ATHENA PRESS
Tuesday and fridsys
K B.BOYD Publisher
In Russia you are entirely free to
rote Just as the government desires.
Any man can tell a lie, but it takes a
born diplomat to Induce people to be
lieve It
The London Lancet says the Christ
mas pudding Is not Indigestible. Not
unless you eat it
Besides, the army can take care of
Poult Blgelow If he goes snooping
round the isthmus again.
Evidently the people of England re
gard the old plan for a tunnel under
the English Channel as a terrible bore.
Count Zeppelein has spent all his for
tune trying to sail through the cloud
All bis palaces are now castles In the
air.
A man named Gong has recently been
married. When his wife strikes him
for money, the whole town is likely to
hear It
Spain's lemon crop has been ruined;
but we have never had to worry much
about the lemons Spain tried to hand
us, anyhow. 1
As to the Jamaica earthquake, it is
feared that the worst is yet to come.
Alfred Austin is said to have written a
poem about it
A French scientist has discovered
that insects have no minds. What's
the matter with the Insects? Do they
moke cigarettes?
Prominent among those who will not
be present at the next distribution of
Carnezie medals for bravery will be
found the captain of the Larchmont
Mr. Harrlman says "a successful man
has no chance these days." Truly, there
does not seem to be much of the ele
ment of chance In the little game Mr.
Harrlman plays.
Although there Is a possibility of our
getting Into communication with Mars,
It Is not likely that we will ever be able
to borrow an occasional hod of coal
from there during a fuel famine.
Health departments throughout the
country are warning everybody to look
out for the influenza germ, although not
one In a thousand of us would recognize
the little pest If we were to see It
The Mississippi Supreme Court has
ruled that a boy has an inalienable
right to climb a tree. But there Is also
the father's Inalienable right to thrash
blm for tearing his clothes while doing
It
Ooldwln Smith wants to know why,
If the theory of evolution is correct, no
more monkeys are developing Into
men. Perhaps It Is because so many of
the sons of men are cvolutlng the other
way.
deadliest on record. 10? mothew re-1
celved Jie bonus. The mortality was
44 In the thousand, as compared with
the previous 122. There Is something
very attractive in a form of Infantile
Insurance which pays, not upon proof
of death, but upon evidence of contin
ued existence.
Shall the patient be told what alls
him and what drugs have been pre
scribed for him or shall the physician
maintain a dark and mysterious silence
except as to the amount of his fee?
This Is the question which was pro
posed by no less a personage than the
President of the American Medical As
sociation the other day. He did not an
swer his own interrogatory, but his ob
servations Indicated that be favored a
policy of greater candor upon the part
of the physician. There is obviously
something to be said on both sides of
the question. It is true that the patient
wants to know what is wrong with him
and at first sight it may look as If the
physician ought to satisfy the desire
for information. But there are good
and substantial reasons why the doctor
does not do so. For one thing, the
chances are that he does not himself
know what ails the sufferer. For an
other thing,. It might do the patient
more harm than good to be told of his
disease. The first-named reason In
volves no reflection upon the skill and
learning of the .doctoT. The physician
never lived who could unfailingly diag
nose offhand and from one observation.
Fever, for Instance, marks the onset of
dozen different diseases and until
distinctive symptoms develop the medi
cal man cannot tell which one of the
dozen diseases Is In progress. Under
such circumstances his obvious course
Is to maintain a dignified reticence un
til he actually knows what Is wrong.
To guess and guess wrong would be dis
astrous. When we come to consider
the matter of Informing the patient
concerning the drugs that have been
prescribed for him the considerations
favor a negative conclusion. There la
a psychic as well as a material force in
a medicine whose constituents are un
known to the patient All doctors know
it The bread pill and other "placebos'
prove It Tell a man that he is taking
calomel, for Instance, and he Is likely
to protest thatcalomelalwaysdlsagrees
with him and never did him any good.
Give him calomel accompanied by the
assurance that here Is a most potent
drug whose name he need not know and
his sense of the marvelous is excited.
He Is likely to put faith in the drug
for the very reason that he does not
know what It Is. That Is half the bat
tle, Our modern physicians may not
acknowledge It, but they practice faith
cure more and more every day. The
power of suggestion helps the calomel
when the patient does not know what
he Is taking. All things considered,
therefore, the weight of evidence is In
favor of the policy of mysterious
lence on the part of the doctor. It not
only aids the patient but t helps the
doctor, for the less he says the less he
will have to explain if things go wrong.
t . THE .
We have read of a man who the
other day fell down stairs and broke
his neck while, trying to kiss a woman.
It would simply be a waste of space
to point out the moral to this sad accident
The tailors in convention assembled
have decided that the styles for the
coming season must be different In ev
ery respect from those that have pre
vailed during the past year. The tail
ors know how to promote their business.
Says Mrs. Carrie Catt : "A wife must
train her husband and keep him trained
Just as one trains a young mule." Far
be It from our Intentions to say any
thing that would seem like a contradic
tion of Mrs. Catt, but we would like to
ask what the average wife knows about
training a mule?
In real or supposed imitation of col
lege youths, still more youthful students
In high schools and preparatory schools
have adopted strange head-gears. In
stead of the modest boyish cap and the
neat soft or stiff felt hat for "dress
up," some fantastic boys have topped
themselves with slouch-hats, variously
dlstortod in the shape of the brims
and even decorated with markings and
devices. The principal of one hign
school has asked his boys to cast off the
crazy head-coverings. The matter of
decency and simplicity of dress la real
ly Important The boy who deliberately
wears something that draws attention
to himself may be pardoned by any one
with humor enough to understand boy
ish folly. Nevertheless, the habit of
unobtrusive dress is a good one to cul-
, tJ vate early.
