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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1916)
BLOOD SUCKER ONCE VALUED. Our great-grand fathers regarded the leech as a sort of first-aid outfit in case of sickness. In the deys when blood-letting was a popular pancea the phy sician would have worried less over*the loss of his pill box than over the death of this little animal. And so long as blood-letting was pop ular there was nothing to match the effciency of the leech. Nature fitted him for the task to which the physician adapted him. Long before he was used on humans the leech was performing operations of his own on fish, frogs and other neighbors of his in the mud and slime at the bottom of his marsh home. His operating tools consist of a cup like sucker at the end of his tail and another at his mouth. Also at his mouth are three semi-circular, sharp toothed jaws, which he works together like a saw. With these he cuts his way through the scales of a fish and reaches the blood. Then the leech’s worm-like body be gins to expand. He has 11 pairs of sacks in his stomach, and he must fill all these before he is satisfied. He drinks until he is from two to three times his natural size. The leech is liveliest in daytime, and at night curls up for a nap. When winter comes he buries himself in the mud and waits for warmer weather. EDIBLE FLOWERS. In some regions of eastern Europe it is the custom to mix violets, roses and limes with sweetmeats in order to impart a floral tincture to the taste of fruit. In Turkey sweets are made of carnations, lilies and lavender. Flo ral sandwiches are made in Greece and Turkey with nasturtiums, a most edible flower that grows in most warm and temperate climates in profusion. Sandwiches are also made of pepper mint finely ground and spread over thinly sliced radishes between even more thinly sliced and buttered bread. It is said that the dahlia furnishes an excellent food, although somewhat acrid. In the kitchens of China and Japan flowers are almost as much in use as are vegetables in the prepara tion of rare dishes. THE FLOWERS OF THE SEA. Like the land, the sea has its flow ers, but the most brilliant of the ma rine flowers bloom not upon plants but upon animals. The living corals of tropical seas present a display of floral beauty that in richness and viv idness of color and variety and grace of form rivals the splendor of a gar den of flowers. The resemblance to blossoms is so complete that some per sons find it difficult to believe that the brilliant display contains no ele ment of plant life, but is wholly ani mal in its organization. Among the sea animals that bloom as if they were plants are included, be sides corals, the sea anemone and the set cucumber. It has been remarked that the birds and butterflies of the upper world are replaced by fishes of curious forms and flashing colors which dart about among the animal flowers. A SURGICAL MAGNET. An ingenious surgical instrument is intended to extrast ptrticles of iron and steel from the human eyes. It consists of a powerful electro-magnet ers. When an operation is to be per formed one end of the magnet is cau tiously brought near the patient’s eye If a piece of steel or iron is imbedded n the eyeball of the patient experi ences a sharp pain as the metallic sli ver forces its way through the tissues and flies to the magnet. The injury to the eye is stid to be less than that •aused hy using a knife. CARE OF THE BABY. Birth Registration. Has the birth of your baby been registered ? If not, you should see to t that this duty is prformed without delay. It may some time be of the greatest importance to your child that there be in existence an accurate legal •ecord of his birth, date, place, and aarentage. Such a record serves to 'stablish his age beyond question, and through this his right to the legal )eriod of schooling and freedom from 'abor. It may also serve to establish his right to a disputed inheritance and to establish for him various property or other legal rights which may be in dispute. There are numerous in stances where the lack of this sort of record has been the cause of seri dus losses of inheritance and of edu cational and other rights. In New York City in 1913 the birth -ecords helped to enforce the personal or property rights of more than 138, 000 persons. It is, in most states, required by 'aw that the doctor, midwife, or other attendant at birth shall report the birth to the registrar of births, but as this duty is not infrequently neg 'ected, parents should investigate to see whether it has been done properly n the case of their children. The complete registering of all births is indispensable, not only to the 'ndividual, but to the state and the nation. The Federal Government can and loes tell us exactly how great is the accession to our population each year by immigration, or intake from for eign lands. At each