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Did You Ever Hear of “a
Face Swollen With Sleep?”
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Do You Know Why So Many Crave Strong Coffee in the Morn
ing?
If a grown person or child comes downstairs late, some
foolish individual says, “What a good sleep he has had! His
face is swollen with sleep.’’
The face is swollen, indeed. Many grown people, and
more children, wake in the morning with their faces puffed up
and their eyes heavy.
But it is POISON, and not sleep, that has caused the face
to swell. Nine hundred and ninety-nine Americans out of a
thousand suffer from poison every night of their lives —many
suffer from poison both night and day.
And this poison which docs more than anything else to
shorten the lives of human beings, more even than consumption,
is the poison that men themselves create.
The body, in the processes of life, creates poisons which
are carried to the lungs by the dark, venous blood, and there
taken out of the system by the air that the lungs expel.
With every beat of your heart the blood starts on its jour
ney pure and clear. It travels through your body, cleaning
every cell, every particle of tissue, carrying the impurity to the
lungs.
And the fresh air which enters your lungs clear and pure
goes out again loaded down with impurities, WITH THE AC
TUAL POISONS THAT THE BLOOD HAS COLLECTED
FROM THE BODY AND SENT OUT THROUGH THE WON
DERFUL MECHANISM OF THE LUNGS.
The poisons that the body exhales are deadly poisons.
Carbon dioxide sent out from your lungs is a poison.
Faces are. swollen in the morning, the brain is dull in the
morning, because the person in sleep has been breathing in
again the poisons exhaled instead of breathing in fresh air.
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of all human beings poison
themselves with their own poisons.
They sleep in rooms tightly closed, and not a few actually
sleep with bedclothes over their heads.
This especially happens to children whose parents allow
them to entertain fears of ghosts and other fears, and then re
fuse to give them comfort by letting the light burn until sleep
comes.
Such children cover up their heads in terror, sleep the night
through with heads covered, poisoning themselves with their
own poisons, and wake up with a swollen face that is foolishly
attributed to sleep.
Keep your windows open. In warm weather sleep out of
doors if you can—the pure air can not possibly hurt you.
Allow no draught to blow upon you while you are sleep
ing. for the cold air blowing on the skin keeps the nerves ac
tive and troubled, it keeps the heart at work to supply heat to
the spot attacked, and under those conditions sleep is not sound.
Sleep free from draught, but sleep in fresh air. Make sure
that throughout the night your lungs and your blood are sup
plied with the pure oxygen that carries the poison from all the
cells of the body into the lungs to be expelled.
Don’t poison yourself with your own poison. If you go
into your child's bedroom in the morning and the air isn’t as
fresh there as it is out of doors, you are committing a crime
against that child’s health.
Remember that of all the remedies against the excessive use
of strong coffee and of strong drink, physically speaking, fresh
air is the best.
The man who feels that he can not begin his day’s work
1 ..without a dose of strong coffee simply craves coffee because it
whts against the poison which he has taken into his system
■ I night.
/ Remember that. It will be worth a great deal to your
JI health, and to your children’s health.
You may be compelled to breathe bad air in the daytime,
wkwhile you earn a living. By nighttime, at least, fresh air is free,
* you can have it if you will—even if you have to sleep with
head out of the window and put a nightcap on your head.
—♦
\/Childhood’s Dreaming
By GRACE GOLDEN.
XT 7HEN I was young and little, there were dreams 1 used to dream
k VV Os a lovely far-off country full of jam and sweets and eream,
' Where one only went to bed when one was minded so to do,
And I thought: “When I'm a grown-up 1 shall find that country,
too.”
Then I grew a little older, and my haven of desire
Was a dream of dresses other girls would envy and admire,
And a round of halls and pleasures (and no lessons to be done!),
'And I thought: “When I grow up I’ll have a gorgeous lot of fun.”
And now I am a grown-up, and I sit up late at night.
