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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-12-13, Page 7[Hospital, for Sick Children ( COLLEG* ST., TORONTO Mr. 17ditor:- 1 Recent - diecoveriea in medical potence have tailed attention to the Own service rendered by an up -to - tate hospital through facilities pro- vided for research. Probably few aaynien appreciate the amount of this work conducted under the' a�pices of the Hospital' for Sick ildren. Yet it is only by intensive udy of the causes sof children's diseases that the hospital staff halt been able to establish a' world famous record for cures. Statistic% •show that the rate of infant mortal- ity in, this Province has been steadily decreasing;" until it is now. among the lowest in the world. What that means is that hundreds of Ontario parents 'owe their children's lives to the research work in the laboratories of the Hospital for Sick Children. Although the doctors give their services freely, the- bills for equip- Inent add up annually to ts:. good many thousands of dollars. But in view of the results attained, I !!eel that not one of your readers will cavil at the money so spent, and i confidently venture the hope that many of them at this Christmas sea- son will wish to enrol themselves in the Hospital's campaign oei behalf of Ontario's childhood. To carry on this research work there is not one cent except what comes in from voluntary subscrip- tions, Per the care of the children occupying hospital cots there are certain statutory grants, but these represent scarcely more than half what the Hospital needs. Last year, for iustaece, the I'iospital tinders looked after an average of 253 in- patients and 192 out-patients daily. Quite a colony of ailing youngsters) And the expenditure — although whittled down to the minimum com- mensurate with efficiency — was $318,917. The income to the extent of at least 5100,000 depends upon. the regard which the people of On- tario have for the Hospital's work and the generosity with which they express that regard. May I ask you, Mr. Editor, to point out to your readers that siaee the establishment of the Hospital for Sick Children, at least four more Ontario. youngsters in every hundred have survived the trials of child- hood? For with that simple state- ment of fact brought to their atten- tion I feel sure that many of them will bestow their benediction upon the .work of the Hospital for Sick Children by sending some Christmas gift, according to their means, in gee of the Secretary -Treasurer, at 67 College Street, Toronto. Faithfully yours, IRVING E. ROBERTSON, Chairman of Appeal Committee. Since 'the Hospital Opened Its peers In 1875, 85,231 In -Patients lit-Patients. 603,055 Attendances of lit -Patients. First Postage -Stamps. The first British postage -stamps were made at 69 Fleet Street, London, over eighty years ago. About 1819 two men came over from the United States and started a print- ing and engraving business which to this day iso known as Perkins,' Bacon & Co., Ltd. They were Jacob Per- kins, an inventor, and Gideon Fair man, e.n engraver, and with them were associated the two sons of James Heath, R.A. The famous Perkins process of en- graving on steel was applied, and when millions of postage -stamps were ilrst required, the Perkins method was adopted and proved to be just what was wanted. Credit for the invention of the ad- hesive postage -stamp has been claim- ed both for Sir Rowland Hill and for Mr, James Chalmers, a bookseller of Dundee. The first British postage -stamp was black and was introduced. in 1841. It was a Queen's head designed by Henry Corbould and engraved by Frederick Heath, A CANADIAN'S GIFT TO THE EMPIRE Col. R. W. Leonard, of St. Catharines, has recently presented to the British Empire a famous old Mansion in St. James Square, London, as the headquarters of the British Institute of International Affairs, which was founded in 1919 by the delegates of the British Empire to the Peace Con- ference. Its 800 members are kept in touch with affairs of foreign interest. The picture shows the house in the background, and inset is the tablet be- side its door telling of its occupancy by three Prime Ministers, and also the Picture of Col. Leonard, the Canadian multi -millionaire donor. CAUSE OF BACKACHES Every muscle in the body needs a supply of rich, red blood in proportion to the work it does. The muscles of the back are under a heavy strain and have but little rest. When the blood is thin they lack nourishment and re- bel. The result is a sensation of pain in these muscles. Many people are