The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 16, 1916, Page 2

TRIBUTE TO JANE AUSTEN Why the Writer Considers Her to. Have Been a Greater Artist Than George Sand. In ‘the history of literature George ——_—fand-is-the_great-example of a woninn Even so long ago as 1765 La Cat no- who won success by the masepliné s- lution of detachment from experience, and Jane Austen, the great exam; of a woman who won success by the feminine solution of identification with her own dailyness. I am inclined to think the latter by far the greater artist, just as I am inclined to think that in literature rather than in uny other form of men- tal activity will alwayS be found woman’s highest intellectual achieve- ment, for the simple reason that wom- fan's genius consists in personality, and for the expression of fersonality | words are the only adequate medium. ; WHY NEGRO’S SKIN IS DARK Scientist Ascribes to Climatic Condi. tions the Different Colors of the Human Body. The baby negro is not born black. ticed that the /newly born negro is of a reddish color, This observution has since been frequently confirmed, and it is now pretty widely known that, though the baby negro begins to follow in the footsteps of his parents as re- gards color within a few days after his birth, yet at the moment of birth he shows a disposition. to aspire to- ward the Caucasian race, being white, or at worst red, in hue. It is generally assumed that the chief of all the causes of a negro’s blackness is the hot sun beneath whose more or less vertical rays he is doomed to live. There is, however, a physiological con- ‘795 Model 85-4 f. 0. b. Toledo Model 85-4 f. 0. b. Toledo Jane Austen’s exumple is the great er- j dition of the skin which differentiates couragement for the woman who, that organ from the integument of the wishes to write without ceasing te be | white man. In other words, there is a a simple everyday woman. Jane Austen was capable of a de- tachment that enabled her to write books that give no hint of the thun- der of the Napoleonic wars even when she had two brothers on fighting ships. She was capable of an identification with her surroundings that enabled her to write novels. of universal ku- manity and eternal artistry and to keep right on being everybody's aunt at the same time. She was sane and hurrorous in her novels because she was sane and hu- morous out of them, She achieved fame because she had first achieved personality. be Still, ker fame is only a thin, frail fire set beside the effulgence of a dozen men of her time. Yet, I would rather have been Jane Austen than Shelley. or Wordsworth or ‘Keats — Winifred Kirkland, in Atlantic Monthly. ee “ASSERTS MUSIC IS A TONIC Physician Claims It May Be Used With < Much Benefit in. Treatment of Consumption. In urging the value of musie as d treatment for consumption, Dr. Thom- ag J. Mays of Philadelphia ass in an article in the New York Medi- cal Journal that it seems probable by far the larger number of cases will; receive benefit from those forms that are in major keys. “For,” he adds, “it is a patent fact that, no matter how cheerful and elated patients of this‘kind may seem to be, in their lonely morents there is nearly always present an undercur- rent feeling of tribulation and oppres- sion.” “Major music,” writes Doctor Mays, “is a tonic to the emotions, at least in modernte quantities, and wakes joy, animation, hope, happiness and cour- age, and its action may be compared | to that of a tonic or stimulant dose of } strychnine or quinine, while minor mu- sic depresses emotional activity, the action of which is analogous to that} of a bromide or of a sleeping potion.” To the objection that most lullabies! are written in major keys, Doctor | Mays answers that sleeplessness is generally due to-a subnormal mental or nervous state, so that toning up or than is further depression. i Dickens Fellowship. The Dickens Fellowship is an organ: ization with its center in London and, branches in the principal cities of the! FEinglish-speaking Innds, Its mber> ship consists of people who enjoy read- | ing and talking about the nevels of Qharles Dickens, and in supporting the sort of benevolent enterprise which! would especially have attracted him, Fellowship meets every month at the Nation Arts club, Gramercy Park, New York city. The pro, of the meet- ing consists of discussions, debates, the reading of papers, the presenta- tion of brief plays and music. At the fellowship’s annual: dinner, held on Dickens’ birthday, the guests of honor are the most prominent novelists of the day. The New York branch of the fellowship supports a cot in a child's hospital, gives a Christmas treat to crippled children, and has other benev- olent activities, How Clever Plants Are. The cleverness of some plants is indisputable. A sundew, or fiy-eater, deceived by a piece of chalk, seized it, in its tendrils, but upon discovering: the fraud immediately withdrew them.! - A fly, held just out of its reach, did not tempt it to move, but as soon as it.was brought a little nearer the plant prepared to take possession of it. Dar- ‘Win showed that a begonia had a habit of searching for a hole to insert its tendrils into, and even of withdrawing the tendril to insert # in another hole, if the first proved unsuitable. Nor is this power of selecting combined to particular class, Climbers like the lianas will refuse to coil around a branch not strong enough to bear their weight. Metchnikoff’s Dramatic Death. Professor