HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-4-8, Page 2STRANGE NERIIOIIS DIRQRQ R
THE DISEASE OF VGAIt IS A
REAL AIIt3LE11*T,
Dread of High Places, Crowds and
Solitude are Symptoms of Mon-
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A cure for "disease of fear," one
of the .modern mental 'maladies
'classified by neurologists, is being
undertaken in the .new. psychiatric
Aline of xohm Hopkins university.
It is not the natural terror which
seizes one in imminent peril, but
the irrational dread which clutches
its victims at the sight of things mot
in themselves dangerous, or at the
thought of perils which. are far re-
mote.
For instance, one of those afflict-
ed with particular form of the mal-
ady may be overtaken, as ho walks
along the street, by a fear oil high
places. He imagines himself vividly
to be cleaning over the wall of a
great skyoraper and feels with a
hideous anguish at every atom of
hie being the pull of gravitation
straining to drag him down to
death. In vain his reason assures
him that ,his feet are safely planted
on solid ground, A terror which he
knows to be irrational grips his
heart 'with a pressure which utterly
sickens .and unmans him. And the
nlos'e he attempts to rid his mind
of the obsessing horror the more
ruthlessly is presses upon him.
Fear of Cutlery.
Or. take a woman in a case under
recent observation who was dogged
by an unearthly fear of cutlery. The
sight of the most harmless table
utensil would make her desperate.
She would almost faint is she saw
en assortment of goods in a hard-
ware store. She would shriek if
she caught a glimpse of her hos
-
band shaving. Whenever fresh cut-
lery arrived at the house she would
instantly throw it out of the win-
dow. Her family was reduced to
the most ludicrous makeJhifts for
tableware.
These unfortunates are not in-
sane. Exept for the one mental
twist they are entirely rational.
The proof is that they realize, into.-
lectually—something which insane
persons never do—the absurdity
end unreasonableness of their psy-
chological sufferings.
This strange nervous disorder is
far from uncommon, but has only
recently been recognized as a die -
en -e. Formerly, victims of the mal-
ady were merely told not to be sil-
ly, or admonished to control them-
selves. But to -day soienee de-
clares the disease of fear to be a
real ailment and is attempting to
wr,ik out a. technique for its treat -
=slit and cure.
History shows that many illus-
trious persons were afflicted by the
disorder now defined as a disease.
Butte Napoleon and Wellington
would rush from a room if it con-
tained a rat. Erasmus, the great
reformer, would be thrown into a
high fever if he so much as looked
at fi-h or lentils. Bayle, the phi-
losopher. would fall into oonvui-
.i•'ns if he heard the dripping of
water from a tap. The sight of a
goat would make Tyoho Brahe, the
astronomer faint away. Samuel
Johnson touched with his band
evcrr pot whie!h he passed—if he
neglected ane he would retrace his
step- in dismay to repair the omis-
eien.
Some of the Pet Aversions.
conceited by patients seem to be
`odd and amusing eccentricities. The
bete noir of the diordered mind may
be a particular flower, an odor, a
co%or, lire or water. Many persons
dread stepping upon a crack in the
pavement. and avoid this oalamtity
ae gingerly as df life depended upon
it. Common phobias are those of
noise. Rattling steam pipes, drip-
ping water or buzzing gas burners
will drive some persons distracted.
An authority reports an old -woman
who coulrl never put her umbrella
down without tapping the floor four
times with the ferrule. if a strang-
er same in and placed, his umbrella
noiselessly in the rack, she would
pull it, out apprehensively, strike
the floor four tinier and place it
Utak again.
Silence brines •a nervous crisis
upon r* rtain psycho -neurotics.
So.nie dread light, and others are
terrified by darkness. The phobiao
of high plarea cannot ascend in an
elevator or sit in the gallery of a
thcafer or stand near the edge of
a cliff, or even think of the idea of
altitude without suffering acute an-
gubli '('his is not the natural sen-
sation of vertigo, but a nameless
and hi -tisane fright which he himself
while in its grasp, helplessly re-
aldzes re, preposter'oas.
The ultimate terror, the fear of
being afraid, has been noted by
certain observers. A classic ex-
ample of phobophobia is De Mau-
4qassant'a story of a man who killed
binned/ the night before a duel be-
ta -use he feared he would show
xowardiee on the field of honor.
