DEFORMED HEAD TO
SAVE INFANTS LIFE
Beauty Not First Idea oi
Disfigurement.
Although not so common as it was
m years gone by, there are still nu-
merous places In the world where de
formities are manufactured for va
rious purposes. This forms the theme
of an interesting article which re
cently appeared in the Popular Sci
ence Magazine by Victor llaymond.
The deliberate flattening of the hu
man head, for instance, says the
Article, -contlnnpg to enjoy something
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rare Tntrversamy among -savage via
seml-barbarious people. Naturally.
the operation is carried out during
childhood of the subject, when, ihl
skuu is still soft and malleable. The
effect Is to make the skull long, or
short and broad, according to the par
ticular method favored.
Nowadays, the head so disfigured Is
regarded as an object of beauty, but
beauty was not the Initiatory cause
or the practice. Indeed, the flattened
head was not originally a deliberately
arranged result at all.
The custom dates back to the time
when the man-pack still wandered
from camping place to camping place.
During such treks' the head of the
new-born babe must often have lolled
In a dangerous manner, and, no doubt,
sometimes resulted in a broken neck.
To prevent this It became customary
to secure the Infant's head by some
means during the trek. The flattened
head was an unlooked-for product
Time passed, man gave up his nomad
ism and acquired settled habits, but
the flattened head had become a tribal
characteristic, and so was perpetu
ated. The method employed to flatten the
head varies with the district. In some
places the child's head is strapped
against the headboard of Its cradle.
In other places the necessary pres
sure is applied by bandages. Some
tribes employ a contrivance made up
of two boards. By the Klemantans
of Borneo a device Is used which flat
tens the forehead, the object being
to give the face, as near as possible,
a half-moon shape.
The device, known as Tadal, is se
cured firmly to the Infant's head when
It is a month old, but the pressure is
applied only when the child sleeps.
Contrary to what one would expect,
this deformation does not appear to
have any injurious effects.
Many savage peoples render the
faces of their womenfolk hideous by
grotesquely disfiguring their Hps. As
with the artificial deformation of the
head, the operation Is carried out dur.
Ing childhood.
The girl's Hps are pierced, straws
being Inserted in the holes. Next day
another straw is added, and, when the"
holes have been sufficiently enlarged,
pieces of wood with the thickness of
a pencil are plugged in. This process
continues until eventually the holes
are capable of containing large disks.
Filled thus, the lips at first project
horizontally from the face, but as the
disks grow In size, the facial muscles
become unable to support them, and
the Hps droop.
In the Lake Tchad district of cen
tral Africa, the disk in the lower lip
eventually reaches the size of a din
ner plate, the whole hanging like a
shield on the breast The disk in the
upper lip attains the dimensions of a
saucer, and droops similarly.
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LEGEND OF LENIN
How Soviet Leader Earned
Love of Allah.
Among the many legends concern
ing the life and deeds of Nikolai Lenin
already Incorporated In the popular
mythology of the Moslem inhabitants
of the soviet union is one passing
from mouth to mouth In Turkestan In
the form of a song and summarized
as follows by Lenold Solovlef, a Kus
slan writer who specializes in collect
ing Lenin stories, according .to the
New York Times :
The World war was raging and
thousands were being slain because
the kings of the earth wanted to All
their treasuries and were forcing
their subjects to go to the front and
kill each other. The stench of the
fallen men and the noise of the con
flict rose to high heaven and annoyed
Allah himself, who concluded it was
time to call together his most faithful
followers and select one wise and
strong enough to end all this misery.
In order to find the best man for
the Job, Allah set up a double test. His
elected agent must be able to turn
over a huge rock weighing 60 poods
(about a ton) and to give the correct
answer to the following riddle : "Who
Is the strongest on earth, who Is the
happiest, and who Is the weakest and
most unhappy?"
There were many candidates for the
glorious mandate, but none was able
to turn over the rock, although they
tried so hard that the stone soon bore
traces of their fingers.' Neither could
anyone solve the riddle, despite the
variety of answers, most of wbich
made Allah' the strongest and happi
est and Satan the weakest and most
unhappy. Finally, Allah noticed a
man of slight figure but with a very
high forehead looking intently at the
big rock. Maybe this little fellow can
do it, thought the Most High.
When the last candidate threw off
his coat and stood revealed in all his
physical weakness, Allah's heart sank.
But what was his surprise to see the
man walk' away from the rock and re
turn in a few minutes with several
beams of wood. One of these he
Bhoved under the big stone. Then an
other was placed under the free end
of the first, and by means of this Im
provised lever the rock was easily
turned over, revealing the poisonous
serpent Ok-Ilen, whose tall, weighing
100 pounds, had helped hold the stone
down.
Then the little champion answered
Allah's riddle as follows : "The strong
est is the most Intelligent, who wins
every one's love ; the happiest is" the
most honorable, who gives happiness
to many; the most unhappy and the
weakest is the man beloved by no
body." . Allah saw how wonderful was the
talent of this man. So he lifted him
up into heaven, where he spent 50
days and 50 nights learning the wis
dom of the Most High. Thus equipped
the successful candidate was named
Lenin and sent back to earth. Lenin
strode over the earth and stopped the
stream of blood. He brought happl-,
ness to humanity. Then he returned
to rest in Allah's halls. He left the
world pacified and happy. His name
shall endure while the word "happi
ness" lives.
So runs the legend.
He Liked Boxing
Paul was quite fond of boxing.
Whenever he was with his little pal
Frank he never lost an opportunity
to deal him a blow. One day Frank,
growing weary of being the daily vic
tim of these blows, bolstered up his
strength and dealt Paul such a box
that he sent him home crying.
Rejoicing over his victory, Frank
hurried in and told his grandfather.
His grandfather reprimanded him,
saying: "Frank, do you think that is
anything to be proud of t , Don't you
know that the good Lord sees all you
do? In the day the sun Is God's eye
and at night the moon shines on all
deeds."
"Oh, that's all right,' replied Frank,
"I hit Paul on the shady side of the
house." Indianapolis News.
Cancer Retearch
Studying the light given off by ash
of tumors burned in an arc light is
the latest method of attacking the
cancer problem, one which has been
applied at the Hahnemann Medical
college in Philadelphia by a trio of
biologists and a physicist, Donald C.
A. Butts, Thomas E. Huff and Freder
ick Palmer, Jr. By means of a spec
troscope, which analyzes the light and
reveals the elements that cause it,
they have found that the yellow lines
due to sodium, which appear only
momentarily when the ash of normal
animal tissue is placed In the arc,
persist until It has all been consumed
when the ash from tumors is analyzed.
This shows the presence of the ele
ment sodium in cancerous tissue.
Skyscraper Possibility
New York's recent announcement
that it would beat its own sky
scraping record in the construction of
Larkin tower, more than 1,200 feet
high, leads the London Morning Post
to comment that the proposed build
ing will be higher than the highest
highbrow, and it elevators will give
more uplift than the loftiest thinkers
even in the United State. Altogeth
er, It will be quite the latest thing In
aerial suburbs. t'l wonder," says the
writer, "if the skyscraper Is carried
much further, whether the saloons on
the top floor will be nble to claim
they are bgvnqjl Jh i-.rp-yiile limit."
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