I have jam and frocks and parties as my undisputed right!
alas! for childhood’s dreaming—there were points that I'd ig
nored—
.lm dyspeptic, eight-and-twenty, and I’m blase, and Cm bored 1
The Atlanta Georgian
The Wars of the Insects * By Garrett P. Serviss
How Science Is Directing Them For the Benefit of Man
THERE is now going on in this
country, under the direction
of Dr. L. O. Howard, chief
of the bureau of entomology, and
his assistants, a warfare In com
parison with whose destructiveness
the Irruptions of the barbarians In
the Roman empire sink into insig
nificance. The victims of these in
sect wars, waged to protect for
ests, gardens, orchards and grain
fields, are numbered by billions, and
the hosts that march to the con
flict make the wild armies that
followed Alaric and Attila seem
contemptible by contrast of num
bers.
The idea of training the armies
of useful insects to attack those
that are injurious to man's inter
ests Is not altogether new; it was
put into practice on a small scale
in France in 1840, but it is only
since 1889 that it has been largely
developed in this country, and since
1905 It has assumed an Importance
not previously imagined, through
the systematic cultivation of the
friendly insect*. A kind of train
ing camp, a great military Insect
station, has been established at
Melrose Highlands, Mass., where
the little warriors are bred and
liberated to attack their foes—a
work in which they need no urg
ing.
Romantic Interest.
A degree of romantic interest
that no uninformed person would
dream of is attached to the work o*
assembling the forces employed in
these insect wars. Entomologists
UK \
Headgear devised by E. S. G. Titus for protection against browntail rash.
I are sent all over the world in
search of the insects that are need
ed, and which are known to be the
foes of those against which the
warfare is directed. Europe, Africa,
Asia and the islands of the eastern
seas are ransacked by the seekers.
There is something lugubriously
suggestive in the fact that on the
old battlefield of Wagram the
agents sent out by the American
government found a colony of par
asitic Insects victoriously attacking
the caterpillars of the formidable
gypsy moth, which has wrought
such destruction In this country,
and they were immediately export
ed to Massachusetts to exercise
their Napoleonic energy on a new
field of battle.
Wherever they find the insects
needed the searchers box them up
and send them by mail or freight
to this country. Some of them are
adult insects, and they are care
fully fed during the journey.
Among these is a handsome beetle
•called the Callsoma, of a shining
bronze color. They are usually sent
in packages of safety match boxes,
one beetle in each box, with a wisp
of sphagnum for it to feed on.
Sometimes one or two caterpillars
are put into the box to serve as
food. Occasionally the beetles have
been sent, especially from Japan,
in cold storage, for the cold simply
stagnates without killing them. To
see one of these beetles attack a
caterpillar of the gypsy moth is a
cheering sight for the trainers who
are trying to save the trees that
these moths destroy by thousands.
In their native countries they have
already put their enemies under
their feet.
A Precarious Period.
One of the most interesting chap
ters in the history of this war of
races is that concerning the bat
tles with the terrible San Jose scale
insect in California. The orange
and lemon groves_of the Pacific
slope were threatened with extinc
tion through the attacks of this
scourge, when a remarkable Insect
of the lady-bird family (Coccinel
la), called the Novius Cardinalis,
was Imported from Australia. The
moment the lady-bird larvae were
liberated in California they at
tacked the first scale insects they
met. and the orchard in which they
were let out was freed from the
enemy in short order. Within less
than a year after their arrival the
lady-birds had won so complete a
victory that Professor Riley was
able to report that the scale in
sect was "practically no longer a
factor to be considered in the culti
vation of oranges and lemons in
California.” Everybody has seen
lady-birds of some species. They
are little, round, shining-backed
creatures, marked with dots and
often beautifully colored, and all of
them are enemies to noxious in
sects of one kind or another, so
that they should never be de
stroyed.
