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Wonderful Ruins of Athens
These Kemains of the Old-Timr Glories of the Queen City of Iho Ancient World Show
How Perfect the Grecians AVere in Tlieir Mastery of Architecture and ItuSMinp.
To the right, the Parthenon in center, and the Propylaeum to the left. The Parthenon
is still the most massif icent ruin of the ancient world. The hill of Lykabettos.
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The Olympk'iim, or Temple of Olympian Zeus. '
The Temple of Nike Apieros.
- - In 1R37 Athens was a squalid village. Today It delights to call Itself "Uttle Paris." Its wide
streets' and boulevards are a pleasure to loop upon, and In a few years the pleasure will be still
greater, for Mr. Thomas H. Mawson is still further reconstructing and remodelling the city of Ath
ens under royal auspices.
It is anticipated that In ten years the population of Athens, now 220,000, will be at least half
a million. , ' '
Very delightful are the old temples. First In order is the Theselon. the best-preserved edifice
of the whole of the ancient Greece world. The temple has been assigned to Theseus, to Hercules,
and to Other gods. It was probably completed by 421 B. C. In the Middle Ages It was converted
into a church and dedicated to St. George.
In the theater of Dionysos, a wonderfully preserved theater, the center of the dramatic art of
Greece In its golden period, one is struck by the frieze round the stage reliefs of the time of Nero.
The wonderful seats have been preserved, particularly one destined for the priest of Dionysos.
The fifteen Corinthian columns of pentelic marble of the Olympieum date from the reign of Had
rian, and they once contained a statue of that monarch. In 1760 a Turkish viceroy took one of the
columns for a mosque. The Diplyon formed the principal entrance of classic Athens.
The Stadion has been entirely restored. It was originally erected 330 B. C.
Women's Discretions Due to Mental Vacuum
By DOROTHY' DIX.
A married woman of high sorinl posi
tion and having a good, kind, rich. In
dulgent husband, found her real affinity
In another man, with results that have
landed her in the
divorce court.
It la not an un
usual occurrence.
We read of some
thing like it In the
newspapers every
day In the week,
and we always
wonder what allt'd
the woman that
made her throw
away home and
children, and the
respect of the com
munity, and money
and case' '. and
luxury for nome
little two-by-.four
man who wasn't
worthy to black
her h u s b a n d "a
shoes.
Most of us, In our unprofessional way,
have, diagnosed her complaint as just
plain fool, but a learned scientist, who
has passed upon the symptoms exhibited
by the lady refetred to In the beginning
of this article, declares that she was suf
fering from a "mental vacuum" when
she transferred her affections from her
hearth and home to a neighbor's.
"A mental vacuum," declares this wise
man, "Is a space crested In a person's
After Vacation Peel
Your Discolored Skin
Women returning from the seaside with
browned, reddened or freckled complex
ions will be wise in immediately taking up
the mercolixed wax troalmml. Weather-
baten skin had best come off. for no I
amount of "beautifying" will ever make
such skin nrettv to look at. The surem. '
safest, easiest way to shed the despoiled
cuticle Is with the treatment suggested.
Put the wax on before retiring, as you
would cold cream, and rinse It off next
morning with warm water. Minute par
ticles of scarf skin will peel off day by
day. ' gradually showing the healthy,
youthful skin beneath, tine ounce of mr
collied wax, obtainable at any drug store,
la enough to make any discolored or spot
ted complexion clear, white and satiny
oft. Its action Is so gentle no injury Is
caused and the face shows no trace of-its
use.
Burning hest. Irritating winds and dirt
are such wrinkle-maker that the daily
use of I he following aatringrnt-tonir lo
tion at this season ts highly advisable:
i'owdered tSKolue, I ox., dissolved in
witch hazel. r, i.t. t'seil as a face bath
tnls is a splendid wrinkle remover and
preventive. Advertisement. '
mind by lack of some occupation or con
dition of environment which would natur
ally fill It."
A Daniel! A second Daniel come to
Judgment! Now we have the history of
such women. They are afflicted with a
mental vacuum. W'e had long suspected
It, and It certainly Is a comfort to have
science come along and back up our opin
ion. . . '
Now there's the case of a woman who
Is married to a man who mistreats her.
She Is a good, faithful, patient, enduring
creature, who tolls for him", until she
make corn on her hands, and who
grows old and haggard before her time
supporting him and her children. Finally
the man deserts her for some younger
and fairer lady.
