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FAYETTEVILLE NEWS, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
Immunity in
Measles Serum
Doctor Rudolf Degkwitz Reports
Successful Experiments With
New Preventive.
MEDICAL SCIENCE INTERESTED
Hope to Conquer the Most Deadly of
all Children’s Diseases—Danger In
Public Apathy and Ignorance
of Infectious Malady.
Manchester, England.—Dr. Rudolf
Degkwitz announces in the Deutsche
Medlzinische Wochensclirift (an au
thoritative publication) that he has
succeeded in conferring Immunity to
measles by injecting a serum prepared
from convalescent patients.
“This may prove to be one of the
greatest epochs in preventive medi
cine,” writes a medical correspondent
of the Manchester Guardian. “In Ids
last series of 1,700 cases Degkwitz
claims that all the contacts inoculated
were completely immunized or so pro
tected that the disease was developed
only in its mildest form and there was
no untoward result.
“If these results are confirmed and
the method can be effectively and gen
erally applied, the result should be an
even greater saving of life than has
accrued from Jenner’s discovery of
vaccination.
Most Deadly of All.
“Measles, the most deadly of all
the diseases of childhood, continues
to be the least confrollable of the
scourges which regularly affect our
people,” the Guardian’s correspond
ent says warningly. “With the pos
sible exception of influenza there is
410 form of epidemic disease in face
of which preventive medicine is so
helpless. The causes for this are
mainly two. In the first place the
disease is not only highly infective
but Its infectivity Is highest before
the symptoms can be recognized. The
child which contracts measles has
three or four days in which to infect
his family, his friends and his school
fellows before it is known definitely
that he is suffering from measles at
all. The second cause is public apathy
and Ignorance of the dangerous nature
of the complaint.
“Half a century ago there appears
to have been some justification fdr
regarding measles as a trifling dis
order, something that every child must
‘get over,’ and the sooner the better.
Owing to the operation of the still
mysterious laws which govern changes
in type of disease, scarlet fever, which
was justly dreaded, has declined in
virulence and ceased to be one of the
major dangers of childhood: diphtheria
Is also much milder in form and its
dangers can almost be eliminated by
the early use of anti-toxin. But
measles has become more deadly year
by year.
Recent Epidemic.
"The present writer can recall one
recent epidemic of measles in a Lan
cashire town which slew in six months
precisely the number of children that
had succumbed to scarlet fever In ten
years. Yet it is still not an unknown
thing for a mother to put the other
children in bed with a case of measles
so that they may all ‘get over it to
gether,’ and It is the constant com
plaint of doctors that they are not
called In until the child is blue from
pneumonia and beyond all aid.
“Compnre this apathy with the hor
ror of smallpox. Yet, before the in
troduction of vaccination, when small
pox was regarded as the national
plague, the death rate from this cause
averaged 420 per million. In 1915 the
death,rate from measles was ’,398 per
million. Neither the government nor
the local' authorities seem to have
Plans to Dive for Lost
Treasure of Buccaneers
Cape May, N. J.—Jay E. Me-
cay of Cape May, N. J., Is organ
izing a syndicate to try to re
cover the doubloons and pieces-
of-eight which formed the cnrgo
of the Spanish vessel Matizan-
eros, sunk off Turtle Cut inlet a
century ago. Manned by pirates
and en route from the Spanish
main to New York to dispose of
the loot, the ship was driven by
a gale on the shoals off the inlet
about seven miles north of Cape
May.
rmitmimilMtHIIHtllMItlllHIIItlH
waked up to the facts represented by
these figures. We continue to lavish
enormous sums of money on the hos
pital isolation of scarlet fever with
very little effect on the prevalence of
the disease, but hospital accommoda
tion for measles is very rarely pro
vided.
"Scarlet fever Is compulsorily noti
fiable; the notification of measles Is
optional and, In these days of anti
spending as opposed to true economy,
practically in abeyance.”
Study Chinese in
New York City
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Group of Philosophers Live in
Bamboo Forest and Teach
Lore of Far East.
SCHOOL IN A TEA GARDEN
But a Foreign Language May Also Be
Learned by Dancing, Head Phil
osopher Finds—Comes From
Famous Family.
