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60114 no'cktailepepty,. hetWeen
*pane -and triee, Aet'eXPIrairie to
at she PositiVelY-Must have,
jet order to achieve secial
ilk. with the stronger sex, !the
Ua'teld senator slAiles and an-,
er§-•Ifiittt if 'she get a the vote she'
lope ranch of her charm and
yetary 'and that for, this reason life
Will be much less agreeable for her,
for him and for everybody else.
;More than once have vie thought
tit -the oldesenater -in Russia, where
,
Lenin, the Mast daring re,walutionary
"1, of all times, has abolished" the ine-
ril qagity sexes. In !Russia a woman
may retain ,her maiden name after
e her marriage if she so chooaes; Or she
may give
higher efficiale, a giane,ia ceeerete
and ateelethe fifteen stories of (which
°vex -leeks the city. It rises exactli
apliosite ethe Kremlin on the other
side of the river IVIoelive. The apart-
ments are very readeen. :with all con-
veniericee, tvery 'Small,' two .or
three zooms • at the most, for hus-
band, wife and one or 'two Oleildnene
The zervarits, :two or ;three per,' tana-
ily, are lodged separately on one et -
the stories set aside entirely for serv-
ants' quarters.
In . the morning, while the women.,
aro in their -offices, the servantsouto-
are as indolent as they are devoted,
,
do the shopping at the OOpiniat's.'
,special -co-operative,. where foOdsteffs
and other commedities may be obtain-
ed in reasonable quantities at :meson.-
• it to her hus1band- e,..able. prices, while any -"extras" have
ere'
agreesea-In preeent day Ruesia marl-
tal anthority more:kb-
' ":, • eolete than even that of awning a car
allateeerneself. There is no punish-
.• .nrept .so 'eevereeeas that provided •by
the 'Soviet penareedeeforeee-called
• passionate -manes. .°
. .
• -A -woman who maintains- 'marital
• • • Telaeions with e man acquires,,„by vir-
• tacoef it,. all the rights el a -legally
married woman. :And Russia is: the
only country in the world where the
..,„ search for 'paternity- is pursued ener;- everybody in Russia now, and the
,getically and ruthlessly, and :always children of .high officials 'go to
. to the disadvantage of the male. the same schools, or if they are past
• Nothing is- easier for the male Soviet -the. scimpl age they may be found
., citizen than •.to get, himself or lather -working in factories as simple work -
this purse into trouble, for the Rus- ers. For even though their parents
sian courta know no pardon and no Tele the' 'destinies of the immense
, leniency wham it is,a; question of pay- country, the road is not .paved. for.
ing alimony. • . . them. Everybody must build his life
• " The doors of every -profession, or for himself.
occupation are open to the Russian. With.' all that, cf. comae, have is
• woniten: 'She (May deive a railway ere dead' in •M•oscow, So utterly has 4t
gine or be a station master• then 'disappeared that one cannot help
again .sheniay be an ambaseedi-ess in wondering at the enormously high
" o foreign lands, like. Alexan.dra birthrate ---over roar...millions a year.
(lay. 'Or she (may be a soldier or: But there is no time for romance "Or.
train for the General Staff. In a.. amorons adventures. By suppeessing
school for. ..noneooanTaissioned officers the lure of the, forbidden fruit with,
we saw women in full uniform, re- easy marria•ge and divotee'laws„,Len-
'• 'vetiver and all, digeified.te bearing, in has killed romantic Ibire.•
both 'talking: and 'holding -.course-a- he 'However there is still room for hu -
history, geography, political science men pasetens even in (Russia. The
and !mathematics.. " • amorous ad -ventures of this et that
- This is all (very commenclablee but *Titer a la mode or popular artist
- there is a reverse to the medial. The would no doebt ,set all Moeda* agog
Russian woman haSlest. some of her with .sensation, if all. Moscow had
wamanlinese "with her newly acquir- time to, gossip,
. ed rights. The fact that the Russian In the evenitig .most- of these young
railway eleepere accontri[Tadat.e men women „may be seen in the . theatres,
and woureft witheut distinction pro- .espe.cially at the opera and ballet
vides •aarrple evidence that the role of performances. The latest in ballets.
