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DR. LORENZ TELLS HOW T 0 SLEEP
‘Lie on Right Shoulder Blade’ He Says
Eminent Surgeon Advises Strongly Against
Soft Beds, Downy Pillows and Heavy Cover
ings—Tells How Not to Snore.
m view of the notable discussions of the convention of the American
Medical Association and in the ltght of discoveries in science announced
abroad, this article by the eminent medical authority is especially timely. It
will interest and inform every reader as well as the practitioner. It is the
Jirst of a series of articles Dr. Lorenz is to write expressly for the American.
vesw --= By DR, ADOLF LORENZ.
VIENNA, July 18.—At first sight,
especially to the restless American,
it might seem ridiculous to speak
about lying down and quite useless
to bestow thought on it. Yet the
most superficial reilection will show
that the question of recumbence is
by no means an indifferent one for
man,
We spend fully a third part of our
Iffe recumbent, even when we en
joy the advantage of constant health.
Those who are less fortunate in this
respect have to reckon on thus
spending a still bigger fraction of
their span.
Finally, in the case of all to whom
it is allotted to die in their beds,
the sublimest moment of existence—
that of the great crossing!-—over
takes them lying down. And to die
lying down is a far easler lot than
to have to sit crouched up, fighting
death in the struggle for alr while
awaliting release.
Man Must Submit.
All healthy men who have worked
till exhausted, yearn for and delight
in recumbence; It irks and disgusts
them as soon as a refreshing sleep
has rested them and brought fresh
elasticity to their tired limbs. For
the sick man recumbence is the oniy
possibility of existence; whether it
suit him or not, he must submit to its
compulsion.
No one can feel well who lies con
tinually. It is only the new-born
infant, in whom sleep and digestion
constitute its whole vital activity,
that is restlessly happy recumbent;
but this only until its arms and legs
gain strength sufficient for the prim
itive and natural method of locomo
tion—creeping. As soon as its delight|
in motion awakens, the lving posture
is only assumed under the compul-l
glon of fatigue.
Fatigue forces the healthy adult to
remain lying until the sensation hasi
passed off. He values recumbence as
an agreeable periodic break in his
activity. But his lylng down brings
its full blessing only with refreshing
sleep.
We May Sleep Even Walking.
Not but that a man tired to ex
haustion is able to sleep in almost
sny positon. Even the automatic ac
tion of walking does not preclude a
sort of half sleep. Indeed, to sleep
walking appears to be easier than to
gleep standing. Standing requires a
continuous uniferm activity of those
muscular energies which maintain
equilibrium, and this is far more dif
ficult for the sub-consciousness to ex
cite than is that automatic alternation
of muscular action in walking, which
can be carried on even during com
plete absence of consciousness. More
ever, in the latter case the forward
motion facilitates the maintenance ot
the equilibrium.
A rider, tired to exhaustion, wili
awake from sleep when threatened
with a fall from the saddle,
An utterly fatigued man, who can
rest himself horizontally, will not stop
to examine the quality of his couch,
The Chinese coolie sleeps on his cart
with his head hanging backward and
his mouth open, undistured by the
flies using this passage inte his in
terior unhindered. We see the brick
layer, during his short midday in
terval, streiched full length on the
nard pavement, gathering fresh
strength from a sound sleep.
Awaking Thoughts.
Unless, on unusual occasfons of
fatigue, the refined product of civiliza
tion is not satisfied with the mere
horizontal position as a method of
{nducing sleep. He requires the sup- |
port of a couch and is very exacting
in his demands in this respect. Not
till these have been complied with
according to his individual conven
jence will sleep graciously relax the
tired limbs and allow the hrain—thnrl
geverely-taxed organ of intellectual |
labor—a ghort rest. |
Sleep’'s most glorious gift is the|
thoughts that come on our first|
awaking from dreamless unconscious- |
ness. How many inventions, how |
many soluions of lost secrets owe|
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ltheir origin to such a discharge of
energy by a thoroughly rested brain!
We need not smile at that Italian
advocate who, on gaining a lawsuit,
quoted as the chief item in his note
of expenses the “pensieri notturni.”
Thus we are indebted to sleep not
only for the renewal of elasticity
in all our organs, but also, as it
were, for our highest intellectual sug
gestions.
All these matters are so intimately
connected with recumbence that even
at this stage one can no longer say
that the question is an indifferent
one.
Like an Annularly Curved Worm.
All phases of life are reflected in
recumbence. The infant, while en
‘joylng the highest animal happiness
in his continual dorsal position, is
}ripenmg for the cares of life. Barely
a vear, spent lying in comparative
inactivity, has qualified the little
' denizen of the world for spontaneous
fatigue, which forces him to lie down
periodically during his further devel
‘opment to the prime of Nfe and duws
ing life’s moment when one, or an
other, or all his organs have grown
incurably fatigue and reduce him—
llke the infant—to continual recum
‘bence. What a difference betwean
‘the compulsory bed in the two cases!