It would seem, under the circumstances,
that the lady should get out a brass band
and call her friends together to rejoice
with her and celebrate her releaae, but
Instead of that she weeps and wails and
moves heaven and earth to try to get her
burden to come back home again. Up to
now nobody has been able to explain wo
man's phenomenal ability to love the un
lovable, an exemplified In such Instances,
but we need marvel no more over It. It's
simply the result of a great mental va
cuum. Then there are the cases In which a
woman cherishes a hopeless passion for
some man mho has wooed and won her.
and then kissed and automobiled away.
He has amused himself with her at her
expense. He has made her ridiculous In
the eyes of her friends. He has slighted
her, ruined her matrimonial chances, hurt
her pride and her heart. He haa proved
himself as dishonorable and as much of
a cad as a man can possibly be.
Yet instead of despising him as he de
served, and of burning joss sticks to
the great good luck that saved her from
marrying such a contemptible little
bounder, this woman goes on cherishing
his memory and kissing his picture and
bemoaning her loss.
I get dozens of letters from women
every week telling me how badly they
have been treated by men who have for
saken them, and asking me If I know any
war in which they can whistle these mis
erable curs hsrk.
Honestly. I hare acquired brain fag
myself, trying to understand why or how
or wherefore or howsnmever a woman
can continue to feel one throb of affec
tion after a man has slighted her. but I
shan't worry any more about her after
this. I know that what's the matter with
her is that ahe's got a mental racuum,
poor thing.
Then there are the really good. Inno
cent little girls who write notes to actors,
and who make eyes at men on the cars,
and pbk up acquaintances on the street,
and carry on correspondence with men
they have never seen. It has been hard
to comprehend why they should take the
horrible risks Involved in doing such
things, or why they were willing to
cheapen themselves so, and give men the
right to say dreadful things about them,
but we've all got a diagram to their con
duct now. They, too, are cursed by hav
ing, a mental vacuum.
And there's the girl who allows herself
to fall In love with a married man, and
to accept hia attentions and to get In
volved In the scandal that such affairs
Invariably cause. She knows that going
about with the married man will com
promise her and make people look at her
askance, and that no young man worth
having will be particularly keen about
asking such a young woman to be his
wife.
She knows that the married man can't
offer her any honorable position, and
that her love for hlra can bring her no
peace or rest, because she Is bound to be
torn with Jealousy of the wife, who has
a legal right to hla name and social po
sition and money.
Il's been Impossible to comprehend why
any young woman would go out looking
for trouble after that fashion, and why
the minute she found herself becoming
Interested in a man who still had his last
year's wife on his hands she didn't fane
about and run as fast away from him,'
and as far from him as she could get.
But the mystery Is a mystery no longer.
It's a sad case, friends, and little hope of
recovery, for the unfortunate young
woman haa an Incurable case of mental
vacuum.
But there's one comfortable thing about
this mental vacuum business. Like ap
pendicitis and nervous prostration and
the gout, it's rich women's disease, and
the poor seldom are afflicted with It.
It's a complain that's epidemic
among the wealthy and Idle, and that is
especially fatal to women who have bar
rels of money and nothing to do. It Is
these Idle, parasitic women who are al
ways In search of new emotions and new
Interests, who are out on a rtlll hunt for
affinities, and who spend the time that
could be better employed in grieving over
lost loves.
The working girl who has to earn her
own bread and butter and who must keep
her wits about her to hold her Job does
not suffer from brain storms about men
or mental vacuum whose symptoms show
her pining for some youth who has Jilted
her. Nor does his wife who has to do
the cooking and sewing for a family ever
trouble with affinities er worry about
whether she has the ttal aoulmate.
But we owe science another debt for
having probed to the real root of blighted
affections and the why of the affinity.
It's a , mental vacuum In the afflicted.
Watch out that you don't get one.
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-Part VII.
prevlouely the
blood erls that fee the hair roota
provide all that Is required for hair
growth; oil Is obtained from the ol
Klani, and a normal, healthy aralp needs
no tnlc or other applleatlona save those
necessary for clranllnoen. Hut atf abso
lutely normal, healthy ix-alp la rare, so
rare that it nerd hardly be taken Into con
sldratln In this connection.
Msny people have an over-dry scalp; in
some cascn the oil glanda secrete hardly
at all. and it la necessary that the scalp
rhould have some application to make up
for this deficiency. The olla most com
monly used for a dry scalp are vanellne
and preparations containing castor, oil.
Remember that a hair tonic ha no virtue
put on the hair; It should be applied to
the scalp. In the case of oily prepara
tions It la particularly meemwry that the
scalp alone should be treated for oil on
the lylr la not pleasant, while the scalp
needo It. A medicine dropper provides an
economical and convenient method of ap
plying hair tonics.
An oily scalp ! often Improved by tha
application of a tonic that will act aa an
astringent, reducing the supply of the oil
glanda and mitigating the effect of too
much oil on the scalp. Most tonics de
signed for this trouble have a good pro
portion of alcohol.
