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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1932)
’ SOME SAUCY d-IAPEAJJX yi >vx ^EFT-ATOUUE CF | GREEN FELT WITH RED COQ I FEATHER TRIM. fc ;GHT-A TURBAN 0? REP STITCHED BAGHEERAWTH BURNT GOOSE FEATHERS THRUST THROUGH THE TCP. »EFT, A SQUARE CROWNED DINNER HAT OF 3LACK. VELVET. Height-A BRIGHT BLUE KNITTED CAP AND GLOVE SET. ^ \ ^ (7) | Hi EFT- AN UNUSUAL B HAT OF PARCHMENT-COLOR EP 1 SOLEIL WITH BROWN TRIMMING. GlAOvS —"*■ PaQk-zFu __ “GermResistance” BY DR. MORRIS FISHKEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Ilygeia, the Health Magazine It has been estimated that 50 per cent of all of the diseases about which medicine knows most are caused by attacks on the human body by germs capable of causing disease. If one includes all of the diseases which represent compli cations and after-effects of infec tions of the human body, the per centage is probably much greater. Students of infection are in clined to include four factors as chiefly responsible for infection of the body: First, the presence of a germ with sufficient toxic power to grow in the body; second, a suffi cient number of these germs to overcome attacks by the body against the germ; third, some spe cial condition in the body that makes it possible for the germ to live and grow; and fourth, some method of getting the germ into the body. Were it not for the fact that hu man beings develop within their bodies conditions which make it difficult for germs to live and grow, t lie human race would long since have been destroyed by the bac teria. However, the resistance which the human being has because of these conditions is not absolute. In the first place, the condition of the human being changes from time to time and there is evidence that resistance is decreased when tiie body is greatly undernourished, or when a person is exceedingly fatigued, or when he has been ex posed to sudden severe changes of temperature, or in several other ways. Therefore, the line of defense varies in its strength from time to time and when the enemy is sufficiently numerous, or suffi ciently stron2 it breaks through. For this reason, even in the most severe epidemics, some people es cape although there are conditions in which practically everyone at tacked is unable to resist the in vasion. Such conditions occur, for exam ple, when a population among whom a disease has never pre viously appeared suddenly comes in contact with l he disease- This occurred in the Farie Islands when measles was brought by a ship carrying white men, at which time more than half the population of the islands died of measles. It sometimes happens that the resistance of the body to one dis ease Is broken down by a mild at tack of a previous disease. For instance, a person who has had influenza or diabetes or tuber culosis, or some other chronic dis oider, may thereafter develop pneu matic fever or tuberculosis much Farmers Make Own Thresher and Tractor Elba, Neb. —(UPi — When the big threshing machine at the Kyhn farm, near here, belches forth great quantities of straw, young Martin Kyhn takes a personal pride in the event. He built «ie machine. And not only that be constructed the home-made trac tor which furnishes its power. Martin spent seven years build ing the threshing machine. He did his regular farm work, did odd jobs to earn money with which easier than he would have pre* viously. Lighted Match Is Costly Searchlight Fresno, Cal. — (UP) — Antonio Ascrizzi won’t look for his night shirt with a matchhereafter. One night recently, when he looked in the clothes closet for his sleeping garment by the light of a match, he set fixe to the clothing hanging there. Fireman estimated the damag# at about $100. ♦ ♦ — Simple Dignity I Style experts rail this rant hi nation worn by stutuesqne Anita I unite, s, fen plai er, the ideal color scheme for fair shinned women. Over an evening gown of sheer black velvet, Mist I onise wears a bolero of white Irish tare, which proves to be the perfect complement for the black velvet of the gown and Anita's fair, est thin. to buy needed materials and util ized his sparelime in assembling the machine. The tractor was built from discarded parts, pur chased for small sums. The threshing machine was first used recently to thresh some cane seed on his lather's farm. It's suc cessful operation resulted in plane to use the machine for threshing small grain next summer. - — TREE GROWS 1 ROM DEAD TREE Freeport, Me. — (UP) — A tree i* growing from the limb of a c'tad tree 10 feet from the ground near hire. Your Children By Oli*e Roberts Barton BE MERRY WITH THE CHIL DREN I asked a middle-aged woman recently If thero was anything she would do differently if she had a chance to bring up her children again. Almost before the question was out she answered. "There certain ly is something 1 would change. I would be more foolish with them, play with them and make non sense part of our daily life." "Well — didn't you? Perhaps you forgot?" "No, I didn't forget. Of course there were times when we all laughed and were happy, times I played with them and all that. But when I say ‘nonsense’ I mean ‘nonsense.’ "I always had my practical old head In my way. I couldn't let myself go. Everything had to have a reason, evrn our fun.. Be sides. usually I was worrying too much about clean hands, or jam on the table cloth, or the last bite of spinach to let anything as un necessary as nonsense interfere. Too Much Dignity "I think I would have been a better mother in every way if I could have forgotten my dignity for a moment and looked upon more things as a joke." "Well, you are right, of course," I admitted. "Nonsense is neces sary to all of use. and especially to little children. It eases the nerves like a bromide, lets us have fun without even thinking what it’s all about, and is a fine antidote for trouble.” "The children used to talk gib berish.” she went on. "and I al ways shut them up because to me it was silly. I thougnt they would turn into imbeciles or morons, Now I see that what I should have done, at least something was to enter into the spirit of it and an swer them in the same way. I was just one chance to laugh we all missed. I could at least have pre tended it was funny when they thought so. Joy Cements Friendship “Emily was the