"Women Change Subject Too Often? > In the Woman’s Home Companion Margaret Ilusbee Shipp, writing a love story entitled “Sweet Margaret," pre sents a character who comments, as follows, on woman's conversation: “ ‘I never had a sister, and I have never known how to talk to women. They embarrass me; they — er — change the subject so often, I never seem quite to catch up.’ ” r Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and Bee that it In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Snakes Got His Roll. "I lost $325 trying to kill rattle enakes, and now I am going to walk back to my home in Brooklyn,” ex plained a man about forty-flve years old, who said he is Ezra Sellen. Sellen said he started for a walk from his boarding place, encountered a lot of rattlesnakes, killed some, fled from the others, waded a stream, and then missed his roll of bills. He said he had just money enough left to ride to this city and took the state road out of town.—Middletown (N. Y.) Dis patch to New York World. ECZEMA ITCHED AND BURNED R. F. D. No. 4, Box 65, Holland, Mich.—“My child’s trouble began by getting red and sore around her neck, and her face, behind her ears, under her arms, and different parts of her. body were affected. The eczema ap peared in a rash, first It was wet and looked as if it was sweaty. It seemed to itch and burn so that she could not sleep or rest It got so bad at last that behind her ears was one crust or sore so that I had to cut her hair. There was a hard crust cover ing her neck. She could not have her clothes buttoned at all. I could hardly change her clothes. It caused an aw ful diflgurement for the time. She would cry when I had to wash her. a “We had her treated for some time ' but without success. I got one cake Df Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuti cura Ointment and I had not used more than half of what I bought when »he was all cured.’’ (Signed) Mrs. G. C. Riemersma, Mar. 21, 1914. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout th» world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv. Can’t Find This Perfect Woman. Belgium has been trying to discover the perfect woman. According to a symposium in Brussels, she must pos sess the figure of an American, the elegance of an English girl, the hair of an Austrian, the eye of an Italian and the profile of a Spaniard. So far the creature has eluded discovery. Carelessness Cause of Fires. More than 50 per cent of all fires the coused by simple carelessness, which is unnecessary and criminal. Repairs to dilapidated buildings, the removal all fire-breeding material, care in burn ing weeds and rubbish, the placing of engines at a safe distance from build ings. the removal of oily waste, proper ventilation—in brief, plain common sense, will minimize the danger from this class of fires. The Tango In Church. Mother, like countless other moth ers, had been doing much tangoing and hesitation of late. She had taken dancing lessons. She practised the various steps at home with father. Lit tle Frances had heard much of the lingo that goes with the tango and the hesitation. She knew all of the phrases. A few days ago Frances went to church with her mother. Frances had not learned all of the ceremonials of the church, for, after the mother knelt outside the pew, Frances looked up at her and whispered: “Mother, what did you do the dip for?”—Indianapolis News. PRIZE FOOD. Palatable, Economical, Nourishing. A Nebr. woman has outlined the prize food in a few words, and that from personal experience. She writes: “After our long experience with Grape-Nuts, I cannot say enough in Its favor. We have used this food al most continually for seven years. “We sometimes tried other adver, paamtised breakfast foods but we invariably returned to Grape-Nuts as the most palatable, economical and nourishing of all. “When I quit tea and coffee and began to use Postum and Grape-Nuts, I was almost a nervous wreck. I was so irritable I could not sleep nights, had no interest in life. “After using Grape-Nuts a short time I began to Improve and all these ailments have disappeared and now I am a well woman. My two children have been almost raised on Grape Nuts, which they eat three times a day. “They are pictures of health and have never had the least symptom of stomach trouble, even through the most severe siege of whooping cough they could retain Grape-Nuts when all else failed. “Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor bills, and has been, therefore, a most economical food for us.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above lettert A new ooe appear* from time to time. They are genuine, true, end foil ot human ; Interest. CUTTING DOWN DISEASES BY DR. W. A. EVANS. Diphtheria is not tne scourge it was 20 y«ars ago. But the price of every ad vance is discontent. We are discontent ed. We are discontended with the pres ent diphtheria rate, and out of this dis content will come as great an advance in the next 20 years as the last 20 years witnessed. During the Jast year we have heard of the Von Brnring method of vaccin ating children against diphtheria. The New York health department has been giving the method a pretty thorough tryout. It injects a mixture of toxin and antitoxin under the skin. In the mixture the toxin is slightly stronger than the antitoxin, though they are nearly in balance. The amount