Bandon recorder., December 02, 1909, Image 6

BANDON RECORDER
•X G** f**abjr fSuiid a quf a in xplica*
t>ie piss «uro. Thon mother and the
girls tried it for u season, and «lues
tl.au* uhsy have understood. Today, if
on* tnrug the advertising page« of the
in spring and early «urn-
Mac* magaslue«
mor. one finds lor.-; list« of summer
camps for boys and summer camps for
Prince Miguel of Bragauz* only girls, and *11 of them classed und-r
*v«< 110,000. He Isn’t much of * the heading, "educational
Institu­
prism
tions.” Aside from the mere pleasure
of a sojourn in camp, there are ma­
The *vl*tor who can hold a world'« terial benefits which last the whole
record for more than a day break« a year through, and are making Impor­
record in that way, too.
tant contributions to health and na­
tional character. Camp life means re­
It may soon be necessary for mag ducing one’s needs to their lowest
nates who are 111 and wish to have terms. It conduces to simplicity of
quiet to build armor plate sickrooms. dress, food, recreation and social in­
tercourse. Many things commonly re­
French savants have discovered garded as necessities at home are
that the mustache harbors deadly found to be easily dispensable in
germs. Girls, govern yourself accord­ camp. The value of fresh air, at night
as well as by day, Is another whole­
ingly.
some thing to learn, and so, too, is
It Is proposed to stop making S~’ the primary and fundamental contact
bills. Well, since the price of votes at with the raw materials of life. Many
election time has risen, perhaps it is a man has realized In camp for the
just as well.
first time how the most familiar vege­
tables look in their raw state, and
The rumor that Roosevelt may be
how the spoils of gun and fish-hook
sent across the border as ambassador
must be treated to prepare them for
makes cold chills chase up and down
the pan or the pot. Of all the people
the Mexican spine.
who take holiday during the summer,
there are none who come back to town
A New Jersey woman died and left
more healthy, wholesome and happy
110,000 for her dogs and 12,000 for her
than the campers. By this time most
husband. Het he will remember that
of them are planning next year’s trip.
woum as long as the dogs live.
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Dr. McComb, one of the inventors ot
A Virginia minister has a record of
the "Emmanuel movement," and Prof.
having married three thousand cou­
Hugo Munsterberg, an authority on
ples, but he can’t tell how many of
economic and other abstruse problems,
them lived happily ever afterward.
have recently given assurances which
tend to relegate two of the most for­
While that Washington man who in­
midable foes of our modern civiliza­
vented a muzzle for crowing roosters
tion to the realm of phantoms. Mc­
was about it why didn’t he try to in­
Comb says that in order to avoid
vent a silencer for neighbors’ cats?
sleeplessness all you have got to do is
to constrain your mind to roam about
The next thing will be an official
among pleasant memories and to for­
investigation of canned corn, In which
get your insomnia. Then you will fall
it will be established that it contains
asleep. Munsterberg says it is a mis­
no pellagra germs, and that If It did
take to Buppose that our more complex
they would be harmless.
civilization increases the
nervous
strain. When you are threatened with
It has been decided by a Cleveland
a case of "nerves" all you have got to
judge that a husband need not wash
do is to reflect how much more con­
the dishes. No judge has the nerve,
ducive to repose are modern condi­
however, to rule that a husband need
tions as compared to those of the past.
uot put the cat out at night.
While technical mechanism has be­
Mr. Roosevelt is said to entertain come more complex, life Itself is siin
hopes of securing a specimen of the pier. The telephone, the elevator, the
Pullman and the street cars save us
rare dig dig antelope during his stay
lots of steps and trouble, while the
In East Africa. Panama should be the
better means of illumination saves our
natural place to look for the "dlg-
eyes from strain. Asphalt and maca­
dig."
dam save our bones from jar. All this
Evelyn says she will not return to and much more is true as to the great­
the stage because she fears that she er ease of modern life when compared
would be stared at as a freak if she wth that of our ancestors. It may be
did. This statement will surprise the said that they got out more into the
people who supposed Evelyn’s chief de­ open air, but this can hardly be true
when we consider the [>arks and boule­
sire was to get herself stared at.
