THK BEE: OMAHA, .MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1912.
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BIG HANDS
For Detail
And SMALL
HANDS for
Construction
Since the Time of the Aztecs GREAT RULERS Have Possessed SMALL HANDS
ONE naturally thinks of a powerful personality as
occupying a large amount of space, as having
niudh bodily force, hut this i9 by no means true.
Great men and women have been of all statures,, com
plexions and temperaments, but the one characteristic
which they hold In common is the size of the hand.
The reason is not far to seek; it is a mere matter of
cause and effect. The cause is the mental make-up
of the individual; the effect Is the type of hand. .
Writers, orators and statesmen have notoriously small
v hands, and these are the persons who have made history,
i moved nations and moulded thought; and the&e, too,
Are the persons in whom the faculty of constructivenesa
t greater than that of perception of detail. Conversely,
the large, hand deals successfully with matters of
'" routine, and is not constructive.
- ,A glance at the history of nations will give surpris
ing light upon this tact, which had so oddly escaped
attention. The Pyramids, those stupendous piles ot
masonry! which have never been equalled by any product
i vf modern machinery, were put up, unaided, by the
smallest handed people in the world. The mummies
which have been dug out of the age-old tombs ot
Egypt, and which contln the bodies ' of those who
built the PyramidB, attest this fact, already plain, from
the ancient Egyptian sculptuss, and from the size of
bracelets ana rings found in the buried cities of Egypt.
The same tfclng is true of America's ancient and
most constructive race the Aztecs, the vast ruins Ot
whose, temples have yielded up mummies similar to those
of Egypt.
The small hand and remember, this "smallness'
must be estimated In relation to the size of the indi
vidual is the expression of a mind which is not oc
cuped with the trifles, or the processes of existence, but
' with the results. Thomas Edison, who says, himself,
that he knows less ot electricity and its laws 'than the
merest ehild, is a wizard In dealing with the details ot
electrical things. Nicola Tesla, who says that he has
not the patience to work out the marvellous knowledge
which is his, knows more about the laws of electricity
than any other man living, and ft is he who
has given all the real constructive ideas of the prac
tical men, like Edison. Now .Edison has a very large
"Tli man who paint with great de
tail haa large hands while tea
painter of mammoth picture
haa small hands."
band, and Mr. Tesla has a small, compact one!
Painters have large or small hands, In proportion
to the degree with which they deal with detail. You
would, naturally, imagine that the wonderful painting
of a flower, of a cat, of many figures, must have been
done by a small, fine hand, but that Is not the case. Ttie
kind of a hand which paints the picture of wonderful
detail is nearly always large, even out of proportion to
It body, white the vast eanva, In which Uill and valley
and stream soem to have fairly flowed upon the back
ground, and from which you must step away to see It
that canvas was prepared by a small, delicate hand,
which could hardly hold the brushes for the great work.
Women who embroider beautiful, Intricate designs
usually have extraordinarily large hands. Just compare
the hands of the ladles oil the porch of any Summer re
sort. Those who are doing the fine sewing and embroid
ery have large hands, while those who are playing the
piano within doors, or reading, have small ones. Look
and see if it is not so.
Tailors who are good "cutters" usually have One, deli
cate hands, despite the fact that their work requires a
good deal ot strength, while the men who make the but
tonholes and put In the linings nave very heavy, large
hands. This Is also a fact which can easily be observed.
No one is Ignorant thut the Greeks, who gave us
models of such beauty in architecture and sculpture that
they are still being used, after two thousand years, were
a wonderful people, but it is noteworthy, in this study
ot hands, that they did not leave a permanent state, or
abiding laws. They were, essentially, people of detail.
Their princesses personally washed their own linen,
their king's sons tended the ftocks of cattle and sheepi
and every mistress of a honse took an active part 10
looking after the meals, and In weaving and making the
garment for her family. This was not of necessity, for
Grece was a rich state, and they could leave to
others that "part of the work, as is the way of the
constructive mind. Now, the Greeks had very large
bauds, and, therefore, txuo to their. tpe, their state fell
as soon as It was a question of making others work
for them. ;v.'
