a con tt WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1023 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG FOR TICKLING COUGHS, severly tax their strength. This A display sign in the window of a happens because they do not take local druggist reads, "For Tickling | time by the forelock and are not Coughs." Now if it had said "For { forehanded in their preparations for Demolishing Corns; They Die in the { the day. The last few days before Open Beeking Water" the passerby | Christmas usually are filled with fe- would give only the usual heed. But | verish activity, hecause great. multi. ! that sign, "For Tickling Coughs," is! tudes of people do not make their a puzzler. Whe would want a | Christmas purchases earlier, with cough tickled and why? | the result that they not only unduly ENTITIES | 1 or | Clarence Ludlow Brownell, M.A. Fellow Royal Geographical Soclety, Londen, England, I ia Ari Generally speaking, if we are 0 believe Floyd Parsons, popular no-! Ea ~ BIBBY'S mE ------------ 1 IT a - E - - 1 ; d| LUE (ER 7 = Ki 4 '. Ry . ished Daily and Semi-Weekly by 4 BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED BLEFHON, B Private Each ange, States (semi-Weekly Edtiion) One year, by mall, cash Une year, to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: | Caulder, 22 St. John St, Montrea td : to the Editor are published | sal vee the actual name of the ¥ printing of 1 Sie 95 Ite best job Zhe circulation of THE BRITISH y WHIG is authenticated by the ABO | Audit Barean of Circulations Add to the list of eternal tri-| L'>l Proposes to prove that genius 'edgement on their pant that "agles: Cold morning, used car, pro- ity, ------------ | ~ Germany hankers for a new abyss, | after hanging over the old one for "80 long. You can recognize Easy Street by | the incessant chatter about servants 'and symptoms. Character will get you to Heaven, Dut it's reputation that gets you on | the first page. 'We know but one man who is in- ¥ariably cheerful, and he tells his keeper he is Cromwell. ) Recognition of t he soviet de- 'pends on its willingness to change & Itself beyond recognition. g A Tich man is ode who can growl it & collector and say that he will BY when he gets ready. . © Perfecting a civilization is just = 8% slow process of teaching husbands how to act before company. | You can judge a town by the | £ Sum of money required to make man an important citizen. It he takes thought of his soul, Be is a wise man; if he laughs ot Such matters, he is a wise guy. When a man gets home late \he L that Kipling was right out the female of the species. If there are silver threads among gold, it doesn't mean anything that the henna didn't work. e a nie. 'Correct this sentence: "I'm fifty- b," he declared, "and I don't feel fay older than I did at thirty." matter what other styles the same old manner of Christmas desires continues. is the spirit and not the price gift that counts," said the m » 88 he walked into the ten-cent fame doubt the world will be a restful and orderly place reform begins where charity excellent study of human na- the reaction of the famify | of pavements long for the knowledge L But wherever you go at this time | 'of year you run across people who | must cértainly be devouring pack- ages of these eough ticklers They | cough loudly and generously, to the | enrichment of everyone, in a way | that keeps the surrounding atmps- | phere in a condition of more thn | ideal humidity. They spray out | enough germs in a forenoon to send all Kingston to bed with hot water | bottles and aspirin. { Not one whit better than these are ¢t! the still more numerous jediviua) who cough behind their hand. Here are people who know how to do bet- ter and do it not. For the palm catches only a portion of the dis- charge and the rest is disseminated through the room. When one com- siders the details it is at best an | unpleasant practice. There ig, in fact, only one way to | cough and that is with a handker- chief held loosely against the mouth. | | | | If this rule were adopted by every- | one, winter "colds"--which have | | nothing at all to do with cold-- | would de practically eliminated, for | we would not be constantly infect- | ing' one 'another, and the demand ! for cough cures would be scarcely |! greater than for freckle lotions. i A -------------- A MATTER OF GENIUS, ! Dr. Paul Kamerer, Austrian selen- | can be made hereditary. Experi- | ments with salamanders, frogs and other animals have convinced him | that genius can be prolonged | through the succeeding generations of the family and need hot be left | to chance. | A grateful world would proclaim | the deeds of Dr. Kamerer should | he succeed in his purpose. Could! tho world repay a man who assured | it a continuous line of Shakespeares, | Miltons, Carusos, Elbert Hubbards, | and others of their genius? The | plan of