THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 13. 1912
Too Many Inefficient
Physicians Graduate
From
American Hospitals
By Or. HEINR1CH NEUMANN. Austrian Physician
rAKE the largest city hospitals in the United States and you
find there are too many heads to every department There
s is no regular system of
One case may be handled by three, four or more physi
cians, and young physicians come and go without regard to the length
of time spent in study and practice. Many are STRIVING ONLY
TO MAKE MONEY IN TRIVATE PRACTICE without consid
ering whether or not they have fitted themselves honestly to practice
as specialists.
The hospitals I have examined
ped, but they cannot advance the science of medicine until they adopt
the postmortem system. The Austrian law helps the medical pro
fession there by providing that every one who receives treatment,
RICH OR TOOR, IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL MUST AGREE
TO A CLINICAL POSTMORTEM.
It would bo necessary for students and medical men to go to Eu
rope for special study if the proper methods were adopted in America,
You have men of as high intelligence and skill as arc to be found any
where, and you have the means to meet all requirements, but under
conditions which prevail in general
of Americans are forced to seek
tries.
YOUNQ PHYSICIANS ARE PERMITTED TO GIVE UP HOSPITAL
PRACTICE TOO 800N AND TAKE PRIVATE WORK. THEY ARE ALL
HUSTLINQ TO MAKE MONEY.
THEIR THOUGHTS ARE MORE ON
Hospital Wirslsss.
"A very efficient system of wireless
telegraphy exist In every hospital,"
slj tbe ourse. "Apparently all pa
tients have tbe knack of transmitting
messages; otherwise the news of seri
ous cases would Dot travel so quickly
and accurately from ward to ward. It
Is contrary to tbe rules for hospital at
tendants to retail gossip, and moat of
them observe atrlct secrecy, yet aot
wttbstandlng that precaution there Is
never an Interesting case In the build
ing whose history Is not known and
discussed In the remotest corner.
"Last week a boy suffering with a
peculiar kind of tbront trouble was
brought Into a first floor ward. Tbe
doctors were very much Interested In
tbe case, yet they took siwial pains
never to mention It In the hearing of
another patient. But for all tbe good
tbelr caution did tbey might as well
have lectured on tbe case In every
ward, for when the boy died men and
women all about tbe hospital said to
the nurses: 'So that poor boy died,
did be? I suppose there wasn't much
bope for blm from tbe start.'
"How did the news travel?" New
York Tress.
The' Horn of the Unioorn.
The born of the unicorn was reputed
Instantly to reveal poison In a dish by
sweating blood, and great was tbe ri
valry as to the possession of tbe finest
specimen while this belief still flour
ished. Charles the Bold proudly
paraded sli. two of them eight feet
long, two sis feet, two Ave feet Ac
cording to Benvenuto Cellini, "the
finest ever seen, which bad cost seven
teen thousand ducats of the Camera."
was tbe one for which at the pope's
command he made a design, "the finest
thing imaginable, modeled half on a
horse and half on a stag, with a very
fine mane and other adornments."
Coryat speaks of tbe one at St. Denis
as about three yards long, and Windsor
bad two of four ells. Tbe real "uni
corn" in many cases seems to have
been the narwhal. London Chronicle.
Few Flioa In Bohemia.
Bohemia Is singularly free from flies.
In most of tbe dining rooms ia Prague
during tbe course of a meal perhaps
three or four flies appear during tbe
season. In restaurants there are very
few files. There screen doors to keep
out flies and other Insect are unknown.
Tbe buildings are all constructed ot
brick, atone or concrete. Tbe dock
along the river front are of granite.
Tbe pavements and sidewalks are made
of granite blocks. There are no wood
en sidewalks, stairways or buildings In
the city. Decayed vegetable or animal
matter la not openly exposed to flies,
and tbe streets are frequently cleaned
during each day. There are no open
drains In tbe city to attract and breed
flies. Tbe absence of flies can only be
ascribed to tbe lack of breeding places.
Windmills as Newspapers.
