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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. K3K&ftfrTOXI , r? Fundamental Principles of Healthg t V V V w (74 By ALBERT S. GRAY. M. D. l.tlill...i.llt.l..li. nrf . KOIOIOIO&IOIOIOIIOIOIOI (Copyright. 1914. by A. S. Gray) HAY FEVER. Hypercsthetlo rhinitis, commonly imown as "hay fever," "roso cold," 'autumnal catarrh," and so forth. Is li condition characterized annually by paroxysms of sneezing, accompanied by varying degrees of coryza (cold In ho head) more or Icsb prolonged. It Is acuto catarrhal Inflammation of tho ciucoub membrano of tho nasal cavi ties, tho eyes and tho respiratory pact, sometimes accompanied with rover and asthma. Hay fever rages during August ind Scptembor, and tho popular belief Is that tho pollen of tho goldcnrod Is responsible for It; but ragweed, trees, grasses and other plants, Including tho cereal grains, also cats, dogs, sheep, chickens, horses and cows all do their part in adding to thb atmospheric dust to which so many aro hypersensitive. 3esidos theso dusts, chemical fumes and many pungent odors also bavo Itheir victims. Dut it is not necessary to tho condition that even tho Irri tant should entor tho noso. Tor oxam- plo, thcro aro probably fow persons who havo not under certain temporary physical conditions experienced sneez ing violently several times immediate ly on stopping from a dense Bhado Into tho bright sunlight that is a ro- flex Irritation and unfortunately many Individuals aro so adjusted that under certain conditions tho Irritation of any area supplied by tho fifth nerve suffices to create distress; hence, a bright light entering tho oyes may irritate tho hyperesthetic ciliary nerve filaments and for a long timo maintain reflex symptoms in tho nose. In addition to tho dUBt, light, heat, cold and other oxternal agencies, there aro more Immediate local Irrita tions so frequently to bo found in tho neurotics, consisting of turblnal en largements, ethmoid, frontal or maxil lary sinusitis, deflected septum, polypi and eyestrains. Dut generally theso must bo considered concomitant to tho fundamental physical condition nnd not tho immediate causo of tho explo sions. Many a patient has boon treat ed and operated upon with a view to tho removal of tho Irritation through thb correction of ono or more of theso locul morbid conditions, only to havo tho hay fever paroxysms continue from year to year without abatement; while others havo boon relieved. It is generally accepted that only two factors aro necessary for tho causation of hay fover; namely, first, an internal condition which will in sure an abnormal sensitiveness of the nerve centors and lllamentB; and, sec ond, an external Irritation. Wo take it quite as a matter of courso, because It Is universally known, that an 111 nourished or a hungry baby will bo frotful and pee vish, and wo aro not at all surprised at very marked ovldenco of irritability In a convalescent formorly noted for gen eral calmness and self-possession. Henco it should requlro no great strain or stretch of one's Imaginative powers to bo aula to apply tho samo principle to tho Individual colls com posing our bodies and to comprehend that tho neurotic temperament is fund anieutally a matter of defective! metabolism, becauso of which tho In-1 dividual cells aro not properly nour ished Tho universal remedy for a frotful infant is proper nutrition; tho universal remedy for the Irritable con valescent iajproper nutrition, and so, too, tho remedy for tho hay fever vic tim Is to build up a stable nervous systom by means of proper nutrition. The authorities aro agreed that among tho personal habits which pro disposo to hay fover aro tho habitual uso of narcotics and alcoholic stimu lants, excessive excitement and over exertion and what are known ub tho rheumatic and gouty tendencies. This all point? in tho direction of detective metabolism. Moreover, SoJoub rco oromends as a preventlvo tho uso of thyroid extract, commencing four weeks before tho onset ot tho perlodio attack. Obviously, if tho uso ot the thyroid extract for four weeks