Dancing Helps
Heart Patients
Medical Director Tells How Car
diac Convalescents Thrive
on Exercise.
MENTAL EFFECT IS GOOD, TOO
freatmant In Fores Two Years With
Uniformly Beneficial Results—Most
Joyous of Play Exercise»—Phy
sically and Socially Stimulant.
Now York. Dancing us part of the
regular treatment of those ('onvuh'sc-
tig from heart disease was prescribed
Iwo years ago by Dr. Frederic Brush,
nodical director of the Burke Founda-
Jon, the great Institution for the care
»nd treatment of convalescents nt
White Plains, to which many patients
from New York city hospitals and
Jther Institutions are sent. The re
mits of this treatment as shown by
t* effect upon thousands of patients
Has been amazing, and doubtless will
»licit ii gasp of astonishment from the
uninitiated laymun ns well us from
!he physician of the older school.
Iioctor Brush says, however, that
¡here have not been any bad results,
but on the contrary the exercise has
'»een of great benefit. Modern dancing
(ball, contra and folk types) Is a val
uable form of physical exercise In
:he reconstructive convalescent stages
3f heart discus«, he declares. it af-
fords ii high degree of needed mental
therapy, and advances the patient
aotably toward social restoration. Ex
perience Indicates Its safety. It gives
in added and readily available teat of
.he cardiac reserves and of progress.
Tlie physician tells about his experi-
'nce with dancing ax a therapeutic
igent in Hospital Social Service.
Applied exercises In the convales-
.'ent, constructive and preventive
stages of heart disease have three
main purposes, says Doctor Brush. To
mpruve the general condition (nutri
tional, muscular and organic), In-
¡rreaae the cardiac reserve power nnd
^saen the IntrAxpectlve am) neurotic
¡endeudes. Gradual re entry Into near
normal occupational nnd social living
Is the end sought.
It Is of assured advantage, says
the physician, to have the exercises
pleasurably anticipated nnd enjoyed;
»nd particularly valuable to have
them simulate or merge Into every-
day physical am! social activities.
Formal Gymnastics.
Formal gymnastics aid by Inspiring
courage nnd further exorcise, In get
ting hold of th« mild slacker or neu
rasthenic, nnd serve well In bad
weather times; but In six years* ob
servation of some 3.000 heart eonva-
Icsrents, says Doctor Brush, no regime
has given such nil-round satisfaction,
»nfety nnd success ns did the old farm
regime where a total of nearly 500
cnrdlncs. boys nnd young men, were
given essential freedom In play nnd
work over the place (under reason
able regulations of rest, etc.).
Dancing may be called an Inherent
activity—of all girls, of women up to
fifty, and of most young nnd middle-
aged men, suys the physlclnn; older
peraons nre persistently hnppy In
watching It; It is the most Joyous of
nil play-exercises, and both physically
and socially stimulant.
Convalescents with but n moderate
degree of cardiac reserve may begin
cautiously to dunce, then go on to n
considerable Indulgence, with safety
and benefit, he asserts. Hie heart
patients early led the wny In this.
Women were found to be dancing tn
their cottages and boys exhibited vari
ous “Jig stunts," etc.
The practice was checked, then
carefully observed, encouraged and1
organized; and soon two or three for
mal dances jier week were given, open
to patients of all diagnoses and ages.
Mexican Embassy Has a Beautiful Home
Attempt to Bum Out
Snake Caused Big Loss
A six foot blacksnake refused
to m<Ae from bls den under u
stump, and W. H. Winter, a
former of Augusta, Ky., on
whose poroperly the snake hud
taken up a residence. decided to
smoke out the reptile.
Fire
spread from the stump to a 20-
acre hay field. Appeals were
sent to the tire department and
farmers hurried to the scene to
help extinguish the flames. At
one time It seemed as though
the Are would spread to the
city, but a timely shower helped
extinguish the flumes.
The snake escaped.
For two seasons past a dancing class j
for cardiac« under eighteen year« has
been conducted, under medical and
nurse watchfulness, the Instruction
being given principally by stronger
patients of lids group.
Class attendance Is compulsory ns
soon ns the heart strength Is conaid- 1
ered adequate. The weaker and more I
diffident are gradually Inducted. Many '
cardiac« have given speHal fancy I
dance* In entertainments. 'Dils high
ly dlversional exercise Is not stressed,
but Is Included In the direction, “to
begin to walk, coast, golf, dance, etc.,
ns soon ns you feel able." Resident
physicians* orders ar« occasionally
There have been about twenty col
given for more or less or none of these lapses or partial faints among all the
various exercises.
thousands of dancers (IM),(SSI patients
cared for). About half of these were
How Patients Are Affected.
