The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 10, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 July 1911 — Page 6

CHILLS ANO EVER Malaria Remedies and Preventives Subject of Bulletin. Agricultural Department Claims That Mosquitoes Are Largely Responsi- ! ble for Spread of Disease— Candy Quinine as Cure. Washington.—All the children in the country, and lots of grown people, too, i , may soon be eating chocolate candy ai government expense if the sugges- ; tions are carried out, that are embodied in “Farmers Bulletin No. 450; ; Some Facts About Malaria,” issued j by the United States Department of * Agriculture. ' 1 Eating chocolate-coated tannate of ; < quinine bonbons is one of the three j methods recommended by Uncle Sam for ridding America of chills and fever. “The quininization method, or I cinchonization method, as it is called by the Germans and the Italians,” { sajs the Bulletin, “has been used by j the Germans in East Africa and by , the Italians in East Africa and by the ‘ Italians and to some extent by the ; ( English in India. In Italy, by the ( means of mechical protection (screens, £ veils and gloves), the'malaria was reduced from G 5 or 70 per cent, down to . 14 per cent, but here it held. { “The quininization method was A then introduced, and the general ma- j laria rate for Italy has by its means ] been reduced to less than 5 per cent, j The method consists in the free dis- r tribution of quinine to all laborers and ( to the poor living in malarious neigh- { boyhoods. The quinine is prepared in £ its most agreeable form, as confec- t tlnery and principally as chocolates, t the latter containing tannate of qui- t nine, which is not so bitter. It is more * easy to,induce children and those £ adults who cannot tolerate the ordinary quinine salts to take the qui- t nine in this form. / t Only Night Biters Dangerous. j “The other methods recommended ] are the mechanical—screens, veils | and gloves—and systematic destruc- £ tlon of the malarious mosquitoes. ' The mechanical, it is stated, has been j very successfully applied at Italian ( railway stations. I Malariov- mosquitoes bite only after ( dark. Uncle Sam says, so that if ( farmers will go to bed at sunset and ( stay there till break o’ day they may , escape fever and ague provided they 1 put screens in the window’s. As to the universal importance of ■ g national campaign against mosquitoes the secretary of agriculture says ' there are many localities in the United States where the prevalence of malaria in an aggravated form is a serious harrier to agricultural or industrial development. “The lands of the delta region of Mississippi and adjoining states,” says the secretary, “are the richest in the whole world, with the possible exception of the delta of the Nile, and yet on account of the extraordinHouse Fly and Mosquitoes. * ■ 1 ary prevalence of malaria in that region it is sparsely settled and land prices are low. The advance of the cotton boll weevil into this section has had its customary effect of driving a considerable portion of the negro labor into other regions not yet invaded; and unless the country is to become impoverished it will be necessary to import white labor. Negroes are more or less resistant to malaria, but this will not be true of the white labor coming into this region, which will undoubtedly become rapidly infected with the disease.” The Cause and Effect. Malaria, the secretary of agriculture tells the farmers, is caused by microscopic one-celled plasmodia parasites In the blood, which fefd upon the red corpuscles. These minute parasites, the government says, are introduced Into the blood through the proboscis, or snout of certain mosquitoes of the anopheles breed. The tiny creatures in the veins and arteries are no believers in race suicide, for in a few hours a single couple will have a progeny of millions. When the young germs escape from the red blood cells they cause in the blood a malarial fever. - Anemia and- enlargement of the spleen are common effects of malaria, which also weakens the constitution so that death may come from pneumonia or dysentery. Finally, after leveral years of infection with malaria, a person becomes immune, or “acclimated.” The government assures the farmers that five grains of sulphate of quinine taken by an adult every day for four months will rid the system of all kinds of malarious parasites. None of the anopheles has spotted wings, and when they settle on a wall their bodies Incline away fromi