vards of our cities and the better
The English language is a healthily country roads. Modern buildings on
growing tongue. Men hardly middle- the whole are certainly better venti­
aged can remember when “blizzard" lated and more sanitary. Food 1 b
was a new word, and now we hear the more varied, abundant and wholesome.
prostrating hot waves of the summer Why, then, shouldn't we treat our
denominated "slzzards.” The word is "nerves" as illusions and go to sleep
when we want to? That there was
picturesque enough to live.
insomnia several hundred years ago
A shortage of |82,000 in the accounts can be proven from Shakspeare. His
of a Pennsylvania penitentiary has apostrophe to “nature’s sweet restor­
been discovered. A convicted banker er, balmy sleep,” must have been writ­
is bookkeeper in the institution. It ten by one who had fathomed the
niay yet become necessary to let our agony of sleeplessness. And his ac­
Convicted bankers set the mouse traps count of sleep-walking hysteria In
Instead of keeping the penitentiary "Macbeth” is quite In line with mod­
ern neurological science. When we
books.
are nervous and hysterical and wake­
The Wright brothers have success­ ful we can make up our minds that
fully met all the tests to which the it is something personal and faulty in
government insisted that their air-ship ourselves that has upset equanimity
should be put, and the ship became and murdered sleep, not the spirit of
the property of the nation, upon the the age in which we live. And doubt­
payment of thirty thousand dollars less the best advice Is Dr. McComb's
This is the first heavler-than-alr ma­ advice, to "forget it.”
chine bought by the government.
Whether it will be the last depends
FISH WITH GOOGOO EYES.
on the way it behaves when under
ths direction of signal corps officers, The Smtie living About the Sice of
Loconto! I ve 11 cud light«.
snd whether the machines offered by
Capt. Ross, of the Standard Oil
other Inventors can meet the demands
Company’s steamer Dakotah, which
made upon them.
arrived here yesterday from Manila,
Divorce in America is the object of enjoyed a brief but soul stirring flir­
Much foreign criticism, but our courts tation July 11 with a strange fish.
have not yet got to the point of per­ On the Dakotah’s log the finny flirt is
mitting a man to divorce his wife be­ described as being 40 feet long and 10
cause she chooses to reduce her weight feet wide, with a cavernous mouth and
by thirty pounds. This was done re­ very large eyes.
Capt. Ross was on the bridge when
cently in Prussian Silesia, the hus­
band's argument being that in order his mate called attention to what he
to accommodate her figure to the pres­ thought was a whale on the port bow.
ent fashion, his wife had destroyed When within about a hundred feet of
the beauty she possessed, and had be­ the monster they saw that while very
come other than the woman he had like a whale at a distance an intimate
married. I.Ike Shylock, he insisted on view showed no resemblan e.
"As we came along.” said Capt.
his pond -or pounds—of flesh, but, un­
like the Jew of Venice, he won his Ross, “the creature turned its head
toward the ship. It was the fiercest
tase.
face I ever saw. The mouth was like
The most effective blows against the the entrance to a railroad tunnel and
(lquor business have been struck by the eyes big as locomotive headlights.
railroad presidents, bankers and heads For all the ferocity of the face the
of other great corporations, who have eyes had a kind look in them.
"We watched the brute intently
issued peremptory orders that only
temperate men shall be permitted to Just as we came almost alongside he
continue In their employ. Hundreds gave those eyes a regular googoo roll
of thousands of men have been made and sank out of sight. A whale would
to realize that sobriety Is essential to have gone down head first and waved
their continued pro«i>erlty. The class good-by with his tall. We never saw
of employes whose pay envelopes de­ this fellow’s tall, and whether he said
pend on their ability to keep sober Is ’good-by’ or ‘come along, boys,’ with
Increasing each year. No prohibition his eyes is more than I can tell. I’ve
law ever has been enacted that has been to sea for many years but never
stopped the sale of liquor. But an saw another fish like that one.”