frightened into be- lieving that backaches are due to kid- ney trouble, but the best 'medical authorities agree that backache is very seldom due to kidney trouble. In fact not more than one backache in a hundred has anything to do with the kidneys. The whole trouble is due to thin or impure blood, and those who are troubled with pains in the back or loins, either ° frequent or occasional, should look to the condition of the blood. It will be found in most cases that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills by build- ing up the blood and feeding the starved nerves and muscles will banish the pains and make you feel better in every other way. How much better it is to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for your blood than to give way to un- reasonable alarm about your kidneys. If you really suspect your kidneys any doctor can make a test in ten miuutes that will set your fears at rest, or tell you the worst. All dealers in medicine sell Dr. Wil. llama' Pink Pills, or you can get them by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. 4, Making Love -Letters Private. There have always been parents and guardians to hinder and thwart the hapless lover, and many girls have Surnames and Their Origin CADWALLADER Van ation—Calwafader. Racial Origin' -Welsh. Source—A.given name. Cadwallader is a family name to; be found frequently' in virtually every sec- tion of America -in which. Welshmen have' settled. It is, of course, like the overwhelming majority of Celtic family names, derived from a given name; and: in this case the family- -Jeanie amilynameis virtually the same as "the• given -name, the prefix "ape" meaning "son of," having beendropped under the 'influence' of English speech. . "Cadwaladyr" as a given name was one which had become surrounded with a halo of glory long before the Normans swept into England and final- ly brought ,Wales under their yoke. the Cymric tongue the name means ` "battle arranger," or morebroadly speaking, "general" or "strategist. A Welsh prince of this name was canonized in the year 688, being fa - Mous not only for his sanctity (an at- tribute which history proves to have been .surprisingly common in the an- cient .Welsh royalty), but for his re. markable successes in war against the Saxon Englishmen. Indeed, he 'ap-. pears to have ,been. so uniformly suc essful against them that the Saxons MS to regard hini as thevery op-. bosite of a saint, and the name "Caed- valla," as they spelled it, became a by- word for trickiness, 'rite ancient Bretons, who belong to the Cymric branch of,the Celtic race,. as do the Welsh, • knew the name as "Cadwaldr." MAHONEY Variations O'Mahony, O'Mahoney, Mahony. Racial Origin—Irish. Source -A given name. The Irish spelling of this name is "O'Mathamhna" or "O'Maghghamhna," but the pronunciation is not so far dif- ferent from. that as we know it, the more common Anglicized form being but_a phonetic English rendering of it. The clan. Jeanie comes from the given name of '`lvlathgha')huin," which means "a bear," or as the- Irish lang- uage literally expresses it, "calf .of the plains." The clan name developed, apparent- ly shortly after the year 1000 A.D. up- on the rise to a leadership of his own on 'the part of a descendant of "Aedh- an-Gharbh" (Hugh the Terrible), one of the famous cbfeftains of the O'Don- oghue clan. The O'Mahoneys, according to an an- cient :historical record, "were undis- puted kings of Raithlean, and had the. right to be kings of Cashel; whenever the throne ' of that kingdom was vacant, and from whom the kings of Cashel had no right to demand any tribute but the bowing of the head," The clan appears • to have been su- preme in'the districts of Clneal-Aedh, Cineai•m-Beice, Ibh-Coniva, as well as a large part of Muscry, and in later centuries of Scull and Iveagh in Coun- ty Cork. been obliged to resort to methods of deception. The simplest means ever -employed was to write the love message with fresh milk instead of ink. On the re- ceipt of a blank sheet of paper, all the recipient needed to do was to sprinl5le it with soot or charcoal: The grit stuck, to the lines traced by the pen. When the trick was of no avail, chemists would perform the task of writing with acetic acid. Another chemist applied sulphuretted hydrogen gas to the letter and the secret was unfolded. Another "sympathetic" ink is that produced from cobalt, the writing of which disappears in the cold, but ap- pears again as t often as one encloses after being exposed to a moderate de- gree of heat. Characters written in diluted sul- phurio acid and lemon -juice