Dr. Kamerer is to make the | genius of the parent instinctive in the child. He does not promise that | genius shall come at birth, but that | it shall develop with the child, { The scheme of the eminent Aus- | trian biologist is beautiful in theory | and idealistic in promise, but to! overyday men and women appears! ridiculously impractical. We have | been schooled in the theory that of the two, environment is more potent than heredity in determining human development. Many believe that genius is not an abnormal quality | or ability inherited by the oxcep- tional, but is the developmeat in the few of qualities inherent in the av- erage human being. That is the reason why we accept environment, as the controlling factor in sociol- logy. -- AOTOR AND POET. Kingston has the unusual honor of welcoming to-day two men who are among the chief figures in two kin- dred worlds of art: Sir John Mar- tin Harvey, who brings to us the Breatest traditions of the stage, and Bliss Carman, a melodious and cap- tivating voice from the flelds of poetry. It is a matter for keen re- gret to many that in hearing one they will have to miss the other. Sir John was to have been a naval architect, but blue-prints and bulk- heads 'failed to satisfy his desire for expression and he abandoned india- ink for grease-paint. Those who | have seen him in any of his great | interpretations in "The Breed of the! Treshams," '"Fhe Only Way," or! "The Bugomaster of Stilemond" will not lightly forget the high mo- ments of those plays. From what different surroundings comes Bliss Carman, the nature poet, to sing of the unspoiled places and the sensuous beauty of her from whom we are all sprung. It was in the broad valley of the St, John river, New Brunswick, that he felt the call of nature which has led him deep into the mysteries and joys which lesser men and town-dwellers can but half guess. Yet even we who wear out our lives on a round which can express itself in the words: "This is the law of being ' That links the threefold chain: The life we give to beauty Returns to us again." ALL READY FOR CHRISTMAS. Christmas looms up prominently | | tions, the notions of the average | the ! man on the street and the man on | { the farm, lack verisimilitude. They'| partake of the nature of those tra- | ditional beliefs that inhabit most | people's minds, and which most | month. Late shopping not only be- | PeOPle prefer should remain as they | . (are. Only a small percentage of in- gets exhaustion and discomfort, but 1 1 ; Hep Sit Wise and cor | dividual persons will undertake any it makes impossible a 2 "9" | enterprise such as a course of read- nomic selection of purchases. Obvi- | ing, or attending a course of lec- ously, the best time to shop is not | tures, or of sermons, that might | i } Just before Christmas, but at the | disturb a well-housed belief, and, | present time when the merchants' | peradventure, disturb it. Hnes of goods arc full, the stores| Some of these beliefs concern the not crowded and {#e¢ purchaser can | moon; some the stars, some the sun take the necessary time to make wise | (Which is a star)--all stars .are | sélections. suns--some the days of the week | (in Constantinople, for instance, | | there are three Sundays--the Mgy | hammedans celebrate Friday, the | numerous Jews there celebrate Sat- | | urday, and the Christians celebrate | { the first day of the week). Some | | beliefs have to do with the number | thirteen, and some have to do with ! | Individuals. Adam and the Rib, Noah and the Ark, Romulus and Re- mus and the Wolf, Saul and the | Witch, William Tell and the Apple, | George Washington and the Hat- | chet; each has its tablet which mil- | lions have cherished. | | There are stories of the living, | tao, that have gained wide cred- | ence. The fact that millions be- | lieve a story is not evidence as to | the facts in the story. Hundreds | of millions of men and women have believed that the earth was flat-- the | 20d have believed that tive sun py .. | goes round the earth. Millions of Sougs of tg trouble Was 2 Imtyey- | farmers believe what the patent me- | germ at present could 6 521d 16 po | Gicine almanacs print about plant- the actual cause of Flu Th fact | ing erops. Millions of city folk be- | they Were of the opiai > "| lieve there is "something in it" e Opinion that. the | oy; "ine ouija board comes up as cause of Flu fs always in you, but 2 : y a topic for conversation. There that during an epidemic something are many persons on both sides of tomes along that "whips" this {inc Atiantie @hy belleve tact Tho cause into action, or else interferes | : mas Alva Edison is a wizard, and With your resisting powers to tnat has been seeking to make a tele- | particuiar harmful cause, 3 . phone so sensitive that spirits can | So you are Stricken down become vocally effective and talk to | what is called