In Holland births, marriages and
deaths. Instead of being recorded In
newspapers, are Indicated by wind
mills. When a miller gets married he
tops bis mill with the arms of tbe
wheel In a slanting position and with
the sails unfurled. Ills friends and
guests frequently do likewise with
their mills. In token of tbe ceremony.
To Indicate a Mrth the wheel Is
topped with tho arms In a slanting
position, but at a more acute angle
than for a marriage and with tbe
two upper sails unfurled. Should a
miller die the sails of his mill are all
postmortems.
are beautiful and perfectly equip
hospital practice here hundreds
special knowledge in foreign coun
THEY WANT AUTOMOBILES, AND
SOCIETY THAN UPON 8CIENCE.
furled and the wheel Is turned round
until tbe arms form an upright cross,
In which position they are left until
after the funeral has taken place.
' Always Raining.
There Is a group of Islands to the
south of New Zealand called the Sis
ters, or Seven Sisters, which are re
puted to be subjected to a practically
constant rainfall. Tbe same may be
aid of the Islands and mainland of
TIerra del Fuego, saving for the dif
ference that the rain often takes form
of sleet and snow. On a line running
round the world from four to eight
or nine degrees there are patches over
which rain seldom ceases to fall. This
Is called the "zone of constant precipi
tation," but at the same time there
are several localities along It with very
little rainfall.
The 8mllett Watch.
A rich resident of Moscow owns the
smallest watch In the world. It was
made In Geneva by tbe famous watch
maker, W. Goeglln. and cost more
than $25,000. It has a diameter of one-
fifth of an Inch and Is set In an arti
ficially worked finger ring, which Is
studded with diamonds. Gocglln la
old to have worked three years on It
and permanently weakened bla eye-
lght in the task.
Prstty Poor Cigars.
"Ton can't tell me there Is no honesty
In the world."
"How now?"
"I left a box of clgnrs somewhere the
other day. Somebody found It. smoked
one and returned tbe rest" Washing
ton Herald.
An Assurance.
"Sir. I am talking about what you
owe me. Will you pleaso pay me some
attention?"
"Certainly, if you do not want me to
pay you anything else." Exchange.
A Ruler.
Slneleton That's a aueersttrn: "Want
edA girl to feed ruling machine."
Wederlv Nothlns oueer about that
Somebody wants a mirseglrl to look
after the baby.
Traitors are hated even by those
they favor. Tacitus.
Rsal Hard Luck.
A fat Frenchwoman despairingly
says, "I am so fat that I pray for a
disappointment to make me thin, but
no sooner does tho disappointment come
than the Joy at the prospect of getting
thin makes me fatter than ever." Lon
don Tlt-BIU.
Daftly Turned.
This Isn't like the' bread mother
makes," said tbe young married man.
"So you are going to start that, are
you?"
'I was merely congratulating you.
Mother never was very good bread
maker." Washington Star.
The Explanation.
Autolst I haven't paid a cent for re
pairs on my machine In all the ten
months I've had It. Friend So the
man who did the repairs told me.
Boston Transcript,
A Msan Hint.
"If I really loved a man I would
llllngly die for him."
"Since you're turning so groy, I don't
wonder you're willing to dye for any
body." Exchange.
The Strength of Child.
Medical men assert that, according
to well conducted tests. It Is abown
that the newborn babe Is relatively
much stronger than a full grown man.
The muscles of tbe forearm are aston
ishingly vigorous. A few hours after
birth a baby suspended by Its finger
to a stick or to tbe finger of a grown
person can sustain itself In tbe air
for about ten seconds In the caae of
particularly strong Infant for so long
a period as thirty seconds.
When four days old an appreciable
Increase In tbe Infant' strength may
be noticed, and tbe time during which
It can thua sustain Itself Is about two
and one-half minutes for 03 per cent
of babies. The maximum Is attained
In two weeks. Few Infants can "hang
on" for more than one and one-half
minutes, although it Is of record that
one exceptionally developed child re
mained suspended for two minutes and
thirty-eight seconds by his right hand.
After that be continued to hang on
with his left for fifteen second longer.
