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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-03-16, Page 7NOTES AND COP1I1DN` S Coil.lradictovy as it is to ordinary 'belief war bee diminished .pauperism in England, Instead of accentuating poverty the stress of the last thirty menthe has actually reduced it to the point where practically only the chil- dren, the sick and the aged look to the pear law relief for support, The laet available returns show that the pauper population of England has beens cut down by one-third since the autumn of 1914. There was a de- crease of 198,335 in the number of people provided for under the poor law between November, 1914, and. Nevem- bre., 1918. This is directly contrary to thcl experience of other wars. The abundance of work is the great cause of this decrease. During the first month of the war poverty in- creased enormously, but as soon as mobilization began to take men out of industry a.nd the insatiabl.1 demand for munitions began to drive men and women into the factories pauperism shriveled to the mark of 1872, when authentic figures first were collected. Most notable in the changes wrought is the disappearance of the tramp. On Jan, 1, 1912, 9,732 tramps were given public relief. On Nov. 24 last only 2.,832 were registered in all England and Wales. In London the number was reduced to 82.. is, as the Lon- don Times says, is a .markable state of affairs, since Londe,' ' used to he the happy hunting ground of the vagrants. The lure of war has called 4,400 tramps, and .at the same time other classes of paupers are gallantly serv- ing erveing the nation. In many places the former inmates of poorhouses are fighting in the trenches side by side with the former administrators of the law. Men once residents of the poor schools have earned hones in France, and one of them, now an officer, has been awarded the Victoria cross. The demonstration is a new witness to the reality of the conviction that the poor need not be ever with the world, that by reasonable readjust- ments the curse of pauperism may be destroyed. NO COMPLAINTS AT THE FRONT. Health of Soldiers'eis Remarkably Good in Spite of Hardship. men are "sticking" the cold as +rtki' the vet ---s they endure aiul in this war, with a stiff 'tip- per lip and no moan. Now and again a man goes down with trench foot, literally goes down because he cannot stand up, but•, that trouble has been aImost abolished in comparison with the large number of men who drop- ped out last year before they were or- dered to rub their, feet with oil and change their socks if they could get a patch of dry ground to do it—which was not always possible. As for other maladies that come from hard weather and exposure, they are not reported in most cases until the mon are relieved. A roan with a touch of trench fever holds on to his post until he gets back to billets. Then its "Doctor, I feel a bit queer like." A man with rheu- matism in his body and bones says "Hell" very quietlyes;o.himself up in the'firing line, and waits for the re- liefs to come up before he gets round . to the M.O., and says, "The same old trouble, sir." So the doctors tell me, praising these stout-hearted fellows, among whom there are very few malignerers. In spite of the hard weather the health of the armies is amazingly good. The men themselves are hard as steel. The Bored Child. Phoebe was bored. In all the six long years of her life she had never spent such a miserable day. Circum- stances at last grew too strong for her, and she cried. She was one of those who do not often cry, but who, when they do, mnke no secret of it. In short, Phoebe nearly lifted the nursery ceiling off. Uustairs came Phoebe's mother, al- ready dressed in her smartest clothes ready to have tea with a friend. "Why, what's the matter, Phoebe?" she asked. Phoebe, atanding hopelessly in the middle of the nursery, only howled the louder, and refused to see anything cheerful about life. Lifting the unhappy child up in her arms and cuddling the tear -stained lit- tle face against her own, the mother walked over to the looking glass. "Just look, Phoebe, at the ugly lit- tle face in the looking glass!" Phoebe immediately became inter- ested and stopped crying. "Which one, mother ?" she asked. The .Edmonton Library i3oarcl spent $272,89 on hooks during February. The fuel value of two pounds of wood is.oqual to one pound of coal, ac- cording to the result of calculations made by the Forest Service Lahore - tory. AN INVITATION TO SICKNESS Impure *Blood Means i6 'Break Down -in Your Health, Impure blood is an invitation to sickness, The blood is at work day and night to maintain the health, and any lack of strength or purity in the blood is a •weakness in the de- fense against disease, Anaemia is the doctor's name for lack of blood. There may be an actual loss in the quantity of the blood, or one or more of its constituents may be lack- ing. Its surest symptom is pallor. Anaemia is particularly common in young girls. It is not, however, con- fined to them alone, for it is this same lack of blood that prevents full recovery after la grippe, :fevers, ma- laria and operations. It is also pre- sent hi old age and in persons who have been under unusual mental or physical strain. If you are suffer- ing from this trouble take Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They make pure, new blood with every dose and this new blood means health and strength. Thousands have proved the truth of these state- ments, among them Mrs, John Hyatt, Metiskow, Alta., who says :— "About a year ago I was bee badly run down condition, my blood was watery, I was very nervous, slept badly at night; suffered from fre- (meet headaches and found my housework an almost intolerable burden, my appetite was poor, and I did not seem to assimilate the food I took, altogether my condition seem- ed serious. - As there was no doctor in our neighborhood 1.clecided to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial, and I have much cause to be thankful that I slid so, as in a few weeks I could feel a great change for the better. 