Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-21

| sent telegram TO his DrOtnef-ln-laW IN
ST.. Louis asking if he was at home.
He soon received an affirmative reply
and the invitation "Come and see me-
It was shrewd game, but it did not
work.
The repeal Of the Massachusetts law
compelling the patrons of saloons to sit
at table while draining their cups has
not, it seems, conferred the right to
drink in any attitude they please upon
the Boston topers. 1t restores to them
the privilege of standing up to the bar
and taking their drinks, but the i'm
portant question has arisen whether it
does not make it an illegal act to drink
while sitting down. The guzzlers at
the Hub, while as rule preferring the
neutrality-suspicious. plan, do not
want to be denied altogether the right
to practice the sedentary method. In
deed: they demand unrestricted free
dom in their ways of taking their
liquor. They are amply able to drink
in any posture that was ever conceived
by Delsarte or Edmund Russell, and a
measure which implies the right to re-
strict their choice of drinking attitudes
hardly strikes them with favor.
AT the annual meeting of the Con-
necticut Medical Society DR.. Melanc-
thon Storrs, the President, in the course
of his address, spoke as follows of the
educational value of happiness: "a
child should be made happy. Happi-
ness causes the heart to beat full, the
eye to brighten, and the whole physical
condition to improve. Some teachers
look upon the mind as an entity to be
cultivated entirely separate from the
body. The process of memorizing is
absolutely harmful. Too often some
of the brightest minds are ruined for
any future work by undue study. Long
lessons, preparing for competitive ex-
aminations. etc., are productive of in
durable brain disorders" There is a
volume of wisdom condensed in this
paragraph, aud it would be we'll if all
teachers and parents would study and
profit by it.
A FEW years ago intestinal surgery
was hardly dreamt Of In our Civil
War, for instance, an abdominal wound
penetrating the viscera was believed to
be necessarily mortal, and no effort was
ever made to save the life of a soldier
who had sustained such an injury, so
utterly hopeless was his case con-
sidered. The practicubility of success
full operations on the intestines has
since been demonstrated, and it is
mainly to American surgeons that
progress is due in this delicate and
little known branch OF surgery. Dr..
Brokaw, the eminent abdominal
surgeon of st. Louis, conducted expert.
ments which proved that by uniting g
broken intestine end to end the patient
had even chances for life. DR.. Shin
we'll, and others, rejecting the end-to
end operation for general application
adopted process of overlapping, ano
obtained far better results. A series O
experiments on dogs lately conducted
by Drs. William e. Ashton and J. NJ
Badly, conclusively proves that the
best results are to be obtained by over
tapping where possible. Once facility
OF manipulation was obtained, ninet,
per cent. Of the operations were sue
cessful. Thus the net result of the in
yestigations to date is that the patien
has nine chances in ten of recovering
where few years ago not the faintes
hope could be held out.
.. The Wicked Bosom-Pin.
AS every one knows, in the early day.
Of methodism considerable degree o
strictness was maintained in regard tc
wearing of jewelry or costly attire. Al
eminent divine of that chnrch gives al
amusing incident. A preacher had jus
gone to his new charge and was in tht
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