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Those Embit
tered by Disappointment
COLLEGE DEAN said recent-
ly that being sophisticated is
going out of fashion.
Can it be true that the craze for
sophistication—to appear blase, to
seem worldly wise, to know it
all, to be hard-boiled and con-
temptuous of the simple things—
is through with it?
And why? Is the advent of old
fashioned hats and ruffles so in-
fluencing our point of view that
modern youth now wants to throw
sophistication into the discard?
I think I know the reason, says
a woman writer of international
reputation. Modern Youth must
have found out the real meaning
of the word. Poring over their
dictionaries they must have ac-
cidently bumped into the deriva-
tion of ‘‘sophisticated.”
For “sophisticated”
adulterated.
if it doesn’t!
And come to think of it,
couldn't have a better name.
the wisest of us had tried to put
a fitting label on that loss of
youths natural and beautiful
means
it
could have manufactured
better word than '‘sophisticated.””
ation of viewpoint, of judgment,
of taste by the taint of frustra-
tion, the bitterness of disillusion-
ment, the poison of disappoint-
ment, the dregs of the cup
poor experience. True, life is not
all beauty or joy or perfection.
Neither is it all bitter or sour or
wrong.
One of the most power.iul weap-
ons in the hands of youth is its
freshness, its faith to write on
its own slate only beauty and
perfection. And when youth pre-
maturely dons the soiled and
{ shabby mantle of those who have
known disappointment and fail-
{ ure, it does right to call this by
the name ‘‘sophistication” a
synonym of adulteration.
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Foreign Words
and Phrases
Man’s Interest Was
Purely Professional
Once when Wm. J. Bryan was
making an important speech, his
attention was drawn to a man in
the audience who apparently was
held spellbound by the flow of ora-
tory—says Mrs. D. C. French in
“Memories of a Sculptor's Wife.”
Later in the evening the man
seized Bryan's hand.
“I've watched you every min-
ute,” he said breathlessly
never taken my eyes off you.”
Mr. Bryan felt deeply thrilled.
“Yes,” continued the man, “I'm
a dentist and I've never before
seen a speaker who, when he
laughed, showed both full rows of
teeth.” —Kansas City Star.
Alea jacta est. (L.) The die is
| cast. (The words of Julius Caesar
after crossing the Rubicon.)
Alter ego. (L.) My other self;
bosom friend.
Bonne - bouche. (F.) A dainty
| morsel; a tit-bit.
Coup de theatre.(F.) An unex-
pected event; a startling surprise.
Durante beneplacito.(L.) During
your good pleasure.
Embonpoint. (F.)
stoutness; corpulence.
Facile princeps. (L.) Easily the
first; the acknowledged 'eader.
Montani semper liberi. (L.)
Mountaineers are always freemen.
(Motto of West Virginia.)
Loco citato. (L.) In the place
cited.
Par exemple.(F.) For example;
for instance.
Quo animo? (L.)
mind or intention?
Plumpness;
With what
pany, Oil City, Pennsylvania.
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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Airplanes at $750 Each
Perils of Pacifism
The “Man of Calcium”
Improving Human Breed?
as $750.
important
tion news;
bureau of
commerce is
be congratulated
on its effort
encourage
vidual flying.
ing when there
will be more ma-
than there
automobiles on
the ground now.
More than 25,-
000,000 airplanes
may sound like exaggeration
But it sounded like exaggeration
some years ago when this writer
published editorials urging citizens
not to spread tacks and cut glass
on roads, to puncture automobile
tires, because, before long, auto-
mobiles would be used by workers
going to and from work. That pre-
diction came true
Arther Brisbane
Some one preparing a list of ten
things that Christians would and
would not do says
“There would be no private
wealth; Jesus denounced great pos-
sessions as alien to His gospel, and
fatal to His kingdom
“There would be no poverty and
no war, because real Christians
would refuse to fight."
In this civilization, if Christians
refused to fight, they would rapidly
diminish in numbers and the Pacific
coast would be settled by Asiatics
The founder of Christianity taught
that what was due to Caesar should
be rendered unto him
If He were on earth now He
might say the same of organized
capital, knowing that it supplies, in
our complicated system, the possi-
bility of steady work.
Nobody, not even a clergyman,
can be positive as to what Christ's
commands would be if he returned
mobiles, public schools and the
strange problem of too much of al-
most everythin combined with
want among many thousands of
families lacking food and the gov-
ernment wondering occasionally
what to do with millions of bushels
of wheat.
