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THE BEE: OMAHA", FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1914.
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Meteors and Sun Spots
A New Idea Devolved from Agronomic lavestigatiea
The Last of
Fort Royal
Stunning Styles That You Can Copy
With Full Descriptions by Olivette
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'A; Meteoric -6tvarm 1b Collision' with Saturn's Rings, Causing Fragments of Those. Kings to Pall Into tho
Sun and so Produce Snoty'Prof. Turner's Theory Illustrated.
By KKV. THOMAS 1J. GHKGORY.
The destruction of Port Royal was con
summated SH years Rtfo, January 10, BIO,
The famous Cistercian abbey won
founded In 12IH by Matilda, ulfo of Mont-morence-Marll.
Kail-
Ins Into decay. It
use retounded In 1(MS
by Jacqueline Mnrlc
Arnauld, ana In 1G3
It became the storm
center of a battle
that kept all Franca
a-shaklng for half n
century.
The tempest began
with Bishop Janscn's
book on "Grace and
Free Will." In which
ho took the ground
(In the name of the
great Augusttnt) that It was the grace of
Qod, rather than the human will, that
counted In the work of salvation. Tho
Jesuits, who held the whip hand In the
church at the time, declared war on
"Jansenism," and the big men of Port
Royal, led by Arnauld and Nicole, stood
forth as Janscn'a champions.
The fray soon became universal. Every
learned society In France became In
volved. Doctors, universities, the var
ious faculties and even the mighty Sor
bonne joined In the battle. It was war
to tho knife, and knife to the hilt, Above
every fortress flew the black flag.
Augustine and Pcloglus rose from their
graves, as It were, and joined the con
tending hosts. From the opposing clouds,
black with wrath, the hot lightnings flew
back and forth In a way that was fearful
to behold.
U whs the '"Gentlemen of Port Royal"
against the field, and, of course the gen
tlemen of Port Royal were finally
beaten. Nicole and Arnauld, were. In ono
way and another, silenced, and It wan
settled for all time, so tho victors
thought, that "Grace" was to play second
fiddle to "Works." The Jesuits were
triumphant; Augustine was sent to the
-nr. and the old arch-heretic, Pclaglus,
vpr placed nt the head of the procession.
But the greater thin about the Port
Royal fleht was a little book by Blaise
Pascal, which 'Is known to Immortality
as the "Provincial letters." rascal wns
one of the greatest men that has over
llvod. and the "Provincial Letters"
will always stand as one of the world's
most remarkable books. Never did book
so completely accomplish the purpose for
which It was written. Pascal, without
feeling any particular Interest In. the
famous "Five Propositions" had some
thing to say to the Jesuits, and he said It
In a way that will charm tho world to
the end of time.
Horo is n
dancing frock
ot geranium
satin, in which
tho foundation
matorlal appears
only in a crossed
and draped
skirt, over
which hangs a
I tunic of chiffon
heavily beaded
. -. .
i nnu emorouicren.
Tho docollo
tage lb finished
by foldod whlto
! tullo, and tho
I woo ohltfon
bleovo la edged
with stross.
Mr. Scrlvcn Bolton has illustrated hero a.
theory formulated by Prof. H'. H. Turner, P. R. S.,
who BUggcsts that sun-spots aro formed by frag
ments struck from Saturn's Rings by tho swarnt
of meteors "known as the Leonids, which fragments
fall into the sun and cause disturbances In its sur
face by their impact. Mr. Bolton Bonds tho fol
lowing note: "A theory has been formulated by
Prof. H. H. Turner to tho effect that a portion of
tho great meteoric swarm known as the Leonids
his become detached from the main shower, owing
to gravitational action of Saturn on some favorably
occasion. This subsidiary swarm travels in an
orbit which brings it periodically into violent col
lision wjth Saturn. At such recurrent events the
particles collide with the particles 'constituting
Saturn'B Rings (which aro in themselves nothing
jnoro than a great meteoric swarm). In ono part
of tho Rings the fragments move with equal and
opposite velocities, and collisions 'would impart
rest in both opponents, and henceforth they must
Inevitably fall into the sun. These fragments
fromt Saturn's Rings appear to plungo headlong
into the Bolar furnace at tho rate of 400 miles a
second, giving rise to tho woll-known phenomena
,of sun-spots. Chinese and other records during
the last 2,000 years substantiate this theory, that,
following a collision between Saturn and the
meteoric swarm, there Is manifested an epoch ot
large and numerous sun-spots. Prof. Turner adds
that, although tho hypothesis Is supported by past
and present records, to consider it as finally estab
lished would be premature."