New York.—Not many people know
that among the many interesting
things which develop in New York
city is a group of Chinese philpsophers
who dwell in a bamboo forest. Know
ing that the forest is on Macdougal
street helps, for many Interesting
things come out of Macdougal street.
The head of the philosophic group is
Dr. Liu Tien Tao, who received de
grees both in China and at Columbia,
and who, once a week, may' be found
imparting knowledge of Chinese lan
guage, philosophy and poetry to a
group of students. These include art
ists, writers and Chinese students.
The Chinese in themselves are inter
esting, for they come from different
parts of the world, where they have
lived since leaving their native land.
One speaks French and does not un-
Trying the New "Postage Meter”
Officials of the Postoflice department in Washington are here shown watch
ing the first demonstration of a new stamp cancelling machine. This remark
able machine, known as the "postage meter,” postmarks, stamps, seals, counts
and stacks letters at the rate of 35 per minute.
derstand English; another speaks Rus
sian.
Teach Chinese.
Chinese is taught by Doctor Liu in a
semi-popular way, much as the Euro
pean languages are taught It is com
paratively simple to obtain a slight
working knowledge of the language,
the students find. The delight of writ
ing mysterious characters such as
those which grow on tea chests is
one of which the pupils never tire. In
time they expect to a certain extent
to read Chinese poetry and philosophy.
In the meantime they imbibe it from
Doctor Liu, who later Is to arrange
special courses in Chinese poetry and
philosophy, with the aid of lecturers
from Columbia.
Doctor Liu believes that his work is
valuable in promoting mutual under
standing between Chinese and Ameri
cans. He thinks each country can‘ob
tain of the other something of value
which it needs—that China can get
practical business methods from Amer
ica and America can feel the quieting
influence of Chinese philosophy.
In the meantime, the American stu
dents of Chinese are absorbing knowl
edge literally in a bamboo forest. It
is something like Shakespeare’s
“tongues in trees, books in running
brooks.” At the Bamboo Forest th^
students read—if they can make it out
—Chinese poetry written on lacquered
tables, some of it by great national
poets and other verses contributed by
Doctor Liu himself. Big decorative
Chinese characters signifying "happi
ness” or “wisdom” cover the walls or
the bamboo poles which form the forest.
In Bamboo Forest.
This forest is a Chinese tea garden
which, with American business vision,
Doctor Liu saw would have to pay
overhead charges while he was carry
ing on his chosen work and gathering
around him as applicants for Chinese
wisdom little .coteries of interested
philosophers and friends. The tables
covered with Chinese characters were
all decorated by the head philosopher
himself.
The Bamboo Forest is indoors in a
basement of the little old Macdougal
street house in winter, but In fair
weather extends to a more real bam
boo forest in the open at the rear.
Doctor Liu is a philosophic philoso
pher. He takes the American world as
he finds it and adopts its customs and
habits. He attended the recent ball
of the Independent Artists at the Wal
dorf dressed as a prince of the old
Tang period. But he danced American
dances with the rest of the American
world, an accomplishment he learned
while at Columbia.
The head philosopher of the Bamboo
Forest comes from a family of both
students and warriors. His father wns
president of a Chinese college, and an
uncle, the famous Gen. Hwang Hsing,
led the republican forces in the revo
lution in China in 1912.
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Lightning Kills Trout
in New York State Pond
Washington. — An interesting
letter was received by the fish
eries bureau the other day from
B. H. Norton of Syracuse, whose
ponds were stocked with trout
fry by the bureau a while ago.
It reads:
“We have been very successful
in raising the trout allotted to
us. The only loss we have had
was one trout that was struck
by lightning.”
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Town Puts Ban on Aviators.
Rye, N. Y.—An ordinance prohibit
ing aviators from flying less than
2,000 feet above the land or water of
the Rye town park at Onkland beach
has been passed by the commissioners
of parks. The ordinance forbids the
performance of aerial acrobatics at
any height over the park, because of
the danger to persons in.the park,
MEXICO IS NOW FAST PICKING UP
Remarkable Progress Being
Made in Overcoming Illiteracy.
Night Schools in Capital Have Taught
Many Persons to Read and Write
—Laboring Class Is Deeply
Interested.
Mexico City.—Remarkable progress
is being made in overcoming illiteracy
In the capital, according to informa
tion obtained from the department of
public education of the federal gov
ernment.