Sometimes the vrotamis, by a su-
rrem,e 'exertion of their intelligence
sand will, free ilieemmeielves from their
obtsession&, But few ever a0eom-
:1fsh •thio self -deliverances To1seurologists, then, comes the opera
tion el to what can be 'done to help
and perhaps curs .these psychic in-
an lids,
Tho first step. Is to seek the cause
Of their meatal disorders, The fact
Penns to he established that psy-
Shonettrosis has .no physieal basis,
It is not, like Tnany forms of insan-
its, induced by phytsical lesions of
the brain, os degeneration of the
brain cells'. The patient is not dis-
eased in any.physieal sense, and
yet he is
Desperately Siok Mentally.
So the scientists have invented
the `psychic wound" es the cause
of tlhe "disease of fear."
This, "psychie wound," they say,
is the result sometimes of an accu-
mulation of misfo•rtunes,, such. . as
the growing misery of an' unhappy
marriage, chronic money difficul-
ties, uncongenial surroundings or
unrealized ambitions. Or, again,
it may be deriwned from a single vio-
lent shock, such as the death of a
near relative or the patient's pre-
sence in •a fire, a railroad smashup
or a shipwreck, There is first a
permanent -psychic restlessness,
from which emerges, sometimes im-
mediately, . sometimes after months
or years, a peraversion of some
kind. 1t has :been found that a ma-
jority, of the sufferers are women,
not men.
The most promising success in
treating the disease has thus far
been found to lie in the use of men-
tal suggestion. The woman re-
ferred to above, .who hada morbid
horror of cutlery, was directed, just
before she said her prayers each
night, to kneel down, put her: face
in her hands, and repeat the for-
mula:
"This fear is nonsense • I shall
harm myself or others. I am per-
fectly sane, and I am going to get
well.. There is no more harm in a
razor than in a stick of wood.
She was sent to the country,
where she had a garden to work in
and a dog and canary to care for.
After nine months of treatment she
declared that !her fear was gone,
She believed, for ever An impor-
tant part of the treatment was in-
ducing her to see her terror of cut-
lery in its comical light.
Others have been assisted by per-
suading them to take part in eocial-
service work, in which, busied with
the troubles of others, they forgot
their own, Still others were bene-
fitted by being taught some form
of art, such as clay modelling, o•r
were soothed with music.
HUSBANDS AS MASTERS.
A Case Where the Wife Proved to
Be It.
Two friends who had often won-
dered how many husbands were
masters in their own homes formed
a plan for deciding the matter.
They were to start out with two
horses and a chicken. If the first
man they met proved to be the mas-
ter of his own household he was to
have one of the horses; if his wife
was the ruler he was to have the
chicken. They had not gone far
when they came upon a farmer, and
they put the question to him. Drop-
ping his rake and stretching him-
self to his full height of six feet,
he repied that he was "boss of
everything for forty acres round,"
and he would like to see the women
who could order him in •any way 1
"Very well, sir," said one of the
investigators, "we are glad tofind
a man who is the actual head of
his home, and we are going to
give you one of these horses cat
appreciation. Which do you pre-
fer, the brown or the grey horse?"
"Well," replied the farmer, "I
don't know just yet which one of
them• is the best; they're both
handy looking. I think I like the
brown." Then he went off into
the house. As he re -appeared a
window was raised hurriedly, and a
thin, clear voice called out, "John,
you'd better take the grey one."
The farmer began to look the ani-
mal over. "Gentlemen," he said,
with affected indifference, "I be-
lieve I've changed my mind. I'll
take the grey horse." "You most
certainly will not 1" cried the two
men. "You will take the chicken !"
SAVING ,. CITY.
A Band of Musicians Playing Popn=
lar Airs Did It.
It was in the year 1868, alter a
battle in the Spanish revolution of
that year, and the streets of Ma-
drid were filled with angry crowds
that Were bent oat destroying
everything and everyone. Sud,.
denly am unknown, man appeared
at the city hall.
"Give me a band of musicians,"
he said, "and before nightfall I
shall control all Madrid,"
He mush have been is man of rare
personality to have been able to
persuade the authorities, in that
dark hour to give him anything,
But he got the musicians, and
went out with them to wander
through the eity. While they play-
ed, he eamg---popular street songs,
or some old national air. When
that bared the listeners, he mount-
ed old boxes and told funny stories.