The Manicure Lady
She Finds Herself Taking on Flesh
and the Discovery Worries Her
By WILLIAM P. KIKK.
"There ain't no use talking-, George,"
Raid -the Manicure Lady, "I am getting
too stout. I might just as well own up
to It.' I was taking a slant at myself
In one of them Subway mirrors this
morning, and I looked Uko Ed Dunkhorst,
the human freight car. There ain't no
class' to a fat person, George, so far as
looks'' Is discerned, and tho only thing
for rne to do Is to reduce. There Is a
lot of ways to reduce, and I can't mako
up rny mind which way to choose."1
"Yqu ought to do road work, the way
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ou probably know the medical valuo
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fighters does," said the Head Barber.
"Too strenuous!" declared the Manicure
Lady, "And, besides, there ain't no hills
to climb In the city, and, besides, I ain't
got the time. I guess I will try rolling
around on tho floor."
. "Tho boss might kick," said the Head
Barber.
"I don't mean down here, you simp,"
snapped tho Manicure Lady. "I was
reading tho other night how a fat star
In a musical comedy lost thirty pounds.
All she done was to roll around on the
floor In her room for about half an hour
just Wore retiring. Me for that."
"Nobody but a nut would try to re
duce that way," said the Head Barber.
'You would knock down all he furniture
In your room and wear out the carpet,
and, besides, I shouldn't think a digni
fied dame like you would want to make
yourself look ridiculous. Put on a heavy
suit and some heavy shoes and walk hard
for an' hour before breakfast every
morning. I bet It will make you feel
fine and make you lose weight, too."
"Wilfred was getting a little fat a
few months ago and he tried walking a
hour before breakfast," said the Manl
curo Lady. "The only trouble with his
system was that he picked out a line of
march along past all of them beer signs,
and. like all of them poets, "Wilfred Is sure
fond of his brew. He would walk half a
block and then Into the swinging doors
and out again, wiping his mouth, and do
another half block and another column
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Another row
of Btrass Indi
cates tho waist
band, and tho
tunic Is opened
over tho Bklrt
with tho satno
movement of V as
tho docollctngo.
Tho heading
takes the form
of a heavy band
of deep geranium
with a pattorn
of roses shndlng
Into pale pink.
A hugo mutt
specially made
for evening wear
completes this
toilette.
It Is of, chiffon
shirred into deep
bandings and
crossed by gar
lands ot rococo
roses.
A hugo pink
rose Is caught
In tho middle
and flounces ot
spanglod lace
docorato the
sides.
OLIVETTE.
Ono ot tho .
loveliest of tho
Purlslan actresses,
Mona Delza, '
standB sponsor
for this attaint
little aftornbori
frock of chiffon
broadcloth In .
deep brown tanos.
Tho dainty
hlouno Is ot ont- ,
broidcrcd not In
trusted with
VnlenclonncB
lace.
A full Medici
collar finishes
tho neck. Tho
nklrl lifts high
In Empire lines,
and has. n glrdlo
sash embroidered
in passomohtorlo.
It is gathered
to great fulness,
nnd ripples Into
n tunic, which
Is allt on either
Bldp to Bhow a
Binnll point of.
ombrpldorod, net.
Tho lowor .part
of tho Bklrt,,
plain In front, Is
drawn up" In a
line of drnpcjry
at tho back.
A deep point,
of embroidered
not volled by
brown nlnoh Iff
Bet into tho back
of tho skirt.
With this Mile.
JDoIza c&rrloa a
hugo granny mutt
ot sable, whljo
on her sott
brown- locks aho
porches a clocho,
sailor of tote do
negro velvet
with a. high
cockade ot numldl
sot. dlreclyvin
front. ... 1 ..
. OLIVETTE.
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Treating Mental Diseases at Home
Important New Step in the Case of Insane , , , , ,
gained ten pounds and was beginning to
look like a kettle, because he ain't got
no height to carry the weight. So he
stopped his morning, exercise and found
another way to reduce. He took a oath
that he wouldn't, eaany meals except
when ho got a check' for some of his
poetry frony the, magazines. Ho got two
checks In two months and they was
dinky checks,' tod. He lost all his weight
mighty iutek' Avllh that system. Now he
eats when he feels, like It. I guess fasting
would be- about the best way to get off
one's superlative flesh, after all."
