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THE SUNNY SOUTH
Her
Way
By Percy
A Love
Frederick Booty
Story
I hotel for several days after the _fa~al
morning, for although he had killed the
Hungarian he had not himself escaped
unwounded; indeed, his life been
saved but by a miracle. As soon as he
j clutched his pistol he felt that Elsa ® rRlg
irritated the strained joint of his little fln-
I ger, and therefore took it off and slipped
i it into the top left pocket of his waist-
ITHIN two stones’ throw |
of the Place de l’Opera j
In Paris stands a house j
which no one would j
look at twice were it not
made conspicuous by
the unusual arrange
ment of the shop on the
ground floor. The win
dows. instead of being
dressed with goods, are
hung with horizontal
curtains Just low
enough to tempt the
passer-by to raise him
self on tiptoe to peep in,
while over the door in
the center are painted
the words: "The Tea Cosy.” in largo
gilt letters. Between 4 and G o’clock so
ciety comes here to take afternoon tea,
and, as hinted by the name, the estab
lishment is the cosiest of the kind in the
whole of Paris. The ceiling is ablaze with
electric lights, but the glare is softened
to the eyes by artfully-festooned drapery,
and a huge Japanese umbrella placed over
each table. There are many convenient
corners, and in winter a cheerful lire in
vites you to gossip.
As he passed down the Boulevard at a
brisk pace one afternoon, the Hon. Eu-
cien Dermouth suddenly stopped opposite
this house and carefully eyed ‘The Tea
Cosy" from the other side of the street.
Satisfied, apparently, that this was the
piace he was looking for, he crossed the
road, peeped over the curtains, and
went in.
Lucien was a handsome cavalry officer,
a stalwart fellow, and, to tell the truth,
looked somewhat out of place among so
many pretty faces and teacups. He
would have seemed more at home, for in
stance, seated outside the Cafe de la Paris
smoking a fragrant cigar #nd sipping a
strong liqueur with soldierly companions.
His manner suggested that he had not
come here by force of habit, but by ap
pointment.
mat morning the gallant officer had re
ceived a gentle missive asking him to he
at “The Tea Cosy” at 5 o’clock. Ills cor
respondent. it said, would make herself
known to him there, and he had arrived
to the minute.
The tea and muffin which Eucien had
ordered for the sake of appearance ce-
mained untasted, and he showed Ills im
patience by toying with the sugartongs,
and vigorously stirring Ills tea. While
still looking out for the arrival of his
anonymous correspondent, he hnd occa
sion to rise from his seat to allow three
girls to pass his table. After exchang
ing a few words at the door, two of them
went out, and the third, instead of re
turning to the table which she and her
friends had just left, sat down at another,
thus bringing herself face to face with
Eucien. She was a blonde, with bright,
deep-hlue eyes and a handsome figure.
She wore a becoming costume of black,
relieved only by a waistband of dark red
■with a ruching at the throat and wrists
to match, while a. black velvet toque
sprinkled with little gilt stars was poised
on her rich fair hair.
Eucien was on the point of departure,
thinking himself the victim of a pretty
hoax, but although thick-skinned he was
not quite insensible to the graces of a
woman, and he sat for some minutes
watching the fair lady put on her gloves—
black tan gloves striped and sewn with
P’nb. If he had been a flaneur instead
of a beau militaire. more accustomed to
♦he strategv of the boudoir than the tac
tics of the field, be might have seen much
significance in the way she did it.
First she took tip one of the gloves and
stretched it. slipped it on and buttoned it
without any ado. But the other glove
was made to hang fire a little; each finger
required a deal of persuasion, the thumb
was unusually tight. It was almost on
when it was pulled off again in a llttie
tantrum and thoroughly stretched. Sud
denly Eucien made a movement, put his
hand in his pocket and jingled his money;
the four fingers went on in the twinkle
oT an eye. lie paid his hill: the thumb
was slipped on without any difficulty this
time. He rose to reach his hat and stick;
the buttons were fastened with incredinle
rapidity. He flipped his hat with his silk
handkerchief; the end <jf the glove was
pushed under the ruching of the sleeve.
He commenced edging his way among the
little tables; she rose took up her purse
and parasol. They arrived at the door at
the same moment. He opened it. They
went out together.
Five minutes later they were walking
side by side toward the opera house.
