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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-09-09, Page 2CURRENT TOPICS. Almost is one persuaded Ly the arguments of one sot of health ex- perts when another set cries, "Stop, look and listen," and an impressive array of arguments on the other side of the question leaves hien in a bewileered state. If the doctors agreed swift indeed would be the pace of reform in things phy- sical and hygienic; but the doctors hardly ever agree, and the layman must perforce pursue the uneven tenor of his way. Meny attempts have been made to get a medical consensus of opinion on smoking, cn tea and coffee drinking, and other such things, but no syuipoxi- um of this sort has carried us "any forrader." Doubtless the final re- sult --final for the season, of course --ef the interesting discussion of the danger tei the human race from houses and clothes will be of a na- ture to cause hut little disturbance to the building and clothing trades. We aro warned that insanity or merciful extinction will bo our fate In exactly 265 years—talk about the "bankruptcy" of science in the face of this exactitude as to time --if we do not return to nature and sav- agery --if we do not level down our flat apartments, skyscrapers and houses and do not throw away as much of our raiment as modesty plus the aeverity of the climate in our particular latitude will permit. We aro admonieh'd to take the lid off every pore and let the sun disin- fect us hourly and unremittingly. Sunlight, we are assured, makes the savage the picture of health he is, and if we cannot imitate him fully the next best thing is to live in glass porches. But alas! only the other day an- other physician and savant warned us that too much sunshine is mak- ing drunkards, degenerates and criminals of us, causing the light types to succumb in the struggle for Existence here and now. We were told to cultivate not light, but shade, to avoid glass because it traps heat, and busily engage in the search of means of survival. Other experts assure us that nothing real- ly matters so long as we excise the appendix and the superfluous in- testine. What are the laymen to do 1 Nothing at all 1 Well, we alight compromise on reform in our bad habit, of awallowing our food at double-quick lunches and on trying to be fairly c..nifortahle as to cloth- ing both summer and winter. Let us he conservative -progressive, safe and sane, in hygiene as in politics, and leave the houseless and clothcs- 1(ss Utopia. ponding fuller know- ledge, to tho medical "radicals." r -- THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING Peat is rtrtly developed coal. Na- ture has failed to impart that ci:ermous pressure arising from the deposit of soil and rock upon the decayed vegetable substance which is necessary to compress it into a hard material, nor has it been carbonized and th , water eliminat- ed by the interior heat of the earth. A natural upheaval whereby the heat 1, • :ere buried under imn taten.. accumulations of rock and soil would achieve this end. If, therefore, one could reproduce tho cyclo of operations carried out by nature, compress the peat and drive c•ff the water by a attady heat, coal wvuld be the result. 1)r. Martin Ekenherg, a well- knu•.vn .Swedish scientist, after many years' research 111141 ceaseless experiments, has apparently solved the problem and has produced at the manufactory erected upon his owu peathogs in Sweden a peat fuel which in appearance, combusti- bility, and heat raising properties compares favorably with coal. By minute study '1 the natural evo- lutien he has succeeded in perfect - Mg an artificial process, the funda- mental characteristics of which are the elimination of the water by 1 -,cat and the- application of pressure Eby mechanical agency. Illuminating gas can also he eas- ily and cheaply derived from this pest coal. The process is the same as that adnpted for the manufacture of gas from coal. The carbonized Tweet is distilled in a dry retort, and the volatile constituents are secur- td, scrubbed, washed, and dried in the usual way, while the ordinary by-products arc also obtained. The gas has n high illuminating inten- sity comparing favorably war coal !fits, while the coke residue is superior to that resulting from coal distillation, owing to its low sulphur Percentage. This coke is eminently adapted to metallurgical processes. Anil it can also be used in place of thareent to a considerable extent, ith the advantage of being much *beeper. It Is the Pain That Enters the Home That e e lleese0. YOUNG FOLKS 11114,00040000000000000 '1'11E BERRY MACE. Binds the Family Together Ned had been in the country a thole week before the weather was just right for berrying, and on the "God, my maker, who giveth over diseaso and pain come out of sunshiny morning when the time d.d songs in the night."