For six months the dancing 1« out in cardiacs and found to be mainly
of doors. The spectators, too, ore hysterical or neurotic. Some heart
strongly affected for good, (Doctor I patients have complained of Increased
Brush asserts. One hardly recognises pain, etc., the day after, but no In
these patients ut such functions; they stance of decompensating has fol
show color, animation, strength, good । lowed. (Decomts-nsatlon means fail
posture; jmlns and neurotic depres ure of the heart to Increase in power
sions have actually disappeared—and sufficiently to overcome valvular dis
are the less likely to return. “I can ‘ ease.) The pulse rate rises moderate
dance ngaln 1" 1s a valued expression ly. Many patients express a feeling
by patients.
of benefit from the exercise.
•^xuNoéâwooo
UND£«WOOD
The new home of the Mexican embassy lx one of the most beautiful in Washington. The photograph shows
the music room, with Its wonderful pipe organ which has a set of chimes. During the occupation of the home by
the former third secretary of stute and Mrs. Brackenridge Long, they gave the use of the house to the government
for the entertainment of Lord Balfour and his mission when they were the guests of the United States, and again
when the king and queen of the Belgians were guests of this country.
Problems
of
Far
Find New Cities
of Ancient Maya East Come First
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Must Be Satisfactorily Adjusted
Carnegie Institution’s Central
American Expedition Makes
Important Discoveries.
OLD CAPITAL IS EXCAVATED
Greatest Native Civilization Which
America Produced Once Flourlehed
in What Ie Now Dceolate and
Forgotten Region.
Washington.—After having discov
ered and unearthed ancient and for
gotten cities that once were the cen
ter of America's civilization, und
after having begun to recover the un
dent learning .for the Maya people
from their Indian descendants, the
Carnegie Institution Central American
expedition f»r 1021, which penetrated
the region of Guatemala, In the de
partment of 1‘eten, nt the base of the
Yucatan ]>enlnsulu, has returned to
this city.
The expedition, under the direction
of Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, associate
In American archeology of the Insti
tution, left Washington early In Janu
ary. The other Investigators were Dr.
C. E. Guthe and William Gates, both
research associates of the Institution.
The activities of the field season
consisted of the exploration of tite
forests of northern Peten in search for
new centers of this ancient civiliza
tion under the direction of Doctor
Morley, the excavation of Tayusal, the
last Itza (a Maya tribe) capital, lo
cated upon an Island In the Lake of
Peten Itza, In northern central Peten,
by Doctor Guthe, and a first-hand
study of the Maya language us spok
en ttslay In northern British Honduras,
und also by the Quiche, a Maya tribe
living In the highlands of Guatemala,
by Mr. Gates.
Unearth Ancient Cltiee.
Following along the chicle (the sub
stance from which chewing gum Is
made) trails which traverse this re
gion, Doctor Morley’s party discovered
several new cities during the course of
the field season, in what appears to
have been the very heart of the old
Maya empire.
Secretary Davis Buys Luncheon
Doctor Guthe's excavations at Tay-
asal proved equally fruitful. The prln-
climl plaza of that city was located,
nnd the work of clearing away the
earth and fallen masonry from the
principal structures was commenced.
The peninsula of Yucatan juts up
into the Gulf of Mexico like the great
thumb of a giant hand, pointing north
ward. It Is 250 miles wide, and be
fore it finally takes root In the conti
nental land mass far io the south,
gradually merging into the foothills
of the Cordlllierra, It is 400 miles long.
This ragion, a limestone formation
of recent geological age, has gradual
ly emerged from the floor of the Car
ibbean sea, and Is now overgrown
with a dense sub-tropical Jungle. It
supports. In fact, an almost continu
ous forest of mahogany, rubber, Santa
Marla, ceiba, chlco-sapote (the "chew
ing gum" tree), nnd many other sub
tropical trees, which so completely
covers the country that one may trav
el In this bush for days without see
ing nn open space large enough to ac
commodate a modern bungalow com
fortably.
In this now desolate and forgotten
region there developed during tiie
first fifteen centuries of the Christian
era the greatest native civilization
which America produced, namely, that
of the ancient Maya of southern Mex
ico nnd northern Central America.
Here great cities grew up, filled with
temples, pyramids, ¡adaces und mon
asteries, built of finely carved lime
stone, which were grouped around
paved squares and courts.
