was soon sonwsss‘ gm; seams; I, ' I, B. 1“. WILSON. 0‘" did you like the m1“ "Oh, I: Just loved it. my dear. I enjoyed it thor- w 1 wept the whole evening!" ' .Howofbonhsvewomenbeeuhesrd . make the above statement, and .I often have they been. laughed for their seeming, inconsistency. 'Ald yet. they are merely speaking 7.. truth when they admit to the 7m that weeping—usually synony- , “In stair. Dr. Alexander Fleming of St. 'Isry’s Hospital. London. recently mouneed to the Royal Saciety me rather startling discoveries 'upon the scientific significance of “man's tears For some time. Dr. Alexander has been engaged in ex- wimenting with the "pearly drop“ ' h his laboratory. and now as a re- an of the labor, hitherto unknown V hots. proving the teardrop to be one . d the most important components of Life female organism. have been re- , wed. . Tears have always been consi - Cell essentially _a feminine charac- hl’istlc. , It is decidedly beneath the Ikh level of manhood to shed them. amid a male, overcome by emotion, ' “himself unable to resist the flow, In ls regarded with contempt? Se- rqetly women have always yearned to move man to. tears, thereby gain- ” over him a wcr pon whose power h practically unlimited. Always a Women’s Weapon. For centuries the weeping of a woman has moved more man to com- mit acts which otherwise would not - have been attempted. The most un- reasonable man in the world has at one time or another fallen in the Just before the onslaught of n W's tears. Since the golden WI of Eden‘s garden the daughters d Eve haw.- carefully cherished this Won as their excalibur in the war d the sexes. and history has been Me by the. shedding of a few drops d water from the wise feminine optic. Crying is a female characteristic which has done more than any other to keep woman in her subordinate ' position. The-female acknowledges, By JOHN MARION. . Xsw Yonx, Saturday. L'GITIVE Princesses, black haired Nihilists. reckless and 1.: dashing Cossacks, light footed M; Mllerinas. pearl tiaras, haunting ‘ ‘~ music and cathedral domes swirling upward into slender spires—that is one Russia of popular conception. The other impression of Russia is of gloom—frozen plains and dark for- ests, fatalism. famine and wretched- hess. Mystery, terror and magic are the atmosphere of this legendary country. And the odd thing flaunt it b that none of the wild stories are loo far fetched to be true. The Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky. .... as well as the Russia of the ail-fic- ’ tiou magazines, is here, in New York airy. For the last twenty years We have been having a. sort of overflow meeting of Russian activities. We have received. with a greater or less tattoo of enthusiasm, Disghileff, Trotsky, Rachmaninoff and Botch- Ilrevnar—to mention only a. few of the outstanding figures. Less con- wicuously New York has nuken to their a Muscovite population which now numbers about. 40,000. ‘ 'In 1905 and 1906 there was an ' abortive revolution in Russia. Di- mtly due to this demonstration gm Alexeiev found himself super- fluous in his own country. Prefer- ' the emigration to an enforced resi-' Inca of long duration in Siberia, “ Alexi- left for New Yorlg. Ifivns not ' so simple a matter as it sounds. . ’ am belonged to the Socialist-Rev- flutionist party. He was of the in- “ circle of that party, the Fighting much. The party would decide . scent council that a certain Ml- my Governor has accumulated suf- Idsnt years and crimes, and one of “during young students of the fighting Organization would be dele- oted to execute sentence of death “on the offending Governor. The system was very efllcient; the chosen will simply bartercd his life for the life of the Czarist official. He ofireely hoped for escape, expected 9"“ principle at least. though his pity for action had not yet According to Ellis Island .he was an undesirable ill- Yet Alexis and hundreds . dfib associates slipped through hatreds and stem fanaticism. America did something to them. W it is very difficult to locate m d that group of revolutionise! m were quietly and thoroughly "technical education to use in country and grew calmer in young and adaptable. is still in New York. He has ' ‘politicsl opinions. Some of his . . offhand have not beenheard for, some time. Those who re- here are Wellwsatisfied. . “is of another phase of ‘hnmigrntion. He is a pear- ' wince of Minsk. m with grief—is often an enjoy-p the United States. bringing their , W They muted their excel-_ patties cal heme Most—offlmur ‘ 4 associates returned to Bull-lb j invitation of the Kbrensky ‘ About - ‘ v , Just Why a Good Cry“ Is Healthful unashamedly. :hat this habit is the mainstay of her existence. W the cause. a woman always feels bob tor after Bhf' has wept. and although up to the present this has been con- sidered