Dancing Helps
Heart Patients
Medical Director Tells How Car
diac Convalescents Thrive
on Exercise.
MENTAL EFFECT IS GOOD, TOO
Treatment in Force Two Y ea r* W ith
U niform ly Beneficial Results— M o it
Joyous of Play Exercises— Phy
sically and Socially Stim ulant.
Attempt to Burn Out
Snake Caused Big Loos «
Mexican Embassy Has a Beautiful Home
A six-fiHit btacksnake refused
to move from his den under a
stump, and \V. II. Winter, a
farmer of Augusta, Ky., on
•>•
i" i , ; . e r : t i n m u m 1 hud
taken up a residence, decided to
smoke "ig the reptile.
Fire
spread from the stump to a )»-
acre hay field. Appeals were
sent to the fire de(»urtmeut and
farmers hurried to the sceue to
help extinguish the fiumes. At
one time It seemed as though
the fire would spread to the
city, but a timely shower helped
extinguish the flumes.
The snake eseH|>ed.
For two seasons past a dancing class
for cardiacs under eighteen years has
been conducted, under medical and
nurse watchfulness, the Instruction
being given principally by stronger
patients of this group.
Class attendance Is compulsory as
soon as the heart strength Is consid
ered adequate. The weaker and more
diffident are gradually inducted. Many
cardlHcs have given special fancy
dances In entertainments. This high
ly dlversional exercise is not stressed,
but U included In the direction, “to
begin to walk, coast, golf, dance, etc.,
as soon us you feel uhle.” Resident
physicians’ orders are occasionally
There have been about twenty col
given for more or less or none of these lapses or partial faints nrnong ull the
various exerelscs.
thousands of dancers (MO.tkiO patients
carts| for). About half of these were
How Patients Are Affected.
For six months the dancing Is out In cardiacs nnd found to be mainly
of doors. The spectators, too, are hysterical or neurotic. Some heart
strongly affected for good. Doctor patients have complained of Increased
Brush asserts. One hardly recognizes pain, etc., the day after, but no In
these patients at such functions; they stance of decompensating hns fol
The new home of the Mexican embassy 1« one of the most beautiful in Washington. The photograph shows
sliow color, animation, strength, good lowed. (Decompensation means fail the music room, with Its wonderful pipe organ which hns a sot of chimes. During the occupation of the home by
posture; pains and neurotic depres ure of the heart to Increase In power the former third secretary of state und Mrs. Breckinridge l.>'iig, they gave the use of tho house to the government
sions hare actually disappeared— Htid sufficiently to overcome valvular dls for the entertainment of I.oril Balfour and his mission when they were tho guests of the United Stutos, and again
are the less likely to return. "I enn ease.) The pulse rate rises moderate when the king and queen of the Belgians were guests of this country.
dance again!” Is a valued expression ly. Many patients express a feeling
of benefit from the exercise.
by patients.
New York.—Dancing as part of tUe
vgular treatment of those convalesc
ing from heart disease was prescribed
nvo years ago by L»r. Frederic Brush,
uedfcal director of the Burke Founda-
:lon, the great Institution for the care
ind treatment of convalescents at
rt'hlte Plains, to which many patients
from New York city hospitals and
ytlier Institutions are sent. The re
mits of this treatment as shown by
ts effect upon thousands of patients
Jus been amazing, and doubtless will
illclt a gasp of astonishment from the
uninitiated layman as well as from
:he physician of the older school.
Doctor Brush says, however, that
:here have not been apy bad results,
but on the contrary the exorcise has
veen of great benefit. Modem dancing
(ball, contra and folk types) Is a val
uable form of physical exercise in
he reconstructive-convalescent stages
5f heart disease, he declares. It af
fords u high degree of needed mental
therapy, and advunces the patient
notably toward social restoration. F.x-
perlence Indicates Its safety. It gives
in added and readily available test of
Institution’s Central
lie cardiac reserves and of progress. Carnegie
The physician tells about bis experi-
American Expedition Makes
?uce with dancing ns n therapeutic
Important Discoveries.
lgent In Hospital Social Service.
Applied exercises In the eonvnles-
;ent, constructive nnd preventive
stages of heart disease have three
main purposes, says Doctor Brush. To J
mprove the generul condition (nutrl- i Greatest Native Civilization Which
ttonal. muscular and organic), In- | America Produced Once Flourished
?rease the cardiac reserve power nnd
fn What Is Now Desolate and
Tv-’aen thb Ihtrdspeettve anil neurotic
Forgotten Region.