Before long you may have foot.
ball coaches feeding calcium to
their players. You know what we
call “a man of iron" is really the
“man of calcium.”
The metal calcium in the blood,
in quantities that do not change, or
that change little, produces a steadi-
ness of nerve lacking in men with
a fluctuating calcium supply.
It is said that experiments made
on four young men at an eastern uni-
versity showed that a drop in cal-
cium brought on “moodiness, de-
pression and pessimism.”
the blood serum they are in a ""hap-
py, cheerful, optimistic, emotional
state.”
But ask your doctor about it.
Don't swallow calcium recklessly.
London thinks something should
be done about “more than 250,000
mental defenctives,”” and steriliza-
tion, on the German plan, is sug-
gested, on condition that the indi-
vidual consents. With such a law,
government sterilization agents
would have few customers
Under one law suggested, the
health minister would order the
sterilization of “physically ailing
persons shown to be carriers of
transmissible disabilities.”
The world is preparing to regu-
late and improve the human breed,
as it has long regulated and im-
proved breeds of cattle, swine and
other creatures; a step in the di-
rection of uniformity that may not
be desirable.
One of the most enlightened edu-
cators in America tells teachers and
undergraduates that the important
thing is the general welfare, not the
| individual welfare. An excellent
| idea to put into the minds of young
| people.
| They should also be told that in-
dividual welfare and striving, with
selfishness back of it, is the founda-
| tion of general welfare.
The baby wiggling its arms and
| kicking its legs in the cradle is build-
| ing up one more strong baby, for
its own sake, not for the general
welfare, to which it, nevertheless,
contributes. The man, concentrat-
ing on his career, and on the care
and education of his children, has
chiefly in mind his career, children
and family. But he also is building
up the general welfare. Each tiny
coral builder worked only for its
own speck of coral, but beautiful
islands are the result.
After four years of study, wise
men discover that ideas are im-
pressed on the minds of children
more deeply by moving pictures
than by reading books. Less than
four minutes is required to estab-
lish that fact.
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Look for ILE.S. Tag
for Beauty and
Eye Comfort
By Louise Brown
It's just two years agg that
lamps first designed to
give light for easy seeing—that
is, built according to the newly
discovered principles of the Sci
ence of Seeing,
were
Jefore that, L.mps were sim-
ply lamps. We chose them ac
cording
material and size with little or
no thought as to whether they
give sufficient light for
seeing tasks. As a matter of
fact, we knew very little about
the between
and light,
Then the
of the Science of Seeing which
would
relationship
development
came
many facts about the
the light
revealed
amount of
for seeing.
eyes and
needed
Meter was developed to
light In
thermometer
And
to
they
Sight
measure intensities of
footcandles as a
measures degrees of heat
lamps were first designed
give a satisfac.ory quality and
quantity of light for safe seeing
when working at various tasks.
THE TAG OF APPROVAL
Perhaps you have seen lamps
which have a small tag fasten
ed to them reading “Certificate
E. 8.
wondered
anything
t certainly does!
as to Compliance with L
Specifications and
if It
in particular.
These
64 rigid specifications set
casually meant
lamps are designed to
meet
up by the [Hluminating Engineer
ing Society, and certified by the
Electrical Testing Laboratories
as having passed these tests for
sight-saving light as ell as for
the hig
shir and
hest quality of workman
materials
Lamps that are made to these
specifications v.ar a special tag
with the [lluminating Engineer
ing it
war: to buy a package of good
Society insignia you
the tag.
Nose Betrays Character
It is the nose, rather than the,
mouth, which betrays character, |
All other features can be conscious-
ly controlled, but the quivering of
the nostrils will often reveal an in-
ward unrest even when the other
features remain tense and immo- |
bile, according to a writer in Pear-
son's Weekly. Most famous soldiers
have possessed Roman noses. Wel-
lington and Napoleon were two. The
man with pinched nostrils may |
have considerable ability, but he!