"Yes, it was I who wrote you that let
ter. I am Elsa Vlgnolo. Have you never
heard of me?” she asked perkily.
“I don't think so; it’s my ignorance. T
certainly never seen you before; that’s
my misfortune.” he replied.
T am going to make irty debut at the
opera next month,” she went on, uncon
sciously drawing up her glorious head,
"and I hope all the world will have heard
of me one day.”
"The world could wish for little better."
As he looked at her bright eyes and
happy smile, an emotion hardly percepti
ble even to himself and quite beyond his
power of analysis, perturbed for a moment
the composure of his countenance. It was
that premonitory warning that goes
straight to a man's heart and a little
dashes his hopes when ho first becomes
conscious that the charms of a woman
whom he admires, nre—like all other kinds
of beauty—not his alone, but all the
world’s.
"I'm an Italian. You wouldn’t think it,
would you?” she said, passing by his com
pliment.
"Yes, I guessed that just now.”
“How? By my name?”
“No. by the dimples on* the knuckles of
your hands.”
"Oh!” she laughed, "you’ve been picking
me to pieces already. But I’m tired, we
must take a cab, a closed one, please, and
tell the driver to stop at the corner of
the Champs Elysees, opposite the Arc de
Triomphe.”
"Ah!" she continued, as soon as they
were seated, "you are wondering, I am
sure, why I wrote to you?”
"Well. I confess I am curious.”
"Before I tell you. however, I am go
ing to ask you to tell me something,” and
her manner changed from animation to
seriousness. "Are you married?”
"No, fortunately,” replied Eucien point
edly.
"You are not telling me the truth?” she
questioned, looking at him with searching
eyes.
“Q.n my honor as a soldier, I am not
married.”
His manner appeared to satisfy her.
and she asked again: "Have you never
heard of me, are you sure?”
"Quite sure.”
"But you know Captain Fersdale?”
"Very well indeed; he is an old friend
of mine."
"I am his fiancee,” and a sudden flush
overspread her face.
It was now Eucien’s turn to look at his
companion incredulously, but the blue
depth of her candid eyes disarmed his sus
picion.
"Do you doubt my word?” she said, re
proachfully.
"I’ve no right to doubt it, but I’m sur
prised. I wasn’t even aware that my
friend was engaged.”
'‘But you know he started for Egypt
last week?”
"Yes”
"Well, our engagement was settled the
day before he started.”
"I wish Captain FersdaJe were here so
that I might congratulate htfti.”
yM&s&ex
"so*—.
First she took up one of the gloves
Her smile thanked him for his compli
ment.
"Now,” he pursued, speaking at ran
dom. "if I can be of any assistance to
you during my friend’s absence, you have
but to tell me how I can serve you.
"Why, has he already telegraphed to
you about it?” said Elsa, opening her
eyes and looking at him fearsomely.
"I have heard nothing. It? What do
you refer to?”
"I see you've not heard from him.” she
replied, seeming much relieved. “Any
how. I do want you to do me a favor;
the greatest favor a woman can ask a
man.”
"Tell me and I will do it.”
"I want you to fight for me.”
"Fight for you?”
"A duel.”
"A duel?”
"Yes. Will you?” _
"What for? With whom? Why?’
“A horrid Hungarian has been pestering
me with insults. I detest him, but he is
persistent. I told him I was about to be
married, and that my husband would re
quire satisfaction. T wrote to Captain
Fersdale and my letter caught him at
Malta. He cabled back telling me to ask
you to take his place and to fight this
man.”
"Where is the Hungarian?” demanded
Eucien, his eyes aflame with unfeigned
indignation.
“He is here in Paris.”
“I will send my seconds to him.”
"Listen. listen.” said Elsa, putting her
hand on his arm; “your seconds nre the
two brothers of one of the girls you saw
with me just now. The duel Takes place
at G o’clock tomorrow morning.”
"I will go to see my seconds at once.”
nnd lie put his head out of the window to
stop the cab. , .
“Don’t be silly,” she cried, pulling him
back, "there’s no' occasion to see them.
It’s nlrPaTlv arranged that you meet them
at the corner of the Avenue G’.eber and
the Avenue Victor Hugo tomorrow morn
ing al 5 o’clock.”
"But I shall not know them if 1 see
them.” „
"I shall be there; you will know me.
