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' "" ■ - ■ ■ • t UKAiiST's Sunday American. Atlanta, oa.. Sunday. may n. 3 C Wilson's Plan to Give Brilliant +•+ President's Wife and Daughters Garden Parties •:•••!• +•+ Social Favorites State Board of Health Issues Bulletin Outlining Dangers to be Guarded Against. 'Washington Society Surprised at Wonderful Success of New Administration. E XT R E M E LY CONTAGIOUS No Connection With Smallpox, and Vaccination Does Not Render Persons Immune. Chicken pox, a disease especially of children, Is discussed in the latest official bulletin of the State Board of 'Health, issued yesterday. The bul letin in telling how to prevent and care for the disease says: Although chicken pox is regarded a« one of the natural ailments inci dent to childhood, there are several important reasons why parents should exercise all the cares that would be taken with a more danger ous epidemic disease In the fii^t place, while chicken pox when properly treated leaves no per manent ^Sisflgurment of the skin, if neglected or permitted to become se vere it may leave scars or pock marks similar to the pits that come from smallpox. All that Is usually necessary to prevent the scars Is proper medical attention and the ex erciee of care to prevent the patient from scratching the eruptions. If small children persist in scratching, it is a good idea to put mittens on their hands. Itching may be alle viated by carbolized and lyarm baths, and the application of oil may be vised to hasten the separation of the crusts. * Possibility of Complimations. Another reason why chicken pox cases should be given careful atten tion is the fact that while severe ill ness or death seldom if ever occurs /in an uncomplicated case, there is ' always a possibility of complications that might lead to serious results, rpnipljeations are rare, but when they do occur they consist usually of pneumonia, erysipelas and Inflamma tion of the kidneys (nephritis). Not infrequently chicken pox is compli- rated by some other infectious dis- r */ase, but this, however, is more of a coincidence than a true complica tion: Another reason for exercising spec ial care in Chicken pox cases, and it is the most important reason of all from the standpoint of community welfare, is the fact that the disease is highly contagious, and when the children of a family, or a school or a neighborhood have been once ex posed to it, scarcely any individual who has not had the disease escapes contagion. The disease Is usually communicated in the ordinary inter course of children in the family, the school or the playgrounds. While i grown people are not entirely im mune, it is usually confined to chil dren. The poison is eliminated not only from the surface of the body and the crusts broken from the eruption, but even from Jfhe air which the per son breathes. It is believed by phy sicians that it can enter the body by- way of the respiratory passages. Direct contact, therefore, is not nec essary, .the infection being communi cated to some little distance by the air; it can also be carried more re- -riiotely by persons who do not con tract the disease themselves but who transmit it to persons who are more susceptible. Isolation Important. . The importance of isolation 'sanitary precautions, in the light of , the disease’s highly contagious na- ture, becomes immediately manifest. Isolation should be practiced, and the quarantine should be prolonged unti’ .the last crusts are thrown off. Dis- ♦ infection of the person, clothing and • » ,pk,rtirient is desirable to minimize the danger of spreading the disease. These measure^, qjid the treatment of the disease, should be carried out under the direction of a physician. Chicken pox Is" ordinarily an easy disease to diagnose. It develops from ten to sixteen days after ex posure. The first indication is us ually, the appearance of small, bright red spots, which rapidly develop into x water blisters called vesicles. They W vary in size, the largest being about T the* diameter of a split pea. These • vesicles are on the surface of the skin and do not go deep. Usually there is no suppuration or pus. The disease is often accompanied by slight fever. Surrounding each ves icle is a narrow bright red ring . called an areola. They come out in crops on the body; sometimes on file face and scalp; and, occasional ly, even in the mucous membrane of the mouth. The blisters seldom go on to pustulation. but rapidly dry up after, lh*- fluid in them becomes opaque. In addition to slight fever ishness there may be loss of appe tite, aching feeling, and catarrhal in- fianitnation. Duration Variable. The duration of the attack is va riable. Three or four weeks is us ually the extreme limit before the separation of the last crusts. Re- lapses do not occur. Immunity from, future attacks is practically perma nent. But it must be understood that chicken pox has no relation whatever to; smallpox, and the fact that a pa tient has had one oX them before, never protects from the other. The medical name of chickenpox is varicella. It was once regarded as a greatly modified and mild form of unallpox, but it is now known as an entirely distinct disease. One of these diseases never gives rise to the • other. The attack of one confers no \ immunity against the other; vaccina - ■ tion affords no protection against chickenpox, and children who have recently suffered from chickenpox re act to vaccination in the ordinary 1 manner. 