"Why don't you try fasting?" asked
the Head Barber, "Jt's a cinch you
would get thin If you didn't eat."
"It's near, enough to fasting up at the
houso now, the way things cost," said
the Manicure Lady, "Honest to goodness,
George, with eggs 78 cents a dozen and
meat according, and With a hungry poet
In the family, It keeps the old gent and
me hustling to make the wolf stay out
side the door. Father la a grand old pro
vider and always has been, and I am
sure of his little comfort when I kick
In with my little bit on Saturdays, but
Wilfred Is one of them Intermittent work
ers; and Mayme being married now, and
living In double blessedness, we havo to
do a little figuring. Think ot eggs cost
ing 6H cents apiece."
"I guess the hens Is getting like the
suffragettes," said the Head Barber.
"They are beginning to know and de
BY THOMAS W. SAIjMOPT, M. D.
National Committee, for Mental Hygiene.
(Exclusive Service ' The Survey Press
Bureau.)
A bill was passod, practically unno
ticed, In tho closing days of tho last ses
sion of the New1 York legislature which
marked as Important a step In tho care
of the Insane as has been takon In a
generation. This bill, which Is now a
law and In effect, permits each state hos.
pltal for tho Insane to establish an out
patient department.
This opens a way for efficient treat
ment. In tho earliest stages, of porsons
111 with mental diseases, and nt tho samo
time makes It possible to discharge con
valescing patients who previously had to
be kept from tho friends and families bo-
cause It was Impossible to provide sklllod
observation and advlco after they had
left the hospitals.
The records of 6,000 patients admitted
for the first time to Nov York state hos
pitals for the Insane In 1911 show that In
nearly a third of all cases tho mental
diseases had existed at least a year be
fore admission. Thus the stato spends,
more or less willingly, sovcral million
dollars a year for the enro and treatment
of Insane patients whose chances of re
covery have been already very seriously
Impaired, while It Ignores entirely provls
Ion for their treatment.
Tho treatment of mental diseases In out
patient departments Is not nn untried ex
periment. There aro already thrco such
clinics In New York and a very few
widely scattered In other states.
To these clinics come cases rarely seen
by physicians In Institutions for the in
sane a child brought by a mother whose
quick Intuition has told her that ho Is
"different" from the others; a man who
has found his nccustomed work grown
suddenly difficult and Is conscious of
loss of memory and rapidly rising Ir
ritability: a depressed old lady who
realize that some small misfortunes
cannot bo wholly responsible for the new
anxiety which Is dominating her life; a
right. At the end of two weeks he had mand their rights."
& ' Spirit of Song
By LILIAN LAUPERTY.
Dear voice that comes to thrill my heart,
Murmuring gay or mournful song;
When you are near each day seems bright
And none too long.
But when you go fom out my heart,
Though Joys may come in happy throng,
Somehow' my eyes are blind to light,
And right seems wrong.
Spirit of Song stay in my heart!
Let my ear hear your happy voice;
For when you sing the dark seems bright,
And t rejoice.
Next Monday
"The King
of Diamonds"
A most thrilling serial of great
imaginative range, the annals
of another Monte Cristo,
By Louis F. Tracy
will start In The Bee, to run in
daily installments. Start this
great story with the first In
stallment Next Monday
youth who fears 'that he Is hopelessly en
tangled in eomo sexuel difficulty, but
thinks that there Is Just a possibility that
a good "mind doctor" might help him
bco a way out. of If. the nnxloua wlfo of a
man who "was always a good husbantl,
although ho drank a bit," but has lately
become morose and suspicious and has
tost four Jobs In quick succession because
"people are all ngalnst hlmi" the brother
of a patient In a state hospital who
nnxlodsly Inqulhcs If It Is "absolutely
sure" that he will become Insane because)
his brother did and who has worried so
much about It that ho can think of noth
ing el.
It would be unfortunate, Uowever, to
glvo tho Impression that early diagnosis
and early treatment Insure recovery In
nil cases of mental diseases or even In
the greater proportion of them.
There aro several .large groups of men
tal diseases In which early diagnosis and
treatment are quite powerless to Influ
ence In any way an Inevitably unfavor
able outcome Tho most Important Is
general paresis, a mental disease re
sponsible for about one-sixth of all ad
missions to hospitals for tho Insane from
American cities.
