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TUB IJEK: OMAHA. F1MDAY, SKlTKAIItKR 4. 14.
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Twilight Sleep
wo
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By AI. rATTKIlSOX.
Hope hit tnovrd nearer t- certainty
since a innnth bo I in'lr on this page
of "twilight sleep." (he soothing, luiinnn.
rent mine me (Irtnoiif have Riven
t h motherhood .
that Is wll hunt fear aaaaaanpaaaaassaa
t
and without rain.
An associate of
Tr. KronlR and Dr.
Knauss In the hos
pital connected with
the t'nlvrmlty of
elburg, whlrh I
the cradle for the
hope for maternity
unattended by dan
ger and unacoom
anle4 by pain,
ha come, to Amer
ica and worked In
both public and
private hospital.
H reporta that at
Jlh Maternity hospital at No. 270
Kast Sroadway he haa handled 115 ram
and that tS per rent of them have been
successful, that l. that of those SS among
109 not one mother reulized the process
that has been Inseparable from aony.
A prominent aurReon tells me that he
ta looking forward with confidence to a
twilight aleep raae next week. "I ahull
uae one-half suggestive theraicullc, the
Physician's term for Christian Science,
and one-half sedatives," he said. "I aw
confident my patient will have a rainless
ordeal."
Demand for method that wl'l save
maternity from Its danger and tragedy Is
so stront that It has become Insistent
and not to be denied If it la In human
Power to satisfy It. In answer to thin
two physicians were sent by the Ameri
can Gynecological club to Freiburg to
learn of the physicians who have suc
ceeded In 6,000 cases In making the
process of maternity what the name
Promises, an untroubled dream awaken
ing from which woman finds , hersolf
wearing the crown of motherhood.
.Thoy have returned, and one of them,
Dr. John Polak, of the Ixmg Island col
lege hospital' says: ."I have made three
visits for study to the Frauet.kllnlk oon-
and I am convinced that the claim S
Kronlf and Knauss I. true. There Is not '
anv doubt .h.?.K.J J-?.. .SI1!
are .id to hava done."
"i "in imnrasi every omsn of any
age Is what he further auys: "There Is
not reason why It should not be as suc
cessful In America aa In Oennany. Thay
have been more successful th.re thaa we
have because they have been more per
slstont. They have mastered the tech
nique, t
"Of two facts I am assured, and they
are of prime importance. One Is that the
method of spsrlng women the agouy ot
that ordeal la not ImpoMblo to the Amer
ican Woman. 8lla is of different lunun.
men and will, therefore, require d fterent I
preparation and dosage, but her nervous
nature does not prohibit the twlilght
sleep. An exceedingly nervous American
woman, who was at the FraucnUlinlk as
my patient, came through her experience
with splendid results.
"Another fact thst must not for a mo
ment' be forgotten la that thin Is no
tieatment to be given at the homes. It
I Is essentially a matter for the hoaultal.
because it requires coiv-tant vigilance,
end that can only be given by a unp:tal
organisation."
Nor need the woman who Is pot, r. or of
moderate moans be discouraged by the
huspiul bogle that haunta so manv minds
the bogle of expense. "The poor women
,are those who can have the benefit of If,"
'ald the man who brought the tldtnfts
ef great joy across the sea. "Women in
moderate circumstances are willing to go
to hospitals. It ,1s the rich women who
want to be treated at heme who will
miss the twilight sleeo. Thete is nothing
that will make the treatment impractic
able for the woman In humble walks.
The doors of the houttal are open to
her."
Three hospitals sre otn to them In
the east. They are thl Long Island Col
lege hospital, of Brooklyn, and the Post
Oraduata and the Lying-in hospitals,. of
New York. ,
To western Vomen the opportunity la
effexed through I'r. Puben Peterson, at
Ana Arbor, who is attached to tb Michi
gan Medical college, and. who was an
other doctor atiulrnt aent by the Ameri
can Gynecological club to the I'ttle city
that may be, bleesed by all women, .
