Zurich Herald, 1928-02-02, Page 64,
The Truth About :Rheumatism 1
Mystery Malady That Coate ,England 6,000,0Q0 Work. Weeite• .neiery Year.
'+One .orthe most insidious, disabling, and mortal of all the great diseases" i
Ie boar Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer
ofbeen thelcMatedry of
that
-;Health, ,described rheumatism recently.
£'I, M0,000 a year is paid •annually -in sick . benefit to Insured persons
owing to this•''polson in the blood."
GOOD ADVICE FOR CANADIANS
one in every terse ?trr:'rons in. euinattem—lor. .13utbestto high color a r`ulserol.
Bri ai n ^uilex s from. rHcl `la:tis.trn,
high.
The dierare, iode'd. Is• b^ far the the hist".;.. color of good health . It .le
most prei '•e rit of all our infirmities.',,apt to .facie away suddenly, leaving
Mor'/QV, it is by far the most eon- pale cheeks. And it is apt, also, to;
stunt In its menace; for yeun g and. i thesl4isht tinge,
especially if
old atra c e 7•t !Y liable to it.weathersmall
Far too few people realize tai"is very( Again, as a rule, there are
Important truth. Again and again blotches ell the skin of the face, llt-
1 e that their children 'tie "heat spots' which look innocent
a,re suf tell m , „ enoltg+lr t'4^.len' many of these spots
A "Fleilaa "-Beauty
,wr
A Sale cif Medals Recalls
"Wellington's Right Hand'
The Adventurous Stork of- General Ficton•• s Closed by.al
• Auction of HO Decorations -
Medals• and decorations won by fa• ! Twice he was sutemoned. to' reosivq
mous Generals of bygone times in hiss the thanks .of inarilament, of vrhictt'b.
toric'•.,battl0s occasionally are 'found i_was,a member, sitting for rembliiske,I
on the auction counter. While it has 3 For forty; years he h • been a soldier,
been decreed In England .that the star when Napoleon 'Suddenly returned
and crosses of high 'orders' must re- front' his exile on the Island et F lbs
vert to the Crown on the death of:.the and commenced' the campaign that
recipient, other important decorations ended in his Anal, downtal ... DDId Pia,
have • been' purchased at sales by col- ton have a premonition that itis' end
lectors. Only the other day the medals was near? • 'wWhen you hear of anj'
of Sir Thomas Picton, the "right death you will hear of a bloody dal,"
hand of Wellington" "at Waterloo, he told a friend.
*ere put up for sale. On his way to the coast to embark.
The career of Sir Thomas Picton General Picton stopped at enlists at
was one of adventure from his first Canterbury where a public dinner was,
assignment as a Lieutenant at Gana]; held for him. Two weeks later, to the
tar to his death at the head of his day, hie body lay in the same rob • l
,.,rG.rta :?s.Y.• 8 .f.`.: , .:.... : 4;.
pa,als, ;el
.'-• .>.,l • 3+ , : ....} °` troops in England's greatest' victory. watched over by a guard of -honor. Ii
al`P. suffering tont "growing , 'are present., rheumatism is active: rr �'� � —
paI saeak shoat ch s 'growing ; 71y experience is that each "attack A .KING'S WINNER was a man who had a for had led the Fifth Division: in the bate
paint" in Tones which suggest. that rheumatism begins with a period making both friends .and netalentes: For tie of Quatre`.Brain •when•-Napoleoa
they look cat them rather in the light , of The patient period
Caroline IX was King George's - entry from h'is H1,ghlra•nd 'estate in the years he was enmeshed in the courts attack was^.rABuIsod. The next daY
of excitement, 1 on charges of cruelty while acting as
of 1 joke f Highland Heifer class at the last Smithfield Cattle show in London. She was came Waterloo.
" Wean Danger wonderfully ei and lone'. But very
4'Growing l�acns Goon this e:citement glues place. to adjudged best of her.class before t
Tt rens: l:e tan :wider; 1Lnocvn:.depression and groom.. Then the known.