. This faculty of using the work the manual work
of others, is the distinguishing trait ot the constructive
mind, which is typified by the small hand, and this Is
why the small-handed type of humanity Is nearly al
ways in a ruling position in the world it knows how
to use the work ot others and how to direct it.
The reason that people of constructive minds can
rule in all departments of life is that they make of them
selves and their associates a complete working unit, ,The
business man who runs a factory cannot perform every
detail of hla manufacture, but he knows how to choose,
and employ the men who can, and when he la especially
Successful at so doing, he has a small, One hand, no
matter what his bodily stature may be.
The lesson of this great fact Is, that every man may
examine his hands and see to whnt branch ot work he is
fitted If he is a large banded mail, he ought to perform
detail work. It he is a small-handed man, he ought
to develop hU mind, so that he may Intelligently, d4
rect the work of others, V
Why We Enjoy a HEAVY RAIN
THERE are few things that are more'
depressing than a drizzle. On the
other hand, there is no condition of
the atmosphere which, is more invig
orating than the first halt hour after, a heavy .
rain. Depression and elevation of spirits are
natural phenomena and as such have natural,
causes. It is of interest to observe that this
responsiveness to different types of rain in- '
dicated to a 'wonderful degree how sensitive
we are to electricity in the air. -
Comparatively recently it has been shown
that the air is a conductor of electricity,
though a poor one, and still more recently it
has been learned that the cause of the con
ductivity of the air 1b because of the presence
of ions. These Ions, It will be remembered,
.'consist of, atoms split Jip usually by, electro-
motive forces and ate always' highly charged
with electricity, which may be either posi
tive or negative, .These ions are discharged
Into the atmosphere in two principal ways:
1. By the waves given-off from radio-active
substances in the earth. 2. By the effect ot
the ultra-violet fays of .sunlight upon the
upper air. Another possible, source of the
ions is the breaking up of molecules of air
into positive and negative ions either by
impact, friction, or even spontaneously, ,.:
The earth, as is well known, , is heavily
charged with negative electricity and this
.fact has;;' given great trouble -to scientists .
' holding the views of positive and negative
Ions in the-air, for it is argued that the neg
ative attraction .of . the.' earth would immedi- -ately
bring down all the positive long and
thus the earth would lose Its negative charge.
One of the reasons that is given is that the
speed of negative Ions is so much greater
than that of positive ions that their earth
influence is greater.
Now negative ions with their rapid move
ment promote condensation into clouds so
much more readily than positive Ions that
cloud formations are usually negatively
charged and the rain and snow1 that fall to
the earth are negatively charged. This also
adds to the negative electricity of the earth.
But large raindrops are usually formed round
the large positive ions and ' these are gen
erally released from a heavily electrified neg
ativly charged cloud. The result is that ai
a rule large raindrops are positively, electrl
..fled J.and small, drops , negatively so, The
thunder shower with big drop! brings a pos
itive , charge, the drizzle brings negative.
(The precise relation of positive and , nega
tive ions In the upper air is not known and
the suggestions made are technical In the
highest degree.)
' A positive electric charge is stimulating
to most men and women, and a. negative
charge depressing.. An air not charged with
tons or but little filled with these minute
electrical particles is usually felt to be a
"lifeless" air, while an atmosphere heavily
charged with negative ions is pleasant, but
"relaxing" air with many positive ions is
invigorating. The descent of heavy rain,
therefore, and the freeing of th positive ions
glyes a sense of invigoratlon after a thun
der shower. "
Wk BABT TALK Is Harmful
rnp,HE" ,use''of' the words "cnte" "cunning"
. ;,?-? Jind: ."old-fashioned" ai applied' to
' children,, although they 4are hoary with
"tiquftyV are ''serioug. evidences of the exist
Cnceof 'a real evil. 'It lS'of great Importance
to the development of a child that it should
b,f surrounded, wjth everything that is help
ful, and modern science is laying especial
Btress on the help that lies in the expecta
tion of good things.--' It is a common thing
to hear the parent or other relative of a
fairly intelligent ' child quoting as a "funny
story" some sentence of the child's In which
he or she has used a long word, although
the' word may have been rightly used.
