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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-15

| True. he was fonder of outdoor sport than
of ballroom and boudoir. but one cannot
drive four or hunt or play golf with a
loot OF snow on the ground. Moreover he
enjoyed his pretty wife's success as much
as she did. and was forever chatting her
about her Srown-up airs and graces and the
attempted dignity of her demeanor.
THEIR FIRST YEAR OF
UNALLOYED HAPPINESS.
Neither elephants nor battleships could
drag him away from his beloved during
this first year of welded bliss.
He only stopped a little longer at his
clubs. played more bridge and took longer
trips in his automobile. Moreover. he had a
| project in his brain which required consid-
cradle thought and attention. After con-
siderable consultation he and Maude had
decided that they must have a country
place, but by no manner of means at New
port.
A cottage can always be had there for
the best two months of the season. but that
left the early summer months and the
autumn with no other home than the town
house. Maude was as fond of riding and
driving and golf as he was. 80 they had
decided to build a fine country place some
where near Westbury. L. L.. where their
favorite sports were in vogue and where
Tany of their best friends were already es-
tahlished.
He had already bought the land, some
fifty acres. in the north country, not far
from a famous millionaire's property. and
was deep IN consultation with his archi-
tects apout the plans Tor a house which
might be more elaborate than one of their
wealthy neighbours and less so than another.
1t would take about a year to complete
such u residence and in the meantime the
spring months could be occupied with a
jaunt to London and Paris. and the autumn
at the Hot Springs and making visits.
When two souls have but a single thought
and two hearts beat as one, and both are
young and each has a large bank account.
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COMPLICATED AZ tho sneed increases the
sIiebtest nroiect,on on Tho ice is sufficient
to cause the scooter to iumn clear OF the
surface, The return of the boat to the ice
a moment later with a resorndine hmm will
he srf5c;ant 20 sh,I,o 60 ~, n.s;t;or .ny
one but an experienced skipper.
HOW SCOOTER is STEERED.
The scooter is steered by means of a long
pole. an exaggerated boat hook tipped with
a steel point and hook. The skinner trails
this along the ice behind or to the side of
his craft. as needs be. 1t requires only a
touch. although 1t must be given skillfully.
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NEW INVENTION THAT
RECORDS MENTAL FATIGUE.

The new German instrument, the aesthe-
siometer. for recording mental fatigue, may
be useful in ways not thought of by its in
ventors.
Few persons have any brains to fatigue:
and few of those few are Industrious enough
to work their brains TO the point of weari-
ness. But by means of aesthesiometers.
speakers. orators and lecturers can get a
guage on themselves and know their eff
fort upon their audience.
Is a minister ''candidating?' Is a profess
sor looking for a job? Is a Representative
in Congress addressing his constituents?
Give every hearer a copy of the aesthe-
siometer. and Judge by the average of tho
records the value or want of value of the
speaker and his proper percentage of wear
iness-making.
In time. perhaps. public speakers can
be classified as golf players are. We know
some after-dinner droners, very proud OF
their performances, who would be aston
ished II the WEAKNESS they cause could be
set forth in millimeters.
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ENlLNENCE,
THE YOUNG MATRON,

I independently before. She never enjoyed a
ball so much. She never received so much
attention and admiration.
She was now realizing what she had
imagined about the power of the plain gold
ring.
She saw girls as pretty and attractive as
she had been sitting disconsolately without
partners for Il short time and then slipping
away to the cloakroom to go home with the
conviction that whether it was fair or not.
IL was true that the young married women
got the best of everything and that there
was no use in kicking against the pricks.
So the winter. the first winter of her mar
ried life, slipped rapidly away-too rapidly.
in fact-and each week brought to Mrs.
Gage fresh evidence that she had passed
from the chrysalis state of nonentity and
! was now n full-fledged butterfly of fashion.
