Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1914 — Page 2

FACE DEATH BY DISEASE AS WELL AS BULLETS

HERE 1b little doubt that Tw the war in Europe, when fL < the final settlement has VO JMa been reached, will have esip® tablished a good many new records in military f* *"T r operations. Probably- it 2 will set a new mark in » bloodshed. Already it has established one for the number of men engaged. But significant among all of them towers a record not of destruction but of preservation. This Is the record for diseasd prevention. And when you consider that nearly all other wars during the last 200 years have shown four men dead of disease to one of bullet wounds the importance of this last record in the present conflict begins to be appreciated. Several things militate toward making the war 4<i Europe devoid of those terrible epidemics of sickness which in every, great conflict from ancient times have occasionally "swept down and devastated the armies of the combatants. One of these is the healthful climate in wbiGb the fighting is going on. But more of a factor still are the splendid sanitary measures for prevention with which the battling armies are equipped. These systems are without exception the outgrowth of the last nine years. In 1905, when Japan went to war with Russia, she taught a lesson that the western world will never forget. Prior to that time the medical corps of an army consisted of field surgeons and nurses to care for the wbunded. But Japan took with her yellow fighters 44,000 men whose sole duty it was to guard the fighting army against tb6 perils of disease. It was a great, carefully organized sanitary corps, the first of its kind and size to be seen. The fact that three Japanese were killed by bullets to every one that died of sickness instead of four dying from disease to one of bullets, as in all previous wars, was simple but ample testimony as to the efficiency of those 44,000 sanitary protectors. From that time onward the western powers were quick to to take up a lesson they had so long neglected. And now the men who are fighting in France and Germany are guarded from the grim visage of disease by elab- . orate sanitation systems. For instance, the German army of invasion is accompanied by great mo-tor-driven sterilizers in which every drop of water drunk by the soldiers has first been rid of possible contamination. The French and English armies have a microscope brigade, whose duty it is to make bacteriological examinations of all water supplies before tapped by the men.' Both sides have inspectors who test food and sanitary Inspectors who go ahead to arrange for the sanitation on camp sites and to do picket duty against pollution of streams and lakes. The soldiers who have seen a campaign or two know the peril of disease.

Medical and sanitary experts of the world are busy speculating, in the absence of real news, on the number of deaths from disease in the battling armies in Europe. Longmore’s tables of war statistics show that in the battles of the last 200 years four men have perished of sickness to every one killed by bullets. This excepts the battles in the Russo-Japanese war, where the marvelous sanitary regulations of the Japs so altered the established proportion that .figures show that four Japanese died from gun wounds to every one that succumbed to disease. Reports from the European capitals indicate that 100,000 Germans have bees killed in battle, 10,000 English, 16,000 Belgians, and nobody knows

MAXIMS FOR BUSINESS MEN

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how many French and Russians. these figures* may be accepted as approximately accurate, the number who woulf fiave died of sickness, based on the ratio of four to one, would have been in excess of half a million men, not including the French and Russian, whose battle losses have not been made public.

It is the opinion of eminent military medical experts in this city, however, that modern armies have, such improved sanitary system the old proportion of death through disease and gunshot will be shown to have materially changed when actual figures on the casualties are known.

History reveals a terrible record of military deaths through disease, -and the last great example of this was instanced in our own war with Spain. In that war more than thirteen of our men were sacrificed to disease resulting from sanitary ignorance and incompetency to every one who died in battle.