the wall at an angle. They do not squat like the ordinary mosquito, and they are more classy in their diet. Also they do not, in their childhood days, go through the silly upsidedown acrobatic stun's of ordinary mosquitoes in rain barrels and pools of water. They lead an actife and persistent, but dignified existence. Two diseases which are preventable, and with which which country people have to contend, are malaria and typhoid fever. Both of these diseases are transferred or may be transferred by insects —malaria by certain mosquitoes and typhoid fever by the common house fly, or certain other flies, says a government expert. The blackwinged mosquito shown in the group picture is the malaria-carrying pest. While it is true that both malaria and typhoid prevail in large cities, it j is* none the less true that they may ' with a certain degree of accuracy be I termed country diseases, that Is to say, rather specifically, diseases of the farm and the small village. MANY INQUIRIES ADVOCATED. Fifty-three resolutions for investigations have been introduced In congress since the opening of the special session. The authors are practically i all democrats. Forty-one of the resolutions have been offered In the house of representatives and 12 in the senate. Practically all the resolutions call- : ing for investigations have been referred to the committee on rules, of which Representative Henry of Texas is chairman. So far,only three resolutions -have been favorably reported by that committee. These are the resolutions calling for an investigation of the sugar trust, a resolution calling for an investigation of the steel trust and one providing for an inquiry into the postofliee department. Two of the resolutions, those providing for investigations of the sugar trust and the postofliee department, have been adopted by the house. Following are a few of the resolutions that have not been acted on by the committee on rules: By Mr. Rainey of Illinois to investigate the purchase of the Panama canal strip, by Mr.’Sheppard of Texas to investigate all the executive departments, by Mr. Carter of Oklahoma to Investigate the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indians, by Mr. Pepper of low’a to investigate the so-called “Taylor” system of “scientific management” of industrial z corporations, by Mr. Garrett of Texas to investigate the Mexican situation, by Mr. Berger of Wisconsin j to investigate the alleged kidnaping of 1 J. J. McNamara at Indianapolis, by Mr. Francis of Ohio to investigate tho American” Woolen company, by Mr. Goodwin of North Carolina to investigate the civil service commission, by Mr. Humphrey of Washington to investigate the commerce of the high seas, by Mr. Blackman of Alabama to investigate the cotton market. The investigations that are to be conducted by special committees, as well as these inquiries by. standing committees, are not to be rushed. If congress should adjourn by the first of July the investigating committees would sit through the summer and fall. None of the committees expect to be prepared to report during the present session. MANY SENATE CHANGES. Remarkable changes which have occurred in the senate in recent years are demonstrated by a reference to the record. Within six years there have been 60 new senators elected to congress, or within a fraction of twothirds of the entire body. Included in j the number are many senators whose names are so familiar to the country as probably to have occasioned the belief that they have besn in the senate a much longer time. The senator who cleses the list is Frank B. Brandagee of Connecticut, who took his seat in the senate May 10, 1905. Next to him comes Senator DuPont of Delaware, who took his seat over a year afterward. Seventeen new senators were elected in 1907, four In 1908, 12 In 1909, four in 1910 and 20 in 1911. Only 14 of the present membership of the senate w’ere in that body prior to 1900 and only 12 prior to the Spanish war. Hitherto it has not been thought unusual that the senate had in its membership many men who had served more than twenty years. At the present time there are only three such senators of long service. Senator Frye of Maine has been in the senate 30 years; Senator Cullom of Illinois 28 years. Then follows a lapse of eight years and Senator Gallinger, w’ho came to the senate March 4, 1891, is the only remaining member who has served 20 years. At the same time, the house of representatives has changed in even a larger proportion. There are 263 members ol that body, or more than twothirds, who have taken their seats in it since March 3, 1905. In the present congress, 119 members are serving in the house for the first time, and five others have been returned after having been out an intervening congress since their first term. Fifty-five of them are serving their second continuous term, and 50 of them are serving their third continuous term, while one is serving his third term after having been absent for two congresses. Twenty-six are in their fourth term continuously, and six more are finishing a fourth term, which has been interrupted in the meantime by defeats. Passing a Good Thing Along. Bessie —Harry’s gold watch must be a sort, of a family watch. Jessie —Why? ( Bessie —First he has it, and then his uncle has it.