As proof that the fish was all he de­
order from headquarters has stopped
Immoderate drinking In a large pro­ scribes Capt. Ross ¡«tints to the log.
portion of the greatest establishments which says the encounter took place
in latitude 45 degrees 30 minutes
throughout the country.
north, longitude 152 degrees west.—«
Were one to inquire Into the rela­ San Francisco Call.
tion of nature study to the Increasing
Mo l>i«i»nte.
number of people who "camp out,” it
"John D. Rockefeller says the best
would be hard to say which Is cause thing he ever did was to join a Sun­
tnd which effict, but it Is certain that day school.”
ths two hav developed simultaneous­
“Well, so far as I have learned, it
ly within comparatively few years. It Was."—Philadelphia Ledger.
was aot WJ long ago that camping
out W.IO r< warded as a mysterious di-
A high roll' r cuts a qu* r figure
fsfs.vu n which the male members who* he g"ta * o«*te on.
“WHO GIVE ill HIMSEXT.”
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
A WARNING TO WOMEN.
ENTION has been made of the new and
fashionable zoophll-psychosts, or exag­
gerated affection for animals, which nerve
specialists now recognize as a distinct
type of malady among women. Two types
of women are comprised among the vic­
tims of the new disorder—those who find
it easier to stufT a lapdog with caramels than to exert
energy in housekeeping, and those overburdened with
nonsensical theories inculcated by scores of so-called
new thought expounders. In each type artificial s.Vm
pathles are carefully cultivated. Put in one case the
woman is lazy, unintelligent and merely fond of her­
self. while in the other she believes herself to be a
philosopher, gifted with insight, highly mystical and
somewhat above the ordinary mortal. Of the latter
type must be the gifted American writer of overvivid
verse and platitudinous prose who recently unveiled to
the trembling public the pitiful throbs of her heart in
the throes of a soul-kiss received from a horse.
Imagine a condition of ecstatic self-hypnotism which
mvsticizes the kindly caress of a lonesome equine. Im­
agine, if your imagination can stand such a strain, a
feminine philosophy which regards as fit subject for
dilation to the suffering public the soul-kiss of a horse.
Surely this is zoophil-psychosls in its worst form. Such
rapturous thrills as this talented lady might experi­
ence from the sentimental advances of a melancholy
mule should be too sacred to be rudely exposed to the
unsentimental world.—Chicago Journal.
OUR LITTLE ARMY
FFICERS of the highest rank have been
few in the American army. In fact, no
officer of the very highest rank—that of
field marshal—has ever been commis­
sioned by the United States. Including
Washington, fhere have been but four
generals since the establishment of the
government, and only twelve officers have held the rank
of lieutenant general. With the retirement of Lieuten­
ant General MacArthur, on account of age, on June 2,
the rank was discontinued.
It is on account of the smallness of the army that
officers of high rank have seldom been appointed to
command it. The European armies, with their field
marshals and generals, are large enough to warrant the
permanent organization with commanders of all grades.
At the time of the Mexican war Major General Scott
was the only officer of that rank ‘in the whole Ameri­
can army. It was not till 1855 that he received the
brevet rank of lieutenant general. Washington was
the only other officer who prior to that time had held
the rank.
When Grant was made lieutenant general in 1864 he
was really the first officer to hold that rank while in ac­
tual command of the armies of the nation in time of war.
Grant was promoted to the higher rank of general in
1866. His successors were Sherman and Sheridan. When
Sheridan died in 1888, two months after he was made
general, the rank of general and lieutenant general
ceased, and the lower rank was not revived till twelve
years later, when Major General Miles was made lieu­
tenant general. The grad'1 has continued for the past
nine years, and six officers who reached it are now on
the retired list.
The highest rank in the army is now that of major
general, and the senior officer of that grade is Leonard
Wood. He is in command of the Department of the
East. So long as the army continues small, and so
long as there Is no occasion for its active service
in extended operations, Congress is likely to allow the
present situation to remain unchanged.—Youth’s Com­
panion.
«
FLY A PUBLIC ENEMY.
F it be true—and there is no reason to
doubt the oft-repeated dictum of physl-
clans and sanitarians—that the fly Is “the
barometer of the filth of the community,1
the first duty is the cultivation of cleanly
habits, both in the community at large
and in the domestic domain. Experience
has shown that an Immediate reduction of the number
of flies has followed the cleaning up of rubbish heaps,
the removal of manure piles and the adoption of sani­
tary methods in stables and other places where organic
filth is liable to accumulate. The protection of the
fly from Infection in turn requires the screening of sick­
rooms and scrupulous care in the disposal of wastes of
every character. Finally, the protection of man against
the fly calls for the same strict screening of houses and
the rigid enforcement of precautions against the access
of fifes to food supplies, whether In the house or in the
market.
