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One road leans up and over the hill.
And one la the road I know;
The gypsy call, with Us urge and thrill
Is calling me and I go.
re One road dreams close to the river's grey,
And Its grasses catch at my feet, 1
But the end Is not too far away.
And Its simple Joys are sweet.
And incm'ry rustles her misty gown
Quite close to me as I tramp,
And I anchor safe In a little town
Where the smell of the sea is damp.
But the other road leads up and away
And my truant feet must start ,
To tramp Its length for many a day
At the bid of a gypsy heart.
Santa's "Side-Partner" :.: By Ndi Bnnkicy
(A Portrait)
Copyright, 11, Intemi. Xc rvlcr.
Mysteries of Weight and Mass
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Leprosy Not a Modern Menace
By WOODS HUTCHINSON', M. I.
Kaiiy Impressions cling most tena
ciously and echo lonscst In our memories.
No matter how baseless or Irrational
they may bo later found to be,' they stik
hold us in their grip on our emotional
side and hag-ride our Imaginations.
Some of these fears which are so care
fully Implanted In our Infant minds had
at one time a certain amount of rational
basis and were what tha student of ani
mal psychology would term "protective
reactions." The quivering dread of the
da.'k, for Instance, which Is now one of
our chief obstacles In getting bedroom
windows kept open at night, for fear of
the "boogers that will git you If you don't
watch out," was quite excusable In Jungle
days when prowling beasts of prey sniffed
at the doorway of the hut and swept the
very streets of tho village under cover
of night.
it. sinter aurjerslitlon. the profound be
lief In the unwholesomeness of night air,
esneclallv lust after sundown, had some
Justification in tropical ana suD-iropiuai
ancestral times from tno malaria ana yel
low fever bearing mosquitoes wnicn ny
at tills hour.
In similar fashion the panic terror and
loathln gand dreud which the very word
'leper" rouses in our bwsoms had a cer
tain amount of rational basis In the Mid
dle Ages, when leprosy was almost as
common as advanced consumption Is now
and the whole known world was dotted
with leper houses and leper colonies.
But in this age of sanitation and decent,
civilized habits of living, these panic
fears are almost a absurdly exaggerated,
as utterly out of proportion to the real
danger involved, as our fear of the night
air and of the dark. The actual danger
of any one In these United States dying
of leprosy is about as great as being
struck by lightning or killed In a rail
road accident, and the risk is steadily
diminishing. , ' .
This, of course, is not for a moment
to deny that leprosy Is a dreadful and
loathsome dlaeaee tor which no specific
cure la known, and the prospect of who)
frequent occurrence and spread In a com
munity would Justly be viewed with
horror and alarm.
We know the disease as thoroughly as
we know tuberculosis or cancer, the ba
cillua that causes It, the different forms
which It asaumes and every step of Its
course through progressive cripplings and
disfigurement to the fatal end. But
with all this, the simple fact of the mat
ter la that more than half our popular
beliefs about leprosy are unrounaeu. m.u
the remainder outrageously exaggerated.
v e bio Junl'1" - -
able and rigorous precaution against the
possible spread of the disease when once
It has landed on our snores, dui
at icast know and face the actual facts.
In order that our panic-stricken efforts
to protect ourselves may not be as crue'
and barbarous to the handful of un
fortunate victims as they are shameful
and disgraceful to us.
Evety year or so the papers are filled
with accounts of some unfortunate leper,
usually an Immigrant, or one who has
resided In the tropics, who Is literally
hunted and caged like a wild beast or
fled from like a mad dog.
The state in which . he Is discovered
orders him deported, only to have the
freight car In which he Is shipped met
at the etato line by armed guards and
turned back. Then he is Isolated In some
wretched shelter surrounded by half a
mile of six-foot barbed wire fence, with
his food and water carried to him each
dav by a guard who retires to a safe
d stance before he allows the captive to
come out and get It.