prior to the oxpected attack is of any valuo as a proventlvo, it is reasonable to assume that such hyglenlo steps ns will lead to an Increased activity of one's own thyroid secretion, begin ning right at this timo and continuing without Interruption up to and through tho next season, must inov- Itably produce Bomo modification in TO BE HANDLED WITH CARE Matter of Giving Advice Is Always Worth the Most Thoughtful Consideration. A very good rule is expressed In the homely words, "Mind your own busi ness." Tho deslro to help another is praiseworthy, but It may bo carried too far, and when it is. ono becomes meddlesome and officious. Every man has to bo accountable for hla own acts. No ono may carry this responsi bility for him. This ia what makea proffered advlco pfton Impertinent. Tho man who of fera it offers only half of tho need and the easier half at that. If his advlco Is followed and failure comes, be can only say, "I did tho best I could for you." It Is seldom that ad vlco thrust on another Is of real serv lea to him. Forcing It on any person who doeg not feel tho need of it is confusing and misleading. Tho man who bears la not likely to make a de termined effort to follow It, nor can ho wholly forget It. The result Is that to feels Unsur6 of tho things bo Is tho severity of tho symptoms, and con tinued from year to year It will In timo tend to ovcrcomo tho hyperes thcsla permanently. Tho great difficulty In Buch cases lies In tho fact that tho very naturo of tho condition Is such as almost to precludo tho possibility of tho victim's persistently ndhorlng to so slmplo and logical a lino of action. Out to such as havo tho courago to Investigate and como to understand that even tho cell Is not tho unit of llfo; that tho cell Is not only mado up of protein molecules but Its form and (unction aro determined by tho chemical struc ture of Its constituent molecules; in short, to those who como to know themselves and treat their bodies ac cordingly thcro Is undoubtedly tho certainty of permanent relief. THE PITUITARY GLAND. Tho puzzlo of tho pituitary gland (hypophysis cerebri) presents ono of thoso curious Instances known to med ical history wherein widely contradic tory observations mako It difficult to conllrm tho answer to any given question concerning tho physiology and tho pathology of tho organ or tho action (function) of tho gland either in health or In disease. Even In tho apparently extremely slmplo propositions as to whether tho organ Is essential to Ufa wo find tho Investigators divided Into two groups, ono group comprising thoso who main tain that tho gland Is indispensable to llfo and tho other, almost equal In numbor, holding it to bo nonessential to llfo. Undoubtedly tho confusion is large ly duo to tho fact that tho position of this gland Is such that It Ib oxtromo ly inacccssiblo to oporativo Interfer ences, so that attompts to remove it aro usually attended with fatal results from tho operation Itself; hence wo aro ablo to learn but little if anything concerning tho algnlflcanco of tho organ In this way, and aro forced to depend for our knowledge concerning tho pituitary gland on what may bo revealed by pathological anatomy and clinical observation. Then, too, this body, whilo not much larger than a pea. consists of two parts or lobos, very closoly blended, but ono distinct ly larger and of a structuro distinctly different from that of tho other. Tho larger anterior lobo 1b oi a glandular structuro and belongs to the typo of glands which aro belioved to form an Internal Bocretlon. Tho much smaller posterior lobo Ib of norvous origin and composed chiefly of a net Ilka framework of fibers, tho inter stices being filled with brain colls. Tho two lobes nro very closoly associ ated, tho neck of tho postorlor lobo being completely enveloped or sur roundod by tho epithelium ot tho an terior lobo, this Insuring an lntlmato interaction In function. IIowoll and othora havo shown that oxtracts of tho anterior lobo when In jected Into tho veins havo Httlo or no physiological effect, whilo extracts of tho posterior lobo, on tho contrnry, cause a marked