- At Buffalo on He,-tember Itl the Ameri
cas Association of t : nccoloalMs and
Obstetricians will OlS' tui .t ui'tl.ot,of
robbing maternity of lis pl;cal horrors.
A physician wIk haa be Mi qu clly at
work In a privi'.e bon- lil. In conjunc
tion with a phylclan from the Freiburg
hrapital. for six months, ut II lefxirt .his
discoveries ad conclusions,, .
He is eager to g.ve the w,rld t lx" result
tf thcew d'siuicr'rs. but he na.'ri r.alt
upon the slow snd halting .foulness of
prvf ePional ct'euette. the old. (ovyism
that handicap the t ioic jb of on. of the
world's noblest i to.'etrions as a ht bi le
tfeirt docs a woman
For Sallow, Blotchy,
Rough or Greasy Skins
8me skins re.iilie constant grooming
to fcerp thorn fiviu becoming oily, muddy,
blotchy vr roUKli. or If sot li condlt on bes
oei elurx.-d to overcome It. Ju such chronic
cases It la particularly Inadvisable to kp
piling on coeii.ntlcs which iMor the pores,
collect duet mud dirt, nmking lbs com
lixlon woi-ve ilian ever. It a luk more
ennible to uae ordinary tnercollsed wax.
wtit.-h lltrraby abHuri'S a bail coniple&lon.
Awly the urn, Iikc cold cream, before re
l;i nest morning, in v.aai.nR it off.
oull wsih swny rin. flour-liae particles
of the unsightly i u.icle. Kepet for a
week or two and you (1 hate an entirely
ie sain soft. aim-. Mmiies aind beau
tiful aa a tiilid r. imp uviwe of iix-rco-liied
wax. piiH-ui abie at an. ir jfsl ila is
an you II need.
If ttia skin l wrink'ril or flabby, here's
tbe br-et oMMilc ieni.-Jv: Vi pint
wki it tiax.! ariU I ohik' powdered savoHie
and una aa a tare bath. It works like a
mira.ia. et i ei.nrvly hariulcas. Adver-t'emeot.
i ue rew nope for the World's Mothers. The Freiburg
Experiment Likely to Lead to the Emanci
pation of Women from the Curse
ol Eden.
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Other method than that which has
fl'-e thousand henlthy nnd happy mothers
to attest to Its efficacy will be advocated.
It Is but natural that while the Hermans
are making; the d'srovery tnat nisy revo
lutionize th" world for mother, their
long-time fi.ee. the French, ehnuld be
making; marches alonv the road of what
trmnlaes to be u greul truth.
Prof. Albmt Klbemont-nessalgne. heal
of the department of obaietrlrs In the fa-
i.mii. uraujnn Hospital in j'ans, tnd a
re-otrnlzed anihorlly on the processes and
pei lis of motherhood, has announced that
he has discovered a form ot treatment
whereby the nightmare of apprehension
would he. forover banlsned f:-oni mater- :
liltv, KtithL'RlHStie rominentutora creeled '
the announcement with Joyful belief. It !
was said of him thst ho had blue-penciled
the IManle curae, that he had expunged :
from (Jenesls the decree, "In sorrow thou '
shall bring forth children." He wsa said
t have robbed writers of a favorite and
melHncholy phrase. "The martyrdom of
motherhood."
In Freiburg Drs. Kronlg and Knauss
have shown the truly scientific spirit
'tm'-tured with the humane. Or. Polak,
paying a visit for ob.crvatlorr In 1,
found the physiclitiis Inducing that state
of sUHpenslon of memorj-. balance) by
active will and muscular control, which
Is the twilight sleep, by giving Injections
ofsropnlamln, a derivative of snakeroot,
and morphine. On his second visit. In
1012. the physicians were gratified, but
not satisfied, by results, and they were
.teeklng a blend of the drjgs which should
contain no possibility of over-ex .'Itement
of the patient.