By nightfall peace reigned in the
city, and fire mob broke up and
went home, to bed, The many name
was Felipe Ducazel, en id1 Ise was
only twenty-two 'eats el cl 'Then he
cleverly aehi • vett this result•,
We are to &, deal about heroic
Mita s e' lin
rn � vd Co ria
a rI halt s by long,
terr le ad lea at n! t, or by the
Deer 313,ha of gni
oneself byy dying in
somebody's stead but few of Rs
hear of anyone who saved a town 1
by laughter,
DOMESTIC LIFE OF PIRATES
LIVED UNDER LAWS (;STAB-
•xnif1) BY um SELVES.
l.or."_e Were Not tIways Slit.
,,ng '!'(moats and "Scuttling
011ier lieu's Skips.
Outside of the spotlight whioh
has been thrown on the professional
activities of the old pirates of the
West Indies was another interesting
piratical life, their doomestic life,
which story and song have elighted.
Pirates were not always slitting
throats end scuttling ships. Some
tinter; like the gay freebooters of
Penance, they "indulged in the
felicity Of unbounded domesticity."
The honia station of most of the
West Indian pirates was at the Is-
land of Tortuga. There they
lived under rude lawa established
by themselves and enforced in true
republican style.
Tortuga had a regularly appoint-
ed government, as one may learn
from the memoirs of John Esque-
meting, a Dutoh bond servant, who
became a barber surgeon for vari-
ous pirate bands. The most noted
governor was M. de la Place, a
renegade Frenchman:. His major,
or lieutenant governor, was Mieh=
sell de Basun, a former soldier in
Flanclers and then retired after
several successful piratical adven-
tures,
The governor ruled the island as
a despot, A few simple laws were
enforced on all pirates. Debts
must be Paid. Friends of a mur-
dered man might kill th,e slayer,
with impunity. Winners of fair
fights, went unpunished. Traitors
were tortured. After three years
!slaves had tlhe privilege of joining a
pirate band.
When a pirate captain planned
an adventure he published tlhe news
in .all the pirate retreats. Tortuga
had its town crier. A date and
gathering place were named. Also
it was specified how much powder
and shot each man must furnish.
On assembly day the prospective
pirates trooped to the gathering
place. The captain explained his
project further. Then he inspected
the recruits. All who had the re-
quired powder and shot and were
well armed he accepted.
The next thing to do was to pro-
cure a ship. Usually the governor
supplied that. Then the pirate
band, now known as a society, dis-
cussed ways and means of provi-
sioning the ship. Tho customary
method was to sail in small boats
to neighboring Spanish islands and
steal enough hogs to provide meat.
This was salted and stored away.
Sometimes a gentle -hearted cap-
tain would pay the hog owners a
small auto. Generally, however,
they took what they wanted and
the rancher considered his luck
good if he escaped with his life.
The pirates -now repaired to their
stronghold and discussed the ob-
ject of the adventure. The gover-
nor took part in this, he knowing
the most probable sources of
wealth, having, as Esquemeldng
says, made ,diligent inquiries along
that line. In the meantime the
shipwright careened the vessels to
be used, caulked and repaired them
and fitted the rigging.
The last duty was the signing of
articles. That was the coanpaet
which bound the pirates together
until the adventure should end. It
was first specified that all plunder
should go to a common fund. That
would be divided in equal parts.
Each private mariner would get one
part, the captain six parts, and
other officers in proportion. From
100 to 150 pieces of eight were set
aside for the shipwright. The biar-
ber-surgeon was given about 260
pieces of eight as salary and funds
to furnish a medicine chest. The
pirates paid extra for whatever
barber work he slid.
Another important item was a
schedule of remunerations for
wounds. The following one gener-
ally was adopted:
Loss of right arm, 800 pieces of
eight.
Loss of left arm, 500 pieces of
eight.
Loss of right leg, 500 .pieces of
eight.
Loss of left deg, 400 pieces of
eight.
Loss of an eye or finger, 100
pieties of eight,
Loss of both oyes, 600 pieces of
eight.
