Learn to Recognize Whether You Are of the Tiger or Elephant Type, Eat and W. ork Accordingly, and Have Perfect Health. OUR back tells what you are. It makes no Y Sok ae how fat you are, or how tall or short, but what is your back like? At, for instance, you are "flat-hipped," and are a stenog- rapher or office worker, you're all wrong, accord. Ing to Dr. Charles E. Achorn of New York city. You should 'be a peliceman or an artist's model or fill any other position that necessitates stand- ing all day, for flat-hipped peoplpenever tire, If you are narrow backed, you are classed with the tiger and should be fed meat. If broad backed, the type that catalogues as "flat-hipped," you are on a par. with the elephant, must feed upon regetables and are capable of enduring forever and almost the day after. "It is just as ridiculous to prescribe a diet for ® person without looking at his back as it is to prescribe without knowing the symptoms," says Dr, Achorn. 4 "There are two extreme types of human beings, the narrow-back, meat-eating type which corre sponds to the tiger, and the broad-back, vegetarian type which corresponds to the elephant. If people would only recognize their own type and eat the food they especially need to build up their consti. + tations we would have little or ho sickness in the world. Likewise they should consider their backs before they deside upon the job they are going to +. hold. It is up to every man and woman to decide whether they belong to the tiger, meat-eating type, or the elephant, vegetarian type. e tiger is narrow backed, lives on meat and does little or no work. The elephant is broad backed, does heavy work and lives on hay. Now, we all fit in between theses two extremes. People, like animals, yun true to type. The narrow back absolutely needs meat. I have & woman patient who is a narrow back and eats meat three times a day. If she does not have meat at each meal she faint and weak, "On the other hand, I have a broad-back pa- tient who can hardly eat an ineh square of meat : without feeling ill. ~n the intestines. { "Narrow-waisted individuals have short in. i testines and accordingly must have concentrated ! nourishment. In broad-backed 'persons the space for intestines is much larger and the excessive , absorption of animal matter is poisonous. The A narrow-back, tight-waisted person often has as And the reason for it all lies low as 10 feet of intestines, while the broad-back, broad-waisted person has as mhuch as 40. "Policemen, laundresses and the general run of heavy, thick-set men and women are of the herbivorous type and must be fed copiously on vegetables because meat is poisonous to them, Chorus girls, athletes and all thin-waisted per. sons must eat meat tobe healthy. ; "The trouble with half of the people in this , world is they will never admit facts. The broad- back person usually goes in for meat and then whines when he gets gout, rheumatism and other ailments because his whole system revolts against a meat diet. You couldn't get an ele- + phant to eat meat! He knows his own type. Nor ™ could you persuade a tiger to eat a continuous vegetable, diet, and yet many a narrow-back man \. and wontan is trying to pinch along on cereals and vegetables because of the high cost of living, But they are not playing fair with themselves and later on in life they will have to take that - very money which they might have invested in steaks and chops for doctors and tonies, 4 "In addition to the extreme types the narrow. back and the broad-badk--there is the normal type. But I am sorry to say that there are very ,~ few such types in the world. Walk along the Streets of any city during the erowded hours for 10 blocks and you will find that you ean divide almost every person you meet into the narrows back or broad-back type, "Of course the normal type may safely eat + both meat and vegetables. But when you come to consider the two distinct types that scem to predominate it is only sensible for every man and woman to find out to just what type they belong. "And after an individual has classified himself as to type, whether tiger or elephant type, the next thing he must do is to consider what type of position he is able to hold. By position I mean a standing or a sitting job. When an employer + msserts that he wants a man r & girl with plenty i ERR RRR REE ATCHING snowflakes as they fall from the : : ( sky, and then photographing them in order : to obtain beautiful and novel art designs of every description, is now being successfully ac- complished by science. Many hundreds of snow Dr. Herbert P, Whitlock, water of fine : at the American Museum, said have STAIOEY at the and every fall of snow brought - mew combinations of surpassing beauty. AKES Aid ARTISTS 'How YOUR BACK Tells eens 32 "The narrow-backed person is classified with the tiger type and should eat meat and do but little work." 3 . of 'backbone' he means lots of *pep,* grit, spunk, ete., but the physical backbone accounts for all of those characteristics, : "Now whether ope 1s fitted for a sitting or standing job has nothing to do with the narrow - back or broad back. Most policemen are