As many such stories are told before the
children themselves this fatal error has two
dangers, either that the child may become
conceited and desirous, of showing off, in
which case it will get hold of all the long
words possible , and use them whether they
have any meaning or not; or else, that the
child will fail to develop the use of proper
words tor fear of being laughed at. It is
not right to' laugh, at a child at any time,
but to laugh at a child for doing right is so
obvious an injustice that it is a wonder it
continues at all. , . ;
Closely allied with this is the mistake of
speaking to children in a way far less gram
matical than grown-up people would consider
possible among themselves. At the very
time that it is important that a child should
learn the balance of phrases and the use of
the right word in the right place, careless
mothers and fathers will permit utter care
lessness .of speech and even the use of
"baby-talk," which is a " crime in a child's
upbringing. There is no reason to expect a
child to speak ungrammatically! A child
does not learn speech through grammar, but
grammar through speech, and there are
scores of cultured people to whom a gram
matical slip is impossible who know abso
lutely nothing of formal grammar. Many of
the writers who are distinguished for good
literary style have no memory of the exact
definitions that occur in Parsing and Analy
sis. : , - ,
, Children say enough really witty things
without spoiling all their ideas about speech
by laughing before them at every sign of
their advancement A misplaced word may
be laughed at ' if the relation' of the sen
tence is ludicrous, out the reason should be
shown the child in order that the word may
be used rightly the next time; under no
circumstances, however, should a child be
permitted to bear its fair development being
treated as a joke.
Why Fish Is Not a BRAIN fOOD
IOC MIGHT TRY
Scraping Potatoes.
TO make new potatoes scrape easily, put them to soak a little while with
a small piece of common soda in the water. You will find they
scrape and clean beautifully; also the fingers will not be soiled.
Eat an Apple.
AN apple eaten before breakfast serves as a natural stimulus to the
digestive organs. In fact, any fruit eaten raw Is nutritious at breakfast.
Aching Eyes.
WHEN the eyes ache, relieve them by closing the lids for Ave or ten
minutes. If they have a burning sensation, bathe them with hot
water to which a dash of witch-hazel has been added; it the whites are
yellow and the pupils dull, strict attention should be paid to diet.
. Shoe-Lace Tips. -r .'
WHEN the tips of shoe-laces pull off, twist the ends of the strings and
dip into the glue bottle. When dry they ard as good or better
than when new.
Why a TOAD Is Worth &90
I T has long been known that toads should never be killed because of
their value in a garden where they eat so many Insects that would other
wise destroy the vegetables. But only recent estimates, made from care
' ful observation on experimental farms by experts gives us any Idea of the
actual wprth of a toad.
And so the next time you see Mr. Toad hopping across the walk do
not step on him or molest him, bnt step around respectfully. If you are an
amateur gardener you might even bow to him a deep ninety-dollar, bow,
for that is what he is worth in just one season, .
Without the toad it would be practically impossible to raise vegetables
' and flowers and the lika. We would be overrun with all sorts of insects,
and no device known can exterminate the various vegetation-destroying
, bugB, beetles, files, worms, etc., with one fraction of the rapidity or skill o!
the plain little unemotional, undemonstrative, meek and lowly toad.
After watching toads from sunrise to sunset, the experts finally, by
comparing notes and striking an average, were able to make an estimate
as to the number of insects these toads eat in a day, and this estimate is
'held to be as nearly correct as it is possible to get.
In the course of a year a toad will eat five dollars' worth of each of
the following insects: The cut-worm, the rose beetle, the gypsy moth and
the potato bug. He will consume ten dollars' worth of army worms those
pests which advance In regular formation, and whose devastating, onward
progress can be checked by absolutely nothing save the insatiable toad,
who will eat fifty-five army worms without batting an eyetash.
In the warm sections, where the common but dangerous household
centpede prevails, a toad, permitted to range the infested rooms, will
keepthem entirely clear, and this Bervice is worth twenty-five dollars a
year, since that is what a professional "bug-chaser" would charge.
