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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1914
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Dr. S. Weir Mitchell.
When Dr. Silar Weir Mitchell passed away at his home in Philadelphia last Sunday morning the United States lost one of its most extraordinary men. Though in his eighty-fifth year he was in active work and known not only as "a great physician" but also as "the dean of American literature." This double distinction was well earned by the doctor for he achieved notable results in both these difficult arts. At twenty-five he sent a volume of poems to Ticknor & Fields ; they referred it to Dr. Holmes who returned it to the author with the advice, "Put these verses away and forget them until you are forty. In the meantime devote yourself exclusively to medicine." For this council the world should be extremely grateful because it led to a number of the most fruitful discoveries in the history of American therapy. One of his first undertakings was to investigate the venom of serpents. His findings in this difficult subject led to his being made a member in 1S65 of the National Academy of Sciences, the only organization of its kind instituted by federal law. While serving in the Civil War Dr. Mitchell lound rare opportunities to make those researches in nervous diseases which later enabled him to develop his rest cure, an achievement which has made him an authority on neurology the world over. In recognition of this he was accorded the highest honor in the world, an associateship in the French Academy of Medicine. At another time he was made a Fellow of the
Royal Society of England, a distinction conferred on no other living American physician. But it is as an author that Dr. Mitchell is best known to his people. "His "Characteristics" is a string of table-talk that will live in the same ranks as Seldon's, or Luther's, or Coleridge's. His "Adventures of Francois" has been described by one historian a better transcript of the French Revolution than Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." The author's own favorite was "Constance Trescot," a work of tragedy comparable to "Withering Heights" and a specimen of triumph in one of the most difficult fields of authorship. But it will be as the author of "Hugh Wynne; Free Quaker" that he will be best remembered. A competent critic adjudged this "our best historical novel." John Hay said "it possesses the vigor and certainty of genius with the reserve of a gentleman." To this day, though it was writ
ten in 1897, it still holds its own among the best sellers. As if such achievements were not enough to satisfy an ordinary mortal Dr. Mitchell even dared the risks of poetry and with what success only those who have dipped into his six volumes of verse can appreciate. Charles Eliot Norton ind Thomas Bailey Aldrich agreed that his "Ode c.n a Lycian Tomb" must take rank in time among the five or six greatest elegies in the language. Many are agreed that it far surpasses his old friend's "Chambered Nautilus." Dr. Mitchell had a theory that the truest vacation is not to quit work, but to change work. It was in trying out this doctrine that he found time to achieve such great things in literature. After a busy winter of practice in Philadelphia he made it the custom to retire to some favorite haunt where the salmon rise to the bait and there devote himself with unstinted labor to writing. But in all his books, poems and stories he remained the physician still and every page is suffused with that rare charm, that true under
standing of human nature, which seems to come to so many pyhsicians. His life work is a fitting monument to the fact too often overlooked that a man may deal with humanity's weaknesses and diseases, may look into the cesspools at the bottom of so many natures, and yet retain un-
roster that includes such names as Irving Fisher, Frank Vanderlip, Dr. Gould, Dr. W. J. Mayo, Dr. C. B. Davenport, Alexander Graham Bell, Walter H. Page, Prof. Ruasel Chittenden, David Starr Jordan and Dr. Wiley. Its purpose is to bring to a focus all available scientific knowledge having a direct bearing on the conservation of health and the prolongation of life. It has organized a "Hygiene Reference Board" to which all moot questions relating to personal and public hygiene will be referred, and has, arranged with eminent specialists over the country to take charge of its work locally. The idea is that for a small annual fee (no profits are expected) any person may have himself examined at frequent intervals. By learn
ing of slight impairments the man can secure the advice of a physician before it is too late. And by bringing before the public all life-saving knowledge a keener interest will be awakened in matters pertaining to public health. More than this it hopes to be able to settle many of the now debated questions relating to points of personal hygiene on which there is wide variance of opinion. As Irving Fisher writes : "The Board will secure the co-operation of savants throughout the world to solve such fundamental problems as how best to ventilate our houses and how best to clothe and feed our bodies. In this way it is hoped to steer a scientific course between the Scylla of foolish fads which beguile the unwary, and the Charybdis of con
ventional ways of living which most of us accept
blindly because others have accepted them before us. Just as Col. Gorgas reduced the deathrate in Panama to a small fraction of what it had been previously, so he and his associates now hope to cut it down in certain groups of people in America. They believe that in the course of time the results of this work may favorably influence the general death-rate for the entire country." Two features in this program which most appeal to us is that nobody will have his sense of independence insulted by being offered free service and the other is that the movement will be a selfsupporting philanthropy. The former will make patronage impossible, one of the deadliest of social sins, and the latter means that the public at large will have to carry no burden while the
movement is in the experimental stage.
