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ASWE USEOQUR HANDS
THE PREFERENCE FOR THE RIGHT
AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE.
fa Primitive Times It Is Probable
That Both Hands Were Equally
Used—What the Hieroglyphies of
the Egyptians Teach Us,
The fact that some persons age left
comparative force exhibited by each
of the bands has left its mark on our
common expressions. The right is the
“ruling” band; the left Is “worth-
less” or the “weaker” hand If we
gard the derivative meanings of
names. In words imported from the
Latin a certain ability is called “dex-
terity,” or right handedness, while that
which has an evil or unsuccessful influ-
ence becomes “sinister” or left handed.
In like manner if we look at words
from a French source we find that a
clever person is “adroit” because he
has right handed qualities, but a clum-
sy person is “gauche” because his work
is left handed.
It is evident that when our race be-
came so far advanced as to frame
words for ideas and things the rule was
that the members of it were right
handed. And if we examine other lan-
guages we find proofs that such a rule
existed among the people using them.
There is, however, good reason for
thinking that man originally could use
either hand equally well.
“This seems a hazardous statement to
make about a remote ancestor in the
age before the great glacial epoch had
furrowed the mountains of northern
Europe, but nevertheless it is strictly
true and strictly demonstrable. Just
try as you read to draw with the fore-
finger and thumb of your right hand
an imaginary human profile on the
page on which these words are printed.
Do you observe that (unless you are an
artist and therefore sophisticated) you
naturally and instinctively draw it with
the face turned toward your left shoul-
der? Try now to draw it with the
profile to the right and you will find it
requires a far greater effort of the
thumb and forefinger.
“The hand moves of its own accord
from without inward, not from within
outward. Then again draw with your
left thumb and forefinger another imag-
inary profile and you will find, for the
same reason, that the face in this case
looks rightward. Existing savages and
our own young children whenever they
draw a figure in profile, be it of man
or beast, with their right hand, draw it
almost always with the face or head
turned to the left, in accordance with
this natural instinct. Their doing so
is a test of their perfect right handed-
ness.
“But primitive man, or, at any rate,
the most primitive men we know per-
sonally, the carvers of the figures from
the French bone caves, drew men and
beasts on bone or mammoth tusk turn-
ed either way indiscriminately. The in-
ference is obvious. They must have
been ambidextrous. Only ambidextrous
people draw so at the present day,
and, indeed, to scrape a figure other-
wise with a sharp flint on a piece of
bone or tooth or mammoth tusk would,
even for a practiced hand, be compara-
tively difficult” (Allen).
In connection with this passage it is
interesting to examine the reports of
the bureau of ethnology, where it will
be seen that, although the majority of
profiles executed by the North Amer-
ican Indians follow the rule, many
faces also turn to the right, and it is
found that left handedness, or, rather,
ambidexterity, is very common among
these tribes,
But doubtless the reader will notice
that in writing his hand moves from
left to right and not from right to left.
Here is an apparent violation of the
principle laid down ‘in the quotation
given from Grant Allen. It is, how-
ever, more apparent than real. If you
study Bgyptian hierogiyphics you will
find that profiles invariably look to the
left. Hebrew, Arabic, Hindoostanee
and other ancient languages read from
would obliterate its own work.
Hence the habit of writing from left
to right, so that not only may the
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GROWING PAINS.
Aches In Children That Should Re-
ceive Serious Attention.
The evil that may be caused by a
ble little aches and pains, the result of
fatigue, slight sprains, stone bruises
and the like, and it is well the fond par-
ents should not take too much notice
of them, lest they foster a disposition
in the child to worry over illnesses.
The cause of such occasional pains ls
usually apparent, and a night's rest
or a day in the house will dispel it. But
when the pain recurs from time to time
without evident cause, or when ordi
nary romping during the day is fol
lowed by a night of aching, and per-
haps a limp for a day or two, it is pos-
sible that there is some serious under-
lying cause and the family physician
should be consulted.
Frequent complaint of pain in the
knee is one of the signs of beginning
hip disease, but examination shows the
knee to be apparently sound, and so
the home diagnosis of growing pains
is made, and the real trouble in the
hip is overlooked, often until it is too
late to prevent permanent lameness.
Although not called growing pains,
repeated attacks of stomach ache in
children should not be slighted, for
they may be a symptom of early spinal
disease. The complaint of pain in the
stomach, when not referable to green
apples or a surfeit of pastry, especially
when the complaint is made at the
close of the day or during the night,
should excite suspicion and If often re
peated should indicate the necessity of
a careful examination of the spine
Growing pains may be due to rheuma-
tism, which, if not detected and cor
rectly treated, may lead to disease
of the heart.
A less serious trouble, but one de
manding medical treatment, which may
cause an aching in the limbs, is ma-
laria. This is a dangerous diagnosis, for
if incorrect it may be as serious in its
consequences as that of growing pains,
and even if the child has had an unmis
takable attack of malaria the parent
should not be content with that expla
nation of its aches and pains, but
should refer the matter to the doctor.
It should always be remembered thai
digestion or breathing.—Youth's Com:
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tually counting them in the ordinary
sense, is mentioned in Mr. Sandford’'s
memoirs of the archbishop. Everybody
sees three objects, not as one and one
and one, but as three. Most people
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A perennial problem is that about the
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serves the Druidic tradition that the
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the peculiar white glaye of the sunlight
reflected from the hawthorn blossoms,
which must have been far more frap-
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