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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-11-14, Page 2Turned Down By Army New Hair -net "King" Near Croydon, where the aero- planes come and go, lives a young man named Eric Cleaver who want- ed to join the .Army. But he had weak eyesight, the Army turned him down—so he became the hair- net "king" of the world instead' Hair - nets were fast worn by Chinese women many centuries ago; they wore black silk nets to dis- tinguish married women from spin- sters, Silk nets have been manu- factured in Europe for the past fifty years, and they have been, and still are, made by machinery. But nets made from human hair are superior to the machine -made article, Before the first World War the trade in human hair was small and was controlled by a few German traders, About thirty years back some German missionaries went to the province of Shantung, in China, where labor is cheap and plentiful, and opened up trade in human hair• Two districts in Shantung lived on making nets of human hair, and a few thousand people were employ- ed. Today, out of a population of forty million, it is estimated that about one quarter of the female population of Shantung is engaged in making nets of human hair for European women to wear. Hair -net making is classed as a • "cottage industry," and the women and girls on the farms make the nets in their spare time. In 1934 Shantung exported 600,000 gross; this year the export of hair- nets from Shantung wilttotal three- quarters of a million gross. The present craze for wearing hair -nets started when the U.S.A. entered the war and the Army Medical Corps advised the nurses to wear nets to keep their ° hair in order. The nurses began to wear invisible nets—made from human hair, Mr. Cleaver has stated that cer- tain countries, such as Germany, Yeah Team! — Shapely Marie Wilson, radio and screen act- ress, seems determined to add her curves to the grid lines this year. And that's okay. because she looks like a girl who'd get a lot of forward passes. have currency restriction, so his companies cannot obtain cash for the hair -nets they sell. Therefore, the hair -net "king" has had to in- stitute a'system of barter; he takes human hair from the German frau- leins in exchange for human hair- nets. Sometimes he barters hair- nets in Denmark against bacon and eggs, and sells the Danish pro- duce in England. In England there are about 3,000 people employed directly or indi- rectly in the industry. But, dotted about all over the world, from China to Peru, there are factories and woolen working in "cottage in- dustries" to provide nets of human hair for their sisters overseas. One ran judge how fine is the Italian silk which Mr, Cleaver's factories use in the production of hair -nets by the fact that it needs about 324 miles of silk to prndtice nne pound in weight. "A SOFT ANSWER—" Mother was trying to teach young Robert the importance of doing his duty, however difficult it night be: "Now take your father," she ad= monished, "Ile works and works, not that he likes it, but because it is his riuty. Can you imagine him doing anything just heranse it it pleasant?" "Ye+, Mother, f tan," the boy r:gslird. "Really?" she asked in surprise. "Yes, Mother" --with a look of deep admiration ---"that's what he did when ,ie married yon." Vacation Time: That period when the flowers in the home garden are at their best and only the neighbors are amend to t'njoy thein. "Outlaw" Doctor With Magic Hands The will of an astonishing man whose curative work involved years of controversy with the British Medical Association was recently announced, He left £52,000—yet the fee for his first operation was —half a crown) Even when famous he asked no payment for much of his work. Without medical or sur- gical degree or diploma, without the use of instruments of any kind —with just two lean and powerful hands -- he cured cases that had been abandoned as hopeless by the medical profession. Just sixty years ago an earnest - looking young man took a small room in a Manchester by -street and put up on his door: Herbert Barker, Bonesetter. Then he sat and waited for patients. IIe had just completed training under his uncle, John Atkinson, the famous bonesetter of Park Lane, and was launching out for himself. This is how he once told me the story—for I knew Sr Herbert Bar- ker weii for thirty years. "After a week I began to think I had better go back to London —no patients, and money none too plentiful, Then into my little office, with its cheap furniture, came a limping man. First: The Footballer ''I've put my knee out at footer,' he explained, 'The doctors say I'll never play again. Can .you do anything?' "'I'll try; I told him, His was that trouble common to footballers displacement of the sentl-lunar car- tilage. "Well, that footballer left