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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-03-31, Page 6MME. CURIE, DIS- COVERER OF RADIUM OWNS NOT A PARTICLE OF PRICELESS METAL. Her Discoveries and Work Saved the Lives of 50,000 Men Wounded in War. When Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie; co -discoverer with her Lusband, Pierre Curie, of radium, was asked what she wanted most in all the world she replied simply: "What I desire most is a gram of radium all my own. " I would not know what to do with wealth, nor have the time to use it," she explained. "I ani a scientist and' my work is in the laboratory. But I would like enough radium to carry on my work. I should like to have a gram of it which would not be for hos- Pital use or any other use but experi- mentation." Which, taking one thing and an- other into consideration, seems a modest enough request for the dis- coverer of radium to put forward. Lives en Teacher's Salary. Mnte. Curie is fifty-three years old, living at the Institute Curie in Paris on the salary of a teacher at the Sor- bonne. She has given more than thir- t3- years of her life to the pursuit 'and study of radium. She has made fif- teen millionaires in America alone. It has been estimated that her dis- coveries and work saved the lives of 50,000 wounded men during the war. The hope t.p cancer specialists lies in radium. Yet this woman, who knows more about radium than any other person in the world, lives in comparative poverty and hasn't a grain of the pre- cious material to carry on further ex- periments independent of university restrictions. And she doesn't feel that she has been shabbily treated by the "1 vsrorld. ve the ecret the she said.gaIt wasstt t tooetriichoany''one. It was for all the people." One would think that when Mme. Curie was discovering radium she might have wrapped up a pound or so to take home; but she didn't. Or she might have originated a company to maintain the radium monopoly of the world; but she didn't do this, either. There were a few difficulties in the way, and, besides, Mme Curie is a scientist, not a business woman. Some scientists estimate that in the entire world there are approximately only three ounces of radium. It takes something like a ton of ore to pro- duce five milligrams of radium, and 200 tons to make a grain. As it takes twenty-eight grants to make an ounce the value of an ounce of radium runs up to over $3,000,000. The market quotation for a gram of radium is $120,000. A Native of Poland. Mnte, Curie was born in Warsaw, November 7, 1867, the daughter of an impecunious college professor. She came to Paris when a young woman and took her first degree from the University of Paris in 1893. She be- came associated with Professor Pierre Curie in scientific research and mar- ried the Professor shortly afterward. Their discovery of radium was given to the world in 1393. Seven years later the world was shocked to learn one morning that M. Carie had been run over by a Paris dray and killed. Mine. Curie succeed- ed to his professorship of general physics in the University of Paris. Pace Makers. I know a young man who was onl an ordinary employee in an immens concern, but whose marvelous energ have aroued their fellow employees but who have astonished their em pioyere and often actually changed the entire policy and the methods of those above them -'of their chiefs, of the proprietors, themselves. Youngpeople should start out on :heir business careers with the con- viction that there is only one woe to ao anything, and that is in the best possible way that it can be done, re- gardless of remuneration. I have known a stenographeir on small pay who put a'higiter quality of effort into her part of the work than the proprietor of the great establish meat she wonted for •put into his. • Consequently she got much more out of life thatr he did. • it is only then we do our best, when We put Joy, energy, enthusiasm, and zeal into our work, that we really. grow. This is likewise the only way We can keep our •self-respect, the only z•Q � y we can achieve the highest suo- *ess and happiness.---O.S,1U. y e y e n n acted like leaven through the whoa establishment, and aroused the slut bering forces of thousands of em pioyees. In fact, his example revolu tionized the entire concern. There are plenty of young men i our business houses whose aggressive pushing, energetic methods not only IEA"NC PAINS HAVE DISAPPEARED As a Result of Treating the Trouble Through the Blood. The chief symptom of rheurnatism is pain. The most successful treatment is the one that most quickly relieves and banishes tate pain, Many rheu- matic people suffer pains that could be avoided by building up tiro blood; when rheumatism is associated with thin blood it cannot be corrected un- til the blood is built up. Mr. Fd. Hall, Main -a -Dieu, N.S., suf- fered from rheumatism for years, but was more fortunate than many vic- tims of the disease, for he found a remedy that so built up his entire system that he is now free from rheu- matism. Mr. Hall says: "1 was taken down with rheumatism, and at tunes was under the treatment of several of the best doctors in Cape Breton; but they held out no hope for' my re- covery from the trouble. I was con- fined •to bed for three years and a helpless cripple from the trouble. I could not move, and had to be turned in sheets. My legs and fingers were drawn out of shape, and sores devel- oped on my body as the result of my long confinement to bed. I was in this eserious condition when a friend advised the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I began taking them. The first benefit I felt from the pills was an improved appetite, and then I be- gan to feel stronger, and was finally able to get out of bed and go about on crutches, I continued taking the pills for months, slowly but surely getting new strength, and finally I was able to lay the crutches aside. I wili al- ways be hire, as the result of my long stay in bed my left leg has shortened somewhat, but otherwise I am feeling fine ' and able to do my work as Fishery Overseer. I may add that when the rheumatisiu carne on I weighed. 