Physical Culture: The Personal Problem Magazine (May, 1935)

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Model posed in an All-in-one a satin-knit of Dupont Rayon Read This Table of Contents DECIDE HOW YOU WANT TO LOOK DIET AND EXERCISE FOR GENERAL REDUCING WHEN FAT IS LOCALIZED—Too Much Hips, Lumps of Fat on the Hips, Reducing Abdomen, Reducing the Breasts, Firming the Breasts, Fat Pudgy Arms, Slenderizing the Legs and Ankles, Correcting Bow-legs, Slimming the Thighs and Upper Legs, Re- ducing Fat on the Back, Squeezing off Fat, Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way—to Reduce REDUCING FOR THE ANEMIC GAIN FIFTEEN OR MORE POUNDS A MONTH IF YOU’RE THIN IN PLACES—Enlarge Your Chest, Develop Your Legs PEOPLE WHO SIT ALL DAY—“Desk Chair Spread,” Drooping Shoulders, Luncheon Warnings! THE “IN-BETWEEN” FIGURE KEEP THAT PERFECT FIGURE CLOTHES TIPS FOR STRUCTURAL DE- FECTS A FIRM, LOVELY FACE CORRECTING FACIAL AND NECK CON- TOURS—Off with That Double Chin! Enlarging a Receding Chin, Slenderizing the Face and Jowls, Refining Your Nose, Smoothing Out a Thin, Crepy Neck, “Old Woman’s Bump’’ SKIN BEAUTY DIET AND ENERGY DIET BEAUTIFUL HANDS AND FEET ACQUIRE POISE AND GRACE—OVER- COME NERVOUSNESS ADVICE FOR THE ADOLESCENT — To Mothers—To Girls THE WOMAN PAST FORTY of Loveliness Now you can acquire the beauty of the screen stars You have always wanted to be beautiful . .. attractive ... glamorous. Now you can be! For the very same methods which the famous stars of the screen and stage use to acquire and maintain their beauty are now revealed by Sylvia of Hollywood in her new book, No More Alibis. Madame Sylvia is the personal beauty adviser to Hollywood’s most brilliant stars. It is she who guards and preserves the ex- quisite charms of the screen’s awe-inspiring beauties. It is she who transforms ordi- nary looking women into dreams of loveli- ness. And now Sylvia has just put all her beauty secrets between the covers of a book. In No More Alibis you will find every ounce of knowledge, every whit of observation and all the good sound advice that Sylvia has gleaned over a period of thirty-five years in making the human body ideally beautiful. Carefully guarded secrets told In this book Sylvia reveals for the first time all of her carefully guarded health and beauty secrets ... the treatments and methods which have made her a power in Hollywood. She gives special attention to reducing and building up the body and covers the subject thoroughly with sug- gested exercises, illustrated by photographs and excellent diets. There is no other book like No More Alibis—for there could be none. In this lf Unobtainable | | from Your Local of Hollywood, Department Store ta n MMC. «6 bok e < oe or Book Dealer B Address........ Use This Coupon : City ee ee RR L a Sign and Mail Coupon forthis Amazing Book TODAY MACFADDEN BOOK COMPANY, INC. Dept. 5, 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Send me, postage prepaid, the book, ‘‘No More Alibis!’’ by Sylvia I enclose $1.00. eeseeeveeesv eevee eeeeeeeeeeeeerereer eer eevee ereeeeeeeee eeceeeeveeveeveereeeereeereeereeeereeeeeeeeeeer eee eee ee eee eee eeteeoeee eee eee ereeeeeeree ere eee e eee e ee eve one volume Sylvia tells you exactly how you can be as lovely as the stars of Holly- wood—if not lovelier! No matter how old you are, or how fat or thin you are, Sylvia will tell you how you can mold your body into beautiful propor- tions. You cannot have good looks, a_ beauti- ful figure nor a charm- ing personality by merely wishing for them. But beauty should be yours—and it can be if you follow the expert advice and suggestions of Madame Sylvia as given in No More Alibis. Glance at the table of contents listed on this page. Notice how completely and thoroughly Sylvia covers every phase of beauty culture. And bear in mind that all of Sylvia’s instructions are simple to fol- low. You need not buy any equipment whatsoever. You can carry out all of Sylvia’s beauty treatments right in the privacy of your own home. This great book only $1.00 And remember that this book gives you the very same information for which the screen stars of Hollywood have paid fabu- lous sums. Yet the price of this marvelous book is ridiculously small—only $1.00 a copy. If you are unable to get this book at your local department or book store, mail the coupon below—now. Sylvia of Hollywood

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Physical Culture for May, 1935 Hemorrhoids and kindred troubles—how often persons who are afflicted feel that their case is something to be endured. Yet Plain Speaking Is Necessary to Inform the 10 Million Sufferers in the United States Alone £ medical authorities agree that “Rectal and colonic disorders are responsible for more human ills than any other single Your Copy of cause.” It is believed by many in the profession that these troubles are one of the first causes of that most dreaded of all diseases—cancer. Why not use the same precau- tions for these dangerous symptoms that you would for other grave dangers such as appendicitis or pneu- monia? Avoid the penalty of delay! Our experience here clearly shows that men and women of mature judgment do not recognize these serious symptoms or realize the gravity of their condition. If you are one who should be clearly informed on this subject, let us send you our Free Book which describes these conditions and treat- ments in detail. Many men, and women especially, let a sense of false modesty prevent them from taking proper care of their health when these dangerous symptoms occur. Do not, for your own sake, be one of these. Our book clearly and plainly speaks of symptoms and conditions, but is written in non- medical terms so that you can easily understand it. It has shown thousands the way to restored health—it may do even more for you. You, Too, Are Invited to Learn the Truth Concerning Your Condition The McCleary Clinic is the world’s largest clinic devoted ex- clusively to the treatment of rectal and colonic disorders. The result of our 30 years’ experience is detailed in this book. It describes symptoms you may recognize as your own, even though you never suspected you were afflicted with rectal trouble. It explains how your troubles may be corrected by this mild, successful treatment. This Book Has Shown the Way to Renewed Health to Over 30,000 With this free book is included a reference list of men and women who have found in this treatment restored health. Have those in your own community tell you how they found complete relief. Use the coupon, a post card, or a personal letter, But, for your own sake, act promptly. SP McCLEARY CLINIC, 3309 Elms Blvd. Excelsior Springs, Mo. this, FREE BOOK is Ready... e 7” When you send the coupon please write Dr. McCleary @ personal letter describing your condition as near- _ ly as possible. FREE BOOK © COUPON bien McCLEARY CLINIC, 3309 Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. You may send me your illustrated book about rectal and colonic disorders. I understand there is no obli- gation. a eee ome isn x} toh +Gie stele Gk Occupation .......... bans ot Pere rer erer o> pais ane Address Eee ern hemes wm Ody ee i peton aun RRM ee eros Ow pe eee AP ee ree ae ee ary ye Se Eo Berk h ste a S ese wees ames eos 28 @¢ De 6 eS >

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PHYSICAL tinaks cee Ff UR e i eesy = O R eet sc te iie NOS Ss MAY, 1935 Ioyit MA In This Issue What Makes a Woman Beautiful? ............ Bernarr Macfadden 4 en Who Hate Their Fever—the Miracle Worker.................. J. J. Dunning, D.O. 13 Husbands What Twins Tell Us About Human Nature. .Albert Edward Wiggam 14 Bete ic tha siartling confession of At 65 Vin @ Bette en, cere tc W. O. Inglis 17 h f d ut, too late, the "W ] ae ke del pread Gi of bwniiee ; Wonted. tae cori. off. bored ado 22k aidieandas: &S 18 that is the source of marital misery in Why Gan't F Carer Personal Problem Department 21 millions of homes, making clear to both ; husbands and wives the nature of a” The Trouble With Retormers. . ....6....¢si86 5.85 ©. Lawrence Gould 22 ee st but sauriggeae wedllocang The Prustrafed Portes: i857 ap aatets BORE NGS) weit OP, wo) 7 24 | Learned to Live With Diabetes............... William R. Adams 27 | Banished Insomnia Our Educational Cruelty to Children............ Russell M. Coryell 28 a Miele Yeark, he found out why Grink— My: "Freiernen rr eae See ET Pe ney eae eae | 30 ac" f tala reais The Body : Beautiful: soo. Ht. corey 323), 3.) i ee Pictorial 33 Pretty .|s as. Prathybe6is)25... ces beso ene. Carol Cameron 38 Mastering i Pineda Chin Growin’ Up oon cse ert 9G A in 80 40 Baus, Ghinctoddforesents the How | Keep My Schoolgirl Figure................ ary M. Wooley 41 _ — rg ea this ibe eae of Modern Feeding of Babies............... Charles A. Clinton, M.D. 44 i i turist Woot well ig eerily ae oY Exercise to Retain Youth...... _... Samuel Edwin Olmstead 46 To Cut Food Billsk—Use Cheese................5. Jane Randolph 48 Who's the Spiritual Parasite Those Sixteen :Elementehs acco. 4h ok} ott in ded. oom Milo Hastings 49 in Your Family? Do Physical Culturists Use Health Foods?....... The Nutrition Staff 50 You are likely to find one in any home. Daniel Mann shows in this in- teresting analysis that the problem of SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS these “hitch hikers of life" is fundamen- Sealing of building strength and Our Mothers:cand. Babiee::. ca axurhura: Sade. HOY Alen este BSI BALSE 8 Questions from Health Seekers.............. 0.0.6.0. 0 eee ee. 9 - Pivysiocd: Culture: SoURmOrE ok oat ees eee ears ll Be hn Shoda ane Our. Physical *Culewe- Gite. ccs: cra A oh bE See. Sis 58 When you move, it is important that you send us The Physical Culture ST ee Pe Mo ee eM eS coe ay 70 not be remailed by De tat ice ates coe The Joyous. Physical Culture: Life. oo ioc in sree bagel 74 ment of extra postage by you. Please ask your Post Office for form postcard No. 29-B, as well as =e neste rd sg Both cards — be filled out completely by you to insure perfect service. Cover Design by Victor Tchetchet PUBLIS:H ED BY MACFADDEN PUB bt AE bOon: $$; ENC. Bernarr Macfadden, President Business and Editorial Offices: Macfad John F. Carter, Advertising Manager, Graybar Bldg., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y¥ London Agents: Macfadden Magazines, Ltd:, 30 Bouverie Street, London, F. C. 4, England. lrene T. ey Treasurer oe Wesley F. Pape, Secretary en Building, 1926 Broadway, New York, N. ¥ East Indian Agent: P. C. Eranee Sons, Bombay, India. Chicago Office: 333 North Michigan Ave., Charles H. Shattuck, Manager Price in the U. S. A., 15 cents a copy. Subscription price in the United States, $1.50 per year. In U. S. Possessions, Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, $2.00 per year in U. S. Funds. In Argentina, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Equador Guatemala, Haiti, Hon- duras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela, $2.50 per year. In Continental Europe and the British Empire (except Canada), $3.50 per year. In all other countries, $4.00 per year. Copyright, 1935, by 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 unavail- able manuscripts, photographs and drawings (if accompanied by first class postage); but we will. not be responsible for losses of such matter contributed. Printed in the U. 8. A. by Art Oolor Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J

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See ee Cle Physical Culture for May, 1935 Popular Copyrights Are Abandoned! 3,000,000 Books Left to Sell at 14 ak Every Girl Should now 19 Story of Nietzsche’s Philoso- phy. Durant 25 Rhyming Dictionary 39 Story of Aristotle’s Philoso- phy. Durant 42 Origin of Human Race 53 Insects and Men; Instinct vs. Clarence Darrow Reason. 56 Dictionary of U. S. Slang 58 Tales from Decameron. Boccaccio 72 Color of Life and Love 74 Physiology of Sex Life 82 Common Faults in English 83 Evolution of Marriage 87 Nature of Love 91 Manhood: Facts of Life 92 Hypnotism Explained 97 Seli-Contradictions of Bible 98 How to Love 109 Facts . You Should Know About Classics. McCabe 110 History of World War 125 Woodrow Wilson's War Speeches 126 History of Rome. Wood 133 Principles of Electricity 150 Queer Facts About Lost Civilizations i 159 Story of Plato’s Philosophy 172 Evolution of Sex 175 A Hindu Book of Love 176 Four Essays on Sex. Have- lock Ellis 192 Book of Synonyms 217 Puzzle of Personality 218 Essence of the Talmud 228 Plain Talks With Husbands and Wives. Ellis 271 Is Death Inevitable? : 286 Prostitution in the Ancient World 287 Best Jokes About Doctors 297 Do We Need Religion? McCabe : 326 How to Write Short Stories 347 A Book of Riddle Rimes 364 How: to Argue Logically 367 How to Improve Your Con- versation . r 374 Psychology of Suicide ; 375 Love Story of an Old Maid 377 Psychology of Joy and Sorrow 383 Prostitution in the U. S. 403 Facts You Should Know About Music 411 Facts About Phrenology 414 Art of Being Happy 431 U. S. Commercial Geography 439 My 12 Yearsin a Monastery. McCabe 440 Baseball, How to Play 446 Psychology of Religion 447 Auto-Suggestion: How it Works 449 Auto-Suggestion and_ Health 452 Dictionary of Scientific Terms 467 Evolution Made Plain 473 Lives of Chorus Girls 475 Develop Sense of Humor 479 How N. Y. 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WHAT MAKES A oman Beautiful! By Bernarr Macfadden EAUTY is often said to be only ‘“‘skin deep.”’ And if it is the product of the beauty salon this statement is dependable. But real beauty, the allurement of a comely, beautiful body, is as deep as the body itself. Every part of the body will usually have its own symmet- rical outline—even the vital organs will have that shapeliness which goes with the strength necessary to perfect functioning. Beauty, after all, we should remember, must be associated with utility. A woman can hardly be called beautiful if her attraction would not indicate that she is capable of being a splendid wife and the mother of fine children. Every woman wants to be beautiful—there are few, if any, exceptions. But rarely has a woman sufficient intelligence to recognize that a background of beauty of a lasting character is based upon splendid health. There can be no worth-while beauty without it. We often admire the beauty of a child at four or five years of age. A girl may be beautiful at that age and still fail to become a beautiful woman, though the fault in these cases lies in the rearing. In fact, nearly all women could have the comeli- ness associated with a beautiful, wholesome body even though they might lack facial attractiveness. The natural allurement given femininity to charm her mate should be possessed by every woman. 4 We all admire the schoolgirl complexion. We also commend the natural grace and suppleness of a girl in her early teens. If she has an appropriate amount of exercise and outdoor life, her lips are red and her eyes are brilliant with life and spirit. And as maturity appears she should continue to possess these attractions, so rare in these days. Cosmetics may have their uses, but after all they simply try to imitate the natural coloring of a pink and white skin which to maintain requires the superior quality of blood, essential to build splendid vitality. The fragrance of a favorite perfume is considered necessary by many women, but there is a delightful aroma from a body that is clean and wholesome, with every part maintained in perfect health, that cannot be equalled by any perfume regardless of its cost. The building of a beautiful woman first of all de- mands the development and maintenance of splendid vital health. It requires the suppleness and activity together with the symmetrical outlines that we see in professional dancers and fine specimens of athletic femininity. The beauty that appears at its zenith in the first flush of youth should be maintained to middle age if the habits of life essential to retain superior health are adhered to carefully.

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May, 1935 TRY THIS OLD-FASHIONED HERB COCKTAIL SPH ee veges eentdan a tt HONEY BU diggee apedee ag Hii MOTE sree etne ated REL A Grand New Health Drink ... Made in a Minute Every Ingredient is Natural Blessed be the man who introduced America to health cocktails—orange juice cocktails for breakfast, tomato juice cocktails for lunch, clam juice cocktails for dinner. Health cocktails are one of our most glorious innovations. Now we want to tell you about a new cock- tail, to take before bedtime. The ingredients come from the four corners of the earth, yet in two minutes’ time or less, this beneficial cocktail is ready to be downed. And when you drink it you can truly give the toast, ‘‘Here’s to Better Health!”’ Simply tear off the corner of an Herbal Flaxolyn envelope and empty its contents into a glass containing a little water. Add the juice of an orange, or other fruit juices if you prefer. Then sweeten with just a little honey or a spoonful of brown sugar. Stir and drink. You’ll find it pleasant. You’ll like the natural herb odor. Sleep Without Dangerous Drugs According to the thousands upon thou- sands who have used Herbal Flaxolyn, you will sleep better for having had an Herbal Flaxolyn cocktail. The natural carminatives in Herba! Flaxolyn break up gas which so frequently causes pressure and sleeplessness during the night. Other natural ingredients MAIL THIS COUPON AT ONCE FOR A BOX OF 30 FLAXOLYN POWDERS FLAXOLYN, 447 Canal Street, New York City Please send me bcx containing 30 envelopes of genuine Herbal Flaxolyn. few cents extra.) Also send me free your ‘‘Rules of Health.”’ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a ers taints Saale ad We WSF EC Ries KES OR WO Gee in Herbal Flaxolyn help to arouse the sluggish muscular action of the intestinal wall, so that putrefactive matter in the intestines is moved on toward the colon. In the morning, you have a good thorough elimination, which immediately makes you feel better. What a wonderful start for the day! One of the most important of bodily functions well taken care of—and in a natural way. No griping, no trouble, no disturbance. An Herbal Flaxolyn Cocktail is a safe and sane drink. According to eminent authorities, Herbal Flaxolyn can- not form a dangerous habit. Come then! Lift a glass of Herbal Flaxolyn cocktail and drink to the Goddess of Health— to Mother Nature herself! Try an Herbal Flaxolyn cocktail every night for just one short week and see how much better you feel, how much better your food tastes, how much livelier you walk and work, and how much more restfully you sleep. If you cannot obtain the genuine Herbal Flaxolyn in the GREEN box, accept nothing else. Have your health food store or druggist get Herbal Flaxolyn for you. Or, send $1 to HERBAL FLAXOLYN, 447 Canal Street, New York City. Money back, unless you are pleased with the results, after a fair trial. iat seate MOPEMS te eBS Ch & «stabi oc ed OS St EEE OT oe 8 as es cas ce ce eh SD ED SS SS SSS SS SS SS SY SS SD SE SS S'S SS SS SS SY ce sneha Enclosed find $1 in full payment. Herbal Flaxolyn is a pure botanical prep- aration. It was developed by Harris H. Luntz, for many years a Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Osteopathy in the City of Philadelphia. : There is no mystery about the herbs, roots, barks, berries and seeds which constitute the Herbal Flaxolyn formula. Cardamon Seeds, African Ginger Root carminatives to expel gas. Juniper Berries —very mild aid to the kidneys. Cherry Bark, Gentian Roots —Appetizers and stomachics Baked Flaxseed, Valerian Root —natural soothing agents California Bark, Licorice Root, Chinese ae Dandelion Root and Culver's 00 —valuable natural laxatives; assistants to intestinal activity A box containing 30 Herbal Flax- olyn envelopes costs but $1! at any health food store. This means only 31/3c per envelope. Add to this only the trifling cost of the honey and the fruit juices. How little to pay to contribute so much to your physical well- being! 1. Gites é

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a7 Meorhers and iicdies No matter where you go, you'll find physical culture babies. Five states are represented here this month. Above is Barbara Ann Helm, of Easton, Pennsylvania; at right, Curtus Earl Jones, of Byers, Texas; at left, Kay Elissa Wil- liams, of Timber Lake, South Dakota; below, Harold Eugene Conrad, of Wann, Oklahoma; and the little girl with the bangs, Nancy Forrest, of San Pedro, California

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Physical Culture for May, 1935 MOUTH INFECTION and Other Questions from Health Seekers Answered by a Personal and Confidential Associate of ~Bernarr Mactfadden UESTION: I have been troubled several times with an inflamma- tion in my mouth which the doctor calls stomatitis. I am pretty careful of my food and I don’t know how I got this trouble. What can I do for it? THOMAS W. ANSWER: Stomatitis is an inflam- mation affecting the mucous membrane of the inner aspect of the cheeks, the lips, and often the tongue and the soft palate. There are several forms of this complaint such as_ aphthous, eatarrhal, ulcerative, gangrenous, and parasitic. These are all mostly vary- ing degrees of the same condition, the catarrhal form being the mildest and the gangrenous being the most severe. In the former form the mucous mem- brane of the mouth is painful, red and very dry. There is also in some cases swelling of the tongue. In the anhthous form, in addition to the redness and swelling, small ulcerations form on the inner surfaces of the lips and the cheeks as well as along the sides of the tongue. Eating is quite painful and there is a great increase of the amount of saliva formed, constituting a condition of salivation. In the ul- eerative form the gums are also affected; they become red and swollen and ulcers form upon their surfaces. The teeth often become loose and the breath is very offensive. In this form the uleers are much more severe than in the aphthous form and the patient is often very ill. The gangrenous form is very severe and sometimes fatal. Sloughing: ulcers appear which become gangrenous and sometimes eat their way through the entire cheek. There is great prostra- tion and general poisoning of the system. This form is not extremely Other Questions of the disease when occurring in adults, although a fruit juice diet may be substituted for the fast if desired. The latter is generally better in the case of children. After a fast a day or two on an orange juice diet is very good and may be followed by a strained vegetable diet for a few days and then a milk diet or a combination milk and fruit diet is advisable. A daily enema is taken especially during the fast and plenty of pure water is to .be drunk. Constipation is to be avoided and sun baths are recommended (natural or artificial). No alcohol or tobacco are allowed. Starches and sugars. are taken in great moderation or not at all. Strict antisepsis of the mouth is important and the teeth should be cleaned three times daily. Exercises for Rupture UESTION: I have an _ inguinal hernia and wear a truss. A doc- tor wants to operate. I don’t want to be operated upon. I understand there: are some exercises which are of value in these cases. Will you tell me what they are? 7 JONATHAN C. ANSWER: Persons suffering from .a distinct inguinal hernia must wear a truss at all times except possibly when in bed. This is because persons suffer- jing from a hernia may, upon some ex- tra exertion, such as sneezing, cough- ing hard, lifting some weight or straining at stool, cause a further pro- trusion of intestine which may. become strangulated and impossible to -reduce “or get back into the abdomen: A strangulated hernia” is a very serious matter ‘and often calls for an immediate op- common _, is eration as if not apt to be found in . promptly reduced children suffering Answered in gangrene is apt to from debilitating contagious disease. The catarrhal and aphthous forms of stomatitis are the most common al- though the ulcera- tive form is not at. all rare. When a person is suffering from stomatitis, a fast is often of the greatest value at the beginning ‘This Department _Exercises for Rupture The Milk Diet Exercises for the Eyes set.>::in' in’ “the strangulated and compressed part of _the _ intestine. There are, as you suggest, several exercises which are of great value to persons suffer- ing from hernia. . These. exercises tend to. strengthen the abdominal wall ~and often -reduce E- "Your Baby's | Vitamins; eae SS SSSR ttm CTUALLY, is your baby re- ceiving all the precious vitamins you think he is, from strained vegetable — feedings? _ So-called fresh market vegetables are not always fresh. Each day after harvesting dissipates vitamin content. 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something about his falling 10 * BALD HEADS ARE NOT _ ROMANTIC Unsuspecting BillReceivesa a Friendly Tip from Cousins Sally and Evelyn Turned down again! And he, Bill D—, was considered the catch of the town—just a short time ago. Bitterly disappointed Bill pondered over his problem constantly—but to no avail. And then came qa frank suggestion—that he “do hair.”” It quickly brought Bill to his senses. Cousins Sally and Evelyn had no- ticed those two _ tell-tale white patches at his tem- ples. These were the ad- vance guards of baldness which were robbing Bill of his fine handsome appear- the hair? fall out? ance. ing? How often should the hair be washed or dampened? What is the one great cause of dry So many thousands of men let that bald spectre come between them and the best things in life. For baldness turns aside ro- mance; it destroys self- confidence—it even blocks success! These men face such tragic moments in life — moments that are doubly tragic because they are sO unnecessary. For baldness can be prevented, if the needful steps are taken in time. As you know, the organs of your body will not func- tion properly without a supply of rich, red blood to aid them. And it is likewise true that your hair will not be healthy —cannot be luxuriant and abundant—without an adequate blood supply at its roots. Having thick beautiful hair is after all just a matter of common sense. Prevent Baldness This Easy Way Bernarr Macfadden, threatened with bald- ness, spent months in the scientific study of hair. He unraveled fact from theory—truth from speculation. Re- sults of his experiment astonished him. Hesaved his own hair, which was thin and sickly. Today For dry hair? ness? dandruff zerm? Price of this Book Includes b a One Year's, it is in’ thick luxuriant Subscription for growth. iicat Cathine You may now use these new and successful methods. Find out how to prevent falling hair and Magazine What do you know about Y our Hair? What are the most scientific preventa- tives of baldness? Should a wire brush ever be used on When should the hair be forced to u . Of. what benefit to the hair is singe- scalp and hair? What is the best soap for oily hair? What are the three causes of bald- What is a dry shampoo and how does it affect the hair? What is the strongest stimulant that can be used on the scalp? What one thing is most important to luxurious growth of hair? Why does hair fall out after sickness? What causes gray hair? Is dandruff contagious? What has diet to do with dandruff? What is the best way to kill the How can the eyebrows and eyelashes be strengthened? baldness. Know the causes of dandruff— too oily or too dry hair. How to correct every hair fault from brittleness to loss of color. Learn how through easy, natural methods you can not only save your hair, but have it grow stronger and more beauti- ful than you ever thought possible. Send No Money All this information and much more you will find in Bernarr Macfadden’s great book Hair Culture. This book costs only $2.00 but you need send no money now. Just use the coupon below and pay the post- man $2.00 plus a few pen- nies postage when the book is delivered to you. If you are not satisfied with the book, return it within 5 days and your $2.00 will be refunded. The small $2.00 price of this book also includes a full one year’s. subscrip- tion for PHYSICAL CUL- TURE MAGAZINE. If you are already a subscriber for PHYSICAL CUL- will be extended one year from its present date of expiration. Macfadden Book Company, Inc. | Dept. 5 | 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y. | Send me a copy of Hair Culture at once. I will pay | the postman $2.00 plus a few cents postage when he | delivers the book to me. I understand that this price | includes a one year’s subscription for Physical Culture | | Magazine. [] Check here if you are already a subscriber for | | Physical Culture Magazine and your subscription will be extended one year from its present expiration date. | Be Re ee aes FS WARN ec. 5 4k i (We prepay all postage charges if you send cash with order. The $2 price for this book which includes | a subscription for Physical Culture Magazine applies [ j to United States only.) t TURE, your subscription - Physical Culture the size of the opening through which the hernia protrudes, in many cas2s making the opening so small as to prevent the intestine from coming through. Therefore, unless the hernia is very large or unless some emergency arises, it is often well to do these ex- ercises faithfully and _ persistently. The result will frequently be most sat- isfactory. The exercises are to be taken while lying on the back, head downward on a slanting board, one end of which is resting upon the floor and the other end resting on a table or stool about twenty to twenty-four inches from the ground. Practically all exercises which tend to strengthen the abdominal muscles can be _ used. But certain special exercises are sug- gested as follows: 1. Lie on slanting board as directed. Clasp the sides of the board to support the body. Raise right leg straight up and then swing it over to the left as far as possible and then to the right as far as possible. Then do the same with the left leg. Then alternate right and left leg. Repeat until tired. 2. Lie on board as described above. Swing right leg as far upward over the body as possible. Then do same with left leg. Then alternate right and left leg. Repeat until tired. 8. Fasten the feet to the board by slipping them under a strap which has been fastened across upper end of board. Raise body to sitting posi- tion and then lower it to the board. Repeat until tired. This exercise must be done without overstraining the body. At first one only raises the body a little and as the muscles become stronger one can raise the body higher. 4. Fasten feet as described above. Bring body up to sitting position with arms out straight in front. Then swing arms and body around to the left. Re- peat, swinging arms around to right. This exercise must also be taken grad- ually. It is important that a truss be worn when taking the exercises. It is also most important that the truss worn should fit perfectly and that it make the correct pressure, not too light or not too heavy. The Milk Diet UESTION: I have been told that I should go on a milk diet. I am much run down and underweight. I am writing to ask if you will give me some instruction in the matter. MARYLIN. ANSWER: There are several different ways in which a milk diet can be taken. One of the simplest and best ways to take what is known as the exclusive milk diet in which nothing else but milk as a food is taken is as follows: On the first day drink one glass (8 ounces) of milk every hour for ten or twelve hours. On the second day drink one glass of milk every three-quarters of an hour. On the third day drink one glass every half- hour. On the fourth day and there- after drink from one to one and one- half glasses frequently enough to bring the entire amount up to six quarts daily. Some people cannot take more than five quarts and on the other hand some can take seven or eight quarts with impunity. The majority of persons, however, do not know how to drink milk. They so often complain that they feel distressed after drink- ing milk or that they generate a good (Continued on page 12)

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May, 1935 PHYSICAL CULTURE OUTDOORS Bring your outdoor problems to us. The publication is prepared to give expert aid to PHYSICAL CULTURE readers on all subjects pertaining to the Great Out- doors. to go? What to do? outdoor activities? Do you want to know the proper equipment to use? How to dress> Where In fact, is there anything you want to know about your Just write a letter addressed to Physical Culture Outdoors, 1926 Broadway, New York City, and your questions will be answered promptly by mail. DEAR SIR: Please give me the names, locations and addresses of a number of summer camps for boys in Pennsylvania, New York State, or New England—some place that is thoroughly reliable to which a man might send his boy for the summer for outdoor recreation and education. ; E. G. W., Philadelphia. ANSWER—Space does not permit a full and complete list of such camps, but here is a partial list of camps for boys in the states mentioned, all of which are thoroughly reliable: Pennsylvania Camp Wyomissing, near Pocono Mountains. Horseback trips, has twenty-five camp-owned horses and ponies. Cabins. Teaches woodcraft, canoeing. Address W. K. Transue, Minisink Hills, Pa. Camp Susquehanna, in Susquehanna Mountains at New Milford, Pa. For boys 6 to 17. Horseback riding, out- door sports. Address Robert Smith, Malba, Whitestone, L. I.,.N. Y. Camp Carson, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, forty miles from Harrisburg. Hiking, swimming, boxing, rowing. Address_ Director, Camp Carson, New Bloomfield, Pa. New York Camp Outlet, an island location. Swimming, riding, sailing, riflery, ten- nis, baseball, basketball, canoe and mountain trips. Hotel for parents. Ad- dress G. F. Longstaff, 8932 Clinton Ave., Jamaica, L. I., N. Y. Huguenot Camps, 900 acres, 100 buildings, ~~ en New York City, endowed by Y C. A. All outdoor sports, craft Giese medical care. Address A. J. S. Martin, Suite 915D, 420 Lexington Ave., New York City. Camp Chenango, on Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, N. Y. For boys 7 to 16. Fourteen hundred feet altitude. Rid- ing, swimming, sailing, nature study. Address E. C. Fisher, 24 N. Terrace, Maplewood, N. J. Camp Pok-O-Moonshine, on Adiron- dack lake. Boys 8 to 18. Seventy cot- tage tents, nineteen rustic buildings, manual training shop. Canoeing, sail- ing, swimming and all sports, nature study, dramatics. Address Dr. C. A. Robinson, Box C-5, Peekskill, N. Y. New Jersey Admiral Farragut Summer Camp. Navy camp with Navy atmosphere on Toms River, near Barnegat Bay. Sail- ing, seamanship, navigation, cruises, land sports. Uniforms, tutoring. Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, superintendent. Address Box 11, Toms River, N. J New England - Camp Winnecook, on Lake Winne- cook at Unity, Maine. Riding, sailing, riflery, water sports, hiking trips to Mt. Katahdin. Address Herbert L. Rand, 10 Hemenway Road, Salem, Mass. - Camp Tam-A-Rack, a seashore camp on Orr’s Island, in Casco Bay, Maine. Sailing, horsemanship, deep-sea fish- ing. Address N. B. Knorr, Box 353, Orr’s Island, Maine. Camp Idlewild, on 500-acre island in Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hamp- shire. Horseback riding over forest trails, West Point officer in charge. Golf instruction, canoe and mountain trips, speed boating; aquaplaning, sail- ing and all sports. Cabins, doctor and nurse. Address L: D. Roys, Otis Street, West Newton, Mass. Camp Bob-White, at Ashland, Mass. Swimming, tennis, canoeing, golf, horseback riding. Cape Cod and White Mountain trips. Cabins, nurse. Ad- dress S. D. Hayes, St. George Arms, Brooklyn Heights, New York City. Camp Wyanoke, on Lake Winne- pesaukee at Wolfeboro, New Hamp- shire. Riding, golf, band, all sports. Resident physician. Mt. Washington and Saco River trips. Address W. H. Bentley, Suite C, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Camp Mon-O-Moy, a seaside camp on Cape Cod at Brewster, Mass. Sail- ing, bathing, canoeing, deep- sea fish- ing, riding. Cabins. Tutoring. Camp mother, registered nurse. Address Harriman C. Dodd, West Auburn, Mass. DEAR SIR: On hiking trips I am always troubled with a dry, parched throat, often when no water is obtainable. Is it harmful to drink much water when hiking, or should one carry a canteen of cold tea or other liquid? E. L. K., Chicago, IIl. ANSWER—It is never good to drink cold water when overheated, as it con- stitutes a shock to the system. Merely rinse out the mouth and gargle the throat with it, then spit it out. To overcome thirst and dry throat, try chewing gum, but do not chew it ex- cessively as it is a drain on the sali- vary glands. Another good way in an emergency is to put a button or small pebble under the tongue. DEAR SIR: Do you have any plans or instruc- tion for building a boat? H,. J..0.,. Cincinnati. ANSWER—Enclose one dollar’ to Sportsman’s Book Shop, 108 Massa- chusetts Ave., Boston, Mass., for H. W. Patterson’s book entitled “Small Boat Building.” DEAR SIR: Are the high-top outdoor Shoes or low shoes best for hiking? J. G., Indianapolis, Ind. ANSWER—The best shoe for hiking is one just high enough in the tops to support the ankle. The extreme high tops bind the muscles of the calf and prevent freedom of ankle action. 11 ‘Taint’ “He don't’ “Its me!” “You was 2? ‘Cant hardly’ What AreYOUR Mistakes in English’? They may offend others as much as these offend you F some one you met for the first time made the mistakes in English shown above, what would you think of him? Would he inspire your respect? Would you be inclined to make a friend of him? Would you care to introduce him to others as a close friend of yours? These errors are easy for you to see. Per- haps, however, you make other mistakes which offend other people as much as these would offend you. 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om mate 12 HURDLE COMPETITION! Men love that come-and-get-me challenge from merry eyes and tempting lips...To win them . daily stimulate facial circulation. with DOUBLE MINT gum. Physical Culture for May, 1935 (Continued from page 10) deal of gas in the stomach or that they get a bad taste in the mouth or that they become nauseated after taking milk. The proper way in which to drink milk is to suck it from a glass or to sip it through a sipper or a straw, taking only a very small quantity into the mouth at each sip and “chewing” it for some time before swallowing it, thus thoroughly mixing it with the saliva. After a short interval another small quantity is taken into the mouth. It should take at least six or seven minutes to drink one glass of milk. Taken in this manner, the milk will form small, more flocculent and more easily digested curds instead of the large tough and cheesy curd formed when milk is gulped down hurriedly. In this way much of the discomfort felt by those drinking milk in the wrong manner will be avoided. In tak- ing a milk diet in order to gain weight, whole milk may be used but in some cases if the milk is very creamy it may be advantageous to remove some of the cream. Many people taking a milk diet for other purposes cannot take so much whole milk and have to use skim- milk, butter-milk or some other form of sour milk. These latter are not as a rule weight gainers as the cream has been removed. Exercises for the Eyes UESTION: Will you kindly ex- plain some exercises which I can take for the purpose of strengthening the eye muscles? I have weak eyes and think exercises will be a big help. TERRENCE MCN. ANSWER: There are quite a large number of exercises which are of the greatest value for the purpose of strengthening the nerves and the mus- cles of the eyes. Among the best of these exercises are the following: 1. Focus the eyes on an- object as far distant as possible. Then focus them quickly on the point of a lead pencil held about one foot in front of the eyes. Repeat this ten or twelve times. 2. Revolve the eyes about in their sockets, looking up, then down, then to the right, then to the left. Then describe a complete circle with the eyes, moving them slowly. Repeat ten or twelve times. 38. Place your fingers on your eye- brows so that the two little fingers rest near the bridge of the nose and the first fingers are at the end of the brows. Press the fingers firmly on the eyebrows to hold then in their natural position. At the same time close the eyelids closely. Relax. Repeat ten or twelve times. 4. Press the fingers at the outer corners of the eyes where the lines are inclined to appear. Press firmly to hold the skin and muscles in their normal position and at the same time contract the eyelids. Relax. Repeat ten or twelve times. 5. As eyelids greatly aid the eye to express emotion they may be exer- cised as follows: With both eyes open, very slowly close one while as slowly opening the other until the white of the eye shows all around the iris. Re- verse. Repeat ten or twelve times. Do this exercise before a mirror. 6. Palm the eyes by closing the lids and pressing the palm of the hand to the face around the eyes without making any heavy pressure upon the eyelids.

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FE VER— Lhe Miracle Worker Fever—Once Regarded as LD-FASHIONED doctors and many modern ones, alas, treat germ dis- eases with the vigor and logic of witch doctors and medicine men. The medi- cal treatment entails less noise and more sanitation perhaps than that of the jungle, but the underlying principles seem to be the same; something evil and dangerous within the pa- tient must be driven out. This evil spirit is called fever and is needlessly feared by parents and doctors alike. Anxious mothers discov- ering a slight rise in a child’s temperature frantically call in a doctor, who prescribes a catharsis, a fever mixture, alcohol rubs and puts the child in isolation. Matrons in boarding-schools, dreading fevers, in terror of epidemics, hurry wretched children off to the sana- toria at the first sign of fever. Here some lie for days, and even weeks, while the harried medicals and nurses attempt to break the fever and reduce the tem- perature. When the fever breaks itself up in its own good time, the exorcisms cease and the tom-toms are carefully laid away. The doctors and nurses practise what they are taught. Their most modern text-books fortify them in holding the ancient theory of driving out fever. The intelligent layman notwithstanding has gained a sound foundation of physiology from the popular maga- zines and newspapers. If an inquisitive mother asks why a child might not have fever and be otherwise quite well, or why it is necessary that this rigmarole of fetish be maintained, she ma e snubbed as an inquisitive trouble-maker. ActualPY the poor medicals themselves can’t answer. They and the mass of pa- tients have come to think of fever as the beginning of disease. Once the old devil Fever—that evil spirit of the medicine man—is driven out, disease, every- body thinks, miraculously cures itself. But this is not a fact. The new doctor, who may be part engineer, says that what Nature requires in most circumstances is heat, otherwise fever, which she produces upon de- mand. But if the patient is weakened, underfed, alco- holic, nerve-racked or heavily drugged, Nature can- not create her own heat; it must be created artificially. Given fair chance, Nature, they say, cures herself. Now the new scientist and the new doctor have re- discovered that heat is a fully qualified practitioner and not only a physician, but a useful surgeon as well. It has been proved too often to allow successful con- tradiction that the heat of fever is not an evil spirit to be driven out by spirit chasing, physical suffering and body torture. Fever is not a part of the disease, but is the important first step of cure. The history of heat as an incomplete curative goes through most countries in various forms. Mud packs at the foot of volcanoes, steam springs, and natural hot water pools contributed something ’twixt a bath and a rheumatism treatment. Where no such gift of nature was at hand man made artful substitutes. Steam rooms, vapor baths and cabinets came and went and came again. These treatments were usually stuffy, Man’s Deadly Enemy—Has Proved in Many Cases ‘To Be His Greatest Friend By: jf. J. Dunning; D9. uncomfortable and ex- hausting. Occasionally they cured a case, more often they didn’t. A pa- tient was usually so glad to have the treatment fin- ished that he confused re- lief with benefit. But the idea persisted that heat treatment was better than its results showed. Leonardo da Vinci, hearing that the miasmatic vapors of Lake Como’s marshes cured syphilis, in- vestigated, tested the theory and corrected it. The miasm, he wrote, was malaria. Something in malaria cures syphilis. Symptoms of this horrible disease van- ished after miasm’s fever. Wagner von Jauregg in 1885 observed a mentally deficient mother restored to normal after the ravages of typhoid and its intense fever. He was scoffed and jeered at for his pains in recording this and dozens of similar cases. In a German insane hospital every patient contracted erysipelas and all nearly died in the fiery torture. But afterward over one-third were discharged entirely cured, while the rest were better, and some became partially self-supporting. At the risk of being branded heretics a few doctors vainly preached that fevers or pve toxins cured some people, but no one guessed why. A startling and gratifying episode in heat’s history occurred at an osteopathic college in America. The physiologist kept a score or two of dogs in cages in a small room adjacent the college’s central heating department. The dogs being given test meals of milk were healthy and fat, but suddenly distemper broke out; every dog was stricken and there appeared to be no hope for them. ft IS odd how often chance and accident lead to discov- eries in healing. Somehow without intention, and contrary to the usual procedure, the full pressure of steam was passed through pipes in the dog house—a pressure sufficient to heat very large buildings during a mid-Western winter. The physiologist returning after twenty-four hours opened the door and was fairly bowled over by the compressed heat. He thought the building afire and that the dogs at any rate must be dead. But the re- sult of the accident was quite otherwise. Not a dog was dead. Yesterday’s moribund dogs showed some sign of life. A few others were panting contentedly, not particularly comfortable perhaps, but showing no sign of unhappiness. Many drank copiously of water. What’s good for twenty-four hours, the physiologist thought, might be good for twenty-four hours more. The second day improvement was everywhere. Yes- terday’s panting dogs were hopping about excitedly asking to get out, get a drink and explore. The half- dead dogs lapped water, tested shaky legs, and sat down for another dose. After the third day all dogs were cured, establishing a most remarkable collection of case histories. This put men thinking that artificial heat, and lots of it, imitating Nature’s fever, would cure many human diseases. (Continued on page 62) 13

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What TWINS Te// These “Personalities in Duplicate” Shed a New Light on Charac- ter and Human Destiny F YOU were ever in one of those mirror rooms they have in the shows at street car- nivals you have a pretty good idea of how you would have felt had you been at the Twins’ Convention that was held on August 26th last at the city of Warsaw, Indiana. This was because everywhere you looked you saw double. The only difference between being in a mirror room was that in this case the doubles were not imaginary but were real. On this day 150 sets of twins, ranging in age from a few weeks to beyond three score and ten, gathered there for the Fourth Annual Convention of the Ancient and Honorable Order of the United Twins of America. It was certainly an amazing and delightful gathering. You not only saw double everywhere you looked but you heard double. Every time a joke was cracked or there was an occasion for some exclamation you heard two voices which only a musi- clan with a very delicate mu- sical ear could tell apart. The various. pairs laughed and talked alike and were so similar in their movements and beha- viorand the expressions on their faces that before the day was over, unless your nerves were pretty steady, you would very likely have had the ‘“‘creeps.” To a student of psychology this gathering of duplicate hu- man beings brought out strik- ingly two things about human nature of immense importance. The first was that we tend to At left are Twins T and C, who have been the subject of an intensive study by Dr. Arnold Gesell, of Yale University, and whose rec- ords show that they develop the same _ characteristics at the same moment. They are shown here reaching for blocks, executing the same movementsat the same time and in the same order These charming girls are identical twins, illustrating mirror imaging. Note that one has a clockwise hair whorl and the other a counter clock- wise whorl. They also show mirror imaging in handedness, one girl being right-handed, the other left-handed Courtesy of the Journal of Heredity 14