A few pet toads, kept in the house, will keep, it free of flies. This
service is hard to estimate, since there is no way of computing the
annoyance and danger of having germ-infected files about, but it ought to
be worth at least twenty-five dollars a year, oughtn't it? The common
black ants, which destroy nasturtiums and all low-growing plants, would
Infest every green thing above ground if it were not for toads. Surely
iese mias
WOULD HAVE
DESTROYED
1 m&m F
$90. WORTH
OF VjEGETABLESrj
Legends of the TREE OF LIFE
YOU have heard your father, and prob
ably your grandfather, declare that fish
is a splendid brain food. Perhaps
they looked at you,' chuckled and repeated
that ancient jest to the effect that it might
be a good thing if you ate a whale every
morning for breakfast
But the point is that fish Is NOT a brain
food. That is, it Is not any better brain food
than beef. Recent discoveries show two most
excellent reasons why .fish is not a brain
food. In the first place, it was claimed
that fish contains an unusually large pro
portion of phosphorus. Inj the second placs
it was claimed that phosphorus' is one of
the very best of brain foods,
'.j. Now It js learned there' Is no more phos
phorus in fish than in beef. And, further
more, it is learned that phosphorus is NOT
a brain food. This should end for all time
the fallacy that fish is the very best of
foods for the brain, ' -.' ; '- '
Phosphorus, eminent physiologists now de
clare, is no more necessary to the well-being
of the brain than nitrogen, potassium or any
other element which occurs in Its tissue .
The Insects a toad eats In a Season Would Have Destroyed $90 Worth
, of Vegetables.
that is worth five dollars a year. So that, taken altogether, Mr. Toad la
worth to us, even at a moderate estimate as follows: '
Cut-worms ..... .;, $5.00
. Rose beetles 5.00
Centipedes ; ...25.00
Army worms i .i , 10.00
Gypsy moth caterpillars '.. e.oo
-. i ', Celery worms 5.00,
, .flies 25.00
r V Ant 5.00
Potato bugs, ; 5 00
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THE) account of the Tree of Life In the
second and third chapters Of the Book
of Genesis has puzzlod many blhln
readers, who do not know the origin of this
legend. In Genesis, Chapter II., XVII. is the
following: "But of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of It:
for in the day, that thou eatest thereof, thou
shalt surely die." As related further both
Adam and Eve ate of this tree, and while they
were driven forth from Eden they did not die
on that day, or for many years afterwards.
These apparent contradictions are ex
plained by scholars as being due to the fact
that the editor of the Scriptures had several
sources before him, and made extracts from
each without taking the trouble to reconcile
them in every small particular. ", ; ' '
' Bbt.'iWf'Mjiiib "more1 behind the legend
than. this. livery one who has studied the
' subject knows thai the Hebrews originated
from. Ur of the Cfialdees, or Babylonia and
that they, brought many traditions of the
Babylonians with them at that time, helping
themselves , to other traditions later when
they were taken captive Into Babylon, and
then returned to rebuild the Temple at Jeru
., salem. ; .
The Babylonians bad this tradition of a
great Tree of IJfe, as Is proved by the tablets
and clay cylinders dug up in Babylonia, on
which ere found pictures of a tree, with a
serpeut colled around it and -the figures of
a man and Woman seated beneath it. But
even more than this. In the famous Nlmrod
Epic,' the great national poem preserving
some of the most ancient traditions of the
Babylonians Is an account of the great
Journey which Nlmrod, the hero, made to th
Under-world In search of the fountain '.of life,
whose waters were to cure bim of tbe dread
disease with which Ishtar, the Babylonian
goddess of love had afflicted him, bemuse
be had rejected her advances.
Nlmrod gpes on the long journey and finds
- his ancestors, P.lr-Naptshtlm (the Babylonian
Noah) Who tells his heroic descendant' all
about the creation of the , world and the
mighty flood which descended upon the. earth
while he was . alive. Nlmrod Is Instructed
how to reach the Fountain of Life, where he
Is cured by the magic waters, , V
Other nations have' more or less similar
tales about a Tree of Life,, and none are mon.
remarkable than those. prjese.rvec( in the fam
ous Persian" classic called "The Tales of-i
Parrot." According to one of these, storlea a
prince Who Is very ill sends a wise parrot
to find some fruit of the Tree of Life. When
he returns with it the prince has his doubts.
