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| BREAKFAST | 5 U NERVES AR Copyriewt, 1921 OUR bri my This is true if you ar that is, if you get up between tween 8 and 9, the offi fm up” your mental Processes by a little light labor A group of British chologists have been con- ducting experiments on workers with a view to de- determining their — effi- ciency record at different hours of the day. Hore is the schedule as it worked by ‘The Pr touches high-water m arrive at old w psy out, from 8 A. M. to 5 P, M. Hour Efficiency. B isis aay saneanydOn: «104.3 ~ 106.6 +105.6 : eecrenerrerrrrer ret. eee er 104.2 yee ceouuesai leks: aAnd Miss Mary Sandail, nu American expert on applied psychology, who tells clubwomen, tired business men and Y. W. C. A girls how measure p and increase their mental efficiency, agrees that the Qrain probably does work etter berween 10 and 11 A. M, than at any other time—“‘unless,” she smilingly, “you bed until that later.” “But why is this par tioular period most pro- ductive of mental scintillation?” dasked her, at her studio in Carnegie Hall. “For a number of @wered Mise Sandall. “The brain is controlied by the nervous syste and at that hour in the morning the Hormal individual's nerves are fresu @nd unworn. to adds. stay in time, or reasons," an- His blood stream is flowing swiftly and strongly through the brain, because, assuming that he has breakfasted at 8 o'clock, meal Mas been dig ed and an ext amount of blood is no longer need: by the stomach He probat aroady hag dor ttle work, which has t same effect on his mental processes a. warming up’ has on an automobi The air of his office is likei better Worth breathing at that hour than later in the day, The a. ates with whom he works are feeling their west, and this hus its influence on his own intellectual processes, In a word, he is feeling his fres.cst| ‘This, of course, does not apply the ni worker, whu will have a different Umetuble of mental efficiency “It is interesting to note, as these British investigators have done, tha there is a drop in mental etficiency atter the midday meal. Probably this 4g due again to the close relation be- uween our mental and physical proc- emes. After a hearty lunch the di- gestive system requires so much blood ahat there is less at the disposal of ane brain. in my own experience I have found that my brain gets along better without the heavy noonday re- post which L used to think I oug’ fo have. Now I eat cheese, nuts anc perhaps a bit of salad at noon, and as @ consequence 1 am making my brain do more work." = “If the heavy meal is eaten, should tt not be followed by rest and rec tion, as these British authoritics sug gest?" Lusked. “As a matter of fact, at is nearly impossible to see many rgons of importance in downtown New York between 1 and 3. ‘They take a full two hours’ 'nooning’, al- though I doubt if they indulge in a siesta, as London business men are gaid to do. That, I should think, would be frightfully fattening.” “But rest and recreation after meals are excellent thing Miss Sandali maintained. “One goes back fo work with the mind in that state of relaxation in which the best one can do is accomplished, It isn't when you are worrying, fretting, Wresittating, that your mind works most smoothly. That is the reason why a person often can do a better job if he is told, ‘You have just half our to!" ee eteh an edition,” I finished, and the psychologist nodded smiling as sent, “Or finish any given Ik,” ghe amended. “Almost autom itically, euch a time limit forces the mind to concentrate on the work in hand, and DO it, without thinking about any~ thing else.” “But should not 4 properly trained mind be able to maintain ite efficiency at least during an eight-hour day?” I inquired "{ think so she replied. “only most of us have not trained minds, an the sense that we have trained Our education consists in ‘a certain amount of knowl- certain number of facts, into our minds instead of in the USB of the mental powers We DOSsess “One of the best ways in which an individual can self-educate his mind is to teaoh it to get out of a gut. Mental efficiency requires tl we use the power of habit to a cer- tain degree, but many of u8 do not use our habits—we are used by them, ‘They are, in that case, the deadly enemies of mental activity. When any business man finds @hat he |s not happy unless he has a certain table in a certain restau- fant, minisiered unto by & cortain waiter, every single day, he had { potter go somewhere else at once! When he finds that only one type WHY YOUR BRAIN IS MOST ACTIVE BETWEEN 9 AND 11 IN THE MORNING ts athe. DIGESTED FRESH E FR BLOOD STREAM FLOWS SWIFTLY “Your Efficiency Drops After Lunch,’' Says an Ex- pert—Declares Noonday Resting Is Fatten- ing—-Has Found Few Trained Minds. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. mm Purltahing Co, (Tae New York Evening World ark between 10 and 11 in the morning. normal individual igading a normal life— 7 and 8 in the morning, breakfast be- ce between 9 and 10 and proceed to ss MARY SANDALL of dramatic entertainment or one sort of book holds his attention, he should take it as a danger signal to interest himself in other plays or books. For what is a business man’s greatest value, from the viewpoint of his employer or—it he js an em- ployer—of his financial success? Is it not his ability to meet mew prob- lems, hold of old problems t initiative, his ver- concluded “is getting out of his verything there is ta- t. That is why an exami- nation may show that only for one b of the working day do we ouch -water mark in mental Can You Beat It! i840, B (The New York Brening World y Maurice Ketten MY ROOM IS ON THE FOURTH FLOOR, ——— \ Don't You _MIND | CLIMBING STAIRS 3 8 IC ELEVATOR COME UPSTAIRS, PLEASE é TUBE _) RIGHT UPS | AM COMING § a go cee IT'S OUT OF ORDER AS USUAL WHAT IS syccESSFUL | [FF? Cowvright, 1921, by the Prew iublinhing Co. The Now York Eroning World.) MIDDLE-AGHD woman told me the other day “I am a poor woman, I have lost much of what is called a career, yet I know thus far that I have had a most successful life” It is a very beautiful story—the work of this woman. It seems that she and her mother were left alone in the world at the death of her father. There was a very small income that just ‘out kept the wolf from the door. ‘The girl was very foright and tal- ented and attractive, and a fine op- portunity was opened to her in a successful field of endeavor, Just about the time she was ready to accept this position and make something of herself, which she longed to do, her mother was sud- denly stricken with a mortal and lin- gering disease. ‘This parent was an unselfish soul THE HOUSEWIFE’, SCRAPBOOK,. SH salad ofl for cleaning brass Apply this with a cloth, Then thor- oughly wipe off all excess oil and polish with clean, dry cloths until satisfactory, If the bed is of mahogany, wipe it with cloth out of cold water, then a dry cloth until a high 3 attained. beds, wrung rub wit polish Save all worn-out stockings, Cut them into narrow strips and use them as filling for one of those porch pillows. They are wonderfully soft To restore gilt frames, three cups of water and sufficient flour of sulphur give a gplden tinge, In oll four or five onions, etrain. When liquid is cold wash the frames with this, using @ brush. After frame is dry it will look Ike new. take add to this then It fs sald that a teaspoonful of sugar added to the tea while steeping will prevent stains on the table linen tn case any ts spilled. and begeed her daughter to take her opportunity which would away from the little village in which they lived, and that she, the mother, cali her would get along as best ahe could with the ‘help of neighbors and friends. Although she was bed-ridden most of the time, she thought she could manage in order to give her ohild the chance she ought to have. young woman mother career for the satisfaction of doing her duty But the could not see her jonely, and sacrificed her Many wonderful incidents are told about what a supreme sacrifice this was. Sho never left her mother, She did all the housework and the sewing, and little odd jabs for others to get added comforts for the invalid, and closely studied the Nttle income that It might reach as far as possible, Even when the little love-god came around the conditions were such that would have taken her far away from her mother, She shut him out and went on with her self-appointed task. And the years went by and her youth went with them. Her beauty faded, but in its place came a sweet- ness, a loveliness of character, brightness of soul, which drew near to everybody who camo touch with her. A hort time a her in ago the mother passed away. On her deathbed she said to her daughter: “No woman has ever been happier than I. Ihave been bles¥ed jn the possession of you. I did not deserve it, 1 am afraid—all that you gave up. God was certainly good to me.” And she closed her eyes In pe "L heven't a single regret," this woman told me, “If I had it to do over again I would not act other- wise. We had such joy together, mother and 1; we had ‘such fun out of everything—even