Pinched nostrils usually denote a |
pronounced inferiority complex. |
The straight Grecian nose indicates
the large, fairly |
thick nose is the hall-mark of the
financial genius; the long, thin nose
is suggestive of the quarrelsome
type, while, at the other extreme,
the good-humored, door-mat type of
person will usually be the possessor
of a pug nose. Y
The Little Brown Bear
The little brown bear is the de-
scendant of a long line of European
brown bears. Perhaps his ances-
tors did not come over on the May-
flower, but they once entertained
Queen Elizabeth at a command per-
That was in 1575, says
Thirteen brown bears consented to
be baited with bulldogs for the edi-
fication of her royal highness, and
they made such a hit that the sport
was continued for centuries, despite
the Puritans and various uplift or-
ganizations. The hybrids obviously
are of pioneer stock and have no
family traditions. The little brown
aristocrat’'s forbears were trained
artists, dancing for the crowned
heads of Europe, while the hybrids’
parents were mooching fish from
the Eskimos.
Yew Trees
The taxus, or ‘‘real yews," as
some call these trees, because they
had the name before the podocar-
pus was known, are headed by
what we call the “English” yew,
Times. “In days of old, when
knights were bold and barons held
their sway,” all were armed with
bows of yew, made from taxus bac-
cata, the so-called English yew. In
fact, it is said that the word yeoman
protection and the decorative
scheme can be in perfect harmony.
The lamp shown here—one of the
Better Sight type—provides plenty
of well diffused light yet blends with
the other furnishings.
Eye
by which
that give
At the right is the tag
you can identify lamps
fight for safe sewing.
SIGHT. SAVING AND BEAUTY
Don't think that with all this
| testing LL E. 8
iy
Lamps are mere
utiiftarian. They are really
There are many love
which bar
! beautifu
ly veriou designs
monize perfectly with room fur
Eye and
| nishings, protection
| the decorative scheme can be In
| complete accord,
There are new styles in the
study lamps for table or desk. |
The Wart Hog
The wart hog inhabits Eastern
Africa from Abyssinia to the Zam-
bezi viver. Other members of the
same homely family can be found
over most of the African continent
They usually live along streams and
den in holes in the ground. The
curving tusks of the wart hog are
highly prized by some natives of
them together in necklaces.
Use of Music in Churches
In the early churches of Ohio
there was much opposition at first
to the suggestion that musical in-
struments be used to accompany
the voices in hymns. In one church
in Columbus a bass violin was
brought secretly at night into the
choir loft to be introduced as ac-
companiment. Gradually the con-
gregation became friendly with this
sort of music during their services.
Mango Trees
some-
times 40 feet high, with large, shiny
leaves and yellow or reddish flow-
ers.
sometimes weighing
tropical and subtropical countries,
particularly in the West Indies and,
so some extent, in southern Califor-
nia and Florida.
Lost Loin Cioth Set Style
In the most ancient Olympic
games loin cloths were the uni-
forms worn by the boys. But in
720 B. C. Orsippus of Megara, who
wasn't given & chance, lost his loin
cloth and scampered “unimpeded”
to victory in a race. For many
years thereafter the boys dressed
in smiles and frowns,
There are wall bracket
floor
idea
Decora
that's an excellent
looking
in a bal
at either
Then two
when used
Heidelberg
Heidelberg, a university town of
Baden in southwestern Germany, is
the seat of the university, which
was founded in 1385. The town has
an ancient castle which contains in
its cellar a cask with a capacity
of 46,732 gallens. Near Heidelberg,
in 1907, the lower jawbone of a pre-
historic man was found, and this
city has given its name to the racial
type which is believed to have
existed many hundreds of thou
sands of years ago.
Strange Animal Alliance
One of the strangest alliances of
the animal kingdom is that of the
rattlesnake, the prairie dog and the
owl on the western plains. The
prairie dog is an involuntary host
to the two intruders who move into
his underground home. The owl
gets shelter and the rattler de-
mands both shelter and food —
young prairie dogs for choice. In
some rattlesnake families, observ-
ers say, the mother opens her
mouth when danger approaches and
her young crawl inside.
Conservation Laws Old,
According to Authority
Definite mention of conservation
of both birds and trees is made in
the laws of Moses over 2,500 years
News. On trees we find this:
“When thou shalt besiege a city
a long time in making war against
it to take it, thou shalt not destroy
the trees thereof by forcing an ax
against them, for thou mayest eat
of them, and thou shalt not cut
them down (for the tree of the field
is man's life) to employ them in
the siege.” Deuteronomy 20:19.
Then touching on birds we read:
“If a bird's nest chance to be be-
fore thee in the way in any tree or
on the ground, whether they be
young ones or eggs, and the dam
sitting upon the young, or upon the
eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
with the young.” Deuteronomy 22:6.