1 continued the use of the pills for some time longer, and found a complete cure: I feel better than I have for years and can therefore cheerfully recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to all who are weak and run down." You can get these pills from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from. The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co.,- Brockville, o.,Brockville, Ont. • Mei THE REVIVAL OF HERALDRY: Abandoned Customs and Practices Re- vived in Great War. • Very •strikhig is the reversion in the. Great War to a number of ancient and long abandoned customs and practices in the prosecution of military tactics. The Greek fire with which the Chris- tian defenders of Constantinople as- sailed the Turks 500 years ago, was but an anticipation of German gas at- tacksand evil -smelling bombs. Even khaki is not altogether new, for the Crusaders wore a long brown -colored robe or surcoat, the color of the sandy deserts where they fought the Mos- lems.' Puttees also may be noted on the nether limbs of the Saxon thanes depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. To the war must also be attributed the revival of heraldry, coats -of -arms, badges, flags, banners, and colors, that have been so lavishly displayed by all classes. Not since the Crusades, or the Hundred Years' War, has so much enthusiasm been shown in this art, and it has been remarked that not a few of the coats -of -arms of British families, ancient and modern, are shared by various European mon- archs, reigning dukes, and famous regiments. The Prussian Eagle is born by the 14th Hussars, who adopt- ed it when the Princess of Prussia married the Duke of George III, Gen- eral Mackensen's family crest is the stag's head, the badge of the famous Seaforth Highlanders, raised by the Scottish Mackenzies. This general, the vintor at. Rumania, is descended from an exiled member of that dis- tinguished family, who lost all their zeal for the Stuarts. General Nivelle, the French commander-in-chief, bears the Saltire Cross of the' Nivelles, and claims kinship with this old English family. CHILDHOOD AILMENTS The ills of childhood come swiftly and too often before a doctor can be called in or medicine obtained the lit- tle one is beyond aid. The wise mother will always safeguard her lit- tle one by keeping Baby's Own Tab- lets in the home. This medicine al- ways does good—it can never do harm. Concerning it Mrs, Napoleon Lambert,. St. Ignace, Que., writes: ---"Baby's Own Tablets are an excellent medi- cine for childhood ailments and I ani well pleased with their use." The Tablets are sold by medieine dealers or by mail. at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. ees When you order spring seeds think of the flower beds. BATTLE Olf THE SOMME. Battlegronud the Most Terrible in Eu- rope's Armageddon. The arrival of the big guns on the British front has done much to alarm the enemy, says ala American writer. For years Germany has relied on big guns. And now the British and the French have bigger ones; Something` has dawned on the horizon quite out- side the German calculation, The one district which all Germans' fear and detest is "the • terrible Somme." It bears various names, and none of them complimentary. A German prisoner whom I met not very long ago referred to it with many' shudders as "The Bath of Blood," while a wounded Bavarian in a hos- pital spoke of it as "War's Inferno." Our regiment was suddenly taken from Flanders and flung into the Somme district," said he, "Twelve days we stayed there and were com- pletely smashed up. Ten days I en- dured that hell, and came to the and of my strength." I have received a mud -spattered letter from a British artilleryman who has fought with the big guns on the Somme for ninny months, "Just now I am in bivouac," he writes, "with the battery in a wilder- ness of mud and debris of battle, and with little opportunity for writing. It takes us all day getting about in the mess, and all night scraping boots ' and drying socks at improvised fires! While I write, the guns are thumping and banging at old Fritz, and I can ` see the flashes of the 'heavies' out side the tent door. "There is a hum of aeroplanes in the air. One of the first things that struck me on getting into sight of the actual battlefield was the way our aeroplanes lord it in the air. It was just clearing up to a fine evening after an awful day of rain. 