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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-03-13, Page 2ti HEALTH Measles. We have often jokingly classed this disease with love, and we shrug our shoulders when it visits our home, remarking "It has to come so let it come !" But it doesn't, Many mothers, deliberately expose their children to it to •°``get it over with." ' It is no' more necessary that the so- called "children's diseases" should be than that adults should have ty- phoid fever. A seemingly mild attack of measles may have serious results. Indeed, the sooner we recognize measlesas an insidious disease with dire consequences if care be not taken, the better for our children. Measles is a very contagious dis- ease. Children should be isolated and must never be allowed to asso- ciate with others until thoroughly cured. The contagion may be pre- sent in any of the secretions of the afflicted one. It may be carried in the clothes of a third person. Care must be taken to isolate the pati- ent and to guard against carrying the disease. Measles appears from seven to fourteen days after exposure to the germs. It is heralded by a feverish cold, "running" of the nose, wat- ery eyes and sensitiveness to the light. A general lassitude and loss of appetite is present. The fever gradually rises to. 10e Fahrenheit, and may go higher while the erup- tion is coming. About the fourth day a break- ingsout on the body appears. It usually comes on the forehead first. This resembles little pimples. When there are hemorrhages of these in- to the skin, the disease is known as "black measles." At the end of the First week a peeling of the skin takes place. It is fine and is accompanied by itch- ing that is almost maddening. To allay this, the body ,.f the eatier„ should be rubbed with oil or fresh lard once a day. This prevon:s the scattering 6f the tiny scales of the skin. The eyes are generally sensitive and should be protected from Iight 'by dark glasses or by a darkened room. A. solution of boric \acid is a i otd cleanser to be used every day:. The rash should be brought out, if -delayed, by hot drinks and hot baths. If it suddenly disappears, the doctor should be immediately notified. During this disease the patient may have a dry cough. This can be relieved if a kettle of boiling water be kept steaming in the room. Milk, nourishing broths, eggs, fruit juices and gruel should be the chief diet. The child ought to be kept in bed one or two weeks and quarantined for four. Above all, be careful of the con- valescent. The complications are more serious than measles itself. Bronchiel trouble, pneumonia, ear trouble and tuberculosis may re- sult. How much could be prevent- ed if mothers only knew ! NEM' OUS SHOT: LD WALK. Prescribed for the Person Border- ing on Hysteria. Many women, because they are tired at night, think that they 'do not need physical training, that they have already taken too much; but this is a mistaken idea,. House- work, says a writer in the Woman's World, tends to make women ner- vous and irritable unless they ob- tain diversion in the form of exer- cise or healthful recreation. When women ate nervous or bordering on hysteria and feel like crying or screaming, a little well chosen exer- cise followed by acool bath will im- prove these conditions, and, if per- sisted in, will eventually cure them. Any woman who has a moderate degree of health can walk. If she will rise an hour earlier in the morning and walk, with the body erect, chest strongly expanded, swinging the arms at the side of the body as aman does, and take great ' deep breaths, she will have no occa- sion to complain of nerves, even if her daily duties are confining.: If it is out of the question to take this hour's walk in the morning, take it in the evening after dinner. You may not have as much sleep, but it is refreshing and will more than compensate for the time expended. How many unkickcd kicks have you coming Stamps which have become stuck together may be separated by pass- ing a hot iron across their faces. -era A GOOD HABIT Tea when you a'e tired, partteularly if"A's Lip Goes farthest for the monaey CHINESE SEALS OF WOOD. Stone, Too, There 'Forms Part of Articles Usually Made of Metal. In China: seals are made. of wood and stone, as well as of metal. They are used, in addition to a signature, to represent an individual, a legal person or a corporation, The seals used by. the former emperor were distinguished as privy and state seals, and were three inches square. China's state seal is used chiefly upon documents relating to foreign countries, explains the Oriental Re- view, and has Chinese characters stamped on it. The privy seals are stamped on imperial rescripts, is- sued for proclamations at home: Japanese law requires that each individual should send in an im- pression of his seal as a, specimen (called jitsuin), to have it registered and kept in a. government office (district office of a city, town or vil- lage), that it may represent himself in a deed. The material employed to make these seals consists of various kinds of precious stones, gold, silver, etc. Those mostly in use at the present day are of agate, rock crystal, ivory, rhinoceros or wood or box- wood, and recently