Finally he Is either shipped, after pro
longed and tremendous diplomatic negott
ations between the various states which
he must cross, to some one of our few
leper hospitals, or else, as actually oc
curred only about three years ago, the
poor wretch is found dead In his shelter
some morning with a bullet tnrougn nis
heart, and everybody breathes a sigh of
relief and says: "He was sure to die
soon, anvhow. poor creature." ,
The latest ca-. Just In the last few
weeks. Is that of a soldier In the Inited
States army who contracted the disease
while on service In tlie Philippines and
who was entitled to a pension and the
beat of hospital tare. Just like anyone
else disabled In the course of duty, yet
whom various states refused to establish
a shelter for or receive him Into any
existing leper hospital because he had
not established a residence.
Finally, after months of palsver and
legal obstruction, he was traiisixrted In
an Iron sheathed car, under a guard of
armed soldiers, to a leper home In a d a
tant state, and the car In which he trav
eled solemnly burned with all Us equip
ment as soon as he was safely delivered.'
There was actually even serious talk
of sending him clear to Molokai, In the
Hawaiian Inlands, for lack of a proper
institution In all this wide country.
There should be established at once,
In tha name of humanity and common-
sense, for both tne peace or mind and
prompt protection of the public and the
kindly care of these pitiable unfortu
nates, who are only discovered on an
average about one In two years, a na
tional leper hospital or leprosarium, un-
der the charge of the I'nlted Slates army
or public health aervice.
Here they could be organized into a
colony and msde almost self-supporting,
for the disease, with all its loss of flngerr
and toes and even of parts of limbs. It
surprkalngly sli.'htly disabling. Its vie
tlms often work at some handicraft or
occupation which Interests them to within
a few weeks of the end, and can be made,
within the limits of their disease, almost
as happy as the average of their fellows.
By making the sufferers federal wards
this would relieve the individual states
of their responsibility and put an end to
the disgraceful bickerings and attempts
to shift them to one another, and also
give free right of way across their terri
tories for the transportation of the pa
tients in a suitable hospital car, which
could be maintained especially for the
purpose.
What makes this national Institution
the more necessary is that most of the
Inmates of the few leper shelters pro
vided in this country, in Boston Harbor
and at San Francisco, for Instance, are
Asiatic coolies or other laborers from the
tropics of the poorest and least Intelli
gent clans: and while these are made
very comfortable, according to their
standards, the atmosphere Is, to say the
least of It, lonesome and uncongenial for
a white patient.
When we have taken this step of en
lightenment and protection and Justice,
particularly to our brave soldiers and
sailors who may be called upon to take
the riek of contracting this dreadful dis
ease in our tropical possessions, we may
safely dismiss all further fear or uneasi
ness about the disease from our minds,
for any remaining; menace rests almost
entirely upon gross misconceptions.
The first of these 'is that the disease is
either spreading or likely to spread in
civilized countries, or rather In the really
civilized parts of so-called civilised coun
tries. All the evidence points exactly in
the opposite direction.
The facts of the matter are that,
whereas, in the fifteenth, sixteenth and
"seventeenth centuries, the .disease was
extremely common all over Europe and
particularly along Its western coasts and,
Indeed, persisted In Brittany, Spain, Ire
land and the west coast of Scotland up
to the beginning of the eighteenth cen
tury, it haa now totally, disappeared over
nine-tenths of this area and lingers only
as a medical curiosity in a few scattered
leper colonies along the western coasts
of Spain and Prance and three or four
larger ones along the coast of Norway.
In fact, the only region of the civilized
world In which the disease can be eald
to be really alive is the Scandinavian
peninsula, and even here among poverty
stricken fishermen, living in a state of
semi-etarvatlon along that sub-arctic
coast, it has shrunk from some 10,000 vic
tim forty years ago to only a few hun
dred at present
For some reason civilisation and lep
rosy simply will not meet, and when one
comes In the other goes out. A leper at
large in a modern community Is less than
half as dangerous as an ordinary case of
consumption.
The Seeker
Woman Who Has Not
Found Herself
J
"Please explain the term
in physics, as 'The mass
proportional to their weight
mass as used
of bodies Is
' also the dif
ference between mass and weight Roy
nojer. Balrd, Tex."