inject ed is small, about seven drops, and the amount of antitoxin injected is far be low the 1,000 units injected under the old plan. The injection is repeated In seven days, and a third injection may be given. The advantage of this method over the older one is that it produces an ac tive immunity instead of a passive im munity. In an active immunity the patient fights back against the germs and their toxin. In passive immunity the antitoxins injected neutralizes the toxin present. Therefore an active im munity is both more effective and long er lived. The Von Behring method is also much cheaper. The antitoxin bills of a city health department are heavy, even when it pays only 20 cents per 1,000 for antitoxin, as against the drug store price of $1.60 per 1.000 units. This is the first report from Ameri ca on the Von Behring method of vac cinating against diphtheria, but it sus tains the many favorable reports of Europe. The New York health department made another report that probablv was of greater value still. In 1913 Schick described a method by which lie could tell whether a person was susceptible to diphtheria. When a family of chil dren is exposed to diphtheria some have it and some escape. When diphtheria breaks out in the dormitory of a chil dren’s home it affects a certain per centage of the children; the others es is rigui or not. iwo years lime is noi long enough for a trial. But the fig ures ure highly promising, and many capable men have had the tame con ception. though they have worked out a somewhat different plan. McCormack, of Kentucky, advises the following method of giving medicine for hookworm. Let us say the treat ment is to begin on Friday. Friday night—A dose of salts. Saturday—Bat no food except milk and soups. Saturday night—A dose of salts. Sunday—Stay in bed. At 6 a. m. take half the thymol capsules; at 8 a. m. the remainder; at 10 a. m. another dose of salts; eat no food until mid afternoon; then get up. dress, and eat an ordinary meal. Take no fat, oil, grease, or alcohol while taking the treatment. Drs. Siler. Garrison and MacNell re port that a study of 6,000 cases showed no relation between the food and pel lagra. This pretty well knocks out the theory that cornmeal causes pellagra. They found the disease somewhat liable to spread among the people in the same house, not by contact, as with measles and smallpox, but through some inter mediary agent. What that agent is they have not found out. They are studying flies, lice and bedbugs as the agents, but they have no results to report. Of this much they are certain; yard privies spread the disease. They And almost no pellagara where there are no yard privies. They strongly advise towns to put in a sew’erago system and to force everybody to connect up. As to treatment, they report that the arsenic preparations, including 606, are not of much value, and probably they are of no value. Pellagra appears to be getting milder. Good food, life in good hygienic sur roundings, rest, and particularly spending the hot season in a cold climate, help a great deal. These measures may cure the milder cases. We got our ideas of the severity of pellagra from the first years of our experience with the disease, a time when the cases were suffering from neglect about as much as from the disease. Now that it is being found outside of asylums, at home, and bet ter care is given, it is discovered to be a milder disease and often amenable to i-apc, The custom In recent years has been to inject every person in contcat with the case of diphtheria with 1,000 units of antitoxin. This gave a short lived immunity. It was highly expensive. By the Schick method the health of ficers can tell who are subject to diph theria, inject those, and leave the others alone, and no diphtheria de velops. W hen a case of diphtheria develops in a public school, especially in a town to which diphtheria comes only occasion ally, what is easier than for the health department to do a Schick test on every, pupil and then immunize the susceptible children? In this way the first case could be made the only case. in the New York Scarlet Fever hos pital, as In every other, there has been an occasional outbreak of diphtheria. A certain proportion of people always have diphtheria bacilli in tholr throats. These children g°t scarlet fever and W'hen they are herded together with others in a scarlet fever hospital they Infect some scarlet fever convalescents with diphtheria. Under the old plan this could not be avoided. The Now York health depart ment now tries a Schick test on every child coming into the scarlet fever ward. Those that do not react are not liable to contract diphtheria. They are not vaccinated. Those that do react are subject to diphtheria. They are vaccinated according to the modified Von Behring methods. Now when a case of diphtheria comes into this hospital the authorities leave it in the ward with scores of children recovering from scarlet fever, and none of them gets diphtheria. They have tried It on over 700 children now, and it works. The method is as follows: A mix ture of equal parts of diphtheria toxin and salt solution Is injected into the skin. The dose injected is three drops. The toxin solution is mildly toxic to guinea pigs. A strength capable of killing a guinea pig is diluted five times. The solution ready to use is Most transmissible diseases