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The Herald, 1912-08-16, Page 7Oltonsetaea.ealesnieet,4a-geekea.'eveveame $ fl EALTH ,SHINGLES. This disease is marked b'y •seve :neuralgic pains, accompanied b an eruption of small, hard bliste that 'resemble ordinary cold sore On the body the eruption occurs i •a well -?narked line, on one aid • .only. The cases in which it pass. • ucfross both sides of the chest o abdomen are extremely rare. Se :from the side, the line of bliste 'suggests a belt, whence the scient name of the disease—zona o zoster, the one Latin, the othe 'Greek, for girdle. • The disease begins with a gener .feeling of illness, usually withou Any definite symptoms. Occasion .ally the neuralgic pains appear be fore the eruption. There is som fever with more or less indigestion •and in some cases faint blue or pin spots along the line where the char •acteristie eruption is to appear. After three or four days the erup tion comes out quite suddenly, wit .severe burning pain. The blister are quite firm and hard to th touch. The fluid is clear or yellow ish in color, and after the eruptio has lasted a few_ days, brbwniti -crusts form. These fall off afte three or four days, and leave smooth, slightly reddish surface The pain may persist for some tim after the eruption has disappeared The eruption is most often on the chest, but may affect the abdomen the fece, or other parts of the body It is believed that shingles is the result of an inflammation of one of the nerves just after it leaves the spinal canal, and that the eruption appears along the course of the af- feeted nerve. There is little to do by way of treatment. The blisters may be covered with some soothing ointment, and if the pain is very eaevere, a hot-water bag or hot cloths may be applied. While an at- tack is at its height, care should be taken to protect the blisters from -the friction of clothing, and this may best be accomplished by spend- ing a day or two in bed. The disease is not serious, but it causes a, great. deal of discomfort, al<rd . Oben of • suffering, and some - es it has a disagreeable way ofwi recurring with " any apparent • cause, Youth's Companion. TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE WHAT IS TRANSPIRING AT THE HUt; OF THE'PROVINCE. The City's Hotel Accommodation—Figuring on Who'll be tate Next Mayor— re Harvester Exerurslons. Y Attention is being called to Toronto's lack of hotel accommodation, Complaint rs is made,that we are toeing tourist bud. S. nese, conventions and other gatherings, which bring business to the' merchants, n because we do not provide places to sleep ✓ and eat.'Certainly in the last seven or eight years since the King Edward Hotel es was completed, in a period when this' pity ✓ has increased in population by over fifty See per cent„ there has been comparatively n little increase In the hotel aocommoda- rs tion, ti -The question has zest because inter• twined in it is the problem of liquor nicon- ✓ ses, No doubt the liquor men are making the most of the lack of accommodation. ✓ They say it is due' to the insecurity of the license situation, Not only do they criticize suoh radical proposals as Mr. al Rowell's "Abolish the Bar" platform, but t local option and license reduction cam- paigns are also to them an anthema. Even - if the bar is not abolished at one fell swoop they fear that one of .these days we may have a local option campaign in e Toronto, and; they are not sure what the result would be. k HOTEL CAPITAL SHY. Every little while a story is circulated that some one is prepared to spend a _ million dollars or more in a new palatial hotel, but that they are prevented from h doing so by the instability of the license • situation. There is an excellent site for a hotel at the corner of Bay and Front El streets, unbuilt upon since the fire, and opposite the site of the new Union Sta- tion. With the retail business moving n up Yonge street there would seem to be h extreme opening orth end,t aithl its creasing ✓ railway business, also looks attractive. a' But the hotel men's capital is timid. T. big ho hotels bigplcitiies1 can that madeisto e pay without liquor licenses. The best examples in support of this theory are, . perhaps, to be found in Atlantic City, al- though it is doubtful if anyone needs to go dry in Atlantic City, even if he is , I staying