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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1941)
' Arsenal of Health If hile we are all conscious of the gigantic work going on in our steel mills and factories to produce the equipment that will keep America secure against outside attack, few of us know about the total war that is going on t&crush the enemy within—DISEASE. In hundreds of laboratories men and women labor to cn\sh him with vaccines, serums and toxins. These photos show what goes on in the William Hallock Park laboratory if* New York. A step in the concentration and refinement of crude serums. Harmful substances are removed by precipitation with chemicals and collected by filtration. Ur sung hero. A sterile canula 1 has been inserted into the horse's jugu ’ar. IUo(hI is drawn into the large tube and allowed to clot, i This technician is operating the apparatus in which final steri lization and filtration of biolog ical products is carried out. H earing aseptic masks, caps and gouns, women technicians are working on sterile cubicles, filling the vials with anti-rahic vaccine. 'This product has saved the lives of many bitten by rabid animals. As in every other step of the preparation of sera, vaccines arul anti-toxins, extraordinary precautions are taken in bottling the products. A glass windou' covers most of the filling operation to prevent air contamination. A small quantity of blood is taken from ear vein of rabbit. From this blood a quantity of anti-pneumococcic serum is extracted. The One Man She Wanted By BARBARA ANN BENEDICT (Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.) Thelma morrow was beautiful, intelligent, good natured, a good sport, a di vine dancer; she played an excellent game of tennis and golf; she could ride horseback and swim and at 27 was still unmarried and had never had a proposal. The lack of proposals was proba bly due to the fact that whenever a man seemed to be growing fonder of her than she desired, Thelma would laughingly announce within hearing of xhe candidate that she hadn’t a^^et and didn% expect she ever would meet a man whom she thought worth marrying. Which was a kindly way of voicing her refusal, for it spared the subject a possible embarrassing moment. At the same time it won for Thelma a reputation. Then during the winter of 41, Thelma went to Miami for the sea son and met a lad named Curt Len nox. Curt, it turned out, was the one man in all the world who could crash the gates of Thelma’s heart. She fell in love with him and the realization of it bewildered and up set her. She didn’t quite know what to do about it, especially when it flashed across her mind that Curt might not love her. What worse fate, she thought, could a girl be asked to endure than to forego the love of the only man in the world who had the power of causing goose pimples to run up and down her spinal column by merely squeezing her hand. A casual observer would have laughed at Thelma's doubts and fears. For Curt at the moment was doing his level best to give the girl a grand rush. Six days out of the seven they spent their afternoons and evenings together, and on the seventh they compromised by get ting up early in the morning and “O. K.,” said Curt, “then kindly stop talking a minute so I can kiss you.” playing a round of golf, driving over to Naples in the afternoon, dining in Coral Gables and sailing around Biscnyne Bay in the evening. Yet for all this Thelma was fear ful and doubtful and as the winter wore away her doubts and fears became more poignant. Curt was devoted, from appearances in love with her, yet he did not say the words she longed to hear. There was a faint, yet plainly perceptible barrier of reserve between them, a barrier erected by Curt. Thelma wondered at it and then suddenly she knew! It was her reputation, her reputa tion for forestalling men whose in terests in her were more than gen eral, her boast that she never ex pected to meet a man worthy of her love. Curt had heard and had taken heed. He was afraid. She shuddered at the thought. What an egotistical little ninny he must think her! Her own words which once had sounded so casual and unimpor tant now recurred to her as the very essence of conceit and insult Thelma had retired to her room to give the matter thought. Shortly after lunch Curt sent up word that he was waiting in the lobby. She told the clerk to advise Mr. Lennox she felt ill and would spend the afternoon resting. Before the dinner hour she had settled upon a plan. It was a des perate plan, fantastic, ridiculous, but it had been tried before and proven successful. She picked up the telephone, called one of the lo cal newspapers and spoke hurried ly, as if afraid she might weaken. The next day’s edition carried a picture of Thelma in its society col umns and beneath it the caption: Heiress Wintering at King Palm Ho tel. ‘‘Miss Thelma Morrow of New