In 1914 he has found they were using
narkophln, derived from opium, and re
fined scopolaipin. These, Injected In
various proportions, according to the
needs of the particular patient, he an
nounces, have produced "practically per
feet results."
Any dangers that might attend th
treatment, he believes, can be "foreseen
and avoided by periodic examinations and
by the Incessant vigilance possible only
In a hospital organlxatlon."
The Frenchman's announcement la less
candidly made.' "A liquid In which chlor
oform la compounded with certain fer
ments which deprives the chloroform of
Its formidable poisonous Qualities by
,T,taJ ! 11
.V" patl nt by '"J010"' Thus ha do-
urtb . of hi. fellow praotl-
iiiontr, In Paris agree la revolutionary
. ridden proapectlve mothers.
Objections? Yea, aomu physician make
them, and there U no doubt that there
will be hot debate and fierce oral duels
at Buffalo. No ona, even the moat ardent
of the enthusiasts, will deny that the
doctors and the mothers must proceed
with caution. The mother must be sura
of her doctor. The dot tor must be sure
of the soundness of his theory. He must
renieml.er his esculaplan oath end the
prectoutnesa of the apparently, most
"significant life.
Kmlnent . practitioners . are weighing
judicially the claims of the Oerman and
Frehch obstetrlclana. ttr. Charles A.
Dana, that " eminent authority on- the
rtruAes of deranged - minds, even " when
thone causes lead back to three or more
generations, raises no objection, to the
mental Influence upon the child of the
alleged ultra-nervousnifs of the mother
under the Freiburg treatment. He told
me this:
. "I am not an obstetrician, and I am
not thoroughly familiar with the tech
nique of the twilight sleep. But as far
s scopolamtn Is concerned. It Is a harm
Ices drug when wisely used. A certain
percentage of adults are anaphylactic to
It, however, and cannot bear even amall
Coven uf It. so I always make amall
obedience to It before prescribing It."
A -well-known American' nurse said of
It. . Being a nurse, . your article on the
twilight sieep greatly appealed to me.
A physician for whom t have handled
many cases; some obstetrical, makes two
such lnjoctlons.
"The first soothes. . Alter the second a
leg could be cut off and there would be
no palu or realisation t4 : The patient
may fllrep at interval, hut not always,
is usually dully conscious, the eyes open,
the patient talking and yet .there la no
fear and no bad after ffevta. Never Is
there realisation of paUi and yet she Is
seemingly aware of what happen.
"This pliysi'ian uses scopolaniln In
very small doses, morihiii and a hesrt
st'.mulant. I have nursed twenty raaea
In the, tw ilight sleep p4 all have been
splendidly successful." '
Thua the doctors and the nureea. What
of the woman? What can tnev il"?
A physician spoks a great truth when
he said: "It ta simple. They cap Mr.
i.viiid l"cmajid irealce a supply. The
twilight sleep la like surgery applied to
appendicitis. Patients no longer give up
and die of flight when they, hear the
name. They say. '1 wish to be operated
on,1 and they are."
This wave of Interest in the medical
Profession may pass and other aclentiftc
Interests may succeed it. It may be tost
upon the shore of Forgotten and Neg
lected Things, unlets women make their
demand. They must ntake It with a de
termhvut'on that cannot be withK.. o.t,
"There -are methods of making mother-
hood Palnleaa. What do you know about j
them?' every woman may ask her phy-
I siclan, and if every woman patient askal"
that queation of eeery Physician the eg- ibtnk It.'not exi;
cuse. "I am too busy to look Into It, will right to withdraw my financial -suj.port
be tost in the chorus of demand In so- from the home.
prano and contralto voices. .. Prra.mallv I have a dee,, affection for
if .1 .. .. 7. . ... he girl, but have not that "t'an't-live-
If the women demand It. the AoaplUls w Ithoul-you-another-mtnute" feeling de
will provide (or Ha study. Physicians scribed In ftcilon. auvl wouM juet Ha soon
will trsvel serosa the continent to study i"" 'r" or ' ,f ' hMt '
what the'r patient demand they must
..... j , .
know. ,
If there is a way to spare women the
agonies that are foreshadowed la the
cruel passage In Ueuesla, women want IC
and It should hsve been wrlttan particu
larly of women. "Where there's a will
there's a way."