The mass of a body Is the quantity of
matter that body contains, and It depends
upon tho body's density, or the closeness
with whlrh the ultimate particles are
packed together. The weight of a body la
the force with which the earth attracts
It This force, called gravity, arts equally
upon every particle In the body.
If two bodies are composed of precisely
the same state, then their manses will be
proportional to their sizes, and so will
their weights. But if one of them consists
of a substance denser than that or which
the other Is composed, then the denser of
he two. although smaller, may possess
the greater mass and the greater weight
This shows why weight rather than size
Is used to measure the mass of a body.
But, stilt, weight is not the same thing
as mass. Weight varies with the distance
from the center of the earth, but mass
remains unchanged no matter what the
situation of the body concerned may be.
Thus, If you weigh a certain body with
spring balance and then take that
body to some other point on the earth
and weigh it again. In the same manner,
the weight will vary slightly, owing to
Irregularities in the shape of the earth,
and to effects rising from the earth's
rotation on lis axis, although the mass.
or quantity of matter In the body, la
manifestly unchanged.
Tf you were to treral about tha uni
verse Instead of being confined to the
earth, you would very quickly find out
the difference between mass and weight
For what would he do the white old man
with the bag on his back without Love? When
folks go squeezing about through shops for
whole weary days with just a snatch of lunch,
v.-onderlng what "Dad" would like that he
hasn't already; when women folks git up o'
rights over pale blue slippers and aprons and
caps with faery embroidery on 'em: when father
creaks In late with a knobby package under his
arm and a guilty flush on his face, to go straight
to his own dresser-drawer before he takes off
his hat; when little kids dive under chiffoniers
and beds and get dust on their hair pushing
something against the wall that they almost bit
their small tongues off making, or almost lost
their will-power saving for, and beg mother not
to sweep under there "til after Christmas; when
lovers leave the office early and sneak about pa
tiently, hunting for something nobody ever had
ever; when grandmas knit mittens and stock
ings; when grand'thers take slow, feeble trips
downtown once a year and come back with boys'
eyeswhy, then Love's right at the work table
with Santa Claus. NELL BRINKLET.
traductions, through all sorts of seem
ingly unmomentous trifles one gains
new friends. The letter, which apcaks
with a voice of all womanhood, seems
almost to have brought me a new friend.
I could wish that I knew the woman
who wrote it, that I could go to her
and say. "I am a woman, too. We are
sisters. We both understand. And the
fight you are making today la worth
while. It is the fight of a pioneer, and
pioneers always must suffer that those
who come after them may find the trail
biased and the settlement begun."
The problem for you is to keep your
sanity and poise, to go on believing in
yourself and in the Joy of working, to
make friends with the events of every
day life and to trust that they are all
tending to carry to aome worthwhile
goal.
Not by a definite search, not by going
out and looking for friends, does
woman like you make them. She has
rather to keep her lamp trimmed, to keep
herself in readiness; to be receptive for
all Impressions and all friendly advances.
Advice to Lovelorn 1
t MiTuoi r army ax-
Ferststeaee May Wla.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I love a girl, good
natured. jolly, attractive, heeJthy. in
short, everything a man likes. She has
good position, makes a fine salary and
helps support her family. I love muslo
and am fond of home life. I am healthy
and unusually strong. Now, this girl Is
ten years older than myself. I proposed
to her and was refused on account of the
difference In age, though she admitted
caring for me. I proposed again and she
said she would give me an answer In six
months I want you to ten me whether
she Is tight, should she again refuse me,
In saying difference In age la too much
She haa a number of admirers and I
know for a fact that aha refused several
proposals. ANXIOUS,
When a woman marries a man so much
younger- than herself ahe takes a great
risk with her future happiness, since
when ahe is M and distinctly middle aged.
he la a young man in the eyea of the
world. And yet many auoh marriage
have worked out well. If time proves
your devotion and ahe herself really care.
I think you can overcome her regret as
to this one obstacle. But you ought to
consider the matter very seriously and
think what your feeling will be when
your wife Is no longer young and beautiful.