trifles, After all, I have made a success of {t—doing the thing 1 wanted to do—standing by a sweet soul that gave me enough to last me the rest of my n beautiful thoughts and loving mem- ories.” Who can gainsay that this is not a asful life? Yes, she is middle , but everybody wants her. Dhey the spirit of her, the patience, perseverance, and all the othe: qualities that she has developed. She has good, lucrative offers for employ- ment. She is not an old maid—not much— and Iam not so anre but that Dan Cupid may still come her way and give her the love she ought to have. Hey little imoome will keep her, even f SOPHIE BY IRENE: LOEB though she does not work. Yet, ag she told me, she can never be idie. To do things ie a part of her makeup—a means of her happi- ness. With a host of friends she will ripen into old age and look baok upon it all with a sigh of satisfaction. When I think of the people whose great aim in life and whose idea of success fg in piling up gold, I think of this woman who measiires her suocess in permeating gladness. There is considerable food for reflec- tion, How can one measure success? I yenture to say that in many corners of the world some of the most successful lives are found—not unlike this one, There may be little of this world's goods im many a home, yet where cheer reigna and people are satisfied with modest means therein js a great measure of success in life It might well be said that an hon- est-to-one's-self life 1s more to be chosen than one measured in terms of money and fame. A Bachelor’ HIGHWAY ROBBERS: '* ByY-+ NEAL R.OCHARA + The Auto Repair Men Have a Sign, “Free Air.’” in Front of the Garage; That Means It Costs You Nothing to Breathe Inside, But Everything Else Is Charged For! Copyright, 1971. by the Pree Publishing Co (The New York Brentng World) ed IHE one part of the auto mdustry that works tne year round and @i® T overtime are the repair men. They have a sign, FREE AIR, fh front of the garage. That means it costs you nothing to breathe insiwe, but everything else ts charged for. The monkey ta the highett form of animal life, and the mon- key wrench represents the highest charge in mechanical life. A traffic cop may hold you ap and it rarely costs more than $25. But when the repair guy holds you up, that's where his price list starts, What the garage man charges for a simple job is enough to make your radiator boll, He'll put on a tire for the cost of the shoe plus 10 per cent Of course wire wheels are easier for yourself to put on, but the motor fanciers are waiting yet for Marcon! to invent the wire- less wheel, One can't get along without repairs, however. For a turtle is the slowest moving article on earth and that’s Just what 1 car is after it's turned turtle, YOU NEED THE JACK WHEN» THE REPAIR MAN SLIPS YOU Gasoline gets you coming and g0- jig BILL. tt ing, Ford closed down for two toot himself from robbery. months, but Rockefeller manar@ Tne joy ride addicts are certainfy to get along without discontinuing parq nit. Guys that once supported any gas stations. Which reminds elght cylinders have cut down to us that this planet is composed of si and the four-cylider boys ar® what Rockefeller owns and the rest skipping along on two or three, as of the world. Showing what a ‘The price of food is coming tough break the consumer et8. down, but auto registration is still When Luther Burbank grafted cane cogting more and more per plate,» sugar to California grapefruit it It ts time the motorists clase benefited the world. But when a tered in one bunch and formed mechanical guy grew twelve cylin- a union, They should not only » ders on one feed pipe, nobody look out for themselves, bat ; also help one another, To-day grabded any advantage but John D. there is no courtesy among drivers, That's why a big and . sturdy mail truck grabs the right of way from a weak and pathetic female tin Lizzie, Motoring is sure an expensiv orgy. Many asphalt addicts not only drive too fast, but they live too swift. Plenty of ‘em that take & hill on first and second speed leave behind ‘em’ a home with a first and wd usual. Jesse James was a famous robber only because they used horses in his day. To-day he'd be a bandit apprentice if he worked In an up-to-date gar- age. A jack comes in every outfit of tools, but there's only one time when you need the " 7 he ir Jacks, That's ‘when the repat second mortgage on it. And accel man slips you the bill A mo- dent insurance protects you, In & torist can Insure himself head-on collision, but you need an- against theft, but he can't pro- other kind