Later on, when the orange and
lemon trees In Portugal were
threatened with destruction by
scale insects that had found their
way to the continent from the
Azores. Australian lady-birds from
California were sent to Portugal.
Out of a shipment of 60, only five
remained alive. Rut they were good
fighters. A larger shipment was
subsequently sent, and the little
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warriors were scattered among the
gardens and orchards of Portugal.
They marched to victory as tri
umphantly as they had done in Cal
ifornia, and now Portugal is prac
tically free from the pest.
In this country, at present, the
war of the Insects is directed main
ly against the gipsy and brown
tall moths. Among the enemies of
these moths are various species of
beetles, bugs and flies. Many of
them are cultivated from the eggs
that they lay In the bodies of their
enemies.
Many devices have to be resorted
to In order to preserve the useful
species while destroying the nox
ious ones. Those who are Interest
ed In these details will find much
information in Bulletin No. 91 of
the bureau of entomology. The
handling of the caterpillars con
taining the undeveloped parasites
is sometimes a disagreeable If not
dangerous affair. The poisonous
microscopic hairs and spines from
the brown-tali moth larvae get into
the eyes, the nostrils and the throat,
and cause inflammation of the skin.
To protect themselves the handlers
wear goggles and coverings for the
face and hands. Miss Ruhl, of Zu
rich, who handles many packages
to be sent to the United States, has
invented for herself a complete cos
tume of finely woven cloth, capped
with a large helmet, which is fur
nished in front with a sheet of
transparent celluloid.
Prepared For Battle.
When all Is ready a field of strife
is prepared by the men in charge. A
In Defense of the Mule
To the Editor of the Georgian:
Recently the leading editorial in
The Georgian was given over to
an appeal in behalf of the hap
less frog dangling at the end of
the fisherman’s line. The follow
ing evening the same daily quoted
its leading editorial to the case of
the American child whose parent
treats it with scarcely more con
sideration than is accorded the
Congo slave by his master. These,
and numerous utterances of like
character by the press, reflecting
as they must the spirit of the com
munity. leave the stranger no room
to doubt that Atlanta has a heart
as well as a head. These edito
rials strike the stranger as being
remarkable and give this particu
lar newcomer courage to appear in
behalf of another much-wronged
member of the "social body"—the
mule.
“The merciful man is merciful to
his beast” is the text from which
the editorials referred to were
preached. The merciful man is
merciful to everything within reach
of his sympathy—to the child and
the frog, the flower and the clod,
and the faithful mule. The writer
has heard it said that the South
could not get along without the ne
gro. He is not convinced of the
truthfulness of this claim, but he
is convinced that the South could
not well ~»t along without the mule.
But whether we owe this patient
beast anything else, we owe it
mercy.
It Is possible to find well treated
mules and horses in Atlanta, but
go where yofi will in this great
Christian city you will also find
the mule and horse treated brutal-
A fight to the death—A Calosoma
Sycophanta beetle attacking a
gypsy-moth caterpillar
pest.
large cage, covered with wire
gauze, is placed over a moth-in
fested tree. The warlike fly para
sites are confined in the cage, and
they are not long in making their
attack by depositing their eggs in
the larvae of the moths. The in
sects developed from these eggs be
come the rank and file of a larger
army which may be sent upon a
campaign in the open. But experi
ence has shown that smaller cages,
of various forms, are more effective
in the work of breeding and train
ing an insect army.
Curiously enough it has been
found that some of the parasites
attacking the moths, particularly
the flies called Tachinids, are
themselves attacked by secondary
parasites, which thus serve as al
lies of the enemy. One of the prob
lems with which it is necessary to
deal is that of guarding against or
getting rid of, these secondary par
asites.