'Where,' I ask- ed, 'are the aeroplanes?' I had hard- ly spoken when I heard them corning up from behind in flocks, and soon, they were circling over the battle like birds, while salvos of shrapnel mottled the blue around them, like•dust on the background of a picture. I haven't seen a German machine for a long, long time. "Mud isn't so very romantic when you've got to eat it, and sleep on it, and when you must bear it on your face for a few days until you get a proper chance for a wash. There's nothing so sticky, so dreary and so exhausting as the dragging mud of the Somme. It grips your knees at every step and sometimes we're up to the'waistin it." Drink Hot Water With Meals To Stop S o ash Disorders A Physician's Advice Thousands of unfortunate people suffer almost daily from dyspepsia. indigestion, fermentation, sour acid stomach, flatu- lence, gases or distress after eating. if they would only form the agreeable habit of slowly drinking with each meal a glassful of hot water containing a half teaspoonful of pure bisurated magnesia they would soon find their stomach so strengthened and improved that they could eat. the richest and most satisfying meals without the least symptom of in- digestion. Nearly all so called digestive troubles are caused by an excess of acid and an insufficient blood supply in the stomach causing the food to ferment and sour be- fore digestion can take place. A glass of hot water will draw the blood to the stomach and the bisurated magnesia will neutralize the stomach acids and make the food contents bland and sweet. Eiasy, natural digestion without distress of any kind is the result. Ilisutated ilfagnesia is not a laxative, is harmless, pleasant and easy to take and can be obtained from any local druggist. 1)n not confuse Ilistuated 1Tr nesia with other forma of magnesia milks. citrates, etc., but get it in the pure bisurated form (powder or tablets) especially prepared for this pur- pose, p. BECAUSE AND BECAUSE. ry- Give the Boys and Girls Accurate An- swers to Their Inquiries. It may seem to you an easy way out of a tight place when the• little chaps at your house ask you hard questions, to answer: "Because." But really, it is hardly fair to them or to you. They want to know, and "be- cause" sheds no light on the question. The little folks are hungry for the truth, so take the trouble to tell them the truth. If you don't know, say so, but make it your business to find out and let then know as soon as ops- sible. Boys and girls pass on to their lit- tle neighbors what father and mother tell them. Be sure you are right be- fore you give them any information. The little fellows are just now stor- ing up things for the days to come, and need every bit of help they can get; don't turn them off with a feeble "because." Give them something worth while, something which will make them better and more intelli- gent. It does you good to think and study until you can answer the thousand - and -one questions your boys and girls ask you, so have the patience and the goodness of heart to make good and aeeurato answers to every inquiry. 1.1 as i° atm; oF 01;4,40 !;N ."4101', !r; "2111it� CANADTANs'.LOAN The Safest mi Best I a vestment P. ss9 le to Obtain. These securities are always sale- ' ale - able and we are ready to purch- ase at any time. Without charge we give best at- tention to all appl'icati i,ns placed through us. pall particulars and Subscription Forms furnished. on Application Write, Telegraph or Telephone us at our expense. • TORONTO Health The Care of Infants' Eyes. The most impressive lesson of ignor- ance, or neglect of the infant, is learn- ed when visiting one of the several schools or asylums for blind children, who have never seen the light of day, nor the very things about them or those who are nearest and dearest to them. When one recalls the fact that twenty-five per cent. of these chil- dren have lost their sight from "babies' sore eyes," better known in medical terms as ophthalmia neona- torum, an entirely preventable disease, we may rightfully reproach ourselves for not having made some attempt to avoid such disastrous injuries, more especially since they occurred among infants who are themselves the in- nocent victims of this serious affec- tion. The solution of the problem lies sclely in the prevention of the disease largely responsible for blindness among infants. Ophthalmia neana- torum can be prevented and the blind- ness which may result avoided by treating the eyes of the infant imme- diately after birth with a suitable antiseptic medicine applied, by your family physician. Feeding Convalescent Child. Every one who has had the care of a convalescent child knows how 'hard it is to make him eat the things that the doctor has prescribed, Ingenious Mothers and nurses have invented all sorts of schemes and devices to make the simple diet of the sick child ac- o©ptable and interesting. The little invalid who refuses to take his milk and eggs will often drink an eggnogg from a tall glass through a straw. A little girl ad- mires parties, and will eat almost any- thing if it is served from a doll's tea set, especially if some of her dolls are invited to share the feast. The dessert may be covered with a little tent, house, or wigwam, with a tiny doll, standing guard at the door, and no peeking is allowed until every- thing else on the tray is eaten. Faces may be sketched on the eggs and hats or caps tied on them. Toast cut in fancy shapes is most exciting. It can be trimmed with a knife and made into little houses with doors and windows, or it may be cut with cooky cutters. A doll's chaffing dish is a lot of fun. If the invalid is strong enough to sit up a small table may be set and he will never know what is being served if father is the waiter with a napkin over his arm. With a little thought and care th.z child may be made to eat almost any., thing. Easy Method. "How did Deeds make his reputa tion as a lawyer?" "He was so well-to-do he could dei cline cases he knew he couldn't win."• • Women window dressers are rest receiving much praise from Londoai firms who have introduced them. 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