Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1928, Page 36

WOMA Trait Which Should Be Corrected BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘The parents of an only child have to of view is that of the parents, and not be on guard continually lest they in- terfere with the child’s individuality by paying him (or her) too much atten- tion. Many a poor little youngster i 80 surrounded by thoughtful care that he becomes hampered in development. 0~23 AN “ONLY” CHILD IS APT TO TAKE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING UN- LESS TAUGHT OTHERWISE. While love is at the root of this thoughtful care, it is a mistaken af- fection. The mother and father, though it is chiefly the mother, since the child is, of necessity, under her guidance most of the time, find it thei easure to think constantly of what rgie, or Tommy or Lucy would like to do, what | 4 | fine, | why ar | the numbers from 1 to 100, inclusive. N*'S- PAGE.' the child. And it must be admitted that it is the parents themselves who get the happiness from such solicitous thoughtfulness. To the child it is op- pressive. it easy to recognize th> “only child type.” Selfishness is so seldom left out of the child’s make-up, that it may be sald to be a dominant characteristic. One mother of an “only” daughter ex- pressed to me the at difficulty she | th> playthings. and to managing them | according to her will, that, when play- | mates came to see her, she scarcely let | these other children use her things. It | was continua 'You mustn't do that, it's my doll,” or other toy. She naturally selected the nicest cooky,! taking it first, too, since, when alone, | this was her right, ~However, the| mother’s attitude and ideas brought the sort of reacation desirable, and even- tually the daughter developed into a | wholesome and generous indi- vidual. | “Only” children resent being cons stantly looked after. They long to think | their own thoughis, and act as they wish. Too much attention may result in a child thrcwing off parental guid- ance completely when he reaches man- hood. The sudden change from all care to none is a sorrow to parents, | apt to feel that they are sglected, as indeed they may be. But ho is to blame. the parents who' seek to force the child by kindness into the | mold of mind they like, or the child who ins'sts on being something other | than the echo of father or of mother? (Copyrizht, 1928.) BRAIN TESTS Teke a pencil and two minutes for this test, which will enable you to dis- | cover your quickness in elimination. There are 100 numbers below—all Go through tha list and cross out every number that is either divisible by 7 or which contains the figure 7—either as_its first or sscond figure. Be sure to keep within the time 89 90 91 92 97 98 99 100 After the numbers have been checked, | refer to the answer and find which numbers are the correct ones. Cross out the following numbers as multiples of 7 or containing the figure 7. 7,14, 17, 21, 27, 28, 35, 37, 42, 47, 9, 5 7, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, he or she needs, etc. The whole point Straight Talks to Women About Money) BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. Capitalizing Social Contacts. How can a well known figure in a community put to commercial use the social contacts she has formed? Many women ask that question when a need arises for them to make @& little money or to make a living. Every friendship and acquaintance- ship one has made does not constitute an actual cash value, but each one does offer possibilities, and of them one should be able to realize at least a measure of profit. Before going further we should ex- plain that capitalizing social contacts does not mean taking advantage of folks in the name of friendship or fel- lowship. It does not mean using friend- 36, 57, 63, 67, 76, 77, 78, 79, 84, 87, 91, 97, 98. most favorably, her friends and her acquaintances. In capitalizing one’s social contacts a woman should choose a profession, trade or business in which she can secure most business with people she knows, For example, a woman living out in the suburbs might go in for real estate. She would be 2cquainted with real es- tate values and in her com- munity and be in a position to render real service to e who wished new homes. ‘Women familiar with business men and women find it profitable to sell Parents and students of children find | has in making her little one generous. | She was so accustomed to having all | THE EVENING WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSF Rezistered U. S ! | When at Halloween you dragged around a shoebox beautifully decorated | and containing a lighted candle? NANCY PAGE Oysters Brochette Are Like Oysters Kabobbed. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Peter had just come home from a men's dinner at the church. He was telling Nancy that they had had oyster stew with large soda crackers, a sour pickle and a choice of apple or pumpkin pie with coffee and cheese. “It wasn't | a bad meal on the whole,” he conceded, “because they gave us plenty of oyster stew and it was nice and rich. And, as you know, Nancy, I do like oysters.” “Yes, I know, and tomorrow evening we will have a dish which I don't be- lieve I ever have served at home be- fore. It is called oysters brochette or oysters kabobbed. The brochette is French and refers to the skewer on which the oysters are impaled and the kabob is Armenian or Turkish and re- fers to exactly the same thing. The Armenians usually kabob squares of things or services which their friends use or buy. These may vary from stocks and bonds to steamship accommoda- ship as a blind to deceive one’s friends | tions. or bilk them. It means just this: Ordinarily a business woman forms business con- tacts during her business career. She depends on them for her business. The woman who has not been employed or engaged in business has neither a clientele nor a patronage. Naturally she looks for customers among those who know her best and The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1928.) il AEE ol g . Western Indian. . Walking sticks. . Printed notices. . River in Livonia. . For instance. . Grow old. . Deer of Europe. . Please reply (ab.). . Upon. . Playing card. . South American mountains. . Wickedness. . Compass point. . Behold. . Swedish coin. Also. . Mother, Prefix; together. . A metal. . At no time. . Get up. . Highest point. . Increases. . Insect. . Wrath. . Man's nickname. . Engineering degree (ab.). . Yore. . Tote. . Disposes of by sale. Down. . Portions, - Artificial language. . Employ. . Sailor, In a direction toward the rising sun. . Groups of horsemen. Small snake. Short sleep. 0. & Self. A faculty of sensation. No profession or business or trade that is honest is too modest for the woman with means to acquire. Many women would be surprised by the possi- bilities of occupations which they ig- norantly scorn. > Friends make good customers only if they are given fair and businesslike treatment. This should never be for- gotten, . Three-toed sloth. . Royal Navy (ab.). . Upon. . Negative. . Act. . Comparative suffix. Caper. ) Never. . 505 (Roman). . Myself. . Either. . Note of the scale. . Exists. . Requires. . Openings. 5 Tmu(h the agency of. . Bwiss river. 45. Percelve. 46. Babylonian L 47. Unit of length. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE mutton, however.” In preparing the dish Nancy chose as many metal skewers as she had guests. She chose large plump oysters and them over to remove bits of shell. She bought bacon and cut | it Into small pieces about the size of an oyster. She ran a square of bacon on skewer, followed this with an oyster and repeated the performance until she had six oysters and six pieces of bacon on each skewer. She laid them on a rack in the oven under the broiler flame. They stayed there for 5 minutes. Each skewer with its bur- den was then laid on a finger of toast. Liquid, which had gathered in the bot- tom of the pan, was spoonsd over the servings, a dusting of paprika came next. The dish was garnished with a slice of lemon. Oysters will do for the first course. ~But what Shall we have for salads = Write to P care of this paver. inclosing seli-addressed envelope, asking d leafiet No. 2. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, Reprimanding the Child. Mrs, R. A. M. writes: “I read your column daily and get so much enjoy- ment out of it. Now here is my problem. My baby of 28 months has begun to ick her nose. So many people say it due to worms. 1 have whipped her, and tried to reason with her, but she does it again. “Also at night when she goes to bed she will ery for two hours. Some times it 1s 10 o’clock before she gets to sleep. She sleeps for two hours every day. Lately she is getting very “saucy"—I have to be after her with a stick all the time. Can’t you tell me any other remedy but the stick? She weighs 40 pounds. 1Is this a good weight? Answer.—There is no quicker way of arousing the antagonism of the child and making the eradication of any habit almost impossible, than constantly to remind the child of it, or punish him for its doing. I have no faith in the trite diagnosis of worms. The child’s noss may be dry, crusty and therefore itchy. Clean it carefully each day and rub a little vaseline or olive oil in it, to prevent crusts forming. Then sim- ply ignore her, or offer her a handker- chief when she puts her fingers in her nose. Don't let her get the idea that she annoys you, for, from her history of crying at night, there would seem to be some effort, conscious or otherwise, on the part of the child to put herself forcibly in the limelight, in the day- time by nose picking, and at night by crying. Her weight is unusually large. The stick, of course, is absolutely dreadful. Imagine running around with a stick after a child, threatening