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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-6-6, Page 2BOGY Of CATCHING COLDS SITNLIG•IIT AND IWESH AIR REST PREVENTIVES, Wet V est Not cf Tlz.ens+elvee al, Dan,, ger, Says a Illedicul Writer. The war over colds said their causes has broken. put anew' in the. Medical Journal. Dr. William Brady attacks with violence what. he calls the ' "bogy of catching colds," There are some five different kinde of bacilli and cocci which bring on coryza; or a cold, says Dr. Brady. Each variety has a large name and a meaning to the medical profession. .Also, , accord- ing to Dr. Brady, there are four predisposing factors an acquiring coryza : overheated apartments, un- hygienic dress, insufficient ventila- tion and overeating. The medium of infection he :thinks is usually dust, but direct infection undoubt- edly +secure in children intimately assooiated indoors with coryza car-. viers,• Headds that theideal place to catch coryza is the average schoolroom, where medical inspec- tion is conspicuously wanting. The article 'goes ea: Coryza never develops primarily in the open air. Exposure to rain, hail, wind and snow is tonic so long as it is comfortable'—physically comfortable. Wet feet are of no consequence unless they become uncomfortably cold; and cold .feet are not cause but a. sign ofdefective circulation. Plunging the feet into cold water does good, not harm, provided the reaction is obtained. COLD BATHING, LIWTWISE, whether in health or in illness, . is wholly a matter of vasomotor re- action. Any child from one year up who does not know enough to, come in out of the cold when the cold is Un- comfortable is mentally defective. The natural instinct of self preser- vation directs us safely in this; no advice from house -bred sanitarians is needed. Ste long as a. child is comfortable, though he stands in a puddle all day, the effeet is tonic; so soon as the reaction fails and the circulation loses its equilibrium the child becomes too uncomfortable to enjoy himself and if • he is not an imbecile he goes in to get warm. Identical principles are involved in'the exposure of the body, clothed or unclothed, to cold air. If the invalid suffers actual physical dis- comfort therefrom it is doing, harm; on the other hand, if he enjoys an airing—rain, hail or .shine—as nine- ty-nine in. a hundred do, it is better than any tonic in the pharmacopeia for him. When harm is done by such exposure the equilibrium of ,the circulation fails, and it is debat- able- though by no, means proved. that infection with pathogenic bac- teria might more readily occur. Dr. Brady finds fault with the medical profession in general be- cause its members don't seem to realize the necessity of guarding against coryza infection. . Not one physician in, a thousand, says he, instructs coryza patients to disin- fect the nasal discharge, although it may be .swarming with virulent pneumococci, merely because he thinks the trouble is "simple" cory- za and only a "cold." Dr. Brady adds: The universal indoor plague- simple coryza—is a disabling, fre- quently mutilating, sometimes fa- tal, infectious disease, prevailing epidemically. The treatment is hygienic, medicinal, dietetic, bio- logical and surgical. The progno- sis is recovery, chronicity, perma- nent deafness, OPERATION OR DEATH. It is most commonly observedin individuals. least exposed to cold air and rough weather, and it is never observed in the Arctic Zone: The medical profession aids and abets the propagation and spread of coryza in two ways, both negative: First, by passively encouraging the catching cold phobia; and, .second-. Iy, by failing to isolate simple cory- za and disinfect the nasal discharge. The economic waste chargeable to this fault is beyond computation, the irremediable deafness, the un- necessary operations on accessory sinuses, mastoids and middle ear, the preventable deaths from cere- bral lesions directly due to simple coryza, are appalling. ' All because a few superannuated sanitary engi- neers and faintly doctors ofauthen- tic vintage insist that there is such a thing as "catching cold." Yet there are, still isolated in- stances in which awoman "takes cold" after childbirth, by and with. the consent of her medical attend- ant, and has "a bad run of fever." To this crime we, as a profession,. are ;accessory before the fact, since we cling to the catching cold del.u- sion. We aid and abet the obstetri- den with the dirty hands, We lend encouragement to the surgeon with the dirty instruments. * * * Draughts are inevitable as the rising sun or the falling rain orthe changing weather. No sanitarian has yet offered or ever will offer a iaeans of vents"latinga room, wbIt oft a draught. ..A' draught that eau' es no discomfort—physieal, not psychical :discornfoirt--can, do to harm., A' -clean 'draught of cold fresh air is, an unmitigated• blessing —unmitigated by a. window board or other curious, contrivan.,aes to nae the draught crooked: The draught will do the most good when we take it straight. The draught dodger le pretty certain