York, it was learned today, is spending the winter season at the fashionable King Palm Hotel. Miss Morrow s the heiress to the Mor row millions and will—” Before the day bad passed two of the young men who had been vying iun3uccessfully to be sure) with Curt Lennox for Thelma’s fa vor, threw caution to the winds and proposed marriage. Their attitudes were: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Thelma refused them gracefully and waited for Curt Len nox. But Curt Lennox didn't come. Instead two more ambitious youths succeeded in negotiating for a mo ment of privacy with her to plead their causes. Thelma marvelled at their philosophical acceptances when she refused. Toward 10 o’clock, depressed and ! miserable, yet reasonably assured that Curt wasn't coming, she went to her room, seeking solitude and escape from other would-be-fortune seeking husbands. Sitting at her window, chin cupped in hands, she stared out over the bay and told herself what a fool she’d been. Se cretly she was glad that Curt had not fallen into her money-baited trap. No, somehow, she would have to go through life without the one thing she had ever wanted and found impossible to obtain. The ringing of her telephone awoke Thelma the next morning. She saw with something of a shock that it was nearly noon. The 'phone rang again and she picked it up. Curt’s voice came to her. He seemed excited, anxious. He want ed, he told her without preamble, to see her at once. “But, Curt, you'll have to wait. I’m not out of bed yet. I’m—” “Put something on! I’m coming up!” She heard the click of the re ceiver, and her heart began to pound wildly. She slid from be tween the sheets, caught up a dress ing gown, rushed over to the near est mirror and began arranging her hair. A knock sounded on the door of the living room. A moment later Thelma opened the door. She didn’t look quite as she would have liked, but one glance at Curt and her own appearance was forgotten. His chin wore a two-days’ stubble of beard. Dirt covered his flannels and once-white shirt. There was a wild look in his eyes. He stepped into the room, banged shut the door and faced her. '‘Thel ma,” he said almost harshly, “will you marry me?” Thelma’s heart sank. So, after all, the money had made a differ ence. It wasn’t her he wanted. She faced him squarely. It would be better to get it over with at once. “Are you sure it’s me you want. Curt? It’s only fair to tell you, that—that I’m not rich.” “Rich?” he said. “I haven't any money. It was all a—ruse, a trick to make you propose. I called up the paper myself—” “What,” said Curt, “in hell are you talking about?” “Why, the newspaper story. The one about me being an heiress. I—" “Listen,” said Curt, “I haven't seen a newspaper for two days. When you told meyou were ill yes terday I thought it was just your way of letting me off easy, telling me there wasn't any use to hope, like you have a reputation for do ing. Well, it—it upset me. I had to get away. So I chartered a boat and went out into the Gulf stream fishing. Our engine went dead, and we’ve been lying out there for near ly two days. It was while I was sitting around with nothing to do but think of you that I decided I was going to ask you anyhow. I had to know. And the more I thought about it, realizing I couldn’t get back—" He broke off, realizing his words were getting confused, and took her it) his arms. “I don’t know what all this newspaper heir ess talk is about but I- do know that a minute ago you had an af firmative look in your eyes, and even if you have changed your mind—" "But—but," said Thelma, feeling just a trifle dazed, “I haven’t changed my mind nor want to." “O. K.” said Curt, “Then kindly stop talking a minute so I can kiss you.” Whereupon Thelma stopped talking for five minutes. Tinnis Gave Us Tennis; Debut in 14th Century . What’s in a name? Take, for example, tennis. For a long time it was thought that tennis was rooted in the French tenez, receive. But with Dr. Philip K. Hitti, pro fessor of Semitic literature in Princeton university, this derivation did not click. Such an alleged origin, he rea soned—felt—did violence to certain linguistic principles. Also, it ignored a most important factor, the history of the game it self; for study had revealpd to him that tennis had made its debut in Europe about the beginning of the Fourteenth century—and the play ers who introduced it, had brought it back with them from the East. Professor Hitti knew, of course, that our word “racket,” with which tennis is played today, was trace able to the Arabic rahah, palm of the hand. And further digging turned up the illuminating fact that when tennis was first played, the ball was not struck with a racket but with the flat palm. He was getting warm. Now, this ball was made of light cloth. Professor Hitti had a hunch; Where could such a cloth have been manufactured in the East? Research brought to light