The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1900, Page 19

THE SUNDAY CALL. 19 ; WiTH S AXRTIFITAL 3 ACTREYS fldl g {’,_ \ m rof at the has just made an € stive study of the origin of orna- vanity and its He REMEDY FOR & WITH EAR ORNAMENTS fore it was thought of in eny other way, or nose rings and earrings, were a kind of pictorial language. But ornament speaks a universal 1 guage, is in itself a kind of volapuk. To Long robes are a 'ong robe must waik Here lies the explanation of the difficulties encountered in wean- slowly, not r ing woman from trailing dresses. They bespeak her dignity—therefore she will WhOS lower jaw of some hum advanced by not wear short or divided skirts. E his head with snake skins and feathers to inspire terror in the hearts of his ene- mies, while the Indian fakir lets his hair fall over his body In long strands to in spire reverence. et FOOR MEMCORY. 1 @ ANY pe complain of hav & poor memory and yet that fac 4 AN vty can be develope. as easily scles. N biceps m to any professor of ter anl elaborate sys- in order to accomplish this result. does not ha go to a gymnasium to strengthen one’s or back. Sawing t will do it. Sim ultivated by one’s efforts ’s ~~dinary pur- One the Sund: service of his rch serve as a memorv exercise ice he would endeavor 1o en rs of ail the hymrs sung. the ek rse of the Scripture of serm T red the pay sciove effort to impress thes P mind. By this = - ans he deve € r 2 rizing elivered, one gently used, is by very simgy d wishe three points (2) the s A governm and (3) the destiny of A very table anagram to mind would be the He could set bis topics e points down in this Uréon proclaimed by Declaration of In- dependence Success of experim t in government. e After the present, what? He does not need to take any notes with him on the platform. He can easily re- member these letters. Remembering them they recall his topics. And remem- pering the geperal topic it will itself sug- gest any spbdivisions pertaining to it. Certain people possess what may be called the bump of location. If they re- member a passage n-& book they can tell you which side of the page it is on and what part of the page. There are students with that kind of memory wio prepare their recitations by taking a| large sheet of paper and writing different parts of the lesson in different places on | the paper. They then rely on thelr sense | of location to call to mind whatever they may wish to remember. Again there are people who have a keen | eye for color. They will make their mem oranda on slips of paper of different col- ors. Then simply calling to mind a par- ticular color will enable them to remem- ber the memorandum associated with that color. Some people who can remember words and phrases fihd difficuity in remembering figures or numbers. In such cases a curi- ous expedient has sometimes been resort- ed to. A phrase will pe devised, the Initial letters of which suggest the figures sought | to be remembered. For example, suppose some one's street number to be 182. The suggestive phrase might be “I seek him The letter I will suggest the figure I; the letter S somewhat resembles an 8, and the two perpendicular strokes of the H sug- gest the Roman numeral II. A rounda- bout method this mav be, but it has rved to fasten figures in the memory of the people who had previously found them troublesome. But perhaps the most troublesome way in the long run is simply by repetition d effort to fix the thing in the memory rectly without tricks*of memory or ar- tificial methods. By memorizing one se:- tence or verse a day from the best liter. ature the mind will soon have a fine treasure of beautiful thoughts and an en- riched vocabulary, Dr. Willilam Punshon, E3 t English preacher, diu this, and his fine prose may have been largely due amiliar acquaintance with the best rature. or quotation purposes it is necessary ember verbatim and though this is hardest task of memory it well repays the effort. Once trained the memory will be able to recall the exact words of con- versations, sermons und passages in books without having made any conscious effort to commit them. ——e Professor B. Tyler of Indianapolis says that human life would average three or four times longer than it does if people mould reject the senseless practice-of cnoking their food. Animals and fowl live much longer In proportion to the period of full development than man. Says Professor Tyler: “Man, for some unknown reason, eats dead cells {cooked cells) to replace the dead cells that have heen separated from the body. In cook- ing food all the aclds and gases S0 neces- sary for the conservation and preserva- tion of ideal health escape with the steam, and the food retains a greater supply of ash, lime and other such substances than nature requires for the amount of food taken into the system.” . by charr the colors— the use of jew even more grimly the most primitive savages de. feminine fancy vote-great thought and care to, the tmat. Strides and no sooner were jewels strung ter of ornament. The Lango chief Joads toBether as necklaces than the wives af The advance toward among some savages bracelets FOREAEAY ORNAMENT 1 leaves, he gleam of o R JAPANESE STREET VANCER the chiefs in Ceylon and Indla sought spe- clal marks of distinction for themselves and their children by plercin~ the left nostril and setting a jewel in it. The old Papuan chlef wore necklaces of row upon row of mussel shells and thought himself very imposing indeed The ladies of civilized countries are satis- fied to adorn their arms and hands with bracelets and rings, but a Tamil woman who does not bother about shoes and stockings, has bracelets around her an- kies and rings on her toes. As long gobes appeared to glive dignity attempts were made to add to dignifiel appearance by long earrings sometimes as far as the shoulders. The Japanese, with their keen percep- tion of art, have developed the most es thetic and graceful of costumes, as worn by their street dancers, combining dignity and freedom of movement reaching | Among the Algerians, however, the de- | sire for display has far outrun any idea of art, and the ladies of the nobility load their heads and the heads of their chil- dren with a mass of jewels. Among the Kaffirs are large balls worn on the foreheads of the warriors as an Incitement to march straight forward. The purpose of gaining height Is served jc | WNDOO SIRL ORNAMENTDS among some savages by a tall headdrese or by the wearing of a large head covere ing. When this s very broad it symbole izes power. The friz amorg women of Ma likewise to add to The