her with it, like a veritable ogre! If the child is really terrified that she may be hit, then you have started up fears that will assail her at night and cause her to cry. If you appear in the door and add more threats to the day's over-large supply, then you can't end the crying at all. You must renew the child’s faith in your love and reason- ableness, which you have destroyed by your nagging and stick-hitting. If you read this column daily, you know I advocate “no whipping.” A hand or a stick is the same thing Forcible methods of discipline, of feed- ing, of anything, are futile. The battle is won by the tactful, loving, ingenuous mother, who gives the child as many liberties as she can and says “no” only when absolutely necessary. Then, when she says “no.”. she enforces her nega- tion by prevention rather than punish- ment. You are still the strongest and the child knows this. It is the whipping parent who shows her weakness. If you are sweet to the child she won't be “saucy.” That is just an attempt, to prove her mastery over you. Everything is wrong in your manage- ment. That needs to be changed, and the child will change, too. 1 much. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1928, FEATUR ESS to Marr EAR MISS DIX: I am engaged t something. example. way now, how he will be after we are Answer: close-up of those with whem we have | faults, and often obscures their virtues. before marriage becomes a very imperfect human being to her husband, so it is a pretty dangerous thing to enter into illusions about you. comings and never mention your virtues dinners without ever mentioning their e: indulge in one extravagance it will be dinner you will be berated for a gadder. ‘That sort of husband is never willl allowance. He wi won't pay for st and sew and baby-tend, slink off to bed. has any peace or happiness in life, sh wifehood and motherhood. appreciation and praise, It is his approbation, his love, his worth while. not to marry a critical man who, even will you love him long. hate him and dread his approach. with my married daughter, yearn for the companionship that only I am well preserved, and in a position to Answer: preserved man at 60 is in the you shouldn’t marry, Pick out a nice, sensible widow who is anywhere around the 50 mark, and women grow older they need compa and it's a good thing for them and for set up their own separate establishment: prime of Bullying. Children about the age of 9 years ' sometimes display a tendency toward bullying. They discover that by tak- ing on certain attitudes of body or mind they can force other children and some grown folk to obey their slightest whim. Boys terrorize other little boys, girls keep other little girls, and some- times boys, in fear and trembling of their tongues and their tears. They use either as the need arises. This tendency is more marked in some children than in others. There are some who seem to be born bullies but they are not usually normal, healthy children. They are in need of the services of the child expert. The usual healthy youngster is in need of nothing more than some good, common-sense training, such as has been mcted out to bullies since time was. ‘When a small, sturdy lad struts about bossing everybody, punching the sub- missive ones on the nose, shoving little girls off the walk and, when they protest half tearfully, swaggering more than ever, nothing serves so well as a good punch on the nose administered by an- other lad of his own class. It won't do for a grown-up to thrash a boy for bullying another. That only adds fuel to the flame, bullying to bullying. Let the other boy do the job and it will lastingly cure the bullying idea. Girls are different. They bully other children and grown-ups, too, by taking on moods. Cross one of them and immediately there is trouble. The offended one slumps into a cornor and sulks; ‘or she throws herself on the couch and weeps, loudly weeps; or she says the nastiest things she can lay her tongue the deeper the wound WHY WE DO BY MEHRAN ‘Try this experiment. Take a ! ank sheet of paper and make a d . near the left. Mark an X three inches from this dot toward the right. The X may be a half inch in size. Now shut the left eye. Focus the right eye on the dot and move the paper up and down until the large X disappears entirely. This is one of the proofs for the blind spot in the eye. The reason that you cannot see the X is that its image falls on the biind spot in the eye. The papilla or blind spot is the place in the eye where the optic nerve leads back to the visual area in the brain. ‘The inner side of the eye is covered with several layers, the important one being the retina, which is the organ of vision. You do not see images that fall on the blind spot because there is no way of conveying the image to the brain. In other words, there are none of the see- ing elements at that point. And if the rest of the eye were like