are on the decline. Pneumonia is an ex ception; leprosy is another. When we get afraid of a disease we begin to control it. Wo are the potential mas ters of any disease, but we never mas ter until we try. When we get afraid we begin to try, and that is the reason why disease fades as fear comes. Leprosy, however, is an exception. It is on the increase because fear is too great. When a case of leprosy is re ported we go into a funk and thought is paralyzed. Why nobody knows. If leprosy was ever highly contagious it has not been so for the last 200 years. Belonging in a small area in Europe and another in Asia, it has never spread to many people nor to many other regions of the world. We have a little scattered widely throughout the country—a few cases in Chicago, a few in St. Paul, a few in Los Angeles. As people are so afraid of it, the disease is generally hidden. In spite of this it spreads but slowly. Has any one heard of leprosy pestilence similar to yellow fever in 1878, or cholera in 1856, or smallpox in 1895? But, being covered up, lerrosy is slowly increasing. Dyer, of New Orleans says so, and he knows more about the subject than any one else in America. A leper named Early has been a thorn In the flesh for six years or more. He developed leprosy years ago in Washington. The authorities put him on a small farm, from which he escaped to New York city. He returned to Washington, got away, and unloaded himself on the state of Washington, whence he went to British Columbia, and finally he is back on the hands of the health department of Washington, D. C. un tns one hand, the health author ities know that leprosy Is but slightly contagious and therefore close control of Early Is not necessary, and that, as Early will live many years, he will prove costly. Knowing all this, health departments do not try hard to keep Early from escaping. On the other hand, the people are so afraid of lep rosy that they will never allow Early to stay long In one place. Drs. Dyer and Lumsden advocate as a middle ground solution of the vex ing problem of leprosy a national lep rosy sanatorium In which will be gath ered all the lepers In the United States, there to be humanely cared for so long as they live or until they have been cured. The different states might provide care. Louisiana for one has done so, but it is expensive, and since leprosy subjects are prone to wander from one state to another, it is unsatisfactory The suggestion of Dyer and Lumsden is not altogether new. Norway inaug urated the plan years ago. It built four leprosy sanatoria. It then took a leprosy census and got all the cases into the Institutions. Under tills policy leprosy is disap pearing so rapidly from Norway that three of the four sanatoria have now been converted Into tuberculosis san atoria. In a discussion of the new feeding of patients with typhoid fever the views expressed were all in favor of freer feeding than under the old milk diet plan. Dr. Edsall thought that when ever the digestion was disturbed the proper plan was dietetic rest. No food at all should be given for a while and then nothing but milk for a few days. The digestion having been restored, the diet should be increased. A patient with typhoid fever burns up 35 per cent more fuel than a well person. If he cannot burn food he burns his own tissues. Some of the fat thrown in the fire does not count for Instance, the excess of fat. But un fortunately the fires consume some highly necessary tissues, such as heart muscle and brain cells. By feeding more food as fuel some of these important cells are saved or to put it in the words of the doctors, there is less emaciation, less delirium and less heart weakness, and convales^ cence is more rapid Experiments show that more food does not mean more fever. Drs Colo man and Barker thought the patients should have more sugars and starches and less fat. Dr. Edsall agreed that uphold patients with good digestion^ should be more freely fed and that the Increase should be in cereals breads and sweets. * ’ What Is Good? “What Is the real good?” I asked In musing mood. Order, said the law court; Knowledge, said the school Truth, said the wise man Pleasure, said the fool; Lovo, said the maiden; Peiuity, said the page; Freedom, said the dreamer; Home, said the sage; Fame, said the soldier; Equity, the seer; Spake my heart full sadly, “The answer Is not here." Then within my bosom Softly this 1 heard; “Each heart holds the secret; Kindness Is the word." —John Doyle O Rellljr, Buppiicu uie bwi ici icvci tiuapuai. One day after the Injection a red area the size of a quarter appears around the point of injection. This area gets increasingly red for three days. It stays red for a week, and then a scaly brown patch persists for six weeks. This is what happens in a person sus ceptible to diphtheria. If nothing happens the person can mix up with diphtheria subjects with out running any risk. Let us see where something is to be gained from this test. Contagious dis ease hospitals can care for more cases than at present, since the danger of cross infection is decreased. Cases of diphtheria that have had scarlet fever may be put in scarlet fever wards. Cases that have had measles may be put in measles wards. In time we may be able to do away with diphtheria wards entirely. The method can be and in time will be extended to homes. When a case of