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How to GET
Your MONEY’S
WORTH Out of
Your DOCTOR
By William Lee Howard, M. D.
N O matter how skilful or scientifically educated a
physician may be. he is often helpless In treat
ing you because you have not told him the
whole truth about yourself.
A physician is not a seer, lie is not • a miracle
worker; he cannot tell just the details of your thoughts
and habits He is best able to help you and perhaps
cure you only when you are frank, truthful and intelli
gent In describing your own condition ,
You are leellng a bit "run down," lack energy, are
despondent Your work drags upon you and finally It
becomes almost unbearable. You cannot sleep, have
no appetite- in fact, life seems not worth living.
Now, if at this point you consulted a responsible
physician, much misery and many dollars would be
saved. Hut nine out of ten persons take a "tonic" or
blood medicine at such a lime, and when llicy nre
finally forced to go to the doctor he lias this double
Injury to repair
To gel the very best out of a physician you should
first try to understand yourself and then tell him what
you have found out. A most Important knowledge for
you to have Is your family history just as much as
you can get of it. A doctor can often give you assur
ance of health and show you where to be careful when
you have told him all about yourself and the kind of
germ stuff you inherit.
Take the case of the young woman who suffer* in
many ways and comes to believe life not worth while
When she has told the doctor everything he at
once lakes absorbing Interest we all do with those
who are frank with us. Yes, she has a brother who
drinks and “loafs’; he broke the mother's heart. An
aunt was called "queer ” Father? Oh, he just plodded
along; had no bad habits. Grandfathers" She can only
tell about, one; he had three wives Murh more this
Why IT PAYS TO TELL a Physician THE WHOLE TRUTH
girl tells the doctor, until he understands why she is
You tell your doctor yon work In an office or store When you leave the doctor’s office
Many physicians are blamed for their lack of under-
so nervous and always frightened nbont nothing.
Huch a girl has tawl banded down to her a weak
nervous system weak In the sense that she can ex
pend only a certain amount, of energy at a time She
Is one of the ambitious class, whose tendency is always
to overdo.
She does not need medicines, but knowledge of her
inborn traits. If she acquire* this she will be able to
do good mental work, to marry and have one or two
children, but she must always keep In her mind that
her nervous system will stand only a certain amount
of work, and that If she. goes beyond this amount a
breakdown will certainly follow.
What the dftetor wants to know Is not what cured
your friend Smith, or what Dr. Brown said, but. what
arc your real, real habits. He wants to know all about
your habits when you were a child. If you cannot be
absolutely open and frank with the doctor he cannot
do his best for yon Your habits may be excellent
from a moral viewpoint, yet really Injurious to your
health.
from nine to five; the work has been easy and the
pay fair. You tell him how the headaches began, how
you gradually Inst your appetite, what disagreeable
feelings you now have, and end Dy imploring nls help.
But he has to question yon about the tonics and
other injurious stuff you have taken. You have not
told him that the real cause for the nor- jtisness started
when you were a "Very young girl and acted imprudent
ly. He suspects, and draws out word by word some
intimate facts -the facts he should have been told at
the very start.
This pulling truths from you is hard and tiresome
work, and always causes the doctor to believe that
there is still something being kept from him He
hardly knows just what to do for you unless yon tell
him something about your reading, associations, ambi
tions and family. Modern scientific medicine treats the
patient and not. the disease, if we can understand the
patient's Inner life and the patient can tell us every
thing about herself, even her dreams and fears, we
can generally reach the cause and get rid of It.
SECRETS A WOMAN OFTEN KEEPS FROM HER PHYSICIAN
—ThRt she has been (losing her
self with cheap patent medi
cines and deadly headache
“cures”;
—That she has been dancing in
high-heeled shoes and tight
cOrsets long after she should
have been asleep; and
—That she had an aunt who
was “ queer,” and who finally
died in an asylum.
you wonder If the doctor really
knows all. You hope he saw what
you kept back—Just the facts'you
should have told him. You deter
mine to tell him the next time—but
nine times out of ten you don’t.
You are worried over headaches
Home one told you kidney disease
commenced with headaches, and was
followed by pains in the back. You
go to your doctor with these pains
and ask him If you have kidney dis
ease. ,
What ought you, to do? Tell him
you have been in the habit of danc
ing and walking In high heel shoes.
That you went home from the store
to the "movies.” That constipation
was always your great trouble.
Those new and rigid corsets, stop
and think—did you not put them on
when you really needed to he about
In loose clothing? Did you go out
on a hot holiday or Sunday too
tightly dressed?
