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men At Wwy5(0 it wit § ho » All over rural Canada, people are dyâ€" ing unnecessarilyâ€"â€"dying years abead of their time of disseases which could Be prevented. Large cities with their «ompetent, wells:afted health depart ments have so reduced deathâ€"rates that By DR. GORDON BATES ‘ (General Secretary, Canadian Social Hygiene Council.) Much has been said, recently, about the total inadequacy of the public bes th servic» of Cana‘s rural areas. Or Some Are, there are many diseases, a‘most unâ€" known in those cities, which still conâ€" tinue to take as beavy toll in rural parts as they did ffty years ago. Typhoid fever, for example, is virtual ly unknown in the city of Toronto, but all over the Canadian countryside and in the smaller urban centres, it takes #s annual toll of lives. Of course, the remedy for this is Inâ€" €reased expenditure on health in those vast, neglected areas, "County Health Units", small, fullâ€"time, eficient public kealth departments, similar to those of big cities, should repliace the present system of partâ€"time, underpaid, unsupâ€" ported county medical health officers, Many responsible organizations have recently passed resolutions favoring this reform. _ Up to the time of writâ€" ing the most recent were the United Farmers of Alberta and the United Farm Women of Alberta, wherever these county health units have been orâ€" ganizedâ€"notably in Quebec â€"they kave succeeded beyond the wildest dreams, in saving life and preventing . sickness. _ Deathâ€"rates have been hamâ€"‘ mered down, and the untold economic waste of unnecessary sickness and premature death has been strikingâ€" ly reduced. But this article, which has become} very much like a condemnation of a system, started out to be a detense of an individualâ€"cr rather, a group Oof individuals. 1 refer to the presâ€" sent county medical officers of health. Much has been said of the inadequacy Of the present sy:tem; little has been said of the tremendous dllleuklu' eonfronting the many conscientious, intelligent county Medical Officers of . Mealth who are striving, against overâ€" wheiming odds, to protect people who in many cases are indifferent to proâ€" tection, against diseases which they frequently look upon as Inevitable. "Too many people, even in this 20th gentury A.D. are startlinglyâ€"1 was going to say maliclously ignorant, and saturated with prejudices regarding earitation and social hyg.ene", writes Benator Dr. Gustave Lacasse, Medical Officer of Health, Tecumseh and East Sandwich, in the current issue of the eurrent lssue of the Canadian Public Health _ Journal. "For instance, haven‘t you often heard something Uke this from an interested neighbor? "Those quaranting laws are nonsense. 1 never catch anything anyway," or, "You say It‘s whooping cough, measles, ‘"Aevre rouge‘, well, he is bound to have 4# any way and he might just as well Rave it now and be done with it", and again, after death has stiffened those poor little limbs and deposited its lcy Xiss on those purple lips: "The docâ€" tor says it was too late for that serum to take effect . . . . Ouah! those shots are no good anyway. You know there is always something left in the system after that. Mrs. Soâ€"andso‘s baby was even killed by it last year, . Boe gheerful my dear friend, that is one more little angel in heavenâ€"and you have enough kids left anyway",â€"and o on, and so on indefinitely." Anyone who has had much to do with public bealth realizes only too well that the Senator‘s summingâ€"up Of the public attitude towards h?alth and sickness is all too *rue of all too large a section of the public. But he has, furthermore, some scathing things to say about a small minority in the medical profession. "Jometimes," Dr. Lacasse continugs, "spposition (to the medical health deâ€" partment) also come from " the other doctor", and that is most unfortunate. The Director of the City Department of Health of Montreal, Dr. 8. Boucher, wave out a statement to the press sometime ago in which he says: "Too many doctors (in Montreal) fail to re port contagicus diseases as required by provincial laws and. city o:dl:l-_ ances. This non.complance is h[ wome cases prompted ‘by nsigera tions of pecuniary