sex appeal is reduce -d to naught in is "The Flames of Paris" which is
the Soviet Union. But the absolute an apotheosis of the French revolu-
. .. equality and coneradeship'betweenethe lion, and so marvelously staged and
two sexes is one of. - the mainstays of performed that it draws numereus
the regime and an essential -fountia,-- 2ynd enthusiastic audienCes every ev-
tion-of the new life that the Russian ening. •
•wcanau is building up for herself. And often: they meet in one of the
The feminine "al ..M'oscow," which larger apartments, around the sem-
is composed ef thigh women official, • over, which is still the backbone of
actresses, singers., dancers, the wives Aussian. social life,. at a cold buffet
of the People's Commissars and 'othef supper Or a bottle of good Russian
high officials, those of the Red ArrirY champagne, and smoke and discuss
elii•efs and of the p-rominent writers and talk, scimetimes until three and
and intellectnals, is rather restricted four .in the morning.'" The main topic
in minther. and the secret worry of each of these
In Russia the slogan is "Everything women, and of their husbands, is
for the Young!" In keeping with the systen-ratic "tchistka" or clean-up
this principle, the -leadieg_wornen of of the part•y, meaning that any mem-
Moscow all seem young; young and ber may at any time be called before
slirn.t'rhe wives of the high officials a special :tribunal and asked to ex-
.. wham we had occasion to approach, plain his life and activities frcm a
beeide being young and -slim, were all -communist point of'..view. The lot of
very pretty and attractive and turn- the expelled ones is not enviable and
ed out as sma.rtlY as the women of it is not surprising that the "t2histka"
Paris. Each pursbed an occupation is on everybody's mind.
, of her oven, which filled- her mornings Another suleject which exoites the
and often also the evenings,. for ev- passionate interest of men and NM-
, ' ery loyal citizen of the -Union must men alike is the daily activity of the
sacrifice an hour of •his leisure time
,
for • "social work," Which is mainly
teaching or otherwise !contributing to
• , the. anti -illiteracy campaign carried
en:in-feet-erica and workere•-chilie.
• The wife of the Foreign Minister,
(Madame Litvinava, lectures on Eng -
language, history arid literature
of the Moscow University: . Madeir.
Dubnova, the wife of the Minister of
Education, directs the exhibitioai ser-
vice. Others direct Til -me. or theatri-
cal enterptises, or maternity gib:1'W
as the case may be:
You meet this official Russian WO-
tnittillhOOd ate the big luncheons and
dancing -'teas at the Embassies, at the
• Opera and the Official evening par-
ties, although the latter are not very
frequent. As you See them there,
dancing grace,fully, smartly el -hough
'simply 'dressed, immaculately groom-
ed, rou :find it hard to realize that
theit life is so many respects dif-
ferent feting that of the women of
other countries in the ; same social
position.
• .-: • • To state it brieflY,. -their life is
• simpler. They have no Money fer the
eatiefebtion of- their individual whims
(ht either have they time for them.
Tlzeir budget is eaysily balanced. It
=Mints at the most to 1000 rubles
• -(aboute 400 dollars y er month, be-
• ....tureen the pickled salaries of htaand
a • and wife. One-fifth of this trim is
•,;••• ovallowed by the rent, another 200
Tublee by the servants. On the other
(hand, there is no need of saving any -
hit • except for • the . compulfory
. yearly subscriPtion to the State loan,
. •
to • Which eirerybody must contribute.
the equivalent of at least one month's
.- Salary. The takes are 'deducted from
. the:salary. Meet of them are leaded
, iralhtetly, �r inclusion into the prices
..!4-.0teoltilariedities.,,:Only nine per .cent.
4ttio.iiit's tticimilus annual budget
• a: a etivered by &reek taxation:
ib�S wottid dream Of having. his
' " &mile,. .betause trattspor-
fatten:4i -belittled in the faellities
borporatiot in which
PeOple,3Werk.
Vacation for the high
their -fMines are • like-
' lded. by the gOternment:
klialanOeg .free. transportation tea
,."41(OOtititeelt.43 lejainett one Of
rneantain or seaSide• tamed.. into a big teearayeeeMle •Gye-X., gat* will dleappeaT, net, because Of
tlie Gan.' 'Chesterton:1'. " • , • 7.iiitenSitte . heating '.1e§ '"tlia:
1•'[. ateetintetty : • • ---eee. .••••••• xif". tulariternia: • •• • .. •
Ot4..'#dOkifte. ' The airiii„ n 'Of Irak ;Via, 1:00g',* raTalbs,- HOt.tiVillffieset4
. , . .
Stab; .-111....‘itert/ 'king; ,PrOxy ViPtetriber '1100.00'
•Meet-hintAitally ...,.fai)thel,..ffrtVotctititia: Wak,.0,64-111.• doWir to 1406,
leOffOrt, J'ff•OYtIft"tio .1.11e tabliits had:
0111 l'441004 J6014116itliaVOW6li ...1451**niy atat *10.
' Oibliatibin4f.410*4 Year Of
to be bought oa the free -market and
'paid for very dearly. „I -
'The, great worry Of the Moetow
hostess is the "sixth day;" that is,
the day of rest -corresponding to our
SundaY: Every 6. 12-; IS; 24 and 30
of the month, life stops. No serve
ants, no food.supPlies-,a glorified and
inagnified English week -end!
