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Overcome Handicaps
and Carve Useful Careers
in World of Business
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By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Next time you're down on
your luck and your jaw sags
like an overloaded clothesline,
try swinging your legs and
arms, or blinking your eyes.
And be thankful you have arms,
legs and eyes.
A lot of people haven't.
But the disasters that robbed
them of these faculties have
usually inspired them to make
the best of it. More often than
not they've achieved outstand-
ing success.
Nineteen - year - old
talent won admiration
where. Then one day she ran
for a train, missed, and woke
to find both her legs gone.
Gone, too, were tennis, golf,
dancing and other sports, but
Jessie Simpson didn’t weep
about it like her friends. Disas-
ter brought her a new life, and
today she’s receptionist at the
New York city telephone office.
Moreover, she's building a ca-
reer as a photogra-
commercial
remarkaby beautiful
Legless Swimmer.
Speaking of legless people, there's
also the case of Charles (Zimmy)
Zibelman of New York lost
his legs years ago in a Chicago
trolley accident. Since then he has
become famous as a swim-
mer. He was photographed drink-
ing beer and smoking cigars while
swimming “across the Atlantic
ocean’'—in the swimming pool of
the Queen Mary. His most
able achievement is a 144-h
mile swim down the Hud:
from Albany to New York
tumn. Last winter he planned
similar excursion Miami to
Havana, sharks permittin
In Provo, Utah, a h
student named Wilkins Nuttall
prize-winnnig lightweight
even though he has but
Nuttall used to stand on
lines until he said to himself one
day, “What has any other wrestler
got that I haven't got?’’ and pro-
ceeded to give more experienced
matmen a run for their money. Of
course he can't apply a ‘‘scissors’’
hold, but it is equally
for an opponent to apply the “split”
on him.
Success on ‘‘Stilts.”
who
stunt
from
school
iS a
wrestler
one leg!
the
ness man and bicycle rider
nevertheless has no legs. Seven
years ago Ralph was working his
way through Whittier
driving a tractor. One day the trac-
tor overturned and he regained con-
sciousness to find his legs gone. To-
day, seven years later, Veady con-
ducts his jewelry business, drives
his car and even dances, with the aid
of artificial legs. A star performer
in many amateur races, Veady is
also an expert swimmer and a clev-
er skater with or without his legs.
Only a few miles from Bellflower,
in Huntington Park, lives Miss Clo-
ver Kerr, who lost both legs and one
arm in a traffic accident last year.
Like Jessie Simpson, she refused
to be pitied, outlining a new career
before she left her hospital bed.
Today she has found the way to
happiness and usefulness through
service.
Miss Kerr is artist, counselor,
philosopher and fairy godmother
to hundreds of crippled youngsters
in the Far West through her daily
broadcast over station KFWB in
Los Angeles. She writes her own
and answers countless
And
early this year she complained be-
cause 1938 wouldn't have enough
days, weeks and months to permit
accomplishment of all she had
planned!
Blind, But Not to Color!
Helen Keller is not America’s only
accomplished blind person. Her re-
by that of Miss Nettie Timonds,
sixty-three-year-old farm manager
of Bladensburg, Iowa. When she was
three years old Miss Timonds was
left unable to talk.
speech returned, but
deafness. Nor was this the end of
her bad luck, for in 1883 Miss Tim-
onds fell on her head and went
blind . . .on Thanksgiving day.
Undaunted, she has become a
successful farmer, aided by her
trusty hired man, Perry Wilson. He
will tell you that Miss Timonds is a
crank about her peonies; she in-
sists that the different varieties and
colors be grouped and blended just
so. And old rose is her favorite
color, used freely to decorate the
home which she designed personal-
ly.
But Miss Timonds and Helen Kel-
ler both had to learn the hard way,
“seeing eye’’ dog.
sightless persons.
ABOVE: Jessie Simpson, Hoboken,
N. J., beauty, whose legs were cut
off by a railroad train, but who has
carved herself a new career as com-
mercial photographers’ model. BE-
LOW: Bobby Jones, the world's
greatest golfer, who was weak and
puny as a child.
before scientific research found
means of aiding the physically dis-
abled. Today instruments have been
¢esigned which provide mechanical
eyes and ears to you
withe ut sight cr hearing
Science Takes a Hand.
In Evanston, Ill,
Joan Higgins cannot see or hear but
is learning with the aid of a “phon
devised by Dr. Robert H
university
learned to
a ingsters born
five-yvear-ol
otactor,”’
Gault of Northwestern
Whereas Helen Keller
“hear” by placing her fingers on
speaker's lips, Joan I zi
tactor transiates vou
tions. She places her fi
sitive reeds which vibrat
to 8,000 times a
structor speaks into a telephone
transmitter.