diphtheria develops in a home the test can be made on the members of the family and the susceptible members can be immunized. The saving in antitoxin bills will be great. It will tell who among the chil dren should be injected and who can be safely left without Injecting. Our information as to diphtheria is nearly complete. A strong armed gov ernment is now in a position to banish it wholly. We can safely predict that in 20 years diphtheria in Germany will be as rare as smallpox there is now. There were almost ho deaths from diphthferia in the Panama canal zone. In the doing of the next great piece of army controlled work we shall have no deaths from diphtheria. Then some years later, the people of the country will have the same blessing. The next step toward it will be free antitoxin—free for everybody, rich and poor. The manufacturers themselves have made that the natural next step by charging the citizens $7.50 for the same dose that they sell to the city for $1. Richmond, Va.. has had an excellent milk supply for several years. It has had visiting nurses for several years. In spite of this the baby death rate from diarrhea did not drop in a way satisfactory to Health Commissioner Levy. In 1912 he began a policy based upon the theory that diarrhea is due to bac teria and that these bacteria find their way from the diapers of the sick to the food supply of ths to-be-sick. He began teaching the mothers of Richmond througli the public press and by visits from the nurses that the dia pers must be pu« at once In antiseptic solutions and that within a day they must be further sterilized by heat. This plan has been in operation two years, and the death rate per 100,000 population from diarrheal diseases in children under 2 years of age has fallen from a maximum of 150 to S5. A number of years ago Heubner, of l Germany, was so certain that the soiled diapers infected the baby’s food that in his only hospital he had the nurses di vided into two groups—one to care for the babies from the waist up and the other to care for the babies from the waist down. The hands which cared for the diaper* were not to touch the food. It is too early to lay whether Levy The Way Of The World. ,r--___ * Wltchlta Beacon. In Kansas City a few (lays ago Frank P. Walsh, a great citizen of that metropolis, speaking for commission government, said some strong and sensible things. He called attention to the fact that Kansas City Is entitled to government that Is as business like as the management of any of tho great business Institutions of that great city. It seems odd that about the only answer the Kansas City opponents of the commission form are making to the demand for modern govern ment In Kansas City Is that Colonel Nelson and the Kansas City Star favor It. It Is singular that you can press thus upon the prejudices of people sometimes to such an extent that they will "cut off their own noses to spite their own faces.” No man has so little cause to worry over Kansas City’s form of gov ernment as Colonel Nelson—so far as he personally Is affected. He governs himself: he hns everything he needs. Including plenty of money to pay December's taxes. When he gets tired of the racket In town he has a big, fine place in the country on tho Kansas side, and another down In Florida. Why, then, should he worry about government? Why should he throw the Star into every fight for bettor things In Kan sas city, when so far as he Is concerned personally he cun drink or he can let It alone? The answer Is dend easy. He wants the Star to be useful according to Its size and opportunity. The men who hate the Star the most are those who wish It wouldn't stick Its nose Into local government, because It Isn't easy to make a politi cal snap out of local government when Colonel Nelson's able staff of trained newspaper men is mussing things up for the fixers. A paper like the Kansas City Star is a condemned nuisance of course It not only makes life hard for the practical city politician, who prob ably has a family to support, but It annoys the easy-going taxpayer and governmen't'" by yelIlng at hlm ttU the tlm° about hls duty to his own city "T clt,zen slams his paper down and growls and says: T wish old Bill Nelson would quit trying to run this darned town’’ And all that Mr. Nelson la trying to do Is to got the citizens to wake up ana run it themselves. ADVICE TO ALPHEUS. By Barry Preston. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) No one should know better than Alpheus Mudgett how I dislike to have rny eve nings disturbed; therefore I was sure It must be something of tremendous Impor tance when his card was brought up to the study that night. “Show him yp," I Bald to the maid after A moment's deliberation, and presently Alpheus, long face, thin shanks, tortoise rimmed spectacles and all, came in. “My dear fellow,” said Alpheus, “noth ing In the world would have Induced me to interrupt you, save that I am In trou ble—® very distressing thing has hap pened." ,TWell?“ I said again. “I—I have fallen In love,” said Alpheus. “Ib that all?" said I. “Quite enough. Isn’t lt?“ said he. “I have no private fortune. And tho $1,000 a year I get down at the museum Is—well, it would bo dreadfully Inadequate." “Who Is she?" I asked. “Miss Carlin, the curator’s secretary at the museum.” I glared at him. 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