port of landing mmigration inspectors record each arrival and tell us his or her national ly, age, sex, destination, and how nueh money each one brings. Hut the Federal Government cannot go into he States and cities and establish ■•egistration offices and tell us how nany children enter each State by birth. This work must be done by -■ach State separately. We have no national bookkeeping to account for the ebb and flow of human life as an asset and a liability of our civic or ganism. We have no national records o give our sanitarians and students a basis for their preventive studies. Congress by resolution has urged the States to enact and enforce suitable "egistration legislation. The State governments must now act. Most of the States now have ade quate laws; their enforcement, how ever, depends to a large extent upon aopular support. This support is as sured if individual parents will insist tpon the registration of each birth.— Prepared by the Children’s Bureau, rJ. S. Department of Labor. MAJOR CHARLES YOUNG GIVEN SPINGARN MED 'L (Continued from first nape.) af re-organizing and training the Li berian Constabulary, and it is espe •iallv for his brilliant work in this connection that he is receiving the bpingarn Medal. Ex-Secretary of War Garrison vrote on January 28: “It is especially gratifying to me o learn taat Major Charles Young, tenth Cavalry, is to receive this rec agnition for his services in Liberia 'iave been of a high order. His serv ce there has received the highest jommendation from the President and Secretary of State of Liberia, as well as from our own Secretary of State and our Charge d’Affaires at Monro via. 1 have directed the Command ng General, Eastern Department, to designate an officer to represent the War Department on the occasion of his receiving the medal. Major-General Leonard Wood writes: “I appreciate very much the good work which has been done by Major Young in Liberia. He was selected ’or this work because of his special qualifications, good judgment and ability. It is a great satisfaction to know he has so fully met the require nents of that difficult situation. His service in the Army has been highly ■reditable to his race from every standpoint, and I beg you to transmit to him my sincere congratulations on the good work which he has accom plished and the well-earned recogni tion which he has received.” After the presentation of the medal to Major Young by Governor McCall, Addresses were made by Bishop J. W. Hamilton of the M. E. Church, Dr. W. E. Du Bois, Editor of the Crisis, and Dr. Alexander Mann, rector of Trinity Church, Dr. Horace Bum stead, formerly president of Atlanta University, and Major of the Forty third Itegiment of Colored Troops in the Civil War, described the work of he Negro as an American soldier. A 'urge rpresentation of officers from he army posts near Boston was also iresent, and the War Department was ifficially represented. The Spingam Medal is offered each ; year by the donor and is not restricted o any particular field of human en deavor. Last year the first medal was awarded to Dr. Edward E Just, professor in the Haward Universisy Medical .School, for distinguished work in biological research and for the advancement of medical educa tion among colored people. It was presented to him by Governor Whit nan in the Ethical Culture Hall, New York City, before two thousand peo nle, and the occasion received the A blest publicity in the press of the bole country, because of the recog vtion given a Negro for high scienti fic attainments. COCKNEY AN OLD DIALECT Writer Asserts That Peculiar Pronun ciations Have Been in Use for Hundreds of Years. Cockney speech has found a defen der in Mr. Mackenzie MacBride, who undertakes to show that Cockney is no modern dialect or corrupted form of the King's English, but that it is of ancient and honorable lineage run ning back for nearly a thousand years. It is pointed out that when the per son “born within the sound of Bow Bells," says “thet” for “that,” “benk" for “bank,” and “byliff" for “bailiff,” he is really guilty of no corruption of the English language, since these pro nunciations have obtained not only in London but in Kent and Surrey for hundreds of years. In like manner is justified “abaht” and “ahtside" for "about” and “out side.” It is suggested that many Lon doners have been laughed out of these “ancient and excellent” pronuncia tions Mr. MacBride earnestly urges them not to change their speech be cause of any uncalled-for animadver sions against it. Whether Mr. MacBride be correct or not in his contentions, it is a fact that Cockney has survived for many cen turies in the midst of speech that is deemed more cultured. It is a curious fact that in the Bahama islands which were settled more than 200 vears ago by Londoners, the Cockney Bpeech is as strong as it is in Cheapside. 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