The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1906, Page 22

ing Wor ld’s Daily Magazine, Friday,.December 7, 1900. The Even pany, Publishes by the Prese Publishing Co 2 a York as Socond-Clat 1 Matter. i GE-BRED ME of No. 906 Union street, Brooklyn, writes [2 COLL date; this pertinent in : 1 would e-bred men stand as leaders In the world’s progress, in the eries of scier artistic triumphs and in Inventive ability, com with th © have had little or no superior education? em that when genius Is born: in the mind the stems of the obstacles and blossom and bear fruit to the fact that most inventors have been remote from the business to which they have been Dees plant jRish their advantage of it nc successful in 4 trained. To igher seats of learning a more marked success, would It not be advi elementary schools for the teachers to watch the inclina- dd to dir tions of the pu would best develop? The wild flower is undoubtedly a hardier growth than the hot-house product. The plant or the tree whose seed was dropped by a chance bid and which fought its way to maturity in nature’s open competition has always advantages in sturdiness. ct their minds in the lines where their genius The germs of genlus in the human. mind are as persistent In seeking their development as ts any seed or plant. And just as no flower grows except from the seed or cutting which contained the full possibilities In Its development, so no man and no woman can develop beyond the possibilitles existing in ‘thelr nature. All that education carPdo Is to ald 4 L in the development, to make the conditions more favorable, to increase the reward of effort, All the colleges in the world cannot put sense in the head of a fool or make a dunce-map a receptacle of wisdom. ~~ __ The forcing process Is even more likely to do harm to the brain than to. the plant. Violets soon wither If the temperature is kept too high. ‘Common com planted in a rich tropical soll runs to stalk and leaves Instead of grain. In like manner many young men and women develop their mind, energy and strength better with occasional frosts and hard- ships than In surroundings of luxury. : The genius of an Inventor exists In the baby at birth. It cannot be instilled. The instinct of poetry is born, not. manufactured: The ability to paint or to dray. may be mechanically taught, but the spirit of the painter or the sculptor must be pre-existent. The world is better off because there are obstacles. The obstacles, might be more evenly and discriminately distributed. Many ordinary eniuses doubtless never find expression because of the welght of ob Stacles holding them down, but a great genius will rise superior to great obstacles, If all men were geniuses, college breeding might harm as many as it benefited. A genius is a one-sided man, lop-sided, removed from the average to the extent that he 1s a genius, No one is a genius at every- thing, and most geniuses are like a mountainous country, where the valleys are always as deep as the hills are high. Theré'is one great omission In Mr. Tweeddale's inquiry, and that is his neglect of the real reason why most young men are sent to college Mr. Tweeddale is evidently not a college graduate himself, or he would understand that the reason for going to college han intellectual. is more often social College life is much more sociat than intellectual. The champions In athletics rank above the Plodding scholars, The rewards of colleg. _Sentiment go to men of cular. prowess and skill, not to the bes: With-the large number of new millionaires havin 1 position they desire to hei the richer colleges pi acquirement of soc knowledge of ck than a high mark B pony. In thus civilizing the children of the new rich the c nuite as neces Ser and ot Provisi i children whose ighten, a large part of every class ir ut the making of desirable acquaintances first. The leg ease of manner, a cultivated. accent, a g, horses and clubs is what they are after, igonometry or the ability to read more Greek without { alleges are doing in adding to the’ number of the nS Of inventors the Pittsburg million aires, f the Western miners: shall be eat help to th, blems of the next) iuses, Wall street Letters from the ECO PUNT eee for’ Cart ple. | wanted Prainc Decnume they old Ves ALM. and i Td the past fey oR Irish for “Child of My Meart.t Won't To the } ‘A busines Mthe mi Goes ‘Goes if he ty. ¢ Ton ¢ But mi fend don't S the poor Work Overtine, hey rinen ininutes and not one me) a red years parks out of work are j who expresses will per- Rhmye! worked too hard jn thelr vow Nor berore! Wae-and who, now that they are ret- | 8 BASY MARK, i f = aes No. 62 to @ Patk Row, New York | sh M MAN To THE HiGHER UP <— THIS WAY ZE— Women Should Beware of Mis ,ATE reaction in the Gillette murder case stems to be setting in. The mother and tather and Kttle elster of the convicted man now figure prominently in the news, and there are eigna that the universal public denunciation of ® cruel and brutal murder is abating. ‘Tho law hes condemned Gillette even as our hearts con- dgmned him from the moment the pittful story of his girl victim was made known. And Immediately a dangerous soft- ening of our easy surface feolings haz set tn, as it always seta in when a-human being, however justly, ia condemned to death. sa Women, particularly, are subject to this post-trial over flow of misdirected mercy. The interest of hysterical women the murderer fe one of