HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-03-28, Page 2NOTES AND COMIVIENT5
.Addresses to the educated and
Progressive classes of France,
signed by university professors,
historians, men of letters and in-
tellectuals generally, protest vig-
orously against any attempt to jam
through as "emergency'' measures
the proposed laws for a three-year
term of xnilitary service, increased
defense expenditures and addition-
al taxes. The signers do not oppose
the proposed laws they oppose
haste and hysteria ;° they demand
facts and calm consideration of the
alleged changes in the European
situation. They point out that
blind and emotional surrender to
militarism may endanger the very
existence of the republican regime
in France.
The studentsfo Paris and the
provinces are standing by these
leaders of opinion, and Premier
Briand has admitted that there is
no necessity for feverish haste.
There is no crisis in Europe; there
I is no occasion for panic ; Germany
and France are equally pacific at
bottom, and both can take plenty
of time for a, sober study of the
situation. What the powers need
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is a strong dose of sound sense;
i there is much childishness in what
passes for subtle and deep diplo-
maty. Science, industry, com-
merce and literature should make
themselves heard and felt at, this
juncture.
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How important the discovery of
the virus that produces infantile
paralysis, announced by Dr. Simon
Flexner, director of the Rockefel-
ler Institute for Scientific Research,
may be must be left to the doctors
to determine. It seems likely, how-
ever, to result in means of curing
or controlling this dreaded disease,
judging from previous discoveries
concerning other diseases. Similar
important results may follow the
demonstration. of Dr.Uideyo Noogu-
ohi o.f the presexice sof ^treponema
pallidum in the brain of general
paresis, which points to relation
between one of the worst of dis-
eases and paresis.
The Flexner discovery is confir-
mative of previous statements by
Dr. Flexner himself and other in-
vestigators. Two veers ago it was
known that infantile paralysis was
caused by an extremely minute or-
ganism, so small that it could not
be discovered by the microscope.
French observers found the virus in
the salivary glands ; the Harvard
experiments completed a few
months ago proved that the disease
could be transmitted by the com-
mon stable fly. A virus is not a
disease germ; it is, according to the
Century Dictionary, "the contag-
ion of an infectious disease; a poi-
son produced in the body of one
suffering from a contagious disease;
and capable of exciting the same
disease when introduced into an-
other person by inoculation,"
Infantile paralysis in the last
three years has become widely epi-
demic. The mystery about it has
added to its terrors. Treatment of
it has been largely empirical in the
.absence of knowledge. There is rea-
son to hope that it will soon be
conquered as effectively as diph-
theria, formerly another great
scourge of childhood, has been con-
quered..
"What you need, madame, is oxy-
gen. Come every afternoon for
your inhalations. They will coat
you two dollars each." "I knew
that other doctor didn't understand
my case," declared the fashionable
patient. "He told me all I needed
was plain fresh air."
Do you know why children do not
often get seriously hurt when they
fall down? It is because they do
not :make much of an effort :to keep
their balance and, prevent them-
selves from falling. Grown-up pee -
,pie when .they get a slip try all they
know to prevent the fall., this draw-
• ing muscles and sinews taut, so that
when they do fall bones are more
▪ apt to break than if the muscles
Vert welaxed.
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then cooled until it can be applied
by hand to umbrellas with a piece
of cloth or waste. No machinery or
tools are used in applying the oil.
When the oiling is completed the
umbrellas are exposed in the sun
for about five hours.
New Baby Brother.
Doris was radiant over a recent
addition to the family, and rushed
out of the house to tell the news
to a passing neighbor. "Oh, you
don't know what we've got up-
stairs !" "What is it?" "It's a
new baby brother !" And she set-.
tled back upon her heels and fold-
ed her hands to watch the. effect.
"You don't say so ! Is he going to
stay1" "I expect so," very
thoughtfully—"he's got his things
off"
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WHAT IS UPPERMOST IN THE MINDS
OF THE CITIZENS.