become black or brown; those written in solu- tions of nitrate and chloride of cobalt, and of chloride of copper, are render- ed green, the color disappearing when the paper is allowed to cool in a moist place. GUARD THE BABY AGAINST COLDS To guard the baby against colds nothing can equal Baby's Own Tablets. The Tablets are a mild laxative that will keep the little one's stomach and bowels working regularly. It is a re- cognized fact that where the stomach and bowels are in good order that colds . will not • exist; that the health' of the little one will be good and that he will thrive and be happy. The Tab- lets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Worth While. Some little word of kindness, softly spoken, To light the path when skies are dull and grey, May serve toheal the heart that's well-nigh' broken, And bring new life and hope with ev'ry day. SOme little kindly act of self-denial, To place a'falle•n brother on his: feet; .The one bright spot that through long years et trial Makes life worth while and mem'ry passing sweet. A cheery Smile' to make some heart feel lighter, • ' And help to ease life'sburdens, comoe what will, Can make this dull old world seem all the brighter, And bring the Heaven we dream of nearer stilt MONEY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Express Money Order. They are payable everywhere. There are two, elements that go to the composition of friendship. One is Truth; the othez:. is Tenderness. is the quickest and best relief for pains in the back and the many other Modern fashions• are said to have indications of kidney.trolller' Sold raised the standard of health among60 ears.. Satisfactin in a for y very bottle. At your druggist, or direct from WARNgFt'S SAFE REMED11MS CO. Toreryto Unquiet Earth. When they call earth quiet I think they have not seen Old roads covered and Old .paths lost. There is nothing more reatless Than small, fine green That stirs in the seed that The wind has. tossed. The old earth mother In ,every field and thicket Uncoxers and recovers, Bearing without rest, Eggs and sprouts and lichens, Mouse and wormand, cricket, And -Wild red honey at Her warm brown breast! Seed that dies to live again And no man understanding, Sour green fruit that loves the sun But waits till frost for sweet; And that old word of dust to dust, Destiny commanding, Flower and fruit and seed to make The year complete. The .earth is never beaten; She has harvests in wild places. The hear knows the berry, The fox knows the grape, And all the old dead in lzer Come out with flower faces; She trembles with the forces That quiver and escape. When men call earth quiet I think they do not know How root calls to root And breaks the brown clod, They've never watched the woods came Where men no longer go And eat the long road where Our feet once trod. —Louise Driscoll. His Hearing Rssoe red. The invisible ear drum invented by A. O. Leonard, which is a miniature megaphone, fitting inside the ear en- tirely out of sight, is restoring the hearing of hundreds of people in New York city. Mr. Leonard invented this drum to relieve himself of deafness and head noises, and it does this so successfully -that no one could tell he is a deaf man. It is effective when deafness is caused by catarrh or by perforated or wholly destroyed natural drums. A request for information to A. 0. Leonard, Suite 487, 70 Fifth avenue, New York city, will be given a prompt reply. advt — ' The Hair -Net. Owing to the fine texture of human hair no machine has yet been invent- ed which can manufacture hair -nets. Ninety-five per cent. of these nets are made by hand in Chinese homes. The training required for the knitting of the nets is long and tiresome. The natives start when they are quite young, when their fingers are supple, and their eyes keen. The hair is tied end to end, strand by strand, to form a long string, and is then wound round a bodkin or a stick of polished` bamboo. This stick regulates the size of the mesh of the net. Each net is tied in much the same way as in the manufacture of fish -nets or hammocks, only in this case the tying of a single strand is a more arduous task, the strands being very short and fine. The making of one net an hour is regarded as quick work. Human hair is imported in the raw state from China to the United States and Europe, after being straightened and assorted to various lengths. Sub- sequently it goes through many chem!