of every man and woman having a health prob- Unbelievable Results. Often Accomplished by Correct Use of the Fast lem to solve, there is no limit to the amount of good it could accomplish. 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Above is an interesting photograph of the swimming instructors at the City Y.M.C.A., sent us by Luis San Agustin, of Ermita, Manila, P. L., who is shown second from the right. The muscular young man below is Frank Gresh, of Perth Amboy, N. J. ahh JOYOUS Donald Warner, of Lockport, N. Y., is the daring performer on the surf-board, and this is quite a stunt! If you don’t believe us, try it. William Whitehead, of Pe- trolia, Texas, is a rugged repre- sentative of the Lone Star State ——
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, . : : ) Physical Culture for April, 1935 Q Victor Herbert Died Too Soon Continued from page 47 Windsor Hotel bar, drinking cocktails and watching the parade of passersby. Soon the musician was aware that a surprising number of cocktails had been delivered to Herbert. He cour- teously attempted to keep up with him but eventually gave up and leaned back to look on with utter amazement at an exhibition of skilled drinking such as he had not yet seen. When they rose to go he concluded that in all his ex- perience with men who knew how to imbibe there was none who could drink so much and show less effect. To Her- bert the session was quite an ordinary one and he even reproached his com- panion for being unbecomingly weak. Another of his musicians recalled a private recital at which Herbert’s thirst brought about an embarrassing scene. This happened during the earlier period of Herbert’s career, when he was a noted cellist. As a mem- ber of a string quartet he played ata woman’s club. After the concert the women clustered around the musicians and then led them to the buffet table. Herbert had been rolling a parched tongue around his mouth and was haunted by visions of thick layers of cheese on pumpernickel, accompanied by an array of seidels. But when he saw the dainty display of ice cream and cake provided by the ladies he ex- ploded. He tugged at the coat of the leader of the quartet—who was think- ing of his fees and making strong ef- forts to be diplomatic—and muttered in German in a voice loud enough to be heard by all: “Let’s get out of this g.d. place and get some beer.” T ANOTHER time this same musi- cian arranged for a concert in Brookline, Mass. Arrived in Boston, Herbert betook himself to a bar, and it being early, told the leader to go on alone and he would follow later. The leader left with misgivings and was soon to find his fears fully justified. The concert was held up over an hour. -Once during those days Herbert gave ‘a recital in a W.C.T.U. hall. What the members of the typical audience did not know was that Herbert had just dis- posed of an enormous steak and washed it down with several quarts of cham- pagne. He played not only beautifully but beatifically, and his face as he sat on the platform before his instrument was a picture of peace and content- ment. Prohibition almost demoralized his life. He could not understand that he was no longer to have free access to his beloved Pilsener, and when he final- ly did realize that prohibition was an actuality, he was, as his friends re- ported to each other, “mad enough to kill people.” He often said then if he had not been so firmly established in this country (he was born in Ireland and came to New York after passing youth and young manhood in Germany) he would have returned to Germany. All this great consumption of food and drink inevitably swelled his natur- ally large physique to unhealthy pro- portions. Until he was about fifty he balanced his eating with exercise. He was a good walker and was fond of setting out on a jaunt, going five or six 69 Clement Le Brun, D.C., F.R.C., Grand Master of AMORC, the mystic Rosicru- cians of the North American jurisdiction. ABE you weary of reading the books that tell you about the wonderful things accomplished by the master minds of the past? Are you tired of hearing what can be done with the mystic laws of mind and matter, without being told how YOU can do these things, easily and surely? If you are like thousands upon thou- sands of others, you will want to be MASTER of your own life, your own career. You will cease believing the fan- tastic tales of the adepts of the Far East and the Mystics of the Orient, and will demand that you be shown how to do these great demonstrations of occult power. For ages man has accepted the doctrines of church and school on faith. Today man demands the knowledge of the methods for self-demonstration. His life and his fate are in his own making. He no longer be- lieves that God has damned some to hell and some to Heaven before birth. He wants to rise, master, succeed and create for himself. He has discovered that it is his Divine Heritage. Telling him that it is possible for man’s mind to accomplish miracles without explaining how and re- vealing the secret laws, has brought dis- couragement, sorrow, failure, and doubt into the hearts of millions. But the great truth of the matter will never be found in books. This fact is not frankly told to the seeker, and he is led to buy books, and buy, and buy. Lectur- ers, teachers, writers and_ self-appointed guides continue to talk about what CAN BE DONE, and leave a host of hopeful but blind searchers for the knowledge they seek. Certainly there must be some truth in the claims made and the stories told. For hundreds of years, in all countries, there have been noted men and women who demonstrated a rare and dependable sys- tem of creative mind power, and whose rise to success and attainment was miracu- Let Me Prive What YOUR Mind Can Demonstrate Eminent Rosicrucian Mystic Explains Secret Method Used by Many Thousands lous. It is because we contact today those who seem to possess some unusual knowl- edge and a secret key to nature’s bounties that thousands still have hope and believe in the pot at the end of the rainbow. The real knowledge, however, is not publicly distributed to the worthy and unworthy alike; nor is it offered on a commercial basis like some earthly com- modity of man’s manufacture. The knowl- edge is from a sacred source; it is a price- less gift to the pure in heart and the deserving. Its value has been preserved by its careful protection from the sordid and completely selfish minds. This rare and secret wisdom of the higher laws of mind and nature has remained in the charge of one very ancient Brotherhood, the Rosicrucians, who proved years ago their great love for mankind, their broad tolerance and their. willingness to help all to attainment and success if worthy. Today the fraternity of Rosicrucians, existing in all lands and known as the AMORC, offers the real and true knowl- edge of man’s potent powers over matter and mystery. Those who are ready to study, practice and master, step by step, may have the complete knowledge under a very liberal arrangement that is not inconsistent with the high ideas of the Great School of the Great White Brother- hood. It will mean the complete change of fortune for any man or woman who follows the instructions and _ lives the happy, creative life of a Rosicrucian. Thousands in all parts of the world to- day, in the highest position of power and demonstrated success, are secret students of the Rosicrucian methods. 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Life was good to him and he liked life. He was indeed a heart-warming sight to look upon. In the mornings he religiously at- tended to calisthenics. After his work- out he would be so fresh and blithe that his voice could be heard caroling all- through the house, and from his piano would come exuberant chords and runs. He took a keen delight in spending his summers at his place in the Adiron- dacks, which he called “Camp Joyland.” He was at the edge of a lake and his chief pleasure was to race about the waters in a speed boat. The dizzier the pace he forced his boat into the more buoyant and youthful he became. His other recreation was to play baseball with the boys who congregated around his house from surrounding summer homes. Producers and other visitors, ar- riving at Camp Joyland for serious and worried consultations, would find their maestro yelling with glee as he swatted a ball over the edge of the meadow. OME of his best work was done in the boathouse. There was a big barn above his dock, a place with large open windows through which the breezes from the lake blew with in- vigorating freedom. It was these same breezes that once destroyed an unfin- ished score. A prolific writer, Herbert often composed two operettas at the same time, particularly when he had lots of elbow room. One morning he went blithely into the boathouse. It was a beautiful day. The sun glinted on the lake and the branches of the trees sang a rustling matutinal. Herbert was in his underwear, singing and eager to get to work. He spread out on the large board table the sheets of two scores and began writing in easy, loping manner, shifting from one score to the other. Suddenly the wind swirled into the room, caught one score and whirled it through a window. Out over the lake the sheets flew, farther and farther out. Before Herbert could get out his boat the unfinished operetta was scat- tered throughout the Adirondacks and the composer was forced to rewrite the music as best he could from memory. Although he was becoming somewhat bloated, the physical care he took of himself kept his constitution strong; so strong that even the excessive amount of work he took on—and he often worked at two or three operettas at one time—did not depreciate his energy. In the last decade of his life, how- ever, he discarded exercise, relaxed his care over himself but continued his in- dulgences as of old. He had a feeling that he was physically invincible, and scorned the notion that his body was a machine that could run down quickly. Dr. Baruch told the writer that this neglect hastened his end. Herbert’s death was surrounded by circumstances which were touched with a dramatic coincidence, and which also very well illustrate his high confidence in himself. He was at the time working on some numbers for the 1924 edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. On the morning of May 27, 1924, he was with Ziegfeld at Physical Culture the latter’s office, conferring after an almost all-night session. Herbert left the producer at noon, promising to be back at two-thirty, and drove to the Lambs Club for lunch. He passed through the dining-room of that famous actors’ institution, genially greeting one aquaintance after another, and came across Charles K. Harris, the composer of “After the Ball Is Over,” eating a stack of wheat-cakes and syrup. Herbert bent over him. “Don’t eat those, Charlie,” he cau- tioned jokingly. “They aren’t good for you.” “What’s the difference,” retorted Harris, “so long as they agree with me?” Herbert laughed. “Charlie,” he said, “you and I are getting too old for wheat-cakes.” Harris joined in his laugh and then suddenly became serious. “I have some bad news for you, Vic- tor,” he said. Herbert knew what those words pre- saged. “Whose funeral is asked. “Teddy Morse,” Harris replied. Morse was a well-known song-writer, the composer of a popular song of an- other period, “Goodbye, Dolly Gray.” Herbert’s face saddened. He silently left Harris and joined a group of friends at another table. A little later Harris came over to Herbert and seeing him about to bite into a sandwich, stopped him and said: “Victor, take my advice and don’t eat a sandwich. It will give you indiges- tion.” “Charlie,” responded the composer, “IT can eat nails.” Herbert finished his lunch, joked his way out of the clubhouse, and was about to start for Ziegfeld’s office. Suddenly he felt ill. He thought he would go home first and lie down for a little while. He lived at 300 W. 108th Street, only a short drive from the Lambs Club. But he felt no better at home and telephoned Dr. Baruch he was coming to see him. Before he arrived the doctor was called out to an important consultation and left word for Herbert to wait. The composer strolled out to the front of the house and chatted with an acquain- tance. Then, without warning, he col- lapsed. it today?” he R. BARUCH returned at that mo- ment. Herbert, in all his huge help- lessness, was carried into the office and restoratives applied. They all failed. Victor Herbert was dead. And as the doctor brooded over the silenced music-maker the new radio station, WEAF, broadcast a selection from his operetta, “It Happened in Nordland,” heralding the close ap- proach of the time when Herbert mel- odies would fill the air daily. In all the flood of eulogies that have been expressed since Herbert’s death no words of regret have been more poignant than those uttered by Gene Buck and other friends who knew of his decline before he passed away: “If he had only lived a few years more!” And he could have lived those few years; probably he would have been alive today, had he been willing to forego that self-indulgence of which he thought he was master.
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It tells you how to develop the power that is in you. Learn the principles of Charm that men cannot resist. Most cases of social failure and spinsterhood are due to lack of understanding man’s psychology. Married or single you cannot afford to be without this secret knowledge. Send only 10c for the booklet, “Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood’’, an interesting outline of the secrets revealed in ‘‘Fascinating Womanhood’”’. Mailed in plain wrapper. PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, Dept. 8-D, 585 Kingsland Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Physical Culture Q Your jeer e Expose Your Real Self it is not such a world as we should think that we would want to create, no matter how free we were to disregard the limitations of our every-day exis- tence. For that matter, when we have an opportunity, we sometimes do create a very different sort of dream world— a world which, we think, is exactly as we want it to be, and in which we are invariably happy, honored, and suc- cessful. This last is, of course, the world of day-dreams—the world in which, in spite of all temporary dif- ficulties, we do always get the things that we believe we want most. What is it that makes our dreams at night so different from, and mostly so much less satisfactory than, our day-dreams? If dreams are a means of getting what we wish for but cannot attain in real life—as is clear enough of day-dreams—why do we create at night a world that often is so painful or unreasonable? Until a few years ago, there was no answer to the ques- tion, and our dreams at night were either frankly called inexplicable, or else were attributed to supernatural causes. In fact, the idea that dreams somehow reveal the future is still held by many people, the world over. No: however, the psychologists have found a reasonable, scientific explanation of the facts which at first seem so contradictory. All dreams are indeed a means to wish-fulfilment, but we have two sets of wishes. We have, first, the wishes that we recognize and are aware of—the wishes that satisfy themselves in our day-dreams; but be- sides these we have a complete equip- ment of unconscious wishes—wishes about which we know and usually can know nothing, but which find expres- sion, and at least a sort of satisfaction, in the strange world that we create in our slumbers. And the reason why the second group of wishes are unconscious is that they are inconsistent with our conscious wishes, and are actually obstacles—sometimes the only obstacles —to our getting what we think we desire. In innumerable cases, for example, men and women fail to get ahead in business because they have an unconscious wish to dodge the ef- fort and responsibility which success requires. Or they fail to make friends because they unconsciously enjoy the feeling of*self-pity which they get from being badly treated. But of this, more in a moment. What I have been stating is, of course, the explanation of the cause of dreams which was discovered thirty years or more ago by Dr. Sigmund Freud of Vienna. It is also called the psychoanalytic theory of dreams, be- cause it has come to be one of the main elements in the process of ex- ploring the unconscious layers of the mind which is known as_ psycho- analysis. Freud discovered, and he and his followers believe they have proved beyond doubt that, just as day-dreams involve the gratification of our con- scious wishes, so our dreams at night involve the gratification of those wishes of which we are usually, though not always, unconscious. And the reason why I say, “not always,” is that even night-dreams sometimes satisfy quite conscious wishes: as, for instance, when a homesick soldier dreams of be- Continued from page 23 ing at home, or dreams of eating. At the same time, there may be a complete difference between the way in which our wishes are satisfied in one type of dreams and that in which they are satisfied in the other. Re- member that our unconscious wishes are unconscious because they are in- consistent with our idea of the sort of people we are, and thus with the sort of wishes we are willing to admit to ourselves that we have. To let our- selves become conscious of such wishes would mean revising our opinion of ourselves to an extent which would be unbearably painful to us. A man who desires to be brave cannot, as a rule, admit to himself that there is in his mind the wish to be a coward; nor can a woman who believes herself to be “‘pure-minded”’ let herself be aware of a wish to be immodest. And though our unwillingness to recognize the in- consistent elements in our minds is somewhat relaxed when we are asleep, it is still much too strong to permit the frank and complete satisfaction of the wishes which we should be most ashamed of in our waking moments. Even in our dreams, these wishes have to satisfy themselves in ways which will keep them at least partly hidden, a fact which we recognize when we say that there are things we “never would dream of doing.” Most of these ways involve either a symbolic satis- faction, or what might be called a satisfaction by association. Though we do not usually realize it, we use both these indirect methods of satisfying our frustrated wishes in our waking hours. How often, for in- stance, we find consolation for our sorrow in revisiting those places which have come to be associated in our minds with friends who have left us; and how tenderly we cherish their be- longings. The places and objects which - have come to be a part of them in our minds bring us the illusion of their presence. Or, on quite a dif- ferent level, consider the very common tendency of criminals to revisit the scenes of their crimes. . Here, too, among other motives, we have an un- questionable wish to get back by as- sociation something of the thrill of hate or passion which the crime brought in the first place. Both these cases involve satisfaction by associa- tion. AGAln, we all practise more or less symbolic satisfaction of the wishes which we cannot gratify completely. The lover bestows the tenderest of kisses on the picture of his absent sweetheart. The man who finds it im- possible to vent his anger on the per- son who has actually injured him goes home, scolds his wife and children, kicks the cat, or—if he is too sensible for such things—wisely works off his emotions on the woodpile. In our dreams we do these same things, only in a subtler and more complicated manner. Freud himself, in one of his first writings on the subject, tells a story which has come, de- servedly, to be a classic. A young lady who had heard his theory that dreams are wish-fulfilments came to him and told him that the night before she had dreamed of attending the funeral a hungry person