But many other noxious insects
beside the moths named have mor
tal enemies which are now known,
and the cultivation of these and
their formation into armies of res
cue are receiving attention. The
elm leaf beetle, the plant tick, and
mulberry scale insect, the various
weevils, and the plant lice and
grain aphids all have their insect
foes, which can be let loose upon
them. Recently a species of large
bembecid wasp has been sent from
New Orleans to Algeria to wage
war upon a kind of fly which im
parts the "sleeping sickness” to
dromedaries. The wasps went over
in refrigerated cocoons, from which
full-fledged insects were developed
in Algeria, but their subsequent
history is not yet known.
Considering what has been ac
complished, one might be tempted
to hope that an insect foe of mos
quitoes and house flies may yet be
discovered and sent out on a spe
cies of warfare to which the most
tender-hearted sentimentalist could
hardly object.
ly. It is beaten everywhere—up hill
and down hill, overloaded and with
no load. Hide where you will you
can not get beyond the sound of
the sharp reports of the cruel lash.
And wherever you see a mule you
will generally see its body covered
with yard-long welts; welts often
visible for a block; welts which will
cause the beast intensest pain for
a week after their infliction; welts
that are not mere marks but are
great swollen ridges of inflamma
tion.
At the noon hour some animals
are fed from a sack, the sack tied
clear up to the eyes so that breath
ing must be a serious problem for
the animal. Many animals are
starved. Today, during the noon
hour, the writer saw a. fine team of
mules in one of the parks taking
its hour’s rest (?) with the weight
of the mower tongue suspended on
its necks. Farmers dread the
mower almost above all farm im
plements for this reason that the
tongue is so heavy on the team’s
necks.
One may find cruelties every
where. but nowhere is there any
justification for them and never
are they profitable in any way. Un
til a few months ago cruel men
sought to justify themselves in
their practice of chopping off the
limbs and otherwise mutilating the
Congo: their arguments may be
used to defend the practice of driv
ing the mule with the scourge. The
answer would be the same in each
instance—it is needless and un
merciful. The most successful
farmers the writer has known never
used any sort of whip in working
their mule qr horse. A light whip
will save the driver the trouble of
speaking to his animal, but it is of
no other service. A. A. A.
THE HOME PAPER
The Education of the
Voter
No. 3—One Cause of Mischief.
The Society of Inactive and Uninquiring
Voters Is a Harmful Corporation.
By THOMAS TAPPER.
THE “money interests” have
come in for a lot of con
demnation. Probably they
merit it. But, bad as they often
are in their influence on popular
rights, there is still a more harm
ful corporation than any that is
much talked of.
The name of this corporation is
the Society of Inactive and Unin
quiring Voters.
The members of the society sit
still and criticise.
The interests are never still and
always silent. The members of the
society complain about legislation;
the interests watch it, and, if need
be. Influence it.
It was stated in this paper a few
days ago that the choice of a presi
dent is not now left exclusively to
bosses and political hacks on the
public pay roll. The people have
expressed their preference at the
primary election, and the two great
conventions of 1912 will present a
picture never before seen.
It is possible now for the people
(and. you are one of them) to get
together and decide that an honest,
efficient, straightforward, hard
working business man ought to be
chosen for president, or any other
office.
You can confer together, pick out
your man. and put up your fight.
The preferential primary permits
you to put your man in the field.
This is the Initiative, and its
simple practicability as a business
idea Is easy to grasp.
But back of doing this is a prin
ciple that the people must never
forget. It is this: The Initiative is
of no possible use unless you
WANT to use it.
Initiative means starting things
going.
It means disbelieving that things
initiate themselves.
They do not.
All that happens is effect follow
ing cause.
If the effect lowers your wages or
puts up the cost of living, do not
simply complain about it. Look for
the cause, and unite in removing
that.
When every member of the So
ciety of Inactive and Uninquirlng
Voters begins to use all his privi
leges with the same degree of
thought, intelligence and direct
purpose that they have been used
by the josses the game will begin
to be played with more interest and
fairness.
