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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAJT, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913.
TOWN BEING MOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR WATERS OF CANAL
Cabaret Veil to Be Used by Society Women Who Desire to Dance "Tango," "Turkey Trot" and "Grizzly Bear."
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NEW TOEK, Sept. 20. (Special.)
The town of Gorgona. the largest
in the Canal Zone, is being mowd
In anticipation of the flooding- of the
townsite by the rising waters of Gatun
Lake. The buildings, which are rap-
Idly being demolished to make way
for the waters of the canal, are being
shipped to other points along the zone,
Empire and Balboa, where the Govern
ment will re-erect them with little ex
pense, as the structures are being de
molished In sections. The railroad
.tracks will be taken up as soon as all
the buildings have been removed, and
then, when Gatun Lake Is opened, the
town of Gorgona that was will be cov
ered by the waters of the lake to a
depth of 20 feet.
The Americans are not the only per
sons emigrating from Mexico. Some
of the natives are crossing into the
United States for safety. The accom
panying photograph shows a Mexican
ready to cross the border.
Prince Nicholas Engalitcheff of Rus
sia and his wife have returned to
Europe after a visit to Chicago. The
Princess was the daughter of C. W.
Partridge, of Chicago. The Prince was
As a result of the desire to dance the
"Tango," the "Turkey Trof and the
'Grizzly Bear" bv those who -will at
tend society s afternoon tea dances to
bo Riven this Winter, the cabaret veil
a creation to hide the identity of the
fair dancer, has been designed, and
has already found much favor with
the ladles. It Is patterned after the
veil worn by women of Oriental coun
tries, concealing the lower part of the
face and permitting only a glimpse
at the eyes and upper part of the face.
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Typical old English scenes were wit
nessed at the little village of Stoner,
near Henley-on-Thames, when Lord
Camoys took his American bride for
the first time since their marriage
nearly two years ago to his ancestral
home at Stoner Park. The villagers
cheered to the echo when they saw
the coming of their Lord and his Lady
and the 3-weeks-old baby of the titled
pair. Lady Camoys was the former
Mildred Sherman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Watts Sherman, well known in
New York and Newport society, and
was bridesmaid at the wedding of Miss
Gould to Lord Decles. Lord Camoys,
the best man at the wedding, was
charmed by the beautiful bridesmaid,
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and the romance started then culmi
nated later In their marriage. Stoner
Park is an immense estate, comprising
3400 acres, with gardens full of old-
fashioned English flowers, sweet peas,
foxgloves, hollyhocks and marigold.
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Princess August-Wilhelm of Prussia
has adopted, a novel way of showing
her gratitude for the birth of her first
child after four years of marriage. She
is starting an organization, the object
of which is to provide for young moth
ers and infants of the poorer classes.
Every well-to-do young mother who
lias just been blessed with an infant
is expected to help.
Instead, . however, of appealing to
the rich mothers, the Princess" or
ganization .proposes to appeal to their
babies. At all houses where the stork
has arrived a letter will be delivered
beginning "Dear Little One." The let
ter will congratulate the "Dear Littl
One" on its good fortune In being born
among the rich, and proceed:
"There are thousands of others 'of
thy age and size who have not thy
advantage," and so on. The end will
be an appeal for money.
LIVER IS GATEWAY TO BODY; ALSO
FOOD INSPECTOR, POISON DETECTOR
Organ Is Only One In Body Which Is Always Necessary, and It Will Protect Life if Given Half a Chance hy
Human Being, Says Doctor Rossiter.
BT DR. FREDERICK M. ROSSITER.
LMOST every one knows he has a
1 liver, but the majority of people
have a rather vague conception
of what the liver really does, and how
vital it is to their happiness and ex
istence. A few days ago a surgeon demon
strated a patient from whom he had
removed an entire' lung, and the "one-
lunger" apparently was none the worm
Today there are many people living
na enjoying good health who are
minus a stomach, or a kidney, or a
spleen, or some other important part
of their anatomy. Quite recently a
Portland surgeon removed 8H feet of
a young man s small intestine and so
saved him from an untimely death.
There are people living who have had
the entire large intestine put out of
commission. AH of these operations
Jiava been necessary, and ltfesavers.
Tor many years of comfortable living
have been added to the lives of the
persons concerned.
While all this Is true, there is no
one going about without a liver. We
have not yet learned how to de-liver
B. person and have him continue to
enjoy living.
Liver Always Xecesaary.
This organ stands between man and
death every day. If It should com
pletely cease action for from 24 to
IS hours, death would be inevitable.