Few }
the blind
sight
Park,
was taken
the
the
neg Mey
n phon
(
vibra-
secon in-
)¥S can
to see
she had
she had never seen
15 years of total bl 3 she was
i happy Surgeons
tram |
made
cataracts Ii
removed
faces
A
whom After
who
ves
In El Paso, Texas, twelve-year-old
exclaim,
“It's wonderful!-—beautiful!” when
he saw the world for the first time
in his life. And a grandmother in
after 20 years, could see her three
Infantile paralysis, one of man-
has
victim but most of them have found
new hope in the joy of living. The
father willingly spends $2,000 a day
to keep his son alive in the *‘iron
lung’ which may be his home for
Stricken in China
during a round-the-world cruise,
young Snite has lived in the lung al-
most two years but has never lost
courage. He jokes with his nurses
From Cripple to Athlete,
become normally active, but it's
amazing when they become out-
standing athletes! Glenn Cunning-
ham, the world's ‘fastest human,”
was trapped in a fire when he was
eight years old. What had once been
a pair of legs were grim, blackened
fragments. Few people thought he
would ever walk again but Cunning-
ham fooled them. Today if you
see him running around the track a
full hour before his race starts,
don’t think Cunningham is “‘strut-
ting’’' for the public. He has to ex-
ercise those rebuilt legs, to work
up circulation by sustained effort.
Bobby Jones, the world’s greatest
golfer, was so skinny as a youngster
that a good sneeze would have top-
pled him in the dust.
Modern society is taking a much
more humane attitude toward the
cripple than did our forefathers. Sci-
entists and the public alike are re-
alizing that physically handicapped
people can become useful citizens
if given help and encouragement.
Pioneers like Helen Keller have
opened new fields of activity for the
blind. They have been taught use-
ful trades and have gained
pendence by using ‘‘secing eye’
dogs, highly intelligent animals who
guide their masters through every
traffic hazard without danger.
But it takes grit to face the world
when the lights go out and you've
no legs to stand on. Ask Nettie
Timonds or Jessie Simpson!
© Western Newspaper Union,
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WATER--the Elixir of Life
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 30th St, New York.
F ALL the elements required to support life and maintain
health and efficiency, water takes precedence. Without
it, the protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and vitamins,
which build and repair tissues, provide motive power for the
to existence would be utterly useless.
Water is the magic stream
through which all nutritive | drink and there the
elements are carried into and | most people ends.
through the body and there| Few individuals give proper
held in & asion. It is the consideration to supplying the
eid In suspension. : body with all the water it needs.
ever-ready messenger which | Yet, when the water content of
distributes heat, moisture and
the body diminishes, health and
body-building material, where life are in danger. A loss of 10
and as it is needed.
per cent of body water is a serious
* % *%
matter and a loss of 20 per cent
is usually fatal.
It is only in rare instances—
Man Is a Sponge such as when lost in a
Our bodies are like water-logged | that man actually dies of thirst,
sponges, for we carry water to for even when no fluids are drunk.
the limit of our ca-
pacity. A human
being is more than
water is consumed with food. But
all about us we see men and wom-
two - thirds water,
and this proportion
en suffering from the effects of
water starvation. Some indica-
tions of this are dryness of the
must be main- skin and lips, mucous membranes
tained, if health and scalp. There is also danger
and strength are to of damaging the kidneys which re-
be preserved. quire water to flush away the acid
There is enough | products of metabolism. And very
water in a person often constipation can be traced
weighing 150 to a deficiency of water, which is
pounds to fill a 15- necessary to soften the contents
gallon barrel. Muscles, liver and | of the intestinal canal.
kidneys are about 80 per cent wa- None of these ill effects may
ter, the brain 85 per cent. Even
bone is made more
if you take er
one-third water, so you
that old “dry as
* * *
bone’ is not strictly accurate.
interest of
feared ough
up of
can
the adage
he adag normal indi 1
normal inaivicuai
How Much Is Enough?
No cell can func
A healthy,
constantly bathed in fluic
thermore, depend upon
water to their foods
through the blood. This alone re-
quires ten x water In
constant circulation.
We may
an incoming
equally important as an
stream. The cells need
flush away
And if the surface of the
not kept moist, there can be no in-
take of oxygen, no output of car-
bon dioxide
Without water, no waste would
be carried out of the body. Poi-
sonous substances would remain
to wreck the system within a short
time. Water flushes the countless
channels of physical existence
even while we sleep, for it con-
stantly passes from the body
through the lungs and skin, as
well as through the bowels and
kidneys.
quires about four quar
tion tn
tion unless it is T
F every 24 hours. That
ur- 2
: varies somewhat with
{
In hot weather there is a greater
transport y
ap eiimination
and that
of water through per-
spiration
replaced.
