Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Children’s Ears. [ARTICLE]

Children’s Ears.

hr Dr. Weil has examined the ears of 5,905 school children, and in stating the Results obtained (Archives of Otology) says that the ears of every inattentive child should be examined and treated if it be found necessary. He is convinced of the fact that children who are simply hard of hearing are greatly misjudged, and considered inattentive.and obstainate. It is recommended that teachers, or, if possible, a surgeon, should examine the ears of children once or twice a year, and have a report made to parents i where treatment is necessary. ‘He adds

that such troubles,, when attended tc early in life, will in a majority of eases save children from what bften end in permanent deafness, • .

“Yes,” said he, as he entered the office of The, lloosier and cruslied a euair full of exchanges with the air of abandon peculiar to those people who are familiar to the editorial sanctum, “Yes, I’ve had some experience in running a newspaper—l might say lots of experience.” “ ‘Some’ is a jnore appropriate word, Mr. Ex-Editor,” .we intimated. “Well, perhaps you’re right; hut at any rate I’m not green in the business. I know a thing or two.” “Dare say‘you could give us' some advice? We’ve been in the business only twenty or thirty years and we have a good deal to learn.” “Betcher life I could—but I won’t.” While tfie life-size pangs of disappointment were coursing through our system, he helped himself to a handful of caramels from the society editor’s sideboard and again broke out: “I run a paper in Oshkosh once, and you can calculate that it was a snorter. Why, I built up my circulation right along, getting new victims steadily, and never dropping any of ’em. But it was mostly owing to a jewel of a carrier-boy 1 had the use of for thirty-five cents a week. By George, he was a rattler.” “Well, in the name of Ben Franklin, how did a carrier-boy boom you so, Mr. Greeley ?” “I’ll tell you, so if you ever get a mate to him you’ll know better how to keep him and not" let him starve to death on your hands. He wouldn't let anybody stop his paper. For instance, there was a subscriber named Mrs. Grundy" She took the paper three months and then sent in the money with an order to 8 top her paper. Well, that kid dropped a Streamer at her door the next week ; and the next, and the next, and every time he did it Mrs. G. would yell: ‘l’ve stopped ray paper.’ But that kid didn’t seem to think so, and continued to fire a copy at her every week. The fifth week she caught him on the steps and while she held him she hissed: ‘Young man, can’t I stop my paper when I want to ?’ ‘Nome.’ ‘Why not, I’d like to know. Aint I paid up ?’ —‘ Yes’m.’ V ‘Well, theg, I want it stopped.* ‘Dars’n’t, mum.’ ‘La, sakes! Why not?’ ‘lt’s agin the law, mum.’ ‘I didn’t knew that I couldn’t stop my paper when I wanted to.’ ‘lt’s a fact, mum,’ the kid told her, ‘the law says as how anybody whosoever knowingly, maliciously or diagonally stops his or her paper after once being a subscriber, is liable to seven years in the penitentiary or both.’ ‘Oh, my goodness gracious! What a narrow escape I’ve had!’ the old woman groaned. ‘l’ll send the editor another dollar to-morrow.’ 1 That’s the way that kid of mine build up mv circulation to a million a week.” ‘ls that all?” ‘Yes; the boy died.”