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April, 1935 of her little nephew. The boy was her sister’s only child, and she herself loved him devotedly, in fact, even in the dream she was almost prostrated with grief. She defied the doctor to find any wish-fulfilment in a dream of that sort. As must usually happen in such cases, a long conversation followed, in which the young lady was encouraged to look in her mind and think of every- thing that funerals suggested to her. At last she remembered that the nephew of whose death she _ had dreamed had had an older brother who had actually died, and that at the funeral of this brother she had met a man—a distant relative—with whom she had “fallen in love at first sight,” but whom she had not met again. She admitted, with confusion, that the thought had crossed her mind (though she had hastened to dismiss it) that another funeral in the family might offer the only opportunity she ever would have to renew her handsome relative’s acquaintance. Thus_ the dream did bring about a wish-fulfil- ment, although only by association. Moke often, however, the events and objects in our dreams are symbols of the things we really desire. A young lady I knew, for example, told of a dream in which she was traveling along a state road. She was moving at a great speed, passing automobiles as well as pedestrians. Yet she was not flying; she was walking, and the reason she went so fast was that she did not bother to let her feet touch the ground. She moved through the air, a foot or so above the surface, and she said that she remembered thinking how foolish the people were who plodded along the ground when there was another way of going which was so much quicker and easier. Possibly you have already guessed the meaning of this dream, although the dreamer herself did not see it. It is based on the same symbolism as the common saying that a certain type of person “has both feet on the ground.” That is, the young lady in this dream was gratifying an unconscious wish to avoid the more unpleasant aspects of reality: to escape hard facts and burdensome responsibilities. She wamted to reach her goal immediately and without effort, rather than “one step at a time.” Is not her wish one which we have all shared? In order to understand the meaning of dreams, therefore, one must under- stand the laws of symbolism. But this alone is not enough. One must also learn the special symbols of the in- dividual dreamer. This last is exceed- ingly important, for while there are dreams, like the one I have just told of, whose meaning is clear “on general principles,” there are many others in which objects, acts, and situations have a special meaning which one could not possibly know unless he were _ in- timately acquainted with the life and mental habits of the dreamer. For example, a young woman had the rather curious dream of hunting through the pages of a large book for a violin which she thought was some- how hidden between them. This dream would have been entirely unintelligible had one not known two things: first, that. the young woman’s husband— with whom she had lately had a serious disagreement—was a violinist, and second, that she herself had been study- ing a number of books on psychology. Knowing these facts, however, one could understand the dreams as. mean- ing that the real object of her coming to be analyzed was not, as she sup- posed, to get light on her own short- comings, but simply to find out how she might win back her husband, In another case, a woman, for, special reason she could think ‘of, dreamed of sitting with much satisfac- tion at the top of a long flight of steps. When questioned, however, she recalled having recently sat on some _ porch steps, and having been warned by an- other woman that she was displaying too much of the shapely legs she secretly was proud of. This dream, therefore, was—for her—an _ oblique gratification of the wish to be im- modest, and to display her charms for all the world to admire. Parallel, however, with these purely individual symbols runs a large body of symbolism which seems to be prac- tically universal. There are certain ob- jects, or classes of objects, which seem to have pretty much the same symbolic meaning for all people everywhere, no matter whether the people have per- sonal associations with the objects or not. It should be noted, however, that one never can be certain of the mean- ing of these universal symbols in an individual case, because it is always possible that some personal experience or bias may have given the object quite a different meaning in some special instance. Freud’s book, ‘The Interpre- tation of Dreams,” gives a long list o these universal symbols: as, for in- stance, that a king, or president, or any kind of public officer is likely to stand for the dreamer’s father; that snakes usually mean the male sex organ; that water implies birth; that mice, rats, and vermin stand for filth or excrement, and so on. What is more, each new experience, and even each new invention, may create new sym- bols. In New York, at any rate, riding in the subway often means the ex- ploration of the lower levels of the mind involved in psychoanalysis itself, and one man I knew of who was anxious to divorce his wife because of her sexual coldness actually dreamed of escaping from a room in which he had been imprisoned by “climbing out over the Frigidaire.” Q)NE of the most striking confirma- tions of this theory is that in so many dreams the feeling or emotion we experience has no logical connection with the facts of the dream-picture. We are pleased or frightened, happy or in- different, under circumstances which would make us feel quite otherwise in real life. And of course the reason is that our emotions in the dream are those which we should feel if the wish which the dream satisfies had been satisfied in real life. The lady who dreamed she was sitting at the top of the flight of stairs, for instance, had no idea why this should have seemed to her to be such a delightful situation till she found out what her dream meant; and, on the other hand, many of us have had dreams in which we watched the most terrible disasters without so much as the flicker of an eyelash, if not with a curious sort of satisfaction. The first step in the in- terpretation of a dream is therefore always to ask, “What emotion did it produce in the dreamer?” This in turn suggests the type of dreams in which the emotions of the dreamer finally become so painful that he cannot go on dreaming any longer— the type of dreams generally known as 73 RUB AWAY THAT KNOT or PAIN _,.. With soothing comforting Absorbine Jr. It’s so quick, so easy, so pleasant to get quick relief from aching pains in the muscles of your shoulder, arm, neck, back or legs—if you follow this simple treatment. Just pour a little Absorbine Jr. in. the palm of your hand, and rub, knead, massage it deep down into those pain-knotted tissues. Its glowing warmth seems to pene- trate right down to the heart of the congestion— you can feel cramped © muscles begin to relax. Then comes a delicious soothing coolness—and the knot of pain fades away! Athletes, trainers and coaches have known and praised Absorbine Jr. for over forty years. 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The emotion which we know as “guilt” or “shame” may contain other and more reasoned elements, but always behind and at the root of it is the old, childish dread of having in- curred the disapproval, and probable punishment, of our parents and other authorities. And just as we have seen that the feeling of guilt and shame is the reason why so many of our wishes have become unconscious (or have been “repressed”) in the first place, so it is the feeling of guilt at the satisfaction of a particularly’ shameful and for- bidden wish which creates the terror that is the essential quality of night- mares. In fact, one might truly say that the compelling, overwhelming danger which we face in nightmares always ‘represents what in our wak- ing hours we should call the ‘tempta- tion” to do something we regard as “wicked.” A NIGHTMARE is therefore the way in which our minds dramatize or picturize an inner moral conflict. And remember what is practically always the last excuse of the person who has done a thing he is ashamed of: “The temptation was just too strong for me.” The feeling of helplessness against an unconquerable impulse is exactly what is expressed in the night- mare sense of being unable to move or to cry out; for only in-so far as our “better natures” have been para- lyzed for the moment is the shameful and forbidden wish able to gain even a moment of symbolic satisfaction. I remember, for example, a young man who had set himself a high standard of sexual purity, and who came to me one evening and told of the struggle he had had that day in resisting the advances of a prostitute. The same night he dreamed of sitting in a row- boat, unable to move or scream, while an octopus reached up out of the water and began to drag him to the bottom of the ocean. The scruples which in the day time had prevented his ac- ceptance of the prostitute’s invitation were not, in his dreams, quite strong enough to conquer her fascination. For that matter, there is an obvious resemblance between the commoner forms of nightmare terror and_ the symbols which we generally use to pic- ture moral evil. Passions, for example, are commonly spoken of as “bestial,”’ and who has not had a nightmare in which a wild beast was threatening to attack him? Doing wrong is nearly always spoken of as “falling from grace,” and most of us have had ter- rifying dreams of falling. Or again— to cite what is perhaps the most familiar instance—nearly everyone has some remaining traces of the childish tendency to “exhibitionism,” ‘and it is this tendency which is expressed in those dreams which take us out into some public place without sufficient clothes on. Right here I must answer the com- mon objection that this theory of dreams assumes all of our unconscious wishes to be sexual. That is simply not true, and Freud himself has ex- plicitly denied it. At the same time, when we remember that the reason why a wish becomes unconscious is that we are ashamed of it, and that Physical Culture most of us were trained to feel more deeply ashamed of our sexual desires than of any others, we shall not be surprised at finding somewhat of a sexual character in most dreams. Even this, however, should be qualified by saying that it is our childish rather than our adult sexual wishes—our wishes to peer and pry and “show off” rather than our wishes for a normal sex relation—that remain unconscious and have to depend upon the world of dreams to find their satisfaction. Furthermore, there are dreams— very many of them—with which sex of any kind has little to do. There are dreams, for instance, which involve an indirect, or even a direct, inflation of our egos, as when we dream of being in positions of immense importance. Many dreams grow out of our frus- trated wish to take revenge on people who, we think, have wronged us, and perhaps particularly on our parents or our children. In fact, frequently in dreams in which we are prostrated with grief at the death of someone whom we believe we love very deeply, the dream really reflects an entirely unconscious wish to get that person “out of the way,” and the grief is an expression of our feelings of guilt and remorse at having done so. There is one hope which this article may have raised in your mind, which is frankly doomed to disappoint. No matter how much one may know about dreams in general, it is seldom alto- gether possible, and never safe, to try to interpret one’s own dreams. This principle applies even to those people, like the psychoanalysts, who have been professionally trained in dream-inter- pretation. And why? Because, as we have seen, the main purpose of the unconscious mind in dreams is to con- ceal what it is doing from the dreamer. And since the unconscious mind knows everything that the conscious mind does, it is likely to steer clear of any symbols of which the dreamer knows the meaning. One notices in a psycho- analysis, for instance, that the more familiar the person who is_ being analyzed becomes with the principles of dream-interpretation, the more devious and subtle his dreams become. When a person presents to an analyst a dream with a surface meaning that is perfectly obvious to both of them, the analyst asks at once: ‘What lies behind this?” Indeed, I believe it was a vague perception of this natural perverseness of our dreaming which led to the ancient saying that “dreams go by contraries.” Ae it is unwise to put much faith in those who profess to interpret the dreams of people who are total strangers to them. Such interpreters are forced to rely entirely on the “uni- versal symbols” of which I spoke some time ago; and, as I said then, these are only a part of the symbols that are used in dreaming. Individual symbols are at least equally important, and quite often more so, and these cannot possibly be known by anyone who is not intimately acquainted with the dreamer. While, therefore, as I have said, your dreams reveal your real self, they do this only under very special circum- stances, and to a particularly trained and qualified observer. At the same time, there are facts of value which you may learn from them. To begin with, the fact that you dream at all is an evidence of some degree of inner conflict, and therefore
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April, 1935 of some degree of mental ill health. A dream, in fact, is a mild form of neurosis, and ought to be so considered. At the same time, unless your dreams become an obvious source of trouble to you—as, for instance, through making your sleep so unsatisfactory that you wake up tired—there is no reason to worry about them. Perfect mental health is practically non-existent, and even perhaps impossible in the condi- tions under which most of us must live. One noted psychologist, Dr. Alfred Ad- ler, claims to have got over dreaming altogether, but I have not heard that claim made by anyone else—not even by Freud himself—and believe it con- stitutes a practically unique case. jf YOU suffer seriously and habitually from nightmares, you had better try to do something about it. Somewhere in your mind there is a major conflict, due to failure to find what appears to you to be a permissible outlet for de- sires which you have not been—and probably ‘never will be—able to con- quer. Try to find out—with the help ef a psychologist, if necessary—just what those desires are, and what you can do about them. For once one has faced a desire frankly, he can usually find at least an indirect way to get a more real and lasting satisfaction for it than his dreams can provide. And if your children are subject to night- mares, or even to too much dreaming, you may know that they are being seriously unsuccessful in adapting their instinctive wishes to the limitations of your discipline and of the conditions under which they are living. Again, something should be done about it, even though the right thing may sometimes be far from easy to discover. It is said that an old Scotsman once defined golf as “tryin’ ta pit a wee ba’ in a wee hole wi instruments ill adapted for the pairpose.” We are not obliged to play golf unless we enjoy its difficulties, but we are obliged to play the game of life, and unfor- tunately the instincts with which na- ture equips us are often extremely “ill adapted to the pairpose’—at least, under the conditions of what we are pleased to call our “civilization.” -. Doubtless the fault is with civilization rather than with nature (as can be seen very clearly from the correspond- ing difficulty of living a physically healthy life under “civilized” condi- tions) but until we can change the conditions, we must try to adapt our- selves to them. Our dreams at once show us how hard this is, and throw light upon the way in which it may eventually be accomplished. Q What I’ve Learned About Love discussed the beauty of Central Park, the political situation of the day, the weather reports, the children whose photographs he examined with great interest, and the general trend of beauty culture. During dinner we talked about his boyhood in Italy, his Russian father who had been killed in the first year of the war, his attempt to go through the university, his mother’s incurable illness, the young brothers and sisters who were forever hungry, poorly clad; the ending of his studies, the realiza- tion that his dream of becoming a great doctor had broken like a bubble on the cold stone of poverty, and finally his apprenticeship as a barber in a big hotel in Rome and his even- tual migration to America. Things were brighter now, he admitted, the brooding look leaving his eyes. The children had grown up and had found various occupations for themselves. Antonio had a meat shop of his own. Rosa had a place as hand finisher to a good dressmaker. Rico was working in a garage. There was only Tessa to worry about at present, the little sister with the incurable cough, with the lov- ing smile and busy fingers, who knit- ted scarfs and neckties and warm sweaters for her brothers and sisters. And, he shyly, half reluctantly, ad- mitted, there was also the Russian girl, Nadine, a distant cousin whom he might some day marry—not of course until the time came when it would be possible for him to financially assume the responsibility of a wife. Nadine lived with them, it appeared, and worked as a model at the shop where Rosa was employed. It had been assumed since their childhood that they would marry. Nadine in fact had had her trousseau in readiness for years. Did I imagine it, or was Eric _ se- cretly watching me to observe the ef- Continued from page 32 fect on me of his mention of Nadine? “How nice for you both,” I said pleasantly. “To know so much about each other, to be able to plan your futures together with so much in com- mon.” I felt that my comment sounded a little forced and that Eric realized it. “I do not know that I care to. marry,” he announced unexpectedly. “IT have no wish to be tied down. I have no wish to assume extra responsi- bilities. One gets to a place where he has a hatred of poverty, of mouths to fill, of bare feet, of sickness. Tessa will die because there was no money at a time when she needed good food and wine and medicine.” He made a gesture of repudiation—“I shall not marry if it can be avoided.” Our eyes met. “Why did you bring me here?” his were already asking. EK ROSE from the table and I started to remove the dishes to the tiny kitchen. 3 “Sit here by the window and smoke,” I suggested to Eric, but he followed me into the kitchen and in- sisted that we do the dishes together. “But I have a maid,” I demurred. “She will clean up in the morning. Let’s you and I talk instead of work. I don’t want to work tonight. I hate to do things I dislike when I’m having a vacation.” “What do you mean by your having a vacation?” Eric asked when we re- turned to the living-room. “Isn’t this your home? Do you mean that ordi- narily you live differently?” “My home is outside of New York,” I replied. “I’m just staying here while the youngsters are in camp. We have a big rambling house in a suburb, but I found it too lonely with the children away.” Eric looked at me intently. es about JOHN ROY REID Awarded highest score out of 600 babies competing in Oklahoma State Fair’s “‘Health Clinic’’... Simple health aid he uses regu- larly described by mother. 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Send me, by mail and free, the new booklet called “A Simple Guide to Health,” which will tell me more about the beautiful new eight volume set of The Encyclopedia of Health, and also give me most useful health information. Street City & State See page 64 for list of overseas dealers who will supply these booklets to our overseas friends. “Where is your husband?” he asked. “Have you forgotten that I told you I am divorced?” I said casually. Eric continued to look at me as though trying to clear up something which puzzled him. “Wasn’t he good to you?” he asked abruptly. “He was very good to me,” I said calmly. ‘We just decided that it was a wise thing for us to break up. He has since married again.” “Gee, that was a tough break for you,” Eric remarked. “You must get kind of lonesome for a man once in a while.” I couldn’t help smiling at his well- intentioned remark, but before I could think of a suitable reply Eric leaned forward in his chair and said earn- estly: “What I can’t figure out is why you wanted me to come here. I guess I must have sized things up wrong when you spoke to me down in the shop. Some women get silly ideas. I didn’t know at first what you wanted. Maybe I haven’t figured it out right yet. But it’s plain to see that you didn’t invite me here because you wanted a man.” If he hadn’t been so straightforward and honest in his manner of speaking, I should have undoubtedly shuddered at the inference of his remarks. As it was there was something about him that was almost touching in its sin- cerity. “THANK you, Eric,” I said finally. ‘Maybe I did an impulsive thing in asking you to come here. I honestly don’t know why I did. it. It rests me to be with you. I really like to be with you.” “You didn’t mind my kissing you?” he thrust in unexpectedly, the eager, tense look coming back in his face. I felt a rush of color in my own. “No, I rather liked it!” I said de- murely, not realizing when I spoke the possible effect of my words. But an instant later, when Eric had taken me into his arms I saw as far as he was concerned all barriers had been swept away. It was no longer important who or what he was or what obscure pur- pose I might have had in the begin- ning for asking him to visit me. At that moment nothing mattered to the hot-blooded, impressionable youth but the knowledge that a desirable woman was in his arms, that she was to all intents and purposes his woman, and he was her man. For one mad de- licious moment I made no attempt to fight off his caresses. I adored his strength, the pressure of his lips, the realization of his nearness. 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April, 1935 night you don’t know what you want. I kind of feel sorry for you.” I met his gaze unflinchingly. “You have every reason to believe what you just said,” I answered frankly. “I don’t seem to know— what I want.” At that moment the phone rang. That it was Richard calling me I was unable to realize for a moment. “T must see you,” he said. “It is urgent. Rosalie has sailed for Eur- ope.” we My heart gave a wild beat. “Rosalie has sailed?” I repeated incredulously. “What does that mean?” “It means that she and I are - through,” he said slowly. “Can you understand what I am saying? Rosalie and I have definitely broken off. I.am half out of my mind, Margaret. For God’s sake, let me talk to you!” “Where are you now?” I asked as calmly as I could, feeling Eric’s eyes upon me, wishing frantically at the moment that he were a thousand miles away. “T have moved into the St. Regis,” Richard answered. “If you prefer you can call me here later—”’ I replaced the telephone with a shaking hand. Eric meanwhile had found his hat and was apparently on the eve of departure. ‘é ; ELL, I had a pleasant evening,” he said with an abashed grin. “In spite of our little difference of opinion, Good-by—and good luck to you.” “Good-by, Eric,” I said. “You may not believe it, but you’ve helped me, really.” Eric looked at me in puzzled sur- prise. Some of the dejection left his face. “That’s swell,” he said politely. But I felt that he didn’t think I knew what I was talking about. It was a relief when I heard the door close after him. I went over to the chair by the win- dow and sat with my head resting against its broad comfortable back, my eyes closed, trying to think out clearly what I should do next. What do you really want to do? I asked myself over and over, but for a long time I was conscious of no other feeling than a sense of exultation that Rosalie’s spell had finally broken, and my ex-husband was eager to be re- ceived back into my good graces again. Then strange to say, my emotions were suddenly stirred at the memory of Eric’s departing figure, and with the realization that he had undoubt- edly passed out of my life forever came a sense of emptiness and a feel- ing of regret that for all his desire to please and his effort to understand, he had had nothing in the world to offer me but the thrill of his physical nearness. Mentally we would always be worlds apart. There is always an interlude of flat- ness in a woman’s life when a love af- fair breaks off on such a note. In many ways a tragic finale brings more soul satisfaction. However, I at least had a feeling of thankfulness that my affair with Eric had taught me the fallacy of counting too much on phys- ical desire to meet a woman’s complete need. And with the realization there came to me a longing to experience the fulfillment of which I had dreamed, but which I knew now only marriage can bring, and with it an unexpected desire to see Richard again, to hear his voice, to know once more the easy, friendly companionship of the days and nights of our old life together. I was not foolish enough to believe that broken idols, any more than broken toys, can be mended so cleverly that no one but an expert can tell the difference. I knew perfectly well that there would be many times ahead when I should dwell with melancholy pride upon the recollection of Max Hartmann’s flattering attentions and his repeated statements that I was not only charming but desirable, and re- flect that Richard was unquestionably taking me too much for granted. There would be moments too, when I should secretly thrill to the remembrance of Eric’s kisses and deliberately close my eyes to the knowledge of how distaste- ful would have become a succession of his caresses. On the other hand I was not blind to the fact that the memory of Rosalie would forever linger like a soft, fragrant, glamorous wraith be- tween us, Rosalie, who in some incred- ible fashion had recaptured for Rich- ard the romance and lost sunshine of his youth, and later on had had the courage to help him turn a bitter real- ity back into a dream. Suddenly I remembered Richard as I had seen him a few days before on the tennis court at Forest Hills—boy- ish, tanned, handsome, with the strong, lithe build of a sportsman; and I thought of his smiling, lean face and how good it would seem to feel that clean-shaven, hard cheek against my own, to rest my head against that strong and adequate shoulder, to know once more the peacefulness and true balance of married life. And with the thought came the revelation that in my longing to see Richard again was more than the tranquil desire of a wife to be restored to the affectionate relationship of long years of marriage. I wanted now from my husband what had so strangely stirred me in my contacts with Eric. I wanted to be to Richard what Max Hartman had hoped to awaken in me. I wanted Richard to long for my physical pres- ence as he had once longed for the exquisite femininity of the girl Ros- alie. ANP were these things after all be- yond the range of possibility? Hadn’t we both awakened from the taken-for-granted monotone of our former existence to a brand-new con- ception of the meaning of marriage as well as to a realization of the factors that bring marital satisfaction? I had proved my desirability as a woman in Max Hartmann’s strong feeling for me. I had found in Eric certain qualities that aroused my own dormant desire. And again the image of Richard on the tennis court flashed across my mind, his finely developed figure, his sun-tanned face—and with newly cleared vision I could not help con- trasting it with the pallor, the unmis- takably artificial polish of the man Eric, and I realized how I had at- tempted to invest a clay image with not only the trappings of glamour, but with a physical virility that in reality never existed. Could it be that in my feeling for Eric there had been nothing more than a subconscious attempt to find an out- let for my surcharged emotions as well as a response to my newly awak- ened femininity; that in my heart of hearts I had never turned away from my husband? And now—I no longer hesitated. ... With a swift rush of tender and ex- alted feeling I went across the room to the telephone. 17 When Health is GONE! Man values money and property; but his really priceless treasure is good health, and physical fitness. Seldom does he free himself from the blindfold of error, and recognize this fact, until some destroying disorder drags him down to pain and misery, a suffering wreck on the scrap heap of physical failure. Are You Physically Fit to Fight-off Disaster You know, in your secret heart, that you haven’t the strength and stamina to fight-off the onslaught of disease. 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ee wT wwe We'd like very much to have the mothers of these delightful chil- dren on this page, but—like all mothers—they think baby is the most important member of the family, and so remain modestly in the background, or, to be literal, completely out of sight. So, quite on their own, we are happy to present: The twins in the basket— Lawrence and Lucille Eckenfels, of Galveston, Texas; (above) David Keyser, of San Francisco, California; (left) Alfred and Arthur Mo- zier, of Camden, New Jersey; and (below) young “Babe Ruth,”’ who is otherwise known as Franklin Van Burkles, of Los Angeles, California
