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AMAZING FINDS IN A INFANT LAUGHTER'S PROVING
CHINESE LAKE.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Three Million Years Old Control of the Child's
Death Trop.
PREHISTORIC ANIMALS,
Emotion.
CHUCKLES OF INFANCY.
GROUNDS
FOR PROHIBITION.
Model Dry Enforcement District.
LOCAL CO-OPERATION.
A drama of three million years
Bachelors and old maids, when
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 22.-. Volsteadland has become the ago has been reconstructed by Mr. shown a young baby; have an Roy Chapman Andrews and Pero irritating way of knowingly any-proving grounds for the nation's Teilhard de Chardin. The scientists ing, "I see he smiles already; it's greatest social experiment." returned to Peking recently, bring-due, I suppose; to indigestion!" The Northwest which for the pur Ing fossil specimens from a prehis-Such allegations are always refuted pose of prohibition enforcement toric lake bed in the Gobi Desert, by an indignant mother or nurse. comprises Minnesota, North and In a single bed of matrix the Who is sure at what age a baby South Dakota,. lowa and Nebraska When do his eyes will be made the model dry enforce- party, while hunting for remains of truly smiles?
When is ment district of the country, Mr. the dawn of man, fouhil the fossilis-light up with humour?
M. L. Harrey, director, said on his ed bones of fifteen infant platy- the first rea! laugh heard?
a conference with The chuckles of early infancy may return from belodon.
Scientists of the American merely be a form of talk, and not Attorney General W. D. Mitchell Yet, as and Mr. Amos W. W. Woodcock. Museum of Natural History believe the ebullitions of mirth1 the site to be that of a former bog, no one likes to be told they have new national dry chief. slightly covered with water, on no sense of humour, surely it is which edible plants floated. Giant Important to decide why, and when, animals, while grazing and employ- we first laugh. ing their famous "dredger" jaw, fell into this morass trap. The adults Is laughter an uncontrollable im- were able to escape, but the young-pulsa or a contraction of certain sters were overwhelmed in the muscles? A dog may amile, but a trap, which remained baited, this man is the only species who laughs accounting for the recurrences of out loud. the tragedy.
The expedition included among their discoveries that of a mother platybelodon, with a suckling along side, evidently trapped together.
The Gobi "Adam.""
An Uncontrollable Impulse.
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The word "amused" is de- signed by the dictionary meaning:
divert serious business," not, As some people think, merely a "feeling of superiority" on seeing the suffer- ings of others!
Minnesota home of Andrew J. Volstead, father of the act which bears his name-long has been a testing point for the prohibition It was in the Twin Cities forces. that the first raids against malt stores were made two years ago. The raids were made on the advice of Volstead, now legal adviser to the Northwest prohibition depart- ment. Prosecution was dropped later, but recently malt stores again have been raided.
Strkt Enforcement,
An era of strict enforcement is expected to ensue under the new regime. Because the Northwest has been considered a model territory. policies of the administration are expected to be tried out here Arst.
In Minnestoa it is estimated that
The Gobi site proved to be an enormous mine of huge mastodons, resembling the elephant with hinged;
Again, others say the exaggera lower jaw extending the length of tion of daily happening rouses the trunk, and with two broad, flat one's sense of the ridiculous. The teeth at the end. The beasts used vagaries of Charlie Chaplin aurely
Oficials here state that, barring the jaw to dredge marshes, and come under this heading. then selected food with its trunk Professor Bergson claims that two western districts, the degree of local peaca from the mass, conveying it to the the laughter · of our fellows co-operation given by
officers is greater than anywhere upper jaw, which bristle with enor-is 1 form of social discipline mous molars.
most else in the nation. But the theory which closely follows the explanation Nearby Mr. Roy Chapman in the dictionary, is: that laughter le 65 per cent. of the sheriffs and to relieve too great an county attorneys will give their co- Andrews and the investigators given. us
It is the substitute for operation in enforcement. In South found the fossils of thirty adults, emotion.