customs of sta the body with earth and dyes and oing are very ancient, serving the double purpose of decoration and marks of distinction. The Tamil goidsmith is decorated In this fash- fon as a mark of his worship of Siva. The boring of the nose and lips, forbld- ding as it seems to us, is highly regarded by- fashionable Australiam’ and Afriean® savages. To'sum up the results of these observa- tions: Ornament is intended to attract attention to the wearer and Inspire awe in the beholder. All ornaments are sym agascar is Intended anity ng of the halt [AMER- WOMAN OF NOWTH AVSTRALL WITH. WOODEN STITK THROVEH, NOSE 1CAN crown calls special attention to the head referring to e leadership of the King or Queen. The bracelet polnts to ti power of the arm—the consciousness power. Tt wer in the hair attracts attention to the color and arfangement of the headdress. Cuitured nations, however, strive to put aside personal adornment: thelr delight ltes in the fo; ard sea. mount: nd clouds, the starry host—in fine, the Cos- bolic of the power of the wearer. The mos. ¥ DERD SHOTS WITHOUT TAKING RIM. ES, I've heard a good many stories Ylbnut ‘hip shooting,’ " said a veteran hunter of this city, “but I never saw but one man who professed to be able to do the trick. He was a physician named Webster, who came from somewhere near rleston, 8. C. I hunted with him twice at Asheville, and on each occasion he gave some remarkable exhibitions of his skill. He used an cld-fashioned Parker breechloader, 12-bore, and when he skot from the hip he grasped the stock just behind the hammer with his right hand. and held the barrel firmly in his left some eight or nine inches below the muzzle The flat of the stock was pressed against his right side at the top of the hip bone and a little to the front, so he did not face the object he shot at, but had it quartering on his left. I am sure about these detalls, because I watched him par- ticularly. “The first thing I saw him knock over wag a rabbit, which was loping across a plowed fleld. He steadied the gun for an instant, with a gesture that reminded me somehow of a man holding a bililard cue, and’ then blazed away. The rabbit dropped. Afterward I saw him shoot a lark on the wing and two other birds sit- ting. He afterward missed a couple of wing shots, but I saw enough to convince me that there was no accident about his first work. He didn’t pretend to shoot as well from the hip as from the shoulder, and admitted frankly that he couldn’t bring down difficult game, such, for in- stance, as snipe. ‘I can hit about three out of five,” he said, ‘when I pick my own conditions,” and I believe he could do even better. “When I asked him how he did it he laughed. ‘There iz no mystery about hip shooting,” he said, ‘and it is a great mis- take to suppose It is necessary to look over the sights in order to hit things. How does an archer bring down fiylng birds? He doesn’'t look along the arrow; he shoots by sense of direction, and I do the same thing with a gun. It isn't every- body who possesses this sense of direc- tion,” he added, ‘but those who have it— perhaps one out of three—can learn hip shooting without difficulty.” “I pelieve there is a good deal in the ‘gense-of-direction’ theory,” sald another sportsman in the group. T lived in the West five or six years, and I know for a certainty that nearly all of the best off- hand pistol shots among the cowboys fired without aiming—I mean without sighting in the usual manner along the barrel. They would look at the target n- stead of the weapon, and would generally give their pistols a slight forward thrust before pulling the trfgger. It was done on the instant, and those who were clever at it could be fairly confident of hitting a mark the size of a man’s hat at say fifty paces. Noné of them claimed to be able to shoot as accurately that way as he could by sighting, but it was a pretty trick all the same and ver— valuable in a sudden melee. “One of the best offhand shots I ever knew was a cowpuncher named Bl Rainey. He attributed his skill to the habit of laying his index finger along the barrel of the sixshooter. ‘I don't p'int the gun,’ he said; ‘T just p'int my finger and then let her go Gallagher!” There was probably more in that practice than Bill himself suspected. We are accustomed from infancy to pointing at things we desire to indicate, and no doubt uncon- sclously cultivate the very semse of direc- tion of which you were speaking a few moments ago. I have seen Rainey knock over an oyster can five times out of stz at a distance of over fifty feet without doing a particle of sighting, and firing almost as quickly as he could pull the trigger. One of his pet tricks was to wheel and fire, and the accuracy with which he could plant a bullet while his body was still turning was marvelous. One thing I noticed in particular in re- gard to shooting without taking aim along the barrel was that it must be done very quickly, or the bullet is almost certain to fly wide of its mark. If there is any hesi- tation or attempt to calculate the direc- tion it is safe to wager on a miss. The cowboys who were most expert at this style seemed to find their target by a sort ot instinct and pulled the trigger the moment the arm was fully extended. Aside from Billy Rainey and his index finger theory I never encountered any- body who was able to throw any light on the performance. When questioned the cowpunchers would look bewildered and say there was a ‘kind of knack about it,’ and beyond that were evidently at sea themselves.”—New Orleans Times-Demo-~ crat. ———— Two instances showing how tenacious of life lobsters and cod are are related In a bulletin of the United States Fish Com- mission. In the fall of 1399 about twenty lobsters were left in a car in the “basin™ at a Fish Commission wharf. Near tnhe end of March, 1900, when the car was opened, all seemed to be In a perfectly healthy condition. On the conclusion of the fishing for brood cod in the fall of 1889 fourteen cod weighing from four to six pounds, taken with hand-lines off Nomans Land or Nan- tucket, were inadvertently left in the well of the Grampus and not discovered until April, 1900. These fish- were placed in the well not later than November 18, possibly some days before. During this time they had not been fed and had only such food as came through the holes in the well When released in Gloucester harbor on April 16 they were found to be lively and strong, althcugh somewhat emactated, and It was noticed tbat their backs and sides were much darker than normal, while the belly was unusually light col- ored.