During the first three months of the
present year approximately 15,000 per
sons of the lower class were taught
to read and write. This educational
work is being carried on largely by
means of night schools, which are of
themselves something of a novelty in
Mexico.
It is stated that Interest on the part
of the laboring class In this education
al work is unbounded. They crowd
the schools to full capacity ana there
are hundreds who cannot as yet be
taken care of on account of the lack
of teachers and other facilities. Men
and women of middle age vie with,
sandal-footed youths to obtain enough
instruction to enable them to read and
write.
The teaching of the fundamentals,
which is being done in the schools, is
supplemented by a series of educa
tional lectures that are given In mov
ing picture theaters on Sundays. So
successful has been this plan of teach
ing the lowly natives the rudiments
of rending and writing in this city
that the department of public educa
tion plans to extend the work to all
of the larger cities and many of the
smaller communities of the country.
President Alvaro Obregon has
shown a keen interest in this new
phase of education and has pledged
to provide the necessary financial
means for carrying it forward.
THE
KITCHEN
CABINET
Copyright, 11)22, Western Newspaper Union.
“A garden is a lovesome thing, God
wot I
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot,
The veriest school of peace; and yet
the fool contends that God is
not—
Not God in gardens! When the eve Is
cool? Nay, but I have a sign:
’Tis very sure God walks in mine.”
MAPLE NUT MOLD
Add one-half cupful of brown sugar
mixed with a tablespoonful of corn
starch to one and
one-half cupfuls
of boiling water.
Stir and cook un
til the cornstarch
is well cooked.
Put into a double
boiler, add one
egg white and
one-half teaspoonful of vanilla and a
pinch of salt. Stir in one-fourth of a
cupful of walnut meats und put away
in a mold to chill.
Stuffed Onions.—Cook three pounds
of silver skinned onions In boiling
salted water until tender. Cut out the
centers and fill with one-half cupful
of chopped walnuts, oue-half cupful Qf
bread crumbs, the yolk of an egg, salt,
pepper and celery salt to taste. Mix
well an<J fill the onions. Bake one-
half hour. Serve on a platter with
foast beef.
Braised Cabbage.—Slice one small
onion and brown in one tablespoonful
of bacon fat, stir in one tablespoonful
of flour and add one-half cupful of
water. Add to one small cabbage,
cover and cook until the cabbage Is
done. Season to taste.
Ham and Tomato Toast.—Cook one
tablespoonful each of chopped on
ion and green pepper in two table
spoonfuls of butter; when soft, add
one and one-half cupfuls of stewed
tomatoes and one-half cupful of ground
ham, with one beaten egg. Cook until
the egg Is cooked and pour over slices
of buttered toast.
Ice Cream Torte.—Make a white
cake, bak-s in a sheet and when cool
cut in squares and put together with
slices of brick ice cream. Cover with
whipped cream and decorate with bits
of candied fruit.
Fruit Cocktail.—Take one-half cup
ful of grapefruit juice, add one-fourth
of a cupful of lemon and one pint
of grape juice—that from the catawba
grape preferred. Chill and combine
the juices and just before serving add
a quart of ginger ale. Serve at once
in iced glasses.
Better it is that great souls should
live in small habitations than that
abject slaves should burrow In a great
house.—Epictetus.
EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS
Those who like codfish never tire
of it served in a white sauce or in a
butter sauce with baked
potatoes. Soak the fish,
drain and pick it into
flakes, then add to a
white sauce made by us
ing two tablespoonfuls
of hot melted butter
stirred thick and cooked
in two tablespoonfuls of
flour; when smooth and
thick add one cupful of rich milk. Cook
until smooth; serve with baked pota
toes. A most delicious white sauce
can be made using sour cream. The
fish Is especially good with this sauce.
Smoked Herring With Creamed
Eggs.—Cook six eggs until hard In the
shell. Make a sauce of two tablespoon
fuls each of flour and butter, one-half
teaspoonful of salt and two cupfuls
of milk; season with pepper and salt
after cooking the butter and flour and
adding the milk. Chop the egg whites
coarsely and add to the sauce; pour
over buttered toast. 'Rice the egg
yolks over this, and finish each slice
of toast with a strip of herring, which
has been heated and dotted with bits
of butter.