WOMAN’S REALM

BEAUTY’S CHIEF FOES i ■' MENTAL INFLUENCE MORE SERIOUS THAN PHYSICAL ILLS. What the Face Expresses Is of Moro Moment Than Shape of Nose or Brilliancy of the Com41 plexion. That there are many physical foes to beauty, everyone knows — wrong food, bad ventilation, insufficient sieep and a host of other ills. They will damage one’s physical good looks to a considerable extent. But far more serious in their effects are the mental foes to beauty. For the spirit is more than the body, and what the face expresses is of more moment than the shape of the nose or the brilliancy of the complexion. The fact, physically attractive, but spoiled by its expression, is fajpiliar. Many a girl with faultless features and 4 a rose-leaf complexion spoils all their beauty by a peevish, discontented or vapid expression. On the other hand, many a girl with a snub nose and a sallow complexion wins all by the sunny lovableness of her face. The expression founts very large in summing up the factors that compose beauty. In the quest, then, for beauty that bo many women go upon ceaselessly, this matter of the value of mentality should be taken into account. If those who seek beauty will acquire right mental states, they will do as much, perhaps more, toward accomplishing their desire as they will by securing the right masseuse or the right facial cream. The mental states that are foes to beauty are many. We all indulge in them more or less, and by so doing detract to just that extent from the beauty we are trying to acquire. Again, anger, irritability, envy, jealousy, hatred, fear, suspicion, depres-sion-all these and many others of the same nature have a bad effect upon the looks. It is now known that these mental states affect us physically, and thus th a physical way they react upon our appearance, through the digestion, the liver, the nerves, and other organs. But they have also, in addition, a direct effect upon the countenance. They bring lines. They cause the corners of the mouth to droop. In time they will actually change the shape of the

MAGNETIC THIMBLE IS LATEST Enables One to Pick Up a Meedle Without Getting Out of Temper. An Ingenious novelty in the form of a magnetic thimble is shown in the cut, the object being to enable one to pick up a needle readily without getting out of temper. A little horseshoe magnet is fastened to the thimi ble, the ends projecting slightly be- | yond the end but not interfering with the ordinary use of the thimble. This A Magnetic Thimble. department is edited by a couple of men an. far be it from them to pass upon the practicability of the device. But it will pick up fish-hooks and there is no i eason why it should not work on needles.—Popular Electricity. Luncheon Set. The engaged girl in the city has excellent chances to make an extremely attractive luncheon set at small cost by attending sales and selecting from the mussed and odd doilies all sizes wtjich have ordinary plain scallops, says the Ladies’ Home Journal. Buy six or a dozen of the ten-inch size for plate doilies, not bothering to > match the stamped patterns so long as the scallops match. If you choose the ordinary scallop you can match them in six or four-inch size for tumbler doilies, and In 15, 18 or 20-inch size for the centerpiece. Launder them to get out the stamping, then mark and embroider each with a pretty initial or monogram, in different sizes proportionate for each dolly, and you have a lovely luncheon set at very little cost. You will be able to get the smaller doilies at five cents and sometimes two for five cents, whereas you would pay |l. J to $2 for a matdhec set simply itamped.

nose and the contour of the eye. We all know the fretful mouth, the furtive eye,- the inquisitive nose. And none of these things are beautiful. The woman, therefore, who desires | beauty should not only give her atten- i tion to the physical necessities for ■ it. but also to those that are mental. | And as mental states are altogether within one’s power to control, no I woman need feel that the quest for 1 beauty for her is hopeless. By ac-, quiring right mental states she will first of all affect herself physically, so ' that her complexion, her eyes, her j lips, her whole physical self, will im- I prove. But most important of all, she I can give her face the spiritual beauty i which outweighs all else in the final count for charm. —Barbara Boyd, in the Chicago Post. IN NEWEST MODE Hat of Parisian Design That Has Met With Favor in America Long Hoods on Short Coats. There. is no decrease in the popularity of long V-shaped hoods on short coats. They are made of the material itself or of satin on silk in the same color as the coat, but they are faced with a vivid silk and held down by a thick tassel.

LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT Wardrobe Trifles That Tell Whether the Wearer Is Careful and Neat. • Look at the fit of a gulmpe and you can tell whether the wearer is careful and neat. It should be loose i enough to insure a perfect fastening ’ at the tack. It should be pulled down ■ at both front and back and pinned in place, if necessary. Then there is the fastening on the dress. The eyes or plaits should always be sufficiently in from the edge of the under flap so that no sight of them Is possible. The '.astening of your glove is a little thing, but it tells much. First, it should be fastened: otherwise why the buttons? Next, the first button should be below the palm at the wrist line. The opening should never be in the center of the palm. If it is, your glove is too small. A silk petticoat Is not worth very much if it shows a frayed edge. One little piece of the torn ruffle will counterbalance any rustle that you may hear. The vepts of all skirts, under or outer, should be carefully considered. Buttons are the best, especially on wash dresses, and be sure to have enough of them. Yes, it’s the little things that are important! Beaded Designs Retain Popularity. Beading is much used on all styles of dressy and lingerie waists, and this form of elaboration is also in evidence on the, cotton voile and marquisette models. Wash beads are used to bring out designs in yoke outline and on collar and cuffs, and French knots made of cotton floss in imitation of beads are also a satisfactory means of working out new patterns, as the process of laundering does not affect this work. In some cases French knots are used tn solid designs, while in other instances they are employed in outline effect. Scarfs and Bags. Among the summer accessories are some charmingly novel scarfs with bags to match. One is of exquisitely fine cotton voile In a creamy white with a narrow border of Egyptian embroidery done in the striking colors that always distinguish this sort of decoration. An effect that is equally good, though in a different way, is obtained with a pure white fabric and embroideries of silk and beads in delicate tones of btv.e and green.

WISDOM OF THE WIDOW DON’T LET MAN KNOW IT IF YOU CATCH HIM IN A LIE. That Is Her Philosophic Advice, but It Is Forgotten When Howard’s Perfidy Is Revealed to Her by ! a Friend. “If you would keep the love of any man, never lei him know that yßu have caught him in a lie,” said the widow. “If you do, he never will forgive you. It will make him uncomfortable, and to, his dying day a man holds a grudge against anybody that made ; him uncomfortable. There is nothing i that so endears a woman to a man as j a trustful absorption of his choicest I lies. Contra wise, there is nothing that ' so weakens her held on his affections as an accusation of untruthfulness ! backed up with undisputed truth. “It is a pity all women cannot learn i this. If they could, the divorce courts i would get a chance to shut down every ' day on schedule time. I learned it. An ■ ! r aged woman who had had four hus- i i ’bands gave me a tip on that before I I married, and I played it strong all the way through. 1 admit it was hard work. There came times when my common sense fairly shouted for vindication, when the pretended inability to see beyond my own nose and even to the end of it drove me to desperation; but the simulated virtue paid In the long run. My husband lived and went to his reward sustained in an unfaltering faith in my stupidity. Consequently, be loved me to the end. “I am going to manage the next one the same way. Will there be another? Oh, why, didn’t you know? Well, yes, I am —to Howard Miller. Oh, it hasn’t been definitely settled yeL Some time in May, I believe.” The girl in blue beamed upon the widow admiringly. “No doubt your philosophy Is sound," she said, “but I never could live up to it. By the way, I suppose you had a fine time going to the theater last week.” "No,” said the widow, “I didn’t go at all. Howard was ill. He had to stay home from the office all last week. He wrote to me twice a day. Poor fellow ,he wasn’t able to get out of the house.” The girl in blue stared hard, then blinked rapidly. “Merciful goodness!” she gasped. “Oh, dear —if this isn’t—what shall I do? I don’t suppose I ought—yet, I must. See here, my dear,” she said, with determination, “I’ve got to tell you something. I hate to do it, but it’s my duty. Howard Miller —lied—to —you. Yes, lied. He may have been ill, but he wasn’t too ill to get out of the house. Why, my dear, he —he went to the theater five times last week. My brother saw him there. Five times. Just think of it!” The widow grabbed her handkerchief and gloves. “Let me out of here, quick,” she said. “Went to the theater five times in one week, did he? And yet he wasn’t able to come to see me! O-o-oh, how dare he lie to me so! I’ll show hint! Just wait till I catch him, if • I don’t —” Tribe of Canoe Indians. The North Pacific coast Indians are a fishing people.' The homes of the Haida tribe are largely among islands and the canoe is their chief means