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Show Blush a Sign of Good Sense. Sir Arthur Mitchell, K. O.B., of Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, who knows much that is strango about dreams, laughter and other commonplace human characteristics, character-istics, has just advanced tho consoling theory that blushing is an achievement of which everyone who can blush should be proud. He says it requires brains to blush. Idiots cannot blush, neither can animals. ani-mals. Sir Arthur calls attention to the fact that tiny Infants do not blush, although al-though they learn to at an early age, Just as soon, in fact,-as the brain begins be-gins to exercise Its functions. In blushing, ho says, the mind . always must bo affected.. It is always and only a bodily expression of & mental Btate. It is a natural thing for' a blusher blush-er to say that he had tried not to blush. No Individual blushes of his own free will. The blush arises with-, out call Instantaneously and vanishes almost as quickly. Neither for Its coming nor it going Is there any exercise exer-cise of volition. It Is controlled, Sir Arthur says, solely by the brain, and is a positive sign that there is an ac-. tire brain there. , . . |