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Us About HUMAN NATURE By Albert Edward Wiggam like the people who like us. Of the 150 pairs of twins present every pair, with one exception, wa3 of the kind termed “identicals,”’ that is, twins who are of the same sex and who look and act almost exactly alike; and, as we shall see later, they also think and feel amazingly like one an- other. Scientists believe this is chiefly due to the fact that they are both born from one fertilized egg which for some reason divided exactly in the middle. They thus began life with exactly the same heredity, or at least so nearly the same that science has not been able to discover the slightest difference. We shall also see later how this helps us towards a solution of the age-old problem of heredity and environment which Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, former President of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, says, “is the greatest problem that confronts mankind.” This fact that all the twins except one pair were identicals bears directly upon the problem of marriage, indeed upon all human friendships and associations. Twins who are not alike, termed “fraternal” twins, take no more interest in one another and often quarrel and disagree as much as do ordinary brothers and sisters. They are merely two children who happened to be born from separate eggs at the same time. Their hered- ity is therefore as different as is that of ordinary brothers and sis- ters. Sometimes they are fond of one another and sometimes not; but John J. and Miles W. O’Brien, of South Bend, Indiana, who won second prize for men twins closely resembling each other, sponsored the highly successful 1934 Convention These lovely children won first and second prize for little girl twins looking most alike, at the Fourth , Annual Twins’ Convention. First prize pair on the left, they are (left to right): Marylyn and Caro- lyn Cook, 3, of Warsaw, Indiana, and Nancy Lou and Genevieve Lee Reiter, 214, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Here are three husky young men—the Tully triplets—William, James and Robert. These are identical trip- lets, that is, all three. were born from one egg. The records on these children were obtained through the researches of Drs. Clarke and Revell Courtesy of the Journal of Heredity 15

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16 identical twins are practically always fond of one an- other and always want to be together. In the year 1921 I wrote for PHYSICAL CULTURE the first general popular article on twins in any literature—an account of a “Twins’ Matinee” at the Cohan Theater in New York City. There were over a hundred pairs of twins present and all but three pairs were identicals. In San Francisco there is a permanent society of twins and nearly all of them are identicals. All these facts lend powerful support to the discovery made by psychologists recently which has completely upset the old theory that opposites attract one another. Numerous studies have shown that with the exception of one or two traits, especially high temper, the more nearly married people are alike in body and mind, ideals, attitudes, habits, education and social back- ground, the more likely they are to be happy; and there is no doubt that a large portion of this similarity is cue to their having much the same heredity. The. second fact brought out by this Convention was that the older sets of twins were apparently as much alike as were the younger sets and even the babies. The youngest pair, Roland and Ronald Van Camp, aged five weeks, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Van Camp of Mishawaka, Indiana, were as alike as two peas in a pod; and, likewise, the oldest female pair, Mrs. Rosella Llewallen of Mentone, Indiana, and Mrs. Estelle Dille of Akron, Ohio, aged 78, and the oldest male pair, J. S. and W. E. Morrison, of Indianapolis, aged 78, were apparently as much like one another, after nearly eighty years of the battles and vicissitudes of life, which are supposed to bring great changes in human nature and appearance, as were babies Roland and Ron- old Van Camp, who were just starting out in life. Up to this point the facts I have related are mostly those that can be noted in twins by the casual observer; but of course science demands that we submit our casual ob- servations to exact measure- ment and critical analysis. Casual observation leads to su- perstition; measurement and analysis lead to science; and in the last twenty-five years, es- Some of the first prize winners at the Fourth Annual Twins’ Convention held August 26, 1934, when 150 sets of twins, ranging in age|/ from a few weeks to beyond three score and ten years, gathered in the Public Park, Warsaw, Indiana Physical Culture for May, 1935 pecially the last fifteen, a great science made up of exact studies of twins has been developed. The finger- prints and footprints of both types have been studied and compared; their bodies have been X-rayed and their bones and internal organs subjected to critical observa- tion; their grades in school and their scores on tests of intelligence, temperament, attitudes, mental habits and even their dreams have been analyzed; their rates of growth, physical dexterity, right- and left-handed- ness, susceptibility and immunity with reference to diseases have been given critical attention. In fact, scientists in every country in the world have been lit- erally turning twins inside out and upside down, both mentally and physically—all with a view of exploring human nature, and throwing additional light on the question whether we are what we are and do what we do and in general “‘get that way” because of the hered- ity with which we were born or the diet, climate, educa- tion and environment through which we have lived. Out of all this great body of technical literature that has been piling up on my shelves for many years, I ‘have laid out on my desk just three special investiga- tions, which I believe have the most dramatic interest. At least they interest me more in a human way than the microscopic studies of finger-prints, X-rays of bones and long mathematical tabulations of statistics. The first is a study by Dr. Johannes Lange of Munich, entitled, “Crime and Destiny.” It is one of the most remarkable documents in modern science; its conclu- sions are well-nigh startling. Through many years of work Doctor Lange studied the history of all the twins committed to prison in Bavaria, Germany. There were 13 pairs of identical, and 17 pairs of fraternal twins. We have thus 30 pairs of twins whose life histories are known in the greatest detail, and one of which in each case was a confirmed and inveterate criminal. We also have two kinds of twins. The question is, therefore, did the fraternal twin in each pair show the same criminal ten- dencies as did the _ identical twins? Perhaps you never thought that (Continued on page 52)

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si HY are you,” the editor asks, “a better man at sixty-five than you were at thirty?” In these pages I shall answer him. 2 Not a better man physically, of course. That is too ridiculous to think about for a moment. The strongest athlete, living the most careful life, is not as good even at forty as he was ten years before. The heart has begun to lose its resiliency, the muscles their spring; the man has neither the speed nor the stamina he had as a youngster. But not one tenth of one per cent of us are giving our lives to athletics. We are en- gaged in the business of earning a living for ourselves and our families; and if we are not better men at sixty than we were at thirty, it is because we are victims of calamity or of our own foolish neglect—generally the latter. When I say a better man, I mean a more efficient man, with a mind enriched by experience, disciplined by the struggle to get on in the world, with nerve balance confirmed by right living, with emotions under better control, and with the physical machine in such good repair that it can be reasonably expected, barring accident, to carry on for twenty years or more. Having acquired these things, I say I am a better man at sixty- five than I was at thirty. And every man—yes, and every woman who reads this stuff—can so build up strength by taking care of the physical machine as to go on successfully in the struggle for existence long after the careless ones have given out. I was lucky in getting an early start, but even those who neglect their bodies up to middle age or later can win back to good condition if they will put their minds to it. They will not be as strong as those who began young, but they will really enjoy life if they work faithfully at the job of taking care of themselves. A wise old doctor said that the way to be healthy and happy was to select good grandparents, but that is only a half-truth. We are all descended from so many thousand ancestors of such various qualities, that each of us has in himself elements that will help him or hinder him, depending on which kind of life he chooses for himself. The most hopeful thing is the wonderful recuperative power of the human machine if we give it a fair chance. Favored by descent from a line of hard-working, clean-living ancestors, I had the good fortune to grow up in a little village on Long Island, with plenty of fields and woods to play in, a salt water creek to row on and swim in, and the rugged discipline of a district school to keep my head from growing unduly large. We all played ball after school in warm weather, with shinny—now called field hockey—in the fall, and no end of skating and coasting in by WV. TM A BETTER MAN winter. By the way, I wonder whether any boy gets half as much joy out of the machine-made hockey sticks he buys as we lads got out of the shinnies we cut for ourselves in the woods? Early in the fall you picked out a dogwood sapling as thick as your thumb, with a root that grew out like a letter L, cut it at the right length, and laid it with two or three others to season on the rafters of the woodshed. These shinnies had just the right strength and balance. They were works of art. All of us had our knuckles skinned by the other fellows’ sticks slid- ing up and scratching them in scrimmages, and I wore for years a sort of button in my lower lip, caused by blows from shinnies that flew up in the game. But we never noticed the pain. Another bit of good fortune was the large number of Irish boys in our district school. All schoolboys fight, of course, but these Irish lads went at the business of scrapping with a delight that was infectious. Joe Loughran took me in hand and taught me the mysteries of the straight left, and how to duck the other fellow’s left and jump into him with a right counter; also he imparted the art of collar and elbow wrestling, which has passed into limbo now. But life was not all games and pleasant fighting. Every one of us had to chop wood, bring up coal from the cellar and carry in water from the pump, besides cutting the grass and looking after the chickens. Pity the poor city youngsters who have never had the advantages of village work and play. ee high school I learned telegraphy and settled down at a desk. On the railroad I had plenty of exercise handling freight and baggage, but soon I got a job as operator in the Western Union main office in New York, with no harder exercise than pounding a telegraph key and pushing a pen very fast over yellow paper. I was a hearty eater, and in a year or so the combination of too much food and no physical work upset my diges- tion and made me generally uncomfortable. I managed _to get transferred to an Associated Press job in eastern Connecticut, copying from eight to ten thousand words each night from the wire. I went to work at 7 P.M., was in bed at 2:30 A. M., and devoted the afternoon to exercise, mostly in the open air. | It was no picnic to write forty-odd. words a minute for seven hours without a break except thirty minutes for supper. The man whose place I took had a bad case of writer’s cramp and nervous breakdown. ‘The man before him had gone into consumption, and the man before him had made the fatal error of trying to keep up his strength with rum. I was only a boy at the end of my teens, with poor circulation and digestion spoiled by (Continued on page 101) 17 O. Lnglis

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sis HERE’LL be no real equality between the sexes,’ Maude Barnes declared facetiously, “till a woman can smoke with her feet on a desk without being criticized. Maybe when we come to that, the single moral code will start to work.” “T don’t think it’ll ever work,’ Adeline Griffith con- tributed in her usual hesitant manner, “women have different natures...” “That’s a lot of nonsense,” Loraine De Long accented this by thumping on a pillow. We were gathered in “Well, most of your so-called faithful wives were faithful because they were afraid they might be out their —pro- viders!’” Loraine talked unnecessa- rily loud, as she always did when she was expounding her newly acquired con- my room, filling my only two chairs and sprawling on the bed, for one of our frequent discussions. “It’s been fed to them so long that they believe it. It was a trick men played on them in order to keep them in bondage, so they’d be sure of their offspring when it came to property rights. That’s what morals grew out of— economic needs. But men tried to hypnotize us into thinking morals were made in heaven, so they’d have more weight. All you have to do is read a little history, only for centuries women weren’t even taught to read. What Do Women Really Want When They Demand Here Is the Story of One Who Was Very Sure That She Knew ‘Freedom’? victions, as if the _ -s increased volume helped to reinforce them in her own mind 18 ILLUSTRATOR: EpcAarR McGraw

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In a state of nature I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a ‘one-man woman’ any more than a ‘one-woman man.’ ”’ “You mean,” asked. Madge Jepson, “that women are naturally polyandrous the same as men are polyga- mous?” “The thing’s been proved in no end of savage tribes.” “But we’re not savages,’ Adeline defended, “I think that’s going to extremes. It’s all right for women to work if they want to, but .. .” i A MODERN " Woman's “But the two things go together,” exclaimed Loraine. “When women are independent they can choose their— lovers. Most of your so-called faithful wives were faithful because they were afraid they might lose their providers!’ She talked unnecessarily loud, as she al- ways did when expounding her newly acquired convic- tions, as if the increased volume helped to reinforce them in her own mind as well as impress her listeners. I caught the rush of blood to Adeline’s pale face. She was a little ash blonde, always pale. Her parents had been middle-aged when she was born, and all of us knew the story of what per- fect lovers they still were, up in the seventies. With that kind of a background I supposed it was rather nat- ural that she should resent Loraine’s ideas and besides, as a teacher of children, it wouldn’t have done for her to be too “radical.” “Well,” exclaimed Maude, who was buyer of women’s ready-to-wear at the Bon Marche, Rutherford’s most

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exclusive specialty shop, “I suppose the balance of virtue will have to be maintained somehow, though I’ve often thought it was mean to throw it off on women. all the time.”’ “It might not be,” Madge ventured, “if we got anything for it, but really what do we get?” “My dear,” Loraine derided, ‘‘don’t you know that virtue is its own reward? What’s your idea, Claudia? Would you say that vir- ginity is such an im- portant asset in this day and age?” “Why—you ought to know that,” I heard my- self declaring. “I think that a woman belongs to herself and that her personal conduct is her own affair.” ‘‘Well,’’ sighed Maude, as she shifted for greater comfort in the chair, ‘“‘you can have your freedom, but ten years is my limit—and to my way of thinking it’s easier to fight one man than the _ whole world!” “Why don’t you get a lover?” Loraine sug- gested generously. “There must be lots of rich men come to the Bon Marche.”’ ‘““Yes, all weighted down with their meal- sack dowagers. I should maybe set the style, as Mrs. Blotz would say. Has anybody here got a lover anyhow?” The bluntness of the question struck us into silence, and all at once it came to me with an alarming clarity that we who had believed our- selves ‘‘emancipated women” were really sex- obsessed. Yes, even Adeline to some degree. I looked around upon my friends, each of them nearing thirty, and realized that, for all our talk, not one of us had actually experienced the “freedom” we boasted so about. Economic free- dom, yes, but this emo- tional freedom—did the two things really go to- gether after all? A strange slow inward fire seemed to burn my vitals, an eagerness for some still unknown, nameless thing. Today the woman worker has lost her novelty. The feverish “career girl’ no longer seems romantic, no 20 See aNaaetise eet Re “Ah, what would this world be like without the lovely ladies?’’ Bowing in Continental fashion, he most unexpectedly kissed my hand there im the office longer holds the_ spot- light in fiction, drama, life. But back ;in 1924 we were very audible about our independence, convinced it was our greatest boon since Eve submitted meekly to be- ing dispossessed. We'd been the post-war “‘flap- pers” and now we were the first to reap the benefits of suffrage as it crystallized from a liquid state of controversy into general recognition and stable dignity, the first to flaunt our knees and keys with immunity from the ridicule that was visited upon our more militant predeces- sors in the scramble for “equal rights.’’ Yes, and the first to think we were emancipated from sentiment and the “rusty chains of conven- tion’? along with domes- tic servitude. Not all of the girls of my age, it is true, or even my cronies at Bev- erly House, had lost their intended mates in the war, as I had lost my David, but most of them were marked by it in one way. or another— marked by the violent upheaval of what was once that firm ground in the field of the ‘“‘great moralities” in which our common roots were sunk. I suppose if there had been no war, these external changes. that have so. affected the whole world, and women in particular, would have come about in time. But the war was a forc- ing agent, so the life- time —less_ than _life- time—of a single gen- eration spanned the gulf between two worlds. It was to that gen- eration that I and my friends belonged, for all of us at the plastic age had been imbued with teachings—the precepts of the nineties — that were to prove inade- quate to the life we later found ourselves still young enough to face. Our mothers were sufficiently ‘“‘set’’ in ways of thinking and living for the changes not to disturb them be- yond the point of awak- ening a general disap- proval, while the girls who were coming after us would be acclimated to this fast-moving plane. Each member of our (Cont. on page 60)

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to answer | rs. V c ve ee psychol advice by mail. This is, pea s: : : Sa % EAR EDITOR: About three black shadow fell over me (t like) and I haven’t been able to or think clearly since. I feel ag my mind, and that I am not really m ne to myself. I am always preoccupie that I am going crazy. I am very cr strangely enough, I am not ashamed I know it is wrong to quarrel so I. wrong and thus make-up with the pa not quarreled with anyone but my fa a peach, and I know I’m unfair bu anger coming on (that’s it, I am wi just happens and usually when I’m p a those silly lies which of course he to see through. Such silly lies, about able girls’ school, and being a member lot of rot about my age, and men. self glamourous, and all the time he e real me, not that liar. ee months of happiness I noticed he so much, and that it was I who was He had truly loved me. He gave up ; ‘hat he could be with me. The last ‘told me that I was a liar, and that it day he would look me up. He did after that, but I was “busy,” so I My married sister has been ill and two years. I had other romances, I was always very close to her, and i before this happened to me I would concerned. I never had to help at home, and have been too lazy and have developed . It’s a cinch it doesn’t work right. M a very hard job. It is a F.E.R.A. jo live alone, my mother having died thr are always broke, and my two married uor, aa sR het and free excess, smoked to excess, and schemed ¢ get Dick back or forget him. Upon are piled three more. Dick is two rer do. and I keep house for Dad. I never . 1 am afraid to go any place. When ar how I got out. Nothing seems im- ation goes in one ear and out the don’t give a hoot about anybody else’s raid to trust myself. I don’t love my- lf, but I do think that I am a moron. mb all over. Know thyself? If this If I would work we could have things, because I am afraid I won’t be able ti I am not fitted for a good one beca school work seriously. I worked two tory, and out of about five hundred g ment I was the slowest worker there. twenty-one and have worked approxi y in those years. When I was in school I quit nes a or sires. It seems like an. unknown ele- and each time I reentered I was determine nt ‘overning me. I have a vague idea that this go of it, but I was only kidding mysel more serious than I realize. Dad is every night with Tom, Dick, Harry, af ntually I will either have to support faithfuls” besides. That trio stood an institution. I pray to God for many a “jam,” but after three years the right frame of mind, for intel- wasn’t ready to go with any one of t mination. So far it has not been up, and went their way. That was af iver. I would have died for Dick. I m@ ere else for me to turn perhaps He fashionable party, and he sort of sing turn to you. If you can help please thrilled when he told me I had more sé possible. I haven’t done anything else there. He told my girl-friend th t if I should, and somebody called was the only girl he could ever settle I would be convinced that I’m un- sounded silly at first, but he meant i | afraid he wouldn’t love me for mysel a bunch of lies every time I Saw. him every night for three months. I kne Dad was employed in a bank (before I figured our family middle-class. I our house. He was never in it bece © have pneumonia?” ‘The answer to Mother disapproved of him because she ni luntly. The answer is: Perhaps you and she knew that he was eight years older than me. — Well, if you (Continued on page 72) 21 eae DON’T CARE. one is young that queries such as lantic ‘and interesting. Am I going ases this query is just as reasonable

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but will do as well as any) was one of the very - Mi PHILLIPS (which is not her real name, last people I should ever have expected to come to me for professional advice. True, she had engaged me for a lecture at the woman’s club of whose committee she was chairman, and had seemed to listen with at least mild interest, but she looked much too well-poised and, frankly, too well-satisfied with herself to be likely to admit the need of a psychologist’s help. For that matter she seemed to have some ground for self-satisfaction. She was an unusually attractive, well- dressed woman in her middle thirties, obviously active- minded and intelligent, and apparently well-to-do. So it was with not a little surprise that I heard her tele- phoning, in a voice that sounded near the breaking- point, and asking when she could see me. I soon found, however, when she arrived, that she had not come to discuss any difficulties in her own mind. The trouble was with her husband, although even so it was evidently costing her a great deal of effort to discuss it. “What is wrong with Mr. Phillips?” I asked. “I have never met him, but I understand that he is popular with 22 By Lawrence Gould Consulting Psychologist ILLUSTRATOR: H. R. McBripe other men, and most successful in his business. Do you feel he has been working too hard?” “Oh, no, it is nothing like that,’’ was her answer. “Jim has always worked hard, and he still does, but I think he thoroughly enjoys it. In fact, I am sure he thinks that he is perfectly all right, and he would be furious if he knew that I had come to you about him. It isn’t his health—even his mental health—that I am worrying about. It’s—oh!—it’s the way his character seems to be changing. I have heard that lots of men of what some people call the ‘he-man type’ are apt to get coarse as they grow older; in fact, I have even read that hardly any marriage can stay really happy for more than from ten to fifteen years—but I really thought with ws things would be different.” Mrs. Phillips actually seemed on the verge of crying. “Well,” I interposed, “suppose you tell me just exactly what has happened. Perhaps things aren’t quite as bad as you imagine.” “They’re bad enough, anyhow,” said Mrs. Phillips. I thought of the obvious explanation. ‘Do you mean,” I asked, ‘“‘that Mr. Phillips has been getting interested in some other woman?”

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oe. a? “Heavens, not that!” exclaimed his wife, in horror. “What has he done?” I persisted. “Well, I dare say I might as well tell you, though it’s. pretty hard to say it. In several ways, things have been going from bad to worse for quite a long while, but the last straw was the other evening, when he came home unmistakably the worse for liquor. And the worst of it was, when I charged him with it, he made no attempt to defend himself; he just said, with sort of a sneering laugh: ‘What’s the matter, old dear? Are you jealous? I’ll bet it’s a long time since you felt as good as I do right now!’ ” “Was this the first time you had ever seen him when he seemed to have had too much to drink?” I inquired. “It certainly was,” said Mrs. Phillips. “Of course I knew he had been a bit wild before we were married. I suppose that’s only natural in a young man. And then, he was in the army in France during the War, and I have no doubt that all the boys over there did a lot of things that they wouldn’t have been as likely to do at home. But when we were married, and for quite a long while afterward, he really was everything I could have asked for. He never drank at all, and he even gave up going with the crowd he used to run around with.” ““And why did he do that?” I asked. “Well, after all, they were hardly the sort of people he could expect me to associate with. Jim himself comes from one of our nicest families, and not only had a good home but an excellent education, but when he came back from France he seemed for a while to have lost all social sense. He used to go around with men who had no education at all, who had very low tastes, and who used the vilest kind of language—or go I have heard, at any rate. He tried introducing one or two of these men to me, but of course I gave him no encouragement, and I thought I had cured him of his taste for them entirely.” “But he didn’t stay cured?” “No, he didn’t,” said Mrs. Phillips, with a touch of indignation. “I think the real trouble started about five years ago, when they finally persuaded him to become the head of one of these veterans’ organizations. I made no objection to that, at first—in fact, I thought that it was a fine thing for the post to want a man like Jim to head it. I had an idea, perhaps, that his influence might be a good thing for some of the men he would be thrown with, but I guess the influence has been all the other way.” “How do you mean?” “TI mean that the men have influenced him, instead. Of course I knew that his taking the position would involve his having to go to a good many meetings, but I had no idea how many. And then I began to suspect that not all the meetings could be really necessary, be- cause after a while he would always have a meeting every time I wanted him to go to a concert, or a lecture, or any of the things that are really worth while. And finally, he would tell me frankly that he was going down to the post, without even bothering to pretend there was a meeting. He would come home, smelling of liquor, and tell me a lot of stories that I didn’t want to hear; or else, if I wouldn’t listen, he would just turn grumpy, and go off to bed without saying good night. And lately, his language has been getting simply awful—I can’t bear to think of the effect it may have on the children. And I’ve tried so hard to bring them up nicely! What can I do?” =e “Well,” said I, “what sort of man was Mr. Phillips when you first became acquainted with him? I believe you said that even then he was inclined to go with people you disapproved of, whom you did not regard = company for him.” (Continued on page 80) 23 -

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RUS ORTY years old—and a wasted life behind me. I thought of my old husband, stricken in the first years of our marriage, an invalid for twenty years, to whom all of my youth had been given. And with regret, I thought of Michael, the man I loved, and who loved me, but whom I lost because I was so dazzled by the wealth and position of the courtly Mr. Arbuthnot. But that was all behind me. I was free now, and. I determined to make up for the lost years. And when I promised to marry Dr. Philip Carson, the bluff coun- try doctor, I felt that life still held some happiness for me. Then one night my niece Carolyn came in while the doctor was there. After that, things were different. He was attracted by her, I felt, and there was a change in his attitude toward me. But there was nothing definite until the night he broke a dinner engagement with me—and I saw them dancing together at an inn where we had often dined. All night long I lay awake, wondering what to do. Then I decided. Carolyn was young—this could not meah so much to her. I would send her away, give her a trip to Europe, and she would soon forget. But the next day, when I told her of my plans, she 24 ORTI cried out, “Oh, Aunt Elisabeth, I can’t go. with Doctor Carson. I want him. You’ve had your chance. You’ve lived your life, but I—” I had had my chance! Why, because I had not, I was desperately grasping at it now. “TI love him so!” she cried. With passion I answered her. “What, at your age, do you know about love?” Then as she burst into tears, I walked into the next room. I turned toward the mirror. I gave a last little touch to my hair, then patted some perfume behind my ears and took a fresh handkerchief. Carolyn had gone, an I’m in love

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F hour before—a painful going. And in the time inter- vening, I had been striving for composure, for Dr. Philip would soon be here. At length, I started down- stairs, after I had heard his ring and Nora, admitting him. He was standing in the hall looking up, as I was coming down. On other. occasions I would have been a bit conscious of the little drama of the moment, even of the coolness and beauty of my dim colonial hall and staircase. I would a little have seen the picture I made as I came lightly down, a woman still young in appear- ance; and as well turned out as money could effect. I would have felt, a little, the luxury of my soft blue silk frock, the sheen of my fine diamond ring, the gentle caress of the tiny gold chain about my neck with its single, costly, diamond pendant. But that evening, just before dinner, I was not at all conscious of myself as I looked down toward the doctor. And, looking, felt something in my heart turn over. There he stood, something very American, very significant of one phase of our American country life. A tall man, well dressed, in rough summer tweeds, yet, for all his grooming, giving out the im- pression that clothes were his least concern. No doctor of the laboratories, he, but—forthright physician who knew life in the raw, and life in its sweetness and its simplicity and its honest rugged affections. And who was, Tragic Years for a Woman Alone— How Can She Fill Her Empty Lite? The prophet expounded his beliefs. He interested me mildly—it was something to help fill up my mind except for that episode last night, honest and rugged and simple. We exchanged glances, our eyes mingling. My heart leaped up, as I spoke in answer to his solid greeting. His voice had seemed different over the telephone. It had seemed delivered. Not withdrawing from me, not hesitant as it had been so often recently. He smiled, when he saw me. I smiled back. ; “I’m so glad to see you,” I said. It was on the tip of my tongue to add, “I missed you at dinner, last night.” But I held my tongue in time. That might raise guilty feelings within him, which would cloud our evening. Dinner was ready, then, and we went in. Nora had drawn the Venetian blinds and lit the table candles. We seemed enclosed within my fragrant summer dining- room, so big and beautiful and protected from the world, with nobody but that staunch pillar of propriety, my good Irish Nora, coming be- tween us and Eden. And all through the dinner the air was free and relieved. Well, I felt, he had had a little fling last night. And had convinced himself that such a child was only best for dancing. Finally he finished the good apple pie and ice cream, with hearty appreciation. I always en- joyed a man who ate his food with a relish. Dr. Philip did. Then we went into a little drawing-room for coffee, which Nora placed on » 25

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26 the small table by my chair, and with- drew. The doctor sipped his coffee, set down his cup, and looked toward me. “Elisabeth,” he said, after a pause, in his forthright, free-male tones, ““T’ve something to tell you: I’ve felt a cad these last twenty-four hours. And so—” I looked up lightly, smiling. “Oh, my dear,” I said. “I know you took my little niece out dancing last night. Why should you explain it? I’m awfully glad you were good enough to think of her. She was thrilled about it, of course. She came here this afternoon and 99 But I stopped there. I must take care, must not convey false im- pressions. Nor would it, I felt, be sensible or frank not to mention in some way that Carolyn had been with me that afternoon. After I finished, I looked across at the doctor. His face had changed. It seemed to have lost its buoyancy. It seemed anxious. Disappointed. Al- most denied. And within me something of my late decision left me, as he asked: “What did Carolyn want, when she came to- day?” Then he didn’t know. Then he had no idea the child felt about him as she imagined she did. “What does any niece want,” I asked, “when she comes to see her favorite aunt?” I tried to speak gayly, watching his face. There the feeling came and went, feeling of concern, interest, almost, I thought, of fu- tility. I knew he was feel- ing it, the anguish, the distastefulness of any rela- tionship which concerned the child and me in this involvement. It was im- possible for me to go on with my absurd plan. This man seated before me didn’t want to marry me. He wanted to marry my niece, Carolyn. And _ she wanted to marry him. He hadn’t told Carolyn; after all, despite the deception of last night, he was an honorable man. That, undoubtedly, was his only deception. He hadn’t told Carolyn and she—she had never let him imagine what her feelings were. But I knew. I knew both. And I couldn’t sit there selfishly, snatching at a love which was now withdrawn from me, holding this simple man, this really honorable yet involved man, to a bargain he: regretted. Why, no really proud ILLUSTRATOR: CHARLES DeE FEO Then he took my hands in his. I] felt his sincerity, and I trembled. “‘Oh, my dear boy,” I cried. ‘“‘This is madness!” Physical Culture for May, 1935 woman wanted a man for a moment—or should want him when he had ceased to want her. And I—I must take dignity in both hands and do what was kind and right and proper. After a little respite, while we listened to an operatic concert coming to us over the radio from Boston, I got up and turned the music off. Then sat down opposite Dr. Philip once more. And listened, as my strange voice began. — BiaDp,.:.1- said, . “there’s _ something I wish to say to you, my dear.” It was my strange voice. He knew it was my strange voice. He looked across at me, with sudden interest. “I didn’t,” I heard my- self going on, “say all that I meant, when you men- tioned having gone dancing with Carolyn last evening. Philip, dear—’” Oh, why couldn’t I say it? Where were deft words, easy words, proper words?— then I plunged. “l’m—I’m—not going to marry you, Philip. I want you to release me—and not to feel hurt that I ask you.” His shrewd gray eyes opened wide. So much they knew about women, so much they had _ learned about women, through the years, yet so puzzled were they as I spoke. As he looked at me, I could fancy what was going on within his mind. He had perhaps imagined me the kind of woman who would hold him to his proposal. Who would make our parting disagree- able and angry, if he tried to free himself. Silence followed my first words. The ticking of two clocks, the small one on the mantel, the grandfather’s clock in the hall. What was he feel- ing? What was he feeling, and somehow lacking the expression to tell me? What should I say next? How should I go on, gracefully, with dignity and sensitiveness? Then, out of my troubled concern with myself, I heard his voice, low but still solid and sincere. Also a little wondering. “What made you decide this way?” he asked. “You aren’t really very angry because last night—?”’ I decided to speak the truth right out, hoping he would accept it, with the interpretation I wished. I wanted him to believe that I had come to this decision cheerfully, because I was a sensi- ble woman. I prayed that he might never know how terrifically I re- gretted giving him up, regretted the life I had hoped to lead as his wife. No, I must not uncover my nakedness (Continued on page 85)

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er Caer ree ere T Learned to Live with DIABETES they have the disease, but with me an injury to my leg first revealed the dread condition. It was winter up in Orange County, New York, where I own a farm of twenty acres. I had gone out to the garage one cold morning to start my car and | DON’T know how most diabetes patients discover drive to town for some groceries. The car wouldn’t start. The cold weather had stiffened up the oil, so that the battery wouldn’t turn the motor over. I took off my coat and prepared for a job which, frankly, I did not like. I got all ready to crank it. Removing my coat, I bent down and inserted the crank in the aperture below the car’s radiator. Then I spun it carefully. But despite my care, the handle kicked back, hurling me against the front bumper and bruising my leg painfully. That bruise, however, I’ve long since decided was a blessing in disguise. I limped into the house and examined my shinbone which had received the injury. I found it lacerated and bleeding. Fortunately, I decided, no bones had been broken, so I put a bandage on the wound and, undaunted, went out again and this time started my car. That was in December. The weeks rolled into months, and winter changed to spring once more, and Orange County was murmurous again in the stir and warmth of another summer. Meanwhile, I had dressed my leg regularly each day, cleansing it and applying healing lotions, but the bruise did not heal. It remained an open wound, very sore to the touch, and black in color. This last led me to see a doctor about it, and his thorough examination yielded a dismaying piece of news: I had diabetes. Let no one tell you that you can receive a verdict like this without being considerably upset by it. We none of us like to feel we’re sick and defective, and that, unless a miracle happens, we’re going to continue being defective until the time—not far off—when . we’re laid away. I know I didn’t. So when the doctor looked at me gravely, after he had heard my story and made a urinanalysis, and said, “I’m afraid, old man, you have diabetes,” my heart sank lower than it ever had before. Yet, the discovery, that resulted from my accident in the garage that cold winter’s morning, was really By William R. Adams fortunate, for if I hadn’t learned about it when I did, it’s highly probable the disease would have progressed to a simply incurable extent. Another year of going as I.had gone, and I might have fallen a victim of T.B., a fairly frequent complica- tion, I’ve been told, of diabetes, or been carried off suddenly in a diabetic coma. I believed I discovered my illness just in time. Well, I had pancreatic diabetes. What then did there remain for me to do? Diet? Obviously. Insulin—which was more or less new at that time? I thought so, but later I was to learn that I had a peculiar idiosyncrasy to the drug, that it affected my stomach, causing vio- lent nausea. What worked for most people, it appeared, would not work for me, and this precluded its use. So the way out of my trouble lay by another avenue than the modern and convenient one of taking the contents of a tiny glass bottle. : But I anticipate somewhat. I want to set down in detail just what happened during those first few weeks that followed the diagnosis from my doctor. I went home to my wife, on the day I first received it, almost stunned by the shock of the news. “T’ve got diabetes, Kate,’ I told her. ‘“‘That’s why my leg didn’t heal and why the blood turned black the way it did. It’s the sugar in my blood, the doctor says. Something’s gone wrong with my chemistry, with my pancreas gland, and my blood’s loaded up with sugar. I’ve got to go on a diet and cut out carbohydrates. That’s starches and sugars. And he’s ordered insulin for me. That’s a new drug used to take the place of a bad pancreas.” K “i4: my wife, looked dismayed when I spoke, but she cheered up when she saw how badly I felt, too. She’s always been like that. “Never mind, Bill,” she answered. “My grandfather had diabetes but he lived to be over seventy. So you haven’t got anything to worry about. We'll cure it. I’ll bake gluten bread for you. That’s what he ate.” I nodded glumly. It was easy enough to say, I con- cluded, but it would be a whole lot harder to do. At the same time, I was grateful for her cheerful manner. A long woe-begone face would have been more than I could stand, feeling as I did. Yes, diet offered the best hope for me, and I fished out of my pocket the list the doctor had given me. No potatoes, I saw im- mediately, nor must anything be baked for me con- taining white of eggs. Of fruits, I could eat peaches and grapefruit, but no apples or pears. The latter con- tained sugar, and sugar and starch were two things I must carefully avoid. Red meat, too, was forbidden, and of the vegetables nearly everything that grew above the ground was permitted, except peas and corn. White bread I was to stop (Continued on page 90) 27

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eS ENRY! Have you been playing football in your school clothes again?” This in a very reproachful voice to my twelve- year-old son. ‘‘You know I’ve asked you to come and change your clothes just as soon as school is out.’’ “I did, Mother!” “But you’re generally quarter to four. It’s nearly five o’clock now.” “Well, gee whiz! It isn’t my fault if the teacher keeps us in. do a thing.” 3 “You must have or the teacher wouldn’t have made you stay in. What was it?” “T tell you I didn’t do any- thing—except sneeze—and everybody else was sneezing —the teacher, too. One of the boys brought some sneeze-powder to school— and gee! Mother’’—Henry’s previously defensive ex- pression gave way to glee —‘‘you should have seen Miss Stephenson sneeze! She wears these fancy glasses that squeeze onto your nose, and every time she sneezed the glasses would fall off.” “Henry!” My wife was trying to be properly se- vere. ‘“‘Were you the boy that took the sneeze- powder to school?” “No, honest, Mother! I don’t even know where you can get it.” “Well, then, why did Miss Stephenson make you stay after school?” “She said either the boy that did it would have own up or the whole class would have to stay an hour— an’ nobody owned up.” “Well, I don’t think that was very fair of the boy that did it.” The Physi home by a I didn’t to cal Needs of Children Are Neglected Under the Educational System Now Prevailing

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to Chilaren “But, Mother,’ Henry explained, “if he’d owned up, she’d have sent him to the principal. She’s a pain in the neck.” ‘“He’s made you and every other child in the class lose an hour of sunlight and fresh air.” My wife looked at the western sky. | | . os \ | “The sun is practically gone now. It = Ay, oy ee ONC will be before you can change your ee net i | clothes and get outside. And you need every bit of sun you can get. I guess I’ll have to start you on cod-liver-oil again.” 7 “Aw, Mother!” “Well, I want you out in every bit of sunlight you can get.” “T should worry about the sun- light, but it spoils our team. We’ve got to stay in an hour every day this week, and we won’t have any chance to practise signals for the game on Saturday.” “Every day this week!”’ My wife was aroused. “That doesn’t seem right. Your teacher has no business to rob you of the only hour of sun that you get at this time of the year. You must have done more than just sneeze.” “No, we didn’t, Mother. Only after school, while we were staying in, Jack blew some more sneeze- powder and made us all start sneezing again; and Miss Stephenson said if the boy that did it didn’t own up, then somebody else in the class should tell who it was. And nobody would tell. What does she think we are? A bunch of snitchers? So she said either we'd tell or we’d stay an hour after school every day for the rest of the week. Well, she'll have to stay in, too, so we should worry. (Continued on page 75) 29

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T SEEMS to me that every man is a kind of Frankenstein, with the power to create a monster who will in the end destroy him. In my case, the monster was drink. Before Prohibition I seldom took a drink and I don’t believe that Jean, my wife, ever did. Yet along with countless others, as soon as liquor became a forbidden thing, it assumed a tremendous value in our eyes, and before we realized what was happening it was a necessity to us. We always had it in the house and wherever we went drinks were served as a matter of course. But my first awareness of its evils came to me at Christmas, in 1923. We were having a party at the office, with plenty to drink, and everyone hilarious. I had always held myself rather aloof in business and there were many faces here which were only vaguely familiar to me. But after a few drinks, my dignity vanished, and I 30 ‘NSTEI found myself dancing with a little blonde, who clung to me with abandon. I was stirred by her closeness, but striving to keep my feelings somewhat within bounds I said casually, “What do you do here, Helen?” “Tl show you,” she said promptly, and holding my hand led me out of the main office and into our stock-room. It was the monster I had created, through all my months of drinking, who was responsible for what happened next. I took her in my arms, kissing her fiercely, and she clung to me in a rapture that made me lose all reason. Some time later, I drew away from her, with a keen sense of shame and remorse, and sick at heart led her back to the others. I left the place as soon as I could. I did not say good- by to Helen. She was a hard-boiled little thing, I realized, and would resent this return to my rather “high-hat” office manner. But I was ashamed and penitent—lI had been unfaith- ful to Jean, and my one thought was to return to her and ask her forgiveness. As I neared my house, I saw a party was in progress,

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for through our living-room windows showed the moving figures of persons dancing to music from the radio. The presence of people dancing in my home surprised me; I was mystified, to say the least. This meant, of course, that Jean had company, but who it could be I had utterly no idea. Possibly neigh- bors, but the idea of dancing at this time, which was just before dinner, struck me as being somewhat unusual. I climbed the porch steps and slowly opened the front door. A blast of dance music met me. I stood there uncertainly in the central hallway of our house, striving to make out who the dancing figures in the living-room were. They were two men and two women, I was aware. I glanced in at the dining-room on the opposite side of the hall and saw two whiskey bottles, some small glasses and a pitcher of water. This was not my liquor, I knew instantly. Mine was gin— gin that I made myself. Therefore, it must belong to our callers, whose identity I had yet to learn. My entrance into the house had been unnoticed in the noise from the radio, and I continued to stand uncertainly in the hallway, until a couple moved past the entrance arch, dancing cheek-to-cheek, their bodies pressed close together, after the dancing style of that time. With an unpleasant shock of recognition, I “A Kew Drinks’’—Gareless W ords—Yet Stark ‘Tragedy May Follow in Their Wake realized that the woman was Jean, my wife. But who was she dancing with, I asked myself? And who were the others? “Jean!” I called loudly, my head in a strange turmoil at this unlooked-for turn of events. Jean stopped dancing as though she had been struck and swung sharply about. Her face was flushed, her eyes glassy bright, and her features had that prolapsed appearance that is caused by heavy drinking. For Jean, I knew, had been drinking heavily, beyond a doubt. Her companion was a tall, dark, good-looking chap of thirty, and it was fairly evident he had been drinking heavily, too. He regarded me easily—a little too easily, I felt, considering he was in another man’s house and dancing with that other man’s wife. “Why, hello, Don, dear!” Jean cried a trifle thickly. “This is Bill Cameron, Don! Bill Cameron, this is my husband!” I bowed somewhat stiffly. There was something about ? 31

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32 the whole situation, the drinking, the dancing, the free and easy exchange of introductions, that I did not like. “How do you do, sir?” I said, my eyes boring into Jean’s in a look of inquiry. But she did not seem to notice my manner. The stranger, Bill Cameron, acknowledged the intro- duction by a casual wave of his hand, and again his air of assurance irritated me vaguely. | “Greetings!” he announced waggishly. a little drink.” I turned to the others and was surprised to find them persons I did not know. I eyed them, puzzled. How had they got there? What were they doing in my house with my wife? Jean came to my rescue with an intro- duction and an explanation—that I could hardly hear above the din of the music. “Don!” she said with that extravagance of speech “Let’s have that is typical of Jean when she has a certain number: of drinks, “this is Mabel Brown who used to work in the same office with me. You’ve heard me speak of her. And this is Jim Freeman.” I bowed in greeting and managed a slight host’s smile of welcome, although at the same time I was secretly displeased and obscurely bothered. There was something about the situation that I did not like. It was a strange climax to my afternoon at the office. I had come home in a mood of loving tenderness and heart-felt repentance, only to find Jean, my wife, whom I loved dearly, intoxicated and dancing with another man in a somewhat questionable manner. Yet, who was I, I was reminded suddenly, to protest? I, who had been guilty that very afternoon of gross infidelity? And yet, again, it is in the nature of man, I believe, to demand exemplary conduct from his wife, no matter what his own may be. It’s preposterous, I’ll agree, that such should be. What’s sauce for the gander is or should be sauce for the goose, as well, and the man who isn’t capable of admitting that fact should go back to the seventeenth century, or even earlier, where he belongs. How many men, however, do? I’m quick to acknowledge that cen- turies of masculine license and feminine obedience have left their mark on me. My head affirms what every instinct of my being rebels against. They had all stopped dancing by now and, as the music was still unpleasantly loud, I stepped across to Physical Culture for May, 1935 the radio and turned it off. ‘Excuse me,” I murmured with perfunctory politeness, “but that music is so loud, it deafens me.”’ “Quite right!” the man named Cameron agreed promptly, with his same waggish air. The girl Mabel laughed, and it was evident that Cameron was regarded as something of a wit by the others. He took out a package of cigarettes and offered it to Jean. She looked at me with a silly drunken smile. “Don,” she said. “Do you care? May I?” The expression on my face froze in such a manner that I guess there was no mistaking it even by Jean. I shook my head stiffly. “You never have,” I said coldly. She drew a deep audible sigh and dismissed the mat- ter, while Cameron lighted a cigarette and regarded me quizzically through narrowed eyes. The fellow’s assurance annoyed me unspeakably. I was annoyed, too, with Jean for having asked me about smoking. She knew I did not care to see women smoke, although I’m willing to admit that, in the past decade, my views have widened somewhat on that score. But this was twelve years ago, when the use of the habit, in some minds at least, gave evidence of certain laxity in women. Unjustly or not, that was the opinion in many men’s minds. And I did not care to have men thinking things about my wife. I glanced at the others, still wondering how Jean had met them and how soon they would take their departure. The men, I could see, were of the sporting type, and somehow I didn’t like the idea of Jean’s associating, in my absence, with a girl who was single and two unattached men. And drinking with them freely made it measurably worse. “Oh, say!” Jean blurted suddenly. “It’s a long time between refreshments. Come on, Don! You look as sober as a judge. Have a Eepot of Bill Cameron’s pre-war : Scotch. It’s a lot better than the gin we’ve been drink- ing — I'll tell the cock-eyed world!” I gazed at them in a sort of curious helplessness, while (Cont. on page 66) SS “| want it settled right now,” she declared sullenly. ‘And if it isn’t, well, somebody's going to be sorry!” ILLUSTRATOR: MONTE CREWS

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At left is Dorothy Poynton Hill, national and Olympic diving champion, winning a ten-foot springboard title at the Far Western Athletic Club in Los Angeles. Below, Georgia Coleman, of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, doing a graceful swan dive Wide World Bunny Fergus, of San Francisco, former national champion, and Harold “‘Dutch’’ Smith, Olympic champion, in a_ striking half- twist dive gat the El Mirador Pool, Palm Springs, California APE AE LL LP BELLE

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—— a ee There is strength, beauty and perfect coordination in every line of these striking photographs of Brunhilde Vogel, of the Charlottenburg Sports Club. This lovely girl, bubbling with vitality, is a typical representative of German women today, since so much emphasis has been placed on out- door sports by that nation European Picture Service SN NOS

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Here are two examples of rugged masculine develop- ment, an inspiration § to all who are striving for physical perfection. At right is William Arthur Ritter, of Astoria, L. I., New York, and above is Frank A. Centrella, of the Bronx, New York City * E58 Pease SSR E. 2