Dakota the percentage rises to 90 including four complete skulls, tears.
per cent., but in North Dakota the Mock Tragedy. thirty tusks, twenty 5-foot shovel
figure is somewhat lower. jaws, and hundreds of ribs. The There is no doubt that a good mass of bone furnishes a complete laugh affects series from babyhood to senility: makes our eyes brighten, it
The richness of the find is extra-stimulates our circulation, we relaxare large cities, the degree of co- operation is above average, officials ordinary; Mr. Andews compares its from effort. Even our sense of pro-said.-United Press. value with the famous dinosaur col Tection.
The scientists are continuing ex- cavations, and, in the meantime, scouts are making likely sites for
With the exception of counties in us physically. Iowa and Nebraska in which there
portion alters, and laughters mini- mises our sense of suffering.
The mock tragedy of a Punch and Judy show may convulse
an
STANDARD TIMES
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adult as a humorous exposition of SUNRISE AND SUNSET
COLONY.
a search for remains of earliest the real tragedies of life.
man.
If human bones are found To the child the humour les in
TITLED WOMAN WINS him £100 for four or five days until they will easily predate those of seeing his tragedy, that is to say,
ACTION.
£100 Loaned to. Garden Expert.
A claim by the Dowager Lady Sackville, of. Crown Lane-end, Crown Lane, Streatham, S.W., to recover what she alleged was a loan of £100, came before Mr. Justice Acton in the King's Bench Division recently,
Lady Sackville said that the loan was made to Mr. Arthur F. Kenyon, of St. Alban's Road, Kingston-on- Thames. He was described E A partner in a frm of garden architects...
Judgment was given for Lady Sackville, with costs.
he received the money from the in-the Peking eurance company. Eventually the Pekinensis. agreed to lend it.
"He seized the cheque and ran away, thanking me almost on his knees for my kindness."
man Sinanthropus the horrors of a beating, applied to a grown-up person, and derided! even lessen his The party started their summer's The ridicule may work at an old lake discovered by personal tear of chastisement and a Mongol scout, but the results were of grown-up discipline! disappointing. The Chinese and The constant irritations of life, foreign anthropologists and such as barking your shins, can be In this case both In reply to Mr. Justice Acton Mr. geologists then proceeded to the rendered absurd. Matthias suid he was not suggesting place where
first the
jaw child and adult laugh, in exchange that Lady Sackville's story was un-was found in the year 1928, for tears, at the same object, in the true, but he hoped to show that her point of 250 miles north same way, from the same motive. memory was at fault.
of Kalgan, in the province of
Practical Joking.
"You will understand." Mr. Mat- Pechill, 110 miles north-west of Perhaps the sense of the ridicul- thias said to Lady Sackville later, Peking. They struck a fossil mine "that it is my duty, to put to you which will probably keep the bulk what Mr. Kenyon saya?"
of the party busy for the rest of the season, probably extending into 1931
Why She Lent the Money. Lady Sackville-His memory is at fault, not mine. It is very much against my wishes to be here, but at
ous is more easily stirred in a child's mind. With grown-up people a deviation from type and subtler forma of irony may cause mirth. Children do not seem to understand
Mr. Andrews believes a survey irony." It merely confuses their similar bog holes will most like sense of fun and of truthfulness. The In fact, it upsets their sense of
the same time I want to make any yield the Gobi "Adam" example for other people who might geologists confirm the approximate values, want to do the same thing. I lentage of the deposits to be 3,000,000 him the money for four daya because years.
thought he was gentlemanly enough to pay it back when it was due. →→
As Lady Sackville appeared to resent some of the questions, Mr. Justice Acton assured her that Mr. Matthias was only doing what he
Mr. Fearnley Whittingstall (for Lady Sackville) said that when Lord Sackville died and she moved from Knole (Kent) to Streatham she wanted to have various Ideas of hor own incorporated in her garden. She got into touch with Mr. Kenyon's firm in October, 1929. j had to do. For some time Mr. Kenyon came to see her and they discussed various
alterations.
During that time Mr. Kenyon said that he was worried about the illness of his mother-in-law and other matters, Lady Sackville felt very sorry for him and made him gifts of cigarettes and groceries.
"Reprimanded."
When December came Lady Sack- ville reprimanded Mr. Kenyon for what she thought was the casual treatment he was giving the garden. He told her that he could not go to see his mother-in-law or Lady, Sack- ville, because his motor car was smashed in an accident. Until £75 was received from the Insurance company for a new car ho would: have to go on neglecting the work.
