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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-03-24, Page 2e FOR ALL THE FAMILY LAT ST STY AT E. ICES MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN PEOPLE Our Guarantee on Every Garment Solt at Most Good Shops 1161 TA MI VAL I M sphere of her activities to include work along the various lines menttoi ed, until the health centre is a re factor for good in the life of t .community. In order that the Public Health de monstretions being given at-presen throughout the' Province may -pro of permanent value, it is hoped the each district visited will decide t appoint a resident nurse to carry o the work begun. Although the sixtee nurses in the field have just starte two7or three months agog ,t�hee7; ha .alec d,R.. .:tdeeee sae eeed '1.7e�Yi�.0 nese, and true important results the will undoubtedly befbrought to an community if their teachings an practical advice,,are carried out. In any instance where lack of ell tltusiasYn' in the proposal to appoin a permanent nurse has been shown, 1 is only on account of the financial obligations that would have to b undertaken, The nurses, have found that. their demonstrations and the program the have in view are appreciated by all classes in the community. Taking the standard of other progressive coun- tries who consider one nurse to every 2,000 of the population a reasonable estimate for the country's needs, this Province of Ontario requires 1,000 Public Health. Nurses. The United States already has 10,- 000 of these rfurses in the field,' but are still 40,000 short of their ideal. Even with this shortage, authorities claim that a saving of 18,000 lives in one year has been effected. Ontario is not lagging behind in this important feature of Child Wel- fare, and although the work has only just^begun, the nurses are enthusiastic and predict important results from the work being carried on when the peo- ple have been sufficiently educated iia Public Health to recognize its perm- anent value. - HEALTH EDUCATION BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON Provincial Board of Health. Ontario Or. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat- ters through this column, Address him at the Parliament Bldgs., 0 Toronto. `8181101Iiit %A vallik 121,11a11344. Great advances in Public Health • y in Ontario but throughout the Dominion and the world. It is rapid- ly becoming one of the most impor- tant functions of Government, and its progress or retardation will have a profound bearing on the status of citizenship. New avenues of Public Health, activity are being opened up from time to tine, because the subject is so broad as to include all the com- plexities of human life. Although the held is vast, the whole question of Publie Health and Preventive Medi- cine can be conveniently described in two words—Right Living. The Public Health objective is to• improve the health standard of all classes in the community, and to this Oir is now made in sq-oiar r G s cakes The number s Iia been reduced fi'oarg six to fivvg. �.f the ' fiv Square eke are ell tn. quantity to the SIM J tnd cakes. Each c, he i 3vrap alb . ; . � �.n waxt paper, insulin n •0 perfect ,,.,pi; qualities. a1Yi ist s -Billie perfect Ivrea & encalassint —.�R wi+n,r.tl-iDaOtITO,c, mc„rnu4 "m'��•V. SEND NAME - AND ADDRESS Fop FhdCOPY ROYALVVAST Pep tettte 24EALTt r • AAt'4D;tt 1rii CANADA 1 SS U S No. 12—'21. •r1. �i 1 IW�SO Elk 'Mt 24461 �••'-� aria Eget end ways and means are .being a7i.An 1...itae ea/ ee t1r Xrraeraes -aro the lines of` Public Health and prac cal hygiene, supplying practical me sures to preserve the health- of expectant mother, to bring home mothers the importance of feedi infants rationally—that is, at t mother's breast; or failing this, scientific adjustment of cow's mil sugar and water; to correct physic defects in young children and to pr vent the spread of communicable di eases, Although people of all ages are b coming increasingly interested i Public Health., matters in this Pro ince, the need. for which has bee strikingly demonstrated by the grea losses we sustained during the w it is in childhood and youth that th most lasting impressions are mad in teaching an important subject sue as the preservation and • m�aintenanc of health. With this end in view th Public Health Nurse has stepped int the field, and her work is bound t bring more important results. Sh is the pivot in every conlniunit around which and from which al public health activities will radiate for she alone is in a position to ge intimately acquainted with the needs of the district and to direct her ener- gies along the lines that they are most needed. The duties of the Public Health Nurse .will include