| Show u I r r rT T f I f r fit r I H Makes f u s ul I I 4 Why It Is So Desira Desirable le To Have 0 ur B 0 do zes Continually ly S Send Send- nd- nd f J I t ing in q Off Great Waves Waves-of Mysterious Radio Radio- Radio J u- u I I f E Kye and How Science w M active Energy Hopes n B r r r 4 I M It Will wul some Day Be- Be Be 4 Easy L R f I Ilor J Iy r 11 lor for Anybody To Become 1 L i fP 1 1 a Real Jo Joy Bringing j 11 A wM 1 s x F IT r y 8 l kl er t 1 I w t Z r jt r i 5 to I jI a 1 J 4 v 7 sC v a w 1 F Div e f rr r Vf 1 f a iz i W Wf z rf f 4 a a z F t ti r c cr l- l lt lt t t v- v rl ll t 7 ft e Y 4 r A Z I 1 Mt Y r S Ss t s 5 p j t l t r 7 I is CSiK f HV e t Jec jo U I Frederic 0 painting Christ Chrit of the showing one and the Woman of Samaria thinks actually exist around tho haloes which science most lovable men and heads beads of the Worlds World's t greatest women as emanations of the body's radio active energy f By Dr W H Ballou NE of the many mysteries of life lif bf lifis ONE U is why by some people snake make make us feel so alert alive and even happy when we are with them Other people although possibly more estimable intel intelligent and worthy cause us to feel dull heavy and generally depressed Every EvelY Everyone one appreciates meeting a man or woman oman who instantly cheers us up and aud stimulates s lates us We are not so appreciative of persons who make us feel fed as ifa if lf a n soggy sort of cloud had settled down do n and damp dampened ened our spirits same earno as pi weather eather Often we either give way or ork listen to expressions like the following I like to be with her ber She Is as good goodas goodas good as as a weeks week's vacation I Ii II lIes Hes a perfect dynamo makes you t lust Just tingle with life 1 I I And then again a perfect wet blanket I He makes me feel as hea heavy as lead I I Psychologists have long struggled I II l aith the problem of deI de- de defining fining I fining tho the quality which S 'S 2 v vs s com commands m ands l instant in- in a ir i c I stant tant liking and i pop popularity u lanty for 1 1 i idi F di dithe K the t lucky H BB one B who i I has lt it the lack of J which is a l hands hands- ht cap to the unfortunate f BuBB tun ate one BuB who oaf s 's B has BT lt it not BUS BUSI That I Ur F r r 1 I It d has nothing m BW to todo j do with charac 1 Ido I ter morals men men- menA mentality A Si B or jR looks S fie forms tho settled conclusion B of in- in inA investigators ff A i who Y li r until II fi tt 6 I Iun un t recently t have ha been com corn completely rI pIe t ely baffled 12 t Mj Apparently a per per- tI ti tit t f I son had bad the up up 1 lift of I quality or was d At without it lt and the tho g lj e 1 problem ra ranked ked e I with Why lS is a f r lJ lt VJ Y d blade of grasst grass f It Yr r V fl It seems to have i S N aw Vu j em J been agreed how how- howL Asa L f ever that the tho tf f A 1 quality is a phys- phys 7 17 I A J t icel one of Borne lome P Pt t t tt kind lind problem so BO she described people or sparklers as they aro are now called as those who possessed it If Ifa Ifa Ifa problem a man or woman had it she wrote tho way ay to success was wide open for them In love riches power or fame famo Tho Those e ef f r of it she affirmed often r remaIned nonentities Thus girls lost lovers they desired wives their hu hus husbands bands while chile the men lost in affairs both bothof bothof bothof of the heart and in worldly occupations If a woman had it she declared she need have bave nothing else neither much braIns nor beauty The sparkler would Win anyhow If in mi addition tho sparkler had both brains brams and beauty he or she could conquer the world Mrs Glyn failed to noto note any exceptions Just the same so-called so glum men have won Im- Im Immortal im immortal mortal men fame fame men cold and able able but determIned determined courageous and a t a w y yA A f r t f fit 4 r t Mk k x a t 4 I 1 e f i k Ak p A Ai y i II s k Y seK s i E r f I r ti I I Ir It r t J x s f gs cy 4 i c 3 90 i r w 4 u u Elinor Glyn 11 U the English au- au au author II thor of Three Putting radium through a mixing machine in the 11 t Weeks was all aldo laboratory H Ii baffled by t the h e eI I tenacious It Is of course tho the exceptions that prove provo the rule Psychologists have coined com cOI d d a new term for Mrs Glyn's it She can now re- re re work and write anew on the tho subject with perfect explanations at hand Science finds that the quality ex expressed pressed by it is The pos pos- possessors pos possessors of it are arc sparklers and the non possessors non possessors sprinklers Science ha has not only discovered what hat the quality is but also its probable cause A world of sparklers may yet prevail and gloom makers or sprinklers ers go out with the horde of little black devils that sit on our shoulders and mock us with depressions and leave us with content and some somo general happiness Where psychologists fall failed ed practical experimenters in the radium laboratories of