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Physical Culture for April, 1935 Q Helping Mother to rigid in his views and he disapproved of worldliness in women. He believed that they should be treated like chil- dren. When Mother married my. hand- some boy-like father. at twenty-two, she knew less about life than a child. Father delighted in her innocence and naivete. He spared her all the worry, about money by handling the house- hold bills himself. He made . himself a buffer between her and all unpleas- ant shocks and disturbances. He wor- shipped her. Hannah, a capable Irish woman, raised Kitty and me and ran our home until we were in our teens and then, vanquished by rheumatism and old age, she returned to her family in Ire- land. Two trim little Swedish girls filled her place afterward, but. when the first big crash came in 1929, we let them go. Kitty and I took over the household duties with the aid of a. woman we hired to come in and clean by the day. Mi Ctees wept when we rented our lovely home. She wept when I sug- gested that we sell some of our fur- niture, since there was too much to try to place in an apartment. She wept bitterly when Kitty proposed that we move to the city where a small flat could be had cheaply. We finally compromised on a small com- munity house where we placed most of the furniture in the cellar. Mother wept over that, too, but agreed that this was better than selling it. She was under the impression that we were very unkind to make these sug- gestions. The fact that we had no alternative didn’t seem to occur to her. I had hoped that when we were set- tled in a new home Mother would for- get her grief and adjust herself to a new life. -But she had hysterics more often than ever. Trifling things upset her constantly. She found the neigh- borhood uncongenial and disliked the people nearby. She complained about the noise the neighbors’ children made while playing games under her win- dow. They disturbed her afternoon nap. The people next door played their radio too loudly and she said it made her nervous. The. neighbors’ dogs barked early in the morning and pre- vented her from sleeping until eight or nine as she was accustomed. Some stray cats ‘howled in. the alley at the back of the house at night and awakened her. She called the neigh- bors, the landlord, and finally the police about it. It seemed to be one thing after another. Kitty and I worried a great deal about making our combined salaries cover the household expenses and our lunch and carfare money. Mother pre- ferred the most expensive cuts of meat and luxuries we could not afford. We tried to check her tendencies in this direction: by only giving her a small sum required to buy what we needed. each day. One evening we came home to find the parlor gay with smart cretonne curtains. “How nice, Mother, but how much did they cost?” I asked fearfully. © “Darling, I wanted to surprise you! Aren’t they lovely? I only just fin- ished making them today. They were a wonderful bargain.” “Grow Up” page 16 “But Mother, didn’t you pay the gas and electric light bill with the money I. gave you last week?” “No, the company will have to wait. “The curtains only cost seventeen dol- lars. I never saw things selling so cheaply before.” “But the company won’t wait, Moth- er. They will discontinue the service. Now we will have to use part of the rent money to pay the bill and go be- hind in the rent this month.” She began to cry. “Oh, everything I do is wrong. No- body. appreciates me. I wish I were dead.”’» She covered her face with her small white hands and ran from the room. Kitty and I looked at each other in silence. We felt contrite and a little ashamed, but also frightened. We knew this meant cutting down on lunches and going without the new shoes that Kitty needed badly and the lingerie that I ought to get right away; scrimping on everything we could. It seemed to me that we had already re- trenched to the last dime without making any additional economies. But it had to be done. ~ The days became filled with strain and uneasiness. We never knew what new calamity awaited us when we ar- rived home at night. Mother developed new symptoms of nervousness and complained of being alone in the little house all day.. She was. sure that burglars or sneak-thieves would break in and attack her. She was _ con- stantly injuring herself accidentally. We could not understand it. When Father was alive she was unusually active and alert, and so young in ap- pearance that we often jested about her being like a sister to us. Now she seemed to be a bundle of nerves and fears. One night we came home to find our small parlor crowded with strange people and Mother lying on the sofa in hysterics. “TT MIGHT have killed me. Oh, it might have killed me,’’ she repeated over and over, sobbing spasmodically. The gas oven had exploded when she tried to light it to prepare sup- per a little while before. But she wasn’t hurt; just terribly frightened.’ Her screams attracted the neighbors. We examined the oven carefully and found nothing wrong. Mother had simply turned the gas on and then waited too long before striking a match to the burner and the accu- mulated gas caused an explosion. The incident unnerved me. It was obvious that Mother needed someone at home to take care of her. She was getting worse instead of better. But what could we do? We could not af- ford to hire anyone, and our nearest relatives lived in California. A sense of desperation assailed me. What should we do? We could not go on like this any longer. I decided to call on Mr. Harris for a chat. Seated in his comfortable office where an atmosphere of peace seemed to pervade the -very dust on the law books that lined the room, I had the feeling of reciting the details of a nightmare rather than the everyday events of my own life. “We hate to leave her alone a mo- Continued from 19 | Expectant and "nursing mothers— If you lack this one vital ele- ment in your diet, it may cause bowlegs and soft teeth in your child later. BOWLEGS— this trouble may start even before birth! So... during pregnancy and while “nursing your baby, eat plenty of Vitamin D, doctors say OWLEGS, crooked teeth, a_ badly shaped head ... even your own child- to-be may have these faults, mother—if your diet during pregnancy and nursing lacks Vitamin D! | - Without this “‘Sunshine” vitamin, neither your system nor your child’s can assimilate from your food the minerals— lime and phosphorus—so necessary for strong, healthy bones and teeth. Yet there are scarcely any foods that contain this important vitamin! 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We don’t know what she will do next.” As I spoke his fine old face with its deep lines and rugged brow became sober and reflective. “Yes, she is just like a child,” he said after a moment. “You will have to be patient with her. Your mother has never had to face mature respon- sibilities before. Your grandfather and grandmother did everything possible to keep her a helpless little girl and your father took up where they left off. She only needed to sulk a trifle and he was ready to stand on his head to make her happy again. He spent his life pampering, cajoling, and hu- | moring her. Naturally, she hasn’t the faintest idea of adjusting herself to small unpleasantnesses the way an adult does. You could not expect her She has been babied all of her ife.”’ I recoiled at his words and felt im- ~pelled to defend her. “But Father’s death was a terrible a to her—he was all the world to er,” “Yes, that was the trouble. He made himself so necessary to her happiness and welfare that she is like a babe in arms without him. Your mother is just as infantile emotionally as a child of four. She can’t help it. She isn’t even aware of it.” LISTENED with a sense of shock. I suddenly remembered how Mother behaved after the funeral, how she climbed upon her bed hugging a pil- low, sobbing like a frightened child. “Do you mean it is a case of ar- rested development?” “Yes, arrested emotional develop- ment. Your mother is very intelligent but she. isn’t capable of standing the shocks of life. She is immature emo- tionally. But it is a very common thing among women of your mother’s generation. When she was a girl, women were expected to be chaste, helpless and demure—meaning ig- norant of the realities; a cross be- tween an angel and a _ nine-day-old infant. Briefly, they were never per- mitted an opportunity to grow up. A girl was raised with the idea that some man—a father, brother, or hus- band—would always take care of her. It is only during the past twenty years that ‘nice’ women have been allowed to earn a living. Your mother is just a product of the dear old Vic- torian era.” There was a twinkle in his eyes. “But this is very serious. I am afraid that she is on the verge of a nervous collapse,” I protested. “Yes, it is serious, but you must try to understand that her nervous- ness is not due to physical causes but emotional ones. She has never had to face life alone before. She can’t face the realities of her situation. She doesn’t regard you and Kitty as an adequate buffer between her and the world. She thinks of you two girls as children still. She is half- crazy with a feeling of insecurity. Her fear of burglars and her hyster- ics over every little thing are just symptoms of this inner terror. She still feels like a little girl inside, and she is doing just what a small child does when it is frightened—crying and making as much fuss as possible with the secret hope that someone will stay at home and take care of her. Most middle-aged women in your mother’s predicament do the same thing. They can’t face life alone
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Apri, 1935 after so many years of protection and care. They become terror-stricken.” A wave of sympathy flooded my heart. It was all so clear to me now. Poor Mother! No wonder she was up- set by every little thing. I wondered how I could have been so blind. -“But what can I do?” I felt bewil- dered. “IT guess you will have to help her to grow up,” he replied with a chuckle. “What do you mean?” “Stop babying her. You and Kitty have taken up where your father left off. You coddle her, take over her responsibilities, and do her share of the work to be done. As long as you continue to do that she will only grow more helpless and dependent upon you. She wants to do the right thing but you won’t let her.” “T don’t understand.” “W70U took her job away when you made yourself head of the family. It wasn’t up to you to decide where and how you were going to live. You should have put that in her hands and forced her to decide. I don’t see how she is ever going to acquire a feel- ing of responsibility if you shoulder her duties for her.” “But she is so childish.” “She is never going to get over be- ing childish so long as you treat her as if she were a child. You must give her a chance to get some confidence in herself—help her to respect herself. Her pride will do the rest. You ought to teach her how to manage your fi- nances and make her responsible for them. She simply needs to be helped, trained and given some encourage- ment.” “But she hasn’t any sense about money at all—it would be hopeless.” “How is she ever going to learn anything about the value of money if, like your father, you handle the funds and keep her on a child’s allowance? And which makes obvious your lack of confidence in her? As long as she feels that you think she is hopeless she will keep right on being hopeless. Your attitude toward her is causing as much trouble as anything else.” He spoke severely, but his eyes were kind. I realized what he meant. It was true _ that I had usurped my mother’s place in the household and shouldered all the things she should have done: But it seemed the only thing to do at the time. He patted my shoulder. “Don’t misunderstand me, my dear. You did the natural thing under the circumstances, but now you must try to restore her pride and self-respect and help her to take over her proper duties. tionally until she can learn to face mature responsibilities and adjust to them. She will never get free of that inner terror and feeling of in- security until she can get some con- fidence in herself and her ability to take care of herself. You must help her face the realities of her situa- tion.” 3 Kitty was somewhat startled by Mr. Harris’ suggestions, but agreed that we ought to try to trust Mother more than we did and perhaps she would be happier. That evening we turned over to her all the money we had save what we needed for carfare and lunches and explained that this was all that we had to buy food and meet the current bills—until the next pay day. “I know that you can handle our budget just as well as we can, Mother. You use your own judgment about it.” -I gave her a hug and a kiss and patted her back. Thereafter we deferred all issues that came up to her and asked her opinion and advice on personal mat- ters, gently but firmly making her the head of our little family. One evening she proudly exhibited a small notebook. | HAVE decided to keep track of every penny we spend and see if we cannot save a little. I found a store on the other side of town where I can get five pounds of potatoes for eighteen cents instead of a quarter.” Her eyes shone. I could see that she was very proud and pleased about our gesture of confidence and eager to assure us that she intended to live up to it. | We taught her how to cook new things and how to run the house with less effort. Heretofore, she had only dabbled at cooking and her “mistakes” were often costly. We took care to compliment her for every new effort she made. She thrived on praise. The attention delighted her and she took a pride in her cooking. One night she surprised us by asking: “If I made some nice cakes and cookies, do you think you and Kitty could sell them to the girls in your office build- er" We jumped at the suggestion. 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She changed a lot after this. Her apprehensiveness about burglars van- ished, and she didn’t seem to notice the noise the cats, dogs, radios, and children in the neighborhood made any longer. Likewise, she never cried about Father any more. She had learned to control her feelings. Her ability to earn some money had done wonders for her morale. With the coming of spring she be- gan to show the strain of the long hours of baking. The novelty of earning money by this means had worn off, and she was sick of the kitchen. But she kept on valiantly. I drew her aside one afternoon. “How would you like to study sten- ography, Mother?” “Oh, I’m too old, Helen, and I could never get a position with so many young women out of work. “T don’t think so, Mother. By the time you have finished your course, business will be better and there will be more work available. Many em- ployers prefer to have an older woman because they have a jealous wife or because the nature of their business is such that they need someone whom they can trust not to flirt with the salesman and give out information about the business,” I replied stoutly. I knew that somehow, somewhere, we could find a niche that Mother would fill well; where her years would be of value. “Do you really think I could?” she asked, her eyes lighting up happily. “Yes, you would only have to learn to do some bookkeeping, and how to take care of your employer’s bank accounts in addition to any typing to be done. There is nothing very com- plicated about that.” “But I’m hopeless at figures. I could never learn bookkeeping.” “You managed to keep your baking costs accounted for properly. All you need is some brushing up. I'll get you my old arithmetic book.” I located my old. grammar school book and we went over some problems together. We did this every night for weeks. She learned rapidly. Arith- metic was more of an imaginary hazard than a real one. She simply had not done any in years. I introduced her to the head of the business school that Kitty and I had attended, earlier, a patient, kindly man who understood the problem she presented perfectly. The depression had brought him quite a number of older women who needed equipment for earning a living. They had to be given extra help. After all, you can- not expect a woman of fifty to keep step with a group of youngsters just out of high school. Soon I noticed that Mother was wearing her pretty brown hair in a more youthful arrangement, and that she walked and talked with a new alertness, and the lazy slouch of years had disappeared. Then it dawned on me that she was trying to keep up _ Physical Culture with. the youngsters in her class! She didn’t want to seem like an old lady to them. We bought a ping-pong table’ and moved the furniture back in the cellar and played there every night. Mother learned to play well and soon forgot her years and her dignity in her enthusiasm for beating us occa- sionally. The exercise brought her weight down. Also, the fact that she was not at home nibbling between meals helped. With a trim figure to groom she took more interest in clothes and altered her dresses to smarter lines. — However, when she finished her course she began to complain of head- aches and to hint that she did not think she would ever be able to stand the strain of regular office hours. Symptoms of stage-fright! I remem- bered my own feelings upon finishing my course so well. In reality she was simply panicky about the idea of working for strangers—plain scared —and unwilling to admit it to her- self. I faced her with it. She gave me an embarrassed smile. “Yes, I am a bit afraid,’ she ad- mitted. I laughed and gave her a hug. “Don’t worry. We will find you i aie you can handle,” I assured er. I knew that the discipline of at- tending school during these’ ten months had hardened her and given her a good preparation. But natur- ally, she did not have any confidence in herself. Through a friend, we lo- cated a position without pay in a phil- anthropic organization where she had an opportunity to learn office routine and get some practise and skill. This was just the right thing for her. At the end of a couple of months she was cured of stage-fright. During the next six months she was in and out of jobs constantly. Some were too hard, and some uncongenial, but nevertheless she learned a good deal from each one and became better adjusted to office work. Then one day she located'a position as a secretary to a man who was just opening a new office and wanted an older woman whom he could leave in charge of his office while he was away on long business trips, the very work for her. The uncongenial positions she had held had taught her the value of a worthwhile one. SHE HAS changed a great deal since then. She looks years younger and I know she is a thousand times happier. Mother earned her new peace of mind. She suffered intensely with ach- ing feet and legs when she was doing all that baking in the beginning. Also, the monotony of kitchen work nearly drove her frantic after the first month. It required a Spartan courage to face that group of youngsters in the business school and try to keep step with them. Her eyes troubled her from the unaccustomed effort of studying. The strain of sitting still for long hours taking dictation gave her headaches and nasty nerve fatigue. The tedium of the classes, after so many carefree years of indulgence, became extremely painful, and I sus- pect that the prospect of an indefinite period of working secretly appalled her. I know that she cried herself to sleep a good many nights. But in time she became adjusted to these things, and finally learned to work without strain. Today, she is happy and we are very proud of our mother.