These are the things to tell your
doctor, and Instead of leaving his
office half frightened because he said
he could not tell you for a few days
whether you had kidney or spinal
trouble, yon could leave happy by
knowing that your dress and habits
caused all your pain and fright.
If you want the truth from the
doctor tell him the truth. Don’t
avoid or cover the facts and ex
pect him to know all about you. Of
course, every experienced doctor
reads character, and suspects bidden
truths, but, nevertheless, he cannot
act with certainty upon suspicion.
Most women of middle age will
deliberately falsify their years. This
is a very important matter to botji
doctor and patient. The doctor
knows the patient is not telling the
whole truth, and then doubts of all
statements enter into his attitude.
He may suspect the symptoms are
due to the age, but, if he has been
deceived on this point mistakes in
treatment may follow,
standing of a patient’s case, when the truth is that the
patient has kept the most Important facts from the
doctor If you know that your father or mother is a
victim of drug or alcohol habits, it is a very laudable
attitude to shield them by your secrecy. But if the
faulty nervous organization in your parents, which 13
shown by their habits, has come down to you, it is ab
solutely necessary to tell the doctor the facts if you
would have him save you.
False training and convention have made women
natural liars in many personal matters, matters which
should not he concealed from the doctor, hut generally
are. By steadily putting questions we get half truths,
but never know just which half we should consider in
treatment.
A woman will tell her doctor she eat* all she wants.-
The doctor is puzzled, because in spite of his treat
ment she does not improve. After many weeks of vain
study he is about to give up the case in despair, when
vou find., that she is a "food faddist.” She has been
starving herself all the time. She would not eat what
the doctor ordered her to because* she was afraid of
getting fat.
The doctor tells a woman to go home and rest; he
gives her a laxative to be taken. He knows that if his
advice is followed and the patient has told him all she
should, her nervousness and headaches will disappear.
They don’t, and again the doctor is mystified After
telling him several times that she obeyed his instruc-'
tions to the lettfl-, she finally admits she did not—“I
couldn't just then, doctor; I had a very important en
gagement,” Meanwhile she has gone on getting worse,
and it is a hard pull t.o bring her back to health
If there is disease or insanity in your family, tell
the doctor all you know about it. There are many in
timate facts in your family life he should know. Fre
quently when the doctor Is told these facts he can
straighten out your difficulties. The doctor should
stand as a link between husband and wife, and he can
generally show you both where lies tt-e whole trouble.
But if you want his confidence vou must be truthful in
even the little details of daily life.
Tell your doctor even your dreams. These dreams
are of great importance because from them the phy
sician can reconstruct your inner life and rebuild your
health and character But don't tell only the pleasant
or funny dreams; tell about the others, for they are
the ones which count in psycho-analysis. Especially
what you can remember of vour childhood dreams and
frights should be told the doctor.
Your EYES Are Like a JAP’S;
Why They LOOK Different
W K call the Japanese "almond eyed” and
the Chinese “silt-eyed," and most of
us are apt to suppose that their
eyes are ot entirely different shape from our
own. But such Is not the case. The eyes of
all the races are practically alike in shape,
their difference in appearnneo belli:: due solely
to a difference in the opening of (lie lids.
Among the Caucasians when the eyelids are
drawn open hie outer and Inner ends of the
lids form a straight, horizontal line. The lids
open wide without any special effort, present
ing the effect of the full eye.
Among the Chinese and other Mongolians
the lids do not open so far, and on this ac
count they are often spoken of as 'slit eyed."
Also the line from the innefl to the outer
corner of their*eyes is not perfectly horizon
tal, the ottier end being slightly higher than
the inner corner, thus giving the effect of
what is termed the “almond eye."
In the Caucasian eye the end of the tear-
duct' at the inner corner is plainly visible,
lint in the Mongolian eye a fold of skin conies
down over tnis, and only when the lid is
lifted by the hand can the end of the tear-
duct he seen. This peculiar formation is
characteristic of the Mongolian eye and of no <
other. Sometimes this kind of eye appears in <
very young Caucasian children, giving their (
eyes the almond shape. s
Another peculiarity of the Mongolian eye j
Is that the lid seems to hang straight from \
the brow, Instead of being sunken over the )
eyeball, as among Caucasians. When a Jap- (
ancae looks downwards the upper lid - is >
stretched out over the eyeball, and the lower (
lid Interferes with the vision. On account of ^
this peculiarity some scientists claim that
the Monogollan eye Is intended chiefly for J
looking straight ahead or upward.