it you would not see anything. You would be totally blind. Blindness is some- times due to injury of the retina, which may leave the rest of the mechanism in excellent copdition. Color blindness, for example, is due to injury or original deformity of that part of the retina Cuticura Soothes Burning Aching Feet Bathe the feet for several minutes with Cuticura So: with a light application of Cuticura Qintment, gently rubbed in. For tired, hot, irri- tated feet this treatment is most comforting. Cuticural Talcum is cooling and re- freshing. Soap 2fe. Ointment 2 and SCe. Talenm Me. Sold srerywhere oo Addrens ; Rarapie cach Gutiours Labora Taracn. Mnon' et 1 Bl Marriage is ever a disillusioning process, my dear. The average woman's world is bounded by the walls of her home. If she gets that, she wins her crown of glory, receive it, and gets only criticism and blame, she has nothing, Certainly you are not too old to marry, Mr. Widower. provided you choose a woman of (Copyrighi, 1928.) OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Folly of Choosing a Fault-Finder for a Husband. Why It Is a Good Thing for a Widower of 60 y Again. 0 ‘a fine young man, whom I love very But every time he comes to see me he “picks at me" about I never seem able to please him, although I try my best to do so. Sometimes_he compares me with other girls and_holds them up to me as an I get very. tired of these lectures, and I am wondering, if he is this married. .ZLED, We get a to spend our lives that magnifies their Even the girl who seemed an angel the holy estate with a man who has no The critical lover will inevitably make the fault-finding husband, who will consider it his sacred duty to keep you continually reminded of your short- to you. He will gobble down 999 perfect xcellence, but if the bread happens to be a little heavy on the thousanth one he will wonder why it s you never can {learn to cook. He will never notice how you scrimp and pare and save, but if ever you thrown up to you until your dying day. You may stick at home as close as the house cat, but if you are once late for ing to do his part. He will wonder why you don't look as well dressed as Mrs. A., but he won't give you a decent clothes 1 scathingly compare your housekeeping with Mrs. B.’s, but he ants such as Mrs. B. has, He will throw up to you what a wonderful woman Mrs. C. is, who is always ready to chum around with her husband, and who reads and keeps up with everything, but he won't take into consideration the fact that Mrs. C. has nothing to do but be a pal to her husband, while you have to cook and wash 50 that you are too tired at night to do anything but If she e must find them there. Her career is Her reward for all her efforts is her husband's admiration that make all that she does If she fails to ‘That is why the fault-finding husband is one of the worst husbands i world, and why I advise you, with all of the earnestness of which I nmdscsgattz}l‘:, before marriage, has shown you that all that you will get will be knocks. No matter what other virtues he has, this quality will offset them all and you will be perfectly miserable with him. ;‘?{:fi Nagging will kill any affection and make you come to You have had your warning. Profit by it. Don't marry a fault-finder. DOROTHY DIX. .. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a widower 60 years of age and make my home She is all that a loving child could be, but I a wife can give, and my ob; i you is to ask if you think me too old to venture azall;n e D upon the sea of matrimony. support a wife in comfort. WIDOWER. - A well- life and there is no earthly reason why suitable age. or an oid maid who isn't bossy and fussy, and be happy in your own home. 4 As men nionship more than they ever did before, their children to have them marry and s, DOROTHY DIX. she makes the happler she seems to be. That sort of thing is bullying just as much as fighting people with the fists, and to my notion, a far worse sort, When the young miss has a temper tantrum it will help immensely if she is hustled off to the bathroom and there treated to a thorough good dousing with cold water. There s nothing as efficient as coplous doses of cold water thrown in the face, to cure a tantrum. It quite takes all the domineering quality out of the affalr, It is unwise to permit a child to do any domineering in the home or the school or the playground. It is bad for the growth of the child and very bad for the other people about him, It is a form of selfishness so crude that it is plainly observable, easily met. Hold your ground against it, calmly, sure in your strength, and keep holding it until the child knows there is no use in trying to demonstrate his ego any further, Look steadily et the child who is try- ing to force any situation. Catch his eye. Know within yourself that you are not going to permit the child to have his selfish, destructive way. Show no anger