when your car is swipéd s Notebook 1O-DAY is my thirtieth birthday. I'm atill single, but don't know whether I'm happy or sad. My Irish housekeeper is as crabby and peevish as any woman could be. I'm sorry I did not get married. It rained all day to-day. I've been reading autobiographies of great men. It states that ninety-nine out of a hundred are always married, I think I'll take a stroll with my polic. dog, Fido, He is always with me no 1 ter what I think or do. Went over to play bridge with my business partner this evening. We planned to do it at the cli, but his wife could not go to the club, he said, She intimated it was getting late at only 10.30, so he went to bed. I’m home now. My dog is lying at -ny feet looking at me. His head is between his paws; and he won't move until I nod. I'm happy to-night, I don't have to go to bed, Took Dorothy to the theatre last night. She said it was her birthday after the show was over, so we had supper in celebration, It seems as if every new girl [ meet has a birthday the following day Spent my vacation in the country last week. ido had a good romp over some real grass, He looks home- sick this evening. For the grass prob- y. Met the most wonderful girl there. She had two degrees in domes- tle arts and science and was a little different from anybody I've met. Guess I'm getting old. Found a gray hair to-night. I don't know whether to pull it out or leave ft in. My barber said a couple of hairs fell out to-day, I'll get some hair tonic to-morrow, 66T\EAR MISS VINCENT: For three years | have loved a schoolboy friend and this is no ‘passing fancy. But he goes around with other girls and | am not allowed out as much as other young peo- ple. Still, whenever | meet him he seems sincere. How can | find out if he loves me or even cares for me? WORRIED.” If he speaks to you in a friendly manner, as you say he does, that ought to be enough for you to know he likes you. You cannot expect a boy af school age to fall in love as an older man who is established in ‘business, Enjoy your friendship in a girlish way and do not hang too much upon the word “love.” “Dear Miss Vincent: | am a young man of twenty years and am at present studying law at a univermity. lam very devoted to a young lady whom | have known for seven months. We had pledged and promised certain matters about always going out together, dancing together and things like that, but one time | became angry and told her | did not love her. | did not mean what I said and im- mediately tried to apologize, but she has never spoken to me since. | really do love her, but she has an idea | am not true. Can you help me? SOL 8.” Probably if you had said anything in the world but your unfortunate re- mark she would have forgiven you. To tell a young lady you do net | ve her is rather a dangerous remark, after she has pledged herself to you About the only thing you can do mw 1s to write her a letter or send some friend to talk to her for you “Dear Miss Vincent: | am nineteen years of age and have known a young man about the same age for the past three years. Recently he was called away on business and he has written to me at least twice every week. | answer every let- ter. However, | just received one from him and instead of writing it by hand he typed it, He didn’t even apologize for so doing. Isn't that an insult? What do you think | ought to do about it? “WAITING.” Although it is much more courte ous to write by hand, it may just be that the young man w r ed or wrote to you during oflice hours, Read his letter again and if it is written in the same cordial veln as usual T should not put any stress upon the matter. “Dear Miss Vincent: | am a young lady of twenty, and stormed with invitations from boys ranging from eighteen to twenty, They think they are des perately in love with me, but | know a boy of that age doesn’t know his own mind. | have never known a man thirty or forty, and that is the only type | admire. | long for older friends. How can | obtain them? NHAPPY TWENTY." I have heard many young women give this same cry, They want the company of the ‘mature man," and yet, are you quite sure that you would be able to entertain an older man? Why not give up theee boy friends who you think do not know thelr own minds in touch with nd read and keep ‘urrent events 90 that you will be well posted when ycu do meet an older man Whom you admire “Dear Miss Vincent: A young chap has called upon me a half dozen times, but he has never made any suggestion to go out any place. | am not the sort of girl who likes a fellow just “for