Life — July 26, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Ssa5a82 BF Il Lae s ———— Krulick encounter, and now, this sum- mer, having worked his way up from the Jiminary rounds, he emerges, like M. Peiccte in a tennis tournament, triumph- ant against all comers. . . It will be clearer to tennis players if the thing is shown, step by step, as at Forest ills or Wimbledon: Kenbick | nb Marbek Moric Merit * Liter Mrs, Bonde Mes Kralock } chuck. by defanlt Bonderchct ii Mrs. Kraliek, Bonderchuct, John, “playing through” Ps Champion. Boaderchect Ete} BonderchackJoha Why do people carry on in such fash- jon? Many of us are puzzled by it, or think there is no single explanation but anumber of them. There is bad besedity and bad environment, and above all, there is a lack of clear indication that the community disapproves, very strongly, of this conduct. Those old demonoboyists, our great-great-grandfathers, had one simple explanation: the Devil. The new demonologists have a substitute devil: our glands. All the new criminologists, most of Tae Sentimental StoNecutter Avos a Few Kisses ror His Girt Truck Driver: And if I see nursie, I'll tell her it's time for your bottle. the psychiatrists, many of the psycholo- gists, and some literary folk are as much up in arms about the glands as King James I and the Rev. Cotton Mather were about the Devil. They, too, are quick to shout “Blasphemy!” if anybody doubts the new witch-hunting. The glands deserve to be investigated. If glands turn people into murderers we ought to know it, and know what to do about it. One of the first things to learn is why geography has such a curious effect in developing glands. Had the Murlicks and Bonderchucks stayed at home— wherever in Europe that was—it is five to one their glands would have behaved. Only in certain provinces in southern Italy do people have troublesome glands on any such scale as in Chicago, Mem- phis and Brooklyn. And, in comparison with these three American cities, the folk of Quebec, London and Liverpool do not seem to have any glands at a It must be the climate. Still, there is a difficulty in laying the blame on the climate. For why does the weather of Buf- falo have such an effect on the glands of the people in that city, and make them cut up so rough, while in Toronto, with prac- tically the same. weather, they are ten times less inclined to slay and kill? It is a great mystery. e YY Edmund Pearson. ALMOST SOUND-PROOF “How's the acoustics at your church?” “Great—unless you sit in the very first rows, you can’t hear a word.” ETYMOLOGY Accorpinc to an old English dictionary, a “footpad” was “an unmounted high- way robber whose boots were originally padded so as to deaden the sound of his approach.” Hence, robber heels. /\ ms Germnc Hot “What kind of a party was it?” “Well, at about one-thirty the automatic fire sprinkler started to work!” comicbooks.com