—Job. spirts,. 10. the hours of anguish and broken cornu at last no one had to be spok- It is remarkable that those peo- spirit. en to about dwadliug over his dross - Flo who have streugtheued the Perhaps if we could probe the ing. Buttons and buttonholes seem - world's stere of optimism have been mystery of suffering we might he ed to find each other by tuagio; even those who were educatrti1 in the tempted to administer its eurricu- breakfast, with nice, brown, but - school of suffering, while those who lune ourselves. We can only for treed waffles did not hold the little have left only a memory of pessi- ourselves determine that it shall cousins long, and so it wa•' not more mastic complaining have usually not conquer um, that we shall not than eighto'clock when aunt Julia had least of which to complain; be like dull schoolboys who weep stood at the front door and watched their lives have seemed slid because over their lessons instead of learn- them off. ''Thio boys want to go of habitual self-absorption. ing thorn, that this world shall lose barefoot," said Kate. Job in his losses, David in his ex- a1: unnecessary suffering and gain A Julia all the good out of all that remains. So when the night conies it is for us to determine whether it shall inspire us to song or lead us with cornplainings to make it yet dark- er. Here is the time to sing when it is hardest of all to raise the voice in cheer and encouragement. When it is our night there aro always others who would be aided by our song. Blessed aro those who SING IN THE SHADOW. Somehow, to believe that love is oter all, that the infinite goodness is greater than all the evil, to know with the old man Job that., though affliction may rob inc of all that men call niy possessions, the abid- ing and unchanging values remain, that suffering after all only pricks the surface ---this is to find a song in the darkest hour. And these experiences make ten- der our hearts to one another ; my need reminds me of my neighbor. We would soon be calloused, utter- ly indifferent, but for these blows that break up the surface of the life. The poor and those who know need are tenderest in heart ono to another. Just to acquire the grace of sympathy wore worth the course in sorrow. We may not solve the mystery of suffering, but wo can face it and sing through it; we can take all the good there is in it to ourselves and make our own lives sweet and re- freshing through it. Wo can sing songs in the night; we can learn patience with one another. We can keep our hearts open in syni- pat.hy; we can turn the dreary hours to song in some other life, for to think of tho sorrows of others is to find tho joy that lies hidden ie every sorrow for us. HENRY F. COPE. ile, Jesus ns the pian of sorrows, Bunyan in his prison, Milton in his blindness, Robert Louis Stevenson in his thralldom of disease, all have taught us to look up, to hope, to have faith in the eternal good- ness, to catch the bleeeing in the guise of pain and loss, and to Darn for ourselves the crown of a joy that blooms through sorrow. The problem of pain is always greater to those who Hurst stand by and see others suffer, perhaps un- able to help them by any means, than it is for those who themselves must bear the pain. It is true there is no wholly satisfactory solution of the mystery of suffering, none that satisfies us in its real presence, but ii: its effects, in its fruitage on thoso who face it. in high courage, we may see some suggestions of its meaning in our universe. This is the world's groat school, the place where the affections and the higher attributes are educated. HERE WE LEARN PATIENCE, fortitude, faith, sympathy, strength to serve and to lead. None of the lessons are such that we would seek them of ourselves; none aro such that Wo would lose thein af- terward if we could. Never aro the ties stronger than when all gather by the couch of suffering or when they stand to- gether straining their eyes across the great void. Only those