In the former, recumbence helps to
build up the body and develop it for
future work; here it expresses the
‘hopeless impotence of exhavsted and
irretrievably lost energies
The above remarks will justify our
subjecting to a short consideration
the recumbence of the infant, as well
as that of the healthy and the sick
adult—at the same time not forget
ting the dying.
The new-born infant may be com
pared with an annularly curved
worm, striving to unwind itself as
soon as it has discarded the home
which enfolded it so narrowly. Its
spine forms a single flat arch of a
hindward convexity, a so-called
foetal kyphosis—i. e., its extremities
are to a certain extent folded togeth. |
er in a flexed position at the great
joints of hip and knee. It strntches‘
and straightens its little limbs to pre
pare them for future service; but i:!}
muscular strength does not suffice to
unroll the curved spine. Substan-,
tially, this unrolling ensues passive- |
ly, through the recumbence of the
little trunk on its couch,
The Child's Bed.
How, then, should this couch be|
disposed in order to facilitate the un
rolling of his trunk for the little new
mortal? 4 Gerals e e
1t is obvious that if the back with
its hindward convexity be laid on a
very soft couch, its own weight must
hollow out a cavity which will hin
der the unrolling—i. e.. the stretching
of the little trunk. The infant's bed
must, therefore, rather be hard than
too soft; a pillow is unnecessary, for
it hinders the erection of the for
ward-drooping head. (The swathing
pillow used in this country must,
| therefore, have a hard under surface,
and the child must he swathed as
loosely as possible.)
~ Such a bed would hardly satisfy
the adolescent and the adult. Indeed,
the conditions in their case are utter
ly different.
~ The adult soinal column does not
form a simple arch convexed to the
rear, llke the infant's; this arch, on
the contrary, has an opposite bend,
corresponding with the loins and the
neck, at which point it forms rear
concavities., Any sharpening of thesa
normal, so-called physiological curves
must diminish the man's full heigh*:
a flattening or levflimz of the curves
will have the contrary effect of in
creasing it.
Besides these physiological curves
the adult veterbral column has also
the peculiarity of a somewhat for
ward inclination as a whole.
Everyone can prove,the correctness
of this fact on himself. Try to lie
down backward on the floor of your
room—not the bare floor; you may
lay two or even three rugs on it. You
will soon feel as if every joint In your
spine were dislocated and your head
falling backward into a deep well
Man Taller in Morn.
The hard horizontal couch stretches
the entire body. erects the forward
drooping head, and makes the whaol2
trunk longer, because straighter, by
leveling the physiological cruves. It
thus corrects the contrary affect of
the upright carriage, in which the
physiological curves are sharpened by
the specific weight of the body. We
are actually taller when lying on a
hard horizontal couch than when
standing, and taller in the morning
than in the evening.
Strictly, i. e., theoretically, speak
ing, we ought to lie in our beds on a
hard under-layer and without a pil
low, exactly like the infant. |
The hardness of the under-layer
should, however, he so far modified as
not to endanger the cutaneous circu
lation gt prominent parts of the body
(sacrum, shoulders etc.). In prac
tice, however, we find that, the in
fant's willingness to sleep without a
pillow soon turns to discomfort for
the growing child.
Pillowless Discomforts. |
The absence of a pillow makes the
dorsal position unpleasant, owing to
the backward droop of the head. But)
it makes the side position almost un
bearable, because the head then hangs‘
to one side snd the cervical vertebrae
get bent over sideways. i
For the adult the pillow makes the
dorsal position on a hard surface
bearable, and the side pogition merely
possible. \
How high should the pillow be? A
simple consideration will show that it
should not be substantially higher
than what amounts to the utmost dis- |
tance hetween the ear and the acro
mion. Under this assumption only, tiae ‘
neck will neither be bent over gide
ways in the shoulder position, nor
forward in the dorsal. @7 course, the |
pillow also must he @“mparatively
hard (horsehair).
How to Lie Down.
Therefore, for lving rationally and
hygienically, a comparatively hard
under-layer is requisite (a horsehair
mattress, with a seaweed or a very
tightly-strung spring mattress be
low). The pillow must be hard like-
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wise and not higher than the shoulder
breadth. It is quite suverfluous to
have the bed of the favorite excessive
breadth: it is not at all necessary
that, when the arms are extended
sideways, the finger tips should bare
ly reach the edge of the bed. On the
other hand, the bed must in any case
be long enough. Although the sleep
er, lying with his leg joints lightly
bent, does not as a rule utilize the
length of his bed, yet he must find the
possibility of comforiably stretching
himself out to his full length without
pressing his head or his feet flat.