Some or all of these precautions will be neglected or
scouted by the careless and the indifferent, but with
the wider spread of accurate knowledge of the part
which the fly actually plays in the dissemination of
disease the public should be willing to enlist with great­
er unanimity In the campaign planned by health au­
thorities in this and other cities.—Philadelphia Ledger.
DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE.
N interesting announcement comes from
Cambridge. Harvard is to add a new de­
partment to its medical curriculum. It
will give its attention to the subject of
public health and preventive medicine. A
prolessor to have charge of the instruc­
tion has been chosen and the new work
will begin with the opening of the next university year.
The statement is made that the department is estab­
lished in recognition of the growing importance of the
subject to be studied.
In the large cities, particularly, lhe most casual ob­
server has noted the trend of medical thought. The
Health Department has become an educator of the peo-
pie. Its officials have carried the idea into many a
household that a large share of the diseases of hu
manity may be prevented, The value of fresh air has
been emphasized, The importance of cleanliness has
been urged again and again. The necessity of careful
attention to little details of household administration
has been kept constantly in view. Sometimes the cyn­
ical laugh. But the officials continue their work. Then
they point to the mortality records as evidence of the
value of their instruction.—Chicago Tribune.
mal doctors, an' would help out any any kind or from the enormous num­
kind of an animal. He told me how ber in which they save life by permit­
PET AND PLAYMATE.
ting the performance of operations
to get here.
“ 'It took me some time, an’ when I which it would be imjiosslble to ac­
got here it was shut up. That's what complish without their aid.
•
It may be safely said that, in round
I’m waiting for—for them to open up.
"The time will come,” said Hobbes,
numbers, there are 3,000 successful ad­
I hope they open up early.
"when man will be humane even to
" 'Officer, 1'11 give you a peep at Na­ ministrations of anesthetics for every
the wolf;” and it may be added, to the
poleon. I'm ’frald he’d catch his death attributable to them, and it is
smaller creatures, with which he per­
death if I let you see all of him In only the immense number of opera­
sists in waging war. In this light it
this night air, him being so puny al­ tions which they have rendered possi­
is interesting to read a story printed
ready. The old man says he’s just ble and successful that explains the
by the New York Times. "Let me
natu’ly dying of old age, same as hint comparatively very small number of
tell you something that happened early
an’ me will soon, he says; but I told fatal accidents which have occurred in
yesterday
morning,"
the
private
him—Mercy me, officer, Napoleon's a given hospital or in a given time.
watchman said to a Times reporter.
Notwithstanding the vast preponder­
dead
already!’
'It's not news:
"I called an ambulance,” concluded ance of safety, it is impossible to deny
"Before midnight I noticed an old
the private watchman, "because she the existence of a certain, or rather
woman sitting on the steps of the
fainted. But she came round all of an uncertain, amount of real danger,
building of the Society for the Preven­
right, and went back to Harlem. She | and hence there is a very general feel­
tion of Cruelty to Animals, in 26th
said she guessed the old man was ing that the powerful drugs concerned
street. 1 thought she’d got tired and j
right about Napoleon—and her, too.” have been employed in the past with
had stopped to rest. Passing at 12
somewhat greater freedom than is en­
o'clock, I saw her still there, sitting
DEATHS FROM ANESTHETICS.
tirely justifiable.
up straight, as if waiting for some
one. A 1 o'clock she was still there. They V re Small In Proportion tn
MAN’S HAT BLOWN IN CAVE.
At 2 I investigated her case—not that
< naea, but (notion I» Neeesaaryr.
it was any of my business.
The melancholy death under an an­
” ’Officer,’ said she, ’you’ll let me esthetic of the Hon. T. A Fowys. the I>raft Caine from Opening and Cav­
ern 1« Kevealed.
stay here, won't you? I'll tell you young heir and only son of Lord Lil-
why. I’m cook and maid an’ bottle- ford, in the course of an operation not
The loss of a hat and a search for
washer an' everything except cap’n I generally associated with any idea of ; It resulted In the discovery of another
on the lumber barge Queenle—been danger, Is an event which will direct mammoth cave, which is expected to
there for twelve years now.
public attention to the dangers attend­ | surpass In extent the famous Wind
“’In this shawl Is Napoleon—my ant upon the use of anesthetics in gen | cave in the southern Black Hills.
