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T11H ItKK: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAIIC1I 13, UU6.
V
Health
Your Chance
of Being
Poisoned
By WOODS HVTCHIJIgOlf, M. D
Humanity does not display much Judg
ment In It fears. While, In th main.
Its Instincts as to what la wholesom
and what la harmful, what la to b wel
comd and what la to bo dreaded, ara
sound because they are based upon tha
experience of thousand of generation
Miit, It still haa an astonishing capacity
inr naaseratlng the dangerousness of
harmful things and even vividly dread
lna the wrong; things altogether.
- One of the moat striking Illustration
of highly exaggerated fear of real dan
aor la our fear of being poisoned either
aci Identally or by evil Intent.
The very name poison send a shudder
'.hrough our velna and puta, ua Into
frame of mind where rational and dis
piiKionate thinking la moat difficult.
The dread goes back euch a tremen
dous distance and la ao entwined about
the deepest fibers of eur being that the
nere thought of poison sets up vibra
tions in ua which "wireless" bock to
the very dawn of human experience.
From earliest Infancy our minds have
been crammed by those distressing sur
vivals from a much better forgotten past
-called myth and legend and fairy tale
(and Bible atory) with horrifying tales
of poisoning; by fascinating but deadly
fruits. By the bite of flying and other
lmnrlnarv serpents, by the stroke of
nvenomed dagger or enchanted aworda,
or by that famoua universal refrigerant
and sedative, the "cup of cold poison,
whether at the Borgia'a board or froro
the taper fingers of the enchantress.
The renowned episode In the Garden
f Eden, for Instance. Is merely one of
a hundred variants of tha primitive le
gend of the beautifully colored fruit
whose eating brought death Into the
world, probably In the beginning based
upon the disastrous result of some actual
early dietetic experiment.
at muru. there la a real basis In
fact for part of this vivid fear and dread
because poisons do exist In considerable
, variety upon all aides of us. particulars
4 In our food and drink, and it Is well to
be on our. guard against them.
! But the point simply Is that the actual
nrt nlayed In the death rate and
isease rate by poisons, whether animal,
vegetable or mineral, la far. far smaller
than our Inherited dreads would lead
us to believe.
We are not, of course, considering here
the toxins or poisons of Infectious
diseases, or the putrefactive poisons of
nnlled or tainted food, which are a
very real and Important source of dan
aer: but only what are popularly known
. nnlsnna. that la to say. substances
which In . small amounts would cause
serious danger to life.
A single glance at the mortality llete
or tables of causes of death assure u
at once that If we all remained upon this
earth until w died by poison, whether
intentional or accidental, 8-10 per cent
. of us would live to be as old as Mhu
elah. and older.
Death by poisoning account for barely
one and one-half death out of each
f thousand, or leas than ne-aeven . hun-
I dredth of all deaths.
However, these broad and average
statement, though reassuring In the
main and In the abstract; are not quit o
convincingly consoling1 personally for the
reason that we only happen to be Just
the on person out of 700 upon whom 1
to fall the honor of proving the excep
tion to the rule of the WMO per oent
narmlessnes of poison.
The question has Just recently been
limnirht homa in ti vrr vividly by the
horrible and dastardly attempt at whole
sale murder by putting arsenic In the
soup of the g-uests at the archbishop'
banquet In Chicago, and the distressing
trasedy of love' perfidy at Lake Forest,
where prussic axia is upposea 10 n
been Riven or tsken as the fatal draft,
What Is the reason for the singularly
-ill amount of actual damage wrought
by the quite considerable number of com
mnn snd fairly active poison?
The first reason I that, although there
are great number and variety of sub
s' stances, which If taken In sufficient
I amounts or' through considerable length
of time, would produce injurious result
In the humsn system, the actual number
of poison found In a state of nature
sufficiently strong or concentrated to be
swiftly dangerous' to life If swallowed I
surprisingly small.
We could almost count them upon the
fingers of our two hands opium, arsenic.
corrosive sublimate (bichloride of mer
cury), belladonna, pruoslc acid, strych
nine (nux vomica), carbolic acid, oxalic
scld. lead, phosphorus, aconite. This al
most completes the roll of the really
itrong and dangerous poisons.
This is the more remarkable because
there is no manner of question that poi-
t son were highly prized and eagerly
sought after In the old cowardly, blood
thirsty days of the psst, whlrh are not
entirely over yet, a recent events In
Klandrrs have shown, and anything
wh'ch would swiftly and surely put your
enemy or rival heir out of the way
would bring It weight In gold.