Metchnikoff, says the {World's Work, came to his laboratory 9 HE eat i difference in’ what is known as “pig- mentation.” “The negro,” says a scientist, “pos- SesseS a more developed vascular su- doriparous system’ than we do.” In other words, he has more and larger Sweat glands, and they are more lib- erally supplied with blood. By means of these he per@pires muth more abun- dantly. This condition is possibly a contributory factor in his blackness. It is an important element in the in- vestigation to remember, however, that the blackest of all black people are almost invariably found under cer- tain very definite climatic conditions. That is to say, they are found where great. heat, strong light and much at- mospheric moisture are in combination. For example, “the blackest negroes in Africa are those who live in Guinea, where the greatest amount of rain annually falls.” But “the people who live in the dry section of the Nubian desert have fed skins.”—Tit Bits, BOYS REQUIRE MUCH FOOD | Growing Youth Needs More Than Would Satisfy the Man Who pase Has. to Work Hard. A These Tremendous Advantages— More power—35 horsepower motor. These are tremendous advantages over any- More room—112-inch wheelbase. thing to be had in other cars that sell for Greater comfort — long, 48-inch cantilever anywhere near as low a price. ; rear springs and dink tires. And they make it hard for us to keep up with Greater convenience—electrical control but- orders. : ; tons on steering column. The factory has never yet caught up with the Bigger, safer brakes—service, 1334x214 ; emer- demand. : : pay 13x24. as You ought to own one of these cars—nothing Better cooling—you never heard of an Over- else so big and fine for the money. land motor overheating. Come in and order yours now. CLIN KENBEARD & ISLEY BUTLER, MO., Phones 229, 516 RICH HILL, MO., Phone 157 4 ‘The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio “Made in U.S.A.” m tedthererecently,-and—that—big | —Deutschland_Ready_to Sail. | Shave Yourself Barber Shop. SEORT STORIES— Of Local .Interest—Clipped From : Our Exchanges. The ravenous appetites of healthy, growing boys are notorious, An in- vestigation of the food eaten by 300 boys in one of the largeSt private board- ing schools of- America, published in The honds voted last July to the Journal of the American Medical | erect a new school house at Am- Association, shows that the food was |oret have all been purchased by of the best quality, including 198 va-|the Bank of Amoret, says the rieties; it cost an average of 20 cents | [jeader. at meal per boy, or 13.8 cents per thou- sand calories, Mrs. Susan Hines, Each boy consumed 4,350 calories a| pioneer of this part of the coun- | day at table, but bought an average of | ty, died at Drexel Saturday and | G00 additional calories at a neighbor-| 2, buried in Sharon cemetery | ing store, the principal item in this Mond M cin Si being chocolate, Monday noon.—Merwin Sun. Thus each boy averaged 5,000 calor- jes a day, or half again as much as a farmer at work is believed to require. The total fuel intake was three times age 72, a The Merwin Sun says it pays to advertise. Recently a man in that vicinity lost a couple of shoats hunch of money has been distrib- uted among the farmers for this one item which farmers do not usually regard as a paying in- vestment, A special election~ has been called in St. Clair county for De- cember 12 for the purpose of vot-| ing on a proposition to issue bonds to pay off the old railroad debt that has been hanging over that county for years. The old | bonds, with interest and judg- ;ments, amounts to $4,000,000. The holders of the bonds have of- ; fered to compromise for $630,000. The engagement of Miss Stella New London, Conn., Nov. 12.—, The time of the departure of the; German commercial submarine Deutschland was still uncertain | tonight, although everything ap-| parently has been in readiness} since Saturday for a quick dash} to sea. : | There were more‘rumors today j that. British cruisers were outside the three-mile limit waiting for the Deutschland and that.° two German war submarines were off the coast to convoy the boat back to Germany. Owners of barber shops of Pat- terson, N. J., who have been in trouble lately on account of the barbers strike, have solved the problem by laying in a store of safety razors and accessories. Citizens of Patterson can be seen standing in front of mirors in the shop shaving themselves while the proprietors brought them lather, towels and face powder. One of the proprietors thought out the idea and put it into execution and soon every barber shop in the city was being run on the same plan. that of the basal level of 1,700 to 1,800 | and placed an ad in the Sun. The! ruth Baldwin daughter of Sen- ulories, which is the heat production | next morning he found his hogs. | i boys from thirteen to sixteen years of age when resting or asleep, » the pi of the undernutrition seen fn children ry school bread, but- sether furnished of the food fuel, and the Journal he American Medical Association ents that this is an exceptionally some combination, A True Gentleman. A very courteous gentleman was old Dr. R. Owen, who once took a chair at deaf. Not one word of Doctor Jordan's lecture did he hear, But every now and again he nodded his head kindly|on an old ‘‘chain letter’’ swindle and applauded what the lecturer said. recently says the u Now, how could he tell when Doctor) hone, A firm in Minneapolis from promised a fine silk petticoat for 10e and sent in their dimes but received no petticoat. Jordan said anything wise or witty that cali@d for a clap of the hands or a word of cheer? He watched the young students. Wher he saw them applaud he applauded, so that he might not appear inattentive to what was going on. I think the smile on that aged face must have been beau- tiful. This was a true gentleman.