India .rubber has come into use. There are two ways of engraving characters on a seal—relief and in- taglio. In the one the characters in the impression are shown in color, while in the other they are repre- sented in white on colored ground. The ink used for stamping is called niku. It is generally of vermilion red. The cheapest kind of seals are made of boxwood and sold at 5 cents -apiece. Most seals are oval in shape, but some are round, and others square. They rarely exceed one-half inch in el5ameter. ` Revising Things. Hewitt—What do you think of this suffragette business? Jewett—If it is carried to its logi- cal conclusion it will result in wo- man putting her money in her hus- band's name. "Too bad! Mrs. Smartleigh al- ways has such abominable weather for her afternoon teas!" "Yes; she never pours but it rains!" Waiter—And how did you find the beef, sir ? Customer—Oh! I moved a potato, and there it was! It's Always A Good Thing To have a Clear Horizon at both ends of the day. A dish of ost To sties for breakfast and again at the evening meal opens and clones the day with a, dash of sunshine. Toasties are bits of hard, white Indian Corn, first care- fully cooked, then rolled thin and crinkly, and toasted to a. delicate, appetizing brown. Not a haaid touches the food in manufacture, and it is ready to serve direct from the package --oto be eaten with cream or milk—and sugar, if desired. Post Toastiese taste delici- ously good and are richly nourishing. Made by Pare rood il'actories of Canadian Posture Cereal Co.. Ltd,. Windsor, Ontario. OUR LETTER FROM TORlliTO Its iEnESTn I:i , f3I1,i of ii:1pssiiwt F ,(3141 149E QUEEN 'Cl1 Dr.,C. Cz. James Speaks of theiiilgh cost, of,, Living—Dr. Freidman's Cure-Torontq' Suffragettes -Exhibition Association; City people, not infrequently, are heard to declare that farmers are getting viola, that the present high cost of liaing must be resulting in a situation in which the farming community as a whole is simply' rolling in wealth, This view was pupa Hired by Dr. C. C. James, former Deputy Minister of ,Agriculture . for the Province of Ontario and now Advisory Expert ger the Dominion Department of A,'t irlture, in his address to the Canaciza ' rab.: "I want to tell you," ho sald* ,gphati- Cally, "that the farmer is not gQ too much. In illustration he' quoted ;7a fact that a bag of potatoes which Ise' u' a Sic,, $1.00 or $1.25 in Toronto, yields to ''+ .far- mer who grows them, probably I'Carle- ton County, Now Brzinswiolr, ,u. more than 30o., and the milk whi k,' lie in Toronto for 10c. a quart yields t, fawner probably only 41-2c. a quart �, "The farmer who gets 412c n quart is not getting too much," he said, `but: the city man who pays 100. a quart,41TPt!Ying too much." Mr. James maintained that the system of distribution was all wrong, though, be said, there was no use calling the middle man hardnames, because ,he was simply working `under conditions !as they exist and earning an honeea living. Mr. James was discussing the ,rest ,of living, and it was an attentive b" up of 250 city men he wee addressing.;',- They were vitally interested, because, As Mr. James pointed out, the present oot'ditioni have reached such a pass that • lir the classes of the community on flxel salar- ies, and this means the great btidy of teachers, clergymen, clerks ,and al) other forms of unorganized workers, relitif must come soon. The West Is Not Helping.,;f_5 Mr. James made a comment that was surprising to many of his audience in connection with the opening up of West- ern Canada. Ho demonstrated that as far as the cost of living in this country is concerned, the new population in the West is doing nothing to ameliorate conditions. While they are producers in one sense of the word, the stuff they are producing— wheat, oats, flax—is practically all for ex- port, so that as a matter of . fact the in- creased population is simply adding to the consuming population of the country. On the other hand, the rural population of Eastern Canada during the last ten years had declined by about 47,000 people, while the city or urban population of the country had increased by no less' than 1,250,000. In these figures, Mr. James thought, lay one of the chief causes for the great advance in the cost of living in Canada. The' consumers had increased, the producers had declined in. nuraber. It was inevitable that the law of 'supply and demand should rule. Mr. James fallowed this up with the startling deolarationtitat in his opinion it would be better for the Government, instead of spending 'thirty, forty or fifty million dollars fograil- ways to open up new area in the North- west, to take a similar amount and. spend it on good roads in old Ontario and the other settled ,portions of Eastern Canada. In this connection Mr. James pointed out that Canada, generally ,regarded as an agricultural couutry; is a large im porter of food stuffs, British. Columbia.. for example, imports $15,000,000 `, Worth of table products anzltally, 'an New Brunswick„a.fit nother grie ew imn� ppooets' $4,000;p00 worth. l Mr. James Outlined what it 'Vv nr.jioaed,' to 'do with the $10,000,000 now being grant= eel by the Dominion Department of Agri- culture for the increase of agr:onitural knowledge