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It Seems to Me HEVWD BROUN IT Is the unanimous decision of this column that Chief Justice Hughes has given the finest performance of Portia ever seen in this country. And for that matter Justice Mcßeynoldi was no slouch as Sh\lork. As m the famous ease In Venice the issue hinged upon a bond. The Venetian litigation took up a pound of flesh while the Washington controversy was concerned with "258 grams of gold nine-tenths fine ” But in each instance ne issue was drawn as

to the sanctity of the last drop of blood and '.he last ounce of gold. The opinion read by James Clark Mcßeynolds of Tennessee and that delivered by Mr. Shylock. wrong-side-of-the-tracks, Venice, Italy, were strikingly similar. The Southerner and th° Semite both contended that a contract was a contract no matter what damage and what suffering its execution might entail. The court, they contended, should limit itself to the simple question, "Is it in the bond?” "That's all,” they said, "one needs to know. From a strictly legalistic point of view I rhime it must be admitted

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that Mrßcvnolds and Shylock were more logical than Portia and Hughes. The Chief Justice and the ladv approached the problem in somewhat devious fashion. Neither one was qmte bold enough to say that circumstances may alter contracts and that agreements must be bent and molded according to the public weal. In regard to '.he government's own obligations Chief Justice Hughes followed the reasoning of Portia very closely. Both said to the litigant in effect. *'Of course, vour bond is sacred and binding, but just try and collect it and see what that'll get you.” Mlt lie H er* Goetd and Sore jt would, perhap be a little less than accurate to I say that Chief Justice Hughes spat upon Mcßeynolds gabardine. But at any rate he made him good and sore. Spectators in the Court of Last Appeal heard fpr the first time a stump speech from the bench when the learned justice from Tennessee departed from his script to declaim, "The Constitution as we have known it is gone.” It is rather lucky for Justice Mcßeynolds that he made that crack before any of the pending sedition bills are pa sed. He might under proposed legislation be jugged as one attempting to cast doubt upon the wisdom and integrity of the highest tribunal in the land which is the safeguard of our liberties. After all Justice Mcßeynolds got away more easily than precedent would sanction. Nobody took away his property ar.d condemned him to be a Christian. When I was in school the teacher said that while “The Merchant of Venice” was an interesting play Shakespeare’s interpretation of the law was flimsy and inaccurate. That may ha/e been true then for the Minnesota mortgage case and that litigation regarding the Georgia Utilities Cos. had not vet been considered by the nine old gentlemen in Washington. Shakespeare merely ruled somewhat ahead of his time. After a lapse of more than 300 years the Supreme Court is just beginning to catch up with him. * * * Shakespeare TVns Shreud PORTIA and Chief Justice Hughes were both unI consciously motivated by their economic position Shakespeare was shrewd enough to ‘class angle” his heroine. She might quite probably have argued just the other way if the appellant had been anybodv else but Shylock. She was dealmg not with a proletarian issue but merely a nasty squabble between two profiteers. Nor can it be said that the present five-to-four decision bv the United State Supreme Court is a ringing declaration that from now on the Constitution shall cease to be a strait-jacket but a more roomy garment allowing full play to present and pressing human needs. And even so I find in this closely drawn \crdict some crumbs of comfort for progressives. I seem to see a tiny fissure in that great Chinese Wall called property rights which has been set up to keep us all away fro.n human rights. A bond is a bond. All right, so be it. But the time may come when it is something else. An intolerable human burden, for instance. I am wondering for instance. if Cordell Hull can continue to maintain with a straight face that the Soviet government had no right *o outlaw those obligations incurred by Kerensky in his effort to stifle the Russian revolution.