at a temperance house. No doubt, some of the big Toronto hotels make big • money out of their liquor licenses. Ae- cording,,to rumor, the profits of the King Edward bar are almost fabulous, and some of the others do a rushisg trade. In others, such as the Queen's, the operations of the bar are more incidental. But in the vast majority of the 110 licensed ho- tels in the city the bar is the chief in- dustry. They provide only rooms and meals to keep within the law. In fact, in some you might always find all the rooms "full," and if you asked for a meal you might not be refused it, but you might have to wait an hour for it. There is admittedly a leek of middle- class hotel accommodation. In this To- ronto suffers like all big cities. The man from the average home finds when he travels that he either has to pay for luxury that he does not want, or that he has to put up with uncomfortable rooms and distasteful food. LITTLE RULES OF HEALTH. Learn the value of water. It is nature's restorer. Bathe daily, and. drink water many times daily. Court the sunlight. A germ is as afraid of the sun as a murderer of a policeman. Shut out light .arid you shut out health. Do not overeat. We sigh for a j good appetite when most of us should be sighing for a moderate one. Dyspepsia follows close on gorging. Never dread fresh air. We have outlived the day when a draught was to be shunned. A stuffy room or an indoor life is equally disgrace- ful Dont be lazy. The lazy person lacks energy to keep in good health; it is too much trouble to exercise, eat properly, even to take proper health precautions. Don't eat too much. meat. That way lies rheumatism, gout and uric acid. One need not be a vegetarian, but remember there are no greater blood purifiers than greens and un - starchy vegetables. Exercise. • eYou do not expect your blain to keep going without exercise ; why ask it of your body ? The girl who sits still most of her• hours and sleeps all night hunts the doctor. Don't. confound walking with dawdling. A long walk that stirs the blood is health -giving, a long dawdle leaves you tired. Never ride when you can walk. This 'ie advice that makes for good health. •Don't feel that health lurks in the medicine bottle, There are times for drugs, but many more times when sane living and regard for hygiene count more. .1. Some .mall's idea of luck is to owe more than they can pay. In the United States the average Iaily consumption of cigars is 21,- f18,448, and Of cigarettes 23,736,190. How ' the average married man would like to See a tax on the old achelors. In Spain•and Italyalrinegar is pro- `ded by the landowners for the tborers in harvest -time,. ' WHO'LL BE NEXT MAYOR? Though the municipal elections are still almost five months away, mayoralty can- didates are already jockeying for Duration. It has been assumed that Mayor Geary will not again seek re-election. He had three years of it, which;' under Binary circumstances, is ' supposed to be enough for any man. The last two terms he has had on easy terms; Iast election he had no opposition and the year before no really serious "opponent. But the Mayor's chair he attained in the first place only by hard struggles. The first time he was a candidate lie offered him- self as a lamb for the slaughter. That was in the historic fight that Dr. Beattie Nesbitt made for the position. Nesbitt's opponent was Joseph Oliver, a Liberal. Nesbitt was beating the party drum for all he was worth, and would certainly have beaten Oliver in a single contest.' Recognizing this, influential Conservatives who did not relish the idea of Nesbitt in the city's chief magisterial pesition in. duced Geary to run, with the almost open. ly avowed purpose of splitting the Con- servative vote, so that Oliver would be elected. The plan worked, and it is G. R. Geary Toronto has to thank for keeping Dr. Nesbitt out of the Mayor's chair in the days when the Farmers' Bank was Just getting under way. TICE HOCKEN-GEARY FEND. Some might have been afraid of the loss of prestige which a defeat would bring, Gearg s case. d not tWhen Olivertrelin0uishin ed the office, Controller Hocken aspired to the succession. Under other circumstanc- es, Hocken might have beaten Geary, for his sources of strength in the Conserves tive party were mach the same, and ap• parently about equally as strong as friendsG`among nd he