who know realize how homes are hallow- ed by the fact of belonging to two worlds. Out of suffering rise our great songs. The poetry that reaches our heart has been written by eyes blinded in tears. It opens its rich- es to us when we read it in the samo way. Just as liberty has been born in prison walls. so has joy and the confidence of final victory in the fun. And Rob's face broke 11-4-1-1-1• 4 frit() 11 grin as 110 said, -That's •s all nigh;, s' dose, as long as it lasts, [� ! • but y.0 hop -toads will get tired be- ■�6iSI% 10�� it re long (lueas I'll skip un ahead 777 and got Aunt. Julia to send souto t_ mere shoes and stockings." T fl i ii `s. } When they all reached twine at last Aunt Julia said she bad ne. er had a finer tut of berries. Thu next day, when the fs.niily was (sating dinner in the shady back FADS AND FANCIES. porch, Nell said, "I couldn't race all sorts of black flowers are ap berries with a cripple, 'specially ptariug in iuilltuery. w'heu he was company, too. But %%lugs trim many of tho small I'd just like another chance, and thou !'d show him !' --Youth's Coin- huts ter wear with tailor wades. panion. Danny puck parasols are ciubrui- ___ _ dered with flowers of layeadcr. * s. C•00040{.O10.00 4' • 1 IIEALTII i Aunt « to came down to where 1 they were standing, and said, titin p• ' a shake of the head, "I'nt afraid THE STUDY OF CANCER. you'll be sorry, Rob. And I'msure Ned will. Why, he's drawing up Many skeptical and "practical" Idis feet already ! Do they hurt you, persons are prone to scoff at the al - dear 4" al- leged progress in medical science. But led had Horde up his mind to They adroit that the average span learn the art of going barefoot; of life has been lengthened, and mother had told him he might be- that the fearful infant mortality of fere he came to visit his cousins. So the last and previous centuries has ne planted his feet more firmly on been materially I educed ; but this, the ground, and answered, "No, they say, is the result ce the im- u.a'am. Least they don't hurt prot- n►ucb bytts in sanitary)giene engii engineerscted as and80- ty much."erologista as by medical investiga- When they passed Uncle Rob's tors• store ho heard the laughter, and They cast up against medicine the canto out with a stick of peppermint fact, admitted by all, that cancer candy for each one ; and Nod said, is on the increase, forgetting that "11'e'1l thank it back to you in ber-this maye be due in part to the sav- ries, and I'm going to bring the ing of life in the Duels years, the host of anybody." result of which is that more live "Biggest buckets don't always to reach the cancer age. make the most berries, nor biggest Cancer is a diseaso of middle or talking, either." And that was why advanced life; and if more people Nell and Ned each decided that a live to the time when they, are li- certain pail shouldcarry home the able to suffer from cancer, it is evi- ftnest lot of berries, but they decid- dent that more will suffer from the td on different pails. disease. They turned out of the village Medical science has discovered street, and a ten-minuto walk over the cause or the modo of propaga- the sandy road, still damp and cool tion of malaria and yellow fever, .from the rain, brought thein to the and has freed, or made it possible field where the blackberry thicket to free, tho tropical regions of tho ORS. Then poor Ned, who had nes.- world from these terrible scourges. has robbed diphtheria of most of growing on its bush, soon teenich , in all his life before seen a berry It has discovered a remedy whteen, that ho had chosen a bad time to its terrors, and another which has begin to toughen his feet, for he reduced the mortality of ccrebro- cculd not get near enough to reach spinal meningitis from eighty to even the fruit on th s very outside twenty-five per cent., and promises edge of the thicket. to reduce it even further, and to The girls wriggled right into the dc' away with the terrible sequels bushes, finding the ripest berries of the disease which formerly made o Lack in the shade, and Rob, who recovery almost worse than death. (.id not mind the stubble in tho field It has not yet conquered tuberculo- because, he was used to it, went sir, but it is in a fa,r way to do so, straight to a place ho knew about and, what is more, it is teaching round out of sight. Ned bravely the public has inn to etw solved tavoid he pproblo em e. tried to follow ; but the stubble was of cancer. That it will do so, how - intoand hurt so that the tears came ever, is not doubted by those in - into his eyes, and he had to give it formed of the strenuous efforts bo- t•p and climb to the top rail of the n made in every country by earn - crooked fence tv wait for his cou est and trained investigators. All 81118' over the world institutions have The Brno seemed (eery long to him. been established for cancer re - The was just wondering whether it, sennas. Ono of this sort has exist - would be fair to pay for his berries cd in Buffalo, New York, for over with the link puzzle Rob liked so ten years ; the diseaso is being much, and maybe got more than studied by a commission in liassa- Kell, after all, when he heard a stusotts, by another in England; voico, and Nell herself twisted her there aro also institutes for the way out of the briers. "I told you I'd get thorn!" she [ort and Heidelbcer in Berlin, iGormany, hcgan. "Where aro yours l Let's and an i Heidelberg l society has Frank - measure." Thew she caught sight leen establishand meets regu- of his empty pail, and looked from !arty for the comparing ing of results. the doleful face to the hare legs and The results thus far, from the ed. O Ned. she said, 'chi(I the chubby feet and her heart tithe - point of view of the layman, have �y not been great; but although no hurts cure has been found, a great deal Ho did not answer. Bch! pet has been learned about the nature her berries in a shady spot, climbed of cancer. The cause of it has not tip beside hint and fanned herself established. i yet been definitely estaidnd. But w ith her sunbonnet. I could pick bthe study has been sysdeans you some terries and put them in prosecuted for only n decade, and your bucket " she said, after a despite the paucity of results. the while, but tw•ouldn't bo your outlook is promising. Coating.' Still chert was ao an Twenty years ego a man who swot. Truth to tell, Ned was eliok- prophesied the freeing of Havanaing heel( some troublesome tears. from yellow fever would have been Ile did not care about berries; ho laughed nt. Ten years from now, v. anted to pick berries. we may hope and believe, the prob- Suddenly she turned to hint with lent of cancer will also have been a new light in her face. "I'll tell solved. --Youth's Copanion. you what ! she cried, excitedly. 1 "Let's get d' wn, and you can put m little en my shoes and stockings while I PAPA WOULDN'T MINDrest." After being t'IVHAT 1 Ned beamed on her! then his face t:.cked in beat f,•11. "my feet are dusty," he said. Dtadget begged her mother to stay \o matter:" panted his cousin, wenher until she g• t. to sleep. nearly losing her balance as sho "For," slue pleaded, -it is all dark lent over to manakin the little and Madge is so 'fw•aid." "But hoots. Ire always vicar our old- He disappeared into the bushes; there is nothing to bo afraid of," est clothes when wo go berrying."her mother assured her. ".11ama tryst go right down -rimes, for papa then Nell called him back, and in is there alone waiting fur her• Now a moment of further generosity, try to go to sleep and remember told him her secret place where the that the angels are right here with best black ones were. When the you and will take care of you." others carne straggling 011e by one "Oh, but, mime," wailed the little front the thicket• they found the two deice, ' I'd rather have you. rivals waiting for t fern under the please, mauls, fond the Angels shade of a little tree in the mad, clown with papa and you stay hero giggling as if they had something funny alt to themselves, and the with Madge " -The Delineator for Septembcr. pails, plaerd stele by side, were each felled (0 e very brim. ALWAYS CONTRARY. Rob hadthscratched his legs and was a little. hit cross, so he said, '-Thought you two made eo much fuss about running a race picking berries, and here yon are sitting to- gether as thoughthere were no such thing as racing.' "You'll see a new kind of race after a while," said N(d, and ho and Nell laughed some more. Then theysaw---what do you think! Nell and Ned, hand in 1 and. hopping along. each with one foot in a shoe and stocking and holding its bare runts np off the Row• nd- I[thief did laugh! Kate and THE SUNDAY SCHOOL I1' :lrrival nt Jerusalem. 1's. 15- i;. l5. 