Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-02-21

gated. By keeping branches and the
seeds of the plant in rooms, the mos
quitoes are driven away from the LAT
ter,-Consular Report from Maracibo.
The celibate tendency of the mo lera
woman is beginning to very the vital
statisticiaR. The decadcnce of mar
riage is threatened and the gradual ex-
tinctiol of the race MIR. Carroll ID.
Wright has been investigating the sua.
ject AMI finds that of II, 427 represent
alive Torkingwomen, living in %
cities, 10 per cent. of them being M
der rs years OF age, 1887 were single
women. These figures are simply ao-
palling. In the good Old times, t as
claimed, ole-half of these young wo-
men would already have been married
from 3 TO 5 years. The fact seems 10
be that there is tendency to the post
ponement of marriage on the part of
both sexes. In the case of women this
postporement is too often fatal, and in
the ease of men it gets to be bad
habit.
Several theories have been ad-
vanced to account for this increasing
unpopuiarity of marriage. The state
ment thet young men have become
more shy and embarrassed in the pres
enco of the modern go-ahead girl may
have some truth in it. The present
tendency is undoubtedly to cultivate
self-assurance and independence in
young women and to encourage them
to become self-supporting Many ave
nues are open to them; they can make
a comfortable living and enjoy life.
better living for one than the majority
of young men can make for two with
prospects of more). This situation
tends to check marriage in two ways:
First, it makes the women more indie
pendent CT men, therefore, in the sec
ond place, perhaps trifle less attrac-
tive to them. Marriage is IN odd af-
fair, anyhow. 1t is largely a psychical
business in the start, based upon q
delicate emotional instinct, and all the
logic and reason of a progressive age
cannot alter that fact The pushing
and businesslike modern woman is not
conducive to it.-Philadelphia Medical
Journal.
Ever since the days of James Watts
it has been hoped that some rotary
form of steam motor, having a CON
slant torque throughout its whole eli
conference of rotation, could be pro-
duced, and this we seem to have
reached in the modern turbine. Notl.
ing could be simpler or more conven-
lent for the parallel operation of alter
mating current machinery, while q
host of special problems that have
been introduced in this important rield
of work by the incapacity of the pis-
ton engine will disappear before +he
advent of turbines running under even
torque at high speed. What can be
done under limiting conditions OF
space and weight by these machines
has already been spectacularly illus.
trated in the performance of the tur.
bine-driven torpedo craft lately made
in England. The elimination of vi
bration and shock and the saving OF
for space arc features that will be
highly important in power plants
Electrical Review.
In paper published in a recent is
sue of the Journal of the Franklin In
stitute, Prof. E. L. Nichols gives an
account of some interesting expert
mQntc on fha Hauno of aco+yIooo T.,
the first place, he states that the il
Illuminating power of the gas falls off
enormously if it is kept stored in a gas
holder over water for any length #
time. IN one experiment gas stored
in this way for five months gave only
6 per cent. of the light afforded by
freshly generated gas consumed at the
same pressure and at the same burner.
An analysis of the stored gas showed
that decomposition had occurred, so
that when used only about one-quarter
the total bulk was acetylene.
I. d. Crotbers believes that when inc
briefly shall be more generally studied
and treated as a disease by the profess
sion a degree of curabnlty will be OBJ
tanned far beyond any present expecta-
ton. The continued or occasional ex-
cessive use OF spirits to intoxication is
not the disease, but is a symptom of
some central irritation and exhaus-
ton; also of poisoning and starvation.
Many of these cases are self-limited,
and follow a certain course, dying
away after time. The subsistence Of
the drink symptom by the removal of
the exciting causes and building up
the system TO greater vigor and health
is the only rational treatment-St
Louis Medical Review.