‘endencles. Oradual re-entry Into near
normal occupational nnd social living
Washington.—After having discov
Is the end sought.
ered and unearthed undent nnd for
It Is of assured advantage. Fays
gotten cities that once were the cen
the physician, to have the exercises
ter of America’s civilization, and
pleasurably anticipated nnd enjoyed;
after having begun to recover the an
and particularly valuable to have
them simulate or merge Into every cient learning for the Maya people
from their Indian descendants, the
day physical and social activities.
Carnegie Institution Central American
Formal Gymnastics.
Formal gymnastics aid by Inspiring 1 ^periltlon for MCI. which penetrated
courage nnd further exercise, In get the region of Guuteinulu, In the de
ting hold of the mild slacker or neu partment of Feten, at the base of the
rasthenic, nnd serve well In bad’ Yucatan peninsula, has returned to
weather times; but In six years’ ob this city.
The expedition, under the direction
servation of some 3,000 heart conva
lescents, says Doctor Brush, no regime of Dr. Sylvaiius O. Morlcy, associate
hns given such all-round satisfaction, In American Archeology of the Insti
safety and success ns did the old farm tution, left Washington early In Janu
regime where a total of nearly 500 ary. The other Investigators were Dr.
cardiacs, boy* and young nun, were C. E. Guthe nnd William Gates, both
given essential freedom In play and research associates of the Institution.
The activities of the field season
work over the place (under reason
consisted of tho exploration of the
able regulations of rest, etc.).
Itanclng may be called an Inherent forests of northern Feten In search for
activity—of all girls, of women up to 1 uevv centers of this ancient < lvlllza-
flfty, nnd of most young nnd middle-
under the direction of Doctor
aged men. says the physician; older , Hurley, the excavation of fay a sal, the
persons are persistently happy In * l" 8* Ttza (a Maya tribe) rnpitul, lo-
wntching I t ; It Is the most Joyous of rated upon an island In the I.ake of
all play-exercise«, and both physically Feten Itza, In northern central Peten,
by Doctor Guthe. and a fir-t-hand
and socially stimulant.
Convalescents with but n moderate study of the Maya language as spok
degree of cardiac reserve may begin en today in northern British Honduras,
cautiously to dnnee, then go on to n and also by the Quiche, a Maya trllie
considerable Indulgence, with safety living In the highlands of Guatemala,
and benefit, he asserts. The heart by Mr. Outes.
Unearth Ancient Citiss.
patients early led the way In this.
Following along the chicle (the sub
Women were found to be dancing In
their cottages and boys exhibited vari stance from which chewing gum is
made) trails which traverse this re
ous “Jig stunts,” etc.
The practice was checked, then gion, Doctor Morley'g party discovered
carefully observed, encouraged and several new cities during the course of
argnnlzed ; nnd goon two or three for the field season, in what appears to
mal dances per week were given, open have been the very heart of the old
to patients of all diagnoses and ages. Maya empire.
Problems
of
Far
Find New Cities
of Ancient Maya East Gome First
OLD CAPITAL IS EXCAVATED
Secretary Davis Buys Luncheon
IV ,
Doctor Guthe's excavations at Tay-
asal proved equally fruitful. The prin
cipal plaza of that city was located,
and the work of clearing away the
earth and fallen masonry from the
principal structures was commenced.
The peninsula of Tucatan 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 fur to the south,
gradually merging into the foothills
of the Cordllllerra, It Is 4t*> miles long.
This region, u limestone formation
of recent geologlcnl age, has gradual
ly emerged from the floor of the Car
ibbean sen, und is now overgrown
with a dense sub-tropical Jungle. It
supi«>rts, in fact, an almost continu
ous forest of mahogany, rubber, Santu
Marla, ceiba, chlco-sapote (tho “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 an open space large enough to ac
commodate a modern bungalow com
fortably.
In this now dcsolute and forgotten
region there developed during the
first fifteen centuries of the Christian
era the greatest native civilization
which America prialuced, namely, that
of the undent Maya of southern Mex
ico and northern Central America.
Here great cities grew tip, filled with
temples, pyramids, |>alnces und mon
asteries, built of finely curved Ume
stone, which were grouped around
paved squares nnd courts.
Ones
B rillia n t
People.
In these spacious plazas beautifully
sculptured monuments were erected,
their sides lnscrlt>ed with elaborate
hieroglyphic writings, setting forth Im
portant historical nnd astronomical
facts.