the strangest and most inevitable tures of capital cana, It ts an evil perversion of woman'e est quality—her tender pity love-letters must not blot the slayer's sentence from the records of justica even as they watered the humble grave of the slain. Chester Gillette kilied the woman, who loved and trusted him. ‘That waa not ‘nlL_Ho killed her under condition he most brutal m gon” orairies, would scarcely raise his rifle to take the life of a female animal, If YOU Had a Wife Like Thi Sulll on the rail. | By J. Campbell Cory. But the tears that rose at the reading of Grace Brown's | [whip from mo." S. 2 sf sf 8 HIS N TRAIL directed Mercy. By Nixola Greeley-Smith serving as he would the sportsman's Inw. But the motherhood that savages, that the good clean dumb beusta rempect, incited this inhuman boy to slay, The law has judged him and will him—perhaps, Very few women really beliove in punishment. But so long as the land's law follows the Biblical formula of oye for eye, tooth for tooth, lite for Mfe, we should not bring opprobrium upon our entire sex-by misplaced sympathy for the murderer It condemns. If we mae the laws, of course, nobody would ever be killed but the woman that took our husband away from us. Let us save our tears for Ittle eripolet ehtidren, for clean, honest men and women fighting a desperate battle for existence and leave convicted murderers to the law. . ae Spiders That Chase Men. HERE s&s, accore to an explorer, a large and flerce South Amertean [ spider which chases me: , come too near its lurking places. On one cocasion ‘he was pursued by one, “Riding at an easy {rot over the dry are he writes, "I observed a epider pursuing mé, leaping aw ly along and keeping up with my beast. I atm lash struck the ground close to it, when instantly loxped wpon and ran up the Was actually w! ee or four inches of my hand when. I dung the a w By F. 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Where did he meet Come, now, tell me the truth, | her? ‘Didn't your brother belp you?" Jack—He didn't meet ber at all; she “No, ma'am; be did 1 al.”—Judge. overtook bim-—Ghinago Mev Bare Na ace RD Kis ad Basse VR A rates, the father of medicine. 4 a blow with my whip, and the point of the |, ‘eer TWENTY-FIVE ROMANCES + PROGRESS By Albert Fayron Terhune No. 12—HIPPOCRATES, the Man Who Mado Health, N olden times when a man was [I], Instead of dieting or taking medi- cine, he sacrificed a sheep or an ox to his favorite god. If this treat- ment did not improve the condition of his liver or digestion, he took it as a sign that the delty was a y, and resigned himself to his fate. | When (owing to the horr(b ry conditions ef the age) a clty or community was smitten by pla , youve off were made. to all the gods on the list anc ests were kept busy sacrificing and praying, In fact, there $3 of consecrated officials known as’ priest-physiclans omens and amulets, In other words, they had the tayo, the North’ American) | Indian “medicine men" of to-¢ | But In 460 B.C. was born a man (son of a priest-physiclan) who tn a single generation changed all this barbarous custom, to whom We owe jour present knowledge of physic, diet and sanitary law. He was Hippoc- He made health a sclence and paved the | way for every doctor who has since lived. Like most progress-makers, | Hippocrates owed his greatness to the fact that he was discontented with | the cuétoms of his day, and sought a logical reason for things which others were satistied to take for granted. He could not see how the offering of sacrifices and the bellef that the gods held all health or filness at their | disposal would cure a sick min. He would have made a very poor ‘sort | of Christian Scientist. |. By a series of careful experiments Hippocrates discovered that certain | herbs and food had direct effect on the human body. Instead of exhorting | sick peonle to make burnt offerings ta the gods, he dosed them with powerful physics. Luckily Medicine on Slaves. the human system in those daya was robust, eo 8) and the medicines, strong as they were, proved | of vast beneflt. Moreover, there were always,slaves on whom to- practice j{n order to find out how much of any certuln kind of medicine or drug 4 | the system could comfortably stand. { These marked reforms sent his fame broadcast all over the, clrilized j World. He was hailed as a miracle worker. Yet in reality he had merely applied logic snd common sense to the, treatment qf disease, and had freed the practise of medicine from the world-old yoke of superstition. Hippocrates studied the countless .ciises of UIness that evervwhere abound- ed, and drew sane Instead of priestly deductions from each. He aleo mado a close study of wounds and their healing. Ho was hampered in hia knowledge of anutomy from the fact that dead bodles were regarded ag sacred and could not be diasected. But he accomplished marvels In. spite jof this drawback. Blood-letting and “cupping” he also reduced to « science, though warning people to employ both with great caution, But the “Father of Medicine" performed other services to humanity even greater than these, He discovered, after many experiments, Juat whnt foods were beneficial or hurtful to the system, and lad down the | first rules of diet ever formulated, It fs, In the n, the same theory jof diet that Is in use to-day. The fact that regulating thelr dally fare could keep them {n health more effectively than coud priest-bleat charm, amulets or