"growing ing pa:ns" are rheumatism, and "eat spots" begin to appear, and the
the names of the .exhibitors were made Governor of the Island of Trinidad, Picton died leading a bayonet
charge. Only when
g1.
that the victims of growing pains are high color tends to ah'ange into pallor. lusion of a picture being .refiroduced
taking the earliest steps on a road !There is irritability of temper and, by the red glow of the lamp.
a1nu st. every year of whlcli is likely, !usually, Indigestion. Toothache and The light shining through the smell
in the absence of treatment, to be' neuralgia are very common at thls • doles define the picture, which would
faar.ght with clic ess, I time.
For what is r cumatism? Old folk ; The "attach' lasts about four, five,
will tell yeti teat it 15 pain in the 'or six -weeks, and then gradually
joints; aniddlc t.ged folk will speak f :pass•es off, aud forea time the patient
pain in the muscles; younger. folkfeels quite well, But sooner or later
will mention stiff necks or lumbago• ' a fresh "attack" caters..
Thev are all right, these people, Hands That Shake
be the size of the neon tube plate,
about one and one-half square inches,
were it not for -•a lens doubling this
picture size.
Tuning in the picture is done in a
similar way to tuning of broadcasting.
Two knobs on the front of the cabinet
and they are, also, all wrong. Itheu^} his article in the are used for the receiver, Guilt for
rheau is all of these things•• But p a t writing b i
rheumatism, the real 1ti:eunaati.sm, is hope that some of those "highlyr- ,short meters. A. knob intion the center bis used
rll.um of
soancttit:fi raiclz more than any pain eat rs-gwith e'orheumatic c children will tor synchronizing the motor that
or ache.read it. For the first step towards the
I have hoer studying the disease
nor,- with close attention for more treatment of rheumatism is knowl-
than twenty years, and though I con- `edge about its
then true
r eto nature.ruis that
fess that my knowledge about it is far
frons complete, 1 feel that I have ;rheumatism ie a nerve poison. It
gained a Little knowledge. I have no :'puts into .the blood some poison which
hesitation in saying that rheumatism ; acts w n hy the -nervous
e vouscssten. are That
is a mystery -ailment of the most ba! apt to develop St. Vitus' Dance, and
so
fling type, why all all rheumatic people tend
How It Starts f
Let me give you an illustration of I to • have Shaky hands and to feel ex-
cited or depressed.
west e mean. A child he •say, five T•ha treatment of rheumatism,
years c f age s`Yirers tried then becomes
fever.sh. it remains in a high fevar therefore, ..consl.s•ts in getting the
lass—or perhaps only for a poison. out .ef the system a_s'fully *and
siefora few c pas quickly as- possible, and in avoid--
quite.
void
quid. 1ee,'t-and then seems to be ling everything which tends to keep
gnBuwell again. the posion 4n she-,arystem.
1s. i its mother notices e chat, after i First and foremost, make sure that
'this. Its disposition is a little changed.
It is more fretful than it used to be, the system is kept in good and.•aotive
audworking order. I. do. not recommend
nto more e:, t It tends too cry ithe taking of doses of aperient meet.
alarmed.
Easily, and s `be mare easily 'eine every day, but I do insist that
alarmed, It laughs more readily. 'any sluggishness is dangerous.
°FILct;a are small tiifrences, and, as r
actuates the disc. It is essential that
the disc at the receiving end move
with the same speed as that of. the
transmitter, otherwise the picture will
be blurred or distorted.
Transmitting the Picture.
A layout -very similar to the . re-
ceiver transmits the picture impulses.