a quarter of an hour later walking quite normally." How much did Barker get for that cure?" It happened the footballer was hard up. He received half a crown. Half a crown as direct payment, but something else, too. A well- known footballer restored to the field to tell all and sundry how and why he was able to play again. "Within a month," Barker told me, "my little consulting room was full." But life plays funny tricks. Bar- ker built up a big Manchester prac- tice. Then he thought he would like to try London, but in the capital his luck deserted him. There was once more, the empty waiting room, but no magical cure to start the long procession of hopeful pa- tients towards his door, So once more back to the prov- inces—this time to Glasgow. In Glasgow the Manchester experi- ence was repeated and Barker soon had a large practice. London still called, so after some years, back he came, His uncle had died. There was the Park Lane practice, a family affair. Barker took it over. "In those days," he once told me, "I was terribly handicapped in two ways. First,,the medical profession opposed the methods I employed as dangerous and unorthodox, Second- ly, I could not do many operations without anaesthetics because of the pain of the often violent manipula- tions necessary to break down ad- hesions." Struck Off Register One day there came to Barker's Park Lane house a little doctor. He said, "May I see you at work?" Barker readily agreed, for though the doctors were, in general, against him, he bore them no hard feelings. When he had watched for a day, Dr. Axham said: "You have convinced me. I'll come anti administer anaesthetics for you." "You know what that means to you?" Barker queried. "Yes," replied the doctor, "I shall be professionally disgraced — struck off the Medical Register!" This fate quickly followed and. for the remainder of his profession- al life, Dr. Axham, for giving an unqualified man assistance as anaes- thetist, remained in professional disgrace, with no right to practise, But tune brings changes. Defense Program In Full Swing—From one end of the country to the other men and women both are employed in the urgent job of getting the defense machine into shape. At left, a woman mis- sile inspector examines a completed 3.5 -inch bazooka rocket. Light-colored units are warheads, others, rocket bodies. In picture at right, a workman in a rubber manufacturing factory marks one of the high -flotation tires recently developed. The new type fire provides greater traction at lowered air pressure than conventional truck and jeep tires. One day, the late Sir Alfred Fripp was confronted by a bone case that even that brilliant surgeon had been unable to set right. On the spur of the moment he said: "Why not try this man Barker— I hear he gets results in such cases as yours?" The patient, a lady of title, took the hint. Barker cured her, Fripp saw the dramatic cure, "After that," he told ate, "I sent all my bone cases to Barker." As the years passed Barker's consulting room became so crowd- ed that he was forced to put up his fees. In the end the man whose first fee was half a crown was taking fees running into four fig- ures and earning an enormous in- come writes George Godwin in "Tit -Bits." But, even so, Barker did much work for nothing. During the first ' World War he treated hundreds of soldiers suffering from bone in- juries, until he vias officially pre- vented from curing more. Never Passed Exam What, then, is the explanation of this man whose fame spread throughout the world as the man with the magic hands? The answer is just there — in those hands. Barker had a' good working knowledge of anatomy, but had he sat for a medical exam. he would assuredly have been ploughed. What he had was an uncanny sense of touch. This was quite abnormal and peculiar to him, "IIe seemed to be able to feel into the bone structure," one surgeon told tee. And that surgeon had watched hint at work on that historical occasion when, at the invitation of the Bri- tish Orthopaedic Association, a body of leading bone surgeons, Barker operated on eighteen cases selected for their obstinacy in St. Thomas's Hospital. He wrought cures in several cases, gave relief in a number of others, scored .sev- eral failures. But the orthodox orthopaedic surgeons were astonished. They saw a man who used direct me- thods that startled then. He moved stiff joints in a way that almost frightened then; he drove and wove into adhesions and broke them down witih a Wizardry that no textbook could impart. One surgeon said to him on that occasion: "Now, just what (lid you do then, Sir Herbert?" "I don't know," replied Barker, "I just did it" If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of 'adroitness, try, if you have never ' tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand, PLEASE SEND FREE CATALOGUE