Harper' Weekly.
Grouchy Aftsr Waterloo.
General Grouchy died May 20, 1847,
after battling In vain for thirty years
against tbe legend which held him re
sponsible for tbe loss of Waterloo. A
marquis and a Norman, he yet cast In
his fortunes with tbe revolution, was
an object of suspicion In tbe terror, but
soon rose to command as a general of
ficer. In tbe hundred days he was
made a marshal. After Waterloo be
withdrew to I'arls In good order and
proclaimed Napoleon II. Proscribed
by tbe restoration, he found refuge In
the United States, but returned to
France In 1S21. He was restored to
bis rank as marshal by Louis Philippe
and summoned to a seat In tbe cham
ber of peers. Ill son In an uneventful
military career was made a general,
accompanied bis father In hi Ameri
can exile and eventually became a sen
ator of France. Marshal Grouchy
passed the greater part of his exile In
Philadelphia ond after his return to
his native land lived at Caen except
when his legislative duties called him
to Paris. Exchange.
Catching a Wolf Alive.
One of the favorite sports of a Polish
country gentleman Is to capture a wolf
alive. A wolf being driven Into the
open, the well mounted horseman pur
sues It, armed only with a long whip
and some rope. The wolf after a time
tries to take rest, but the rider forces
It on with his whip till, after repeated
ttempts at rest. It sinks exhausted
The rider then springs from his horse,
jumps astride the wolf and, holding It
by the ears, secures It with the rope.
Most men require tbe assistance of a
mounted companion, who ties the wolf
while the other holds Its ears with
both hands, and In this way the cap
ture Is comparatively easy, but to. do
it single handed Is a difficult feat
Nasty bites and even dangerous
wounds result should tbe hunter have
miscalculated tbe strength of the ani
mal. No one, however. Is considered a
perfect sportsman till be has done this.
yet many never succeed.
How Cowards Wer Punished.
Many of the devices by which mili
tary Indifference to life has been ma
tured and sustained are curious. In
ancient Athens the public temples
were closed to those who refused mili
tary service, who deserted their ranks
or lost their bucklers, while a law con
strained such offenders to sit for three
days In the public forum dressed In
the garments of a woman. Many a
Spartan mother would stab her son
who came back alive from a defeat,
and such a man. If be escaped his
mother, was debarred not only from
public offices, but from marriage, ex
posed to the blows of all who chose to
strike blm, compelled to dress In mean
clothing and to wear bis beard negli
gently trimmed. In tbe same way a
horse soldier who fled or lost his shield
or received a wound In any save the
front part of the body was by law
prevented from ever afterward appear
ing In public.
Hi Method With Tips.
The president of a certain line of
coastwise steamers has a novel system
of handling the tip evil. lie sends on
each of his boats every once and so
often a detective, who has Instructions
to go Into the dining room, order
large and elaborate repast and hand
the waiter a tip of ten cents. If the
waiter Is silent or surly after receiving
this small gratuity his number Is
promptly reported. It is said that In
no place iu tbe world can such a num
ber of smiling waiters be found as In
tbe dining saloons of this partlculai
steamship line. New York Tribune.
A Happy Household.
What Is this Initiative and referen
dum?"
"If this way. If I want to go any
where or do anything I take tbe lnltla
tive by mentioning it to my wife. Then
she decides whether I can or not
That' the referendum." Pittsburgh
I'osL
Duo to the Way Ho Called.
Wife Broke again! It seems to me
yon are always short of money. Hub
(a poker player) It Is due to the way
was raised. Wife That's right;
blame It on your poor parents. Bos
ton Transcript.
Out of Fashion.
He- Don't you think Mrs. Mellor had
biassed look? She Oh, mercy, no!
Nothing Is cut on tho bias now.
Baltimore American.
Jealousy Is the greatest ef misfor
tunes and the least pitied by those who
cause It. Rochefoucauld.
The Colonial 8homakc"
American supremacy In shoemtklsg
1 due largely to specialization. Abroad
an operative doe half a dozen different
things. Here he perform one simple
process, and here also one factory
make one kind of shoe. If a large
manufacturer make different kinds of
hoe be has a separate factory for
each kind.
