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If
Flush your kidneys hy drinking a
quart of water each day, also tuke
salts occasionally, says a noted au­
thority, who tells us that too much
rich food forms acids which almost
paralyze the kidneys In their efforts
to expel it from the blood. They be­
come sluggish nnd weaken ; then you
may suffer with u dull misery in the
kidney region, sharp pains in the back
or sick headache, dizziness, your
stomach sours, tongue is coated, and
when the weather Is had you have
rheumatic twinges.
The urine gets
cloudy, full of sediment, the channels
often get sore and irrltuted. obliging
you to seek relief two or three times
during the night.
To help neutralize these Irritating
adds, to help cleanse the kidneys
and flush off the body’s urinous waste,
get four ounces of Jad Snlts from any
pharmacy here; take a tahlespoonful
in a glass of water before breakfast
for a few days, and your kidneys may
then act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with llthia, and
has been used for yenrs to help flush
and stimulate sluggish kidneys; also
to neutralize the acids In the system
so they no longer irritate, thus often
relieving bludder weakness.
Jad Salts Is inexpensive, cannot In­
jure and makes a delightful efferves­
cent litliia-water drink.
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By E L M O S C O T T W A T S O N
D ra w in g by R a y W alter«.
H E N you mnil a letter In
the post box on the cor­
ner, do you pull clown the
slot, drop In your letter,
release the slot and then
walk away?
Or, after
dropping the missive In,
do you give the slot a series of vigor-*
«u s bangs before you are satisfied
that it la really mailed and that you
can safely go away and leave it to
the care of Uncle Sam?
Unless you’re a most unusual per­
son, you do the latter. Why the vigor­
ous bangs? There's a psychological
reason, so let a psychologist, Dr. Thnd-
deus L. Holton of Temple university,
answer. He sa y s:
E v e r y b o d y — or nearly
everybody—
rattles the mall box « l o t tw o or three
times a f t e r posting a letter. W h y ?
Various reasons— first, caution; second,
conceit, and third, e goistic hunger that
finds satisfaction In m a k in g a noise.
T h e cautiousness springs from the
fa ct that at some time or another we
have found the mall box full, and our
tiny le tte r could only be w edged In by
a series o f flappings with the lid o f the
mall box. The element o f conceit en ­
ters In the form o f pride In our own
w ritten word. W e w ant to make sr.ic
that nothing goes w r o n g to prevent
our w ords reachin g the recipient. A
g r e a t deal o f energy has probably gone
Into the letter. A t any rate It Is our
own w r itte n word, so w e snap the mail
box open in g several times "ju st to
m ake sure.”
T h e last nnd probably the greatest
reason people rattle the mnil box slot
Is because It makes a sa tis fy in g noise,
nnd the noise Is an expression o f our
capacity to do things. W e make o u r ­
selves realizable. W hen w e make a b ig
noise w e reassure ourselves that we
• re alive, and our e go istic hunger for
the moment Is satisfied.
And that Is the scientific explana­
tion for the mall box banging. Any
one of the'three reasons would be suf­
ficient to cause many persons to rattle
the slot, but all three together result
In at least 1)0 per cent of us doing 1 L
Stand near a mail box some day and
make your own observations! Nor Is
It only the mall box which gives us an
opportunity to satisfy our egoistic
hunger. Doctor Bolton says further;
A f t e r all w e never get ve ry far from
the " r a t t le s ta g e ” even In our »o-ealled
g r o w i n g up state. W e must confess
that, sophisticated as w e may be, we
like to rattle things. This makes us
kick tin cans, run umbrellas along
picket fences, and otherw ise make our-
aelves conspicuous.
We
w ill w a lk
alon g the aldewalk. c a re fu lly avoidin g
the cracks— or w a l k i n g on one brick
at a time. A l l these maneuvers are a t ­
tempts to make ourselves felt. I once
observed an iron post with an iron
rin g attached to the top— one o f those
o ld -tim e hitchin g posts. O f the 100
people 1 w atched as they passed, more
than 99 rattled the Iron ring or tossed
It from one »Ide to the other.
So the proverbial small boy making
a deafening racket by drawing a stick
along a picket fence can’t be explained
by “child’s love for noise.” He is sat­
isfying his egoistic hunger and reas­
suring himself that he Is alive. 8 «
we re all small boys, to that extent,
for we all do It.
Ever work a cross-word puzzle?
Probably! Even If you have thus far
escaped golf, radio, bridge. mah-Jnngg.
or any of the other popular modern
fads It’s likely that you succumbed to
the lure of the little black and white
squares. Why did you do It? And why
did the solving of puzzles, which hns
been practiced by man since the earli­
est days, wait until 1924 nnd 1925 to
become a universal pastime?
dinner guests may date from the Last
Supper when Christ and his 12 dis­
ciples made 13 at the table. Christ
was crucified on Friday nnd that
mukes Friday, the 13th, doubly un­
lucky.
Why do people fear to have a black
Here Is what Dr. H. E. Jones nnd
cat cross their path? That Is a super­
Prescott Leek of Columbia university,
stition that goes back to the ancient
In a recent article In Popular Science
dffys When the cat was worshiped In
Monthly, have to say about It :
Egypt In fact many of our supersti­
The second uuestlon possible 1« the tions go back thousands o f years to
most easily answered.
the dawn of history. The swastika ns
Cross-word puzzles never could have
an
emblem of good luck enjoyed a
flourished In the past, fo r the reason
that the level o f general education, great popularity within recent years,
even a score o f years ago, was much hut this design !s as old as mankind.
lo w e r than at present, and solvin g the It w h s a religious symbol in both the
puzzles requires at least an elementary
Orient and nmorig the Mayas and In­
education.