Liberate. But therLib- erals who don't expect many of the sweets of office in Toronto remembered Geary's service to Oliver and there is little doubt that in the strenuous struggle that re- sulted Liberal votes decided the issue. That was three years ago. After a returnedbtonce the from Council f11Cont Mr. Hocken Re did not again essay to defeat Geary, though the animosity kindled between them has never died out, and not infrequently blazes np at board meetings. But all the time Controller Hocken has regarded him- self as the logical successor of Mayor Geary. And at the momfnt he probably expects that in the year of grace, 1913, it, will be Mayor Rocken. His ohanees are, undoubtedly, good, but there art. several possibilities which have to be reckoned with. In the first place, Geary has not definitely announced that he will not be a candidate again. During •the present term his name has been fre- quently mentioned in conneetiion with permanent civic and other positions. But should he seek a fourth term as Mayor, Controller Hocken may give him another fight, and unless Geary completes the Year more aggressively than he has be. gun it Hocken might onst him. CHURCH A NEW. ASPIRANT. But. probably. the darkest shadow across Controller Hocken's mayoralty aspirations is cast by Controller Tommy Church. Old folks who need something of the kind, find NARDRUPaCO LAXATIVES Most effective without any discomfort. Increased doses not needed, 25c. a box sit your druggist's. Neibnd Cres aind Cha sal Co, of Comas, llnrihd. i64 II Many people do not take Church• but he gets votes. During Mayo absence in England he has: big mayor, and has been stirring in a way that has drawn some; comment, even from We oritioP' erratic, is handioappod by a seri ness, and lacks stability. But ergetio and hail fellow well me strong with the Qoneeryative tions, with the Song of Engl: Orange assooiation even as C Hocken. While, not being its east Hocken, who is editor of the Oran tinel, in his anti-Catholic pro meats, he might get meat of the, vote. Hocken isstrong with the vote, Church would appeal to "the, Ho that in a straight Contest betwn two it would be :laird to wok the And .then there would be the .din a third candidate. Perhaps aeon horse Cones* a' eve or maybe J. J. Ward, Controller for many , y but defeated last January, a Catholic Liberal, has long ixad a tions to be Mayor of"orange 'Cencervsl Toronto, He wanted to run when Geary. and Hocken were flght`ng it out, but :IS his expectation of election was based on purely partisan support, leax.ng Lila/ale who wish to keep parts polities out of civic affairs as far as possible, counselled otherwise. He sacrificed hope then, but he might not do so again with Hocken and Church as contenders. Altogether the mayoralty • contest 4pie year promises to . be one of the most in- teresting in many years, THE CALL OF THE WIEST. The :days of the harvester excursions to'' the Northwest are with us again. It 1e an interesting sight to tourney. down, to the Union Station and see one of these excursions get under way, for, of course. Toronto is the chief concentrating point for eastern Canada asd most of the ex- cursionists begin their main journey from' here. There they are by "thehundreds, representing, before the season is out nearly every municipality and school` se tion of old Ontario. The majority a men, mostly -young men, but there is goodly smattering of women, too., I>t x recent years they are not as in the old days, all Canadians, but often half ore new arrivals from the Old- Country, Who are glad to take advantage of the. ,rhe- nomenalIy low fare to get as far west an they can. The farm life of- the prairie - appeals more perhaps to the Sootchman than to the Englishman, into 'whose bloo the virus of city life has often entere and who does not warm up to the, ide of going away off a thousand miles >ro anywhere. For the most part it is a serious-minde crowd. Sometimes a few young blood make trouble and give the whole part a bad name. They are not out for a frolic but to most it is a serious business, Ca nadians are a pretty serious people any wremain Some have Wester But thea ma orittss are modern Joshuas, going to have a loo'iE around, and .come back if they don't' US it. As Ontario knows to her cost many them find it a land which promises "milk and honey" in a figurative sense