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Madge Evans as the lovely Agnes, and Elizabeth Allan as David's gentle mother, in M-G-M's “David Copperfield,” set a pattern of natural _ charm which our young girls might well emulate _- Grace and Gentleness and Natural Charm Are Again the Vogue, and the Movies Are Showing Us How Very Lovely Are ‘These Ageless Oualities of Femininity By Carol Cameron Director, Department of Beauty Hygiene was recently invited to a nearby town for an informal dinner dance. The lad returned the following day still aglow fram the wonderful evening he had spent in the beautiful home of his hostess and the good time he had had at the party she had given for her youngsters home from boarding- school. His mother drew him out a little concerning the young people who had attended the festivity. Davy’s comments on the feminine guests I am quoting in the lad’s own words: “I don’t know just how to describe them, Mother,” he said simply. “But it.seemed to me that they were like flowers. I can’t quite express the difference between them and the girls I know here in the city, but the Elmville girls seemed lots nicer somehow, more like the girls you read about in books. They had certain qualities that we men like to see women have, even though we frequently pretend other- wise. I guess maybe they aren’t so hardboiled as the girls who live in the city.” I didn’t find it difficult to understand the feeling that Davy was trying to put into appropriate words. A short while before I, too, had been a guest in that very home. I clearly remembered the young people who trooped in and out of the hospitable old house. While there I had many opportunities to observe their comings and goings, to listen to their fun and conver- sation. I, too, had been struck by the fresh, whole- [Te seventeen-year-old son of an intimate friend nh Eds

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some charm of the young girls, their sweetness, their eager-eyed enthusiasm, their delicious naturalness. Could it be, I wondered at the time—could it be, I have asked myself many times since—that such attributes of femininity are conspicuous because we have grown more or less accustomed to their absence? Can it be that we are involuntarily affected by such qualities for the reason that modern girlhood is moulding itself, deliberately or otherwise, in a more or less artificial pattern? From time immemorial we women have been telling the world that we adjust our manners and behavior- isms to conform to the dictates of the sterner sex. I often wonder whether we fool anybody, least of all ourselves? Isn’t it more plausible that what we really do is masquerade, that we adore playing new and dif- ferent rdles in the hope that their very novelty or originality will arouse masculine interest if not admira- tion? In other words, that we deliberately try to draw attention to ourselves by using ways and means that will hardly fail to register upon the eye or ear of the beholder? I sometimes wonder if the young girl of the hour isn’t deliberately setting out to be noisy and hard- boiled in the belief that it will attract attention in her direction and attention can so easily be interpreted by onlookers as interest? How seldom, unfortunately, does she realize that the very quality or behaviorism which first draws a man’s attention to a young woman may later evoke an attitude that is far from being complimentary to either her charm or intelligence. We have all witnessed the young man who amuses him- self as well as the usual group of onlookers with the girl whose appearance and conduct indicate that she is smart enough to return his wisecracks or insinua- tions with retorts as impudent as his own, or as subtly risqué; but when all the laughter has died down, you know and he knows and the entire audience, for that matter, knows that the girl in the case has been men- tally classified as a “wise baby” and that, my dears, is a long, long way from (Continued on page 70) We age er Maureen O'Sullivan, as David's child-wife, Dora, and Heather Angel, in the Fox production of “Berkeley Square,’ have a tender, winsome quality which endears them to their audiences

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We usually call this our ““baby page,’ but we wouldn't dare to this month, for these two-year-olds would prob- ably protest that they are no longer babies. But, anyway, they're very charming youngsters, and we're happy to introduce to you Nino Puglisi, of Brooklyn, New York, at the top; the blue-eyed blonde at the left, Barbara Grigory, of Houston, Texas; and above, Jimmy Gilmour, of Montreal, Canada

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HOW I KEEP MY Schechis! Fy % HY don’t you let the rest of us in on your secret? I’ve tried all sorts of expensive reducers, dieted until there aren’t any cherries: in life’s bowl—and here you are fifty- two and I am twelve years younger and cushioned with human upholstery so I look like your grandmother.” Thus spoke an old friend, whom I hadn’t seen for years, and after we had separated again her question and con- cern over her own physical condition, which seems to be typical, induced me to tell why, at my age, I still have a girlish figure and am healthy and full of pep and vitally interested in living each day to the fullest despite the strain of modern times. There has never been anything unusual or. spectacu- lar about my daily program. The fact that it has been both normal and natural gives it whatever distinction it merits. Some folks are born with inherited weak- nesses and physical handicaps and they deserve a full measure of praise if they overcome these drawbacks. But to most of us God gave a body that would stand the wear and tear of life if from the first we lived as Na- ture intended we should. And in this, as in everything else that we do, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” J was fortunate in having a fine physical heritage. But I might have put on extra pounds (most of my relatives have) and ruined my stomach—for I have always had a splendid appetite and enjoyed food—had I not, from the first, used the common sense the Lord gave me. | “Keeping fit” was never a thing apart to me. It be- longed in my creed, just like the ten commandments and the shorter catechism. I felt if God created us in His own image, He gave us a pretty fair break, and if I neglected or abused or indulged that body, it would be my hard luck and no one to blame. I am fifty-two years old and I am the mother of three children, now almost mature. The thought of old age has never bothered me, in fact I never think in the term of years. My son, who is a professor of psychol- ogy, told me the other day that it is only when one starts worrying about age that age is beginning to be fatal. Old age has no terrors if one carries into that serene evening the grace and charm that shouldn’t dim but mellow. True, I had an excellent start in life! I was the eldest of a big family. My father was a pioneer on the Minnesota prairie, and we weren’t coddled. I grew up in the horse and buggy age—but our horses worked in the fields and the women walked to the village and carried the groceries back. It was a sort of outing— that trek to the village. It meant a sack of gumdrops and a package of gum. It very early became a habit with me, a delightful one that I have never given up. by Mary M. Wooley My walk is a part of my day, just like my bath or my preparation of a meal, and it is one of the reasons for the splendid health and enviable figure. In those early days I walked miles over the prairie trails and through the tan- gled glens that bordered our precious river. Our home had none of the luxuries of today but we had plenty of simple, wholesome food, and the phil- osophy of health was taught in our happy, noisy home. Later, when I went away to college, I never let studies or social activities deprive me of my daily trek. Always, after an afternoon of strenuous study, I would walk two miles to the river and back with my cheeks rosy, with a new zest and more appetite than the scant board seemed to warrant. After graduation I started in the teaching profession and girls in that day spent their evenings tatting or embroidering, but I was an outlaw for that sort of thing never even interested me and I’d leave them for “my oxygen on the hoof.” Even then I was envied for my good color, my endurance and my pep, as they called my interest in life. But about that time I really fell into disfavor. It was the time when the appendix suddenly but surely came into its own. Friends, relatives, acquaintances were falling under its spell. The question on every lip was: “Have you had yours out?” If the reply was in the affirmative, the one questioned automatically felt gath- ered into that vast brotherhood of “outs.” If you an- swered in the negative, you got a frosty stare, as though you were queer, and you soon found out that where two or three were gathered together you had nothing to talk about. W ELL mine is still where it was as is all the rest of my equipment. I am not boasting. I am just plain grateful. I have never worn a corset or a girdle of any sort. There is no reason for restricting one’s bodily grace that. should be natural. I have tried to develop mine by training muscles instead of encasing them, and I have been gratified when I buy a dress to have the clerks tell me that I have an easy figure to fit. Sleep has been an important factor in my life. It should be in everyone’s. There is no other boon to tired nerves and weary bodies that is so cheap and effective. And it is natural. I hear young women gay, “IT have had to take sleeping powders for months. I don’t know what it is to go to sleep naturally.” And I know that sometime along the line that body has been treated unwisely. Most people spend time and energy and money on some. artificial cure that is too often a will-o’-the-wisp, ~ while if they would only go back to Nature’s way of healing and building they would have permanent results. 41

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Raise arms overhead and rise on toes, in- haling as you rise. Exhale as you return to first position. Repeat twenty-five times I was married when I was twenty-three years old and I gave to my family the best heritage there is, that of abounding health. My children are normal and healthy and I have raised them as I was raised myself plus the added knowledge that my generation accumu- lated of calories, vitamins and balanced meals. Simple wholesome food, natural exercise, and a per- fectly normal childhood have made of them three vital, happy youths. As the busy years slipped by and I arrived at that delightful but precarious age when the slogan, “Fair, fat and forty,” is supposed to describe every female, I found that it would really be too easy to start accumu- lating those extra pounds. But there was nothing alarming about that. It, too, was natural. I knew, of course, that there is a slowing up process generally in the system. There is less fuel needed and a tendency for the muscles to thicken up and the fat to accumulate instead of burn. It is not only wise but expedient to cut down on one’s starch and sugar—lI did this because I knew I must if I wanted to remain fit. I abhor martyrs and since this was my affair I didn’t make a national broadcast. Why should I? Why should anyone? I have little patience with the man or woman who carries around extra 42 : Sit on floor and bring knees up to chest. Lock hands under your knees and rock back and forth. Repeat twenty-five times avoirdupois and will say, “Oh, I know I should cut down on my food, but I’m so hearty and I just love to eat.” Well, it’s his worry, and if he hasn’t enough gray matter to know where he’s going, it’s just too bad. _ I too love to eat and every sort of food agrees with me, and I think that like the ostrich I could digest nails; nevertheless I know “all the answers” as the college boys remind one, and there are still lots of things in life that I want to do—so I use my head. Simple and natural and sensible. Maybe that’s why so few do the thing they know they should. Too many folks look around for some high-sounding expensive chemical that performs a miracle while one sleeps and the fat rolls off without either exercise or letting up on heavy food. Baloney! Barnum told the truth-—but I’m not the sucker born in my minute. And you needn’t be either. 7 So I have compiled a few simple exercises that have kept my pounds just where they belong, and have kept my body pliant and youthful. I can put on a gym suit and do almost any exercise that my daughters can do. The exercises I shall give are splendid, too, for those who want to take off excess fat. They are excellent for curing indigestion and for chasing away that feeling

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Raise hands overhead. Bend to touch left foot with right hand, then right foot with left hand. Repeat twenty-five times of lethargy that so often envelopes one who carries around a burden of fat, and for the woman who is not so young but who has kept her abounding health and vigor—well they will keep her pounds and pep at par. Of course they must be followed faithfully, not in- termittently, and with them use common sense in eat- ing and never allow anything to disturb your necessary amount of sleep. EXERCISE 1.—Stand with arms at side. Raise arms and go up on toes, Inhale. Bring arms down as you exhale and come down on feet. Repeat twenty-five times. I start with this exercise. It fills the lungs with fresh air that hits the blood stream with a new supply of oxygen. EXERCISE 2.—Sit on the floor and bring knees up to chest. Lock your hands under your knees and rock back and forth as though you were in’a rocking chair. Repeat twenty-five times. — EXERCISE 3.—I call this one the Hula Hula exercise for that is just what it is. Stand with your feet firm about eight inches apart and fold your arms across your chest. Move your abdomen to the right in a circle about twenty-five times, then to the left, keeping upper body rigid. (Not illustrated.) Stand with knees stiff and feet together. Raise arms overhead and bend until hands touch the floor. Repeat twenty-five times Poses by Jean. Vickers Photographs by Macfadden Studio Lie on back, legs straight. Raise left leg to right hand. Do same with right leg and left hand. Repeat twenty-five times EXERCISE 4.—Stand with knees stiff, feet together. Raise arms overhead and bend until your palms are flat on the floor. Repeat twenty-five times. Also, with knees stiff, touch left foot with right hand, then touch right foot with left hand. Repeat twenty-five times. This exercise is simple and one I have done all my life. It is great for keeping one supple. You will never squeak if you’ do it faithfully. EXERCISE 5.—If you want to keep your waistline and hips as they should be, add this one. Stand with feet about twelve inches apart. Place hands on hips. With- out moving upper torso push hips to the right side, then to the left. Fifty times is about right for this exercise. (Not illustrated.) The following is my favorite exercise: EXERCISE 6.—Lie on back, legs straight. Raise left leg and bring it as near outstretched right hand as pos- sible. Do same with right leg and left hand. Eat plenty of green vegetables and fruit. Don’t ever forget your daily walk. Sleep at night, and wake up each morning feeling that the day is yours and there is something fine in it for you if you want to look for it. And have a hobby—anything as long as you ride it. It will keep you. from becoming settled and feeling that you are about to be pushed into the discard. 43

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RT er ig BF mg Modern ROBABLY there is no branch of medical science in which more satisfactory progress has been made in recent years than in the feeding of babies. Certainly the proportion of human lives now saved, as compared with former times, is greater in the case of babies than in the case of adults. Many causes have contributed to this gratifying decline of the infant death rate, but no one factor has been so important as has the new knowledge of nutrition ap- plied to infant feeding. The loss of babies during the first year of life was at one time appalling. Many mothers buried more babies than they reared. In spite of unrestricted birth rates, populations increased very slowly. Indeed large cities at one time only increased in size because of the constant influx of people from the country districts. The people of the city died faster than they were born. The biggest fraction of this huge death rate was of infants and very young children. Even in times which the writer can remember, in some of the poorer districts of New York City, for each thousand babies born from three to four hundred died during the first year of life. That tragic figure has now been reduced to less than a hundred in practically all American communities, both city and country, ex- cept among Negro populations. In the most. enlight- ened American communities the infant death rate has been reduced to about fifty to sixty per thousand or about one baby in twenty. It should be still further reduced, as there is really no fundamental reason why the death rate for babies should be higher than that of older children or middle-aged adults. When a generation or two ago people first became conscious that the appalling loss of babies was prevent- able, the loss was blamed almost wholly on bad sanitation. The high- est death rate was among the poor who lived in dark and filthy tene- ments where disease germs were sup- posed to abound. Most of the deaths occurred in the summer months from summer diar- rhea, cholera infantum and other disease of like character. These deaths were quite properly attributed to an unsanitary milk supply. Milk was sold from cans which stood about on the floor of the grocery store and from which the milk was ladled out into whatever sort of container the 44 Feeding customer brought. The milk cans were supposed to be kept covered, but covers slipped off and flies slipped in. At home the milk continued to spoil as household re- frigerators were rare and ice was expensive. The milk supply was so bad that it was quite prop- erly blamed for most of these infant deaths. Outside of its unsanitary quality people had only the vaguest ideas about modifying milk for infant feeding. Com- mercial interests took advantage of the popular belief that milk was an untrustworthy or insufficient food for babies. The result was the extensive manufacture and sale of patent “infant foods’ the advertising of which older people will remember. Most of those foods contained large amounts of white flour or similar starch material and were, of course, utterly unsuited for infant nutrition. It is a notorious fact that at one time the death rate of the babies which were artificially fed was five or six times as high as that of breast-fed babies. But today, while still recommending breast feeding, the modern baby specialist feels practically as confident of being able to rear a baby with artificial aS with natural feeding. The further development of the knowledge of nutri- tion has continued to reduce infant death rates and improve the vitality and growth of all babies, whether breast fed or bottle fed. This is true among the pros- perous as well as among the poorer classes. The latest improvement in this field applies not so much to the milk supply and milk formulas, which have been prop- erly understood now for some time, but rather to the supplemental feeding with other things than milk, and to the transition from nursing or bottle feeding to the feeding of the child when it is no longer a nursling.

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Many of these applications of modern scientific knowledge to infant feeding apply quite as fully and are nearly as beneficial in the case of breast-fed as in the case of bottle-fed babies. The problem of the non- milk foods at weaning time may indeed be more im- portant in the case of the breast-fed infant because of the greater change in its diet at that time than would ws case of the baby already being fed on cows’ milk. It should be clearly understood, however, that none of this supplemental feeding is in any way a substitute for milk, but in all cases it is a supplement. Trying to find some other main food than milk for babies takes us back rather to the dark ages of nutrition and the murderous effects of the substitution of starch paste for milk in the patent infant foods of those days. It would be wrong to assume that the former high death rate among infants was due solely to the ignor- ance and carelessness of the mothers. It was even more due to a lack of any real knowledge of those who were their teachers and instructors, namely the doctors and dietitians. I suppose that if one of those baby specialists of fifty years ago was to come back to earth now and see what was being done today in the matter of feeding young babies that he would scurry back to his grave with the remark that he would rather not be a party to wholesale child murder. In those days the medical schools taught something of dietetics, but very little. Most doctors began their practise with little or no knowledge of how to feed anyone, sick or well, and the feeding of young babies was to a majority of them just a mystery. Yet they had to pretend to know something, for while adults Photographs by Globe, J. B. Titcomb and Doris Wright of Babies ....”.... rarely asked a doctor about feeding themselves, yet mothers did consult them about feeding their babies. So the doctors worked up formulas of various kinds. They were hit or miss efforts to imitate breast milk by modifying cows’ milk. Various arbitrary ideas were also tried by the hit or miss method. If they worked the doctors would publish their formulas for other doctors; if they didn’t work the doctor would try some- thing else; but in any case the whole conception rested upon the formula of the modified milk. Solid food, gracious no, the baby certainly was not ready to use solid food before it had teeth with which to chew! As for orange or tomato or pineapple juice, what terrible things to give a child and upset its stomach with those strong acids! But cod-liver oil, that was a pretty good medicine, only you didn’t give medicine to healthy babies; you had to have illness and diagnose it before one should give medicine! The whole viewpoint of the medical profession toward the whole subject of food and nutrition has now been revolutionized. At any medical meeting today more papers are presented on the subject of nutrition than upon any other phase of medical science. That change has been due both to the growth of nutritional science itself, and to the increased amount of attention now given to the idea of the prevention of disease. The babies have benefitted more perhaps than have the adults from this change of attitude and the improve- ment in the scientific knowledge of the medical profes- sion. Most adults still retain the old idea of waiting until one is definitely ill before consulting a doctor. But fortunately the intelligent modern mother does not wait until her baby is actually ill from malnutrition before she seeks a doctor’s advice about feeding the baby. One reason for this difference is that it is so difficult to tell when a baby is ill that mothers are always worried and alarmed and imagining that things are wrong with the baby. Perhaps the baby benefits from the fact that he cannot talk. If he could, he might say, “Now don’t be running to the doctor about me. I don’t feel quite as peppy today as I ought to, but there is nothing really the matter with me and I’ll be all right in the morning !”’ But because the baby doesn’t de- cide the matter, the mother does run to the doctor. (Continued on page 77) 45

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thing that comes in a bottle or a pill-box. There is nothing yet discovered that can replace good, common-sense cooperation with old Mother Nature. Right at this point, those of you who have read some scien- tific works on gland transplantation, vaso-ligature and endocrinology are objecting to this dogmatic asser- tion. Calm yourselves, while I prove to you that even an ap- parent miracle, resulting from such scientific interference with bodily functioning, would still be an expression of Mother Nature. The act of using glandular secre- tions to replace the dearth or lack of such secretions in one’s body is using a medium that Nature her- self supplies for the pur- pose in a condition of normalcy. It is only when there is a lack of normal in- herited balance in the endo- crine (gland) system that the endocrinologist becomes an indispensable partner of Nature. It is pertinent, however, to give brief consideration to the mod- ern usage of gland therapy, for By Samuel Edwin Olmstead Exercises Originated and Posed by the Author Follow the Common Sense * are Rules for Living Gee ee Se = in this Article and You Will Always Feel Young E ARE all familiar with the old ‘‘one- hoss shay,” that was built so strongly in every part that it went entirely to > pieces all at once after a long period of service. That is the way our bodies should serve and disintegrate! What a crime it is that just when a person reaches a mellow stage of existence, possessed of experience, wisdom, acumen and the knowledge of the art of living, he commences to fall apart so that he Top: Strap your feet to the front legs of can’t enjoy life! When a man should be most valuable a bureau with some patent buckle, webbing to his business, his employers, his community, he gets straps. Sit on a cushion. Hold the arms folded and bend sideways until the shoul- ders touch .right and left. This exercise should be done 10 to 20 times each way scrapped, because senility is taking its toll. He loses his initiative, his speed mentally and _ physically—he lacks the physical endurance that modern conditions demand. What a tragedy it is, when one has to take . off the harness and place it on the shoulders of the Bottom: While strapped in same position as younger, more efficient person. Don’t you think that « for previous exercise, twist the body way any practical means which will stave off the final reck- hen — a “i ae back, Pi Bile the oning of old Father Time is worthy of our time and sitting ies sae “eae on oe see efforts? ; ; : other way. Geatinue this exercise un- If you are en rapport with this philosophy, then per- ithe. week lep@actes tire, . Inhale. just haps you can be induced to do something about it. You. . before starting the twist one way and ex- are going to be disappointed if you are expecting some-.. hale as you start in the other direction 46

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le ti he le eee ‘aie eh weer fe erecting defective functioning, or insufficient secre- ions. When old people lose their wrinkles and regain their youthful interests and energy from gland transplan- tation, we must bow to science for its discoveries and skill. When a woman who has been surgically divested of all her female organs can afterward be made to function normally by the marvelous expedient of hav- ing these organs replaced from an ape, we must accord respect to such genius. When, through gland trans- plantation, fat, unsightly, middle-aged women can be restored to vivacious, comely womanhood, finding re- newed favor in their apathetic husbands’ eyes; when sterile women can become fruitful; when old men can have the spark of virility made to flame; when tired, senile people can be restored to useful spheres, we surely are compelled to realize the huge part played by the glands of creation in the scheme of human life! The question that naturally arises in the minds of those interested in the physical culture mode of living is: How much are these regulating glands influenced by careful living! The answer is: tremendously! The miracle-working secretions called hormones, that are manufactured by the various glands, are complex chemical constituents that must be extracted from our bodily nutrition. Therefore, emasculated, denatured, re- fined, adulterated and wrongly pre- pared foods will prove, over a long period of time, inadequate to the glandular needs. Above, an excellent spine stretcher, to be done two or three times occasionally during the day. Assume position shown. Press vig- orously on thighs. Squat as low as possible without allowing heels to leave the floor. Relax the back while pushing downward. Keep the arms rigidly straight, chest up and the head in alignment with arms. Stretch spine thoroughly before relaxing pressure. Take a full breath and hold it during stretching period. If one is born with a normal gland balance, he can only expect a normal lifetime functioning of his glandular system if his nutrition is habitually made up of vital victuals. Then, as an inseparable corollary to right nutrition, the metabolism must be kept nor- mally active by one’s other habits of living. There is no question in my mind but that the results of surgical rejuvenation would be enhanced and pro- longed by observing the rules of correct living. The health of the entire body should be the goal. If one started to live a perfect physical culture life at birth, or, better yet, prenatally, and continued such a regimen throughout life, surgical rejuvenation would be tanta- mount to “gilding the lily.” We would be thoroughly content to let Nature take its course. The writer has seen many physical derelicts reclaimed by physical cul- ture methods in a manner just as spectacular as most of these surgical rejuvenation stunts. Wise, indeed, is the man or woman who con- ducts himself along normal, healthful lines of living, so that the body retains its youthful condition through a long, satisfactory, fruit- ful period. Preven- tion (Continued on page 56) P upper spine exer- ‘be taken just before It is a great eye- “opener! Assume position, with hands grasping sides of thighs, under jaw well forward, nearly touching chest. Sweep head way around, extend the jaw well upward and touch the side of the head to the bed. Now come up around to first position and sweep around to the other side. Do this 10 to 15 times each way The illustration clearly shows the position to be assumed for this great neck and spine ex- ercise. Note the padding be- tween the head and the drawer. Observe the cushion on bench. The feet are on the floor at the. beginning of the movement. Take a deep breath and raise the legs as high as _ possible. Repeat this 10 to 20 times 47

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Courtesy National Cheese Institute, Inc. To Gut Food Bills Use CHEESE HEESE is what might be called one of the funda- mental foods, for the art of cheese-making is as old as the history of mankind. The nomads of the dawn of history, never long in one place and constantly subject to the emergencies of combat and weather, soon learned to preserve the most nourishing parts of the milk from their herds by separating the curd from the whey and pressing it into cakes which would keep and which could be carried about from one 48 By Jane Randolph green pasture to another. From that time right down to the arrival of the auto- mobile and the steel work- er’s dinner pail, bread and cheese have been the stand- by of the herdsman, the farmer and the workman. But that’is only half the story. Although cheese is classed as a cheap and sub- stantial article of diet by the poor man, it is also re- garded as the appetizer par excellence by the luxury- loving gourmand and the connoisseur. For the art of cheese-making is as exact- ing asthe artof wine-making —and quite as hazardous. Both quality and flavor depend on so many va- riable conditions: the kind and quality of the milk, whether it be sheep’s, cow’s or goat’s milk; the skill and rare judgment as well as the methods used in the process of making the cheese; and the _ yeasts, molds or other bacteria which may develop natu- rally or be added to give the cheese some highly es- teemed flavor—all these factors combine to make almost as many varieties of cheese as there are lo- calities where milk is plentiful. Many a_ small community or obscure mountain village has been made famous by the pecu- liarly appetizing tang of its cheeses. A list of the cheeses in any well-stocked city market reads like a European tour: Limburg- er, Roquefort, Edam, Stil- ton, Gruyére, Parma, Munster, Cheddar, Chesh- ire, Port Salute — the list might go on _ indefi- nitely. Cheese contains the case- in of the milk and is made up of most of the proteins, the fat and some of the minerals and vitamins of the milk. But it is conspic- uously lacking in carbohy- drates, which fact accounts for the natural craving of the appetite for bread or some other form of starch as an accompaniment to cheese. An ounce of cheese aver- ages about one hundred and thirty-five calories. An ounce of porterhouse steak averages about seventy calories. That is, the energy value of the cheese is about twice that of the steak. Yesterday, at a market on upper Broadway, New York, I found cheese ranging in price all the way up to a dollar a pound for the rare and fancy varieties; but plain American cheese of excellent quality was selling for nineteen cents a pound. In the same market, sirloin steak was selling for (Continued on page 97)

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. ‘ L hose Sixteen Elements! show the existence of considerable confusion regarding chemical elements in food and the practical bearing that a knowledge of these elements has on determining food values. Too lengthy explanation would be required to answer these ques- tions in the monthly food question department. Therefore, in this longer article, the writer will attempt to give a collective answer to many such questions, by trying to explain chemical elements in relation -to. food, and showing some of the common misconceptions. . One -very prevalent misconception is that there are just sixteen food elements, no more and no less, and that this fact is positively known. and settled for all time. Such is not the case. The number of chemical elements in the human body is unknown. Associated with this is the misconception that all the chemical elements in the human body, and also in food, are “mineral” elements. We frequently receive ques- tions like this: “Where can I get a chart that will show me the sixteen mineral elements and in which foods each is found?”’ The last part of the above question indicates another common misconception which is that certain elements are found in certain foods and not in other foods. This is a half-truth, but it could -be better expressed by saying that certain foods do not contain certain elements. A specific application of this misconception is found in the popularity of a statement which some one must have let loose a couple of genera- tions ago and which is still circulating with undimin- ished vigor. I refer to the statement that. whole wheat is a perfect food beeause it contains all six- teen of the chemical ele- ments that are found in the human body. Not going into the fine points about some of the very rare or even disputed elements in the body itself, the above statement about whole wheat is essentially correct. The misleading effect of the statement lies in the seeming importance that it gives to the mere fact of the presence of all nutritional elements as a proper basis for judging the value of a given food, and also in the assumption, just because the statement is made about wheat, that it applies to wheat alone. A similar statement could be made on equally good evidence about whole oats or whole corn beans or cabbage or oranges or milk or eggs—in fact it applies to practically all “‘natural’’ foods. Whole wheat does have excellent and distinctive food value but it does not rest particularly upon the number of chemical elements present but rather upon the pro- portions of those elements and also upon certain special food substances or compounds which may be composed of the most common of the food elements and yet be especially valuable because of the particular substances which they form. Some one may ask at this. point why I wish to “knock”? whole wheat by deflating the importance that some minds may attach to it from having been impressed with this statement about the sixteen elements. My reason is that such beliefs lay a foundation for further misconception of the whole problem of human nutri- N tees questions received from our readers | By Milo Hastings Much. Gonfusion Regarding © Food Comes from a Misun- derstanding of the Rela-. tion of Chemical Elements | to Nutritional Problems or whole — tion.’ And specifically they prepare ‘a way for people to be bamboozled and defrauded by being sold more or less worthless products on the statement that they con- tain certain chemical elements. Indeed whole systems of patent medicine have been built up on this basis of getting a list of the elements in the body and then concocting an imaginary science about certain elements being needed to cure certain diseases. The last step of this sort of pseudo-science is to offer for sale cer- tain products in which said elements are provided to cure said. diseases. For instance there would be listed diseases said to be due to lack of sodium and others due to lack of chlorine, then sodium medicine and chlorine medicine would be separately provided—at perhaps a dollar an ounce. But ‘the human body gets both sodium and chlorine from common salt—and usually gets too much of both, since the common salt is normally present in all natural foods before we add any table salt. ; This. reference to common salt will raise in many readers’ minds a further one of the confusing idea that is very much mixed up with all this puzzle: of the elements. That is as to what elements. are organic and which inorganic, and whether any, or if so, which, of the inorganic elements are available to the body. Lastly, to pile confusion on confusion, comes this most recent importance. attributed to alkaline and acid elements. So we have it—elements, mineral, or- ganic versus inorganic, and acid versus alkaline. Now let us see if. we . can.clear up some of these confusions by a brief ‘re- view of the “elementary” facts of chemistry. A chemical element is a final or basic substance that cannot be subdivided or changed into anything else. Gold is gold and iron is iron-and oxygen is oxygen. They are what they are and are not com- posed of anything — else. They are elements. But water is not an’ element because it is made of and can be separated into two other things, hydrogen and oxygen. Common salt is not an element because it is composed of sodium and chlorine. Sugar is not an element because it is com- posed of carbon and hydrogen and oxygen. Water, salt and sugar are chemical compounds. There are about ninety known chemical elements and there are several hundred thousand known chemical com- pounds. There are also physical mixtures that are not chemical substances or compounds but a mixture of them. Syrup is not a different substance from sugar and water but a mixture of the two, or as we Say, be- cause one is a liquid, the sugar is dissolved in the water. All substances of the living body with the ex- ception of the globules of pure fat, the hard mineral crystals of the bones and teeth and perhaps the dryer outer scales of the skin, nails and hair, may be con- sidered as mixtures of various substances dissolved in water. There are practically no chemical elements existing in the body in their pure or elementary form. The - nearest approach to this would be the gases of the air that are dissolved in the blood and other body water. Air is neither an element nor a compound but a mixture of various gases, the two chief (Continued on page 94) 49

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Do PHYSICAL CULTURISTS Use HEALTH KFoops? By the Nutrition Staff by any of our readers, but we make use of it to pass along some information that may be of interest. We have before us some data gathered in the interests of advertising by three different magazines, one of which was PHYSICAL CULTURE. It would not be considered ethical to give the names of the other magazines nor to give the trade names of the products—in fact the latter procedure is against post office rulings as that might class the presentation of the facts as advertising in the editorial column. However, some of the more interesting facts brought out we can give in general terms. The data was obtained from a house-to-house canvass by investigators who called at the homes of subscribers to the magazines and made a pantry shelf count of the food products which were listed for the purpose. These counts were made in two moderate- sized inland cities, the same cities being used for the three magazines. In each case a sufficient number of subscribers were called upon to give a fair basis for the computations. The food products investigated were of a limited group, consisting of fifteen brands of the leading commercial . cereals and three brands of the coffee type of beverages. The investigation does not give us a picture of the general diets used, but is of interest only from the standpoint of showing in this limited field of products differences in the food selection of the subscribers of the three types of - magazines, The two magazines with which we are thus able to con- trast PHYSICAL CULTURE may be defined as follows. One, which we will call a “woman’s magazine,” is a leader in its field and maintains a high standard of reader interest in home-making and in food, but more from the cooking and serving standpoint and less from the purely health interest than is the case with PHYSICAL CULTURE. The third magazine, also a leader in its field, is primarily a “story magazine” though it also runs good articles of food and cookery. 3 Beginning with the products in which the PHYSICAL CULTURE reading families show the greatest distinction from the others, we find that a leading brand of cereal coffee is used by 21.33 per cent of the PHYSICAL CULTURE families and by only eight and a fraction per cent of the families of each of the other groups. The two leading brands of decaffeinated coffee show up in the pantries of 20 per cent of PHYSICAL CULTURE readers, in 10.95 per cent of the readers of the woman’s magazine and only 4.19 per cent for the readers of the story magazine. Two brands of prepared cereal bran together show a count of 37 in PHYSICAL CULTURE homes as against 18 for the woman’s magazine and 15 for the story magazine. These and the following figures may not be actual per- centages, since if two or more products are considered in the group of foods listed we have no way of determining the amount of duplication. Thus 15 cereals of all types were included in the study. The total score, by adding the percentages given for each, was 234 for PHYSICAL CULTURE, 211 for the woman’s magazine and 174 for the story maga- zine. These figures obviously can- not mean percentages since they are all above 100, but they do fairly represent comparative fig- ures for cereal use by the three groups. The chief distinction, as you note from the table that is to fol- low, is that readers of PHYSICAL . CULTURE use bran cereals more freely than do the readers of either of the other magazines. This was for the package bran put up in ready-to-eat or cereal form. If inquiry had been made 50 ‘Te question that heads this page was not asked us Other Food Questions | This Month Supplementing Institutional Diet Keeping Dry Foods from Spoiling Whole-Wheat Flour Is Degerminated at The Twenty-Twenty-Sixty Diet separately concerning bran for bread-making, the total bran figures would have been somewhat increased. Out- side ps the use of bran cereals the differences are not very great. Physical Women’s Story Culture Magazine Magazine 40 44 Oats; ‘two. brands —. isn els 38 Two uncooked wheat cereals.... 37 38 22 Seven wheat cereals, prepared... 64 66 60 Two rice cereals, prepared .... 10 eet > 9 Two corn cereals, prepared .... 46 29 30 Two bran cereals, prepared .... 37 18 15 It would appear that the families subscribing for PHYSICAL CULTURE show a marked preference over -both other groups in the matter of avoiding caffein-containing coffee, and for the use of bran. For the general: use of cereals of all kinds PHYSICAL CULTURE readers share with the readers of the woman’s magazine, largely devoted to cooking and household arts, a much greater inclination for the use of practically all these products than in the case of the readers of the story magazine. . What shall I use to supplement. an institutional diet? We have an interesting letter from a man who is a permanent resident in a public institution. As such he is obliged to eat what the public table gives him, which he describes as being the rather typical institutional diet con- sisting largely of bread, potatoes and meat stews. This . man’s circumstances are such that he has a small amount of pocket money to spend and freedom to leave the grounds. He is not satisfied with the diet given him and would like to supplement it by buying himself some little additional food. He wants to know what foods will give him the best values for his money in the way of such outside purchases. In formulating an answer we have no trouble in naming a first choice. It would be oranges. There are many people in somewhat similar circum- stances, where they are well enough fed in quantity but have nothing to say of the quality of the food they must eat. Indeed not all such people are in public institutions. A large appeal and a considerable volume of business is involved in catering to such supplemental or between-meal appetites. The candy and soda fountain trade gets most of it, and while sweets are a taste relief from monotonous diets they do not improve them, but may even increase the nutritional defects. Any fresh raw fruits available offer excellent nutri- tional supplements, but the citrus fruits most distinctly so. Fresh raw tomatoes, in season, would also be good and so would any raw, leafy vegetables like celery or lettuce. The other product, which is very convenient. to consume whatever the circumstances, would be milk, either whole milk or buttermilk—the former if the user feels the need of more food or is inclined to be underweight and the latter if his inclination is toward overeating or overweight. A further feasible product to eat on one’s feet, and well adapted also for any who feel the need of more total food, would be raisins or any. similar’ dried sweet fruit. How can dry foods be kept from spoiling? Toward the end of last summer a Nebraska farm woman sent us a very sensible suggestion to pass on to our readers. We kept it for spring publication, Here it is: “A reader asked about a con- tainer for storing ground grain for food. May I suggest the use of ordinary (Continued on page 69) Never

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Physical Culture for May, 1935 51 ‘Millions will no longer need to depend on physics be Famous physicians find this new treatment corrects the chief cause of constipation “ASTONISHING RESULTS...” Dr. Cherubini cables: «‘The results of treatment with the newly discovered fresh yeast are astonishing . . . in cases of constipation and related digestive and skin disorders . . . also in cases of general run-down health.”’ DR. LORENZO CHERUBINI ts Physician-in-chief of the Maria-Teresa Hospital and Professor of Medical Pathology, University of Rome, Italy. Richness of this new fresh yeast in ‘‘Protective Substances’ explains the amazing results it is giving in clinics 5 HE reason the new fresh Fleischmann’s Yeast is so effective for constipation is that it supplies certain “protective sub- stances” not found in sufficient quantities in our food. No diet—even those containing fruits and leafy vegetables—sup- plies enough of these substances. No cathartic or laxative supplies them at all. To BE FREE FROM CONSTIPATION, you must make sure you get these substances in sufficient quantity. The new Fleischmann’s Yeast is their richest natural source! In clinics here in this country Copyright, 1935, Standard Brands Incorporated and abroad, this new Fleisch- mann’s Yeast has given such amazing results as: 93% of con- stipation cases corrected in one hospital; as high as 83% results in indigestion cases, and many other astonishing reports. The protective substances in Fleischmann’s new Yeast stimu- late the juices of digestion and act on the nerves and muscles of your digestive tract... amazingly. As aresult, your food is made softer —better digested .. . and the wastes are passed through and out of your system more rapidly and thoroughly. IF YOU’RE TAKING PHYSICS, cut down As the new fresh Fleischmann’s Yeast gets to work, you should have more appetite... more energy. Your indigestion should stop . . . pimples and skin eruptions caused by the sluggish condition of your bowels should disappear. Get rid—stay rid—of constipation Don’t stop. To really free yourself from constipation, you must eat this new Fleischmann’s Yeast regularly every day—like brushing your teeth. Then you'll stay rid of your trouble. You can get the new Fleischmann’s Yeast at grocers, restaurants, soda fountains. Start eating it now! CODE on them gradually. Eat 3 cakes of the NEW FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST daily—plain, or dis- solved in one-third glassful of water, a half-hour before meals. No other food is so rich in four vitamins (A, B, D, G) and other protective substances. Millions are eating this food daily! * - (As good. as ever for baking)

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52 Physical Culture QWhat Twins Tell Us About Human Nature——_ ©ntinved fromg twins might help us to understand bet- ter the causes of crime; but J. B. S. Haldane, the British biologist, chemist, mathematician and writer—eminent in all four of these great fields I think chiefly because he has probably the most distinguished heredity of any man in England—says in writing an intro- duction to his wife’s translation of Doctor Lange’s book, that Doctor Lange has done more to dispel the darkness surrounding the causes of crime than any one in our generation. These records indicate that if one iden- tical twin is a criminal, there are over a thousand times as many chances that his mate, if reared in the same en- vironment, will be a criminal as there is of the mate of a fraternal twin criminal being also a criminal. Among the 13 identical twin criminals, there were ten cases in which the other twin was an equally confirmed criminal; but with the fraternal twins, only two out of the 17 criminals had a twin brother or sister who was also a crim- inal. ON E thing that makes these results even more astonishing is that in two of the three cases of identicals, where only one was a criminal, the one that was a criminal had suffered from a severe head injury in babyhood, which might well have accounted for his criminal tendencies. And in the third case of indenticals, where only one brother was a criminal, the criminal brother had long suffered badly from goiter, something which physiologists have demonstrated may profoundly af- fect one’s conduct. And what makes the case even stronger is that Profes- sor Haldane thinks from Professor Lange’s own evidence that this latter pair were probably not identicals but were fraternals. a We should not become too pessimis- tic from these results and_ conclude that some people are foreordained to commit crime or, for that matter, to do anything else. Professor Lange himself, from his long and_ intimate personal acquaintance with these peo- ple, expresses a firm belief that with proper environment about half of his 17 fraternal twin criminals would have grown up to be fairly decent citizens. It is impossible to see why this might not have been true of either one or both members of the ten rea- sonably healthy pairs of identical twins. Indeed Professor Lange tells a remarkable story of one of the iden- tical twins who, after a long criminal record, was married to a fine Christian woman of especially strong character. This good woman changed his life com- pletely. He gave up drinking and his criminal habits permanently and _ be- came a working member of the Church. His brother, however, is still a drunken criminal, although the other has made efforts to reform him. The next result of Professor Lange’s study is to show in a new way that every criminal act has a cause, indeed many causes, both in heredity and in environment, and that these causes are as deep as human nature, and as wide as human society; and they also show “what fools we mortals be” to imagine we have solved the problem of crime by trying an accused person before the usual jury of respectable stupidity, utterly ignorant of the social, psycho- logical and biological springs of human conduct, and then by this verdict of combined ignorance and stupidity, of- ten mixed with prejudice and brutality, either lock them up in prison, or kill them in the electric chair. We come next, however, to a much more cheerful set of studies, those that have been chiefly carried on over a number of years by Professor Horatio Hackett Newman, biologist of the Uni- versity of Chicago. In making these studies as a biologist, Professor New- man has drawn upon the work of nu- merous psychologists, particularly that of Professor Frank M. Freeman of the University of Chicago. What gives these studies extraordi- nary importance as well as dramatic interest is that they are the records of identical twins who were separated in babyhood and were reared to ma- turity apart. There are nine cases of such twins which Professor Newman has investigated; and I should add that one additional pair has been studied by Professor J. H. Muller of the Uni- versity of Texas, who has, by the way, just announced some amazing dis- coveries in the germ cell from his present laboratory in the University at Leningrad. It is Professor Newman’s hope to find and study 100 cases of identical twins reared apart. I won- der, however, if there are that many cases in the whole world, simply be- cause identical twins are so very fond of one another and object so strenu- ously to being separated until they are mature and go into some life work or get married. We can find plenty of cases of fraternal twins reared apart, which again shows that like tends to attract like and that unlikes do not have the same interest in one another. If any reader of PHYSICAL CULTURE knows of a pair of identical twins, separated in babyhood and reared apart, he will confer a great favor by reporting the matter to Professor H. H. Newman, Department of Biology, University of Chicago. No names or personal infor- mation will be divulged to the public. In a number of Professor Newman’s cases the twins learned only by acci- dent of one another’s existence. I won- der how you or I would feel to wake up some morning and suddenly learn that somewhere in this world there was another human being almost exactly like ourselves, indeed so nearly like us that if he or she would put on our clothes and we should be spirited away from this planet, nobody would ever discover the difference. Vir aus this must have been very much the experience of Miss D., a young woman, 16 years of age, who was clerking in her foster-father’s store in an lowa city, when one day a traveling salesman came up to her counter and began an off-hand conversation with her, as though she were an old friend. Being a highly respectable young lady, she indignantly rebuffed him, to his very great surprise. He said, “Whyv is not your name F 2?” She replied, “I never heard of such a per- son.” The salesman was dumbfounded at her denying her own identity, and, in order to clear up the mystery, he asked her foster-father for an explan- ation. He told the salesman what he had never told his foster-daughter that she had a twin sister by that name. The salesman stated that this twin sis- ter, named F. R.-——, was the page 16 next-door neighbor to his family in a town not far distant and that they were on most friendly terms. A meeting between the two sisters was soon arranged, and when the sis- ter F. (whom we shall speak of as twin B) got off the train her sister, twin D, said she felt as if she were seeing herself getting off and coming to greet her. They spent a happy three weeks together, wearing each other’s clothes and pretending to be each other. They had no difficulty in deceiving their best friends and, as is usually the case, they at once de- veloped a _ strong mutual affection which has remained undiminished until the present time when they are forty years old. They kept in close touch after the first meeting, and sometime afterward secured positions in the same city where they often took one an- other’s place in business as a joke without the employer ever discovering this—shall we call it, biological forg- ery? At age 20, D was married and at 22, B married and since that time they have had only occasional visits to- gether. Since they were almost indis- tinguishable prior to their marriage, Professor Newman thinks the fact that they now manifest» considerable differ- ences both in appearance and behavior is due to their differing environments. B has had an easy life after marriage and D a very hard one. B’s husband has given her a comfortable home with hired help, while D was for many years on a North Dakota claim where life was one continual hardship. During the War she had a serious attack of influenza from which she has never quite fully recovered. She has always had to work hard, and, with great credit to herself, has reared a large family. D has had six children and B four. WOULD only bewilder the reader to detail all of the tests and measure- ments by which Professor Newman has sought to determine how alike these © women are and how much the different environments has made them unlike. B has a mental rating, now termed the IQ (Intelligence Quotient), of 93, and D an IQ of 89. This is equivalent to a difference in mental age of seven months. Professors Holzinger and Freeman of Chicago University studied the mental rating of 50 identical twins reared together and found that their average differences on these tests were about the same as these women reared apart. It seems from this that the fact that B had had a year more schooling, an easier life and more social contacts than D has not had any marked effect in changing their intelligence, in so far as intelligence can be determined by mental tests. In measuring their school achievements, by what is called the Stanford Achievement Test, B was slightly superior to D in reading, na- ture study, science, spelling, arithmetic, history and literature. As is the case with all of Professor Newman’s twins, B and D were also given what is known as the Downey Will-Temperament Test. A high score on this test—around 90—indicates a very forceful personality; a score around 40 or 45 indicates a rather weak will and temperament. B’s score was 56 and D’s 55. They therefore ranked above the average but were