In the RussorTurkish war occurred another shocking case of loss of life from preventable diseases. In this struggle 20,000 soldiers were-killed on the field of battle or died of their wounds; 30,000'perished from disease. During six months of the Crimean campaign the .allied forces lost 50,000 men from sickness and but 2,000 from the fire of the enemy. Cholera was one of. the principal causes of this disastrous loss of life. Som'etlmes whole

regiments contracted the malady and were completely wiped out. At that time the nature of the disease was not understood, and precautions against infection through water, supplies and food were not taken. Consequently a single case might result in wholesale infection. 4

Cholera has long been the dread of armies operating in localities where the malady flourishes. It was apparent in the Balkan war, when bpth the Turks and the allies lost heavily from the disease. Eyewitnesses to that struggle told of seeing marching columns from which every few minutes men would drop and drag themselves off to one side to die. Some of these regiments loßt half their numbers before reaching the front. In our war with Mexico in 1847, before much was known of the value of sanitation, three of our soldiers died of sickness to one of bullets.

The glamour of battle, of musketry, of artillery fire, of bayonet charges and the other methods of taking life employed in battle have always taken public attention from the more silent reaping by disease. A certain campaign cost so many thousand men in battle. No reck is taken of the other thousands who contracted sickness in that campaign that cost their lives. For years the world went on without apparently taking a lesson from

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the advance of the specter of disease through army camps. In the French campaign in Madagascar in 1894 (and the value of sanitation was beginning ..to be realized then), 14,000 men were sent to the front. Of these, exactly 29 were killed in and 7,000 died of preventable disease., This should have been a lesson. But it wasn’t. The Boer war broke out. England’s army went to Africa —As-

rica, with its tropical fevers and its perfectly appointed layout for disease propagation and distribution. The result? Wholesale epidemics of disease that wiped out companies, decimated regiments, .stalked rampant over the remains of the stricken army.

> Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman -of New York, writing from Europe, where he has taken the field for the active study of military sanitation, declares that the present war may establish a new record for absence of disease because of the lesson in military sanitation taiight the world by the Japanese in their war with Russia in 1905.

“Without minimizing her victories on laifd and sea, some of them the bloodiest battles in history, I have no hesitancy in saying that the greatest conquests of Japan have been in the humanities of war—in the stopping of needless sacrifice of lives by the provention of disease. “When Japan makes war she mobilizes her fighting forces, but with equal speed, with equal care, she mobilizes her other army of fighters—the warriors against disease. It was that way in the war with Russia. In their longheaded fashion the Japanese looked into the future. They realized that every sailor, every soldier saved from death by disease was just one more to fight the Russians. And with this in view a systematic campaign was started to save the lives of Japanese fighters. The first step was to make the medical army of equal importance and equal rank to the fighting army. The medical army, or sanitary army, which was what it was, had a numerical strength of 44,000 men—the greatest army of the kind- the world had ever seqn. It was composed of sanitary soldiers —men who were under the direct command of a medical officer, who handled and maneuvered them exactly as a fighting army is maneuvered. They carried out sanitary regulations, policed the camps of the regular army, served as" hospital stewards, litter carriers and took care of the cleanliness, of the food and water sources.

“The medical officers were always found at the front of the army. They went with the first line of scouts, for they themselves were scouts, scouts for good supplies of water and good forage. They located wells and streams and made analytical tests of the water. They tested food, approved good and condemned the bad. “Betweeiftattles the medical officers lectured the men on the need of sanitation. Practically the whole of Japan’s army were sanitary .experts by the end of the war. There is little doubt but that' the armies of Europe have profited by the example set by the Japanese, and that the present war will be singularly free from disease epidemics.”

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There are 34,417 women studying the profession of nurse training in the schools throughout the United States.

IN THE NEW TAFFETAS

THEY WILL BE LARGELY ÜBED FOR FALL COSTUMEB. Street and Afternoon Frocks in All the Fashionable Bhades Already Are - Seen—Model Designed for RoyEI Blue. Because the manufacturers have made for us a beautifully heavy and lustrous tatieta we are allowed to have it for a fall dress fabric, as well as a summer one, and as it lendß itself so readily to the designs and styles of the season needless to say

Attractive and Novel Trimming is Here Employed.

we are all glad of its further lease on life. These new taffetas resemble somewhat a very fine twilled grosgrain, but have much more body. They are ,to be bad in all the fashionable shades, and are being made up exten-. sively in street and afternoon costumes.

