Show t il keeping up U P wi chiv en n e n ea ervi er r v je e i r T i r fr 0 clence 9 service arvice service i african dancers rival astaire says scientist life Is song and dance on ivory coast washington the lar fred astaire has new rivals for dancing fame in far off at af rica dancers of the ivory coast can well hold their own against say fred astaire de dared dr hans himmelheber german anthropologist now in this country their dancing Is unbelievable doctor himmelheber who went to french west africa last year expressly to study this little known tribe gives a glowing report of native life on the ivory coast these are party folks ar pleasure leasure is the true purpose of life with these people there Is much dancing and singing but no hell rals ing I 1 saw only one drunken person among them he told the Anthro anthropology cat cal society of washington A chiefs program for an afternoon may have for its chief feature show 11 ing off the anthropologist found that Is the chief promenades in all the glory he cin manage good manners and beauty are more adm red than cleverness among these people they shun gaudy colors and like sober and 4 subdued effects in their much cultivate ed d arts hairdressers are important aids to self decoration and men and 4 women expect their beauty parlor aj operators to create striking new hair IP styles constantly homes are bright too in their homes these natives like pretty things around them they told the german scientist their carved wood spoons boxes hooks and other everyday possessions are being dis 40 played to the civilized world as fine 11 art 10 16 the picture of the arts in african life has been distorted doctor himmel heber declared because it is not nearly eo so easy to convey comey the quilley of aari can music and dancing as it is to show the sculptures and recite the poetry tet yet musical arts are advanced among the ivory coast people are sandwiched between liberia and the gold cold coast act not far north of the african equator new treatment saves drunks from dangerous 14 comatose condition CHICAGO for drunks who have reached a state of coma medical science has discovered an emergency treatment the new treatment will bring them speedily out of the ding dangerous erous state of paralytic alcoholism which sometimes lea leads CIS to eath death A dr leon J robinson and dr syd cey ney of boston city hospital report results of the treatment iti how cases are treated tt these cases of acute alcoholism alc holism are I 1 brought immediately to the hospital A end land are allowed to breathe a mixture nl of ef 10 per cent carbon dioxide and 00 VJ per cent oxygen for halt half an hour or 4 longer loner 0 this in the words of the bos ton physicians Is what happens in every case of aico alco bolle coma with slow jerky shallow respirations and cyanosis carbon 14 dioxide oxygen inhalation caused the respirations to become deep and regu lar almost at once the doctors emphasize that this Is an emergency treatment and la 19 not in in the moderate degrees of in so frequently encountered takes pint for coma by comparing man with animals these doctors believe that it would require about a pint of whisky taken at once to cause coma in man this coma accompanied by troubled breath ing caraly paralyse par alyse Is and blueness blu enesa of the ekin skin co a a medical erner emer gency VI nay be definitely pre vented and recovery recover y hastened by the inhalation ot of this mixture I 1 it human echo puzzles physicians in england Z LONDON Al medical edical scientists here are puzzled over the strange case of a seven year old boy wh who 0 produces an echo in his sleep the boy a sort of human echo has been observed by dr W E L alien allen medical pr of lan cashmire and other witnesses they report that when the lad ad Is in deep sleep he emits a loud knocking in response to similar noises produced accidentally or purposely in his vicin ity it la Is suggested that the outside 4 cound sound transmitted to his brain produces a spasm yielding somehow the echoing sound perhaps from the abdomen glasses which fit eyeballs appeared years ago why they cannot be generally used now C CONTACT eye eyeglasses glasses thin shells made to fit inconspicuously between eyelids and eyeball have been hailed with con sid erable publicity the general impression seems to be that they thoy are the latest thing in cosmetically attractive e eie e glasses something for tre tte person who must wear glasses and finds the ordinary shell or metal arar frames es uncomfortable or unbecoming they have aroused vain hopes and patients ask about them stated dr ray X dally of houston texas at the st louis meeting of the southern medical association when they are necessary when they may be useful and why they cannot be generally used at present was told by doctor dally daily they are really not riot very new for doctor dally daily points out that expert ments with contact glasses have been made for almost one hundred years hect technical difficulties the cef deterrent to their use was at first the technical difficulty of man them even for use in the one eye condition for which they are particularly helpful and for which they were originally designed these technical difficulties have been overcome but they are still very ex pensive doctor dally daily does not feel they can be generally included in the outfit of the eye specialist until they have been greatly reduced in price and made accessible to the large miss of people there are no conditions for wl ich contact glasses are definitely able doctor dally slid wild one author ity finds that persons with inelastic le eyelids or eyes sensitive to smoke can not wear them where they are used chief indication for their use Is the eye condition known as said doctor dally this Is a cone shaped deformity of the cornea of the eye the condition for which contact glasses were originally devised and for which they do the most good vision Is improved the condition is kept from getting worse and in some cases Is actually improved it appears from doctor dally s discussion fortunately persons suffering from this condition have hale eyes very tolerant of contact glasses the glasses may be used for the more common conditions such as tar far sightedness nearsightedness and altig in which the images are not brought to a proper focus on the retina properly fitted and ground contact glasses are more helpful than ordinary glasses in these conditions according to a german authority quoted by doctor daily dally because the contact glasses en large the field of vision they are bartic helpful to drivers pilots sports men swimmers and the III e doctor dally pointed out even though they are not a necessity for the average per son with ordinary eye defects their inconspicuousness of course gives tl era em particular appeal for actors and artists hrdlicka La says alaska had brain surgeons 2000 years back washington indians in alaska 2 years ago had brain surgeons available they needed them too what with battles in those days being fought with sling shots and clubs A specimen of this ancient surgery the first unearthed in alaska Is Js the d announced by dr ales ard licka of the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution digging Z on kodiak island he found tl e sl ull of a man who had a cavity about two inches long and halt half an inch wide scraped in his skull down to a thin film of bone left over the brain the wound healed perfectly showing that the indian brain doctor knew his bust busl ness this skull cutting operation called hining was popular in europe years ago and was skillfully done by indians of peru and some other parts of america whether the intention was to relieve brain pressure or merely to let out disease spirits modern science Is not certain indian art to enliven boulder power house washington old and new america will combine at boulder dam when artists get to work with indian designs and gay paint in the control room where workmen regulate tremendous forces of electric ity and huge bodies of water the ex pauses of gray wall are to be enlivened with the indians jagged ideas of lightning flashes and indian symbol symbols of cloud and falling rain consulting artist alien allen tupper true of the bureau of reclamation has been studying indian pottery designs basi basl etry patterns and sand paintings to adapt indian symbols that le present ed natural forces indian motifs he declares offer possibilities superior to the classic green and egyptian gar lands centaurs and other bac backup kneW d pattern k e f j |