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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-2-13, Page 6.......... ;I2 EggIncubator$ and Brooder TM If ordered together. P,, 'hlalh,�ti 71tu'ttlr'u l2EE r 1`I! r • nit p1 i (i . ,,11 tr 1 m e fir 'Irl d VN�`��r� ahlrpai !'mm nn4rost, m 11 e, 1 u, i „} •t vi 14, WiseoiassR iu, Wl .ren CO.Tilrn't..+t?i3liil Ete'; m to neetne, Wio„ u, S.A. 211. Or OUR CURED BY RADIUM SOME FORMS OF THE DISEASE FAIL TO RESPOND. The Pain Is Relieved and. the Growth Cbeeked in Some . Cases. The long-awaited first report of the Radium Institute of Landon is just published in the British Medi- cal Journal. I't indioates that in addition to a long lis of minor non- malignant conditions, such as birth- marks, eczema, tubercular glands, xadium often cures and almost al- ways improves cancers of a deadly type. The following summary is given of patients treated: Appar- ently cured 53, eur'ed 28, improved 245. net improved 70, abandoned treatment 88, dead 55. The. term "apparent cure," the report ex- plains, when used in relation to cases of cancer, means that all traces of the original disease disap- peared. There were no signs of any recurrence, and patients, so far as can be determined. are free from any indications or symptoms of the disease. The "abandoned treat- ment". group includes those cases in which the patient had to leave London and those who could not afford to travel repeatedly from tho country to the institute. In Some Varieties Failed. Epitheliomata skin quickly re- sponded to the treatment. Some varieties of esteems, when atteok- iatg not t.'he akin, but the tongue or lip or the lining of the mouth, are almost universally disappointing in their ultimate response tc radi- um therapy. Temporary improve- ment is not infrequently seen, but the treatment practically has no effect in preventing or delaying the appea'ranoe of secondary growths in the glands of the neck and else- where. In internal cancers, in which au operation cannot be per- formed with any hope of success, the pain is often greatly relieved. Ulceration is healed, and the bleed- ing shopped and the rats of growth checked by the use of radium. In.a few instances cases previously de- clared to be inoperable became op- erable. To inoperable cancers of the stomach radium was tried not with the hope of a sure, but with the object of checking the growth and alleviating the symptoms. 'on the 'Whole Encouraging. Some slight degree of benefit re- sulted in the ease -of cancers in the breast. For the rest the report says 'at o•a the whole it was en- cau' ,ing. Radium, however, shot.:a never be used to take the place of an operation when this is poslsible. Rodent ulcera are of all forms ,the most malignant of the disease. Those most amenable to the action of radium are small ulcers on the skin, which almost in- variably yield to one exposure of one to three hours' duration. Sergeant=Major Under General French VETERAN OF BOER WAR WHO LOST HEALTH ON THE VELDT TELLS . EXPERIENCE. Coed Advise for All Who Have Indiges- tion or stomach Disorders. In his home at Waldegrove, N, 8., no ono is better known than 8ergt•1lajor Orme, late of the 4th Queen's Own ans. ears. Speaking of the ill•effects of a Sam. paigu upon a men's constitution, the Sergt.•hlajor writes: "I served under General French during the late Boor war, in the capacity of Sergt: Major. It was perhaps owing to a continued diet of bully beet; hard tack, and bad water, but at any rate my stomach entirely gavo out. I was in such a state that I could eat nothing without the greatest suffering, The army doctor. did not help me much, and since leaving the service I have been very miserable. dome few months ago a friend; told me he had been a groat Suf- ferer from indigestion until he tried Dr, Hamilton's Pills; they cured him, I eon. fess it was without much faith I bought a bog, but the first dose made mo feel hotter than I had been for a long time. • Dr. Hantilton's Pills completely cured, and now I can eat everything and any. thing. I have recommended them to others and in every eaee the result has been similar to mine." Qulok, sure results attend the neo of , Dr. Hamilton's Pills. They pure disorders of the stomach, correct indigestion, make you feel uplifted and strengthened. To renew er maintain health, Dr, Hamilton's Piile always prove a good prescription, 88e per box, five boxes for 31,00, all deal. ore, or the C eehrrhoxoae d0,, Iluifelo, N. Y., and ICineetoe, Ont. ti! incivility :s not vice of the soul, but the effect of severe] vices; of vex -Otte