This was paid from the common
fund before the shares were de-
clared. A wounded man had the
options of baking one slave in lieu
of each 100 pieces of eight, ;Soya
drew one half-share because it wee
their duty to scuttle and fire cap-
tured ships, a somewhat dangerous
tack.
In private life pirates were "very
civil and dheritable." Esquenaeldng
writes, "so that if anyone wants
what another has, with great will-
ingness they give it one to en
other."
>3,v strict 'attention to duty and
applieelytion a. pirate might work
himself up to high command. The
irate sturgeon fella of one c11
Brazilian who,"being at a start
g
h t
how o of his i 'n he
1 triter
ed
v{, g,
himselfgnt
into a s et o pirate,'
where he served as a grin ,te mass•
ver for some time, and believed
,imaelf ae well he was beloved and
respected by all.
Sudis traits aocn wan hint the
,title of vice admit'al. ffs iia it One
fondness which brought down a re•
Woof from the governor of Tor-
tuga, 'He took great pleasure in
roasting Spaniards on wooden
spits. Me governor held' that tans
violated piratical law, It was all
right to roast a few Sp'anierds that
way, but some should be saved for
slaves. The governor mon his point.
When an adventure was over the
pirates made for their retreat as
soon as the ,spoils had been divided.
Therr, until their money was sone,
they lived a gay life, Sometimes a
successful pirate would spend
2,000 or 3,000 pieties o1 eight a night
in the Tortuga taverna. The tavern-
keepers always 'nailed the price of
drunks when a party of "pirates re.
turned .from. successful cruise.
In a few weeks all their wealth
would be gone. Then the bankrupt
pirates would Geek a grubstake, If
he were a brave pirate and known
for being successful some taverns
keeper would supply him with food
until another society was formed,
Then the tavernkeeper would .enter
the pirate inthe ranks, supplying
the latter with arms, clothing, and
bald for a specified, share of the
loot. Quite a number of prudent
pirates retired after a few suocess-
ful Bruises and gathered more
wealth in the safer occupation of
professional grubstaker. It was
not unusual for some person to
grubstake a dozen or more of a
pirate crew.
After a few years in that occupa-
tion a retired pirate would end his
associations with the freebooters
and go to Virginia and become a
respected planter, or to New Eng-
land and set up a trading house.
Esquemeling says it was quite
common for men to do that.
Henry Morgan had a working
agreement with Virginia, Louisiana
and New England merchants. They
financed his early adventures in re-
turn for the privilege of buying his
loot ata low figure. Quite like the
modern burglar, the pirate got the
least money of anyone connected
with his profession. Thus a ship -
Load of ogeoa was sold for one -
twentieth of its value te. M. de la
Place, who in turn soldit to Bos-
ton merchants for one half value.
PRINCE AND PAINTER.
The Latter Received an Apology
From the Forster for an Insult.
Audacity irresistibly attracts us,
and the man of strong, original
character is an object of universal
interest,
In the economy of his household,
James Northcote, the English por-
trait painter, area sordid, ,yet lords
and ladies not a few assembled in
his ill furnished, ill -arranged and
ill -swept studio when an exceeding-
ly popular young actor sat to him.
The favorite was conveyed by the
Duke of Clarence (afterward Wil-
liam IV). to Argyll Place in his
own carriage, and his Royal High•
essn lingered to see the progress of
the work—and probably to study
the painter.
"The loose gown in which he
painted," says one of Nortlseote's
biographers, "was principally com-
posed•of shreds and patches, and
might perchance be half a century
old; his white hair was sparingly
bestowed on each side, and his
cranium was entirely bald.
"The royal visitor, standing be-
hind him while he painted, first
gently lifted, or rather twitched
the collar of the gown, which
Northcote resented by suddenly
turning and expressing his dis-
pleasure by a frown; on which his
Royal Highness, touching the pro-
fessor's gray looks, amid:
"'You don't devote much time to
the toilet, I perceive.'
" 'Sir,' the painter instantly re-
plied, 'I never allow anyone to
take personal liberties with me;
you are the first that ever preaum-
ed to do so; and I beg your Royal
Highness to recollect that I am in
my own house.'
'The artist resumed his painting;
the prince sbood silent fora mo-
ment or eo, then opened the door,
and went away. The royal carriage,
however, had not arrived, and the
rain was falling; the prince return-
ed, borrowed an umbrella, and de-
parted.