home visiting, which will be carried out in a system- atic planner, and will enable her to stimulate local interest in child wel- fare, and also detect, if possible, any cases of communicable disease such as tuberculosis, that are not tinder) medical supervision. pro - reg ti- a- che to ng he by k, al e ls- r;- n v - n ar, e e h e e 0 0 e y The Public Health Nurse will point out such dangers and will also report any cases of venereal ,disease or men- tal defectives that come under her notice. In her demonstrations, and in the holding of child welfare clinics the duties of the nurse will be, more- over, to work towar& the ultimate establishment of a Health Clinic, in which Maternal and Child Welfare conferences, nutritional classes, con- sultations for tuberculosis and heart affections, and a dental service for adults and children may be provided for. The special province of the nurse is the health of expectant mothers, infants and children, and she will endeavor to impress on mothers the fact that no food for infants is as good as that which nature intended for it. In addition the nurse, by means of homevisiting, becomes as- quainted with conditions 8n her dis- trict, and gradually increases the ri- al lie t Prov t 0 n n d t y d t 1 e r Y • A Pessimist. Jim Brown says, says he to rue, Life ain't what it used to be, Everything is money mad, Things are going to the bad, Politics is shameful now, Preachers' ain't as good somehow, As they were when he was young, Even Gospel hymns ain't sung As they need to: be, says Jim••• Least that's how it seems to him. Jim Brown says, says he, that men All were houester back then, Merchants- all were kinder too, Trusted more than what they do. Women didn't nag the way Most of 'em take on to -day, Everything is worse, says he, Than it was In ninety-three. Jim hangs round the corner store, Hasn't worked for months and more, From the last job where he hired, Out of work he soon was tired, Mrs. Jim though, sews and sews, Just to keels her kids in clothes, It's about all that elle can do To buy shoes and feed 'esu -too, Since Jim spends his time in fretting 'Bout how b,ad the world is gettiug, President's Wardrobe Cost 38 Cents. Being President may pay the rent hut it doesn't always provide the wardrobe --not In Armenia at any rate, .A letter just received from ,Eri- van, the capital of that most unfor- tunate republic, tells how President Ohan.djanian got his winter woolens, and it wasn't a case of political graft either, It was in a Near East Relie clothes warehouse and the cha young worker was dispensing se hand clothing to a long lino of r applicants who offered in exe their thanks, or at most, a few cents. Bending over her bundle of "gents' furnishings," she was suddenly start- ler by the sound of.. a suave an usually musical voice inquiring in lish for a suit of underwear, o largest size on hand. She loake and beheld a very tall and very fleir geritlenlan arrayed in a gre black, rather frayed Prince Alber was rather difficult to associate s pressive a figure with anything s romantic as a request far woollen derwear, 'but since such had un takab]y been what he asked for, made all haste to supply him with the largest outfit Instock, To her surprise, he offered her in payment the equivalent of thirty-eight cents in Canadian money. Involun- tarily she protested .but he reassured her in his gracious tones: "Really, madam, I have plenty, you know. You forget I receive the quite remarkable salary of twenty dollars a month." The little relief worker looked again and this time with dawning re- cognition. The gentleman she had not had the honor of meeting, but his pic- ture was as familiar in his country as that of the Prince of Wales in Canada. He was none other than M. Ohanjan- ian, the President of the Republic 05 Armenia. • 'IAT TODR THE UNHE OF _...__ STO.AC TROUBLE T.J.0 THE CENSUS .... Good Advice From One Who Rod Suffered i%Xuch. Nine -tenths of all forms of indiges- Old tion or so-called stomach trouble' ere not due to the condition of the stem - 1111111,g ach et all, but are caused by other in - mu; fluences,, The great contributing agged ! cause of indigestion is thin blood, hange Good blood and plenty of it is required by the stomach to take' care of the food, If the blood is thin the stomach functions sluggish, food lies undigest- d un- ecl, gas forms .and cause's pains in Eng- various parts of the body. Instead of f the getting nourishment from the blood d up digni- euish t. It im- oun- un- the system gets poison. Relief from• this condition can be obtained by the tonic treatment which Mr. D. Shaw, Mt. Stewart, PJd.I., tried and now warmly, recommends •to ethers. Mr. Shaw says: "I suffered from indigestion for over