ignorance, laziness, stupid- ity, clistraction, contempt of others, and jealousy'. DONE WHILE THEY STEEP ARTISTS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO PAINT PICTURES. litany Other Remarkable Fetes have Likewise Been Done. We are all more or less familiar, said a well-known brain specialist, with the ordinary cases of sleep- walking, whioh are probably as old as humanity itself. But the start- ling forms it has taken in recent years are little known to the public at large, as they are mysterious and uncanny even to men like myself, whose business it is to study the vagaries of the brain, says a writer in London Tit -Bits, These new and amazing manifes- tations of somnambulism are pro- bably the result of the severe strain put on the brain by the almost ceaseless high pressure at which it has to work; but whatever the cause, it is a fact that there are hundreds of people to -day who of- ten do in their sleep, while abso- lutely unconscious, all and even more than they can do when awake. Only last week a lady came to consult me about her son, whose do- ings were causing her great alarm. He is a young painter of consider- able promise and is engaged on a picture for next year's Academy. Night after night, his mother told me, he would leave his Led. dress, go to his studio and paint away at his canvas fur hours at a time, and every morning he would be amazed at the progress of his picture and the good work that had mysterious- ly been put into it. He had no re- collection whatever of having done the work himself, and refused to believe his mother when at last she ventured to tell him the truth. In Another Case A woman artist of my acquaintance had been commissioned to paint a portrait of herself for one of her patrons, but the result was so dis- appointing that she was driven to the verge of despair. One night she left her bed, put on her dressing gown, and, taking a mirror with her, went to her studio, where she worked with feverish haste for some hours. Her husband, awaking, missed her, and going in search of her, found her in the studio, but was afraid to wake her. The fol- lowing morning the woman was considerably astonished to find her task completed with a skill which she had never attained before. She had, as site said when her husband told her the truth, painted far bet- ter in her sleep than awake. Almost more remarkable is an- other case which was brought to my notice last year. An author had been requested to write an article on a very difficult subject. He tried again and again, and each time with such poor results that he flung his manuscript on the fire. At last he was obliged to confess to the edi- tor that the task was beyond him. A few days later he was amazed to receive a note from the editor thanking him, in most complimen- tary terms, for the very article he had been unable to write, Natur- ally, he thought the editor was pul- ing his leg. But no such thing. On going to the office the mysterious article was produced, in his own handwriting, and, as he confessed, it was quite the best piece of work he had ever done. He had no re- oollection whatever of having writ- ten it, and there is no doubt that he must not only have written it, but posted it in his sleep. Not long ago I had a patient to whom such a feat as this would have seemed commonplace. Ile Was a Clever Composer, and he told me that for years most of his work had been done in his sleep; so mush so that he rarely ever tried to work during - his wak- ing hours. Morning after morning, he said, he opened his eyes to see, on the table by his bedside, pages of music which he had composed during the night, and not a note of which he remembered writing. If he wished to compose a song he would study the words carefully, and com- mit them to memory juet before re- tiring; and almost invariably the finished composition was there to greet him when he awoke. This man was highly neurotic, abnormal in many ways, and I was not at all surprised when at last his brain gave way altogether. But there are many quite sane, even prosaic, people who have thio mysterious gift of unconscious brain work. There is (I fancy he is still alive) a vicar in the Midlands who would frequently rise in the middle of the night and sit down to write a sermon, When his work was fin- ished he would put on his vestments, mount a chair, and deliver his homily, with appropriate intona- tion and gesture, just as if he were in the pulpit. • That he could not see his maim - script was obvious; for once, when some blank papa were put into his hand in place of his manuscript, lie , declaimed his