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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1924-09-18, Page 7
NAMES THAT MAKE WORDS fr vc: of of Folks who want the very best use RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE ” a HEALTH EDUCATION BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON Provincial Board of Health, Ontario fir. Middleton wiB ba glad to answer questions on Public Health ©afr S ters through this column. Address him at fipadlaa House, Spa&SB 3 Crescent, Toronto. . ------------- , ... . ir....... j Eighteen blue whales alongside this t>x.xp weie the result cf an expedi tion into the frozen south. The photograph was made at Discovery Inlet and shows the ice barrier in the background. WHEN IN TORONTO VISIT TEE Royal Ontario Museum 153 Bloor St. West, near Avn- e Ro.vd. Largest permanent exhibition In < : n di. Archaeology. Geology, Mineralogy. Palaeon 1 . Z ology. Open dally, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: S ndav. 2 to 5 p.m. Bloor, Bay, and Chur h cars. —------------------------------ MONEY TO LOAN. P ARM LOANS MADE-i A Mortgages purchased. Reynoldsi 77 Victoria St., Toronto. J PECULIARSIFS CF CANADIAN VEGETATION Remarkable advance has been made' children’s diseases. Probably one fac- i in the prevention and cure of disease .tor in our health 1S ! . . , rp, . leal examination by large rubber m . dustries of all prospective employees laws.” Another city with a low death rate has this message-There are_^2 from one end of the city jt-o the jrther. runs wauci, ------ . those are the things which count in our favor. In every case of low mor tality rate the reasons given are prac tically the same:—“Vigilance or the Health Department, and its resu.t on pure food, the city clinic, the baby hos pital, the water supply, a constant educational campaign, the services of public health nurses and similar meas ures.” Measures that have been given be attributed in large part to the gen-j cornection with employers’ liability eral improvement m sanitation and - knowledge of the science of healthful , . __ living. As compared with the death , districts or squalid tenements rate of 1880, a million and a half lives f J_om one end of the ^ity to the other, were saved m the United States last p ter pure milk and pure food— I Wide differences in the death rate, in some cases a little short of tragic, i are shown, while in other cases there is a healthful condition of affairs. Here and there geography may ac count for the differences but in others no such explanation seems adequate. Very similar conditions prevail _________ ___ . _ throughout the cities and rural dis- credit for keeping down epidemics, tricts of Ontario, in some cases the especially water-borne diseases, in general death rate is high, in some ciude the system of health inspection £acog "tire in^ariv dcavli rsivC is uHc scliools Svi’icv qurthtivine i Reverse conditions are found in other ■ ]atjOns among adults, the work of the I communities. I anti-tuberculosis society, food inspec- I I year, according to figures just issued by the census bureau. ......------------------------------'.y How many words do you know which commemorate famous and ob scure men? Most people can think of a few of the commoner ones such as Welling tons boots), Bluchers (a type of half boots), Gladstone (a bag), Chester field (overcoat), and so on, but it is not so generally known that the words "Macintosh”; "blanket”; “doyley”; “Macadam”; "guillotine”; “negus”; and “mausoleum” are the names of their respective inventors or lnnovat- ors. ' Our flowers “fuchsia” and “dahlia” are named after two Continental bot anists Fuchs and Dahl, while the bowie knife is so called after a certain bloodthirsty American, Colonel Bowie. When we say "Old Nick” for His Satanic Majesty and “machiavellian” for anything pertaining to him, we are unconsciously referring to Nlccolo Machiavelli of Florence, a clever ■ statesman to whom historians have hardly done justice. The Origin of “Dunce.” A “dunce” was originally a term contempt used by the followers Thomas Aquinas to describe the fol lowers of Duns Scotus, a very learned scholar of the thirteenth century; but the word is now used for a stupid or ignorant pupil. The words “Herculean” and “Panic” remind us of Hercules, the great hero to whom nothing was impoZible, and of the God Pan who terrified belated travellers and sent them flyiny for their lives. Charles Lynch, of Virginia, some-, times took the law into his own hands,' and “to lynch” now means to kill any-■ one summarily, without a trial, es-1 - , , , , ~ ' . ,. , , v..