1 WASHINGTON, May 10. The days of old France, when the magnificent grounds at Versailles were thronged with courtiers and beautiful women, bid fair to be outdone In Washing ton in this year of grace 1913. during the reign of Mrs. Wilson and her daughters at the White House. For the first time in the memory of Washington society, the President’s wife is to hold State garden parties. The first was held on Friday. Then there will be two others, next Friday and May 23. This will bring the so cial season Into June, and what will then be forthcoming has not yet been disclosed. Winter Functions Heretofore. For years It has been the custom *of the President to hold four big State functions during the winter, to which Washington official society is Invited. But when these are over, the official season may be said to be at an end. Outside of private din ners and dances, things are quiet at the White House during the spring and summer. The garden parties will be held or course, in the grounds of the White House, which are among the most beautiful In the world. The Marine Band will play and the big fountains will be in full operation. Gold Lace and Fine Gowns. Instead of the silks, satins and frills of the cpUrtiers, there will be the gold lace of army and navy ofti- cer? and of diplomats, but otherwise it will differ In few respects from the functions that made the court of France famous for its brilliancy. The women, of course, will be as hand somely and as expensively gowned as the woipen of a century ago. In the face of this flying start which the President's wif* and daughters have taken in establishing the White House as social headquarters of the capital. Washington views with quiet amusement the frequently announced attitude of the President that his ad ministration is to be modestly Deni ocratic. Appearances indicate that next winter when the season gets fair ly under way, the administration will be the most brilliant, socially, of any that the capital has had in many years. Mrs. Wilson's Talk. Washington society is gossipping busily regarding Mrs. Wilson’s skill in handling social-political situations, and her “delicate finesse” is the talk of the city. Society has wondered just what the result would be, rec ognizing that she went into the White House a stranger to its customs and possibiliies. The Wilsons, mere, and filler have more than made good socially. They have smiled at the right time, kept silent at the right time, spoken at the right time, and their social per ception is the envy of some of the most expert social logicians at the capital. Washington has cpneluded that everything will be very charming and interesting throughout the next four years, even though the brilliancy of previous periods be neither emulated i nor equalled. The brilliancy that was will be simplicity now. and Washington will follow the lead of the new mistress of the White House. Mrs. 'Wilson already has established j herself as a charming hostess, j through her simple afternoon teas. | The function, novel with her, has ac- : quired a tremendous vogue, and Mrs. j Wilson is the newest and realest sue- | cess in society. Individuality Keynote. Individuality and personality is the note of the new White House. With the daughters the two traits are as noticeable as with the mother. In dividuality is theirs by birth and breeding. Individuality such as they are displaying is setting blase Wash ington by the ears. The city finds its social trioks at a discount, and it Is wondering, even though the won der yields tp admiration. The Wilson girls have impressed all Washington as earnest, big wom en. They are in for a thing not because it is a fad so much as be cause there is merit and service in doing the thing. And with it all they are not too serious, nothing of the blue-stocking atmosphere envel ope them. They are jolly when needs be. as receptive companions as they should be. No Fads At All. No fads. Miss Eleanor and Miss Margaret dance well and with enthu siasm of debutantes. And yet danc ing is not their lives nor a big part of them. Miss Jessie dances too, but she plays tennis divinely. But she does not live for or by tenni?. They are big, broad girls, and Washing ton in the short two months it has known them, has learned to like them, admire them, respect them. The Wilson girls, and Mrs. Wilson too, go in enthusiastically