The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1913, Page 15

**S’Matter, Pop?’’ OH UNCLE SI! dere is Some KIND OF ANIMAL UNDER THE CoRN- CRIT. COME AN’ u BG w IT HAS EVES Lite A CAT AN’ HAIR LiKe A CAT AN CLAWS LIKEA car T3UT 11 15 NOTA Men of Initiative Modern Americans Whe Have Led the March of Progrem By Julius Chambers Cownght, 1013, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), Z BOAS, Discoverer of a New American Type of Man, RANZ BOAS, anthropologist of world wide fame, has recently announced that the United States is creating a new and distinctive type of the human species. ‘The proper study of mankind {s man,” sald Pope. And Prof. Boas " of the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University hag Geveted thirty-odd years thereto, “A distinctively original type of American is in process of development in the United States,” he said to the writer. This discovery—for It is a discovery—grew out of a recent year's work of the Tmmigration Commission. Anthropologists had not previously believed the human Qntmal so susceptible to the mysterious influences of environment. ' ‘Buch changes had been observed in the lower animals, Dr, Boas continued. | “Ber example, the fur of an animal raised in a dry locality becomes darker whe! the living animal is tranaported to a very moiat climate; but man‘s status was bellaved to be fixed by parentage and heredity--so established thereby that struc- and physical changes would not take place. Yet I find they do, even In the ygeneration! This is the case in American born children of European bred par- | ints who have lived in this country as brief a period as ten years, Not only are | the skulle of such children changed, but there je a marked tendency to a longer | form of face. Another very noticeable peculiarity fs inclination toward the blond type—more fair than parents! “Ramember, I am speaking of the children of races that have retained their phyaical oharacteriatica in Europe, side by side, unchanged for thousands of years. Yet, transplant them in America, and some Influence, caused by! envirot the parents that causes a new uniform type of childre ing—it ie astounding! | cannot even surmise! But, personally, I am sure of the after examining 26,000 individuals! There are many unsolved riddles in ni ture, I cannot tell you why the brain of a frog in Illinois is heavier than the drain of a ¢rog in Pennsylvania; yet such 18 a fact | No student of mankind has dreamed that humanity was subject to euch ehanges under mere change of environment. A hint of the great secret might Rave been gleaned during your civil war, but was overlooked. Recent research among the records at the War Department show that recruits, offepring of immt grants but born in this country, were taller than sons of the same parents born | Burepe. Better alimentation or conditions of life will not account for this, It oo universal rule The new type promises to be different. 1 will not use the | (T Now as WELL AS WHEN | WAS A YOuNGsTER. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Ba Be WHAT KINDA Crit rer rt M6! Wednesd STAND Acre TIS NOTA I Terr. va! Cat, NA CANT TeLL IT 1S A KITTEN q ! ay. Septem Prof. Boas hails from Minden, Westphalia, ané Kiel; but he came to America in early manhood and is an enthusiastic cll Ben of the republic, Since then he has observed the primitive races in all parte of the world. ‘No one need to worry about a deterioration of American physical og.mental characteristics from the flood of immigration pouring into this coun- tryt” he exclaimed, Goon after coming to America Boas explored Baffin Land and made the moat authoritative extant study of the Eequimaux. Morris K. Jesup sent him to Northern Siberia, where he discovered fifty species of animals never before de- werfded or known to naturalists, The North American Indian next became his en- (husiasm, Boas rved him at close range for months at a time, In the Orpperation of his report for submission to Congress in 148 at the direction of | the Immigration Commission Boas gave a whole year to the physical examina- tiem of £000 Jews, #,000 Sicilians and 10,00 Hohemlans, Huns, Scotch and Ital- fama from the mainland, "Broadly speaking, all human types are