The Bite of the new cave Is In Pen
white rat. A scholar I knew gave eral and upon the precautions neces­
him that name, because he's so little sary In order to reduce these dangers nington County, South Dakota, in the
and fat. He said Napoleon was gen­ to a minimum. From the report of the eastern foothills of the Black Hills,
Inquest upon Mr. Powys, the London the entrance being on the ranch of
erally that way.
"You wouldn’t think much of a rat Times says, it appears that he was suf­ Charles Maddock. The new cave was
for a pet? Why, me an’ Napoleon fering from the enlargements at the accidentally discovered by Mr. Mad­
have had some great times together. back of the throat which are common­ dock while walking about his ranch.
On dark winter nights, when the wind ly known as the adenoid enlargements, Near the spot where the entrance to
an’ waves are cutting up outside, me which are not attended by any Imine the cave was afterward discovered his
an’ Napoleon go through our tricks by diate danger to life. A professional bat suddenly blew off his head and dis
anesthetist was employed to conduct appeared. In following the direction
lamplight behind solid timbers.
“ 'He can stand on his hind legs, the administration and he began his taken by the hat the mouth of the cave
an’ he'll lie down an’ turn over when proceedings by a complete examina was disclosed.
I say the word.
Summer days we tlon of the patient, in which condi­
Explorations thus far have been In
chase each other 'round over the lum­ tion he discovered nothing to call for terfered with by the presence across
ber, an’ the old man says we’re a more than ordinary caution. The an­ the explored passage of a wall of
esthetic used was a mixture of chloro­ limestone rock, which has accumulat­
pair of fools.
“'Well, sir, the last trip up Napo­ form with ether, and It was not until ed from the celling of one of the cham
leon began to ail. I noticed that the the operation was nearly completed bers.
minute he stood on his hind feet he that a sudden failure of respiration
It Is a curious coincidence that the
fell over
"Napoleon, there’s some­ gave warning of imminent danger. A discovery of the new cave and that of
;>ost-mortem examination disclosed the the now famous Wind cave were Iden­
thing wrong with you,” I said.
" Well, we got into Harlem early existence of a condition to which at­ tical in circumstances, Wind cave hav
to-night. I started out to look for a tention has recently been called by ing been discovered many years ago
doctor. I walked In an’ waited for other cases of like kind, a condition by a cowboy, whose hat blew off and
two hours, an’ then he said he didn’t called status lymphatlcus, which ap­ was drawn by a fierce air current Into
doctor vermin. What do you think of pears not to be discoverable during life the entrance of what has since been
and which Involves special danger In known as Wind cave, which now be­
that, officer? Napoleon a vermin!
•”I kept on walking along looking the use of anesthetics.
longs to the United Htatee govern­
The occasional occurrence of fatal ment and has been included tn a na­
for doctor signs in the windows Two
more places I went the girl said right consequences from the administration tional park, which la yearly visited by
out flat, when she saw me at the door, of chloroform or of ether, however a great number of people.
that the doctor wa’n’t in an' wa’u’t much to be deplored tn the Individual
instances, should not be permitted to
( y pvt t c d
Nine In ten who telephone take this
" ’After a while I went Into a sa- divert attention from the enormous i for granted: ”1 do not have to tell
I on a:, 1 a m in th re aid the s x-iety num’ er of cases In which these agents ! who I am, for everyone know* My
,.i thia build.ng had ail kinds of j >>I- are .ulmlalstered without 111 eS*ct* of Voice."
Cell* Framlej had dropped >n to
have « that a "next ♦<» the loot
word." she always called It —With her
friend, Marcia Leslie. At last ii.ou*
talked with all her usual ea< r v.vaei
ty site sat leisurely back, sirring her
cup of tea.
"PH have another lump. Marcia,"
she said, with mock reproach. "You're
always forgetting that 1 haven't just
one sweet tooth, but a whole set of
them. Now tell me, what have you
been doing?"
"A very useful thing, my dear," an­
swered her friend, slowly. “I’ve been
interesting myself in Myrtle's read­
ing."
Miss Framley gave a little shriek of
amusement.