sermon, word for word, just the same ---and this, al- though his memory was so poor that he invariably read his sermons in chnroh. Just what you need after Is hard day's work—A Refresh- ing sup of LI 9 Goes farthest for the money somemaimittaavazzotwAava A similar case is that of a rising young barrister, who, after reed- ing his briefs for the next day, would retire to bed, and would get up in the middle of the night, open his cases, and examine and cross- examine imaginary witnesses, ex- actly as if he were in court. And so remarkable was his anticipation of the actual trial that his cross- examination in ..ourt was—so a friend assured me --almost literally Word for Word the Same Another one-time patient of mine, who was a fine chess player, used to leave his bed in the night and solve problems with ease, which had completely baffled him when awake ; and still another, a clever billiard player, used to spend hours during the night practicing difficult shots, and, as his wife told me, played far more brilliantly when asleep than at any ether time, thus proving that, although absolutely unconsci- ous of anything around him, he roust have seen the balls perfectly well But the most remarkable case of literally hundreds that have come within my own observation is that of a man who can do and does any- thing when asleep that a waking man tan do. Not long ago this man was staying with a friend in the country, and not feeling well, re- tired to bed before his host and fellow guests, About an hour later he came downstairs into the smok- ing -room, 0 all appearance as wide awake as any of the others, mixed himself a whiskey and soda, lit a cigar and joined in the general con- versation. He talked quite brilliantly, ar- gued on a wide range of subjects, from home rule to theology, and at last went off to bed with the rest. When, at breakfast the next morn- ing, he was reminded of some ra- ther startling -statements he had made the night before, he declared he had no recollection whatever of the circumstance, and that he had not even been in the smoking -room at the time. He remembered going to bed early and nothing more un- til he awoke that morning. He had been asleep the whole time. 31, THRESHED HER. 15 Long Years. "For over fifteen years," writes a patient, hopeful little Ills. wo- man, "while a coffee drinker, I suf- fered from Spinal Irritation and Nervous trduble. I was treated by good physicians, but did net get much relief. "I never suspected that coffee might be aggravating my condition. (Tea is just as injurious, because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee,) I was down- hearted and discouraged, but pray- ed daily that I might find something to help me. "Several years ago, while at a friend's house, I drank a cup of Postum and thought 1 had never tasted anything more delicious. "From that time on I used Pos- tum instead of coffee and soon be- gan to improve in health, so that now I can walk half a dozen blocks or more with ease, and do many other things that I never thought I would be able to do again in this world, "My appetite is good, I sleep well and find life is worth living, indeed. A lady of my acquaintance said she did not like Postum, it was so weak and tasteless. ' "I explained to her the differ- ence when it is made right—boiled according to directions. She was glad to know this because coffee did not agree with her. Now her folks say they expect to use Postum the rest of their lives." Name given upon request. Read the little book, "The Road to We.11ville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Postum now comes in concentrat- ed, powder form, called Instant Postum, It is prepared by stirring a level teaspoonful in a cup of hot water, adding sugar to taste, and enough cream to bring the color to golden brown, Instant Postum is convenient; there's no waste ; and the flavor is always uniform. Sold by grocers - 45 to 50 -cup tin 30 case 90 to 100 - cup tin 50 cts, A 5 -cup trial tin mailed for gro- cer's name and 2 -cent stamp for postage. Canadian Postum Cereal Co,, Ltd., Windsor, Ont. "Mamma, may I play with Sohn- nit Cross 1", "No, Georgie. He's a batt boy, Let him play with the other had boys." "Well, that's all right, mamma, Ilia mother says I'm the worst boy in the street. AGE OF TILE EAR'T'H DEBATED Greek Church Estimates 7,511 Years—Germans older. The inlsoription of the number of years that the elders of the Greek Orthodox Church believe to be the age of the earth on the commemor- ation tablet that was u'nvoiled re- cently in the Russian memorial church in Leipzig, Germany, and