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Show This Week bv Arthur Brisbane What a Brain What Mothers Get A Name Worth While The Nizam's Gold Hoard Professor C. Judson Herrick of the University of Chicago tells the American Association for the Advance of Science this: Man's brain is so complicated that all figures connected with astronomy, as-tronomy, all calculations about the number of miles that light can travel in 100,000,000 light years going at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, seem childish. The stupendous figure one.bilHcn is indicated by writing the figure one followed by nine zeros. The number of individual "cere-bial "cere-bial telephone lines," connecting the Urain cells one with anoth can be represented by wilting the figure one, followed by fifteen million mil-lion zeros. Each of those fifteen million zeros, ze-ros, as it is added, multiplies the preceding figure by ten. The human hu-man brain cannot imagine ever.' one million. The figure quoted, a figure one, followed by fifteen million mil-lion zeros, if printed would fill thirty books of average size, each book of 350 pages. Every one of, the ten to fourteen, billion nerve cells in the human brain is interconnected, and every one of them is an electric battery. Fortunately, this earth is expected ex-pected to last at least one million million years more. Men will have time to develop that unbelievably complicated brain machine. Dr. L. S. Cottrell Jr. of the University of Chicago presents statistics proving that when the bride and groom's parents1 are dead, the marriage is more successful because be-cause young people are happier when they do not have to bother about the wife's mother. That is probably sound in cases where the husband is satisfied with that kind of a wife. It should have been mentioned, but was not, that the father and mother might have had an easier life, if the girl baby, now the bride, hadn't arrived, keeping the mother up at night, with everything from teething to mumps. One thing is certain, and Doctor Cottrell might mention it in his next marriage statement, the mother moth-er gets from her children exactly what she gives to her own mother, no more and no less. If the young wife schemes to keep her mother out of the way, she will find her daughter doing exactly the same thing later, and she will deserve it. Ordinary "Christian" names, Jones, Smith, Robinson, Brown, seem prosaic compared with the more picturesque names of the noble red men, "Sitting Bull," "Rain in the Face," or "Sar-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha." Indian name of the chief "Red Jacket," meaning "he keeps them awake." Police of Chester, Pa., discover that the Siamese have names that make the names of red men seem commonplace. One Siamese musician musi-cian booked at the police station gave as his name something spelt with sixty-one letters, meaning "great mountain - wonderful strength the bear of the lake." Desk Sergeant John Denmark, let the man go because he, Denmark, Den-mark, couldn't write the name or pronounce it. The greatest individual hoarder of gold in the world is said to be an Indian potentate, the Nizam of Hyderabed, whose ancestors accumulated ac-cumulated a fabulous gold treasure which he has increased. The British hope that he can bt persuaded to deliver that gold to England in return for the extension exten-sion of his rulership over Behar, which was formerly under his dominion do-minion and is craved by him. If he had his hoard in the United States it would be much simplier. He would be told to bring in the gold and take nice green paper instead, and he would bring it. Greta Garbo, young Swedish girl, came to Hollywood, earned a fortune for-tune in moving pictures. Now she buys a home in Stockholm, Sweden, and the average American says: "Why couldn't she buy herself a bungalow in Hollywood, settle there and show gratitude to the country In which she earned her money?'- That sounds convincing, but if a young girl from Brooklyn had gone to Stockholm, made a fortune and returned to buy a house in Brook -lyn( the same average American would have said: "Good little American girl. She may make money among those Swedes, but she comes here and spends it in the good old United States. Three cheers for her." Molly Picon, able young Jewish actress, returning from Russia, where anti-Semitism no longer exists, ex-ists, describes the Soviet republic as a "land of actors and tractors, all with a red flag." Russia, she says, has the finest theaters in the world and wonderful actors, but all plays are based on "Red propaganda." propa-ganda." "You have the feeling that, however how-ever the play started, it would certainly wind up waving a Red flag." Miss Picon found in Palestine a new "melting pot" developing a new culture. "People go about singing in the streets." They do not do that here. |