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TUB BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913.
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Banish the Dog j
The Three of 'Em Betty and Danny and Billy
By Nell Brinkley
Xe.. Spraada Tuberculosis
The Bam. -with Cats Neither
On Oooflj Xor- ICome Especially
Where Thire Aret Children.
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BjffARttETT SERVISS.
reiaY
Therfc fire tat' least . 12,000 tuberculoid
dogs dti;IargoLin. ?arlsl, Every one ot
those jntpctcd 'nfcadamlte companions ot
man, qtj only ,for'tlie stone ago. of human
culture! tie a "poss!- .
ble Bcforfcli f&rw-th9
spread'6pthe' grpal
whltkliplagnrc
amon.jxh'o c.h 1J -dren
oijjthe French
metropdltst v.
T h tig , alarjpilng
statement Is -based
upon 4 r'eportVJyst
made Jto the Na
tional Acttdemy'oif
Medicine, by ,-flprofi
Cadlotrof; the Vet
erinary "school "of
Alfort 5 T
It lsinnothcr xonp
vlnclnj rcasoti' why does should be ban
ished front ay' 'ciri-fcrfl pf hurnon popula
tion. xtuberouloslp--dor rny bo aa
dange'aa'a'inalalrla-b'earlrtg nosqulto,
. and ov!(nvr.ior-iBO.' .Tho-perll' (p children
Is esrAjclkllyl great nefcordtns to Prof.
Cadlot&iOtd tteL EitlL -because ot their
tendeneyvto peythe' tnfeoted animal, tak
ing their In f.tislr-. Arpia,- catching their
breath rind even allowing them to lick
their V.u':' 4 "
Cats care eaually . dangerous, , for they,
too, ofefrequehtiy Infected -with tuber.
cuIosIgjin7 Its mantf -Kjpricealedj'irorms.
ThesjanlraaIts-on;tracf. the- disease.
Prof. Qadjot soys, .from humn-sources
througftv 'the dfeestlvo tract. , , Dogs and
Cats deOiir all artB.pf. .substances, and
It haafefen ('observed - that the, pets of
consun&tive -paUc'nia.,lmost,"j$varlably
ar6 affected Hy iuborcuiFsls. Dogs that
haunt iogtaurantf.l'caes, salmons, drink
ing pjasea anJ similar - resorts seldom
escapoilhcctlon, anjAhenthey.-aro ready
to sprtMlt lb"''uhittn?b"e'lngs.wlth whom
they comb In contact f ,k
Parirg pntalnatho? .astonishing canlrta
I'opulafid'o of 20Q,WKf From 6 to 9 per
cent ofjfjiieso usqlH-dogshcarry the seeds
of tubnrculosta aboutr-wlth them where
ever thy go. ".This1- -plague, tho same
authorities deqlare, .is not .confined to
Paris, .bu'$. ls'j proportionately present In
every city and town -where dogs abound.
It Is not possible 'o rrtako' a medical sur
vey ot.' all the canine:, population of a
city, and thousands' .of dangerous cases,
may eas)ly oxlst wlthouY detection. The
only safety .cpnststtfvtn: "Abolishing these
utterlylkelessr anlbials fronV all cities.
