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Dwarf Child Will Never Be
Physically Fit.
Kittanning, Pa.—~There is a long, up-
hill struggle ahead of Clara—now re-
named Clarence—~Schreckengost, the
twenty-year-old dwarf whom surgeons
are changing into a normal man.
The new science of the ductless
gland treatments Is being used with
success, it was learned, and the phy-
siclans are confident that the “girl
man” will win the fight.
A physician familiar with the case
said:
“Clarence will never be completely
normal. We believe, however, that
gradually ‘he’ will improve physically.
We have not changed his sex—such a
thing Is Impossible. All we have done
is to encourage the development of the
patient's real sex.”
The child is only 51 Inches tall and
unable to read or write, and has six
normal brothers and sisters.
Cases Not Rare,
Changes from one gex to another, as
in the case of Clara Schreckengost,
are far from being rare, although sel
Well Done Maiden
se rn, -
The annual “Perfect Sun-Tan” con
test at Lake Arrowhead, Calif,
tracted scores of beautiful girls who
bad acquired tans during the swim.
ming season. The first prize went to
Peggy Wood of Hollywood, shown
above with the trophy.
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dom heard about outside of medical
circles,
Modern medical sclence has discov.
ered that the change from one sex
to another is the result of strange va-
riations in the embryo or in Imbalance
in the ductiess glands,
In such glands hormones are pro-
duced. They are responsible for the
secondary sex characteristics, the mas-
culine volce and beard of men, for in-
stance,
If something goes wrong among the
endocrines, a girl may grow more like
8 boy, and vice versa. This accounts
for bearded women of the side shows
and other like freaks
For twenty years Mrs Lettie
Schreckengost has guarded her seceret,
even from her husband, Clark Schreck
engost, a silent moody man of this
Pennsylvania backwoods farming coun
try.
“Better Off Dead”
And neither did Mrs. Schreckengost
sician, kindly
now dead, ald
formed little
named Claire.
The ancient Greeks had a word for
it, and g§ myth, to explain these thwart
ed children of Hermes and Aphrodite
in whom the sexes were fused in a
mystic union.
But to the country practitioner of
two decades ago the Schreckengost
offspring was a blological quirk and
better off dead, the
mother,
“He sald that it would be more kind.
ly to put it aside and let it die” Mrs
Schreckengost said,
“The doctor told me.” she sald, “that
it might be either a girl or a boy, and
asked me how | would dress it. 1 said
I would dress It like a girl.
“He said I ought to call It by some
name that would fit either a girl or a
boy, like Francis, or Frances So |
sald 1 would name it Claire and If it
developed like a boy, I would leave off
the E™
And though it was no seeret in this
rural neighborhood that Claire was
somehow different, a girl she remained,
in habits and dress, until the first of a
series of remarkable operations In the
West Penn bospital at Pittsburgh this
summer disclosed the fact that the E
could, with propriety, be deleted from
her name; that Clalre was of mascy-
line persuasion,
Dr. George 8. Morrow
in her arms the mal
creature who was to be
according to
Stork Brings Offspring
to All but Own Family
St. Louis.—Eversbody knows the
stork brings babies, but who brings the
baby storks?
Mr, and Mrs. Stork of the St. Louis
(Zoological) Storks, would like to
know the answer to that one, for they
are a disappointed couple these days,
Ever since last spring, Mrs. Stork
has been industriously preparing a nost
in the big outdoor enge in Forest park.
ut now the nesting season is over and
there are no offspring. Mr. Stork seems
pretty sad. However, that may be just
his natural expression.
DYED BANDITS 7
Suop winoow
BANDITS ARE NOW
When Should an Old
Man Stop Work?
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
The retirement of Dr. William Hol
land Wilmer by Johns Hopkins uni
versity has fur
nished the metro-
politan press with
an Interesting sub
ject for debate. The
question at Issue
seems to be, was
the university jus
tified in thus retir
ing the ablest eye
clinician in Amer
ea? Dr. Wilmer
was born August
20, 1803, which
would indicate that
a man should be
retired at seventy
regardiess of his mental or physical
fitness. Doubtless retirement affords
relief from detail duties and routine
work incident toa professional career,
The question still arises, however,
should one be retired from active
when there still remains the
unquestionably efficient service
many future years? Or, to put It
another way, should the publie
deprived of professional service
service
of
in
be
at
sms _—
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The franchise of the old Ottawa
hockey team of Canada has been
transferred to St. Louis, Mo, and
Eddie Gerard, former manager of the
Montreal team, has been engaged to
manage the team of the city by the
bridge.
just the age when experience would
make that service all the more valu
able? In other words, just when
should an old man stop work?
