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Medical men in Germany would of course not think of using thymol as a substitute for novocain, although the public is using it widely to obtain temporary relief, when the dentist cannot be reached, particularly in rural districts. Naturally the dentists know this, but frown upon the practise because people will not see the dentist as often, as long as they have a harmless and convenient "pain killer" in their medicine chests...
...about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into three dimensions. Creased by tiny grins, twisted by picayune emotions of fear, alarm and love, they squeal and whisper, wiggle, grimace and frown in terrifying parody that would doubtless have delighted Jonathan Swift. Whether the author of Gulliver's Travels would be equally pleased by the use Soviet cinemanufacturers have made of his masterpiece in other respects is more debatable...
...MEMORY SERVES-Sacha Guitry- Doubleday, Doran ($3). By the time Sacha Guitry was five years old he had become accustomed to the strange passions that periodically seized his father. During a quiet dinner the boy would be startled to observe Lucien Guitry frown fiercely, cry out for no reason such things as, "My lord, you are a nobleman and I am but a commoner, yet I dare tell you that any man who insults a woman is a coward!" Or. with a melting tenderness, the father would stare unseeingly at his son and murmur, "Clementine, I would give my life...
From the stair pillars frown two enormous busts composed of seven kinds of marble and believed to represent unidentified Arabian characters. Another treasure is the largest piece of Dresden pottery in the world. Dazzling curtains from Baghdad, authentic 18th Century French and Turkish furniture, and a display of solid silver plate bought by Sir Samuel's grandfather a century ago adorn a ménage which the Hoares find cozy...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...