140 Sexual Starvation qualities. And also to his perennial happy-go-luckiness. Uncle Remus, Noah, in "Green Pastures," and many of our best beloved Negro fictional characters hold up a mirror, in which thousands of adult Negroes may see themselves - romancing delightfully, inventing incidents and episodes with all the naivete of an adolescent child. They quaff deep of the Draught of Life. They are often bravely, exultingly happy, under conditions which would cause many a white man to cut his throat and end his misery. They have enriched our literature - these sons and daughters of an enslaved race. They have imbursed the South, and reclaimed thousands of acres of productive land, untenantable by white labor. They rendered signal service in helping to make France the chief military power of the world in what we are famous enough to believe was "a war to end war." And they have given us, in their reverant and truly beautiful spirituals, the true American volkslied - beloved by all who have ever heard "Swing Low , Sweet Chariot," "Wait 'Til I Put On My Crown," "Deep River," "Go Down Moses," and the scores of inspiring songs that reach into our breasts and pluck at our very heartstrings. If the Negro race should ever be completely fluxed in the melting pot of America, something very fine and friendly will have been lost to us. Sexual Starvation and Its Effects It is a fact well known to all specialists in nervous disorders that many old maids, as well as old bachelors, exhibit certain nervous symptoms, such as nervous dyspepsia, excessive secretion of the hydrochloric acid or the stomach, and pains in the stomach, as well as nervous irritability, and lack of mental poise, that are definitely traceable to sexual abstinence. Certain varieties of food, well borne by the normal stomach, seem to act in these people as a source of local irritation, due to the fact that the nerves of their stomachs are abnormally irritable, and respond to the presence of these foods by secreting an over-abundance of acid, which helps bring about an aggravated condition of nervous dyspepsia.