He then sends soma ct his servants to bring
him the first apple that fell from the tree of
existence. It happened, however, that a black
serpent had poisoned it, and when the prince
tries the fruit "on an old woman; she drops
dead. The prince dooms the parrot to daath,
: but the parrot begs the" prince first, to'' go to
the Tree of Life himself and try the fruit:
He goes, and, bringing hick eome of the
apples gives a part of one to an old woman
'.'who, from age and Jnformity had not stirred
abroad for years." She no sooner, tested It
than she wart changed into a beauty of
eighteen. The prince was convinced, thankod
the wise parrot, ate of the frulOhd .Js still
alive, as many, believe- , , '
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How to Care for BURNS
IT very frequently happens that the shock ...
resulting from burns proves as serious or
even more serious than the burn Itself,
and physicians who are called in such emer
gencies devote their energies and skill to as
sUtlng the victim in recovering from the
shock. '
A coal may burn deeply through the flesh
and muscles and yet not cause as great a
shock as a burn that extends over a larger
area, but merely burns the skin and does not
Injure the flesh and muscles.
Nearly every one knows that oils and flour
prevent pain in the case of most burns, and
they apply it, but they are not aware that
cleanliness and great care to keep out germs
are the most important things of all. While
fire kills the germs about the wound, It
does not prevent others from getting In and
thereby doing great damage. j
In case ot a serious burn, make no attempt
to dress it yourself, but call In a doctor. 'And
even in a burn on the face, if apparently
slight, It is safer to call in a physician be--cause
be will know how to dress the injuries
to avoid t.e least chance of disfigurement.
If you attempted to dress face horns you
might stop the pain, but at the same-time
you would not heal the burn properly and a
scar would result that would disfigure you
for the remainder of your days. "
Nothing, that can possibly be contaminated -should
go near a , burn. , Rags and oils and
flour and such things are all right to stop the
pain, but the chances are they may not' be
entirely germ-free. Keep boric acid In the
bouse for Just an emergency' and "a
case of burns dust this Over the injured
place. ; '. ' '
When blisters occur they should be opened,'
but care should be taken in pricking them. A
. darning needle is all right, but it should be
cleansed from all possible gernis .first by
holding it In a blaae. Whether dressing your
own burns or those of another, wash your
bands thoroughly and clean the nails, as this
will frequently prevent germs that are always
more or less on the hands from getting into'
the burn. ; . - -
. After pricking the blister mop the water in ;
it with absorbent cotton and powder with the
boric acid powder.
1 ABout Your GAS RANGE
YOU can cook ordinary pastry In the
same oven with onions or cabbage
without danger of its being tainted
by the smell of the vegetables; but you
should never put custards or any dish that
is largely composed ot milk, cheese or eggs
in the same oven with such strongly flavored
vegetables. ;"
If the oven of your gas range smokes
when you are heating It the trouble Is prob
ably due to the accumulation of grease on
the oven linings. This can' be prevented by
carefully wiping out the oven after it has
been used for roasting meats.
When broiling a steak or any other piece
of meat always leave the door of the broil
ing oven open. This Insures proper ventlla
t'on and prevents' the me--t froru catching
Many cooks are troubled by' flsh sticking
to the broiling grid. This can be avoided
by thoroughly greasing the grid before plac
ing the fish, on it - . ' . ' ' ,
Tho lower oven should always be used for
roasting meats, because In this oven you
get the direct, flame heat which sears the
meat and thus retains all its delicious flavor
and nourishing juices " . , .5 -
Careless maids frequently, in "lighting the
gas range, hold the match until it is burned
to the. fingers and then drop the match or
or what is left of it, beneath the perforated
fire plate. In Mine these collect dust and
may catch Are and spoil some dlah that is
cooking. The best -method is to clean the
gas range every night, just as the old fa
shioned stoves were , cleaned out " and kind
lings; laid for the morning fire. - .
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