interestâ€"and fear of being dismissed by the fanflly tonâ€" gerned." In spite of the fact that this declaration created quite a stir among some members of the Quebec medical fraternity 1 maintain that it stamps out also some Ontario phystâ€" glans under their true eolore." Truly the lot of the county Medical OfMicer of Health is a hard and thankâ€" Jess one, and the avorago citizen should remember that he is, in most fiees, striving to do his best with taily inadequate machinery, and in the face of lack of support, and even " ubiswas C aF whichk that ®Yetkge ance and Lack of Sympaâ€" the face of lack of support, and even resistance, of which that average sitizen has little cognizance. â€"_â€".0â€"â€" Billâ€"What makes you think ancient buildings are of so much better conâ€" struction than the modern â€" homes? JFimâ€"Well, for one thing they‘ve lastâ€" ed longer. Gabure C cummmmmmmmmmansipeammmmmme n t |ww-y WERV MCC First Farmerâ€"How‘s your son m‘ "A minor prospecting for oil Offen Smith: "Yes; I i ting along in the city? Second Farm. , dincovers rich carbon deposits. ‘n.," "What ms erâ€"Ohb, just fine! He‘s already on xm mm mm kins bas one. fo1 the pool committee of his club. Kilt that corn with Minard‘s Liniment mine yesterday." Are Hard Worked "County Health Units" Needed London.â€"Antiquarians . are trying to solve the mystery of a curious cel lar and secret passage which bhas just been unearthed by the demolition® of an old buliding at the corner of Hangâ€" ing Sword Alley and Whitefriars Street, off Fleet Street. Secret Passage In Fleet Street Five small arches in a brick wall lead to the cellar, which has a low vaulted brick roof with a span of about 10 feet, and is reached by walkâ€" Ing down some 20 feet of low passage. U;tvl'l‘ _roâ€"éénily the premises above the cellar were occupled by a frm of builders. "We ~'lnew of the existence of the cellar, but there was no access to it," a member of the firm told a rgponer. "It is supposed to have been occuâ€" pied at one time by a clerk who augâ€" mented bis income at night by body snatching and used the cellar as A temporary mortuary. There was A burial ground near by, go that the cellar would bave been a convenient headquarters. "Until quite recently parties of Americans used to be conducted round the premises, and in addition to being told this story, they were shown aA stain on the stairs said to have been made by the blood of a murdered man!" Such stories are quite possible in‘ the light of the history of "Alsatio," as the district around Whitefraire was called in the seventeenth and eighâ€" teenth centuries, when it was the privileged sanctuary of a notorious gang of cutâ€"throats. _ Ancther suggestion is that the cel lar was part of the Whitefriars monâ€" astery, which oxisted near the spot. lp_* Qabble Gertiec About the only thing we know of to do with our modern young people is to let them grow up. : t P Is any feeling fAiner than that which comes from doing a hard job particu You may be sure your secret sins will one day become puwblic gossip. Even fiattery can be irritating when an instalment collector and a bond salesman call at the same time. "Sark, of course. Haven‘t you heard of Noabh Sark?" "It is my guess that some of these women who have bought dresses on the instalment plan ought to go bak and get a few more instalments beâ€" fore wearin‘ ‘em in public." "How old are you, my little man?" "I dont know. Motker was twentyâ€" six when I was born, but now she‘s only twentyâ€"four." She used to rise at half past eight, To get the milk, but ther, Her daughter brings it in with bor Farmer Jenkins made his way into the village post office, which also was the general store. Oe "Amything for me?" he inquired of the postmaster. The other raked over a few parcels and letters, but found nothing. "Don‘t see nothing," he said. "Did you expect something?" _ "Yes,‘ answered the farmer. "I was expecting a card from Aunt Jenny, tellin me when she‘s comin‘." & ‘Hannab," called the postmaster to his wife, "seen a card from Mr. Jenâ€" king Aunt Jenny?" Rube stood looking at the "A.D." on the corner stone of an old building. Finally he muttered to himself that he guessed it must mean "All Done." "Yes," came the prompt reply. "She‘s coming down Tuesday." Short