Another reason fo r their success Is cas of Central and South America.
that cross-word puzzles are almost the Finding the horseshoe Is lucky for three
first fad o f history the practice of
which costs v irtu a lly nothing and r e ­ reasons (all of them based upon super­
quires the development o f no : p e d a l stition, «however). Anything In the
physical dexterity, the acquisition of shnpe of n crescent has always been
no nrrusual equipment, the learning o f regarded as something to bring luek ;
no rules.
To the psychologist, however, readily since early times Iron has been a good
occurs an even more potent reason for luck metal and English mythology lias
the am azing popularity o f this newest
always held the horte to be a lucky
fad. Successfully w o r k in g out cross­
word puzzles, moro than any other animal. So a combination of the three
similar amusement o f recent history, makes the horseshoe an emblem of
satisfies a long list o f the fundamental good luck.
desires o f human kind. Social distin c­
But not all superstitions are based
tion, sex, Imitation, group loyalty, c o ­
operation, competition, pleasure, piny, upon blind, unreasoning belief. Some
amusement, humor, cariosity, a c tiv ity of them have n very common-seit-e
and constructiveness— all o f those In­
foundation, even though we are more
grained, instinctive wants o f man are
satisfied merely by printing letters In inclined to think of the superstition
the proper squares.
Ilian of the common-sense foundation.
Cross-word puzzles are supposed hy If you started out the day by breaking
many to Increase our power o f concen­
a mirror while dressing and then spill­
tration, to help our memory and our
reasoning ability, and, by demanding ing the salt at breakfust. you’d prob­
decisive judgments, are even regarded ably think that It was going to be an
as an aid to the will. It would require unlucky day for you, wouldn’t you?
a whole course In psychology to p r e ­
sent an adequate criticism o f these And you’d probably be right, for those
views. Suffice It to say that we no two acts might indicate that your
longer believe In vague, general " f a c u l ­ nerves were a bit slinky, and If you
ties o f the mind.” You may s tre n g th ­
en your biceps by pulling chest w eights weren’t quite up to form mentally,
and find the Increased strength useful you might easily make other blunders.
In p layin g baseball or hoeing potatoes, Opening an umbrella In the house and
but the brain does not behave In the walking under a ladder are unlucky,
same way. Mental habits are usually
quite specific, so. though cross-word aren’t they? Certainly, for If you open
puzzles may increase your vocabulary the umbrella you may knock some
and play a useful role In keeping you bric-a-brac off the table or pictures
out o f mischief, neither they nor any
other single discipline > aji be expected from the wall and If yon walk u n d e r ■
to have much effect In "Im p ro v in g the lander It might be Just at the moment
mind.” The one reason for doing cross­ when the painter dropped his bucket
word puzzles Is for the fun o f it. They or some other workman dropped a
are Innocent amusement— nothing more
hammer. Either would be uni tick.*! for
nor less!
you, all right. But the main thing
Although psychology can expíalo about the umbrella and the ladder Is
much of “why we behkve like human that If you do these things you prob-
beings,” It can’t explain all of our ubly will be doing them nbsent-
apparently unnecessary and meaning­ nilndedly. And absent-mindedly you
less doings. For superstition comes in might walk directly In front of a
to claim responsibility for making us street car or uutomobile or step into
do certain things or to refrain from a deep hole.
doing them. For Instance why do some
On rubier« believe that the person
people regard the number 13 as un­ who lends money to a fellow-player
lucky, refuse to sleep in Iloom 13 at during the game will be unlucky and
a hotel, alt at a table with 12 other the borrower will be lucky. They’re
guests or have a part In any action perfectly right for It's a matter o f sim­
In which that number is Involved? ple economics. The len«ler has de­
Just where this superstition originated creased his available 'capital and the
Is unknown. In Biblical days the borrower Is playing on borr«w<*d
Hebrew word for 13 was ssAg-lated money with ronseqnent Increase of his
with the word dealh and In Norse chances to make It prodnee more.
80 some of the ”why-do-they-do-lts"
mythology the number Is one of ill
omen because of the tradition that are easy enough to answer. They do
the sun god Bailor had to die because It because, quite aside f r o m the super­
there were 13 gods In Valhalla, an In- | stition connected with It. It's a perfect­
tolerable situation. The fear of 13' ly logical and natural thing to do.
j
It is possible that the question
whether Mnrs has an atmosphere akin
to our own and whether the planet 1 «
inhabited may be settled hy color pho­
tography. According to a number of
the Yerkes observatory staff, pictures
taken hy the use of colored light rays,
notably the long "Infra-reds, penetrate
the atmosphere surrounding the planet
and perhaps a much better picture
tliun when ordinary light is used.”
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Girl Writes Backwards
Where H e Belonged
I.eft-hunded In everything except
sewing, Nellie Apps, a thirteen-year-
old girl of Col ford, England, Is called
the “mystery girl" because «he reads
n book held up-side down nnd writes
backwards unless directed by »her
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She 1« perfectly normal
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dren of eleven.
“Smith,” roared the boss, “you ought
to be In a lunatic asylum. C.o Into my
ofilce at once."— flood Hardware.
Mnscle I k of ns much Importance In
a senil race as brains a ra
F o r e co n omy' » sake, w h y not buy a yer-
mifuico Hiiich e xp e l» W o r m » or T ap ew or m
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Rub Gcntlyand UpwardToward
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ounce bottle ef Maone> Emerald Oil
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