Even if the bed cover has nothing
to do with actual recumbence, it may
be remarked that this must not only
be warm enough, but, above all, light.
I need hardly say that the elderdown
quilt is unequalled in tlls respect.
The Sybarite’'s Bed.
Let us nuw leave the man lying in
such an ideal bed to his invigorating,
dreamless sieep. We wigh him bril
liant flashes of intelligence on his
first awakening!
But we can not refuse to cast a
glance at that sleeper who prefers
the Sybarite’s mstaken comfort to
the rational claims of hygiene. We
will presume that he is sensible
enough to prefer a cool, well venti
lated bedroom to a stifling overheat
ed one: that he does not impede the
circulation of the air above his bed
by having a tester over it. We will
not presume that he is resting on &0
high a couch that steps are required
for mounting it, or that he is letting
himself be fiattened out under a
mountain of heavy feather beds
(called in this country “Tuch enten.”)
We will rather assume, to his hon
or, that he is merely partial to a soft
bed and more than a sufficiency of
soft pillows.
We will not assume tha, being in
good health and not distresed for
breath, he has piled up the pillows
so high that he sleeps sitting In his
bed—for we are here speaking only
of lying.
We merely opine that his feather
‘ptllowei are too soft, and we notice
,that they close together, like white,
vapor-laden clouds, over the sleeper’'s
ears and bury his face in a hot, sti
fling caress. We see him laboriously
gasping for breath,
| Feather Bed's Evils,
. If he is lying on his back in his
feather bed, his heavy trunk has
‘made a pit in the soft under-layer.
Not only is the back kyphosis thus
heightened, but also the loin lordo
sis 19 increased by the soft under
layer of the bed being pressed down
in the cavity made by his back.
Thus, when lying on a soft bed,
the physiological curves of the
gpinal column are sharpened, the
height of the body is correspondingly
dimin?shed.
In the main, this would not mat
ter; on the contrary, certaln advan
tages might be gained from {t. ‘
But lying on too soft a couch
means discomforts of another kind. '
which, for a man not accustomed to
a soft bed, may increase till they
become intolerable. |
To wit, the dorsal position on a
soft, too easily impressible surface |
produces in the adult spine, when
riglid, a severe tension and strain ot
the ligaments, because these can not
vield readily to the changes of posi
tion which the soft surface gZives
rise to. 1
This strain finally causes violent,
even intolerable, pain in the spine—
particularly in he ‘lower region of
the breast and loins. The pain wakes
the sleeper and renders all chance
of falling asleep again utterly im
possible,
A Personal Expertence.
I am here speaking from a per
sonal experience on a cold and
stormy voyage. I was accustomed to
warm myself by lying with my back
and my breast by turns against the
walls of the chip's funnel. T froze on
one side and got baked on the other.
My sleep was excellent in the hard,
narrow berths. On landing and reach
ing my hotel, I straightened and
stretched myself out in the luxurious
hote! bed, and looked back on the
Spartan comfort of my ship cabin as
on a trial happlly surmounted.
In the night I awoke repeatedly
with unpleasant sensations in the
back, I diagnosed ineipient muscular
rheumatism-—a well-deserved punish
ment for the violent falls of tempera-
AMERICAN'S SPECIAL FOREIGN NEWS.
Hard Mattress Best, While Pillow
Should Be High as Distance
Between Ear and Shoulder.
Yielding Surface on Couch Bad
ture so wantonly brought on beside
the funnel. Next day the nocturnal
episode was forgotten. I lay most of
the following night sleepless, owing to
violent pains in the back. To my sur
prise next day the expected rheuma
tism did not develop further. So I
had made a wrong diagnosis.
The third night I awoke shortly aft
er falling asleep with violent pains in
the loins and the small of the back,
and feeling as if my trunk must snap
at that part. Restless tossing to and
fro only made the pains worse. At
last the saving thought crossed my
mind: I was lying on too soft a bed!
In the cavity caused By my weight I
threatened ‘to snap. [ lald the mat
tress on the floor and was at once
cured.
If the sleeper in the soft bed lles in
the side position his spinal column
gets a sideward curve to some extent,
for it sinks into the cavity caused by
his weight.
This is a specially critical position
for children and adolescents, because
it can occasion a permanently crook
ed figure.
Height of Pillow.
For children and adolescents the
hard bed, with a hard pillow the
height of the shoulder breadth, is an
absolute hygienic requirement. The
dorsal position is better for them than
the side position, as the latter, even
with a hard mattress, can give rise to
a scoliotic position of the trunk. Chil
dren and adolescents must be prohib
ited from lying on the stomach, which
is unhygienic: it is only in cases of
bone inflammation in the spine that
this position may be indlcated as a
‘temporary one.
As for adults, the hard bed with a
hard pillow is to be recommended for
them, too, on the grounds already
mentioned.