He made no reply, but looked at her
eyes—the bright eyes and the sunny hair,
and his look told her that he would know
her again tomorrow; aye, and tomorrow
twelvemonth.
"Captain Dermouth,” said Elsa serious
ly, "I would not have asked you to fight
this duel for me if you were married,
even engaged; or if there were anyone
who—whose life, perhaps, would be would
not be—would be saddened—you under
stand.”
"A soldier must not lend his ear to sen
timent,” replied Eucien calmly.
"Then you consent?”
"Yes; I will fight for you.”
“But duels sometimes end—I.
you—you know, one never knows.
”1 understand perfectly.
I will die for you.”
“You are a hero—a man!” He thought
she was going to put her arms round his
neck and embrace him, so artless was
her adoration. But she only put her hand
on his. He took it and kissed it.
“Here we are at the Arc de Triomphe,”
she went on hastily. “I must get out
here. I dare not drive up to my apart
ment, for fear anyone should see you. I
am the protege of Mme. de Mantcau, and
have to be very careful what I do. She
“discovered” me in Italy two years ago,
and I have been studying at the opera
ever since. AVI 11 you come to my debut?”
“That all depends.”
“Of course. Forgive me,” she said, as
he opened the door of the cab. “Don’t
forget tomorrow morning at a o’clock,
over there, between the Avenue Kleber
and the Avenue Victor Hugo. I will then
present your seconds to you.”
In saying goodby their hands for a
moment lingered together. She then
alighted, and, at his request, told the
cabman to drive to the Grand hotel, but
before the horse had been whipped into
a trot she called to the driver to stop,
and, reappearing at the window, said to
Eucien: “I forgot to tell you, it’s pistols,
not swords.”
“Shall I shoot to kill him?" asked Lu
cien.
"Well, no, don’t kill him, poor man. but
—don’t let him kill you.”
Eucien smiled, and again took the hand
she offered him through the window.
“I admire you more than I can tell
you,” she hurriedly said, as the cab
again started on its way.
*
CHAPTER TWO
Eucien sat bolt upright in the cab. rest
ing his hands on his malacca and staring
through the window facing him at a but
ton on the cabman’s coat. The cab jostled
down the Champs Elysees. across the Place
de la Concorde, up Rue Royale and along
the boulevards to the Grand hotel, where
it pulled up In the courtyard. Quite un
conscious of the fact that he was ex
pected to alight, he sat staring at the
button until the hotel porter ventured to
ask if he were walling for anyone. There
upon he jumped out and ran up to his
private sitting room. Later a waiter
knocked at the door.
"The cabman wants to know, sir, wheth
er you wish him to w*ait.”
“Bring me pen and ink and paper,” said
Lucien.
"You will And them before you on the
table, sir. And- the cab. sir?"
Lucien commenced a letter to his broth
er officer, and the waiter receiving no re
ply left him alone.
"My Dear Fersdale: You have all the
luck. I have none. You have been order
ed to join the Abyssinian expedition; I
am trying to kill time in Paris. You are
going to marry the most charming girl
mean.
In that case.
I have over seen. I met her for the first
time this afternoon, and shall doubtless
sec her for the last time tomorrow morn
ing. She will be your wife; T shall be
shot through the head for her. Tt is
a good thing her beauty has inspired me
to be heroic, for, by Jove! I don’t think
for your sake alone would I have been
willing to oblige you. Yours (and hers)
until 5 o’clock tomorrow morning.—Eu
cien Dermouth.”
It was the dinner hour by the time Eu
cien had finished this letter. He dressed
and walked to the Cafe Amerionin, where
he had invited several bachelor friends
to dine with him. After dessert, while
they were lounging in twos and threes,
chatting merrily and waiting for coffee
and liqueurs to be served to them, Eu
cien had the champagne passed round
once more, and raising his glass he gave
the toast: “To Elsa!”
The company took ttp the toast and
cried: "To Elsa!”
"TTe’s going to bp married.” said one.
"Not he. She’s his latest flame,” chaffed
another.
"I’ll fight you for her,” retorted a third,
good humoredly.
"Eh? You will?” retorted Eucien. who
was flushed and jolly. “Come on, then.”
and mockingly accepting the challenge,
he made a lunge toward the last speaker,
who, unprepared to defend himself, jump
ed aside, and Lucien, losing his balance,
sprawled on the floor. In his fall he bent
back the little finger of his right hand
against the corner of the table.