Fiu, "the children of.this world" through And as the actual cause is not his invention. known your physician has not the direct remedy with which to fight the trouble that he has now in a case of Diabetes, for instance, And s0 these health specialists say that in the meantime there is nothing one can do but tp rely on | the ordinary preventive measures that tend to build up the constitu- tion, But. td try and build up the con- |! olitution with a mass of putrefying | material in the intestine is like 'the man who bufit his house upon the sand." I often think chat 1 talk too much about this matter, but when the best known hospital in America sends out these very words to all people there must be a reason for it. Notwithstanding all your care you may be stricken down whilst anoth- er careless in the matter may es. cape it entirely, ' * And the explanation? Two people eat the same food-- eggs--fish---tomatoes, One is at- tacked by severe pain and the oth- er feels no effect whatever. The cells of the one do not take kindly to certain foods, and those of the other do. You've seen this often, Similarly when this trouble comes along, You may or may not be at- tacked. So remember the advice of our health specialists which is, that you build up your body in ev. ery way possible. And in building that, you build upon the solid rocz ~--a& clean intestine--instead of upon the sands. tax their dwn strength but strength of the clerks in the stores, in undertaking to accomplish in a! few days that which should have oc- cupled their attention for "a whole That By James 1, Barton, M.D, i I was interested in reading the other day some suggestions sent out by one of the best known hos- vitals In the United States regard- | ing the best means of combatting the demon--Fiu, There was an honest acknow. | by Edison a Truth Seeker. Though this belief is general, Edison denies it, and Edison should | { know. He says distinctly that he | disbelieves in spirits. A spirit to | him is nothing and he is unable to conceive "nothing." He has never | thought of trying to talk to nothing, | or of having nothing talk to him. | Beiltig nothing, there would not be ! anything for it to say; nothing could | not have ideas, though it is admit- | ted that the reports. of messages al- leged to come through mediums suggest that their origin is nothing --thelr value is zero. Edison furthermore asserts that hy has never considered the investi- | | gation of the researah societies in ! | England or America, or any other | | place, seriously, nor any of the | Sir Conan Doyle declarations. They [do not interest him. To the "Wiz- | ard" they represent futility. Psy- chical research has not as yet brought out a fact upon which a man can stand with both feet. The Wizard, who has been busy with electricity for sixty years, and is perhaps as widely known as any | man that ever lived, because of his electrical work, says he does not know what electricity is, and does not expect to know. Scientists say that electricity is everything; that matter consists of -electrons, which form atoms, which in their turn form molecules, and that molecules form what people call matter. This is the only theory that offers much explanation in a logical form, but what does it explain? It explains conclusively . that nobody knows what is the matter of which all things, even human beings, consist. Edison speculates as all healthy minds will. He advances theories j and then tests them, He seeks to discover the truth. His attitude Is that of the man who discards all theories that do not explain facts. If the theory does not stand the test of thé most hostile examina- tion, he cannot accept it. He is exactly the opposite in his mental attitude from the person who seeks to convince himself and others that that belief he holds is correct. He will not tolerate his personal biases. He may wish that a theory be true; fle may even pray that it be true, but if it does not fit the tacts of life, he will not accept it. He is not an 'attorney for the defence; his is simply a truth seeker. ; Edison calls one PRESS COMMENT Where Is Peace? The world wants peace, It perish if it does not secure it. militarists cannot grant us it. The economists equally have failed. Is it to go forth that men in the mass will not respond--if properly mar- shalled and inspired--to a great moral slogan that will point the Way to a final healing, with a pru- dent avoidance of the things which may open old sores or cause new hurts when victors and vanquished are again convalescent?--Natal Ad- vertiser, will The Filipinos, of his A Governor-General of Canada who interfered with local legisia- tion would find himself ; back to England on a swift battle cruiser, prepared to make his best alibi to No. 10 Downing street, be- fore handing in his resignation. 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