What a sight the modern shoe factory
would be to tbe primitive shoemaker
of colonial days, who was an Itinerant
workman, carried hi tools with him
and stayed with each family long
enough to make op tbe farmer' sup
ply of home tanned leather Into shoes
enough to last until hi next annual
visit His last was ronghly whittled
out of a piece of wood to suit the
largest foot In the family and then
pared down for the successive sizes,
He sat on a low bench, one end of
which was divided Into compartments,
where his awls, hammers, knives and
rasps were kept, with hi pots of paste
and blacking, bis nail, thread, Unglngs
and buttons, "shoulder sticks" and
"rub Uck." New York Sun.
O-dorl 8treeL Tokyo.
One of the most densely peopled
spots in the world 1 O-dorl street,
Tokyo. Tbe long thoroughfare known
a Glnza, which run from near tbe
Shlmbashl railway station to Spec
tacles bridge, 1 made up of several
streets with different names, some
wide and modern, some old fashioned
and narrow, and if the earth were sud
denly to gape oin wide in that portion
known as O-dorl street at any hour of
the day there I no other thorough
fare In the Japanese city where the
results to human life would be more
fatal, for here the tide of human life
runs the highest. But O-dorl street Is
extremely narrow, so that the density
of the crowd doe not make the dally
figures much above the 300,000 mark.
Unlike most of the other Important
cities of the world, this thickly popu
lated commercial district of Tokyo Is
situated outside the city walls. Strand
Magazine.
The Better Part of Valor.
Nobody ever called In question the
courage of tbe early Spanish settlers
of California, but there aeems to have
been at least one man among their
descendants who held discretion to be
the better part of valor. A certain Don
Andreas was interviewed by his supe
rior officer on the eve of an engagement
with the enemy and was warned that
the American was a very different foe
from the Indian or the Mexican and
that courage should not be pushed to
rashness In an encounter with him.
"Have no fear, general," was the re
sponse or tne intrepid caoanero. i
would far rather that history should
record from where I fled than where I
felL"
The general's mind was probably re
lieved of anxiety concerning the fate
of at least one individual In hi com
mand by this reply.
Black Under the Eyes Explained.
'In the north country" eo goes the
story In "Sun Babies," by Cornelia
Sorabja "In the month of Kartlk Is
worshiped by the women folks tbe
great and terrible god Bhlsbma. Light
ed lamps must be rlaced at the cross
roads of tbe village, under the sacred
fig tree, at the shrine of Shiva, and
one little lighted lump la sent adrift
on a raft In the village tank. When
tbe lamps have burned low It Is good
to rub tbe black from tbe wicks under
the eyes. It keeps away the evil one.
So that Is the reason to this day we
women put tbe black beneath the
eyes."
Natural Ear Trumpets.
It has been ascertained that the
spiral horn of a wild sheep, when so
placed that the ear la In the axis of
the coll, makes tbe direction from
which the ticking of a watch comes
more easily discernible. Since the ear
of the sheep Is surroum'ed by the horn
It Is inferred that the latter acts as an
ear trumpet, not Improving the hearing
for distant sounds, but disclosing the
direction of a sound. This would be
useful In enabling the sheep to ascer
tain the exact points whence sounds
come when there is a mist or fog cov
ering Its feeding ground. Exchange.
Carlyle'e Way.
Carlyle appears In n brief reminis
cence from the pen f Tercy Fitzgerald
thus: The thing with Carlyle was to
end out for a long churchwarden (a
clay pipe) and a screw of tobacco.
which put him In great good humor.
He talked to his rlaUv a yon might
say. If anybody snm nnytnmg irom
which be dissented you would hear him
murmuring. "Oh, the pair auld fool; a
regular pulr auld fool!"
The Mean Is Golden.
"How did Jones come to fall?" asked
Blnks.
'Oh, be bad no conildence In him
self," replied Jinks.
"And what caused Urown to fall?"
asked Blnks.