In fact, no Inconsiderable share of the
C ., . . . V. m.rii.l.na in' (mlnvH
. wmii necromancers ana meaioine men 01
. . , l , . M
,i" mrUer times was derived from a lively
n4 lucrative truffle In poisons, for both
family and fore'sn use.
In fact, the list which has been given
represents the eager secumulatlona of all
past ages and the raklngs of every dime
and latitude.
Opium from Turkey and the near east,
arsenic from China, strychnine from
1 tropical Africa, corrosive aubllmate from
Arabia, and so" on. And most of even
this small group of real, "sure enough'
poisons have to be collected and ex
J tracted from the ores or the Jutcei
ef
the plants In which they are found, and
ustally more or less concentrated before
they are swiftly deadly In small amounts
One would have to chew up several
poppy heads, for instance, in order to
K't enough opium for a dangerous dose
Furthermore, scarely one of these,
except occasionally lead, occur either
naturally or accidentally in' our food or
dilnk, so that our main danger of poison
ing by them consist almost solely
picking up the wrong bottle or pill bo
or In kim other war taking a deadly
dose ef medioinc Instead of a harmless
sne.
In-Shoots
f XI is
fortune often haa difficulty In over-
uking a hutier
Those silver lining do not always
inske up for the cloudy coverings.
M-n satisfied with a rear pew at church
las drmands a front seat at th
jprUe fight.
Waning of
he Love
Letters
T MAstlst DC PIERROT.
All through life I havce been a great
friend of letter-writing and have tress-
red letters, some sparking with wit or
sad with pathos, others full of true de
votion. How the love-letters In Richardson's
Pamela'' and "Sir Charle Orandison"
delighted our grandfathers and grand
mothers. They wept bitter tears over
the misfortunes of their heroes and hero
ine. Their own long love-eplstles were
full of small details, for nothing is too
small for great love. They would feel
urprlsed that we have so terribly ne
glected the art which delighted them.
The most famous love-letter writers of
the time were French women, though the
art came to us from England. Madam-
isclle de .esslnssre spent ten day shut
in her room writing love-letter to the
'omte de Mora, who sent back twenty-
two replies. Horace Walpole, writing
bout his stay in France, tells us about
people who wrote to one another four
times a day and also a married
ouple so bent on writing love-letters that
they had a screen put up In their draw-
ng room and threw their letter over It.
The sweet message of old I supplanted
by the petit bleu short and terse, blown
through a tube,' for the world has In-
ented marvelous things. -
To me a love-letter full of joy and ex-
ulslte delight, seems sacred and myste
rious. Who of us does not remember
the moment when ...j sight of the well
known writing and the touch of the pa
per thrilled us? Did we not linger over
every line? Did we not read In it a
thousand meanings? It brought the be
loved so closo to us, almost within our
touch!
Those lover of old had so much time
on their hand and the sheet of paper
are covered closely, sheet following
sheet. Distance and the motonony of life
waa great and the means of transport
slow, but I wonder If all our daily tele
grams and notes give half the pleasure
of one of those long letters.
Distance nowadaya no longer exists.
When we are wild with longing and de-
pair at being separated from those we
love, we take a steamer, an express or ,
motor, we send a telegram and tomor
row we may fly In an aeroplane.
Our life has grown too busy! It is so
much eaaier to buy a picture postcard
than to spend time and trouble and pos-
Ibly even to sacrifice rest, to send the
beloved best the picture of one's self,
drawn from life with pen and Ink. We
no longer write about ourselves, because
this hurried twentieth century haa no
time to reflect seriously and there is so
much outside excitement to write about
"The king bors has won the derby,"
Paulhan ha made the French forget
the defeat of Waterloo."
Every moment I taken up. And how
will It be when we women it in Par
liament to improve the affair of the
nation?
Letter, even love-letters, are short and
terse. All this is progress and 1 am
afraid you will think me old-fashioned
and out of date when I tell you that I
miss, between lover of today, a some
thing, a certain timidity, perhaps, which
pervades those lovs-letter of old. I ad
mire men and women, boys and girls,
who are strong and brave the world
need them, too. but love I timid. Strong
love I always afraid that It will never
be great, good, pur enough for those
other eye to dwell upon with pleasure.
It la not bold, and takes refuge In a let
ter to express with trembling what it
wishes to convey.
It Is fortunately no longer fashionable
to Indulge In sentiment. It Is called sen
timentality, and Is often considered not
merely weakness, but Insincerity.
The greatest qualities, however, are the
qualities of the soul, and if the heart
furnishes more In conversation than in
mind," as a profound French thinker
once said, how truly this applies to the
art of writing love-letter In their In
finite varieties.