Left Side To Be Avoided.
The dorsal or side position is left to
their individual taste, but it must not
be forgotten that lying on the left
side makes the sleeper feel the beat
ing of his heart and may induce the
rather discomforting thought of its
last throb.
The position on the right side has
the advantage of more speedily clear
ing the stomach of its contents, also
of more or less preventing the snor
ing, which strains the respiratory
muscles, and of freeing the heart from
pressure as much as possible. On the
other hand, the right arm is easily
exposed to disagreeable pressure. The
dorsal position Insures a more uni
form activity of the two halves of the
thorax, but it encourages snoring. But
an old proverb says, “He who snores
long will live long.”
The most convenlent position, com
bining the advantages without the
disadvantages of the strict dorsal or
the strict side position, seems to ma
o be the lyving on the right shoulder.
It represents a middle course between
the other two. : 5
Says ‘“Lie on Right Shoulder,
The right shoulder-blade, with the
costal ridges of the right side, and
the right hind-portion of the pelvie
circle, are the main supporting sur
faces in his position. The posture
prejuices neither the heart nor the
lung activity, and the right arm suf
fers no pressure. Nor—as in the
strict dorsal position—does the base
of the tongue, as it relaxes in sleep,
sink straight back against the uvula
' waving on the play of the alr cur
‘rent, and thus help to produce noises
that can drive a neighbor to distrac
tion.
’ If the hard bed, with a hard pil
low the height of the shoulder
breadth, 1s a hyglenlc requirement
for the healthy man, it might be
supposed that the sick man, at ]Jeast,
when condemned to a longer recum
bence, might profit by a soft under
j layer.
| Patient |s Heated.
. But this is by no means the case,
!fnr every softer underlayer hearts
the recumbent and increases his dan
"ger‘ Moreover, the softer underlayer
’is far less of a support to the body
in need of rest than a more resis
‘tam bed. The more sensitive and in
'need of support an alling part of the
' body becomes, the more unsuitable
does a too goft underlaker prove to
' be, }
In cases of inflammation of the
bones or joints, daily practice teaches |
‘the paradox that the hardest bed is|
‘still too soft. The harder, the bet-‘
ter! ‘
~ This experience led me to the Mea‘
—it occurred, too, at a happy mo
ment of awakening from refreshing
sleep—that patients suffering from
inflammation of a vertebral lmnP‘
should be laid on a stone nnderlayerl
—on a stone, it is true, in which the
exact adaptation of its own shape to‘
that of the superincumbent body pre
vents its hardness from heing felt.
Merely the thinnest cushioning of this
stone bed protects the skin from the
cold contact. These sone-hard beds
are plaster shells, in which the pa
tient lles in about the same fashion
as a watch In its open case box, or
a tortoise on ite back In its shell.
Stone-Hard Mattress.
On this stope-hard mattress the
patient’s pains all subside. Whereas
he formerly screamed with pain when
the nurse slightly shook the floor in
crossing the room, he can now pain- |
lessl endure a drive over rough
pavenient. I
During a long medieal career [ have
been obliged to cause much pain, buf |
I count myse!f happyv in knowing |
that I have cured many a horrible
and unappeasable one.
Should I finally have to render my
last account cn the Judgment Day
and find that my evil deeds \\'p]gh!
dgown the one scale, [ shall simpl) |
get over the difficulty by casting xhel
heaviest plaster bed I ever made into
the other! |
Patients in other categories, it is|
true, can not stind a stone-hard bed; |
they require this or that, here a lit-|
tla cushion pushed under them, there
a ring pillow to relleve the wmght..
the upper part of the body turnecd |
to one side or the other, or ralsed|
into a halif-sitting posture, etc. Thisl
little science can only be learned be
side the sick hed. [
The periodic recumbence of the
healthy man, unfortunately, almost
always becomes the continual re- |
cumbence of the sick one. In the]
end, 2 narrow bed—formed of three |
long and two short boards, whose
under-surface is scarcely lecss hard
than stone—awaits him on hiz en-;
irance intc everiasting rest !
Proxosed Berlin Lid
Restaurateurs Say 11 o’Clock Closing
Law WIII Ruin Them and
Banish Tourists.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, July 18—Everybody in
Berlin who has derived profit from
the city's far-famed night life—and
their name is legion—is in a state of
frenzied alarm over the threatened
shutting up of the town at 11 p. m.
Regulations to that effect are now
under serious consideration at the
Prussian Ministry of the Interior,
which controls the police laws.
A mass meeting of earnest protoest
already has taken place.
The argument which it &s hoped will
have the greatest effect on the au
thorities is that Berlin will sink to
an insignificant level as a tourist cen
ter if ‘he 11 o'clock closing laws oe
enforced
The lucrative American business In
the summer time, it is specially
pointed out, is likely to be lost.