Social Center Idea is Here to Stay
That the social center idea has come to stay is indicated in a report just compiled by Clarence Arthur Perry, of the Russel Sage Foundation, New York City. Mr. Perry shows that in places where the movement has already started the rate of growth is much higher than the rate in which it spreads in new localities. In other words the actual results of the social center are more effective in getting public support than the words of Its most enthusiastic champions. The work is getting on a more solid basis. Seventy-one cities had, during the winter of 1912-13, paid workers for some form of social center activity, as opposed to 44 the previous season, and the amount expended in the maintenance of school centers has grown from $139,535 in 1912 to $324,575 in the yast year. There are 1,927 paid workers reported. This, with the volunteer workers, brings the number of persons engaged in social center direction considerably above the ;;,0(0 mark. 981 Lectures Heard. That the general social and recreational possibilities of the "wider-use-of-the-sehool-plant" movement are making a constantly greater appeal may be seen from the fact that in 9S1 school houses there were public entertainments and lectures; in 496 school buildings there were open meetings
of adults to discuss local problems; athletics or folk dancing In 474 schools; and social dancing in 190. A notable development of "wider use" in 1912-13 was for election and other civic purposes. Balloting during elections took place in 529 school houses; 259 buildings were used for registering voters; and political rallies to the number of 481 took place in school edifices. No Uniformity Exists. Mr. Perry reports great difficulty in obtaining exact statistics of social center activities. Little uniformity of agreement exists as to what constitutes a social center. Even the name itself is not constant the institution is variously reported as "recreation center." "civic center," "social and recreation center," "evening center," "community center," etc. Some cities have social center activities going on six nights a week; while others open their school buildings once or twice a
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mayor ordered 'Hanning to go back to Winchester, where he came from, and Fltegerald to go back to Newcastle.
Coal is by far the most Important mineral product of India. The valu of the output of the coal fields in 1912 reached a total of $16,088,374, which ruirpepttip an advance of more than 32 per cent.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Moths.
The Murray theatre was well filled! again last night to see the production ' or The Francis Sayles' Players ofj "Moths," the entire new administra-j tion of the city attending in a body j as the guent of Mr. Sayles and Mr j' Murray. Mr. Sayles as well as each)
member of the company received ai-; plause on their firft entrance, and the; HOWARD nitOVJKS Candidate fcr
play went nig from tne rise or mAudilor of Wayne CountJr
Burxain 10 us lan. i "Moths" will be the attraction fori
the balance of the week with a special matinee on Saturday.
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the Progressive primary election. February 9. CLERK.
The Toilers. The "Toilers." a labor play by 1-ud-wig Fulda, adopted from the (Jerman for the American stage by Henry C.
1 Demille will be the offering of the I
Sayles' Players at the Mur
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the mere figures in judging social centers, says Mr. Perry. 'Centers of
individual growth and refinement, of 4IATlCjrrj ijAxjVrivr' civisra and social integration that is ! AD V IoEjO IlAiNINliNli
what these places are. and no system om numerals can ever be devised that will convey an adequate notion of the vitalizing influences which radiate from them."
