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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. JUNE 2T, 1915. rHEALTH AT FRONT ! i 15 ABOVE AVERAGE TyphoicHNo Longer Feared, Although Mumps and Mea sles Cause Inconvenience. MEN KEPT FIT FOR WAR British System Relegates to Duties ' in Hear All Who Are Not In ; Prime Condition Xumber " ot Wounded Grows. BY WILL IRWIN. Copyright. 1910. by the New York Tribune. Published by Arrangement.) ' BOULOGXE - SUR - MER. June 8. Heaven be praised for temporizing mercies! There is a lull Just now along the great western line. When the sec ond battle ot Ypres was raging this , city, with its thou- : sands of wounded a 't day, ran full, to overflowing. Every one seemed to be A working 18 hours a day. Now that the perpetual battle ; along tie western line has settled down to bombard- . ... -Sv 5 ng irencnes, to .' '.' F ""a sniDiner and to ft t- T 1 tacks on minor to- Will Irwlo. ony the nor, mal "wastage" of trench warfare and the sick which the army has ever with it. Considering the hundreds of thou rands which the British have arrayed in Northern Prance, the sick rate is low. Britain lias to thank for this the Royal Army Medical Corps, which is or all departments in the British army perhaps the best managed and most efficient Just now. Prevention of dis ease on the line is the first canon of the medical creed. Catch him early, cure him up and send him back as soon as he is in shape such is the rule they follow. Typhoid Gives Little Trouble. There have been a few minor epi demics, which are over for the present at least. Typhoid fever, that old scourge of armies, troubles the medico but little, thanks to inoculation, which, though not compulsory in the British army, is all but universal. Up to the tune when I last inquired only one properly inoculated man had died of typhoid fever in this hospital district since the war began. "Para" typhoid has been a little more troublesome. As the physicians explain it to me, "para" typhoid resembles true typhoid as German measles resembles true measles or as varioloid resembles smallpox. However, it arises from an entirely distinct bacillus, and inoculation for true typhoid does nothing to prevent it. Fortunately, it is not severe. It causes only about l-per cent of mor tality. Fortunately, again, it does not grip an army like true typhoid; it has not the same virulent rush . of infec tion. A new type of "para" has ap peared this Spring. The bacteriologists in the hospitals distinguish the two diseases by calling them "para A" and '. 'para B." Four or five men have died here of "para" since last Autumn; and that, with the one who died of true typhoid, is the total score of a dis ease which was the scourge of old : armies, which caused more deaths in '. our Spanish war than did Spanish bul lets. Inoculation for typhoid fever ap pears to have proved fully as suocess- ful a3 vaccination for smallpox. Mumps and Measles Trenblesnaie. : Mumps, curiously, made a great deal ; of trouble in the cold, wet weather of : this bad Spring.. Then, for a time there : was a deal of measles. The most dis : gusted man I have seen in the British army was a Colonel of 60 Invalided back with measles. '"I went out to face bullets," he said, "and I got a baby's disease." Fortunately, both of these epidemics are long under control. ; This is an old town, grown up about : a small harbor, dominated by a hill. ; On that hill Julius Caesar set and for : tified his field headquarters when he Jnvaded Britain and "cleaned up" f Western Gaul. It became a perma ' nmt Roman camp; the fortifications 1 which Ceasar pet up grew Jn time to a - city wall, with bastions, loopholes and : a citadeu These Western seaport cities of France preserve, generally, but few of their old monuments. Generation after generation, from Caesar the Great to Wllhelm the Grandiose, they " have been battle-fields. But. strangely, time has spared the city wall. It re : mains intact, unbreached, setting off '. the old city from the new. Its great . est height is perhaps 30 feet. About : it now runs a broad park, and in these . days of luxuriant June it is tutted with .. red and white valerian. On one side is a public lawn tennis f court, where officers on leave. Red ; Cross men and we correspondents keep ourselves "fit" in these comparatively ; luil days. Our backstop on one side is , that antique wall. Allies Mix Little, Socially. ; The British have come, to take pos- session of tst part or the city which lies closest to their warlike activities. i Besides the eternal business of patch- in-r up thousands and thousands ot ; wounded. nher affairs of the British army which it is not discreet to tuen ; tion have their focus here. fcio the j town lodges hundreds of officers, of Red Cross workers, both male and - female: of mliitary chauffeurs and am bulance drivers, and it billets thou- ; sands of soldiers who assist in all these . Activities. Now, the Briton is not by nature a j "mixer." He Is too shy. He doesn't , Know how. Travel the length and i lireadth of the British Isles, in peace times at least, and you will scarce i make an acquaintance on the trains. SSet him down in a foreign city, and '-. he pursues his business aloof from the inhabitants. The Frenchman, too. has j lls reserves. Though in France a whole train compartment will make .'