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Fighting
the Spring
Epidemic
By WOODS IIVTCHIMSOX, M. D.
There la on marked and atiikinf ad
vantage about our modern view of the
causation of our March epidemics. It
gives ua control over them In larri
measure. When we believed they wen
due to the weather, we were prctt
nearly helpless, for while we have consid
erable power over aome things, we cer
tainly cannot control the weather any
more than another most powerful and
changeable Influence that begins with
We can do much, and are already
doing much, toward reducing thels heavy
spring disease rate; partly by urging
the open-air life all through the winter
to cut down and counteract the piling
up of toxins and hot -housing effects:
partly by taking special pains at thla
time of year to prevent the spread of
the contagious diseases that are now so
deadly, partly by giving ourselves and
our children every possible advantage
of rest, vacation and relief from strain
that we can at thla season.
It is therefore a peculiarly appropriate
Ktep which has Just been taken by the
New York State Health department,
and that Is the placarding of public
Places all over the state with cards giv
ing warning against and clear directions
for avoiding the spread of contagious
diseases, particularly those of children.
Five of the great railroads In New
York -state have agreed to post these
placards and keep them displayed In
their waiting rooms, which is a very
judicious step, because travelers oftn
have considerable time on their minds
and are willing to kill It by reading
almost anything legible that catches the
eye.
Thla Is part of a general, well planned
and already succeeding campaign against
the spread of infectious dlaeases, and
particularly those that are regarded as
the milder and more trivial ones, though
(Equally deadly In the long run.
The keynote of the movement now is:
Parents, keep your children away from
contagious diseases and from every child
Who either looks or acts sick, because
this Is the time of year at which their
resistance against them is lowest.
It Is not that the germs, or contagions,
of these diseases are more virulent or
more aggreeslve at this time of the year,
but that the human aoll has been so
peculiarly and favorably prepared for
their growth that they grow like weeds
wherever their chance seed Is scattered.
The old idea of them, also, used to be
that they were caused by the weather,
spread like a miasma or deadly vapor
over the landscape, were bred by heat
and moisture, or came down from the
heavens a Dove, as a Judgment; or by the
Influence of some planet, as the phrar.
"Under the weather," and the name if
one of the swiftest spreading of them,
"Influenza." Imply.
Now we know that the seed of each
one of these Infections Is kept alive and
carried over between epidemics by human
, beings, or occasionally animals, known
as "carriers." ...
These are Individuals who have' had
the disease and have-recovered from It,
but Instead of expelling the germs from
their system, still carry" colonies of them
urklng about' In varlou nooks and cor
ners of their bodies.
Most frequently about the roots of
their teeth, or the sinuses of the nose In
catarrh, or In the pockets about their
tonsils, or In their gall bladders or ap
pendices, or in swollen glands or ab
scesses In various parts of the body.
These colonies of "resting" or "wlnter
. Ing' germs are no manner of use to the
host who entertains them; In fact, there
Is reason to believe that they slowly
poison the blood and often produce gout,
rheumatism and anemia as well as oe
slonally serious diseases of the heart,
kidney and nerous system, but they do
not produce another attack of the dis
ease. A carrier of this sort, with a smoulder
ing term-fuse in him, may go about
harmlessly for months, or even years,
until something that he sneezes out, or
coughs or spits, gets on the fingers or on
the food, into the mouth or into the
nose of some child who has never had
the disease and whose resisting power is
lowered by Ill-health, Indoor confine
ment. Injudicious feeding or overstrain.
Then it bursts out Into the blase of a
full-grown attack of the disease and
spreads like a prairie fire to every other
child of susceptible age brought In con
tact with the little sufferer, particularly
If they, too. have been subject to the
rime depressing winter Influenoes.
The moral of which Is: Keep your child,
particularly at this time of the year,
away from every other child that looks
sick or unhealthy, and also from every
boy, girl or grown-up who has red eyes
or a blocked and snuffling nose, or In
hawking and spitting with chronic ca
tarrh, or has an offensive breath from
decayed teeth, or even suffers much from
rheumatism, or gout, or anemia.
If you do, you will greatly diminish
liia risks of catching not merely colds
and sore throsts, but also tuberculosis,
rteumonls, bronchitis, scarlet fever.
,'iphtherla and measles.
Clean up the so-called chronic diseases
which scatter germs and a considerable
proportion of the acute, infectious ones
will disappear.
On the other hand. If your child is un
fortunate enough to develop one of these
milder Infections or children's diseases,
keep him at home, at rest and comfort
able in the open air, either through wide
windows or out of doors, and you will
not only give him his best chance (and
a thlrty-to-one chance at that) of throw
ing off the disease quickly and com
pletely, but also prevent Its spreading to
his playmates and school-fellows and
friends.
In-Shoots
"No Such Luck!"
Copyright, 1!1. lntrrn'1 News Son-Ice.