- cal baths in order 'to cleanse it, and then it is dyed a variety of colors. The finished hair goes back to China to be sold to hair -net manufacturers. Keep MInard's Liniment In the house. A Retort. "The difference between a woman and a glass," said the funny fellow, "is that the glass reflects without speak- ing, while a woman speaks without re- electing. "And the difference between you and a glass," said the sharp girl, "is that the glass ie polished." Mother! Give Sick Baby "California Fig Syrup" Harmless Laxative to Clean -Liver and Bowels of Baby or Child. Even constipa- ed, bilious, fever- ish, or sick, colic Babies and Child= ren love to take genuine "Califor- nia Fig Syrup." No other laxative regulates the ten- der little bowels so nicely. It / _ At sweetens the stomach and starts the Iiver and bowels acting without grip- ing. Contains no narcotics or Booth - lag drugs. Say "California" to your druggist and avoid counterfeits! In- sist upon genuine "California Fig Syrup" which contains directions. TheTobacco Qualiy . Manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited No Ancient Utensils Ever Found in Tin. While tin has been in use for a great many centuries, yet ancient vessels of tin are so rarely found by archaelo- gists as to be well nigh unknown. This is not due to the fact that tin rusts, for the metal does not combine chemi- cally with the oxygen of the air or that of water, but to the circumstance that a sort of decay does attack it, producing a change in its crystalline structure, the nature of which does not seem to be clearly understood. This ends in reducing the tin to a fine gray powder. The process proceeds much more rapidly at certain times than it does at others and seems to be transmitted from one piece of tin to another, almost like on infectious disease. - A K !cited Out. "When you refused him my hand, papa, did he go down on his knees?" "Well, I didn't notice just where he landed." COLD IN THE HEAD? Get quick relief. Rub nose inside and out with Mentholatum At all Drug Stores. Write for Free Eamulo. THE MENTHOLATUM 00. Srllgoburg. Ont. - . Box 35 demob Pimples Disappear° 2 1 "You don't need mercury, potash or any other strong mineral to cure pimples caused by poor blood. Take Extract of Roots— druggists call it "Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup—and your skin will clear up as fresh as a baby's. It will sweeten your stomach and regulate your bowels." Get the genuine. 50c. and $1,00 Bottles. At drug stores. 5 CVC nese C'no8C" enille ASPIRIN Say "Bayer" and Insist! women, Ask for Mlnard'e and take no other. Unless you see the name "Bayer" on package or on tablets 'you are not get- ting he genuine Bayer product proved. sate by millions and prescribed by physloians, over twenty-three yearn for Cold* Headache. Toothache Lumbago Earache Rheumatfsra Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept "Bayer Teblets of',Aspi: in" on•1se Each unbroken package con. tains proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tabiets.cott few cents. Drug. gists also sell bottles of 24 end 100. ,Aspirin is the trade mark (registered in Canada) of }layer Manufacture of alonoaceticacidester o Salicylicaclrl, While it is well known that Aspirle means Bayer Manufacture, to assist the public against imitations, the Tab. lets of Bayer Company will be stamp ed with their general trade mark, the - " Out of Step. An Irlsh sergeant was drilling two very stupid recruits, who could not be prevailed upon to keep step. Losing all patience, he shouted: "If I knew which of ye two spal- peens was out of step, I'd put him straight in the guard -xoom." .A. number of sharpened gear shaped wheels that intermesh do the work of a lawn mower that is almost noiseless. If all things for the same purpose are kept together, time and trouble will be saved the housekeeper. Pk EN FOR YOUR EYE S Refreshes Tired Eyes 'Write Murine Co.,Chlcego forEyeCareBook America's pioneer Dog Remedies Book on DOG DISEASES and How to Feed B4Ltled Free to res Address by the Author. A8. CLAY GLOVER CO.. tea 025 West 24th Stud How York. U.S.A. I1OCKEY PLAYERS. Minard's is the ideal liniment for the rub -down. Takes the sore- ness out of bruised muscles. Remeck ealee Agouti Harold F. Mate R Co.. lir.?ed. Toronto 111 Mothers Prefer Cuticura Shampoos For Children Regular shampoos with Cuticura Soap and hotwater, preceded by touches of Cuticura Ointment to spots of dandruff and itching, keep the scalp clean and healthy..: Proper care of the hair during childhood is the basis for healthy hairthrough life. Soap 25e. Ointment 25 and 50c. Talc= 25e. Sold throughonttheDominion. Canadian Depot: Lymaat, Limited, 344 St. Pani St., W. Montrose atii"Cutieurn Soup Amoco etitf'raut taus. le.SUii No. 49—,23.