Away From Home at Easter --A Diplomat
of the First Degree—Mystery .• to po
. Cleared Up—An Active Career,
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Laster, the greatest Church date in the
entire year, seems to be losing in the •city
Something of the spirit of• olden ' time,
This is merely to saythat with the in-
oreaee of wealth and population. worldli-
ness is on the incroaee. Literallythou-
sands of citizens make it a point of being
away from home at Easter. The number
of those who spend tbo entire winter in
eouthern climes is on the increase. The
Mediterranean or the West•Iudies are fay-
orite tripe, whilo this season for the liret
time Panama has been coming in . for
its share of business. The winter tour-
ists do not return until Spring is well ad-
vanced and the Easter season seas an
exodus to the near south, which ie mount'
ing to very large proportions.: Atlantic
City is a favorite resort and Easter Sun-
day saw hundreds of Torontonians oa
the promenade there, far away stems
church or other home duties.
Sir William's Diplomacy. •
Sir William Meredith, who for the peek
two years has been investigating the
Workmen's Compensation with e view to
recommending legislation, has - proved
himself a diplomat of the first degree by
the report which he has just presented to
the Legislature.. One of the chief .causes
of contention in connection with the Aet
will be as to what classes of citizens should
be exempt. Sir William received much
evidence on this point. For :;example.
there is no doubt that there will be, great
opposition in farming communities to any
enactment which will - make employers
liable for injuries sustained by their
help. In the same way store -keepers l em-
ployine perhaps only one clerk, in •ananY
cases where the chances of injury are of
the slightest degree, will obieet vigorously
at any taxation whioh•might be imposed
for the purpose of Workmen's Compenea-
Lion:
Sir Wiiliam has neatly aide -stepped this
entire controversy. He has done so by
leaving the whole question of wl}at'olasses
are to he exempt to the discretion of the
Legislature. His Act as fraud applies
univereally, and if it went inte-force as
it is, would apply to every employer of
labor in the Province. As it is generally
recognized that there must be some ex-
emption, the whole question of what these
exemptions shall be must be thrashed out
by the members in the House. No doubt
a great number of exemptions will be
asked for and the Act will be lucky if It
escapee emasculation.
As far as the controversy between the
Labor Unions and the Manufacturers is
concerned, Sir William sienna to have been
able to bring about a certain amount of
sgreement. On the face of it it looks as
though his findings lean toward the side
of the working men.
Gardening Days.
Sir William will now have more free-
dom than for some time to devote to his
flowers and his ga•rdeninte,: which is the
chief hobby of his life. There is 'Probably
no man in the Province who has a great-
er love for flowers, and his home ,which
stands above the Rosedale ravine, le every
summer'a real living home of dower- life.
He hoe ,made gardening a heaitlt?giving
relaxation from a strentoue life. The ar-
rangement of his grounds and flower beds
is particularly -pleasing. Nor is Sir Wil-
liam one of.those gardeners1vh l.41see to.
let other people do the 'woe]
Motto, tido ,sau(riff menses `
ting de trees on his fa
Sir Willians always delUci'ht
labor of his own hands.
The Mystery Block.
Toronto's "mystery block" .still remains
revived
that the Canamen dian an Northave ern been
Rail-
way is the owner, but these have been
denied. Of the names mentioned in oou-
nection with the property -only front the
T. Eaton Company has there been no
denial, and the impression still etands
that thie firm proposes, sooner or later,
to move from its present location to the
site bounded, by Carlton, Yonge, Church,
and Alexander. As this would mean a
tremendous dislocation of bneineas on
Yonge St., there le the keenest interest
in what will happen.
The statement has been made by a man
supposed to know that the mystery will
be cleared up before the end of the month
of May. If this is tho case there will be
fresh activity in Toronto real estate.
Nothing more spectacular than the
myetory block has been heard of in real
estate records in this country. The en-
tire block, consisting of hundreds of small
Pamela of property, was bought up by
agents of a real estate firm within a few
weeks. That was two years ago, and who
the real estate firm acted for is as much
a mystery as it was then. Tho deal, of
course, involved millions. Meanwhile.
Eaton's continue to make improvements in
their .present premises.