Among the Japanese the brown iris of the '
eye is partially covered, but in Europeans it i
is always free. In Japanese children the fold \
of the upper lid is especially marked The J>
inner corner of the eye is a semi-circular <
fold, resting upon the lower lid, and even ;
covering its edge. The outer edge is pointed,. '
thus giving the typical almond shape to the ( 5
eve. It is claimed that the fiat noses of the \
Japanese have much to do with these special /
characteristics of the eyelid, which give their S
eyes such a different aspect from our own. <
6,000 MILES of SCALLOPS to Make EATING CHEAPER
I N thebe days, when the cost of living is so high, no
little Importance attaches to the discovery of an
entirely new source of food supply almost, as one
might say, at our very doors.
It is just a matter of scallops. • But, these shellfish
are mighty good to eat—and just think, if you please,
of a vast and continuous bed of them 200 miles long
and averaging thirty miles in width. The Government
Fisheries Bureau has found such a bed, not far off the
Atlantic coast, extending all the way from Block Island,
to the Virginia capes. Ope of its exploring vessels, the
Grampus, came across the bed -a inolluscan deposit un
dreamed of—while on a trip from Boston to Norfolk.
The vessel was hauling a deep-sea net along the bot
tom just to see what' there might be to catch, when a
quantity of scallops was brought to the surface. This
excited immediate interest, and the net—a kind of
dredge on runnel’s—was lowered again and again, fetch
ing up on each occasion from one to three buZhels of
the bivalves. The bed seems to contain more scallops
than ever were known in the world before.
Now, 6,000 square miles of scallops ought to furnish
a practicality inexhaustible supply for all time to come.
One reason for gladness over the discovery is that these
molluscs had oegun to he rather scarce in our markets.
Wherever found along our shores, fishing for them has
been so actively prosecuted that they have been threat
ened with extermination Greater New York alone uses
something like 60,000 gallons of the “meats” annually,
and of late the price has risen very much.
Another important point is that the newly discovered
bed seems to be composed entirely of the species known
as the "giant” scallop, hitherto found only in som
places along the coast of Maine, and which is of greater
food value and greater commercial value by reason of
Ks superior size. A gjant scallop Is something like
four times the size ,of the common scallop. When full
grown it Is as big as a fair-sized oyster
The scallop is our only locomotive bivalve. An oys
ter. whbn pnlv a few days old, settles down, attaching
itself to a rock or some other convenient object, and
devotes the, rest of its life to a sedentary existence.
But the scallop is a lively swimmer, by which fact
there hangs a tale
Some years ago a Frenchman who was extremely fond
of scallops bought several thousands of them and
planted them in bf-ds in what he thought was a suitable
place—-a shallow, tide-swept area, in an estuary on the
New England coast. Next day, at low tide, he went to
take a look at them and found, to his great astonish
ment, that, they had all disappeared, in fact, they had
taken a notion to swim away and the scallop farm was
thus wiped out of existence between two tides
The scallop swims by opening and shutting its pair
of shells energetically, thus expelling the water from
(between them and driving itself backward. They often
travel in this way in shallow water with such rapidity
that the eye can hardly follow them. Sometimes they
make considerable journeys in large companies. One
can scarcely imagine a lovelier sight than that of a
flock of these pretty creatures, with shells of every hue,
from purple and white to pink and yellow, darting about
in clear water—the flight-llke movements, vertical, hori
zontal and zigzag, being more suggestive ot a flock of
little birds than of bivalve molluscs
It 13 not without appropriateness that the scallop
shell is used in heraldry to Indicate that the bearer of
a coat-of-arms has made long voyages at sea. The
scallop has been the badge of several orders of knight
hood, especially those ef the Crusaders. Only the hig
muscle, by which the valves of its shell are held to
gether, is used for food.
Speaking of “locomotive” molluscs, there are many
univalve kinds (snails) that are nabitual mountain-
climbers. Only the other day the Smithsonian Institu
tion received a collection of shells representing no
fewer than 2,500 species of such creatures gathered bv
one enthusiastic scientist in the Philippine Islands,
many of them being obtained from the very summit c?
Mount Apo, the highest mountain in the archipelago.
How did they get there? Why, they walked up, dT
course. Snails are notoriously slow pedestrians, and
it is by no means to be supposed that these made their
way from the bottom to the top of the mountain in a
week or even in a year. To accomplish the journey-
must have taxed the climbing powers of many succes
sive generations.