The Children go to school at the
age ef six and must attend school for
seve,n years. This..is tompulsory for
't40.• TWO
11.1'011bieS
.ga,ving en.mhtista so "badly. thatt
she aould, searcelY (Walk, is *caveat
began. to. ant eta a- load of superfleente
flesh." In a letter. jaret, eeceived, the
writesee--
ee•
"I had a severe, attack of r ete
tiem ein both knees. It was s • -1had
that for three weeks. I conla not put
my feetto. the :.=puncl...- wee else
tting terribly fat.-throughnot get.:
fmg my usual exercise, I started
taking Kruschen, and persevered: The
first thing I noticed was the tonic
effect it had; the next that an,y
rheumatism went,. and -better then
errything-I lost the we -etched fat. I
am a Woman of 50, and when I tell
you -I do exactly the "iterile 'work as
women half my' ago without. the least
difficulty, I think you. Will understand
why I 'swear !by Krusehen Salts and
recomimlend them wherever I go."-,
M. E.
The sia salts of Krusehen assist the
iriternal organs to throw off each
day the wastage arid pojeoas that
encumber the system. Then, little by
little, that ugly fat goes -slowly, yes
-,but surely. The rheumatism and
headaches disappear You feel 'won-
derfully healthy, youthful and ener-
getic -more so than ever before in
your life. 1
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mpeath tkirAfgeeriii sudden
40-elcueg sojtrilintectathti;..t.dhettept ias
erywhere-amongst mankind. MaAriy
people are Unable to got Over their
dread of. snakes, They shrink from:
them histinctivly., It may' 'Well;, be
theugh-the tiger anake-Of Austral*,
has- a venom -two and a half- 4rtica
More 0441k -than ',the former. Hut
the death -adder p04.4esses 'the meat
efficient. biting mechanism of all the
snakei, '
1;
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• ,
'(If;yon-*OOF'Mting ( • Of liearllifet''.o • ' - ':":
,l'eeof,,
t '
iniesiOner was telling Me .as he: pointa :OrP111gt1.3N404::AdiA01(!it
letit.!,;a111-ani"ditreria' ' from: the flist•In tiLella.ne.e4,;'*a ciaTii).":.°:: .1e.e.,,,ttalba ,l,f•el?keeq., 14,:.:f•T'll."... ': - .' 'A
ri - .. • r 'la
, : . .., .
. r.lati ed by.'hlaCk; Policenlen,.. - the • Tkat will 'often lbring' ItItilelt. 'relief ,• .
.inci fenf-catarrOl'TkeittneiStor if'you -
i'..' . have/404ring' 4uMbling 'hissi4 ,ligis-
•,. . ' , •' • • • ' " ' Ss iii3 4'.047:._ea,*a. ' gO 1,tO TO* 'diaggist .
e '1‘1Alt reurflerer,SP._ the ' .d.i.strlo, 401.n.. • an get " •‘ etkiinte of .Paninlint 4(10.1.1ble, •
Ocl fit- the .nettivtts lined wit in front of -het water: and n llttle, Manniated
,
One thing Mitist never be forgotten.: "murderera" stood before eis;'- silent, imih *41-8 clifitrel*ing ".1:1a4'''' noise'
"tive ancesten% the v•estige of; a pro-: gretion and, apart frOnn, its power of tinieSc:of .figleaves which hardly fik leOg 41°
Qleklged nostril , Should open, breatk2,,.. ,
come eas ad the inner,- stop ,
that it is a heritage from our prup-' the venom ie eintpler a salivary se- morose, timorous. Except for the
tective sense' which, though invalu- 'killing, IS' .Very valnalele to the snake filled its putOeseethey were.qnite Pak; •‘11.1'1)Pin 111?.! to ° 1°11144" It ' e -as
. &hie to Primitive mane kS.s. now lest in digeating the large meals it takes, ed. !Some, Were' a broad leather belt, :fe '11T re; eastt4ttle and. is pleas -
its significance. , . b cense of .its eXcoriating action. pulled wry tight so as to squeeze mit ni'it -It° t e• AnYetie ifluk is .threat -
told of the horrois conn et d .th d k Some. had ere -Sees dangling, ehriaesdlitt,ne:is*earjel'ItionPeld i, 434s.theifi *11° .