at all events. . And they never come baok-at' least to stay. Fifty thousand of them are wanted this_ year. The job of finding that number, devolves, not on the government in either of the western provinces, or the Domino- ion, but on the railways, • Tho railways put the problem up to their district pas• senger agents. Each one is expected to get so many. And so the country is flood- ed with posters, station agents are told to get busy, the newspapers are loaded up with free notices and the restless ones re. spond. The job falls on the railways be- cause if the crop was not harvested they would be the heaviest individual losers and besides, the harvest excursions coming at a time when the> western farmer is counting his o e most otfec- vA:1nixisagrat' vo era. And every sett a tern -Cato ado, cleans more ess' for tine rail• wap e- - i FE INVESTMENTS o.NDS FLUCTUATE IN MARKET PRICE.' P alae is Governed by Law of Supply and, Like That of Everything popular Bonds Often Steady In Owing 10 Narrow Market—Gilt• Securities Appear to Have ed "Rook Bottom." •articles contributed by "Investor" or*the sole purpose of guiding pros - ye investors, and, - if possible, of say - them firm losing ptoney through ng it in "wild -cat" enterprises. The ltt ,1 • acrd reliable character of the arum: may be relied upon. The 'writer ;, these articles and the publisher of this paper` -have-no ::interests to serve iti..ren,aeetion with this matter other than those of the reader. • (By "Investor.") A man who had never invested was talking the other day. If these .bonds alto such ;gilt-edged securities, why is it they fluctuate in price. Isere a few years ago Toronto debentures sold at a price M yield only 33-4 to 4 per cent., and now You can buy them at a much lower price, where the • return is 41-4 to 4.30 per cent. Then, perhaps, in a year's time the price will.have gone up again, and you will be lucky if you can get them where the re- turn ie better than 4 per cent." e The value the law ofst supplytandgdemand. If more people want to buy than there o .are those who want to sell the price goes re up, If, on the other hand, the buyers are fewer than the sellers the price goes Se down There is nothing particularly mys- terions' �• •.� Of people who want to buy orhsell uhigh gr;ede bonds depends on the loaning value of looney. When money is very cheap they buy the expensive, low -yield bonds. When money is dear they turn to those of higher yield. Consequently, when Money is dear low -yield bonds tend to de- cline in price until their yield approxi - value 1ates the inoney, while when oneyisiplent plentiful and the average rate low the reverse takes place. commthe and- ing high rater i d °as anresult,is cthe prig e of high-grade bonds has declined. Fur- thermore, the past year has seen a large number of small fires, houses, factories, warehouses, etc., and the usual number Of large ones, several towns having been • practically wiped out by fire. The result ke. ,lar Leen, of course, that the insurance o cfmnanies have had severe losses. Now, when an insurance company has a loss they must either pay it up in cash as soon as the amount has been proved or frighten all their policyholders into can- cellation, losing their good name and consequently their means of existing and - making an income, or raise the money promptly and pay off the losses. To raise money it is often necessary to sell some of their investments, and as the high• grade, low yield bonds always command a ready market these are sold, sometimes market cin order towofacilitatebelowaeady sale. This, of course, tends farther to depress the market- for high=grade bonds. It also means that these companies are temporarily out of tho market for bonds during a period more or less prolonged, in whichthey are catching up the usual amount of cast • they coueider it rodent•;to c This' has 71 tEi d6d so a Very u y s betanti . power ��� has -removed from the market for high-grade bonds temporarily. Everything considered, the best judges of the bond market are of the opinion that the price of bonds has about reached "rgck bottom." Money is showing an un- mistakable tendency toward lower prices, and while England has been out of the market now for a considerable period any resumption of buying from that quar- ter, not to mention our own fire incur- anee companies, will cause