London and Paris have havo had complete completo e R r e ee Y lr r I J r r rt t gA F t t ts s v vh va h a y 4 t y a 4 d Wk w a Y wY 1 fr a ft 44 a Mme Curie the discoverer ofra of ra- ra radium radium ra radium welcomed on her visit to America by President Harding success by aid of many delicate Instruments Instruments ments Tests showed that men and women who by their presence cheer us up are arc strongly radio-active radio They send out emanations or rays that have ha precisely the tho same effect upon delicate registering instruments s as do dothe dothe dothe the emanations of radium in medicinal and commercial uses Human emanations create around and possessor an atmosphere charged with cheerful cheerful- cheerfulness cheerfulness cheerfulness ness and vitality It is these actual ray rays that darting forth from sparkling people make our nerves tingle toning them up and with them all the organs of our bodies French scientists have named what ue e call sparklers mean mean- mil the same thing The term sprin klers is used because people without have the same effect on us as sprinkling water on a fire While the sparkler gives off rays of vItality health and pleasantness the deadens the nerves producing a feeling of exhaustion boredom and often Irrl- Irrl Irritation irritation tation tabon which no one wishes to experience Just what is the source of radio radio- radioactivity radioactivity activity in human beings Here we wc have some division of or opinion If calle called l electricity which seems to be ever eyer min min- mingled mingled with air particularly static dec elec electricity then what is the source of electricity Opinion is swinging In favor of considering electricity an emanation from radium Electricity has a power a punch which moves it lt which might well emanate from radium apparently a corn com cornmon soon mon element to all bodies In sp ce True the only ras ra's rays of radium proper which science has so far defined denned are arc the alpha beta and gamma rays It is considered however that there are other and unde unde- undefined unde- unde undefined undefined fined rays of which electricity may well be one If such is the tho case our radio activity radio may easily be derived from the static electrIcity in the air about about abou us by constant absorption Those who absorb electricity and give it lt off oft to others in the tho form of cheerful emanations are well named sparklers Obviously dull Individuals a 7 The method employed In n weighing particles ofra of ra- ra ra radium t diem too small mall to be seen with the naked eye 3 yz a are hostile to such ab ab- absorption ab absorption sorption or are un- un unable un- un unable un unable able to acquire 1 a athe the electrical elect r 1 I c a I a ri forces present in inthe inthe inthe the surrounding air On the other hand and this would be more i l scientific cheer cheer cheerful ful people absorb positive electric electric- electricity electricity 1 i ity and dull peo pee people people Y negative elec elec- electricity and hence a are r 0 hostile to each other or at least in opposition opposition tion lion t Nerve force is e stored in the bat bat bat- lories levies of the three threeT r i r human human brains brams Tubes T u b e in m In which w h IC h ra reds d 1 ganglions or ganglions I I shipment h IP nt t each h h ho o g a n g ons asworth as worth rth of f th the termed by science wo 0 e p pIn In the skull is the larger cavity ca at the base of the spine the second brain cavIty cavity cavity ity in size and the third and smallest braIn cavity in the spinal cord between the shoulder blades The whole hole spinal cord is also a part of our brain bram and its fluids are brain mat mat- matter matter matter ter The brain in science is continuous from the base ot- ot of the spine through the spinal cord to the tho front of the head Herein are aro the electrical batteries asso aso- associated elated dated with the nerve nervo clusters and form form- forming forming forming ing the force by which they govern all allour allour allour our acts and speech During sleep the batteries are aro re- re recharged recharged re recharged charged so that when we wo awake the forces for another days day's work are as- as assembled as assembled ready to assist us in the per per- performance of our occupations mental and physical Our electrical energy or bet better ter radio active energy is lS stored in composed of electrons The elec elec- electrons electrons are constantly exploding and ing giving off emanations It is 15 these rays that make us sparklers and in the absence of them we wo 0 become sprinklers Eminent Emment scientists in the respective radium institutes Institutes- of England and France have found some people astonish astonishingly endowed with radIo radio activity The tests included man many loaders leaders in m art ait artand art and letters distinguished actors and states statesmen men and famous figures in society Power Po to sway s was found to be bo In Indirect indirect