Man can live for years without a stom
ach, with one kidney or minus half his
alimentary canal, but he cannot live
a moment without a liver. When it
fails. life goes with it.
The liver is the largest gland In the
body, weighing in the adult about ty,
pounds. The size of the liver in
living animals varies somewhat
with the function of the animal. For
instance, the liver of the oyster occu
pies about half of the organism be
cause the oyster primarily Is a scav
enger and so needs a large liver to
destroy the large amount of poison
and filth that go through Its body.
The liver seems to belong to the
pentad family, for it has five lobes,
separated by five fissures, held In '
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY, HOW
TO MAINTAIN BOTH.
By Frederick M. Rowlter, B. 8., M. D.
Questions pertaining to health, hy
giene and the prevention of disease
will be answered in this column.
When for lack of space and when
questions are not suitable, answers
will be made by . mall, providing a
stamped envelope, with address ts
Inclosed. No questions will be con
sidered without the name and ad
dress of the sender. No diagnosis
will be made In this column.
place by five ligaments, permeated by
five sets of vessels, and has at least
five functions, and more likely 15.
What is still more interesting, the sub
stance of the liver is divided into five
sided little lobules about -1-25 of an
inch in diameter, and these in turn
are composed of liver cells which ap
pear under the microscope, when in a
state of rest, as five sided.
Liver Gateway of Body.
The ancient Greeks recognized that
this organ was the gateway to the
body, for they named the large vein
that collects the venous blood from the
digestive organs the vena porta (porta
means gate) or the gate vein, and so
now we call it the portal vein. This
name holds absolutely true to fact to
day, for the liver la the gate to the
body. Nothing that one eats or drinks
excepting a little fat can get Into the
blood without passing through the
liver.
As the portal vein enters the liver
it divides and subdivides into innu
merable almost microscopic divisions
and the blood soaks or trickles down
among the cells. Here there is a sort
of clearance house action going on.
Or the cells may be called food in
spectors, for the things brought by
the blood that are suitable for the
body are' allowed to pass on, while the
poisons and waste materials are de
stroyed, and carried out through the
bile ducts and eventually are cast out
oi tne body.
The liver is a faithful porter, receiv.
ing food for the needs oi the body,
and each portion is most critically in
spected. If city food inspectors were
as careful and as particular as the
liver cells are in selecting wholesome
iooa, mucn that is now bought and
consumed as food would find its way
in short order to the garbage can.
Aid Is Given Dlicestlon.
Bile, while it is a waste product, is
formed by the liver cells to aid in the
process of digestion. The manufac
turer who can find means for utiliz
ing the waste of his factory makes
the largest gain and the best showing
at the end of the year. So the body
takes a fluid, which would poison it if
carried into the general circulation,
and uses it in preparing material for
repairing and building tissues. Some
times the bile is absorbed again and
again from the intestines until it be
comes very dark green, and "bitter as
gall." It goes in a small circle, a vicious
circle, a regular merry-go-round, and
then one does not feel well. The poison
gets into the blood and one "feels
heavy" and there Is more or less de
pression. It is doubtless at these times
that some people think the liver needs
"toning up." The liver is not at fault,
but it is more like a tired horse that
has been overloaded and is in need of
rest
More than 2000 years ago the Greeks
connected great depression of spirits
with disorders of the liver; hence the
term melancholia, which means black
bile. Overburdened livers have been
the cause of many sudden deaths, hav
ing produced the desire for self-de
struction, and there is no doubt that
overworked livers have sent more than
one man to the gallows.
Rest Will Aid Liver.
Overloading the stomach makes the
liver carry extra burdens. The man
who partakes of a late supper, filling
up on boiled lobster, welsh rabbit, rich
foods and wine, is more than likely to
get up in the morning thinking that
bis wife is iJ8fcn ie; that financial
ruin stares him in the face; that his
business is going all to pieces; that his
Irlends are conspiring against him
that the weather is horrible what is
the use of trying to keep in the game?
His poor liver is fairly groaning under
the burdens. It does not need a whip,
or something "to stir it up." It needs
less work and a chance to rest. Drop
out a few meals. A bread and water
diet for a few days is all that is neces
sary. We have another term in our lan
guage that indicates somewhat the in
fluence the liver has on the mental
state. That word Is hypochondriac.
This large word in simple language
means under the ribs, or one who lives
under the ribs in his mind. The liver
is under the ribs and a disordered liver
acting reflexly through the sympa
thetic nervous system effects the mind
gives rise to many morbid feelings and
impressions.