Codfish Chowder.—Take one pound
of salt codfish, one and one-half cup
fuls of sliced potatoes, one teaspoon
ful of powdered thyme, a dash of pep
per, two cupfuls of tomato juice, two
cupfuls of milk, two and one-half cup
fuls of water, a stalk of celery diced,
one-fourth of a cupful of onion diced.
Freshen the fish and cut in small
pieces. Cook the vegetables, seasoning
and water, add the fish and milk previ
ously heated and serve with crisped
crackers.
Codfish Souffle.—One cupful of
shredded codfish, two tablespoonfuls
of flour, two tablespoonfuls of butter,
a few dashes of pepper, three eggs,
one teaspoonful of minced parsley, two
cupfuls of milk, one cupful of soft
bread crumbs and a teaspoonful of
onion juice. Make a white sauce as
above, freshen the codfish by soaking,
then rinse well and flake; add to the
white sauce. Separate the yolks and
whites of the eggs and beat each light,
stir in the yolks, add seasonings, then
fold in the whites. Pour into a but
tered baking dish and cook thirty
minutes. Surround the dish with hot
water and serve from the souffle dish.
Apple Charlotte.—Soften one-half
box of gelatine In one-half cupful of
cold water, then set over steam until
dissolved. Grate two tart apples and
the rind of an orange, add four table
spoonfuls of sugar, mix all together
and fold In a pint of cream. Turn Into
a mold and chill. Serve with cream
or any fruit sauce.
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NEW YORK:
Special Care of Baby.
That Baby should have a bed of its own all are agreed. Yet It
is more reasonable for an Infant to sleep with grown-ups than to use
a man’s medicine in an attempt to regulate the delicate organism of
that same infant. Either practice is to be shunned. Neither would
be tolerated by specialists in children’s diseases.
Your Physician will tell you that Baby’s medicine must be
prepared with even greater care than Baby’s food.
A Baby’s stomach when in good health is too often disarranged
by improper food. Could you for a moment, then, think of giving
to your ailing child anything but a medicine especially prepared
for Infants and Children ? Don’t be deceived.
Make a mental note of this:—It is important, Mothers, that
you should remember that to function well, the digestive organs of
your Baby must receive special care. No Baby is so abnormal that
the desired results may be had from the use of medicines primarily
prepared for grown-ups.
MOTHERS SHOULD READ THE BOOKLET THAT IS AROUND EVERY BOTTLE OF FLETCHER'S CAST0R1A
GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
O-So-Easy to Use
Color* 8llk, Wool, Ootton
All At The Same Time.
10c per wmr p AY
_ . MORE FOR.
Package any DYE.?
In One Issue.
He (romantically—“Shall I tell you
the story of my life?” She (bored)—
“Yes, if you make it snappy.”
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES
And sprinkle In the foot-bath ALLEN’S
FOOT=EASE, the antiseptic, healing pow
der for Painful, Swollen, Smarting Feet.
It prevents blisters and sore spots and takes
the sting out of corns and bunions. Always
use Allen’s Foot=Ease to break in new shoes
and enjoy the bliss of feet without aa
ache.—Advertisement.
Any woman who hasn’t seen her
husband fishing doesn’t know what a
patient man she has married.
FOR HURTS AND SORENESS
MADE HIS MEANING CLEAR
Old Darky’s Description of Wife’s
Failing Aptly Spelled Out Word
He Didn’t Understand.
Moses Diggs, an old Alabama darky,
had been arrested for having more
than one wife, the last woman being
the complainant. He happened to be
well known locally and considered an
orderly character.
“How many wives have you had?”
demanded the examining judge.
“Six, yo’ honah,” was the reply.
“Why couldn’t you get on with
them?”
“Well, suh, de fust two sp’iled de
white folks’ clo’s when dey washed
’em; de thu'd woru’t no cook; de fo’th
was ject nacherally lazy; an’ de fifth
—I’ll tell you’, jedge, de fifth, she—”
“Incompatibility?”
“No, yo’ honah,” said the negro,
6lowly, "it worn’t nothin’ like dat. Yo’
jest couldn’t git on with her onless yo’
was somewhars else.”—Harper’s Mag
azine.