The Kaiserin is sald to be back of
the proposal, and the ultra-conserva
tive politicians representing the high
church party, of which she is the
head, have declared that the Kaisei's
capital was far on the road to ruin.
Steamship Building
Speclal Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 18.--As a result of
the increasing demand {ln Great
Britain and the United States for
meat from Australia and South
America, and the likelihood of a
similar development on the Contl
nent, there. is a big {inquiry for
steamers with refrigerated accom
modation.
It is almost impossible to cope
with the growing requirements, al
though no fewer than 229 vessels,
with a cold storage capacity of nearly
half a million tons, are aiready in
service. A large amount of tonnage
is in course of construction and it is
expected that mest of the boats will
be placed on the Buenos Alres-New
York route.
.. ' .
Militants' Exile to
Malabar Suggested
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 18.—Where shall
the Home Secretary send the mili
tants if they don't cease their cam
paign of violence and arson? Sir
Chettur Sankaran Nair, a judge of
the Madras High Court, has given the
answer—send them to Malabar.
It was in a lecture at the London
Schooi of Eeonomics, The learnad
judge was describing the Nairs of
Malabar, who for a thousand years
or more have a family system which
{s matrimarchal and not patriarchal,
Females take precedence, and to ra
males belong the whole of the family
property.
All Summer in Egypt
Special Cable to The American,
CAIRO, July 18.—FEgypt is just now
a center of attraction to astronom
jcal experts. A series of observa
tions which will occapy the greater
part of the summer are being made
under the direction of the professor
of astronomy at Ohristiania Univer
sity to find the origin and charac
teristics of the zodiacal lights, and
they are certain to develop some new
and interesting data,
Most of the observations are he
ing made in the clear summer evern-«
ings. The zodiacal lights are wall
defined, luminous rays which shoot
up from the horizon, displaying many
prismatic eolors.
The Dogs in Society
PARIS, July 18.—My lady's dog has
become a serious, faetor In society life
here. An establishment for dog baths
{lB about to be opened in one of the
tmn.flt fashlonable quarters of the city,
and it i& being widely advertised by
circulars. They read thus:
BATHS FOR DOGS.
Electric Cleaning by Hot Afr.
Spectal Shampooings.
Perfumed Baths
Special Scented Lotions,
Antiseptic Tonics. Toilette !
Warmed Wailting Kennels,
And the prices are in proportion to
the luxuries offered.
o e e
American Bids High
T ‘
or Lecture by Shaw
e \
Special Cable to The American. ‘
l LONDON, July 18—According to
The Sketch, a very wealthy Ameri
can, whose name is not given, was
desiroue of engaging George Barnard
Shaw for a lecture, He wrote a let
ter to Mr. Burton, the manager »f
Forbes-Robertson's company, in
which he said:
“Spare no expense. Offer Shaw a
liner to himself, if need be, and any
sum up to 5,000 pounds (325,000) for
one lecture in my drawing room.”
The Sketch says that when Shaw
heard the letter read he leaned back
in his chalr and roared with laughter
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Standard oil Locates !
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Great Tracts in China
| —_— |
Special Cable to The American.
PEKIN, July 18.—The Government
reports to-day that Standard oOil geol
ogists have located large oil-bearing
tracts in Shensi Province, but that a
Arilling gang has been delayed by the
military pursuing the brigand. “White
Wolf." which {s commandeering al!
transport vehicles. The British resent
the Standard Oil activities, saying Great
Britain has the sole right to operate
in the province.
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ment Ihe distressing symptoms be
#in to rvapldly disappear, swelling aud shom
breath soon gone Consultation free, trial treat
ment sent by mail
Ofce Phone Main 2642, Residence l? 7879
Write or call on DR. THOMAS E. GREEN,
800 AUSTELL BLDG, ATLANTA, GA.
| '
Love Letter From ‘Thy Jo' Printed
. by Calmette She Feared
1 . .
Was but Beginning.
By C. F. BERTELLL ‘
! Special Cable to The American.
| "PARIS, July 18.—The sensation of
jthe Caillaux trial, whick begins here
| Monday, will be the testimony of Al-
Ifred Wesphal, in behalf of the pfison-;
er, which, Counsel Maltre Laßori will
|rnntend, will prove conclusively that‘
!she had ‘every reason to fear (}asmn‘
| Calmette was about te publish fur-|
{ther love letters written to her by
I Caillaux.