Once Brilliant People.
In these spacious plazas beautifully
sculptured monuments were erected,
their sides lnscrll>ed with elaborate
hieroglyphic writings, setting forth Im
portant historical mid astronomical
facts. A dense population, highly or
ganized under strongly centralized
governments, flourished In the region,
the vanguard of clvillzatio* in tlie
New World. -
But in the course of centuries pes
tilence, drought, civil war and famine
overtook the Maya, so that when the
Spaniards landed on the east coast of
Yucatan In 1851, under Francisco de
Montqjo, the last remnant of this once
brilliant people fell an easy prey to
the shock of foreign conquest, nnd they
were speedily reduced to dependence
and slavery. Their once magnificent
cities were abandoned, viist sections
being actually depopulated, and the
tropical 4ungle again crept over the
ragion, until today these former cen
ters of life nnd human activity lie
burled in the grip of a dense forest,
nnd crumbling walls nnd piles of fall
en masonry overgrown with giant
trees alone bear melancholy witness to
former pomp and glory.
Investigations in this remote and
Inaccessible region mny only be car
ried on under enormous difficulties.
It is only very slowly, with infinite
pains nnd nt high cost, that this region
is being made to yield its archeolog
ical secrets and the truth about our
foremost native American civllzatlou
Is gradually being made known.
“Fresh” Eggs Hatch in Store.
Paducah,
Ky.—Fourteen
chicks
hatched out ot eggs in the bottom lay
er of a crate at a market house here,
were discovered after the top layers
had been sold ns fresh eggs.
The chicks, which were several days
old, apparently had been mothered by
the heat wave nnd were In splendid
health.
The owner sold them for several
times the value of fresh eggs.
Nickel Shine Back in Boston.
Boston.—The nickel shine has re
turned. The boys of the north end
Secretary of Labor Davis does not believe In spending two hours eating have invaded the business district In
filet mignon for lunch. Every noon he mny be seen standing before this little a war on established bootblacks, some
Italian fruit stand just around the corner from his office, where he Invests in of whom have met the competition by
cutting rates from 10 cents to 5.
a light lunch of seasonable fruits.
Many Reasons Why Big
Nations Should Disarm
Approximately >1,500,000,000
has been appropriated for ex
tension of the naval program by
the five countries which are ex
pected to discuss disarmament
In Washington next autumn.
The United States leads with
>500,000,000.
Great Britain is
second with >422,000,000, Japan
is third
with >250,000,000,
France Is fourth with >175,000,-
000, and Italy Is fifth with 73,-
0UU.0OO.
Discussion of the building pro
grams will show the five coun
tries armed on the oceans as
follows:
Great Britain, 955
ships; United States, 608 ships;
Japan, 221 ships; France, 253
ships, and Italy, 245 ships.
territorial integrity are, of course, old 1
questions. They are the ones In which !
if Disarmament Is to Be
the real statesmanship of the mem-1
bers of the conference may best
Success.
be displayed. On them depends
whether China is to become an inde
pendent nation, or whether the spe
cial Interests which virtually render
China Impotent and helpless are to
Once an Agreement Is Reached on continue their hold. In this Is In
volved the abolition of all extra terri
Thes« Important Question* Matter
torial jurisdiction, the control of mari
of Getting Together on Cutting
time customs by the British, the
Armaments Will Be Easy.
French control of the Chinese post of
fice and the Lansing-Ishii agreement
Washington.—Success or failure of recognizing Japan's “special inter
the disarmament conference In Wash ests.” These are Infinite ramifica
ington this fall depends primarily on tions.
a satisfactory adjustment of half a
The question of the territorial Integ voice In any agreement Involving Far
dozen “Far East problems.”
rity of Asiatic Russia will bring to tne Eastern affairs.*
Only with these major Issues ami front Japan's occupation of the marl-
Dominion* Raise Problem*.
cably tt'IJusted would the Irritants । time provinces of eastern Siberia and
Along broad Unes, those are the
that might ultimately lead to a clash j of Sakalin Island, where Japan Is op- questions that must be Ironed out be
of arms be removed. And then only । eratlng extensive fisheries. Japanese fore the conference can get down to
could the nations involved agree to a colonization In Manchuria and her
brass tacks on the relative size of
considerable reduction of armaments cupancy of Vladivostok are also oc- armies and navies.
—at least a cessation of building new volved.
