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act ot gece mere oe Than Grief—Cause Copyriaht, 1941, ty thie Prewe Pabiinbing OU really CAN die of 4 broken ny ‘The doctors have come to the s who always used this artist Gwendolyn, when she learned on the fiance, had eloped with Vivian, the ‘vanyp villainess, Of late years, a more cynical generation has scoffed at the mortality of broken hearts putting it in the category with deaths from brain fever—that other oom plaint so overworked in fiction But Dr. J. Strickland Goodall, an eminent London heart specialist, now asserts that actual broken heart is physiological possibility, Rupture of the heart fibres, he says, may re sult from emotion—even more often from joy than from grief. Two New York physicians confirm this statement. One of them is D Francis Joseph Murray, eminent sur- geon, who recently has been one of erumo's attending specialists. rhe eiher is Dr. Mary Halton, a well known womin physician “That both men and women die of broken hearts is literally true,” Dr Halton told me when I talked with h in her office at No. 17 Bast 38th Stre “The explanation lies in tlie peculiar construction of the heart muscles, and in their almost instant response to poisons coming from the brain through the blood. “The heart muscles are non-striated ; that 4s, they are not under the con trol of the will. The muscles in your arm are striated; you can make them pick up @ pencil from your desk or do ‘any other act within their power to perform, at the bidding of your con- scious wish. But the heart muscles expand and contract without this con scious direction. Also they are most interestingly constructed; one fits into the other exactly like the parts of Chinese furniture, which ts dovetailed together without the use of nails. “when a person is ill of pneumonia and yet is said to have died from heart failure, it means that the poison of the disease has so worked on the heart as to pull apart these dovetailed muscles and break the heart's fibres— thus keeping the organ from doing its work and sending the blood through the body. “Exactly the same effect may be caused to a susceptible heart by a se- yere emotional shock such as intense grief or equally intense joy. The im- pact of this emotion on the brain may generate a poison similar to intense fatigue poison, which quickly travels through the blood to the heart and breaks apart the muscles and fibres.” “Therefore, there is at least a chance that the girl who learns her Jover has jilted her may die of a ‘broken heart?” I asked Dr. Halton, * egertainly,” she agreed. Then a twinkle came into her black lashed plue eyes, for, despite her scientific training, she is both youthful and hu- “man, “You remember,” she pointed out, “that the London specialist said joy often had a more serious effect than grief. Personally, I think death from a broken heart quite as likely to occur in the case of the girl who has fished for a young man five years or so and finally landed him. The shock ‘af joy might well be too much for her! “Intense emotional shock,” Dr, Hal- ‘ton continued more seriously, “some- times has another fatal effect on the heart. It may paralyze the nervous system and thus prevent the nerves “ot the brain from controlling the cir- culation of the blood through the eart. This has happened to women ‘who believed their husbands killed in the war and to whom these husbands suddenly reappeared alive and well. * “Can a broken heart ever be thended?” I asked, “Often,” she replied, cheerfully. “When @ person drops under an emo- “tional shock and the heart muscles pull apart, there are three methods ot © 4reatment which should be applied at Hypodermic stimulants should to given; there should be massage of the arms and legs, working upward from the hands and feet, to help the blood to circulate in some slight de- gree; and the pulmotor should be used %6 ‘promote artificial respiration With this combined treatment nature 4s given a chance to reassert herself. ¢ Carrel and others have proved that life will return even after the heart as almost stopped functioning for a ng period.” “Are both men and women likely to freak their hearts?” I inquired. “Yes, but not for the sons,” smiled Dr. Halton. 4 man dies of a physiological br¢ neart it !s very likely due to over. strain in athletics, for the effect of love on his heart—well, you remem- » ber what Shakespeare’ sald: ‘Men Nave died and worms have caten them, but not for love.’ “a’ woman's heart is far more susceptible than that of a man t emotional shocks. The modern woman has more emotional resist ance than her grandmother, since she has a broader and more interesting life, yet even to-day her heart is more likely to be broken by over powering emotion than the heart of a man.” “If you use the term ‘broken heart’ in the sense of a physical rupture of the heart fibres through an emotional shock of joy or grief, Dr. Goodall of London i¢ correct in saying that it is a perfectly possible occurrence,” admitted Dr. Murray, who lives at the Hotel Vanderbilt, “Both men and women may suffer ‘ s: 3" 3 i . Broken Hearts NOTED SPECIALISTS SUPPORT SENTIMENTAL NOVELISTS i renewimenemone ARE fatal = seceee “Both Men and Women Die and Joy Kills More Often Due ta Instant Re- sponse of Heart Muscles to Poison From the Brain * By Marguerite Mooers «Marshall. (0. (The New York Kvening Word y rt spport of the semtimental novelists, finish for blue-eyed, golden-haired eve of her wedding that Ronald, her RECENT PORTRAIT OF LADY ANASTASIA WERNHER. HE above is the most recent por trait of Lady Anastasia Wern- her, bride of Major Harold Wernher, inheritor of the famous Kimberly Diamond Mines, who ar- rived in America recently with her husband, Lady Anastasia is ‘by birth the Countess Zia Torby, daughter of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. Her English name is the result of a ape- cial patent bearing the sign manual ot King George, which bestows upon her the rank and precedence of the daughter of an earl of the United Kingdom. Lady Anastasia is a great- &randehild of Czar Nicholas I. Can You } poYou MARSHVILLE IS (A LOVELY PLACE !