what I can get out of him;” but don't you think he might ask me to go with him to some place of amusement? EM. B.” Wait 4 little longer and perhaps he will. He may have an idea that you ought to know each other better be fore you venture out together, In any ease, If you care for him do not to force him to take you out, for might give him the wrong tm jon of you “Dear Miss Vincent: Is it proper for a young man to teaso agirl? | like @ young man very muoh, but | have told him | can not bear his teasing. One me he took a book of mine and kept it for days, Another time he took a package of candy and returned three packages of the same kind a month later. He sent me an April fool package for Christmas and then had the nerve to call later. What do you think of him? CONFUSED.” That you do not appreciate hia jokes, However, if these things annoy you do not go with him, [ have always n wed that joking men marry women who fail to enter into thelr fun, Give him up and leave him to a girl who ts up to his tricks. atl THE, /ARR FAMILY . BY ROY L.. MFCARDELL. Copyrtaht, 1981, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co. (Tae New York Bvening World.) 4 66] was simply wonderful, that's How? Come again Tres me eu 3 re ter. “She wrote her name and folded ft | WAS It wees RineAY) WORE tight on a little bit of paper ané ful!” remarked Mrs. Jarr, heig jt against his forehead—hie when Mr, Jarr came home the other psyohic retina—and he read it, read it aloud!" Mrs, Jarr explained SY SLING . dertulr’ "Oh, shucks!" remarked Mr. Jarr "What was simply wonderful?” impatiently. “Don't you know how asked Mr. Jarr, “The tobacco plan- that is done? ‘The faker palma the ters of Virginia burning their to- paper with the name written on. tt, bacco rather than sell it at the prices Substitutes another like it, unten and reads the first paper in the hile low of his hand, held close to eyes, and then substitates it for other piece of paper that Is being against his forehead, Then he asl his dupe or dapes to open the ftrat paper and read the name or questici, after he hides the second paper.” ¢i Mrs. Jarr burst into a fit of awed ter long and loud. “Well, I am glad you enjoy ¢ feat of so-called mental telepal by sleight of hand—the psychic retina bunk!" chortled Mr, Jarr, “Oh, dt isn’t that!” giggled Mrs. they are offered, und pipe smokers etih paying 16 cents a can for an ounce and three-quarters of tobacco? Tobucco that used to be dear enough at ten cents the package before the war “Who was talking about tobacco?” Mrs. Jarr retorted. ‘I wish your aw- ful smoking tabucco was #0 dear that you couldn't afford to buy it at all! If you men find clothes too dear and 0 on a buyers’ strike, why don't you gO on @ buyers’ strike against to- bacco, if you think it should be cheaper?” Mr. Jarr only grumbied and again asked Mrs. Jarr what she had been raving about that was so wonderful. “Why, everybody ts consulting psychoanalyats these days to find out what their dreashs moan—and one 18 told the most dreadful thinga, and paychoanalysts won't look at a fee under $50; so Clara Mudridge-Smith om me with her to-day when she consulted Ozo the Omnipotent. That ia what was wonderful.” “Ia this old boy Ozo the Impudent, or whatever you call him, @ psychoan- alyst?” Mr. Jarr inquired. “He may be, but, as I said, It costs ast $50 to have one’s dreams an- alyzed, and then you are told you are @ subnormal or a mental deficient and crave to murder your babies or burn the house dewn after poisoning your parents, or worse things. But Ozo the Omnipotent only charges $5—and it ueed to be only §2, although he must have fost money by it-—to vitalize the sources of success for you oF to in- Jarr. “That was clever ot course, but to think of Clara Mudri paying $5 to be told her own nam! when she and I knew it all the tim” ACK and Jill went up Veatigate your peychic phenomens. the hill 7 “Oh, that's all jargon,” said Mr. ‘ Jarr, impatiently, "What ‘did ais And down without a eink Ozone, or whatever he called tumble himaclf, do that was so wonderful?” “Why, he told Clara Mudridge- For youngsters fed-on good Smith her name, right out, by mental ‘Bond Bread telepathy! Ho concentrated his mind sili and I concentrated my mind and Are strong and never stumble, q KOEBI GEYSER, ‘S7tm it. New York City. —e ee Clara concentrated her mind--and sho and I had headaches afterward from concentrating our minds #0 hard—and Ozo the Omnipotent read Clara's full name by bis peyohte re- tina.” " SUPERFLUOUS HAIR Fomoved FRIMANKNTLY, by, the painine r. N arte ceementnmamaaets oem ph .