and training, the purpose ,be- ing to teach the farmers how to increase the amount of their produce:; Frteamann's Cure, Among local medical men and the pub- lic; generally there is the keenest interest in the reported discovery by Dr. Fried- mann, the German physician, of a suc- cessful treatment for consumption. Sever- al local doctors have made arrangements to interview Dr. Friedmann, and it is hoped that possibly he may be induced to visit Toronto. Despite the great publicity which has been given the new "cure, the disposition among Toronto medical men is to look with some suspicion on the high claims that have been made. They will be delighted to find that Dr. Pried- mann's cure is as dependable as has been statedbut iu view'of the doubt they think it is unfortunate that so much publicity has been given the matter until all pos- sibility of disappaintment to sufferers had passed. That a distinct advance in the treatment of tuberculosis has been made they consider possible, but that anything like a "cure all” has been discovered scorns to them incredible. Eager Suffragettes. ' The Toronto Suffragettes who went to Washington have returned well pleased with their expedition. The Suffragettes. as a rule, are very sensitive of criticism of their actions, but this has not prevent- ed certain persons of both sexes. from asking what was to be gained by such a jaunt. The point of view of these' critics' is that the Canadian participation in the Washington parade was as much' out of place as would be the participation in an Ottawa parade of Canadian Suffragettes seeking to influence the Dominion ,Parlia- meet, by .a contingent of United States. women. The Toronto contingent could not help but impress the eye. They wore red hats, long white trailing gowns with • a big red sash bearing the word "Canada; and carried Union Jacks. ' The delegation included about a dozen of the most ac- tive agitators in Toronto, including Mrs. PloraMacdonald Denison, President of the Canadian Suffrage Association; Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gullen, past , president; Dr. Margaret Johnston, Mrs, Campbell Mac - Ivor, who alone of Toronto's sudragettes believes in militant methods, airs. Rea, for Prenter, the ver, active Secretary of the Association; lucre. L. A. Pzm3,lton. President of the Equal Franchise League and a very active social worker, and Mrs. E. L. Campbell, President of the Bombes' Progress Club. All of these are ladies of ripe experience in women's movements, and none belongs to the type ore- would expect to be carried away by any, vision- ary project. The enthusiastic Mrs. Ilam- Ilton proposes to organize a parade in Toronto next. Cabinet Ministers Lend a Hand. The Toronto Exhibition Association has only one 'meeting a year, but it manages to throw around that gathering gome of the glamor of national importance which it secures for the Big Show itself. Tor example, at the annual meeting 'this year. no lees than three Cabinet Ministers were in attendance. There was the Honorable James Duff, who from his position as Min- ister of -Agriculture takes a keen •interest in all exhibitions, and. Wire is 'an enthusi- astic member of the Toronto Exhibition Association; then there: was the Honor- able 'y. IL heart, whose . special <interest is New Ontario, which always has,il• prom- inent exhibit at the fair, and Lite third Minister woe the Honorable Br, Pyne, Minister of Education, whose interest is elicited on account of the educational fea- tures which the Pair socks to introduce. Each was called upon to make a speech, and responded with, a few brief sentences of a aongratnlatory nature, delivered In dharaoterrstic style, Mr, Dull' inclined to be flowery, Mr. Hearst forcible and down- right, . and Dr. Pyne . the dignified and suave gentleman, The Exhibition Association is made up of delegates from various bodies of a more er less representative character through- ant hrow l - out the Province. Membership in the Asa soeiation carries with it as privilegee the right to attend the annual meeting, to take part in the discussion there and .to foto in the election for Board of Dirac» .,teas, and to a pane or two for the Exhibt- `tion The Board of Directors, consisting of 16.members, is the inner circle. While the membership of the Assoeiation in- oludes :a,nuniber from outside the city, the Directorships lure pretty well confined to mon with Toronto interests, Formerly therewee in addition, to the 111race:este' a system of, committees through •-Which It was sought to interest the. various mem- hers of the Association, .but this plan has been largely abandoned. - The"Inttiott. Circle. As a matter of fact, there in an inner circle within the inner circle, the inmost circle. being the Executive Committee of about five members, This is the real gov- erning overning body of the Exhibition. The annual meeting this year was one of thelargest in the history of the As- soeiation, filling one of the largo rooms at the City Hall. President Kent, a man of few;worde, presided, and General Man. ager Orr was .at his left hand to see that the wheels revolved smoothly. The elec- tion of Directors is always accompanied by a great deal of buttonholing, and, it is said, wire -pulling, .and there is gener- ally a surprise in store for someone. This year it was for Mr. H. R. 