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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."