to be a ;coryza,. carrier.' The best disposal we can make of window boardsis to send them to au old ladies' home— TO BE USED FOR ii'INDLi G. Exposure to the weather -rain, shine, snow or'blow increases the resistance against infeetious dis- eases, not alone respiratory but every infectious diseasewe recog- nize. Our present outdoor treat - mea of pueumonia is the strongest possible proof ,of the" value of 'cold air. As for exposure in general; Dr, Brady thinks it can be no harm un- less it causes physical discomfort.. Wet feet are of no consequence, he says, finless they become uncom- fortably cold, and cold -bathing is a • good thing as long as the reaction ' fellows. It won't hurt a child to stand in a, puddle all day as long as he likes it, : The effect is a tonic. He says : Sunlight, the . best germicide known to medicine, costs nothing. Cold fresh air, the best tonic in the world, is free to all. Only the housed up molly coddles need blood purifiers in the spring. No one ever caught coryza orpneumonia out in the open. These are house infec- tions. No more domesticated germ exists than the pneumococcus. Coryza probably costs the .com- munity more from an economic standpointthan pneumonia, in- fluenza and diphtheria combined, yet we take no precautions what- ever to prevent its spread. Osler recognizes the epidemic nature of coryza. Others dodge draughts. We all know it is .a bacterial infec- tion, but we are not all agreed on the predisposing factors. The best ,possible environment for a. coryza or pneumonia patient, thinks Dr. Brady, is cold air out of doors. He . should lie wrapped in warm blankets, and •be clothed in woollen garments. The doctor's final fling at the cold bogy is this : 1. Throttle the cold bogy at the bedside without mercy. 2. Isolate all coryza patients: un- til the discharge ceases, preferably in the open air. 3. Disinfect handkerchiefs and all nasal or pharyngeal secretions. 4. . Battle relentlessly against carious teeth, :suppurating glens and culture tube tonsils. 5. Preach the gospel ofcold fresh air and sunlight. • VERY A Vk ARD SITUATIONS AN ACTOR TELLS SOrtIE "EM- BARRASSING" STORIES. • Incidents. Which Prove How Easy •It Is to "Put Your Foot In It." I frankly- confess that I have found some -enjoyment in watching people who have got themselves into awkward :situations, writes Wilkie Bird, the actor, in London Answers. I have been in some awk- ward ,situations myself, and when I see others in a more or less like plight I can readily imagine their feelings -hence my enjoyment., I remember once driving in acab to my house in the suburbs where I then lived. When I arrived at my door I found that, owing --to some defect in the door -catches of the eab, or to a clever trick on the part of the driver, neither of the doors would open, so I had to make my exit from the cab bhro+trgh the win- dow. I accomplished•this by plac- ing lacing my hands en the driver',s shoul- ders, by the aid of which support I nervously drew myself out of the cab. It wag about three o'clock on a summer afternoon when this little i occurred, and it m d to incident occt red, sere e afford much gratification and amusement to the paasers-by, among whom was a lady I knew. SORRY I hesitated whether I should pre- tend not to see hei'',: or take, off my hat. You have no idea how awk- ward it is to take off your hat when your body is stretched horizontally between a. cab -window :and the driver standing on .the footway. I was sorry . afterepards I attempted to do I was once standing on the plat- form at a country railway -station. A fat, middle-aged gentleman, who wanted to' get out of a train, was unable to open the door of the, car- riage. Having alighted myself; I watch- ed him attentively from a distance. As he was leaning his head out of the carriage, uttering expressions apparently': of extreme indignation, though I did not aetually hear thein, the train began to move out of the station, and at the same in- stant he .succeeded eb lase in open- ing the door, only, 'however, to have it banged en him by an attentive and careful_ porter ---the solitary one on the platform. FOILED 1 The exprossalon Dry the gentle maitre face as the tzkin glided away with him` captive rens;iuded" ae of a 41t �tw+►as•eaayeas picture I saw ecce ie. ?aria a£ a aa man who eeextied greatly upset. about something; the picture: was entitled "Foiled," I remember, No matter how careful a man is, he is -bound a.t timate to' find himself in an awkward leituation; and one can't help it. It ixtveriably hap- pens that yell get into ,an awkward situation at the most unexpected moments., and in the most unexpect- ed ways. At an:evening party sevoral years. ago I undertook to tell fortunes, I d:cl this simply in order to help my hostess. to amuse, her ,'guests, Well, I looked at people's halide and c>or oocted the nicest •things. T could think of to say; about their future, and everyone, especially the young ladies, whom I predicted would .have most-oligible offers sof marriage in the immediate, future, if not sooner, were mightily pleased. - VERDICT AND RIDER,.'