A dense population, highly or
gnnlzed under strongly centralized
governments, flourished In the region,
the vanguard of clvlllzutlo^ In the
New World.
But In the course of centuries pes
tilence, drought, civil war nnd famine
overtook the Maya, so that when the
Spaniards landed on the east coast of
Yucatan In 1851, under Francisco de
Montejo, the last remnant of this once
brilliant people fell an easy prey to
the shock of foreign conquest, nnd they
were sjieedlly reduced to dc(.eiidcnoe
and slavery. Their once magnificent
cities were abandoned, vast sections
being actually depopulated, nnd the
tropical Jungle again crept over the
region, until today these former cen
ters of life and human activity lie
burled In the grip of a dense forest,
nnd crumbling walls and piles of fall
en masonry overgrown with giant
trees alone hear melancholy witness t i
former pomp and glory.
Investigations In this remote and
Inaccessible region may only l>e car
ried on under enormous difficulties.
It Is only very slowly, with Infinite
pains and at high cost, that this region
Is being made to yield its archeolog
ical secrets nnd the truth about our
foremost native American clvllzatb u
Is gradually bet: g made known.
“ Fresh” Eggs Hatch in Store.
Paducah,
Ey.—Fourteen
chicks
hatched out of eggs In ti e bottom lay
er of a crate at a market house here,
,
Must Be Satisfactorily Adjusted
if Disarmament Is to Be
Success.
' territorial Integrity are, of course, old
Many Reasons Why Big
Nations Should Disarm
A p proxl ma tely $ 1,501 >,» >00,000
has been appropriated for ex
tension of the nuvul program by
the five countries which are ex-
peeted to dtscuss disarmament
In Washington next autumn.
Tho I'nlted States leads with
»500,000,000.
Great Brltuiu Is
second with $422,000,000, Japan
Is
third
with
$230,000,000,
France Is fourth with $173,000,-
000, and Ituly Is fifth with 73,-
1 questions. They are the ones In which
the real statesmanship of the mem- j
hers of the conference may best
be displayed. On them depends
whether China Is to become an*Inde
pendent nation, or whether the spe-|
dal Interests which virtually render
000 , 000 .
China Impotent nnd helpless are to
Discussion of the building pro
continue their hold, in this Is In
grams will show the five coun
Ones an Agreement Is Reached on
volved the abolition of all extra terrl- j
tries armed on the oceans us
These Im portant Questions M atter
torlal Jurisdiction, the control of marl- 1
follows:
Great Britain, 035
of Getting Together on Cutting
time customs by the British, the
ships; United States, 008 ships;
Armaments W ill Be Easy.
French control of the Chinese post of
Japan, 221 ships; France, 253
fice and tho Lanslng-Ishll agreement
ships, und Italy, 213 ships.
Washington.—Success or failure of recognizing Japan’s "special Inter- i
the disarmament conference In Wash ests." These uro Infinite ramifies
ington this fall depends primarily on tlons.
n satisfactory adjustment of half a
The question of the territorial Integ voice in any agreement Involving Far
dozen “F ar East problems.”
| rlty of Asiatic Russia wlU bring to tlie Eastern uffalrs.
Only with these major Issues nml- j front Japan's occupation of the mari
Dominions Raise Problems.
cuhly adjusted would the Irritants time provinces of eastern Siberia nnd
Along broud lines, those nre the
that might ultimately lead to a < lash j of Snkalln Island, where Japan Is op questions that must be Ironed out be*
of arms be removed. And then only } erating extensive fisheries, Japanese fore tho conference can get down to
could the nations Involved agree to a 1 colonization In Manchuria and her oc- brass tacks on the relative size of
considerable reduction of armaments cupnncy of Vladivostok are also In armies and navies.
—at least a cessation of building new volved.
Important, but secondary to these
armaments—without
feeling
that
key
questions, nre the attitude of Aus
Cables Cause Trouble.
safety was being Jeopardized.
tralia, Canada and New Zealand, and
In the matter or communications, tho new position in which the Philip-
These problems a re ;
Mandates under the League of Na tho whole question of n friendly, plnes may be placed as a result of the
equitable relationship In the establish conference.
tions, particularly tliut of Yap.
ing nnd maintenance of wireless nnd
Shantung.