7 She was vastly pleased one day to re-
ceive an invitation to dinner from a famous
old bachelor and wit. who SAYS such
naughty things in French and never bores
himself with women unless they have some
thing distinctly and disinctiveIy attractive
about them.
At her table she met several married
women much older than herself. and at
times the conversation was rather gaudy,
but she felt perfectly secure as a married
woman. and joined heartily in the laughs
that followed some of the hosts more de-
licious sallies.
POET INDITED VERSES
TO HER EYEBROWS.
Then the octogenarian poet and lady
Killer indited some verses to her eyebrows
and sat out two acts of '"Traviata" with her
in her opera box, saying he had heard the
opera once or twice before, and 1t was a
grand opportunity for a good chat.
But her cup of happiness was not COM
pletly filled until she received the follow
Ing note from a lifelong friend:
THE Dudery CIub.-Dear Mrs. Gave. VIII
do me the great favor to chaperon a little thea
ter and supper party l am giving a week from
tomorrow? Just a few of our old friends. We
are TO see Mrs. Holmes in 'GeraId's perye,sa-
ness They say she is perfectly splendid and
wears such stunning gowns. OF course. will
arrange about carriages and all that. How
funny IT seems to be asking you to be a chap
efo"' iours always. J. T.
vi course she accepted and described her
sensations afterwards as those of n person
in high authority, with vast responsibilities.
very strict with the girls and a bit suspi-
cious of the men. sentiments she had never
felt before she actually became a chaperon.
She will never forget the first sensations
of being the first lady In the party and in
a position to be of use to her friends Of
course. as time wore on, her acute sense of
responsibility as a chaperon became consid-
erably modified, which made her more in de-
mand than ever to perform that kindly Of
flee.
During all this time her young husband
was devotion itself.
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Temperance of the Topaz.

Fashionable women who could not possess
a pearl or two in their jewel boxes only re-
Gently felt that all the world stood awry.
Every women they knew wore pearls set
in some form or other. and during the
craze diamonds for a time lost their pres-
tige.
Just now jewelers. are polishing I'D and
setting their supply Of topazes, for the
time seems ripe for a temperance of the
golden stone.
A topaz must be set with diamonds and
sapphires to give the good effects of con-
trast. Sapphires, more particularly, will
be favored. SO nearly does the blue match
the glowing purple of the cornfower.
The jewellers windows show topazes won.
derfully set in ornaments of daintily carved
tortoise shell combs. fretted out as fine as
lacework. and sprinkled everywhere with
topaz in every shade from pale straw color
to deepest yellow.
Tortoise shell is the chosen setting for
the new ~favorite. and besides the fancy
combs wonderful bracelets are being made
of the richly colored shell.
Scarcely bracelets or bangles are these
new ornaments. but old-fashioned armlets.
that clasp the white members above the ell
bowA
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buoyancy enables it to continue on its
course as fit as ever. if at a greatly reduced
speed.
On the other hand. if the scooter be travel
ing along as a boat and meets a field of ice
the captain merely rises in his seat and
with the aid of a long boathook hauls his
craft high and dry on the ice. The scooter
is so lieht-it weighs only thirty pounds
that it is a simple matter even when laden
to raise it in this way to the level of the
ice. The captain then spreads his tiny sail
and his craft. now converted into an ice
yacht. skins over the ice at breathlesS
speed. The scooter. it will be seen. is pre-
pared for any emergency.
The navigation of the scooter is a branch
of seamanship apart. To control it in the
water calls for no more seamanship than
would be REQUIRED to sail a small catboat or
a dory. 1t is merely a light fat-bottomed
s,ilboat. rendered somewhat clumsy by its
fiat bottom. But once set upon the ice the
situation is entirely changed. 1t becomes
an entirely new machine with new POSSIBLE
tiles and new difficulties. 1t is the most tickle
mercy of every slightest puff of air. so that
to keep it on anything like a straight course
Is a work of skill and judgment.