dresses make men more polite. You seldom see a man get on a street car abead of one. Meet the Wite! She‘s a nice little wife, she‘s the spice of my life, A sweet little treat and a wonder to wo0, Capriciously pretty, deliciously Itâ€"ly, And skittishly willing to bill and to coo) A getter Can dirtily hoax her or coax her away, Deceive me? no, never!. She‘ll cleave __ to me «ver, Just pleasingly equeezing, and teasing to stay! My pert little petter, no flirt or goâ€" So singing and sunny, no stinging for money, The bliss of my mischicvous kiss is her fee, She never acts funny, my sweet sunny honey, Her measure of pleasures is treasur ing me. beauty, It‘s odd, but she‘s broad as the deuce in her view, She follows suggestions without any questions, 1 feel that she‘s really too good to be She noever gets snooty when 1 pet a Forever carcessive, and never distresâ€" sive, I mean she‘s serene as a qucen on a throne, She‘s a Bear and a Wow, such a fair little Frauâ€" By gad, it‘s too bad that she isn‘t my A man was told by his doctor that if he laughed fAfteen minutes every day before meals his condition would improve. One day, in a restaurant, while hayâ€" Ing hbis laugh, a man at the opposite table walked over and said angrily: "What are you laughing at?" "What was Noah‘s surname?" "Why, I‘m laughing for my liver," he replied. _"'iv-;ll,ithen," said the other, "I guess I had better start laughing also. I orâ€" dered mine balf an hour ago." As she is gettin‘ in. Windsor Border Cities Star (Ind.): Scholarships for grocers‘ apprentices in England will be granted by the Canadian Department of Trade and Commerce. It is rather a unique idea, but there are distinct possibilities in the plan, possibilities that will reâ€" dound to the benefit of both Canada and the Motherland. Those boys will be brought to this country, where they will spend two weeks on a tour deâ€" signed to beiter At them for their life work. Still greater than thh. they will learn at Arst hand how the people over here live, and they will go back and tell the people of _the_if native l:;d.m'-l'mvl_'vl'li be a valuable contriâ€" bution to the better understanding and sympathy that are so much needed. Browne: "Do you happen to know anybody who bas got a car for sale?" well? true! own! Valuable Education ; Nanga BUw sBS PETE!C Ee C CORV e, and they will go back' Mrs. Cooker replied: "I was, and people of their nu'.‘am. But 1 was the only coalrange will be a valuable contri.| owner in the neighborhood. And erâ€" better understanding and ery day one of the neighbors brought it are so much needed. |in a kettle of something that must amermmicion d mcmmmiomacainier |boil a long time and asked mé to Do you happen to know ‘ cook it for her as 1 had so much room ) has got a car for sale?" on top of my stove. Besides, it kept * I should think Jenkins her electric bill down. 1 didn‘t mind I PAI2. (20 000 0 C ds 1022222 hud avave 4 BMOWUIG MMIME S PRAAAAAE NA s makes you think Jen-‘lemu them use the space, but every for sale?" "I sold ‘him u_y_m._ot those nine women cooked ever Donald Fraser, ninetyâ€"year old Canadian Scot of Victoria, would not pass up the opportunity of seeing brither Scots in action and was a picturesque figure at the Banff Highland Gathering recently held at the famcus resort in the Rockies. Mr. Fraser‘s father came out to Canada 120 years ago, but be himself has never been to Scotland. He is typically Scottish in accent and appearance and plans to visit the homeland some day. The happy mother is the one whose baby is well=it the laughing, gurgâ€" ling baby who always brings joy to the home. When baby is ill everyone i nthe home suffersâ€"not only through wory over the little one but through loss of sleepâ€"no one can rest with a sick baby in the home. Thousands of mothers are happy mothers because they have found the way to keep their little ones wellâ€"or if sickness does come on suddenly, as it usually does with littel ones, they have found the way to speedily bring the baby back to health again. Mrs. George Kech, Lindberg, Alta., is one of these mothâ€" ers and she write as follows:â€""I am the happy mother of a seventeenâ€" monthâ€"old baby girl. Baby is healthy and strong and sleeps well at night. I give her no other medicine ~ut Baby‘s Own Tablets and she just loves them. I ‘am never without the Tablets in the house." Baby‘s Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate the bowels; sweeten the stomach and thus drive out constipation and indiâ€" gestion and make the cutting of teeth easy. They are sold by medicine dealâ€" ers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. . WHENBABY IS WELL MOTHER IS HAPPY Gabby Gertie "To erâ€"râ€"t is buman, especially if you‘ve forgotten your alibi." A Personal Matter:â€"iIn one of the Lancashire towns the candidate for Parliamentary honors was tddrenll}g ;â€";‘;trhex; la.rie meeting. _ An unruly member of the audience, after uklng_ a number of ridiculous questions and causing considerable annoyance, asked, "Do you really think all woâ€" men should bave a vote?" "Certainâ€" 1y," replied the candidate. "You think idiots are able to vote, then?" "Don‘t answer him," roared the crowd. "Yes" replied the Candidate. "I think I will answer him, because he appears to be personally interested." Stop Colds with M?mrd'o Liniment. ONTARIO ARCHI TORONTO Toronto Telegram (Ind. Cons.): That the Beaubarnois power project! should become part of a Quebec light, heat and power merger is only natural. For this is the merger age. Big busiâ€" ness is reaching out and killing comâ€" petition by avsorphion. So much so that one authority fears that we are in danger of becoming a nation of salary drawers rather than a people who live by individual enterprise. If Canada is to become a nation of salâ€" ary drawers, their savings will go inâ€" to the banks and be used for creating iyet more mergers. Of course, any merger of power and utility comâ€" panies must be largely confined to territories east of the Ottawa River so long as public ownership survives in Ontario and the West. But how long will public ownership survive if the savings of the West creep into ’banku to add more power to the merâ€" germakers who dwell in the East? Letting the Cat Out of the Bag The expression "letting the cat out of the bag" is of nautial origin. When punishment by the use of the catâ€"o‘> nineâ€"tails was abolished, the "cat" was placed in a canvas bag and its use became an infraction of the law. Hence the meaning that when the ‘cat" was taken from the bag trouble would ensue. The Chinese are remarkable for the witty aphorisms with which they: adorn their conversation very aptly. Here are a few collected by Dean Inge:â€""A maker of idols is never an idolater." _ "No neeCle is sharp at both ends#." "He who rides on a tiger can never dismount." ‘"When a neighbor is in your fruit orchard, inâ€" attention is the truest form of politeâ€" ness." "Do not remove a fiy from your friend‘s forehead with a hatchet." ‘}"Free @itters grumble most at a play." "Everyone pushes a falliny fence." "One dog barks at nothing and the rest bark at him." "You can‘t clap your bhands with one palm." "I am quite convinced that my arâ€" guments are correct," said an earnest man. "Well," replied hbis friend, "It‘s a good start. You‘ve got one man converted, anyhow!" Yesterday, Mrs. Cooker traded in her coal range on an electric stove. Astonished _ friends gasped, "We thought you were a rooter for the oldfashloned coal range." Peanuts are used in the manufacâ€" ture of several varietie of wood stains. What most peopie call indigestion is usually excess acid in the stomach, The food has soured. ‘The instant remedy io an alkall which neutralizes acids. But don‘t use crude helps. Use what your doctor would advise. The best help is Phillips‘® Milk of Magneosia. For the 50 years since its invention it bas remained standard with physiciane. You will fnd nothing else so uick in its effect, so harmless, This is the Merger Age |ndi8¢5fl0n 1 see it now as in those early days, the house commodious and comfortâ€" able, set in the midst of a lawn of shrubbery, rioting in al the grandeur of its native freedom. And through a grape arbor is the view of my mother‘s gardenâ€"oldâ€"fashioned, useâ€" ful, and beautifulâ€"wit ba walk runâ€" ning through the center dividing the wellâ€"kept beds of healthy vegetables from the vivid colors of the fragrant flowers on the other side. No weeds were allowed to thrive there, and when we as children walked along those garden