It maybe also that the fear is not The Only reliable remedY for snake tbe lops, er the latest cannibal %-
early 'training and e•dueation. Frem which consist of ,the serum of an int, pre-
-raintheir eck • For :the Iniasion is
al
instinctive at all, but the result of hi is by' means of arbtivenenes; Odom-
Scriotion, a trial.' . „ . .
otir childhood onetard we have been 'reunited aiding (a horse mule . or old in Were inea. Miissionaride
, .
e e wi donhay beingeepreferred) injeetted :penattated the terror of the -island
the very name of snake and it. has isubeutarieoualy or Prefertibly ititrae. long-lbefore any European government
become to us the Sytnbol of creeping venously. -.Such antivenenes are now ever thought, ef Occupying„it.
death that lies hidden in the grass, prepared and obtainable< all oeer the Ilia 'the ...knowledge that .theso.
of all that is deceitful, treadherous, world, .,*.hilee the 'way as led by elan nieentain folic rnifY
mercilese aria; Cruel, - tint little inci- F-rance, under-the-fatesighted, guid- the 'Gospel Must have beenrather
dents • here and there serve to Shaw ;ante Calanette. .--1" • . . superficial. As,,I was fingering the
that -exathaps- too. eunech is nude Of
mares -horror, Of snakes, - and that
., training and.-4experiebee may easily
neutralize unfe-rieenabile :Oars...found-
ed on nxisappreherisibii.:-
•••Tnere .are three great classes
reptiles. These are:
1. The fangless snakes,. which do
not infliet. poisonous bites and which
have no -apparatus for ' the purPose.
All their teeth are. solid and, their
bites, even though riottpaisorrous, can
be very painful indeed/
2. The back' -fanged 'Snakes which
have solid teeth in front, but hollowed
fangs cennecte•d with poison glands
behind. .
13. The frontal -an d snakes like
the 'cobra, the a and the vipers.
These have the -poison" fangs at the
very front efethe jaw and when they
strike they itelmediately inject into
their Prey the 'deadly fluid froth.- their
venom glands.
When 'I that Went out to India, -My
'interest was aroused' iby an order that
we were to 'give full trial to the in-
jection of strychnine as a ,remedy
for snake -bite. ..Thi e method was; in-
vented by. an Australian- doctor but
Was rejected as worthless by the
inedical profession in the East. How-
ever, the imientor had succeeded, in
getting Queen Victoria interested and
she gave direetione that the remedy
was to be tried.
The' first -work I ever did on snake -
poison was in .connection with tree -
snakes, which are back-fangled rep-
tiles., I quickly formed the conclu-
sion that they- ,wete non-poisonous
and handled them with absol Le fear-
lessness of ignorance. They are just
as deadly -as the cobra er. the krait
but their methods are ,different. As
they are back -fanged, their egie
in the sea, they will. unhesitatingly
their, prey with. their front teeth, and
then worry and work up by an alter_ attack in self-defence when felloyeed.
nate actin of both jaws until they into their caves or touched. They
bring forth their young alive in the
can get their 'back teeth in and -in-
ject the deadly venon. Fortunately, water, an obvious protective device,
for eggs lying about in the ocean are
they are as a rule pulled off before -
they can do so, so that little or ne a strong temptation to ever -passing
v-enom is injected, • fish.
The ;bite of the' front -fanged snakes Sea -snakes prey on email fish which
they kill with their very deadly pois-
is a very different affair. Anyone of
on and then swallow from the head
these animals must be touched. with
the utmost care. end, so as not to be injured by the
There is a very, great difference be- SPines- They are said to have g-roove
ed as oppos,ed to perforated teeth, but
tween the various species in their
modes of delivering a bite. In vipers ifthis be the case, the grooves are
evidently deep enough to serve as an
the mechanism for this purpose is
channel for the passage of the
brought to the highest stage of per- easy
fection„ If you look at a dead viper Poison -
or handle a living one carefully,. you Pythons and boaeconetri ors fall
will see that its fangalig-tacked back into the class af solid -toothed snakes.
against the reef' of the mouthy large- They have no poison apparatus and
ly cowered by a tunic of the mucous no fangs, but they can inflict terrible
!membrane. If the animal is in any bites with their very numerou,s and
way irritated, the fangs at once come very strong reCurved teeth. They
forward, clear -themselves at their launch themselves at theirprey, wind
coat and stand -erect right an- their powerful bodies r eyed it and
gles to the upper jaw he the position crush it toeeulp in their folds. The
for delivering a bite. A dissection very first thing a python does is to
of the. viper's skull reveals a most seize its ,vittifit's head in -it e jaws
interesting mechaniern of bones for and then throve its coils round the
this purpose. animal. The prey is always swal-
This has long been freely admit- lowed starting from the bead end,
ted about the viper but it was and, so that it goes down in the direction
I believe, is still widely taught that in which the hair or feathers or
in the cobra and other deadly eau- spines lie, and in 50 doing inconvenie
brine snakes (the fang is not erected ences the reptile to a minimum. A
during the bite, but is kept constant- python can .even 'swallow a goat,
ly in the same -semi-erect position, horns and all, and digest it,although
ready for action. I have never agreed the horns will eventually slough their
with this view because I 'have often way through the animal'e intestines
seen these snakes erect and depress and skin, without doing it any harm.