merely a charming idiosyn— crasy, the recent discoveries prove that all the logic in the world lie- behind it. The most important revelation is the relief afforded to the nervous system which under dunes of emo- tion.becomes dangerously taxed by pressure on the blood vessels. The copious flow of tears immediately removes this pressure. Dr. Homing, in his experiments, discovered that an antiseptic substance called "ly- sozyme,” proved to be the mat important component in the fear, and demonstrated what "lysozyme" ' could do against disease microbes. He placed a teardrop in a tube and gave it as a poison to a. great many million bacteria that clouded the liquid in the test tube. Immediately the tear destroyed every microbe—s. fact that was made plain to the eye by the sudden thinning out of the liquid in the tube. He further stated that "lysozymo" existed in all the fluids of the body. but to a more distinct and greater degree in the teardrop. Up to the present the substance has not been isolated. and it was only after all months of .investigation that Dr. Fleming had been able to discover it at all. ‘ Protects Eye Against Danger. Other interesting points about the substance are that it resisted the effects of alcohol and is not readily exhausted after it has done consid- ’ erable work in destroying bacteria. The - primary function of "lyso- zyme" in the tear is to protect and disinfect the eyeball and the sur- rounding membrane, but it evidently has many other duties. In the upper and outer part of each eye between. the eyeball and the bone is the tear gland. which distributes the precious fluid drop by drop through line ducts to the upper part of the sac formed by the upper eyelid. From this point the tear spreads out over the front of the eye and is run off through the minute lachry- The 1907 the economic results of the Russo-Japanese “‘ax’ became oppres- sive in Minsk, Volyn and Grodno. and thousands of peasants left their farms for thc\ 'ew World. “We will go back to Russia." Mikhail prom- ieed his wife, Sophia. “We will go back when I have earned enough to buy a. real farm." The love of the soil is in their blood. The centuries of serfdom, when the peasants were tied to the land by law. seem to have left them almost as firmly bound by sentiment. Mikhail and Sophia settled on the East Side among the Russian Jewe. for it was simpler and easier to live among people of their own tongue. For fifteen years they have lived in the same neighborhood. For them America is a small, congested region of five story tenements, clotheslines. pushcarts and the tailoring business. First and Second ave ues, Houston street to Fourteenth, the neigh- borhood where most of the peasmit Russians havvscl'ded. OnChei-ryand Madison streets the' very poorest live. while many of longer residence have formed a colony five thousand strong in the Brownsville section of Brook- lyn. Our methods of Americanization have been very imperfect. Mikhail- has never learned English. for he has never felt the need of it. He accpted employment (or rather, ex- ploitatibn) from s swindling boss V and social standards from the saloon keeper. He saved his money to re- turn to Russia. and was cheated out of it by unscrirpulously clever per? sons ofrhis'own race. These in- stances ’of exploitation of the igno- rant peasant immurant are so he- quent that they are scarcely noticed. A committee of enterprising Ruse sians are even now doing time in Sing Sing as a result of a recent ex- pose. The details of the swindle are so crude that it seems impossi- ble that any” one should have been deceived, but the several hundred thousand dollars are concrete evi- deuce of the gullibility of Mikhail? class. ‘ The Russian language Dress is do- ing much. to ‘assist in Mikhail’s ad- ‘ warmest to Amerlmn conditions.- The Russku Gala. and Nooope Rusalcou'e Slave are read eagerly by, thousands of Russian workmen every day. At first the Russian newspapers followed the model‘ of the press of the did country. They were written and.edited .by intelli- gentsia, and 'the vocabulary use! was beyond the comprehension of the workin The newspaper offices began to receive letters fromr‘ their, subscribers: "Please: send me a dictionary. I cannot understand your paper." "Please explain what this passage means. I paid for the paper and have a right to know what it is saying." The Public and fis Prick Gradually the papers adopted “the methods of American journllsm. The change was not altogether sat- isfactory to some of the editor-k. “In Russia." says one. “the intellectuals set the pace and the others follow-. In this country the public dictates malpuncfunstothethmaf. These Weanbeseenonthemar- wawMaboutone—flfthof itslenfihtromfheinneredgamm than the fluid runs away, carrying withitspecksofdustandotherm— purities