for social service work. All of them are de voted church members. Miss Jessie Is the youngest member of the Na tional Board of the Young Women’s Christian Association. Once she had aspirations to be a foreign mission ary. Miss Margaret has advocated vari ous projects for the upbuilding of a real social democracy. She is vice chairman of the National Legislative Committee fortned to establish so cial centers. A dozen other such officers claim her services. Three Extraordinary Girls. Not only Washington, but the coun try at large, is waking up to the fact that there are three most extraor dinary young women now living in the White House. Other women of the Democratic administration are as successful. As to the personnel of the new admin istration households, the women who have made Washington their home for several years, such as Mrs. Al bert S. Burleson, Mrs. Franklin Lane, and Mrs. William C. Redfleld. have materially added to their friends since entering the Cabinet circle. Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. David O. Houston, and Mrs. Bindley M. Gar rison arr- running a*» close race for popularity; Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall is one of the most entertained women of the moment, while Mrs. William J. Bryan’s and Mrs. William B. Wilson’s friends have not been forgetful of their claims. MM ; /'j Radium Tube in Liver Cures Case of Cancer Scientists of United States Buy From Europe the Product of Domestic Mines. WASHINGTON. May 10. Two- thirds of the radium supply of the world is made from ore mined in‘the United States, but not one gram is being produced in the country which mines It. Radium is purchasable in small quantities at a price equivalent to $2,260,000 an ounce, and although the United States has the greatest radi um ore supply in the world, the Un ited States Bureau of Mines has dls- Six Weeks Ago Patient's Death Was Held Certain—Now He Is Able to Walk. Drug Condemned by Civilized World Finds Its Way Into Every Country. :KEEPS Trustees of Cote Brilliante Pres byterian Church Absolve Rev. C. M. Rauch. ST. LOUIS, May 10.—Trustes of Cote Brillante Presbyterian Church have adopted a resolution expressing their confidence in their pastor, Rev. Charles M. Rauch, who was accused of kissing the wife of Theodore J. Ferguson. The resolution pledged the board s support to the minister and added that the statement that the present board was selected at the suggestion of Mr. Rauch was false. The resolu tion was signed by Samuel A. Kepner, president, and S. J. McAllister, secre tary. Mr. Ferguson characterized the minister's* alleged endearment as “an act of boyishness.” He said he bore the pastor no ill will or malice. “He embraced my wife and kissed her while I was not present," said Mr. Ferguson. “It was as surprising to her as it was to me, when I heard of it later. So far as I know he only kissed her a few times, not as often as others try to make out." Mr. Rauch refused to affirm or deny he had kissed Mrs. Ferguson, although he said at one time in the interview that he may have been in discreet. “I feel that many of the congrega tion are friendly and sympathize with me," he said. “Mr. Ferguson and 1 are strong friends. I did not ask his forgiveness. I went to him and told him If I had doe anything against him I was sorry for it. “It strikes me that the publicity that has been given to this matter has been inspired by enemies of mine Anyone who tries to do right always has enemies. I have not been re quested tp resign ” Mrs. Ferguson declined to discuss the incident, which occurred when she lived on Kennerly Avenue, and at tended Mr. Rauch’s church. Church members said that she had been a conspicuously active worker and had taught a Sunday school class. ENFIELD SHAKER COLONY REDUCED TO SMALL NUMBER KN'FIEDD, CONN., May 10—The ten Shakers of the North family ]< ft to-day for Mount Lebanon, N. Y. t their future home, leaving here four men and six women of the Church family. The Shakers settled in Enfield be^ fore ♦he Revolutionary War, and lived in three groups, the Church, North and the South families. Their mem berships were once in the hundreds, and the land holdings as extensive as 2,000 acres. Chief Cummings Says Station Will Soon be Placed in Ans- ley Park Section. Constant vigilance is the price of Atlanta's protection from fire—vigi lance and an almost daily regard of how to increase the fire-fighting fa cilities. Fire Chief W. B. Cummings said yesterday that Atlanta is growing so fast that the city’s provision for tak ing care of fires has not kept up with It. The city’s rapid growth makes necessary a practically continual in* crease of the fire department's re sources. The department is large enough and serviceable enough to handle any fire, he said. No danger exists on that score. But in the outlying res idential districts, newly grown, there are stretches where fire houses are