Do You Know That
"Dutch" clock are mad In Germany.
their name arising from a mispronuncia
tion of "Deutsch." the German word foi
German."
Elephant travel from three to four
miles an hour and cannot cover more than
fifteen or twenty miles a day wtin com
fort. To prevent your lamp from smoking
soak the wick In vinegar and Jry thor
oughly before putting It Into the burner.
Ostrlchs can Jump a height of over
five feet.
Disks are attached to the mooring
I opes of ships when in harbor, In Ol der
to prevent rat running along tha ropes.
Hearing I not an active sense until
three or four days after birth.
The highest rainfall in England is at
Scathwaite, Jn the lake district.
As a substitute for blacking, apply a
small quantity of glycerine to your boot
with a soft rag. Leave for ten minutes
and then polish with a brush. The polish
thus obtained will last for severs! days.
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Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
Try to Ferret Bias.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Have been going
about wtih a young man for about two
months and care for him very dearly.
He has often told me that he also cared
for me. Now, this young man previously
went with another voung lady for quite
aome time, but had some misunderstand
ings and parted.
I have continually told him that If he
really cared for her to return, but al
ways he would answer that he no longer
card.
Now, for the past couple of weeks he
ha been acting very strangely toward
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Kljurstedt. the national outdoor and In
door champion, 1 defending her title
against soma of the best contenders In
the game. Mis Maria Wagner, New
me, so I mentioned it to him one evening
and he replied that it was nothing worth
thinking about. 80 1 let the matter drop.
He then made an engagement for Hun
day, which he did not keep, and neither
did he phone. Ho about three days later
I wrote him a short note inclosing his
picture and atsting that I hud come to
the conclusion that he really cared more
for hi prevloua girl friend, so it wuuld
be belter to part, also asking for the
return of my pictures, which he holds.
As yet I hav not heard from him.
ao am at a loss as to whether I did ths
proper act or not. I)o you think 1 ought
to phone thl young man and ask him to
explain or should 1 let the matter drop
entirely? 1 u. U, c.
Really I think you are belter off with
out the affections of this man, In whose
devotion and loyalty you evidently have
no confidence. Possibly you were doing
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Turk state tltlebolder. Is one of her
strongest opponents and will mak
plucky fight to wrest th title from the
Norwexian girl.
th other girl an Injusllc when you pr
nrtlted yourself to get Interested in thl
young man. But th greater Injustice
was In his letting two girl suffer be
cause he did not know hi own mind. Of
course, you were a little haaty In return
ing hi photograph and taking th stand
you did, but I bellev your greatest
chance of happiness lie In dismissing
him from your mind and In Interesting
yourself in other people and other things.
Church Should
Have Nature
Sabbath School
T Rl.1.4 HrHRRLRR Wll.lUt.
Copyright, 1W. by Stsr Companv.
What l vonr nr nlnn on the s-.lMec
of a "Nsture aalhsth fi-hool?' The
idea has come in me es a sort of In
splratlon.
We teach rhlMren te iliitik of thelt
natural actliile. tre r piv. some
thin to he put arte, tM their reli
gious devot 'on l over snrt so relit ion
herones not snnteihitta to love, but
merely a ttuty wM.-h they hope will
short the shorter the Vuniai- school th
better the child lll'ea It a a wrllrsN
'"we maak the toy of icllaton by o r
Ions, unsmiling fare, eur nwhniilrai il
votlon, our whispers snd iraaic man
per.'1 then is It any wonder that chil
dren find rellaion wesrlaome?
As t'oe rl(e: "As long ss surli no
tions prevail we should evpv.t -hllie
to exrlude od from their play: to iliin'
of religion ss t nnstnrsl and eu'irr v
up Inrtiffeient te rlia'o or reserve t 'el
reverence for "unrtay in the rhurch."
My idea would be to take III do one
out tinker the akrs to show Ihem th"
wonderful bos nil's of nst-te. leach
Ihem the nenrnea ef the tnft'il'.e and.
as my little hnv haa been tauaht, to
"talk to the fairies' tthe spirits of Huh
sn1 love) aside from the sp'rltual teach
inga phveti ally the litt'e ones nitud hi
benefited and t'.e little floi-k cnuli! K
given siKh an enjoyable outlna that the)
h.m IJ 1a.m. t 1.. . A .V i.m'a ..K.I h
school" its the name appiopilate'.'i ! '
you think such an Idea of us. I slisl '
ne glad to outline a plan whih Is it I
mv mind, though divibtleM It could bt I
Improved. M. II. C. C. 1
The idea contained In h( letter q- otf
above ta crude but hrautifU'. . orkn.
out and proper'y developed It would be
come of area! value to th world. A
Nature Fabhath 'hnol should be a par
of every Christian church. Teacher.
should be cnrefullv selected and thor
cughly trained to tarry out the Instruc
tion which would Inoltrie the rudimeni
of botany, astronomy and th wonder
of nature, of insert and star life, sho.ild
be dwelt upon with reverence and aw.
