Life — December 14, 1916 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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fal bad ecg The Perfect Dress Tie The Te With The Bufton-OnTabs justly say that the American people are advancin| That it is a grave question everybody will admit. And not less grave is the intensity of slamming. What is the po- tential equation of the average door- slam? Weinerworst, in his annual re- port, issued in 1866, to Fliegende Blatter Sausage Makers’ Philosophical Union, declares: Door-slamming is pathological. This, we may add, we regard as sound dictum. Our conclusions are necessarily limited study of doors. We can only say for the present that we have made a begin- ning. When a chair of door-shutting with lectures on the psychology of slamming has been started in Harvard, then the spiritual value of this great question will, doubtless, come home to all of us. “May.” remarked Sandy, “I did a thing last nicht what I've no dune this twenty year. I went to ma bed pairfect- ly sober, but I'm richt thankful to say I got up this mornin’ none the waur! by our observations and twenty-five years’ —Ti KEYS & LOCKWOOD New York What Do We Do with Our Doors? (Not to be outdone in a magazine standard of real human interest, Lire this week presents the following ar- ticle by Mr. J. Potte Hinge, head of the door industry in this country and the leading authority on door-shut- ting. While the article is copy- righted, permission is hereby granted to the Evening Post to publish a long editorial about it in its Saturday is- sue, and to the Morning Sun to sneer at it, Don Marquis and F. P. A, may also refer to it in a facctious man- If You Lived ner.) ‘ As The Cave Man Lived Your health would take care of itself 'HE cave man ate coarse food and lived a strenuovs properly? What effect has our educa- ; life in the open. His digestive apparatus was AS door-shutting changed during the past decade? Do we shut our doors tional system had on this great problem? suited to that kind of an existence. And what bearing upon it has the well- You inherit from the cave man the same internal mechanism, known indulgence of American parents? but youeat diferent food and youlead adifferent kind of alife. These, and waup) more dike ‘qucnlons, Hence the almost universal prevalence of constipation and its constant menace to health. will instantly occur to my bright and in- Your problem is to adjust that “cave man” internal mechanism telligent readers. cand concentrated food of civilized That there is a psychology of door- omplishes this adjustment by preventing the bowel contents from becoming hard, thus making natural move- shutting not wholly understood by the lay person, is now well known. Both ments easy, It doesn’t upsct the ordinary processes of digestion Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, in their sta- and it doesn't form a habit. NUJOL is sold in pint bottles only. at all drug stores. Refuse substitutes—look for the name NUJOL on the bottle and package. tistical inquiries into the nature and Dept. 15 cause of the aerial flight of splinters, 22 = have proved this in their report to the STANDARD OIL COMPANY Anheuser Busch Philosophical Society. Bayonne New Jersey Last year 2,845,746 adults shut the door behind them, while 8,342,742 minors, of both ages, left the door open. Great caution, however, at this point should be observed in drawing any rash conclusions from these figures. One very important fact must be noted right here, and that is that there are more doors to- day than there were twenty-five years ago. Thus our table of values would be affected. . What must be determined, however, is whether the practice of leaving doors open is a growing one. If so, can we Send for booklet, “THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION." Write your name and address plainly on the margin below.