necessary. The most urgent need, the chief thinks, is in Ansley Park, one of the newest suburban sections. Authori ty only recently has been granted to establish a station, and the chief Is investigating likely sites in that part of the city. Authority for tlm installation of engines and equipment in the station in West End, on Lee Street, which was erected some time ago, only re cently has. come to the department. That station house, empty for some time after its erection, was the standing evidence of the city’s growth. WIFE BEATS HER HUSBAND; AUNT SWEARS OUT WARRANT HUNTINGTON, W. VA„ May 10 — Protesting against her nephew being continually “beat up” by his wife, Mrs. E. L Shelton swore out a war rant for Mrs. William Blizzard, of McKeesport, Pa., who is visiting here with the much-abused hubby. Ac cording to the warrant, the aunt charges the young wife of Blizzard with extreme cruelty, and declares that she proposes to put a stop to the merciless beatings to which she says her nephew is being subjected. According to the allegations of Mrs. Shelton, if young Blizzard Is slow in completing a task set for him he is thrashed. If he falls to answer a summons of the “exponent of women’s rights” in double quick time, he is pumraeled and kicked around. Now the sympathetic aunt says she is going to stop it. Mrs. Blizzard gave bond for her ap pearance in court. covered that all the ore is shipped abroad, and that American scientists must purchase the refined product from Europeans at their own price. “We have paid Europe's prices for what we could get in order to inves tigate the wonderful properties of radium, and their possible applica tion to the eradication of disease,” said Charles L. Parsons, chief of the Division of Mineral Technology. “It is needless to say we have been great ly hampered in our work by the al most prohibitive prices at which ra dium hampered in our work by the almost prohibitive prices at which radium has been held.” Low Grades Are Wasted. Several months ago, rumors reach ed the Bureau of Mines that carno- tite, the radium carrying ore, was in great demand. Investigation show ed that the demand came f p om Eu rope, and that only the highest grades were wanted, low grades being thrown on the dump. Surprised experts in the Colorado laboratories of the Bureau of Mines made computations which convinced them that two-thirds of the world’s supply of radium has been made from American ores, but in Europe. Radium institutes have been es tablished in Austria, France, Germany and England, and a European science and industry have been developed from American ores. r lTie Austrian Government, realizing the untold pos sihilities of the radium ores at tft. Joaehimstaal, purchased the mines, put them under direct governmental supervision and has an arrangement with the Vienna Academy of Science whereby the ore is worked up into radium. On the other hand, the United States has allowed her much greater resources to be exploited by foreign ers on a basis which wastes perhaps irretrievably a large portion of the ores mined and has exported care fully selected ores at a price by no means commensurate with its radium value. Found In South. Pitchblende, the richest of all ra dium-bearing minerals has been found in small quantities in Connect icut and in the feldspar quarries of North Carolina. Practically the to tal American output has come from the mines in Quartz Hill, Gilpin County, Colo.. the more important deposits of canotite are scattered over a large area in Colorado and Utah. Practically every ton of carnotlte mined in 1912 went abroad, and American deposits are far from being inexhaustible. The value of the ra dium in this ore at the minimum market price would be $628,000 per ton. By JONATHAN WINFIELD W ASHINGTON, May 10 When al t lie civilized nations In the w orld deinn, and by process of law provide for, the exclusion of a certain article of any sort from commerce and tba article still finds its way about the world, seemingly with ease, and cer talnly in large quantities, the situa tion becomes interesting. This is the state of affair* with re gard to opium. In spite of the fa that China, the country of greater production, has decreed agaiu^i the production of the drug and againsi Its domestic commerce and exporLa tion and that all other ctyillzed na lions have forbidden importation anu commerce in it and on top of thefe provisions have prohibited the uae by any person for any purpose whatso ever of the forbidden article, opium is grown, exported, transported, sold and consumed almost everywhere. The Secretary of the Treasury in. his last annual report said of opium “It is of great importance that Con- greys should give its attention to the opium situation in this country, and do at least all that has Deep proposed by the concert of the State and Treas ury Departments. The situation is horrible. The smuggling is very great and is carried