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IT is extremely doubtful that astronomers in sjen eral will show much sympathy for the theory nut forward bv William Gifford Hale, Seattle, Wash., in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada that there os the possibility of life on the planet Mercury. For ingenius as is Mr. Hale’s theory. It apparently overlooks one very important fact, namely that the planet Mercury in all probability has no atmosphere. Thus, for example, we have the statement of Dr. Walter S. Adams director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory. who has done the most important work in the field of planetary' atmospheres during the past two years. He writes: • Some planets are too small to have retained an atmosphere and we find that Mercury, and probably Pluto, satellites like our moon, and all the minor planets ha\e no atmosphere at all.” Our own moon is known quite definitely to have no atmosphere. * * * Mathematical calculations show that our moon, which has a diameter of 2163 miles, does not exercise sufficient gravitational pull to hang on to an atmosphere. Mercury is only slightly larger than our moon, having a diameter of about 3100 miles. There is also fairly direct evidence that Mercury has no atmosphere. This comes from comparisons of transits of Mercury and Venus. A transit occurs when the planet passes directly between us and the sun. The planet is then seen against the bright background of the sun. When a transit of Venus begins, the planet is seen to be surrounded by a ring of light due to refraction of the sun’s rays by the atmosphere of the planet. But this is not the case when Mercury transits the disk of the sun. Mercury is seen as a round black spot with perfectly sharp margins like those of our own moon during an eclipse. Asa result, there seems little justification in supposing that Mercury has enough atmosphere to support life. In fact, there seems little reason for supposing that it has any atmosphere at aIL MU* MERCURY is the closest to the sun of all the planets. It revolves around the sun once in 88 days and turns on its axis in the same time. Asa result, it always keeps the same face toward the sun. The side turned toward the sun has a temperature of about 600 degrees, about the temperature of melted lead. The other side has a temperature equal to that of empty space, about 459 degrees below zero. But like the moon. Mercury has a slight oscillation known as libration. Because of this swing, a little of the dark side swings into sunlight for a few weeks and then out of the sunlight again for a few weeks. Consequently, there is a narrow zone between the lighted side and the dark side which alternately swings in and out of the sunlight. Mr. Hale's theory Is to the effect that this “border land” may be inhabited. Here, he says, there would be alternately day and night even though each were a few weeks long. He thinks it reasonable to suppose that in them the temperature might represent a compromise between the very hot side and the very cold side. However, the whole theory hinges upon the existence of an atmosphere. And even if there were one, it seems that the difference between the cold and the hot side of planet would set up such atmospheric currents as would destroy any existing life in a per* pstual hurricane.

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CHAPTER EIGHT This Separation Weighs Heavily” jyjON AMIE, It grieved you very deeply to leave your father, who has been so kind for you. I share in your sorre™. You are just now (?) wit! your uncle, the Grand Duke of Wurtemberg, you can travel by easy stages. You w ill be welcomed in France. People would he aggrieved w ere you to come incognito. Stop a day or two at Mayence. You may spend a day at Compiegne and you will arrive early at Saint Cloud. The Pope is at Fontainebleau. Have inquiries made of him at your arrival at Saint Cloud, how his health is, and whether he is comfortable; you can write him a short note, without any show of affectation, however. Adieu, mon amie. The weather is sultry. My affairs are going well. Tout a toi. NAP. Wilna, July 8 (1812) Pope Pius VII was at Fontaineblea i. “Have inquiries made of him. ’ And in writing to His Holiness Marie Louise forgot to sign her letter in the customary form, of which Secretary Meneval would have to send to her a copy: “Votre tres chere fille.” Tliis momentous event, r, reminder of the time when the Popes had taken up their abode at Avignon, and of the Great Schism, takes Napoleon but three lines to record. It marks the goal of the Imperial policy. Pius VII. who had come to Paris for the purpose of crowning the Emperor, had seen Rome occupied in 1809 because he had refused to expel enemy subjects from the Papal States, and because he had proclaimed that f.s the Vicar of Christ he prescribed the duty of peace towards all men without distinction. The excommunication he launched was immediately followed m July, 180?, by his arrest. It was from Savona, where he was too much within gunshot and at the mercy of the British cruisers, that the Pope came and took up his abode at Fontainebleau. This fact accounts for the somewhat free and easy terms of the Imperial missive: “You can write him a short note, without any show of affectation.” The Emperor had abandoned, after his failure to bring it about by assembling the Council of 1811, his attempt to allay men's consciences.