"'Dear Mr. Northcote,' said 'one
of the ladies, 'I fear you have of-
fended his Royal Highness.'
"'Madam,' said the painter, 'I
am the offended party.'
"The next day, about noon, Mr.
Northcote was alone, when a gen-
tle tap was beard, the studio door
opened, and in' walked the prince.
" `Mr. Northcote,' he said, 'I am
come to return your sister's um-
brella; I brough it myself, that I
might have an opportunity of say-
ing that yesterday I thoughtlessly
took an unbecoming liberty bvit)lt
you, which you properly resented.
I really am angry with myself, and
I hope yon will forgive me, and
thi s nq mere
I ;And what dsd you say l' in -
milted a friend to whom the paint-
er told the story.
"'Say 1' repeated Northcote
'What could I say 1 I only bowed
might, see whet, fel
he g s aLx ts could x
at that moment have sacrificed say
life for him, Sueli a. prince is
worthy to be a cling.' „
The prince afterward, in his
bluff manner, said, "He's an hon-
est, independent little old fellow."
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MORE LIGHT ON ATROCI'T'IES
- BY GERMANS.
Commission Instituted by French
Government Issues Its Report-
Murder and Revolting Crines.
Further light on the atroeitiee
perpetrated by Orman soldiers on
non-combatants is given in the re-
port presented by the commission.
instituted by the Frendh Govern-
ment with a view to investigating
acts committed by the Germans in
violation of international 1'aw. Ail
the evidence before the commission
was taken on oath and supported,
by photographs and :wherever at has
been possible to give the Germans
the benefit of the doubt they have
received it.
The commissioners consisted of
M. M. Georges Payelle, First Pres-
ident of the Coma des Conrbtes;
Armand Moll•ard, Minister Pleni-
potentiary; Georges Maringer,
Counsellor of State, and Edmond
Paillot, Counsellor at the Court of
Appeall.
"Never has a war carried on be-
tween civilized nations assumed the
savage and ferocious charaoter of
the one which at thus moment is be-
ing waged ob, our soil by an iaruplac-
able enemy. Pillage, rape, arson
and murder are the common pr'ac-
tioe of our enemies," says the re-
port.
Aged Kicked to Death.
"The massacres at Luneville;
Gerbeviller, Nomeny and Seal's
terrible, proof of this asser-
tion. Villagers were torn from
their homes aced marched off into
captivity into Germany. Those
who by their age or infirmity fell
by the roadside were bayoneted or
kicked to death. In many instances
women and children were placed as
screens in front of the German
troops during the fighting.
Buried Son's Body.
"At Gerbeviller, 20 out of 475
houses remain habitable and 100
persons have disappeared. Some
were taken to the fields and exe-
cuted, others were assassinated in
their homes or Shot down, as they
fled from the flames. Here two of
the most horrible crimes were com-
mitted. The Germans entered a
house, took away the 36 -year-old
son, who was •wearing a Red Cross
brassard, tied his hands behind his
back, shot him in the street and
then returned and fetdted his 70 -
year -old further and mother. They
saw 'their son stretched on the
ground. As the .body still moved
the Germans poured petrol upon it
and set it ialldght in the presence of
the terrified soother.
Family Murdered.
"The village of Revigny, in the
department of the Meuse, was the
scene of it terrible drama, At the
commencement of the fire Madame
X. took refuge in the cellar. M.
and Mme. Adnot, together with
these latter, and their four children.
aged 11, 5, 4, and one year. A few
days afterwards the bodies of these
unfortunate people were discover-
ed in the middle of it pool of blood,
Adnot had been shot, Mme. X. had
her breast sand right a ;rim eut off,
the little gird of eleven, had a foot
severed., the little boy of five had
his throat cut."
Revolting Crimes.
The following details of rapine•
and murder, arson and other
abominable or enea are given in the
report: "Ab Coulommtrers a sol -
GREATER LONDON'S CENSUS
PoPUh4.T ON O1' WQItT.D's ME.
'T'OrOLIS 7,201,663.
Some Wonderful Foots. Akont the
Capital of the British Tmpiro—
Her Greatest Rival;
(London, in )he sbr'iob sense, isthe
,pity of London, the populationf
which within munioipal and parlis,-
mentary boundaries was at thelaas
census, only x9,6117.