All these studies should be nude as en-
tcrta'nlng as fairy stories or fiction li
any form.
The children should feel that ihcy gr
on a picnic and that tnry are oeini
ami.sed, while in fact they arc belna
Instructed, mentally, and their siuls art
unconsciously being swakered to rev
erence for and love or Uod.
A child who attended Nat :re s Pah
hath school under such instruction could'
never grow Into a peaslmlst or an ath-'
cist. Many children have become both
wno were reared In the depressing en
vironment of the old-fashioned tfunday
st'hool, A good man snld not Ion, ago
that twenty year of his life were niarrec
by hi funday srhool experiences.
Pundsy la him was day of horror
and gloom, and the unwholesome teach-'
Ings he hoard expounded by cruel Uod
who sent unbelievers ta hell caused him
to fly to the extreme of unbeilef In Sn
-elision as soon as he pasaetl out of the
home environment.
After twenty years, however, he cam'
Into the light of true knnwlojge of God
through a study of plant life, and the
marvel which he found In seed and
bulb and bud and blossom oaused him
to realise the majesty and might ef th
All Creatlv Power and to lov his
Maker.
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Are You
Responsible or
Irresponsible?
ay DRtTRKR Ktinrtt,
The great difference between Irrespon
sible and re.'nortsiMe folk in that the lat
er appreciate t ho fact thit ever-thlnc
In the world haa a i-on.ietinence.
Irresponsible people are wholly uutrus'
eith hMMse, w th ttrm. life is mad
.ip of momenta which sro sn.'talc nu
ndlvld'Ml. As a iiftter of fact, life I
na,e up of moments, hut they arc strun
ocetorr !nd follow one another with a
-crtsln losic. P.verj thing In life Is con
- rtier.l of aontethin,? ciw and (ipon mc
Mn5 eirte.
Vou are an untrusf'-i-thy peraon If you
-et yourself Into th way of tmattulnc
ht you can cut yourself off from pnv
ni; for whatever ou do. Life la a series
f tr.!enta.
Go mil without rubbers c.n a atorm
lay and alt about w:t!i damp feet. tr.
vrehance, you recnte I he consequent cold
hat Is loeilly d; e you. you toaa up
vour head and talk shout the magnifi
cent constitution that enshles you to re
let sickness. But nature, who spins with
he grim certainty of the mythological
"stea, mnat sml'e rather cvnlcally. She
Vttnm that you are weakening that
"magnlfcent constitution" of jours by
our folly and that If vou go on breaking
lown your phyaieal resistance, some day
- on will rail an essy prey to disease.
For all we get In life, we pay. But, un
ortunstrlj. w de not pay alwsjs when
we have Just contracted a debt, and
nl'iht feel that we got enough aatlsfac
lon out of our purchase ao that taking
he consequences wss not too much of
hsnlsiilp. W generally have to pay
lust about when we had hoped that the
'tcbt was out In wed.
"I'nslahle as water, thou ahalt not e
eel" that tells the doom of all Irrespon
sible, happy-go-lucky folk. They do not
excel, nor ran they ever hope to unless
they acquire a sense ef responsibility to
themaelvea, to the people shout them, tit
ihe'r position In life and to life Itself.
Strong people ran almost cut them
telves off from their heredity. Think of
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themselves, and In the making risen fur
above the place In life from which I hoy
started. ,
li Is easier to cut yourself off from
your heredity than from your responsi
bility to posterity. If you are weak, you
lesvs behind you a heritage of weakness
which ma sos for the next generation the
struggle of cutting Itself off from hered
ity and vou do not leave a heritage of
strength to make It easier to rise above
your weaknesses.
Anyone of ua can be trusted If first
we trust ourselves, and refus to fall,
that trust. It I all a matter of will
nower. ,
The minute we look at life ss a whole,
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present snd the present on the future,
and the future again I traceable from
the past, we get a reeling of responsi
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mean that If w hav any common sense
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life ta our to weave, warp and woof.
The pattern of life!" It I our, for
the making, and when we recognise the
j responsibility we have to make our own
nm pattern good and line and worthy
of th whol w hav become trustworthy,
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