high-grade bonds to resume their former heights or at 'least move up from the very attrac- tive prices they now command. .3t is easily seen, then, tbat fluctuations in bond prices are natural. A stationary Price often infers the narrow market that is usually the lot of unpopular securi- ties, nobody wanting to buy and holders hesitating to sell for fear of breaking die market for their own security. ET ACQUAINTED WITII YOUR NEIGHBORS. if you are genteel in appearance and =terms in your manner, you will be elcomed in every home in your locality, hen you are showing samples of our su. eller toilet goods. household necessities, nd reliable remedies. The satisfaction hick our goods give, places the users Owlet an obligation to you, which wins for you the same respect, esteem, and in. timate friendship given the priest, physi• Clan; or pastor, and you will make more money from your spare time than you dream of, besides a host of friends. This is your opportunity for a pleasant, profitable and permanent business. Ad. dress, The home Supply Co., Dept 20, Mere rill Building, Toronto. Ont. WISH QUICKLY GRANTED. a",- GUARD BABY'S HEALTH .• IN THE .SUMMER The sununer months are thio most dangerous to little ones. The com- plaints of that season which are cholera infantum, colic, diarrhoea and dysentery come on so quickly that often a little one is beyond aid before the mother realizes he is really ill. The mother must be on her guard to prevent these troubles or if they do come on suddenly to eure them. No other medicine is of such aid to the mother during hot weather as is Baby's Own Tablets. They regulate the bowels and sto- mach and are absolutely safe. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The. Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • ►p WONDERFUL CULTIVATION. Spanish Soil Gives a Yield of $656 to the Acre. The most intensely cultivated' re- gion in Europe is that part of the Province of Valeneia,.,,,pain, which lies between the mountains and the Mediterranean. It has a rainfall. of only about seventeen inches a year, but so fertile is the soil and so skilled are its workers that it produces crops worth an average of 8656 an acre. There are districts, he says, where 100 acres support 160 fami- lies, and where single families live on the product of four -tenths of an acre. Farms are rented for 829,50 an acre, and the tenant pays 45 cents an hour for 'pumped water, which flows in a stream of 200 gal - ions per minute. Almost all farming is done hand, as minutest attention is g to crops .and even to indivi plants. The average produetio the principal crops is as follow.;, metric tons of 2,204 pounds: anges, 400,000 tons; olives, 65, carob beans, 72,000;; peanuts, 500; melons, 36,000; grapes, 87, peppers, 12,000; tomatoes, 277 wheat, 62,000; barley, 18,000; 33,000; rice, 200,000. Not every fortune-hutite good shot. A free thinker is a an wh married, it Raiser's Youngest Son Does Fairy Godmother Act. The Kaiser's youngest son, Joa- chim, has been indulging in the fairy godmother act. An .Augsburg machine shop ap- prentice, Josef Mirk; was tramping toward Strassburg, where he hoped to'fied work, He was sitting by the t:oadside day-dreathing aloud for the benefit of a laborer whom he had nut, "If I were king," he observed, tom' would ride to Strassburg in a I velvet motor car with a golden in my pocket instead of one silver yiece," -.dry had he, said the words a red uphostered powerful slowed up alongside and a roan about the apprentice's lainly dressed, asked if the see was going to Stress - d if he would like a Side. ay -dreamer accepted with companion dropped him at or :Exchange, pressing a n into 'his hand and bidding at a oertain works the next t until he had seen the f the works and obtained t • did -the apprentice the motorist was Prince COLORS `TACH REPEL FLIES, Hints for Those Who Wish to Rid Themselves of the Pets. If you want to drive away flies have the walls of your rooms paper- ed of painted blue, pale violet, dark brown, or lemon yellow. .. The advice is based on the out- come of experiments made by, •a, French scientist and recounted. by Dr. L. 0, Howard, Ph.D., a well- known American public health au- thority, in his just published book, "The House Ply." To test the effect of color on the flies a box with glass'walls was pro- cured, and the walls were pasted with bitsof paper, all of the same size, but of different •cellars. The number of flies standingon the different colors were counted, the result being as follows : Clear green ... ..... ,..,.... 