rlso of blood preasuro and a slowing of the heartbeat. It is conerally belioved that tho pitu itary body, in relation with tho othor duct! -.SB glands, holps to promote tho normal growth of tho body, particu larly tho bones, and thero Is ovldenco associating disturbance of pituitary function with doranged nitrogen, cal cium and phosphorus metabolism. Knowledge derived from tho action of other glands on thoso elements provoa this alono to bo n highly Important function and sufficient to Justify tho existence of tho gland, Plorro Mario In 188G appears to havo first associated a dlscaso known as acromegaly (gigantism) with tho pitui tary body; the Idea waB accepted and tho connection has since boon con firmed by many until at tho present timo It Is generally conceded that thoro aro two distinct clinical entitles, both disturbances of growth, to bo as crlbod to deranged functioning on tho nart of tho pituitary gland. Ono of theso is ncromogaly, a dlBeaso char acterized by thb enlargement ot cer tain bones; tho othor Ij distinguished by n delayed development with adi posity. Regarding tho exact naturo ot tho disturbance In tho pituitary gland in acromegaly, thoro Is Btlll conaidernblo dlfferonco of opinion, but tho weight of ovldenco favors tho view tha it Is due to" IncreaBod aocrotion of tho an terior lobo. Tho pathologic condition most frequently aasoclatod with acro megaly is an enlargement of tho an terior lobo with material increase In tho secretory cells. Thoro acems to bo noino antagonistic relation between tho pituitary gland and tho Boxunl glands (ovarioB and testes), and it la perfectly "woll known thnt when nn animal is spayed It growB abnormally largo; this would aoora to provo that tho latter oxert a restraining Influonco over tho former, probably proventlng its ovorsocrotlon. Obviously this Im plies that -whatovor will favor general health conditions tends to regulato tho action of tho powerful ductless glandB, so that In wholesomo food wo havo tho key which will glvo ua tho control 1 0f theso wonderful vital powora, doing. Besides, it Is often bard to distinguish a well-meaning frlond from an idlo meddler, than whom no ono la moro detested. Thoro aro, of courso, persona who aak advlco, and thon thought of tho most sorlous kind ia nooded. Not what you would do, but what tho other man ought to do and can do that ia the only advice you can glvo him, and thon you aro probably bettor off If he doesn't tako it For giving ndvico is ono of tho hardest things a thoughtful person can bo askod to do, and ono ot the choapoat things tho tboughtlcBi person does. Milwaukee Journal. Plainly Evident. Mrs. Lovowctt (at 2 a, m.) Whoro havo yri been? Lovowett JuBt foil in wU an old frlen', my dear, Mrs. Lovowett Foil in, oh! I bo llovo you. You'ro soaked. Chicago News. What Did He Mean? "nut I'm noi a lawyer." "I know it. That's why 1 didn't think what ho said was a compllmout " ;iL:Vl ' II Kesb, I lu'iiWrl si feWMx II p If di WwwJM I Steamship Kroonlnnd (right) and Panama canal, loaded to tho rails with canal zone, aro shown In tho picture, Officers of tho dlvlHionnl staff of right: Lieut. Col. A. H. McDonnell, P5? j ; n y I Sm ISP? S US" I 1 ymtk. rST 5 l"5Br'S?S -war I 1b feSOP iiiW mrTFIw-TlBmrmW-'1 H e WCTBBHBBJstfnnwjk' MJTnlnflrWHgfr r fl r VrnTriirmnrvrTfiT Traffic-'qwsaasai &Jff JR BySft- wwjBiW n I & 'rMWffiy PrPaPPWTOHg iHy aim iffiuSBem 1 J. Lamb, MaJ. G. Hamilton, Lieut. Col. Foster, Capt. E. Gabnen, Capt. E. Clifford, Major Wodchouse, Lieut. B. Worthlngton Lieut Col. E. B. Clegg, Llout. Col. Frank Reld and Lieut. Col. J. G Rattray. MANUEL ERNSHAW wvtfc Mr. Earnshnw, Philippine delegate to tho United States, has been In Washington for somo time In the In terests of tho movement to make the Islands Independent. Strict Neutrality of Brother Wack. "I's plumb nootral 'bout do war, and ubomnably affuses to 'scuss It wld no body!" declared Brother Wack. "W'y. tuddor day I say to muh wife good lookln' yallah lady dat powdahB her faco 'twoll she 'maglncs sho'B 'most whlto I says, 'Blame' if I don't b'ltcvo dem Frenchmen Is gwlno to win, uh-knso dey's got do Turcusses fum AMca wld 'em. Bern niggers is sho' 'nuff fighters, and I's kindnh projudy to'a'ads 'em.' "'Hoh'! says she. 