Huddersfleld, England, has lately
been the scene of a curious and interest
ing experiment made by the Mayor. In
Longwood, poor district of the town,
the rate of mortality among young
children had been 122 In the thousand.
The new Mayor, Mr. Broadbent,
brother of Sir William Broadbent, the
king's physician, decided when he took
office to do what he could to reduce this
high death rate. The plant he adopted
was the offer of a guinea to parents in
certain specified districts for every child
born during his term of office and liv
ing at the end of a year. In spite of
the fact that serious epidemics of
whooping-cough and measles prevailed
during the year of the tests, and that
ths summer of 1908 was oat of the
Tery Lucid.
A lady left her home for her annual
visit to her mother. Before her depart
ure she told her husband that if he
wanted anything that he could not eas
ily find he was to write to her for dl
rectlons. "Don't turn the house upside
down, as you generally do," she said.
"I will answer at once and tell you
Just where It la.' Soon after his wife's
departure a neighbor came In to borrow
pattern of a dress. The husband
wrote, as he had been requested to do.
This was the answer by return "You
will find It hanging on the wall by the
garret stairs, or In the box on top of
the sewing machine In Ellen's room
the green box, or the red one, I forgot
which. Perhaps though, it Is on the
top shelf In the cupboard In our room
left-hand side, If I remember cor
rectly, but look on the other side, too.
If not there it Is In the bottom drawer
of the bureau in the hall. That' Is where
I keep my patterns, and don't untie all
the bundles. It Is among them some
where. Perhaps It is In the second
drawer. It Is somewhere upstairs, any
way, so dont rummage downstairs,
P, g, Now I come to think of It, I
may have lent It to my sister Ann I"
When Chloroform Wm New.
Here Is a curious little story about
Sir James Simpson, the man who in
troduced the use of chloroform Into
surgery, and a peril which he escaped,
as recorded by Lyon Playfair. Simp
son when busy with his researches In
to the subject of anaesthetics called
one day on Playfair and asked If he
had anything new likely to produce
anaesthesia. Playfair had Just pre
pared a liquid which seemed worthy of
trial Simpson, who knew no fear, pre
pared instantly to test it on himself.
This Playfair refused to allow until It
had first been tried on rabbits. Two
were procured and placed under the ef
fects of the anaesthetic. Next day
Simpson proposed to try it on himself.
"We mlgh.t as well see how the rabbits
have fared," said Playfair. They found
both the animals dead.
The two most popular English books
In Russia at the present day, according
to the Dally Mall, are Milton's "Para
dise Lost" and "The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes."
Interesting data gathered by the Pub
lishers' Circular show that during the
last year seven new works of fiction
have on an average appeared every
weekday and two new editions. There
has been a decrease in biography, his
tory, belles-lettres, theology, books on
art science, travel and In poetical and
dramatic works. Fiction is the literary
food demanded by the public and fiction
all forms is being abundantly sup
plied.
An amusing commentary on Pierre
Lotl's languishing romance "Lea Desen
chantees" Is presented by a reviewer
In Putnam's Monthly. It appears that
Lotl as a matter of fact had a number
of Interviews with three young Turkish
women In a Constantinople barem,
though his acquaintance was carried on
without any of the mystery or adven
ture so elaborated in the novel Lotl
discussed his projected "Les Desenchan-
tees" with these young ladies, but their
sentiments prove to be scarcely as dell
cate as he might wish. They regard
themselves as real collaborators, and
because M. Lotl has not forwarded
them a share of the royalties there has
been talk of a lawsuit
The new subscription edition of the
works of George Eliot has aroused
fresh interest in the personality of the
woman whose first fiction appeared
when she was nearly 40 years of age.
Dickens wrote to her praising her
truth, delicacy and pathos," and
knowing her only from the "George
Eliot" on the title page he declared
that "If these moving fictions origin
ated with no woman I believe that no
man ever before had the art of mak
ing himself mentally so like a woman
since the world began." Froude wrote
to her, "I do not know whether I am
addressing a young man or an old,"
but in his delight and admiration he
urged "George Eliot" to come and ac
cept his hospitality.
In writing of James Whltcomb Riley
In the Books News Monthly Hewitt
Hanson Howland says: "As a maker
and teller of stories Mr. Riley Is incom
parable. He was born with the gift
Never too many, never too long, always
suited to the moment and fitted to the
scene, his story -punctuated conversa
tion is ever a delight His method of
introduction Is original and artistic
There are never any 'that reminds
me' or "you remember" beginnings, but
with a full appreciation of the value
of a good opening sentence he will say :
'When Bony Meak' (that's a typical
Riley name) 'was first assistant post
master at Idavllle he used to tell,' etc.
Bony gets the credit, you see, and Riley
a heartier laugh for having given It to
him.".
Mrs. George McCracken, under the
pseudonymn L. A. M. Priestley, in "The
Love Stories of Some Famous Wom
en," nas selected eignt women or strong
character and told how and with what
effect they have fallen In love. Eliza
beth Barrett Browning and Isabel,
Lady Burton, are quoted as women of
strong personality, who wedded men of
equal or greater caliber and found hap
piness In marriage. George Eliot, in
her Irregular alliance with George Hen
ry Lewes found domestic bliss marred
by social disapproval, Mrs. Slddons
overshadowed her husband, Mme. Ro
land married a great man, to find him
to be emotionally her antithesis ; Char
lotte Bronte, after amazing the world
with Jane Eyre, married a country
curate of blameless life, who, the au
thor claims, disapproved of her literary
habits.
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