Kor dandruff there are many specifics.
While cleanliness I the first requisite In
removing this trouble, it should ba re
membered thst dandruff Is really a dis
ease, a form of bacteria, and is often
very stubhorn of cur. This condition
tan often be helped by some scalp appli
cation. ' ,
A torpid scalp that Is pushing scanty,
weak hair noeds Invigorating. Tonics for
this purpose contain capsicum, alcohol
and rathartdea, and Ortain preparations
of petroleum have proved most beneficial
In assisting hair growth. CamVhor, an
other favorite Ingredient lit a stimulating
tonic, w.li aome times tend to making the
hair vurly on account, of its resinous
qualities. , ;
t'hooee the tonic that your hair needs
and use It with the scalp massage move
ments given tn an earlier portion of this
lesson, and the henerit wilt be twofold.
Do You Know That
Dawson City and Fairbanks, Hs near
Alaskan neighbor, are. next ,to Hammer
fest. In Norway, the farthestrnorth cltlea
In the world, and at the latitudes of alx-ty-three
and sixty-five have electric
lights and dally newspapers. . ,
Msny of the fruits and vegetables now
eaten In England were almost unknown
to our forefathers. Not until Henry
VIU's time were raspberries or strawber
ries or cherries grown In England, and
we do not read of the turnip, cauli
flower and quince being cultivated before
the sixteenth century.
j , ' The Countess Yer de RinHlngen.
Notwithstanding the unlooked for position In which Austria finds itself in the war, there is
nothing but admiration for the whole-hearted energy with which the ladlea of the nobility are try
ing to ameliorate the condition of those suffering. Countess Vera, acknowledged to be one of the
reigning beauties of Vienna, lg helping in this work. ,
If a human being possessed strength aa
greet In proportion to hla also aa that
of shellfish, the average man would ba
able to lift the enormous weight of
9iti.00u pounds by pulling In the same
degree as a limpet; and if the man pulled
In the same degree as the cockle he
would sustain a weight of no leaa than
3.1UC.509 pounds.
The Secret of Colored Moving Pictures
By EDGAR LUC1EX LARK IX.
1 Q. "Kindly give particulars of colored
photographs and electric moving pic
tures." A. L. 8., Carson City, Nev.
' A. To give particulars of these two
majestic and comprehensive now stan
dard, sciences would he Impossible, even
In a series of articles, with Intricate dia
grams, dally during two months.
Color photography Is now so complete
that upon even turning the pages of the
great books on the subject one cannot
escape the ImpresHlon of being In the very
presence of mathematics. These two mag
niricient world sciences are destined to
almost change the mental nature of the
human race.
No device ever within the brain of man
has such boundlens educational, mind
transforming potency and power as the
projection of moving colored photos upon
screens where all can see. It will actually
surpass literature in almost supreme
power.
Thus I saw the Itoentgen-ray photo of a
living, beating heart and the circulation
or the blood thrown on a acreen as a mov
ing picture fuurteen feet In diameter. The
entire audience of a thousand ople all
saw this marvelous work of nature and
learned aa much in five minutes as In a
half a year of rending books. Every stu
dent, from kindergarten to university,
should see moving pictures in natural
colors.
These two sciences, photographing and
projecting, are among the mqt valuable
scientific achievements of modern man.
Tha causes of diseases are presented aa
living, moving bacteria, where all can see.
Bvery other science, from botany up
through electricity, ehemlstry, biology,
geology, anthropology to spectroscopy,
and to astronomy, can now be so greatly
simplified by projection thst untold mil
lions of people can secure fair Idas St
the lrat minimum of expense. Thus one
ran aow go in fiolii the street and witness
a chemist making an analysis In a costly
university laboratory for 5 cents.
And behold the amazing revelations of
modern microscopy, where billions of
living, moving elemental forms are In
rapid motion before hla eyes, and this
0ir a nickel. Humanity has nothing with
which to compare this in real value.
Children murdered by "education" Is a
thing of the hideous paat. And brain
tlMSues will not hereafter be broken down
by terrific iIiIIIh In totally useless sub
jects in prison-like schools. And girls
will not be killed by useless to them
algebra. Nor boys, unfit for its study.
Hut the fit will see equations solved to
their delight on screens by projection.
Imagination cannot now encompass the
full extent of humanity changes due to
moving colored Photographs. In fifty
years all students in all schools may
finally, at the close of centuries of mis-'
leading horrors, he presented with a most
astonishing thing-truth.
Q. "What is th! curvature of the
earth's surface per mile?"