'Dem black apes! I thinks de Germans will win, and I certlngly admlahs dem big po'tly gon'lomon dat looks so much like blBhops. I Bho'ly thinks a wholo lot of a bishop!' "Uh well, I'm skimpy, muhso'f. and as black as a load o' coal, but I vns plumb nootral 'bout It, all de same. I doBS says, 'Yass'in, I been uodtcln' dat fact for sometime P an' rotched out and slapped her Hat." KansaB City Star. . ,(&i82&(S ART TREASURES ARE HIDDEN Many of the Masterpiece In Great Drltlsh Galleries Have Been Put In Secret Places. Visitors to tho British national gal lery In London who romomber It aB second only to the Louvre halt with bowllderaent when thoy enter It now, looking In vuln for their favorlto maa terplecen. nn oxclmngo remarks Its wallB aro Btlll plentifully hung with paintings, but tho whole collection is irLy k TaaMvlBPjxwf&sffixiiSr, BUSY SCENE IN PANAMA CANAL the Great Northern (loft) passing through American tourists. Some members of the STAFF OFFICERS OF CANADIAN tho Canadian expeditionary force, now D. S. O.; Lieut. Col. G. C. Gordon-Hall; HERR KRUPPVON BOHLEN UND HALBACH niinr.- XI iff ' " K "jfea m iw K&V ff 3 V SI ( -.4 KX 4H i. Jm M a a 'a 5 'ws wa a f i BE '?& irw; M .irewW;?? A now plcturo of Krupp von Bohlon und Halbach, chief owner of tho Krupp gun works at Essen, In military costume, who, it is reported, has beeji decorated by tho kaiser, togethor with his wife who was formerly Bertha Krupp. Barbed Wire Workers In War. The men who spend their nights working on tho barb wlro entangle ments In front or the trenchos havo ono of the most perilous tasks of the wur. One of them, a member of tho British Roal Englnoers, writes; "In a trench one has a sonso of se curity In being below ground lovel, nnd thero Is collective courago duo to tho knowledge that one has compan ions. In putting up barb wire ono Is working perhaps 300 feet In front of oiio's owu trenches, nnd fortunate, In deed, Is tho working party If tho en emy's snipers do not hear tho sound of tho nuim ed mallets driving tho immeasurably Inferior to that ot six months ago. Gone nro tho works of iinphael. Da Vinci nnd Holboln; only ono or two works of Uembrandt and Reubens remain. In fact, most of tho renl treasures ot the mugnlflcent col lections have been taken aw&y for safekeeping In underground vaults whore neither bombs nor conflagra tions can roach them, In same casos notably that of tho priceless Ha phaol Madonna the empty frames re main In place. Another war-time feuturo of the gal- LOCKS the Pedro Miguel locks of Tenth Infantry, on duty in tho tho TROOPS supposed to Lieut, C. H. bo in Franco. Left to Mitchell, Lieut. Col. H. Col. E. posts into tho ground and open flro. Now and then u magnesium flare will bo sent up to light the landscape for the benefit of sharpshooters. Then tho worker hns to throw himself flat on tho ground and look as much like' a weed us possible." Professional Tip. "1 say, doctor," queried tho .inort ekato who. was looking for a 'Utlo free advice, "what would you advise a man to do for dyspopBla?" "Woll," answered tho pill com pounder, "if ho wants a real bad enso, I'd advlso him to hire a chonp cook and eat irregularly." lory is tho sand bin of shiny galvan ized iron which occupies a proniiuont position In the center of every room. Tho sand Ib for uso in case of flr. A reminder of suffragette activity of tho days bofore the war Is sotn In the hideous glnss w.jcs which sur round a few wall Bpncos In some of the main gnllerios. One ot tho fow Rembrandts which lemaln In the building Is thus housed, the glass frame extoudlng from floor to celling and proventlng approach within throj or four feet of the canvas Ml W QUTH ii- 'WT'aEl a2sffe & re T AHITI, tho largest Island of tho Society group, and by many travelers belioved tho most beautiful In any sea, lies nearly south of Hawaii and about sov degrees south of tho equator, E. T. Allen In American For First touched by Portuguese enteen writes estry. and Spanish navigators, it was de