their fangs, during life. .; • Pythons are very dangerous. Once
cuatom was to Chloroform each they launch their attack their speed
,make in the tin. canister inter which is extraordinary and within tweaty
it was put as soon as it was deliver- minutes the prey is aonaipletely semi -
ed to DIR, then lift it out with a long, lowed:- The python perferms, 'this
strong pair of forceps, to lay it on amazing feat thankseeo the curious
its back and fix it on_aboard with a structure of its jaws, Vilileh permit
nail through its palate. There was the creature to open its mouth to an
no cruelty in this for the animal was angle of about one hundred and thir-
un,der anaesthetic and never came ta. ty degrees. A /tan cap.en his
Pt was stone deed befere I had time. ntouth with an effort tO an angle
.:to run eits blood off for the serum of not mare than about twenty-seven
and remove .poison glands and gall degrees. •„
bledder. But all this gave me an Al large' pYtiven will Unhesitatingly
oppoitimity of observing that when attage man. A well known expert on
one tickled the roof of a sneke's ophiology tells. me ithat he would
Mouth, the fangs were reflexly erect- much prefer to be in a room with
ed and then fell bakek again into place: five cobras than one 25 -foot python.
,Subsegtient experireetts on litte db- The sensational novelist who de -
brae and on a haanadeyad have con- Acts a gigaatie python as "drippag
'firmed nry view. I make bold' to say venom!' from its tOrrible fangs is
that if all snakes With front fangs certainly wron.g, but he is quite right
in believing that the bite or the em-
brace of these myanaters are things
much to be dreaded.
Old Disease Again
Found in Ontario
Tularaemia, the strange disease
which has attacked Nelson Ducharme
of Zurich, Ont., has called forth a
warning from Dominion ,medical au-
thorities. Its appearance „.a.t Zurich
indicates the spread of' this rare ail-
ment te a region not previously sus-
pected. Only one case has ' formerly
'beet. found in Ontario, Dr. McNeil),
of Toronto havin,g encountered a case
in. Northern Ontario 18 months ago.
The Zurich. case is the first in the
older Ontario.
Tularaemia an almiast unknown
disease but science is discovering that
ether diseases called by other names
are tularaemia in another form. The
bacilli live ,on various kinds of ticks
found on wild life, particularly rab-
bits. Its danger lies in the cycles
of (virulence which occur. 1Fot seven
or eight years the (bacilli are num-
eiv•uis, but alrmost 'h rraless; their
comes a,year when the becenne viru-
lent and wild life die the thou-
sand.
Sunspots Blamed
ISunspots 934000,000 miles away are
considered by astronprriers to have
something to do with the periodsiof
virulence. When eunspots are large
and numerous, greater quantities of
ultra -violet rays are released, whieh
has its effect on all forms of life,
and, it is believed, stir up the bacilli
to activity.
The spotted fever wed the deer fly
fever of the west are now believed
teethe tularaemia. Two years ago"
scientists from all over the world
assembled at Matamek, a remote spot
an the north shore of the St. Lawr-
ence, to study the strange cycles in
wild life, te, ascertain. why the wild
rabbits and foxes of .the Arctic,
grouse and other animiale and birds
were abundant in some years and
then were strangely decimated and
died by the thousands.
The records of the Hudson's Bay
Co. for hundreds of yeans. back
"Politlaureat," i.e., the Political Burr showed these cycles among the foxes
eau of the party, the 'highest govern-
ment instance. It is presided over
by Statin and meets regularly every
evening in the Kremlin, from which
are directed the destinies of the- elm-
menee territory. and of the nation's
humblest citizen. The Ca.binet1 which.
meets just as regularly every morn-
ing, also in the Kremlin, receives its
instructions from the "Polithureau"
and must abide by them faithfully.
It is from the "Politbureau" that the
recent ardeT of srwitohing over from
German to Freneh friendship has
emanated.
this radical change in Russian
foreige politics provides the try*
for every conversation. People in
Russia are convinced that it will as-
sure the "peace of the world. For no
matter how sincerely peace may be
desired in other countries, it is even
More ardently desired in Russia., be-
cause a. new war would 'bring to a
etand§till and nedst likely wpset the
gigantic work of economic reconstrac-
tion. Without peace :the success of
the Second Five Year Plan is impos-
sible and its failure vrould mean great
troubleefer everybody. Yet there is
no trace of doubt and ekepticism, in
these people's conversations.. .
arid women alike are Convieced
the inteTnal reconstruction • is going
to be a 'huge euccess and that the Co --
and furbearing animals. Elven the
little lemming of the far north would
be numerous for years, and then dis-
appear. The snowshoe rabbit showed
the cycle ,clearly.
Dr. Green of the University of
Ainnesota, ,reported his researches
into this rare disease, having dis-
covered that in the years the rabbits
were decimated thleabacilli on the
wood ticks infesting their fur had a
peculiar virulence. Each rabbit
might have 10,000 ticks and each tick
inn.u•raerable bacilli.