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May, 1935 practically identical. On other tests, designed to estimate emotional stabil- ity, they were also remarkably similar. There is another feature of extra- ordinary interest about identical twins, namely, “mirror imaging’. This means, as they face one another, the right and left part of the body of each match the other as though he or she were looking into a mirror. The right hand of one is like the left hand of the other; and the same for some other parts of the body. Frequently one is right-handed and the other left-handed. Another thing is that the two halves of the bodies of identical twins are more nearly alike than is true of. either fraternals or people in general. If we could reproduce Professor Newman’s fine photographs of the palms of B and D, we would see, not only that D’s left palm is like B’s right, and B’s left like D’s right, but that each one’s right hand is more nearly like her own left than is usual. These are facts that aid scientists in deciding whether a pair of twins are identicals or fra- ternals. They believe mirror imaging comes from the fact that when the egg from which they were born divided down the middle, the two halves con- tinued to face one another, and this has conditioned to some extent their subsequent development. Some facts recently brought out by Doctor C. B. Bridges, biologist of the California Tech, as to the way the hereditary particles, called “genes” (pronounced jeans) are arranged in the germ-cell, tend to confirm the hypothesis that this is the true explanation of mirror |. imaging in identical twins. ROFESSOR NEWMAN summarizes the life history of these two fine women by saying that at present, al- though D is inferior to B in physical condition—probably because of her hard work, her extra children and her pro- longed illness—yet their different envi- ronment has apparently not made them much more different in intelligence and temperament than ordinary identical twins who have always lived together under similar environment. Environ- ment has thus had no influence that can be discovered. Another case in which a pair of Pro- fessor Newman’s twins dramatically discovered one another’s existence is that of E and G, now living at South Bend, Indiana. These young ladies were 27 years old when Professor New- man studied them. They were born in a New York City Hospital, and, at six months of age, were placed in an or- phanage,’ from which they were adopted at two years of age by two families living in different parts of Michigan. When they were 21 years old, a Catholic Sister from Detroit was riding in a bus in a neighboring city and saw a young woman sitting opposite, whom she took to be her former pupil. Upon speaking to her in a familiar way, she discovered, just as in the case of the traveling salesman with twin D, that she was addressing a total stranger. This led the Sister to make further investigations and the two girls were soon brought together. They instantly discovered to their astonishment and delight that each was almost the other’s self. They became very much enamoured of one another and subse- quently both secured positions in South Bend, where one is now assis- tant in a doctor’s office and another in a dentist’s office. One indication of their likeness in temperament and out- | WILL THE ATTORNEY & | FOR THE DEFENSE STOP | | TRYING TO CONFUSE { THE WITNESS ? THE PARTY WANTS ME | we. JOHNS, THIS 1S NO | PLACE FOR A DISPLAY | OF TEMPER- YOU ARE 1 IN CONTEMPT OF COURT! —- TO RUN FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE ! Lawyer Johns beats his worst Opponent ae THERE HE GOES, THE BiG STUFFED SHIRT. PICKING ON YOU WHAT 00 YOU CARE ? ‘IE HE HAD YOUR HEADACHES HE’D SENTENCE EVERYONE = YOU DESERVE IT. YOUVE CERTAINLY BEEN A CHANGED MAN SINCE ft>) YOU SWITCHED To [= POSTUM AND LICKED OLD MAN COFFEE-NERVES YOU CAN'T GO ON LIK THIS, JOHNS — BLOWING UP IN COURT. PERSONALLY I THINK YOU HAVE A CASE OF COFFEE -NERVES. WHY DON'T YOU TRY POSTU 3) t HIM WHAT YOU THINK OF HIM ! YOU CANT TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, you — You — E mM? NS ATTURNEVS at NONSENSE - BUT I'LL TRY ANYTHING TO GET RID OF MY HEADACHES ANO INDIGESTION “8 KNOW children ef should never drink coffee, but . never dreamed it would bother me!’’ “Oh yes! Many adults, too, find that caffein in coffee can upset digestion, or nerves, or prevent sleep.”’ TO eee If you believe coffee disagrees with you—try Postum for 30 days. Postum contains no caffein. It’s whole wheat and bran, roasted and slightly sweetened. Easy to make—and it costs less than half a cent a cup. It’s delicious — may be a real help. A General Foods product. FR EE ! Let us send you your first week’s supply of Postum free! Simply mail coupon. GENERAL Foops, Battle Creek, Mich. Send me, without obligation, a week’s sup- ply of Postum. P..G.: 8738 Name Street ; Citgo ek Bh ee Fillincompletely—print nameandaddress This offer expires December 31, 1935

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54 look is the fact that they both con- sider their present lines of work al- most ideal. The life and education of these young ladies have been very different in many respects. E finished only the fifth grade in school, had very hard housework for many years, and had few social advantages. G went through the eighth grade and high _ school course at a Catholic Academy at De- troit and had four years of piano training. Following this she had three years of normal school training, and taught for two years in a parochial school at South Bend and, although her sister was in the same city, they never discovered each other until by chance this Catholic Sister brought them together. HE various tests of intelligence, mental achievements, will-tempera- ment and other emotional tests indicate that the environment has made rather marked changes in these two young women who were born almost exactly alike. Professor | Newman sums up the case by saying, “These twins . have been profoundly modified by their very — different educational careers. In every test of mental capacity, whether of so- called native ability or of achievement, G, the more highly educated twin, has : distinctly the superior score. Obvi- ously, mental training improves the ability of an individual to score well on any sort of test ... in which. only degrees of brightness or mental alertness are supposed to be tested. In contrast with the great difference in mental power stands the fact that, in all the tests of emotional traits and of temperament the twins give the im- pression of being remarkably and un- usually similar.” Professor Newman further points out that these results are precisely the opposite of those ob- tained by Professor J. H. Muller on his pair of twins reared apart, previ- ously referred to. Professor Muller’s twins named B and J were almost ex- actly alike on all mental tests but were quite different on the tests of emotions and temperament, whereas twins E and G were alike in emotions and tem- perament but different in intelligence, and twins B and D were alike on both intelligence and temperament. Let us glance at just one more of Professor Newman’s cases of twins reared apart. These are a couple of young men who at the time he studied them were twenty-three years old. One was in business in one of the larger Michigan cities, and the other was postmaster in a little town in Illinois. These two men were separated when they were babies and neither knew of the other’s. existence until the Illinois twin, at the age of 22, while rummag- ing through some old family papers, discovered he had a twin brother some- where in the world, provided the brother was still living. After months of advertising and searching he located him in a city in Michigan. One aston- ishing and unexplainable circumstance is that the foster-parents had given each boy the ‘name of Paul Harold and, when they are together now, each one calls the other Paul. Curiously enough, too, they have had about the same education. Both went through high school and whereas one had a a year’s year in college the other had a business course. The chief difference in their environments is that one has spent his life in a small country town and the other in large cities. Let us see then how nearly alike are these two human beings now—born alike, but reared under different life environments. In contrast to twins E and G of South Bend, but like Pro- fessor Muller’s twins J and B, these boys measured in almost the same notch in all mental and achievement tests, but they show decided differences in personality. I had quite a long talk with Mrs. Blythe Mitchell, Professor Newman’s assistant, who visited these twins and gave them the various tests, and she said that as you talked with them, you were forced to feel that you were in the presence of two quite dif- ferent individuals. They did not give the feeling you usually have in talking to identical twins that they both had the same personality, because these twins, although of the same intelligence and named Paul Harold and Paul Har- old, were nevertheless quite unlike in manners and temperament. All the remaining cases studied by Professor Newman are equally fascin- ating, although the results concerning some of them have not yet been given Plagiarism Is Literary or Artistic Theft So widespread has this evil be- come, that the publishers of Puys- ICAL CULTURE Magazine take this means of announcing that it will prosecute to the limit of the law any person or persons found guilty of this offense. Articles and stories submitted to this magazine come through the United States Mail on the under- standing that the manuscript is an original literary composition. The check in payment for an accepted article or story is also transmitted through the mail, and when en- dorsed by the author contains a warranty as to authorship and or- iginality. Despite these safeguards are people bold enough to deliber- ately copy stories from other pub- lications and submit them as_ their own. Those who have been or will be guilty of such . practise will be prosecuted to the hilt. Any cooper- ation from our readers is invited. The publishers of PuHysicat Cores Magazine will not permit you to be cheated. there to the public. The chief thing we learn is that we cannot as yet establish an iron-clad law as to the exact influence of either heredity or environment that will apply to all cases. It seems clear that some people are more influenced by their environment than others— more than the extreme advocates of heredity like to admit. A case such as that of B and D—our first pair—where environment produced no effect that could be detected, fills the extreme hereditarian with glee; but the differ- ences in intelligence of E and G, caused apparently by the superior ed- ucation of G, and the very great differ- ences in emotion and temperament in the two boys named Paul Harold, which were apparently due to the dif- fering effects of the country and city environment, give the hereditarian a jolt, but at the same time, give his en- Physical Culture vironmentalist friend a very cocky feel- ing indeed. It also seems clear that some people are influenced by environ- ment more on the intellectual side and others on the emotional and tempera- mental side, while still others are scarcely influenced by, the environment at all. But one thing is sure that those who believe in education and re- form have ample reason for the faith that is in them, and likewise, those who believe that if we could improve human heredity we would thereby im- prove human nature and thus improve the world, have a sound scientific basis for their belief and hopes. As I said, there was a third set of studies of twins of great dramatic and human interest. These are the studies by Dr. Arnold Gesell, director of the Psycho-Clinie of Yale University. They are exciting beyond description and de- serve an entire article instead of only one or two paragraphs. His most in- tensive study is that of a pair of twin baby girls, T and C—identicals— whom he has watched, day by day, sometimes minute by minute with a stop watch in hand and a shorthand reporter and both still and motion picture cameras going in order to rec- ord their movements and development. No such records of how children grow both mentally and physically have ever been made before in the whole history of human childhood. Perhaps the most astonishing revel- ation that Doctor Gesell’s records show is the way these twins develop the same characteristic in their growth at the very same moment. Every mother watches intently for the time when her baby first says, “Goo-goo” or executes controlled movements. She may think she hastens these developments by coaxing and training. Doctor Gesell’s records cause one to wonder about this. For example, one baby, at the age of 44 weeks, picked up a spoon and waved it about in mid-air. She next transferred the spoon to the other hand, then rubbed it on the side rail of her chair and wound up by banging it on the top of the table. Nothing surprising about that; but imagine the Doctor’s astonishment to see her twin sister in another part of the room go through exactly the same movements at the same time and execute them all in precisely the same order! It was like two flowers on the same stem de- veloping the same patterns and colors in the same way from a common source of influence. N DOCTOR GESELL’S - words, “it seemed as though the children were under a similar inner compulsion . . one kind of activity tended to run its course for a few moments, to give ds for an associated form of activity. . It takes on a weirdly astonishing as- pect.” It would be even more astonish- ing if you could calculate the chances against two fraternal twins or un- related children of the same age doing the same thing. The chances would probably be many billions to one. Doctor Gesell also tried training one twin in certain exercises and leaving the other untrained. At the age of 46 weeks he trained twin T for six weeks in a game of climbing up a little stairway of four steps and reaching for a bell at the top. At the end of this time she would wiggle up the stairs in 26 seconds. He then waited a week and trained twin C in the same way for two weeks. At the end of this _time, she beat her twin sister all to “pieces and scrambled up the stairs in

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May, 1935 ten seconds! That is to say, by two weeks of training when her brain, nervous system and general organism was more mature, she outdid her sis- ter with six weeks of training at a slightly earlier age. | These and other experiments in training the children in handling blocks and learning words has indi- cated to Doctor Gesell that our very early behavior patterns are to a large extent dependent on our inner growth and development, and are not due en- tirely or chiefly, as some have argued, to “conditioned reflexes’—that is, to training and environment. He is care- ful, however, to point out that these twins were very young and that en- vironment may have great influence in later years. In fact, he argues that when we consider how a very slight mental difference at birth may lead to different attitudes, and how fortune may throw these children into different social positions and how education may fill their minds with different kinds of knowledge, it would seem reasonable to expect that these influences would have marked effects upon their mature intelligence, their personality and their character. [* MAKES a strong pull on my mind and heart to tell you of many other fascinating studies of twins but a mag- azine cannot give all its space to one article. Many studies have been made as to whether having twins is a ten- dency that is inherited in some fam- ilies. The evidence indicates that in some families the characteristic is in- herited. Dr. Samuel J. Holmes, in his fine new book, “The Eugenic Predic- ament,” relates the results of many studies on the inheritance of such things as cancer, tuberculosis and some forms of insanity, particularly dementia precox, by both fraternal and identical twins. The evidences strongly indicates that if an identical twin manifests one of these diseases even if his or her mate is under a different environment, the mate is more likely to manifest it than is the case with fraternal twins or with ordinary brothers and sisters. I cannot let this pass however without urging upon the reader, as Professor Holmes does in his book, that if a disease is partly due to heredity, this does not mean it cannot be cured. Many people sup- pose that a hereditary disease is al- ways fatal. This is a complete mis- understanding of heredity. Probably about 80 or 90 per cent of any one’s heredity is good. Obviously by devel- oping the healthy 90 per cent of his heredity the weak 10 per cent may be buried or overcome, or never even manifest itself at all. In fact we may say that heredity is man’s best friend and his chief reliance in life; for if most of it were not sound and good, his ancestors would have perished, their defective lines would have petered out, and he himself would never have been born. : We see, however, that the study of these remarkable human __beings— twins—does aid us immensely to un- derstand many of the problems of life, character and destiny, without which these problems would always remain a mystery. There are, of course, still many un- solved mysteries in relation to twins; but they are being slowly unravelled; and through them science is making one more step towards the goal of all knowledge—the understanding and control of life itself. and yet she served the MINUS MEAL Her dinners were something to re- member. Gleaming silver and soft candles. A profusion of food, de- liciously cooked and flavored. Deli- cate sauces that subtly enhanced the flavor of each dish. Yet the courses she served lacked the proper amount of “bulk”—so necessary for regu- lar habits. Meals without “bulk” are “Minus Meals.” Often they lead to faulty elimination. Headaches, loss of ap- petite and energy may follow. Eyes lose their sparkle. Skins may be- come sallow. Dispositions turn sour. Kellogg’s ALu-BRAN, a natural laxative cereal, furnishes this “bulk” in gentle form. ALL-BRAN also sup- plies vitamin B and iron. Two table- spoonfuls daily, served with milk or cream, are usually sufficient. This wholesome cereal is just as fine for cooking. It blends better with other ingredients, and adds a tempting nut-sweet flavor to the dish. Use in muffins, breads, waffles, etc. Sprinkle over soups, salads and other cereals. Try the appetizing recipe on this page. You’re happy when you're fit. Serve ALL-BRAN often. Sold by all grocers in the red-and-green pack- age. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. A.t-BrRAN Molasses Cookies If, tsp. salt 14 tsp. soda 1l/, tsps. cinnamon 1 tsp. ginger 1/4, tsp. cloves 1/4, cup shortening 1 tbsp. brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1/, cup Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN 11/4, cups flour Cream shortening and sugar. Add molasses which has been heated to boiling. Stir in Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN. Sift dry ingredients, add, and mix well. Chill thoroughly in re- frigerator. Roll dough very thin, cut into. rounds, and bake in a moderate oven (400° F.) about 7 minutes. Yield: 5 dozen 214, inches in diameter. Keep on the Sunny Side of Life (erg pan ae en | MEDICAL \_ ASSN.

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56 Q Exercise to Retain is better always than a cure. There are those who will take a beautiful, expen- sive automobile, and by careless treat- ment and ignorant handling, reduce it to mere junk in an extremely short period. There are others who will take an inexpensive car and keep it in good working condition until it is so old-fashioned that they get another to avoid ridicule. Our bodies are even more susceptible to intelligent treat- ment than our automobiles. We can- not have our heart valves ground nor our kidneys replaced. There is no parts department for abused, neglected bodies—yet! HOSE factors that are most essen- tial to the best condition of the body as a whole are also best for deferring old age, or re-establishing as youthful a condition as your lifelong habits make possible. “A stitch in time saves nine” is a good old hackneyed maxim that is ‘very true; but if we needs must take the nine, we-should decide to do so as well as -vossible, to make up to some degree for past negligence. We must realize first of all, when starting on a program of rehabilitation, that often many of our daily habits which seem perfectly harmless may, in the sum to- tal, be contributing very generously to very bad results. The constant drip- ping of water wears a hollow in a stone. Our habits can be likened to the drip- ping of water, or they can be anala- gous to the bricks that enter into the construction of a splendid edifice. The moral of the above is: do not overlook the little things! The major factors that must be re- - garded in cultivating superior well- being are seven in number. They are: Light, air, water, food, exercise, rest, and clean, decent, normal intimate hab- its. Every one of these factors de- serves an entire volume, but we shall try to touch only the high points in an epitomized summary. We have ranked light first in our list of factors, though many might rel- egate it to a later position. Try to visualize any existence without sun- shine and its artificial equivalent. There would be nothing to sustain life. There would be no life. There would be no warmth. Few of us accord sunlight the great respect it deserves. We neglect to avail ourselves of its beneficial influences. Sunshine upon our unclothed bodies is healing to mind and body. Properly regulated sun-bathing steps up the vi- tal processes amazingly and produces a primitive tone to the entire system that makes it truly Nature’s remedy par excellence. Cultivate the sunshine habit. Get it on some parts of your exposed body frequently, even though it is only your bare hands and face. If you can’t get out in natural sun- shine, then use sun-lamps. If you find this impossible, then learn what sources of vitamin D you may utilize from foodstuff. In our estimation, nothing quite re- places natural sunshine, but second best sometimes has to serve. Complete nudity while sun-bathing is very desir- able, due to its influence on vitalizing certain glands thus exposed. This means an invigoration to the entire system. Here are two points to remember about sun-bathing: first, getting sunburned is ‘ injurious according to its severity. Al- ways take time to get your tan grad- ually; second, you do not begin to get Youth the true benefit from sun-bathing until your skin is tanned. The second factor in our list is air. At least no one will dispute the impor- tance of the air we breathe. A few moments without it spells death! It hardly seems possible that anyone liv- ing in this enlightened age would dis- regard the intelligent use of air. Air is the cheapest thing that man must have; yet it is often the hardest thing to get in a pure, unpolluted form. The civilized world is full of foul air fiends, air polluters and draft “phobiacs.’’ What chance has one who craves plenty of pure, oxygen-laden air at all times? It is worth putting up a struggle for. How consistently you breathe of clean, pure air and how bountifully you cause your system to demand it, affects both your health and your aging processes. Deep breathing, as a great cure-all, _—_ 300-Mile Walk With Bernarr Macfadden Postponed Until May O suit the greater conven- ience of a larger number of hikers the three-hundred- mile group hike with Mr. Mac- fadden, previously announced as planned for April, has been postponed until the early part of May. It is hoped that this will provide better weather condi- tions and will make it possible for more hiking enthusiasts to take part. Write for further details. a has been greatly overdrawn; however, thorough oxygenation, that accompa- nies physical activity, is of vital impor- tance. If one carries himself well, watching his posture standing, sitting and lying, he can rest assured that his respiratory apparatus will auto- matically take care of the amount of air breathed during every degree of activity. If you wish to look young and “fresh as a daisy,” sleep in air that is being constantly renewed. A room with double exposure is best. At least be wise enough to open windows top and bot- tom, whether you have cross ventila- tion or on one side only. If it is very cold, then open the window slightly at’ the bottom and more at the top. If the wind is blowing a gale toward one of your exposures, then open that win- dow at the bottom, just a crack, and open the window quite widely, at the top, on the other side. Use good judg- ment in your ventilation. It should not make you uncomfortable. You can only breathe in just so much air, whether you are in a gentle zephyr or a violent hurricane. Just try to keep your air Physical Culture Continued from page 47 gently moving and unvitiated. Then see that you do some form of exercise each day, that induces natural, deep breathing which will insure complete bodily oxidation. | Avoid “vampires of oxygen” as you would any poison. These oxygen de- stroyers are: gas stoves, oil heaters, © gasoline lamps and heaters or any open — flame oil or gas burning lamp or stove, ~ which has no outlet to a chimney. Open fireplaces are not unhealthful, as they — induce ventilation. ‘“‘Vampires of oxy- — gen” are also vampires of youthful © condition. q Water, which we have placed third in our list of youthfulizing health fac- tors, is, like fire, both friend and foe of mankind. You would think that the majority regards it as a foe, from the way so many avoid it internally and ex- ternally! Many times we have seen amazing improvements wrought in people who have heeded the advice to drink copiously of water in between meals. Simple things are so apt to be overlooked or avoided. If any medicine were capable of producing as much benefit to ailing bodies as _ habitual waterdrinking, its virtues would be na- tionally sung. CIENCE tells us that even in cold weather people exhale, evaporate and void about two quarts of moisture from the body, daily. Active people, who force breathing and perspiration, naturally: eliminate more. This must be replaced, plus enough extra to dilute and elimi- nate properly. Water is a great solvent and the constituents contained in our nutrition cannot be conveyed to their respective destinations if we cheat our- selves of sufficient liquid. Nearly every- thing we eat contains some water. Even a dry cracker contains about six per cent water! Therefore if we take six or eight glasses of pure water daily, spaced at least one hour apart, we will secure the required amount for ordinary purposes. Some laborers, who work in the hot sun or before furnaces, drink a quart or more per hour. They must have this amount in order to keep working. I have heard people say that they detest water and never drink any. Of course they get some in milk and soups. This is not enough. Such persons should acquire the habit of sipping a little every hour, trying each day to increase the amount, until it becomes a glassful. If I lived in a section where the water was hard, I should either buy pure spring water to drink or invest in a still and distill it. Some health teachers are opposed to: distilled water as a habitual beverage, but if one gets suf- ficient minerals from fruits and vege- tables, there will be nothing but highly satisfactory results. I believe hard water helps to age the body, while soft or distilled water has the opposite effect. The external usage of water not only makes for cleanliness, but it is also a nerve and circulatory stimulant. The hydropathic effects of using hot and cold water in the form of baths, com- presses, fomentations, etc., is almost magical. Everyone should become versed in such treatment. Hydrotherapy can be an aid to beauty, youthfulness and superior health. So much is written and being said about diet nowadays, that we will pass over it very briefly, without minimiz- ing its importance one iota. In any

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an te | ot ee ee May, 1935 diet for youthfulizing, or even main- taining a splendid degree of health, we must select our diet with discrimina- tion. We should consider our dietetic habits in a systematic manner. This is our idea of the ranking im- portance of diet factors: Appetite or demand, quality, mastication, mixture, quantity and oxidation. Temperance in eating is just as important as any other kind of temperance. Many an inflexible preacher of temperance in using liquors has been guilty of gross intemperance when seated at the fes- tive board. In hastily passing to the next sub- ject, I should like to emphasize my be- lief that raw fruits and vegetables and their juices are very essential to hold- ing or recapturing youthful stamina. Fruit juice should be drunk well ahead of breakfast and between meals. It would be difficult for me to over- emphasize the importance of properly regulated, systematic exercise as a means of keeping the body looking young and young in fact. Let me put it in this concise manner: Properly regulated exercise produces a_ better appetite for natural, plain foods; it speeds up digestion and assimilation; activates cell exchange; assures Oxy- genation; hastens elimination; acceler- ates circulation; strengthens the action of the heart, lungs and all vital organs; improves the health tone of the glands and the entire body. I might add that the right kind of system for one as an individual should produce a_ strong, muscular, supple and shapely physique, which is a constant delight to its owner. BE SURE that you select your sys- tem of exercise with intelligent care. Just because you wish to get younger or to stay young, is no excuse for trying to emulate the boys and girls in their physical activities. “Moderation in all things” is a good mot to any age, but when one reaches middle age, it should be placed before you where you will see it many times a day. It applies to exercise. Youthfulizing exercise should leave one feeling stimulated; never fatigued. All parts of the body should be involved in the right sequence. No parts should be vigorously involved twice in the same system, especially twice in suc- cession. All movements should be com- plete in their range of action. All joints should be used completely in every possible direction, to assure sup- pleness and joint health. Breathing should be in harmony with the move- ment and thorough. Some pleasurable form of outdoor activity, should sup- plement systematic exercise and vice versa. Many people go in for some factors of health, but shun the big fac- tor of exercise and consequently never enjoy the super-stamina that could be theirs. Plenty of relaxed rest should be an inseparable corollary of exercise. You'll enjoy rest more when you deserve it. Do not cheat on proper rest. You never waste time in supplying rest that is indicated. Your increased vigor from adequate rest makes you more efficient and productive later. You enjoy every- thing with more zest. So you are miss- ing nothing in the long run by taking plenty of sleep and rest when you need it! Watch all of your habits so that you do not rob Peter to pay Paul in your regimen for recapturing youth. You are the custodian of your own body; it deserves your intelligent cultivation. Nothing pays bigger dividends. MILK IN THIS DELICIOUS FORM PROVIDES YOUR CHILD WITH OCTORS, pediatricians, diet experts agree that growing children need a quart of milk a day—for growth—for food- energy—for full development. Yet many children do not receive sufficient milk — either because they dislike it or because drinking it every day is monotonous. Cocomalt mixed with milk is not only a treat to youngsters— but when made as directed it provides almost TWICE the food-energy value of plain milk. 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To THE EDITOR AND FELLOW READERS: This story of. how_.I..farmed for health and happiness may help some other girls working at nerve-wrecking jobs ‘to free themselves and get down to real honest-to-goodness living. During the five years that I commuted to New York from my suburban country home my health grew steadily worse. I had to get glasses because the book-keeping and the artificial lights were hard on my eyes. Headaches troubled me and my digestion was poor, all due to lack of exercise, sun and fresh air. I realized eventually that something had to be done and began the study of health from the physical culture viewpoint. The idea of farming for my living appealed to me immensely. I realized that it meant hard work. but I also knew that I’d be healthier and happier. So I quit the office and with my sav- ings invested in tools and stock. Our home is a large old-fashioned farmhouse with a few acres of good ground. Since my father’s death several years before, noth- ing’ had been done in the way of farming at all. So I set to work clearing off the gardens and pas- ture fields, cutting down the small. trees that had sprung up and digging up the roots. Then I pruned the orchard which had 58 Physical Culture Farming run almost to ruin. Library books and the kind neighbors were of great assistance in this project. The chicken houses were badly run down, one I reroofed and whitewashed inside for chickens, and the other I re- paired for the horse and cow. It was while laying on the roofing paper that I heard one of Na- ture’s own concerts. It was the frogs over in the pond and my heart was glad that I was back on the farm instead of in a stuffy office. The first months of course I had to take things easy as I hadn’t much strength. But I had lots of ambition’ for my farming project to succeed. After a few months, however, I noticed a de- cided improvement in my health. I breathed deeper and fuller, my chest expanded and the sun, fresh air and plenty of sleep gave me the vitality and power to carry out my work. I bought some laying hens and a couple of hundred baby chicks as soon as spring came. I had read up on the care of them and the neighbors, who took a sur- prising interest in my farming, were more than generous with their advice. Next an old horse was added to my stock. I set to work plowing up the gardens and planting the vegetables. I didn’t know the first thing about a horse, but I bargained with a Here is Margaret Sullivan, of Denville, New Jersey, starting out on her delivery route. The “Bicycling Egg Lady”’ is what her customers call her. Below she is shown with the new members of the family, who are growing into husky lads by eating wholesome food, spend- ing lots of time outdoors, and getting plenty of sleep. In the corner Miss Sullivan and Blossoms, the Guernsey cow, who does her share to make the farming project a success

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May, 1935 retired farmer to teach me how to har- ness and feed the animal and how to plow with -him. By the.time the spring. plowing was over,' I was able to make a. mighty straight furrow. It was a great ex- perience, that plowing. - I. set out fif- teen hundred strawberry plants and a few hundred raspberry plants in addi- tion: to. the vegetables. And of course no farm is complete without..a cow, so Blossoms was my next. investment. She is a_ beautiful Guernsey’ and gives rich. golden milk. As summer came on, my garden bloomed and so did I! I loved the sun. I worked in. my. gardens * bareheaded and barefooted in a* sun suit with shorts, giving the sun plenty of chance to brown me, -I was thoroughly hard- ened to it by summer. I. had begun early in the spring. when the sun wasn’t so strong and was able to work in the July sun for hours. without any ill effects. At noon I would jump on my bicycle and go for a swim in the near- by lake, returning refreshed for lunch and more gardening until evening chore time. After the chores and another cool- ing swim, I ate my heartiest meal, my work being about over for the day. I always ate plenty of fresh vegetables that I gathered from the garden before supper, and milk, fruits.in season and whole-wheat bread that I made myself. My breakfast was light, some fruit and milk, for I found that I could do much better work if my _ stomach wasn’t too full. At noon, an egg-nog made with two eggs, a pint of milk and a bit of honey, with some fruit. I enjoyed the business of farming, chiefly because it was my own business. I was my own “boss” and derived much satisfaction in developing my executive ability. I had a regular milk route. Blossoms not only served our own fam- ily but several of the neighbors as well. I took over the leadership of the Girl Scout Troop in my community and thereby made excellent social con- tact and was provided splendid recrea- tion. A considerable egg trade sprang up through this contact earning me the name of the “Bicycling Egg Lady,” for I delivered my eggs and milk via my bicycle. As my vegetables ripened I sold them to my milk and egg cus- tomers. When the corn and tomatoes came on in large quantities, I hitched up “old Dobbin” and we went peddling with the whole wagon full. | In the early winter the farm activ- ities lessened. As our house is a large one, I fixed up a couple of rooms and took in three young boys from a Chil- dren’s Home to board and to help eat up all the vegetables and fruits that were canned. .The boys were thin and had no color at all in their faces. It is wonderful how well they have re- sponded to my physical culture pro-* gram. They have all gained_ weight and are a picture to behold, with their radiant, laughing faces, their round rosy cheeks and their sparkling eyes. They play outdoors from the time they come from school until supper- time. They get twelve hours’ sleep, as their ages range from nine to twelve years and there’s nothing like sufficient rest in combination with the right food to build up resistance against colds. And as the wintry winds blew and the snow storms raged, I sat beside a comfortable fire, thinking what a won- derful life this is and what a blessing is good health. MARGARET SULLLIVAN. Denville, New Jersey. 2 in every Dentyne package You slip a piece of Dentyne into your mouth... and, as you enjoy it, you are earning dividends. AN AID TO MOUTH HEALTH —Your teeth, your whole mouth, need exercise which they don’t get from today’s soft foods. Dentyne provides this regular vigorous exer- cise so necessary to general mouth health. It stimulates the salivary glands, helps the mouth clean itself, and im- proves the condition of the teeth. AS WELL AS A DELICIOUS GUM — You will be de- lighted with the flavor of Dentyne. Its fresh, stimulating spiciness makes it the favorite chewing gum of thousands and thousands of critical people. You will like, too, the handy vest-pocket package . . . an exclusive feature with Dentyne. The shape originated with, and for many years has identified, Dentyne. DENTYNE KEEPS TEETH WHITE* MOUTH HEALTHY D9

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60 Ql Wanted to Be “‘Free”’ particular clique at Beverly House sup- ported herself except.Loraine, the only one among us with a private income, and she was taking Art at the Univer- sity. She had just escaped being an old maid by turning into a “bachelor gir!” at the death of her crippled father, for whom she had postponed all hope of marriage. She inherited the income, a modest but ample one. She was twen- ty-nine, the oldest, while I, at twenty- seven, was the youngest of our bunch, and she had the most “advanced”’ ideas, whereas she had formerly been an ex- tremely conservative type. Madge was private secretary to the Mayor; Ade- line, as I’ve already mentioned, taught in the grades, and Maude had worked her way up from a little errand girl at the Bon Marche. Beverly House was a residence for business and profes- sional girls of the maturer type. if HAD come to Rutherford three years before over Mother’s protests, after three years of trying to get some mean- ing out of life at home and at the same time keeping “true” to David’s mem- ory. Does this sound quaint in these days when both old-fashioned piety and romantic ideals have given way so largely to agnosticism and sophistica- tion? Perhaps it is—or was—quaint, but that is not to say it was unique. For I do not believe I am alone in my psychological heritage, and the spir- itual problems resulting therefrom, or I wouldn’t be writing this story. Aug- menting this, however, I seem to have inherited, probably from Mother, who was a deeply religious soul, a certain quality of mysticism in my make-up, and doubtless it was this which had led me involuntarily to build a shrine to David in some secret chamber of my inner life. For me to have permitted another man to enter, or even to ap- proach my heart, would have been “‘sac- rilege.” . I had won a civil service appoint- ment as a junior placement clerk with the Free Employment Bureau, an in- stitution conducted by the United States Department of: Labor in. cooperation with various state and municipal gov- ernments, and now I was Director of the Female Division of the Rutherford branch of the service, Rutherford being a city of some 200,000 souls. I told myself that there wasn’t much about women and their problems I hadn’t learned in those three years behind that desk. Day after day an endless procession of my own sex passed in review before me, women from every rank and station in life. But if all this disillusioned me somewhat in mod- ern freedom as it pertained to women who were merely drifters—women, I assured myself with youthful egotism, who had no real place anywhere in the economic structure—I was still keen about it for myself and friends; in other words, for women who proved by their achievements that they were equal or superior to men. The girls, of course, knew about Da- vid. “It’s sweet,’’ said Loraine,. “the way you feel about him—but it’s out of date. People just don’t dedicate their lives to the dead any more.” I wondered. I had spent my most romantic years trying to find a substi- tute for David’s love in work. I thought I had succeeded. I’d concentrated so on work I hardly ever gave a serious thought to men. But now again I seemed to be growing strangely rest- less. A sense of incompleteness tor- tured me subconsciously by night and day. What was the matter with me— and with the other girls? For observa- tion told me they were restless, too, in spite of their “careers.” Especially Loraine. Years ago I’d felt this way after David died, and I believed I’d solved that problem with a job. My youth I took for granted. Age, like death, is something that comes to others, not yourself. It wasn’t, no it couldn’t have been, age that frightened me. But—couldn’t I have experience— couldn’t I live—and yet not desecrate the shrine where David lay? Was I, as Loraine accused, terribly old-fash- ioned about a memory? The only man I knew well enough to think about in the light of romantic possibilities was Channing Gilliam— and that would be mostly synthetic. Chan was managing editor of the Rutherford Advocate, one of those rug- ged, blunt men who make good friends, but nothing of the cavalier. Experience had seasoned his easy-going philosophy with a dash of cynicism, enough to give it a flavor without any bitterness. I had met him nearly three years be- fore when he was a reporter assigned to cover the activities of our various city departments, which of course in- cluded ours. The fact that in all this time, during which he had acted as a kind of perennial escort for me to the- aters and dances, nothing “serious” had come of our friendship, speaks for its platonic nature. I did not realize, then, that I was the one who had kept it so by a certain instinctive guarded- ness which characterized my manner toward men and must have “spoken louder” than my words. I USED to wonder why Chan made love to other girls and not to me, al- though he seemed to enjoy my com- pany. I knew that he didn’t deny what he liked to call his “nature.” He was very frank about it. This frank- ness was one of the most engaging, and at the same time irritating, traits he had. Irritating to me, as was, too, the faintly superior way he usually lis- tened to my ideas on all important questions, with the barest suggestion of a smile hovering on his lips. It was the same expression with which a man might listen to the whimsies of a child. His seven years advantage in age did not seem to me to justify this attitude. “If you ever get married,” I asked one night, when we were having din- ner at the Silver Lichen, “will you still consider yourself free to—to go with other women if you feel like it?” He grinned and shrugged, “Why not?” | “And will you grant your wife the same privilege?” “T should say not!” “Chan—-that isn’t logical.” “My dear, there’s nothing logical about life, and certainly not about love.” “But—but—” I floundered. “Tt isn’t that I care about the moral aspect, but when it comes to my wife,” he went on, explaining decisively, “that’s mine—my personal property— and nobody takes what’s mine.” What could you say to such reasoning as that? I felt confused and oddly in- effectual, and angry at myself for feeling so. Something else I felt, too, Physical Culture Continued from page 20 with greater force than usual. His abundant masculinity seemed to take possession of me, against my own voli- tion and, yes, against my will. It roused a subtle sense of antagonism in me in conflict with my interest and confidence in him. What a lot of non- sense! I, a modern woman, a self- supporting woman, reacting to a man —and Chan of all men in the world— like a medieval damsel who’d been cooped up in a convent or somewhere all her life! I mustered all the sophis- tries I could to bolster up my pride. “Well, Chan, I don’t agree with you. I don’t believe in marriage because _I think it only spoils what might have been a good friendship by tying a lot of strings on love—especially for the woman. But if ever, in some weak moment, I fell for matrimony, why— I’d expect exactly the same privileges as my husband. I wouldn’t be kept in bondage .. .” . Again that amused smile quirked his lips. “Atta baby, Claudia,’ he said, “don’t ever let ’im put anything over on yoe ost” “But—but you just said...” His eyes met mine in a kind of silent, friendly duel, “I was only speak- ing of my wife—not any other man’s.” “And suppose,” I flashed, “your wife objected to sharing you with other women—the same as you’d.. .” “That would be _ old-fashioned, wouldn’t it?” He’d caught me in my own trap. My cheeks began to sting. “T see,” I spluttered, “it’s all right for you to be old-fashioned, but all wrong for your wife.” — “I never pretended to be anything else,” he answered with maddening calmness. “It isn’t necessary, because the way I feel about things is the traditional way.” “For men, yes, I know. It isn’t any- thing new for you to have your free- dom, but for us... .” He smiled across the table and challenged quietly, “So what?” That was about the way our argu- ments always ended, leaving me hang- ing in midair, full of a sense of futil- ity that I passionately hated, while Chan remained unruffled. I had only achieved the ability to discuss these subjects with him from behind a spiritual barricade erected by my _ in- stinct, for every time we approached such things as man-and-woman rela- tions, I would experience an immediate sense of detachment, as if they had no bearing upon my personal life. It was purely ‘“academic”—all our conversa- tion—and yet I got strangely excited and involved as to my feelings over what seemed the unfair discriminations ‘against my sex, both on the part of society and even of nature herself. “@™’H, what would this world be like without the lovely ladies? [ wish I were a thousand Victor Riemers that I might love them all!” The Ger- man poet, bowing in Continental fash- ion, most unexpectedly kissed my hand —right there in the office. Because I had sent him a typist whose work had especially pleased him he had gone to all the trouble of dropping in to thank me personally. He was spending a few weeks in Rutherford, the guest of Pro- fessor Wagoner at our local Univer- sity, giving a series of lectures and readings of his works. He was in the middle thirties, not exactly handsome,

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May, 1935 but about the most courtly person I had ever met. I thrilled like an adoles- cent when he laid on my desk an autographed copy of his poems. “Would Fraulein Thorne accept so humble a token of my appreciation? It would please me very much.” His English was delightful, so careful and so pure. I could not forget him after he had gone. I fingered the book as if it had been bound in alabaster and the lyrical wealth of its contents, arousing all my old inherent mysticism, transported me to realms of blessed unreality. Here, I thought, as my heart beat to the rhythm of his verses—most of which were erotic, but very delicately done—would be a man who understood the “art of love.” When he phoned the next day to ask me for the “pleasure” of my company at a concert to be given at the Art Museum, I could hardly speak for joy. Could it be possible that he was attracted to me as I had been to him? Never for Chan, I’m certain, had I dressed myself so carefully as I did that evening, thinking all the while of the contrast between the two. Chan, with his patronizing, “Dutch uncle” habit of saying whatever he pleased to me, and Victor—I called him that in my thoughts—so charming and defer- ential, you’d have thought I was a queen. WE WERE early to the concert and improved the time by strolling through the corridors. “You know,” mused Victor Riemer, his forehead slightly puckered as we paused before a magnificent sculpture of “The First Man,” “only in America would they put a fig leaf on a work of art. You people are so—so self-conscious about the elemental thing's.” Here, I thought, was honesty with- out Chan’s rough-shod bluntness. I laughed, “You mean we’re prudish?” “Well, yes, I am afraid that is the only word to use. But you are getting away from it—the precious ladies are seeing to that. It is most delightful to see how they are throwing off the old restraints.” Many things he said that night kept going over and over later in my mind. “Tt has been a most charming oc- casion, but how could it be otherwise with so charming a companion? I thank you from my heart.” “My child, you ought to have innumerable young lovers. You should let them teach you life.” “Never be afraid to love—to give yourself to the utmost. Fear should have no place in love, it is warping to the nature, it kills imagination. Love is everything.” “Well, has that gigolo gone yet?” Chan, phoning from his office, de- manded a few days after this. “How about a show tonight with me?” No, Victor Riemer hadn’t gone. I’d received an invitation to the reception the Wagoners were giving in his honor the following evening, and en- closed in this note was a personal mes- sage in his own handwriting, urging me to come. But tonight was open and I felt so unusually restless, so conscious of suspense somehow, that I even welcomed an evening with Chan. The play, however, proved to be one of those “problem” pieces, so popular in the twenties, concerning the mod- ern woman’s. career-versus-marriage dilemma, and before we realized it we were arguing again. “Don’t you know,” asked Chan, as we settled ourselves at a cabaret for an 61 FROM HEARTACHES TO HAPPINESS — MADGE SAYS SHE’S NEVER GOING TO ANOTHER SHE HAS SO FEW PARTNERS.1 THINK IT’S BECAUSE... CLARE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN ? | INSIST __—— ON KNOWING AT THE NEXT DANCE LOOK AT MADGE TONIGHT. SHE’S SIMPLY MOBBED WITH PARTNERS ! DON’T YOU THINK MY COMPLEXION’S MADGE,PLEASE DON'T BE ANGRY. BUT IF YOU'D JUST CORRECT ONE LITTLE FAULT... \ j Bi. a sae 1 KNOW IT,SHE JUST TOLD ME SHE TOOK OUR TIP ABOUT USING LIFEBUOY. AND THANKED ME FOR TELLING HER ) fr CLEARER AND FRESHER, MOTHER ? IT CERTAINLY 1S, MADGE.AND LIFEBUOY HAS HELPED MY SKIN, TOO.DAD’S ACTUALLY BEEN COMPLIMENTING ME ABOUT IT ILLIONS have the best of reasons for saying, ‘‘Lifebuoy agrees with my skin.’’ For Lifebuoy lather deep- cleanses. Coaxes out pore-deep dirt. Banishes dullness, makes the skin look fresh, radiant, ‘‘alive’’ and how gentle Lifebuoy is! Tests made on the skins of hundreds of women—blondes, bru- nettes, every complexion type—show it is actually more than 20 per cent milder than many so-called ‘‘beauty soaps.”’ Protects against “B. 0.” This same gentle, purifying lather deo- dorizes body pores, stops ““B. O."’ (body odor), that distressing fault we a/] must guard against, especially these coming hot weather months when we perspire more freely. No matter how hard the water, Lifebuoy always gives an abun- dance of lather. Notice, too, its fresh, clean, quickly-vanishing scent which tells you this delightful toilet soap pro- tects! Approved by Good Housekeeping Burean

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62 after-theater supper, “you women are really contributing more to the free- dom of men than your own? Haven’t you ever tried to take an impersonal view of the thing and see how it’s like- ly to turn out, say ten years from now? It all goes back to biology and, biologi- cally speaking, there’s no such thing as equality between a man and a girl. In relieving men of the burdens tradition put upon them you won’t get rid of the ones that nature put on you. All you’ll do will be take on an extra load. You think because you can sit at a desk in- stead of stand over a cook stove that you’re emancipated. That’s because you’re’ short-sighted. What you’re really doing is You’re letting men out from under their old responsibilities, so they’ll be less and less willing to take on per- manent ones. Because you women won’t hold out for marriage, they’ll be more and more satisfied with promiscuous and transient relationships: They will get soft and satisfied with comparative idleness and. even to depend economi- cally on women, lots of them—and in the end you’ll find yourselves forced to keep on working when you get old and tired and wish you could quit. Women can’t stand the wear and tear of the industrial world like men. They have finer nervous systems, and men will really be the ones to reap the benefit.” “Tt seems to be a man’s world, any way you look at it,” I tried to laugh, but the effort had a harsh sound, even to myself... “Tt is. It always will be, that’s why you modern women are really a whole lot dumber than your. grandmas who were wise enough to take advantage of it.” | | “And what would you suggest?” emancipating men. “Sticking to the subleties with which you were originally provided by nature to get yourselves husbands and homes —sticking to the aloofness that makes. men put up a fight. A woman’s gift of subtlety is her compensation for a weaker body—and let me tell you, Claudia, he-men like ’em that way even in this day and age.” I was getting so worked up inside it was all I could do to be civil. The idea of a. man with brains like Channing Gilliam seriously suggesting that in- telligent modern women resort to the trickeries and wiles of the days when all feminine creatures were forced to depend for their maintenance on the favor of the male sex, seemed just too preposterous. One of the things we were proud of was that we had out- | grown the need of “subtlety.” We could talk “straight from the shoulder” to men about anything we liked. “Chan,” I said, endeavoring, at the price of considerable effort, to hide my irritation, “I’m afraid you’re a throw- back to the cave man.” Again that philosophical shrug and smile of his. “Maybe. What if I am? But I don’t believe it. We men aren’t always going through a lot of moods and tenses like you women are. Throw- ing fits about ‘freedom.’ What do you really mean by freedom, anyway? You rave about being ‘free like men’— but what does our freedom consist of? Darn few men get through life with- out work and obligations and submis- sion to laws and all that. It’s the lot of humanity, Claudia, and the differ- ence between the obligations of men and women goes back to a difference in function, which is biological. We men have never rebelled against our role in life like you. Freedom at best is only a limited quantity—unless you figure on license, which is a course of conduct that ignores all consequences. Freedom Claudia has done a lot of theorizing about freedom and equality—now that Chan react? You'll find the answer in the second instalment of this interesting study on sale May 3d. @ Fever—The Miracle Worker An electrical experimenter testing ultra short waves found his assistants developing temperatures from one to five degrees. He inquired into the util- ity of fever, concluded it was possibly useful and constructed a cabinet. His first patient was suffering from ad- vanced syphilis. The short wave highly concentrated raised the temperature one degree, then two, three, four, then even more until 105 degrees were reached. The patient became hot, flushed, defi- nitely febrile, his mind became con- fused, then delirious. He poured off quarts of sweat, drank glass after glass of water, then settled down to a restful and sleeping unconsciousness. Five hours went by—the patient: wak- ened. To the gratification of all he reported no alarming exhaustion, his fever decreased to normal within an hour and he walked home. Daily treatments were continued for a week more. He felt better each day. Now for the crucial test—what would the blood test show? Experts carefully drew off some blood, a test was made, then re-made. More tests after a week, then after six months. All were alike —all were negative—the blood was pure. A patient had been cured by man-made fevers! Quite independently, an expert in heating—an engineer also—determined to try the effect of a general body heating to cure his rheumatism. He had tried Turkish -baths, sun cures, lights and rays, detected relief but no permanent benefit. Something, he thought, might happen at a very high temperature. He seemed to remember indistinctly an old wives’ tale of one fever curing another. He made an electrical switch-board which would record the cabinet’s tem- perature and his own as well. If his fever advanced but one-tenth degree past the set mark the heat. would be cut off; when it cooled one-tenth under the mark the current would return. This was scientific; he could hold a de- sired fever as long as he wished. He set the pointer at 103 degrees, switched on the current, stripped and lay down in the cabinet. An interested doctor came to watch. Within half an hour the temperature advanced, in an hour his fever was raging, and the doctor stopped the show. The next few experiments were carried out sans med- ico. In a week the rheumatism was quite gone. More and better cabinets were built. Scientists took up the idea. One con- tributed the air-conditioning principle. The humidity was reduced, then ad- vanced, and finally 40 degrees relative Physical Culture creates its own bondage in making you responsible for everything you do. You girls are bragging now about your economic freedom, but what does it amount to after all? Less responsi- — bility? No, the opposite. Working for a boss who can fire you instead of a husband who can’t. Rejecting your natural provider, you have to earn your living whether you like your job or not, or starve to death. You have to adapt yourselves to conditions more complicated than you ever met in home life. Once the providing was done for you, but emancipation stopped that, and it’s a cinch your freedom will end up by enslaving you to a role so un- suited to your nature that you’ll wish you could chuck it—when the novelty has worn off—and it’ll be too late.” “Thanks for the lecture, Professor,” I quipped, but he. continued, ignoring this as if he hadn’t heard it, immersed in expressing his own ideas as only an editor can be, once he gets started off. “And this ‘moral freedom’ you’re talking about, it’s governed by similar principles when it comes to imposing responsibility. All the important con- ventions that you and your friends like to sneer at were really made to pro- tect you, to compensate for the bur- den nature put on you. You think you can throw ’em over—that you’re ready to live without ’em... All right!” and suddenly in the dreamy radiance of the night club he leaned across the table, searching my face with an eagerness and some deep internal hun- ger he had never in all our years of close association betrayed to me before, while the orchestra wove a mantle of sound to cover a proposal that turned me hot and faint. Slowly his big hand folded over mine in a warm, spasmodic grip. His breath came hard. ‘Ready to prove you’re free, huh? Suppose I take you up on it? J wonder if you are?” is putting her to the test, how will she of a modern woman, in the June issue, Continued from page 13 humidity decided upon. Many hopeless diseases were tried. The outlook was more hopeful. A bold experimenter attacked the dreaded Parkinsonian disease, fre- quently a terrible after-consequence of sleeping sickness. In a few cases the artificial heat allayed the disease. Then one or two early cases recovered. Some became quite well, others not. Why? Perhaps temperature variation must be tried in further experiments. The fu- ture, we know, holds splendid hope for all such cases. Parkinson’s disease may respond as effectively as syphilis. In some strong, normal women— more women than men—the arms begin to tingle, itch and burn. Severe pains occur in the back and legs and are often attributed to rheumatism. Writ- ing becomes difficult, walking uncertain and stumbling, until finally the muscles contract and tremble, the head shakes and speech becomes slow. There are far too many such cases. The disease is disseminated sclerosis and the prog- nosis very bad. But Mr. Heat was called in, only early cases being tried at first. The results were little short of miraculous. Many women marked for permanent in- validism have gone free of all symp- toms for two and three years—thus another optimistic hope for the future.