In sailing on the ice a very small sail, a
few square feet at most. is found to give 1t
all the speed desired. Even with this d.
sail area the little boat skins along
over the ice at a speed which embarrasses
any but the most skillful and experienced
skipper. To complicate the sailing problem,
the helmsman of the scooter must stand
erect in his curious little craft in order to
steer. 1t will. of course. be understood that
this is no easy matter.
Imagine standing on a sled which is speed.
ing along over a more or less even surface
at the speed of an express train. Then,
again. the boat. being so small, docs not af-
ford adequate standing room. SO that the
problem Of balancing ones self Is greatly
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-15
SOCIAL

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Nobody knows better than the young
matron that she is the hub and the main
stay of society.
When she was a debutante. and for some
time afterwards. did she not see the young
married women receiving the most of the
attention that was going around, the first
choice for cotillons. theater parties. supper
parties yachting parties. card parties and
all manner of other sprees that rarely come
in the way of the unmarried girl?
Did she not see that the most agreeable
men who had long since cut their eye
teeth and were beginning to wear down
their wisdom teeth were almost invariably
found in the society of young married wom-
en-. running in and out of their houses,
lunching with them at fashionable restau-
rants, lounging in their opera boxes and
scurrying about town in their carriage and
automobiles?
Was it not to be her blessed privilege to
ers? Not at once. of course. She must bide
her time and make her impress little by lit
tie.
She has got much finer clothes and jewels
now than she ever had as a girl.
Her wedding presents included a pearl
and diamond dog collar. diamond
that can be fashioned into a tiara or worn
on the bodice of her gown. which is more
decollete than of yore.
She has the p~rettiest little brougham and
victoria imaginable. and her husband. wno
is a capital judge of horses. has found her
a pair of 15.2 chestnuts that took a blue rib
bon at the Horse Show and attract attention
wherever she drives.
OF course, she still has the use of her
mammals opera box. and she finds many
more men come to greet her as Mrs. Gage
than as Miss Prude.
Her entertainments at home for the first
winter consist chiefly of luncheons for her
girl and young married friends and delight
full little dinners for her old set. yet she
is so much in demand herself as a guest at
dinners and dances that she finds 1t hard to
squeeze in a few nights at home.
WEDDING FINERY MADE OVER
INTO A BALL GOWN.
She was quite beside herself with pride
when she was asked to lead the ~cotillon at
the Assembly, and she looked too pretty
for words. with some of her wedding fnery
made over into a ball gown and all her
wedding jewelry sparkling on hair and
bosom.
She had no watchful mamma taking
mental notes of her partner and looking all
the time as If she wanted to go home.
Her husband. good-natured fellow that
he is, though not much of a dancing man,
had Joined a party upstairs at bridge, after
promising to look out for the end of the
cotillon.
So Mrs. Gaye never danced so much or 80
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against one of the worst consequences Of this terrible
disease.
There are various kinds of Bright's disease. but in I'll of
them the result is practically the same. the progressive
poisoning of the entire system by the failure OF the kidneys
to act.
As every one knows. the kidneys are the sewers Of the
body. and when they cease to act the impurities v hich
should be carried off are retained in the body, ard. find
ing their way to the blood. create the pus cells, which end
by poisoning the entire system.
Now the effect of Brights on the body is the same as
the stoppage of the sewers of a great city, The poisoning
of the system. and if it be possible to overcome the ill
effects of this stoppage Brights disease might he robbed
of much OF its terror. 1t is more than probable that in
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fornalin we have the agent required to clear the atmos-
phere.
Many of the dangers accompanying surgical operations
have been overcome by the application of antiseptic
methods, and the care with which instruments are aEtisep-
ticised. but there is still an element of danger from blood
poisoning arising from other causes.
1t is here that formalin promises to play n great role.
Suppose that a patient has been operated upon and, roth
withstanding all precautions. septicaemia supervene, the
physician who has formalin at his disposal is able to save
his patient, because he can kill the pus cells formed in the
blood.