the arrival of the new year have set the Getman encyclopaedists discussing once more the age of the earth, It cannot bo said that they have been able to impress the layman that the question is within dietanoe of definite solution, but there is no doubting the interest of the curious collection of dates and estimates that the historians have brought with them into the debate. If one of the earliest calculations were accepted, that the world wee 0,871 years old at the beginning of the Christian era, the world would be 7,784 years old. There is a reck- oning of the Septuagint that makes it a few years younger, however, 7,647 years. And then there are are the estimates of the Greek Ortho- dox Church, 7,511; of the Alexen- &rine calendar, 7,421; and of the Antioch calendar, 7.410. But there are other e,etimates in reserve : 6,626 years, 5.921, 0,899, 0,674 (the ish estimate), and Chore the recJewkoning of 2'892, years sinesis itis Olympiad and 1,331 years ainoe the flight of Mehemet, No More Neuralgia, His Headache Cured A Journalist Tells of The Advantages of Keeping Nerviline Handy On the Shoff. Fifty years ago Nerviline was used from coast to const, and in thousands of houses this trusty liniment served the entire fan. By, cured all their minor ills and kept the doctor's bill small, To -day Nerviline still holds first rank in Canada among pain-rollevine..remedies—scarcely a home you can find that doesn't use it. From Port Hope, Ont., Mr, W. T. Greens, way, of the Guido newspaper staff, writhe: "For twenty years we have used Nervi. line in our home, and not for the world would wo be without it. As a remedy for all pato, earnohe, toothache, oranipe, head. ache, and disordered stomach I know of no preparation so useful and quick to re. Bove ae Norvaline." Let every mother give Nerviline a trial; it's good for children, good for old folks— you eau rub 1t on as a liniment or take 1t internally. Wherever there Is pain. Nerviline will cure it. Refuse anything but Nerviline. Largo fatally bottles, nod trial size, 550., at all dealers, or The Oatarrhozono Oo., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Ont. ff.. THE BRODRIOA CUP. • Viscount Midleton, who celebrat- ed his fifty-sixth birthday recently, is better known to the general pub- lic as Mr. St. John Brodrick. He was a member of Mr. Balfour's Ad- ministration, but he's tenure at the War Office was the reverse of hap- py. The "Brodrick Cup" was ridi- culed on all sides, and Mr. St. John Brodrick was for ever in hot water. After his unfortunate ex- perience at the War Office, during which he had to face the storm which arose at the conclusion of the South African War, and had to bear the blame not only for his own mistakes but also for those of others over whom he had no control, he was appointed Secretary of State for India, He found this a more placid post, but only held it from 1903-1905, when his party was turned out of office, The first Viscount Midleton was Alan Brodrick, who was Lord Chan- cellor of Ireland, and the family Viscount Middleton. still. retain a residence at Midleeon in Ireland. The present Lord Midleton has been married twice. By his first marriage he is related to Lord Wentyss. Since he left the Rause of Commons, where hewas never happy, Lord Midleton has devoted a deal of time to the London Coun- ty Council, of which body he is an alderman, Re is an influential land- owner, and besides Ms' seat in Ire- land he maintains'..an..:impasing es- talbishment at Gndalining and ,a house in London Tie is a member of those exclusive clubs, the Carl• tan and the Athenaeum, { Take A Scoopful Oli Each— Side By Side Take "$t. Lawrence" Granulated in one scoop -and any other sugar in the other. Look at "St. Law- rance" Sugar — its perfect crystals — its pure, white sparkle— its even grain, Test Absolutely Best i!I .nlll�!ir,.li'r It point by point, and you will see that 0 Absolutely Sugar Pure is one of the choicest sugars ever refined—with a standard of purity that few stigma can boast. Try it in your home, Analysis shows, "at, r,awrenee Gmuuluttd" to be "9g gghoo to mot Pure Cone Sugar whit no impuritlea whatever" "Moet every dealer sells St. Lawrence Sugar." ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERIES LIMITED, • MONTREAL, 65A STARCH OFTEN A. POISON. Said to Be Cause'of Infants' Dis- orders in England. Recent action of the health au- thorities in England against a drug- gist, ruggist, or, as they call them in Eng- land a "chemist," for selling an infants' food that eontained a suffi- cient quantity of starch to make it poisonous, has created widespread interest in this country. It may be that the general inves- tigations and examination of in- fants' foods which is expected to follow this partioular prosecution will result in similar investigations in the United States, although as far as is known no American-made infant foods have proved inpurious through excess of starch. The Ba'itish Medical Journal has the following to say, in connection with this case: "There is overwhelming evidence that the digestive disorders to which many young children are sub- ject have resulted from feeding them upon foods largely composed of starch. Hitherto no very great effort has been made to prevent these foods being sold, beyond the general advics whioh is given to mothers and nurses by doctors and health visitors as to the harmful- ness of them. "The medical officer of health of the County of Rutland, Dr. Chris- topher Rolleston, has, however, succeeded in obtaining a,00nviction before the local justices against a chemist for selling a preparation of infants' food whioh contained up- ward of 70 per cent of practically unaltered starch and whioh was therefore held to be not of the na- ture, substance and quality de- manded by the purchaser. "The preparation was described as being suitable fox an infant only a few days old. A dessertspoonful of the mixture was directed to be put into a basin to be mixed to the thickness of a smooth cream with cold milk Or water ; to this was to be added half a pint of milk and water in equal parts, and it was then to be brought to the boil. It was contended by the chemist that the boiling would convert the starch into sugar, and this view was sup- ported by a member of the Society of Public Analysts. There are some artificially prepared infants' foods in which the conversion of the starch into saccharine bodies is complete; ,but they do not contain 70 per cent. of starch." QUEER TRICIKS OF COLORS. Red, and Black on :Black Back- ground Will Distort Distanots. If on a screen of black velvet et a distance of 10 feet from the spec- tator letters are pasted, some blue, some red, they will not appear to be at an equal distance from the eyes. To some persons the red letters will eeem nearer than the blue letters, while to ether Persons the contrary effect will be manifested. To produce this effect both eyes must be employed. When one eye is elosed the letfers are all seen et the same distance. On opening the other eye one set of letters immedi- ately appears to take a position in advance of the others.. „The explanation offered for this effect is that a sort of stereoscopic illusion is depending upon color, The image of a blue object is shifted. by the eye toward one side and that of a red object toward the other side. If on looking at blue and red let. tens on a black background placed 10 or 12 feet away you see the red letters nearer than the blue, screen off one-half of the pupil of each eye on the outside and you will see the red letters retire behind the blue ones. If you screen the pupils on the side toward the nose, you will sec the red letters advance apparently still further ahead of the blue ones. If, on the oilier hand, you naturally see the blue in advance, screen the inner sides of the pupils of your eyes and the red will come to the front. Beautiful effects are produced with one eye alone when, instead of letters, red or blue rings are pasted on a background of the opposite color. Placing red rings on blue paper and using the right eye with the inner side of the pupil cgvered the appearance is that of circular red hillocks resting on a blue ground. To produce this effect in the high- est degree the paper must be held to the left and sloping in that direc- tion. When the outer side of the pupil is screened the red rings will become cireular trenches in the blue paper. M15- 25 Bluings 10 cents. ON Wash Day 0 Makes the Clothes as Wini'te a.s Snow Try, It ! Manufactured by The Sohnaon•ltleberdsos Co Ltmtted, Montreal, Can, ''...01...1.04,11"111 .11.11,111111,10111 1s In a class by Itself—the easiest running, the most substantially built, the most satisfactory washer, ever invented. Only washer worked with crank handle at side as well as top lever—and the only one whore the whole top opens up. Ask your dealer to show you the "Champion" Wath or. • "Favorite" Churn is the world's best churn. Write for catalogue. 