down into the lashyrmsl sac, which lies alongside the nose; sndtheneelntothelowerpsrtdths nose - When the tears overflow the edge of the eyelid instead of running down into the throat, weeping results. whereas sobbing which often follows excessive crying is the outcome of the accumulation of the liquid in the finest. Sobbing is more usually in- dulged in by children than by women. - As an evidence of the importance of tears. Dr. Fleming states that should the constant liquid flow cease. blindness would ensue. The anti- septic virtues of lysozyme contin- uously wage battle against all im- purities in the eye. and furthermore tendtoprofecttheeyen-omm dangers which daily threaten it. Nature'hasprovided’thisdlsinfoctant for thests‘uggleccfthsbodyasainfi decaytnamannermcwsethemost learnedofsclentistsmmarvel.‘ Although wom have always been comma-ed to be more emo- tional than men. few people realise the true reason for this. and the secret which has been hitherto cou- cealed for this state is now made known. "It is to the vasomotor system." says Prof. William James, "that we ’ owe the whole emotional side of our soul life; our Joys and son)". our happiness and despair; our hour! of content, Joy and unhappiness. If the impressions that strike our senses had not the strength to set that system into action we should wander through life disinterested and passioniess; hum-onions from the outer world would enrich our expe- times and increase our knowledge. but they could wake innus n’eithg ga- joyaior anger-and 00111de or us to grief or fear.” ‘ Audit ismerelybecanseDameNa- tnre has bestowed upon the female a water "vaso-motor “sociability" mat her cwacity for shedding? tears is larger than man’s. Her veins and arteries and lymphatic ducts are also larger than man's in proportion to total body weight. and therefore more liable to sudden expansion and contraction. ~ This sudden expansion and con- traction of the vase-motor systems forms the» basis of emotion. . If you are a , woman, and your heart flutters; a rosy blush tints your cheeks (although this warning is not so nmessary nowadays as in former times), and a desire to cast your eyes down in sweet confusion comes over you remember that all this ex- citement is merely due to the fact that your veins and arteries are expanding and contracting. and you will doubtless lose all interest in the cause of your Joy. . Furthermore, it is now revealed that the true reason for the universal tenderness of woman is nothing more than the fact that her system of linked nerves and blood vessels re- sponds more easily to stimulus than f man. This also explains why women are more‘subject to nervous strain and illness than men, for when various necessary stimulants for the eflectlve working of a. wom- an's vase-motor system are lacking she invariably succumbs, whereas a man's health is unaffected. This vase-motor system is directly controlled by the action of the heart, and sorrow. grief, cruel disappoint- ment or despair produce an tanned,- erate increase in the beating of s woman's heart. The bloodispumped strongly into the carotid artery, which supplies the head. while the return of the blood from. the insular vein is checked. This muses a pressure upon the tear glands. and the welling fears fill the eyes, overflow the eyelids and pour-down theface. Theflowusu— ally follows the beating of the heart and causes the above prasure to be a. - these tears causes lifted. Invarinhlyreltdwhlchconld 'beproduealhynoothermesnsfol- lows, and hence the literal washing away of trouble. "Tears. idle tears; I know not what they mean. Tours from the depths of some divine despair That rises from the heart and gath- us in the eye.” sang Tennyson's maid to the haughty Princess, and millions of her sisters have felt the same way. Destroying illusions b not the saf- est of occupations, and yet truth compels the statement that, despite the beauty of the sentiment, the gen- tle flowing of these same “idle tears” is only nature providing first aid to her children. The relief that Woman: from g e prevention of serious physical troubles which ab flict men as a result or pressure within the blood vessels. Statistics prove mt apoplectic strokes are about 25 per cent. less frequent in women than in men. Also because of this same saving grace women are able to endure the greatest ner- vousstralnsandlivetoagmter use» ' ‘ Among the otha' interesting facts produced by the discovery of the Royal Society is that suicide all over the world is three to four times more frequent in men than in women. Be- cause of the simple source of relief for her nervous system ‘woman does not give way to despair as quickly as men. Women who have become insane recoverfromthe affliction much mire frequently than men. Some EL;— lish alienists have plawd the rem-r- eries