~ ------ -- - - pecially by hanging on the nearest cases the infant death rate is high.. |n schools, strict quarantine regu- i U nTT/rnon nr, v-i rl 14-1 zx v, c< n V’n Tmi 1 VO AT 1? ____ ____« J -> ’ 4- rr -t- vrrA v» Lr AT T rO 5-1 lamp-post. Silhouette Was a Frenchman. . a city witnout slums ana a noaru or i non ana wai-cm A "martinet” is a strict dlsciplinar- j Health that really functions are two lations generally. communities. ______________ A city without slums and a Board of i tion and well-enforced^ samtary. regu- ----------------- | LUUl lUHCUlVUkJ .. . v.» v - -----------.---- . ian, and Martinet was a very strict important reasons given for the low of great importance,, is the medical officer in the army of Louis XIV. cf ■ death rate in one city in Ohio. France, while Silhouette was a French j report says:—“A full time healt statesman, whose hobby was the mak ing of shadow pictures, and GuIUotin a French physician, who proposed the adoption of the instrument of death which bears his name. Burke was an infamous criminal who, with his partner, Hare, suffocated a number of people and sold their bodies for dissection. The two men were executed at Edinburgh nearly a hundred years ago, but Burke, in par ticular, is still remembered because In the dictionary we tee: "to burke— to murder, especially by stifling; to put an end to quietly.” -----Boycott an Irishman. "Boycott”—to leave severely alone— is another familiar word that comes from a name. Capt. Boycott was land agent on a big Irish estate about fifty years ago. The tenants united in de manding reductions In their rent, but Boycott refused to meet their de mands. As a result, laborers refused to work for him, shop-keepers declined to supply his needs, and he even had difficulty in obtaining delivery of his letters. Boycott lived down hhs. un popularity in the end, but not before the word "boycott” had crept into com mon use. A doleful story of a "Jeremiad”— Jeremiah was the prophet who wrote the Book of Lamentations. "Maudlin” comes from Magdalene, who is often represented in pictures with tearful eyes, and the sailors’ beloved "grog” ' is so-called after Admiral Vernon, who J wore grogram breeches and was often ’ referred to as "Old Grog,” About! 1745 he ordered the sailors to dilute' their rum, and thus achieved immor tality and a permanent place in the English Dictionary. A Mystery Fish. The British Museum authorities have notified the curator of the Hull Museum of Fisheries that a strange fish caught off the Icelandic coast by a Hull trawler and landed at Hull is apparently unknown to science. Thirfej te nothing like It In the national col lection. The fish is one yard in length. The fish is very soft and flabby, and the head is after the type of a halibut. Its entire surface is covered with sharp and hard conical spines resembling white Ivory. The skin is coal black. , Its tail refcemjblesaglovedlhandwith Its tail resembles a gloved hand with eight fingers, between each of which is a thin web. In the centre of the back ks a rod-like feature with a ■ tassel-shaped structure. At its end is ; a red flesh ball, which, according to the experts, is used as a bait to draw smaller fish near so that they can be knapped in the powerful jaws. Above the Snowline. That animal life ascends the moun tains far beyond plant growth is one of the discoveries of the Mount Ever est expedition. The highest growing plant observed was blue vetch at 18,000ft., writes Lieut.-Col. E. F. Norton, leader of the expedition. “Yet animals possess per manent habitations as high as 22,000ft. A minute and inconspicuous black spider hops about on the rocky cliffs I and hides beneath stones in those bare ' places which happen to be swept clear '.»f snow by the wind. I cannot think On what it lives at such a height. “In these altitudes there is no other living thing—nothing but rock and Ice. This little spidvr is worthy of 1 note, being the highest permanent in- ■ habitant of the earth. We therefore find life on the highest mountain far above the permanent snowline.” Added to this, and fraternity of the cities concerned, which co-operat-s whole-heartedly, and a public which sensibly recognizes ...................... •\ • . The _:—“A full time health offi cer laid the foundation of health work------- -------- ------- . - which has been continued and expand- the value of precautionary health ed. , The enforcement of quarantine measures. in contagious and venereal diseases ■ These points are worthy of consid- has been very efficient. I' in contagious and venereal diseases ■ These points are worthy of consid- ’___ ’____ , __L Mostly mod- eration if health work is to be really ern school buildings help keep down effective in any community. Mosquitoes and Malaria. It Is