Friedmann Was Pleased,
Toronto physicians are gratified that
Dr. Friedmann should have given so mucb
attention to Toronto patients, and that
be was so complimentary in his remarks
concerning his operations hero. He said
that his local clinio was the most .satis-
factory that ho hadhad, this being due
largely to the system of registration
which prevails, and which reveals the
history of each case. The patients treat-
ed are, of course, being watched with the
greatest anxiety, particularly by sufferers
from the disease, Local Physicians' con-
tinue to be unenthusiastic, but hopeful.
Dr. Friedmann was greatly impreesed
with the cordiality shown in Toronto and
other Canadian cities partioularly when.
contrasted
with
eet dihimsin -disposition
York. One
story is to the effect that the reason of
his cool reception in New York was the
opposition of the drug trust, which,of.
course, finds one of its chief sources of
profit in the medicines which it sells to
tuboroular patients. But such a story
seems too diabolical for belief,
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rroaeurer just when the fabulous boom
struok Toronto, when in the Tato 80's,
without reason, thousands peeked tlieix
trunks and moved to the city from the
the tent years wasistl boom
burst,
fug in the history of the pity. But in the
last decade figures have been goine ahead;
in jumps, expenditures have more than,
doubled, assessments and all other figures
bounding ahead in similar proportions,
Mr. Coady is: still the paymaster. But
there are critics who think that a succes-
sor must soon bo appointed. Before his
illness it was charged that his depart-
ment had not kept pato with the times,
and was really in a chaotio condition.
Who will succeed Mr. Coady is an, open
question. Controller McCarthy has been
showing a special interest in the Treasury
Department, and it has been rumored
that he will follow the example set by
Mayor Geary last year and step from the
Board of Control into a soft life ,job at a
eatery of some $10,000 a year. But Con-
troller McCarthy denies' absolutely that
he is a candidate or that he would accept
the position if offered to him.
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SACRED FLAG OF PROPHETS.
lIow Guarded in Peace and plow
Powerful in War.
The sacred standard of the pro-
phet is enveloped in forty coverings
of green taffeta, and is enclosed in
a case of green cloth, which also
contains a koran (the book of the
law), written by the Caliph Omar
himself, and the silver keys of the
kaapa, which Selim I received
from the sheriff of Mecca.
The standard is twelve feet and
the golden ornaments (a closed
hand) which surmounts it contains
another copy of the koran, written
by the Caliph Osman III., the suc-
cesses:. of Mohammed.
In time of peace this precious
standard is guarded in the hall of
the "Noble Vestment" ; thus is
styled the dress worn by the pro-
phet. In the same hall in which the
tunic hangs are also preserved the
other teeth, the holy beard, the
eacred stirrup, the sabre and the
bow of Mohammed, and the arms
and armor of the first caliphs.
In war a magnificent tent is
erected for receiving the sacred
standard, which is attached by sil-
ver rings to, alance of ebony. This
custom brings to recollection the
little temple in which was deposited
the eagle of the Roman legions, as
related by Dionysius Cassius. At
the end of every campaign the sa-
cred piece of green eilk which forms
the ,standard is replaced with great
solemnity in a richly ornamented
chest,
Down to the present epoch this.
standard has always beet a • real
talisman to the Turks, and has
served to'rally the defenders of Is-
lamism and to inflame) their courage
in battle against the Christians.
This sacred banner is, however, ne-
ver displayed•exeept in time of war
as a last extremity. It is the sig-
nal for instantly exerting every ef-
fort to save the empire, Every
Christian is prohibited from stop-
ping before or even casting a pro-
fane look on this sacred pledge of
safety.
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Toronto bas been having its troubles in
pivic financing. In round figures it takes
about $10,000,000 a year to run the city,
and as a great proportion of this amount
le required for capital expenditures it
means that much Cash has to be raised
by selling bonds and debentures- The
market for the last year not, having beet
good, there .is on hand an accumulation
of unsold bonds, with the result that the
city has been perilously close to the point
of not having ready cash with which to
pay current expendituree. In recent weeks
small bond issues have been disposed of
on more or less satisfactory terms and
the situation has been temporarily reliev-
ed.