"What. 'The Duchess’
and 'Laura Jean Libbey?’ 'Oh. what
a falling off is there!'” she quoted,
with genial sarcasm, for immediately
her mind made a vivid picture of Myr­
tle, a half-pretty, wholly pathetic little
figure, who plodded patiently through
her cleaning cares, apparently unfitted
for any others.
But Marcia had already broken out
in ardent defense of her protege.
“No, not trash at all. and you'll nev­
er believe me, but it's poetry," she
said. “I threw away an old Brown­
ing text Bob had in college, and Myr­
tle found it and asked me if she might
have it. I gave it to her—and I
laughed; and I hate myself whenever
I think of It. Do you know, she's read
it all, with such intelligent apprecia­
tion!
"Why, the other night she looked at
the west, and said, 'Miss Marcia, I
suppose that's what Browning means
when he says. "Where the quiet col­
ored end of evening smiles.”’ And
for her birthday, last week. I gave her
Palgrave’s 'Golden Treasury’ — before
this I've always given her silly bows
and collars -and she’s read it all aloud
to her mother, and they loved it. Poor
little thing! She has so few books!”
All through Marcia's speech Celia
had put in little fluttering "Ahs!" and
"Ohs!” of excitement and interest, and
when her friend stopped speaking, she
was sitting quite on the edge of her
chair.
"I'm a beast, and a stupid one, too,
to misjudge Myrtle so!” she declared,
warmly, for she loved and admired
with eager intelligence all good litera­
ture. "And as a penance I’m going to
give her some of my treasures."
But in the common light of the next
day her generous impulse was harder
to carry out. She stood before her
bookcase, fingering the volumes, and
wondering how she could ever bear
parting with them A country doctor’s
daughter, books were her luxury. The
Thackeray she had earned by endless
copying of manuscripts for her father;
the beautiful edition of Tennyson
meant that she had worn shabby
gloves for a winter; the set of Jane
Austen a willingly renounced party
frock.
Her beloved books! Now. half-neart-
edly, she built her sacrificial pile.
Then a sudden thought made her
throat tighten and ache a little. Books
had always seemed very real to her,
their authors living friends. Would
her idols feel that she loved them less
well, cherished them less tenderly, if
she gave them away? She picked up
her copy of Lowell, and it fell open
easily to "The Vision of Sir Launfal,"
almost her dearest poem. And out of
the whole page these two lines seemed
to spring:
“Who giveth himself with his alms
feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and
Me!”
"That settles It!” she said, aloud,
“Celia, you're a selfish pig! The best
way to love the masters Is to share
their glory with some one else.” She
caught up a generous armful and ran,
hatless, impetuous, to Marcia's door.
"Give these books to Myrtle—and I
want her to keep them — with my
love!” she panted, and she thrust out
the pile. Then she turned and walked
quickly away. She had given herself
with her alms.—Youth’s Companion.
MUSICIAN A MASTER OF WIT.
Biography of Kdwnrd Mncllotvell
Ret rula Mniler’ii < ntiMlc Humor.
In a biography of Edward MacDow-
ell by Lawrence Gilman, the writer
quotes some of the famous musician’s
witticisms.
On one occasion he had
been told of a performance of his
composition, "To a Wild Rose,” played
by a high school girl on a high-school
piano at a high school graduation fes­
tivity. "Well,” MacDowell remarked.
"I suppose she pulled it up by the
roots!”
Some one sent him, about this time,
relates Mr. Humi.ston, a program of
an organ recital at which this same
"Wild Rose” was to be played.
“He was not pleased with the Idea,
thinking doubtless of a style of per­
formance which plays Schumann’s
“Traumerel’ on the great organ dia­
pasons. He remarked simply that It
reminded him of a hippopotamus wear­
ing a clover leaf In his mouth.”
A member of one of his classes at
Columbia, finding more unoccupied
space on the page of his book, after
finishing the exercise, filled up the va­
cancy with resits. When his book was
returned the page was covered with
corrections-—all exrept these bars of
rests, which were Inclosed in a red
line and marked:
"This is the only correct passage la
the exercise.”—Youth’s Companion.
Walt L'atll “Oat of the Woo*.**
When thou hast not crossed tb*
river, take care not to Insult the croco­
dile.—Hawaiian Proverb.