estimated that the deaths an nually from malaria number some two millions, and this figure may probably | be multiplied by two or three hundred ; if we would arrive at the total number j of people in the world affected by the complaint. Malaria is mainly a disease of the tropics, and is- caused by a minute parasite in the blood. The parasites in one malaria patient may number anything from one hundred to a thous and millions. In many cases there are more parasites In the system of a malaria patient than there are people on the earth, and for ages it was be lieved that marshes and malaria were in some way connected. Sir Ronald Ross discovered that it was not the marsh but the mosquito which bred in the marsh which was the originator of the disease, and he declares that the parasite of malaria is, to the mosquito which carries it, as a threepenny-bit would be to a hippo potamus I When a disease-carrying mosquito bites, It injects a saliva in which are the malaria parasites. These are ried into the human circulatory tem and so throughout the body. The cure of malaria is quinine, the prevention of malaria is the des truction of the mosquito in which it breeds. car- sys- but ----*---- Sheep Tracks.” tracks” running horizontally face of steep slopes, a Dan- “Sheep along the ish geologist says, are a natural forma tion. He calls the little paths "ter racettes” and says they begin as a succession of horizontal cracks in the loose earth caused by the settling of the earth to a more stable position. Once the crack is started the action of the rain causes the marking to become rapidly mor distinct, and it soon re sembles a path made by animals. Sheep and other animals naturally use the paths, but they do not begin them. genuine INSIST! Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by phy sicians for 24 years. o -fjpAccept only Bayer package which contains proven directions Handy "Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists Aspirin Is the trade mark (registered in Canada) of Bayer Manufacture of Mono- aceticacldester of Salicylicacld One Cure For All Disease, j What is disease? Is it possible that diseases are really rnc, and that one antidote might be discovered to cure every ill? That is the st»r:''ng theory of Mr. J. E. R. McDor.ugli, F.R.C.S., discussed in “The World To-day” by Mr. J. Ab raham, the famous British surgeon. Mr. Johns!cn Abraham believes that this theory may Le the beginning of a new creative crisis in modern medi cine. “Dire . e,” he writes, “if Mr. Mc- Dcnayh’s thesis be accepted, is simply a successful attempt on the part of the invading organism to rob the pro- i tective particics in the bicod of tlieir free electricity; and recovery from disease is a reversal of this process, due to the protective particles finally getting the upper hand of the invading organism by recapturing this elec tricity. “It will thus be seen that the idea underlying this revolutionary doctrine is based on the electron theory—the theory which has already altered all modern ideas of physics, chemistry, and electricity.” In Mr. McDonagh’s view, the possesses a general protective stance which resist generally, basis of cure would be in every of arganic illness the strengthening of this substance; I and, given certain poisonous conditions, the antidote most suitable for increasing the con densed power of the protective par ticles could be worked out by chem ists. This antidote would be a cure-all. It would put reinforcements into the system to fight the germs of all dis ease. body sub- The case I i New Map Shewa Areas of Various Fcnrs of Vegeta tion and Emphasizes Strik ing Features of Tree Growth Lack of knowledge of climatic and ; vegetation conditions has caused many prominent travellers and visitors to Canada to unjustly criticize this coun try. The same and in many cases greater ignorance of Canadians has permitted much of this unjust criti cism to pass unanswered and unre futed, with the result that Canada has often been unfairly condemned. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the In terior, partly as a result of the great number of enquiries received, has pre pared and published an exceedingly in teresting Vegetation and Forest Cover Map cf Canada. This shows at a glance the different zones of vegeta tion and their chief distinguishing EASY TRICKS The Cut Foretold The Selfish Cuckoo. The curious habits of the “cuckoo” will never cease to be a matter of I wonderment. It appears that for a day after the young cuckoo has hatch ed out it lies quietly at the bottom of the nest, but on the second day of its life a change comes over it. It now becomes restless and irritable, and seems unable to bear the contact of the other young fledglings, or eggs, if any of these still remain unhatched. Indeed, it is the eggs, which it first seeks to get rid of, its sides seeming to find the touch of the eggs unbear able. Therefore, in moving to the bot tom of the nest, its back forms a hol low space wherein the egg sometimes rolls, and when this is the case the young cuckoo straightens Itself, and, moving backwards to the rim of the nest, it ejects the egg with a spring of its tiny legs, and then returns to the bottom of the nest. Its exertions have tired it so much that for a long while it lies as if in a state of collapse, but gradually, as it again feels the pressure of the other tiny birds on his soft sides, it grows more and more irritable, and keeps restlessly jerking about. At last its movements cause a small bird to fall on its back, and again it strains every nerve to make for the rim of the nest. --------»-------- Seven Modern Wonders. The wonders of ually divided into 6 even wonders of the Middle Ages world.. Though there is opinion on the question, wonders of the ancient world are us ually given as the pyramids of Egypt, Pharos of Egypt, hanging gardens of Babylon, statue of Jupiter by Phillas, mausoleum of Artemisia, Colossus of Rhodes and the Temple of Diana at Ephesus. The seven wonders of the Middle Ages are as follows: Coliseum of Rome, catacombs of Alexandria, great wall of China, Stonehenge in England, leaning tower of Pisa, por celain tower cf Nankin and the mosque of St. Sophia at Constantin ople. The seven wonders of the world may be considered to telephone, radio, aircraft, antitoxin, spectrum, analysis ray. I the world are us- three periods—the the ancient world, and the modern some difference of the seven modern be the radium, and X- Dominion Express Money are on sale in five thousand offices throughout Canada. —---------------------- Nature’s Sunshade. During days of prolonged sunshine and tropical heat, it is not sufficiently realized that there is nothing especial ly healthy about a “tanned” skin. The practice of exposing one’s face to di rect sunlight in order to get sunburn ed Is both absurd and dangerous. Ultra-violet rays destroy the animal tissues of the skin, but Nature’s anti dote is the brown pigment underneath which develops and, acting as a filter, shuts out the harmful influence. The most obvious precaution is a big sun hat, and if the hint furnished by Nature be acted upon, the color will be light brown. _____ Minard’s Liniment Relieves Pain. Orders Ccminon Errors About This Troif 1c Into Which People Fall. • Many people so far misunderstand fhe digestive system as to treat it like ■ characteristics, from what are known n. machine; neglecting it until it works [ sluggishly, then irritating it into work again by the use of purgatives. The ) stomach needs help at all times, but' a study of the process cf digestion will fhow that purgatives, as commonly taken, are seldom necessary and often harmful. To safeguard your digestion the diet must be controlled. Over-eating is al ways harmful, but one must assimilate enough food to supply the needs of the blood. Remember, the blood has to carry nourishment to all parts of the body and find fuel for its energy. Hence when the blood becomes weak and fails to do its work, indigestion arises. Therefore the sure remedy for indigestion is to build up the blood. If you suffer from any form of indiges tion chcc.se your diet carefully and take wholesome nourishment. Above all, start building up your blood by taking a course of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Then under the influence of the new blood supply, your digestive sys tem will respond naturally, your ap petite Improve and your food will do you good. So begin to improve your digestion by starring to take Dr. Wil liams’ Pink Pills now. You can get these pills from your druggist or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockvllle, Ont. This stunt is Invariably success ful if it is performed in a matter of fact, straightforward manner. Observe, while shuffling the carda which card is on the bottom of the pack. This can easily be done, and will excite no suspicion as the trick does not immediately follow. Borrow a write the name of observed on it and envelope. Before place the pack of down, on the table. Ask the spectator cards into two parts in the usual manner. Place the envelope on the packet which was the upper pack—or ask a spectator to do this and place the other packet on the envelope. The rest of the trick consists of showing, in as impressive a manner as possible, the “fact’’ that before the cards were cut that you wrote the name of the card at which the spectator cut. (Clip