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[N SOME cases, the mother is afraid of the world and entrenches herself in her home as in a castle; perhaps she boasts that she has not been out of the house for a week. Then she wonders that she has headaches, constipation and a general feeling of lassitude. If the funtane suggests going out she may reply quite truthfully that she does not feel up to it; nevertheless, the longer she leads an unhealthy life the more symptoms she will develop. Sometimes a son has much more in- fluence than a father and the boy may be able to persuade his mother to go out and meet people, to walk in the fresh air and receive the benefit of a thousand stimulations in the outer world Not only fear of the world, but dis- satisfaction with what she has may help to develop imaginary illnesses in women. The son will not know the truth about his parents’ love for each other, but in a great many cases he may be certain that there has been a pitiful lack of adjustment between the parents sexually. Perhaps the mother was disappointed at the beginning of her marital life, perhaps the father failed to recognize the importance of the mother’s romantic conceptions and deplorable ignorance. The mother may have taken refuge in frigidity and in general antagonism to men; she may have poured out her heart on her child—unfortunately for the child— and denied her husband any emotional response. As the father grows alien- ated the mother becomes more disap- pointed and more resentful. She may develop neurotic illnesses in order to avoid her husband, or to punish him, or in order to escape the burden of child-bearing. The son who has come so far in studying his parents may rush to the conclusion that it is all his mother’s fault. But he should not do this. He should wonder what childhood expe- riences, what unhappy homes, pro- duced his father and mother and made it impossible for them to meet on any healthy plane of mutual interest. He does not approve of his own household, he can see himself being influenced by it. Back of the father and the mother are two unknown households, less hygienic than the ones of today, less honest in instructing the children sex- ually. The father and mother were Physical Culture once timid young people, mating be- cause they thought they loved each other and wished to have a happy life together. Apparently they have failed. As a result of many years of effort and many privations on their part they have produced a home from which the son stays away as much as he can. Whatever satisfactions they found together in their early lives, this is the present result, that the home to which their lives have been devoted is not a happy home. This is their tragedy and the son should recognize it as a tragedy much greater for them than for him, however much he seems to suffer at the moment. There are reasons for the son’s an- tagonism to the father and his identi- fication with the mother which cannot be discussed this month. It is enough to say that the road to mental health for the son requires the breaking down of both these attitudes and a growing detachment from his parents. He is living too much in their shadow at the moment; he needs to gain objectivity and understanding of their problems and ultimately tolerance for his” par- ent’s peculiarities. If he comes to un- derstand some of the reasons why his parents are as they are and gains some tolerance for them as human beings as well as parents he may be able to ren- der valuable services in the home. Per- haps the mother needs to be drawn out of the house and induced to work for clubs, charitable organizations and the like so that she will begin to feel her- self a person of importance in the neighborhood. Perhaps the _ father needs to have some one in the home listen quietly and sincerely to his com- plaints, so that he can feel himself a person of importance in his family. Bu so long as the son remains mis- erably involved in the parental strug- gle, he can help no one, including him- self. It may seem easier to run away than to work it out in the familiar surroundings. If the home life is too destructive, the child should get out, escaping just as determinedly as he would from a house with smallpox. But if he can work out his own mental hygiene in close relation to his par- ents he will probably make a greater achievement. He will not sympathize too much with either parent against the other, nor express antagonism to either parent, but he will come to rec- ognize that here are two persons who are very important to him, who are human beings as well as parents, with many difficulties unsuspected by the son. 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April, 1935 Q Long Life on Cultured Milk It should be made clear that none of the culture-fermented milks in the Balkans known under the general name of yogurt (which is Turkish) is a beverage. Most people in the United States. consider sour milk a beverage because of the commercial prepara- tions which are served at counters in a glass like buttermilk. Balkan yogurt is a thick curdle and is eaten with a spoon. The same is true of the Armenian matzoon, the Egyptian leben, and the Russian varenetz. The Russians also use a raw sour milk called prostokwatcha, or simple curdle, as distinguished from the varenetz, which is milk heated and cultured, as its name indicates. The diet of the Balkan peasant. is somewhat lacking in vegetables and alkaline fruits, and had he been less fond of his yogurt there is no doubt his health would have suffered from im- proper and inadequate nutrition. It is no exaggeration to say that the great quantities of milk, fermented and sweet, make up for the deficiency of fresh fruits and vegetables, especially in winter. "THE Bulgarian people are noted for their health and longevity, even though Bulgaria does not hold first place among the nations of the world for its number of centenarians. A recent dispatch in the New York Times places Lithuania first, Portugal second and Bulgaria third for the possession of the largest number of persons one hun- dred years old and over in proportion to the population. But it is significant that out of the 154 persons in Bul- garia who are one hundred years old or over, 120 of them live on the land; and of these, 69 have been shepherds all their lives. I am well acquainted with the daily fare of a Balkan sheep herder. It consists almost entirely of milk and milk products, with plenty of coarse rye bread for roughage. One must of course not forget the outdoor life and the pure Balkan air, but I believe that no amount of fresh air can compensate one for a diet deficient in body-building elements. In cities and towns in Bulgaria the yogurt is as popular as in the vil- lages. Educated and cultured Bul- garians eat it as a dessert, sometimes sweetened with a sprinkling of sugar. It is also used widely in cooking, par- ticularly as a garniture. For example, no Bulgar would think of eating a cooked stuffed tomato or pepper, or a dish of rice pilaf, without garnishing it with a generous portion of yogurt. In summer, during the hottest: days of the year, and especially in time of making hay, one of the most desirable concoctions is a liquid salad ealled tarator. It is prepared chiefly from sour milk, and is a cooling and re- freshing dish as well as one that fur- Continued from page 53 nishes quick energy. I have cut plenty of hay in the Balkans and I know that a man that swings a scythe from dawn till night against acres of tall grass needs food that will supply him with plenty of energy without burden- ing his digestive system. The tarator is indispensable in his diet. In addi- tion to the sour milk, this preparation contains finely chopped cucumbers, crushed walnut kernels, and a dash of garlic. It is eaten like a soup with a spoon at the beginning of the meal, and often comprises the whole meal by itself. In winter when fresh fruits. and vegetables are unobtainable in Balkan villages, the cellars of the houses are stocked not alone with pickled peppers, tomatoes and sauerkraut, all of which contain the friendly lactic acid, but also with great earthen jars or vats that are filled with sour milk that was made in the.summer when milk was plentiful. Preserving yogurt this way is an art in itself and the curdle is a premium at a table in winter. It be- comes more tart to the taste than it is when freshly made, but it is whole- some and palatable. In Bulgaria yogurt is made much in the same: fashion as bread. When the Bulgarian housewife bakes bread, she puts aside in an earthen pot a quantity of the fermented dough to serve as “maya” or leaven for next week’s baking. Similarly the culture for the fermentation of the yogurt is propagated. A small quantity of yogurt is always saved from the last batch to serve as “maya” for the next batch. In this way the culture is always fresh and kept alive indefinitely. In other words all one needs to make yogurt is sweet milk plus a small amount of yogurt itself to serve as ferment. The proportion of culture used is about one teaspoonful to one quart of milk. The curdle is generally more tasteful if made in bulk in a large pot or jar instead of in small cups or glasses or similar containers. An interesting fea- ture about Bulgarian kisselo mleko, for example, is that even though it is served in all restaurants, cafes, con- fectionaries, pastry shops and wherever else food is sold, no effort has ever been made to manufacture the product on a large scale and distribute it from central dairies in uniform, standard- ized containers. Invariably the yogurt is made on the premises where served. The process of making yogurt is simple, but must be under strict sani- tary conditions. The American house- wife interested enough to make it at home will do well to send for the ex- cellent Government bulletin No. 319 which gives information concerning fermented milks and detailed instruc- tion for making yogurt. Yogurt is always made from pas- In Bulgarian houses teurized milk. and originality. and submit them as their own. from our readers is invited. 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The check in payment for an accepted article or story is also transmitted through the mail, and when endorsed by the author contains a warranty as to authorship Any cooperation 85 Quick Relief this New Way! e YOU do not need to suffer from intes- tinal poisoning and its attendant ills, such as indigestion, constipation, colitis, — gas, etc., for relief can be positively ob- tained without drugs. Today, it is well understood by the medical profession that the tiny vegetable organism Lac- tobacillus Acidophilus, given in the new way, is the one most effective means for combatting and destroying the many putrefactive bacteria that infest the in- testinal tract of most adults and many children. e For years, doctors and laymen have been familiar with acidophilus cow’s milk, jellies and tablets, but none of these have proven really satisfactory. 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Read what Jack Dempsey, Jim Londos, Zbyszko, Joe Stecher, Douglas Fairbanks and ethers say about the Bothner system. n ow you may develop super- strength and health by the Bothner Home-Training Course. Write for “The Science of Body-Building’’ to- day. Please enclose 10c for forward- ing. dress: George Bothner, Dept. 14, 6471 B'way, New York Physical Culture the milk is not delivered from great modern dairies where it has under- gone pasteurization. So there the milk for the yogurt is first heated to the boiling point and kept at that tempera- ture for about an hour, a practise which makes both for pasteurization and for evaporation. Then the milk is transferred to a large earthen jar, preferably shallow, and allowed to cool. When the milk has cooled to the desired temperature, about 98° to 100° F. (and in Bulgaria this is as- certained not by a thermometer but by sticking the finger in the milk!) it is treated with the culture. Before the culture is added it is thoroughly mixed: with some of the milk already prepared; this is done in order that in its liquid state the culture will more readily diffuse through the milk. The milk used for the emulsification of the culture is taken from the milk pre- pared for curdling and at about the temperature at which it is to be used. After the introduction of the culture the milk is thoroughly stirred. But once stirred the jar is covered and swaddled with wraps in order to keep the milk from cooling too fast, in which case the action of the culture is de- layed and other harmful bacteria might develop. Applying the culture at a slightly higher temperature, or raising the temperature of the milk after the culture has been added, produces a pre- cipitate action, causing the curd to separate from the whey. It takes at least twelve hours before the yogurt can be eaten when ordinary cultures are used; the Bulgarian bacillus, how- ever, because of its lively action, makes it possible for yogurt in Bulgaria to be served in four or five hours. The lactic acid content of fresh yogurt is not as high as when the curdle is a day or two old. One essential factor in preparing yogurt must be borne in mind. -Once the milk has been stirred, care must be taken not to disturb the contents. Any shaking of the container may interfere with the curdling pro- cess. HE housewife in America who wishes to make yogurt at home can obtain the culture by buying a cup of yogurt from any of the Balkan or Ar- menian restaurants which are to be found in all larger American cities, or by procuring any of the available American brands. In the Balkans, in the absence of yogurt, the housewife sometimes prepares a culture by the use of ordinary yeast. This, however, is somewhat involved and the resulting product is to be used only as culture. In some cases even the second product is used for culture alone. Shepherds in the mountains who sometimes run out of yogurt and have no leaven at hand “catch” a culture with a few dry beans or peas. But in. that case also it takes several curd- lings before a perfect table yogurt can be produced. This manner of “catch- ing” a culture is practised among the Karakatchans, the nomad _ shepherds of the Balkans sometimes known as Viach, or Wallachians, a people that live entirely from and by milk. In summer they are in the mountain pas- tures where it is difficult to obtain any fresh greens and fruits. They descend with their flocks in the winter to the low-lying pastures at the seaside, when the land is barren of fruit and vege- tables.. In this way their diet is of necessity a restricted one. And yet the Karakatchans, who live almost ex- clusively on milk and milk products, are noted for their health and vigor.