. The last young lady to place her palm in my hands was 'excessively pretty -she was, "indeed, the pretti- est girl in the room.—and I told her a .s,omewhat longer fortune than I had the .others. I made up et little story about a nasty, wicked, ugly, rich old man who would fall! in love with her, but that she herself would fall in love with a poor, but ex treraely handsome, dashing, brave young fellow, a V. C:, and the hero of .at least a thousand fights. Ulti- mately, .I . foretold that the ugly old sinner would clic a hideous death, and the young, and handsome officer would come in at the critical mom- en.t-I did not specify the precise character of the crisis—for a huge fortune•, and so everything would end happily, Everyone seemed to be trying not to laugh as I was telling what I thought was a. harmless, if seine - what musty, little tale, and finally the young lady herself snatched her hand away from me, and said she thought fortune-telling was a very silly sort of thing, and addeda rider that is not the exact word I want,, but let it stand—to the effect that site didn't believe one bit in it. I. could not make out why every- one was looking so amused, and the young lady so annoyed, until some- one whispered to me that a fat, ugly old man who was asleep in a chair near me was her husband.. I said I knew that all the time, and then it - occurred to me that this was a rather tactless thing to say, .and then Istarted trying to explain than I did not` know it. Finally, I toirk advantageof a. clock on the mantelpiece, striking to say I had to catch 'a train,\and so got away. Here: is the story of one of the most awkward situations I wasever in: I was,engaged to give a private performance at a house, in Gros- venor Square some years ago. I bac' to be at the house at• 11 p.m., and I decided, in order to save time, to go direct from the, Oxford Music Hall ,after my turn "made up." I arrived at the house made up as an elderly lady, clad in a sort of exaggerated mixture of ,sixteenth and nineteenth century style of dress. WELCOMING WILKIE. I was shown into a cosy boudoir that opened off the room where, I was to give my .performance, and where I was to wait until the guests were all seated. After I had been in the room a few minutes• the door openedsoftly, and an old lady looked in. She pint up her •spectacles to her , eyes, looked at me for a moment or two, and then, :with • a +sort of shrill little. laugh, came towards me, and said: Why, my dear Mrs. Mann-som'e- thing"-I did not catch the name she called me—"I : am so glad'. you have •come.! Ella will be, delighted to hear you are here !" And then the dear old thing shook me by both hands, kissed Me, and drew a, chair near mine, and plumped herself in- to it: "It must be nearly ten years ,since. I have .seen you," she ,said; "so I should'1 y reg 1 neves have known you, pnly I knew you were coming. I never felt more awkwardly placed in all my life. I felt afraid to laugh, and yet I wanted badly to lie back and roar. 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With these faults corrected the number of broken eggs would be lowered for someof the above eon- ditions result in both dirty and broken eggs. • The cause of some`of the breakage, however, is the lack of mineral matter for the eggshell,. Oyster shells or bone will furnish this mineral matter for the produc- tion ofthickershelled eggs. Egg producers should take sufaci- eut pride in their product to. give it proper care from the time it is laiduntil it is marketed. Sabse- quent handlers should exercise a similar precaution. Careful• atten- •tion to these important points would materially lessen the losse's enumerated above and would add to the pleasure of producing and of consuming' this important food: Eggs may be a delicacy or only an ordinary, or even inferior, materi- al for ' food purposes, depending very largely upon the way they are handled by • producer, middleman. and consumer. } KNELL OF OLD MILK PAIL. - A- wonderful systemof ventila- tion has been devised for dairies, and its general adoption by all farmers who apply intelligence and scientific methods totheir ventures proves its merit. But pure air alone is not sufficient for the cow barn. No dust must be permitted to as cumulate, :the barns should be kept in perfect sanitary form and the animal must be subjected to fre- quent cleaning operations. Scien- tists have sounded the knell of the old-fashioned milk pail with its flar- ing edges. The small -topped pail is in favor: It offers less of an open- ing for bacteria that may fall into the milk during the process of Junk - Some bacteria invariably are. found in milk. The laboratory shows, however, that these germs are beneficial' rather than injurious to the human consumers. But the presence.gf` bacteria directly trade- able to filth and unsanitary condi- tions onditions is at onee a source of danger. and a signal for medical warfare on the undesirable dairy. "Keep the cow stable as neat and as clean as the kitchen," is the slo- gan of the most progressive dairy- men. They are in