Four hundred nnd ninety-nine persons
died from typhoid fever In Greater New
Tork In 1012, hut more than DM cases of
general paresis, nil certain to die ot their
disease, wcro admitted to tho stato hos
pitals from the same population in tho
same period. The history of the early
stnges ot general paresis Is often a pitiful
story ot family estrangement, business
entanglement or personal dlsgrACe, and
yet tho diagnosis of this dlscaso can
usually bo made by the trained psychiatrist-at
n, very early period nnd It Is aided
by a very accurate laboratory test.
I Know of tho cashier of a bank, whose
business life had been Irreproachable,
who became careless and untidy In his
dress and wasted tho funds In his cus
tody In tho most foolish wayB, He was
convicted of embczzlemont and died In
dlsgrnco a short time afterward. For
tunately his family, recognizing that his
conduct could bn accounted for only by
mental disease, had the courngo and good
senso to demand necropsy and necropsy
showed conclusively that ho died of gen
eral pareBls. iSvcn although such cases
may be Incurable, tliolnr existence should
bearecognlzed In order that serious social
troubles may be averted,
lSstabllshment of out-patient depart
ments by the state will benefit not only
early cases, but those convalescing In
state hospitals who eagerly await their
discharge and return to .their families.
With out-patient department ablo to ex
tend Into tho communities the'ekilled' ob
servation nnd care now posslblo only m
hospitals, many more such patients can
bo sarcly paroled, and at the expiration,
of six months or n year a large proport
tlou of them permanently discharged.
The expense ef nn out-patient depart'
mcnt for each slate hospital will bo In
significant compared with the cost of
maintaining In hospitals patients who Can
bo returnod to their homes. .
Tho out-patient departments can bo op
erated us Integral parts; of. ho hospitals
to which they aro attached' and the phy
sicians, being suppllod with all, the clin
ical notes of patients during '.tlielf bos'
pltal residence can make treatment ab
solutely continuous. Under such circum
stances, many hundreds of patients can
bo paroled annually with tho understand,
lug that regular visits, at first frequent
oven dally and later less frequent, wilt
bo mado to tho out-patlont departments
whero tho physicians tan advise' both pa
tients and relatives and closely ohseiva
the progress ot tho mental disease.
Marvels of Light and Color
By EDOAH LUCIEN LAUKIN
Question Please explain the cause of
the ghastly color of people's faces when
near the long bright tubes of glass In
photographic galleries.
Answer The long, shining tubes are
mercury vapor aro lumps. Bed waves of
light are almost totally missing. Tha
other colors are present, but It requires
the waves of energy causing color sensa
tions in the optlo thalamus In the brain
to be present In all visible lengths com
bined to mako pure white light. These
are violet, Indigo, blue, green, yollow,
orange and red. Take out any one of
these, let tho others fall on any object
capablo of reflecting them, then the ap
poaranco will bo strange, unnatural and
weird, some say ghastly, and the human
face does Indeed look uncanny.
An Immense number ot photographic ex
periments have been mado with every
kind of light, visible and Invisible, with
startling results. Bays of all colors have
been allowed to fall on surfaces ot all
other colors, a strange' now thing In
optics. The resulting care and beautiful
effects have been viewed with the un
aided eye, with the spectroscope and then
photographed.
By means of this series ot Intricate pro
cesses hitherto unknown short radiant
energy waves have been discovered, far
and uwny shorter, moro delicate and
rapid than the shortest visible violet
waves.
The absorption of Invisible and there
foro undiscovered undulations Is a branch
of research by Itself and strange chemical
activities have been thus detected In
ultra-violet regions; force going to waste
so far as man Is concerned during all
these centuries
These newly discovered short waves
are themselves most admirable discover
cm. A series of very remarkable sub
stances has been mado by advanced ex
perlmentera wave filters. By their use
now and extraordinary effects are ob
tained. Any length of waves can be sifted
or filtered out, and any series whatever
can be isolated and secured in a state of
purity.
A wide field Is now being explored.
Thus a pane of clear glass acts like a
wooden board to these tiny waves: It Is
opaque to them. But these beating waves
havo effect on the surface ot the humun
body,
Weird effects aro obtained by photos
taken In filtered light; (hus a garden full
of flowers will vary In the negatives;
some flowers will bo Invisible that show
VMecl entirely new have been discov
ered, and the fascination of It all Is now j plainly In other kinds ot waves. The end
luring leadlnK physicists Into new cor- is not yet merely a beginning In theso
Jrjdors within nature's splendid light-maze. ' now researches
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