It is.well to" 're.f"le'ct''-that Vnta tendency
of dogsVtfl contrapt'Ju'rulosls', and then
pass lt-on to' human , beings, (s. not con
fined to any jjirmaJe byl exists," Wherever
dogs and mcn-Uvo together. Canine tuber
culoslsiS" whqut'duW- ascommon In
Americans lrvJjVaQCe 'J,ls a i artgreatej
rabid Gog can usually pe recognized on
sight, While one carrying the',-S4eda'1 Of
consumption ci'ni3itfyj Co detected'" f)3y
medicoJtflowukfriKtldp;,.' :
You iuldnotrtthiflitglv1npf ,tqiydur
chlldrejifor a-pejiin animal. capableof
envenomntg tn'envith; (i'siblte Kjy -niyph
less should yotD'e'wIlling to ahb'je'ct hem
to the Inflnltety tjrfttqj; danger of an Jn
fectlonUbat hide&llfBelf In apnartnilyiln--nocent
jpifesses. litfery dog' that runs at
large Is Jlabje,. from its habits, to con
tract .tib'ercufosfs',' no matter -how care
fully it may be guarded against tho
danger when it la under observation at
home,1
Thls may be ono of the mysterious
sources otifthcspread.'xf ' tuberculosis' in
spite V all the effort's that have been
made tty .medical societies and preventjv'3
asioclatlona-td. ta'mp it oUL And, ' re
member, that cats are equally dangerous. I
Neither-a, cat .nor a t dog,, Js a fit com
panlo&Vifor' mjui'ln hlB3iomo,.nor"ln any
of hlsj tfriat "centers' of population. That
dogs ore specially subject to Infection Is
showJiy the fact, noted by Prof, Cadtot.
that tuberculous disease is 600. times more
frequent among dops, than among- horses.
And cuts ore, apparently, not far behind
dogs "JSjjthelr liability -to' 'such infection.
Thlstnew and' ' terrible ' Indictment
ngalnttftho dog, added to the many
whlchTVroady exist, should be sufficient
to leajpio its complete banUhment 'rom
all lafcK' cities and towns. It is danger
ous bijeause ot Us frequent savage attack
upon children (some of the favorite 'pets
of doK.fanclers are the most vicious "In
thelr.fropensltles), because of Its liability
to ramy?, the most awful Infliction than
an an&al's bite is capable of Imparting,
becaufepf lta objectionably habits in tho
streetsfand, most of all, perhaps,, because
now w&Ttnow that It is an aent. for the
BpreaS'of tuberculosis. '
LetIi,yonstantlnople enjpy. 'alone the
Eloryot being the metropolis-of .dogs!
Stk and Cupid
Manx Newr Homo will Hare a. Iittla
J. ounbeam to Unghten it.
Tbeto is uiutlly ft certain; degree of dread
In ertrr woman's mind as to the probable
pain, Jdlitress and danger' ot child-birth.
But, flasks to a moit remarkable . remedy
knowSaa Mother's Friend, all iearls baa.
Ubediad the period is one of unbounded,
Joyfutfyntlcipatloa, ...
Mot-her's Friend U used eitfroaflx, -It
It a -tybtt penetrating application? makes
tbe muscles ot the stomach and- abdomen
pllanf-Wo they expani eMlly and naturally
wlthout'.paln, without "dlatreas and wrth,
none ot; that peculiar nnujfa, nerrousaeia
and qther symptom that tend to weaken
the prospective mother.' That Cupid and
the stork are held up to veneration; they
are rtted as cunning plotters to herald the
coming.. of a little sunbeam to gladden the
heartland brighten the homes ot a host ot
happjtfiamlllei.
There.' are thousands of women who have
used Mother's Friend, and thus knew from
experience that It Is one ot our greatest
contributions to healthy, happy mother-hood-i-It
Is sold by all druggists at ll.OO
per trtrU(, and Is especially recommended
as a .'preventive of caking breasts and all
ctherisueh distresses.
WrW to Bradneld Regulator Co., 131'
Lamar Bldg., Atlanta, Oa., for their very
valuaMe book to expectant mothers. OeS
j. botqo at iotker'a Frtand teniae
v . Nell Brinkley' 'Serfs;
Here they are the three of 'em. They sing through all my days.
Nobody 'seems o'v6r to get tired of tho sentimental tale of n Man and a
Girl' and Lovel
-. Sometimes I think I do when I'm stumped for an idea and I lean
my head on my hand and my brain goes round and round yet always
comes back to the three that seem to flicker behind all my days a
' Betty, a Billy, and Danny.
. . 1 .appeal for an idea to my mother, or the Gentle Cynic. My
mother smiles and puts her brown head to one side. "Why, make a
picture of a Mant a Girl and, Love!"
