TOE FAG OR BRAIN FAG ?

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13

TOE FAG OR BRAIN FAG ?

If Dr. Joseph Simms, of New York, is right, however, the brain is simply an imposter which appropriates all the credit for mental stresses and labours which, according to this ingenious physiologist, should be divided among the toes* fingers, and other valued portions of the anatomy. "We think with our toes and iingois just as much as with our brains," says Dr. Simms. Idiots, for instance, have often very large brains, but plainly they profit them but little as intellectual organs. Observe, on Ihe other hand (if you got the chancp),' how frequently the' big too of a man of genius attains a colossal and imposing muscularity, while even his little toes may bo aeen electrically twinkling with the' passion of intellectual activity. That fraud the brain ! Brainfag, so-called, should be really toe-fag, and our cerebral organs (when any) have been basely masquerading as the victims of the mental labour which really afflicts tho downtrodden, unmurmuring toe-nail. It is an odd thing to reflect thai we think inside our boots (says St. James's Budget). _^.__ I_.1 _.