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suckle vines. I also planted white,
pink-white, pink and blue Petunias,
red, red and white spotted and white
Touch-me-nots, red Snapdragons, and
red and other kinds of Phlox. In the
middle of some of the beds I planted
some Rosebushes, and big blue and
yellow Lilacs. In other beds I plant
ed Black-eyed Mollies, China Asters,
running Cypress, red, white and yel
low Moss Pinks of different kinds and
Four O’clbcks. I also planted some
Balsam seed near a small sapling.
TIM CARDWELL.
Albertville, Ala.
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Do not fail to read “A Story of Suc
cess” in this issue.
THE LEPROSY DELUSION.
’Tig not only truth that crushed to
earth will rise again. Popular error,
especially if ancient enough, has the
same buoyant faculty. When the dis
covery of a case of leprosy in a poor
young Russian servant girl in Boston
was announced recently, the papers of
the land flared with headlines and a
wave of horror and dread swept over
the community. Frenzied space writ
ers gloated over the appearance of
“the dread scourge in our midst,” and
wondered copiously what the health
officer would do when the crop of in
fected victims began to show itself.
Similarly, last year, when a Syrian
exile was found to have a mild case
of leprosy, great Commonwealths vied
with one another in the savagery with
which they drove him from their bor
ders, and, when he was at length
found dead of cold and starvation in
the half-ruined hut into which he had
been driven at the muzzles of
rifles, with an occasional bullet
sent through the roof to keep
him in order, everybody breathed
a sigh of relief and said: “Poor fel
low! best thing that could happen to
him!” These are but exhibitions of
the cruelty which is born of cow
ardice and founded upon the error of
abysmal ignorance.
Few things are more utterly un
founded than the popular dread of lep
rosy. The prevalent conceptions of
the disease are as grotesquely mistak
en as the famous definition of a crab
given by one of Agassiz’s students:
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“A little red fish that walks back
ward.” The great professor, you re
member, smiled quietly and remarked:
“Very good, except that a crab is not
a fish, is not red until it has been
boiled, and does not walk backward,
but sidewise.” The three features in
the prevailing idea of leprosy—that
it is intensely contagious, absolutely
incurable, and inevitably fatal —are al
most as thorough inversions of the
actual fact.
Leprosy is one of the least con
tagions of all diseases known to be
due to a bacillus. Ten cases of lep
rosy t large would be a lesser source
of danger to the Commonwealth than
one case of ordinary consumption. In
the great European hospitals cases of
leprosy are kept for months and even
years in the open wards, with thirty or
fortj other patients, to be exhibited
to students and visiting physicians,
without the slightest fear of contagion.
White men living upon civilized diet
seldom contract the disease even in
the tropics, but when they do, and re
turn home with it, they almost inva
riably recover, and never have been
known in a single instance to com
municate the disease to others, not
even to members of their own family.
Osler relates the case of an eminent
clergyman who was a leper for thirty
years without its ever interfering with
his work, or any one save his phy
sician, suspecting the fact. A civilized
community, properly fed and housed,
is in no more danger from a case of
imported leprosy than it would be
from one of beriberi, or scurvy, or
cancer, Or clubfoot. The leper house
or colony is a survivor of barbarism
and medieval ignorance pure and sim
ple, and as unnecessary as it is cruel.
Instead of leprosy being hopelessly
incurable, cases in Europeans, which
are recognized early and given prompt
change of climate and food, usually
get well or come to a standstill. Al
though due to a well-recognized germ,
the bacillus leprae of Hansen, the
chief factors in its development are
food and sanitary conditions. When
ever these are brought up to, or even
toward, modern standards, leprosy
rapidly disappears. —Collier’s Weekly.
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The Golden Age for October 17, 1907.
“I HAPPIED HIM UP.”
Agnes is a little girl with such a
bright, happy face that it is a pleasure
to look at her.
One day, in answer to her mother’s
call, she came running home from a
neighbor’s, two or three doors away.
Her eyes were bright, her lips so
smiling that her mother smiled, too.
“Do you want me, mother?” asked
Agnes.
“No, dear,” said her mother. “Not
for anything important. I missed you,
that is all. Where were you, daugh
ter?”
“At the Browns’. And, oh, mother,
Walter was cross, and I happied him
up so that he got all over it; and then
the baby cried, and I had to happy
her up; then some one stepped on the
kitten’s tail, and I was just going to
happy her up when you called me.”
The mother laughed.
“Why, what a happying time you
had! It must make you happy your
self to happy up little boys and babies,
and kittens, for you look as happy as
possible.”
And this is true. The more we try
to make others happy, the happier we
shall be ourselves. Then put away
frowns and pouting lips. Try to
“happy up” those who are troubled,
cross or sick, and soon you will find
yourself so happy that your face will
shine with smiles.
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