that in the Nile Delta there was a town that was famed for being the hub of an area that manufactured tex tiles and other fabrics—a town which, incidentally, was once the capital of one of the Egyptian dynasties. He ran this town down—found that its name was Tinnis. INFLUENCE OF WEATHER ON HEALTH AND DISEASE Everyone knows of people who can predict a change in the weather because rheumatic or previously in* jured joints become Or. Nathan S. Davis III stiff and painful, but few appreciate that such changes affect the health and well-being of all. In the days be* fore bacteria and viruses were prov en to be the causes of many of our most common diseases, most of them were believed to be due to climatic and weather conditions. Typhoid fever, cholera and other water-borne diseases and malaria, yellow fever and other diseases car ried by insects that breed in stand ing water were most prevalent in wet seasons. They were considered to be caused by high humidity, high atmospheric pressures and damp ness. As it became known that one or another type of organism caused such diseases, the members of the medical profession paid less atten tion to the effects of weather on health. However, some attention is again being given to the influences of weather on health and disease. It is known that in the north temperate :one, “colds,” sore throats, sinus CAUSES FOR MILITARY REJECTION The relative proportion of defects that have been the principal causes of rejection at local Army induc tion stations: Teeth .... 19.32% Eyes.13.25% Cardiovascular System 6.18% Musculo-Skeletal Defects . . . 4.90% Mental and Nervous 10.48% Ears.9.52% Hernia .... 5.28% Lungs.5.00% Venereal .... 4.44% Feet.3.64% All Others . . . 17.99% infections, bronchitis and pneumo nias are most prevalent from No vember through April but the prob able connection between the high in cidence and the lack of ultra violet rays from the sun during these months is not appreciated. It has long been known that a stimulating climate, one in which weather and especially temperature varies greatly causes civilization tc reach the highest levels. However, extreme changes have a detrimental effect, especially on the sick whc may even be benefited by constant temperature and weather condi tions. For example, the individual who has a high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries benefits from a constant fairly warm cli mate and reacts badly to the marked changes in temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure. Such ar individual will often consult his phy sician when there has been a sudden and great rise in temperature with an equally abrupt rise in humidity and barometric pressure and state that he feels much worse and is sure that his blood pressure is much higher than usual. But under such circumstances, instead of being higher, the blood pressure is often distinctly lower than it has been. This fall in blood pressure and the changes in the circulation and in cellular chemistry that result, is probably the reason that so many, under such atmospheric conditions, have “strokes.” These rapid changes in the weath er conditions also have an effect on the healthy and seem to decrease their ability to withstand infections. Everyone knows that colds are more prevalent during a winter thaw with relatively high temperatures follow ing abruptly on an unusually cold spell. Such weather is also “pneu monia weather.” There are, then, plenty of reasons for the development of aches and pains with changes in the weather; for your feeling blue and depressed in bad weather and full of vim, vig or and vitality when the sun is shin ing, the weather cool, and the ba rometer low. • • • QUESTION BOX Send questions to Dr. Nathan S. Davis lit. Winnetka, 111. (Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope.) Q.—Will buttermilk and lemon juice bleach freckles? A.—Buttermilk and lemon juice are harmless and not very effec tive. Perhaps the new method of peeling skin safely may be of help for freckles. Q.—Are boils caused by a virus, or some external c; use? M. S. A.—Boils are usually caused by a staphylococcas, a bacterium and not by a virus. Both are external causes. I S£ WING CIRCLE DRAVO for the new silhouette— shaped by this long, torso molding top, low waistline and full, swirling skirt! If you are out to get the world by the tail you simply must have one of I — I r these dirndl frocks—and it is typ ical of . the young spirit of the times that you’ll probably be your own dressmaker and turn out this style perfectly for yourself! Pat tern No. 1479-B offers nothing fancy—merely that perfect but ton-front top with its immaculate, snowy white collar, short sleeves set in with a smooth straight shoulder line and a skirt gathered on at a slinkily low waist. It’s a dress for stiff fabrics, faille, taffeta or moire if you de sire swish. 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