|" Four years ago, Joseph Caillaux en
ldeavored to obtain a divorce from
!hfs second wife, Mme. Berthe Guey
'd:«ln», in order to marry Calmette's
Islayer. then Mme, Leo Claretie, of
{whom the statesman had long been
| enamored
| Mme. Gueydan, however, raised
| difficulties, so the husband sent his
lf\'i?nd, Alfred Wesphal, treasurer of
i the League of Rights of Man, to see
{her. Tt was found that she had pos
| session of a packet of love letters
' which Caillaux, in the course of sev
!»ral previous years, had written Mme,
(laretie. These Mme. Gueydan agreed
|to surrender on condition that Cail
{laux allowed her alimony of $lO,OOO
| yearly after the divorce
| Letters Highly Intimate.
| Alternatively, she threatened {f
i(";ullaux began divorce proceedings
| without conceding her demands, she
| would forthwith publish the letters
:which would have the effect of ban
;lshing him from political life forever
{and also ostracise him from Paris so.
| ciety.
| The letters were profoundly intimate
land at the same time contained the
| unrestrained expression of Caillaux's
| inner thoughts, revealing his political
! duplicity in the early stages of his
'p:xrliamentury career.
| Calllaux <onsented to his wife's
| terms, whereupon she handed Wes
lphal copies of the incriminating let
| ters. It was only some months later,
| when Mme. Gueydan received her
{final divorce paper, that she gave
]\\'esph:xl the original letters,
| From this evidence Maltre La Borl,
“he most eminent lawyer in France,
who defended Captain Alfred Dreyfus,
f will draw the following conclusions:
i Early in the present yvear, Calmette
| published a portion of one of the
!lotters contained in the packet of
!nriginnls which Mme. Gueydan has|
| surrendered to her husband. Thlsl
| was a letter signed “Thy Jo,” which
! showed how Caillaux, who, as Fina n«‘nl
[ Minister, at the beginning of the
| present year, was rushing the income
ftax bill through Parliament, had,
| previously, confessed his secret oppo
!yiri:nr\ to such taxation to Mme, l‘lur(n‘
| tle. |
; Feared More Publicity. i
| Maitre La Beri will contend thm‘
the present Mme. Caillaux, when Cal- |
]mone published this letter, was justi
filed in concluding that the editor also
was in possession of copies of other
incriminating letters which Caillaux
wrote her and that the entire packet
which Mme. Gueydan returned had
been copled during the interval be
tween the time she handed Wesphal
the copies and when she gave up the
originals
Because she knew many of tfese
letters contaln gross expressions,
Mme. Calllavx was driven frantic by
the fear that Calmette would put
them in print, and, while in this
frame of mind, she shot him dead
with the dual object of protecting
her honor as a woman and saving her
hushand from Irretrievable political
ruin.
It iz this chain of .evelations
whereof no French newspaver is vet
informed which renders not at all im
probable the prisoner’s immediate ac.
quittal or a nominal sentence with
the benefit of the first offender’s act,
Seventy to Testify.
There will be altogether about 70
witneases, including about fourteen
newspaper editors, Joseph Caillaux;
ex-Prime Minister Louls Barthou, his
political enemy; Paul Bourget, Call
laux's friend, and Mme, Gueydan.
With the exception of Wesphal, how
ever, their testimony will contain no
fresh revelations.
The defense will also offer medical
testimony showing that Calmette's
life might have been saved if the doc
tors had acted immed!ately, instead
| of taking the wounded editor several
’rm!--_\ to a private hospital when he
was bleeding to death
$12,000,000 Fund for
Chinese Education
Special Cable to The American.
PEKIN, July 18.—Presldent Yuan
Shih Kal has issued a mandate order
ing the establishment to-day of an
educational fund amounting of $12,-
000,000, which shall provide 1,200
scholarships for Chinese students at
home and abroad, each vielding $4OO
annually. The fund will be created
by depositing $3,000,000 annually in
the Bank of China.
{ ) h
’ Dream Mascots' the
~ Newest London Fad
Speclal Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 18.-—A great many
soclety people are now using dream
mascots {n their bedrooms-—a little
charm In the form of an eye, which
i worn round the neck at night
and is supposed to bring beautiful
dreams.
Flowers and dishee of fruit in the
bedroom are placed there to at
tract good spirits,
TR R O T
HAVE YOU A LAZY LIVER?
ilf youw have dizzy spells, poor
appetite, headaches and frequent
fite of desapondency—vou may
be sure that your liver s at
the bottom of all the trouble.
ierce’s Gold
Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery
(IN TABLET OR LIQUID FORM)
Promotes the proper flow of di
gestive juices, thus toning up the
stomach ang revivifying theliver
Pimples and bouils are eradicated.
“me:mmununumummm
ATLANTA JULY 190 1914
Depew Spry at 80 Has
.
No Longevity Rules
“Always Have Done as | Please,”
Both He and W. H. Crane
Explain.
Speclal Cable to The American,
LONDON, July 18.-—~For the past
week London has been entertalning
octogenarian <Chauncey M. Depew
and septuagenarian Willlam H.
| Crane.