SCHOOL NURSE INDISPENSABLE
- j about 4,(100 children. In Philadelphia j five schools and about 5,000 children are usually allotted to one nurse. I while in Boston the proportion of i nurses is almost twice as great. It
"Medical inspection of schools has is not improbable that the ratio will rendered the school nurse inevitable," "e increased until it reaches an avdeclares Dr. Ernest Bryant lloag in ! erage of one nurse for each 1,000 of a bulletin on "Organized Health the school enrollment. If there were Work" just issued by the lTnited one nurse for every 3.000 pupils. States Bureau of Education. j about 10,000 nurses would be required "Without an effective follow-up ser-! in the entire United States. A nurse's vice conducted by visiting nurses, room completely equipped is coming medical insnecti..n is ineffective Fn-, to be regarded as one of the essen-
tll 190S New York city relied upon
tials in every school building of eight
postal cards sent to parents of defec- or more rooms
tive children, and was able to secure-
action in only 0 per cent of the cases j Biliousness and Constipation Cured, where treatment was recommended. I If ' are troubled with bilImmediately upon placing the follow-! iousness or constipation you will be up service in the hands of school 1 interested in the statement of R. F. nurses the percentage increased tojErwin, Peru, Ind. "A year ago last 84. winter I had an attack of indigestion "The nurse effects what no other I followed by biliousness and constipa-
The Weather. Have you said that we have no more snows such as we had "when I was a boy?" If you have you are in a big company for we all have said it. But now along comes the weather man and pooh poohs the whole idea. "There's nothing to it," he declares, "it's only another popular superstition with no basis in fact." If we examine the weather man's records for the last hundred years we shall be bound to confess him right. True, there is a measureable cyclic variation running across about thirtythree years, but it is so slight no untrained ob
server would notice it. We have as heavy snows now as ever; we have as big storms; we have as much weather. Fact! . The records prove it.
When we bring to mind our years of childhood they come melted into a whole ; the years are telescoped together and we can't distinguish one season from another. As a result we recall only the conspicuous and extraordinary storms. And because three or four unusually heavy snows swept over the country when we were little, we naively suppose "there were giant storms in those days." And things looked bigger then. Those same drifts that came to the brim of our red-topped boots wouldn't imrpess us much now. But they did then; we thought they would bury the planet. The very snow that now hangs about town with an apologetic air will live in the memories of our
agency could accomplish. She not only secures action in the case at hand, but she becomes a permanent advisory influence in the homes where she visits. Inspects Sanitation. "By virtue of her room-to-room visitation and her opportunities for observation,the school nurse also becomes the ideal sanitary inspector. She notes temperatures, ventilation, seating,, cleanliness of room, toilets, blackboards, and the clothes of children. Her hospital standards of sanitation tend to follow her into the schools. "The school nurse is tirst and last a social worker. She instructs ignorant but fond mothers in the best methods of feeding, clothing and caring for their children. She Is receiv
ed in their homes as no other official visitor could possibly be. Dr. Osier does not overstate the c ase when he I says that, the visiting nurse is a 'ministering angel everywhere.' "That the visiting nurse is a good economic investment is evidenced by the fact that some of the large insurance companies find it to their ad
vantage to employ a number of them to visit the homes of policy holders and give instructions in matters pertaining to hygiene. Department stores and factories also And It good business to employ a nurse to look after the health of their employes and to teach them personal hygiene. Conditions Govern Number "The number of school nurses needed varies somewhat according to social conditions and according to the range of duties expected of them. We all the way from 1.000 to 10.000 children under the care of one nurse. In New York city each nurse has from two to seven schools, with a total of
tion. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablet3 so highly recommended, I hought a bottle of them and they helped me right away." For sale by all dealers. t Advertisement
More than twelve million, American women are affiliated with societies for mission work in foreign fields.
HEAD AND NOSTRILS STUFFED FROM COLD
"Pape's Cold Compound" Ends a Cold or Grippe in a Few Hours.
Your cold will break and all grippe misery end after taking a dose of "Pape's Cold Compound" every two hours until three doses are taken. It promptly opens clogged-up nostrils and air passages in the head.