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Lat April, 1935 e ’ a P Fl QDrink—My “Frankenstein” — Ronson eon For, suddenly, something in which we had felt no interest—became interest- ing. Excitement was contained in the mere word liquor. This, decidedly, was something new to our lives and view- point; we had never felt this way before. I remember that when Prohibition arrived late in 1919, neither Jean nor I displayed any particular interest in the event. I think perhaps we both wished we could afford to lay in a great supply against the drought that loomed, but it was just an idea, a fancy. We didn’t, at that time, want it and so we didn’t miss it. The dry era—in theory, anyway—arrived without our giving it any particular thought. Later, however, and here is more of that strange curious psychol- ogy at work, I found myself thinking immensely more about it. Somehow the subject was on the wires every- where, Men with whom I came in contact discussed it* continually in their leisure moments. The subject had become a fascinating one. Drink was no longer available; this was during the first year, mind, that followed Prohibition; like gold, it was exceedingly scarce, and, like gold, it at once became com- paratively precious. To get it now be- came something eminently worth while —worth paying a price for, too. CAME home from the office one night, during the first part of 1920, and I said to Jean: “Darling! There’s a boy in the office whose father used to own a liquor store. He tells me they still have some of the stock and that he can get me a bottle of cognac . for seven dollars.” Jean’s eyes grew bright with inter- est at the news. She, too, had been in contact with others, with women she knew, and heard their comments upon liquor. It made its acquisition doubly desirable. Therefore, now, to get this bottle of cognac seemed as great a privilege to Jean as it did to me. Liquor had become a precious commodity and, although seven dol- lars was a pretty steep price for it, considering what seven dollars would buy—still, again, it wasn’t. Not, that is, if you wanted it. It was all in the point of view. Well, I bought that bottle of cognac and brought it home to Jean, and we made quite a ceremony of opening it and sampling it. She stood by and watched me anxiously as I drew the cork, fearful lest I drop the bottle and break it, and so lose all of its precious amber contents. I drew the cork suc- cessfully and then we both sat down in our tiny dining room and took turns sniffing of the bottle’s contents. “Think of it, dear!” I descanted warmly. “This stuff was made from grapes that were grown in the Cognac province of France. There’s nothing quite like it anywhere else in the world. Just smeil that bouquet!” Jean did so and marvelled just as I was doing. It seemed wonderful to her, too. Then she got two small gold- edged whiskey glasses, and carefully, reverently almost, I poured a little in- to each glass. We sipped it cautiously at first, exclaiming over its wonders, and then we drank it slowly and with unaccustomed relish, for previously to this, to tell the truth, I never had cared for raw spirits. I’d even had a case of pneumonia when I was a boy of eighteen, and the brandy they had fed me then at regular intervals was a highly nauseous dose. It seemed in- credible that this could be the same brandy. For this that I was drinking now was somehow, strangely different. This had a fruity taste, we thought, and our imaginations at once _ poeti- cally conjured pictures of French countrysides, devastated at the mo- ment but always productive, eternally productive, both by virtue of soil and climate, of the grapes that were the wonder of the world. It was indeed incredible. I believe that was the first drink of spirits I had ever taken that didn’t gag me and make my eyes water, and I believe further that the sole reason it didn’t was a psychological one. I had brought myself to feel, along with several million others, that the stuff I was drinking was nectar-like in its quality, and naturally one didn’t gag over nectar. Again, I mention this as an instance of the changing point of view toward drink, the point of view which made the realization of Pro- hibition the dream of visionary minds. You can’t prohibit something a whole nation sets a high, even if fictitious, value upon. We know that now. think it took me two years to learn to like to drink, two years in which alcohol became an important item in my diet. Those who are drinkers will understand what I mean. It became as much if not more of a necessity as coffee—or butter. A habit, you will say? Of course, it was a habit, just as tobacco and tea-drink- ing and eating mince-pie is a habit. To be sure we won’t die if we are without it, but we are pretty apt to be made acutely miserable. For that reason, we were never without it now; and Jean’s desire for it every night of our lives was as insistent as my own. We both of us lived through the day in pleasant anticipation of the drinks we should take at the end of the day. And if we went out anywhere, to a friend’s house to play bridge, it at once became a thing of primary and paramount importance. ““C\H, JEAN, dear!” I’d ask. “Will the Smiths have anything in the house to drink, or do you think we’d better take a bottle?” Invariably Jean would laugh in re- sponse. “We'd better take something, Don. I never knew of anyone taking too much to a party.” | “Well, I’ve heard of them taking too much at a party,” I’d counter. And the result would be that we’d go to the Smiths, or wherever else it was, armed with a bottle of synthetic gin. 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It was to make of me quite a different person than I’d ever dreamed I was—bring out traits in my nature, vicious, evil traits, that I never should have guessed existed there before. That’s the harm it did me. They say alcohol reveals a man’s true nature; if such is the case, then I deserve to be shot for mine, that’s all. Take the matter of women, for in- stance. Normally, when sober, I am a man who I think it would be accu- rate to say is a one-woman man. I’m sure I’m not a philanderer. Yet, when I drink I become a totally different person. Every element of license in my nature seems whipped then into active desire. My disposition, too, undergoes a change. I become suspicious, irritable, quarrelsome. I am given to sudden ir- rational outbursts of rage that make me want to physically injure others. In a word, I’m just not myself, I’m the monster that my own craving for alcohol, fostered throughout -the years, has created. It’s he who lusts; he who is suspicious and irritable and quarrelsome; and he who wants to lay hands of violence upon _ another, whether that other be a man or a wo- man—a friend, or worse yet, as has regrettably happened, Jean, my own dear wife. Y FIRST awareness of the fact that, while drinking, I became another person arrived that Christmas of 1923. The head of the publishing house I worked for was a simple, kindly man who, I imagine, had read Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and taken it seriously. At any rate, Christmas was a day he made much of, and the day before Christmas in our office he had arranged for a sort of general get-together of the office personnel, with refreshments’ and music. Then he, good man that he was, took himself off after the yearly bonus was distributed, and the festiv- ities began in earnest. The party was held in our main office and consisted of all of the cler- ical and secretarial force, as well as the boys and girls in the shipping de- partment. Many of the faces were only vaguely familiar to me, for up to now I had always carried myself somewhat aloofly when in business. There were certain boundaries, I felt, that one should not cross, certain bars that should not be let down if office morale and efficiency was not to be impaired. That was my true self speaking—not the individual I became later in the day, before the party was over. The office manager was a drinking man and he had provided a case of gin in the thought that a pre-Christ- mas celebration without liquor would be no celebration at all. Whether he was right or not, I’m not prepared to say; but I do know that there is no way to an intimate acquaintance that is quicker than the gin bottle. I have said that there were many present whom I did not know at all, but need I say that before the afternoon was over, I knew most of them intimately? Now, in pre-Prohibition times, few if any office managers would have thought of drinking liquor with their subordinates. The thing itself would have been bad for office discipline. But with Prohibition, as I’ve previously remarked, the viewpoint changed, and Physical Culture drinking became a lark, a gay adven- ture, and all those who engaged in it princes of good fellows. We started dancing after the first three bottles had been consumed and a fourth was in the process of de- molition. Some of the girls by this time were laughing hysterically and one of them was doing a solo dance that I’m quite certain she wouldn’t have cared to have her father see her doing. “Get hot!” someone shouted, and the girl raised her skirts above her knees and grinned vacuously, as she re- doubled her efforts in the dance. Opposite me, I noticed an attractive little blonde whom I hadn’t seen be- fore, and feeling flushed now and ex- hilarated, I crossed to her and smiled in greeting. “Hello, there!” I said familiarly. “Where have you been all my life?” “Oh, Mr. Mason!” she giggled flir- tatiously; “and I’ve always felt you were a perfect bear!” I assured her facetiously that I wasn’t; that I was one of the nicest persons in the world; and then I sug- gested that we have a drink together. The music commenced thumping a few minutes later and, deep in a huddle now with my cute little blonde friend, I asked her to dance. We _ shuffled about together, my head bent, my face against hers, and her small com- pact form pressed close against mine. I found the nearness of her presence almost stupefying in its sensuous al- lure. My hand tightened upon hers in a crushing grip. Her fingers re- turned the pressure. “What do you do here, Helen?” I inquired, striving to keep my ideas within some sort of bounds. “T’ll show you,” she said promptly and, still holding my hand, she led me out of the main office into a back office and from there into our stock room, where the office stationery was kept. It. was a labyrinthine sort of place, cut up into dark alleys of shelves that, loaded with stock, reached to the ceil- ing. It was a remote deserted place— a dark forest of shelves and station- ery and gloom. “This is my sanctum,” she remarked, Padi up at me with flushed smiling ace. T WAS someone other than I, [ll always believe, who was responsible for what followed—the monster that I, as a Frankenstein, had duly cre- ated, through all of the months of my persistent drinking. I bent for- ward suddenly and took her in my arms, kissing her fiercely. I didn’t at- tempt to disguise the way I felt to- ward her, nor did she attempt to pre- tend my advances were unwelcome. Instead, she met me half way in a clinging rapture that made me lose all sense, all reason, that turned me into a jungle beast alone with his mate. It was some time later, when I drew away from her, dazed, slightly sobered now, with a keen sense of shame and remorse. On the other hand, I was staggered by her aplomb, her savoir 9 faire. She looked up at me in a ©co- quettish, somewhat silly fashion and said, “You were naughty!” I felt she had a sort of sense of triumph that my office reserve and dignity were shattered; that I had re- vealed myself susceptible to her charms. That, and just about nothing more. She was a hardened little miss, I ecouldn’t help but think, and the
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April, 1935 sense of this added to the feeling of self-abasement I suffered. “Come!” I said shortly. back and join the others.” She clung to my arm, and I had to disengage her hand. I was afraid now that someone would see us, and my sense of shame deepened. I had low- ered myself unspeakably, both as a married man and an office executive, to do what I had done, and it was all a result, I knew only too well, of the drinks I had taken. How often, I know now, in the years that followed, was I to ‘reach that same conclusion after some bright particular bit of folly; and, yet again, how unfailingly was I to continue to go on doing the same thing, time and time again, or if not that, something equally as mad and irrational. The girl at my side interpreted my silence and aloofness as a return to my office taciturnity and reserve, my characteristic “high hat” (at least when sober) attitude, and, not unnat- urally, I suppose, resented it. “A penny for your thoughts, sir,” she remarked sarcastically, as we emerged from the gloom of the stock room and began making our way back toward the group in the main office. “Let’s go I MUMBLED some apologetic but in- different response and presently we were together with the rest again, and I was able to observe with relief that no one, apparently, had noticed our absence. A boy asked my companion to dance and she left me with a cool little nod. She was hard, all right, I concluded, but I had yet to learn just how hard, and to be reminded of the truth that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Oh, there was much to make me bitterly regret in time to come those few minutes of sheer mad- ness in the office stock room! The party had become hilarious but I wished only to get away now and back to my wife in our home on Long Island. So, quietly saying good-bye to our office manager, who _ tried vainly to get me to take one more drink before I left, I seized my hat and coat and slipped away from the rest. I realized, after what had hap- pened, that I was doing wrong to leave without a word to the girl who had been my companion in the stock room. But the memory of her cool little nod, and the general sense of abasement I suffered, made me want to escape as quickly, as surreptitiously, as possible. Outside, in a taxi on my way to the Penn Station, with a light snow fall- ing, I was able to review the after- noon and draw increased misery from the memory of my folly. I had cheap- ened myself terribly, I was aware, and I had been untrue to Jean. Regard it as I might, it made me out to be a bit of a blackguard. No longer could I find pleasure in the thought of our love and loyal devotion to each other. It was I who had smashed the sacred ves- sel of our love, and all because I had been drinking. It never would have happened, otherwise. I knew that, of a certainty. For that’s how it works with al- cohol. You stumble into predicaments, hideous messes, of one sort or another, inadvertently. You don’t deliberately elect to commit the acts of folly you find yourself, with an air of stupid surprise, having committed. They just happen, that’s all. So, don’t you see how the monster I had created, when I became a Frankenstein through drink, took over the management of 91 Dont Be a CHRONIC COLD CATCHER” Try This New Natural “MINERAL-IODINE’’ Resistance Builder Thousands of folks who regularly suffer with colds, grippe and hacking coughs at the slightest suggestion of drafts, wet feet or dampness, are now discovering a new easy way to build rugged resistance to most winter sickness. 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Yet, heaven knows, all that hap- pened that Saturday before the Christ- mas of 1923 wasn’t a marker to some of the things that were to transpire later on, after, as usual, I’d had “a few drinks.” A few drinks! There’s a lot of misery, as well as a lot of mer- riment, to be checked up against that phrase. It was the pass-word, if you don’t mind my saying so, to my own merry little hell. I couldn’t drink without drink’s making trouble for me in one way or another; and, some- how, I’ve a hunch there are a good many others like that, too. I caught the 5:27 train from the Penn Station and settled down for a dreary ride home to the south shore of Long Island. Should I tell Jean Physical Culture what had happened, I. asked myself, make a clean breast of that business in the stock room? That may seem preposterous, yet I felt like a_ peni- tent sinner and somehow I had an idea that I would make myself right with whatever powers of righteous- ness there were if I confessed and was forgiven. It was the old purification through suffering idea—a holdover, I guess, from my religious childhood. For I was sober now, and stricken with remorse, as I left the train at my station and commenced the short walk to our home in a pretty village side street. Little did I dream of the scene at home that awaited me, nor of the fact that the Frankenstein I had proved to be was no respecter of per- sons, and that, in creating a monster in my own life, I had created one in the life of Jean, my wife, as well. Ashamed and penitent, he returns home to be horrified at what he finds there. This startling episode, another step on the pathway to destruction for this once happy couple, will appear in the May issue. On sale at all news stands April Sth. QShall My Child Take Music Lessons? the piano, or when playing his violin, clarinet, or other instrument, a mirror placed so that he can see his reflected image will usually tend to correct his posture, especially if his attention is called to it as well. In most schools nowadays, children are taught to sit tall and stand erect. If a parent stresses correct posture at home, admires it in those about him, and occasionally calls the child’s at- tention to good posture in pictures and sculpturing, he can build a good pos- ture ideal and habit in his child. S° MUCH of poor posture is plain fatigue. Growing muscles get too weary to do anything but slump. Too, when you consider the hours and hours that the child must put in to acquire a degree of musical proficiency, the cumulative effects of poor posture may impair his health. Yet it is not alone from health angles that good posture in the musician-to- be is to be stressed. If the child is to -appear later in public, his poor pos- ture will detract from his musical ren- dition. That is, in the eyes of his audience, if not their ears. Then, in order to be on the safe side as far as fatigue is concerned, which we all know creates a toxic condition in the body, the practise hour in my home, I resolved, would be cut in half, from one hour down to thirty minutes daily. Then, I decided to cut this thirty-minute period again into three ten-minute periods. This time arrangement worked with surprising ease as far as the child was concerned. Yet it should have, of course. For according to the laws of learning, such a method is all to the good; learning is in direct proportion to repetition, and divided repetitions are better than single long periods in learning anything. A child is almost incapable of long- sustained effort either mentally or physically. This is the reason that in our schools, the younger children are shifted about from one activity to an- other all through the day. School teachers also put the more difficult studies in the morning, when Continued from page 45 the children are still rested. Ten min- utes of practise before breakfast, and ten minutes afterward, are not difficult to manage, while a whole hour at either time is usually impossible. It is really amazing how many chil- dren are required to practise their music lessons when they come home from school, tired out from having done a day’s work. They need the after school time to romp and play in, and to drop off the cares of their young lives. The tired child becomes the tired adult. As parents, let us always re- member that the child’s main job— growing—never lets up, day or night. If he grows into a chronically tired adult, he will always function in life below his best level. Adults struck for a six-hour working day some time ago. Parents consider- ing adding music lessons to the child’s schedule would do well to sit down with a paper and pencil and figure out the child’s working day before adding to it. Another factor in learning is that confidence facilitates learning. Mary Lou’s mother across the street often said to me with cruel frankness before her listening daughter, “I can’t stand to be in the room when Mary Lou is banging on the piano. She’s different from other children, I guess.” yet Mary Lou’s banging of the piano keys was only increased by her mother’s derogatory opinion. Mary Lou had no faith in her musical ability, and fearing that she did play poorly, her tension and nervousness were in- creased so that she did not play even as well as she could. Any child of even ordinary ability, given the opportunity, can learn to play a musical instrument with a de- gree of success. The talented child, or the one gifted musically, will play far better, of course, with less effort. I have another neighbor who goes and sits quietly beside her small daugh- ter, and listens appreciatively while her child practises. She does not dis- courage the child, and when the child begins to fidget, says encouragingly,