"ne was too confident," replied
Jinks. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fair Proof.
"I wonder If she cares for me at all?"
nas she given you no sign?"
'One. Once I saw her setting the
clock back when I enme to call.
Louisville Couricr-Jourunl.
Easy.
The doctors have finally decided
what caused Smith's Illness."
"Had a consultation, eh?"
"No; autopsy." Judge.
What Is celebrity? The advantage
of being known to people who don't
know you.-Chambort.
A Modern Raleigh.
He was a stalwart young. (Wizen,
be a charming young woman. They
were under an awning. Tbe rain bad
ceased, but the street was muddy. He
did not look like Sir Walter Italelgh.
nor did she look like Queen Elizabeth.
But probably Q. E. uevr looked
prettier.
"wuxtry poipers!" shouted a news
boy.
"Say, kid," be said, "are yon too busy
to earn a half dollar?"
"Well. Bo." replied the boy, "do I
look like a cheap editlou of Mr.
Itocke-by-baby? Show me de mun."
"Well, boy, take your papers, spread
'em out from curb to car track. Cover
the mud with 'em. Get busy!"
ne paid the astonished boy. Tbe
car came, ne bowed In courtly man
ner to tbe queen. She blushed and
said:
"Oh. Billy, yon foolish boy!" But
she walked over tbe papered path as
proudly a Q. E. could have done.
Then, like Q. E., she sentenced him
for life, ne is ber meal ticket now.
Chicago Record Herald.
"More Bacon."
Many years ago Congdon's tavern in
Wlckford, Rhode Island, was famous
for Its good cheer, and In "Early Rbode
Island" W. B. Weeden has an enter
taining tale of John Randolph of Roa
noke, who was once a visitor at tbe
Inn.
Mr. Randolph was on bis way to
Newport and made his Journey on
horseback with his cousin Edmund.
secretary of state under Washington.
All the way from New York "ham and
eggs bad been tbe universal fare. At
Wlckford Congdon said he would give
them clams for supper. Tbe eccentric
John of Roanoke rubbed his hands In
pleased expectation. Then appeared tho
host again, saying tbe tide was too
high for clams, but they should have
some capital quabaugs.
"Good heavens." exclaimed Randolph,
who did not know that the qunhaug Is
hard shelled variety of clam, "more
bacon!"
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The Academy Shine.
The man who has the most highly
polished shoes In Pari today la Paul
Hour get. To one of hi friend who
was marveling not long ago at tbelr
Incomparable brilliancy he communi
cated, nnder an oath of secrecy, thl
recipe:
"First you wash the shoe so-so with
some water. Then you dry it and rub
blacking cloth over It Next yon take
a second cloth, softer than tbe first
and rub until the shine Is perfection
Itself. Then with a sheep bone yon
rub for five minute to fix the blacking,
and that operation puts It in the proper
condition to receive the polish, which
you spread on with your thumb. All
you have to do after that 1 to let it
dry."
For your shoe to acquire the acad
emy brilliancy you polish unceasingly
and then polish tbera some more.
Paris Pele Mele.
8ugar as a Disinfectant. -
A custom has grown up In parts of
Europe of burning sugar In sickroom
and has been looked upon as an Inno
cent superstition. Investigations, bow
ever, have proved the practice a bene
ficial and scientific one. Professor
Trilbert of the Pasteur Institute at
Paris demonstrated that burning sugar
develops formic acetylene hydrogen,
one of the most powerful antiseptic
gases known. Five grains of sugar
in several tests were burned nnder a
glass bell with a capacity of ten
quarts. After the vapor bad cooled
bacilli of typhus, tuberculosis, cholera,
smallpox, etc were placed In tbe bell
In open glass tubes, and within half an
hour all the microbes were dead.
Stove and Hardware Reporter.
Gives Instant Action
("him. N. Clark, Druggist, reports
that A SINGLE DOSE of slmule
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as
compounded In Adler l-ka. the tier.
man appendicitis remedy, stops con-
stlpatlon or gas on the stomach IN
STANTLY. Many Hood River peo
ple are being helped.
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