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May, 1935 In pneumonia with no heart com- _plications and no alcoholic history, the percentage of cures by artificial fevers is so much greater than with medi- cines that medicines should be un- thought of where heat is employed to maintain the microbe killing fever un- til the crisis—and the cure. This is exactly how Nature’s fever works to cure disease. In the blood stream and in the tissues of the body are cells whose duty it is to fight in- vading bacterias and poisons. Alert for danger, they patrol every part of the body through the blood vessels. Immediately the sensitive chemistry of the patient is stimulated by a begin- ning cold, chill or an attack of fever, the heart beat increases, the skin be- comes hot and the blood cells are mar- shalled into instant and savage activ- ity. <A delicately adjusted recruiting station increases the number of these soldier-cells until the body’s defensive force is equal to, or outnumbers, the force of the invading bacteria. Each cell is a general and a fighter and at- tacks germs as in a battle between cannibal tribes, with the victor eating his dead or conquered enemy. This is the short story of how the body resists and conquers disease and continues to live. But if this resisting mechanism cannot be brought up to full recruiting strength, if Nature is thwarted, her plans obstructed and fever checked, disease invades the body and kills or maims the patient. It is all as simple as that. “TSE most important step in the cure of disease, and in maintaining health within the body, is in the recruiting of the body’s defensive forces. This takes place without the patient’s conscious direction, and normally the defenders - ean be born and made faster than the bacterial germs multiply. The cells to be made into soldiers must be heated and hatched out very much as chicks are hatched in an incubator. And in order to incubate and hatch out these eggs, the body uses exactly the same medium to produce new fighters that the farmer uses to hatch chicks—heat, and we call that heat, fever. If the heat of the fever is checked before the full defensive force is mobi- lized, the germ’s armygis likely to con- quer the body’s. If the invader’s forces win, the patient suffers a possible in- validism or even death. Obviously a continuous body temperature is neces- sary to maintain the army at its fight- ing strength, for victory and health. Cold packs, antipyretic drugs, fever- medicines, opiates and bromides calm fevered patients, reduce skin flushes, slow the heart-beat and help break up fevers. But if the body’s poor army is mobilized under these almost insu- perable difficulties, only the best luck can offset the mistaken attempts to drive out the good and curative fever. Fever is not the big bad wolf. A perfectly normal, healthy and strong person generates sufficient fever to make an effective defensive against disease. But there are many others who cannot defend themselves. The alcoholics, the weary and tired, the un- derfed, the neurotic, and those already weakened by drastic diseases cannot stimulate the mechanism which pro- duces high fever. In these cases where there is insufficient natural fever present it can be provided artificially. A good, strong, wracking fever is bet- ter than pills, inoculations or medi- cines. : SEE HOW I LOOK SINCE IGAINED I2 POUNDS it’s a shame to be SKINNY When Special Quick Way Adds 5 to 15 lbs. Fast HOUSANDS who were “skinny” and friendless have gained solid, attractive flesh this new easy way —in just a few weeks! Doctors for years have prescribed yeast to build up health. 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64 Heat is the most powerful of all vital stimulants. It promptly revitalizes the functioning of all tissues, glands, nerves and nerve-centers. It can be repeated at frequent intervals and is not habit-forming. Unlike drug-stimu- lants, it leaves no after effects dele- terious to the body. From the first or second experience it is actually quite pleasant, producing a comforting sen- sation of well-being and body-health. Of course there are certain people who cannot be given this treatment, but these cases are easily recognized. Heat will cure a great many diseases now considered hopeless by the medical sci- entists and its future seems limitless. The modern method of creating arti- ficial temperatures for the cure of dis- ease is altogether an interesting ex- perience. Almost immediately the pa- tient has a sensation’ of great ‘relief as the skin reacts to the breaths of hot air. A gentle perspiration covers the skin, followed by profuse sweating. The swiftly circulating columns of air quickly peel off the insulating layer of sweat which otherwise might cause the patient great distress and unbearable discomfort. In thermo-therapy engi- neers have somewhat overcome great bodily discomfort by keeping the super- heated air in constant swift motion. Naturally the feverish temperature af- fects some more than others, but with many the increasing physical relief makes the distress more easy to bear. With the majority perhaps the treat- ment continues quite comfortably, the patient sleeping a restful, recuperating sleep. HIS is the way a treatment is given. After a searching examination cer- tain cases are selected. The patient, then nude or lightly covered, is placd reclining on a very comfortable couch in what seems to be an ordinary bath cabinet. The head of course is left outside the cabinet in the atmospheric air, where the face can easily be cooled by the breezes from the oscillating elec- tric fan or sponged off with cold water. The cabinet itself is air-tight . and heated preferably with infra-red rays and must maintain a temperature up to 160 degrees. Kettering, the inventor of air-con- ditioning, has applied that novel prin- ciple to thermo-therapy. He has been able to maintain the relative humidity of the air at 40 per cent, which is prob- ably a bit more moist than the air you ordinarily breathe. He has been able to prove as well that a layer of: mois- ture and perspiration covers the body like paint on a house, and it is this tight covering that causes the great discomfort and apprehension to so many people when their temperatures are suddenly raised in vapor cabinets. Therefore he has added a simple fan which keeps the air in swift circulation, constantly stripping off the insulating layers of moisture. It is this film of body moisture which puts an unneces- sary strain upon the heart and the breathing apparatus. An automatic thermostat attached to a thermometer under the patient’s arm regulates the body and the cabinet tem- peratures at the degrees required. The length of the treatment varies from two to five hours, with temperatures at the dizzy height of 105 degrees in some cases. But that swelter is usually re- served for the unfortunate syphilitics. The ranges most frequently required vary from 102 to 103 degrees. The nurse, who is in constant attendance, records the fever every quarter of an hour and watches the respiration care- fully. Many patients after the first treatment or two feel quite comfortable. For two years patients reported grat- ifying mental alertness and startling physical jote de vivre following the first few thermo-therapy treatments. These twin improvements were at first attributed to the rebound from ill health or an excess of enthusiasm. Just today scientists have offered a better explanation. Doctor Boris Sokoloff, a research scientist, has published a new book called “Vitality.” From it one feels that the practise of medicine is be- coming simpler and more _ sensible. Opinions in medicine are altering so rapidly that, to the unprejudiced ob- server, the exponents of physical cul- ture must appear as the pre-scientists of the age; even the lowly physical ee is no longer an unwanted step- child. When muscles contract during stren- uous exercise, large amounts of lactic acid form in them and generous ex- cretions of it come from other tissues all of the time. Heretofore we have considered lactic acid as a tissue waste, yet many people have inquired why such a powerful acid produced in such quantities should be a useless product. Doctors encouraged us to believe that lactic acid produced rheumatism, and for years solvents of all kinds, alka- line and natural, were recommended to reduce the excess of acid in the body. Fortunately it was not possible for these solvents to come within gunshot of reducing the lactic content of the tissues. We hear much about acid conditions in the body. The fact is that the body is slightly alkaline except in the stom- ach, where acids are produced, and in the muscles during exercise, when lac- tic acid is made. Although the blood is always slightly alkaline, sometimes in serious diseases it becomes less alka- line, but it never even becomes neutral, and we would die before it became acid. Lactic acid contains 75 per cent acid, and outside the body it is produced more familiarly by the fermentation of the lactic acid bacillus in milk. In appearance it is a colorless, odorless, syrupy liquid. It is found, too, in opium, sauerkraut, sour milk, extract of. beef, blood, and is produced by the fermentation of sugar. When scien- tists became convinced that it was too generously used by Nature to be a poet product, they tried putting it to work. 3 Rut peasants in Europe already knew of its value as a medicine for indigestion. Our farmer. grandmothers knew that sour milk, when. applied to tubercular ulcers of the larynx and to the false membrane in diphtheria, cured the one and dissolved the other. It was used as a family remedy to cure green diarrhea in children, and externally to remove freckles and yel- low, brown or black deposits of pigment in the skin... Now the _ laboratories started to make the step-child respect- able. It came out of the attic and slept in the best bed-room. One of Doctor Sokoloff’s most star- tling discoveries is that the brain is fed on lactic acid and nothing but lactic acid. He has proved, further, that the generative organs even are sustained and their powers long con- | tinued by this muscle-born product, and the conclusion now is drawn, after long Physical Culture scientific research, that there is a strong coalition between the mental and Is it more than an European boast that sour milk en- — dowed peasants with longevity and pow- — sexual abilities. erfully lasting sexual life? Setting-up exercises, fast walks, and any physical movements that produce a skin glow manufacture this valuable brain food. Hard work is always a good source of supply. By eating lactic acid bacillus in the various milk prod- ucts, this necessary acid can be ab- sorbed into the system for food. Found in sour milk, it is almost like that made in muscles. It can be made naturally by hot baths, Turkish baths and, best of all, by thermo-therapy. Many case records of artificial fevers suggest that the development of this theory may prove lactic acid to be the easiest con- trolled factor in maintaining health and strength. The value of thermo-therapy or the cure of disease by artificial fever does not stop with killing germs and repair- ing tissues. Much more graphic results are obtained. The germless afflictions are often tissue derangements, ulcers and contractures, with chronic conges- ne ad a chronic deficiency of normal ood. In the excruciating pains some women suffer each month, heat will often effect a permanent cure by dilating the blood- vessels and capillaries deep down into the pelvis. No medicines can possibly hope to accomplish this with lasting success. But dilation is easily accomplished at a very low temperature by thermo- therapy and the-cures are swift, grati- fying and lasting. Axo UNG actress on the London stage had always suffered from men- strual pains. At certain times she faint- ed during a performance. She saw her- self robbed of a glowing future suc- cess by these-ineurable cramps. Only one short. treatment at a relatively low temperature brought instant relief. For the past six months she has not had a moment’s worry. A middle-aged lady with four ulcers of the eye was told to prepare for even- tual blindness. It was advised to have the eye removed, surgically. Within a week the ulcers were healed with arti- ficial fevers. Man-made fevers restored sight. Again. when internal organs are bad- ly congested and the blood vessels dis- tended, all sorts of horrible illnesses are diagnosed, but thermo-therapy brings swift relief. In catarrhal con- gestions of the gall-bladder, high tem- perature reduces. the congestion by emptying the larger vessels into the blood vessels of the skin surface. Here the blood is cleansed, the internal tis- sues repaired and the congestion dis- appears. Chronic cases of gall-bladder ' disease have been cured as simply as this. Arthritis, rheumatism, sick head- arches, influenza and many other dis- eases far too numerous to discuss in detail are relieved or cured. Yet count- less more remain for trial. The mod- ern doctor-engineer is willing to bide his time; in his own mind he sees superstition, inoculation, fever cures and other unnatural medication listed among the methods of barbarism for the doctors of black-magic. Perhaps civilized man can be taught to rely upon Nature’s swift, .sure comfort, fever—man’s greatest friend. p 4 4 i ’ z.

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May, 1935 65 You, loo, Can Master Fear..Worry.. Depression... | — Limitations and Nervousness 25 cents Will Give You Your First Start Toward a New Life Self Mastery THROUGH Understanding By C PRANKLIN LEAVITT, M. D. I know it has much efits-of your advice. A PURCHASER WRITES—“After reading this Power-Awakening Book 1 have found my- self ... What a Joy ... It Amazes Me!” e What a Physician Has to Say “I was much impressed by the tone and expression of your letter to me and I have filled out the questions you desire me to answer. fully read the book, Self Mastery Through Understanding. I fully en- joyed it, and I am sure I derived help and great benefit from reading your ideas of the subconscious mind, etc. “For years I have realized ‘Fear’ was the greatest handicap in my life. to do with the mental and the physical conditions in life. What I have learned from you, I am sure will be a great help to me in my declining years of life. 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66 G Drink—My “Frankenstein” Jean led the way into the dining room. I had come home, practically sober after my afternoon party at the office and all of its folly which I now so bitterly regretted, and my intention had been to remain sober for an indefinite period. I wished to do this in a spirit of expiation for my transgression. It seemed the least I could do, and the means, too, inciden- tally, of keeping out of future trouble. But this was a situation that would be made easier no doubt by a drink or two, and weakly I forgot my good resolution. . Procuring a glass from the pantry, I rejoined the others; and _ then the man whom Jean had familiarly called “Bill Cameron” filled all five glasses from one of the square black bottles, and we all of us drank, following the liquor with chasers of plain water. It was excellent Scotch, I saw at once, and the second drink of it I took dis- pelled to a degree the shadow that had hung over me ever since my ar- rival home. The third drink—for I was taking two to the others’ one, in an effort, as Cameron had put it, to “catch up”—actually had me smil- ing jovially, my annoyance all but for- gotten. M* conscience, too, which had both- ered me sorely on my trip home- ward, was lulled now, and gone, almost to a complete extent, was the goading remorse I had suffered following the incident. The monster, you see, was in con- trol again, directing my destiny, and I even caught myself looking at Jean’s friend, Mabel Brown, with speculative interest. We finished the contents of the first bottle and began upon the second, when Cameron proposed his and Jean’s dancing again. In his own tipsiness he had taken what I construed to be a somewhat proprietory attitude toward Jean, and this quite infuriated me. I have said that I became suspicious, irritable and inclined to be violent when I drink excessively, and a look I saw Cameron give Jean aroused something ugly in my nature. “No, don’t let’s dance,” I said de- cisively. ‘“Let’s have another drink, and then I’m afraid we'll have to call the party over.” Jean looked at me in quick hurt protest. “Why, Don!” she cried. “‘These boys have asked us all out to dinner with them! I let Katy go, and I.can phone Mother to come in and stay with An- nabel.” These boys! Her alluding to them in that manner annoyed me immensely, . I didn’t know just why. There was an implied intimacy about it, I felt, that just shouldn’t have been. I could have smacked Jean across the mouth for saying anything of the kind. But, in- stead, I did some fast thinking. “I’m sorry, dear,” I told her quietly, “but I’ve planned for us to go see a show. We’ve just about got time now to: make it.” “Oh, why go see a show?” Cameron demanded with offensive familiarity. “TLet’s put on a little show of our own, Let’s make it a real party.” I was furious with Jean for having let me in for such a situation as this, and I was made even more furious by her lack of wifely cooperation in my present predicament, but I strove now to handle the matter smoothly, despite the growing sense of rage I felt rising like a red cloud of mist before my eyes. With me that is always a danger signal. Invariably it is followed by an act of violence that I seem powerless to control. “Oh, I don’t want to go to the the- ater, Don,” Jean complained with an aggrieved air. She looked at Cameron as she spoke, and I could see that she was quite intoxicated. “Fine!” Cameron retorted. ‘“That’s what I say, too. We’ll go to a road- house in Lyndhurst. I’ll phone for a table. How about it, Jim?” The man addressed, Jim Freeman, a short dark heavy-set individual with a small mustache, grinned approval. My own acquiescence in the matter seemed -to be taken for granted; either that, or it wasn’t worth considering taking seriously. At the thought of this, a strange feeling of congestion seemed to gather and spread from the back of my neck up into the top of my head where it met the red mist before my eyes. “No,” I said sharply, “the party’s over, gentlemen. Glad to have met any friends of Miss Brown’s, and now —good night.” They glared at me in hostile silence for a moment, both of them showing the chagrin they felt at having their plans for the evening frustrated. Then Cameron, who by this time I had come heartily to detest, uttered a short de- risive little laugh. “Oh, all right,” he retorted, “if you want to be a bum sport.” He turned to my wife. “Good night, Jean. Hope I see you again some time.” I lost control of myself at that. “No, you won’t be seeing her again,” I said savagely, “and get this! My wife’s name isn’t Jean to you, fellow! Not now or any other time!” “Why, Don!” Jean exclaimed, be- wildered. “Keep still!” I told her harshly. I would have something to say to her, I resolved, when these other people were out of the house. , (CAMERON’S lips curled contemptu- ously in a sneer, as though he would have welcomed provoking a fist fight with me. “Now, you’re not gonna get rough, are you, Big Boy?” he asked, taking a step toward me. He towered above me and outweighed me by at least thirty pounds, but the difference in our sizes meant nothing to me then. I picked up the empty whiskey bottle on the table, by its long round neck, and advanced a step in his direction, my eyes literally blazing with homi- cidal fury. “Listen to me, you cheap chiseler!” I rasped hoarsely. “You get out of my house this instant or you’ll be carried out feet first!” He retreated before the murderous rage he saw written in my eyes and face. It would have been the height of folly for him to have done other- wise, and I think he sensed it, for with another taunting word from him, I’d have crashed that heavy bottle over his head and probably killed him in- stantly. He knew this instinctively, so he wisely forebore to say anything further. Instead, he backed slowly to- ward the hallway, where his hat and coat were lying on a chair. | The color had drained from his com- Physical Culture. Continued from page 32 panion’s face, but he found his tongue now in an effort to placate me. He, too, had seen the danger in the situ- ation. “That’s all right, old man,’ he said soothingly. ‘“We’ll go. Sorry to have had this unpleasantness.” I said nothing in’reply, as I con- tinued to stand there, a red-faced dis- heveled figure of violence and sudden death, I imagine; and without another word the two men, followed by Mabel Brown, got their wraps and went quickly out the front door. Jean, when she saw them going, attempted to go forward and say good-by, but I sav- agely motioned her. back..She sank into a chair, hysterically commencing to weep, as the door closed upon the trio and we were at last alone together. “Where’s Annabel?” I demanded fiercely. “She’s upstairs sleeping,” Jean an- swered, with a sob. “Where did you meet those men?” I next demanded. Sb caught her breath in another sob. “Mabel knew them,” she answered. “She phoned me to come meet her in Mineola, where they were having lunch in the Sylvan Inn. Then we came out here.” “TyO YOU know what J think?” I re- plied hotly. “I think you’re an outrageous liar! I think you and she picked those birds up somewhere, that’s what I think; and, if you want to hear something more, I don’t think you’re a fit associate for my little girl!” Jean raised her eyes in a flash of angry and tearful indignation. . “T’ve told you the truth, you beast!” she sobbed bitterly. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself, coming home and abusing me like this!” “You ought to be ashamed to have me come home and find you drinking and dancing cheek-to-cheek with strange men!” I accused wrathfully. I don’t wonder if you ask me how could I do it? Yet, men, I say again, ean do those things and do them reg- ularly. Every devil of doubt and dis- trust in my nature was. now on the rampage, and I even went so far as to suspect Jean herself of having scraped an informal acquaintance with those men, just as in the beginning she had with me. Jean has always had one sterling quality: she has never lied to me. No matter what the situation, I have al- ways known her to tell me the truth. Now, when I pressed the matter of meeting the two men, she reluctantly admitted that Mabel had become ac- quainted with them in a Times Square speakeasy. Later, she had phoned Jean to meet the trio in Mineola; and still later, after Jean had done this, they had returned to our home, at Jean’s insistence, to wait for me to return from the office. That was Jean’s story, tearfully told and really blameless, so far as she was concerned, and yet, despite that fact and the fact of my own miscondu*t, I chose to upbraid her bitterly for what she had done. The monster in me was now uppermost, and I said things I certainly never would have said had I been sober. I said things no man has any right to say to a Wo- man if he hopes to retain that woman’s love and respect. Jean stood up very

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May, 1935 straight and white when I had finished my tirade, but her eyes were like two blue coals of fire. “Very well!” she cried fiercely. “Then this is the end. I'll take my baby and leave you right now, and I never want to see you again as long as I live!” A perfect fiend possessed me—that monster which my nearly three years of steady drinking had slowly but surely created. “Sit down!” I cried harshly. She paid no attention to me, never stopping to look back, and leaping in- -sanely after her, I grasped at her shoulder, tearing her dress partly off her. Then, with my other hand, I seized her throat, choking her fiercely, while she raged and bit and kicked at me, and we both at length leaned pant- ing and exhausted over the banister railing. “Let me go, you. beast!” she screamed hoarsely as I released my grip on her lovely white throat. I was beginning to come to my senses. This was horrible. It must stop. “You beast!” Jean shrilled hysterically with another scream. And again, “You beast!” PSTAIRS, little Annabel had awak- ened and was crying out in fright- ened bewilderment at the strange sounds she heard coming up from below. I stood back, spent and exhausted, aware now of the enormity of what I had just done. “Oh, Jean, darling!” I cried in an agony of contrition. “Forgive me, I beg of you! I must have been crazy! I’m terribly sorry! Please forgive me, Jean, dearest! Please forgive me!” She looked up at me, her eyes still blazing like blue fire, while she ten- derly felt of her throat where my fingers had been. Already dark pur- plish marks were beginning to appear. I stared at them dully, stupidly, in re- morse and sorrow. Then Jean an- swered me. “May God strike me dead, Don Mason,” she said at last, “if I ever stop hating you for this!” It was hours later, only after hours of humble, sorrowful pleading, that I finally got Jean to change her mind about leaving me; that I finally got her to say she would forgive me even though she was grimly certain she would never forget. I blamed it all on drink. There had never been anything like that in our lives, I said, before we commenced drinking steadily, heavily. It left but one answer. We must stop. We must go on the wagon and stay on it for the rest of our lives. We had seen its terrific potentiality for evil. We had experienced what it was capable of making us do and become, and if it was not to destroy us completely we must stop it now, while there was still time. I begged her to think how happy we'd be henceforth without it. And she agreed with me in a low subdued voice. Yes, Jean, bless her! agreed with me utterly in the matter; and so, be- ginning that Sunday, which was the day after our memorable Saturday, we went on the wagon. It was in an- ticipation, one might say, of New Year’s and New Year’s good resolu- tions. It was a happy Christmas, too, for that reason, despite the shadow of our quarrel, two days before, and the cloud also of my adventure at the office party on Saturday afternoon. Upon reflection, I had decided it was better to say nothing to Jean about that. It would only make her terribly unhappy and mistrustful of me, too, for the rest of life. It was regrettable, highly regrettable, but it was one of those things that the sooner forgotten was the soonest mended. God knows the memory of it had made me wretched enough as it was without going out of my way to increase the suffering. Besides, it would mean suf- fering for Jean, too, and she had al- ready suffered plenty, I felt, from the monster’s presence in both our lives. For, in deciding to stop drinking en- tirely, I was urged in part by the dis- covery that I had created an ogre of drink “desire in Jean as well as in myself—a creature who could make her do unwise, irrational, destructive things just as it had made me do them. Where, for instance, I could not help but wonder, would the party I had interrupted by my return home on Saturday night not have terminated had it been allowed to run its free un- checked course? I dreaded to contem- plate it. But now, I considered, all that was a thing of the past, and we should let the dead past bury its dead. The future, in which no monster should exist for either of us, to twist our lives into strange ugly shapes, would be as happy as the first years of our married’ life had been. Again, I did not know at that time that such a monster, once created, is not easily banished. One can’t in a moment tear down a structure that it has taken years of steady application to build. It can’t be done no matter how high one’s hopes and ambitions maybe, and I was to learn it, too, before long, in terms that were unmistakable. I went back to business on the day after Christmas—my former self, re- served, dignified and, I think, thor- oughly efficient. I felt an energy that I never felt, curiously, when I drank or when I-had been drinking. Liquor affects me that way: it cuts down my energy. I take a drink and I want to relax—mentally as well as _ physi- cally. That is, so far as work is con- cerned. But on the day following Christmas, with the alcohol all out of my system by the two days’ abstinence from it, I felt superlatively fine, like doing things, getting work accom- plished. HE stock-room incident with the blonde named Helen was now a still unpleasant but a fading memory. Fortunately, I didn’t have to see her daily. Nor did I wish to see her at all. I desired the incident quickly and completely forgotten, and to all in- tents and purposes it was, while the New Year came and went—a dry New Year for Jean and me!—and another month slipped pleasantly by. I won’t say that, during this period, I didn’t crave a drink occasionally. I found the before dinner period at night the hardest to bear and, at my request, Jean used to time it so that dinner was on the table when I en- tered the door. The interval before dinner was my zero hour. Then, after washing my hands, I sat down quickly to a dish of hot soup—and I didn’t mind it so much! I guess it was try- ing for Jean, too, but she never said anything. I think she knew the hap- piness not only of our marriage but of our lives depended on our staying on the wagon. 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When I turned back she was staring at me with owlish solemnity. “Can’t you guess?” she asked, a trifle hoarsely. ‘‘You’re a married man and a father. You ought to know.” I stared at her blankly, the roots of my hair where it entered the scalp .feeling as though they had been im- mersed in ice water. So I had been right then, I thought, in my first wild assumption. It was woman’s oldest, most important, subject of communica- tion to man. Well, this certainly was interesting. I drew out a handkerchief and touched it to my forehead. I was perspiring freely. GHE had gone on speaking in an in- flexible monotone, and I recalled af- terward that I was not so much aware of what she was saying as I was of the hard nature of the girl, revealed by her speech, and by her intonation. It seemed strange to me that it had not been more apparent that afternoon when I first spoke to her. But again I was reminded that in my then bibu- lous condition I wasn’t in a state to register very refined perceptions. “Tt’s a shame,” she was saying. “I’ll have to leave my position here, and I don’t know what I’ll tell my people. Maybe I’ll kill -myself. It’s just a shame that a girl always has to be the one who’s made to suffer. The man goes scot free. It’s just a shame!” I tried to pull myself together, to get order out of a mind that was now chaos. “Are you sure?” I asked her finally between dry lips, my legs feeling weak under me. ‘She nodded resentfully, and my heart reached a new low level of despair. This was a debt which I, now sober, was being compelled to settle for another person, entirely, a person who had contracted it while drunk. That person, I knew, was as different from the one I now was as day is from night. But that was of no consequence. Being drunk did not free me of responsibility in the mat- ter. Even though it was something of which I had no memory, my obli- gation would have been just as bind- ing. I drew a deep breath of despair- ing resolve. “Well,” I said at last, ‘if that’s the case, what’s to be done?” I wanted to reach an understanding, to face the music and get it over with as soon as possible. “T don’t know,” she muttered in her same tone of resentment. “It’s the woman who pays, all right, and with her heart’s blood, too. I can see that! But this is a time when I’m not going to be the only one.” Her eyes looked daggers at me. “No, sir! I’m no man’s Physical Culture | plaything! I won’t make any human sacrifice of myself, either!” And again she glared at me resentfully. Emotionally she had worked her- self up to such a pitch that, for a mo- ment, I feared she might start scream- ing out loud. And that, with the office force arriving now in droves, and oc- casional executives ‘drifting in to their private offices, would make it inter- esting, to say the least. I was even afraid my secretary, a middle-aged spinster, would come in on us and put the worst possible construction on my companion’s emotional state. God knows she couldn’t make it any worse than it truly was. I raised my hand and sought to calm the girl before me. “Now, now,” I said quietly, “we'll see what can be done. How much money, Helen, do you think you’ll need?” I had two hundred dollars in the bank that I could withdraw, even though it meant closing my account. At least, Jean would not be any the wiser, for I did not take her into my confidence, in the manner .some hus- bands do, about finances. Her job, as I had always seen it was the home— mine, the support of it. Moreover, I’d always felt a certain contempt for men who couldn’t manage their own affairs without their wives’ inter- ference. “T’]] need plenty,” she replied grimly, “for I’m going through with it, un- derstand?” “What?” I cried, startled. “You heard me!” she went on dog- gedly. “I’m not risking my life or good health just to pull somebody else’s chestnuts out of the fire. Oh, no! I’m going through with it, and I’ll need plenty of money, too. So get that straight!” I stared at her helplessly. She was indeed hard, I realized, hard to the core, and I found myself wondering miserably by what unhappy chance had I selected this girl, of all others, to dance with that fateful Saturday afternoon in the office. ” R/ AAT do you want me to do:” I asked her finally, feeling that our conference must come to anend. “Can’t you meet me somewhere for lunch, Helen, so we can talk it over?” “No, I want it settled right now,” she declared sullenly. “And if it isn’t —well, somebody’s going to be sorry, that's 21, The threat in her speech was more than apparent and, to tell the truth, I flinched before it. I could not, I knew only too well, do anything but accede to her demands. Any other at- titude might mean exposure, for I was satisfied this was her threat, and I knew I could not face that. It would cost me my position, my marriage, everything. The best I could do would be to buy my way out of it as quickly as possible. “All right, Helen,” I said. “How much will you want?” “T want a thousand dollars,” she said shortly; “and I want it right away.” I shook my head earnestly. “But, Helen,” I told her honestly, “T haven’t got it! My salary isn’t large here; and I’ve just bought a home in the country. I haven’t got 4 1»? “All right,” she replied, grim once more. “Then I’m going to Mr. Pierson and tell him the whole story. I’ll go to your wife, too. You can’t make a fool out of me, as some men do to

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. : : ; May, 1935 girls! No, sir! I'll tell everything and then you’ll see where your high-hat stuff lands you. You’ll see!” I did see instantly that part of her resentment toward me now was due to the coolness of my attitude toward her just before we parted company on that memorable Saturday afternoon. I blamed myself for this, too; it should not have been. But, as I have said so often before, I am one person drunk and another person when I am sober, and it just happened that I became sober, really, before the time came for me to leave her. \ ,' 7ITH her final speech, she had risen - her feet and started toward the door. stared after her in a panic. At twat moment, my office door opened and my secretary entered with her brisk “Good morning!” I answered her as calmly as I could and strove to make my voice sound casual as I again addressed the girl .-who. was on her way out. “Oh Miss Helen!” I said awkwardly. “That will be quite all right. [’ll—er —attend to it at once!” She gave me a cool little nod, such as she had done the afternoon she left me at the office party, and passed on out of my private room. Weak in the legs, I sank into my office chair, staring at the desk before me. I was conscious of one thing—that I needed a drink to pull me together—a prop to support me, a crutch to lean on. It woulda help me bear the strain of this accursed situation, as I went out now and endeavored, through the _ intri- cacies of a second mortgage, to raise the thousand dollars that had been de- manded of me. The monster, as you see, was still at my elbow. A little later on, and his hand would be be- neath my arm, directing my course. I stared at the desk beneath me. Miss Helen! The mother of my un- born child! And, I thought despair- ingly, I didn’t even know her last name! Closer and closer, the web is woven around him. What effect will this latest development—the result of his drunken abandon—have on Don? The last instalment of this gripping story of the evils of drink will appear in PHYSICAL CULTURE for June. Do Physical Culturists Use Health Foods? ordinary fruit jars. I use both the quart and the half-gallon sizes. Old lids and rubber rings may be used. I also save for the purpose jars that are slightly cracked and so unsuitable for canning. If cereals, dried fruits, etc., are placed in such jars promptly and kept sealed you will have no losses from insect infestation. Another ad- vantage of the jars is that you can see at a glance how much of a given product you have on hand.” We need add little to the good sense > of the above suggestion. The rubber rings should be used and _ screwed tight. Then if one has considerable material to keep for some time it would be advisable to put the jars in a cool cellar, the dampness of which will be no objection in jars so sealed. In that case the tight lid keeps the damp- ness out. In other cases, as for dried fruit, the sealed jar may serve good purpose in keeping some dampness in, preventing the foods from drying out too much, as they might do in un- sealed containers on a kitchen shelf. We would add nut meats to the list of foods. ” Is whole-wheat flour ever degerm- inated? A reader inquires if a certain brand of whole-wheat flour is degerminated. Obviously it is not if it is whole-wheat flour. It is whole-wheat flour, unless it is something being sold illegally, as the Federal pure food law now insists that whole wheat must be what it says. As a matter of fact, it would not be feasible mechanically to degerminate whole-wheat flour. Even if some of the coarser bran was sifted out, most of the germ, which mills somewhat finer than the bran, would be retained in such a flour. It is therefore prac- tically assured that all flour sold as whole wheat or that looks like whole wheat has its proper proportion of the vitamin-bearing wheat germ. Continued from page 50 What do you think of the twenty- twenty-sixty diet? We are asked if we advise the twenty-twenty-sixty diet. We do not advise against it, for the scheme, as set forth in a popular but hardly sci- entific health food book, would in prac- tise give its user a diet carrying rather more than typical proportions of fruits and vegetables and rather less than typical proportions of meats and bread. Generally for people not engaged in heavy physical labor and with at least moderate amounts of money to spend on food, any scheme that causes them to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables is likely to benefit them. In this particular conception the first twenty refers to twenty per cent of “protein” foods, the second twenty to twenty per cent of “starchy” foods, and the sixty to sixty per cent of so- called “mineral” foods, meaning in practise fresh fruits and vegetables. Scientifically the whole scheme in- volves such loose thinking as to border on the ridiculous. Per cent by what? Weight we presume. What is a pro- tein food? Cheese, no doubt, and milk is probably so rated, though milk has less than a fourth of the protein of oatmeal, on a weight basis. And do you add milk and cheese to get your protein weights for the twenty per cent? Or how about raisins and grapes —the same substance except that a pound of one is equal to several pounds of the other. Or in the starches, obvi- ously a man buying dry rice would get four times as much starch as one who bought potatoes. Where do butter and oil and sugar come into the scheme? The diet might be very good but the mathematics are very bad. We don’t believe anybody really uses such a scheme of diet—they just buy the book and then forget it. 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One is the flamboyant young woman of the repeal era and the other is the old- fashioned flower-like type, revered secretly by every boy and man, which has come back into vogue curiously enough because the movies have put upon her their stamp of approval and have shown us how very lovely can be such ageless qualities of femininity as grace and gentleness and perfectly natural charm. : In an era of noise and speed and general. restlessness,- it becomes so easy to believe that one’s personal- ity must be diffused or expressed in the same feverish tempo, that ordinary qualities of temperament will be over- looked in the battle for individual recognition, that a conservative ap- pearance will fail to register effective- ly upon one’s audience, that most of us have gradually and unconsciously formed the habit of over-emphasizing our behaviorisms, of over-displaying what we believe to be our cleverness or our attractiveness in the hope of win- ning attention away from our rivals. HIS attitude has quite naturally led to many unflattering consequences. Most of us talk and act too noisily. We overdo our make-up. We have de- veloped as a sex an artificiality that is garish and unpleasant. We are not nearly as charming as we could be or as we think we are because we are deliberately encouraging attributes that are the very antithesis of feminine appeal. Nowhere, however, is this trend in feminine behaviorisms so tragic in its results as in the case of the very young girl of the period who is forgetting or has never known how natural it should be for her to resemble a flower rather than a gaudy lithograph. In the majority of instances I believe it to be ignorance rather than intention We Believe: obtainable; thorough ventilation of living rooms. Second: Wholesome diet of vital foods, entire body in work, in_ the gymnasium, on the athletic field, or otherwise. THE PHYSICAL CULTURE CREED That our bodies are our most glorious possessions; that health-wealth is our greatest asset; that every influence which interferes with the attainment of superb, | buoyant health should be recognized as a menace. First: We maintain that weakness is truly a crime; that sickness is the penalty of violated health laws; that every man can be a vigorous, vital specimen of mascu- linity; that every woman can be a splendidly strong, well poised specimen oi femininity, IF THE LAWS OF LIFE ARE RIGIDLY OBSERVED. We believe that the requirements in the building of glorious health are: Pure air and sunlight whenever Fourth: well masticated, eaten only at Fifth: Internal cleanliness, ich is_ the dictates of a normal appe- regular and thorough elimination. tite; frequent fasting of a day Sixth: Abundant sleep, measured in depth or qual- or two if needed. ity as well as duration; this power of deep 4 sleep being dependent upon sufficient exer- Third: Reasonable regular use of the Aah and healthful habits. errs muscular system throughout the Seventh: Right mental attitude; thinking is a power- page 39° that prompts a young girl to overdo her efforts to focus attention upon her- self. In reality she doesn’t know that exaggerated make-up, conspicuous be- havior, commonness of speech, register her as-a- decidedly ordinary type of. person rather than as the vivacious and distinctive individual she im- agines herself to be or fondly hopes to become. 3 " She naively believes that sophisti- cation or, more slangily phrasing it, “knowing your way about,” stamps her as being more desirable than the rank and file of her less noticeable sisters. In other words, experience with world- ly things has given her wisdom and the ability to attract and captivate men. Naturally the more informed she appears, the greater will be her allure. Could anything be more illogical? I recently saw a news photograph of a group of young girls posed at one of the fashionable bars of the moment. Several of the: girls were shaking cocktails. A group of interested spec- tators stood by, obviously amused at the proceedings. The real bartenders smiled indulgently. The girls them- selves were absurdly young creatures with faces whose expressions were years older than their youth war- ranted. .They were trying with such desperate young eagerness to appear grown up and “good fellowish” and in- formed on the etiquette of bar manners and in reality they were nothing more than silly youngsters masquerading in new and what they believed to be slightly naughty parts. What they may not discover for some time to come is the fact that no real man likes to have any young girl whom he admires associated with the business or social routine of. drinking. He may find her quite amusing when she has partially succumbed to the heady effects of liquor, or he may be temporarily car- ried away by her artificially stimulated ardor, but in his heart of hearts, he dislikes the idea of seventeen’s having anything to do with alcohol, because he knows that it cheapens her, that it inevitably detracts from her fresh young bloom and her natural desir- ability. which requires fre- for a tonic, hot friction cleanliness, baths Thorough quent baths—cold baths for cleanliness—though dry with the open hands, brush or towel is also valuable. ful factor in maintaining vital health, and can be constructive or destructive. The mind can build you up or tear you down. which is a matter of