There Th a disc, -of the same size and
number of holes as that of the re-
ceiver, scanning the subject with a
beam of light -• from . an . ;are eamp
housed in a moving picture damp
house. Forty-eight' lines - a revolution
are traced by this.beam.and ..there:are
eighteen revolutions :.a : second and
1,080 revolutions. a.:minute.•
Four large photo -electric cells in
iron boxes facing the subject pick up
these light variations and convent
them into electric currents that are
transmitting through the short wave
set on a wave length of 37.8 meters.
The frequencies require a channel at
least 40 kilocycles in width;' twice as
much as that allowed for broadcasting
voice. In spite of this, Dr. Alexander -
son explained, two transmitters separ-
ated but two meters apart would
cause no interference to'each other.if
around this wave. length.
Synchronizing is secured by using
the sixty -cycle synchronous current
supply, with motors suitably built to
maintain constant and accurate speed
when fed on the same line. ' Only one
wave, the picture wave, is transmit-
ted from the picture sender, 2X1,
while the voice goes on 379.5 meters
over WGY.
Similar to Regular Set.
The televisor, or television, receiv-
.•a rule, they arouse no anxiety. Nor,.Damp Houses .are Death -taps -
as I have said, is - anxiety ofteI insist, too. that food must be kept
aroused whenthechild complains of on' the light rather than on the.heavy
rains in its limbs at night. 'side East meat in small quantities,
"Growing pains," bice mother thinks, . and remember that rheumatic people
"are not dangerous." 'thrive better on fowl, fish., and -eggs'
And so nothing is done. The child, 'than on beef and mutton. Drink no
however. grows.up to be decidedly wine or beer. Be sparing in your
nes-vats, and may be called a coward use of - sweet things. •
at- sebool ha ether children, who, hap- In the second place, avoid damp -
pi! for themselves, have escaped the nese in any form, Damp houses are
ghee: vatic poison. It suffers a great death-traps where rheumatic children
dell, es a tale, from too•litnche, and are concerned, and It is better to
-usually has inferior teeth. rt 'may spend money -on moving to a dry
suffer also from earache and various house than on doctors' bilis•. See that
forms of, neuralgia. boots and shoes are weather` -proof,
Are You "Highly Strung"? land insist on the wearing of good
Those are not, tatal or even im- woollen -underwear.
These precautions• help enormously.
theebill dangerous diseases, and so lBut there are other precautions which•
as c tt3 is an. to struggle along are advisable in addition. One of
11 tent can. By the behtimind
that these is the use of baking -soda as a
it is staving childhood behind it, tonic. A pinch of baking -soda taken
rhellt,latt:n: las become well stabl-
li:.diced ie its system. ' lin a wine glassful of hot water at
The pictcre now is that of the night undoubtedly thveips the body to
"highs strung" man or woman. free itself of rheumatism.
Th `•Highly strung" young people Grown-up people can take this re -
are a tl c•uble to themselves and to imedy once or twice a week. In the
their r•, sat:vet. For they are never case of children, soda should not be
quite well este er in body or mind or � given except on the advice of a doe -
spirits, and yet they do not seem to. tor.
be ill! Moreover, their health is I Finally, I have no doubt at ,all that
always suffering ups and downs, hot baths am good for rheumatic
For ::ears 1 could •make nothing of 1peopie. iT"`4 reason, I think, is that
tbere cases, but now I have learned the hot l water causes perspiration,
what to look for. 'The first thing I and so parries away some of the poi-
son. The idea* that hot baths are
weekening does not apply to people
afflicted with this disease. Answers.
captured from Spain.. The alcalde
•---a laid before him an order calling for
ing set differs only from the regular the "question" of a woman criminal by
torture and in a moment of inadven
broadcast set in that it substitutes the tends he signed. it.
neon tube and scanning disc device to All England was divided into fltc
the loud speaker, said Dr. Alexander tions on Plcton'd indiotment in 1804.
son, There is no complication in de- Not for two years did the trial come
signing a regular receiving set and
guilty—from .which he promptly ap-
pealed. In a second trial be was
acuitted' and his enemies -were routed.
From that day on General Picton was
known as one of the finest fighting
then installing the television equip -
1
ment.