“Bad omen, bad omen!” he mumbled, as
ho jumped to his feet and joined in the
laugh against himself.
That night Lucien did not go to bed.
When he left his friends he took an open
cab and drove about the streets of Paris
all night. The cool air refreshed his
heated face and excited brain, and at last
he realized the seriousness of his position.
As a soldier he had no wish but to die
in action, but he had pictured his enemy
other than an obscure Hungarian, and
the battlefield more glorious than a silent
wood on the outskirts of Paris. It was
an Insult to his British pride to ask him
to lay down his life in such a questionable
manner. Fersdale should not have left
Elsa without protection in Paris. It would
serve his friend right if he carried her
off! If he had only met her before Fers
dale had! But, after all, he was going
to fifeht for her, not for Fersdale. What
did his life matter? She could never be
his.
At 5 to the minute he stopped Ills cab
and alighted at the place appointed. On
the other side of the road another cab
was standing, and three men, in heavy
black overcoats and soft felt hats, were
walking up and down beneath the shadow
of the huge archway. “My seconds and
the doctor,” growled Eucien. swearing at
them under his breath. They semed in
truders, and he Would have liked to ask
them what they wanted there, so grim
and spectral did they look in the dusky
mining light.
While he was still gazing at them some
one touched him on the arm. It was Elsa.
"I was hoping you wouldn’t come,” she
said. "I have been very foolish to ask
you to do this thing. Oh!” and she hung
her head to hide a tear.
“For your honor's sake, and for mine, tt
is too late to turn back now. It’s Fers
dale who is to blame. I have written to
tell him that not even for him would I
have consented to break the laws of my
country and to risk my life in this inglo
rious manner. It is your beauty alone
that has prompted me to do your bid
ding.”
"My beauty!” she sighed. "It has al
ways been the cause of so much trouble.”
Then she took from her finger a ring,
a plain gold band of gold with a single
brilliant. "This.” she said, "is your lady’s
faVor,” and she placed it on the little
finger of his right hand, failing to notice
as she did so that it gave him a twinge
of pain. "May it guide your hand to vic-
torv. And now goodby, and without the
least restraint she put her hands on his
shoulders and kissed him.
They then crossed the road. The two
seconds came forward to meet them.
"Gentlemen,” said Elsa in a quivering
voice, "this Is your principal. Captain
Dermouth, my future husband; he will
fight for me this morning.”
Then the doctor was presented, and Lu-
shook hands with them all. In the
swirl of the moment it did not strike him
as strange that she should have spoken
of him as her future husband, and he did
not contradict her. Few more words were
said, and a minute later the party drove
off. , .
As the cabs rumbled down the Avenue
de la Grande Armee, Lucien stood up, and
looking back waved a last farewell to
Elsa, who had followed to the top of the
avenue. There she stood, all tne while
waving her handkerchief to her hero un
til he disappeared from her sight in the
vapory mist of the dawn.
They drove through Neuilly, and then
took the Route de St. Germain to the left
whence they turned off to the light into
a wood, and arrived at a place where four
allees met.
There, in the fork of the roads, Lucien
fought the Hungarian and killed him.
*
CHAPTER. THREE
When it was noised about that a Brit
ish officer had fought a duel In Paris
there was considerable ado. The French
newspapers said: “Cherchez la femme.”
and when la femme was found to be Elsa
her notoriety became intense. It was even
whispered that the duel was an astute
coup got up by the directors of the opera
for it was certain now that Elsa’s ap
proaching debut would be an affaire ccla-
tante.
Lucien was confined to his room at the
coat. At the first shot neilher combatant
was wounded; at the second, the Hunga
rian fell back and expired almost imme
diately, his forehead pierced by the bul
let. After swaying to and fro for a mo
ment. Lucien also fell, and it was feared
that he. too, had been mortally hit, but,
°n closer examination, the doctor found
tiiat the bullet had lodged itself in the
ring, and had only penetrated the skin.
The shock, however, had been severe, for
the wound was directly over the heart,
and complete rest and quiet were pre
scribed for the patient for several days.