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May, 1935 Lose Fat! Take Off Several Pounds a Week No Medicine! No Starving! Seales Sh oO Results in 24 Hi Read These Results Lost 63 Pounds “I weighed 216 pounds when I started, and -to- day I weigh 153 pounds. I can safely say that I feel 100 per cent better than I did when I was fat, and I am sure that I look much better also.” BOR cK ots head wld Ryder, South Dakota Now 40 Pounds Lighter “Tt is with great pleasure that I am able to assure | you that the method of Weight Control proved absolutely satisfactory. “TI lost forty pounds.”’ ee eee eee wee Loses 22 Pounds in 14 Days “IT reduced from 175 pounds to 153 puns (a reduction of 22 pounds) in two weeks. Before I started I was. flabby, heavy and sick. Stomach trouble bothered me all the time. I feel wonder- ful now.’’ ee ewe een enee Women Have Taken Off 30, 40, 60 Pounds—Without Medicine Just follow one simple, easily understood law of Na- ture, and you can quickly take off unsightly, burden- some, surplus fat. Eugene Christian discovered that certain foods when eaten together take off weight instead of adding to it. Certain combinations cause fat, others consume fat. It is simply a matter of following directions and learning how to combine your food at meals so that > fat is consumed instead of deposited in the body. Elated with his discovery and with the new hope and energy it offers to stout men and women, Eugene Christian incorporated this method in the form of simple, easy-to-follow little lessons under the title of ‘““Weight Control—the Basis of Health.’”’ The en- tire reducing method comes complete in 8 separate sections—conveniently boxed in a cardboard holder. Was $197 Now 49c Plus 11¢ Handling and Shipping Charges SS Se ay MACFADDEN BOOK COMPANY, Inc., Dept. 5, 1926"Broadway, New}York, N. Y. Send me, postpaid, Eugene Christian's complete reducing method in 8 sections. I am enclosing 49c plus lle for handling and shipping charges | I l I 60c in all. | I " | ie ee mes epee can oan see eee gree ems cess anes seen some camp omen ob | 4 j NO SS a ms Sis Fb ON Wie AICS bhai Sas aha OR / | | A few paragraphs back I spoke brief- ly of the movies bringing back into vogue the old-fashioned type of young woman with her clear-eyed, flower- like appeal, her gracious sweetness, her untouched innocence. The fact that the motion picture is sponsoring this type of heroine is evidence in itself that she is alluring from the standpoint of the box office. In other words, she is a type of which the present-day audi- ence approves and the reason that they endorse her upon the screen is because they would like to see more of her in real life. Never yet have we had screen heroines which the American public took to its heart that eventually we didn’t find an inclination on the part of movie fans to emulate the appear- ance and behaviorisms of their screen idols. Right now we may be all set for a vogue of Little Women, of flutter- ing Doras, of soft-voiced, flower-like Juliets, of girls who held their men to the very end of. the story by the deathless sweetness and fragrance and gallantry and tenderness of their per- sonalities. It may seem strange to you at first to realize that the lovely women throughout the ages whom we remem- ber most glamorously, as well as most tenderly, have been women whom you could not possibly associate with the word “hardboiled.” IRST, last and always, they have been exquisitely feminine beings with voices and manners that were mel- odiously and rhythmically in keeping with the grace and charm of their per- sonalities. It has always seemed to me that behavior is to a woman’s beauty what melody is to the words of a song. No matter how appealing may be the theme of a song, if the musical accom- paniment is raucous the whole effect will be lost. And so it is with the present-day young woman and her be- haviorisms. More and more is the average man looking for poise and polish and restfulness in the woman he admires. Noisiness, bad manners, vul- garity, overdisplay offend him; exag- gerated make-up repels him, anything that shouts artificiality or over-eager- ness to attract his interest sends him riding on his way. Today it is smart to be what Shake- spere termed ‘fa most exquisite lady.” Longfellow in one of the _ loveliest tributes that was ever paid to a woman’s charm said of Evangeline, “When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.” The other day Alexander Woollcott described a certain actress as being very dear—but he gave her in that brief phrase as beautiful a tribute as one human being ever paid to another. Maude Adams, he went on to explain, was never considered a great actress in the sense that Ada Rehan and Mrs. Fiske were great artists, but who that ever saw her will ever forget the love- ly Babbie of the “Little Minister,” or the gallant Peter Pan? Who in other words will ever forget the elfin per- sonality with its funny, throaty little voice, and its ineffably touching charm that left such sweet associations in the minds and hearts ofall who came into her presence? It seems to me that to have it said of one that she was very dear, in the sense that one remembers Maude Adams, is to have achieved a reputa- tion for feminine charm that others may justifiably envy! Be REACH NEW HEIGHTS WITH eat Don’t envy the charming woman to whom life’s best things come easily. Find out fow and why. Then, learn to “se charm as she does. Send for the Charm-Test Margery Wilson’s Charm-Test. will cost you nothing but a postage stamp. With it, you can grade yourself and discover how much Charm you have. MARGERY WILSON America’s authority on Charm. Personal wudviser to eminent women in all walks of life. 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42 GQ Why Can't I Care? are afraid of pneumonia you take pre- cautions against the disease. You strive to lead a healthy life, to build up your bodily resistance in every way possible. But “going crazy” is also a disease. It is not a romantic melan- choly; it is not a poet’s sadness. It is an ugly and terrible disease, which you should strive to combat just as definitely as you would strive to com- bat the possibility of pneumonia. A healthy, well-rounded, active life is your best insurance against the mal- adies of the mind or body. No one could read this young girl’s letter without being struck by_ the thoroughly unhealthy life she is lead- ing. Outside of keeping house for her father, she mentions no _ activities. Primarily, she leads an empty, futile life. It is probable that she spends hours daydreaming about that fascin- ating subject, herself. And about her lost love, Dick, who is two thousand miles away. Five years is a long time for love to last with nothing to feed on, an eternity for a girl just out of her teens.: She says she does not allow herself to think about Dick any more but it is clear that she does. Probably he is no longer important to her as a person, but as a symbol. When we are very young we cherish lost romances and sometimes use their memory as a bar- rier between us and other relation- ships. This girl of twenty-one has en- deavored to present us with a_psycho- logical portrait of herself. She has told us about her emotions, about her mind, about her school habits, her work experience, and her love life, all in a short space. She has done ‘this very well, and has even provided a theme song for her story: “I am a stranger.” She writes that she is a stranger to herself, but her account shows that she feels herself a stranger to her family and to all the world, that there is no place for her, etc. This is a very common feeling, which many of us have had at one time or another, but fortunately most of us have to work so hard that we are able to for- get whether we belong here in society or not. “pHar this girl has the mental ability to secure and hold a job is perfectly evident from her own writing. She herself suggests that it was other in- terests — boys — which prevented her doing suitable work in school. The fact that she was slow on one job she had may mean any one of several things. She may actually have a very slow reaction time, so that it takes longer for her to receive a command and to carry out instructions than is true for the average worker. If this is so, she will make a poor driver of a ear, will not shift when the lights change, will not respond to the manv situations arising in _ traffic, should certainly not drive a car where there is traffic. On the other hand, she may be quite capable of prompt and speedy response to a situation, if she is willing to attend to it. A great many workers at machines spend a considerable portion of their time in daydreaming, revery, and some work can be done perfectly adequately under such conditions, other work will be delayed while the worker’s thoughts are wandering elsewhere. There are short, mechanical tests which the and © worker can take in any psychological clinic which will give a fair idea of the worker’s speed of reaction. Physical condition may also account for slowness of response. There are several suggestions contained in this letter which point toward the desir- ability of a physical check-up par- ticularly of glandular balance. These are the emotional apathy, not caring about her sister’s illness and not being concerned over the father’s problems enough to help him solve them, the unexplained tempers which might _ be. due to a deficiency in the secretion of the pituitary, the feeling of being strange, of not hearing what dis said, and what she calls her ‘laziness.” Persons with such symptoms -'cannot be too strongly advised to go toa good physician for a check-up of physical condition. And if there is nothing wrong with their hearts, a definite program of physical exercise is sug- gested, to improve the tonicity of their muscles and develop an appetite. It is quite impossible to feel apathetic and strange to the world while you are swimming, running, riding or walking vigorously. The routine of housework seldom has the same effect as outdoor exercise taken for the fun of it. But for this girl there is also the important question of motivation. Very probably she did not want to work at the job she had, perhaps felt it beneath her. Her father had a posi- tion in a bank, she thought of her family as middle-class, she showed a sensitiveness about her social and eco- nomic status which made her try to pose before Dick as something that she was not. She now sees the absurdity of this as regards her lost sweetheart, but she may not see the same behavior endangering her economic adjustments. Persons who look down on their jobs work under a serious handicap; it is not surprising if they fail. But just as this girl has begun to acquire wis- dom about her social status, perhaps she will learn this also about her job opportunities. Young people commonly feel sensi- tive about their homes, their personal appearances, the schools they attend, ete., often to the surprise and disgust of their families. This is because they feel insecure in their own status in the world; they feel their personalities fluctuating and uncertain, they are tremendously concerned about the im- pression they make upon the world because, in part, they wait for the world to tell them what kind of person they really are. But eventually, the young person acquires knowledge of his own personality and comes to ac- cept it, to have some respect for him- self as he is and to expect and secure respect from other persons on this basis. The search for a knowledge of one’s self is of course a never-ending search, and there are only occasional moments when we clearly and defin- itely feel: this is myself, thus am I. Nevertheless, the years do bring a certain understanding and stability, so that we come to realize we must be ac- cepted for ourselves, rather than for our homes, families, jobs, ete. The last five years have been par- ticularly difficult for youth, with the. absence of jobs for young people and the curtailment of opportunities gen- erally. But now, as hope of better times appears on the horizon, the gen- Physical Culture — Continued from page 21 eration that grew into the twenties during the depression will have a serious problem of adjusting them- selves to a vocational routine, after these years of enforced idleness: more opportunities will be coming their way but also more responsibilities. How- ever, the obligation of meeting definite responsibilities is precisely what this generation needs. It should be clear that this girl badly needs a job. | What will she gain from a job? First, the sense of helping her father, of paying her own way. Next, the much needed reassurance that she can find and hold a job, that she can be- come independent and self-supporting: so the world will not hold terrors for her such as mentioned in her letter. In addition, a job will bring her into simple, unemotional contact with various persons; she will have to learn to get along with young and old, men and women, in the responsible rela- tions of office, shop or factory. Next, she will lack the time for brooding over herself, wondering whether she is going crazy and why doesn’t she care for other people? During the day, she will brush against other lives, learn something of their difficulties, and will have to respond to a multitude of stimuli which her life at home ex- cludes her from. After a day with strangers, she will probably find her appreciation of her father and sister much increased; it will be pleasant to sink back into old relationships in which she is a favored daughter and sister. Also, the job should bring her op- portunities for meeting young men and for establishing interesting contacts with them. The work association itself is helpful to girls, particularly to those girls who tend toward a height- ened sex consciousness. There are implications in this letter that boys are regarded as dangerous creatures, possibly thrilling, but always threaten- ing. This may well be the picture of a girl who meets men only to engage in prolonged and exhausting “petting parties” and never has occasion to as- sociate with them in other moods. VIEWED from this angle only, boys are dangerous creatures and so are girls; but from the angle of human be- ings who are after all much alike, with the same or similar problems, the same fears, hopes, prides and discourage- ments, the opportunities for relation- ships between the sexes become much less stereotyped and much more in- teresting. And from this second angle, marriage is a much more logical de- velopment, just as “Destruction,” as this girl calls it, is a probable develop- ment from associations based so largely on casual sexual stimulation. Finally, the responsibilities of a job and the varied mental and social stim- uli received on a job should help to clear up this miasma of concern about being “unbalanced.” The thought that we might “go crazy” has occurred to most of us and most of the people who think about that never do “go crazy.” Mental diseases that are not of organic origin—that is, due to infections or injury—appear in people whose lives have been unwholesome. The best pro- tection for all of us is the determined endeavor to apply intelligence in our daily lives, to work well, sleep well, make friends, develop our interests in the outside world.

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At fourteen years of age, Edward L. Di Christopher, of Philadelphia, Pa., was very much un- derweight. Two years of physical culture living has brought results and he now gives a good account of himself 74 Steve Kutka (above), of Yonkers, N. Y., began his physical train- ing at seventeen. Now, seven years later, he has a physique of which he may well be proud. At the right is the rugged devel- opment of Oscar Ziegler, of Fort Armstrong, Hawaii; and below him, true physical culturists: Helen Carlson, of North Wales, Pennsylvania, and Harry A. Motz, of Philadelphia, enjoying the sea breezes at Atlantic City, N. J. Here at the left, Barnatt Connors, of Revere, Massachusetts, has his wife “‘up in the air’ about some- thing. But it’s all in fun, for Mr. Connors is a_ weight-lifter and wrestler, and Mrs. Connors is a sprinter, high jumper and a regular all-round athlete

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Physical Culture for May, 1935 GOur Educanoiae Crielty— Conteuaiees Anyway, I got some of my home-work done and won’t have to do it after supper.” “T think Jack ought to own up to it and let the rest of you children go. It isn’t right for you to lose your play time. I don’t think the teachers have any right to keep you in after school, anyway.” My wife’s voice rose animatedly. ‘“You’re in school from nine in the morning till half-past three in the afternoon. The very best hours of sunlight! And then to keep you after school! I think it’s an out- rage!” Henry’s eyes were round with sur- prise. His mother had never sided with him against the teacher before. “Gee! They keep you in for nothing at all,” he said with great self-pity. “No they don’t either! They keep you in because that’s the only way they have to punish you. They’ve got to keep discipline! Jack is the one that’s most to blame.” “Aw, Mother! She didn’t have to eet so mad over just a little sneeze- powder. We’ve got to have some fun in school. An’, anyway, she keeps all the windows closed all the time because she’s afraid of drafts. If they’d been open, most of the powder would have gone out probably.” “You mean the windows are really closed all the time?” That aggressive note was in my wife’s voice again. i ELL-L-L,” Henry hedged a little. “Maybe not all the time. But first she has ’em all closed and then she has ’em.all open. Either we freeze or we sweat.” My wife looked at Henry doubt- fully. It wasn’t always easy to get a clear picture of what took place at school. Henry’s descriptions were singular combinations of voluble ex- aggerations and reticent. minimiza- tions—whatever was best calculated to best explain his actions or pro- cure for him the greatest amount of freedom. “Well, never mind about. that now. Change your clothes and go out and play until I call you.” “Tt’s too late now. By the time I get my clothes changed and get over to the field the fellows will be all gone. Anyway, I’ve got to do my home- work.” “You can do that after supper. I want you out playing.” “T don’t want to do it after supper, Mother!” There was the beginning of a plaintive whine. “I hate to do home-work after supper.” “You mean,” said my wife, “that you want to listen to those ghastly mystery sketches on the radio.” “Well, gee! Can’t a fellow have any fun?” His tone implied that he was little better off than a galley slave, that life was just one long series of prohibi- tions and deprivations. It takes a very hard-hearted parent to ignore such a reproach. So Henry did his home-work then and there and spent the evening listen- ing to the “ghastly” crime-club sketches —while I tried vainly to shut my ears to it and concentrate on my book. After Henry had gone to bed, how- ever, the subject of staying in after school, home-work and poor ventilation in the schoolroom was laid before me— and some rather startling conclusions were arrived at. It appears, for example, that where- page 29 as the NRA has established a maxi- mum number of hours that a grown man or woman may be obliged to work, it still permits our children to be driven to labor in our education factories on the old sweat-shop code. Some of our boys and girls in high school and private preparatory school have a schedule of studies that com- pels them to work as much as fifty hours a week—six hours in the class rooms and four hours at home in preparation of the next day’s lessons. Ten hours a day is not a fair percent- age of work. From the age of six, when our chil- dren enter the primary schools, to the age of eighteen, when they graduate from high school, the best hours of sun- light are denied them. The most health- ful hours of the day are those between nine in the morning and four in the afternoon—and yet those are the hours that our children are robbed of for nine months of the year. It is really appalling when you consider that those years from six to eighteen are the most important growth-years in our chil- dren’s lives. But, instead of having a just and logical proportion of their time allotted to playing and exercising and building strong bodies, they are confined to seats in far-from-perfectly ventilated schoolrooms. Our educators, I think, are overlooking the fact that to get the maximum efficiency from our brains we must have them housed in a body of maximum health. Curiously enough, we are more logi- cal in the raising of our animals than we are with our children. I know a farmer who houses his little chicks ina building provided with windows that let in the ultra-violet rays to prevent rickets. He feeds them a scientific for- mula for proper bone-building. The hens are fed to produce a maximum of eggs and eggs with good, strong shells. But the farmer’s children drink skim- med-milk, use oleomargarine in place of butter, and eat a minimum of eggs and chickens—because the cream, eggs and chickens are sent to market. iE MYSELF, breed Great Dane dogs for a hobby, and as-a breeder I know the extreme care that is given in the se- lection of blood-lines. I know the care that other breeders give to their dogs, the meticulous attention given to diet, rest, play, exercise and sunlight for the pups. And, besides breeding dogs, I train them. They go to school, are taught manners, parlor-tricks, disci- pline—and how to work. But do you think for a minute that I would work my pups for five, six or ten hours a day? Certainly not! Ani- mal trainers discovered long ago that a young animal’s brain won’t respond over long periods of time. A _ six- months-old pup—which is approximate- ly the equivalent in maturity-age to a ten-year-old child—can’t concentrate on a lesson for more than about fifteen minutes. His brain begins to tire. 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How very different is our method of teaching children! We keep them at their lessons for hour after hour and don’t seem to consider it necessary to make the lessons pleasant. Our child trainers don’t seem to have stud- ied the question of how long a child can concentrate without losing interest. Or, if they have studied the matter, they certainly do not apply their findings. 1 et. me show the parallel between animals and children a little further. A dog is a pup until he is approxi- mately a year old, and no trainer will work that pup hard or seriously for extended periods. They wait until he is a year or even two years old. You can confirm this by looking up the age at which police dogs are set to the severe discipline of police training. The same is true of dogs trained to lead the blind—and those dogs are the finest examples of careful, intelligent train- ing that it has been my privilege to see. They are little short of miraculous. Now turn to our children. A human child is still a pup until he is approximately eighteen years old. I mean that he hasn’t attained his ma- ture growth either of body or brain un- til that time. But our human-animal trainers do not have the same consid- eration for the human-pup that the dog trainer does for his dog-pup. On the contrary. We work our children dur- ing their puppyhood harder than we do after they reach maturity. At any rate, I know that I worked infinitely harder at preparatory school than I did after I got into college. I had to. Why are we so stupid with our chil- dren? We know that the adolescent years—the period from puberty to ma- turity—are the years when boys and girls are experiencing the most trying changes of their lives. Their physical growth is the greatest during this pe- riod from thirteen to eighteen. Their mental adjustment is the most difficult. Yet these are the years when we push them hardest in the schools. These are the years when we deprive them of sunlight and fresh air. An animal trainer would throw up his hands in horror if he saw another trainer treat- ing one of his pups so illogically. But we parents not only permit this but are complacently satisfied that our chil- dren are receiving the best mental training that the world has to offer. I sent my own child to public school when he was six. (Our laws not only permit a twenty-hour week for lit- tle children but they compel it.) There was a very charming principal at the school, and I remarked to him that I was quite sure that my boy could learn all that he was learning if the school Physical Culture hours were confined to fifteen-minute . periods from nine to eleven in the morn- ing—and that he could then benefit by the sun and fresh air by outdoor play for the rest of the day. “Of course he could!” the principal told me. “But the parents of our chil- dren would set up a terrible howl if we suggested such a thing. The moth- ers want their children taken off their hands for as long as we will keep them.” I suppose he was right. I can see a certain amount of justice in the atti- tude of the mothers. They want time to clean house, shop—and play bridge. But if the schools are to serve as day- nurseries for our children, why not let them divide their six school hours into a maximum of three hours devoted to brain training and three hours to body training. Let our children have the maximum of sunlight and fresh air during the hours when they can get the maximum of benefit from them. And having established a maximum schedule of school hours, let us abolish absolutely anything in the nature of “home-work.” It can be done. It is being done in some schools. A thirty- hour school week, plus home-work, is nothing short of calculated cruelty to children. I know a little girl of six who has a five-hour school day. During those five hours she studies seven subjects. And having finished her five hours in school she is given home-work to be prepared for the next day’s lessons. That home-work requires from forty- five minutes to an hour and a quarter to finish. Imagine a six-year-old child being required to spend six hours a day on mental training! The child can’t prepare her lessons alone, so her father and mother take turns helping her—doing it in relays, as it were. Two healthy adults pitted against a child of six. And the child generally dissolves into tears before the lessons are over. The parents, being stronger and working her in relays, don’t cry as a rule but merely tear their hair and wonder why their child is so dumb. S a matter of fact the child isn’t dumb. Sheis bright—a sweet, attrac- tive, very engaging little girl. But she happens to be the sensitive, non-aggres- sive type who doesn’t know how to de- fend herself as the puppy does by “soing comic” on her parents. Later on she will probably learn to make funny faces behind their backs, draw caricatures, or perhaps just day-dream as a means of escaping from her ennui. Just at present, however, tears are the only weapon of self-protection that she knows. This child is a victim of brain-fag, which, of course, simply means that her brain-cells have been overloaded with facts and are refusing to accept any more until they can assimilate what they have on hand. A brain cell functions somewhat like a stomach. It has a definite, limited capacity beyond which it cannot be crammed. Give it a period of rest, however, during which it can digest what it has taken in, and once again it can be filled to capacity. To cram it beyond capacity is to produce brain-fag and mental indigestion. It is because of his application of this very elementary psychological rule that the animal trainer shows his su- periority to the human educator. An animal trainer knows the capacity of

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May, 1935 his animal’s brain and bases his sched- ule of training on those recognized lim- itations. The human educator drives both himself and his pupils to the limit of endurance. The majority of public and private school teachers are tired to the point of exhaustion at the end of each school day. Their nerves are on edge. They are ready to “bite a boy’s head off.” And why wouldn’t they be? They have the terrific task of obliging anywhere from twenty to forty boys and girls to “pay attention” to a tiresome lesson. Probably three- quarters of their fatigue is due to the necessity of “maintaining discipline.” We have grown so accustomed to the idea that maintaining discipline is a natural and integral part of school teaching that I suppose the average reader won’t believe me when I say that under proper school methods no discipline is necessary. I am not speak- ing of any theoretical system of teach- ing, either. am speaking of two schools in which I, myself, have taught where we never considered discipline. And there was no connection between the schools, either geographically or financially. One was in Santa Barbara, California, and the other was in Genoa, Italy. HE Santa Barbara school was an ultra-progressive school where the boys were permitted to get up and leave if the lesson wasn’t interesting. In fact, they didn’t have to come to class at all if the teacher couldn’t make the class interesting. That was pretty tough on the teachers—but it certainly was good for the boys. To succeed as teachers we had to be just as clever as an animal trainer. We had to understand our boys and we had to know our subjects, and some very ingenious methods were conceived for injecting interest into the schoolroom. One method was to take the schoolroom outdoors. Geography, for example, was taught on an acre plot of flat ground where the children measured off the parallels and meridians and then proceeded to measure off and map out the outline Q <Modern Feeding of Babies — That at least gives the doctor a chance, not to prescribe for the diseases that the mother imagines the baby has, but to advise the mother: upon the proper care and feeding of the baby, not only to prevent it becoming ill, but to help the child to grow normally and build not only resistance against infant ills, but a foundation of health and vitality for later life. That is why the infant death rate is still going down and our babies are year by year becoming better babies. Diseases which used to be the cause of thousands and thousands of deaths are now seldom heard of. Improved sanitary conditions, a better knowledge of the value of sun baths and air baths, more sensible clothing, more outdoor exercise for the mothers and outdoor play for even young babies, have all contributed to the building of better babies. But the increased knowl- edge of food and nutritional require- ments and the application of that knowledge both as to the substance and as to the form of the baby’s food has been the biggest single factor in im- proved child growth, the greater re- sistance to disease and the decrease in the number of infant deaths. of the world. Having done that, they set to work to dig out the oceans and build up the mountain chains of the various continents. I wonder if you can visualize the pleasure they had and the amount of mathematics which they had to acquire in building everything to scale. And do you suppose any boy there will ever forget where Vesuvius is located after having planted a giant fire-cracker in its crater and exploding it when the teacher was near enough to be nearly frightened out of his wits? Can you imagine how easy it was for them to memorize the highest mountains in the world in order of their height after one boy stood on Mt. Everest and said he was “standing on the highest point in the world”—and the scramble the other boys made to get possession of the next highest, and the next high- est, etc.? Or the triumph of the last boy who had no high mountain to stand on and therefore sought out the Dead Sea and shouted that he was 1292 feet below sea level? A further adventure. in geography and history was accomplished by flood- ing the excavated oceans, building themselves boats and rafts, calling them Viking ships or Roman galleys and setting out on voyages of conquest and discovery. Having dramatized Co- lumbus’ voyage to America, do you believe that any boy will ever forget the date and the place of landing? Can you imagine the historic battles that took place at Waterloo—and the history that was absorbed? Do you begin to see that discipline did not have to be maintained in that school? Can you realize that school was a continuous source of enjoyment to those boys? Definite school hours were practically abandoned. They were learning all day long—and they were playing all day long. It is a natural instinct for children to want to learn. Questions bubble up out of their minds. But they want to learn what they want to learn—and the clever teacher is the one who can keep them wanting to learn the things he wants to teach them. Continued from page 45 The fundamental changes in baby feeding belonging to the strictly mod- ern development of nutritional science are for the most part associated with specific nutritional discoveries, and particularly with the vitamins. The oldest and best known and most fully appreciated applications are the use of cod-liver oil for vitamin D and of orange juice and tomato juice for vita- min C., These products, or some of the more recently developed substitutes that bear the same vitamins, have become widely adopted in feeding infants. The reason for this prompt and general use was the fully demonstrated fact that these vitamins were the specific factors needed to prevent rickets and scurvy, two dreadful diseases which — always taken a wide toll of infant ife. Thus we had the fear of disease as a powerful motive to enforce a revolu-. tionary change of thought and of prac- tise and the adoption of the general belief that infants should be provided with additional specific food substances, not supplied in sufficient quantity or with sufficient certainty by the milk. This statement applies whether the 77 DR. F. BOENHEIM, noted spe- cialist, says: “Irradiated yeast is an abundant source of Vitamin D. Expectant mothers need this° vitamin to help build sturdy bones and strong teeth in the child.” © Little Bones need this protection before birth! ACK of the “Sunshine” Vitamin D in your diet during pregnancy and nurs- ing may give your child rickets. Vitamin D, absent from most foods, enables your system to absorb and utilize bone-building minerals. ‘lo overcome this lack, child special- ists recommend Fleischmann’s XR Yeast—the richest Vitamin D food. Eat a cake before each meal—plain, or in water, milk or fruit j juice. It is also rich in Vita- mins A, B and G, needed for your health and baby’s ‘growth while nursing. At all grocers. Send for Free Booklet Standard Brands Inc., Dept. NF-4 691 Washington St., New York City a Please send me booklet, “Newly Discovered Importance of Vitamins during Pregnancy.” Name Copyright, 1935. Standard Brands Incorporated those in need of new strength E ana vitality. “PWG” (Pure Ms pest Pia Address co. 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PxC.38 milk be from the mother’s breast or in the form of cows’ milk modified to im- itate the mother’s milk. We need not here elaborate the dis- cussion of vitamins D and C. They have both had a vast amount of publi- city with which the readers of this magazine should be familiar. The use of cod-liver oil, orange juice and to- mato juice in infant feeding are still important and have not been super- seded. The original use has rather been elaborated and. the procedure varied. The essential vitamin of cod-liver oil is now to be had from several sources and in several forms. It is the sunshine vitamin. If adequate year-round sun bathing for babies were practical, which it would be only in the most favorable climates, no food source of vitamin D would be needed. As it is we have several sources of this vitamin now available, including cod-liver oil in concentrated tablet form, also halibut liver oil and vios- terol. We also have milk and some other foods to which the vitamin D has been added in various ways. ITAMIN C, for which fresh raw orange juice still is the best known source, is also now available in al- ternate forms. Chief of these is to- mato juice, which even when canned retains a large amount of this vita- min, and hence if given in a little larger amounts may be used as an alternate or a substitute for orange juice. A third substance more recently made available for this purpose is the canned juice of selected well-ripened pineapples without the addition of sugar, which is now specially prepared and recommended for child feeding. Great improvement in the vitamin retention in some of these _ special canned products is being achieved un- der scientific supervision. The im- proved processes are based upon the elimination of oxygen in contact with the products while they are being pre- pared. This is because oxygen, as well as heat, is a factor in the vitamin des- truction. Another improved method being used on some products is a means of agitation of the sealed cans while being processed or sterilized. This causes the contents to heat through to the steril- izing temperature more quickly and thus cuts down the time required for sterilizing which further reduces the loss of vitamins. The advantage of special supple- mental foods in infant feeding first became established from the knowledge of the effect of the two vitamins just discussed. These are definitely disease- preventing vitamins. But the use of cod-liver oil and of orange juice has demonstrated their value not only in prevention of rickets and scurvy but as positive health-building factors. They aid in growth and increase the vitality and general resistance to vari- ous minor ills. This demonstrated fact has led to an open-minded attitude of consider- ing further possible improvement in general growth and health effects by the earlier supplying of other foods which might supply other essential ele- ments. This includes the other impor- tant vitamins, A and B and G and also various nutritional minerals, especially iron, and the associated minute amounts of copper, which are so es- sential to forming the coloring matter of the red blood cells. Milk is a fine source of calcium and Physical Culture of the vitamin A formed in the milk fat. But milk contains only a moder- ate quantity of vitamin B and of vita- min C. Milk is actually on the border- line of deficiency in the specific blood- building iron. If for any reason the nutrition of the milk-bearing mother (whether the human mother or the cow) is imper- fect the highest possible nutrition of the child living on the milk would not be attained. This is notoriously illus- trated in the case of vitamin C. Cows’ milk in the early spring and summer when the cows are on the lush green pasture has enough of this vitamin for the needs of the. young calf or the young child. But the cow does not cre- ate the vitamin, she gets it from her food. Hence cows on dry feed, which is really unnatural to the animal, do not supply a milk that is at all-safe as a source of this vitamin. The same principle probably applies to the hu- man mother’s yield of this vitamin in her milk. It would depend on the amount of it in her diet. Hence in practise this uncertainty is eliminated by supplying the modern baby with its daily serving of orange juice. The modern viewpoint is that there may be other elements of nutrition to which the same principle would apply. Indeed in the case of iron for blood building, it not only applies in case of deficient milk but seems to apply to even the best of milk. This lack of a sufficient abundance of blood-building iron in milk is indeed an excellent argument for the principle of early supplemental feeding in general. As far as the calf is concerned, any one who has observed a young ealf with its mother in a pasture would understand the reason. The calf de- pends primarily upon the cow’s milk for its food supply. Yet at a compar- atively early age, and long before it ceases to nurse, the calf also begins to eat some green grass—a food very rich in iron as well as in other minerals and in vitamins A, B and C. Since the calf is in the sunshine its nutritional scheme is complete. "T BYING to draw too close parallels between a calf and a baby might be unwise, but at least it gives us some hints that milk of any kind may not be so perfect a food that nutritional im- provement cannot be attained through supplementing it with other food. But obviously the food selected must con- tain the elements most needed and also be in a form most calculated to be as- similated by the baby and the least likely to upset its delicate digestive system. From these theoretical con- siderations, as well as from practical benefits in growth and health observed in actual practise, we justify the latest achievement in the progress of the sci- ence of infant nutrition. The idea of the comparatively early feeding of infants with some supple- mental solid food in the form of whole grain, vegetables and fruit substances is not so new, but until recently it has been a rather worrisome and certainly a very troublesome business. The gen- eral principle has been that of making strained or puréed forms of the foods used. This is because the infant can- not be counted upon to chew such food, and because, if swallowed in lumps, di- gestive disturbances may result. More- over the full benefit of the nutritive ele- ments is not received when such lumps of solid food pass through the ali- mentary tract in an undigested form. These well-known facts have led to

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May, 1935 the development of the preparation of special products for infant feeding in canned form. The common attribute of such foods is that they have been re- duced by various mechanical processes to a very finely divided and uniform texture which is variously designated as strained or puréed. As the result of such improved meth- ods of preparing the foods, it has been found that babies not only can tolerate, but are unquestionably benefited by such supplemental feeding of natural iron and vitamin containing foods at surprisingly early ages. Thus we formerly had a serious dis- pute over the matter of the feeding of cereal food to young infants. Obviously the whole grain from its nutritional content was the correct form. But coarse whole grain, containing the large bran flakes, was generally op- posed by doctors because of the dis- turbance in digestion caused by these mechanically coarse particles. Hence in practise the cereal first given infants was usually a “refined” form in which the mineral and vitamin bearing bran and germ had been removed in the mill- ing process. Such “refined” cereal is nutritionally deficient but it is in a mechanical form which was found to be better tolerated by the infant than the ordinary forms of whole-grain cereals used by adults. If physicians recom- mended, as they did and as some still do, such refined cereals, it is because the doctors were more concerned over the immediate upsetting of the infant’s digestive processes than by the long range nutritional benefits. This baffling problem has now been solved by the use of whole-grain cereal especially processed until it is as fine in texture as the refined cereal product from which the mineral and vitamin bearing bran and germ were removed. Pretty much the same principle ap- plied to fruits and vegetables, such as prunes, spinach and even string beans. (CERTAINLY the idea of feeding a toothless baby string beans in the ordinary form as_ served to adults sounds shocking and would be wrong. Yet this product happens to be an ex- cellent source of vitamins and min- erals, and especially the much needed iron for building red blood. And so by this modern process of preparation a food like string beans becomes an ac- ceptable infant food. Other vegetables especially prepared for infant feeding, and now available at any first class grocery store, include beets, asparagus, peas, tomatoes, spin- ach, celery and carrots. Vegetable soups are also prepared in this special manner. Among the fruits so prepared are prunes, apple sauce, and apricots. There are also a number of combi- nations of foods in such form. Some of these include two or more vegetables mixed and blended. Blends or combina- tions of whole-grain cereals are avail- able, including oats and wheat both of which carry the growth-promoting vita- mins B and G. Some of these special “cereal” preparations may also include the germ or heart of the wheat and the high protein but non-acid-forming soy beans. I have attempted in this article to explain the basis of the latest ideas of feeding babies, rather than to give you specifie instructions. Unfortunately the more new ideas we have to deal with the more complex the subject becomes. I can easily understand, for instance, how puzzled a mother might be over which of the many forms of vitamin D 79 Bernarr Macfadden (left) leading a group of hikers from the Physical Culture Hotel _ through the Genesee hills. KEEP YOUNG, HEALTHY AND STRONG The greatest institution in the world teaching good health through ‘Natural Methods. Capable staff, complete equipment, up-to-date hotel service, unex- celled meals, entertainment and sports. Fellowship and friendliness abound. None of the depressing air of pain and misery so prevalent at many health resorts. 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It depends on the particular baby and how he is getting on. The doctor is quite right. in insisting on see- ing and knowing the particular baby before deciding anything. Only prosperous parents can afford Q The Trouble with “Why, yes,” Mrs. Phillips answered. “As I said, he did seem to have rather poor taste in the people he made friends with, but I thought that was just be- cause he had been in the army, and that by the time he had been with me for a while, his background and education would have a chance to take effect again. In fact, that is just what I be- lieved had happened, until the last few years. Now, I don’t know what to think.” “Tell me,” I asked. ‘‘Were you very much in love with your husband at the time when you were married?” “Oh, very much!” was the answer. “T was really quite silly about him. Of course I was very young then, and he had all the glamor of a war hero (he did get a citation and a medal, you know), so I thought that he was prac- tically perfect. We used to be teased a lot by our friends about being so com- pletely wrapped up in each other.” “Was this after you were married, as well as beforehand?” “Oh, yes. For two or three years, anyway. I must admit” (and I thought that Mrs. Phillips’ slightly hard expres- sion softened just a little) “Jim was a pretty thrilling sort of lover, and I suppose that if I hadn’t begun to real- ize that we were getting too old for that sort of nonsense, things might have been different. But after all, a married woman with a family can’t very well be expected to keep on acting like a silly girl. And then, of course, even Jim’s love-making wasn’t always what could be called ‘refined.’ Perhaps the fact that I gradually began to real- ize that, made some of the trouble. But what else could I-do?” “T suppose,” I put in, “that the ideal of ‘refinement,’ as you call it, was some- thing in which yyou' had been trained quite strictly.” ! “T don’t know that there was any- thing particularly ‘strict’ about it,” an-. swered Mrs. Phillips. “It was the ideal my parents always lived by, and since I adored them, I suppose I naturally tried to be as much like them as pos- sible. In fact, Jim was just. about-the first man I had ever heard swear in a woman’s presence. You may think” (she added, parenthetically) “that my bringing up was hopelessly old-fash- ioned, but I liked it, and I’ve always tried to be the sort. of person that. Father and Mother would approve of.” “Were your husband’s parents very different?” Iasked. — “Why, no! They were every bit as Physical Culture to have a private physician constantly advising about every item of the baby’s diet. But there is a wide growth of public clinics, baby stations and well- informed visiting nurses to help out. Moreover the modern mother herself can and often does become quite an up- to-date expert in modern baby feeding. As nutritional science makes further progress many points, some of which are now still disputed, will be cleared up, and as a great knowledge of the subject becomes more widespread. we will continue to reduce to a vanishing point the unexcusable loss of babies’ lives which has been one of the most appalling tragedies of human civ- ilization. Reformers Continued from page 23 nice as mine were, except that perhaps they were a bit ‘strict,’ as you call it. I’m afraid Jim didn’t get on with them very well, particularly after he had grown up. I know that I’ve always had a hard time getting him to go and see them, except on some sort of special occasion. But I can’t see what all this has to do with the way that Jim is act- ing now.” “Well, what does make him act that way?” “TI just can’t imagine, unless it’s true, as my mother used to tell me, that all men are coarse, away down inside. But Jim was so different—for a while, at any rate. Honestly, I sometimes won- der whether he is not trying to hurt and mortify me, though I can’t think why he’d want to do that. Goodness knows, I’ve been as good a wife to him as any- one could have been—and some day he’ll realize it!” “Do you mean you’ve been a ‘good wife’ from your standpoint, or that you have been the kind of wife he wanted?” If my visitor had been a less digni- fied person, I should have said that she bridled. “T have been a good wife from every standpoint,” was her answer. “Surely you’re not meaning to suggest that I should govern myself by a set of stand- ards—even if they really are Jim’s standards—which really nice people think are coarse and vulgar. I’m sure, if Jim hasn’t sense enough to realize what I’ve been trying to do for him, that is hardly my fault.” “l’m afraid,’ I interposed, “that the question of whose ‘fault’ anything is, is — hardly one which you can get a psy- chologist to settle. We are not con- cerned with faults, but only with facts. If your husband did not share your ‘standards,’ that, to me, is a fact, and the question of whose ‘fault’ it is, is relatively unimportant. The fact seems to be that you have tried to get your husband to conform to certain ideas which you have felt sure were the right ones, and that, after having conformed for a while, he has—as the old saying goes—‘kicked over the traces’. Is that what you mean has happened?” “T suppose so. But why did it hap- pen?” “Because it is what will almost al- ways happen when one person attempts to ‘reform’ another, or to force another to conform to his own standards. Be- cause, indeed, it is a law of psychology that something like this must happen, at least in the depths of the mind, when «es Se ee ee

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May, 1935 a person is subjected to compulsion, whether or not the rebellion ever comes to the surface. In fact, I will go so far as to say that it is a very good thing for your husband’s mental health that it did happen, even though things have been made a bit unpleasant for you.” Mrs. Phillips looked both angry and bewildered, “What on earth do you mean ?” “Before we go any farther,” I said, just as quietly as I could, “let me ask you what these rules are that you call your ‘standards.’ ”’ “Why, I don’t know that I ever thought about that. They are just the ways that people ought to live—at any rate, nice, refined people.” “And do you enjoy being a ‘nice, re- fined person’?” I asked. “Of course I do,” Mrs. Phillips an- swered. “Or at least, I can’t imagine that I’d enjoy being anything else. Isn’t that a rather extraordinary ques- tion?” “Why, no, I don’t think so,” said I. “What I’m trying to help you see is that you and I and all the rest of man- kind live in those ways in which we think that we shall be happiest, and we call those ways our ‘standards.’ But suppose you thought you would be hap- piest living in one way, and then some- one tried to force you to live altogether differently. Don’t you think you would be pretty angry and indignant?” 2 SUPPOSE I would; but then, my standards are the right ones— everybody whose opinion is of any value knows that.” (Mrs. Phillips seemed a bit uneasy.) “Admitting that that’s true,” I said, “how much difference would it make to someone whose ideas of what would make him happy were entirely differ- ent? Even though his ideas were wrong, he’d be likely to stick to them as long as they seemed to him to be right, don’t you think so?” “But I’ve argued with Jim hundreds of times,” protested Mrs. Phillips. “I have shown him over and over how mis- taken he was, and he goes on acting just the same way.” “The trouble is that you evidently haven’t shown him at all. If you’d really made him see that he’d be hap- pier living your way than living the way he had been used to, you would not be having any trouble. What you actu- ally have done is to try to make him adopt something he did not see, and of course you have failed, as his parents failed before you. In fact, I have no doubt that the old antagonism for his parents which you spoke of a few mo- ments ago was one of the things that made it hardest for him to see things as you did.” “T don’t understand why,” Mrs. Phil- lips answered. “After all, right is right, and I don’t see what anybody’s feelings or ‘antagonisms’ have to do with that.” “Maybe they ought not to,” I con- ceded, “but the fact is, they do; and that is the fact of real importance in your present situation. No matter how sound may be the arguments that you present to anyone, if you present them in such a way as to give him the feel- ing that you are trying to ‘put him in the wrong,’ it will be literally impos- sible for him to accept them—and this even though he finds no answer to them. Have you never heard the saying that ‘a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still’?” “Ts that true of reasonable, grown- up people?”’ Again Mrs. Phillips looked a bit bewildered. 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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. | NW ee ie ae si! stylialy a aka o wa ore bee eh oia Boe Pe | I Ee ae alg Des alt the cing Wisse, cite Secs bomy dle AWRY | l | Rr ite ates s sie alas cds e's Alcraw ee ex < SEEGER cheats | | } ity (Canadian and Foreign Orders—cash in advance) | “Perhaps none of us are quite as ‘yrown-up’ or as ‘reasonable’ as we like to believe,” I suggested. “After all, the worst that could be said of many of your husband’s friends is that they act a good deal like a lot of bad boys—isn’t that true?” “Why, yes, I suppose so. But isn’t it time that they were made to grow up?” “Well,” said I, “it’s very well to say that, but who’s going to ‘make’ them? Trying to compel your husband to act differently hasn’t seemed to work out very satisfactorily, has it? For my part, I’m pretty certain that compulsion never does work, except superficially and for a short time. We talk about people having ‘iron wills,’ but actually our wills are a good deal more like rub- ber. They yield just about as long as pressure is exerted on them, and the © moment that the pressure is relaxed, they jump back where they were to start with.” “But why was my husband so differ- ent the first few years? I don’t think in those days I put as much ‘pressure’ on him as I do now.” : [™ GLAD that you asked that ques- tion,” I said. “From what you have told me, I judge that the time your hus- band acted differently was when, as you said, you ‘thought that he was practically perfect.’ In other words, even though your way of living did not seem so pleasant to him, the pleasure he got from your love and approval was enough to keep him from reverting to his own way. But once you decided that you were ‘too old for that sort of nonsense,’ his incentive to live your way was lost, and he naturally went back to the way of living he had always enjoyed. And what is more, since he must more or less have resented what would seem to him to be the cooling off of your love, he would have a further reason for wanting to do the things you disapproved of, even though he may have been entirely unconscious of that reason. He would have wished, quite inevitably, to ‘get even’ with you, or, as you put it, to ‘hurt and mortify you’; for I am sure that you hurt and morti- fied him very deeply indeed.” “Why, I surely never meant to do that,” Mrs. Phillips said, somewhat more gently. “I supposed of course he felt the same way I did. After all, old married people can’t go on forever act- ing like a couple of young lovers.” “T won’t stop to argue that, just at the moment,” I replied. ‘What is more important is that you assumed your husband felt the way you thought he ought to feel, and never stopped to find out whether or not he actually felt that way. Most human misunderstandings grow out of just that sort of mistake. Nearly all of us, unless we have learned better, are inclined to treat the mem- bers of our family as a doctor treats the guinea-pigs in his laboratory—to think only of the results we want to get from our experiments with them, and ignore their feelings altogether.” “T certainly never did that,” answered Mrs. Phillips. “I’ve always been just as considerate as possible of Jim’s feel- ings—at least, except when I thought that they were feelings which he ought to be ashamed of having.” “But that’s just the whole point,” I assured her. “Other people have the feelings they have, and whether they ‘ought’ to have those feelings is a ques- tion there is no use in our trying to de- termine for them. If we disregard the feelings they have, we are treating Physical Culture - them as guinea-pigs, no matter how sure we feel that they ought not to have those feelings. And that raises a still more important question. Did you ever stop to wonder why you should have fallen in love with your husband in the first place, when there were so many things about him that you dis- approved of ?” “Why, yes, I have wondered about that,” said Mrs. Phillips, “but I always supposed it was because I saw some- thing in him underneath the surface coarseness, and thought I could bring that out when we were married.” I decided, because it seemed neces- sary, to say something which I knew might make the lady very angry indeed. “Did it ever occur to you,’ I asked, quietly, “that the quality you call your husband’s ‘coarseness’ may have been one of the main things that attracted you to him?” I was glad to see that Mrs. Phillips only looked completely puzzled. “How on earth could that be, when I’ve always hated any kind of coarse- ness, and still hate it—in fact, hate it more than ever?” “Well,” I said, “this may be hard for you to understand, but try to see it if you possibly can. After all, I think that what you really mean by ‘coarse- ness’ is what I would rather call the ‘primitive,’ or even the ‘natural’ side of human nature. Certainly this side has to be toned down and brought under control if we are to live in civilized so- ciety, but you cannot really kill it. All you can do—and this is what practically any person will do who has such a bringing-up as you had—will be to be- come so much ashamed of the primitive side of your own nature that you make yourself unconscious of it, or (as we psychologists would say) ‘repress’ it. It remains inside you, seeking always for an outlet, but not often finding one except quite indirectly.” “T remember your saying something like that in your lecture,” admitted Mrs. Phillips, “and I will say that it sounded reasonable, but I can’t see what it has to do with my falling in love with Jim.” sé ET us put it this way,” I suggested. “Let us say that this young man, who was at the same time a war hero and the most unconventional person you had ever known, became in your mind a sort of symbol of the part of your own self that you had buried. Since he was another person and not yourself, you felt freer to be attracted by him than you would have been to admit any sym- pathy with the side of your own na- . ture that he represented and appealed to; but nevertheless, the disapproval which you had been trained to feel toward anything ‘coarse’ made you con- sider it your duty to ‘reform’ your hus- band once you had him where you felt responsible for his behavior. By doing this, you were, in your.own mind, prov- ing to yourself more thoroughly than ever that you had no love for ‘coarse- ness’ and yet, without knowing it, were making your husband less attractive to you. For after all, I believe you would not have decided that you were ‘too old for nonsense’ if you had been as much in love with your husband as you were when you were married.” “But doesn’t that make me out an awful dumb-bell?” (Mrs. Phillips actu- ally was surprised into an thoroughly undignified expression.) “No more so than most would-be ‘re- formers,’”’ I said, frankly. ‘After all, what could be more unreasonable than