, The amplifier is not different than
the usual type, and the tuning is done
in a very similar manner. This tele-
visor was manually operated and the men Great Britain ever produced.
picture could be held in the field of With superb recklessness he led his
vision by manipulating a smell button, ' division against Napoleon's forces in
which is, says Dr. Alexanderson, as the peninsular War, heading the
storming party which took the Castle
of Badajos. At Vittoria and Ciudad
Rodrigo he was mentioned in dis-
patches. His men idolized him and
England rang with the fame of his ex -
to a conclusion with s verdict of
easy as driving an automobile, or
„
steering a bicycle."
According to Dr. Alexanderson, tele-
vision will serve as a means of study-
ing radiation phenomena in a way
that has been impossible until now,
as the impulses *are recorded' by the
eye, which is faster than the ear. Dis-
crepancies show up which will require
investigation. There is the matter of
picture "ghosts,'.' or secondary pic-
tures, which show up on the televisor
openiigg. This radio•echoeis attributed
by Dr..Alexanderson to the reflection
of the radio - waves bouncing against
the heaviside layer, • or radio ceiling,
and being -piked up•.a'gain, rprobably
1-1500 .of- a second -later by the same
receiver and appearing on the screen.
which I look at when a highly strung
lad or girl consults me. is his or her
completion.
Horne Radio
Television is
Successful
First Demonstration of Tele-
• vision Apparatus for Every
Home Staged in Schenect-
ady Recently
EXPERTS IMPRESSED
Voice and Pictures of Distant
Empire Greatness
Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Cons.) :
Above and beyond all the greatness
that is Canada's lies the greatness
that belongs. to the whole Empire
and in which we fully share. • The re-
sources at he Empire surpass those
of 'any single nation. The Empire
can live, if it chooffes, to itself alone;
and suffer no hardships of any kind.
The requirements of every part can
be met by the resources• the other
parts possess. Working unitedlip,
there are no possible limits either on
the wealth the various nations can
create or the quality of the civiliza-
tion they can build up.
ti
An American explorer reports that
he hes been robbed by bandits in the
jungles of Brazil. How civilization
spreads?
ploits. r,
his body "w
taken from the field was it discovered
that he had been wounded at Quatrd
Bras by a musket ball, but had kept
his injury steadfastly to -himself, fear•
ing the effect the news of it might
have on his troops. Courageous to the
last, Picton .met the fate of a soldier
and a hero.
Generous he had always been. The
inhabitants of Trinidad had voted the
sunt. of £ 5,000 to him during his trial
as a sigu of their confidence in hid
justness. Shortly afterward fire dee'.
troyed the capital of the island and
Picton immediately gave the £6,00(1
to the fund for relief of the sufferers.
A monument in St. Paul's in Lon-
don and it huge column erected b7
subscription near Caerm arthen
South 'Wales, his family seat, bear
testimony to a nation's respect for a
gallant warrior.
The Fig Tree
With knotted awns, .ungainly, bare,
The flgtree stands, all bowed, out-
-side,
.One with :the cold, . grey twilight air.
No lovely dafatMe with it 'abide, .
It -wears no joy of time nor place,
A Good d Exa ole
Paris Police Will Speed fn'
quirks' into Accidents
•:Paris — :A'rguing chauffelire and
acribbiing,poli�cemen, holding a public
No hint .of 'new-found loveliness, post -mortem • cn an accident, aro
No slender lines .of vernal grace— be ..eliminated 'from the .pictureequuee
No buds to woo the wind's caress. life of Paris. It has been discovered
I think it is the only one
that these hourly • assemblages biocit
Heedless of what the bright days
bring—
That stirs not 'neath bee mounting
sun,
Nor knows that it is nearly spring!
Not know that all the world's a song!
Not know that it is nearly Spring?
I pass my pitying hands. among
Each gaunt, grey bough! Poor
thing! Poor thing!