at 26 per cent. higher... Case-.5 of general nervous xii-caress; 3:1: more prevalent among‘ wen-12:. are much more quickly cured’ ; Earl-as: complete recovery from a nervzvs prustration case is practically heard of among men. Becansscf man's lack of natural force to noon- perate his nervous system breaks under the attack. Also he seldom recovers from melancholic for the some reason. However, there is another mde to the question of woman’s fan's. A :3- Legendary RuSsian In America to the press." Nevertheless, 'Mlkhail now reads and understands the Rus- sian papers. and receives much in- formation, both as to New York and as to Russia. When the Cmrist government col- lapsed there was great rejoicing here for New York Russians. "We will go back to free Russial" de- elated Mikhail, with awe in his voice. Then came the Bolshevik mutiny, and Mikhail promptly be- came a Red enthusiast. Slowly their eagerness changed to perplexlty. then to doubt. Trotsky, the idealist. the sntl-militarlst. was made Minister of War—and the Reign of Terror began! Letters came telling of destruction and ruin in their native villages. V, Mikhail saw his dream of a prosperous re- . diamond coronets. turn fading. His American money I would buy nothing. for there was nothing to be bought in starving Russia. The censured ambition of owning a farm could never befal- fllled. for private property was 11. legal, "We will never go back to many levels. and silkenrtrains and Perhaps when she rips the edge of her apron on a door step she remembers the court balls. when she danced all night and drove home at dawn with the hem of her gown in tatters where her partner: spurs had workedhavoe. Bolshevik Russia. is almost as un- favorable to artists as to aristocrats. Though not actually hostile. it offers no reward nor even a livelihood. In a fortunate hour some haVc come to America. Whether America adopted the fed for Russian art because of the influx of Russian artists or whether Russian artists came be- cause A‘merlca had a fact for Russian art would be difficult to decide. However that may be, both the fad and the artists are here. Russian dancing, design; vaudeville. opera. embroidery and boots are each quite the last word in their respective lines. K It is not necessary to call attention to La Chauve Souris. That brilliant scrapbook of vivid bits of Russian ,- Radical and conservative, actor, artist and writer meet at the Russian restaurants. Russia." he told Sophia. and he set about securing American citizen- ship. § The Bolshevik regime is responsi- tile for the latest addition to our Russian population. Russian aris- tocracy fleeing from Moscow and Po has scattered throughout Europe, and many of the nobility are drifting by various routes to t United States. , -. The situation presents itself to the weaver of tales, romance ready -maae. The most absurd stories of film movies are paralleled. An ofllcer .. of Admiral Kolchak’s unfortunate my now conducts an interior dec- 0 grating estaib lishment 0'!) Fifth ave- ' mm. A highborn lady, the widow of ‘a general killed in the world war, ,supportsfiiherself by working the beautiful Russian cross stitch «in the desig’nb inherited from the ancient Byzantine empire. A lady-in-waiting #110 the late Czar-ins has turned her u-aining to account as manicurist. The scion of a noble family of Petra Brad runs an elevator. A countess. the sister of a tanner Ministq- of War, is reduced to scrub- hing tile floors. Perhaps as she months all night long in the vast empty corridors she thinks of other hells, lofty, glittering with lights and with the reflection of am i . "W .- e ‘1'. i have immune in: ins our native ”rivers. more stimulate . art has met with such suecas it promises to remain a feature of New York entertainment for an infinite time. A‘ sunewhat similar produc- tion was presented last season by ’ resident artists under the direcflon of Borovski. It was called the Rus- sian labs. In the ballet the Russians are rec- ! 1‘ T ‘ i > ‘1] og-nizcd as prominent. In the néw develoments of this urn. the glorious free vigor and negligent grace or the romantic school of dune- ing 1the Russian Whats: receives libs‘f inspiration from m Duncan. " returned Pavlowa and Diaghilefl'. From time to timeihe ballet compan- ies have aDM like. flocks of- tropical birds. filled our stage vuth of movement and tion and ".flashedum‘ymu. sounder-e. mauled. mmmmlm. Iii-1%: infusc ing vitality. - ~, . Names less we]! gown ' though famous on: the here, 'p the Atlantic, are Snegoif; Arshev' ary, okays. Souvorina, myauovskl. In .Russia they are as worknmvn 88 John Barrymore. David Warfield or ers Fiskearehere. WhenPetro—‘f ‘. grad was St.