On the third morning of his enforced
inactivity, while he was sitting propped
up with pillows in his invalid chair, and
envying, as well he might do, the happi
ness in store for Fersdale with Elsa as
his wife, Lucien received a telegram from
I’ort Said as follows:
"Your letter received, incomprehensible.
I was married before leaving England. My
wife is with me, she does not know you.
Some girl must be fooling you. Wire her
name to me at Cairo.—Fersdale.”
He read and re-read this telegram, as
tonished, bewildered and indignant, and
rushed at once to the conclusion that if
anyone were fooling him, it was certainly
Fersdale who was doing it. That Elsa
had told him anything but the truth was
a thought which never for a moment oc
curred to him. Fersdale’s conduct now
appeared doubly perfidious; not only had
he violated all the rights of friendship
by confiding to another a task which he
should have performed himself, but he
had broken his troth to a woman, and
now added insult to injury by saying that
he did not even know her. In the heat of
his indignation and anger Eucien wrote
a stiff telegram in reply, but when writ
ten it seemed too brnsque, so he wrote a
second, and then a third, which he dis
patched. It ran: “Her name is Elsa
Vignolo. If you were here I would tell
you exactly what I think of you.” He
consoled himself with the thought that
this language was sufficiently constrained
as becoming a gentleman, and yet Implied
so much.
He was still very excited when a sec
ond telegram arrived: “Coming to see
you at 5.—Elsa.”
The fair Italian had not seen her hero
since she left him in the early morning
before the duel. She had made anxious
inquiries after his progress toward recov
ery, but by the doctor's orders had been
forbidden to visit him.
1.Helen’s sympathy for her was even
greater than his exceeding anger toward
Fersdale. Might not such heartless con
duct break her heart and even ruin her
artistic career? But over and above his
sympathy for the woniun and his indig
nation against the man, there arose in his
breast another emotion, borne almost im
perceptibly and cherished in spite of him
self. Now that Elsa’s hand was free,
vistas of possibilities opened up before
his imagination; lie felt a secret gladness
in knowing that she was never to be
Fersdale’s wife.
He laid her telegram on his knee ami
gazed vacantly through the open window
at the blue sky, for the morning was tine
i and warm. At last he said half aloud:
”Yes, 1 have a chance.” He repeated this
several times at intervals, and then add
ed: "Today she'll be rather cut up; no
I mustn't be in a hurry.” Then he was
lost in thought again. ”1 have more than
a chance,” he exclaimed, ”1 have a right;
1 risked my life for h’7r; yes, I have a
right,” and nodded confidently.
When Elsa arrived he hardly knew what
note of welcome to strike. She, too, was
embarrassed. All her assurance had left
her, and she assiduously avoided his
eyes.
"Have you heard from Captain Fers
dale?" he asked.
She nodded her head no, and he saw the
same fearsome look in her eyes as he
had noticed in the cab when she imagined
from what he said that he had received
news from his friend.
“You had better read this telegram, it
is front him,” and he held it toward her.
' "Read it to me, please,” she replied,
turning her back to him and looking out
of the window, and he read it.
When she turned to him again her face
was rigid with stifled emotion.
“You bear it very bravely,” he said em
phatically. "I never suspected my friend
capable of such treachery.”
“Captain Dermouth,” said Elsa at last,
slowly and with great effort, "your chiv
alry toward me and your confidence in
my word affect me much more than the
news in that telegram. It Is no news to
me. Your friend is an honorable man. It
was I who deceived you. Y’our indigna
tion must be turned against me, not
him.”
"What have you done?” he asked in a
hollow whisper.
She threw herself on her knees beside
his chair, and burying her face in her
muff, said: "You can never, never fori
give me, never!”
"For heaven’s sake, tell me, what is
it?” and he took her wrists and drew her
muff away from her face.
“I never cared for Captain Feradale.**
“Never cared for him?”
"No."
"Why were you engaged to him. then?"
"I wasn’t."
"You weren’t engaged to him!"
"No, never."
“This Is too much. Are you false, too?"
and he fell back In his chair. "Go on,”
he continued, shutting his eyes and puck
ering his brow, "tell me all, go on. What
is this plot against me?”
She was too frightened to Bpeak, and
at length he asked savagely: "Why did
Fersdale want me to fight the Hungarian
If he were not going to marry you?"
“It wasn’t he who wished It," replied
Elsa, with lowered eyelids.