—P. Mann.
the picture into its frame and give it
brilliancy, the loud speaker reproduced
the voice of the aotor on a regular
type loud speaker.
Simultaneously and at three other
points other television seta were re
ceiving the impulses, both voice and
picture, from the transmitters miles
away. The first actual home broad-
cast reception was taking place.
The Home Televisor.
The home televisor apparatus built
by Alexanderson resembles a phono-
graph cabinet, with a small, opening,
about three inches square in the front.
About halt way on the panel, where
ordinarily is the place for the speaker,,
Droadcasters Received at i are the knobs of a receiving set, and
Same Time r of a eontrolier. +
By converting broadcast waves into ' Inside, there is, first of all, a disc,
lightinstead of sound,
Dr. Alexander- two
teat i
n diameter with forty-eight
ei h
t
'bon; researchengineer ot the Gszer 1 tiny holess
piral
y
drilled..
The
diso.
e
Electric Company, reproduced the pia- shaft conn Cts to a motor, an da neon
ture of a young lady seated, before a lain), placed in back of the disc, but
television transmitter several miles facing ' the opening, is located ozi a
away lute aperture ture of the shelf.
A
short wavereceiver,e
r,
of
the
Arst home television receiving set three -tube, type, and an amplifer con-
steer
on-
e'er built. slating of five stages conn, feted the in -
Around the home television install- strument, it is reduced to 110 sfla
td in the residence of 15 W. Allen, at plest,
et Schenectady, tweztty' The disc evolves in front of the
28 Front Street, r
ost lis engineers, technicians neon lain a `the rate of eighteen re -
and newspaper men first saw the flick• volutions a` second, which is slightly.
er of the neon lamp plied, in front of taster than the speed of a motion-pic-
the three-inch opening bi the cabinet ture $lm through a projector.
• first strealt the opening with a num The radio -picture impulses conte
ber of parailel lines that soon melted thiirugh the receiver and pulsate the
into a likeness ofa young woman, neon tube and as it is viewed through
Wide the - expert manipulated cer-
tain dials and knobs in order to bring
traffic.
A minimum of fifteen minutes is
consumed at the scene of aux re•
spectably important •oollialon by the
collider. and the collides waving thele;
arms, es•tabifehing to 'the' assembled
crowd their absolute innocence, the
listing of witnesses by the. 'two sides
and the policeman's investigation.,,
All taxi chauffeurs hereafter are to
carry printed slips 'geving'th.a.'detaile
of their identity instead of having the
='-
policeman get them laboriously,
First. Tramp—"Honesty is the best punctuated �v:ith speeches on the hop
e -
policy, Barter alb.." Second Tramp--
"What makes yer think that?" "Re-
member that dog I stole?" "Yee"
"Well, I tried two whole days to sola
'im an' no one offered more'n five
shillings., so I went, like an honest
man, an' returned him to th' old lady moue.
what owned 'tin, and she give ane a -----+:
slivrin reward." Saving .the Antelope,
'less imbecility of the other par y
the controversy.
Likewise the police have been in'
strutted to observe the relative posh
tion of the two cars quickly • and to'
clear the highway before tasting testi-
Snowshoers Gather at Montreal
" • Ice Palace erected at Lachine, on the occasion of the 1927 Carnival; upperight:Canadian The
Awesome. .
Upper .left.
Menta sari of 'Lewiston, Me., first ladies' snowshoe club to join the FederationVe°ntion 'Committee of
gthe
American Clubs; Centre: Mr. 0, H. Lalonde, President of nwaltoers'aConvent ori welch will be held le
1,928. Lower left: One oft take art in the Sno
Montreal; lower right: Snowshoers' parade.
the clubs
to a ee p i
The Annual Convention of Cana- with special diplomas. Some of the hurdle race will be held on the 1W,A.
beers will have travelled over a A.A. Grounds, er"
snows "Boars supper,.