incantations came as a chock of surprise to the ancients, The priests protested against such radical y but Hippocrates answered them that “however disease mizht be regarded from a religious polnt of viow, it must be treated by natural laws if there was to be any” real cure.” And tho results proved him so overwhelmingly Heht that the priests could only mutter {n {mpotent wrath ‘and watch thelr cherished era of !gnorance dawn Into the great ight of modern progr Next Hippocrates took up the subject of public health. we understand {t, was unknown. j civic hygiene exist. I was a They des ame functions as i TO . % Tries Effects of nn i nitation, as There was no board of health, nor dd In consequence epldemics of the most fatal and. tast- | Fe spreading kinds were of pitifully frequent Teen {, Organized First y rence. Hippocrates framed the first actunl code ot | {Health Department.}- eanitary Inwo and measures for checking epl- pom demics,-and was-tnfldential enough to have thon | put Into effect. To him we owe the first-movement that led to the mod- ern health department. Nor are diet. sanitation and the discovery of medicine all to which we are in the old Greek’s debt. He devised: “auscultation” (the sclescy whereby the condition of heart, lungs, etc., 1s determined by round), aca 1s credited with being the first to practise trephining, : ss In Greece all of mankind who did not happen tobe Grecka were re- garded as barbarians. It was not thought necessary to treat them ca human, Persia was Greece's hereditary foe. When a terrible epldemia ravaged Persia, the Emperor, Artaxerxos, sent presents to Hippocrates begging him to come and put down the acourge. The doctor te weld vo have sent back an tnsulting retusal, declaring his art was too. precious to waste on his country’s barbarlo enemy. And the Gree maste on hi x world applauded This ts, perhaps, the one blot on the chara Progress and Civilization owe more, from a physical standpoint, thon to all the rest of mankind. Every doctor to-day acknowledges that debt, when, on entering on tho practise of medicine, ha takes what la still known as the ‘Hippocratic Oath.” i : The Girl ‘at the Candy Counter, By Margaret Rohe, “What do you think of Herr Heinemann’s views on the dress question?” aaked the Regular Elghty-Cents-a-Pound Customer. “What are those views?" Counter. ee “Wh; anid the Regular Custome: “he thinks women Gress too expensively, and he Js organizing a movement to discourage that sort of thing. He believes in the simple and ¢ curtailing of modistes’ pills." ¥ “I wiah,” said the Girl at the Candy Counter, “you qwould get word to Herr Heinemann that I sald he must behave. TBEd Od d pice bed Ai cter of a man to whom asked the Girl at the Candy What'a the matter with ) anyway? Can't he see that | improvement in women's dreas follows the world's growth i ally ass crowd. follows 9 minatrs! parade? men who irtsist on tho beautification of women, They don't mind registering a gentle kick. once tn a while when the bills come $n, but they do that Just to assert their authority, Tl bet that {f Herr Heinemann had a fomale relative that fotlywed his advice he'd be the first to make a noise Mke a hammor, Ils monologue would run about Mle ta: He “Well, for Heaven's sake, what are you trying to celebrate? That hat looks like it was made after a recipe for benten biscults! And that ektrt! Cheese. cloth dyed, If I have the right use of my eyes, Wat's wrong with you? Trying the simplicity and inexpensiveness theory, aro you? Well, atop trying # Do you want the other women and the mon, too, to be pointing you out on the street and saying they gucss Hetnemann haslost his Job and oan't drews his folks any better? What I want you to do 1s to dress better than any woman you know on the allowance you get, Nothing so brijatens a man's home aa @ perfectly i voman Fon nntn about the way It would be.” ‘eThon you think It ts clottvos that maxe the womanf’ asked the Regular Dighty-Centa-a-Pond Customers “Don't be willy,” said the Girl, “Here's your elghty cents worth of candy, Would you rather I put !t in a brown paper pag, Woe they put peanuts in, or wrap It in a dainty, perfumed box, tied around with blue ribbons tt em John D. on a Skate. " By Walter A. Sinclair. ROM Lakewood comes the news so great: F John D. ta going on a skate!” We wouldn't have the reader think ‘That this has ought to do with drink ; For John-abhors the ruby wine, But on the fce a skate is fine, No files are on his skating rink— Now on his ekatee hear John D, clink Over the {col Ten't 4 nice! No one toll eay that he hasn't the priced Clinkety-clink! O'er frozen drink, Writing ha name without penctt or dbl Training no doudt to get about ~ When on thin too skate the Trusty dty and stout? He has no vice! Let tt eufftce: While "on a skate” old John D. can out toed . a private rink has filled, Soe tied for the time he’s billed To skate upon the thinnest !ce Pxplaining how he runs the price, On tce made In his private park He'll cut with skates “the dollar mark” nd signatures that will not hold eS When sunshine melts away the cold, ; John on a skate! Almost as great he As the class dinner at one buch per plate/ A Nia on the booze! Rut the stest shocel H i John haan't even embonpotnt to lose! ; | Beulltng with ease in the sharp dresee ’ Now-a-days John juat. docs stunts that will plecset t Should he entioe Trusts on thin toe i i Burely the chance to “out tos" would exgftong :