A. The earth's curvature Is very neuilv
inches for the first mile, 32 for the
second. 71 tor the third, IL'S for the fourth,
and so on. Ijiw: c urvature of the earth's
surface on a true plane at sea level is
rlieo to the product of 8 Inches multi
plied by the siuure of the numlier repre
senting miles. Thus, 1JA equals multi
plied by 4 squared, equals 8 multiplied
by Id.
y. "I'leaae explain: How does the law
of gravitation operate to keep the earth
and other planets in their exact orbits
around the sun? How does the Hanie law
keep the equa'nr toward the sun all the
time. Instead of the earth revolving with
the po'es toward the aun?' K B. MOU
L.KY, Harrinhurg. Ark.
A. 1. The Newtonian laws of inertia,
combined with the laws of gravitation,
are the caiirie of all revolutions of suns
und worlds around a, point known as
their common center of gravity. The law
of Inertia reads:
"All bodies at rcttl will forever remain
at rest unlens external force cau.se them
to move; and If in motion will move for
ever In a straight line unless outside
force causes them to turn aslc or come
to a rest. The direction of devlutlon from
the original dlre -tlun of motion is toward
the external force."
Thus the earth, upon fslllim' toward
the sun from snafe deeps, tried to pass
the sun on a straight I nc. But the sun
everted force upon it, turned It aside
from this straight llni when at the dis
tance of 'j2,kS2,iOu miles; and the result
lis its present ellptlcal orbit.
Tho property of inertia In the matter
feinting the earth, falnely .called centri
fugal force, arid centrifugal tendency
toward the son ar precisely balanced on
April 2 and October .', when the earth Is
at its mean distance of M,6X?.orx) miles
from the sun.
2. The equator ih turned toward the
suu on Uo days only, March 21 ar.d Kep
tember 21, or nearly at these dales. The
axis of the earth cannot pulut toward
the sun because of the earth a rapid rota
tion. The equatorial bulge, a ring of matter
around the earth of 13,5c 2 miles deep, ac:a
under the set lawa of a gyroscope and
Mil up, by Inertia, the persistency of the
plane of rotatlona iierslstency hard to
overcome.
I'roof: Watch a bicycle or a motorcy
cle and note the persistency of motion
of rider in one plane.
Q. "I underatand that the earth wab
bles on its axis. How much in degrees
and seconds does It vavy? Has science
computed Its variations in advance?'
A. The gyration of the axis of the
I earth is completed In ,878 years. This
la U)'i second of arc annually. Yes,
computations for future years have been
nuule with extreme accuracy.
A I'M tO
SAUE TEETH
The wise old saw, "never pull a tooth
until all else fails." is getting stronger
and more decp-rovted among the profes
sion and the laity every day. There is
good reason lor th s. One tooth out
means more coining out unless you are
quick to take action likely to arrest the
trouble. Must of the tojth trouble comes
from microbes or germs that live in the
mouth In sheltered plae. You dont
realise these germs are doing their dead
ly work until it Is too .ate. Home fine
morning the glass shows you a receding
gum. or you feel your tooth is looaenlng
or you notice a big black splotch on the
enamel. It is veil lor you if In your
sensitiveness vou notice the trouble in
time, for silence sass you can save
your teeth.
The old saying that your tooth stops
aching as soun as you gel up your coursge
to go to a dentist la strong upon us
indeed, hundreds and hundreds of teeth
could have been saved to their owners
had a little precaution been taken in
time. When the gums recede from the
tooth, are swollen and tender and ulcer
ated, don't wait until they pass away
from the enamel. When your teeth be
come loose and rock to and fro and you
use your tongue to kep tills rocking up.
you can surely prevent further annoy
ance if you will but go to your druggist
and gel Just four ounces of fluid -eigan
(no more will be needed) and put a tea
spoonful into the mouth morning, noon
and night, and kee.p in the mouth a few
irinults. Don't ue water for a little
time. Your gums will be cleaned of mi
riobes and intestments, a rich, red. rosy
gum will he seen In the glass In the
morning-all the bacteria will disappear
over night. You will be free of the dis
tress of pyorrhoea and Its attendant dis
comforts, ss It dissolves the lnfestments
from the teeth. Bleeding of the gums
will stop, the 'crevices and lurking places
for germs will be washed clean and free,
a dealt hv tiaaue will begin to make tha
teeth firm and strong In the gums and
altogether vou will be free of mouth and
teeth troubles. Don't use your tongue
lo rock the teeth to get out the Infec
tions, as these little microbe that eat
awav the enamel of the teeth and render
them yellow and aubiect to decay will
disappear entirely. Yellow teeth become
white, the black on the enamel comes
off. and your teeth are aa whit and as)
strong as ever. Advertisement.
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