paths uncomsciously the harmony there displayed entered our hearts. Grandmother The home was built at the edge of a grove which sheltered it on two sides and was a veritable forest of enâ€" chantment to us as children, giving us a wonderful playground where our childish imagination could revel unâ€" checked. We made companions of the birds and squirrels, grew to know as. no city child« ever can the time of leafage and blossoming of the trees. Wild fruits and nuts were there in abundance and in the springtime the fragrance of the grove rivaled my mothers‘ garden. Our playbhouse was built under the wideâ€"spreading branchâ€" es of the big hawthorn tree. Could any playhouse bave a more alluring setting with the grove for a backâ€" ground an dos our outlook the meadow with its bloom of wild flowers and a road which curves and winds on its way to the house. The road was borâ€" dered by a luxuriant growth of wild roses and hazel, and crossed by a clear little brook beautiful in the sunshine ever luring our little bare feet to wade in its shallow depths. What wonders that home held for us, so near to naâ€" ture‘s heart, so far from tempiation. ~ Constant daily testing and blending of the world‘s choicest fi-finldw?uiuwm-_lm goodness. Imymm , _ %4 As children we learned willing obedience and respect for our elders and 1 cannot conceive of anyone growâ€" ing up in that environment being other than law abiding.â€"From Manuscript Notes of Elizabeth Stanfield. RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE is extra good With regard to the enterprise of the Canadian Pacific Railway for emigra tion, the latest and most efficient equipment is evidently to be a fea ture, the Morning Post Montreal corâ€" respondent writes:â€" "The largest and most powerfual type of locomotive ever built in the Empire is being put into service by the Canadian Pacific Railway. "The new engines will be used to haul fast freight and passenger trains through the Rocky Mountains ,and each of them will be able to do the work of two or more lighter locomoâ€" tives. "Each engine and tender measures over all 298 feet and weighs 160,0001 Ibs., 78 times heavier than Stephen-l son‘s Rocket locomotive. The cylindâ€" ers are 26% inches in diameter and the stroke is 32 inches, Their cylinâ€" ders and underframes are cast in one solid plece, welighing 67,000 lbs. This great casting, which is usually made up of a number of massive setâ€" tions bolted together, takes in the cylinders, main frames, and all crossâ€" ties, and achieves far greater rigidity than is otherwise attained." , One tasteless spoonful in water neuâ€" tralizes many times itsvolume in acid. The resulte are immediate, with no bad after effects. Once you learn this fact, you will never deal with excess acid in the crude ways. Go learnâ€" nowâ€"why this method is supreme. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips‘ Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physiâ€" clans for 50 years in correcting excess acids. Each bottle contains full direcâ€" Ask Your Barberâ€"He Lhnows L U X O FOR THE HAIR A Huge Casting Remembers is good tea TWO STEAM PUMPS, IN PERVECE condition, large “’““J' Watkine, Room 421. T3 Adclalde 8t West Toronto. French Guideâ€"*"What do you think of that immense tower over there?" Americanâ€""It‘s quite an Eiffel!" The more w‘flo&ly preventive work is carried on the more dificult ltboeome-tomthonecdotlt. [ * RIFLES â€" SPORTSME Chea pe Write J T. W. B 376 Notre Dame 1 very cheap. apply Watk! 1 73 Adelalde Street West Tired Feet Well equipped for publishing and printing, doing good business. Must have substantial down pay: ment. Good reason for selling. Apply Box 8, WILSON PUBLISHING CO. LTD. 73 Adelaide St. W. Toronte WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR SALE Bathe with Minard‘s in warm water, rubbing into aching parts Soothing and relieving. mmm&v-dlumnhwl\'rm "hm'fll“"flwm 4. oo Aroaiin Sete Tt traimoit a maracle, but Without a word of a lie 1°" was able to 46 iaken to the front door in iess than a week ! in a few days I was out with the help of crutches ; and in a short time 1 was walking well, _ This is not a oneâ€"week testimonial, but four years. "A Miracle!" 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