( inte \ THIS IS WHAT THEY ALL USE \ IN MARSHVILLE ml aoe COOKING HELPS ISH contains less of the F extractives which give flavor to meats, so it is apt to taste flat, Hence great care should be exercised in the selection of acoompanying foods. A well-seasoned sauce is de- sirable to se swuce and mé are, probably, the most fre- quently served, but horserad- ish sauce gives fish a piquant flavor. To two tablespoons horseradish take one table- spoon of vinegar and one- fourth teaspoon of salt. Mix well and a tablespoons of heavy cream, stiff, Then cucumber sauce made by whipping half a cup of cream stif then slowly adding one teasp.on of Salt and two tablespoons of lemon juice or mild vinegar and folding in one grated cu- cumber. Tomato iby many four beaten there is a swuce fs ferred and mustard ives a delicious flavor. redients for the latter fourths cup of vine- gar, one-fourth cup water, two tablespoons fat, one and a half lespoons corn starch, one teaspoon ground mustard, half aspoon salt and two table finely chopped pickle cooks sauce The are spoons from this ‘broken heart,’ and it may be broken at any age. Usually, how ever, the individual who suffers in tiis fashion has a heart which pre viously has been in some we k- ened. I have never known an intense Joy or pain to have a fatal effect ty healthy heart.” wdall says that fainting, with the subsequent rest of the heart, is one of the ways of p ng it from overstrain, which 1 me think that sur periodica uling grandmoth- ers had method in their madness But Dr. Murray says that he would 1 the tendency to faint "a danger signal hat the heart may treatment, of course, Is stimu. lants," he added. “But the way to avoid fatal consequences is the way of self-control, the calm resolve not to feel sc t one's over- worked, ined heart gives way.” Just the same, young man, you'd better think twice before you jilt mnsible for a It CAN be + Making Matinee Idols of Football Heroes. Latest Stunt of Theatrical Producers Is to Score Stage Touchdowns With College Players—Seen in Cast of Nearly Every Broadway Show. Cops right, 1021, by the Prove Publishing Co, (ithe ‘Now York “Rventng. World) ' has happened! Football heroes have become matinee idols, Nearly every show on Broadway has in its cast men who formerly thrilled the crowds ‘in the stadium, bowl or oval The gridiron stars of yesterday, who circled Princeton's ond, smashed line and euccessfully booted »p-kicks over the bars from the ect side of midfield, still have audiences. No longer do they le themselves from the mud 1s half a hundred thousand people yell themselves hoarse; that day is Past and gone for them. Now they apply the grease-paint, seize the trusty d. ror the beautiful heroine and strut from behind the scenes to gain the plaudits of the theatre au- dience, Soon you may read some such an- ement “Mr. Mont hnny Kicker ent.’ Mr membered as gridiron of 1920. halfbuck of the Harvard he hammered }\is their glorious yict am thr ry over Yale The sta is cleared by the officials: it is the bright wide of the. viene Here com the boys. Th rowd on their feet yelling. Pavoriietaan ingled out and the cheer leaders, aced here and there by the press agent, are inciting fresh outburste of yusiasm. There is Sidney B er, who is “tackling” the leadine of two are Kummer's one-act Diays. He was # star halfback of the Unive rsity of California team, Boyd Marshall, who is appearing with Mitei in “Lady Billy," 4 Dicien ing the line toward the goal-—a place among the stars, In 1910-11 he won renown as quartenback of the Uni versity of Michigan eleven let us fly over the ficld wi Charles Trowbridme, American avice tor of “The Broken Wing,” and as we nong the celestial stars with this former football st f the University of California we dle ome gtars shining just as low Their m work" with Charles in “The Broken Wing” is 4 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1921. | SCREEN WIRE ee MOSQUITOES et ‘and bis personality and the ul of the ine and is forced back for a loss, (hat ) ) | AM GOING TO LIVE AT MARSHVILLE a — KEEP WHERE IS a ¢ (2) | THE THE MOSQUITOES IN Hocaues " MARSHVILLE ARE COULD GO THROUGH BHEY'D NEVE Be LET THROUGH THAT MESH CAN YOu MARES By Maurice Ketten ————_s BeAr ir! ( Bow MARSHALL . eNO Mire) PADL D ckEy foesn't spell failure what his football training man. It gave him the sp ball hero of 1910 fight to a finish, Now. if he fi The other is George Abbott, a for rat time, be will start 9 mer pigskin expert of Rochester probably, choosing a new hole University Hine ot opposition, It ls Itke tt On the side lines you will find Paul of the little ¢ a Dickey, ¢x-football star of the Uni ally beating on a spot in the r versity) of Mi *03-'04-'06, and HI it finally bores a se author