By Nell Brinkley
The Business Woma7i
nr nrtTRirn kaibfat.
I nlfled, far-sighted business woman. Put
The business world Is a brand new p'aco
for woman and she has not quite ad
justed herself to it as yet. flhe Is an
ellen creaturo In the world of men ami
she has to steer a careful course be
tween the cliff of being over-masculine
and the prrclplce of being over-feminine
The two blKgest "don'ts
she Is not hard, nor strident, nor mas
culine. And as a very great compliment
she took a man's surprised ejaculation:
"You talk Just like a woman!" Her reply
showed her anno normal sense of propor
tion. "Whv shouldn't I I am a woman."
1 There Is the first great don't- When
for the busl- you go to business don t forget that jrou
neas woman sre
affairs Hut they
rather rontrndictory sre
can easily be rnron-
, Mled by steering a neat and efficient
! middle course, I-Vat let us dcflnn our
don'ts and then we can easily enough
flame out that middle course.
Mon t, as you valiio your own woman
hood, permit yourself to become a hard,
ngKreKalvc, pushing person who carries
business methods Into pnclal life. You
don't have to be any of these things
in business in order to succeed.
Hard sgaretislveness is alien to all the
normal chHraeterlstlra of a real woman's
. nature. Woman In business Is still woman
i She thinks and acta and works with
the attributes of a nature that Is not
I male or masculine In any of Its normal
' quillltlcs.
I The cleverest snd most successful bus
I Iness woman I know is the very success-
ful mother of three wonderful children.
On Sundays and half holdidaye phe finds
I her Krealr st Joy In sewlns on frilly feml-
: nine thlnii itml
i feminine dl'hrs.
oman.
And the next great don't Ilea at the
oppnrttc etreme of the scale. Pont
force ii;on all the men with whom you
deal the consciousness that you are fem
inine, "the female of the species."
In other words, you have to think and
feel and act and do aecbrdlng to your
natural feminine equipment, but you do
have to force on men the consciousness
that you sre a seg creature.
Your mental equipment Is feminine.
And In the business world you are deal
ing with that feminine mental equipment.
Hut the feminine emotional equipment
has no place In the world of business.
Don't trado on your seg. Don't eepect
to get out of hard Jobs because you are
tho "weaker vessel." Don't exepect to
be flirted with or catered to becaust
you are feminine. Don't trade on your
rhartn. It has no place In the world of
business.
Don't try to be the emotional compla
in concoetlnir dainty ment of
These
I
men
are
In tho business world,
the primary don'ta for
tin week dnys she Is an efficient.
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621 Residents of Nebraska
registered at Hotel Astor
during the past year.
If a hotel cleric cannot sport a diamond
scarfpln he should be able to call the
drummers who come once a month by
name.
When the girl you have been treating
to ice cream begins to display an eco
nomical streak It Is time to propose or
take to the woods.
When papa will hand the kid a nickel
th the freedom that he will spend a
y'.ollar treating the bar-room crowd you
may look for a happy home.
It Is better not to lie about your salary
If you Intend to marry the rlrl.
Film base ball :amei will never he
popular until aome means of abusing the
umpire can be devised.
When hoping for the smile of fortune
sometime encounter only a ghastly
lser.
Seven Worries
to Women
Not half the horrors that women sun-
pose are going to happen to them ever
do happen. Yet It Is in the nature of the
gentle sex to expect and look out for
them; to anticipate what fate may never
send. In the form that women nurture It,
too, is so nebulous, so vague, so terrify
ing because so scantily defined, as to be
absolutely possessive. It takes a horrible
hold of the imagination, and works upon
the mind like subtle poison.
The chief fears to which women arc
prone have been numbered as seven, and
the two greatest are said, on good author
ity, to be, first "the fear of being an old
maid," and secondly, the of "growing
old."
The others are fear of losing a hus
band's love, of accidents, of lose of
money, of loss of friends and of the
future generally.
The third fear Is a very potent one. It
is the fear of losing a husband's love.
Tradition teaches women that men soon
tire of their wives, and that when the
bloom of woman's youth has worn away,
the love of man goes with It.
The thrill of alarm is to some curiously
constituted natures a pleasant one; upon
no other hypothesis can one account for
the states of wild anguish into which
so many women work themselves when,
delayed by some quite trivial occurence,
the husband or son does not come home
at the usual hour. As the little wife sits
and waits at home for her better-half
she sees him In her mind's eye in street
accidents of various awful kinds; herself
In widow's weeds, the funeral, the break
ing up of the little home; her own ava
lanche of grief sweeping ht-r into an
early torub.
Or, If It Is not her husband who is the
hero of her morbid visions, it is her txiby
or her growing brood of children who
may be killed before her eyes, or when
they are old enough to marry, may
choose some one she does not like. The
last situation is about the most absurd
of the whole seven, but It is, neverthe
less, a fear that haunts hundreds of good
mothers.