TO FEED WHISKEY TO PARK MONKEYS
"Feed lhat half pint of whiskey to the monkeys at Glen Miller park." Mayor Robbins advised Mike Hanning in police court today. Hanning and Ross Fitzgerald pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication. The
A Message to Thin, Weak, Scrawny Folks An Easy Way to Gain 10 to 30 Lbs. of Solid, Healthy, Permanent Flesh. Thin, nervous, undeveloped men and women everywhere are heard to say, "I can't understand -why I do not get fat. I eat plenty of good, nourishing food." The reason is just this: You cannot get fat, no matter how much you eat, unless your digestive organs assimilate the fat-making elements of your food instead of passing them out through the body as waste. What is needed is a means of gently urging the assimilative functions of the stomach and intestines to absorb the oils and fats and hand them over
to the blood, where they may reach ' . . . . . : -
the starved, snrunaen, run-oon nosues and build them up. The thin person's body is like a dry sponge eager and hungry for the fatty materials of which it is being deprived by the failure of the alimentary canal to take them from the food. The best way to overcome this sinful waste of flesh building elements and to stop the leakage of fats is to use Sargol. the recently discovered regenerative force that is recommended so highly by physicians here and abroad. Take a little Sargol tablet with every meal and notice how quickly your cheeks fill out and rolls of firm, healthy flesh are deposited over your body, covering each bony angle and projecting point. Your druggist has Sargol. or can get it from his wholesaler, and will refund your money if you are not satisfied with
CLAl'DF. KEKVER Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to th Progressive primary election. Fel r .- ary 9. CHARLES POTTER Candidate f,,r Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. L. C HARRISON' Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progiessive primary election, February 9. PARK R. OIPE Candidate Vr Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court, sub ject to Progressive primary election. February 9. TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR. JAMES HOWARTH Candidate oT Township Assessor of Wayne Township subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. TREASURER. ALBERT N CH AMNKSS Candidate for Treasurer of Wayne county, subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9.
SHERIFF. JACOB BAYER Candidate fnr Sheriff of Wayne county, subject 10 the Progressive primary election, February 9.
stops nasty discharge or nose run-1 the gain in weight it produces as stai
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feverishness, sore throat, sneezing.
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i It is inexpensive, easy to take and i highly efficient. ! Caution: While Sargol has produc- ' ed remarkable results in overcoming nervous dyspepsia and general stomach troubles, it should not be taken unless you are willing to gain ten pounds or more, for it is a" wonderful j flesh-builder. i AdvertistmenO
MURRAY All This Week Matinee Saturday OUIDA'S Famous Play Moths PRICES Nights, 10, 20 and 30c. Matinees, 10 and 20c. Next Week 'The Toilers'
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stories of "the big storms we had when I was a boy."
GREATNESS.
dimmed the clear eye of confidence in humankind.
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Old Age Deferred. We have learned organizations to prolong the life of cattle and swine; we have federal departments to study the diseases of cotton and potatoes ; we teach our young agriculturists to prevent the maladies of oats and trees ; but we have made very few efforts to eradicate the diseases of humanity or prolong the life of men and women. Of significant interest, therefore, is the recent launching of the "Life Extension Institute." Mr. Harold Ley, a prominent business man of
Springfield, Massachusetts, got it into his head that the conservation of human life is of somewhat more importance than the conservation of cattle and coal mines; he worked out a scheme for setting on foot a gigantic movement to that end and succeeded after a deal of trouble in getting the leading sanitarians and medical specialists interested. This result of this very laudable piece of missionary work was a meeting in New York with YV. H. Taft in the chair and Col. Gorgas in attendance. As a result of this session the "Life Extension Institute" was organized with a membership
Honor and shame from no condition rise: Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Fortune in men lias some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler aproned, and the parson gowned, The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. "What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?" I'll tell you, friend! A wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Alexander Pope.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
NOPE. Indianapolis Star. Have you dated a letter in the new year without making a mistake?"
SOME ARE RATHER SEVERE. New York Telegraph. Headaches serve no especial purpose. They are not severe enough as a punishment nor lasting enough to be a lesson.
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OR even brycie. St. Louis Globe-Democral. James Pryce will wear his title of viscount with dignity. Hven in Washington nobody ever thought of call
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King George of Great Britain recently declared that some of the happiest hours of his life have been due to his hobby of stamp-collecting. He has one of the three finest collections in the world.
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Water requires eight times as much heat to warm it a given number of degrees as iron, five times as much as stone and about 30 times as much as lead or gold.
Wayne County Gravel Road Bonds 4J4 Tax Free. Denominations $450 and $500. These bonds are very choice and if in the market for a local high-grade non-taxable bond we advise your early purchase, as these are the last of local bonds to be issued before March 1st.
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