and no excitement. Meet temper and storms with cold water. Meet angry words with silence. Let the way until this thing passes. You have no fear of him—or her. No exhibition, efther within the house or without it, will move you. You stand on what you believe to be right and drive straight ahead. It is surprising how soon a bullying child will ‘discover that there are stronger forces in the world than his, and will yleld. (Copyright, 1928.) WHAT WE DO K. THOMSON. which has to do with the registering of color sensations. The reason that the blind spot is not noticed by the average person and does not interfere with conduct is that an image that might fall on the blind spot of the eye falls on a good part of the other eye and is seen. Further- more, the blind spot is relatively small and the image of an object has to fall exactly on the spot. If it falls a little to one side a slight movement of the head or eye brings the image on the retina and possibly on the fovea, the best part of the eye. The blind spot, which exists in every eye, is not a serfous handicap after all. It is more of a curiosity than an actual hindrance. child know that you will stand in his | & AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILL) “A man don't want no advice from his wife. He just asks her opinion so's he can blame her if things don't turn out right.” BRIDGE BY MRS. TALKS JOHN MUNCE. JR. This is the second of a series of talks, and as we covered the question of how one selected a partner, we now come to the shuffie. The play 1s started by the player to the lefc of the dealer, who shuffies the pack selected by the dealer (the one who drew the highest card). All play- ers have the right to shuffle, the dealer having the right to shuffle last if he chooses. The next thing is the cut. After the shuffle the dealer places the pack he is about to deal before the opponent who is sitting on his right. That player lifts off the top portion and places it by the bottom portion, toward the dealer. Remember this: Always cut toward the dealer. The dealer then places the bot- tom portion on top of what had been the top portion, and this constitutes the cut. Four cards or more must be left in each portion. If fewer than fou: cards are left, or if any card be face or displaced during the cut, there must be a new cut. After the cut is completed the dealer distributes the 52 cards, one at a time, face down, giving the first card to his opponent on the left, second to dealer’s partner, third to his right-hand op- ponent, last to himsaf, and so on un- til the entire pack is dealt, the last card going to the dealer. If the cards be not properly dealt to the four players, in four distinct packets of 13 cards ‘each, or if during the deal any card be found face up in the pack, and if the pack be held below the table during any part of the deal; if any card is exposed, no matter how small, there should never be any question as to what to do—al- ways a new deal—beginning with a shuffle and a cut, just as if the cards had not been dealt previously. ‘While the deal is in progress the part- ner of the dealer shuffles the other pack, and no one else at the table is supposed to touch this deck at this time. The person shuffling places the deck face down on his right, which is on the left of the adversary who is to deal next, where it is left undisturbed until the next dealer picks it up to be cut. After the deal has been completed, each player gathers up his cards, and a very good way for a beginner to do is to arrange the cards as follows: All of one suit together, and according to their respective values. This makes it casier for you in bidding your hand. After arranging the cards, the next movement in the game is to bid for the privilege of naming the trump or no trump, and of playing the dummy hand (which is the hand of the partner of the person winning the bid). This bid~ ding is called the auction, and the win- ning bid is called the contract and the successful bidder is called the declarer. Before describing the way in which the auction is conducted it is important to understand what is meant by bids, and also the values of the different suits. This will be discussed in the next talk. Another bridge talk will appear in next Tuesday's Star. Mrs. Munce will answer queries in regard to bridge problems. Address vour letters in care of The Star. < ° | Happy Dreams o Hosts of girls are fondly dreaming of the time when they will land, with kind fortune on them beaming, as big hits in movie land. Sarah Jinks, our tall do- mestic, has her visions, fair and good, of a future most majestic, in the films at Hollywood. Susan Cripps, who's selling garters in the Blue Front store all day, will be seen with early starters for a film town far away. Julia Dobbs, who earns her living washing up the chophouse pans, dreams of when she will be giving raptures to the movie fans. There are fakers advertising