18 Rose 17 Clear yellow , 14 Dark grey 9 White 9 Dark red 8 Black 7 Dark yellow 5 Red 4 Orange 3 Pale rose a Very clear green ....... ..,2 Blue 1 Pale violet 1 Dark brown 1 Lemon yellow 1 Dr. Howard mentions some use- ful ways of repelling flies. Laurel oil, which the butchers of Geneva use to keep flies from their meat, may be tried with advantage ao health and comfort. SIR GEORGE ASKWITH, Who has been appointed by the British Government to proceed to Canada and make investigations in- to the working of the Industrial Disputes Act, with a view to its pos- sible application to England. Sir George is known as "the strike- breaker," because he has settled so many strikes. CITY OF DISTANCES. London Hard to Traverse as Pew Streets Have Signs. London, the city of distances, is unnecessarily difficult to traverse owing to the action, or inaction, of its numerous local authorities in re- gard to the placing of street signs. Where these do exist no .attempt is made at uniformity, with the result that many of the varieties of color schemes'and lettering employed are practically illegible, while the signs are frequently .conspicuous by their absence. This is true not only of residential districts, and of many squares which are so alike one an- other that a distinguishing mark is essential. Many of the most impor- tant thoroughfares are equally ne- glected. Even if only for the sake of the tens of thousands of foreign and provincial visitors this condi- tion of affairs should not be toler- ated, but. the average Londoner knows so relatively shall a portion of the metropolis and its immediate environs that for his sake also re- form is essential. The City of West- minster and the Royal Borough of Kensington set an admirable exam- ple some years ago by;the provision ht 411rUL 131,SGUIT C Elic R� ,y R iCTfON ie.'le.6d THIS Bettina POWDER 15 COMPOSED 6FTHE F�4LOW1NG`iNGRCDI' EN15ANd NtlllE0TNER:1 PH©9RNAT6,151;Anf3- MIATEOF$001i SW STARCH, The only Baking Powder made in Canada that has all its ingredients plainly printed on the label. of really artistic street name- plates, which are both uniform and clearly legible. But neither of these authorities has followed the idea to its logical conclusion, and within their boundaries there are still many varieties of signs and many streets insufficiently pro- vided therewith. What is required is the provision throughout London of a uniform design of street name- plate, placed at every street corner. The. saving in time and in temper would be incalculable.—London Globe, Tea was used as a beverage in China over 2,000 years ago. "Always mind your own busi-, ness," said the sage. "It deem:Lite:. pay to get mixed up in other pec - pie's quarrels." "Oh, I don't know I" replied the young man. "I'm a lawyer." JI����jilitNu II l` BBS. G. A. SLZIIY AND CHILD Uses Ody Cuttcura Soap for Prize Baby "I have always used Cutioura Soap and no other for my baby, and he has never had a sore of any kind. He does not even chafe as most ba- bies do. I feel that it is all owing to Cuticura Soap for he is fine and healthy, and when five`months old won a prize in a baby contest. It makes my heart ache to go into so many homes and see a sweet faced baby with the whole top of its head a solid mass of sour!, caused by the use of poor soap. I always recom- mend Outicura, and nine times out of tenthenext time I see the .mother she says ' 011 1 I am so glad you told me of Cuticura.' " (Signed) Mrs. G. A. Selby, Redondo Beach, Calif. Aitbough Cuticura Soap Is sold by drug- gists and dealers everywhere. a postal to Cuticura," Dept. 815, Boston, 117.9.A., will secure a liberal sample, with 32-p. book on the Dare of skin, senip and hair. CANADA SECURITIES COR PORATIDN, LIMITED INVESTMENT SECURITIES P. H. MANLEY General Manager. DIRECTORS, Robert 9lokerdike, Esq., M.P., President. Sir Rodolphe Forget M.P. - Vice• President. James Carruthers, Esq.• -Vice-President. Hon. ()afford Bitten I..t:-Coh E. M. Macdonald K.C., M.P. Paul Gaubert, Esq. Edmund ®ristol, K.C., M.tf., • ' Frank barrel, Eaq. 411..5. Irvin, Esq. C. b. Warren, Esq. Col. James Mason 0, P, Hill, Esq. W. 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