Every political condition today
that hampers you, that retards
legislation, that cuts out the square
deal, HAS BEEN THOUGHT OUT
BY SOMEBODY. The only way
to offset it or remove it IS TO
THINK IT OUT AGAIN. Intelli
gence does it all. If you do not
To Eyes That See I
. By N. P. BABCOCK. |
ACROSS the bosom of the western sky,
Their sails gold-tinted by the sinking sun,
A fleet of cloud-ships move, and you and I
Behold a race that’s never lost or won.
Majestic is the spread of fleecy sails,
All spreading southward to some ghostly port,
But as we watch, behold! the vision fails.
And naught is left, save mass of clouds distort.
“Mine was the frigate with the streaming flag!
She led them all; she held my hopes,” you cry,
The whole fleet now one vast and billowing rag
Draped meaningless in tatters o’er the sky.
‘There was no race! There was no fleet,” says one
Who speaks in measured tone as from a book,
"I saw but clouds and the red setting sun.”
You saw no more? Then, friend, you did not look.
You see, perhaps, in shadows on the grass.
No more than sunshine blunted where it falls;
You see no race of lengthening giants pass
In mystic silence over garden walls?
You see in glowing embers on the grate
No more than fuel turning into ash?
No winking sprites? No blazing castle gate?
No red-clad pigmies storming window sash?
When raindrops scurry down the dripping pang
You see no fairies on toboggan slides?
You merely hear the patter of the rain?
You do not hear the fairy shrieks besides?
Does morning detv on shrubs no message bear
Os Night Queen having floated to and fro,
And scattered diamonds from her raven hair
In nodding to the sleeping blooms below?
Does the fair sight of swaying, golden grain
Bring only thought of nations to be fed?
Or do you feel that all the pulsing plain
In some slow waltz is by Dame Ceres led?
To eyes that see, tho’ no clear form appear,
Life lifts delights unknown to millions, who
Hold only what is “real" as worth their view,
Though God put Fancy for some purpose here.
like conditions, use your intel 11-,.
gence to change them. Otherwise,
join the silent brotherhood, and
stop complaining. It is all your
own fault.
If you believe in the active prin
ciples of your own political right#
you will probably be called a re
former. Do not be afraid of the
word reform. Most people think
It means smashing things and
leaving the wreck scattered around
in disorder. IT MEANS GIVING
THINGS FORM AGAIN. The
political situation certanly needs
that, and as a reformer your busi
ness goes no further. Shape up
things better than they are.
When the protesting colonies
agreed with Thomae Jefferson that
“ail men are created equal,” they
handed over to you a statement of
principle that is greater than any
other that could be addressed to
the mass of the people.
If a man wants to make the
most of himself it gives him an
equal chance with all others. If
he wants to build up his family on
a plane of happiness, knowledge
and independence it gives him the
chance.
If he turns his attention from
himself and his family to the
great family of the nation his right
stays by him, for he is created
equal with all other Individuals Ik
his ambition to make th“ national
family as pure and untrammeled as
he has made his own.
But if the nation is run by the
party boss and the greedy finan
cier, neither the family nor the In
dividual can ever rise to the nor
mal level.
The mass keeps down the units.
Hence, all Individual ambition
must begin with an Interest in the
larger family. If a good law will
increase any one’s chances, and
the legislature will not consider
it, the Initiative permits you and
your neighbors to get together and
present It. Here you find yourself
provided with the power to maka
a success of yourself from the top
down.
When the power is placed in
your hands to initiate laws, to
choose officers, to establish an es
sential right government, you not
only assume a great place, but you
find a great responsibility on your
hands.
Citizenship was never intended to
give you anything else. The man
who sells his vote is a criminal.
The man who does not value his
vote justly Is no less. But the
man who condemns everything con
nected with political life AND
WILL NOT USE AS MUCH IN
TELLIGENCE TO CORRECT IT
AS WAS USED TO ESTABLISH
IT has let go of that “free and
equal” clause that was voted by
Thomas Jefferson.