140 pounds, and when I be- gan going about•on crutches I only weighed 67 pounds, and now I ani at normal weight. There are many here who know and can vouch far the truth of these statements." You can get these pills through any dealer in medicine, or by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. Courtesy in the Dentist's Chair. When an unhappy Anglo-Saxon with a violently aching tooth visits a den- tist his mind is usually not much set on ceremony. Not so with the polite Japanese. An Englishman while in Kyoto went with an interpreter to 'a Japanese dentist. Having some know- ledge of Japanese manners and cus- toms, lie duly removed his shoes at the door of the office and courteously sucked in his breath on being intro- duced to the dentist, a dapper little person in kimono and white soaks, whose breath -sucking and knee -rub- bing were prolonged and ingratiating. "Dentist asks," said the interpreter, "will you honorably condescend to ex- plainn?where trouble lies in honorable "If the dentist will honorably deign to examine my Ieft-hand lower molar," responded the victim, "he will find that it requires filling; but for heav- en's sake, Mr. Nakimura, ask him to be careful how he uses his honorable drill, for I am terrified to death at that invention of the Evil One." Soon the drill began its work. The Englishman jumped from the chair. "Tell the dentist, Mr, Nakimura, that he is honorably deigning to hurt me very much with his honorable but ut- terly infernal drill!" • "Dentist say," responds Mr. Naki- mura soothingly, "if you honorably deign to resent yourself in chair, he soon conquer difficulties in your honorable tooth," Certainly, but dentist must not give tie honorable tits any more!" Dentist did, however; but he also did an excellent Job, and the honor- able tooth of his honorable client, once filled, has to the dentist's honor remained -honorably "intact until this day. " ow- OIFCOTIONO INSIOL OC�'r" I' 1 t4iUNfb ` 1 poeIDER"O .4V.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED hulr¢6 ToRONTo, CANADA Mo ISSUE No. 13—'21, Lost Children. My dears, I do not know the day (And yet it seems it should be plai We heard your footsteps go away, Never to enter It again, We only know that you are gone; Perhaps we grew too grave for you Anci ]rung away your frock of lawn . And kid your gallant coat of blue;. For, though we, seek from town to town JJ Through all the world of boys and girls, We shall not find your braids of brown Your head of flying yellow curls. But I have sought to beckon .you From that far play world where you. hide . (Perhaps where all the violets blue You used to go to find abide,) ) So that one hour we, too, may know Within our hearts your laughter plain, We who were you too long ago And never can be you again: Margaret Widdenier. Pretension. By reaching out for happiness many people contrive to . make themselves unhappy,. They think that, if they can' only pass with other persons as a lit- tle different from what hey . are, they will have a richer and more interest- ing life. So they assutne pretensionst sometiines harmless, often ridiculous, occasionally insidious and corroding. ;ts They pretend to knowledge that they NO BUTTONS, NO have been too lazy or too dull to ac- quire; they •pretend to familiarity with persons whom they scarcely know they pretend to experiences that Have never been their portion and to in-- terests that they do not have. But the most dominion pretensions are those that are ostentatious in effect, pretensions of dress and dwelling and equipage. The automobile, with all.; that it has done for the comfort and (i convenience of people, has often ----- stimulated pretension. People who do t II Sprrgw. .and For Schooltrod At atrandiumnuinamam mai CI thes Holiday Wear r Pri s Ask Your Local Dealer for MIDDY SUITS AND PLAY SUITS no really need and who cannot reallygh we're not. We've even thou = afford a car sometimes feel. that they talk big sometime, when we're fe must have one in order to keep pace very small. If we don't, we los with their neighbors. People some. morale; weslovenly times feel that they must have a big- aged; we lose faith in ourse. es, ger and finer car than the old one in other people lose faith in use order to shine in the community: Truth and fallacy are intertwine Thrift and pretension never go hand such a contention. Pretension is in hand—and in fact "never the, twain y excusable when the motive shall meet." twin. it is to maintain self-respect, th "Just the same," some one says, "a perhaps we may question whether it good many of us find a certain amount can achieve such a rsult. It is almost of pretension necessary for our owe inexcusable when the motive for it is sake. We need it in our' business. We to impress other people. can i11 afford it, but we have to keep —_.-. up appearances. We've got to• pre- Blankets are named after a FIemish tend to be busy, even though we're weaver called Thomas Blanket, who not. We've got to look prosperous, lived in Bristol in 1340. $ HEALTH EDUCATION 0 0 BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON Provincial Board of Health. Ontario gg Dr. