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SUCH IS LIFE? And Such Is Life! By Charles Sugliroe THE selection of wall paper bfest suited to the rooms of a dwelling Is not a matter to be given slight con sideration. The design Is of major importance, no less than the color. The exposure of any specific room Is m guide to color for It. The size and shape of the room Is a guide to cor rect choice of pattern. The exposure of a room signifies Its position In re lation to the points of the compass. A room in the north part of a house Is said to have a northern exposure. One in the southwest part of the house, that ds one with windows on south and west so that light comes from both sides. Is said to have a southwest exposure, etc. Iiecause light from the north Is cold, It should Influence the selection of paper for a room with windows on the north side, which let In no sunlight, or practical ly none. Select Paper That Will Refiect the Light. According to the exposure of the room In connection with the amount of sunlight It gets, Is It cold or warm In Its natural lighting? It should have wall treatment to counterbalance either n lack of sunlight or a flood of It These are the reasons why a north, northeast, or northwest room should have a warm pnper, while a south, southeast, or southwest room does not require It. The most pro nounced warm colors nre yellow sug gesting sun and red suggesting fire. But. since red Is an Inflaming and Irritating color In proportion to Its Intensity, It hns to be 'handled with care when used for decorative pur poses. Yellow, on the other hand, Is Stimulating rnther than IrrltMting and shades, tints, and tones, of It can be successfully employed on walls. Proportion* of Knotn It is not the exposure, but the size nnd shape of a room, as mentioned before, which determine the style of A striped paper makes n ceiling appear higher than it really is and is ^ excellent to use in low-studded rooms. design or pattern to have In a paper. The reasons for this are geometric. They have to do with counter-balanc ing of high or low ceilings and the proportions of wall and floor space. The pnttern of a wall paper can sub tly make a room appear high or low studded, and larger or smaller than It actually Is. A wall paper with stripes makes a celling seem to be higher because of the upright lines which tend to make the vision follow their perpendicular extension. A wall paper with a pat tern which tends to make the eye follow lines across a wall, lowers vjthe apparent height of a celling. This Is not so boldly done as In the Instance of striped paper but there are many wall papers In which the repetition of the design Is so cleverly planned that the eye follows It along horizon tal lines. The two points considered today, color and design In their broad appli cation, are of primary Importance. They are of first eonslderotlon. ?. 1933, Boll Syndicate. ? WNU Service. POTPOURRI Tail Climber The kinkajou, h long-tailed ant rnnl living In British Gnlann, spends long periods of time suspended from n limb by the end of his tail. When he desires to pot bnck on the limb he climbs up his tall, hand over hand. Centuries of such procedure have lengthened and strengthened his appendage. , ?, 1933, Wonti'rn Newspaper Union. Air Route Over Ice-Cap The shortest nlr route between lirlt nln nnd North Amerlcn Is over the Ice cap of Southern Greenland. Moonlight on Mount Rushmore WaflhlnRton'ii profile rmiKht by a cnmernmnn from n precipitous grnnlte perch high In thft Hlnok Illlla of Mouth Dnkotn. Thin In tlio first moonlight ox ponure ever tnkon of tho national memorial being hewn from nolld tern nlt? on llount RuBhmore nenr Koyatono, 8. I)., by Gutzom Norglum. The Fear of Death By LEONARD A. BARRETT The three major fenrs mny be classi fied as death, poverty and disease. The fear of death, while not the most Important or most serious, Is perhaps more common than the other two. The fear of poverty and disease seems to at tack those In more mature life, while the fear of death .manifests itself to persons of almost pll ages. While the less dangerous from a psychologi cal point of view, the fear of death Is the most terrible Persona shudder at the thought of It :ind a superstition still clings to many circumstances connected with the ex perience. Some persons still 'believe It Is a sign of approaching death for one to see In a mirror the form of ti dead person ; or, to pass between car riages in a funeral procession Is an ill omen. 4, Much of this fear would doubtless he dispelled If we <'ould only under stand Just what does happen In the event of death. It Is not a case In which, "Who knows what dreams may come," or, a condition of semi-material existence afterward. Death Is the most natural experience in the world. Just what happens In all material life, occurs In the physical, when the tissue breaks down. Death occurs when the body ceases to function. When the Leads "Green Wave" Floyd "Little Preacher" Roberts of Ktlgler, Okla., Is the captain of the Tulaue football team this season. He Is rated as a "triple thfent" halfback because of his excellent running, kick Ing and passing. mind, or soul, passes on, the body Is of no more value than Its component parts of lime, water, etc.. all of which parts, when measured In dollars and cents, Is not even worth a dollar, only