AND PRICES' Nome Address 0.11111.4. I J They claim that one of the earliest manuscripts ever found and trans- lated consisted of a letter from an Egyptian father to his son, written several thousand years ago. The Ietter still has a very modern ring, however, as it principally consisted of the old man squawking to sonny - boy about how the youth of that day were low-lifes compared to what his generation had been, * * * Still, even at the risk of being pegged as an old fogey, we can't help wondering just what modern sport is corning. to; also where, if coaches who think of nothing but winning at any cost continue to take over, modern sport is heading. * * * These ankle-deep thoughts are inspired by the Pete Karpuk inci- dent which occurred in a recent Ottawa -Argonaut football game and what happened after that incident. * * * Karpuk, as you doubtless know, was sitting on the Ottawa bench when 'Argonaut Ulyssea Curtis in- tercepted a Rough Rider pass and headed for the touch -clown that would tie the game. There wasn't a Chinaman's chance of any legiti- mate Ottawa player flagging Mr, Curtis, so Peter promptly had a brain -wave. Or perhaps "blew his top" would possibly be a more accurate way of describing it. * * * Anyway, Karpuls arose from the bench, dashed across the field, and halted Ulysses in a thrilling but absolutely illegal manner, immedi- ately setting -off the finest mixup which ever occurred on any Can- adian football field. * 'k * Luckily for the sport, Argonauts finally won out. If they. hadn't, the results hardly bear thinking about. At least twenty-five thousand Tor- onto fans would have solemnly vowed never to see another foot- ball game—and would have kept their vow, till the :text big game came up. * :k * But it is the aftermath which in- terests us. Safely back in Bytown, our hero ICarpulc modestly said: "I still say it was a good play." That, of course, was neither here nor there as it is widely rumoured that Peter, good player though he is, will never be hanged for an over -sufficiency of brains, 5 5 * Clem Crowe is in a different Cate- gory. Cleat is coach of the Rough - Riders. imported at great expense to teach us rude Canadians the in- ner niceties of sport, "Karpuk is my boy," quoth Clem, or words to that effect. "There is nothing in the rules forbidding what he did, and it showed that he was right in there every minute." k * * Later it came out that a.for'mer Ottawa coach, one Wally Masters, also could claim a little credit for what happelted. According to Kar - pule, and other former Ottawa play- ers ,'Tasters told theta, "If a player from the other side gets in the clear, nail him from the bench. It isn't covered in the rules." * e * We would merely point out to Messrs. Crowe and Masters that, so far as we know, thes'e's nothing, in the rule book forbidding the shooting of an opposing player who. looks dangerous—and, if you had a few good shots on yttr bench, it would be much more certain than trying to tackle hint. So, when you're arranging your imports from south of the border another season, why not put in a bid for Annie Oakley or Sure Shot Dave? In the meantime, a double order of air - wicks. The whole thing smells to' high heaven—and the aroma is by no means front violets. Or gerani- ums either. * * * Here in Canada we take the view that gambling—and especially horse race gambling—can be wiped out by a few denunciations from pulpits and political platforms, all occa- sional pinch or so of somebody merely froliting for,'the big money, and then forgetting about the whole thing for another year or so. Over in the States they are looking at the thing more realistically and starting to hit the gamblers the only place where. it will hurt—in the bank roll. Any attempt to do something of •the kind over here would be met with a volume of "condoning vice"—"licensing sin" and the like. Still, the following from The New York Times may furnish food for thought to those Who believe that there always has been gambling— always will be gambling—and that the best way to keep it within rea- sonable bounds is to recognize the fact, * * * One provision of the new tax law which went into effect last Thurs- day was a brand-new tax, on book- makers. Under the law bookies must buy .a $50 tax stamp every year for display on their premises and •pay a 10 per cent excise on gross receipts. The Congressmen who drafted the gambling tax provision and pushed it through in the last ses- sion spoke of it only—at least on the record—as a revenue -raising measure. Tax experts estimated offi- cially that it would bring in $407 million a year, if paid. Ent the new tax also provides new legal weapons against the books. Every state but Nevada has laws against bookmaking, but here- tofore there has been no Federal law against it. 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