indirect direct ratio to the degree of radio radioactivity activity of the subjects In many in- in instances in stances the radiant field surrounding those under experimentation could ho be seen with the the eye eye by aid of glasses s ai treated that certain light rays were cut cutoff cutoff oft off and others in the tho field of greater vibrations intensified Here is one of the most startling conclusions reported Some highly ed subjects had actual halos of light We Wo had here the tho explanation why from time immemorial 1 portraits of holy people were endowed with halos We find it around the heads of Buddha in the oldest paintings also of Moses and in the wall paintings and carvings of gods and goddesses of the tho ancient Egyptians and Assyrians as we well l las as in the representations of the later Christian saints and martyrs Among the traditions of the Jews are those concerning two horns or rays of lIght emanating from the tho head of Moses The great statue of Moses by Michel Michelangelo angelo a sacred treasure treasure in Rome shows such horns jutting from the brow Herbert Spencer pointed out that there was no belief no no o matter how fan fan- fan fantastic or hard to understand but what had a basis In la some come remote fact The fact might If r r be distorted by tradItions traditions traditions but the fact was originally there Y c of f 1 its A rdA ti rd t z r f f f s r 1 m is packed for fording f 44 s 1 ding stuff r i A N i 1 Elinor Glyn s a 4 the famous t author of t Three Weeks and and the first M novelist to gar r attempt to y s identify the s radio-active radio Mg it qualities t of her heroes and j heroines r r It may well bo be that in Moses and others of v to the tha great men and i v women of history t 1 radio activity radioactivity was so T strong that it could sometimes be seen as rays of lights light darting from the head l i If ancients v were vest vest- ir ed with halos visible as rays of light at times why t not the w moderns vou du u say In ancient times there was no commercial use IIse of electricIty In modern times so much elec- elec electricity elec electricity is lS used commercially that there lS is less loose in the air mr for man to ab- ab absorb absorb ab absorb The foreign experiments eJ showed conclusively however that vital people do still have halos ofa of a lesser type but risible under glass which cuts cula off certain rays of light Much has been heard recently of the tho aura or envelope of light surrounding the human body Observers claimed to have seen such radiance All such de- de de describe scribe it lt in l exactly the tho terms They say it lt is an shaped egg-shaped radiant mist denser as it lt approaches the body and fading away at a distance of one oneto oneto oneto to three feet front froni from us It is lS described as ot oj o varying colors brightness shape and density Violent anger is said to suffuse it with Ith red hatred darkens it Ill III health ca causes causes ses its color to beco become dull and fading as its radio activeness dwindles If such phenomena exist they com comprise prise what might be bo expected ofa of a radio radio active active field combined with one of elec- elec electricity elec electricity The belief in the aura Isas is as ancient as that in sq the halo The halo may bo be only an intensification cation of the aura around the neiva ve batteries of the tha brain bram Such matters at any rate have hava pasted from the tho field of metaphysics to that of practical physics from the field J al alA A N Nr Vv r y 14 ii gt a irk Y I t td y Y af d t 1 M My Mi i V Mr r r I y c c re M Ay x 9 ro 4 S v 4 t tr r s say ay f x as 8 r h hi 4 i rt r 1 t 4 x ir of ot superstition to that of science Its It snot s snot not the electric but the radio radio radio forc s of the body which winch now disclose the secret of success dominance popularity popularity lant larity the spiritual mental and emo emotional progress of the tho world The next question concerns the many people who ho are arc without radio ra radio activity io and how to acquire It Every norm it person desires a certain amount of popularity larity lanty at least with associates and be would would-be associates It isn't pleasant to tobe tobe be regarded as a stick in the mud Can radioactivity radio be artificially ac- ac acquired ac acquired Scientists now think this may soon be quite easy It is lS now known that all the healing springs to which people flock owe theIr beneficial qualities to the radium they thel contaIn a 4 aThe The benefits which water has to give mankind can be obtained it itIs itis itis Is believed Cd not only by drinking it but also by bathing or swimming in it Even for long periods of time on the shore ofa of a pond or lake that is is- fed by strongly springs springs will hell y to m make ke one ono more of a sparkler It is believed that when hen hene we e learn how to increase our radioactivity radio through tho use of waters andin and in other ways the tho Age of the Superman will be willbe close at hand |