that they'll teach the dreaming malds how to gain success surprising, so they hate their humble trades. They are blowing all their wages for instructions in the Art, and they'll elevate our stages when they have the rules by heart. Fakers promise them by letter that they'll all be movie queens: they were born for something better than to dish up pork and beans. They are all sublimely gifted, by the fakers they are told: to the heights they will be lifted when they've spent what coin they hold. They will rise as though by magic, all the dreaming damsels think: but the outcome will be tragic. and their dreams be on the blink. Where a thousand go careering to the gates of Hollywood, only one will get a hear- ing, only one is half way good. There should be some way of weeding from the land the vicious snare of the fakers who are leading dreaming damsels to despair. wALn‘l: MASON. (Copyrigh W JACK FROST Sugar lueBox For JackFrost Tablet Sugar, sparkling white, pure, clean,uniform,isideal. Jack Frost Tablets are 100% pure cane sugar molded into shape, not cut. You use iess be- cause you need less. Insiston Jack Frost Tabletsin the BlueBox. Atyourgrocer’s. For sale by all stores that feature guality products Tall;)lets inthe Refined by The National Sugar Refining Co. of N. e B T B R SR ) A BEDTIME STORIES Peter Begins to Wonder. Look long and hard. for if you do, You're preity sure to find a clew —Peter Rabbit. ‘The first one Sammy Jay saw after | leaving Jimmy Skunk was Peter Rabbit. | You see, Sammy had flown directly over to the dear Old Briar-patch. As soon| as he saw Sammy, Peter knew that Sammy had news. “What are you carrying on your mind this time, Sammy Jay?” asked Peter. “How do you know I am carrying| anything on my mind at all?” snapped Sammy Jay. “I can tell by the looks of you, Sam- my,” said Peter. “You can't fool me. You've got some news. I can see it in your eyes. What is it. Sammy?” “What would you say,” replied Sam- my, “if I should tell you that Jimmy Skunk met with -an accident?” “I would say it is too bad,” Peter. “I hope it isn't serious.” “What would you say,” continued Sam- my, “if I should say that that accident is the result of an attack on Jimmy?" I should say that somebody had been very foolish,” replied Peter pr&mpfly. “Who was it?" “That I don’t know,” replied Sammy, “but Jimmy Skunk has a tear in his coat and he is walking on three legs, because one leg is lame. That tear in his coat was made by a claw. Now, who do you suppose would dare attack Jimmy Skunk!™ “No one with any sense at all,” re- plied Peter. “A silly dog who had ne seen him before and didn’t know an thing about him might do it, but I cannot imagine any one who knows anything about Jimmy Skunk trying such a thing.” “Neither can I” said Sammy, “and I certainly would like to know who it was.” Sammy flew off to spread the news through the Green Forest and the Old Orchard. Peter sat for a long time in the dear Old Briar-patch, wondering who it could be that had dared to attack Jimmy Skunk. First he would scratch one long ear with a long hind- foot; then he would scratch the other long ear with the other long hindfoot. replied Peter seems to .think it helps him to KEEPING M BY JOSEPH Heredity and Environment. Born so or made so? That is the question, as puzzling as it is ancient, and even more so since we know more about how heredity operates. Inquiries from readers bear constantly on some | of the many phases of this vital sub- ject. So let this be heredity week. I shall not attempt to make the dis- cussion strictly scientific, but shall touch upon a few of the practical and popular sides of the question, especially how we should look upon those differ- ences between Tom, Dick and «Harry and no less between Mary, Jane and Harriet, which we observe so easily in the young and old alike, between one family and another, and within the same family, and how we shall best ke account of those differences in raining our children and dealing with our fellow beings. Except in a few respects, it will be possible to separate only roughly what you are by nature—your special hered- ity—and what by nature the total in- fluence of the special environment of your bringing up. We shall do well to get the general drift and bearing of the element that dominates to make us what we are in one respect and an- other. It is idle to hope that we can pre- dict, if Tom marries Mary, and Di.: Jane, and Harry Harriet, what kind of children, tall or short, handsome or plain, bright or dull, musical or me- chanical, enterprising or lazy, bad- tempered or good-natured, frivolous or serious, practical or dreamy, either couple will have and where to look for future leaders in human affairs. Yet the prospects of one couple for raising “successes” or “failures” are not quite the same as those of another. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS think when he does this. Of course, it doesn’t really. A “There are Old Man Coyote,” said Peter to himself, “and Mrs. Coyote and Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy and Yowler the Bobcat and Buster Bear—any one of whom would be glad of" a dinner of Jimmy Skunk; yet not one of them but knows all about Jimmy’s little scent- gun and is wise enough to keep a respectful distance from Jimmy. In fact, I can't imagine any one who would dare take a chance, even if he had surprised Jimm, wonder who it cou'd have been. g Now Peter never can sit still very “I SHOULD SAY THAT SOMEBGDY HAD BEEN VERY FOOLISH,” REPLIED PETER FROMPTLY. long when he is curious about some- thing. So after a while, when little Mrs. Peter had her head turned, Peter slipped out of the dear Old Briar-patch and started lipperty-lipperty-lip across the Green Meadows for the Green Forest. He wanted to find out who had dared to attack Jimmy Skunk and there was no chance of finding out anything of that kind If he remained in the dear Old Briar-patch. “I wonder who it could have been, he kept saying with each hop he made. “I wonder who it could have been.” (Copyright., 1923.) NTALLY FIT JASTROW. three children with brown eyes to one with blue. Beyond this the subject becomes far too complex for any simple statement. The main point is this—that while some few traits, deeply rooted in the structure of man (as of other animals), are carried on after this unit-character plan, most of the human traits in which we have a strong interest are not —certainly not in that simple fashion. You either have brown eyes or you haven't, and if you have brown you can't have blue. But certainly intelli- geénce is not a unit character, so that you either have it or lack it. There are all sorts and degrees of intelligence, most of which we can't measure. For those that we can we find a continu- ous series, with the great majority massed heavily about the average, ‘Whatever the mechanism of heredity, the result is that your traits and mine are much alike, because we. have so much in common in our common hu- man and racial heredity and yet are significantly and to our interests im- portantly different, since you are well fitted to do some things at which I would make a poor showing, and per- haps you will be generous enough to make a similar concession in my case. The goal we are making for is some kind of a platform, with its plank: though based on scientific findings, framed largely on the most likely guess in a most complex situation, something to guide us in voting for heredity or for environment as the major factor in interpreting what man- ner of human being you and I are to become, It is true that your traits and mine have been carried on in our heredity, but they are so many and so variable and so much like similar traits carried The hope of reducing heredity to[on in other people’s heredity that there rules was revived when the importance of the experiment of "an Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, in raising sweet- peas was recognized years after he was forgotten. He mated a variety of tall peas with another variety of short peas, and found that the result was not a medium-sized plant, not a cross or blend between the two, but some tall plants and some short ones. The dwarf peas produced only dwarfs, but the tall plants were of two kinds—those {that bred. tall descendants only and those that carried along something in the heredity that would give rise to darf peas. The tallness is a dominant trait, so that presently there will be three tall members to one short member in each generation. Tallness is a unit of char- acter, which means that it is all there or all absent, so that if the germ of the pea plant had the right element it grew tall, and if it lacked it, it was a dwarf. However, it is a long step from sweet- peas to human beings. The idea of applying this to human heredity was fascinating, and in some few respects human beings behave like sweetpeas. Eye color follows. the| scheme. Blue eyes are like dwarf peas. | ‘Two dwarf peas mated never produced | any tall peas. Two blue-eyed nts never have any brown-eyed children. But two brown-eyed parents may have a blue-eyed child, because, though their eyes are brown, they carry in their heredity something that may in a fu- ture generation give rise to blue eyes. The tendency will be toward a ratio of is no hope of tracing them in detail. But through it all like breeds like, though like may breed unlike also. My major interest is not to trace my men- tal genealogy, but to reach a point from which to gauge how far I must accept myself as nature made me, how far attempt to guide my powers, and, more important, how to lock at the same distinction in terms of all sorts and conditions of man. \ + (Copyrie Psychological .research has satisfac- torily proven that working in a noisy room consumes energy and reduces output. 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