The next biggest London is the
Ecoiesiaabical London, or the Dio-
cese of London, with a population
am of 3,811,827. Curiously enough it
is contains some of the smallest par-
---. ishes in Etngland,'suoh as ISt. Al.
piiege, London Wall, Allah. boasts
"two, families or separate oeou-
piers."
Fellows then the Count—of Lon-
don—an area eoir'esponding with
that within the Registrar-Generssl's
Talblee of Mortality. You see in
the table published weekly in the
newspapers -when we are not en-
gaged in a European war -that the
death -rate in London is.so and so.
Well, the Registrar -General means
the County of London. And of this
London the population is 4,5.21,686.
Pass we now to the •Central'Crim-
inal Court district, which consti-
tutes yet another (London. The peo-
ple within its 'borders number no
fewer than 6,610,031.
Proceeding, we might rest by
stages the London Postal district
and others. But Iet ns jump at
once to the biggest London of all
Greater London.
This maze of towns and villages,
which corresponds with the City of
London and Metropolitan Police
districts, extends over a radius of
fifteen miles from Charing •C'r'oss,
embraces an area of more than 699
square miles, and comprises a wide
belt, known as the Outer Ring. in
which the population is increasing
with extraordinary rapidity.
ether came into the louse of Ma-
dame X. on September 6 and sent
her husband away on :some pretext.
Then, in spite of the fact that two
small children were present, he
tried to rape, the yc:al'e;' woman.
Her husband, when he heard her
'crick, rushed -back, but 'va0.,a hit on
the head with arifle and his wife
had to suffer the consummation of
the outrage. Its the clean way Ma-
dame X. and Madamt Z. at Sancy-
les-Provins were the victims of sim-
ilar outrages. The former was
forced to subunit to the will of a
soldier with a revolver at her
throat; the second was outraged in
the presence of her little daughter,
aged 3. At St. Denis-les-Re:bais on
September 7, an Udulan raped Ma-
dame X, while her mother-in-law,
powerless to intervene, endeavored
to keep her grandson, aged 8, from
this revolting sight."
This is the official report of only
a Few of the atrocities committed
by the army that hoped to spread
its culture among the nations of
the world.
UNIVERSITY BASE HOSPITAL,
Its Needs Set Forth by Mrs.
McPlredran.
The following letter from Mrs.
McPhedran, the convenor of the
Sick Fund of the Ontario Red Cross
Society, will interest many read-
ers of this paper who are engaged
in charitable work or who may be
able to devote a little time to aid-
ing in the equipment of the base
hospital, which is being sent, to the
front very soon by the medical fac-
ulty of the University of Toronto:
151 Bloor St. West,
Toronto, March 26th.
Dear Sir, --Will you' grants me
the hospitality of your columns for
a few words regarding supplies for
the University of Toronto Base
Hospital? We know that there aro
marry graduates, men and women,
throughout Canada, who are in-
tensely interested in this under-
taking, and we ask and need every
one's assistance in order that we
may bring the equipment to a suc-
cessful issue.
It has been suggested that groups
organized for work throughout the
province should turn their organ-
izations over to University Hospi-
tal work for at least some weeks.
As sheets, shirts, pillow slips,
pyjamas, bed jackets, etc., are
needed by thousands, it is hoped
that some societies may make offers
such as the following: "We will
make one hundred shirts for the
University Base Hospital during
the next month." Mrs. Lash Mil-
ler, the convenor of the Work Com-
mittee, will be glad to hear from
any who are willing to help in this
way.
May I say a few words in regard
to socks. The impression seems to
have got abroad that our men will
not require heavy socks during the
summer. This is a mistake. None
but heavy woollen stocks are ever
worn by soldiers in the field. When
the wounded are sufficiently recov-
' eyed to again take their places in
the firing ;line new outfits of cloth-
ing are needed to replace those
ruined by mud and blood, most of
which must be burned when the
men come in. For this we shall re-
quire many hundreds of socks to
suPplement those supplied by the
Government.
This ltaspital officially known as
No. 4, is essentially our hospital.
Let us then send it out well equip-
ped, a worthy expression of our
industry, our patriotism, and our
love of humanity.