Let us remember that much of the
finest work In art and literature us
well as in medicine has been accom.
plished by those who labored most
effectively far beyond the age of sev
enty. Some business concerns hfive a
rule that a man must stop work at
sixty-five, others at seventy. The rea
son advanced Is that room must be
made for the younger men. Other
business concerns refuse to employ a
man who is over thirty-five years of
age. In one case, known to the writer,
a member of a certain firm was thus
retired and went to England, where
he established a rival business “which
proved a great financial suecess. The
better part of wisdom would have
been for that American firm to have
kept that man on its payroll
Is it not true that no organization
is competent to say just when a man
should stop work? Does it not depend
entirely upon the man himself? Some
men are old at forty, others young at
seventy. Should not eflicieney decide
the Issue? A man without a job is not
only unhappy, he is miserable. Many
a man has “passed out” shortly after
relinquishing active work,
The man himself, however, is not
the only one concerned. Public health
demands the best judgment that ex.
perience can afford. In business the
wisdom of those who have success
fully weathered the storm is far more
valuable than the opinion of the young
man just about to set his sails afloat.
In literature and art we want more
of that “better self” which Michel
angelo gave to the world at eighty.
What shall be done with the old man?
Would it not be better If we would let
him decide for himself, provided he ls
still mentally and physically fit?
©. Western Newspaper Union,
Late Reward for Bravery
Plainville, Conn.~Willlam Cunning
ham and Fred J. Callen, Jr, aided in
capturing three bank robbers June
than seven years later
ved a check for $40,
INDOW screens, like the win
dows themselves, need attention.
They do not show dust and dirt as the
panes of glass, but they accumulate
dust just the same, and this seeps
through the meshes when the wind
blows, and a film settles on the things
in the room. There are several ways
of keeping the screens clean, different
methods being suited to varying condi
tions, such as situ-
ation of rooms,
whether the
screens are inside
or outside the
house, and wheth-
er the location of
house is such that
#8 hose can be
played on the
screens. In city
houses bullt in rows
this is not often
feasible, while In
suburban homes it
is.
The hose-clean.
method is rec
ommended when
Bhut the
windows opening
on the side of the
house where the hose Is to be played.
Play the hose well on each window, es
pecially the half where the screen is,
kince the force of the water will pro
Ject the dust on the screen through It
and mgainst the window, It is only
when the window Is spotless that the
screen will be clean for the reason just
given. By this method both screens
and windows are beautifully clean aft-
er the washing,
If screens are easily removable, as
on inside windows, they ean be taken
out and washed in the kitchen sink.
Dry well before replacing. Inside
pereens require much less care thao
those outside because they are not ex-
posed to the dust from roads and drive
ways all the time, When windows are
closed they are protected. On the oth-
er hand there is on cleaning days some
dust raised indoors even when modern
cleaning appliances are used. This dust
ing
possible,
Nail in Dam Marks
River's Water Level
Riverton, Ind. —Thirty-seven years
ago, Dave Taylor, veteran ferryman,
drove a large nall in the Wabash
river dam here when the river
reached its lowest level,
During the dry seasons in the
past 20 years Taylor has compared
the river's level with that of 1807.
The best he was able to do was to
feel the nall under water,
Recently Taylor went to the dam
and saw the nail He sald the water
would have to drop only one-half
inch to reach the 1807 jevel
frames,
Hazards of Brushing.
Brushing screens when in windows
cleans the netting, but unless there is
n strong breeze blowing out through
the windows the amount of dust which
gets into the rooms more than offsets
the advantage of having screens clean.
So be sure the wind is the right way
before brushing screens thus,
Wiping screens with a cloth moist
ened with kerosene is recommended
for two reasons First, the dust will
be caught and wiped off rather than be
scattered about, and second mos
quitoes will not try to get through ker.
osene tinctured netting. The odor of
the kerosene soon evaporates as far as
perceptible to those indoors, but if a
nose of a mosquito is thrust against
it, there is little temptation to try to
creep and crawl through meshes, It is
a good thing to wipe the screens with
the kerosene cloth at twilight, for mos-
quitoes begin to hum about more then
than A cloth damp-
ened with clear water only will gather
during the day,
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