1t does not matter what was the cause of the
sepricaemia, If formalin prove the counteracting agent it
means that hundreds of thousands of lives Will he saved
during the years to come.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-15
LONG ISLAND BOAT THAT
SAILS ON ICE OR WATER.
Cross Between an Iceboat and a
Canoe Exactly Meets Re
guirements of Winter
Sports.

Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
New York. Feb. Fin the summer months
the scooter" is a modest little f1at-bot-
toned boat.
1t Is called by some a "dinkey,' but the
choice OF name is not a happy one. Pro-
PEELED upon the water with the aid both of
oars and sail, it may be urged to a speed
of four miles an hour. not more; but with
the appearance of the ice the little boat
takes to itself wings.
Its tiny sail carries it over the ice with
the swiftness of a swallow. From a slug
gish four miles an hour It slips into its
normal pace of something like a mile a
minute. 1t is once more a scooter"
Thousands of these little boats are to be
found scattered along the entire shore of
Great South Bay. L.. l. 1t was here that
the scooter was first built. and here.
doubtless, one may see their most skillfuI
sailors.
They are used for the most part for duck
shooting. Their GREATNESS speed under sail
and their safety make them, besides, a
most attractive racing craft.
Every small boy along the bay has a
scooter of his own almost as early as his
first sled or pair of skates. They are COM
paratively simple little affairs. the best Of
them being quite cheap.
The commonest form measures some four
teen feet in length. The frame is elliptical.
with a comparatively sharp prov. The bot
tom is almost Hat. the upper deck curving
slightly inward as it rises. Its highest point
Is seldom more than six or eight inches
above the level of the water. The frame
of the boat is lightly constructed OF wood.
the upper sides being of canvas.
ROOM FOR ONE.
There is comfortable room for ONLY. one
passenger In such a boat. although two are
sometimes carried. Since the deck is almost
entirely covered over. there IS a compare
lively ample cockpit at either end. These
are used for the dozens of decoy ducks.
which are the principal cargoes of the
scooters. and for provisions and the guns.
The scooter is provided with oar locks and
a diminutive mast, which may be set UP
or taken down at will. Sc much for the
seafaring equipment. Its marvellous speed
on ice Is due to its runners running length
wise along the bottom. The runners are
usually OF brass. and, as a rule. a boat is
equipped will five of these strips. They
extend the entire length of the boat. Many
of the homemade boats are far cruder in
design and workmanship. but the general
pattern Is the same. A good boat is worth
about 800.
The great advantage of these craft is
their safety. 1t will be understood that they
are both seaworthy and iceworthy. so that
any combination of ice and water finds them
prepared. They can be run along the most
treacherous ice where no skater would dare
venture. Should the ice give way, a com
mon occurrence. the scooter merely sinks a
few inches Mte the water until its natural
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attacking children chiefly, and counting it's victims ty the
thousands.
The antitoxin. which is used more or less generally. has
been objected to by some physicians as dangerous, having
a weakening effect, especially upon the heart.
In many cases the diphtheretic sores in the throat have
been healed, and the patient seemed almost perfectly well.
only to die at a moments notice. of heart failure. This
stoppage of the heart is due to the poisoning of the SIS
TEN by the action of the disease. and is more dreadful
now than the disease Itself.
WHAT 1T MAY DO FOR BRIGHTS DISEASE.
Hundreds of children will be saved by the administering
of the formalin whose hearts would otherwise have ceased
to beat because of the foul poison in their veins. EOrmalin
will not cure diDhtheria, but it will be used to guard
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The liquor from oysters. being salt and
water simply. has no nutritive value.
The end of cholera infantum waits upon
the growth of the simple practice of steril-
izing baby's milk and bottle.
To prevent pitt:ng from smallpox It is only
necessary to protect the patient from tho
blue and violet rays of light. which can be
done by allowing no light to enter the roor,
save through red glass.