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May, 1935 to fall in love with someone because he is a certain kind of person, and then start trying to make him into some- thing different from the person that you fell in love with? It is foolish to say that we fall in love with people ‘in spite of’ the qualities by which we know them. If you, Mrs. Phillips, fell in love with a man whom you thought ‘coarse,’ there is no escaping the fact that some part of you, at any rate, was in love with coarseness, even though you later tried to kill that part of yourself by playing ‘reformer’ to your husband.” “Do you think that is true of all wo- men who marry men ‘to reform them’ ?” “Of most of them, anyhow,” I an- swered. “After all, a woman (or a man, for that matter) would not fall in love with someone whom she ‘disap- proved of,’ unless something inside her- self failed to share that disapproval. Of course, I don’t mean we must agree with all the tastes and ideas of our wives or husbands, but I doubt if we should feel compelled to change them, especially by force, unless there were something in ourselves which we felt we were repudiating at the same time.” “How far do you think that applies to reformers in general?” asked Mrs. Phillips. ? “TERY widely indeed,” was my an- swer. “Indeed, except in so far as people are actually injuring us by their actions, I doubt whether we _ should want to change them at all—at any rate, by force—unless at the same time there was something in us which we felt that we were ‘putting down’ by doing so. The trouble with most re- formers is that—even though they may sincerely feel their actions are unsel- fish and disinterested—they are really thinking of themselves, and not of the person whom they are reforming. They are acting upon the assumption that the way they see things is the way he ought to see them, forgetting the fact that if he doesn’t see things that way, nothing that they do can really change him. Human beings are not guinea-pigs, and when we attempt to act as if they were, all we can accom- plish is to make trouble all around.” “Well,” said Mrs. Phillips, “you surely have given me a lot to think about. But do you really think I ought to go on allowing Jim to act as he does with- out making any protest?” “All I can say to that,” I replied, “is that your ‘protesting’ doesn’t seem to have done much good so far, and I doubt if it will ever do any more good than it has done. If I were you, I should certainly try different tactics, and I be- lieve you will see what I mean after you have had a chance to give some more thought to what I have told you.” “T really believe I will,” said Mrs. Phillips. “And now that I think about it, I did love Jim a whole lot more be- fore I began to spoil things by trying to make him different. I have changed him, but I’ve changed him all the wrong way. Do you think it’s too late to go back and begin over again?” “T am sure it isn’t,” said I, “and what’s more, I think you’re going to have the best time that you ever had in your life. For when we take other people as we find them, instead of at- tempting to remake them into copies of ourselves, they are really quite as much more interesting than the copies into which we try to make them as a live man is more interesting than a tailor’s dummy.” 83 HOW YOU, 100, CAN ENJOY THE THRILL OF PLAYING D? 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May, 1935 Tie Paste ated 2 0vees as ease te so completely. I must try to impress him as a sensible woman, and a kind woman, who at last had found wisdom. And her own mind. So I went on slowly: “No, Philip, ’m not angry about last night. It’s something very much deeper than that. How old are you, Philip?” “Forty-one,” he said bluntly. It was no sensitive subject to him. “Well,” I said, “I am also nearing my forty-first birthday. That really means, Philip, that I am about ten years older than you. Ten years older, in impor- tant ways. You should have children. You are still at the age when you should take over real living, the found- ing of a family. But what woman of forty can look at such a prospect with- out flinching? Nor would it be fair for me to marry you, and refuse the com- plete role of wife.” “Well,” he began, then stopped. After a moment, I took up the conversation. _“We might say that biology has de- feated us,’ I said. “A woman is no younger than her germ cells, no matter how young she may look.” I laughed out loud—‘‘no younger than her germ cells” was such an absurd ex- pression. And I was so absurd, I the layman, trying to speak to a man of science in his own scientific terms. He smiled, when I laughed out loud. He seemed to join me in the sorry con- sciousness that I wasn’t being very ro- mantic about saying what I felt. “TT WOULDN’T be fair to you, Philip,” I said. Then he asked me a straight question. “Were you not in love with me?” he inquired. ‘“Didn’t you care for me? Don’t you, now?” And I answered him what, I now be- lieve, was the precise truth. For, be- fore my words came, there flashed across my vision the image of another man, big and male and rash, with Irish rashness. Another man, away across the years. “T think,” I said slowly, “I think, Philip, I was in love with love.” He got up, half an hour later. In the hall he looked down at me. He seemed to be half sorry I had asked to be re- leased. He seemed a little dazed and loose from his bearings. He lingered in the hall. And-then I found my ulti- mate courage. “Philip,” I said, “little Carolyn thinks a great deal of you. That—that was the real reason she came to see me this afternoon.” “What?” he asked, seemingly a bit shocked. “Yes,” I tried to be playful, “yes, she came to ask her auntie to help her with her—her—well, her widow’s skill.” He seemed too moved for words. I went on, trying to be brave, trying to be kind and wise, as well. “Why don’t you speak to Carolyn, Philip dear?” I said. “I think she will be glad to hear whatever you may find it in your heart to say to her.” He looked down at me solemnly. He seemed much affected. The next moment he took both my hands in his and pressed them. “Bless your heart,” he said. “You’re a good woman.” And I knew, by “good” used here, he meant the goodness of his own mother, the fine, kind, ripe wisdom of old New England women who mixed unselfishness with their living, and an understanding love as well. It was not many days later that Carolyn came into my sun room again, where I sat once more by the window, with everything so changed. She came slowly and quietly, not as she gener- ally came. She sat beside me, and took one of my hands. “I’m so happy, Aunt Elisabeth,” she said. “Dr. Philip asked me to marry him last night. He said—he said—you told him to. Oh, Aunt Elisabeth, you didn’t mean what you said—” “Child, child,’ I answered, ‘don’t speak of it. Not to me. Not to the doctor.” I stopped and kissed her bronze hair. “You’re my girl,” I said, ‘“Auntie’s girl. And Auntie is happy, for you.” “But—” she began. “I was mad,” I said, “and all wrong. But I found out in time. Now, not another word, Carolyn. Yet there’s one thing I want to ask you. Why, sometimes, do you run away from your role of modern maiden and forget all your perkiness and impudence? And show your innermost heart?” She smiled. “People your age, Auntie,” she said, “are all wrong about people of mine. We’re really not hard-boiled nor perky, when — when—our heart aches, or dances.”’ “That’s probably poetical,” I said, “but I’m glad you’re not hard-boiled in your more serious moments.” I passed this off as a bit of a joke. But I think she taught me then something real about these amazing young people of today. And so everything was ar- ranged with some regard for the fitness of things. And it didn’t seem straining or unnatural when I offered to give the child her trousseau, and she accepted. At the wedding reception of Dr. Philip and my niece, I played my role of “‘fa- vorite” aunt. And nobody knew, not the doctor, not my brother, nor his wife, that the bride’s aunt had stepped aside. Had once expected to occupy that place by the bridegroom’s side. But had come, by ways of pain, to the place where today she welcomed the wedding guests, and sped the bridal couple, enacting her part of kindly aunt. And nobody there, not even the doctor, suspected the pain that went and came’ with me, as I played the gracious host- ess. Nor did they know the pain I car- ried upstairs, to be with me in the si- lent hours, when at last I had said good-by to the lingering, final guests. WAS alone. And I did take account of my mental and emotional being. I did, with ugly frankness, face the facts. Soon I faced the ugliest fact of all— something of which I was finally per- suaded. I would not, I could not, find a husband who would suit me. No man who would seem acceptable to me would want me now, a woman nearly forty- one. 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But you need send no money now. Just pay postman $1.00 plus a few cents postage when the book is delivered. If book is unsatisfactory, simply return it to us and we will refund your $1.00. SREESSCRSSSSRERERSERRSESERSEC RHEE RRR eee eee Macfadden Book Company, Inc. Dept. 5, 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Send me your book, The Miracle of Milk. I will pay the postman $1.00 plus postage when the book is delivered to me. ; If cash accompanies your order we prepay postage (Canadian and Foreign Orders—cash in advance) IRE RE RRERER RRR RRR RRR RE R ERR ER RE RE RE SRSSEE EE EA But I knew, as I faced the facts, I ought to be married. For too many years I had lived as a wife who was no wife. And my days of desire, perhaps, were growing short. Perhaps, also, because they were growing short, nature was leaping up in me, demanding its own. “The last flare-up of passion”—I had read the phrase somewhere. Well, for that reason, among many others, I re- gretted the truth I now believed, that I must live the last of my days as celi- bate as I had lived most of them so far. For I- had looked about me. In my arrogance, or my ignorance, I might have told myself that I could buy my- self a husband. I could. Rich widows of my own circle had not found it diffi- cult to marry again. 3 Well, I wanted no man who wanted me, most of all, for my money. In fact, most painful associations clustered about the idea of marrying for money. I had done that myself. And now I re- gretted it, with nausea. Then how should I employ my days, and where was a solid interest? Travel? Yes, but just yet I did not feel equal to travel. Then I decided, suddenly, with hot enthusiasm, one morning. I was living in a world—the world of 1932— where nothing was sure or stable. For- tunes had been lost, people, once com- fortable, were now on public relief lists, the world was in the throes. Very well, then, why shouldn’t I help? b Bip pen whom should I help? I con- sidered. There were children. Well, my heart warmed to them. I always loved children. But still, a great deal was being done for them. Then one morning I took up a paper to read how the depression had been hardest of all on “the white-collar women of middle age.” And, reading, felt my heart leap up. Of course—here was my work. The very morning after I reached this decision, I dressed early and or- dered my car right after breakfast. I drove to a town twelve miles from my home where a woman, a friend of mine, very able and understanding, was com- missioner of public welfare. “Well,” I said, “my dear, I’ve de- cided to do some welfare work myself. But tell me, first, how are you today?” “Bad,” she said. “Very, very low.” “Why,” I said, “I thought busy wo- men like you, who help people all day long, were also happy all day long.” My friend laughed, a wry little laugh. “You asked what was the matter,” she said. “My birthday is the matter. I’m forty-five years old today. And haunted by the ghosts of what might have been.” I looked at her, a little amazed. “Why,” I began. “Well,” she interrupted, “it is a nor- mal state, I suppose. A natural state. If I didn’t feel like this on my forty- fifth birthday, I would be a heartless woman, an insensate woman. As it is, I look at the children our department is helping. I think of all the children I personally cared for, in the years when I was a social worker in the ranks. I remember little scenes where I was present, or bitter altercation, and, re- membering all these rich experiences of twenty-five years, I know my regrets. All my life 1 have ministered to women who did some vital living themselves. All my life I have been an old maid, looking on. I’m tired of the role. And I know, now, I will never be anything else. And so, I have my regrets, this jolly morning of my birthday.” She pushed a paper weight over a pile of letters, opened on her desk. Then laughed out loud, a laugh half Physical Culture 7 merry, half poignant and tragic. And finished: “But I’ve only told you, Elisabeth dear, because you have led such a full life yourself, you will understand. And you know, besides, you’ve caught me in my worst moment. And my most talk- ative.” Again she laughed. While I wanted to shake my head. She thought I had led a “full life.” A full life, indeed! “It’s about women of our age I’ve come to see you,’ I said. “I’ve been reading something on the white-collar women. How they lose their jobs, and spend their savings, and settle into neuroses—bad states, at any rate, what- ever you call them. like to turn my Lincoln house into a sort of—well, mightn’t we call it, per- haps, a way station? I’d like to be put in touch with as many middle-aged wo- men—say women turned forty—as the house will. accommodate. And they could stay there till they get work, or are restored to health or are ready to go on.” The commissioner was pleased. “We can use you,” she said. “I'll get in touch, first of all, with a woman physi- cian who has been doing a great deal of work with the forty-year-old woman out of a job and out of courage.” “Fine,” I said, “send them along as soon as they are ready.” So they came. And they commanded my interest and my sympathy. The first woman to arrive was the widow of a southern general, who sat opposite me in the morning, across the table of our sunny breakfast room in Lincoln, and chatted busily as Nora served us with mushroom omelet and hot corn pone. She was a pale, prematurely wrinkled woman, with a loose sagging face. But something about her made me feel that her face hadn’t sagged until the world had, as she believed, ended for her a few months previously. Gradually she told me her story. She was the widow of a southern general, as I have said already. She had been only twenty when he married her. He had been fifty-five. ““THAT was much too old for me,” she explained, in her frivolous Carolina accent, touched with tragedy. “It was too old,” I agreed, out of the depths of my heart. She went on with her story. For twenty-odd years she had been her hus- band’s faithful wife. But she had hated him. When he came into her bedroom . at night, and insisted upon remaining despite her prayers, she had wished she could kill him. Sometimes she felt she would have killed him, if she could have been sure she would not be found out. She had two children, a son of twenty, a daughter of sixteen. When her hus- band had died, two years previously, she had moved to New York and taken a business course. She had found fairly well paid work as a secretary, and this had brought her dignity and peace. But despite everything, “I used to fall to thinking how my life had gone. How I had never known real satisfying love, during all the days of my marriage. I used to fall to brood about how differ- ent life would have been with a suitable husband. “Well, the devil must have been lying in wait for me. For—for—when I was forty-five, I fell in love. Terribly, pain- fully in love. And—and—shamefully.” She blushed, this woman of forty-six, while the tears gathered in her faded blue eyes. Her slack face sagged into its disappointed lines again. After min- So I thought I'd

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May, 1935 utes, she continued: “I can hardly bear to tell you. Yet I would like to get it out of my mind. He was the elevator operator in our apartment house. And —he was only twenty-two. Two years older than my son. I—I suppose you can’t imagine a decent woman falling in love with an elevator operator, can you?” “Yes,” I said, “I can.” She seemed cheered. She went on: “Well, I used to ask him into my apart- ment, evenings, when he was off duty, and my daughter had gone to her girls’ club. I cooked us nice little suppers. It is such comfort, to a domestic wo- man, to cook things for a man, don’t you think? But soon this elevator boy grew familiar with me. He wanted— well, you know. And when I tried to put him off, and still keep him inter- ested, he said I was like the New York hussies, leading a man on and drawing back when—” She rested her head upon her hand while the tears brightened her eyes. We adjourned to the sun parlor, where the November sun, generous for that time of year, streamed upon us, as she finished: . a D I—one night I nearly gave my- self to him. I—nearly—sinned with him. ‘Come sit down here,’ he had said, stretching out his arms tome. I sat beside him on the sofa. My head was on his shoulder. I felt a glow and warmth drawing me to this young man. And I would have a few years when I could even cherish the illusion of youth. I wanted him, this—this—servant. I wanted him with a terrible wanting. I was miserable. I was torn... . Then my daughter suddenly stood before us. She saw me there, seated beside the ele- vator operator. She gave us one look. Hard with youth; cruel with youth. She left the room. And wrote to her father’s family. They sent for her to spend Christmas with them. “From Charleston, she wrote me she would not be returning. My boy was then at West Point. He knew. She wrote him. So I had lost my children. Because of my carnal desires, I had shamed them and lost them. And I knew, I was sure that if I remained in that house, something terrible would happen. I moved. That week. But after I had been gone a few days, I could not endure the separation. I de- cided to go back, to look him up, invite him to supper, lead him on. I wanted him terribly. After all, it was only a natural thing I wanted, I whose time for such things was drawing near its close. I did go back. But he had left. He had another job. Nobody knew where. I left a message for him. I made an excuse that I wanted to pay him for some service he had done for e. ““You needn’t worry,’ the superin- tendent told me, ‘if he thinks you owe him, he’ll be round to collect. For he knows where you have gone. I heard him asking the moving man.’ “T lost my position with the worry of all this, for he never came to see me, and I never could locate him. Many days I walked the street where I thought he might pass, trying to find him. I knew I had let my last chance of living like a normal woman go by when I ran away from him. Then I had a nervous breakdown. I was visit- ing Massachusetts friends, when it hap- pened. And so—here I am.” She smiled a wry smile. I felt she was trying to convince herself and me that this ability to speak out her troubles frankly, meant that she had really put them behind her. As for me, I was not convinced. For she never seemed able to get far away from the thoughts of it. “You’d never believe I would try to find him, after I ran away, would you?” she asked me. “You’d probably scorn me for that?” “No,” I said, “I would not scorn you. I know you had many natural reasons for feeling as you did.” This seemed to comfort her. Poor woman, perhaps I had helped her most of all by letting her tell her story to me. But shortly another woman arrived. The coupé I had sent to the station crunched in the gravel of tke path be- fore our vine-hung door, and a white- haired, dignified, elderly woman, about fifty, stepped out. She had been the high-salaried buyer of a department store, and had lost her position when her outfit had gone into bankruptcy. She had saved up enough to live com- fortably, on the interest, if she moved back to the old Maine town of her birth, but, like most middle-aged wo- men who have led fairly successful and active lives, she refused to believe that her interesting working days were over. She felt she could still find as good a position as her old one, perhaps even a better. So she traveled to New York, to the Middle West, to one de- partment store after another, citing her excellent record, asking for a place, but unsuccessfully. Then she had had an emotional depression, during which she had, by a mischance, drifted into the care of a charlatan who professed to practice psychoanalysis. That wretched dector told her to go out and “find a man’—whether she married him or not. And to “go at self-expression with impunity.” Those were his actual words, as she quoted | them to me. The gods of mischief seemed to have been working busily, for a middle-aged man, only a few years older than herself, about then started “paying her attention.” He would have seemed suitable to anybody who judged by what he looked like and what he said. He was an Austrian, a former army captain, now living on a modest competence sensibly invested in American bonds of the safest sort. HAT story, the details of it, were many. But in the end the unfortunate woman married her Austrian lover. Shortly after the marriage, she had agreed to invest her money in the same safe bonds in which the captain’s had been put. So her husband went out one morning with her money, to attend to things. He never returned. She found out, when she had called in the police, that she had contracted a bigamous marriage with an international confi- dence man. “Proving,” said my friend, the psychiatrist, when we discussed this patient, “that the emotional life and the mental may function on entirely different levels. And that a woman may be distinguished for her brains, but infantile as to her judgment, when her feelings are involved.” This woman explained when she told me of her un- fortunate loss of funds and self respect: “I blame it altogether upon that sex crazy doctor, who told me I must get married if I were to keep sane. Married, at my age!” So this woman, also, became what they call in the psychology books, another of my “emotional outlets.” And when I considered what she had done, and when I thought of the temptation of the general’s widow, I trembled. 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I have never known a woman whose life has been filled with the people and the events which should make up a normal life to suffer mor- bidly at forty because of the changes that await her in the next ten years.” A little after this, I met another pa- tient at my Lincoln farm who was not with us long before it became apparent that she must have a nurse in constant attendance. She had come to the at- tention of solicitous friends, when she had just failed in a suicide attempt. Soon I learned that she was another of the victims of the same unscrupulous psychoanalyst who had advised the wo- man buyer to “go to self-expression with impunity.” T20 glibly, I imagine, he had ex- plained to hor that her difficulty was “sex starvation.” That garish phrase is so often and so vulgarly quoted these days. As if sex expression, important as it is in marriage, is the only need of a man for a woman, or a woman for a man, or the most important link that should’ bind them together. At any rate, this pinched, frightened spinster, on the advice of her doctor, had con- tracted an illicit alliance with a man brutal and violent. ‘Take a policeman, a conductor, a butcher,” the wretch had advised her. “Take him off somewhere, so people will not talk. And make up for an experience you should have had twenty years ago.” Madly, foolishly, wickedly, the unfor- tunate woman had done just this. But after the first week, she had fled from the establishment she had set up. As she fled, a conscience prodding her cruelly, fled with her, till I did not need to ask a psychiatrist to know for myself that the sears of what this woman had done would remain with her forever. And so the weeks and the months passed by, until six had gone since I had turned my Lincoln farmhouse into a haven for middle-aged women. At first I had entered upon the adventure eagerly, hoping in it to forget my own distress. But as the weeks grew, I wondered. These women seemed so hopeless. If I could have turned back the years, and set their lives in the right direction at twenty, then I might really have helped them. But that very thing was what I wished I could do with my own life. And couldn’t. These years were all lived. All lived. When I became very weary, I often drove to Boston to dine with the woman doctor, the psychiatrist with whom I had be- come very friendly, since I had called her in to help about my guests. Through the long evenings we talked of the changing status of women, even of their changing biology. She told me much which interested me deeply. She believed, for one thing, that the reproductive period of most women has increased in the last decade. Women today, she feels, mature a bit later, and function biologically as women, often right up to fifty. Yesterday “the Physical Culture change” came at forty, sometimes be- fore. Today women of forty are some- times marrying and having a first baby. The well-conditioned woman today is often young at fifty, my doctor said, where, a generation ago, women were often spent and old at thirty-five. But more women today seem to miss wife- hood and motherhood than in our mothers’ day. Then, to be an old maid, to be a childless woman, carried its stigma. Today where is that stigma, provided the spinster or the wife has a place for herself in the arts, the profes- sions, or business? In the last gener- ation, the doctor continued, there was an accepted code of morals. A fixed code. You married and knew a man. Or you were a spinster and practised celibacy. If you broke a moral law, you were generally ostracized. This was hard on a few women, but it made for emotional stability for the many. It, at any rate, settled a question. But today, all about us, glib prophets are urging the unmarried woman to “have her fling.” And there is Dora Russell. In her book, “The Right to Be Happy,” she comes out boldly advising all unmar- ried young men and older women to get together, to “be happy,” to break old moral laws held very sacred by our fathers and mothers. “The trouble with such advice,” said my doctor, the psychiatrist, “‘is that it doesn’t work. The neurotic middle- aged woman, the neurotic youth, who try such a relationship, are generally merely adding to their neuroses. And ending up in worse condition than that in which they started. For such advice interprets happiness entirely as sex ex- pression, love as entirely of the flesh. Whereas our new science of the emo- tions, as well as our common garden horse sense, should teach us that the soul and the mind are also concerned in any really satisfying sex relation. And that the urge of the flesh, important as it is, is still the least important of these three.” She stopped, for a moment, then looked at me with a smile. “Well,” she concluded, “this is quite a little sermon I have been preaching to you.” I DIDN’T go home to Lincoln that night. In fact, I was a little weary with my company out there. Dully I remembered the eagerness with which I had embarked upon the venture. Now I knew I was more than a little de- pressed with it. Yet so terrifically sorry for those poor women, caught in the trap of their middle-age. So I went to bed with relief, in my spacious chamber of the Beacon Street house, and resigned myself to a night of quiet —but the telephone wakened me at six in the morning. The country constable, one William Simpkins, was calling me. “What’s the matter?” I asked in hot alarm. “Hell’s the matter, Marm, begging your pardon,” he answered. ‘The old girl with the southern accent” (oh yes, the general’s widow) “she eloped with your cub gardener last nignt. And came a cropper in a ditch, when the honeymoon car tipped over. Then, Marm, that other cuckoo, who was al- ways moseying round, saying she’d re- gret something or t’other till hell froze over—forgive me tlre expression, Marm” (oh yes, that was the psychoanalyst’s patient) “well, Marm, she strung her- self up to a rafter in the barn this morning at milking time.” “What happened? Is she dead?” I asked desperately. “Not me gcieke tintype,” Constable Bill

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May, 1935 replied. ““Your farmer was right in the barn at the time. When he ran to her, she threw her arms about his neck and nearly strangled him,’ while she told him she was all through with the men. All through—” I could hear his gruff chuckle across the wires. “Well, if you ask me, Marm, I’d say the men haven’t bothered her none, now or previously.” This was dreadful. I started home at once. Then I telephoned my friend, the welfare woman. “These poor things are too many for me,” I told her. “I still want to help them, but I do not believe a private home is quite the place. Can’t we find out what convalescent home, what sani- tarium is best for each of them? And I will pay the bills. But if they stay with me longer, I’m afraid of what might happen.” In a few days, my unhappy guests had departed. By Thanksgiving, could walk up and down through my gracious country house, without being button-holed to listen to some woe, hatched twenty years before. “Now,” I thought, “now I must try to find peace. To adjust myself to this middle age, which is fast approaching. To find something happy and satisfying to fill up my life.” N THE next months, strange gods; I tried new “isms. For atimeI did good works with a Mrs, Ronald Everts, a woman over sixty, a strange mixture of benevolence and mania. Boston sometimes produces women like this. Mrs. Everts, left ex- tremely wealthy by her indulgent hus- band, spent all her income upon. good works. And she explained to me: “T can go into my bank and, by sign- ing my name, draw out money I have not earned. But there is no justice in it.” At first, I thought she was a very good woman, at peace with her own spirit. I wanted to be like her. But when at a meeting in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, I watched her as she raised her scrawny arms to heaven, and talked mad words in a cracked voice, I wondered. Yet however mistaken some of her theories might be, I was sure of her sincerity. Yet almost the next day after the evening when she had _ wept in public for Sacco and Vanzetti, I read in my paper about how Mrs. Ronald Everts, the philanthropist, had caused the arrest of her parlor maid, charging her with the theft of a few pieces of silk underwear. She announced that she would prosecute the girl in court. Then my loyalty wavered. That evening I was due to sit ona platform when an Irish patriot ad- dressed my liberal club on a new phase of the Irish question. It was one of Mrs. Everts’ more important meetings, and all the Boston papers sent re- porters. It happened, also, that the press seats were just behind the row where I sat with the more important liberals. After the meeting, a tall young man, about twenty-five, asked me to pose for a newspaper picture. “Of all the birds on the platform,” he said, “you are the only good-looking woman.” He seemed to sense at once that I had enough tolerance not to be offended by his “of all the birds.” So he asked me next to spell the names of our com- I pursued ” mittee for him. I had grown rather to admire newspaper people, since my work with the ‘“eauses.” And I was interested to read in their papers how they “sized up” our meetings and speakers. “What do you think of the man of the hour?” I asked this reporter, who said he was Lawrence Donovan. “Oh, just another professional Irish- man,” he said. “A good cop was spoiled when he took up patriotism for a living.” “Isn’t that,” I asked, “heresy in Bos- ton?” “It’s the truth,” he said shortly. After that, I often met young Dono- van at the various meetings I attended, and generally we chatted a moment or two before he left. And so it hap- pened, naturally enough, that when a leader of an East Indian cult visited Boston, and I gave a reception at my house for him, I invited young Law- rence Donovan, the newspaper reporter, That was an interesting evening. The good Boston ladies fluttered about the prophet, who smiled and smoothed the skirts of his robe and expounded his beliefs. And he interested me mildly— well, he was something else to help fill up my mind. Noise, lights, person- alities—color, and after a crowded day, enough physical weariness so that I was beginning to sleep soundly once again. So, a little wearily, I went up- stairs to bed, after the last guest had departed. But I had hardly reached my. room when the bell rang, two flights down. I felt rather sure all of the servants were in bed. I decided to go down myself. I opened the door. Law- rence Donovan stood there, before me. “May I come in for a moment?” he asked. | “Why, of course,” I said, wondering. “Let us go into the little sitting-room.” “No,” he said, “it’s late and I—I won’t stay long. But I had to come back for a moment.” He _ hesitated. Then plunged, boldly. “Look here,” he said, “it’s none of my business, but I hate to see a nice lady getting herself in for a lot of trouble. That prophet you had here tonight—bah!—he’s a fakir. He’s only prophesying for the money he’ll get out of you. He’s only using you, and a lot of rich women like you. Can’t you see? My God, I meet dozens of fellows like him every year, in my business. So,” he concluded, “let a hard-boiled reporter warn you——” “D® you,” I asked him, “come to tell me this as my guest, or as a newspaper reporter?” Then suddenly, violently, in a rush of words he answered: “My dear lady, I came back because I’m—because ’m—my God, can’t you see it? Because I’m head over heels in love with you. 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Diabetes, although of several differ- ent forms, results usually from a fail- ure of the pancreas gland to secrete the insulin that regulates the normal sugar content of the blood. In other words, our food content is turned into sugar, preparatory to its absorption by the tissue cells, and then an undue quantity of it collects in the blood stream where it remains unconsumed. Eventually it is passed off by the kid- neys, causing toxic end products that produce irritation and the familiar symptoms of diabetes, such as the de- sire for frequent urination and the passing of large quantities of water. This, if unchecked, frequently puts the sufferer in an early grave. Now, how- ever, with modern treatment, it is us- ually checked. Insulin has proved a boon to its control. M* doctor had explained all this to me, and much more, besides. Dia- betes was due to an altered metabolism, although just how and why no man could say. Something had disturbed the equilibrium of the carbohydrate economy, and the sugar-consuming function, in some manner, became paralyzed. Treatment, primarily, con- sisted of cutting down on the intake of carbohydrates, and so relieving the blood and the kidneys of their excessive burden of sugar. This, and insulin, which provided what the defective pancreas gland did not. But I—I was shortly to learn with increased dismay—could not take in- sulin. It produced, as I -have said, violent nausea. I had a pronounced idiosyncrasy to it. I think it was when I learned this that my heart sank to a new low level. It seemed to me then that nothing remained but an early grave, and if it hadn’t been for my wife’s unfailing encouragement, I be- lieve I’d have despaired completely. She cheered me, however, when every- thing looked darkest—cheered me and baked gluten bread for me until she must have got so that she hated the sight and the freshly-baked smell of Ibe It was strange how many symptoms —usual, common symptoms of dia- betes—I developed, or I noticed for the first time that I had developed, as soon as I learned I had it. The doc- tor’s questioning brought many of them to light. He asked me, for in- stance, if I suffered from thirst. Why, yes, I told him. Now that he mentioned it, I recalled that, during the past year, I had been thirsty nearly all of the time, and at nights, I’d drink two Thermos bottles full of water. I hadn’t noticed it before, because I’d always been a big water drinker. But now I could see how it had increased. My mouth was parched, too. Continued from page 27 Had I lost weight and strength? The loss of weight had not been ap- parent, so far as I could see, but I’d noticed that it had been a real effort for me to crank the car that morning when I received my injury. I didn’t sleep so well, either, as I had formerly, and my desire to void urine—a pro- nounced unmistakable symptom of di- abetes—had become much more fre- quent, both day and night, during the past year. I was aware that my skin had grown dry and harsh, and that I suffered almost constantly from cold hands and feet. “Well, we’ll give you insulin,” my doctor remarked cheerfully, after he had decided that my particular type of diabetes was pancreatic. But a week later, after four succes- sive experiments, I decided I could not take insulin. That my stomach rejected it. I told my doctor so. He nodded just as cheerfully as before, but somehow I had the suspicion he was covering up some secret misgivings of his own. Three years afterward, when I went to him for an examination and showed an improvement so marked that it staggered him, he told me frankly how chagrined he had felt over my insulin failure. My chances then, he had felt, were none too good. With the failure of the insulin, nothing remained for me to do but diet. My sole hope lay in diet. When I came down with my diabetes, I weighed two hundred pounds, and I am not especially tall, as men go. My height is five feet, eight. So two hun- dred pounds for five, eight, meant a certain amount of obesity. It wasn’t strange, either, when I consider my past eating habits, that I did weigh that much, for I have always been a heavy eater. I sometimes think, too, it had something to do with my getting - diabetes, for diabetes and obesity so of- ten go hand in hand. For one thing, I was inordinately fond of gland foods, of calves brains and, sweetbreads, and liver and kidneys. My breakfasts were always heavy ones, and my lunches and dinners included enough food, I have no doubt, to feed two men my size. "THE result was an obese body—ac- cumulation of tissue that were just sugar turned into fat—and, I strongly suspect, my diabetes. I was never a drinker of alcoholic beverages. My thirst did not seem to lead me in that direction. I liked only to eat, and the richer the food, like broiled lobster and underdone duck, the better it pleased me. I had been a great eater, too, of desserts, especially those that were smothered in whipped cream; and when there was candy in the house I ate more of it than anyone else— much, I might add, to my daughters’ annoyance. But now all of that lay back of me. My future meals were to be Spartan- like in their simplicity. Never again was I to know what eating to absolute repletion meant. Always I was to be just a little bit hungry, a hankering desire for food that was with me day and night, a craving for rich viands and sweets and pastries. It still is, for that matter, and I’ve an idea it will be as long as I live, but I’ve got so now it doesn’t bother me any more.

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If the book is unsatisfactory, simply return it to us within 5 days and we will refund your $2.00. The small $2.00 price of this book also includes a full one year’s subscription for Physical Culture Magazine. If you are already a sub- scriber for Physical Cul- ture Magazine your sub- scription will be extended one year from its present date of expiration. . Price of this Book Includes a One Year's Subscription for Physical Culture Magazine Macfadden Book Co., Inc., Dept. 5 1926 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Send me a copy of ‘“‘Constipation’’. I will pay the postman $2.00 plus postage upon delivery of the book. I understand that this price includes a one year’s subscription for Physical Culture Magazine. ( ) Check here if you are already a sub- scriber for Physical Culture Magazine, and your subscription will be extended one year from its present expiration date. (We prepay postage on all orders accompanied by cash.) = oe ee ee ee ee ee ee es ss a ce 2) os < on) cr » 4 @ oo The $2.00 price for this book which includes , a subscription for Physical Culture Magazine \ applies to United States only. 1 all Physical Culture I guess,” I replied, as despondently as before. “Progress nothing!” Kate snapped. “It’s a mental condition as much as anything. Every time you’re examined you suffer from melancholia, and that’s not doing you a bit of good. You stay away from that doctor for a month or six weeks and let’s see what happens. going to stay there, examination or no examination, and what you don’t know, won’t make your headache. Now, you watch your diet carefully, just as Grandpa did, and if you want to know what I really think—try taking a little more exercise. I read the other day that the muscles absorb some of the sugar we eat. Bill, try exercising more. It might help you.” They were words of wisdom, all right, as I know now, for exercise, I am convinced, is of absolutely vital importance to the diabetes patient. In health, the muscles obtain their heat and energy requirements from the car- bohydrates, and it is therefore natural to assume that muscular activity greatly increases the consumption of this fuel. Some of the grape sugar, indeed, that would otherwise find its way into the urine is in this manner taken up by the muscles. I learned this only after I had commenced on daily systematic exercise, taking long walks, climbing nearby hills, sawing wood and keeping active in all ways that would not exhaust me too much. YES, I was extremely careful about that. Moderate fatigue, I learned, was good, but exhaustion was bad. It, too, might cause diabetic coma. So I com- menced exercising gradually, each day increasing what I did a trifle and in this manner avoiding undue fatigue. This exercise, I found, helped my dys- pepsia and constipation immensely. It caused a general improvement in the tone of my health; and, although I was still troubled by a parched mouth and an incessant thirst, it wasn’t as bad as it had been before. For this, you may believe, I was thankful. And this was the state of affairs that existed when we came into the real cold weather again, the weather we had'known when I had got my bruised leg just a year before, and with this cold weather came what it seemed was an increased demand for carbohydrates. They supplied heat and energy and, with my greater ac- tivity, I required more. I spoke to my doctor about it on one of my now less frequent visits to him. He nodded thoughtfully. “T’ll tell you,” he said finally, “the idea is this: you must try to work up as great a tolerance to carbohydrates as you can. The amount of sugar in the urine usually tells the story. When there is less sugar, you may increase the carbohydrate intake, and ‘your road to recovery lies in the direc- tion of taking as nearly the normal amount of carbohydrates as you can. But, on the. other hand, you mustn’t overdo it. There’s real danger in that. Just so much and no more! That’s the story.” Just so much and no more! Well, that started me thinking. My carbo- hydrate increase must be along lines of least resistance, too, it seemed to me. If I needed the increase, then I must choose things of least detriment. I would begin by adding an extra pint of milk to my daily diet—raw milk that, fortunately, I was able to get from a neighbor who had a cow— If the sugar’s there, it’s —

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May, 1935 and I would add, also, a slice of whole- wheat bread, bread that my wife would bake from the entire wheat. Later, I would gradually increase this amount. The bread would supply nu- triment that I needed, and milk, of course, was a whole, a perfect, food. Then, if there were no ill effects, I should know I was on the right track. This addition to my diet supplied in- creased heat and energy and I felt better for it immediately. Active as I now was in the cold weather, I needed the additional calories for heat production. Nor did I appear to suffer any ill effects from it. In fact, as the first of the year was passed, I found my urinary trouble decreasing, and my eyesight, which had _ been slightly impaired, regaining its for- mer tone. But, although I added this milk and whole-wheat bread to my diet and gradually increased my daily consumption of it to still another pint and two additional slices of bread, as well as a baked apple with cream on it, I continued to watch my diet in every other way. Potatoes I avoided entirely, as well as such vegetables as turnips, carrots, parsnips, and _ the white stalks of cabbage, lettuce and celery. I avoided them because I’d learned they yielded sugar. FELT so well around the first of the year that I let a month go by without visiting my doctor. When he saw me, he looked me over critically. ‘“‘Where have you been keeping your- self?” were his first words to me. I smiled for what I think was the first time in eight months. “T’ve been experimenting with this chassis of mine,” I replied. “I’ve been making a business of taking daily ex- ercise in an effort to have my muscles consume some of that sugar.” It was the doctor’s turn to smile. “That’s not a bad idea,” he retorted, “if only you don’t overdo it. Let’s see what a urinalysis says.” I was in a state of nervous dread and uncertainty during the time he made the test over the alcoho] flame, but I was relieved and gratified when he announced the result. The test showed that I had less sugar than at any time previously. I felt like ex- claiming “Hurray!” but my _ doctor cautioned me against undue elation. “Tt’s a good sign,” he said, “but, unless you’re careful, it will increase again. That’s true, too, when there’s no sugar present at all. It doesn’t mean that there’s no more diabetes. It simply means that, for the time being, it isn’t showing itself. Just keep on as you’re doing now, and come and see me again in another month.” I went home to my wife, happier that day than I’d felt in a long while and convinced now that I was going to lick this thing that I’d felt all along was going to lick me. I was sparring with it now, I decided, and something seemed to tell me, to give me a new sense of confidence, that I would ulti- mately be the victor. Diabetes couldn’t finish me, insulin or no _ insulin. Through exercise and a_ carefully gaged diet lay my way back to health and strength and usefulness. A new feeling of power surged up in me. I had more than a fighting chance, I told myself. I had the. winner’s corner. As people do, who have some special ailment, I met others, during this time, who had diabetes, and we compared notes. Semething one man told me started me wondering. He said that during an acute attack of influenza, his sugar content had become normal. It had something to do with the fever, his doctor had told him. This sug- gested to me than an artificially pro- duced fever, like a hot bath, might be beneficial. At any rate, it was worth trying. So I added a hot bath a week to my schedule—this in addition to my other bathing. The hot bath was just a therapeutic measure, designed solely for raising the temperature of my body. Whether it helped or not, I don’t exactly know, but it seemed to me I felt better as a result of it. It carried off toxins that ordinarily the kidneys would have been taxed to re- lieve, and I couldn’t help but feel that it was of benefit. Meanwhile, I continued steadily to improve, but don’t think that I didn’t occasionally have setbacks. I overdid the carbohydrate thing in my zeal to get well fast, and a sudden increase in the amount of urine I was excreting sent me back to my doctor on the double quick for another test. It proved to be just as I had feared. My dietary indiscretion had caused a marked increase in sugar. My heart sank. All the good work of months then had been for nothing. I was right back where I started from. But my doctor, seeing my despon- dency, cheered me up. What had hap- pened to me happened to all diabetics, he assured me. I must just be a little more careful. I must learn to live with my disease, to humor it, and this would take time, for Rome wasn’t built in a day. I nodded, grateful for his en- couragement, which is what diabetics most need, I think. They need to be cheered out of their doldrums that come along every so often, say what you will. That experience, as well as one or two more similar to it, was in a way a life-saver for me. It or they taught me the wisdom of Socrates’ ancient dictum, ‘‘Man, know thyself.” Slowly, gradually, in spite of all the mistakes I was making, I was getting to know myself, was becoming acquainted with the chemistry of my own body, learn- ing what was good for it and what was bad, and what it could “take,” in the everyday vernacular, and what it just couldn’t take, that’s all. I thought I knew this when I added the whole-wheat bread and extra milk to my diet. But I found I still had things to learn. LF Figen I first became ill I weighed, as. I’ve said, two hundred pounds, and later on an almost carbohydrate- free diet, I dropped to one hundred and fifty-five. Later, with a gradual in- crease. of certain starches and sugars in my food, I gained back ten pounds, a weight which I have maintained ever since. 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The physical exertion of walking, climbing hills, sawing and chopping wood, tending to the furnace and do- ing other odd chores about the farm in the winter-time, was all tending to consume a certain element that needed to be consumed. Muscular activity was helping to burn up some of the ex- cess of sugar in my blood, and with this came a return to a normal metab- olism. INETEEN months after that first diagnosis by my doctor, I learned that a test for the first time showed no sugar. I was wonderfully cheered by the report. In spite of an increase in carbohydrates that gave me practically a normal diet so far as sugar and starch were concerned, I was manag- ing to take care of it all, just as one without diabetes is able to do. It meant that I had succeeded in learn- ing to live with my condition, which was what my doctor had once told me I must do. Yet, the need for vigilant. dietetic care was constant. I could only continue to live with my trouble, I was aware, if I was unceasingly careful about my food and my exer- cise. They had made me well again, but I must not neglect them, if I was to keep well during all the rest of life that remained to me. That was four years ago. Ever since then, mindful of the few lessons in indiscretion I’d had, I have con- @ ‘Those Sixteen Elements !—— ones being the elements oxygen and nitrogen. The amount of gases in a water solution is increased by pressure. When a man under high air pressure in tunneling work comes out too quick- ly, the excess nitrogen that has been dissolved in his blood comes out of solution, forming bubbles in the blood and giving rise to the painful “disease” known as the bends. But the oxygen, while it enters the lungs as an element, is not merely ab- sorbed by the blood in solution but also makes a chemical combination with the hemoglobin, which changes its color, so that arterial blood is a brighter red than venous blood. Of the ninety chemical elements, many are merely scientific curiosities only known to chemists, though often new and rare elements like radium and tungsten are put to use after the scien- tists discover them. Living creatures, including man and the food he eats from both the plant and the animal sources, are all com- posed of “about sixteen” chemical ele- ments. Some of them are common and some of them are rare. Rarity in the dead world around us and rarity in the living or physiological world may not correspond. Thus iron, one of the com- mon and abundant elements, is a rare element physiologically. Iodine is still rarer physiologically and also very rare on land—practically all the known iodine in the world is dissolved in the sea. The commonest element in the com- position of the earth and of the sea and of the air is also the most abun- dant element in man and in his food— this is oxygen. The next most abundant element in Physical Culture tinued in the same way, eating with care, exercising diligently each day, and checking periodically with my doc- tor on urinalysis, in order to learn if I am still holding my own, so far as the sugar is concerned. Happily I can report that thus far I have continued in excellent health. Whenever, as the doctor prophesied, I did have occa- sional recurrences of my trouble, slight showings of sugar in the urinalysis, a quick decrease in carbohydrates never failed to restore it to normal once more. Then, when the balance had been attained, I resumed, as is my custom, that certain amount of car- bohydrates without which good health cannot be maintained. I’m aware that there are several different kinds of diabetes, which only a physician can determine, and that in some cases, perhaps, the measures which I have employed to correct my iA condition, might not help someone else. But the chief thing for any dia- betic to learn, I believe, is the “toler- ance” of his own chemistry, which is just the amount of carbohydrates he can consume—no more, no less. There is no rule of thumb procedure that can apply to all cases of the disease. Each case must be treated according to its own individual merits, and these can only be ascertained by experiment —careful, judicious experiment. If this, however, is done, this dis- ease which was known to the ancients and is a destruction caused by defec- tive nutrition, cannot fail to respond favorably, so far as sugar is con- cerned, even as mine has done. Continued from page 49 man and his food is carbon, but it is relatively more rare in the crust of the world. Then comes hydrogen, forming one- ninth of the weight of water and a somewhat similar proportion of sugars, starches and fats. Next is nitrogen, most of the world’s supply of which is in the air. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitro- gen in various compounds make up about 96 per cent of the weight of the living body. To such substances the term “organic” is applied, also the term “non-mineral.” The rest of the elements in the human body are classed as minerals. WO of these, calcium and phos- phorus, in a hard, non-soluble com- pound or salt, form most of the min- eral matter of the bones. The propor- tion by weight is about two parts of calcium to one of phosphorus, and this mineral substance of the bones forms about 3 per cent of the weight of the body, making about 99 per cent of the body accounted for with only six chem- ical elements. Of the remaining 1 per cent we can account for almost all of it with five more mineral elements’ which, ex- pressed as decimals of 1 per cent of the body weight, are as follows: fg EE GAA # SR 35 per cent pe sg AAS PRR led Sete! P .25 per cent CMTE, So icate ce CP eK Se are .09 per cent UE ae Sc a's wok Re eres .06 per cent rye RO AR Aaa .05 per cent We have now named not. sixteen but eleven chemical elements and have ac- counted for 99.80 per cent of the weight of the body, on the figures given. But