Liver Is Storehouse! Steward.
The liver serves as an Important
storehouse, where food is held for an
emergency. Reserves are kept for the
muscles and for every organ of the
body. The liver acts as a commissa
riat for the muscles. Every time a
muscle contracts, the liver doles out to
it a certain amount of liver starch, in
the form of sugar. Hence it Is obvious
that a certain amount of exercise is
absolutely necessary to a healthy, act
ive liver. The liver starch is stored up
there as a reserve supply, a sort of
coal-bunkers for a "rainy day."
Enough food is always stored away
in the body to maintain all the func
tions for several days, so there is no
danger of starving to death in case
the evening meal is omitted or cannot
be had.
Liver Is Chemist; Diviner of Poisons,
In olden times certain royal cups,
called divining cups, were supposed to
have the power to detect poisons. This
no doubt was delusion, but the liver
cells cannot be deluded nor deceived.
however subtle the poison may be.
These cells are on the afert for every
substance that could Injure or destroy
the body. The liver cells regard every
harmful substance as an enemy. They
do their best to keep it out of the body.
or to break it up into substances less
dangerous. The man who chews to
bacco, or who smokes immoderately.
does so with apparent impunity, for the
liver stands between him and death
every day. If the nicotine of the to
bacco could get past the liver without
being held back or without being al
tered, death would be sudden. A few
weeks ago a woman gave her child an
enema, using a teaspoonful and a half
of ground tobacco. The child was dead
within four hours. That amount of
tobacco would not make a chew for
many men.
The power of the liver cells to de
stroy poison constantly Is recognized
by physicians. A drug Injected under
the skin passes directly to the brain
and nervous system and hence pro
duces a much more rapid and powerful
action. The same drug given by mouth
is much slower In action, and a larger
dose is required, for the liver will de
stroy a certain portion of it. In
South America the native Indians use
a poison on their arrow-heads called
curare, which will produce almost in
stant paralysis if shot into the body of
a man or an animal. Large doses of
curare taken by mouth have but little
or no effect, for the liver breaks it up
into less harmful substances.
Capacity Is Limited.
However, there is a limit to the poison-destroying
capacity of the liver.
Most livers are overworked, for most
people oat more than is necessary to
good health. These microscopic food
Inspectors have more than they can do,
so many things slip through into the
blood without being passed on. The
liver becomes tired from constant over.
work and gets behind, and so things
are upset generally.
Why should the body be abused sim
ply because the organs of th3 body are
made with reserve forces and hence
will stand a large amount of abuse?
Morphine is a deadly poison and yet
the body will accommodate Its forces to
stand a large amount of it; likewise
with alcohol and many lesser poisons,
but it stands to reason the body does
its best work when the reserve powers
are held intact for emergency, and for
times when the vital forces may be es
pecially called into action. It is said
that even a worm will turn on its tor
mentors, and so the organs of the body
will stand much abuse, but in time they
either get so they cannot work, or or
ganic changes interfere with the func
tions and they Anally cease. The liver
cells when constantly irritated by poi
sons, as brandy, whisky, strong wines,
nicotine, poisons from the stomach and
Intestines, and mineral poisons, are
likely to suffer from organic changes
sooner or later.
Prodding Is Not Required.
Patients frequently consult physi
cians in reference to their overworked
livers:
"Can you give me something that will
make my liver do better work?"
"Doctor, I believe that I need some
thing to stir my liver up a little."
Now, no liver requires to be stirred up
or prodded in order to get more work
out of it. It already has done too much
work. It needs to have rest. It needs
to have the hindrances removed, then
It will co-operate faithfully with all
the body forces.
Drinking abundance of water is one
way of helping matters. All water tak
en into the stomach and intestines must
pass through the liver, hence it Is evi.
dent that free water drinking must ex
erclse a wholesome influence upon this
organ. No less an authority than Sir
Lauder Brunton, of London, makes the
statement that if people drank abun
dance of water daily, it is doubtful
if any one would have gall-stones.
Lemonade, because of the salts it con
tains, is especially favorable in its ac
tion on the liver. This is no doubt due
to the phosphates.
Few Medicines Effective.