scribed to Europe by Wallis (17C7) and Bougainville (1768). They gave such a lively account of tho beauty of both Island and people, and of what they considered tho idyllic perfection of its semiwlld, semldeveloped society, that much was written, especially in philosophical France, to argue that hero was proof of tho necessity for re turn to naturo by tho human race. Bougalnvlllo named It New Cy therea. His companion, tho naturalist Commerson, called It Utopia and wroto extravagantly of tho virtues which ho said flourished becauso tho natives had no conventional restraint. ' Of Aryan ancestry, practically or wholly escaping Mongol or Negroid in fusion by their exodus from tho main land in tho remote paBt, the Tahitlans wero and aro still about what would bo expected of a people much like southern Europeans, but who have been isolated for ages under all tho passionate influences of tho tropics. "The Garden of Eden." Rainbow colored fish play through tho coral along the sea wall at your feet, tho placid green lagoon meets a skyline of palms on either hand, and seaward, beyond a tiny palm covered islet where a queen onco had her fortress, tho surf rolls creaming on tho barrier reef from tho blue trop ical ocean, rippling In the soft fresh trades. Behind tho tovn, Itself hid den in verdure, green slopes rise quick ly to splintered volcanic peaks nearly eight thousand feet high, carved by precipitous valleys with countless flashing waterfalls. Melville wioto that tho ineffable repose and beauty of the Tnhitian landscape was such that every object struck him llko something seen in a dream, and he could scarcely bellevo such scenes had real existence "Often," said Bou Jialnvlllo, "I thought I was walking in tho Garden of Eden." Papeete is tho only town, but the fcrtilo lovel shores of the island are so thickly populated as to form a' most a continuous village along the road that skirts tho beach for Its clrcumfer onco ot nearly one hundred miles. Yet thero is practically no open land ex cept in the uninhabited mounl-iins. Houses and villages aro beneath end less groves ot cocoanuts, breadfruit, mangoes, oranges, banyans and bam boo, with occasional ornamental exot ics from other tropical lands. Alligator pears, native "chestnuts," mummy ap ples and bananas, aro in almost every doorway. Except for two small sugar plantations, a few half-hearted cotton patches, and small clearings for taro, yams and other vegetables, thero is no farming aB wo know it. Copra and vanilla are the island crops. Work Is Not a Worry. On the wholo, however, industry has small part in the daily Ufa ot tho in habitants. Very little work suffices to procure all that Is essential where naturo supplies food and shelter. Tho writer onco asked a native to bring him some fish. "Why don't you catch your own flBh?" was tho response. "That isn't tho question. I'll glvo you a dollar for a good string of fish," SOMETIMES USED BY WIFEY In Other Words, Nugh'a "Own Room" Was Just as Private as All Such Dens Are. When the Nughs wero building their now homo Mrs. Nugh Insisted that tho plans Include n den for Nugh, a place whero he could get away all to himself. They moved Into tho now home two weeks ago. I went to Beo them the other day, and after dinner Mrs. Nugh suggested that Nugh take me to his den for a smoke. It was a delightfully cozy Httlo room, and its arrangements evidently had been planned with thought. For In stance the telephone was In it, so that while Nugh was taking his ease ho could also act as family callboy. In ono corner was a big box of the baby'B toys, Nugh explaining that they had no nursery and let tho Httlo chap play In thoro to keep him from littering up tho othor rooms. There was a humi dor on tho tablo and, being an old friend, 1 opened it and put ill a hnml for a cigar but got a handful of but 'ons. Then I observed that beside the YruA r T r w i I 7" S fill II mmS 57 1 I A sajtti I I II II II till y I I li tr II li III li - r f JL 1 i r - a v y i i SK S II II sf &lmmM Z : -. L - m, w . - : wm li f s0". a iii r .' s "" a was parried with Mio offer as riposte. Tho answer to