Talk of it In your clubs; talk of i over
your(tea cups; but,' naoat of all. talk of
It to your doctors. . If the Germans or
French have found the way. It will be
adopted. If they haven't, the Americans
may discover It If there Is a way you
can compel the Hading of I
Gowns of
Examples of 'tin French
"Which Meot the Dcnunuls of An Artistic Eye.
Thin rape; Ih of rich vanilla velvet, hanging n classic fold from the
shoulders. It li collarcKl In chinchilla, cut Id aUalght pieces about ten
mcnes wte ana ieoiy-iour incnea long. Under this, in front, is a bit of
oriental embroidery In lilac and ellver, from which falls the fastening cord
of silver. OLIVETTE.
Advice to Lovelorn
a? bAatbxcs TAxarax
iear Mla Fairfax: I nave noticed that
your usual advice to girls In or M esrs
, old w ho are enxaKed is to make the-boy
jwait a few years hrforv Retting married;
bit what eolutb.it huve oj lor tb oung
man who wants to watt, but -when: the
lady and her psn nts disapprove ot the
I'll enRSenietit ,
I am -l yeHis o.d and uecauiv engaged
lo a wonderful viiuiig 'woman about a
Bioi.th or Ho m senior. We have the
sums vieus on religion, social questions,
Itlnsnclal anil It lun. and there is 11: lie
I doubt that we t'ould live In prefect har-
, .",',.' X "f0 ' -
our own. and her prvnts a-vin to think
all right; but my par. nt a any I should
" nr loias reiose n see ll in thst islit.
v hat would be the moat hnnnrable
course to pursue?
'"tOU '
Ijavm that will be expected to 'last
through all the jears of wedded life will
lose little by.waltlug a few. year a for
good reasons. You are too young to et
married. No man should wed before be
is. SI or Z1 years of age, when be has
passed from boyhood entirely into man
hood. This does not intuit that marriage
cannot be contracted early end be en
tirely happy, but It does mean that mar
riage la a state Into which young folks
should net enter hurriedly, and a boy axad i
girl of JO are hardly mature enough - to J
- nooooy lines to
X ' ' ' ,' hoar the trvtth about f '
Jr , ' "i: , ttemseJres, but It's f .. j
tV V a great pleasure to i ' !
Am ij tell the truth to peo- V
' A S A , Uae. anyway. l X
it tfifSr When you tell the V ' T'
y X. , truth you always -CN..
NOV V. say something per- Tbk'U';
V Y fectly horrid tr a p'ff
f 42 - P-rson, but whc 'V-"'V
V. . to them polite and 1- 'VA.ef? I
S& . agreeable. I do not , .V! "h;,A
. iP know why this Is
f 3 ' When my mamma .
f"-?.'' ""y" to my unt Harriett, who Is my
il - Hm papa's sister, that sho . feels that It is
, her duty to tell her the truth, shj always
V mt . U ' makes aunt Harriett bopping mad, -be-
y,.,, ' ti j ... : . cause she tells aunt Harriett that evcry-
"''tf ' il i - i body knows that she dyea her hair, and
fa" If f f". ":.-' f i , has false teeth, and that she ; will never
2? ' ; . 1$ J see forty-five again. Instead of . being
L li 'Lr-w"' thirty-two. as aunt Harriett says she Is.