Varies With LOcation
It Was found that the virulence
also varied with the leration, as in
the case of scarlet fever strepto-
coCous, which is. osraTiolls for children
in northern climates, but loses its
virulence further south.
With rabbits, eats, human beings,
and some other animals, infection
can be tatrried sirriply by the infect-
ed infaterial ceming in contact with
the, akin. Wihen in virulent ferm, the
bactelia may kill a rabbit within VA.
days,
The diseases was discOvered inde-
pendently by a J'apaneSe and his wife.
She placed deme infected material on,
her--arrn and in 20 minutes washed it
Off. but found tularaemia had de-
veloped.' Medical authorities, here is-
sue a warning against hunters haiid-
operation between the Russifilf" beat ling wild rabbits this year. The Zur-
and the French chanticleer will ligp ease' indicates that the bacteria
to maintain peaee and order in the are iirulent.
(Dr. Green traced tularaemia across
world.
Are they haPPY, these wemen Of the Montana boundery to Alberta
New Russia? Who can tell? The where it was &mid in the deka int
revolutioa hag -vim -en them elery-pos-
sibility of developing their individu-
ality. It has given them equal rights
and eppor•hinities with the meh but
also equal duties and risks. But Abe.
ebligation to vied* without reapite
has destroyed, at least for the time'
being; much of the forraer tate for
the vagee And fantastic and the tero-
peraMent Of those fascinating ,and
sometimes beevildering women, a
akseovy,....the doty,try whidti la, ITO
hanger a land of sidles but Of intense
work and greatest austerity,
• England' is a big country that has
testing sheep, and anothe-r toat
itt -use, they wqauld have
them broken off' every tinie they at-
terripted to swallow a big prey.
there are other differences in the
, bites of various snakes. Some will
teria from a wend blek and bile° :te-ilVitivft- off- an 'end -My, whilst
rabhit in VA days 'by its frifeetie,n• with:others- the blow conies before
In it, 'PreviOns keat'a 03011, .50,1n-' the warning. The cobta expands a
fecte4 wsuld live 11, days, -Inamatin flattened hood beforie attacking, While
loymr virulence. the Ewell ,viper, for examiple, strilies
The 'Virttleriee etsPeet cone41.„.,.° out from its coil Without warning.
.by scientists to throlca a new eignt .To Most iittedligent people snake
.on the qttestion of closed seasons for Obigon is "jaist snake poison." They
.gaute, When the baetaria lfraltives' do not grasp the essential fact that
is love the -closed Season seents lin' the venom a each -kind of snake is
neceSsarY, but when it it high the epeeifia and different from any other.
When one comes . consider ,'Efie'
pharniiiielegicai action a the varieuk
venoms, one is 'astotintled at the-crif-
ferenc.e between them, act di:
rectly 'One or another -part ot the
nervena system., ',Offfeii the-bIood
vessela don the bleed "
--The fact is that any Slpecimen of
.nalte venom colititilitotterate *Well
element , only Ahe PrepOrtien • Velvet
Modern research has thus made bross of the fellow rightbefore me, -
available a care against \snake -bite a pigmy reagang not•higher-than MY
-but alt workeds in this field are still ehoulder-it oceerred to me that he
confronted with three great difficul- could hardly- the meaning of
ties; the difference in . the specific that symlbele In his eye e were writ-
charatter'of the various venoms; the ten the aa,me anxious eqaeation asitin
fact that the antivenenes Jose their the eyes. of his fellow-siaffererea--
efficacy if kept for long periods; and " a will they do to us? Why
7
the difficulty on the More of expense li ve hey braught is here? We
in having a sufficient etock of the, ha e , one nothing!" .
right rea-nedy on the spot a a given Indeed, they had •dene "nothing"
moment. , according to their bviii Code:: '' They
Undoubtedly ..snany lives have been were in perfect good faith alinot it.
saved thanks to these -see -nem.- -On "n--theedistriets-ef --Nate \Guinea
, . ,
the other hand, many of the eases where theowhite man has net, yet im-
claimed as Cures might have got well posed his laere, there exists' 'a right
anyway. - Snakes are not all of a or rather en obligation to kill.
dangeraes variety and their bites not 'The thatightlessness and unscriapue
always effeetive. IVforeaver, some ef lohaness with which these natives hill
the antivenenes advertised have not is rooted in their philosophy of life.
beent nearly so efficacious as they The primitive :man cannot understand
have been claimed to be. the respect of the individual and of
_ Ilf at -all possible, the patient suf- his life that is cotrumbn to us, ror our
ering from snake -bite should he ideas on the inviolability or life. Life
shed to a surgeon's headquarters, to him is just life, a collective cen-
cept embracing also animal and plant
life. Since one anay unhesitatingly
destroy animal arid plant life, there
seditiato he no reason why one should
not also destroy human • life.