of Broken Wing.” © the college man, his is watching the signals closely m on until fina has brough foot ucces ball stars to the foot exy the spirit of abet play rea and gets 1 a university . * 4 to put & play prove public, a 1 we He bas an for 0 toucndown,” declares” } vin the game for bis suppo: d knows t fight. H Dickey. "The footlights are the gual “Isut~listen to this,” he wright—and knows what they posts over which the actor has to put earnestly. “If he has to buck their io tackle. He has bucked the Lne been thrown back for losses ————_ BY Covrright, 1921, by propriate ta! At the end of the rainbow of in- fatuation is the gold of happiness, but before lovers find it the rain- bow always fades. Spring fever, like the appendix and the tonsils, ix a bother and an expense to civilized men and women. A woman may think she is mis- erable, but she never reaches the lowest depths of woe and exaspera- tion until a man tri to “laugh her out of it"—instead of offering a@ broad and comfortable shoulder. It's always the MAN who and pays and pays" ried. “pays if he is mar- What makes a widow dangerous is that she always knows how to put a man at bis ease—and casy is the descent to Avernus! To even the husband—or the editor —who most appreciates a clever woman, there come moments when he wishes she were longer on amlability and shorter on brains. Every married woman wants to marry off all her women friends, but every married man turns tnto a Cassandra of gloom if one of his chums even hints at committing matrimony. Most me: believe in the short skirt with reservations—which are, that their wives shall not wear it. A kiss is rather more subtle than a kick, but sometimes they both mean “On your way!” Copyrizht WISH you wouldn't let the chil- dren mark up my books!” said Mr. Jarr testily. “Here thoy’ve been at this set of Scott mark- ing up the pictures with colors.” “I suppose you want to blame it on Wille, because he has artistic tastes Jarr. “But little Emma is just as bad: she also cuts pictures out of books to make paper doils. Still, as you are 40 anxious that your children should be interested in books, you shouldn't find so much fault. You want them to be interested in good literature, don't you?” “Not t) ‘he extent of defacing and mutilating replied Mr. Jarr. “Real- ly they are old enough now to know they shouldn't do such things.” “Oh, maybe those books were marked up a long time ago,” tured Mra “Anyway, mma hasn't cut a picture out of a book for months, although she will do with the magazines. And she is so “anxious to know what the stories are about, especially the corset and ingerie advertisements—for the child hinks they are all stories—that I do believe she will be a great authoress when she grows up and will write of the most daring sort on subjects that shouldn't be discussed. Willie may become a great author too, for he has the most remarkable memory. He heard the janitor swearing dreadfully a year ago when the dumbwaiter fell on him, and just the other day I heard him repeat the same words to Johnny Rangle in some boyish quarrel. I had to pun- i#h him for it, of course, but the thought afterward came to me, ‘Should [ punish my child simply be- cause he has a retentive memory? ” “Maybe he is going to be a great orator if he remembers abusive words,” Mr. Jarr suggested. “Well, he has a high forehead, a very high forehead for a boy of his years, I will say that,” remarked Mrs. Jarr. “That was quit an illuminating suggestion that our little Emma made asking you what were the stories about the ladies of lingerte whose pictures she cut out of the magazine advertisements,” said Mr. Jarr. “Ex- Secretary of Agriculture Lane recog. nizes that all magazine fiction | Propaganda these days, for he says, ‘Through fiction this generation given ite philosophy. economics, moral standards and insptration by subtly instilling the give standpoint to | fe’ ” “Well, I don't understand what hes getting at or you either,” Mrs. Jarr confessed. “I only know all the stuff is coated stories of success in love or business or booh.” “It's just that.” said Mr. Jarr. could take the a and run the advertiser fiction as ti ™ nd one would the difference. Just use display type fiction and the advertisement pi tures, and use the fiction illustration in *he advertinements.” But what bas all this to do » found the hole in the de- which he was looktug. er reason why the univer r lured the great asset ry his ageressiv and overcome f fight to a finish, which his football training has given “That is the main p for emphasis, rd and re . xpect the day tors’ inter. and collegiate football contest to dawn as but an added attraction on the > ’ \ODERN MAID MOARGUERITE MOOCERS MARSHALL + ‘he Press Publidhing Go. (The New York Evening World.) ITER reading w Amherst, Brown and Princeton boys have to say y.% About the devastating influence of the modern girl, one wonders why, the modern young ma» doesn’t protect his morals with a few ap sl e, “Fragile--Perishable—Handle With Care: and marks up everything.” said Mra © OF*- A SMALLEST TELEPHONE IN THE WORLD HE tiny telephone shown in the above picture is not a toy de- signed for a doll, it le a real instrument, the smallest in the world, designed by a German firm of inven- tors. The earpiece fits snugly tate the ear to give both hands freedom, ARDELL. « 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. 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