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Apru, 1935 “T liked the way you played that last piece. It was so quiet and refreshing. I must tell your father how well you are doing.” She reports that the fidgeting always grows less. Her daughter takes great pride in giving pleasure to her mother and, feeling successful, plays at her best level. Parents sometimes complain that children resent having to practise as much as they resent having their ears scrubbed or taking castor oil. The wise mother nowadays prevents the neces- sity for castor oil through right diet and general health conditions. She is also a wise mother who starts her child off on the right musical diet and pre- vents his having the upset which re- quires treatment. His practise room should be well ventilated with pure air. Then he won’t grow sleepy or waddle from lack of oxygen. The room should be com- fortably warm, as chilly fingers are clumsy fingers. If the child is rebellious, don’t stage a clash of wills with him. Don’t force him. Try tactful persuasion. Remind him of the good musical foundation he has made in these first lessons; or later ones, as the case may be. Tip a member of the family off to the situ- ation, and get him to listen and make encouraging comments. Whatever you do, don’t hint that he’s different from other children, or slow in learning, or that you are disappointed in his prog- ress. REMEMBER that any child likes to be the center of the stage occasion- ally. We like to do the things we do well. Remember that nothing succeeds like success, and if you believe in him, he’s likely to catch your faith and en- thusiasm and generate some of his own. Certainly, if you must discipline him, make him dust or sort the papers. Don’t make him practise, or he’ll tie his practising up with punishment. No child ever became music-minded who looked on music as punishment. Music is a happy thing. Tie it forever in your child’s mind with happiness, and never with drudgery or pain. If your child still rebels, spend the price of a music lesson or two on those non-profit musical test records that the psychologist suggested to me. Invite the neighbors in, and have a musical testing bee. It doesn’t take long. It’s lots of fun, and you’ll learn surprising things. At least we did in my neigh- borhood. The: six double disc phonograph records which contain the musical test series, measure Sense of Pitch, In- tensity, Time, Consonance, Tonal Memory, and Rhythm. The first three are the basic musical capacities of hearing, requisites to musical progress, possessions of musical minds. I have, here at hand, the thirteen- page Manual of Instructions and In- terpretations which came with the six test records. It’s simple and foolproof. Out of sheer interest, however, I read further about each of the six capacities in Seashore’s “Psychology of Musical Talent,’ which I borrowed from the library before I gave the tests in my own home. When my neighbors were seated, and I had corralled the laundress’ son, I gave each a pencil and a sheet of paper marked off into squares. The Manual even contains a sample of how to mark off the paper. Then I played the Sense of Pitch record, telling my listeners that they 93 ‘To those who think Learning Music is hard- PERHAPS you think that taking music lessons is like taking a dose of medicine. It isn’t any longer! As far as you're concerned, the old days of long practice hours with their hard work exercises, and expensive personal teacher fees are over with. You have no alibis whatsoever for not making your start toward musical good times now! For, through a method that removes the boredom and extravagance from music lessons, you can now learn to play your favorite instrument entirely at home—without a@ private teacher—in half the usual time—at a frac- tion of the usual cost. Easy As Can Be The lessons come to you by mail from the famous U. 8. School of Music. 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I will also send you a sample copy of Strength & Health, the Physical Training Magazine. The book and magazine are free. 3 Write today telling me where to _ “= send your copy. Address. Bob Hoffman, York Bar Bell Co. Dept. PC 32, York, Pa. BOB HOFFMAN would hear two tones which differed in pitch; that they were to judge whether the second was higher or lower than the first. If the second was higher they were to record H; if lower, to record L. ‘ | The Sense of Pitch record contained one hundred pairs of tones, the pitches of which were sometimes extremely difficult to distinguish between. A key, giving the right answer for each trial, is given in the Manual. Then, when the record was finished, I read the answers aloud, and asked my neighbors to check their own answers. Mary Lou’s mother didn’t tell any of us what she got. But one is born with a fine ear, an average, or a poor one; and all the music lessons in the world can’t change your innate sense of pitch discrimina- tion to any appreciable degree. A sense of pitch is a requisite to good singing and to the playing of many string instruments, such as the violin, where the pitch is regulated by the performer. All of us have heard singing which was off-key, and violin playing which twanged our nerves with every stroke of the bow. Such persons usually have poor sense of pitch dis- crimination. The Sense of Intensity test is simi- larly given. From the phonograph record, my neighbors heard two tones. They were to judge whether the second tone was stronger or weaker than the first. The children called this test the loudness test. Children whose ears have been weakened by scarlet fever, measles, or whooping cough, do poorly on this test. Children who bang piano keys often lack acuteness of hearing or a sense of intensity. Physical Culture In glancing over Mary Lou’s paper later, I found that she missed many trials which seemed easy to the other children. The tones were very different in loudness to them, but to Mary Lou were the same. The Sense of Time test again con- sisted of one hundred pairs of sounds, this time of clicks, instead of tones. My neighbors judged the length of the interval between the second and third click, recording L if the interval be- tween the second and third click was longer than the interval between the first and second; and S if it was shorter. As the Sense of Pitch, the Sense of Intensity, and the Sense of Time are the three basic capacities for musical hearing, I shall not go into detail here about the other three tests. However they, too, deal with differences in tones, their combinations, or rhythmic pat- terns, and full details for giving or taking these tests are given in the Manual also. ELL, I guaranteed my neighbors that they’d find out some sur- prising things. And they did! Mary Lou’s mother discovered that Mary Lou, on whose musical education she had planned to spend thousands of dollars, had little sense of pitch, or time, or the loudness of musical tones. She is grateful that she found this out, and that her money will not be wasted. However, I am thankful that the torture of Mary Lou across the street has stopped. That she has a chance now at health and happiness. We did find out that the laundress’ son is al- most a musical genius. Perhaps we have another Paul Robeson in him! Q Are Spices Devoid of Food Value? or less soggy, may be slightly more di- gestible. Also if peeled potatoes are boiled in excess water, and the cooking water discarded, a very considerable loss of valuable minerals may occur through their being dissolved out and discarded in the water. The idea that potato skins, or the potato substance near the skin, is a highly valuable food, or the best part of the potato substance, has very lit- tle foundation in fact. It is an analogy from the food values in bran and the outer covering of grains, and in the grain germ, discarded in milling with the bran. Potato skins contain cellu- lose which may be of some value in the relief of constipation. Moreover, in paring old potatoes with a knife considerable waste occurs from the thick paring removed. So for economy, rather more than for health, eating the whole potato is good sense, but there are no mystical food values in potato skins, nor even in baked po- tatoes, excellent though they are. What will make bread keep? We are asked for a recipe of bread that will keep. We do not know of any, nor any practical safe way in which bread containing the ordinary amount of moisture could be made to keep. The better the bread is for human food the quicker it is going to spoil. A vast amount of injury to human health has occurred from the miscon- ception that foods that keep well are Continued from page 54 better foods than foods that spoil readily. The agencies that spoil food are for the most part living creatures, bacteria, molds and _ insects. The chemical laws of life are sufficiently similar for all living creatures that, generally speaking, the better food is for man the better it is for these little invading thieves whose presence in our food causes it to “spoil” for our use. We can defeat these living crea- tures in some ways without losing our own food values. A sufficient degree of cold stops their action without im- pairing the value of some foods. Bread frozen hard will keep just as frozen” meat does. The removal of all mois- ture or thorough drying will stop the growth of molds and bacteria and so keep bread or any other substance. But in some cases, as fruits and vege- tables, valuable elements (chiefly vitamin C) are lost by drying. Crackers keep because they are dry. Bread sliced and thoroughly dried will keep for the same reason. If sliced thin enough that one can chew it, it is not a bad food. Sweet cookies, fruit cake and some similar products appear to keep bet- ter without being so dry. This is due to the preserving action of sugar com- bined with comparative dryness. The reason an ordinary loaf of bread keeps as well as it does is because the crust is thoroughly sterilized and pretty well dried out in baking. This delays the growth of molds and
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April, 1935 checks their penetration into the damper interior of the loaf. Exterior dampness causes the molds to grow much more rapidly. Whole-wheat bread molds more quickly than white bread for the same reason weeds grow more rapidly in well-fertilized soil than on _ barren soil. Molds are tiny plants and given water and a good food supply they thrive. The sensible way to “keep” bread is to eat it. Is nut butter the same as nut mar- garine? A reader calls attention to what he considers indication of gross ignor- ance on our part, because we answered a query concerning “coconut butter” by describing nut margarine, which is commonly manufactured from the fat derived from the coconut. The criticism was probably quite justified, and we should have at that time distinguished between a butter,” which is ground nut meats, and dairy butter substitutes which may be made from the separated fat or oil of nuts, as well as from other oils or fats of either vegetable or an- imal origin. The defense for our in- terpretation of the question is that there is probably a hundred pounds of margarine, made from coconuts, con- sumed to every pound of coconut- butter made by grinding the dried co- conut meat. The latter is a home-made article, and is not, so far as we know, in the commercial market. Peanut butter seems to be the only butter made by the simple grinding of nuts that has any wide commercial sale. Almond butter is fairly well known, and very delicious, but not on general sale. Practically any nut meats may be made into the corresponding nut but- ters by grinding them through a small hand mill, with a suitable forced worm feed. Nuts are usually blanched for the purpose, that is the thin outer skin is removed. If this is done with hot water, it is necessary then to re- dry the nut meats in a slow oven, since to grind readily they must be as dry as possible. Will orange juice make the blood thin? One of our readers reports that his doctor told him that orange: juice would thin his blood and cause acidity of the stomach. This should win the prize for a medical man’s knocking of food because too many people are now seeking health through diet instead of medicine. But what kind of a “doctor”? The phrase, “thin the blood,” is an olé@ woman’s phrase. It belongs in the category of primitive medical ideas along with sassafras tea and rabbit’s. foot science. They used to tell us that “blood is thicker than water” and it is probably also thicker than orange juice. To thicken the blood add a tablespoon of corn-starch to each cup- ful and bring to a boil. Doctors who tell patients that orange juice will thin their blood almost make ours boil. Next Month— WHAT TWINS TELL US ABOUT HUMAN NATURE By Albert Edward Wiggam “nut- 95 XTRA! 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So we had a crop that, added to the holdover from previous surplus, furnished more than our season’s need for human bread supply. Some wheat.is now being fed to animals. The crops that suffered to a calam- itous extent were corn and all forms of pasture, hay and forage. These are the crops that we eat second-handed in the form of meat. The failure of the supplies of food for animals reacts in several ways to restrict meat pro- duction. Some animals died of thirst and heat or were shot to end their miseries. The Government bought, or the farmers dumped on the market, millions of animals in lean and poor condition from which the net meat yield per animal was very low. Short- age of food or high-priced feed dis- courages farmers from holding ani- mals for further growth gains or from breeding more young animals. HESE factors should have and did have the tendency to raise meat prices from the start. But at the same time there was the rushing of animals to market, making an immediate flood of meat, which tended to lower prices. These conflicting forces worked out unevenly with the different kinds of meat. : The price of pork went up first be- cause the stock of hogs had already been reduced by Government action previous to the drought. Mutton actu- ally fell in price while the price of pork was rising. The rushing of sheep to market because pastures were fail- ing flooded the market with more mut- ton than it would absorb in spite of the rising price of other meats. That is because Americans are not very en- thusiastic mutton eaters and the mar- ket will not absorb a _ surplus as quickly as it would an equal quantity of beef or pork. In the case of cattle, there was a heavy slaughter last summer, fol- lowed by some continued heavy sell- ing as various stocks of feed were ex- hausted. The total effect up to the present writing has been a moderate rise in the price of beef. Various forms of meat production respond differently to crop shortage and crop restoration. Pork shows the speediest reactions. When the corn crop fails, the farmer gets rid of his pigs as quickly as he can. They can- not makeshift as well as cattle on straw, corn-stalks or other poor sub- sistence feeds. The reduction of last fall’s pig crop—the ones that should ‘make pork this spring and summer— was. estimated at fifty per cent of the nation’s supply. But with new sources of food as- sured, the pig population will be the most quickly restored, the sow having the convenient capacity to give birth, twice a year, to litters of from six to ten pigs. High-priced _pork should stimulate a big crop this spring, but many farmers. do not have the brood sows and many more have no feed. Not until this year’s corn crop is as- sured can farmers safely breed pigs again in abundance. Pigs born this Physical Culture Continued from page 51 coming fall will not make pork till the summer of 1936, and it will prob- ably not be till the spring crop of pigs born a year from now are in the market in the winter of 1936-37 that the pork supplies will be fully restored. In the case of beef we get still slower reactions. It takes a cow from July till the next April to give birth to a calf, after she decides that is the proper thing to do. And the cow is good but for one lone calf a year as against the sow’s two sizable families. Whereas the pig makes pork at the age of eight to ten months, the beef steer is two, three or even four years of age before he goes to market. During the summer of 1934 the cat- tle in the country were reduced by about ten million head or fifteen per cent of their numbers. The reduction in numbers will probably continue un- til the calf crop of the spring of 1936. So it will not be till the year 1938 that we can look for full restoration of the beef supply. Even with good crops and the abun- dance of pork, restored meats are likely to continue high in price owing to the scarcity of beef. This situation will be further influenced by the ex- haustion of the Government canned beef which is now being rationed out to the unemployed. After that is gone these people will either go without meat or will become more active com- petitors for the general stocks of the market. Nowadays there are so many people on subsistence level incomes that the charity worker’s pet advice of telling the poor that neck stew, with sufficient cooking, becomes as tender as sirloin, is getting worn rather thin. If these advisers of the poor don’t watch out they will create such a demand for the cheap cuts of meat that the front end of the animal will become more in de- mand than the rear end. Ne THIS writing, prosperity is re- ported to be moving in our direc- tion. If it moves faster than the cows can calve, that will mean still higher prices of meat. There are enough people in these United States that have been eating bean soup and mutton stew for so many moons that what they would do—if they suddenly all got good jobs —to beefsteak and pork chops should make the cowboys and the hog men rejoice. But there are millions whose _ in- comes this season and probably also next season will remain fixed, and for whom high-priced meats mean either a sacrifice of some other needed pur- chases or a curtailment in the amount of meat consumed. That brings us to the dietetic part of the problem which is the old question of how good or bad, how essential or non-essential, is meat as an article of human food. Meat at present prices, - or at any prices that would bring a fair return to the producers, is not an economical food. There is no easy or wholly fair way to express the comparative value of meat as against other foods. The fat of meat is neither particularly better nor worse than vegetable oils. Up to the point that added fat makes a diet more palatable, fats from either ani-