.,Jj U ' ' 1 f .-'- ' . 'And when aunt ' Harriett tells mamma
-I Wit'"-1 B: ' I A I! j
- ' v, '' -'; ; w . x ; . -f
High Degree
Skill in Evolving Costumes
' 4 S W - 'w I 1
.During; the coming; weeks the frock of black Mace -will' again 'hold" favor.' for it was sponsored
by Mile. Cheoal. one of the prettiest ot the Parisian' actresses, and designed by one of the best of
the French houses In the fashion shown here. Black ChsnUlly fashions the elbow-sleeved kimono,
with, a high line of black satin encircling the figure beneath it and 'repeating Itself In ft deep Bayadere
Cirdle. which extends over the hips and the deep flounces of Chantilly that, are laid over the foun
dation skirt of black satin, This foundation has a fringe of Jet at the hem. The only color on the
gown Is a wee bunch of deep-yellow roses that pull up the girdle directly in front. The black hat
has a top of champagne-colored tulle, encircled by the plumage of ft golden pheasant. The para
sol combines champagne-colored taffet with black lace and has a handle of black and amber,
j . OLIVETTE.
fully appreciate the great responsibilities
they. are approaching when married. If
the girl truly loves you she will lose
nothing by waiting; If she only wants a
home, let some other-man make It for
her.
Aa Eaa-aa-esmeat Ring.
IVar Miss Fairfax: If a girl ta engaged
u merry a man and time passae on and
ha aays nothing about an engagement
ring, what Is the girl to do? How la she
to broach tlie toWo without telling her
fiance that she would not get married
without an engagement ring.
KXIOl'S.
' An engagement-ring Is not absolutely
essential to a happy marriage, but It 1
one of the conventional things to dot
and the groom ought to have gumption
enough to provide It without hain. tM
However, the young man often needs to
Little Mary's Essays
(Truth)
B DOIIOTHT DIX.
The truth la , something nasty, like
quinine, that people hand out to us and
make us take airalnett our will. It text en
bitter and make you awful sick at the
time, but It acta ....
oonstl-
be posted as to the conventionalities, and
It can generally be done without hurting
his feelings. Sometime when you are In
company with friends, or with your
Parnate or his, have some, one mention
the fact In a quiet way; do not atart a
discussion, but Just a passing reference
to the fact that you bave no engage
ment ring. 8uuh a hint ought to be suf
ficient If not. tell him yourself, for
you have a right to do that, even now.
sT ler Year fie are.
Dear Miss Fairfax: A apd B have had
i? 'IT-.1, " PT1W f0' an engaged
girl, whose fiance has died, to wear
mourning' And If so. how Jong? A says
It Is proper. B says it te-not. '.
AfjDINE BLAKE.
It seems to me to be an affectation tor
ft girl whose fiance- baa -died -to wear
Iflne ' on the oonstl- .
t he truth, she says everybody pltl poor
papa because he la so henpecked, and
that my mamma's grandpa kept a dell
catesaen store, instead of being a retired
merchant and most arlstrocratlo, as my
momma teIIn he was.
Little children ahould always speak
the truth, but grown-ups daaaen't do It,
because they would not get invited out
to any more parties If they did. My
mother knew a woman once who always
told the truth, and everybody was so
afraid of her that when they saw her
coming they would run and hide, and
she 'most died because she was so lone
some for somebody to, talk to.
It Is noble to always tell the truth, but
you won't have any frlenda If you do.
My mother says I must grow up to be
a perfectly, truthful lady, and I say that
If I grow up to be a perfectly truthul
lady, will I be popular In society, and
will the people always ask me -to their
parties, and will I have lots of beaux if
I always tell the gentlemen 'Just what I
think about them?. And my mother says
ruh away, little girl and play.'.
It is lovely and grand to tell the truth,
but when. my mother asks me who has
been In the jam, and I tell her the truth
and say that I ave. I get punished for It;
but If I tell her It was the cat, she lets
me stay up for supper. .
' If . you tell the truth you will - go t
heaven when' you die, ' but you , won't
have much fun In this world. .
black. True mourning is not ostentatious
It Is in quiet remembering of the dead
and ' honoring their memory.
