The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

while talking to a friend. In Sweden,
to avoid the dangers arising from this
during the winter, it is no uncommon
thing to see announcements in the
daily paper informing the friends of
Mr. So-and-so that he is unable,
through the Doctors orders, to conform
to this polite usage.
The Dutch are delighted that near
ly every Queen and Princess in Europe
is preparing gifts made by their own
hands for the expected heir to the
throne of Holland. In addition to the
lovely garments and cradle linen being
prepared by the women of Holland,
some very valuable articles are to be
given by subscription The ladies of
Amsterdam will give an exquisite lit
tie close-titting Dutch cap of embroid-
cred linen, worked with pearls and
diamonds and adorned with azure blue
ribbon. The wives of the ministers
send a state cushion, and to the ladies
of The Hague falls the honor of giving
the christening robe, which is made of
the softest white silk and fastened
with diamond buttons. The ladies of
the Dutch nobility have chosen
splendid cradle of chased silver, over
which bends an angel, and at the foot
is life-sized figure of baby.
in some parts of Europe. and espe-
cially in Italy, it is becoming the fash
ion to erect beside the graves of rela-
tives and friends monuments which
will express in a most realistic manner
the sorrow of the survivors. says the
st. Louis Republic, ana a few notable
works of this kind have recently been
fashioned by sculptors for some of
their wealthy patrons. A characteristic
monument of this description is the
one which was placed a short time
| age in a cemetery at Genoa, and which
represents a husband sorrowing beside
| the deathbed of his wife. 1t is the work
of Sig. Saccomanno well known
| sculptor, and it is pronounced by those
who have seen it to be a masterpiece
of its kind. Some of the up-to-date
monuments are made of marble, but
| others are made of cheaper and less
| durable material. On all of them grief
| is represented as hard stern facts, and
not, as heretofore, by symbolical fig
| ures. Hope, however, is not eliminated,
| and though angels and Wreaths are re-
markable by their absence, they are
replaced in a measure by more modern
conceptions of immortality and bliss in
the life hereafter.
From the selfish point of view, the
crop reports from France come as
good news to our wheat growers, says
the Boston Herald. According to the
Bulletin des Halles, this is one of the
comparatively few years in which the
| French wheat harvest is not sufficient
| to meet the home consumption of
! bread. The estimated yield this year
is 292, 900 bushels, or about 1000, 900
bushels less than that. of last year,
| which was also a, short crop. France
requires about 1886, 900 bushels to
| feed her population, basing the annual
average consumption at 1856 pounds per
| head. This failure of the home crop
will have to be met by imports, and the
tax which France imposes upon i'm
ported bredstuffs will tend to make
dear bread for her people. Already it
has been suggested that it would be
we'll for the government to remit the
| duty on imported wheat this year, as
it did in 1898. AS might be expected,
the farmers are not in favor of such a
! reduction, as they wish to profit by
| higher prices, while the revenue that
may thus be brought int tho treasury
| will be very welcome to the govern
| ment. With a balance on the wrong
side of the national ledger, it is not at
all likely that the French government
would be willing to curtail any posi-
| BILE source of income. France needs
more revenue, and it is probable that
| her people will have to help furnish it
| by paying the tax on imports of wheat.
| To the United States, with a splendid
wheat crop, these stories of short Eu-
| ropean harvests mean a profitable ex-
port trade in breadstuffs.
The proper way for regarding dis
ease is to consider it as a process
rather than as a distinct thing or en-
n
| which give rise to the series of symp-
toms or processes seen in a disease
vary greatly, of course We find, for
example, cold and chill, strain and
stress laid on an organ, undernourish-
ment or overlooking, alcoholism bad air,
vicious habits and host of other con-
| ditions, all of which favor disease. But
more Immediately figuring as the exact
cause of the ailments we suffer from
we find various germs or microbes
which, we know. breed and multiply in
! our bodies and give rise to the definite
set of signs and symptoms proper to
| each disease. Once the disease process
| is set up it must go through its stages.
| There are few, very few, cases in which
| it is possible to cut an ailment short.
What is meant by this expression is
that we are able to stop the develop
| meut of, say, the germs to whose pres
| enCe the dllIneIlC Is uue. LII the vast
majority of cases the disease runs its
course. But nature is fighting for us
| all the same. The old expression wis
| medicatrix Naturae"-the healing pow
| err of nature-represents a real factor
| in the treatment of disease. The bodily
| powers-I might go further and say
| the living cells of our bodies-resent
the invasion of disease germs and fight
! for us and against them. If the bat
| tie is to the cells, we recover; if to the
| germs, we have to undergo the disease,
with all the risks of death One might
| go further and say that in health such
| a battle is forever proceeding. We are
always being invaded by microbes,
| and our white blood cells, as well as
other living units of, our bodies, are
perpetually engaged in a warfare Of
resistance and killing the microscopic
| foes that beset us everywhere.
There are still thirty High streets
in London, although many others have
been renamed There are eleven st.
Johns roads and nine st. James places.
! Eleven Queen streets still exist, al
| though thirty-three have been renamed,
and fifteen King streets remain out
of the original fifty-three. There are
two Oxford streets other than the ia
nous one, and five Victoria streets.
Research has made it evident that
light is variety of electrical and mag
netic action, says the Electrical Re-
view, and it has been found absolute
ly necessary to conceive of the exist