11'o tank up our carriages, ;in early English word from the verb "carry" as our modern word INTERNATIONAL LESSON, baggage is from "bag," or lug - SEPT. 12. gage from "lug." To Jerusalem a journey of t ixty-four miles accord- ing to Ramsay. Here they went as guest • to the Lowson XI. Paul's Third Misslon- house of Manson of Cyprus, an old my .Journey. Acts 21: 17. disciple, not aged, but of long standing, R. V. "early,"who re- sided in Jerusalem, but seems to I. Homeward hound from Miletus have met Paul and his companions —Va. 1-3. In our last lesson wo at Cesarea. This was a wise plan, left Paul and his companions at for they would be under the protec- Miletus whore lie had a long cou- tion of a devoted Jewish Chria- fcrence with the Ephesiau Elders. teen well known and doubtless After a sad parting I'nul's company prominent in the Jewish church, embarked again, on Sunday morn- but who alto had been brought up ing, May 1, for they must take the iii a Greek country. It is also pos- sible that at this crowded festival Coos, their first port, was forty the travelers niiglit not easily have miles south of Miletus. It is ,a small ol,tninexl comfortable lodgings. island off the coast of eerie in the The brethren received 115 gladly, referring to private and personal s��Thotest next day corner of they Asia «lor. fi[ty greetings at Mnason's helms, which miles to Ilhodes (r. i.), an island must have been very affectionate southeast of Coos, off the south•and enthusiastic; while the more ern coast of Carla. More they forma] reception took place the changed vessels, pasred along the next day at the borne of James. shores of Cyprus, where Paul and .I. Barnabas preached the gospel in WREN POOR WERE CRIMINAL. their early clays. There were _ Christians there even before Ste•Strange Condition in Peru at phen's martyrdom. (For incidents R sco Acts 11: 10, 20; 13: 4; 15: 39.) Period of the Incas. 3. And landed at Tyre, the cont In Peru at the period of the In irercial emporium of t henicia on the northern borders of Palestine. car, before its conquest by the 11. Paul's Experiences at Tyre. -- sixteenth in the early part of the Vs. 3-6. Tyre was about three hun- stxtecnth century, poverty was cared ai.d fifty miles from Patera, ev,ttntett ncrime•. The whole tcrri- and could bo reached in three or tory was divided into throe per fear days. tions, and the respective revenues After the seven days the people and resources were Steven (I) to Gado Pnul and his companions a support tho priesthood and cere- n ►at affectionate farewell, accent - their worship of the sun, who was pausing hint to the ship. it is in their god ; (2) to the reigning Inca terest ing t<, note that even the chit- for the expenses of the royal house- dren wont with their parents to hold and the cost of government; the ship. It reveals a new bole in tat to the people at so much a head. Paul's diameter, that the great The extent of land apportioned to man, busy with world wide and each householder was regulated centuries long duties attracted the by the size of his lentils. This na• levo of the children. tion of workers wrought as ono III.—Paul's Experiences at Cera. man for the common good. Their res.—Vs. 0-14. 0. We took shipp simple wants were easily and en - first day from Tyre brought finely satisfied, no one was over- Thethe travelers thirty miles to Ptele- worked, and thus thoy lined a hap. n.ais (named from Ptolemy), the py' and contented life, with ire ancient Accho, the modern Acre. quem holidays and festivals. Under Here they greeted the Christians, a social system so well organized and the next day they sailed thirty that no man could be so peer unless or forty miles to C'esarea (named he were incorrigibly idle we can - from Cesar), the Roman capital of rot wonder that those who did fall Judea and the official residence of into poverty and want through its governors. Ilene lived the Ro- man sheer indolence were regarded as pian centurion who was led to deliberate criminals ar•d were then Christ by Peter. Hero were the allowed to starve I:eadgnarters of Philip. tho evange- list for this region. Tis w -as the third visit Paul had paid to this She --"Rut she has her mother's city. Net long after this he was beautiful eyes." Tfe• •`•Yes: hut here Per trial, and remained for two she'd stand a better chance of years in prison before he was sent catel net a h:t•band if she had het to Rome. father's her'leere hank -account :" It. is one of the unalterable laws of (redden that ladies' coats should button the opposite way to a maid's Ir• the