tbls was unanswer able and final: "I don't need auy dol lar." Such Is Island phllccophy. The sea will always provide fls1i, tho land all other actual requirements, and slnco this will bo as truo in tho future ns today, why trouble to lo. up for one's children? Even tobacco and coffco are homegrown, so only Imported lux uries require effort to obtain, Most of the real work of tho Island, such as curing vanilla, Is dont by Chinese who value money for lti own sake. Thoy bake the bread, rue tho restau rants, and own most ot tho small stores. Nevertheless the natives, aro splen did people physically, no dd'ibt an In heritance from their warlike nnd ath lotlc past. Tho men are ctten well over six feet and tremendously mus cular. The women are erect, grace ful, beautifully formed, nnd often very handsome. Their brown eyes are un usually fine. Their black ball la long and waving. Polynesian races differ slightly in color, that" of pure Tahitlans varying also with caste and" exposure, fmt the commonest type ia an olivo gflld not darker in shade than tho sBlns of Chinese and Japanese, but warnTur and less yellowish. Their featured . aro pleasing and contain nothing N?grold or Mongolian. The typical native dress is tile pa rou, a bright colored patterned rotton cloth much llko tho Burmese siirong, twisted by the men around tho Waist and by the women around tho breast. The latter, however, rarely wear It away from home, except bathing or fishing, without a loose over dress. The men also are moro and more com ing to regard the pareu as Informal, comfortable for homo and work wear, but to bo replaced by coat and jflnts on dress occasions! Theso customs vary much with tho distanco from town. Flowers constitute tho chief adornment, worn in wreaths and t'ugly over the ear. Carriers come hi from Fair Tahitian women ' t the mountain valleys with Idarta of plantain, naked except for athlolu cloth but with garlands' of ferna'vui'l flowers. V Are a Social People. Tho chief Tahitian characteristics are social. Feasting, dancing and singl ing nre always in'progress, usually oti a wholesalo scale. The entlro villa? e participates on tho slightest excuse. Anythin?, t'.,at can be done alono is un popular. Even in fishing, the single yonturer is regarded as a polhuntnr and no sportsman. In several stays on tho islaud U19 writer vas never allowed to flsh wliu hook and line from a single canoe bs causo, whilo all right for a commoner who needs flsh, it is not tho thing for "quality" to do. Tho visitor Is struck with the invariable good naturo of the people. Thoy rarely quarrel, drunk or sober. Violence Is practically un known. Murders are so infrequent as to bo little moro than traditional and even fighting Is extremely rare. Like all Polynesians, they are won derful swimmers, and probably ctcol all others as canoomen. Whereas, In Hawaii tho canoes seen today are pure ly utilitarian, tho Tahitian retains his navigating ancestors' We for naval architecture. Racing canoes carrying 20 paddlers or moro aro built with great ceremony and beating of drams and carefully kept from tho weather in houses constructed by tho district. humidor was a sewing basket some unfinished crochet work. and What sort of fads aro you taking up, anyway?" I exclaimed. "Mo?" snorted Nugh. "Not raucn. My wife uses this place till tho time as a sewing-room. Ho careful how you sit down nine times out ot ton you'll light on a noedlo." Kanaas City Star. Much In EJrlef Dream. It is written of oie of the most eminent of Englishmen who was die tatlug to his amanuensis chapters of an Important work, and while so en gaged was overcome by sloop. He dreamed of matters of great moment, of diplomatic conferences, oxhaustlug many days and weeks. Becoming awako ho chlded his secretary for per mitting him to sleep, and was astound ed to bo told by tho scrivener that ho had not finished tho last sentence that had been dictated. Volunios have uuoii written irammed with such ox- perionces in inllnlto varloty. In six months In tho seventeenth, century 380.000 persons died In Na ples of n plague. i n A vi at c 4b if- '4 f .1 4. v