I of transportation and in it much of j their lives is spent. The red cedars , of Queen Charlotte’s Islands produce logs from which are made huge canes, sometimes from 45 to 60 feet in length. The Haida are master craftsmen since there is no other type of dugout canoe so light, graceful and seaworthy as this one they construct. In Haida canoe' building, the outside contour is first hewn and carved. Wooden pins are -’-iven through the outer surface to indicate the varying thickness of the walls of the canoe, and the interior is dug out to the depths thus fixed. The spread of the beam is attained by steaming the wood. The canoe is partly filled with water Into which red hot stones are dropped producing steam, which softens the wood. The sides are forced out by wedges which are afterward replaced by permanent seats. Beds of hot embers are kept near the canoes to dry the outer surface.—American Museum Journal. O, You Suburban Life! She was riding home in the suburban hack and her whole conversation had been in monotony of the country life in general and in Swarthmore in particular. “I think,” she told the man opposite, “that I shall have to do something exciting just to stir things up—l mean something real shocking.” “Do,” he smiled, encouragingly, “and my wife will give a bridge and ask all the worper who will be likely to discuss it.” And the air became cooler.—Philadelphia Times. Fig Tree That Doesn’t Flourish. Despite the severe frost at the beginning of April, which adversely affected such a lot of vegetation, the fig tree (perhaps the most familiar specimen in London) behind the statue of Charles James Fox, in the garden of Bloomsbury Square, is showing a crop quite up to the average. The figs will, as usual, drop off at the immature stage at the end of July. This tree is about a century old, and it Is said that not a solitary fig is ever bore has been known to ripen.—London Chronicle.

WAS STILL MAUD LILLIAN New Head and Body for Child’s Beloved Doll, But bair Was the Same. With tears in her leyes and a large and very much damaged doll in her arms, a very little girl appeared at the mending counter of a doll’s hospital the other day and displayed her broken treasure. The doll’s face was broken, one arm was completely gone and one foot was minus all the toes. I The very little girl confided to me clerk that she wanted dolly made well again. “I’m afraid it won’t be worth while to fix it," said the clerk, regarding the new patient dubiously. ’ “You see there would have to be a new heAd and new arm and new leg. j I really think it would be better for you to get a new doll.” The tears overran the eyes of the very little girl at this suggestion. “But I want her to look like this : doll,” see protested. “I love Maud ' Lillian too much to have a new doll > }in her place. You can get a new head for her and a new body, too, if j [ you like, but 1 want her to have thq j ; same hair that she has now, so she’ll ! i look like her old self.” The toy shop people are used to carrying out the individual ideas of the little mothers of the dolls, and so no objection was made to preserving Maud Lillian’s identity by means of her somewhat crumpled golden locks. A beautiful new doll of the proper size was chosen, her glossy new wig removed and the broken doll’s wig substituted. Newly bewigged in this fashion and robed in the garments of the discarded doll, Maud Lillian bore a resemblance to herself that was startling, considering the rather extensive anatomical alterations that had been made in her. The very little girl seized her triumphantly and bore her away, but the onlooker who had witnessed the operation could not but wonder in w’ at Maud Lillian’s ego really consisted. Algy Telephones. Algy swaggered into the postofliee and entered the telephone box. He i was immaculately clad, and in a lordI ly humor. , “Hello!” he drawled, putting the receiver to his ear. A minute passed. He repeated the summons. His lordly humor began to descend in rank. “Hal lo!” he called. No response. “hallo!” Still no response. His lordly humor was now as gone as his temper, and he shouted things into the receiver which must have made even that experienced instrument tremble. At last, when the perspiration dribbled from his bursting brow, and his hat was limp, and both he and his language were exhausted, a notice caught his eye. It read: “Give the number you require to the clerk at the counter, and wait until the connection is made.” He slunk aw*ay so quietly that no one saw him go. The Antiquity of Man. It has been known during a long time that in westerti Europe man existed during the glacial epoch. We now know that the great ice age consisted »of different glacial times separated by interglacial times. In glacial times the snow line dropped 3,000 or 4,000 feet below its present level in the Alps, whereas in interglacial times it lay about 1,000 feet higher than at present. Thus the temperature seems ( to have been higher in the interglacial | periods than it is now. There is abundant evidence, in the j opinion of Penck, that man existed du- . ring the beginning of the last glacial I epoch. There is some reason for [ thinking that at least 20,000 years , have elapsed since the last glaciation and that the man whose jawbone was ! found in 1909 near Heidelberg lived I 200,000 years ago.