olden titres a gentleman in the eonil►any of a lady ltad to al- probabitities of interference from Iters. in consequence he walked at her right side, with his right arm free to draw his weapon. It nes enly natural that the button: should he placrd on the right side Of his coat. so that ho ct.uld fasten it with his free hand. The lady's buttons were on the left ,isle. to enable her to take her handk,•rehief from her tr;ctiee without rene•..eg Grace took their pails. so they ber arra from that of the g:`:r `e - could hop more easily, and joined man• Medieval frocks apparently are leaning back to the draped skirt. .Newest coat collars aro large, round affairs of Irish and ('luny lace. Tho pannier dress is coming back. to the dismay of the short a omen. Ostrich feathers hold their own. but must of those now seen are curl- ed. Light, old rose tints are genuine- ly girlish colors 1,r milinory pur- poses. Tho veiling of one color over an- other ist one of thefashions of the moment. Satin crepes, on account of their light weight, aro the preferred hat fae ing. Gowns worn everywhere show a great deal of embroidery, done u ith tho coarsest 'hreads. Soutache has lost none of its fev- er, and is now often employed with floss for decorating gowns. Hosiery colors this season aro slack, white, tan, blue, wisteria, taupe, bronze, and American beauty. Lace coats are noticeable for taf- feta silk trimming, heavily soutach- ed in the same color as the lace A new pongee ribbon in dashy de- signs is intended not so much for hat decoration as for womon's neck- ties. A smart new slipper has vamps of colored loather, while the rest of the slipper and the heel are of white kid. Fancy white ajbots, iitset with white lace, are pretty for the elder- ly woman to don with a dark lawn dress. Many eyelet embroidered ba- tistes, sheer linens, and other trans- parent materials are soon over white, black, or a color. Manufacturers are binding and slashing nearly all fine coats for next winter with tor. Some of tho straight scarfs are made so deep that they are almost shawls, and the shaped ones are made with the same idea. Earliest advices as to [all hats are that they will be large with trim- mings of hege aigrettes and enorm- (i ous flowers. �i Artificial flowers are worn to RCMP extent in the hair. The new- est for this purpose are made of gauze and spangled with silver. Sheer slte es are mostly made with bands of the same material. It strengthens the sleeve, and they are less liable to pull out. Sequins and beads are as fash- ionable in Paris as they ever were ter evening wear, both for entire gowns and for those additions to the bodice which make such a good effect as supplementary to a plain- ly made, well fitting bodice. Entire gowns are now being made of sheer marabout, which first ap- peared as waists. They aro pretti- est trimmed with Irish lace. The dress panel, which has been somewhat plain, is now cut, slash- ed, divided. and made into numer- ous pretty effects below the waist lino. SW.tlLOWS :AND FLIES. What One Swallow May Not De, and ',hat it Single Fly Can. "One swallow may not make a summer but," said Mr. Kwillkuin- by, "I think we must all agree that one fly may make a winter, or at leant a season of great discontent for us, and this at a time when na- turally winter would be further/ from our thoughts; the single fly f refer to beim; the one that conies around and bothers us when we want to sleep on summer moru• Ings. "We wake, say, at 5 o'clock andaeo rho light of the sun already t rightly marked around the boed• ors of the window shades. We look at our state)) and see that it is only 5 o'clock, while thanks to our good fortune we are privileged to sleep till 7. So then we stretch out in comfort and in the peaceful still- ness. adjusting our head in such a position that those light streaks don't strike our eyes; and then with plea+ureble thoughts of the two hours more of sleep to come we elute off ---about three-quarters ()ft'. And then ---- "Then one, single, loud voiced, i -yes footed, viciously attack- i►:g, persistently sticking, fiercely buzzing fly that on such mornings is always sure to harry us comes in; and at its coming all our hap- Fy dreams and anticipations of that lovely added sleep fade away "1 an willing to concede that one swallow may not make a sum- er 1 think that you a ill concede that one fly can make it very hot r 1 little • art to r aka a small man dizzy.