— From “People Worth While,” by F. J. Gould. R. L. Stevenson’s $20 Goldpieces. Then back.to San Francisco, where the only memory that remains is that of a confused blur of preparations for leaving—packing, ticket buying and melancholy farewells—for Mr. Steven- son was then homeward bound to old Scotland to introduce his newly ac- quired American wife to his waiting parents. One day he came in with his Pockets full of $20 gold pleces, with which he had supplied himself for the journey. He thought this piece of money the handsomest coin in the world, and said it made a man feel rich merely to handle it. In a jesting mood he drew the coins from his pock- ets and threw them the table, whence they rolled it and left on the floor, saying: “Just look! I'm simply lousy wid money!” Of course, a wild, laughing scramble ensued.— Nellie Van de Grift Sanches in Scrib- ner’s Magazine. ‘The Goal. ; ; H 55 & i ut . Graham Lusk remarks that lack.| H. B, Phillips came down from | Nevada, Missouri, was announced tion of the ravenous appe- | Kansas City nd lack of provision for | lished an o ible causes of much tig now ready to relieve suffering | Chamber: humanity. merous in the Adrian neighbor-| peutics at hood says the Journal, One night} Gity Journal. last week they broke into a hen 3 house in that town and killed 29 fine, large geese. have been living over west, load-| wolves. J. G. Lyon, of Cass coun- a lecture given to students by Dr, Da-|¢d their possessions in a box car|ty was down and spent the week vid Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford uni-| last week and started Friday for| with Mr. Dunn and brought with versity, California, Doctor Owen was] Délphia, Ind. to then eighty years old and exceedingly | home.—Merwin Sun. do some strange and wonderful things,. but it remains t Amoret Leader to record how one] Can answer this D in that part of the country got| the postiveness of a plainly for- seared at a calf by the roadside|seen fact. But it has undoubted- and shied into a ditch spilling one of the passengers. week some dimension timbers|strain in the future. were unloaded in a vacant lot and | so horribly deadly, they are so the report was immediately put} fablously expensive, and it looks oa Brison Pay veer SCOd® in circulation that a new busi-|as if, in most cases, they will be ye. ‘ ness house was to be erected, but|so hopelessly indeterminate. The on) - Ifyou need save in it was a vain hope, it was only 8] only place in the world, before 1 ¢ a i aa ithaee cn sign board. Wednesday from his fourth trip with a poultry car to New York City during October. His car got stopped for 24 hours on one trip or he would have made his fifth trip during the month, as it was he only missed it twelve hours.—Amsterdam Enterprise. © and ducks was shipped from Ap-|the field of battle. But where is pleton City Saturday evening] the nation that is going to feel bound for the Chicago - market| this way when the present slaugh- says the Appleton City Journal.|ter is finally ator and Mrs, John Baldwin, and Amsterdam has a dentist. Dr.) Mr. Tracy Carleton Weltmer, of Your money works for you 24 Hours Every Day st week and estab-| Wednesday noon at a luncheon e in that burg and| given by her sister, Miss Mary at their home, Mr. Weltmer is vice-president and ; 4 : : business manager of the Weltmer ’ If you save it. Wolves are becoming quite nu-] [nstitute of Suggestive Therau- : x Nevada.—Appleton : Better put it in “The Old Reliable” as you get it W. Hi. Dunn, of Grand River township informed an Adrian ‘ ag Journal reporter Saturday of the John Julien and family, who} }uck they had last week catching make their] him his pack of wolf dogs. Dur- ing his stay with Mr. Dunn they succeeded in bagging three wolves. These catches were made by the dogs in chases that lasted thirty minutes to three A number of Hume ladies bit Missouri State Bank Hume _ Tele- hours. Is the Present European War the Last One? Is the present war going to for the|turn mankind to peace? Nobody question with Tin lizzies have been known to We Welcome With Pleasure a visit to our furniture store. We take pride in displaying the side boards, china clos- ets, tables, chairs, etc., made to adorn the dining room. And after you have satisfied yourself of their beauty and quality we wil- lingly let a comparison of ,.| | = ly created a wonderful amount of sentiment in this country against i war. Modern wars have three Down in Metz one day last] features that will appal and re-| They are }s ¢ = — JAN'S the outbreak, a little more than James Wilson came in last|*W° years ago, where war was at all popular, was in the German Empire. ‘There the people were taught that their country was able, once. it became involved in hostilities, to force an early and very profitable peace. So the people generally throughout the domain of the Kaiser,: were in- clined to look with favor upon a A car shipment of chickens} trial of national strength upon GENCE: BROS DR. R. R. GLOYD GRADUATE VETERINARIAN I do all work pertaining to the veterinary. business including state work. I STRIVE TO PLEASE Phones: Office 128; Res., 358