JEAN MWPHI;DEAN,
Convenor of Ontario Red Cross
Society Sock Fund.
STOP THAT DISGUSTING SNIFFLE!
SOOTHING i1 J TARRHOZONE"--A QUICK CURIE
The Rich Healing Balsams of
Catarrhozone Are Death to
Colds, Bad Throat and
Catarrh
Shnply a marvel—you get relief so
quick from Catarrhozone.
Try the inhaler and count ten—your
throat ani nose are cleared --you fool
n1
better at once.
Every breath you take Is laden with
the rlolr piney vapor of Catarrhozono
-every breath is full of healing --full
of soothing curative medicine that do•
stroys sniffles and nose colds almost
Instantly,
Thousands are using C'atarrhozone
to -day who couldn't live without it,
'Cry it for yqqt irrrit blq Biroa.t,
test it out for that lir•t� ficislltl cough,
give It a chance to .ilei you of that
cit •onic catarrhal condition.
Years pf woijderful ramose and tea -
Oniony from the best people of our
lqadd go to ,prove that nothing so far
cllsco'iored Is quicker, safer, surer,
more pleasant than Catarrhozono. It
is in its application purely scientific-
is'reconlmonded only for certain all -
wants above mentioned ---but those it
does certainly cure. •
Use the complete dollar aulilt of
Catarrhozone; it always does tiro
worn; small also 50e., sample trial
size 280.; sold by dealers everywhere,
Gigantic Jumps.
In ten years—from 1901 to 1911•—
that of East (Haan grew from 90,008
to 133,504, or at the rate of 39.1 per
cent.; and in the previous period
the increase was actually 193.0 per
cent. Equally remarkable was the
Peopling of Walthamstow. In 1901
the population was 95,131; ten
years later it had increased to 12.1,-
697-31 per cent., compared with
105.3 per cent. in the corresponding
period 1801-1801.
Tottenham and Willesden have
also grown with marked rapidity.
The leading case, however, is Il-
ford, the population of which in-
creased 277.0 per cent. in ten years
—1801-1911—and at the rate .,f
in 1891-1901.
The Outer Ring, in fact furnishes
Iby far the most striking illustration
in this country of tate migration .,f
population from the central pur
tions of large cities. What was the
most staggering result of the last
census 'I It was the discovery that
for the first time the population of
London had decreased! But the
explanation was simple. Owing to
the substitution of warehouses,
chops, etc., for dwelling -houses,
people had been pushed out of fon-
don—that is, the 'County of Lon-
don—into the Outer Ring.
Altogether, the population of this
belt is 2,730,002, bringing that of
Greater London up to 7,251,083.
Her Greatest Rival.
While, however, greater London
is officially regarded as correspond-
ing'with the City of London and
(Metropolitan. Police districts, it
has of late years, consequent un
the increased facilities fur travel-
ling, spread farther afield. Acture
ally, it extends in loin directions
more than fifteen miles from Char•-
ing Cross. It might be contended,
therefore, that the population of
Greater London much exrerds
seven and a quarter millions.
Is there any other spot in. Eng-
land with anything like the popu-
lation round it that is clustered
round 'Charing 'Cross? Only one --
that on which stands Manchester
Town Hall. Measure a radius of
fifteen miles from that structure,
and you enoloso a vast public - a
,pttlblio whiellr is in size a good sec-
ond to that at the hub of the Em-
pire, end which is engaged in more
manufactures than you can count.
The Manchester district, indeed,
is already the industrial Inetr•,pu••
lis of the world—Mo other centre
comparing with it --and the time
may not be far distant when, in
point of population, it will chal-
lenge the supremacy of Great -r
Lond on. --Landon. Answers.
Anavers>qe ani eat rhes Shell
r ,ut
rl? f
6l cubiti feet of air' info his lurt-;a'
every dtoaif.
f England has 14,15 telcgrnl.h A,f.
ices and last year banditti 'i,.1-
000 messages.
A motorboat has been
athro
at ver can be drirven,
thr,mgl, w at 'r
•'
i
co o
land
Experiments in I'r.rnc.e have
shown ,.
n that n t
crusty sod is air ef-
fbiticient filter for sr.w ,,,e..
The government of Brasil
tains a. snake farm for the praise -
tion of serum antidote fur suadco
e,