A look ofttlmes is more eloquent than
words, and at this moment Elsa’s face
revealed her soul.
"It was you who wished It, was It?”
said Lucien eagerly—"you?”
"The Hungarian’s insinuation that there
was no man who would fight for me was
intolerable and more than I could bear.”
"Yes, I can understand that. Eut what
had Fersdale to do with It?"
"Nothing; It was there I deceived you."
She saw that he still distrusted her. "I
was determined,” she went on falteringly.
“to find some one to fight him. I know
no English girl would have done what I
did, but we Italians,” she pleaded, “are
more hot-blooded and Impetuous than
your country women. I knew no man who
would have been willing to fight this
duel for me Just because I asked him—
and nothing more—my obligation to him
would have been too great and more than
I could repay—more than In was willing
to repay—so I ”
“And so you dragged me into the affair,
which means either that you had no in
tention of paying a debt which you ac
knowledge to owing, or that, in my case,
you are willing to pay it to the last
farthing. Eh?”
"I thought you would do for Fersdale
what you would not do for me,” she
stammered.
“Exactly, but you must have known
that the truth would come out at last,
and that sooner or later I should learn
what an equivocal position you had
placed me in.”
"Yes.”
“Do you remember before I left you
that morning my telling you frankly that
it was your beauty alone which was
prompting me to do your bidding?”
To this she made no answer, but looked
at him with pleading eyes.
When a woman looks upon a man as
Elsa was looking upon Lucien her eyes
have but one tale to tell. In them was
the same expression as when she placed
the ring on hie finger and kl 1*? a
He wee beginning to underetand her mo
tive now, but In hie delirious Joy
to dally with her a little longer, and
assuming a porplexed air, he eaid.
"Even now I am not much nearer tne
truth. How did you know, for example,
that Feradale wae my friend? There are
a hundred and one thing* that etlll puz
zle me." „ , - ,
“I have known Captain Fersdale for
many years. You I only knew by s!gm.
He had often spoken to me about you.
Once he even arranged for us to mee ,
but something happened to prevent it.
She looked very beautiful and she was
very close to him, and hie admlrat on '
the upper hand. "I admire you more
I can tell you," he murmured hair
himself, using unconsciously the ' -
words she had used to him. He re
bered those words now, and at la st un
derstood their full significance.
Drawing her still closer to him. un
her face was almost agalnct his. _
added: “No other woman could nave
tempted me to do what I did for you a
morning.” and then suddenly throw n&
the reins to hts emotion he took her
his arms and kissed her passionately.
"Your debt to me Is very great, he
whispered, "there Is only one way to re
pay it, only one."
She laid her head upon his shoulder,
and silently, heart against heart. tne>
rested so awhile. .
At length she said. looking at him
frankly: “I will tell you what I was go
ing to tell,you Just now, but I dared not,
the reason I wanted you to fight for me
was that you were the only man to whom
I felt I could pay the debt I should owe.
Ever since I first saw you. you have al
ways been by hero—always—”
“My darling!”
*
Xfter a pause, he said, with a wicked
little twinkle In his eye: "If he had
killed me, would you have married him .
“Ugh!” she shivered, and put her hand
over his mouth as a protest against such
a suggestion.
“Will you be well enough to come to
my debut?" she asked gaily.
“Yes. you may be sure of that!
“What an evening that will be!” she
cried rapturously, and going to the piano
she sung to him Alberto Alforl’s famous
song, “Tuttl sono costrelli d’armare,
which means in English: “Everyone is
doomed to love.”
Then, for the first time, he heard her
exquisite, incomparable voice, ifs vibrant
fullness and enthralling melody, and lean
ing back In his invalid chair, he listened,
enraptured, enchanted, and amazed.
Black and White.
^ Health Suggeftions
W HATEVER else may have been
proved, or not proved, by the re
cent investigation regarding the mi.k
traffic In Los Angeles, says The Times,
it has been plainly shown that an exten
sive system of adulterating milk prevails,
the adulteration consisting not only in the
admixture of water, which may or may
not be pure, but also by placing In the
milk formaline and other preservatives,
all of which are highly injurious to the
human system, and particularly so to
children.
The man who will deliberately adulter
ate an article upon which many children
depend for life is something more than
a common adulterator, anil should be
most severely dealt with. In some coun
tries inspectors have authority to pour
adulterated milk into the gutter. If .hey
have not this authority here, it should be
given to them and the milkmen should
be made an example of as well.