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May, 1935 as a matter of fact the figures are only approximations and the actual amount of body substance remaining unaccounted for in further elements is very much less. Iron is the most abun- dant by far of the elements beyond the eleven named, and the percentage of iron in the body is only .004 per cent, or in a full-grown man about one- tenth of an ounce. Now before ccnsidering these ele- ments that are so rare as to be in “microscopic” quantities, and many of them in dispute, let us clear up these organic and inorganic, mineral and non- mineral, and acid and alkaline questions. The simplest explanation of the term mineral is that it is something that won’t evaporate and won’t burn, but is left in the ashes when we are cre- mated. When an animal is burned, about four-fifths of the ash left comes from the bones. When wood is burned, the most abundant substance is potash, coming from the potassium, which is why people can use wood ashes for lye in making hominy or soap. The four elements that we all organic makes up the part that burns and disappears. However, some of the oxygen may remain, and with other oxygen from the air that feeds the fire, may be added and combined with the minerals as oxides, which are abun- dant in all ash. The term mineral has various pop- ular meanings. Commercially it would be applied to something dug out of the earth that had a particular value, but all the common soil and sand stone and clay is just as truly mineral. So is water in a chemical sense, but coal and mineral oil—petroleum—are com- bustible carbon compounds resembling organic matter, and probably derived from plant remains. Coal definitely is; the origin of petroleum is disputed. This doesn’t clear up very readily, for we class oxygen and hydrogen as non-minerals, and yet in the form of water and of the mineral oxides these elements belong in the inorganic class. Diamonds and graphite, which are both pure carbon, would be called minerals, and so would nitrates con- taining nitrogen. Yet for practical purposes in considering foods and body composition these four elements are non-mineral. and the remaining ele- ments mineral. HERE are seven of these mineral elements in the body in sufficient quantities to be of importance in the matter of whether they are acid or alkaline minerals. Three of them are acid—phosphorus, sulphur and chlor- ine. The remaining four are alkaline— calcium, potassium, sodium and mag- nesium. The proportion and balance of the amounts of these three acid min- eral elements as against these four alkaline mineral elements is the basis for all this discussion of acid-forming versus alkaline foods and diet. That subject is further confused, however, by the fact that there are also organic acids made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The term mineral is commonly used as being about synonymous with the term inorganic. Organic originally meant a substance derived from living creatures, plant or animal, and sup- posed not to be capable of coming into existence except through the action of such living organisms. That served originally to divide chemistry into two branches. Inorganic chemistry was the study of substances that were pre- sumed to have vome into existence and which would have been on the earth if life had never existed here. Organic chemistry was the science of the sub- stances found in or created by plants and animals, and which were supposed not to be capable of coming into ex- istence any other way. But there were inconsistencies in this division to start with. Thus water, obviously here before life existed, had to be classed as inorganic, yet it is the most abundant substance in all living forms and basically necessary for life. An animal’s bones are also rather nec- essary, yet the distinctive substance of them is calcium phosphate, obviously a mineral. So the idea of the funda- mental division was kept and excep- tions made of the water, the bones and He other “minerals” found left in the ash. Making rules and then making ex- ceptions is all right as long as you haven’t too many exceptions, but after the science of chemistry developed the chemists themselves got to making all sorts of organic compounds without the action of living creatures. This ran the list of exceptions up into the thousands, thus breaking down the old basic idea that typical substances made by living creatures could not come into existence in the dead world of mere chemistry. UT while the scientists pretty much forgot the distinction, the unscien- tific public retained and emphasized it and the idea still prevails today that there is some basic distinction in things that are organic and those that are in- organic. That idea makes a lot of trouble for people trying to understand nutrition. The situation reminds the writer of the phrases “vegetable compound” or “eontains no minerals,” as applied to certain popular patent medicines. There was a time, perhaps a hundred years ago, when most of the vicious drugs given by doctors were minerals such as various salts of mercury, potassium iodide, lead, copper or what not, many of them rank poisons. Because these mineral chemicals were known to be dangerous, and because old grandmas with attics full of herbs doctored free and perhaps killed fewer people, the patent medicine folks made a point of the herbaceous, organic, vegetable or non-mineral nature of their medicines. Used today the idea has become ridic- ulous, because the vast majority of the vicious drugs and many deadly poisons are from the vegetable and organic world. To complicate matters still more, we have on top of this old prejudice in favor of vegetable and organic things the newly developed idea of attaching great importance to food minerals. So the human mind puts the two ideas together and creates the conception of the “organic minerals” as being the precious stuff we are all after to give us pep and power and chase away the disease devils. I am very sorry, but, practically speaking, ‘‘there ain’t no such animal” as an “organic mineral.” It is essen- tially a self-contradictory term, like an egg-laying mammal. However, there is one of those in Australia! The half truth of the self-contra- dicting idea lies in the fact that min- eral elements may enter into what would otherwise be typically organic compounds. The best illustration is in the case of iron. Everyone accepts the fact that iron filings are not desirable as food—but, for that matter, neither 95 you SAVE MONEY Yor. POSTAL LIFES QQ POLICY Provides for You in Your Old Age Or Pays Your Family $2500 in Cash — or $45.27 a Month for 5 Years You Pay Premiums for 20 Years or Less Postal sells Direct By Mailand has noagents —this savingis passed on to you. 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Dept. 25, Box 727, Santa Barbara. Calif is diamond dust. The iron in the body is chiefly found in the hemoglobin, of which it is one of the elements of a typically organic compound. It happens to be in a very small proportion, but it is there and it is iron—organic iron, not because of the iron being different but because it has entered into chem- ical combination with typically living substance. The case is no different from that of water, which as water is an inert, dead mineral substance. But water combined in a certain way with carbon makes sugar. That is what the name carbo-hydrate means, carbon and water. One could cite dozens of other ex- amples. For instance, the mineral sul- phur exists almost wholly in the body in the chemical compounds of protein. It is therefore organic sulphur. But when the meat we eat is oxidized and burned up, the sulphur is freed and returns to its simpler mineral com- binations and is eliminated through the kidneys in the form of. sulphates or simple inorganic sulphur salts. From such examples, and there are many more, one might infer, and most people do, that all food minerals should be consumed in the form of these or- ganic compounds. That sounds logical, but it isn’t true. The human body can and does utilize straight, plain mineral substances, water for instance. And common salt. CONFUSION enters here again be- cause of salt being an added sub- stance in common eating habits and also because there is some salt in all natural foods. Therefore people assume that there are two kinds of salt, inorganic and organic. But that is not so. The salt in the juice of a vegetable is just salt in solution in water, as is the salt in the human blood. It is all the same kind of salt and, as it is in solution and not combined to make a different sub- stance, as in the case of the iron in hemoglobin, it at no time becomes or- ganic. Hence it makes no difference whether we get our salt from that in the juice of vegetables er the juice of unsalted steak or out of the salt shaker. It is all the same salt and it is all inorganic. Calcium to make the bones can be derived from any kind of calcium salts, and likewise the phosphorus. The same is probably true of our. magnesium and potassium. But in some of these cases there may be simple mineral salts quite available to the body and at the same time the body may require some of the same chemical element in a more com- plex organic form. That would he illustrated by the major need of the body for simple inorganic phosphorus for bone formation and of complex organic phosphorus for certain sub- stances containing phosphorus that are important in the formation of the brain and nerves. In some cases room is left here for much doubting and disputing. Thus iodine is administered to prevent goiter in the inorganic form of potassium iodide added as a one five-thousandth part of the commercial iodized salt. The legally enforced use of such iodized salt in the goiter districts in Switzer- land eliminated 90 per cent of the goi- ter in school children. Yet there are those who contend that iodine given should be of organic form, that is taken in the form of sea foods, vegetable or animal. Moreover, there seems: good evidence that such products. do give better results, even though the mineral form of the product seems to do very Physical Culture well. But in such instances the ques- tion is still open to dispute as to whether the difference comes from the form of the iodine or whether it comes from some other associated and bene- ficial food elements or substances that are also in the natural product. The latter conclusion is quite plau- sible and no doubt explains much of the observed results that seem to show that the “organic” products are better. They are often better no doubt because in the forms in which they are given they carry along additional beneficial substances besides the particular ele- ment under consideration. This explanation is the more likely when we consider that there are prob- ably still elements, or essential com- pounds, needed in nutrition but which are not yet recognized or discovered. That seems highly probable when we consider that several such have been discovered in the last few years. One of these discoveries was that minute amounts of copper are essen- tial along with the somewhat larger, but still very small amounts of iron, for the purpose of hemoglobin forma- tion. If such copper is associated with the natural or organic forms of iron and not with the purely chemical forms of iron which the doctors tried to give us, it would seem a plausible explana- tion of the fact that one was more effective than the other. As that par- ticular problem stands today, I believe it is apparent that the copper does add materially to the availability of simple forms of chemical iron, but that there is still a distinction in favor of the nat- ural food sources of the iron and its associated elements or factors essential to blood building. It is really more because of the com- plexity of nutrition and the many ele- ments required, rather than because of any hard and fast division between or- ganic and inorganic sources of min- erals, that makes the sources of these elements in natural foods more trust- worthy and reliable than separated supplies from the chemical industry. In other words, it may be within the theoretical power of the chemist to supply many of these elements in forms available to the body, but as knowledge of the whole subject, even in the best informed minds, is as yet incomplete, the idea of turning from natural food sources to special chemical supplies for food elements is rather unwise business. HAT does not mean that there are not instances where improvement in nutrition cannot be secured from add- ing extra minerals. There are such in- stances, due to the fact that many of the much used foods in the civilized diet are quite deficient in typically needed mineral elements. The known elements most likely to be deficient are in the order named, calcium, iron, iodine and phosphorus. In the case of calcium an ample sup- ply of milk furnishes it in unquestion- able good form. But in a situation as we have in the southeastern fourth of the United States, where the milk supply is decidedly inadequate, prob- ably tens of thousands of lives and millions. of teeth could be saved if the government would step in and require liberal additions of powdered chalk and bone ash to be added to all flours and meals sold in such regions. However, if you are opposed, on con- viction, to such “inorganic minerals,” you will have small need to worry about anything like that happening. The pol-

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May, 1935 icy of this country is very much against such “regimentation” in nutrition, as in other matters. We are great individu- alists and believe that every man should have the right to feed himself well or feed himself badly according to the dic- tates of his own intelligence and the size of his own pocketbook. For those who have a _ moderate amount of both—intelligence and pock- etbook—the people of the United States are now probably as well fed as any people on earth. This is due primarily to the fact that for its population this country produces more food and a greater variety of food than any other country, giving those who are in posi- tion to make use of it a greater oppor- tunity to select good foods. Moreover, due to an increase of nu- tritional knowledge and its industrial application, the general quality of American foods and the American diet is on the upgrade and has been for per- haps fifteen or twenty years. In the preceding generation the quality of our diet was on the down grade, due to the substitution of more highly processed or “refined” foods for more primitive or “natural” foods. "PE SERE are still plenty of instances where this unfortunate phase of the industrial degeneration of the nutri- tional quality of foods is still in evi- dence. But constructive forces seek- ing to improve foods are now in the ascendancy, tending to correct past blunders in food processing. It does not follow from the preceding statements that the food manufactur- ers of the past generation were all scoundrels and the present ones all saints. They were the same kind of men and the profit motive was operative in both instances. What makes the dif- ference is a matter of knowledge on the part of both the food makers and the food consumers. If poor foods were made and sold it was, and in such in- stances still is, because that was what the people demanded. Neither the con- sumers nor the manufacturers knew any better. That things have improved and are continuing to improve is because now more people of both groups know bet- ter. The consumers demand better foods, which makes it more profitable to make and sell them. Moreover, many food makers and dealers have found out that it pays to improve the nutri- tional quality of foods and then teach the consumers to demand them. In some cases these changes for the better are in the form of increased sales of the best natural products just as they are grown. In other cases the improvement consists of changing the processes of manufacture, sometimes going back to forms at one time aban- doned, with a view of retaining more of the original elements and qualities in the natural product. But in still other cases, and we shall see more of them in the future, original products are being improved, under scientific guidance, by adding needed elements to them. With all these changes going on, it is only natural that some misguided or malicious individuals should take ad- vantage of the general interest in food ideas and put out ill-advised, worthless or occasionally harmful products, cater- ing to misunderstandings and partial knowledge. The best protection of the individual against such products, as well as the best aid in taking advantage of good ones, lies in his getting as much infor- mation as he can about food and nu- tritional science—which it is the pur- pose of the food writers of this mag- azine to attempt to supply. @ To Cut Food Bills—Use Cheese thirty-nine cents a pound and porter- house for forty-nine. From the stand- point of economy, it is obvious that the odds are all in favor of the cheese. With the whole country facing a short- age of meat, any housewife who is concerned about the state of the health or the pocketbook of her family will do well to investigate the relative prices of cheese and meat in her own neighborhood and do some thinking and planning to include more cheese in her menus. In planning a well-balanced dietary, it is important to remember that dif- ferent kinds of cheese fulfil different needs in the menu. The simplest, most wholesome of all cheeses is the plain, home-made variety commonly called “cottage cheese.” Ordinarily it is made from fermented, skimmed milk. Or it may be made from rich, whole milk or cream or from a mixture of both, in which case it is sometimes distin- guished by the name of “cream cheese.”’ Such cream cheese should, however, not be confused with the hard, com- mercial cream cheese of the Cheddar type. Cottage cheese is neither pressed nor ripened, and it must be kept in the refrigerator and eaten while fresh— not more than three days old. Rarely costing more than twenty cents a pound, it is wholesome, economical and delicious, one of the best of the meat Continued from page 48 substitutes. The housewife who has no delicatessen in her neighborhood may be able to procure cottage cheese sey- eral times a week from some farmer’s wife. If that is not practicable, she cannot do better by her family than to procure the extra amount of milk, make the cheese herself, and serve it abundantly and attractively. “Penn- sylvania pot cheese” is cottage cheese heated and ripened and enriched with cream or butter. It keeps longer than cottage cheese, but is not quite so wholesome. OF THE commercial cheeses, the plain American cheese, sometimes called commercial cream cheese and sometimes Cheddar cheese, is the cheap- est, and one of the most wholesome. 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An- other American Cheddar put up in the European manner is the “pineapple cheese,” colored bright orange. The luxury consumer likes. to cut off its top and pass it around the table to be dug out in small bits and eaten with wafers when the coffee is served. Bert the pineapple and the Munster cheeses may have been inspired by the red Edam cheeses which are among the best Cheddar type cheeses in the world. With the proverbial Dutch flair for salesmanship, the Edam cheeses are not only pressed into round molds and painted red, but they are marketed with great ceremony. Piled in great heaps in rows in the public square, they make the place look more like a flower garden than a market. The cheeses are weighed in an old church which has a beautiful carillon, and across whose tower moving figures of horsemen advance in a_ tourney. When the chimes ring out ten o’clock, a man in a frock coat and silk hat adjusts the scales and porters dressed in white, and with gaily colored straw hats with ribbons hanging down their backs, carry the cheeses into the church to be weighed. The sales are made in true Dutch fashion, by bar- gaining, and only after much feeling, smelling and tasting of the cheeses. They are then carried to the ware- houses of the wholesalers and by eleven o’clock the market is over. As many as one hundred thousand cheeses have been known to be sold in that one hour. Exported to almost every civil- ized country, these red cannon-ball cheeses have practically rolled round the world, for they are available in well stocked markets all the way from Niag- ara Falls to Shanghai. There are a number of well-known Italian, Parmesan cheeses of the Ched- dar type, but they are so hard that they have to be grated or broken, not cut. Colored dark green or black on the outside and of a pale yellow or greenish yellow inside, they bring a high price, and will keep for years. They are now available already grated for the housewife who likes her maca- roni in the true Italian style. They are also delicious grated over bread and butter. Reggiano is usually sold in loaves of from forty-five to seventy pounds. Lodigiano, of lesser quality, comes grated and should be kept in an air-tight jar. Romano is another Ital- ian cheese much like Parmesan, but made from sheep’s milk. It is greenish yellow in color, hard and salty and has to be grated. In the Argentine they make a cheese much like Romano which they e¢all Sor- rento, but it is made with cow’s milk and not so hard. Among the most picturesque of the Cheddar types are the Cheshire cheeses, named for the English county Cheshire near Cheddar. They weigh from one \ Physical Culture hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds. It takes them ten months to ripen properly and when kept for from fifteen to eighteen months they de- velop a bluish-green mold and a mouth- watering flavor which is much esteemed by those who call themselves connois- seurs. In addition to the cheeses of the lunch-box and of the substantial, well- balanced meal, there are many fancy cheeses with an endless variety of sharp, biting flavors, strong colors and rich consistencies. Such are the Stilton, Roquefort, Camembert and Gorgonzola cheeses, which owe their peculiar tang to molds, mainly the pennicilium bac- teria or bread mold, which develops through a long process of ripening, or is added before the ripening begins. These may or may not be accompanied by other molds which are less whole- some or may be actually harmful. I would not go so far as to say never touch such cheeses. It would be a hard- hearted food crank that would invar- iably deny the toothsome snack of Camembert with the after dinner cof- fee or refuse to occasionally heighten the flavor of a salad dresing with a dash of. Roquefort or Stilton. But it would be well to make these excursions into the unusual cautiously and only when no sign of digestive troubles is in the offing. The Norwegians make a_ cheese called Gammelost from skimmed, sour milk. It is allowed to ripen until the mold so permeates and absorbs the curd that what is left is not cheese flavored with fungi, but fungi flavored with cheese. The odoriferous Limburger was not originally a German cheese. Limburg is a village of Belgium where the cheese was first made. It was imported into Germany and the Germans liked it so well that they were willing to put up with its smell. They first bought and then made it in such large quan- tities that it became associated with the German people. It is carefully made from sweet milk and owes its flavor to bacteria which develop during the ripening process from the milk it- self. Set in cellars, it is turned and rubbed with salt and washed in brine almost daily. The whitish, harsh cheese becomes rich and buttery with a yellowish or reddish-brown outside. Thousands of tons of Limburger are made in the United States each year, mainly in the states of New York and Wisconsin. In Canada they make a mild Limburger, tough outside and soft in- side, which originated with the Trap- pist Fathers. Oka is the same cheese made in Quebec. N CONSIDERING the health value of the various kinds of cheeses it is important to know how they are manu- factured, and of what they are com- posed in order to be able to judge as to when and how much of the cheese to eat. Gammelost, for instance, might be used as an appetizer. It is said that its sharp tang increases the secretion of saliva and the gastric juice, pro- vided you like it, many Norwegians do, and seem to be able to take care of it. But it could hardly be relied on for much wholesome nourishment. In any case, the streng, over-ripened cheeses are rarely used in cooking. Their value lies in their intriguing flavors, and their usual place is with salty crackers at the end of a meal with the coffee, or as a luncheon tidbit preferably with rye or other whole- grain or dark bread. Mixed in small

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May, 1935 quantities with the dressing, they give a delicious bite to a salad, but I was overwhelmed once with chagrin on see- ing one of my guests covertly sorting out the dark scraps of Roquefort cheese from a carefully mixed salad. I think she thought they were particles of de- cayed lettuce. After that I always passed the cheese dressing separately and offered a choice of plain lemon juice and olive oil. I still use this dressing and here is the recipe: ROQUEFORT CHEESE SALAD DRESSING % cup salad oil 1, cup lemon juice % teaspoon salt Paprika to redden the dressing 2 tablespoons Roquefort cheese Crumble or cut up the cheese to about the size of grapenuts. Combine all ingredients in a mason jar which, if you like, has been rubbed with garlic. Shake the jar until dressing is well blended. Keep in the refrigerator not less than one hour, over night is better. Shake well just before serving. Good on compact, head lettuce, romaine, en- dive or cabbage salad combined or not with other vegetables such as tomatoes, grated carrots, chopped onions, celery, peppers and the like. - Cottage cheese salad dressing can be made in much the same way and is more wholesome. COTTAGE CHEESE Allow skimmed milk to clabber in a pan. When well set, place it on the back of the stove or over another pan of hot water where it will be heated to not more than 100° F. Keep it warm in this way until the curd becomes just firm, not hard or tough, stirring oc- casionally. Then place the curd in a muslin bag to entirely drain off the whey. Careful housewives say hang the bag out on the clothes line where the wind will help evaporate the mois- ture from the curd. When dry, work the curd to a smooth paste with a wooden spoon and salt to taste. The cheese can then be rolled into balls or molded into any attractive shape for serving. All sorts of materials can be chopped and worked into the cheese to give various flavors. Nuts, olives, pi- mientos, celery leaves, parsley, and mint are particularly appetizing, espe- cially when sprays of mint are ar- ranged around the cheese when served. COTTAGE CHEESE SALAD 1 cup cottage cheese 14 canned pimiento 1 head lettuce 1% large Spanish onion French dressing Chop the pimiento and work it into the cottage cheese. Roll the cheese into four balls and place on the larger let- tuce leaves on four plates. Cut the let- tuce heart into convenient pieces and arrange around the cheese. Over all slice the onion, separating the rings, and serve with French dressing. This makes four large salads. COTTAGE CHEESE PLATTER Allow % pound of cottage cheese for each person. Roll it into balls or press it into a mold and turn out in the mid- dle of a platter. Surround it with a garnish that will be a distinct addition to the meal, olives stuffed with pi- mientos, canned pimientos cut in dec- orated strips, stuffed celery hearts, rings of Spanish onions, sprays of watercress, mint or parsley, or for special occasions, blanched almonds, pecan halves or English walnuts. may not only be placed around the cheese, but chopped and worked into it or pressed into its sides and across its top. COTTAGE CHEESE AND POTATOES Like many European farmers, the Welshman often eats potatoes instead of bread with his cheese. If you have never tried potatoes, boiled in their jackets and then skinned and sliced, with chopped green onions and cottage cheese served with thick, sour cream, you have a treat in store for you. COTTAGE CHEESE AND VEGETABLE DINNER Garnish 1% pounds of cottage cheese with green, spring onions and celery hearts on a platter. With it serve baked potatoes and stewed to- matoes. Pass thick sour cream as a sauce to-be used according to taste. COTTAGE CHEESE WITH VEGETABLE CASSEROLE 4 medium-sized sweet potatoes 2 green peppers 2 cups cooked rice 1 can tomatoes 1 small and four large onions % cup meat stock or gravy if you have it | 1% teaspoon salt Cook the sweet potatoes and peel and cut them in halves. Core and halve the peppers and let them stand ten minutes in scalding water. Cook the large onions until nearly tender by waterless method. Mince the small onion and brown in a little butter. Make a mixture of the rice, the minced onion, 2 chopped tomatoes and the meat stock or tomato juice to soften. Stuff the peppers with this mixture and arrange alternately around the rim of the casserole with the sweet potatoes, placing a second ring with the onions and remaining tomatoes in the middle. Over all pour any remain- ing meat stock and the rest of the to- mato juice. The liquid should not rise more than a third of an inch above the bottom of the casserole. Cover and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. 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( ) Check here if you are ! already a subscriber for Physical Culture Maga- zine, and your subscription will be extended one | year from its present expiration’ date. | (We prepay postage on all orders accompanied » Dy cash.) | | | subscription for Physical Culture Magazine -ap- | Physical Culture Cook the macaroni or spaghetti in boiling salted water till tender. Make a sauce by rubbing the butter into the flour and stirring it into the hot milk. Add the seasonings and boil gently and stir until the mixture thickens. Butter a casserole and put in a layer of mac- aroni, then a thick layer of cheese and enough of the sauce to nearly cover. Repeat, and then cover the top with bread crumbs, bits of butter and a sprinkling of paprika. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven (350 de- grees F.) The above basic recipe can be used with many variations. OYSTER-CHEESE MACARONI Place a layer of oysters over each layer of macaroni in the above recipe and proceed as before. Chopped pep- pers, celery, parsley or minced onions may be included with the sauce ac- cording to taste. CHICKEN MACARONI WITH CHEESE Substitute chicken cut in cubes for the oysters in the above recipe and left- over gravy may be substituted for all or part of the sauce. CHEESE AND TOMATO SAUCE The Italian way is to serve the cooked spaghetti or macaroni plain and over it grate the cheese and pour the sauce. To make tomato sauce: 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 onion 1% cups canned or stewed tomatoes 3% teaspoon. salt Pepper or paprika to taste. Brown the chopped onion in a little butter. Blend flour with butter and add to the tomatoes, add onions and seasoning and simmer and stir until the mixture thickens. In serving macaroni and cheese or any cooked cheese dish, it is important to remember that unless some other protein food such as oysters, chicken, etc., are included in the dish, there should be a large amount of cheese in proportion to the amount of macaroni if it is to be used as a meat substitute. The dish should always be accom- panied by a green vegetable and a vegetable or fruit salad, not by rice, potatoes or other starchy foods, since macaroni and- spaghetti are made up almost entirely of starch. If, on the other hand, some other form of protein food is included in the meal, the macaroni may be served as a starchy accompaniment in the place of pota- toes, in which case the cheese should be used sparingly and for its flavor, more as a condiment than as a sub- stantial part of the dish. And since both cheese and vegetables are rela- tively soft, something hard and crisp should be included in the meal, zwie- back, Swedish health bread, hard toast or rolls, crisp celery or slender sticks of carrot. Eccs witH GOLDEN SAUCE 4 hard-cooked eggs 4 slices buttered toast 1% lb. pimiento cheese, grated 14% cups medium cream sauce Cut the eggs in half lengthwise and place two halves on each slice of toast. Add the grated cheese to the hot cream sauce, stirring occasionally until cheese is melted. Pour a generous spoonful over each serving of egg and toast and serve hot.

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May, 1935 CHEESE SLAW A new way to use store cheese is ‘shredded over all kinds of vegetable salads. Does the cabbage slaw threaten to become monotonous? Try serving it on individual plates, and over the top of each plate shred plain American cheese. Place a stuffed olive on each side of the salad. For shredding cheese, I use the next to the largest slit side of the ordinary ten-cent store grater. This makes flakes about the size of corn flakes, large enough to seem substantial and small enough to mix well with the salad. In other words, just right. HEARTS OF LETTUCE AND CHEESE SALAD Arrange hearts of lettuce on in- dividual plates and shred plain Ameri- can cheese over the top of each. A little paprika sprinkled over all makes a delectable-looking dish, all green and red and orange. VEGETABLE AND CHEESE SALAD Any vegetable which can be used as a salad will be improved by the ad- dition of shredded cheese. Lettuce, onion rings and shredded carrots with cheese over all is one of our favorites. Endive, celery and beets is another. Celery, chopped apples and watercress make another good combination with shredded cheese; or lettuce can be substituted for the watercress. A whole meal can be made on CHEESE AND POTATO SALAD 1 head lettuce 3 medium-sized potatoes Outside stalks and leaves of 1 head of celery 1 bunch spring onions or 1 winter onion 1% pound American cheese Spread the head of lettuce on a large platter and on it arrange slices of the potato. boiled, peeled and chilled, and over the top scatter chopped celery leaves. Around the potato arrange the outside celery stalks chopped into cubes and the onions chopped. ~ Over all shred the cheese and serve with French or mayonnaise dressing. Some- times there are left-over cooked vege- tables or other snacks that can be added for variety. Cooked cauliflower, sliced beets, sliced or chopped tomato, a little cress or raw chopped spinach, raw beets shredded, any number of good things that are available from time to time may be used to give in- terest and variety to the salad. All of the Cheddar cheeses are good toasted, and they may be combined in sandwiches either with toasted bread or on wafers in any number of ways. The simplest is the TOASTED CHEESE WAFER Place a dozen thin slices of cheese on a dozen salty crackers, slip under the broiler or into the oven and toast a golden brown. Look out! Watch them, they will burn easily. TOASTED CHEESE AND TOMATO 6 slices of whole-wheat bread 6 good-sized slices of cheese 8 tomatoes Toast the bread on one side and but- ter the other side. On the buttered side of each slice of bread place two - slices of tomato and on the tomato put a slice of cheese. Toast under the broiler or in the oven. The cheese may be purchased in bulk and shredded instead of sliced in either of the above recipes. It makes the sandwich look a little more dainty, but you are not likely to use quite so much cheese. Get 6531 'm. 2 Better, Man comet. een foolish eating—but I felt sure that exercise would bring me back to good condition. If it didn’t—good night! First thing upon rising after nine hours’ sleep, I swung a pair of 314- pound Indian clubs for fifteen minutes, repeating later in the day if there was time. One hour of reading after noon breakfast, then outdoor skating for the rest of the day. If the ice was snowy or lumpy, I walked eight or ten miles instead. Many a-farmer from Killingly or Devil’s Hopyard, jogging to town behind old Dobbin, offered me a lift— and looked on me as a lunatic when I explained that I was walking because I liked the exercise. “OC GIT in and take a ride; ’twun’t hurt your feet none,” one old fel- low insisted. It is odd how few people appreciate how much fun there is in a good walk at a brisk pace. Once set- tled down in your stride, you feel that you are riding gaily on your legs, with little effort; fields and woods drift past in a succession of pleasant pictures, with now and then the music of a flock of crows or a whiff of aro- matic smoke from a wood fire on some farmer’s hearth to add variety to the entertainment. The mere memory of those delights makes me homesick as I write. And after the bath and hard rubdown with a coarse towel there came a feeling of all’s well with the page 17) world, a sense of serene satisfaction that money could not buy. The best of it is that today I can earn and enjoy this luxury quite as fully as I did at twenty. And in all the years between. By way of variety, I got a set of six-ounce boxing gloves. Instead of eating supper at 11 o’clock, I devoted thirty minutes to a lively bout with our telegraph editor. He was a dignified young vestryman in Christ Church, but how he could punch! He is a white- haired vestryman now, with grandchil- dren, but he still loves the game. He says that our long walks and the habit of taking regular exercise he developed in those nightly bouts have helped him to enjoy life ever since. I soon found other sparring partners to work with me afternoons; for it was not good training to eat a belated supper with one hand while copying fast press des- patches with the other. When the last ice moved out of the river, I got a light gig and rowed eight or ten miles a day, with a swim to wind up the pro- gram. I lived on the river, and «had fun there with pleasant companions. Exercise without fun is like food with- out flavor. In that year I put on ten pounds of healthy muscle, got into Al physical condition, with never a trace of writ- er’s cramp or any other discomfort, in spite of the killing work at the desk. 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Being in prime condition was such a pleasure and helped me so in my work that I took a room in Harlem, joined a rowing club and did seven or eight miles on the river every morning be- fore going down at noon to Park Row for my work on The World. I was sun- tanned to the color of sole-leather, I felt as if I could jump over the roof, and hard work, in the office and out of it, was a joy. The club coach drafted me into an eight-oared crew which won half a dozen local championships during the four years that I trained and raced in it—thanks to a kind city editor who let me work from nine to five every day. I guess that is a record in com- bining athletic competition with morn- ing newspaper work. I earned less than if I worked at the office every night, but I got a lot of fun out of rowing “besides a capital fund of strength and stamina that has lasted up to now. The value of it was impressed on me by what Joseph Pulitzer, owner and editor of The World, said to me one day. I was temporarily on his per- sonal staff, reading the papers and giving him a daily picture of what was in them. On the way in to lunch- eon he took my arm, for he was al- most blind. “My God!” he exclaimed. “You have the arm of a pugilist. Where did you get it?” “Worked for it,” I told him. “Devel- oped strength as capital to use in my business.” “Your profession, dear boy, your profession,” he said sadly, and dropped the subject. In his youth he had been one of the best swimmers and horsemen in Buda-Pesth, but he had thrown himself with such enthusiasm into building up The World that he neg- lected meals, exercise, and every recre- ation but music. At middle age this tall, powerful man was a sad invalid, still driving ahead with boundless am- bition. Arthur Brisbane persuaded him to ride every day and live care- fully, and thereby prolonged his life for years. But the damage was done, and Mr. Pulitzer died at sixty-seven, far short of the life he might have lived and the service his great news- paper might have rendered to this country. In sharp contrast is the career of Brisbane. At college and for years af- terward he was one of the best middle- weight boxers and wrestlers in the land. No other editor produces as much interesting stuff as he does every day, though he is now seventy and has big outside investments. He has never allowed himself to forget the physical man, always eating moderately and ex- ercising regularly. He gave up the strenuous sports in middle age, very wisely; for no man’s heart can stand the double strain of hard mental work and violent exercise. Always he has walked and ridden a great deal. He tried golf, but found it monotonous. A friend laughed one day when he found Brisbane swinging a scythe and sweating like a field hand. “You can hire a man to do that for a couple of dollars,” he said. “Yes,” Brisbane answered, “but this exercise is doing me more good than a couple of thousand dollars. It’s fun, too, because it’s a change from my -reg- ular program.” But riding is Bris- bane’s favorite sport. He has added to Dr. Abernethy’s proverb that the

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. lows, one after the other, May, 1935 outside of a horse is the best thing for the inside of a man. He says that it is a big advantage to get plenty of exercise in the open, with the hard work on the heart of the horse instead of on the heart of the man. Few of us can afford a horse nowadays, but we can get as good a result by taking a brisk walk. It should not be too brisk, neither should it be a lazy stroll. If you keep in mind your age and con- dition and use ordinary business judg- ment, you won’t go wrong. Don’t try to tear along like a champion—nor loaf along listlessly. When I left the crew—at the sug- gestion of our managing editor, who laughed at exercise and died at forty- two—I followed a plan that saved me from breaking down as I had seen many athletes break because they gave up physical exercise when they quit competition. In cold weather I played handball, boxed with Mike Donovan, our wonderful teacher, and with other friends at the New York Athletic Club. In the warm months I rode bicycle and swam three or four times a week. For years this program kept me in such good condition that I felt able to go into a race any time after a few weeks’ sharp training. At one club regatta I was in winning boats in the events for eights, fours and pairs; but even this took too much time from work, and I dropped competition. R. A. ALEXANDER SMITH, one of the best doctors in New York, warned me against playing singles at handball after thirty-five, saying that at that age the heart began to slow down and must not be driven at top speed. I thanked him, but smiled within. I was playing at scratch, giv- ing handicaps to fifty others. The ele- gant doctor had never been an athlete. How could he know the’ unusual strength and endurance of us fellows who had been athletes from the cra- dle? We were iron men, who rose above rules that governed ordinary mortals. That was my reasoning, and I went right on playing the game as fast as ever, sometimes for two hours without stopping. What folly! The ancient myth that the superman Achilles could be wounded only in the heel really means that, no matter how good a man is, he is bound to have a weak spot some- where in his make-up. Hit that, and he’s gone. The man who takes little or no exercise and lives temperately will have more fun and last longer that the big husky who never knows when to stop. But I didn’t know this then, and kept up the fast pace. My strenuous career was brought up with a jolt when I was a little past fifty. Without leaving the handball court, I played three fast young fel- and won two games out of three by close scores —one hour and twenty minutes on tiptoe and going full speed. Finished strong. A little seedy next day and had no appetite; felt as though some one had pumped up a football in my lungs that kept me from drawing a full breath. Dropped in to see the doctor. I can still feel the cold disc of the stethoscope as he planted it on my flesh, moved it almost under the left arm. “What the dickens have you been doing?” the doctor asked. “Your heart is all pulled out like an accordion.” I told him of the games—and asked if I were likely to drop in the street. “You'll drop if you keep on playing your fool game of handball,” he replied. “You'll go out and stay out for keeps.” “But look at Mike Donovan, giving boxing lessons at seventy,” I protested, “and Bob Fitzsimmons, who fought in the ring at fifty-three; George Both- ner, past fifty and can throw any man living within twenty pounds of his weight, and Zbysko, fifty-two, and wrestling all comers!”’ “Yes,” said the doctor; ‘‘but those fellows do nothing else. They live on one plane only, the physiological. Oh, I know they use their minds at it, but that’s all part of their game. You work at your desk from nine to five on the mental plane, burn out your en- ergy catching news on the fly and rush- ing it into print. Then, with most of your stamina burned out, you go to the gym and compete with profes- sionals. You haven’t the stuff in you to do that—no man has—and you ex- haust your heart. “Fortunately, Nature will always give us a chance if we use a little sense. So from now on you’re in for moderation and plenty of it. Golf, riding, walking and swimming. No sprints. No running upstairs. I’ll help patch you up with digitalis and a few other things—but your life is in your own hands. Take it easy, and you'll be around for twenty or thirty years, bar accident. Get gay and strong—and out you go!” Without losing one day from the of- fice, I cut down exercise to walking a few miles a day, and at the end of six months the doctor said I was back pretty near to normal and could even play handball—in moderation. I tried it, but there is no moderation in hand- ball, for me at least, and I gave it up. Boxing, too. But the fun is not all gone. This world, as Stevenson says, is still a fine gymnasium, full of horse- exercise and sea bathing; and though it is hard to believe I’m past sixty ex- cept when shaving or tying a cravat, I keep the soft pedal down on every play. I work as much as ever, but whenever I’m tempted to sprint or slug, I hear again the doctor’s voice saying—‘Remember, you’re not a this year’s car.” A hard discipline, but it pays. ‘THE same program that has helped the old athlete to come back strong after a dilated heart is good for the middle-aged or elderly man who wakes up to the fact that he must exercise if he wants to live. Here is mine: I walk a few miles a day, never more than eight, and that not often. I cut the grass and dig a little in the garden of my home in the. suburbs, where I’m a good though not a fancy shoveler. 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I lounge on the porch, reading and feeling thankful that we are out of the hot and dusty town. That is useful to re- place energy burned up in the last days of hard work before vacation as well ‘as in the vexations of travel. Then rest and read again through the day after the first seven holes of golf, and play seven holes again on the fourth day. Does that sound boresome? Try it, and see how much pleasure you will get out of your golf. The best of it is that it builds up strength. Before the week is out I play nine holes, and gradually through the next week lengthen out the distance until we are doing the full eighteen. After the third or fourth week it is safe to play thirty- six holes once in a while, but not often. The fine old boys who do their thirty- six holes a day often pop over in a bunker, through with golf forever. Even the pros, who make their living at it, don’t play thirty-six too often. T IS hard to restrain the desire for success, the hunger for victory. This nation was founded by men who con- quered wilderness, savages, flood and famine. Whether in business or in sport, the only disgrace is to quit, to give up the struggle. Men who have competed in games when young and well trained, try to go as fast and hit as hard years after they are out of training—and their hearts stop. At York Harbor recently my golf part- ner looked across the fairway at a passing player and said: ‘“There’s Howard Roome, the man who climbed to the top of the Equitable Building in eight minutes and won $1,700. ... Why are you staring at him so long?” “Because I’ll never see him again,” I replied. “He won his bet, but he ruined his heart.”’” He was a splendid specimen of athletic vigor carried on into middle age, tall, powerful, swing- ing along at an easy stride and hitting tremendous shots. He had been chosen all-American half-back when. he played on the Yale football team, in 1904 and 1905. He was a great pole-vaulter, too, and excelled in many other sports. Thirteen years out of college, always in good trim, he bet a friend $1,000 that he could climb the forty stories from Broadway to the top of the Equitable Building in fifteen minutes. Physical Culture for May, 1935 He had trained carefully for the event —or thought he did—and walked up the 900 steps in eight minutes, winning his wager and $100 added for each minute under the fifteen. He “died un- expectedly of heart disease,” the news- papers reported a few years later. Let us look at the other side of the picture. Edward H. Harriman, small but wiry and strong, was one of the ablest financiers in this country, though he did not make remarkable progress until his fiftieth year. Then he began to roll up millions, became one of the greatest railroad owners in the world. He met plenty of opposition, fought it gaily and successfully, but was so absorbed in the struggle that he forgot to take care of his health. At sixty he collapsed, called in the best doctors; went abroad to rest, did all that science could suggest to re- cover his wasted strength. But it was too late. He died at sixty-one, leaving one of the largest fortunes in the country. But was it worth what he paid for it? Right living would have carried him ten or fifteen years longer. The athlete and the financier I have just mentioned were extreme instances of the over-doing and of utter neg- lect of physieal training. Each paid for his error by dying: too soon. Less exercise for one and more for the other would have helped both wonderfully. You can find thousands of men in all walks of life who profit by follow- ing the sane program I have outlined. Henry Ford is one of them. He works hard and constantly at his business, eats with care, and walks and sprints every day, besides dancing old-fash- ioned waltzes and quadrilles—one of his hobbies—nearly every evening. HE New York Athletic Club in- cludes many gray-haired athletes. Dr. Graeme M. Hammond, for years president of the club, was an athlete at Columbia College more than half a century ago and long afterward. Now, at the age of seventy-seven, he is a fine fencer, runs two miles three times a week, walks a lot, enjoys every mo- ment he lives. I could name many more men who are more useful than they were thirty or forty years ago. The best of the whole story is that every one of us, whether he has been an athlete or not, can get the most out of life, have more fun and last many years, if he will take reasonable eare of ‘his physical outfit. As much care as. he would take of a good horse or a good car. Do that, and you will be -happy a long time. DON'T MISS THE PHYSICAL CULTURE CONVENTION All those who have attended any of the Physical Culture Conventions at Dansville in the past three years will be glad to know that this year plans are under way for a bigger and more extensive gathering of the health enthusiasts of the nation. Details of the 1935 Physical Culture Convention will be announced next month, but it may now be said that lectures, banquets, masquerade balls, beauty contests, sports events and other activities in the physical culture field will be carried out on a much larger scale than ever before.

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