However, it is
nde
Ad cs
tor
o
ter drini
put :
wast brand upon three sources
vaste products . \
Mm First, water taken as
lungs is hina
water to
that
wneir
when burned
more
the original fat.
water
east.
* * *
Foods Rich in Water
A half-pound potato contains
nearly a full glass of water. Some
other foods that are more than
70 per cent water are asparagus,
berries, string beans, cabbage,
caulifiower, celery, cucumber,
% % ¥
Water Starvation
Where do we get all this water?
When we are thirsty, we take a
eggs, citrus fruits, cherries,
grapes, melons, apples, raw and
cooked greens, milk, onions,
cooked green peas, boiled pota-
toes, sauerkraut, shell fish, meat
stews, tomatoes and squash.
Foods containing less than 30
per cent water include butter,
cakes, candies, ready-to-eat cere-
! als, crackers, dried fruits, nuts,
potato chips, sausage, bacon, syr-
ups and zwieback.
* * %
Avoid the Dry Habit
{| In addition to the water con-
sumed with food, every normal
individual should drink about six
| glasses of liquid daily—as water,
| milk, coffee, tea or other bever-
ages.
| Most people drink far too little
| water. Women often have the mis-
| taken notion that water will make
| them fat. To demonstrate the fal-
{lacy of this idea, a world-famous
WE OFFER <%
A New Food Department
% All the accumulated knowl-
edge and experience of C.
Houston Goudiss, the man who
for 30 yea~* has exerted a wide
influence on the food habits of
this nation, are now available
to homemakers through the se-
ries of articles now appearing
in this newspaper. These dis-
cussions are as fascinating as
fiction, as up to date as to-
morrow, and, above all, au-
thoritative. For no matter what
aspect of food is under dis-
cussion, C. Houston Goudiss
knows whereof he speaks.
% His work has been a devo-
tion to the study of food, both
from the productive and the
manufactured standpoint. He
believes that better food means
a better nation. Sharing these
views, we have secured him to
assist in carrying out our aims
—t0 be the best available guide
in the most important of all
matters that affect the homes
of the readers of this newspa-
per—for health, happiness and
prosperity depend first of all
upon food.
%* Every homemaker will
want to clip these articles, and
save them. She will find them
invaluable aids in keeping her
family properly fed. it
meals?”
{ that were true, poor people would
| tice,
It is possible to drink too much
water and those who are suffering
{ mal people could increase both
| mental and physical efficiency by
| taking more of this magic fluid.
* * *
Drink Water with Meals
The question is often asked—*‘Is
wise to drink water with
The answer is
Have You a Question?
Ask C. Houston Goudiss
C. Houston Goudiss has placed at
the disposal of readers of this news
paper all the facilities of his famous
Experimental Kitchen Laboratory in
New York City. He will gladly an.
swer questions concerning foods, diet,
nutrition, and their relation to health
You are also invited to consult him
in matters of personal hygiene, I's
not necessary to write a letter unless
you desire, for posicard inquiries
will receive the same careful atten
tion. Address C. Houston Goudiss at
6 East 39th Street, New York City.
There is evidence that the drink-
ing of a reasonable amount of wa-
ter with meals by normal individ-
uals stimulates the secretion of
gastric juice, thereby improving
digestion. It has also been dem-
onstrated that it aids in the ab-
sorption of food by the body and
retards the growth of intestinal
bacteria.
The homemaker should be just
as conscientious in providing her
family with water as
with adequate amounts of the oth-
er food For water
must be included in the list of es-
food constituents. It i
ELIXIR of LIFE.
sufficient
substances
sential
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truth, the
Questions Answered
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fattening. Won
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face—is oil polish used! T
principle ]
nitely
keep it *
ish hs , non-greasy oil
—and it is just this—when rubbed
or massaged into
that prevents the wood
checking, drying out, splitting or
cracking. Furniture will not do
any of these things, when cared
for—and it is the combination of
the ‘““0il"”” and the ‘rubbing’ that
prevents it! For the quality oil-
polish ‘“‘feeds’’ the hungry finish—
keeps the wood young! Other pol-
ishes may give a quick, easy-to-
achieve luster—but a little time
nd energy (it should not be la-
bor) on the part of the housewife,
will pay dividends in the looks and
long life of her furniture and
woodwork. All experts agree that
an oil polish properly used (apply
on damp cloth—as directed) is not
only better—it is vital! And so,
home-makers, take this important
tip: Always use an oil polish-—and
the best one!
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