For Instanre. a body that weighs six
pounds on the earth would weigh only
one pound on tt-.n moon, while If tsken to
Jupiter Its weight would Increase to six
teen pounds.
On Mare It would weigh two and a third
pounds, on Venus a little less than five
pounds, and on the asteroid Cere about
two and a half ounces. At the surface
of the sun It would weigh (if It could
withstand the heat there), 16 pounds.
Finally, If you took It to the grava
tlonal center of the earth, where attrac
tion Is balanced In all direction.i, It
would have no weight at all. Yet, al
ways and everywhere, the mass of the
body would remain unchanged.
To forestall quibbles. It may be as well
to say that even at the center of the
earth the body would experience a cer
tain attractive force toward the sun. But
to your spring balance it would be
weightless.
There is one curious, though obvious,
result of the fact that weight varies
with the attractive force which is worth
pointing out If Instead of utng a
prlng balance you should use a Pair of
scales or a steelyard In weighing a body
at different points on the earth or na
the surface of dlfferet planets, the
weight would appear to be the same
everywhere. Your six-pound body would
balance a six-pound marker Just as well
on the moon as on the earth because
each would lose weight In the same pro
portion-
If you went about the universe trying
to measure weight In different worlds
with a steelyard you would arrive at the
totally false conclusion that all planets
were equal In their gravltaUve attraction.
Only your muscular sense, or a anting
balance, would show you the actual differences.
But. while the steelyard was deceiving
you aa to weight. It would be telling you
the absolute truth about mass viz., that
mass does not vary with change of grav
ity; that two equal masses are alway
equal whether each weighs six pounds
or one pound, and that weight may
totally disappear without the slightest
loss of mass.
There are many very amusing ways In
which you might sport with the protean
property of weight If once you were free
to sail the ocean of Interplanetary ether.
You might take on your back a burden
which nearly crushed you to the ground.
but as you receded from the earth, its
weight would become rapidly less and
less, until, when you arrived within about
14,000 miles of the center of the moon,
your burden would cease to have any
weight and you also would become
weightless, because you would have
reached the point of balance between the
attraction of the earth and that of the
moon.
So, all the great planets circling around
the sun gain and lose "weight" con
tinually, according as they are nearer to
or farther from the sun, and from one
another. In their orbits. If we measure
the earth's weight In terms of the sun's
attraction upon it, then our planet will
be thousands of trillions of tons heavier
at the end of December than it was at
the end of June, because It will have ap
proached 1,000,000 miles nearer, but its
mass will not have been altered by one
lota.
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'I am a woman of education, a college
graduate and am now doing literary
work which I like. I am Just an average
girl with a reasonable amount of attrac
tion and called good company because
I am full of life and use my brain. Aetat
thirty. So much for so much. I am not
a freak nor a genius; Just an average
person I like fine things, cultured things
and I love to dance.
"Perhaps the whole crux of my prob
lem is this: I come of good stock con
ventional, bromldlo people. It la easy
for me to hold the center, to be the
leader but I am not stimulated. I have
to some extent go out of my class and
I don't belong In any other at least I
don't meet any of the people with whom
I do belong. Recently my engagement
was broken because my fiance's family,
tremendously staid and ponderous people
witnout a gleam of humor, didn't ap
prove of my nature.
"What would you do If you were IT
Somewhere In Omaha there must
be dozens of men and women in Just
my predicament. Isn't there any solu
tion?"
This letter, which I have reprinted
only in part, came te me recently under
tho signature "Seeker." It voices what
seems to me to be. the greatest tragedy
of modern womanhood loneliness. And
loneliness haa in the end to work out
Its 'own problem.
A woman as cane and strong and fine
as I Judge my unknown correspondent to
be will of course work out her problem
In the end. but first she must know
much unhappinesa Out of that unhapl
ness new strengh will come, and because
of it she will bo the finer woman some
day, but today that does not help her at
all.
In the signature "Seeker" lies, I
think, the best answer to her problem.
Women who not only think and work
but also feel and long, must always
seek, and eventually the search la re
wardedperhaps not Just as they would
have It rewarded. But fulfillment has to
come. That faith is the saving grace
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