Here illustrated is a charming costume in royal blue taffeta worn with fox furs dyed a delicate sulphur color and a jaunty chapeau in blue velvet with yellow tinged feather fantasies; ■*-*— ; ■'

The blouse is plain and surpliced over a tiny vest of white batiste, with a flaring collar and small lapels of batiste twined back from the V neck. Long sleeves are' set smopthly into extended armholes, and are covered with a heavily embroidered black silk net, then finished with turned-back white cuffs.

The qraate net is applied to the border of the tunic skirt and makes a very handsome trimming. It will be noticed that the tunic is gathered to a hip yoke under a self-covered cording, but the yoke in turn is gathered, too, and the result is very graceful. . A broad girdle out in square tabs about the top and along the line of fastening. The idea is repeated in the skirt r-placket to bring the closing in perfect alignment.

If desired, the sleeves and. lower portion of the tunic can be made transparent by cutting the dress' material from under them, but in that case the design could no longer answer the purposes of a street costume.—Lillian Young, in Washington Star.

ADORNMENT FOR TEA TABLE

Cozy Suitable for Practically All Occasions May Be Easily and j* Cheaply Made. A cozy, as illustrated in the sketch, will be found most useful and suitable for almost every occasion. It is very Simply made, for the covering consists of two pretty paper serviettes. A foundation is necessary; cozy pads can be had in alt shapes, sizes and colors. Seiect serviettes that fit as neatly as possible over the pad in question, an odd .pad or cozy can be covered quite well, so that the idea is an excellent one for renovating old cozies

at practically no expense. Select the serviettes as desired. It is a good plan to choose those that are near to the tea service in coloring and design. Do one side at a time; carefully fix the serviette ovdr and tack in place. ; f\ The other side is done in the same manner; if there is too much left at the bottom of the pad to turn under, cut a portion off. To give a cozy a finished look, put a eord around it and also around the bottom. This cord can also be of paper or a silk

GOOD ADVICE FOR MATRON

Stylo Tips Woman' of Middle Ago, Should Remember If She Would Look Her Best. , , ■ ■ . i Don’t think that, just because you have grownup daughters, It is your duty to always wear a frumpy black dress. , Your daughters and everyone else will like you much better if you take pairiß to make yourself look nice. If you have too much color, as some matrons have, never wear either black or white close to your face. Cream or string-color, or mole, will suit you much better, for they help to take down the color. If you are colorless and sallow, never wear a dull dress and hat without a touch of brightness somewhere. A red rose under the brim of your hat, a scarlet sunshade, or a little fiame-colored bow or piping on your dress will do wonders for you. Don’t wear a sport shirt with a turn-over collar and sailor-knot tie. These things are very nice Tdr girls, but they don’t suit you. If you want a shirt, have one that hooks down the back and is finished by a neckband and a little muslin stock. Don’t wear a hair net if you can possibly manage to .keep tidy without it, They are dreadfully unbecoming things, which add years to a woman’s age. V

WILL PLEASE A BOOKLOVER

Attractive and Inexpensive Gift That Serves Its Purpose to Perfection. An attractive and very inexpensive gift that is suitable either for a young person or fqv ap adult is a bookmark embrojdbfed with the name of the person (for whom it is intended. Either wid* or narrow ribbon can be used in making the bookmark and with the aid of papier mache initials which can be purchased in almost any store where embroidery materials are sold—even a young girl can make a really handsome one. If the ribbon is wide, as illustrated in the drawing,* the initials should be larger than where narrow ribbon is used. It is not desirable, however, to place a thick bookmark in an expensive book and for this reason many booklovers prefer a long, narrow ribbon marked with small initials at one end where they will never be shut inside the book. Such a marker can be made from- satin ribhen one inch wide, the length being from nine to twelve inches. Thin will

cost from five to eight cents. Three small papier mache initials will cost five cents, apd a skein of embroidery floss will cost four cents. Arrange the initials on the ribbon and baste them. Goad floss on white satin ribbon is very effective. Fringe the ends of the ribbon.