divided into two great classes—long- ests and round-heads,” he resumed. ‘Jews are the most uniform of the short round-heads, and the Southern Italiana the most uniform of the long-heads, I ‘& house-to-house ci lated all my information before I a nounced my deductions. Among achool children, American born are not only! taller but heavier than foreixn born of same parents, Unquestionably there is a tendency to uniformity in Ai ind studied at Heidelberg, Bonn (Oopgright, 111-1912, by Doubleday, Hage Ce.) KDING CHAPTER. tella the story), sbifttenn aud a confirmed eater of the Lot, had been maromed on & section of the South American coast, At once he picked an acquaintance with TiliGrd Wainwright, colds mau, well sacling SYNOPSIS OF Wiltlam Trotter (sh ‘The eapacity of this republic to by @ process of evolution to deve erful type of man, pecullar to this land, ta clearly indicated. The Briton hax achieved a somewhat almilar re sult; but more than twelve hundred yeara have been required to blend Angles, SixOhe, Danes, Scandinavians, Dutch and Norman-French into the type to-day described as British. @BVolution will be much more rapid in the United States. aGomplish results never before seen on oarth, BETTY VINCENT'S ADVICE TO LOVERS First of all, make sure of your facts. ula, ‘eave ft 1M show ‘He takes Trotter t: Gomes, wiitte hi Dreaktants with the (real: Tine of action which the % FTratler man 1 A few centuries will a nila wit r ‘meditate a WENT to a shack in Ag- uas Freseas where & mighty wise girl named Then, if the girl has wronged you, ask i ¥ dear girls, + ways Timotea Carrizo lived 3 M ba careful] oer unde she wepng, with her mother. The about the o girl was just about as post-cards you A Lovers’ Quarrel. nice as you ever saw. In tho States 4. “H. La"! writes: “Il am in love with alshe would have been called a bru- ‘The necessity for | young lady and she reciprocated my af-|nette; but she Was better than a bru- hette—I should say she was what you might term an ecru shade, I knew her pretty well. 1 told her about my friend Wainwright. She gave me @ double handful of bark—calisaya, fection until I offended her, 1 was grossly in the wrong, but I have apo» gized several times and still she will have nothing to do with me, How may It win back her love?” this caution ts comparatively new, Only within the last few years hi it been possible to Both of us was broke; but Timotea eensitive mind. sent us goat meat and plantains and Why should a girl send a young man @ peet-card with an inscription which ap would never dream of repeating to ima ff they stood face to face? I am moqereferring to indecencies, but merely te and extravagant statements. Girls knew how these cards, which they often sign with their own initial fe passed adout among their young men aoquaintances and ridiculed the pest-oard mai! would be loss heavy, ruary. Hie birthday comes two weeks before mine, Shall I give him anything, and If 0, what would be appropriate?"’| tortillas every day, and at last I got It ls not necessary to make any gift.|the curse of drink lifted from Clifford If you wish to present one let it be| Wainwright, He lost hie taste for it. simple, such as @ book or @ box of homemade candy. me would sit on the roof of Timotea's eating harmless truck cofti nd rice and stewed crabs, and playing the accordion, “About that time President Gomes found out that the advice of C., Wain- wright was the stuff he had been look- ing tor, The country was pulling out of debt and the treasury had enough baodle in it for him to amuse himself occasionally with the night latch. The people were beginning to take their two- hour slestas again every day—which wan the surest sign of prosperity. “Bo down from the regular capital he senda for Clifford Wainwright and mal him his private secretary at "M, A.” writes: “The man who has been ping me special attention has! been away two months, and since his return, a week and 4 half T have not seen him, He told some that he did not care for me any longer, and he has not wered @ letter I sent him, What shall I do? I love him and he told me once he loved me.” I am sorry ut you mustn't writes: “I am a girl of nine teen and I have never been popular with young men. What do you auppone 9 