It la Wrs.(.
Dear Mtoe Fairfax: You are doubtless
weary of receiving so many letters con
cerning glrla klaalng boy frlenda .The
young man around here are all of hurh
reputation; must we aacrifloe their frland
ahip by not allowing them to kiae ds
good-night? What is the harm?
PERPLEXED
Promiscuous kissing Is wrong tHruj
should save their lips for the one man
In the world, the man to whom they
give all In love and marriage. If a young
man cannot escort you to or front an
evening entertainment save at the sacri
fice of rour self-respect, you'd better stay
at home. What barm? It la the begin
nng of the and of go adnata,
The New
Agriculture
0 0
Bf GARRETT P. 8ERVTSS.
It begins to look ss though culUraUon
of the soil by explosion Is to be one of
the recognised methods of farming In the
future, just aa looornotlon by explosion Is
already one of the
principal means of
getting himself car
ried about that Is
employed by civil
ised man.
In other words.
the 'Vx plosive
plow" win become
as familiar as the
explosive engine.
An English au
thority on high ex
plosives, Mr. W.
Macnab, points out
that this new meth
od of cultivation Is
especially beneficial to orchards. Instead
i of digging a hole with the spade In whloh
to plant a young tree, an excavation Is
made by exploding a cartridge. The slse
of the cartridge and the depth at which
it is placed depend upon the circum
stances of 4he case. But whether a large
or a small hole la blown, the beneficial
effects of the explosion are perceived in
the complete shaking up and flssurlng of
the soil.
This extends far beyond the edges of
the excavation, and below Its bottom, so
that fresh supplies of chemical food are
brought within reach of the roots of the
tree
Experiments have proved that young
trees planted in ground prepared by ex
plosion grow much more rapidly and vig
orously than others planted In the usual
way and begin to bear fruit sooner.
Old, exhausted orchards may be reln
Vjgorated by the use of explosives. In
some oases amall cartridges are exploded
under the roots of trees and in other
cases larger cartridges, burled three or
more feet deep, are exploded midway
between trees standing fifteen feet apart.
The result Is to loosen the soil without
injuring the trees.
After such treatment old trees begin
to brighten up as If rejuvenated and re
sume bearing fruit The cause of this re
juvenation is that the spreading ' roots
have less resistance to overcome, the
soil ' Is seriated. Its capacity to retain
moisture Is. Increased and new nourish
ment (a supplied to the tree from the
fresh mineral matter placed at their dis
posal by the shattering of the surround
ing hardened soil.
If anybody thinks that plowing by ex
plosion Is SJt impracticable dream let .
him recall the recent history of the ex
plosion engine. The Idea of driving a
piston back and forth by a continuous
series of explosions oocurinc Inside a
cylinder seemed startling enough when
It was first suggested. To the ordinary
mind It waa very rauoh like proposing
to run a locomotive with cannon-shots.
But all the difficulties were overcome
in a short time, and now, by the con
centration of power that the explosive
principle places In our hands, we skim
over hill and vale at railroad speed in
our , automobiles, and soar above the
realm of the birds with aeroplanes.
The fact of the beneficial effect of ex
plosives upon the soil having been estab
lished, there can be no doubt that, before
very long, systematic methods, of apply
ing this new and powerful asrent of culti
vation will be devised which will answer
well enough to the phrase, "plowing by
explosion."
if you should ask an astronomer what
he thinks about the explosive principle,
be might point you to the eky, and say:
Look at those spiral nebulae, . vast
masses that have been blown all to
pieces I When nature Itnds that her suns
and worlds have become lifeless with
stiffening age, she shatters then to atoms
and makes them over."
TCHING
0FECZE1
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h but It kept getting worse. A year affer
the beginning of the Itching I was covered
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ad the more I scratched the worse It
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Henry H. rreuty. Apr. SI, jeit.
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INTENSE