. j 'And she ends up triumphantly as though-she-had 'thought-of some
thing new.
And the Cynic gives me an amused look from tho bachelor face of
him and says, "Oh, mako a picture of a Man, Love and ajGirlJ" He
thinks he hasn't thought of anything new.
:jL..AnB thoy're both right.. It's' new and it's qldAnd thero-I go ;
making a ' picture that' holds tho ' darling threo ot thorn Betty i,and
Billy and Danny whatever the idea- r
Here they are with no idea behind Just tho threo actors, making
their littlo bow. She is sometimes blond, sometimes gypsy-dark, . Al
ways her mouth is full and luring. She walks with tho graco of tho
wind in tho grosses. There are always little lines that mako her fairy
like on. her high-instepped feet Arid Bho is always in love.
Danny is a "wishtful," warm-bodied slip of a boy sometimes
called cherub. Ho has a alow and molting eye and a taking way with
him. Ho is greedy of hearts. He is the big. actor in tho drama and
even whon ho is in only a moving picture where he'll novor hear their
praise the people clap and whistle. And it you've once had his rose
leaf, steel-strong hand around your heart, you'll remember it, I swearl
He looks a Jolly outlaw.
Billy is why, he's the Man. l.oU of men don't like him but the
girls all do. I wondor what that means. , A blond man wondered to
me, roughing up his Viking, goldy mop, v" why, youtnako his hair for- :
ever black!"
Maybe I havo a tender spot for black half bocauso my own is blond.'
. But that isn't the whole reason the why of .it Is most practical, and
earthy I make it black because. t need a black spot in the picture so,
many times and his head often is the only place for it.
And when tho picture cries loud for black, why, Billy's blond head,
must go. "
He is the actor with tho yearning oyos, tho eagle nose, tho tender
moutju And he follows Betty with wldo rrm the world around, cry
ing, ''Come to' me, picture girl ilift up1 your Hps' to triol"
Ho's always in love, too. . ....
It's a mutual admiration affair ('arms all 'round!"
Here they afe, thq three ot them j-tho pawns that I move about ia
different figures day by. day. -
Current Craze for Surgery
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I itLialiikisisVJPisisisiH
By ELLA WHEELER. WILCOX
Copyright, MJ. by Btar Company,
Surgery haa reached great and wonder
ful proficiency in saving human life and
curing deformities and overcoming seem
ingly Incurable obstacles to health.
'Not only doer sur
gery- cure physical
maladies, but fre
quently -It reforms
tbe V mentally ana
morally unbalanced.
Dr. Kdward.F, Bow
ers,' In a retent arti
cle, "tells us how, In
Philadelphia, a great
surgeon,, "with tbe
human equation
keenly develop ed,''
Is operating from
time to time upon
boys who are' sent
to the reform school
for unlawfu) . aqts,
One little chap,
with a' penchant for
burning houses and. .barns (he burned
quite, a number of them before he was
finally captured), came under this sur
geon's notice,
A trephtrle operation was made, a srnall
circular-button -of the -skull removed,
and a silver plate placed over the open
ling, and. this boy's pyromanla was com
:PjLe.te,ly eradicated.
.UeienUflc urgery has grown so rap
idly In the last few years that Dr. Bow
ers believes' the surgeon and the hospital
may yet be substituted for the Judge and
tltt prison In dealjns with crime.
But with this growth, men and women,
women particularly, have lost all reason
and all semse of proportion In their craxe
for operations, or In their quick decisions
In favoring the knife for maladies which
are not ot sufficient seriousness to ren
der the expensive risk necessary,
Surgeons are ao skilled that they do
not hesitate to perform a very dangerous
operation, even when they know that
other methods might prevail,, so long as
tho patient desires the knife. Others ot
national repute as men ot standing often
advise operations, and no doubt believe
them necessary, when they are not.