the reason? I am good looking and we money, and my ways are not dif-) : from those of other girl |run after the man. It will do no good, ‘Tour letter sounds as if you were in-'and you wil! only get yourself laughed fined to tink « bit too much about) at, Yourself. Perhaps that x the trouble. —_ “%, A. writes: “Do you conalder it Ac BY writes: “A girl whom I have| vulgar and unrefined for girl to have|twenty thousand Peru dollara a year. tmewn for eight years, and whom I/ the habit of whistling, as a boy might?" | Yes, air—so much. Wainwright was on lgve Gevotcdly, has slandered me to] There's no reason why « girl shouldn't the water-wagon—thanks to me and wus friends, ‘What shall I det” whistle if she knows where mot te de it, Timotea—and be wad coon in c Pe eer buy cards ready| 1 think you must depend on time, If]! think it waa—and some more herbs, stamped with|she really cared for you she won't be| that I was to mix with tt, and told me every effusl forever relentless, what todo, I was to make tea of it and mark | —_ sive tt to him and keep him from rum ‘ and many exolae| “A. 8." writes: “A young man has| for a certain time, And for two weeks mations and adjurations offensive to a| been paying me attention since Feb-|!I did it. You know, 1 iked Wainwright, | And in the cool of the evening him and! with the government «: wet what done it-valisaya bark with them other herbs mixed—make a tea of {t, and give a cupful every two hours. y it yourself, It takes away tho de- sire, “Aw T said, a man can do a lot more t for another party than he can for-him- f self, Wainwright, with his brains, wot & whole country out of trouble and on {te feet; but what could he do for him- (i! eelt? And without any special brains, but with some nerve and common senae, I put him on his feet because I never had the weakness that he did—nothing but @ cigar for mine, thanks, And’—— ‘Trotter paused. I looked at his tat- tered clothes and at his deeply sun- burnt, hard, thoughtful face, “Didn't Cartright ever offer to do any+ thing for you?" I asked. “Wainwright, he offered me some pi But I'd have had to leave Aguas Fres- cas; so I didn't take any of ‘em up. Say, I didn't tell you much about that girl-Timotea, We rather hit it off to- gether. She was as good as you find ‘em anywhere—@paniah, mostly, with Just a twist of lemon-peel on top, What if they did live in a grass hut and went |The Folks That Mra, Florence arclay, author of “The | onary,” having been Invited to ad- | dress @ kathering of boy scouts at a concert, suggested when she discov- ered the red-fire and red Indian charac- |ter of the rest of the programme that rhe be excused, “Oh, no," wan the answer. “We must have your speech. It will be such w blessing to have @ dwt" Daphne Atlen, wrandchiid of John ‘Htuskin's publisher and intimate friend, made when not quite thirteen years old the drawing reproduced in Uttle hook called “A Chitd's Vision: Mernon Blackwoud, whose hooks of | Poet 0 fancy include “Pan's Garden,” ‘Phe Human Chord and, just pub- lished, “A Prisoner in Fairyland,” {4 the second gon of the Iate Sir Arthur Black- wood and the Duchess of Manchester. In early stages of his career he farmed in Canada, mined in the Rainy River fields, and ran @ hotel. Ie has been also an editoria’ writer in Now York. wan 2 Anan te Mee mee: a @ieapell, author of “The Giery ing prepared to make their o ‘are-armed? “A month ago,” went on Trotter, ‘sho went away. J don't know where to. But" — “You'd better come back to the States," T insisted, “I can promise you positively that my brother will give you @ position In cotton, sugar or sheetings =P am not certasn which,’ “L think she went back with her mother," sald Trotter, “to the village in the mountains that they come fromm. ‘Teil me, what would this job you speak of pay “why id I, hesitating over com- merce, “I should say fifty or # hundred dollars a month—inaybe two hundred.” “Ain't it funny," sald Trotter, digging # toes In the sand, “what a chump a man js when It comes to paddling hix own canoe, 1 don't know, Of course Vm not mating @ living here, I'm on the bum. Hut—weil, 1 wish you could have seen Timotea, Every man has his own weak spot.” ‘The gig from the Andador was coming purser ashore to take