the ascendency. The careless, old-fashioned dairy- man sees plainly the handwriting on the wall. HINTS FOR THE FARMER. Treat the herd boar' with kind- ness and also with considerable caution. Do not allow the cows to dry up durins the latter part of summer, as .this necessitates keeping them through winter giving a smaller flow of milk than they should. A little oil of pennyroyal or oil of cloves will drive flies' away from the stable. At any season, when the horse has become excessively warm he should be cooled` off gradually. Don't change the collar from one horse to another. Cultivate a cheerful tone in speaking to your horse. It does not pay to feed and care forinferior hor e n the farm. herses o Warm sl-ini milk for feeding pur- poses soon paysthe cost .of a farm separator. A cow's value is determined by the solids in her milk.. TREATMENT OF LIVE STOCK. Horses and, in fa.at, all domestic animals are very mach more im- pressionable than they are genet ally supposed to be. Cattle' which have had a kind master; a' man of .gentle but firm nature, show the effect of their associations as a breed or strain. Years of good treatment not only make an im- pression on the individuals, but are impressed with such. force as to be- come a breed characteristic. In short, a keen judge can tell, pretty nearly what sort of association a horse has had by his temperament. The importance 8f creating a good temperament in a trotting or pacing horse should not be under- rated.. The horse with a good tem- peramexit will do more work and do it better than one which has not a well balanced temperament, ,, ' - •- Jinks...."Tired of living on mut- ton and beef i Why don'ayotr have a hit o' fowl oeeasionali,y 1 ' Rinks' (absently)—"Can't very well; norm of my neighbors keep poultry." Whenever you feel a headache coining on take NA-TDRUMCO Headache Wafers They stop headaches promptly and surely. Do not contain opium, morphine, phenacetin, acetanilid or other dangerous drugs. 2Sc, a box at your Druggist's. 125 NATIONAL DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO, OF CANADA, LIMITED. • Take A llanditl W "St. Lawrence" Sugar Out To The Store Door ---out where the light can fall on it—and see the brilliant,' diamond -like sparkle the pure white color, of every grain. 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The sorceress was seated at a table, on which were . spread various bits of wood bearing figures. Her cus- tom was to touch these pieces of wood with a pencil, guided, as she assured her clients,.' entirely by in- spiration. Combined in some way these figures gave you the most ex- act information as to the future. "In ;That year will the German Empire be founded?" first asked the Prince, whose head was already full of his great ambition. The old woman took up the fig- ures 1, 8, 4, and 9, and formed the number of the current year. Then she touched various other figures and placed them one by one in a column under this first line. The Prince said when she had finished that the date 1849 appeared twice indifferent form, thus: 1849 1 8 9 "Add them," said the fortune- teller, "and you will find the year in :which the German Empire . will be founded." The prince, did as he was told and found the total to be 1871. "When will I die 7" he asked next. The -sorceress made the date 1871, and then .began touching figures again. She touched four and ar- ranged them as she had done in the Bret instance. Prince William saw that she had again repeated the date,: 1871 1 8 7 1 "Add:' them," : she . said; "they give the „year in which you will die.'' aft They came to 1888. The Prince put his third and last question "Whenwill the German Empire fall f" A third time the woman fixed the last date and added four figures. When' a she had finished the Prince saw: 1888 1 8 8 8 ",Add them and you have the date of the fall of the German Empire." The figures .came to 1913. This odd story was told when Wil- liam I. died in 1888, after being crowned Emperor in 1871. Twice have the old .witch's figures told the truth. Supenstitious, folk 1 at the : election returns and w{:; er what will be the empire's forte. in 1913. 3' SARDINES AND SPRATS. Few Know Difference When Little ,Fish Get in Tins. Though they are totally different species of fish, sprats are sometimes sold as sardines, andfew people know of the distinctions between them. Briefly, a sardine is a young pilchard. In its immature state it lives in the warm waters. off the shores of France, Italy, and Spain, though occasionally it is found not far fromthe coast of Devon and Cornwall, 'England. The mature pilchard is, however, a well-known Cornish fish. On the other hand, a spratis a sprat, and the .staall specimens one sees in the shops are fully -grown fish. Sprats are caught in enor- mous quantities off the coasts of the British .Ifrles and in Noxwegian wa- ters. In France there are no fewer than 170 factories engaged in the trade of preparing and tanning sar- dines. Towards the 'middle of the eighteenth century, at Nantes, sar- dines were first prepared in olive - oil and packed in barrels, and