Three years ago a slight physical dis
turbance," which refused to be routed by
mental methods, caysed- me to ask the
opinion of one ot theso well established
eurgeons, who Is at the head of a largo
hospital. lie advised the knife, and when
I expressed amazement that such a slight
malady needed so serious a treatment, he
assured me he was dally operating upon
similar cases. When I refused to be oper
ate upon, he said he washed his hands of
consequences.
The consequences were a perfect re
storation of health In a very brief time
by the use of X- and violet rays, together
with persistent mental affirmations and
sensible, adherence to tbe laws of good
health. An acquaintance who passed
through the operation which was sug
gested to me died a few months later.
A year ago a friend of mine was as
sured by two eminent surgeons that she
must submit to a major operation within
two months or forfeit her life. The lady
made all plans to enter a Philadelphia
hospital and submit to this dangerous and
expensive operation. At the last moment,
however, her husband decided to -ask
other counsel with the result that she
abandoned her .original plan, took the
rays, some simple herb treatment, built
up her system with nutritious food and
outdoor life and la now perfectly
well, and 's most able to Indulge
In athletic sports, and to live a wholly
normal Ufa with all her organs- Intact,
as Well as' an undepleted bank account.
Recently I met.', a 'lady who, through
having read an. antlcle in the July "Good
Housekeeping" magazine,' on "Hysterical
Surgery," was prevailed upon to give up
the operation she had been told was Im
perative. In Jess than six' weeks the lady
finds herself, free of the. trouble which
had menaced her.
At the same time I met a woman who
Ijad been declared dying several years
ago with "a nest ot tumors," and as her
heart action was weak the surgeons said
no operation could be performed; she
must simply wait the approach of death.
Vet thtt woman Is perfectly well now and
an enthusiastic believer In nature meth
ods, In diet, In internal and external
baths. In osteopathy, in violet and X-rays.
I have In my address book the names
of these and other. friends who arft qulto
ready to substantiate my statements
statements made public out of an' in
creasing desire that women "cease to be
self-deluded or surgically deluded with
the Idea that they must bo operated upon
in order to regain health. !
A lady who was made nervous over a
slight growth In the region of the
abdomen was advised to have It removed.
She was enjoying perfect health seem
ingly and the physicians assured, her and
her husband that tbe Incision's would
soon heal and the time of her Invalidism
would be less than a month. The woman
died the third day after the operation.
The physicians have -since sold that
piany similar growths .disappear and are
absorbed It the woman keeps her gen
eral health In good condition, This I
know to be a fact in Instances which
coma' Under my observation'. 'The hus
band of this lady f Indr himself unable to
obtain and redress for the death ot his
wife, because the physicians were mon In
high standing.
Appendicitis haa become a fad. The
operation . is quite, likely nec.es.sary .'a;
times to save life. 1 recall many sudden
deaths ot people In my childhood of a
malady known then as "inflamaUon ,ot
I he Intestines." No doubt these were
cases of a diseased appendix. Yet for
every-person whose life has been saved
by' the removal bf that Organ, I am con
fident ten have needlessly died by being
operated upon when oher methqds would
have saved them. I have known several
serious cases to bo cured by osteopathy,
many more by X-rays, and others by na
ture, methods cleansing the system and
a" strict diet.
Unless a woman Is In the full grasp of
a malignant mklady, the knife should not.
be used until she has tried all other
methods. A large majority of the women
who go upon the surgeon's table for
breast trouble die before the expiration
of two years. A large majority who pass
through major operations are nervous
wrecks afterward.
Let me Aieg all sensible women to avoid
the operating table and the surgooa's
knife, unless all other" methods have
failed. They will not fall If employed
In time and persistently followed.
When Mother Gets "Peculiar
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By WINNIFRED BLACK.
So she's getting "peculiar," Is she the
mother you've always been so proud of?
Acts queer, and "gets maa at nothing,"
and cries over trifles, and thinks nobody
loves her, and
makes a nuisance
of herself gener
allydoesn't sheT
' You'd hate to
wake up some
bright morning and
find mother dead
In bed dead bei
cause she wanted
to die; dead, be
cause she saw that
you and the rest
thbughther'
"funny" and hard
to bear with, dead,
becauso you didn't
-'-u n d e r s t and."