That clams climb mountains—some kinds of clams,
that is to say—is a fact admitting of no possible doubt.
Their shells are often found at very lofty elevations, and.
until science found out how they got there, the matter
seemed a good deal of a puzzle. Inasmuch as they do
not walk on land, the solution of the problem is simply
that, in the course of many generations they have made
their way up the slope by way of streams.
• Watch ANIMALS for the WEATHER YOU MIGHT TRY- ! The RIGHT WAY to
BEGIN the
M OST birds and beasts are much more sensitive
to approaching changes of weather than human
beings are. and by close observation of some
of their habits the weather can be forecast with
quite an astonishing degree of accuracy.
The ravens are among the most Infallible weather
prophets. When you see them early In the morning
soaring to great heights and uttering a hoarse, croak
ing sound, you may be reasonably certain of a fine,
clear day. Swallows flying unusually high in the early
morning are another sign of fair weather
The loud qureking of ducks, geese and other water
fowl Is a sign of rain. Just before a storm you will
always find swine, cooks and hens rubbing in the dust
and In other ways showing their uneasiness Cattle
and sheep announce a storm long before its arrival by
huddling in one corner of the field with their heads
turned away from the wind
Just before a severe rain dogs are apt to be very
sleepy and dull and to lie all day before the fire If
they bark long and loud during the night without any
visible cause. It is a sign of a sudden change in tem
perature.
When moles throw up more earth, when numbers ot
troublesome and gnats more apt to sting for several >
hours before it begins to rain.
When the dew lies plentifully on the grass of an
evening you may look for a pleasant morrow, Gut if }
there is little or no dew, a wet day is ahead.
When a cat washes over her ears you may he pretty
sure that it will rain before the day is out. The action )
is a very noticeable one. After wetting her paw with <
saliva puss passes it energetically several times over J
the upper side of her ear. The action may be per- <
formed on the right or left side, or both.
The explanation probably is that the change of at- J
mospherlc pressure causes a pressure about the cat’s
head which she seeks to relieve by washing.
It may be that she will do the same thing if she feels
a foreign substance upon the ear. but in that case she
usually scratches vigorously witih the hind leg. In the
majority of cases washing over the ear is a valuable
sign of rain.
The common English sparrow will stop its chatter- ;
lug noise seven or eight hours before the arrival of a s
storm and become ominously silent. All birds give )
some indication of approaching changes of the weather, j
but with some species the signs are easier to read \
than with others.
To Label Jelly.
A SIMPLE way to label jelly is to write the name on the hardened
paraffin which seals the top.
skin.
Is safe for baby.
c
DAY
To Test Baby’s Bath.
D O not dip your hand in baby’s bath to find out .if It is too hot, your
hand is tough and not a good Indicator of heat for baby's tender
«g(r> Stick your elbow in the water, if not too hot for that it
A Good Egg Basket.
K EEP eggs for cooking in a wire basket. Tile basket is light to
carry, and one can see how many eggs are on hand without
taking the basket off the shelf. They are in less danger of break
ing also, than in a box or tin pail.
To Take Rust Out of Steel.
OVER the steel with sweet oil' well rubbed in, and in forty-eight
hours use unslapked lime, finely powdered, and rub until all the
rust disappears. ^
By A. L. Wood, M. D.
T
CATERPILLARS That FLY in Their Own BALLOONS
HERE is a right way and a wrong way to begin the day, and the
method you ohoose may have a decided effect upon the success
or failure you will achieve during your waking hours.
Try to plan your activities as far as you can the night before. Five
minutes of calm looking ahead in the early evening will go a long way
toward lessening the burdens of the morrow.
This done, take a bath, not too warm nor too cold, and be careful
not to remain in the water. This nightly bath, followed by eight hours'
sleep in a well-ventilated room, is the best .preparation one can ihave
for a successful day.
When your alarm clock arouses you—or, better still, the morning sun
don’t jump out of bed and rush into your clothes as if the house were
afire. Hurry in the early morning interferes with your heart action and
your circulation and irritates your nerve centres. By going slow for the
first few minutes you will be able to do more and better work through
out the day.
First of all, remove the pillows from under the head
and take a score or more ot long, deep breaths.
spiders appear on the walls, when pigeons return \
slowly to their dovecotes, when the frogs croak with )
unusual vigor and when the bees are reluctant to leave ^
their hives—all these are declared by close observers <
to be forerunners of rain
Before a severe windstorm sets in, pigs will run ?