out the and myself, the lone passenger. uarantee,” #aid I con! y brother will pay you #3 a pain, month Write Our Whe Wortt I af th ween since April George luered, {14 the wi. Cram Cook, author of Chasm sth of these writers belong to the Davenport, lowa, contingent in authorship, but have found thelr places further east, Willa sivert Cather, whose "0 har just ap was born 1 ester, Va, but # taken to Nebraska wien elght years old. As a child she Wie the intimate associate of Just auch children of Sweden and 4 43 whe describes in ner book. | M. Montgomery, author of “Anne! he Story Girl,"| ls in private Ife Mra, Ewan Mac-| donald, With her year-old son she is! apending the sun rier, | trince of Anre’s Gr "Geraldine # of "The! Book of Liveiyn how 9 girt! J with a vole found the woul to put inte her singing, 1s the daughter of one of the early editors of Harper's Weekly. Bhe learned to write under the tutel of her father, who belleved in girls be way. eam A AI Nn hint th alam gem “All right, then,” eald William Trot- ter, “TN — But @ soft voice called across the Diaging sands, A girl, faintly lemon- tinted, stood in the Calle Real and called. She was bare-armed—but what of that? “It's her! aaid Willlam Trotter, look ing, “She's come back! I'm obliged, but I can't take the job. Thanks just the same. Ain't it funny how we can't do nothing for ourselves, but we can do wonders for the other fellow? You was about to get me with your financial proposition, but we've all got our weak pints. ‘Timotea's m: And say!" Trot. ter had turned to leave, but he retraced the step or two that he had taken, "I Mike to have left you without maying woody,” waid he, “It kind of ratt you when they go aWay unexpected for 4 month and come back the same way. Shake hands, So long! Say, do you remember thom gunshots we heard a while ago up at tho euartel? Well, I knew what they was, but I didn't men- nit, It was Clifford Wainwright be: ing shot by a equad of soldiers against 9 wall for giving away secrets of to the Nicamala republic, Oh, sual fat ni 4e"e"sil Do You Take a Nap After Meals? 1g ourselves, Mine's! d have Uked ur brothe tha pointe, jack Carty carried 1 sok through the aurt to the on the the purser h me a letter that he had brought for way the last moment from the post-offive | in Aguas Breacus, It wae from my brother, He requested me to meet him at the St. Charles Hotel im New Or- leans and accept a position with bis | house-in either cotton, sugar, or sheet- and with flye thous gollare a pear as salary. w 1 hu ‘Warlea to @ aim chambre garnie in en I arrived at the Creacent City | ded away—far away from the St. | Mienvillo street. And there, looking down from my atte window from time to tine at the old, yellow, ab 2 | houss across the street, 1 wrote thia story to buy my bread andl butter, Can thim that helps others thimwelves?* help To-morrow:—"THE MARION. @ | ETTES"-—a chapter in the career of Charles Bpqacer domes, M. P, 15.—THE“‘ YOUNG GODDESS” lowed to go free any more than oth men of my acquaintance who have per- betrated matrimonial blunders. | nase ‘that marriage In a perfected a latence. sionment, feats, I march forward each time with renewed interest mengre broad and Junoesque, alive mentally | me to stay and see the family, and physically, i goddess whom 1 mot one winter's after-|Joined them in noon at the fashionable tea hour at the L~— Hotel. With her were two other Dretty «irle, and my friends Bille W. find some guch Little comgenial party. held thi |Luoky man that I was, she allowed me © | a lot of other things, says the afternoo! ber 10, 1913 Soma uv YOUR “TOM FOOLERY, I'LL WARRANT YA! al Milian Ilr My Hunt for a Wife 4 New York Gachevor’s “Quest of the Goleen Gert.” By Victor J. Wilson. Cowprign, 1913, by The Prem Publish ing Co. (The New York Evening World), 1 bewan to ask myself If this vivestoms ‘ness could continue without @ respite Had this thought not come to Lge . differently our affair might have ee ee eens reason But the vaguest formation of am ten why 1 shoud have been al-|'# the beginning of every achievement, One night I dined with Sybil, her ents and‘her two younger eaters, fydil an “entertainer in chief.” slotera laughed at her jokes an@ tened to her conversation, but