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mai. 0 ters through this column. Address him at the Parliament Bldgs.. 0 Toronto. STARCH COMFORTABLE AND NEAT We Are Specialists in the Manufacture of Children's Hose and Underclothes R N RELIA CE LIMITED LLS AT HAMILTON 'AND TORONTO got to No Place for Hilarity. � ---–�� -« � """`' cling "Captain," he said, "I'd be the last" The storiil was increasing in via- person en earth to cast a damper on e _our lance and some of the deck fittings any man, but it seems to me that this Cour- had already been swept overboard is no time for .letting off fireworks." and when tate captain decided to send up a signal of distress. But hardly had The idle young man forty years d in the rocket burst over the ship when a from now.will be a needy old one. cer- solemn -faced far' passenger stepped on to No one in the London jewellery, the bridge. ough trade is working full time. VW 10.Mit. ®'%21.Vie Maimstea tla. NiEfi®®V:11.Ma lial'& Scarlet fever is a disease that is' covers the body in characteristic despread throughout this country. cases. This rash consists of innumer- , i s sometimes called scarlatina or / able ' s rash, but man 1 e tiny papules whici_ are so thick - se persons thinkily distributed as to be almost con - se names refer to mild cases of 1 fluent on casual examination. The rlet fever. They do not. They! drying up and .bursting of these little simply other manes for the sane papules constitutes the "scaling" or ease. It is prevalent among chil- I "peeling which is such a valuable en of all ages but at four or five point in diagnosis, > rs most cases occur. The disease. The onset 'of the disease is rather attacks adults, and in some in- sudden, the incubation period usually des has been transmitted from a� being from 24 to 48 hours. The first d patient to the mother if she acts symptoms are usually of headache nurse during its illness. While! and sore throat accompanied by a rise re are occasional outbreaks at all• in body temperature,' Generally; the ons of the year it is in the months (child appears feverish and complains October, November and December] of headache and sore throat often EX - the disease, appears in epidemic.' companied by vomiting. The appear- . S'carlet fever varies in severity! ance of the tongue in Scarlet Fever i mild or "missed" cases where, is characteristic. In the early stages slight soreness of the throat is' the tip and sides are covered .with Joined of and the rash hardly whitish mucus dotted profusely with eable, to septic cases where the, small red spots almost pin -point In at is terribly congested and 1 size, which suggest the, tern "straw- s -covered, the rash of a blotchyl� berry," A day or two nater the whit- tcter and the patient in a semi -i ish color. disappears and the tongue bund. condition alni'ost from the! becomes red all over and 'very moist ' in appearance. As a general rule the e infective material in searletltensils are enlarged' and inflamed and is t virus of the kind known in severe cases are covered with a "filter passel," This means that in mucus. There may be y infected fluid from a er a water dr ing from the disease is put into and the eck gland efrom a e often hswollen. e nose, porceilain filter, and sepage eeeee I These symptoms are verysuggestive uid oozing through is stili cap 1 of scarlet fever, especiallin the of infecting another individual i of the Year, but the a the same disease, y ' appearance of the But aur rash about the second day makes the ritc concern n er n is t a prevent p tit itsi dans'- ' ors Cerra. grin g int. The rash appears an headway once it occurs, This first on, tale Hack, and shoulders, best be done by quarantine) gradually extending to the face the ods, that is, isolating the pa_ I body and the legs. The thighs yusu- and disinfecting all materials, ally show tate rash very marlcedIy. ug, ttc., with which tat One spot where the rash does not come in contact. appear is round the mouth,' and if the face is flushed with the scarla- tiniforin color the white eircle round the mouth, or circum -oral pallor as it is scientifically called, is an im partaxyt point to notice, (To be continued neict week.) I. wi It sca the sca are dis dr yea also sten chil as the seas of that form fron only comp notic throa char< 'Tori onset Th fever as a if an suffer a p the fl able with presen an can meth tient, clothf has c pae ent frequently Scarlet fever gains headway and is transmitted to others because the na- ture of the disease in mild cases is often overlooked. The term Scarlet Fever, arises from the scarlet or bright pink rash which G A EPAYING INVESTMENTS CUT DOWN WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE URE Three Ontario Potato tests gave an average gain of 50 bushels per acre, and corn tests an increase of 28 bushels per acre. Indiana Station has Just announced a gain of $167,00 per acre for an expenditure of $63.00 in tile, lime and fertilizers. Order your fertilizers Now --and make sure of the plantfood supply, Booklets free on request. SOIL AND CROP IMPROVEMENT BUREAU Henry G. Bell, B.S.A., Director, 14 Manning Arcade, Toronto , . .»,;•C' .0 ..^�'&°.:'" 'iS°.''r. ,_. it ^X IaN.r...v, ,:'4y, .r4 s.='v.,' m,1141.;;&, Photograph of a field of Fall wheat, showing fertilized and unfertilized drill rows Does lt b use Fertilizer? Taking as a basis last' ear' for farm crops; y s increases in yields and the present prices $1 spent in Gunn's Shur -Gain Fertilizer for Oats returned $2.37 $1 ,. .. 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