The -files of the island administra-
tion contain numerous proofs of this
naive but perfectly sincere attitude
toward the great problems of life
and death. Ask a native why he kill-
ed and almost always you a will be
told `5because the man was no good
any more," or "not worth anything.'"
He will gladly pay a Pig for the dead
man, cenVinced that that is . much
more an the victim was worth.
Once :11er jastifled himself by de-
clari e his vic.;., was "a gossip."
Killing- is not only 'the perform-
cause the best yesults are obtained
by, intravenous injeceion and riot by
subcutaneous adtainistration, a n d
such. injectioni 'require both skill and
Practice.
stress of competitive existence. This
The sea -snakes inhabit the tropi-
al oceans. They were undoubtedly
at one time lend animals which went
back to the deep waters under the
is confirmed by their curious habit
of returning to the neighborhood of
lead -when breeding time comes. Ord-
inarily, howeverethey soon lose their
vitality when taken froni the water.
It is said that the pupils of their
v-ery small eyes contract so strongly
when the snakes are removed from
the ocean that they -cannot eee to
etrike correctly. They swim fast and ghee of a right ..or duty, but some -
very freely by the aid of their flat- times an act of charity with those
tenecl redder -like tails, and while natives. ' A grou,p of them once hill.
they rarely strike a nean svvirirming ed a colunm of porters carrying loads
thrqugh the forest-, - 'because they.
looked cold and hungry. And some-
times they kill not to •avoid commit-
ting an act of discourtesy. For the
Papuans are exceedingly eaurteous
people.
Once a few natives encountered a
sick old man on the road who beg-
ged therm to take him along. They
we ra in a dilemma, for they carried
heavy toads and were in a hurry.
They could not carry himoyet not to
do as be asked would have been' ter-
ribly impolite. Nothing -wes left to (Oondenied from the Scientific Amer-
theni but to kill him,-,andalcill him ioan in Reader's Digest)
theydid. So far everything was 'rill To Settle the old question of the
right according_to the opinion of pa- exact hour of ,the twenty-four at
tive witnesses and experts. What which a sick person is. most likely to
they did icriticize was the fact that give up and die the "Scientific Amer -
the m.an had been killed on a pub4c ican" asked ltriss McFadden to studY
highway_built by the administration. the records of deaths in, Nevi..York
!Since the administration had an in- City for e whole year. S'he-has found
comprehensible prejudice against kill- some remarkable and unexpected re- ,
itig, it was bad behavior to do such sults.
a thing on its property. The man First of all, it is apparent that the
should have been dragged into the cemmen opinion of the Medical pro-
bush- and then killed. feseion is right; it is really true that
The stressing of the "bad behavior" more people do die in the early morn -
aspect is the most effective inethod of ifig hours then other times during
the administration for checking the the day.
epidemic of killing and eventually er- This is interest'ing, but a still Moro
adicating it also hi the interior. The remarkable indication -of the analysis
administration enjoys e tremendous is the extraordinary deficiency of
prestige with the natives. If at all deaths at the hours of noon and, mere
possible, they will not do anything 'markedly still, the hour of midnight.
to incur its displeasure. And they do Fewer 'deaths oecur at these two
hate being taken !by Mee -coated po- 'ho'rs than at any others.
licemen to ''Yhle Island and to return What the answer? One can-
frelm there with shorn heeds. not be sure,- but as likely as not it is
Thus gradually have many of . the meal (lima!' The analysis of thehotar
natives been led to feel that, killing at which deaths occurred Shows that
is "inelegant" and "bad style," Simi,. there are also smaller decreases in
larly it is oonsidered "bad 'style" to the nutmlber of deaths at • 6 p.m. and
eat human flesh in Many districts again a,t 7 a.m. • The dekreases at
that were, outspokenly.....eannibal until noon and at midnight are' followed by
quite recently, so much so that the -considerable increases in3, the later
better families, will not receive in afternoon and, more rapidly in this
their michst,riatives who still endoy a case, at 1 am. These facts may he
human roaSt „ significa-nt. 'What is it that happens
The batting of the hair, the dense, in the sickroom or the _hospital at
black, frizzled jungle which orawes 7 a.m., at noon, 6 pan. and at
their heads like enormous• fur caps, midnight, which something may ,help
is the most feared and. the only pun- to keep the dying alive for another
Ishii -tent meted out to the savages
for killing. This is the ease, at least,
with the saVages of the interior.
alunian"life is very cheap tni- the
island of New Guinea,. It can be ex-
piated with a few weeks in jail. And
what a jail!' 'Yule Island, is one of
the most blissful haveus of the Fa-
cifie, a veritable paradise. Not with-
out reason it is the seat of the Cath-
olic bishop of New_Guiheal There is
'nothing So beautiful as the -beach of
Yule Islancle with its thigh petals and
gbrgeeus thane's, the, white sand,
the. sapphireblue sea and the glor,
tout taterVeri. A. European can hardly
The Sabbatical Year . ovaniss. the desire to remain there
for ever.