T
Hygiene of sleeping cars
HE sleeping car Is the latest Institu
tion to be attacked by the apostles
of hygiene. At a recent meeting of the
American Public Health Association, in
Inuianapolis, a paper on tne subject was
presented by Professor S. H. Wood-
bridge. of Boston, in which the following
recommendations were made:
“(1) When a passenger was known to
be contagiously ill. he should be Isolated
in a compartment appropriately equipped
and ventilated in such a manner as to
separate it from the rest of the car.
Through trains should be provided with
rooms for the sick, as well as staterooms,
interchangeable In use. (2) The interior
of passenger cars should be plain, finish
ed with hard, smooth and polished sur
faces. (3) All furnishings should be as
r.on-absorbent as possible. (4) Coaches
should be furnished with effective means
for continuously supplying not less than
LOCO cubic feet of warm air an hour for
each single :<eat, and for distribution and
removing the air without troublesome
draught. (5) The temperature should he
regulated. (G) The cleaning of cars should
be frequent and thorough. (T) Floors and
sanitary and lavatory fixtures snould be
frequently treated with a disinfecting
wash. (S) All fabrics in cars should re
ceive sterilizing treatment. All hed and
lavatory linen should be thoroughly steril
ized in the process of laundering. (9)
Sewage tanks and earth closets should he
provided under the cars. tlO) Water and
ice should be obtained front tne purest
available sources. The use of tongs in
handling ice should he insisted upon. (11)
The water tank should he frequently
cleaned and periodically sterilized with
boiling water or otherwise. U2) The pub
lic should be educated to use individual
cups. Paper paraffined might be pro
vided by a cent-in-the-slot device. (13)
The use of canned goods In buffet car
service makes careful Inspection of such
goods imperative. Fruits and eatables be
fore and after purchase should be stored
with care to avoid all unnecessary ex
posure to street and car dust. (14) The
filthy habit of spitting on car floors
should be dealt with in a manner to cause
its prompt discontinuance. It should be
punished as one of the most flagrant of
thoughtless offenses against tne public
right of health. (15) Station premises
should receive attention directed to gen
eral 'Cleanliness of floors, furnishings,
air. sanitaries. lavatories, platforms'and
approaches, and should be plentifully
supplied with approved disinfecting ma
terial. The recommendations of the com
mittee were concurred in by the associa
tion.”
*
Fruit should bo washed
* LE kinds of diseases may be traced
** to the eating of unwashed fruit,”
says a well known authority on bacteri
ology, In commenting on the spread of
disease through unknown sources. "The
result of a careful examination has clear
ly shown the danger of eating fruit of
any kind without washing it. Grapes
kept for a time in a basket on a fruit
stand were so covered with dust that the
water in which they were washed was
black. The man of science, thinking that
perhaps the water contained tubercle
bacilli, injected Into three guinea pigs a
small quantity of it. One animal died
In tv/o day3; the other died In less than
six weeks, both the latter presenting
marked signs of tuberculous lesions. The
! water and vessel that contained it had
teen sterilized before the experiment was
made, so that without doubt the germs
were on the grapes. ’This,’ said the ex
perimenter. ‘illustrates the innocent ways
In which we unconsciously take into our
systems dangerous as well as harmless
germs.’ ”
*
Value of pepsin Questioned
A WRITER in The Public Health Jour
nal remarks that the idea that pepsin
is an aid to digestion is a delusion. He
says: “There is hardly one case of di
gestion in a hundred in which the trouble
arises from a deficiency in pepsin. If
anything Is lacking it is almost always
gfstric juice. If pepsin is habitually kept
in the stomach the stomach will not take
the trouble to make it. and may lose Its
power to do so. An English physiologist
took two guinea plgr of .he same weight
and fed them the same amount of food,
giving one pepsin and the other none.
The one that was fed pepsin gained fast
er than the other for about six weeks:
then he began 11 lose, and at the end of
three months the one that took no pepsin
was heavier and stronger than the other.
This shows that by the long-continued
use of pepsin the stomach becomes debii-
itc ted."