this out and paste it, with other of the series, in a scrapbookj business card, the card you seal it in the doing this, cards, faceas the barren lands, that are in no sense barren but support a growth of hardy grass and vegetation peculiar to the cold climate, to what is termed the Carolinian zone, in south,eastern Ontario, where is found almost sub tropical vegetation in the fruit belt. The enormous area of Canada must cf necessity provide a wide range of vegetation and forest conditions. In the northern country, extending from the shore of Hudso Bay to the Mac kenzie delta, the white spruce strug gles for existence, while on the south eastern portion of Vancouver Island are found a number of Californian types of trees, the most remarkable being the madrona, or arbutus, the only broad-leaved evergreen tree in Canada. The new map is an intensely inter esting one, and one that will conduce to much study and investigation. An Immense amount of hitherto upublish- ed information is shown thereon, much research work was entailed, and the notes of explorers and surveyors, from those of Sir Alexander MacKenzie, Sir John Franklin, Samuel Hearn and others to the more modern surveys and explorations of the different Federal and Provincial government de partments, were carefully examined for authentic records. To the student of Canadian conditions the new map will be of much assistance in enabling him to segrevate the several vegeta tion zones, approximate the possibili ties of forest iish the areas tricts. From north west, all the wonderful changes in our natural vegetation are vividly por trayed on the new Vegetation and Forest Cover Map. It fills a want long experienced, and will no doubt be In considerable demand. Copies may be obtained from the Director of the Na tural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the Interior at Ottawa. i to cut the Minard’s Liniment for Rheumatism. Three golden rules of life of a cen» tenarian who died, aged 107, were; Never to enter a ball-room; never to talk scandal; and never to enter a bar. Dancers to the number of 10,000 can be accommodated on the new dance floor at Wembley; this is the largest in England, if not in the world. //^EYESXh SUN.WIND.DUST ACINDERS JUCOMM1NDED b SOLD BY DRUGGISTS G-OPTICI/.NS Wxrrs roA tat« iye cam book, muiunb co. cmcAco.vaa , Nothing is more common in child hood more more more ous disease, the minor ills of childhood have their root in Indigestion. There is no medi cine for little ones to equal Baby’s Own Tablet# in relieving this trouble. They have proved of benefit in thous ands of homes. Concerning them Mrs. Jos. Lunette, Immaculate Conception, Que., writes: "My baby was a great sufferer from indigestion, but the Tab lets soon set her right, would not be without them.1 Own Tablets dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. --------«>------— His Mother’s Spirit? A little boy, six years of age, recent ly ran away from his home at Aversa —about twelve miles from Naples—to escape from his stepmother, who ill- treated him. Having searched for him in vain, his father informed the police. Soon Pas- qualino was discovered at Naples with his grandmother. The latter told how, a few days before, she had heard a knocking at her door, and, on opening it, she had seen, to her astonishment, her small grandson standing there alone. “Who brought you here?” she asked. “A woman,” answered Pasqualino. “What woman?” “I don’t know,” said the child, who then told his grandmother that he had run away because his stepmother beat him, but had got frightened, not know ing where to go. While he was wan dering about the streets of Aversa, a woman came up to him and took him by the hand. Without speaking she ; lifted him on to the electric tram that brilliant and original markings on the runs between Aversa holding him closely to her all the way. At Naples she led him to his grand mother’s house, knocked, gave him a kiss, and left him. “Had you never seen her before?” asked the wondering grandmother. “Never, but she was like that,” said the boy, pointing to a photograph of his own mother that stcod on the table. His mother had died when he was only a few months old. than indigestion. Nothing is dangerous to proper growth, weakening to the constitution or likely to pave the way to danger- Fully nine-tenths of all and now I .’’ Baby’s are sold by medicine Of Course. Mother — “Bobby, this note from your teacher says you’re the last boy in a class of twenty-five.” Bobby—“Well, it could be worse.” Mother—“I don’t see how.” Bobby—“It could be a bigger clajss.” -----------<♦----------- Butterfly Culture in France. Butterfly culture in the south of France is rapidly growing in popu larity. . There, under expert scientific guidance, hundreds of beautiful speci mens are bred. The farms are pro vided with special leafy trees and plants on which the eggs are hatched. Directly the young appear the branch es are where water, have leaves Having been In an even temperature for about two weeks, the young cater pillars are where they tected from grown this and soon they retire into roll themselves up into leaves. There are collected and stored in boxes, where in a very short time butterflies of wonderful hues are evolved. Cross breeding has been tried and numerou experiments are conducted to obtain taken to a well-ventilated room, they are placed in pars of As soon as the caterpillars eaten up this first supply of fresh branches are provided. taken out into the open, are placed on birds by nets. protective net plants pro- When -fully Is removed cocoons or I exploitation, and estab- of known farming dis- to south, from east to MRS. MISENER’S ACHESANDPAINS Vanished After Using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Branchton, Ont. — ‘ ‘ When I wrote to you for help my action was mostly Six Years of Pain. There is a prevalent opinion on the outside of China that the custom of foot-binding among the girl children of that country has been generally abandoned, but such is not the case. The movement appears to have taken root only in the more populous dis tricts, but at other parts the custom is still followed to a very great ex tent. The foot of the Infant girl is turned under so that the toe is bent back toward the heel and it is tightly bound in this position. It means six years of constant pain before the foot has taken the desired shape and then it measures from three to five inches in length. At one time a law was passed forbidding foot-binding, but there was no penalty and no means of enforcing it, so that no attention was paid to it by the natives. —--------o----------- Twenty miles of sewing cotton may be used in the making of a fur coat. prompted by curios ity. I wondered if I, too, would benefit by your medicine. It was the most profit able action I have ever taken, I heart ily assure you, for through its results I am relieved of most of my sufferings. I have taken six boxes of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound Tablets and a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Blood Medicine, and I can honestly say I have never been so well before. I had suffered from pains and other troubles since I was fifteen years old, and during the ‘Great War ’ period I worked on munitions for two years, and, in the heavy lifting which my work called for, I strained myself, causing pelvic inflammation from which I have suffered untold agony, and I often had to give up and go to bed. I had doctored for several years without getting per manent relief, when I started to take your medicines. ”—Mrs. Goldwin Mi3- ENER, Branchton, Ont. Write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medi cine Co.. Cobour g. Ontario, for’a free copy of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Private Text- Book upon ‘ ‘ Ailments of Women. ” O ,CLEAN SEED CRAIN Fanning Mills—I eupply screens, wire cloth, zinc, repairs—Chatham Fanning Mills and other makes. Incubator supplies; Thermometers. MANSON CAMPBELL, Chatham, Ont. ---------- ------------ Not a few fellows who tried to dodge work have wound up in the peniten tiary at hard work without remun eration. wings of these insects, which are after ward sold to collectors or for the adornment of women’s hats and dress es. Rub It In ! -wISSUE No. 36—’24. and Naples, j ,d I - I For pain, stiffness, or Inflammation apply Minard's and rub it in. In Doubt. He—“You are the sunshine of my life. Your smile falls like lightning into my soul.' With you by my side I would defy all the storms of life.” She—“Is this a proposal of a weath er report?” Frame your mind to mirth and mer riment, which bar a thousand harms and lengthen life. Keep The Hair Live And Glossy With Cuticura On retiring, gently rub spots of dan druff and itching with Cuticura Oint ment. Next morning shampoo with a suds of Cuticura Soap and hot water. This treatment does much to keep the scalp clean and healthy and promote hair growth. E&n>p1« Each Free by Mafi. Address Canadian Depet : “Cutioara, F. 0. Bex 3616, Montreal." Price, Soap 26c. Ointment 26 and 50c. Talcum 26c. ‘ Try our new Sharing Stick. Bitro-Phosphate feeds the nerves and old people need it to make them feel and look younger. It’s the one best nerve builder for weak, nerve-ex hausted men and women and that why druggists guarantee it. Price per pkge. 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