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April, 1935 mal or vegetable sources are justified in the diet. They are usually not quite as cheap a source of calories, or heat | units, as are grains, sugar or pota- toes. But fat meat is cheap enough as evidenced by its being used so exten- sively in the form of fat salt pork in the diet of our southern poor. It adds to the taste, but little to the nutri- tional value, of the competing ingre- dients of that diet, which are corn- meal, white flour, molasses and sweet potatoes. It is the lean meat that costs the money and is the extravagant item. Lean meat as a source of calories is exorbitant, since it supplies only about half the calories of bread and cereal products and is sold five to ten times the price per pound. Dietetically lean meat is justified only as a source of protein. Hence it is hardly justified at all, at least not in large quantities, in any general mixed American type of diet (includ- ing milk, eggs, cheese), for the simple reason that such diets already contain as much protein as needed. Adding more in the form of lean meat in siz- able amounts is of doubtful value since there is as much or more evidence that such added protein is harmful as there is that it is beneficial. That is the essence of the question of the dietetic value of meat, and the basis for the principle that where one must economize on the food bill, the first place to cut is the butcher’s bill for lean meat. HE real reasons that meat is so ex- tensively used are reasons of taste. The more monotonous and tasteless the diet, the more highly meat is valued. The nutritional writings issued in Russia today sound like they had been copied from American nutritional writings of forty years ago. The whole problem of dietary improvement is there seen as one of increasing the proportion of meat (and other animal products). The reasons are obvious enough. The Russians now have a meat consumption of less than a third of what Americans enjoy. Moreover, the Russian diet otherwise is exceed- ingly limited and monotonous, being chiefly composed of grains, potatoes and cabbage. In such a diet, meat is more needed nutritionally and very much more wanted for reasons of taste. The question of the dietetic value of meat has always been somewhat con- fused by the sentimental and dogmatic ideas of vegetarianism. In this coun- try, it seems to the writer that there was more interest in vegetarianism a generation ago than there is today. But perhaps that is an illusion, for on checking my memory I find that there were just about the same num- ber of vegetarian restaurants in New York City when I first encountered them twenty-nine years ago as there are today. 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The greatest influence that has re- sulted in a decreased use of meat has been the general improvement of the non-meat elements of the American diet in respect to variety, tastiness and nutritional value. Associated with this has been the growth and spread of scientific knowledge that places less nutritional value on meat and much greater value on other food products that may be substituted for meat both in the actual diet and in the matter of popular esteem. Due to these or other forces, the per capita consumption of meat in the Uni- ted States during the forty years from 1890 to 1930 decreased about forty per cent. Inability of the consumer to pur- chase meat was not responsible. The low point in cattle population was reached in 1928, a year of boom pros- perity. During the actual depression, meat production increased—until the Government and the drought took a hand in reducing it. That increase was not due to consumer’s demand but to the desperate efforts of the farmers to find a way to make money when field crops no longer brought the cost of production. ‘THis long-time trend in the reduc- tion of meat consumption was prob- ably a good thing for the health of the American consumer. But it was not a good thing for American agri- culture. It takes about ten times as great an acreage to support a man on beef or mutton as on vegetable food- stuffs. In the case of pork or of dairy products the difference is not so great but it is still about three to one in favor of the vegetable products. This decrease of some forty per cent in meat consumption was a very im- portant factor in contributing to the excess of acreage under cultivation and which the Government is now try- ing to reduce. This is a complication that seems to have escaped general at- tention. If the American people could be persuaded to eat the quantities of meat they did in 1890 it would give a use, as pasturage and fodder-produc- ing lands, for the fifty million excess acres which the Government says must be taken out of cultivation. But thé trouble with that method of restoring farm prosperity is that the American consumers do not want to eat that much meat. Nor do they wish to pay for it. They have found other ways to spend their money. This in- cludes not only other forms of food, such as fruits, milk and vegetables, but it also includes a greater relative increase of expenditures for other things than food. Increasing our meat consumption might make mid- western farmers more prosperous but it would not make meat consumers more prosperous, and there are more meat consumers than meat producers. Prosperity must come from a greater abundance of many things, not from the substitution of extravagant for economical things. Meat is not an economical food to produce nor to consume. Poor people and poor nations cannot afford to in- dulge in it. In old and over-crowded nations like China and India, meat becomes a luxury for the rich. In most of Europe, meat has for generations Physical Culture been a once-a-week luxury for the workers and peasants, an indulgence much like our Sunday chicken dinners. The modern nations that have eaten meat in abundance so that it becomes an every-day or every-meal dish have been comparatively new countries with productive land in great excess of the food needs of the inhabitants. Argen- tina, Australia and New Zealand are such lands today. The United States was such a land up to about 1890, at which time, with half our present pop- ulation, we produced nearly as much pork and beef as we do today. This American drift toward a lower meat diet is by no means identical with the low meat consumption in over-crowded and poverty-stricken na- tions. Not national poverty but na- tional wealth was the main cause of our forty-year decrease in meat eating. We did not cut down on meat consump- tion in favor of potatoes, rye bread and cabbage soup, as the peasants of Eastern Europe, or in favor of rice, millet and soy-beans as in the Orient. We replaced meat, not with more mon- otonous and less tasty foods, but with a greater variety of more varied and often more tempting and dainty food. The old fried ham or wheat cakes and sausage breakfast of 1890 became the grapefruit, creamed cereal, buttered bee and poached egg breakfast of And then began the complications of that benighted business of starva- tion in the midst of plenty, of personal poverty caused by an excess of na- tional wealth production—of increased meat production with decreased ability of consumers to buy it, and finally re- striction of meat production by poli- tical action topped by the more effec- tive action of the Rain-maker. During this era of readjustment we will hear many voices crying advice from many viewpoints. We will be asked to eat more meat and pay more for it to support the Government plan of reconverting the semi-arid wheat lands back into cattle ranges, while cotton farmers will be told to produce more peanut-fed porkers. But such an effort to bring back prosperity to farmers by increasing meat consumption will meet with dif- ficulties because the more prosperous Americans have come to prefer the varied delicacies of the semi-vegetar- ian diet while the greater mass of un- employed and underpaid are now obliged to curtail meat consumption because meat is the most expensive item in the bill of fare. From its very nature, meat never really becomes an economical food un- less it is sold below its actual cost of production in terms of land and labor. Even when this happens, as it did in 1932, it does not result in any very great increase in the use of the prod- uct. The complete restoration of city and industrial prosperity, with full em- ployment and high wages for all workers, would certainly increase the total demand for meat over its pres- ent consumption. But it would not re- store meat consumption to anything like the per capita figure of a gener- ation ago. The more _ prosperous workers today do not imitate the diet of their grandfathers but rather that of their newly rich neighbors, in which meat is used sparingly along with other luxury foods unknown or unused by our ancestors. We have not, so far in this discus-
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Apri, 1935 sion, distinguished between meat and those non-meat products of animal in- dustry represented by milk and _ its derived products, and eggs. These products have also suffered curtail- ment of production due to the drought and the shortage of animal feeds, and in consequence prices have advanced. But these changes have not been as great as in the case of meat. Milk and egg production was not so cen- tered in the drought-afflicted areas, and these non-flesh animal products occupy a different role in the modern dietetic tendencies. During the forty years in which the American appetite for meat was nearly halved, the per capita egg consumption about held its own, whereas the consumption of dairy products steadily increased until consumer buying power was reduced by the depression. In the production of milk and eggs we do not have the conflict of interest shown to exist in the case of meat. The increase of the dairy and poultry industries, if fair prices can be main- tained, means greater total prosperity to the farm producers. But this inter- est also coincides with both the ten- dencies of modern diet and _ with present ideas and teaching of science. Nutritionists are agreed that an in- crease in per capita milk consumption is an excellent index of a _ better-fed population. The greatest damage to na- tional health brought about by the de- pression and drought comes from the restriction of milk consumption. In dairy products, consumption is found to vary closely with consumer buying power. So here we have a clear-cut case of where the restoration of pros- perity to city workers is immediately reflected by added prosperity to farm producers—which is not true in the case of wheat, and is rather uncertain in the case of meat. Milk is never a cheap food, but be- cause of its effect in improving the diet as a whole, it may still be classed as an economical food. Reducing milk consumption for monetary economy is bad human economy, whereas reduc- ing meat consumption may be good economy on both counts. A justified saving on money spent for milk may often be gained by using less bottled milk and more evaporated canned milk. Dried milk would be a still cheaper form for those who have the ingenuity to get it at bulk prices, but the consumer demand has not yet re- sulted in dried milk being generally sold, as it should be, at low rates in the retail channels. GQ How Much Strength Do I Want? Strength is certainly more than just a matter of muscle and training, even though these are usual _ essentials. Everyone has heard of the strength of superhuman character that is dis- played at times by an insane or delir- ious individual. Several times in my life, I have been called upon to sub- due, single-handed, a violent person during a spell of insanity. Let me tell you, the strength of such people is uncanny. Only a man who is terrifically powerful and skilled in handling him- self in wrestling or jiu jitsu is able to overcome these abnormal people. One case that I recall was of a chap who was subject to spells of uncon- sciousness, somewhat resembling epi- leptic fits. He would come out of these spells fighting like a wild man. Know- ing this trait, I always pinioned his arms, while carrying him to a couch. On a few occasions, he wrenched him- self free, despite my best endeavors. Under normal conditions, this fellow, who was rather a small man, could not have broken away from my hold if it would have won him a million dollars. Strength of a similar nature comes to a person when he is fighting for his life, or trying to rescue some one dear to him. A striking instance of this latter cause for super-strength came to my. attention a few days ago. Two men were working on a scaffolding one hundred and _ fifty feet high. They were doing some painting on a New York skyscraper. Suddenly one rope gave way and dumped the scaffold and one man to the pavement below. The other chap was fortunate enough to grab the re- maining rope with one hand. In his other hand he held a large pail of paint, which weighed about sixty pounds. Looking down from this vast height, the man saw a large crowd collected around the remains cf his broken comrade. To drop this Continued from page 50 bucket would probably kill others, so though he jeopardized his own chance of living, this hero held on. He held on for dear life until a couple of workmen made their way from the sidewalk to the window where he was dangling and effected a rescue! Now, I'll be willing to wager that, at normal times, this same man cannot hang for thirty seconds while holding himself in a like manner with the same weight in the other hand. OW do we account for unusual generation of strength during the stress of emergencies, insane periods and the like? Of course, the endocrin- ologist vlibly informs‘us that it is the instantaneous injection of adrenalin into the circulation from the suprarenal glands. How can it act so quickly? How can it act in all parts of the body at once, as quickly as a flash of light- ning? Yes, I know what the up-to- date physiologist will undertake to ex- plain; but it does not satisfy me. The real source of strength and its varying degrees in different men who may live, eat. and train alike, is an enigma that is hard to answer. The rabid dietitian will tell us that, other things being equal, we get our energy and strength from our daily intake of calories. How would he ex- plain the fact that I have witnessed, times innumerable, people who have fasted and yet have shown a progres- Sive increase of strength each succes- sive day? This proves that perfection of condition is of great importance, as well as one’s nutrition. 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It has brought ease, comfort and happi- ness to thousands by assisting in relieving and aiding many cases of reducible hernia. It has Auto- matic Air Cushions which bind and draw the broken parts together as you woulda . broken limb. No obnoxious C.E. Brooks, Inventor springs or pads. -No salves or Seno op Durable, cheap. Sent;on trial-toprove it. eware of imitations. Never sold in stores nor by agents. Write today for full information’sent free in plain, sealed envel ope. ‘ H. G. BROOKS, 176 A State St., Marshall, Michigan empty of food, and substituting only grape juice, I worked with pleasure and perfection. When my work was finished, I enjoyed, to the fullest ex- tent, plenty of substantial nourish- ment. Doubtless every reasonable reader of this article will agree that it is de- sirable to have as much strength as is compatible with its cost. You say, “What do you mean by cost? I can develop all the strength possible for me, without spending one penny.” I do not mean that kind of cost. Every one of us has his limitations in all things. Each of us should learn, as quickly as possible, just how much time and energy can be devoted to physical cultivation, and still permit a recuperation that brings an increase in power. We must also learn to make allowances for our vocations and the energy and attention required to make a real success in this department of life. In other words, no expert physi- cal director can know some of the things about you that you must learn about yourself, from yourself. E ARE not all of us constituted exactly alike. Some are very strong and active on very abstemious diets, while others seem to require an appal- ling amount of nourishment to be strong. It is the same way about exercise and recuperation. There are athletes who can work hard every day and thrive on it; others will soon grow stale and weakened if there is not an alternate day of rest between work- outs. Learn what your own measure is and do not overfill it. When anyone puts up the argument that it is folly to spend valuable time developing a physique and strength far in excess of modern requirements, don’t be influenced into coinciding. No one ever talks that way who has enjoyed carefully cultivated super- strength. Your well-conditioned strong man feels something that places him apart from ordinary mortals. Yes sir! The gentleman of strength has something on average men, and cannot help feeling it. I don’t mean to say that he is snobbishly egotistical; but he cannot avoid looking commisera- tingly at those physical weaklings who totally disregard the development of good, sound bodies. Your strong man is usually strong in everything he does. He is self- reliant; he fears no man; he can look any man squarely in the eyes and say, “No, Yes,” shake his hand or tell him to go to blazes, according to whatever the situation justifies. Your strong man makes a stronger, yet more gentle lover, a respecter and protector of wo- men and the weak. His whole view- point on life seems to be tempered with the vital emanations that one would expect from a strong, vigorous human institution. One who would build all the strength that is compatible with his constitu- tional heritage, his frame, his occupa- tion and his general potentialities, naturally thinks about the influence of his daily food. Let us try to settle the argument about a_ strong man’s victuals and the part they play in his program. The zone in which one lives naturally has much to do with dietetic requirements. A vegetarian would not find his diet suitable for the Arctic regions; neither would the Eskimo thrive on his exclusively carnivorous diet, down in the tropics. Yet there are undoubtedly very powerful and healthy Eskimos, and we have read and been Physical Culture told of giants of strength and endur- ance in China, who subsist almost en- tirely on rice. These two diametrically extreme cases show that it does not pay to become too fanatical about exclu- Sive diet systems. There are, however, a few funda- mental facts that experience has proved sound and essential. We will head the list with this admonition: Never force nutrition, in the belief that the more you can make yourself absorb, the stronger you will become. Just the opposite is true. Food, in excess of the bodily demands, steals energy, stultifies the brain and nervous system, lessens the contractile power. of the muscles, overworks the depura- ting organs and invites’ structural disorders and eventual disease. Intelligent nutrition must start with the law of demand and supply. We must try to keep an equilibrium be- tween destruction and reconstruction of body tissues, plus the fuel for heat, energy, and for mechanical activi- ties. One who can gage this ac- curately, with neither.an excess nor a deficiency, is fortunate indeed. He will be splendidly fit and enjoy the zenith of his powers at all times. A’™ strong man in active training naturally needs more food than a clerk behind the ribbon counter. He needs more food than the advocate of light calis- thenics, but he does not need as much as a lumberjack who works hard all day long in the cold outdoors. It would surprise many to learn what light eaters some of our modern, famous strong men actually are. UNDER all circumstances, remember that everybody, strong or weak, should make this an inflexible rule; the less time one has in which to eat, or the less capacity one has -for food, the more necessary it is that every mouth- ful eaten should be good, substantial, nourishing, well-prepared food. Peo- ple who desire the acme of strength should keep well supplied with min- erals. Those raw fruits and vege- tables and their juices, that are rich in minerals, may not seem to be mediums of strength at first thought. The alkalinity of one’s system; the gland tone and the harmonious func- tioning of every cell and organ, re- quires minerals and vitamins as well as the flesh-building and fuel-supply- ing foods. Don’t lightly pass _ by dietetic information; it can be a real factor in strength as well as in health. Possessing great strength is as sen- sible for modern man as is the posses- sion of a margin of wealth that protects his future. A rich man could live very comfortably in a very modest home, yet he builds himself a mansion. He delights in living in a luxurious structure. The pride of possession compensates him for his efforts to achieve. The strong man feels a similar delight and pride. His body is the mansion that he has constructed for his soul! Everything that nature grows or that man builds, usually possesses a margin of strength, greatly in excess of normal requirements. This excess margin of strength is to allow for emergencies, unexpected stress and the deteriorating influence of time. Your own body possesses this poten- tial, marginal strength at birth. First, it is up to your parents as to how this is cultivated or destroyed; then at maturity, it is up to you! What are you going to do about it? How much strength do you want?