-illafter a
beers w.,
an Wowst night,
and Americ sthe, A
au aAt night, diI
be field this year in Montreal on the
2 iiU4 1 lights in the stneot'S
The history ofeliemiskam national
park, A1elerta, Canada, is an interest-
ing
nterest
ing chapter in the story of wild life
conservation. Overcoming what ap-
peared to be insurmountable dif8cul-
ties, fortytwo antelope were enclosers
in a fenced -iii. area in southeastern
Alberta in 1915, aud, in contrast to
previous experiments, continued to
thrive in captivity. Their welfare and
Propagation, which at first was a mat-
ter
at
ter of speculation, now seem to Ste de-
finitely assured, as officials of the
Departmentt of the Interior report that
the herd now totals 500. This India
Ates a natural increase of 468 ,,duce
the original herd was enclosed in the
presentp ark in 1916,
Success of Hog Grading
hundred miles on foot. n g
-Carnival Will be crown- the 6nOwshoers will parade with torch
3.4.5 and 6th of February. Sema
members of Caiia1ian asci i,mer cane On Saturday morning the snow•
Queen of the of Montreal to
ed. Peek Leith -Italie, vahee fhuge fire
works display has been arranged. A
ball will ' follow
in
the
N,A
.A.A,
club
house. Sunday will see the church
Parade to Notre Dante, one of
e
largest churches in America, the club
banquet and the inauguration ot the
Carnival at Lachine, 'where the ice
palace will be attacked by the s'how
sheers armed with . Roman candles
and other fireworks. This picturesque
display Will mark the end of them Con-
vention which will attract Y.
Clubs Will attend the Convention and sheers from the 'United States and
take part in costume in the big parade different Canadian points will arrive
Which is a yearly feature, The city in special trains, the majority of.
0f Montreal has issued a special• invi- them travelling over the lines of the
batten to the snawsltoe' clubs and the Canadian National Railways. At the
General Committee of the Convention, station they will form ranks : and
eland° has headed by their respective bands and
presided over by C. , - buglers will parade to' the 'City Hall
cejt1 ns an attractive Iiragram of Y'e where. His Honor Mayor Martin will
r- O ieE' and sports. with. the keys of the
. February 3,the outside present them
On i"riday� y hoers making the jOUrney'' to city.
i,
snows snowshoes will °be re Th sl�nwslztie races for the chain
the opening it will glow and dila alters Montreal on
nately. Troy Will then have, the ily iworld, including the tourists.,
' ceived officially and will be Presentee plonslYip . 'of 'the
The hog grading policy .of the Do-
minion Department ' of Agriculture
has now been in force for nearly five
years and since its inception there
has been a .steady lmprovemellt
the quality of hogsr .offered for market.
In. his latest 'report, .the Minister of
Agriculture gives the romance that.
the,: policy of hog grading is.gaining
steadily in popularity and is now re-
cognized as a dIHtinct asset to the
swine industry by ,farmers, drovers,'
shippers and packers. The value or
the policy has been amply ciennonstrar,
ted by the market improvement in ,
the type and quality of hogs. sold oIl
farms 1n 1927. This improvement is
all the more encouraging in that It
took place during a 'db. -reed of general
depression in the world's swine and
bacon trade. -
0
'"She was martied .to a man whose
devotion on
had never
laB
el.for.
t.
tens
end, :Wild never lost his self-control or
grumbled whatever happened, 'Caere'
to nately, she was born with a temper,
like gun -powder. "Tell, me, dear," be
said, alter '0110 outburst on her part,
"how It was l 'hover discovered this
,
unhappy` weakness ,ot yours during
our courtship? How did you restrain'
yourself?" The poor volatllo woniaii,
hesitated , before answering such a
straight forward question. Then, sob.'
bing bitterly, she laid her fair head
upon his sturdy shoulder, "1 used to
go upstairs," She gasped, :'and b-b•bite
pieces" but of the top of the oak lab -
bureau."