The angelit Israelites were adepts ,But the killers from, the •rionntains
in tillage and knew the uses hf of the ieterior are of a different opin-
relive? and tnyttare. Every_seittlibw._ ion. They do not appreciate, tho bean -
Year -theY wsre eonnneildea w Buller ttes 'Of their prigoia, they languish
their 'fields and' alaeYardsr.te rot -sr alidestiffer and many, an offender is
lie without tiflage. This fano* fer pardoned before the expiration of hit
on entire 71e.or Proventsd: The e/a1;°318- tenni, lest he might die broken:heart,
tion of the soil, which Was ftirther
k
hornblirs: beak he had! juSt ;taken off •
the neck Of one of the' eulmita, The ,
man el:Wye-Ted with shameand-anger,1,
but he dared not.,,,Shostr his feelingsc:'. t
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"This- is -a 4Heera," explained the _
tion that 4pative cart win. For its :-
sake most Of 'the murders are cam-
_
eOnunisilener; "the highest distine-
did not get them Out of the way
found. it in 'Britath .Coltnalna. $o
far • the Zurich case is only the Sec-
ond diseeveretl in Ontario.
In 1931 Dr. Green isolated the bac-
,
mit-tea." - - -
As I mustered the itti- e',of,men,
noticed that almost all had. this dec-
oration and onlY a few were a flam-
ing redhithiscus flower or the feathers
of• the paradise bird. For Sooner
wbuld an ,Englistirman adorn himself
unlawfully with the insignia 'of' the
Order of the Garter,,than a Papuan
tie a hornbill's beak around hisireek,
if, he has no right to it.
TO understandeeits imeaping, one
Must remember that before the ar-,.3 „
rivera5f, the whites, there was per- '''
manent state of war outside of every
village boundary. If the New Guin-
ean code prescrilaes that the women . •
should carry the heavy loads and the
men Walk by their side without, any
burden; the reason is not that they
consider the woman art. inferior be-
ing, hut a being_in need iff protection.
Thereforet,the man must be unham-
pered and in. a [position to brandish ,
the weapon in her defence a any; -
given moment.
Likewise the right duty tce kill
is a vestige of ancient traditions. '-
When life was precarious, no native
girl would wed a man who did not
wear the Heera or put at her feet, -
at least one enenvy sealp. 'This was
so to speak the same dowry that the
western woman -at least until re-
eently--demanded of- her future
spouse. In Papuge-you had ito right
to found a family if you eouldn't ef-
ficiently protect it. As; for keeping
the family tide\ was. meanly the task
of the woman. '
Originally, therefore, the Heera was
a distinction, the proof of gallantly,
of duties fulfilled and to be ,proud of
-something like the scans proudly :
exhibited by German uniVersity stud-
ents to the delight of their. Gretch-
ens.
. ,
lin time, of course, the nateility,of
the symbol degenerated. It becithe
less a, token of gallantry coveted for
its meaning than an ambition.' To
satisfy it, they, killed defenceless be-
ings, old men, women and children.
And cases are known of rya/1g chil-
dren who, killed because they could
not resist the appeal of the Heera.
What Minute Will You Die?
hour ocr two? •
We can think of nothing except a
meal. These are the hours at which,
in roost cases, the patients and ether
.people about them take their food
The midnight hinge is as character-.
istie of the siekrooml as is the InOon-
day atea.1 for the rest Of._ u_s. ,
When the ,partnership of beefily org--
ens that we call life is about to drul-
solve there is - commenly only one
thing that- holds it 'together as long
as possible.' That *the will to live; ,
the interest of the patient in life.
When this interest is gone, then is
death's opportunity. The dying stay
alive not front hour to hoar but from
event td event. in the enforningethey
wait for the -interest and ,excitement
of neon. ' Then IC is that nurses are
ehanged or the 'meal is brought in
or one Member of the family ,rePlac-,
'es another one so that the first
,and iTontsin,00.0,s, e-rowth of the year. a thitvg ;acintliiieniotintPallofiturvou, Cr:unesociothues by which the
the Siekroerd little ,thingst like ,thist
watcher can have reet,and food. • In
are' happenings of briporbance. They
are cracks in- the unbnotony; cracks
dying fingers irtay hold,'"
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vise
eontne,,a meting them on thoiv a. little longe; their siackeqing grip
..,...,..,.., , on life.
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enriched by the burning of the weeds !western standards do not , mean
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