broad- backs, but most ditch diggers and car conductors are narrow-backs. It is all a matter of their sacrum. And if they don't know that they have a-sacrum it is the extreme end of their spine. This is the root of energy. A wise employer hever picks a man or a woman with a crooked sacrum for a standing job. : "When I have decided whether a person is a narrow-back or a'broad-back I next consider him to see if he belongs in the 'endurance' type or in other words whether he is fitted for a standing job. "This endurance type must have a straight spine and, strange to say, he is more apt to be found among the broad backs than among the narrow backs. People with broad backs usually #it very straight and hence have & straight spine, "You: seldom see a fat man or woman sitting around with their legs crossed and for a very good reason--they are too fat. They really can't cross them and be comfortable. But you watch a narrow back when he sits down and the first thing he does is to cross his legs. The moment this is"done the shoulders are thrown slightly for. ward and the spine is curved. nce in a great while we find a military narrow back with a straight 'spine but your real 'endurance' type, EFORE the war practically all the beautiful- B ly glistening balls and other ornaments for the Christmas trees of American kiddies were made in Germany, Now with the war at an end the German toy makers when they begin to seek export rade will find the market for their goods in America at an end. Just as good balls and Christmas tree decorations are now made in the United States as Germany ever produced and at hardly 'greater cost. \This Christmas every tree in America will be adorned with such orna- ments--real American products, made by skilled American toy makers and glass blowers. Even ; the dyes with which these decorations are charm- ingly colored are American made. There's a good assortment of so-called irregu- lar shapes and twisted balls now being made here which equal, if they do not surpass anything of the kind which was ever imported from Ger- many. Among these are fancy glass balls blown into the various fruit shapes, dolls, Santa Clauses and other odd and difficult modelings, Quite a few American manufacturers have, as their products yi RARE ; tis fest met with consid ---- i ---------- The Straight and the Curved Satrum. your man with the. straight sacrum, usually has a broad back. So the man who wants to make good in a standing job, whether a policeman, a 'motorman or a salesman, must be sure that he belongs to the straight spine 'endurance' type." erable success in the production of blown-glass ornaments with what is known as the sanded glass finish, It is obtained by first coloring thé articles to be thus treated jn the desired shades, then lacquering them. While the lacquer is still wet, powdered or 'very fine ground glass is sprinkled lightly over them. This, when properly e, produces the rich, soft 'lustre of velvet which glistens when the light strikes it, through what scems to be an outer dullness. A visit to one of Old Santa's American Christ. mas tree ornament factories is an interesting ex- perience described by a writer in The Scientific American. Besides these factories are probably the only factories of the kind at present in the World, as the German ornaments have never been to any extent factory made but mostly produced in the homes of the peasants living in the vicinity of Nuremberg which, previous to the outbreak of the war, was the great toy centre of the world. Entering one of these places in New York city the first sight which attracts attention is a dozen workmen, all expert glass blowers, seated in a line at a long bench. In front of each man is a ~ gas lamp which projects a long hot blue flame in which the glass tubes are quickly heated until the * part subjected to the flame glows as red as fire, When this happens the glass blower takes hold of the comparatively cool stem of ithe glass and put. ting it in his mouth blows into the red hot ball at ; the other end in much the same way as small boys make soap bubbles. B is. able to blow the ball to any size desired, whether it be small or large. When this' is ac- complished he places the ball into a rack prepared for the purpose. These racks hold perhaps half a dozen balls and when they are full boys convey " them to waiting girls who assort the balls as soon as they are cool-into various. sizes and carefully *Jnspact{ each one for any imperfections in owing, } ; HAT You "The broad-backed and ARE flat-hipped person is on a par with the elepithnt and must feed upon vegetables." "To prescribe a diet according to the ideas of the disease is all wrong," declares Dr. Achorn. "When the narrow-backed individual, the carnivs orous eater is sick, feed him meat. His anatomy makes meat imperative in making strength. The | broad-backed individual or herbiverous eater would be poisoned by the same supply of meat the narrow-backed person would eat normally. . "The narrow-backed person can eat meat, lobsters, fish, anything in the meat or fowl line to.an amount that it would seem 'impossible for a single person to consume if you are