Red and Brown.

Red and brown, an old-fashioned combination, have been well used this summer. A very smart hat that has "been seen lately is a big brown velvet canotier, with two huge red velvet roses on one side of the top of the crown.

Patch Pockets.

On some of the new skirts that are full at the hips patch pockets are employed to control this fullness. On a gray velvet frock with a plaited peplum big pockets of satin are u'sed on the'-hips. Sometimes these pocket* are embroidered. *

cord, according tb the choice of 7 the worker; if paper is decided upon, it may he bought by the yard at any fancy shop where paper novelties are sold. The cozy now’ has a very pretty appearance; it will be found to last for a long time and when the covering is soiled, fresh ones can be easily put on. It is useful for many purposes for which the best cozy is not suitable, such as nursery teas, children’s parties, etc. For party use generally, the idea will be found most useful; there is then no fear of a good cozy getting spoiled and the one can look, most effective if the - "serviettes ard chosen with a view to the particular occasibn, for all kinds of designs ore to be had.

Very Short Skirts.

In the new Bechoff-David models, which an enterprising buyer was fortunate enough to get to America, the skirts are decidedly short, and a striking feature of them is that in the evening frocks there are many trains hanging from very short Bkirts. Sometimes the skirt slopes gradually from the Bhort front to the end of the Jong train: sometimes the long, pointed train hangs from a skirt that is short all the way aronnd. The effect is novel. ♦

Chiffon for Trimming.

Chiffon flowers are much used on hats and to catch the drapery^on gowns. Small-chiffon fruits, too, are used. Many of them are made of several layers of chiffon of various Bhades—red over purple, for instance, and then silver blue over that The results are very interesting.

THE CHAp OF MOTHERHOOD FjiL.mil By Perfect Phygical Health. The experience of Motherhood Is a tqr* • fng one to most women and marks die* ’ tinctly an epoch in their Uvea. Not one woman in a hundred & prepared or understands how to properly care for herself. Of coarse nearly every woman nowadays has medical treatment at such times, but many approach the experience with an organism unfitted for the trial of strength, and when it is over ■her system has received a shock from which it is hard to recover. Following right upon this comes the nervous strain til caring for the child, and a distinct change in the mother results. There is nothing mare charming than a happy and healthy mother of children,. and indeed child-birth under the right conditions need be no hazard to health or beauty. The unexplainable thing is that, with all the evidence of shattered nerves and broken health resulting from an unprepared condition, and with ample time in which to prepare, women wUI persist in going blindly to the triaL Every woman at this time should rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, a most valuable tonic and Invigorator of the female organism. In many homes once childless there are now children be- WI j IEWW) cause of the fact/l TS vR that Lydia E. Pink- II IV* Zr JJ ham's Vegetable jAI . yr~* IL Compound makes y\\ #&Z§!gL //}/ women normal, KC healthy and strong, If you want special advice write to ‘ Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will be opened, read and answered by 8 woman and held in strict confidence*

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Menace.

The Akooned of Swat had 20,000 men. He marched them *up a hill one day, and that done he marched them down again. The great powers were not asleep. “If this isn’t mobilization, what is it?"' they demanded tenthly. The Akooned of Swat hastened to point out that when his men were up they were up, that when they were down they were down, and, finally, that when they were only halfway up they were neither up nor down. “No temporizing!" thundered the great Powers and forthwith fell upon one another with the utmost ferocity. For while the great Powers wee# Christian, Swat was a heathen nation, and so a constant menace to the peace of the world.—New York Evening Post

Women Don’t Progress

“Pockets for women will be worn this fall.” “What of that?” “The girls may wear pockets, but HI bet they still carry their junk all jumbled up in a handbag.” Every woman thinks She's worth her weight in gold.

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