Bqueallng about as If they had gone suddenly mad. in ?
regions where cyclones and tornadoes are prevalent >
this has given rise to a v idespread belief that these )
animals can actually ’’see the wind."
In Autumn the flight of wild geese in a westerly or t
southerly direction, trees and hedges very full of her- j
ries, and the early appearance of woodcock, suipe, etc,, ,
are all thought to be indications of a severe Winter. f
\\ hen the next day is going to be fine it has been $
noticed that bats continue flying about very late of an t
evening. The floating of gossamer and especially its i
presence on the rigging of ships are indications of fair j
weather, in which from time immemorial sailors have f
placed much confidence.
The appearance of guilts petrels and other sea birds [
at some distance inland presages stormy weather.
Almost everybody has noticed that flies are more )
T HE Government Bureau of Entomology has just
chanced upon a very curious diacovery, which
seems to throw light upon what has hitherto
been a puzzle—namely, the appearance of small gypsy
moth colonies In widely scattered, sparsely setled parts
of New England, far away from any line of automobile or
other travel.
This until now seemed Impossible to explain, inasmuch
as the female gypsy moth cannot fly, and the Insect
must therefore be carried In order lo pass rapidly over
considerable distances.
The solution of the problem seems to lie In the fact
that the caterpillars—though devoid of wings, of course
s*e themselves wafted through the air, with the help
of numerous tiny balloons.
These balloons, which had never excited notice, are
small bulbous expansions of the hairs that grow on the
nark of the caterpillar, and it Is thought at least likely
that They are filled with a gas lighter than air.
With any sort of a breeze blowing, the balloons give
the caterpillar enough buoyancy to enable it to "fly”
over long distances—a fact which has been definitely
proved by setting up screens in various places, on the
tops ot towers, in ponds far out from shore, etc., cov
ered with a ’’tanglefoot’’ mixture to catch any of the
creatures when they might happen to come blowing
along. Wiese experiments resulted in the capture of
many ca'^rnillnrs •
A Gyp»y-Moth Caterpillar, Show
ing the “Aerostatic Heirs,” Whose
The first experiments were made by releasing
gypsy moth caterpillars in front of electric fans, before
which they would drift to a distance of thirty to forty
feet But this method did not yield conclusive results,
and so the outdoor plan was adopted, with screens and
tanglefoot. ,
A box filled with gypsy moth egg clusters and larvae
was fastened to the top of a six-foot pole (stuck Into
the ground), with both ends open, so that the breeze
might blow through it and start the caterpillars to fly
ing. By placing the tanglefoot screens at various dis
tances, in the path of the wind, and counting the num
ber of larvae caught on them, definite data were se
cured.
It is believed that the silk spun by this kind of cater
pillar augments its aerial buoyancy. Experiments have
shown that aff average specimen will spin about seventy
yards of silk. This might help a good deal to keep it,
aloft.
But it is deemed likely that the caterpillars, with the
help of their little balloons, are frequently carried for
hundreds of feet up into the air by the little whir'-
winds which act in the same way upon leaves or pieces
ot paper, and that in this manner, rising far aloft, they
may be borne over many miles of distance before fall
ing to the ground again.
Such a thing, of course, would be particularly likely
to happen when the caterpillars were hanging suspended
;! Next, place the hand* above and back of the head,
) separate the feet and stretch the arm* and legs to the
< fullest extent, pushing upward with the arms and down
/ ward with the legs six time*.
) Alternate the motion of the arm* and legs, pushing
i up with the right arm and down with the right leg, at
> the same time drawing the left arm and shoulder down
’ and pulling the left leg up. Keep the arms and legs
!; straight. Repeat this six times and rest for a minute
S Place the hands, palms down, under the small of
( the back, one hand resting on the other. Draw up the
> knees, placing the feet flat on the bed, and keep them
I bent. In this position raise and lower the hips as far
as possible, using the hands under the small of the back
as a fulcrum. Repeat this exercise ten times.
With the hands in the same position, bring the
knees as near the chin as possible, then force the hips
( far down.
| With the hands still in the same position, rotate the
: knees upon the hips in a large circle ten times. Then
) reverse the motion ten times.
) These exercises limber up some of the most impor-
! tant joints of the body, accelerate the circulation of the
; blood and cure indigestion.
\ After your bath or a brisk rub-dow n with a coarse
) towel or a stiff brush, drink one or two glasses of cool
< water.
: Dress and take a short, brisk w alk, with deep breath-
) ing, and you will be ready to enjoy your breakfast.