00010 MAXWELL &SONS Sr. MARY'S, ONT. Im,rlanna '* 1ii'iuugploannm Iter 1115 I� III 141 THS WATCH FREE TO ANY BOY This "Railroad King” Watch Is an absolutely guar• anteod timekeeper. It to stem wind and stem set, double dust -proof bank, and will be given In either nickel or gold finish case, Rego• lar man's size. Scud ns your name and address and wo will seed you 30 sets of 'iaater and other post•an.rds to sell at 10 cents a sot (six beautiful Dards In each set), When sold send tie the money, and the will send you the watch, all charges. prepaid. I LER.WARREN CO. OSP?. 40, TORONTO. HAPPY THOUGH HENPECKED DODGES OF Tilitl MAlt'I'YItED MARRIED MAN. A 'Victim Gives Some Advice to ']'!lose Afilieted With tl Nag- ging Wife. I am a henpecked man, and I have half se dozen friends who are all in the •same boat. life aro all happy, and I, at least, am nob afraid of conlelssiltg that I am hen- pecked. I do so .publicly, because there must be alarge number of husbatds who are under their wives' thumbs and unhappy, says a „miter in London Answers, Let them take a tip from myself and my friends, and learn once and for all how to be happy though hen- pecked 1 First of all, keep an eye open for other henpecked husbands, espe- cially those who travel to business the sante way as you do. A little sympathetic chat each morning and night goes a long way towards cheering up Mr. Henpeck. He al- ways likes to hear of other suffer - Strategy Combats Nagging. There are two things a down- trodden husband mast study above all natters. One is hard work, and the other is strategy. Of the two, strategy is the more impor- tant, and that is one reason why it is advisable, for li'r. Henpeck to know a few friends in the same boat. Two heads, even henpecked heads, are better than ane when strategy is being studied! Now, the average henpecked husband's wife is a nagger. 'Curs her of that habit, and the difficulty is solved. Unfortunately, once a nagger, always a nagger. There is no cure that way, in fact, so the strategic husband looks round for others. T found early in my married life that reason and sound argument are perfectly hopeless with the nag- ging wife. Few women .aro open to reason, and there is no doubt whet - ever that my wife is not one of the few. This is where I learnt the value of strategy. I never argue, I never reason, I never protest. When my wife starts nagging, I agree with her at once. That takes the wind out of her sails, so to speak, which is part of the battle. Always on the Moro. Another .good dodge is to give her rnouey. All nagging wives can be bought off with money. For in- stance, when I come home I can generally tell by the look in her eye that my wife intends to nag me all the evening. I then say: "Oh, by the way, my dear, I see Mrs. Jones has got a new hat! Wouldn't you like to buy one for yourself, my dear 4" It always works. The nagging is forgotten, the meal is hurried through, and out she goes to buy the new hat. It means that I spend that evening and the next three or four in perfect peace, for no we - Irian can buy a hat in one evening. Before I was married I simply jogged along, with no thought for the morrow. Now I ani in a respon- sible position, earning plenty of money, and my future assured, .I have simply been henpecked into it. In fact, for the man without ambition I cannot recommend a better wife than a nagger. If he is wise, he will let her nagging spur him on. Many of our successful men, if they would only confess it, would acknowledge that they were simply nagged into success. One way in which a friend of mine avoieled being unhappy through be- ing henpecked was to change his occupation. He was a bank -clerk originally. The monotonous exis- tence, combined with being hen- pecked every evening of his life, made him one of the most miser- able men I ever knew. A hen- pecked brother -sufferer advised him to change Lia liminess, He didsn, and became a •commercial traveller. Those Golden Rules. Practically the whole of the week he is travelling, and the only chance his wife has of nagging him is on Saturday and Sunday. As a matter of feat, she has practically ceased to henpeck him, chiefly be- cause she misses him so much dol'• ing the week that elle spends her time pleasing him during the short time that he is at home, Of course every hle.npeeked man cannot become a commercial bra - nut he can always take up a position whioh keeps him longer away from home than his old one, In nine oases out of tan he will find himself less henpecked in the long rum. But if he can't change his occu- pation, he midst temcmber the, gold- en rules--deri't argue, don't try reason, don't protest, The man who does deserves to be unhappy anal henpecked, Although wet,ten love barcrains they ere not especially fondof the man wlro cheapens himself ib. their eyes. rA .d'