Important, but secondary to these
armaments—without feeling
that
key
questions, are the attitude of Aus
Cables
Cause
Trouble.
safety was being Jeopardized.
tralia, Canada and New Zealand, and
In the matter ot communications, the new position in which the Philip
These problems are:
Mandates under the League of Na- the whole question of a friendly, pines may be placed as a result of the
equitable relationship in the establish- conference.
tions, particularly that of Yap.
Shantung.
Ing and maintenance of wireless and
For It Is generally admitted that
The open door in China.
cable stations will be developed. This with the other questions of expansion
will bring In the development of Y’ap and colonization in the Far East set
The territorial integrity of China.
The territorial Integrity of Asiatic as an international cable distributing tled on some agreeable basis, the
Russia.
center, and the interests of the Neth chances for Philippine Independence
Communications.
erlands, which now control important at an early date would be greatly In-
Once an agreement on these is cable links in the western Pacific.
creased.—Harry Hunt, In Chicago
reached the matter of getting together
Both Belgium and Holland, In ad Post.
on cutting down the size of armies dition to the six powers primarily in
and navies will be easy. But this first volved In the conference, will be per- Killed Bride In Mistake for Burglar,
necessary agreement, officials recog- mltted to make representations In
Wenona, Ill.—Firing point blank at
nlzed, will not be e^sy. That, rather connection with the Far East ques- someone he thought to be a burglar,
than any actual disarmament com tions.
Daniel Kennedy, switched on the elec
pact, will be the big step toward
Belgium has extensive interests In tric lights to find that he had fatally
peace, if It is achieved.
China, Belgian capital owning the wounded his sixteen-year-old bride of
U. 8. to Make Protest.
Lung Hal and the Kow Ching rail seven months. She died a few hour«
Yap and Shantung, Japan has in ways and the great Kal Ping mines.
later.
dicated, she holds to have been dis
HoUand’s whole life as a trading
posed of by the treaty of Versailles. nation depends upon her rich Island
Citizen* to Curb Speeder*.
The United States, however, on the possessions In the Pacific—the Dutch
Greenville, S. C.—“Speed limit 23
basis that she, as one of the principal East Indies. This comprises a huge miles per hour. Drive slow and see
allied and associated powers, even territory with 50,000.000 population. our country; drive fast and see our
though not a member of the league Without these colonies and a free jails.” This is the sign that Sheriff
of Nations, was entitled to a voice In hand In developing their markets, Hol Rector posted on all the leading high
the distribution of the former German land would be reduced to the status ways and a hundred citizens were se
islands in the Pacific, has protested of a fifth-rate nation. Her Interests cretly sworn In as policemen to help
the granting of special rights in Yap are readily recognized ns justifying a curb the speed demons.
to Japan. Because of Yap's impor
tance as a Pacific cable center, this
country has insisted that It be inter
nationalized and equal rights assured
to all.
With respect to Shantung, no offi
cial stand has been taken, although
many senators have attacked the be
stowing upon Japan of the German
rights in that peninsula.
The unbiased view, however, has
been tiiat any dispute over sovereignty
in Shantung should be the matter of
negotiation between China and Japan.
There is indicated a considerable
desire in several quarters that the
Yap and Shantung questions be elimi
nated in advance of the Washington
conference. That, it is recognised,
w'ould greatly simplify questions be
fore the conference. Tills government
will not, however, concede that the
treaty of Versailles—in the absence
of any acquiescence by this country—
could dispose of Yap. The case has
b(*en stated so plainly that Japan has
no illusions as to the bn sis on which
our claims stand, and the vigor with
which they will be presented.
BIG STEP TOWARD PEACE
Mrs. Harding Gets Campaign Reel
China Demands Province.
As to Shantung, Japan has contend
ed that title to the former German
rights In that province was largely
vested in her nnd cannot be disturbed
so long as the Versailles treaty re
mains international law.
China, on the other hand, contends
that her declaration of war against
Germany restored to China all rights
previously granted Germany. That
being so, she claims, there were no
German rights In China to be dis
posed of at the Versailles conference.
China refused to sign the treaty be
cause of the Shantung provision.
The open door in China and China's
Airs. Warren G. Hurtling receiving a two-reel animated pictorial record
of the presidential campaign which resulted In the election of her husband as
chief executive, from William A. Brady representing the motion picture in
dustry of the country. The screen review will be preserved by President and
Mrs. Harding as a family record of the historic events which led to their
occupancy of the White House. In the picture are Jack Counolly, Mrs. Hard
ing, William A. Brady and Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, aide to the President