JThc —— DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Bn Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Despite the purging of the AAA, the fight between consumers and the big food middlemen is right back where it started. In fact, one week after Henry Wallace had cleaned out his “radicals” he had exactly the same deadlock on his hands regarding the price of milk in New England. Calvin Hoover, new appointee as head of the Consumers’ Council, took the same stand

as his demoted predecessor, that New England milk distributors were gouging the public, boosting prices unnecessarily . . . Naval Secretarj Claude Swanson is wearing a long face these days. The idea that some of his admirals were in collusion w’ith the shipbuilding companies on cruiser contracts makes him so irritable that subordinates hardly can go near him . . • Passing Democrat Jack Garner in the coak room the other day, Republican Jim Couzens clapped the Senate's presiding officer on the back and said: “Hello, Boss!”

a a a TO her radio broadcasting and magazine writing Mrs. Roosevelt is adding still another in-come-producing enterprise. She has signed with a newspaper syndicate to do a series of articles on historic American figures.... Mrs. Mary T. Norton. Congresswoman from New Jersey, has introduced a bill to award a gold medal to Senator Harry A. Moore and the officers and crew of the fishing sloop. Paramount, for their “part in rescuing 67 passengers of the ill-fated Morro Castle. Senator Moore’s heroism consisted of flying over the burning ship in an airplane. , . . Maine’s crop-haired Senator Freddy Hale had an embarrassing experience at a recent White House reception. Waiting in line to greet the President. Freddy put his hands in his pockets. He was spotted by Personal Bodyguard Gus Gennerich. who rushed up and began to frisk him. It is a standing White House rule that those approaching the President must have their hands showing. The fight within the New York Stock Exchange to supplant Morgan-affiliated Richard Whitney as head of the institution is getting hot and lively. Theodore S. Watson, head of the prominent brokerage firm of Watson & White, startled Wall Street by openly demanding a housecleaning. ... Inner Administration advisers say privately that Mr. Roosevelt will allocate approximately $600,000,000 of the $4,880.000.000 work-relief fund for lowcost housing construction. a m a THE movement among A. F. of L. leaders to elect anew and more progressive president in place of the plodding Bill Green r

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Moving into Russia, Napoleon’s letters are filled more with complaint about the sultriness of the weather, and still more with diplomatic counsel to Marie Louise and expressions of tenderness for their son, than with accounts of warfare. But he was about to engage the

Mon amie, I have received no letters from you today. I hope to see you at Senlis. You will soon be seeing the little king, who will know you before he knows me; you will find him much grown after three months’ absence. My affairs are going well, my health is good and I ask you to tell the Queen of Spain how I sympathize with her in her illness. I hope she will soon have recovered. Adio mio ben, keep in good health. Never have any doubts. NAP. Wilna, July 12 (1812). tt tt tt MA BONNE AMIE, I have just received your letter from Egre, in which I read that you are about to take leave of your father, and that you have received the first bulletin, you make the presents you suggest, I approve of them. My affairs are going well, my health is good. We have storms and bursts of heat, alternately the crops here will be first-rate. I envy you the happiness it will give you to kiss the little king, kiss him for me. He will have grown by this time, let me know if he is beginning to talk. Adio mio ben, you know how I love you. Tout a toi, N. Vilna. July 14 (1812). Ma bonnie amie, I have received no letters from you for many days. I hope, however, that you (are) in good health. You have arrived in France. My health is very good. Kiss the little king for me. Love me and never doubt my sentiments. My affairs are going well. Adieu, tout a toi, NAP. Vilna, the 16th, 10 p. m. (July, 1812).

is making considerable headway. At the recent meeting of the A. F. of L. executive committee a large majority of the labor chieftains privately indicated dissatisfaction with Mr. Green's rule. The big obstacle in the way to supplanting him is the fact that so many of the leading opponents would like to succeed him that they can not get together on a candidate. Representative Adolph J. Sabath, leader of patronage complainers, has circularized his Democratic colle'agues wit£ a letter asking them to send him information regarding the number of Repuiblicans holding office in their districts, and “any other objectionable appointments” made since March 3, 1933. a an WEST VIRGINIA’S fledgling Senator Rush Holt, who comes to the Senate every day despite the fact he can not vote or speak, says: “I sometimes feel like a horse held back in a race when the others are running free. He paws the ground and wants to get into it with the others.” . . . Next to Mr. Holt on the Senate floor sits Senator Bilbo, the Mississippi wonder, whose silence is self-imposed. He has told friends he intends to keep his mouth shut “for the first year.” If he does, it will be the first time in many years. . . . The House Claims Committee has approved a bill granting to a Federal prison inmate a pension of $45 a month for the rest of his life because he lost his hand in falling from a painter’s scaffold. The bill was the subject of heated argument which finally ended when one committeeman declared, “If this man was a pickpocket by trade, he has certainly lost his means of livelihood and is entitled to a pension.” When Congresswoman Isabella Greenway leaves the House chamber to go visiting in the Senate wing of the Capitol, she passes the bronze statue of her late husband, near the door of Statuary Hall. Booted and spurred, in the outfit of a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway of Arizona makes a sharp contrast to the marble dignitaries who flank him on either side—Daniel Webster of New Hampshire and Sam Adams of Massachusetts. Much commented on, the statue is the work of famed Gutzon Borglum,

IXDIAXAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935

Napoleon’s thoughts follow the Empress on her return journey. She had taken leave of her father at Egra on July 6. On July 7 she was at Wurtzburg, where her uncle, Grand Duke Ferdinand, afforded her, together with the pleasure of excursions in the country, the hearing of concerts in which he displayed his talent as “precentor.” Thence she proceeded to Mayence where, as recommended by her husband, she remained but one day, to be treated, on the next day, July 16, to the most lavish hospitality by his Chamberlain, Count de Pange. She is sad: “God grant I may soon meet the Emperor,” she wrote to her father, “for this separation weighs much too heavily upon me.” And the almost uninterrupted succession of her letters —of which we have, unfortunately, but the dates, revealed by the Emperor’s notes—bears witness to her attachment: July 6,8, 10 from Wurtzburg, July 12, 15 from Mayence, July 18 from Chalons, 19 from Compiegne, and July 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 28 from Saint Cloud or from Paris. tt tt tt ON Aug. 15, the emperor’s patron Saint’s Day, she had to take his place at the official receptions of the authorities and ambassadors, as stated in the following note, written from the Convent of Gloubokoye, where he attended mass: Mon amie, I am staying here in a Carmelite Convent, in lonely country, but flourishing. As you can see, I am 60 leagues from Wilna, further away from you. I hope that you have arrived at Saint Cloud. Kiss your little son for me twice, reports say he is charming. Express my satisfaction to Madame Montesquiou for her care. I presume that you have made her come to Saint Cloud in order to have her with you. I think it would be seemly for you to go to Paris on n:y birthday doing as I should do in order to attend the public concert, you can also receive the authorities and the ambassadors and hold a great court and a fine spectacle. Adieu, mio dolce amore. Keep well. Go and see the Queen of Spain every three days as long as she is indisposed, give her many kind messages, from me, comfort her little daughter. NAP. Gloubokos, the 18th, 1 p. m. (July, 1812). Madame Montesquiou, on her appointment as “governess to the imperial children” —the plural being used although there was, as yet, but one—had sworn “obedience to the constitutions and fealty to the emperor.” “I prom-

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ise,” she declared, “to serve with diligence and devotion, in all the duties of the function entrusted to me by his majesty, the children it may please his majesty to entrust to my care.” The Countess of Montesquiou, nee Le Tellier de Louvois, was a devout woman of unbending character: “Madam;” said the emperor, “I entrust to you the destinies of France. Make my son a good Frenchman and a good Christian.” And seeing a smile on the lips of some of the courtiers, he added: “The one can not go without the other.” During the absence of the child's father and mother, it was she who took their place with the king of Rome. And Marie Louise, on her return, found in her son a delightful child, a “charming little monkey,” who would henceforth be referred to in every one of the emperor's letters: “Tell me if you were much struck with him, if he is beginning to talk, if he has begun to walk. . . .” Ma bonne et chere amie, I wrote to you yesterday. I have no news from you. My health is good. I hope you are at Saint Cloud. I pray you to he cheerful and to keep in good health. My affairs here are progressing very well. I am staying in a Carmelite Convent, I am going to mass, it is Sunday. NAP. Gloubokos, the 19 of July, noon. (1812). Ma bonne amie, I have received your letter of the Bth of July from which I see that you must have gone to Saint Cloud today the 19. Kiss the little King for me. Tell me whether he has impressed you much, whether he is beginning to talk, whether he is walking and finally if you are satisfied with his progress. My health is very good, I could not wish for mere in this respect and I feel better than in Paris, my

I COVER THE WORLD tt tt tt a a By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—World currency stability—necessary to any healthy revival of international trade—may within a reasonable time follow the Administration’s gold clause victory before the Supreme Court. The world economic conference of 1933 went on the rocks because each major country present felt the need to develop a monetary policy to fit its own requirements before it signed any general agreement.