HEN | meditate on the fre- quency with which I have es- Were I not an eye witness to these T should Ml cherish 1 auina’ nn (he idee‘ hardly ventured a word. ne Notwith tanding my disuiu-|&"d mother looked at her with undaunted by my own de- 0nd adoration, but were i i ( My next Same was Ove feet el Inches in height, allowing me only a three inches over, She was i : 1 called on Bybil one evening was not at home. Het mo! f i i with the joy of livii bered how dull they had been her expression, the spirit of enchual- | but ae T bce be Mocre Gap’ 7 Bybll waa a you y future femily-| y' young ‘the Nbrary. Instead of a stupid, unin ing I passed the happiest months, These people were ‘They were full of life and Ge Sybil herself. 1 left the Dussle. The following week I dined But instead of @ mirthful only one with any life was Sybil. 1 eolved the problem, When Sybil with them they were {Il at ease. When she was not among them they were un- Ht and Dick R., who hailed me as I saun- tered into the “palm room" hoping to i Bybil's conversation sparkled and bubbled like a new rand of intozicant. I had entered the room @ biase individ- ual and I left with @ new interest in life, Ww a + all Metened while Sybil iiterally stage, Her wit flowed, her fund of imformation was tremenéous. | constrained and happy. She robbed them of their personality with her own aasur- ance. I was provoked with Sybil and Geter- mined te change her if I could. But can a leopard change Ks spots? No mere to escort her home, She would not con- @ent to @ taxicab, but preferved to walk through the park. In the brisk atmosphere of that twt Nght hour, with the lights of the city springing up all around us, rosy-checked Sybil made me feel as if | were waik- ing on @ cloud. The drililancy of her Dersonality overpowereé me, During the next few weeks I saw a Great Geal of Sybil. Whether at lectures or concerts (which I was persuaded to at dinners or parties Sybil! was a de- lightfully vital companion ané elways the chief attraction of @ group. Queer Superstitions That Have ‘‘Worked Out’’ RE you superstitious? Most people are, whether or not they will com fess It. superstition bas loomed large in the lives of many great men. Strangely enough, the facts have often justified those superstitions, For Inatance: Richaré Wagner declared “13" was bis lucky number, He wae bora in 183, had 18 letters in his name and took up| mirror to music at 12 His favorite opera, “Mole terainger,* had 18 letters, He once ae wrote: “I have thie Wth day of April completed *Tannhause: This great ent on the stage on March 12 ied on the 18th of February, the Union, But tne that I will be elected to a second but wil not live to see ite end, dep B will be assassinated.” written of him, Lincoln was tremendously superstt- tlous, Perhaps because he was brought| Napoleon admitted he wae eupersti> up in the backwoods where superetition | tious, and he was constantly getttag ran fi Here {® one of the| some definition trom every flower, bird ‘* which Influenced him: land creature in his path of blood. many Don’t Do It. It Is Dangerous ND now the good old “forty| vous energy, This energy ts supplied A winks’ comes jn for a hammer | from the sympathetic system the @. Sclenco, which parrod | direction of the brain during our wating momenta, but when the brain Decomes somnolent the stomach becomes less ctive, the meal ts not properly digested, nd all manner of Injurious gases and kissing and the public drinking cup and aecording to) Here, the Idea: nap 1s dangerous | the Chicago Tribun | acide ave di It ts good to sivep any time of the day| Be lazy after a It is good for or night except after a substantial meal, you. But don Even eldorty and then It te wh madness Ly after dinner is 4 physical necessity, par: teularly if you are over thirty bat even violent exercise ty better than nap. In sleep every organ ts at its lowes! state of activity. And though to ach works automatically it needs n People would do well to postpone thelr beloved ‘forty winks for a couple ef Yours, When poopie of nervous temperament r for the nist and cannot sleep is usually because thelr brains are @ttll active and refuse to part with the Bleo@ + which shoul properiy travel igh indi as at Selo