Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-18

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 modern
woman is beginning to worry the vital
| statistician. The decadence of mar
| riage is threatened and the gradual ex-
tinction Of the race. Mr.. Carroll D.
| Wright has been investigating the sub
ject and finds that of II APT represent
ative workingwomen, living in %
cities, Is per cent. of them being ul-
der 25 years of age, 1881 were single
! women. These figures are simply ap
palling. In the good old times, It is
claimed, one-haif of these young wo-
men would already have been married
from to years. The fact seems TO
be that there is a tendency to the post
ponement of marriage on the part of
both sexes. In the case of women this
postponement is too often fatal, and in
the case Of men it gets to be a bad
habit
Several theories have been adj
vanced to account for this increasing
unpopularity of marriage. The state
ment that young men have become
more shy and embarrassed in the pres
ence 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
comfortable living and enjoy life.
Many a woman, in fact, can make a
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 of men, therefore, in the sec
ond place, perhaps trifle less attrac-
tive to them. Marriage is an odd af-
fair, anyhow. It is largely psychical
business in the start, based upon
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.-Philadelphi 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 it's whole cir
conference of rotation, could be pro-
duced, and this we seem to have
reached in the modern turbine. Notn-
ing could be simpler or more conyen-
lent for the parallel operation of alter
mating current machinery, while a
host of special problems that have
been introduced in this important field
of work by the incapacity of the pis
ton engine will disappear before the
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
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
ments on the flame of acetylene. In
the first place, he states that the IL
Illuminating power of the gas falls off
enormously if it is kept stored in gas
| holder over water for any length IF
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.
| T. D. Crothers believes that when inc
briefly shall be more generally studied
and treated as a disease by the profess
sion degree of curablllty 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 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.
How They Mourn in Korea.