For It Is generally admitted that
cable stations will be developed. This with the other questions <>f expansion
The open door In China.
wUl bring In the development of Yap nnd colonization In the Fur East set
The territorial Integrity of China.
The territorial Integrity of Asiatic as nil International cable distributing tled on some agreeable basis, tho
I center, nnd the Interests of the Neill- chances for l ’hlllpplne Independence
Kussln.
Communications.
1 erbrnds, which now control Important n’t ’“«n'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 . |>ost.
on cut ting down the size of armies ditlon to the six powers primarily In
and navies will be easy. But this first volved In the conference, will be i>er- Killed Bride In Mistake fo r Burglar,
necessary agreement, officials recog mltted to make representations In
Wenona, III.—Firing point blank nt
nized, will not be easy. That, rutlier connection with the Fur East ques someone be 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 bus extensive Interests In tric lights to find that he hnd fatally
peace, If It Is achieved,
Chinn, Belgian capltnl owning the wounded Ills six teen-yea .--old bride of
U. 3. to Make Protest.
Lung IIul and the Kow tilin g mil- seven months. She died u few hours
Yap nnd Shantung, Jupun 1ms In ways nnd the great Kill lin g mines.
luter.
dicated, she bolds to have been dis
HolJund’s whole life ns a trading
posed of by the treaty of Versailles.
nation depends upon her rich Island
Citizens to Curb Speeders.
The United States, however, on the possessions In the Pacific—the Dutch
Greenville, 8. C.—“Speed limit 23
basis that she, ns one of the principal East Indies. This comprises a hug*- miles per hour. Drive slow and see
allied and associated powers, even territory with 00,000,000 |Mipulatlon. our country; drive fnst nnd see our
though not a member of the League Without these colonies nnd a free Jnlls." This Is the sign thnt Sheriff
of Nations, was entitled to a voice In band In developing their markets, Hol Itcctor posted on all the lending high
the distribution of the former German land would be reduced to the status ways nnd a hundred citizens were se
Islands In the l ’aclfic, has protested of a fifth rate nation. Her Interests cretly sworn In ns policemen to help
the grunting of HpeclaJ rights in Yap nre readily recognized ns Justifying u curb the speed demons.
to Japan. Because of Yap’s Impor
tance ns a Pacific cable center, this
country lias 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 uttacked the be
stowing upon Japan of the German
rights In that peninsula.
The unbiased view, however, has
been that any dispute over sovereignty
In Shantung should be the matter of
negotiation between China nnd Japan. '
There Is Indicated a considerable
desire in severul quarters that the I
Yap and Slinritung question* be elimi-
mi ted In advance of the Washington |
conference. That, It Is recognized, i
would greatly simplify questions be- 1
fore the conference. This government
w ill not, however, concede that the j
trenty of Versailles—in the absence
of any acquiescence by this country—
could dispose of Yap. The case hns j
been sta ed so plainly that Japan has j
no Illusions ns to the basis on which j
our claim* stnnd, 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 |
had been sold as fr> sh eggs.
L
The chicks, which were several days j ed that title to the former
rights In that province mis largely
•
the heat wave and were In splendid i
no long as the Versailles treaty re
h e a lt h .
mains internstlonal law.
The owrfbr s.
China, on the other hand, contends
t'.me* the value
•
Germany r -
to Cl, • ill rig ;s
Nickel Shin# Buck In Boston. Q previously granted Germany. That
.sirs. Warren G. Harding receiving a two-reel animated pictorial record
Boston.—The nlekel shine hns re being an, she cJalnia, there were no of the presidential campaign which resulted In the election of her husband as
turned. The bo) s of the north en 1 German rights In China to be dis chief executive, from William A. Brady representing the motion picture In
Secretary of Labor Davis does not believe In spending two hours eating j have invaded the business district la posed of st the Versailles conference. dustry of the country. The screen review will be preserved by Presi dent and
f.let mi.i. n for lunch. Every no' n be may be «“en «»and r.g before tblsjilttle a war on established bootblack*, * ne China refused to sign the treaty be Mrs. Harding as a family record of the historic events which led to theif
in I of whom have met the competition by cause - of
Italian fruit stand Just around the corner from his office, where he lnvi
... the
, lre Shantung provision.
.JP
| occupancy of the White House. In the picture are Jack Connolly. Mrs. HartV
I cutting rates from 10 cents to 5.
a Hg! ! ,ncb fs seasonable fruit«.
The open door In China and China’s | ing, Willlum A. Brady and Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, aide to the President.