viewing the amount from the broad-back viewpoint. "The one best diet to follow is, eat what your appetite craves, and get' all the flavor possible from it. "There is but one thing a man or woman can be made of: A baby. What kind of a man or woman is to be made, depends upon how the baby is cultured. Milk and eggs and strength-giving' foods everyone realizes the .necessity of, but «whether he or she will be of the flat-hipped en- durance type, or the narrow-backed type without great powers of endurance, all depends upon the ° posture -given the child. THis comes from the twist the sacrum does or does not take, "At birth the sacrum is pliable and straight. Up to the age of 16 it is forming its line and hardening. From then on it is curved, making the weight of the body hang from a curved line, or straight, allowing an inexhaustable supply of £0 dissolving the nitrate that it quickly spreads smoothly all ovgg the inside of the ball and so re- mains after the Balls are taken out of the bath, This process over, the orna- - ments are ready for the dye pot in which they dre carefully im<" mersed by women skilled in this delicate work. As the beauty and success of the product is almost Blowing the Glass Balls Used to Decorate Christmas entirely dependent upon this dyeing process it must be accompl ished with the greatest care. After the balls have been successfully dyed they are placed upon long racks built against the walls of the factory to dry and drain. When this is finished they are ready for the workmen whose duty it is to clip off, in a machine de- vised for. the purpose, the Mug. sheng -Sheough Sti 08. endurance according to the training of the child. "The woman whe must sit down every time she gets near a chair, or hates to walk or stand ~ at any time, is not lazy. Her sacrum is curved and she is not flat-hipped. The flat-hipped per- son may weigh 250 pounds, but if his back is flat and straight from the waist down, he will want to stand and will be able to endure ten times as much as the slight person carrying no exweess weight but with & curved sacrum and a narrow back." When Potatoes May Be Really Poisonous HE green and growing parts of the come mon potato may contain a poison which medical science calls solanin, a toxie glucosid. The edible part, or tuber, of the potato is not likely to exhibit any significant amount of this substance after it has passed the young stage. From time to time, however, there have been reports of severe intoxicatiens in man which seemed to be associated with the use of potatoes as food, "One might readily conjecture in such cases," | says a writer in The Journal of the American Medical Association, "that the vegetable was merely the conveyor of the harmful agent--that some adventitious poison or microbial factor has become associated with the potato. In most of the cases recorded chemical examinations of the latter have been lacking for the particular in. stances in which it was under suspicion. "A recent outbreak of poisoning'in which the circumstances clearly implicated the potatoes oc- curred in Leipzig. The symptoms elicited were ..sHaracteristic and included abdominal pains, vom- iting and diarrhoea--manifestations described for previous outbreaks, 4 "A chemical analysis of a sample of the same lot of tubers was carried out by J. C. Rothe at the hygienic institute of the University of Leip- zig. The analysis disclosed the fact that they contained as much as 0.45 gm. of solanin per kilogram of potato, whereas harmless ones usual- ly contain not more than one-tenth of this quantity. 3 "It should be noted, however, that potatoes which have developed sprouts may, when exam- ined along with the latter, exhibit somewhat larger quantities. In dietary practice, however, the sprouts are removed prior to the culinary use. CHRISTMAS Trees Are MADD rH which the Lalls are blown, leaving only an end sufficiently long to which the little gilt rings are * attached from which the balls are hung by hooks, ~ An imperfection of the German-made balls in this direction has always been that the hangers were loosely faitened to the balls and frequently came off when the orna- ments were being hung on the trees: Thus many - perféetly good balls were often smashed. Certain improvements have been made in: the American-made balls by which these hangers are so tightly fastened to them that there is little or no danger of their coming off if handled with the slightest care by Santa when he is decorating the tree. . The final process in the pro- ductioh of the Christmas tree ornametits is the inspection. Each ball is carefully gone over to see that the dye, the fasten- ing and the silvering are all correct amd that the ball has not been eracked in any of the processes through which it has passed. - After inspection the balls are packed for shipment to the retailer in pasteboard boxes, each ball having a little eom- partment of its own very much as eggs are packed in a crate. While the retail prices for the American-made Christmas tree ornaments are as yet somewhat higher re at which similar German. made were sold prior to 1914, at the same time there is not pond 4 i e,