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April, 1935 Gg How to Decide Your Moral Problems acts, they do not use their imaginations and ask themselves these questions: “Now when I get into the midst of those consequences, what shall I do next? What is going to be the next set of consequences and the next and the next?” Perhaps the best advice here is, “Stop, Look and Listen.” 6. WHAT WILL IT Do TO OTHERS? —We are all so likely when we get in the midst of a hard problem to be so absorbed in what any decision may mean to us that we think only vaguely or not at all of what it is going to do to others. Of course here is the most direct application of the greatest rule ever given to mankind for deciding all moral questions, namely, The Golden Rule. It is here, however, that science comes most directly to the aid of morals. The Golden Rule is per- fection in its ethical spirit but science can greatly aid us in putting it into effect. My entire book, “The New Decalogue of Science”’—now out of print—was written to prove this one point. The Golden Rule says to love your neighbor as yourself, but how can you love him intelligently if you do not know what is good for him? And how can you find out what is good for him except through experimental science? As an example, “Give a cup of cold water to your neighbor,” is a counsel of perfection; but science asks sternly, “Are there any disease germs in it? Are you giving him health or poison and death?” And so, with all of the effects of your life and morals upon others. You must be practical and, whenever possible, seek the aid of science in order to know how your decisions will affect other people. 7. Witt My DEeEcIsion SHOW ME To Be a Goop Sport?—The ideals of good sportsmanship are a combination of all the best ideals of the race. They include the Golden Rule, as applied to others, and the last ounce of courage and manliness, as applied to oneself. The lowest races and the highest races of mankind have these ideals. Of the Indian who found he was drifting over Niagara Falls and stood up in his canoe and calmly folded his arms and went to his death—men and wo- men of all races exclaim, “He was a good sport!” All history and _liter- ature are made inspiring with similar examples. Every man—every woman, too—knows when he is a good sport, and if your decision does not meet the highest demands of good sportsman- ship you may know you are wrong. 8. Witt IT CREATE FOR ME A GREATER AND HAPPIER AFTER-SELF?— Somewhere waiting in the future to meet you is your “after-self”. You should think now whether or not your decision of the problem before you shall make it a happy meeting. As David Starr Jordan said, “Your first duty in life is toward your after-self ... far and away in the years he is waiting his turn. His body, his brain, his soul are in your... hands. He cannot help himself. What will you leave for him? ... This is your prob- lem in life. ... How will you meet it, as a man or a fool? It comes before you today and every day, and the hour of your choice is the crisis in your destiny.” 9; Witt It MAKE You THE MAN Continued from page 15 OR WOMAN You MIGHT HAVE BEEN?— That prose poet, Arthur Colton, wrote a beautiful story entitled, “Mr. Smed- ley’s Guest.” Mr. Smedley was a rich man whose mind was wholly absorbed in stocks and bonds. One evening, when the family and servants were gone, Mr. Smedley dozed in his chair, but was suddenly awakened by the entrance of an unbidden guest. For a moment Mr. .Smedley was _ incensed, but the stranger talked so brilliantly of the many things that Mr. Smedley had dreamed in his early years of doing, that he soon forgot his irrita- tion. The stranger presently spoke of the famous book Mr. Smedley had written. At first, Mr. Smedley could not recall the book but as the stranger described it, it came back powerfully to the rich banker’s mind. Presently the stranger played on the piano what he said were some of Mr. Smedley’s famous compositions and spoke of the pictures he had painted. All these, too, gradually came back into Mr. Smedley’s memory. As the guest rose to leave, the banker expressed his de- light in his enchanting company but faltered that he had not quite under- stood his name, and finally asked pointedly, “Who are you?” Looking at him with his fascinating eyes, that seemed to penetrate Mr. Smedley’s soul, the guest replied, “J am the man you might have been,’ and vanished. This is a picture of the life of us all and the moral decisions you make now are the decisions that shall determine whether or not your dreams of the man or woman you might be shall come true. 10. WILL IT STRENGTHEN OR WEAKEN My WILL-POWER?—Most peo- ple imagine that “will-power” is some mysterious force that they can some- how reach up and get hold of and by which they can lift themselves by their mental bootstraps. Will-power is simply a set of habits—the combi- nation of your habits of acting deci- sively on every occasion in the right way. Every right act, therefore, strengthens your will and every wrong act weakens it; and, as James said, forming a habit is like winding a ball of yarn; one slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. It is therefore extremely important never to lose a battle. This is the es- sence of that great maxim that James gave the world: ‘‘Make your nervous system your friend instead of your enemy.” Every right deed, every vig- orous decision that is carried out into action makes your very nerve centers your strongest ally. 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Address PAULINE PALMER, 1075 Armour Bivd., Kansas City, Mo. among the nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering it to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literal- ness, wiped out. As we become per- manent drunkards by so many sepa- rate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.” It all comes back, then, to the sim- Q Beauty on Nothing a Year— planning a living regimen that will not only secure the right things for you to eat and sufficient rest and ex- ercise but will eliminate as far as possible the worries and petty irrita- tions that work such havoc with one’s peace of mind. Elimination of waste matter from the body is an important “must” in every woman’s code of beauty. Many women fail to realize that elimination should mean sufficient elimination and with certain individuals three move- ments a day are essential to securing the results they need. Drinking plenty of water is another way to keep the body rid of waste accumulations and to avoid that shrunken, yellowish look which invariably accompanies _ill-ad- vised diets for reducing. ILK and fruit and certain raw vegetables or cooked ones like spinach, beet tops, cabbage, will give your complexion a clear and healthy appearance. Sleep will smooth out the lines and erase the puffy look which we frequently get when we’ve cheated on our hours of rest or allowed some dis- turbing thought to upset our mental equilibrium to the place where our faces look drawn or haggard. The average feminine face needs more, however, than the general treat- ment which I have just outlined, in order to approach the radiant ideal of which every woman dreams. Faces can get dirty or dry and chapped no matter how efficiently you. guard your general health. Soap and water is a grand beauty treatment for wilted, grimy faces providing you use a mild soap and will rinse your face thor- oughly with warm then cold water and won’t rush out into sharp weather before your skin has had a chance to be completely dry. We frequently hear women deplore the use of soap and water on the com- plexion, believing that its continued use has a tendency to injure the deli- cate texture of the latter. Then why use it on a baby? Do you know that in a recent cosmetic survey it was dis- covered that 95 per cent of American women habitually use soap and water on their precious faces? That a num- ber of smart New York salons use a lather of mild pure soap-suds as part of their most popular “facials”? That the English women, whose ex- quisite complexions are legendary, wouldn’t think of omitting their daily or twice-daily soap and water cleansing routine? I sometimes feel that maybe we cod- dle our faces too much. After all, what they actually need are three processes—cleansing, nourishing, stim- ulating. Anything more than that is a waste of time except from the stand- point of amusing ourselves with dec- orative effects. Physical Culture ple, but powerful character-building psychology my mother both practised and preached to her children, “Get all the counsel you can, analyze all the facts around the situation, but in the end make the decision yourself, for thereby you strengthen your will, you clarify your intellect, you build your character and progress steadily toward that man or woman of independence, self-confidence and will—the strong and happy person you dreamed you wanted to be. Continued from page 39 Use your soap and water, rinse thoroughly and then if you are con- scious of a feeling of drawn skin or dryness or sensitiveness, pat on a wee bit of nourishing cream to restore the creamy smooth texture which we all love. I believe in a daily lubricating of the complexion with whatever’ skin food feels most agreeable to your type of skin. Do this any time during the twenty-four hours that fits in most conveniently with your — schedule. Night is best in some cases for then you can permit a film of the cream to remain on all night to complete its good work. With some women this length of time isn’t necessary and might do more harm than good in en- couraging facial flabbiness. Work the cream into your skin with firm, brisk pats, remembering always to move in an upward and outward direction. If you can’t afford a ready-made cream, use drug-store lanolin, which is the base of many fine commercial skin foods. Most of us detest home-made substitutes for beautifying prepara- tions, however, and there is plenty of justification for our feeling that way, when we consider how pleasant and fragrant and appetizing are the pro- fessional products in comparison with the crudeness of their original state. Unconsciously we absorb the feeling of beauty when we use beautiful things. you will remember that I said a little way back that determination was essential to achieving and retain- ing prettiness on practically nothing a year? This statement was recently substantiated by a physician in a re- mark made to a mutual friend. The latter had allowed her good looks to go to pieces because she was no longer able financially to adhere to her ac- customed schedule of having profes- sional beauty work whenever she felt she needed it. The doctor felt sorry for the young woman because she was desolate over her husband’s indiffer- ence, an attitude which she quite logi- cally attributed to her present “run down at the heel” appearance. And this is what he said to her: “My dear child, for the first time your husband is seeing you as you actually are, because all the artificial beauty aids which you have hitherto relied upon have been removed. If you are normally an attractive wo- man, you will give a pretty good in- dication of it at a time when your face is entirely free of make-up and your hair has been brushed and pol- ished so that it flatters your face like a picture frame. What you have then is a foundation on which you can create your individual charm portrait. You are unattractive today because you have allowed your foundation of good looks to deteriorate and are
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April, 1935 either too ignorant or too lazy to re- build it. Go home and make up your mind to achieve a lovely skin, bright eyes, shining hair, a trim figure, by your own efforts, and the depression will henceforth have no more terrors for you as far as necessitating the art and ministrations of others to keep you good looking.” Now just a word or two specifying what determination can do for you in your “home work” beauty campaign. First of all, make up your’ mind what beauty treatment suits your par- ticular skin and stick to it. This may mean soap and water once a day, three times a day or merely twice a week. Decide upon a nourishing cream that does most for your skin and won’t pinch your pocketbook too much, and don’t be foolish enough to believe that you must have a certain advertised product or none at all. Excellent cleansing creams and skin foods may be had at extremely moderate prices just as much as at high ones. Learn to use your cleansing or nourishing creams economically. A heavy coating of either one won’t produce any bet- ter results than a thin one. Your skin can only absorb so much of a skin food anyway. In my opinion the most efficient beauty treatment is a facial cleansing with a soft brush and warm soap-suds, followed by a _ thorough rinsing and a dash of witch hazel or ice water. Lastly a film of rich cream should be patted in thoroughly and allowed to remain on for about twenty minutes. At the end of that time, re- move the cream with cleansing tissues and go over your face lightly with a wash-cloth wrung out in cool water. It should now feel as fresh and dewy as a rosebud and the powder should ad- here satisfactorily to the faint film of cream that remains. Don’t neglect your daily throat ex- ercises if you want to keep a firm and pleasing chin line. You can do this for yourself in ten minutes daily and thus avoid those sagging muscles which every woman naturally dreads. You can do marvelous things for your hair with daily brushing and scalp massage. Invest in a good per- manent wave and get your hair-dresser to show you how to roll up the ring- lets on a pencil to give a professional effect. There’s a new quick setting wave lo- tion that can be sprayed on your dry hair when the original finger wave is disappearing, which will enable you to retrace it and thus prolong the period between visits to your hair- dresser. The more thoroughly you brush your hair and massage your scalp to remove dust or traces of dan- druff, the more time can elapse between shampoos. When even the pennies must be carefully counted, wash your hair yourself and let your hair-dresser set it, or if you are clever with your fingers, train yourself to put in what is called a shadow wave and roll up the ringlets in the manner I suggested. A well-known hair-dresser tells me that the average woman can learn to dress her own hair if she will watch carefully how it should be done and then practise it once or twice under professional supervision. You can give yourself a home-made manicure that will have all the ear- marks of a professional one if you will supply yourself with the right kind of tools (which you won’t permit to be used for other purposes, such as cut- ting wire) and will set aside as much time for the job as an operator would do in a beauty parlor. As the proprietor of a popular beauty salon once said to me: ‘‘Women who come in here and pay me fabulous amounts to have their bodies put into beautiful shining order could accom- plish for themselves the same thing if | they would only take a similar amount of time and trouble. Beauty, like genius, is based largely upon taking pains!” There, my dears, is something to think about! : : . Continued f @ Dietetic Fads and Fanctes—~ page 21 met by a dietary of milk, cheese, eggs, butter, whole-meal cereals, fruits and vegetables. Animal flesh is not an absolute essential of the human dietary. Where most people are apt to go wrong is in the “balancing” of the various items of the dietary. They eat too much of one and too little of another food and so upset the bio- chemistry of the body. We may divide foods into the acid-formers and the alkali-formers and as all the tissues of the body are naturally slightly al- kaline, it is obvious that the consump- tion of the alkali foods should be greater than that of the acid foods. Diminished alkalinity of the tissues renders them prone to numerous dis- orders of health. Milk, fruits (in- cluding the acidic lemon which in the body laboratory is burned to form an alkali residue), and vegetables are alkali producers, while meat, eggs and the cereals are acid producers. Fruits and vegetables vary in their acid neu- tralizing powers but the most valuable in this respect are lemons, raisins, carrots, spinach, parsnips and beans. Clearly, then, to ensure the necessary alkalinity of health, an abundance of milk, fruits and vegetables in relation to animal flesh and cereals should fig- ure in the well-balanced dietary. In addition, the alkali-producing foods will provide ample amounts of rough- age to facilitate bowel action and vita- mins and mineral salts to ensure een functioning of all the body cells. Limits of space prevent further dis- cussion of these basic principles of nu- trition and we will now turn our at- tention to some of the common faults of dieting. Over-consumption of con- centrated starchy food is one of the most prevalent dietetic sins of modern times. Too much sugar intake strains the sugar-controlling mechanism of the body and disturbs the chemistry of the blood. In children, the ill effects of this is most marked but they are also serious in the case of adults. Modern medical opinion holds that over-con- sumption of sugar is to a large degree responsible for the prevalence of diabetes, obesity, catarrhal infections, high blood pressure and dyspepsia. Also, in so far as sugar tends to spoil the appetite, it leads to an insufficient intake of fats, fruits and vegetables. It is a common experience that the sweet-eating child is very liable to “colds,” catarrhs and constipation. Excessive animal flesh eating is the next common dietetic error. 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Apart from diminishing body alkalin- ity, excessive meat eating tends to in- crease intestinal putrefaction, and may lead to severe intestinal self-poison- ing. Extreme moderation in meat con- sumption should be the rule. Healthy persons, free from constipation, may eat meat—but once a day only and with not infrequent omissions. Those who suffer from constipation or dys- pepsia would do best to avoid animal flesh altogether. gt us now briefly give some atten- tion to a number of dietetic taboos which from time to time are fashion- able. For. the most part these taboos are backed up with semi-scientific arguments. For instance, it is often asserted that starch and fruit are not to be eaten at the same meal, pre- sumably because the free acid of the fruit would interfere with the diges- tion of starch which requires an al- kaline medium. Well, it may be that some few people cannot tolerate this combination of foodstuffs but to make it an»-irrevocable dietetic principle is quite unjustifiable. The digestive ap- paratus is not a test tube plus some chemical reagents. At the same time, it would be bad physiology to start a complete meal with fatty or oily foods for these would definitely restrict gas- tric secretion and retard the digestion of the meal. The common practise of Physical Culture commencing a meal with a little clear soup, on the other hand, is quite sound, as this will gently stimulate the se- cretory activity of the stomach. Exclusion of common salt from food is another taboo which has had some popular favor. No doubt there is a grain of truth in this idea, as exces- sive salting of food can be harmful through irritating the delicate mem- branes of the mouth, throat and stom- ach. Certainly, most natural foods contain salts, but cooking processes tend to cause their diminution, so that the addition of a little salt at table cannot do harm to a healthy person. Limitation of the amount of water in- take is yet another recent veto which has claimed some support from those who are given to fads. It is difficult to imagine any reason, scientific or otherwise, for this and the idea ap- pears merely to be foolish and per- verse. No doubt there are numerous other strange dietetic fancies but it is suffi- cient to indicate that the intelligent person should always be sceptical of any dietetic habit which cannot be rec- onciled with the fundamental prin- ciples. There will always be fashions in diet as there are in clothes but di- etetic fashions can have unfortunate repercussions on health and should al- ways be suspected. There must be in- dividual variations in diet, admittedly, for we are not all constituted alike and one man’s meat may be another man’s poison. Yet the basic rules of dieting remain and are our infallible guide. Dietetic fads and fancies read- ily assume epidemic form but the best protection is a knowledge of the ele- mental laws of human nutrition. Q Questions from Health Seekers the direct rays of the sun or to arti- ficial sunlight. This tends to aid heal- ing but is best not done until the pain occasioned by the burn has subsided and any erythema has disappeared. Flatulence UESTION: I am troubled with a tremendous amount of gas in my stomach and bowels; sometimes I hardly finish a meal before I begin to expel gas. What can I do? WALTER H. ANSWER: Gas is, as a rule, the product of fermentation, and fermen- tation is the result of some abnormal condition of the digestive organs, in many cases, while in other cases, the organs are not diseased but their function is disturbed. Again, over- eating, eating too rapidly without thorough mastication of the food, and the eating of improper combinations of food will cause the formation of considerable amounts of gas in the digestive tracts. Some of the abnormal conditions of the digestive organs which are the cause of flatulence are catarrh of the stomach, gastric or duo- denal ulcer, prolapse of the stomach or intestines, dilatation of the stom- ach, constipation and diarrhea. The symptoms of flatulence are naturally distension of the abdomen, pain, palpi- tation of the heart, difficulty in breath- ing, eructation of gas or the passing of gas from the bowels. Many painful Continued from page 12 symptoms are due to pressure upon various nerves in the body. Pain ex- perienced in flatulence varies. Some- times it is very severe, sometimes only very moderate. It may be a steady pain which remains until the condi- tion is relieved or it may be parox- ysmal. Expulsion of gas usually re- lieves the symptoms quite promptly, although in some cases there may be some pain remaining for a consider- able period of time. When one has an attack, it is often very promptly re- lieved by the drinking of two or three glasses of hot water and by making pressure with the hands over different parts of the abdomen. A hot enema of plain water or soap suds will often bring relief. If the drinking of the water and pressure over the abdomen fail to give relief, hot compresses on the abdomen may be used to good re- sults. Occasionally emptying the stom- ach of its contents may be called for. Abdominal massage used in clock-wise motion is also of value. Following an attack of flatulence, one should be particularly careful of the diet, and a fast of one or two days may be very advisable as it gives the stomach and the intestines a chance to rest. Dur- ing a fast, a daily enema is taken and a good deal of plain water should be ‘drunk. After the fast, the diet should be mild and very light for a time, but it is of the utmost importance to find out exactly what produces the flatu- lence and with what measures to eradi- cate this condition.
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