OS cents. Strange that we should ex nlt the body when It Is of so little value. Place a true value upon the body and one of the causes for fear of death will have been removed. The fear of death will also be dis pelled If we think of It more as a transition than a duality. Death Is only the passing of the personality from one state of existence Into an other. It does not mark the end of things, in truth It Is the beginning of a larger and more beautiful life. Im mortality Is being proved t r no today, not only by teachers of religion ; but, the latest discoveries In the fleld of science attest the reality of an Immor tal world. Death cannot destroy those things we love any more than It can destroy love Itself. "I.ove Is stronger than death," su.d the wise man of long ago. A wonderful Journey Into a world of spiritual realities seems as though It might be heartily welcomed for those whose race Is run. Why fear? ?. 19S3. Wontftrn Nnwwpnpor Union. Tli? Word C*nt?loiip? The word eantaloujw* 's often loose ly used, but should really be applied only to a particular variety of ribbed musk melon which was first grown In Europe at the castle of Cantalupo, In Italy. Martyrs of Medicine Make Up a Long Roll Not All Great Heroes Made on Battlefield. Washington. ? Three scientists in the medical forces seeking to solve the mystery of sleeping sickness have sub mitted to bites from mosquitoes which previously had bitten victims of this exotic malady. Their purpose is to determine whether insects carry the infection. Of the particular sort of peril to which these unknown men are sub jecting themselves at St. Louis, where sleeping sickness has caused about ninety deaths, the classic modern ex amples nre those of Father Damlen, who went among the lepers, and the doctors who offered themselves for the experiments In Cuba to find a way to control yellow fever. No Hlppocrntlc oath was Involved; no soldierly obligation. The army had released Cuba from Weylerlsm and was aiding It to set up as a republic, v'ellow fever broke out. Surgeon Cen tral Sternburg, U. S. A., ordered a commission of American ofllcers to in vestigate. I)r. Walter Reed, tnajor in (he Medical corps, headed It; other commissioned members were Dr. ?lames Carroll, years before a private; Dr. Jesse William La /.ear and a Cu ban, Dr. Arlstlde Agramonte. Doctor I.azear, a lialtlmorean, died from the test. Yellow Fever Fight. As early as 1848, Dr. J. C. Nott of Tulane university stated the hypo thesis that yellow fever was trans mltted by an Insect. In 1881 Dr. Car los Flnlay of Havana accused speci fically the mosquito. But the guilt of l he mosquito had not been proved. First to submit to bites in the army Investigation was Doctor Carroll. He was severely stricken with yellow fe ver, but recovered. Doctor La/.ear applied to himself the mosquitoes that had Infected Doctor Carroll. No results. One day a mos quito lit on his hand. He let it do Its work. Five days later he was seized with yellow fever. It raged through Lis system and In ten days he was dead. Heed had been to Washington to report and returned after this death to obtain further confirmation that the mosquito, stagomyla fasciata, was the transmission agent. Privates John J. Moran and John It. Kissinger volun teered. They had enlisted to fight for the Stars and Stripes; now the "black vomit" was attacking their comrades and had killed Doctor Lazear. Said Major Heed : "Gentlemen, I salute you." They were isolated. Kissinger was bitten by five mosquitoes and devel oped a typical case of yellow fever. He recovered. Moran and others went through the same ordeal ; all survived. From Cuba to Panama. What the commission and its vol unteer subjects had learned fulfilled the task assigned. As a result of meas ures enforced thereafter throughout Cuba by (Jen. Leonard Wood and MaJ. William Oorgas, not a single case ap peared there In 1002. Oorgas took the knowledge gained to Panama, and while the canal was being constructed. 1 banished the age-long tropic agony and left the Cnnal Zone a health resort. The frightful epidemics which had de cimnted cities became things of the past. * Exploration, struggles for liberty, re ligious persecution, industrial proc esses. aviation developments and the practice of healing, all have had mar tyrs, but the martyrs of medical ex periment are of another category. In the 1798 epidemic of yellow fever In New York sixteen out of the forty phy sicians then listed lost their lives, "martyrs to their calling." It was In the course of practice. The three vol unteers In the sleeping sickness ex periment. outside the line of profes sional duty, are taking a double risk. If they get the disease, they can ex pect no relief ? there Is no known cure Latest From Paris Baptism Made Matter of Regimental Honor Gabe Bouck, of Wisconsin, was one of the most picturesque character? who ever served In congress. He was a colonel in a Civil war regiment from Wisconsin, and he was known and feared as a man of blood and Iron. lCven when he came to con gress he still wore his soldier uni form of blue, with the brass buttons. During the war one day a travel ing evangelist struck his camp and said to Colonel Bouck : "I am a hum ble servant of the Lord, endeavoring to save the souls of the unregener ate. 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