Chief among such nations was the United States. President Roosevelt, in a blunt message, told the conference the United States would not consider stabilization at that time. The United States, he said, sought a dollar

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affairs are going well. The only thing that l miss is my good Louise, but I am glad to know that she is with my son, the Parisians must have been glad to see you. Adieu, mon amie, give many messages to your ladies and to the Grand Duchess. I love you always. Tout a toi. NAP. Gloubokos, the 19, 4 p. m. (July, 1812). tt tt tt THE Grand Duke of Wurtzburg', Marie Louise's uncle, was the former Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand. Transferred by the wand of the imperial enchanter from Florence to Salzburg, and thence to Wurtzburg, he just missed being raised to the throne of Austria in 1809. A familiar acquaintance of Napoleon's since the days when he was but General Bonaparte, the wandering prince now coveted Poland in exchange for his grand duchy. Ma bonne Louise, I have just received your letter of the 10th from Wursburg, you were right to rejoice at the thought of seeing the litile king. By this time you will have written to me how you found him and what impression he has made on you. My health is very good, my affairs are going well. I beg you to send suitable greetings from me to the grand duke when you write to him as well as to your father. I hope that you will have been satisfied with Paris and with France and that you will have seen it with pleasure. Adieu, mio bene. Tout a toi. They will look for the book which you have asked for and it will be sent to you. NAP. Gloubokos, July 21 (1812). Tomorrow “But 100 Leagues From Moscow.” (Copyright, 1935, in France by Bibliotheque Nationale: in all other countries by United Feature Syndicate. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.)

which a generation hence would have the same purchasing power as the dollar “we hope to attain in the near future.” The first definite step toward such a dollar was taken on April 19. Just prior to the Londc.i parley, when the United States went off gold and the dollar was left to find its own level on foreign exchange. ana /''vN June 8, Secretary Cordell Hull and the rest of the American delegation landed in London amidst general confusion. Mr. Hull wanted to proceed with the other items on the agenda. The British, French and nations declined with vigor. The world w r ould first have to evolve some semblance of monetary stability, some standard of value, before world trade, tariffs or any of the other issues could be discussed with intelligence. It was then—on July 3, 1933 that the President made the London conference almost literally jump out of its seat by his dramatic message. He would regard it as “a catastrophe amounting to a world tragedy,” he said, “if the great conference of the nations . . . should allow itself to be diverted by the proposal of a purely artificial and temporary experiment affecting the monetary exchange of a few nations only-.” that “catastrophe’’ Is in .ect, what happened. And the .onference collapsed. a a a SINCE then, the United States and other powers have gone their own ways. Each has “followed the scent of my own need.” The dollar and the British pound have fluctuated violently in relation to gold and in relation to each other. Os late, however, principal world currencies have shown a tendency to stabilize. Both America and Britain are making liberal use of billion-dollar stabilization funds to prevent wild fluctuations.

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Fair Enough WEHRMFEGIfR ADOLF HITLER will be surprised to read that the English newspapers have accused him of bad taste in the beheading of the two German women who sold the military’ secrets to the Polish spy, because all accounts of the incident published in this country show that he did his best to invest the affair with the utmost refinement. The headsman wore correct evening attire, including white gloves, there were present a full complement of guests, including representatives of the

judiciary, the state and the people, and. so far as the cables have revealed. the entire proceeding was conducted in the most formal fashion. The possibility occurs that the executioner's dress suit might have been a rented job and thus a bad fit. but a man employed as steadily as he is under Hitler would be likely to own his own working clothes by now. if only for reasons of economy. Contrary to the British criticism, the reichsfuehrer might feel that he had shown the rest of the world an example in tact and good manners and had made about the best possible job of a ceremony which is al-