As result of this situation the Treasury
Department has Dome in for a great deal
of criticism. Unfortunately, Mr. Richard
T, Coady, who has been City Treasurer
for twenty -live years, and to whom the
city looked to soli -its bends and keep the
etrong box well supplied with ready Cash
has been seriously. i11. It' ie dcitbttul •if
lis wilt over 'resume his duties 'UV least
as actively as formerly. -
Mr. Coady's Career.
Mr, Coady has felt Toronto move if any
man has. He has been in the city tier -
Vice for 36 years, Chief A000ttntant in 1877,
Cite Treasurer in 1808 .andever since.
Previous to that ho was a lumber feet-,',
shah. He has been eighteen mayors -come
and'go. HC has -aeon the cityes ppopula•
tion almoat quadruple. lie beeanle
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Passer-by .(to farmer leaning on
roadside fence)—Do you approve o
automobiles 1 Farmer—Sure ! Wh
wouldn't I? Didn't I make ove
$50 clean cash haulin' 'em out o
snowdrifts last winter ?
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ANTS AS REMEDIES.
In Europe Preparations Made
From Insects Are Used.
Among the last of the reniedies
provocative of nausea; of the imagi-
nation to disappear from the lists
of official remedies have been pre-
parations made from ants. Such
preparations, however, have not
obtained much recognition in this
country,- even among the wise old
women in domestic practice --
though in parts of Europe they are
yet in use. Ant baths, made by
boiling ants in water, are yet in use
by Bavarian peasants for rheuma-
tism and gout, and also in Hessen
and Hungary. In Bohemia, it is
said, for paralysis of the lower
limbs patients are placed in an ant-
hill and allowed to remain until the
whole body is covered with the in-
sects, which are then shaken off,
when the cure is effected. In Bran-
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denburg an aching tooth is rubbed
with blood by means of acrust of
bread, and the crust is then placed
in an anthill.
Impoverishment of blood is cured
by means of an egg buried in the
hill of the large reel ants. The egg
mast have been laid by a pure
white or black hen, and must have
been found when still warm. In
Oberwalz the crushed eggs and lar-
vae of ants stirred up with cream
are used as a remedy for colic. A
salve mado from wood ants,dog fat
and coal dust is said to be used by
Hungarian gypsies against goitre.
There is in use in Montenegro the
"ant suture" in domestic surgery.
Those who had been bitten by ants
had noticed that the head's remain-
ed clinging to the skin when the
body was torn away, being held in
place by the powerful mandibles.
The idea was thus suggested that
the ants' jaws could be used to close
the edges of wounds. The edges of
the cut are pressed together, an
ant is held so that its jaws will
grasp both sides and its body is cut
off. Several are applied along the
wound and serve instead of the
usual catgut stitches.
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Providing the provocation equals the of-
fence of Jones stopping on Smith's corns.
Far better to use Putnam's Corn Extrac-
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The real origin of the word "pot-
luck" is unknown to most of the
people who use it. In Limoges,
France, however, one runs into pot-
luck itself. In a certain corner of
that quaint city of jostling roofs
there is still segregated, much as if
in a ghetto, a Saracen population,
probably a remnant of the wave of
Saracens that swept over Europe
hundreds of years ago. Here they
live in their crooked, narrow
streets, following old customs hand-
ed down from generation to genera-
tion. There are many butcher
shops in the quarter, and outside of
each steams a great pot of soup
over a glowing brazier. In each
pot stands a ladle as ancient as the
pot.
When a customer comes with a
penny, in goes the ladle and conies
up full of savory broth and chunks
of meat, odds and ends, that the
butcher has had left over. And
what comes up the customer has to
take. One can imagine how anx-
iously the hungry urchin o•r the
mother of seven must eye the inex-
orable ladle and how a pretty girl
might get another draw from the
butcher's boy.
At any rate "to take potluck"
means to take' what you get and say
nothing whether the pot is in Li-
moges or in the flat of the man who
eagerly invites a friend of his
youth to dinner.
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