—Scientific Amerl- | can. Well-Dressed American Men. The best-dressed men are to be found in New York, says a German paper in an article c~ the decadence in male fashions, in which the writer laments the fact that men of the present day are content to be clothed and no longer trouble about elegance in dress. Germans, this authority asserts, don’t look well in civilian dress, not even the Emperor. He sails dangerously qlose to lese madeste by further stating that the Kaiser wears his trousers too short; that the Crown Prince is too much f influenced by French fashions and '.that the rest of the royal family simply Ttnow nothing about clothes. Inviting Temptation. Many people plan for defeat like the boy whose mother told him that he could not go to the river, nor swimming, but he did. When he returned and his mother saw the signs, he confessed that he was tempted and went with the boys. She noticed that his coat bulged out. Putting her hand in she pulled out his bathing suit. When confronted with it he said, “I was afraid that I might be tempted when I got there, so I took these along.” Some people expect to fall, and plan for it. New Musical Instrument. Army men recently returned from the Philippines brought a new musical instrument which is proving a delightful acquisition for the drawing room. It is called a mandola, and is larger and contains more notes than the ordinary mandolin. Mrs. Reber, daughter of Gener d Miles, introduced the first mandola in Washington.

THEY BELIEVE IN COMMUNISM Shakers Get Their Name From the Violent Contortions Introduced in Their Worship. New York.—The Shakers are a body of seceders from the Society of Friends formed by Ann Lee (Mother Ann) of Manchester, England, about 1757, and so called from the wild and violent contortions introduced by them into their form of worship. Their official title is “The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing.” The sect emigrated to America in 1772 and settled near Al- ; bany in 1774. Their chief seats have I been at Mount Lebanon* and Water'FT 1 ' .’Wtr ' p\ JO 1 A Typical Shaker. vliet, N. Y/ They number 15 societies in the United States and have a membership of about 1,728. The Shakers believe in spiritualism, oractice celibacy, and community of goods, oppose war, refrain from oaths and denounce baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are noted for their frugality, integrity and thrift. In Mount Lebanon, their largest community, there are several families made up of 150 persons, including 35 boys and girls. The other societies are made up in about the same ratio as tho one at Mount Lebanon. The announcement that they are winding up their financial affairs in Ohio and New York calls attention to the final failure of one of the longest existing of the many communistic, experiments that have been tried in this country. f In the years following the American Revolution, more than a score of communistic sects and colonies were established in the United States. Some of them appealed to the sensualities and some of them were plain swindles. The Shakers held out no sensual or financial allurements and it is surprising that they have endured so long, except on the theory that their simplicity in living attracted recruits and made them the sole survivors of all these social experiments. With their passing will close one of the most interesting chapters of social experiments in the history of any country. ANOTHER SACRED CALF BORN This Makes the Fourteenth Which Has Come Into the Chicago Zoo Zebu Family. Chicago.—Another sacred calf, the j fourteenth born to Romeo and Juliet, j in the 14 years of their residence at i the Lincoln Park zoo, has made its appearance. Hundreds of persons | thronged to the zebu’s pen to look I at the new arrival. “The Lincoln park zoo is getting a reputation as a breeding ground for animals, and we are supplying al4. b 4 liVi Ini Zebu “Juliet” and Calf. most every zoo in the country with our rare specimens,” said tendent Cy De Vry. “Only the other day we shipped a two-year-old zebu to the Washington Park Zoological society at Milwaukee. “Although the zebus have the record, the lioness and Hon are slowly gaining upon them in raising a family. The lioness, as a rule, gives birth to three at a time, while the sacred cow has only one offspring.” The zebu is a native of India, where It is revered by the inhabitants. It Is pampered and caressed, and to feed it is deemed a meritorious act. The animal is used as a beast of burden and can travel from 30 to 40 miles a day. Horseshoe In Pine Tree. Milton, Ind. —In the heart of a ptne tree 18 inches in diameter a horseshoe was found by M. E. Hubbell when he cut the tree down. The position of the horseshoe indicates that it was placed around the tree many years ago when it was a sapling and in time had been covered by the growth es the wood, i