The liver is a part of the vital econ
omy, and so anything that promotes
health will enable it to do its work
properly. Moderate eating, moderate
exercise, plenty of water drinking,
plenty of fruit, not too much proteid in
the diet, and a temperate life in gen
eral is all that any organ of the body
requires to make for health. Constipa
tion especially throws extra burdens
on the liver. The worst thing that any.
one can do, if he thinks his liver Is in
especial need of attention, is to begin
to swallow patent Liver Medicines,
and drugs in general. This only adds
fuel to the fire. When the liver reaches
the point that it needs "regulating
something more than taking medicine
is necessary. No drug possesses the
magic charm or power to regulate the
liver, in fact, it is a truth of materia
medica that few medicines have any
favorable action on the liver at all.
The amount of pills and nauseating
decoctions that are on the market as
cure-alls for all the ills of the poor liv
er, and are swallowed with the hope
that de-liverance will come would fill
several freight trains. Nature has so
arranged things in the body that years
of abuse cannot be atoned for by swal
lowing any number of little liver pills
or by any other short-cut method.
Living in harmony with Nature's laws
is the only way to have abiding health.
Those who adopt the method of climb
ing up over the wall instead of going
through the gate, will find that
short-cut method to be only a thief or
robber.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Wilson, Or. Dear Doctor: Tour article
on "Dirty Hands" taught me many new
things. You told us the danger but not
the remedy. How can a busy housekeeoer
clean her hands quickly medically clean?
I am only a farmers wire Dut i have raised
ten healthy children. Every one has been
taught from babyhood to wash thoroughly
after visiting the toilet, after touching the
cat or dog. or any animal, for these animals
harbor tape-worm germs we are told by the
Department of Agriculture.
Since reading your article I have been
more careful than ever when cooking to
have the bands as clean as possible, and
am even using a solution for the fingers
of three bichloride tablets In a glass of
water, which I keep on the shelf In the
bathroom. Do you think that this will
help to make them clean? We all wash In
running water, but many families do not
have it. MRS. B.
Answer In the article on "Dirty
Hands" the dangers were briefly set
forth and, the remedy was emphasized,
namely: to never neglect to wash the
hands at the most necessary times,
and to everlastingly keep the hands
clean, and particularly should those
who cook do this.
Dipping the fingers Into a bichloride
solution after washing, such as you
mention, is not necessary nor does it
do much good.; Mechanical washing of
the hands in running water, using a
common nail brush and ordinary soap
will make the hands clean enough to
do a surgical operation, providing it is
done thoroughly enough. No disin
fectant is necessary to keep the hands
even surgically clean.
It is an easy matter to keep the ends
of the fingers clean if the nails are
trimmed closely. A long finger nail Is
insanitary for it furnishes a place for
all kinds of filth and innumerable
germs, moreover it is very difficult to
clean or keep clean nails that are al
lowed to grow long.
Those who live in the country and do
not have running water to wash in can
easily remedy this matter. Most farm
ers wash outside of the house. If a 10
or 20-gallon keg were put on a shelf
over the wash basin or over a trough
to carry off the waste water, running
water could be had to wash the hands
and face In, either by putting an iron
or a wooden faucet near the bottom of
the keg and just turn It on a little
when washing. It would be an easy
matter to keep the keg filled wjth
fresh water. This simple device would
do away with the family wash-basin
which is a filthy and Insanitary
utensil.
NATALIE, 5, THROWS MUD
Enormity of Russian Officialdom
Seen in Mother's Imprisonment.
ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. 20. (Spe
cial.) The, enormity of Russian of
ficialdom is well illustrated In the re-,
port of an event which has occurred
at Kharkoff, where, owing to a piece
of harmless, childish mischief, a whole
village was penalized, and a mother
sentenced to 15 days' imprisonment.
Katerinitch, the governor of the
province, started from Kharkoff in a
handsome automobile, accompanied by
mounted escort of the district chiefs
of police; an. authorized public re
port tells what befell him.
When the governor s cortege was
passing through a village Natalie Ko
latchenko, aged 6, was seated by the
roadside making mud pies. The narra
tive says that "the devil entered the
little body, she took up some dirty
earth and threw it at the automobile
and it fell on the governor's cOat."
Natalie, aged 5, now terrified and
creaming, was pursued ana captured.
Her mother was arrested and made to
walk under armed guard for eight
miles to the chief police depot. The
father was arrested and marched the
ight miles to the police office; he
was released at 3 A. M. to march back
and find all the villagers in meeting.
After the presentation of the general
petition and special petitions by the
mother, father and grandfather, pray
ing that Natalie might be forgiven,
the villagers were allowed to depart
with a seyere admonition. But the
mother was sent to prison for 15 days.
m&n is
Stronger
Than his
Stomach
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