destroy substances which are needed for the life of some vital organ. The mischief of death of complex organisms may then be traced to the activity of a black sheep in the society of tissues and organs which constitute a multicellular organism.

VITALITY NECESSARY

Dietary investigators have shown the necessity for vitamines in the food. What vitamines are is not known. It is a name that has been given to an organism that is known to exist, but which has never been isolated. Whatever it is, it is vitally necessary to human life and is supplied by taking a sufficient quantity of fruit and leafy vegetables with the diet.

Other investigations indicate that the ductless glands of the body supply an organismlikewise not yet isolated-which has been given the name of hormone, and that with the disappearance of the hormones come old age and death.

The frog hatches from the egg without legs and with a long tail. In the third or fourth month of its life the tadpole metamor

phoses into the frog. It has been discovered that this metomorphosis can be brought about at will, even in the youngest tadpoles, by feeding them thyroid gland from any animal, while if the thyroid gland is removed from a tadpole it can never become a frog. If, however, a tadpole that has had its thyroid gland removed is fed thyroid gland from some other animal, the tadpole metamorphoses. The salamander also undergoes metamorphosis, but there is a variety in Mexico that always retains its original form. It has been discovered that by feeding this Mexican salamander thyroid gland it will metamorphose.

Experiments upon lines lowering the temperature show that the period of youth is increased in the exact ratio that the length of the life span was increased.

Grandma Shaw, at hearing of Prolongation of Life, exclaimed: "What-eighteen hundred years without any teeth? I should say not!"

According to the Savior's philosophy, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light," and "Be not envious against evil men."

AN AWFUL THING TO DO

Whether meanness, revenge or providential, we do not know, but the window-trimmer of a leading department store, a store accused of profiteering, both among the public and its employees, displayed, among other things, a Bible, opening upon a page disclosing Ezekiel, Chapter twenty-eight, and beginning with verse sixteen, which reads:

"By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee.

"Thou hast defiled thy sanctuary by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that behold thee.

"And they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a terror and never shalt thou be any more."

The biggest fool is he who fools others. It takes a clown to be the fool of the circus, and many there are who feel delightfully entertained.

Mother's Voice

No Nation can rise above the level of its womanhood.

Edited by Maria Rose Ruth Hilton

THE NEW ERA

It is well that a new era opens up; it is time that a great change takes place; it is the only solution of the world's problems-problems of vast proportions and such grave chan acter as to hold within them the rise or downfall of the whole social structure. Fortunate for the whole human race is this New Era but above all others it is more fortunate for woman. She has reached the end of the precipitous roadway and either she must go over the precipice or she must turn about and rise with the tide; she must be numbered with the multitudes that go over or she must choose to stand with the few who rise to fulfill a greater destiny-a destiny that is making an indelible imprint, not only upon the mind of womankind all over the world, but one that is penetrating the adamantine heart of a whole world's race. All agree that there are two types of woman

that have served their time and purposeone is the pampered "French doll," and the other is "the slave." These extreme types have held the two opposite points of the racial pole-woman herself has decided that both must be removed before the new woman can emerge into the full sunlight of her own heritage. The future woman will neither be bought nor sold. Just as she refuses on the one hand to any longer be a drudge and a slave, so on the other hand she refuses to barter her physical charms and social virtues for money. Woman has learned to stand erect and breathe in the spirit of freedom. The quickening power impregnated thru the inspiration of that blissful draught can never be quenched. Like a refiner's fire, it has burred its enchantments into every fibre of her being; she feels the throbbing impulse of a diviner life pouring thru her veins; she gazes into the vista of the future and sees, even tho but dimly outlined, the fulfillment of her hopes and longings-the realization of the day "when my dreams come true." Here it is that woman merges from station to station, from height to that of greater height, until the past with its shuddering nightmare