there are no fewer than one hundred and sixty-one different methods of cook- ing this delectable dish. Enormous exportations of sardines are made annually to Australia and South Africa. . _ Bacon— .That sounds like a mas- ter hand at the piano 7" Egbest— "It is. It's my wife!" s Canada's s finest sugar at its best Your love of cleanliness and purity will be gratified by this 5 Pound Sealed Package of Extra Gra gelated Sugar It's Canada'sinest sugar, fresh from the Definer f g Y, untouched byhuman hands, Each Package o sugarYour Grocer contains 5 full of can supply you. canada Sugar'��Refining Con i fly % 9 M �3 p'�n le , Montreal. AUSTRALIA'S YE1O..,.IL IF COUNTRY IS COLONIZED BY COLORED '11iEN. Vast 'Unoccupied 'Territory Source . of Danger to British Empire.• "Australia's Greatest Danger' the title of a striking article in t current .number of the Nation Review, London. The writer, George Gascoyne, argues that th greatest danger to Australia 'a one of the greatest dangers to t British Empire lies in the vasty occupied northern territory of tralia. In the two words Kaiser's femora phrase, th is the Yellow Peril. Here is territory of 523,620 square miles, two and a half times the s' of France, with a seaboard of 1,24 miles, several splendid: harbors an a sorrel of navigable rivers. It imperfectly explored, but 162,1 square miles are classified • as indi fere, though containing minin possntab list es; 148,000 square m' contain patches of good past land with uncertain rainfall, 43, square miles are good pastor country, and another 29,000 a first-class, both .subject to ince mittent tropical rain; 150,000 square miles are essentially tropical, with rainfall to correspond. NO LAND FOR WHITES. In 1908 the white population this great territory was 1,081, whom 577 were mule adults. In years the white mule adult popu tion increased by 27, at the rate just one white man a year. I'n, 1910 the white population was said to be stationary. Ile article holds out no ,ver comforting prospect as to -avoiclin the danger. The writer in one pa sage says "I do not believe that any white race will ever people northern Ana - tele and rear hardy, vigorous sons able to fight for their lives, as they would certainly'• have to do at sometime or other. The lands the monsoons are eternally se apart fox the colored races. "I have lived many years in el; tropics and have seen the whi races in several tropical countries and cleeply though I sympathize wi the policy of a white Australia, ,i is my unalterable -ttonviction the the north cad; never - develop and held ,by .whites. e pa drawn faces of the wo. coastal districts of Queensland are surer than all arguments." Yet he .urges the Co to pursue the policy ado. year, to hasten on the South Railway and adhere cision to exclude colored la The admission of colored on any terms, he argues, prove fatal, for it must mean kual submergenee. Indestur bor from India is ruled out, for th Government of India has decided that it will no longer permit the re • - cruiting of 000lies in India, unless the laborers are allowed to receive the rights of citizenship at the ex- piration xpiration of their indentures, should they desire to remain in the land of their adoption. If the Indian coolie were allowed to remain, submergence would fol- low if he came' in great enotrgh numbers. As a matter of fact, In dia has not enough surplus gain population'properly to oolonize the northern territory, and these is;, moreover, the undeniable fact tI t the Indian coolie always gets out lrf field work as soon as he can. r. NOTHING BUT YELLOW MEN. Mr. Gascoyne is very convincing in his argument' that if this terri- tory is to be colonized by colored labor, there is nothing for it but the yellow men.. Once this is admitted he maintains that the game Is up. Experience has proved that once admitted on a large scale the yel- low man cannotbe restricted to one area. ' Even assuming that Chinese la- borers could to -day be recruited on. the indenture system, and that. they could be kept within a certain area., one thing must follow at once -the Japanese must also be admitted, "for the door could not be opened to China and slammed in the face of Japan." 'For a time all might be•well, but it 'the future," says Mr. Gascoyne;.... "the white races are destined to be- •come acquainted with a very differ- ent type of Chinese and Japanese from those they have hitherto e countered. Should China and J pan ever take up the cause of swarm, of their people, in northe Australia there will be an end -no the dream of a white Australia, fru that will have vanished already- but of the dream of a pa:reful sepa- ration . of the. white ' and colored populations of Australia, "I am conjuring up no horrific vision.' I am simply stating what mits‘ inevitably happen if northern Aitralia is colonized by yellow en." "Ma, ane I the descendant of a monkey?" asked the little boy. "I dosi't know," replied " the mother; "1 hover knew any of your father's folks," The father, who was listen. in. , went out in the .coal -shod andlucked tho:,cab through the roof,'