'Frankland, a former director who had some disagree- ment with the other members of the Board during the year just closed, and who this year went down to defeat. After the voting adjournment was made to a restaurant, where an elaborate luncheon was served. Old Folks' .Coughs Permanently Cured The Publim is Loud in Its Praise of the Modern Direct Breathing Cure. Elderly people take cold easily. Unlike young folks, they recover slowly, if ever. That is why so many people past middle life die of pneumonia. Even though pneumonia does not develop and kill, coughs certainly weaken all elderly peo- ple. Cough Syrups seldom do much good be- cause they upset digestion. Any druggist or doctor knows that a much more effec- tive treatment is "OATARRHOZONE," which heals and soothes the irritated sur- faces of the throat. In using Catarrhozone you do not take medicine into the stomach—you simply breathe into the throat, nose and lungs rich piney balsamic vapor, so full of b.eal- ing power that colds, catarrh and bron- chitic disappear almost instantly. "At sixty-eight years of age I can tes- tify that, I am never troubled with coughs or colds," writes I. E. Pilgrim, of King- ston. "They used to be the bain of my life, and that was before I used. Catarrh- oSone,.. which; was recommended to me by YS V. Piens% 5lrnggist. To use ,Catarrh- moue latarrhomone is just like being in an immense ii e, 't o6se. The • balsamic; vapor of Ca- tarahozone ls., lifea tonin, it is so atimn- latitig 'to the breathing.`org xns, -So sooth- ing to sore spots, so full of power to drive out colds and.congestion. I will always use and recommend Catarrhozone as a preventive and cure for coughs, colds, bronchitis, throat irritation and catarrh. (Signed) "3, ) , PILGRIM." A Catarrhozone Inhaler in your poc- ket or purse enables you to stop a cold with the first sneeze. Large size caste $1.00 and supplies treatment for two months; Small size, 50o.; trial size 25c.; all storekeepers and druggists, or The Catarrhozone Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Canada. Guest—"Yes, my wife has been ill, but she is out again now." Hostess—"What doctor did 'you have ?" Guest—"No doctor at all. I bought her a new hat !" THEIR SUNDAY ItEST. How unsophisticated Congrega- twos Appear at Church. The wife of a missionary long sta- tioaed in Africa confessed the other day that she became hysterical with suppressed laughter at the first service that her husband held at the station after bringing her out, She had, indeed, to leave the chapel under pretext of a sudden nose - self by an outbtirst of unseemly The Cause of her diseomfituee was an important convert, an aged and venerable chief with 'Snowy wool and a ct untenance of ferocious dig- nity. The young wife had thrown away the day before an outgrown pair of her tiny daughter's aide& ties. They wore of gay scarlet morocco; and when they seappear- ed at church, buttoned neatly through the distended lobes of the old chief's cans and dangling con- spicuously against his withered ebony shoulders tha spectacle was too much for 'hew—especially in combination with the rest of his costume, which consisted of a dirty blue loin -cloth, and a head-dress made of feathers artistically com- bined with imported shirt -buttons. Miesionary gravity is often se- verely tested by the go -to -meeting - best of the unsophisticated congre- gation. Even our own country can suppily instances in point. The tale comes from Alaska of an Indian settlement the resident pastor of which prepared the minds of his people for the coming of a distin- guished clergyman who was 'going to preach to them, by explaining that not only would- his words be worth hearing, but that his charac- ter was such that he might be con- sidered an exemplar ' of all the Christian graces, and eminently worthy of imitation. During his earnest and eloquent address, the visiting preacher had occasion to use his handkerchief ; having done so, he thrust it care- lessly into a, coat-tail pocket. He quite failed to observe that the greater portion remained hanging outside, and streamed backward as he gesticulated in a manner that the respectfully . admiring natives deemed peculiarly elegant and ef- fective. The next Sunday the decorum of their- own pastor was severely drained, 'when' he beheld 4a, .flock than any other, 'proudly 'advancing down the aisle. Every man, woman and child -had -a hendkerehief, rag or piece of white cloth of any ma- terial, from sailcloth to' muslin, and CURES COUGHS Mr. J. E. Arsenault, a Justice the Peace, and station master Wellington, on the Prince Edwa Idand Railway, says r in Pour year,s ago I slipped in t station and fell on a freight tru sustaining a bad. -eut on the front my leg. I thought this would he but instead of doing so it develop into a bad ulcer, and later into a fo of eczema %which spread, very rapi and also started on the other I Both legs became so swollen and s that could only go about my wo by having them bandaged. My doe said I must stop work and lay up. "After six months of this trou I consulted another doctor, but w no better result. I tried all the salv. 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