*
Another lure consumption cure
Y ET another "sure" consumption cure
comes over the wires—the second with
in a week. Tliis one is from Santa Fe,
N. M. The new “complete cure” for con
sumption is described in the dispatch as
follows:
“By careful testing, he announces he has
determined that the transitory effects
upon the blood corpuscles of a person
passing from a lower to a higher altitude
are renewed by frequent changes of al
titude. By occasional visits to the sea
level, he says the svstem can he reinvig
orated. even when the effects of the higher
ultltuile have been worn off.”
This is ail very well fbr those who are
able to travel in a private car or other
wise, but how about tile large number
of people whose circumstances force them
to stay in one place and make a living?
*
New Branch of surgery
M EDICAL and surgical experts have
again had their attention called to
recent experiments by eminent foreign
surgeons, and particularly to an operation
recently performed by Professor Robert
Gersuny, of Vienna, Austria, wherein he
perfects a cure, considered of great mer
it, for deformities and loss of flesh and
bone. The new feature in this much-her
alded operation is the use of a mixture
of paraffin and vaseline in taking the
place of bone or of the_ softer tissues.
Where a bone cavity occurs a mixture of
the two Ingredients is used to take the
place of lost tissue. In the case of the
loss of the softer tissues, a solution of the
two. heated to a temperature of 104 de
grees, Is Injected beneath the epidermis.
This experiment Is said to have been suc
cessfully demonstrated by the Austrian
surgeon.
*
Non-headache diet
A CCORDING to a hygienic ex-nange. a
physician who has been experimenting
to discover, if possible, a relation between
headaches and the retention of uric acid,
found, experimentally, that he could pro-
di ce a headache in himself by adopting
a diet of meat and cheese—foods which
are highly nitrogenous, and which. In
their burning up, produce a great deal of
uric acid. He found In himself an exces
sive excretion of uric acid during a head
ache. which perhaps means that a head
ache is a sign of nature's effort to re
lieve the system of a poison that would
do worse than produce headaches were
it permitted to remain. It Is easy for
persons of ftill habit, affected with these
reci rrlng headaches, to resort to a sim-
*
Woolen bed clothing
TlIE idea of having exclusively woolen
* bed clothing Is that the exhalations of
the body may escape In the same way
that the carbonic acid gas does, and
woolen clothing being porous, permits the
escape of these exudations, which cotton
or linen clothing will absorb, with the
result so often noticeable, an unpleasant
odor around the bedroom In the morning
It is generally believed that the sleeper
finds the best rest when his bed is n'ncerl
with Its head toward the north, says'The
Household.
BRAIN FOOD
Is of Little Benefit Unless It is Di«
gested.
Nearly every oner will admit that as a
nation wo cat too much meat and too lit
tle of vegetables and the grains.
For business men, office men and clerks,
and in fact every one engaged In seden
tary or indoor occupations, grains, milk
and vegetables are mu:h more healthful.
Only men engaged In a severe outdoor
manual labor can live on a heavy meat
diet and continue In health.
As a general rule, meat ones a day is
sufficient for all classes of men, women
and children, and grains, fruit and vege
tables should constitute the hulk of food
eaten.
But many of the most nutritious foods
are difficult of digestion, end It is of no
use to advise brain workers to eat large
ly of grains and vegetables where the di
gestion is too weak to assimilate them
properly.
It Is always best to get the best results
from our food, that some simple and
harmless digestive should be taken afte-
meals to assist the relaxed digestive o •
gans. and several years’ experience hat e
proven Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets to h«
a very safe, pleasant and effective diges
tive and a remedy which may be take:,
dally with the best results.
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets can hardly
he called a patent medicine, as they do
not act on the bowels nor any particular
otgan, but only on the food eaten. They
supply what weak stomachs lack, pepsin
diastase and by stimulating the gastric
glands lncrea.se the natural secretion of
hj drochloric acid.
People who make a daily pr.acti.-n if
taking one or two of Stuart's Dysp.-psl i
Tablets after each meal are sure to : : v -
perfect digestion, which means j erf* t
health.
There is no danger of forming an in
jurious habit as the tablets contain ab o-
lutely nothing but natural digestives: co
caine, morphine and similar drugs ha e
nc place in a stomach medicine, i i
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are cor:
the best known and most popular
stomach remedies.
Ask your druggist for a fifty cent ; .n !<
age of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Table:.--, i
after a week’s use note the lmprov'-nt. t
in health, appetite and nervous on r:
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