Well. then, young
woman. It Is time
you did under
stand. It nobody else will tell you about
It, I will.
,Your mother has stood about all she
can stand In this world and live. She's
fought and endured and suffered and
smiled and cried and hoped and feared
and agonized, till her nerves are about
tired out; and they'll stay tired for a
year or so, and mother will be "peculiar"
till those nerves are good and rested
and you'll have a time with mother all
these years.
She'll be Irritable and cross-grained
and Jealous and suspicious and despond
ent, and she'll want you to tell her that
you love her three times a day and show
her that you do every minute of the
twenty-four hours. She'll act like a girl
of sweet It one minute and like a with
ered crone at another. Bhe'll tako queer
dislikes to your friends and she'll take
odd fancies to your enemies, and you'll
wonder and wonder, and you will losa
patience with her, and that Is the tragic
part.
She would never lose patience with
you she who was never too tlrtd or too
busy or too "nervous" to get up to take
are of you at any hour ot the da or
night. What a time you make over podr
mother's eccentricities.
Peculiar! She 'Jsn't half as "peculiar"
as you were when she had to trot you
around a cold room In her bare feet tor
hours at a time to keep you from rousing
the fire department with your whoops.
"Odd!" If she can be any odder than
father was when, he got the Joining fad
and'Jotned every organisation from Matpe
to California, and had the whole house
littered with Insignia and form books.
"Strange!" If she can be any strangir
that brother was when he was made
captain1 of the Little Tigers and played
bate ball fn his sleep, she's an odd one
Indeed. ' , t
Apd, yet brother Isthe very, first .tq
find fault with wother and tell her she's
"getting"-queer.'"
Let's see. How old- It motherT 1 Some
where along, In the forties maybejust
In the prime of lit?, .her husband tlilnks.
He hasn't been in the prime .no' long , us
she has. Men stay boys longer - than
women stay girls, and there's a tune ,at
40 or so when the whole world seems
fadjng. away to the woman. who'a-Jlved
actively. She's tired so easily she's wor
ried over such trifles her head hangs so
low over every fancied slight, every little
disappointment.
The girls are growing away from her.
The boys are away at school. Nobody
seems to need mother' any more. Qh, for
a tittle finger to bandage! Oh, for littlo
woes to comfort!
Father doesn't tell her his business
affairs any more as he used to when he
had the little business there In the
shabby little street, and she used to go
to the office and walk home with him
every night and talk things over. He
belonga to a club now, does father, and
he has no time to walk home. He rides
In a machine, and things hurry so. and
there's never anyone to be comfy with
any more.
And all those pretty young women
dressed like fashion-plates where do
they all come from, mother wonders
dully, Was she ever as pretty as that,
and as gaily dressed? Somebody gets up
In the car and gives her a seat some day,
and she realises that they did It because
she was no longer young, and she cries
about it an hour-when she geta .home,
Mother hat t keep going keep going
with her. heart a lump of lead; keep going-
wiin ner brain a dull whirl-keep going
with, her nerves crying out tor rest, for
comfort, for help. And all she eets Is to
have even those who lava her hr
'"queer"-and "6dd"-and to hear them
planning to take their little Jaunts with-
out her and she was once the life ot tha
whole party!
Poor mother!
Be patlent-bo kind-be Intelligent with
mother and her peculiarities, and some
day you'll wake up to find the queer old
mother gone and a sane, healthy, vigor
ous, cheerful woman in her plaoo the
old mother you used to know, only a
thousand times wiser and ktmli' and hit.
ter for all she has been 'through.
I'oor mother needs you now as eha
never needed you In all, her gay, happy,
vigorous life before. She gave freely to
you bf her strength. She never counted
the coat, Pon't weigh things too heavily
In the scale against mother now. Dear,
foolish, lonely, despondent mother. Help
her through the dark place along the road
now, and some day she will hold those
who are your very life close in her
cradling arms and then you will understand.
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