ways rather trying on all concerned, whatever the method. a * The Rope JFrrs the Same THE best the British themselves have been able to do toward the same stylish effect was the substitution of a nominally, or theoretically, silken hawser on the occasion of their hanging of Sir Roger Casement during the war for his part in the Easter rebellion in Dublin. The silken quality of the rope was only nominal or theoretical, however, and the unfortunate Irish patriot took leave of his troubles at the end of a line as coarse and vulgar as ever hanged a person of no social standing whatever. The prerogative which was supposed to entitle Sir Roger to the distinguished*'luxury of a rope made of silk probably was a myth at best. It was discovered, if not invented, by some journalist and exploited in the Sunday supplements with allusion to the snobbery which would permit such a distinction. But when they finally got around to it, the British carried out their sentence in their characteristic blunt, practical fashion. If Sir Roger was entitled to silk by some archaic provision written in faded ink on a yellowing paper somewhere in the cellars under the Thames, he was bidden to be a good citizen, to remember that there was a war on and that silk was needed for parachutes. So Sir Roger had to forgo the strict letter of his prerogatives even as the rest of them were doing without many little comforts in their determination to muddle through. There seems to be a fundamental vulgarity about capital punishment which can not be escaped no matter how aesthetes may strive to render it attractive. The electric chair and the lethal gas chamber, American innovations, have missed the desired effect and Hitler’s best friends, if any, will have to admit that, with all his punctilio and sartorial decorum, he, too, has failed. tt tt tt His Horror Is Historical ONE satisfaction Hitler will have anyway. He has committed a horror which will become historical and be the subject of literature and morbid study long after he and his works are dead.' That the executions will always be a matter of shame to the-' Germans is not so sure. The French have managed to impart a gory sort of beauty to incidents of equal savagery in their past and a hundred years is a short time. Berlin seems very far away from the civilized world just now. These people were familiar figures in the night clubs and Berlin’s equivalent of the New York and Washington apartment in which crowds of men and women of mixed political beliefs gather to drink, dance, argue, gossip and praise or denounce the government. That there are some who might be sent to professional appointments with the man in the dress suit if an American Hitler should come to power there is much doubt. The customs of the country indicate simpler forms. But certainly many government employes, newspaper men, Republicans and lobbyists in Washington would be slammed into prisons for expressing opinions, perhaps idly and under the influence of their drams, such as nowadays go without challenge. It was almost as bad as that only 18 years ago. It is hard to imagine a dictatorship in this country with secret ag .nts mingling with their neighbors and a censor forbidding the newspapers to print anything derogatory to the government or any official of the government. It would be still more grote c que if it hadn’t happened in one American state capital within the last 30 days. 'Copyright. 1935 by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

THE most common cause for fever in children Is an infection, such as in the common cold or sore throat. All infectious diseases, as measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever and mumps, begin with varying degrees of fever. One of the simplest ways to lower temperature is a sponge bath with warm water. The water may be between 85 and 90 degrees or even slightly w r armer. A sponge bath should never be given in a cold room. The exposure may be more dangerous than the fever. Fever, after all, is one of the signs that the body is reacting against the disease condition. a a a OLDER children may be given a bath in bed by putting a rubber sheet under the child and then washing it thoroughly by the use of a dean cloth wet with warm water. It is well under such circumstances to keep those parts of the body covered that are not being washed. After any part is washed, it is thoroughly dried, then the blanket is used to cover that part while another part is washed. Sponging the body in this manner for five to 10 minutes will lower the temperature anywhere from one to two degrees. After a child has had a fever and the temperature has returned to normal, it is well to keep the child in bed an extra day to be certain that the tissues are recovered before the child is allowed to get up. a a a WHENEVER there is * fever, the body must be supplied with plenty or wr ter. During a fever more water is evaporated frci.i the surface of the body. If the child will not take ordinary water, it may sometimes be encouraged to do so if the water is slightly flavored with a fruit juice, or a little sugar may be added. A fever also bums tissues of. the body and the provision of extra sugar may save some of the destruction of the tissues. There used to be a superstition which advised to “starve a fever and feed a co’i." More scientific study of the way in which the body uses food has indicated the fallacy of this notion. Besides control of fever by use of the sponge bath, therr is the possibility of prescribing suitable drugs known to havo this effect. They should never be taken except under advice of a physician and should not be long continued unless the doctor orders. This applies not only to the more powerful drugs such as acetanilid, phenacetin, and sodium salicylate, but also to the drugs of lesser strength, as aspirin.

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