Expert Advice.
The Bride—I’m in an awful mess
here, mother. I simply can’t get my
expense account to balance.
Mother—It's quite simple, my dear.
Deduct the items you can remember
from the amount you had to begin
with and call the difference sundries.
—Life.
Apply Vacher-Balm. Nothing is “just
as good,” no matter what you pay. Ask
your druggist. E. W. Vacher, Inc., New
Orleans, La.—Advertisement.
“DIVORCE RING” THE LATEST
It is a pleasant task for a man t<
pull the weeds that grow upon •
pretty widow’s bonnet—sometimes.
"Dead Shot," Dr. Peery’s Vermifuge, Is
not a "lozenge” or a "syrup” but a real,
old-fashioned dose of medicine, whlck
cleans out Worms or Tapeworm with •
single dose. Money back If not satisfied.—<
Advertisement.
MADE FOR EMPEROR’S TABLE
Fad Recently Adopted by Those Freed
From the Marital Tie by Court
Proceedings.
From time immemorial woman has
worn on the third finger of her left
hand a plain band of gold as a symbol
of her honored position of wifehood.
And when death takes from her the
partner of her life she signifies her
loss and grief by wearing appropriate
garb.
But in what a different manner to
day the widow of the present, that Is,
the one who by the sanction of the
courts, has resigned her job as wife,
makes known to all the world her re
newed state of, single blessedness. For
the grass widow of today has just
adopted the latest of fads, the “di
vorce ring.” The jeweled symbol of
the severance of the marital tie takes
the place of the former gold band. It
Is made of gold or platinum on which
is mounted a broken Cupid’s bow at
the end of which Is set a jewel to rep
resent a divorce. Should the wearer
once more embark on the matrimonial
seas and again come to wreck then
another jewel Is added to Indicate the
second divorce, and so on.
Suckers, Swindlers, Detectives.
The funny part of It Is that a mere
sneker can locate a swindler when the
most skilled detectives are baffled.—
Erie Times.
Massive Silver Set Ordered by N»«
poleon I Put on Exhibition at
New York.
The massive silver set of 919 pieces
ordered by Napoleon I, during the
hundred days, delivered after his ab-
dication to Louis XVin, and used by
the French royal family at Tuileries
palace from 1815 to 1830, has been
placed on exhibition in New York.
Two bullet holes in the soup tureen
bear evidence of the revolutions it has
passed through. Each article bears
the Bourbon coat of arms, the fleur
de lis surmounted with the crown and
Is stamped with the official govern
ment mark, the mark of the chief
craftsman and of the guild. Napoleon
I ordered this set of silver from Blen-
nals on his return to France from his
first exile on the island of Elba. It
was made during the hundred days of
Napoleon’s second reign, but before It
could be delivered Napoleon wss
forced to abdicate and was again ex
iled this time to end his days on St
Helena. Louis XVin, his successor,
paid Blennals for the silver and had
the Bourbon coat of arms placed on
it. The set of silver passed finally to
the heirs of the due de Chambord and
through them has come to North
America.
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Attending Her.
Wilson—“Does your wife drive your
car?” Trimm—“Only when I’m at th*
wheel.”—Answers.
When Hungry Little Muscles
Say, “Please Help Me
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D ID you ever stop to think who it really is
that’s talking, when childish voices raise a
clamor, “Mother, I’m hungry?”
It’s really muscles and bones and nerves and
cells worn in the stress and strain of play—that
are calling for rebuilding material.
What kind of an answer? The
right thing, or just anything?
It makes a big difference.
Grape-Nuts, so deliciously
crisp and appetizing to taste, and
so quick and convenient to serve,
is a splendid food for rebuilding
young bodies. All the won
derful nutriment put in wheat
and barley by Nature, includ
ing the vital mineral elements,
is there —and Grape-Nuts
digests easily, quickly and com
pletely. Served with cream or
milk, Grape-Nuts is exceptionally
nourishing.
“That’s splendid 1” says ap
petite. “That’s just the need I’*
say the hungry muscles, nerves
and bones.
Ready to serve right from the
package — always crisp and
fresh. A favorite dish with all
the family. Sold by grocers.
Grape-Nuts—the Body Builder
" There*s a Reason**
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