Supposing she has been nurtured In
great comfort, or Is the possessor of a
fortune, she will worry herself over an
ticipatory loss. She will see her money
Vanishing, and herself reduced to n
ury, obliged to turn out Into the world
to seek fortune, deprived of all the de
lights that to her make life worth living.
Another woman will fear the loos of
friends, and picture herself in tho iiild.st
of strangers, without the support and
delight of those now dear to her.
"I
N comic picture, soon aa th Old Year had gone over the edge of the
world," Quoth a young conflder to me, "and the New had pulled
out his chair at the table and come Into tho game In comic pic
tures, I say old bachelors are running like made from the leap-year ladies.
They hide In chests and climb trees and scoot down chimneys; and Into the
next picture comes a lady with a smile like the Cheshire cat, tap-tapping
along after him with a butterfly net.
"It Isn't so. I don't believe it! There Is a dream of some kind a fog
of delusion a fond faith swirling about In bachelors' heads. I think, and
they believe that someone everyone wants them. If he would utop run-I
nlng, and walk or wait, my friend Lone Chief would see!
"No woman would be found climbing with her dainty feet to the empty I
throne beside him. No woman would breathe In his ear and stammer 'Leap I
year while she asked for a rose. While he spun about on his heel and
swept the countryside under the curve of his hand he would find it client of
silvery voices raised In the 'Cone away,' and empty of pursuing curls and
finery.
"Girls aren't proposing and they never will no such luck! 1 know.
There's a girl I know who won't. Her hair is spun yellow sugar. Her cyoa
are blue or gray or a little brown, I can't remember; for when she archos
her brows and looks at me, my hair creeps.
"Maybe it was because the moonlight lay on my bed and Rhone in my
eyes 'but I dreamed she remembered It was leap year and that she loved
me! I dreamed she asked me the question I am afraid to ask of ber.
"I dreamed I tried to say 'Yes' with stiff lips and while I struggled
the planets of the sky whirled and flashed In colors of red and electric blue
and topac-kellow and violet and grc-en and diamond-white. And when at
last I shouted 'Yes! I sat up with the Btars all gone out, the moonlight cold
across the calendar and her picture just above. No such lurk for one poor
bachelor lad. I know a girl who won't!" NKU, HRINKLKY.
Things Worth Knowing
Suet and lard are best kept In tin
vesamls. Salt pork, however, should be
kept In glased earthenware. ,
When boiling turnips add a little sugar
to the water; It Improves the flavor of
the vegetables and lessens the odor In
the cooking.
If keroaeno is rubbed into leather hard
ened by water It will soften It well.
When making a steamed or boiled
pudding, plait the cloth in at the top to
allow the pudding to swell.
When greasing a cake pan uso sweet
lard rather than butter. The cake will
not be so likely to stick to the pan.
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love their flavory crispness. Buy
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The Suitcase Pincushion
The week-end suit case can be made
an even greater convenience If Its silk
lining is turned into a special traveling
pincushion. This does away with the
need of providing special papers or boxes
of pins when going on a Journey, long or
short. In neat rows and groups, fasten
to the lining a dosen each large black
headed pins, small black-headed pins,
large and small white-headed pins, small
black and small white safety pins, largo
black and large white aafety pins, a half
dozen dress shield safety pins, two or
three long flower pins, and three or four
dosen small common pins. Run the safety
pins in so that they all He the same way
and weave the straight pins In and out
twice, so that they will not slip. Thla
pin supply Is easily accessible while trav
eling and forms a reserve stock at home,
to be drawn oa In case of sudden neces
sity. If the suit ease is unlined a dark moire
lining or a gay chlntg ono can easily be
put in by the woman who uses a pot of
glue. A stitched lining, with pockets of
variou.i sizes, is not difficult to make or
to insert in the suit hip, and it adds to
the daintiness vf the bag as
its usefulness.
Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
Best Mas and Maid of Honor.
Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 whs i-ently en
gaged to a young man. Me was aPnolnte I
to m the lst man at his brothers liuir
riage ceremony. The sister of the bride
elect waa to Iib the mnlil of honor A. I
I am eiiiiaued to him now , in it proper for
him to give up or should 1 take I he pla'-e
I of the maid of honor? My friend la will -ling
to give up the honor of bring the
) beat man If It proper to d' ho, for my
I sake. Answer what the beat way Is, so
inai ni one shorn.! feet sore.
Tin: ri zzi.KK oiru..
The question you ask comes to me
jvery frequently, and I am Increasingly
surprised that It should seem like a
i problem to anyone. The bride has the
privilege of choosing her nisld of honor,
and the groom always selects his best
man. Frequently It happens that the 6eat
I man is married and that his wife is
merely a guest at the wedding. This is
I quite proper, and If you apply the sltua
j tion to your own rnw you will sec clearly
that there is no reason why your finance
nell as to I should not be et man at tho wedding,
I whoever, the maid of honor Is.
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