- *Petersburg,5the host tuary- ‘“ - brililan mpitalin Europe, times an- ' ' actréaes biased to 55° emmmmmmowmgm 18 pm Pageant-f! seats for the audience. WWW spedal tendency to the difieasc or theeyesmnedghximmadneteth. We m of fluids withh the eyeball. Wé'afis among women. This is due to an overabundance a crying, and in addition to creating In. general damp atmosphere of 1m- comfortsbleness about them, these “weeping sisters" usually develop a serious illness. Sometimes in the presence of an overwhelming sorrow women have been known to roman: dry esed for days. It is raved that in such (33;! of fearless ei' women often 511d:- dangerous physlwl collapses How many times has one heard the state- ment “if she would only. r:;.- 5;»! would feel better?" I‘:-‘ __ 1b,, soothing and cleansing 7. G: a. copious flow of tears are irritate . bear upon the body the what; Q; vans system becomes 65903331281 Many cases of fearless women have‘passed into . and insanity, and it is tn; the few instances of true Gr 2. broken heart which have - have usually been less grief- From now on much of the Charm- ing mystery that has been the special endowment of woman win he lost. No longer wizl man hr.» the comforting reflection that a Arman does so and so because she is a the :es::: ._5 1931-- woman. Her ability to frrce men to cater to her bemuse she is in- expiimable oval in a large measure vanish for being armed befcrehand with the knowledge that the dewy drops upon her cheeks are not only: the resul of her vast‘emolor system in 25‘”: 1-2: 3.9;: are also doing her mani- . the source of is mret angelic » u‘EL’ in: rulscs of tender- . :ir compasses their moods .ne childishness. Foes have their brains to express and to account for this mixture of heaven and hell." And now along comes Dr. Fleming, together with a half dozen other hard hearted scientists, and explains it all with the unromantic word “Vase-Motor”! :i w 4.1 . l. ., t; L. . I 0 t 4 if «z :31: ; H a men. suppressed by the difficulties of a foreign language. - Many Rugsian actors have found employment in the moving pictura. Radical and con‘serative, actor, artist and writer meet at the Russian res- taurants and discuss the world and. art over their we” 5 of hot tea and Cigare' ttes. The gentleman with tho curly hair and marvelously resonant voice, at the next table, is a grand opera singer. He is speaking to a. slender girl with a. high bred, delimta profile and a graceful way with her hands. She is a ballet dancer. A portly gentleman, «with bobbed hair half covering his ears. stops to greet them, then sails majestically on. He is a professor from the University of mev. A graceful woman in black evening dress takes her place by the piano and sings the exquisite, dis-r turbing songs of Russia. She is a mbaret singer at $15 a week; she was a. Baroness once. A Stranger in the House. The stranger visiting the Moskova: Restaurant, or the Petrogmd. or the Bear. or the Russ“ Inn feels him: ,self almost an intruder. Conversa- tion, eager, animated and surely 1n- teresting, if it was only understood. goes On around him. The menu is perplexing. If it is printed in Rus- sian type it looks like a printer’s pl. The letters of the Russian alphabet resemble English for the most part. but they are strangely assembled. 7N wrong side around, L upside down. It right about faced and‘ the figure’a are to be found. The stranger takes ' .a chance on what he is ordering or asks the waiter. whose stock of Eng. ‘ lish is apt to be hardly more exten- slVe than the bill of fare. Russian chefs excel in meat and . vegetable dishes. Their taste for- -sour cream is rather too enthusiastic for American sympathies, but some 'of their combinations are very in- teresting. Borsh, a kind of sour soup, is served either hot or cold. with a. spoonful of sour cream in the middle. Bogotlmes it appears as a peculiar pale eerise liquid with shreds of washed out beets floating in it. Again it may he brown, with “cabbage and onions concealed in its depths. Cabbage is the national dish. .Vodka is. of course, illegal; but kvas. another favorite drink, has been made to aggee with Volstead regula- sons. It tastes slightly of apples- harply of carbon dioxide and vastleli of something indescribable but some- what. musty. k: In the Cathedral. ' l 0n Ninety—seventh street just of! fifth avenue stands the Russian Cathedral, with copper green domes and gilded spires. The service there There are no and fluctuates, surges forward and drum backvvard, taking part in the side of dramatic amen: Within the sanctu< stands the— sloof and so altar: The pfieéts and altar attend- ants, in brocaded robes and cloth of :silver which gleam with pearly lights pass in and out of the sauce :‘Bussian music is poignant, dra4 mauc. 3th E‘s. catch of patties iii the gavest of it and a note of braver daughter through the most tragic ' FRIDAY. AUGUST 18, 1922 l
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