Lady Sackville then said: "I will Jend you £100, until you get the money from the insurance company. Then you can pay me back."...
The cheque for £100 was handed, to Mr. Kenyon on December 6.
Mr. Justice-Acton asked what was the answer to the claim.
Mr. W. A. Matthias (for Mr. Kenyon) We say the money was paid on account of work that was to be done. of work
The Judge. Then it is entirely a
question of which side: I believe.
Begged and Implored."
Lady Backville, who gave her evidence sitting at the table In the well of the court, said that Mr Kenyon was in. great distress, he Cause his mother-in-law was ill. She sent him various gifta to help him. He begged and implored her to lead
Mastodons of the Gobi
The desire to perpetrate practical. jokes develops at different ages, ac cording to the temperament of child.
Д
Dr. Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Lon- The development depends on sur- don, writes upon the remarkable roundings, health and example. It is not strictly a sense of humour, discovery as follows:
Work in the Gobi Desert by the but it is perhaps a desire to score Central Asiatic Expedition of the off someone and to have a feeling of American Museum of Natural His-superiority. Thus arises the theory
Is was interrupted in August. that laughter a feeling of Lady Sackville-Yes, but look tory here. I have been in another case 1928, by political conditions in superiority, and not an escape from
China. Its resumption after an sadness:
The repetition of a joke, of course, Mr. Justice Acton.-You may be interval has been promptly signalis-
where the counsel tried to trick me.
ed by a find of first-class im takes longer to bore a young pèr- quite sure that won't happen here.
son or an old person than activo, Lady Sackville said that subse-portance.
An exceedingly rich collection of middle-aged ones. quently she turned Mr. Kenyon out remains of a remote elephant-like and refused to ace him.
mastodon, of huge dimensions, has
Alternative To Tears. During the war
our British As Mr. Kenyon was going into
been alighted upon, in a lake-bed. soldiers were noted for their cour the witness box Lady Sackville These are of especial interest, not age and their Irrepressible humour. turned to the Judge and said: "My only as representing every phase in Was-net the latter their way of lord, if I may say so, this is wasting the life-history of an extinct pro escape from untold horrors? With- your time. This man owes me the boscidean of peculiar and somewhat out a laugh they must surely have money and he knows it."
The Dowager Lady Sackville is puzzling structure, but also because gone mad.
the circumstances of the discovery Accepting the theory, therefore,
the widow of the third- baron, who throw light upon the habits of the that laughter is the alternative to died in 1928. The family seat is at animal and the meaning of its tears, a child might amile from Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent,
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birth, and laugh as 8000 A Prehistoric: Dredge!
As a smile was too light Thus The cablegram from the Daity an escape from tears.. Telegraph's correspondent at Peking the Indignant mother or nurse gives a graphic picture of the use could reply to the knowledgeable to which this strange mastodon put bachelor, or old maid, by saying: its peculiar Jaws, dredging the "It may be his alternative to tears, All Poles must take a bath at marshes and selecting the food with for he has indeed a pain least once a month.
a trunk from the rossa, and ther all sides would do antlafied! Under a Bill which is now conveying it to the upper jaw, which
The Guatemalan Legislative As". Perafting according to a Pollah is bristling with molars.
paper, everybody will receive a The fact that the remains aresembly has approved a contract with bath card, that will be solemnly those of animals of various ages the Swedish Match Company autho stamped by an official when the will make it possible for palaeonto risinghe monopoly sale of matches monthly wash been complet-logists to reconstruct the develop In the Republia for 39 years, for
ad west has been commental history of this interesting which company grants the
Persons under 10 and over 60-creature in a way which is hardly Government a luaj 01: £5,000,000 at years of age will be excused over possible in the case of extinct 7 per cent Those who are sick will likewise mammals.
be exempt, and those who possens The reniarks with reference to the confess to the feeling that it la their own bath-rooms, where it possible discovery of remains of extremely unlikely that relics of man can be taken for granted they aro early man, vastly older than those of oz such remote antiquity will be used rem AKABAKA the Peking man, are, of course, found in the Gobi region, if, Indeed,
The paper suspects the machina tons of the soap manufacturers.
are conjecture, which may or may man himself existed anywhere not be realised; and one is bound to the world at the time suggested:
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