four years, and have tried many of the well - she known remedies for such troubles, but never obtained More than temporary relief. The trouble was aggravated by Constipation setting in owing to the stomach failing to do its work; and laxatives only gave relief to the bowels and left the stomach in worse condition. The result was my blood was growing more and more anaemic, I did not sleep well at night and was growing despondent. I was in this wretched condition when a friend ad- vised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I got three boxes and by the time they were finished there was some change for the better. This greatly encouraged me and I con- tinued taking the pills for same three months, by which time my stomach was all right again, my blood good, nerves strong and life was again ' worth living:` My advice to all who suffer from stomach trouble is to•give Dr. 'Williams' Piuk Pills a fair trial." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be ob- tained through any medicine dealer, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. The Power of Thought. If a thought can in an instant of time dilate or contract a blood vessel; if it can. increase or decrease the se- cretion of a gland; if it can hasten or retard the action of the heart; if it can turn the hair gray in a single night; if it can force tears from the eyes; if it can—produce insomnia; if as:has often occurred, it can bring in- stantaneous death, then is it not natural for us to conclude, without further argument, that it may bring about a more or less continuous de- rangement of the physical organism that we call disease? i have seen the most wonderful ef- octs, f foilpw a;;f t of .a1Met,,- a\firer..an i1itbarst of passion the function of ;every gland in the' body is impaired. Time and time again, I have observed acute illness in an infant when it was permitted to nurse Immediately after the mother had engaged in a quarrel, and on more than one occa- sion I have seen death follow .within a fear hours. The standing army of the human body is the corpuscles of the blood. Upon them we depend to heal the wounds, build new tissue and attack the poisonous bacilli that may attempt to enter our systems. Thought produces disease because .of its action on the corpuscles of the blood. These corpuscles are wonder- fully influenced by the mind, An out- raged conseience; hate, envy, auger and fear crush the vitality out of them and leave the citadel of life ex- posed. But faith, hope, happiness and love create them and send thein swarming through 'the body till every fibre and tis -sue throbs with life, This is demonstrated by the fnicroscope.— Dr. Charles Gilbert Davis. Naturally, ' Mrs. A.—"My husband admires everything about me—my Bair, my eyes, my bands, niy voice—" Mrs. B.—"Well, what do you admire about him?" Mrs. A.—"Why, his good* taste." - Happiness like health is man's di- vine heritage. Don't be cheated of your birthright. The idea that sor- row is the normal condition sprang from the same mind which imagined that if a man were not sidk occasion- ally there -was something the matter With snit 3,000 U.S. Soldiers Wed German Girls. l%Iore than 3,000 American soldiers on the Rhine have married German girls, but the daily marriages have ceased since the possibility loomed. large that the American Army of Occn- .:Y .Bal u : • ithdrawr? : tae.. Coblenzowoareald soonbe after March 4fron1, ac- cording to the report of the Coblenz correspondent of the Intl•ansigeant, af- ter a special investigation of what changes the American occupation had wrought in the Rhine city, says a Paris despatch. "These marriages•," the correspond- ent writes, "were among young wo- men of the commoner German fami- lies; the bourgeoisie always remaining very distant from the American offi- cers, and even from the diplomatists of •the Inter -Allied Commission. The correspondent commends the discipline which Major -Gen. Henry T. Allen, commanding the American forces, has maintained_ in the Coblenz area, declaring he has created great- est respect in the German mind by his distinctly American methods. For instance, when Coblenz was thronged into the streets one Sunday last month and the Germans there were trying to provoke a demonstration against further French occupation of German territory, 500 khaki -clad troops sudden- ly marched out of their barracks, manoeuvred and were drawn up in the streets without a single order and then returned to their barracks, leaving the mob completely astonished and cowed. Several days after the Germans were astonished by a great military show, in which, a snaps battle was staged in a ravine, real shells being fired which shattered tree trunks, while real but-• lets