~ Although neither would consent to
lay down any specific rules captioned
“How to Be Happy Though Elderly,”
ooth of them abundantly proved dur
’lng' their stay here that they know all
about the subject,
. The former United States Senator,
'who is here with his wife, believes
implicitly in the value of living and
#ayvs so himself.
“l can't point out any one attri
bute of mine, any innate quality re
sponsihle for my present physical
und mental health,” sald Mr. Depew
“I always have done just about as I
pleased. I never have bheen an ab
stemious man in the sense of being a
‘teetotaler,’ and have never taken
on any amount of exercise. But, do
yvou know, sometimes I believe that
if a man does plenty of mental ex
ercise the physical exercise isn’t at
all necessary.
“l can assure anyone who is in
terasted that my capacity for being
pleased with life was never greater
nor more keenly developed than to
day."”
William H. Crane, looking forward
to the coming season’'s road tour in
the new ‘‘Henrfetta,” with the all
eager anticipation of a star half his
age.
With Depew, the veteran actor, in
gists that abstention from the things
one likes can not be requisite to
longevity, He says he has always
dor.e that which pleased him, and
still does.
English Taxi Drivers
. .
Are Invading Berlin
Speclal Cable to The American.
BERLIN. July 18—With a view
primarily to the convenience of
American tourists, Police President
VonJagow some time ago installed a
number of English-speaking police
men at the various prominent cors
ners of the downtown section.
The experiment proved so success
ful that a number of English-speak
ing chauffeurs have been engaged by
the taxicab companies,
The taxi linguists, by consent of
the police, are permitted to wear
American and Engiish flags embroid
ered on thelr sleeves as a distinguish
ing mark. They are required to keep
as much as possible in the hotel dis
trict,
China Plans to Build
$4,000,000 Arsenal
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 18.—It appears from
inquiries which are being made in
London by accredited agents that it
is the intention of the Chinese Gov
ernment to set up an arsenal near Pe
kin. It is stated that a sum approx:.-
mading $4,000,000 is about to be pro
vided for the purpose.
In the event of the inquiries prov
ing satisfactory, not only will the con
tracts for machinery for the making
of arms and ammunition be placed n
England, but engagements will be of
fered to a number of experts to super.
vise erection and conduct of the
arsenal.
. .
U. 8. Fair Officials
'
Guests of the Kaiser
Special Cable to The American, |
BERLIN, July 18.—Consul C. H.
Schilling, manager of the German
Panama Exposition Bureau, and W.
W. Schultz, of San Francisco, who {s
assisting him in the work of collect
ing German exhibits for the fair, have
returned to Berlin from Kiel, where
they went at the Government’s invi
tatfon to attend the opening of the
newly-widened Kalser Wilhelm Ca
nal. % 1
Alpine Passes Still
. \
|
Closed to Motorists
Special Cable to The American. J
GENEVA, July 18.~Much disap
pointment has been felt by American |
motoriste over the fact that the fa
moug Alpine passes are still closed tn‘
automobiles on account of the huge
masses of snow near the summits.
The Furka, Grimsel and Simplon
passes may be opened to traffic this
week, the last-named being a few days
later than the other two. It is impos
sibla to say just when the first car
will be able to pass over the Grand
St. Bernard, the mecca of all motor- |
{ste touring in this country. At the
present moment the summit of the |
pass is covered with a hard, crusted |
snow measuring from 16 to 24 feet
deep. Workmen will have to cut a
“white ecanal” through this sol!d‘
mass, f
1
Tired, Run-down, Dragged
Out, Worn to a Frazzle—
All because you are hot,
bilious and constipated.
MOZLEY'S
For 42 Years the
Standard Home Remedy,
will act as a gently stimu
lating tonic, stir up the
lazy liver and relieve that
constipation. You will
have a new and rosy out
look on life.
Summer Time Is Elixir
Time.
In Bottles—Two sizes, 50¢
and $l, of any druggist.
Mozley Lemon Elixir Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Social Season Practically Overy
but List of Jjotable Arrivals
Is Undiminished,
By W. ORTON TEWSON,
Special Cable to The American. 4
LONDON, July 18.—Although from
a society point of view the London
season has ended, visitors from all
parts of the world continue to arrive
in thousands, and to-day tne metrop
olis saw more crowds of visitors than
at any previous time during the sume=
mer.
The trans-Atlantic contingent easi
ly predominates, and it is no exag
geration to say that the American ar
rivals during the week were phenoms=
enally large. The hotels remain
crowded and the most exclusive so
cial circles of New York, Boston, Chi
cago and the Pacific Coast are well
represented by the week's newcomers,
At the Ritz Hotel are Mr. and Mrs.