In the absence of these Irritating rays of
light-to which sunburn is due-the deep
dtfiguring p'istules do not form.
Red nose. as 1t often occurs as a local
condition in women, can be removed. saws
a French physician. by a bandage of gauze
soaked in benzine. and laid upon the nose
without rubbing it.
II the cloth, be allowed to remain on the
flesh a few minutes the redness will disar-
pear. and after that the suspicious shine
that succeeds the color will also disappear.
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life in town and has she not already been
admitted to that magic circle of young
married women who rule society with bonds
that are no less rigid because they are of
lace. velvet and chiffon?
She looks forward now to a gradually as
cending scale of her own Importance and
authority. interrupted now and then by the
cares OF maternity.
In another season or two she will be a
patroness of this or that ball or bazaar.
an organizer and almoner of great chart
ties, an arbiter of fashions. a leader OF
men as well as of women. famous for her
house parties in the chateau on Long
Island and for her dinners In town. as we'll
KNOWN in London and Paris as at home.
feted and courted by all. envied by many.
disliked by none.
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poisoning in Bellevue Hospital by the use of
formaIin the scientific world. as well as the
lay world, has been agog over the discovery CT
a CUE for this dread disease.
Has the real serum for the cure of blood poisoning been
found at last?
before us?
Formalin is no new drug. 1t has long been used as a
disinfectant. and an attempt to utilize formaldehyde gas in
the treatment of consumption has been abandoned as I'M
wise. because of the bad effect of the gas on the lung
structure.
For1nalin has also been used as the preventative of
specimens. the liquid having the property of, so to say.
freezing the object to be preserved.
That an injection of a solution of formalin, only l TO
5000. could cure septicaemia upon being introduced into the
veins of the patient seems at first sight ridiculous. because
of the weakness of the solution.
If the formalin was intended to act directly upon the
pus cells which form the poison it was, indeed, a wild ex-
pertinent. This has been proved by the special expert
ments undertaken for The Republic. But it must act in a
different way.
Nature takes the indirect method for accomplishing her
purposes. This point has not always been kept in view by
blood poisoning.
They sought some agent that would destroy the pus
cells. but the danger was of destroying the healthy blood
cells at the same time. As a result it was necessary to
abandon the use of an injection of a solution of carbolic
acid. 1t killed the pus-and the patient.
How, then, does the formalin act if it does not kill the
pus cells directly? The answer to this question depends
largely upon the experiments conducted for The Republic.
which follow:
Six culture tubes containing various disease germs. pus
and fungoid growths were secured from the laboratory of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Here was the germ of diphtheria and the bacillus indicus,
taken from a monkey.
Here wal the bacillus rosaceus metalIoides. a pus found
in water, and the staphylococeus pyogenes aureus, the pus
found in assesses
Here were the two fungi, aspergrIus and microceus can
deans.
The purpose was to as; .rtain what effect formaln
would have on these cultures when applied directly.
A solution of forInalin in 5000 was at hand. There was
an expert miscroscopst with an instrument magnifying loo
times
DIPHTHERIA GERMS WERE FOUND TO BE ALIVE.
First, some of the diphtheria germs were taken from the
tube and placed upon a glass slide. heated to the tempera-
ture of the blood.
This was placed under the miscroscope. and the germ
could be seen to move, showing that it was alive. Forma-
lin was then dropped on it. and after eight minutes.
though the germ was swimming in the liquid, it did not
seem dead.
When pus cells and the other baciIi were treated
similarly. Of course, there was no life to note. but the
formalin did not seem to change the appearance of the cells
at all. and certainly did not break up the pus cells, which
should have been the case if the formalin actually de-
stroyed the cell.
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RITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
- INCE the cure of the woman dying from blood
poisoning in Bellevue Hospital by the use of
formaHn the scientific world. as we'll as The
lay world. has been agog over the discovery CT
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What Physicians Saw.

The liquor from oysters. being salt and
water simply. has no nutritive value.