rattled from hidden machine guns. "Tile American," he concludes, "dur- ing nearly tbree years have shown the admiring Germans a fd'rce which should be replaced by one which is just as peremptory, just as rough, just as firm, but there must be no such marrying if the French are to take over the Coblenz bridgehead." If your g Ea: cer were greedy for pr ; fits he would not be c intent t se and reef; mend Reel .' . se Tea at a less profit th,,.n he lies on other tes.._ Tinut it is fact that he do make less o ., + ,, ed Rose than :, * t , , Arid *4,. ,-. • i 'gam men s it -. ec «' txsehe lin+rws its quality is the bek 0 MAN WHOSE NAME WAS MINERAL WATERS. British Census Official Has Some Humorous Stories of the Last Enumeration. Probably the corning census will have its humorous side in Canada as did the last one in Great Britain, A • London newspaper printer the fgllow-. ing reminls'cences: "Yes," said a census Utiicial- tile. other day, "our work has its funny side. In face, every Census reveals humorists, conscious acid uncouseious, in tens of thousands. "There is, tor example, the woman who bas the strongest objection to revealing her age. Even a fine of £10 has no terrors for many of them, who will unblushingly put down their age, say, at twenty-nine, when they will Probably never see forty again, "I know of one ;ueh 'conscientious objector' Who only put on five years between 1891 and 1911, and of another who was actuully a year younger ill 1911 than she was a decade earlier! • Male Till She Married, "But it is when supplying such in, formation as name and sex, occupa, tion, and s0 On that the Census humor, 1st is most at home. In the last Cen, cus one candid husband aeseribed hint. self as 'female,' adding, by way of ex. planation, 'My wife wears the trousers.' "Another, a woman whose maiden name was Mann, wrote, 'Male till I married, now female,' while a third, the father of a large family, gave his sex as 'neutral' because, he acldea, 'my wife says I am not manly enough to be a man and not sensible enough to be a woman' "Under the heading of Occupation one man described himself as 'Nur- seryman by day, and nurse by night.' "A delighfnlly frank citizen des- cribed his language as 'mostly ,bacl;- but not as bad as my wife's: Another confessed that he `could swear in ten tongues.' "Under the heading 'Place of Abode and Character of Dwelling,' I recall the following amusing replies: '}louse ideal for ducks;' 'This is only my earthly tabernacle --Heaven Is my home;' `No language to describe it.' The ques•ti}on of relattensll]p often furnishes soope for humor or mystifi- cation, as in the 'case of the household- er who rilarried the sister of his father's second wife, and thus was able to describe his wife as his aunt, "But it is among names that we find the richest• vein of humor. The last Census revealed such names as Jolly Death, Pine Coffin, Christian Eve, Noah Flood, Lyon Lamb, Sage Onions, Mineral Waters, and Jack Daw. "Among other weird names I recall Bubbiejaw and Gotobed; Ugly and Badman next-door neighbors); Chat= away and Gathercoal; Addlehead and eliows; Drinkwater, a publican; and ,:waft, a tailor, There was a Bache- lor, the father of seventeen children: A Mr, Short added a note that he, `stood six feet five in his socks;' and in the same boarding-house were a Mr. Long, a Miss Broad, and 'a Mrs. Little. Twenty-six Christian Names. "There were scores of people who had been labelled with half a dozen or more Christian names, including Wil- liam Ewart Gladstone John Bright Cobden Welberforee; and one woman ' who had been dowered with a name for every letter of the alphabet, be. ginning with Ada Beatrice and ending; with Yolande Zoe. "One Census' official asked a wee len whether she could read. She an ,Ir - ed, rather hesitatingly, that she could.. not, -and, then hastened to explain; 'I never went to school but one•day, eel that was in the evening-, and we bath. no light, and the teacher didn't CUille' " • A Little Wisdom. •A fault confessed is half redressed, Nothing is ill -said if it be not ill. taken. It is human to err, but; diabolical to persevore. The mother of Miss Impudence ]s Mrs.' Ignorance. - The best carpenter does not make the most chips. When everybody says it, nobody knows it for certain. If you will go the contrary way you must go over it twice, .The one sure way not to fail is to determine to succeed" ' ' 'It needs but a little neglect to breed a great mischief, What you learn to your cost you re- member longest. Those who go the right way 'must often swim against the stream, "Well, Dorothy," said her father on, a Sunday afternoon• "s.hall we have a walk or a car ride?" "I rater walk," little Dorothy replied, "if 'ow will carry rue."