family cut-up. No sooner would we sit down to the table than she would start rhyming about the food. Her fa ther and I thought it silly and stopped it always. “What we should have done was to add a verse apiece and Jet the other children try a hand. We all would have a gay time, dinners would have digested more easily and more than all I think they would have loved us better. “Well, that is true enough. Two real ti:s the world over are gaiety and sorrow. People who have a good time together are nevei strangers again.’” Children Demand Fun To moralize a little now, let me say there is still another fact that we should recognize. There is something in children, a sort of fairy lightness that demands fun sheer nonsense — if you like. Just fun without thinking. They lore foolish little rhymes and jingles. They love what seems to us, senseless talk and even senseless behavior — anything with a lilt and a laugh in it. They out grow it soon enough. It is not lightness and joy that makes children irresponsible in later years. Too often it is the lack of It. Starved for it, you see. Mix duty and seriousness with fun all you like, but let it be there. My friend was quite right. • ♦ — Teacher Reads Poetry To Pacify Her Pupils Boston — tUP)— To pacify her pupils during a severe thunder storm, Miss Wilhelmina Crosson, of Grade 4 at the Hancock School, read them poetry. So popular was the feature that later verse was introduced as h regular part of the curriculum, and now the children, between eight and ten years old writa poetry themselves. Samples: “In desert lands from town to town The camel travels, big and brown.” ‘The elephant. With clumsy feet. Has only the jungle for his street.” SOME FATHER! Columbus, Ohio—There is a fa ther in Columbus who lacks the proper paternal spirit. When Judge Plefferle learned that Mrs. Cath erine Righter was in the Maternity hospital expecting an addition to the family, he released her hus band. who had been held in jail on a wife-slapping charge. An hour and a half after the Righter baby arrived, the father had not been seen at the hospital. ♦ ♦ -* O. Does a tree grow in winter? L. B. A. A tree does grow in winter. The rate of growth is of course much less during the dormant peri cd of deciduous trees in the winter months, but the tree is nevertheless growing and if a careful measure ment is made at the beginning and end of the dormant period this fact will be clearly brought out. --« » Motherhood Ages Show Wide Range Sacramento, Cal. — (UP* — R’g Mrations here of mother's age3. along with birth certificates, show that motherhood ages range from 13 to 51 years, according to Mrs. Marie B. Stringer, state * gistrar of vital statistics. Although such age limits repre sent the extremes, Mrs, St inger said state records show that 13 year-old mothers are reported * every once in a while.” TO GATHER CELTS UNDER ONE BANNER Movement Ha* Autonomy for Its Goal. The movement iv real ore tns an cient Bryihoiiie tongue of I’.riitany to popular usage anti literary recog nition begun h.v l.e (lonidee, a rebel against the French revolution more titan a century ago. appears to have flowered into uu agitation for C’elUc autonomy. What brought the move ment to light was a campaign under taken by a society of Breton hot heads to spread the propaganda by terror. Their first stroke was the dynamiting lit Bonnes of a monu ment commemorating the union of France and Brittany, on the four huntlredlh anniversary of that union. Other societies committed to more pacific methods are known also to be in existence. One of them has for its remarkable goal the creation of a Celtic empire embracing Brit tany. Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and presumably Corn wall! But weird as the idea may be, It serves to call a I tent Ion to the an cient affinities of the inhabitants of these lauds. The Celts, as distinguished from tiie Teutons and the Mediterranean Irllies. nrt> a middle race, darker nnd broader than the Scandinavian nnd Commit peoples, but lighter and heavier than the South Europeans, They seem to have spread and min gled both east and west of the Cen tral Kuropenn mountains. The pure modern survivors are descendants of tribes that, lived from immemorial times in wluit are now the British Isles. These full Into two language groups, Coidelic (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man) and Brytlionic (Wales, Cornwall, Brittany). The Bretons are descendants of tribes who fled Into Armorica in the Fifth century from I lie Angles and Saxons. There are today nearly 1,000,000 of tlie.se people who retain vestiges of Druidic nnd primitive beliefs, speak a lan guage half Celt and half French, and form a conservative group sUihhoru* ly resistant to modern change. Their traditional hero Is Nomenoe, who de feated Charles the Bald, In 84fi and forest! him to recognize thp independ ence of Brittany. Reunion with Kranee came in 1532, but up until the revolution, Brittany retained its iitit estates, or parliamentary body. Celtic culture In Brittany Is anal ogous rather than related to Welsh or Irish, its literary r.spects are com paratively recent,, early fragments being mostly folk lore and tradition. I.lke Welsh, which enjoyed a rebirth when Methodist preachers defied the Angeiii'ijted bishops and carried Prot estantism to the people in their own tongue Breton popularity has been increased by governmental disfavor. It long has been barred from public school*, but its use in written form has siuead under (he urging of the Unton Keglonuliste Brelontie. The prospective "nuirlyrdom” of Theo* phile .lousset, young srlisl who threw the bomb at ltennes, marks a mile /chapped^ VHANDS# I To quickly relieve m II chapping and roughness, \\\ /I apply soothing, v\ U cooling Mentholatum. stone In (lie progress of a movement | hitherto distinguished chiefly by it* obscurity, and by a pacifism strange to Celtic uprisings.—Detroit B’roa Press. Bugler’* Megaphone The lesson the radio ‘‘crooners’* have taught is lining put to practical use at the Scott Field (111.) army camp. There tne bugler sounds hi* reveille, mess and taps calls into fha mouth of a huge megaphone, hung from a metal pipe and adjusted to the proper height. The calls can he heard easily in remote parts of the camp. 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