Chauncey M. Depew, who have.ar
rived to spend a few days before pro
ceeding to the continent to join the
Baronegs Von Andre, Mrs. Depew’s sis
ter; Mrs. James Smith, who came
from Paris, where she had been vis
iting her daughter, the Duchess de
Vizien, and who will remain in Lon
don until the end of the month, when
she will go to Cowes; Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Iselin and Isaac Guggenheim,
of New York.
Wilson Gets Golf Clubs.
Henry W. Savage, aftar spending a
few days at the Savoy Hotel, went to
Paris yesterday, accompanied by
Golding Bright, the play broker. John
Wilson, cousin of President Wilson,
who i{s staylng at the Metropole, exs
pects to sall for New York on Au
gust 15, He is taking with him &
set of golf clubs made by the famous
professional, James Braid, and pre
sented to the President by the Ameri
can Golf Club.
. Bryan Lathrop, a real estate op
erator of Chicago, has arrived at the
Ritz Hotel, where he will stay until
the end of the month.
Among recent visitors from New
York at the Carlton Hotel is Mrs.
George l.aw, who was reported as one
time to have been engaged to Lord
Curzon. Other arrivals at the Carl
ton include George Kessler, of cham=-
pagne fame, and Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Gunsaulus, of Chicago.
Mrs. Willlam Jay, of New York, has
arrived at Claridge's for a short stay
before going to the continent. Mrs.
Willlam E. Carter, whose husband
{s a Titantic survivor, has also arrived:
at Claridge's and expects to stay there
some time.
Theatrical Visitors.
Joseph Brooks, the New York the
atrical man, has returned to the Sa-'
voy from Paris. At the same hotel
are also registered H. H. Westing
house, head of the Westinghousa
Company of Pittsburg:; Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Crane, en route for Carls
bad, and Miss Frances Ring, the ae
tress, who is convalescing from a re
cent appendicitis operation. She re
turns to New York in a fortnight with
her sister Blanche.
Owen Davis, the American play
wright, is here with his family for a
few days' sightseeinz
'Some Aftractive
. ~
Round Trip Rates
-
Air Line Railway
['Tho Progressive Railway of / the
! South”
f SPECIAL ROUND TRIP FARES.
| Wrightsville, N. C. ..vaecsear.§lo.oo
§Wllmlngton, N. C iciosrwanseniiOß
| Athens, Ga. (SBundays) ........ 1.60
| Borden Springs, Ala. (Sundays) 125
| ROUND TRIP SEASON FARES,
!(‘hick Springs, S. C. ..........3&0.95
| Borden Springs, Ala. ......eq; 3.40
| Altapass, N. C. cevuvrvoasesennadl 0
l‘Linvme Falla, N. C. .ccouecsss§lo.6B
Lrittieton. N. O .. vvsvistasia imn
'Morehu.d City, N. C. cevoscsess /3580
{ Rutherfordton, N. C ceveasvansy 920
{Bprucepine, N. C. .....cceooeb 11,45
;‘.\'righmvnle Beach, N. C. csase. 18.56
| Johnson City, Tenn. ........s. 1315
%r'najm Springs, TenN. ....se-. 1348
|Afton, Va. ..cevecviccccocancns 22.40
;Ash!ani. Y& iviirivanusroscal SIS
Hot Springs, Va. ...ccoscesses 3T.007
Norfoll, Va. .......cccoveneneas 24.25
014 Point Comfort, VA ........ 34.25
Virginia Beach, Va. ....esooeee. 3435
wWashington, D. C. seeesecsnces SNER
Beltimore, M@, ~.cissesccsvsis SR
Deer Park, Md. ....cccoseeoes 33,26
Atlantic City, N. J. ..ccocccacss 3676
New York City, N. Y. .cc.cevs 3825
Niagara Falls, N. Y. .......... 89.00
Alexandria Bay, N. Y. ........ 47.60
Baratoga Springs, N. Y......... 45.70
Narragansett Pler, R. L. ........ 45.00
Providenos, B.oL 1. o ikissis SR
Boston, Mask .. .. i..... 5 0 00
Bar Harbor, Maine ... e s eLR
Portland, Malne ........5...0. 410 N
Fabyan, N. H. ..c..ccccvecnnes 54.10
RUtlang, VL . oicciiconiionter 20NN
Montreal, Quebee ......cc.0... 5150
Quebec, Quebec .............. 58.85
Hot Springs, Ark. ......:icvss. 85045
San Francisco, Cal. ............ 80.80
DRRAVEr, 010, .. .o\ ossseeraoe SEEN
Kansas City, Mo, .....cccov.... 36.58
Tickets via Norfolk to New
York, Boston and Providence
include meals and berth. Round
trip rates to other places will bs
named on application.
All through trains carry all
gteel, electrically-lighted sleep
ers and dining cars.
City Ticket Office, 88 Peachtree St
: Telephone Ivy 194.
FRED GEISSLER, A. G, P, Ay
Atlanta, Ga.
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