on by methods and under circumstanced that make the administration of the law most dif ficult, inadequate and unpleasant. The situation is even worse than the oleo margarine one. It is extremely de moralizing; and is largely defeating the enlightened policy of the Gov ernment with respect to the opium traffic and to the opium habit—and preventing America from doing its full share of a great International duty. Results Reported to Congress. “Much consideration has been given to the practical problems by our Department and the Statu De partment, and the results to date hav- been reported to Congress. With all vve can dp —and much, of course, is being done in the way of repressing and punishing the illegal traffic—the policy of the Government and the wishes of the people cannot be car ried out With any degree of thorough ness with the laws as they are now. I hope that Congress will become ac tively" interested in this opium prob lem, at any rate to the extent of giv ing to the executive departments the laws which have been asked.” The Secretary was extremely well qualified to report on this inaiier as he is the head of the customs orgdp ization of the nation and receives all reports of smuggling discovered. The Secret Service also comes under the Secretary of the Treasury, and, there fore, he receives direct and full re ports on smuggling cases detected. From this vantage point, he says, that the situation is horrible and therefore it may safely be conceded to be so. Congress, however, has been dormant as far as opium is con cerned. No new legislation has been put into effect for some time and tie smuggling goes on just the same. It is extremely doubtful whether the smuggling of opium ever can be en tirely stopped. It i9 an article of commerce which is too precious both to the dealer and to the consumer, for the traffic in it to be utterly fore gone simply because of man-made rules and regulation against it. Cupidity Excites Dealers. As for the dealers in the drug, cu pidity chiefly excites them. Most of them are users of opium, but also have enough to sell and th£ rich re wards which such trafficking brings are strong inducements to risk much. A small package of opium will bring hundreds of dollars, a man may con ceal a small fortune in the drug upon his person. In the old dayw when smuggling was rife on the Y\ ti«t Coast of this country, opium was made up into little packages which easily could be carried by a man without attract ing too much attention. These pack ages were valued at $600 each. Practically all of the opium used Is raised In Fhina, in the poppy fields, for opium i.« extracted from the poppy. Many years ago this opium raising was one of the first industries at the land. Great fields of poppies covered the landscapes in every province and the output of the drug was tremen dous. Immense quantities were used by the Chinese but its use even in China has now become illegal. The new Chinese republic is taking dras tic means to suppress the practice. English influence First. English influence in China first put a < heck to the raising of the opium poppy. So much of the stuff was being shipped to England that the latter nation represented to the Chi nese that the exportation of opium to great Britain would have to be stopped. Although the first to take this step, it is said that more opium is used in England to-day than in any other country of the Occident. Lon don has many opium dens where the pipe may be procured at a price w hich makes the Chinese barber or laun- dryinan, or whatever he professes to be. willing to risk the law. A favorite way of getting opium t l . / CVl J n *1 I U f/ .** 1 Iky'. Cl, .... i . . — I. PHILADELPHIA, May 10. Mal colm Watson, (13 years old. has left tin* Methodist Episcopal Hospital ap parently cured of cancer by radium and Is now under the surveillance of Dr. G. J. Schwartz and other phy sicians who assist'd in the opera tion. Watson carries in his body a silver tube containing twenty milligrams of radium inserted in his liver about six weeks ago, when authorities on can cer had declared his death was inev itable Watson was taken to the hospital on a stretcher, but since the opera tion has mad* 1 rapid strides to re covery. Recently he was able to walk to a carriage. Peary ‘Channel’ Is LandSaysRasmussen Explp.er Report# It I# a Large Tract, Free of Ice, with Game In Abundance on It. Special Cable to The American. COPENHAGEN, May 10.—A mes sage froip Thorshaven, Faroe Islands, announces the success of Knud Ras mussen's Greenland expedition, which returned there yesterday after a three years’ absence. At Peary Land the Danish explorer found large numbers at seal and musk oxen, which pro vided ample supplies. Where the Pqary channel was sup posed to be he found a large tract of land free of Ice. Game was abundant In that sec tion. and the party halted for a month before starting on the return journey, over 60j^ miles, which was covered pt an average rate of 31 miles a day. Rasmussen depended entirely on his Eskimo outfit and took with him no tinned provisions. Crocker Party Will Sail on Diana in July From Sidney, Nova Scotia. NEW YORK. May 10.