- acquaintance during the first hour of the Journey, the Frenchman is chary ? of taking you into hia home or his life. " The consequence is that, although ' the Allies hero are working together with mutual esteem, they mix, socially, like oil and water. The high town - within the walls is still French, more French than It has been for a certury. what with the disappearance of the ., tourist. Part at least of the low town 7. is entirely British. There is, however, a close and inti- mate contact with "the line." reached by the hundreds of fast automobiles i which ply back and forth in disregard : of speed rules. In an hour's easy run .7 one can be under the guns. At an J times of the day and night these auto-:- mobiles are drawing up, the khaki ot '-; their occupants tinged yellow with ' road ust. Out come officers to re- fresh themselves and to gossip. Of 1 personal talk, I find little. An officer at the bass dislikes to ask an officer -j Just from the line about Smith or Jones; he may learn that Smith has gone the way of good soldiers, and it is a conventionality of this war not to mention the dead. The talk is largely technical of the running time of trains, the movement of this battalion or that, of new aeroplane designs, of new German tricks. Extremes meet curiously out hare. The one event is the arrival of the dally boat bringing passengers and newspapers from England. As the hour approaches, every disengaged p-r-on seems to rise and drift toward the docks. There are Ghurkas of the British army. Little, stout fellows, with faces like peasant Japanese. They wear broad hats, like sombreros, cocked up at one side. Also, there may be a de tachment of Sikhs, the most pictur esque troops on the western front. They have bearded, brown faces, usually classical in outline, vne sees 20 Olym pian Joves in every Sikh company. Only, the bodies below are not Greek at all. Your Sikh Is slim, meager. He Arthur 3f. Geary has high, square shoulders and thin shanks, which the tight puttees of the British uniform show off to disadvan tage. He wears a khaki turban, with the end floating down his back, and he ha3 a dignity which nothing in the world can shake. The meanest among them walks like a king. By way of Oriental contrast, you may meet next a squad of French Turcos, in Zouave uniform. Then there are the British, in uniform khaki, with those variations which mark off English and Irish from Scotch and Welsh. A strangely mixed squad stands at at tention or loafs at ease along the edge of the dock. They are the bearers for the hospital traina and boats. Uniforms and Accents Jumbled, So these men present a Jumble of Highland kilts and, caps, Welsh "Ueshes" and plain khaki; and a fur ther Jumble of accents, from high Ox ford to Cockney and low Scotch. All through the crowd are Red Cross nurses, with blue cloaks over white dressed, nun-like caps floating in the wind. We thread through gray painted automobile ambulances by the hundreds.- If it has been a "busy" time on the line these ambulances may be running back and forth loaded to ca pacity with the wounded, taking ship for England. Use hardens one. We who have lived long among them scarcely spare a glance, now, to the passing wounded. Then the boat backs in. is lashed alongside, unloads its passengers. A newsboy, books one leg to the rail, and there is pushing and clamor as we reach perilously from the edge o the dock to snatch the newspapers. He who captures the first prixe finds him self surrounded by a-crowd while he reads out the news. Some of it Is old we usually know ahead of London something of what is happening in our own corner of Armageddon but the eastern frontier, Italy, Zeppelin raids on England, the Balkan situation, the American crisis those are tew. And we scatter, debating. WOMAN SLAYER PUNISHED First of Sex l'ouud Guilty in Los Angeles Sent to Prison. LOS ANGELES, June 26 Mrs. Irene Murphy, the first woman ever con victed in Los Angeles courts of a slay ing charge, was sentenced today to two years in San Quentin Prison aa pun ishment for having killed her husband. W illiam Murphy. at La. Canada- April 15. The Jury's verdict was manslaughter. and Judge Willis, in passing sentence. indicated that he was inclined to leni ency because the elderly prisoner was a victim of liquor. Allisons Celebrate at Toledo. CENTRALIA, Wash.. June 26 (Sne. cial.) St. John's day was celebrated Tuesday night by the Toledo Masons with an open meeting, at which dele gations from the Mossyrock, Silver Creek, Winlock, Vader and Chchalia lodges were entertained. A social ses sion and programme of entertainment followed the meeting. Mining IMTldend Increased. The Caledonia Mining Company today will disburse its monthly dividend amounting to 3 cents a share, an in- create ol x vni auove ine usual pay ment. Checks to the amount of $78,150 will be mailed to the stockholders, making a total for the year of $312,600. ACTRESS TELLS SECRET A "Well-Known Actress Tells How She Darkened Her Gray Hair and Promoted Its Growth With a Simple Home-Made Mixture. Miss Blanch Rose, a well-known actress, who darkened her gray hair with a simple preparation which she mixed at home, in a recent interview at Chicago, 111., made the following statement: "Any lady ' or gentleman can darken their gray hair ana make it soft and glossy with this simple recipe, which they can mix at home. To a half pint o water add 1 oz. of bay rum. a small box of Barbo Com pound, and 'A oz. of glycerine. These ingredients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to the hair twice a week until it becomes the required shade. 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The rivalry among the receivers and buyers is so keen and the stories and reports sent to the growers are so conflicting that I feu that some of the Information that I had gained would be of value. Truth to Be Told." "With this purpose, acting as free lance. I visited the offices of tha fruit auction companies in search of pictures for my lecture. They told me of a Na tional association that was to be formed; and later this organisation engaged me to extend my study of the markets to the other principal cities and to go West and tell the growers ail that I had learned that would be of interest to them. They said that their business had been studiously mis represented to the growers and to tha officials of the 'co-operative associa tions and that they simply wanted tha whole truth and nothing but tha truth told. 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