—Prepara tions for the Crocker land expedition, which is to start from New York early In Jqly under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, are rapidly progressing and several contributions have been re ceived from scientific societies and individuals for the exploration fund, which now has reached a total of about $46,000. The navy has detailed an electrU cian and a wireless operator in addi tion to its previous assignment o| Ensign FJtzhugh Green to the car* tographic and magnetio work of the expedition and the hydrographic of fice and naval observatiory are loatkf lug a number of surveying and othef instruments. The University of Illinois has made an appropriation which provides fo* the addition of a trained zoologist to the party and Dr. M. C. Tanquary* a graduate of the university, ha* b*en appointed. Georgetown Univer sity is loaning a Wiechert seismo graph for the establishment of a sta tion on Flagler Hay, 700 miles furth er north than any other seismograph station In the world. DYE ON DOLL'S RED SHOES CAUSES YOUNG BABY’S END ST PAUL. May 10—A tiny red shoe on the foot of a baby’s first doll to day caused the death of Robert, the six-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs S. W. Wicks. Poisonous dye which faded from the little shpe was swal lowed by the infant, causing death. Mr. Wicks took the. doll home to tite baby Saturday afternoon The child gurgled with delight and. baby- liht*, put Its tongue to the brilliantly colored shoe. Mr. and Mrs. Wicks noticed that the dye cam# off, but the child showed no ill effects and they did not consider the matter serious. To-day, while the mother was singing to the tot. its head suddenly dropped forward. A moment later the baby was dead. EXCURSION TALLULAH FALLS WEDNESDAY, MAY 21 $1.50 ROUND TRIP AUSPICES Modern Woodmen of America Special train leaves Ter minal Station at 8 A. M. REV-O-NOC TRIPLE SILVER PLATED $| SAFETY 1L RAZOR 11 $1 Solid Sanitary Handle Toothless Guard Sliding Stroke Easily Cleaned Barber’s Angle Vest Pocket Flexible Leather Case Hand- Stropped Hollow Ground Norway Steel Blades YANCEY HARDWARE CO. Phone 3171 134 Peachtree For Sale VAUDEVILLE THEATER for colored patron,; seating capacity 1.000 Big money-maker. Cleared more than $10,000 last year. Owner roust aell qufok on acootmt of bad health. For full particular* call DIXIE THEATER, 127 Decatur St. I. O. O. F. SPECIAL TRAIN ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH Tuesday, May 27, 1913 SCHEDULE Lv. ATLANTA 8:40 A. M. Lv. GRIFFIN 9:45 A. M. Ar. MACON 11:30 A. M. Lv. MACON 11:35 A. M. Ar. SAVANNAH 5:00 P. M. REVOLVER USED TO STOP STREET CAR IN SAN JOSE SAN JOSK. May lh.—Because the street car did not stop to suit him, J. F. Daniels, a watchman in a local bank, drew a revolver upon James Os wald. the motorman, this afternoon and threatened to shoot him. Oswald grapped with them and Policeman Prindlevlile bearded the car and took Daniels Into custody. out of China is for the Chinese junk men to smuggle it aboard their little lateet:-sailed. Hitting craft and sail down to the Philippines. There it Is secreted, through the co-operation of the proper parties, sufficiently bribed, in the huge bales of Manila hemp, exported from that port to all parts of the world. The bales are given distinguishing marks unjl are kept track of carefully throughout their journeys. The different means employed in the smuggling of opium are so many that even the Government secret serv ice agents have been unable to dis cover all of them. The Chinese are extremely ingenius, and naturally the tradesmen, dealing in such valuable wares, and the opium smokers who crave tlie drug, are capable of devis ing brilliant schemes for Ibe evasion of til-* officers of the law. The Central of Georgia Railway will operate a Special Train from Atlanta to Savannah the morning of May 27, to accommodate Odd Fel lows and their friends, from Atlanta and surrounding cities in North Georgia. This train will be composed of comfortable, large and well ventilated coaches and parlor car, and will stop only at Griffin and Macon. Passengers on the Athens Branch of the Central of Georgia Railway may leave Athens 6:45 a. m., Madison 8:10 a. m . Mrmticello 9:12 a. m., and arrive Macon 11:00 a. m., joining the Odd Fellows special at Macon. Passengers on Chattanooga Division may leave Cedartown and Inter- mediate points on Train No. 6 and connect at Griffin with special at 9:45 a. m. This is the way for a delightful trip with congenial friends and brothers. ». For full particulars, ask the ticket agent, or communicate Iwith W. H. Fogg. Atlanta, Ga., District Passenger Agent. I CENTRAL Of GEORGIA RAILWAY