Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-01
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In an address before the New Eng land Dcy Goods association last week, Nathaniel c. Fowler, .Jr, of Boston, said: "Without depreclating the value of any of the good advertising nedi- ums-for there are many-I wish to state emphatically, and without quail fication, that the newspaper is the best and cheapest advertising medium for the retail advertiser" There are q <, hundred explanations of the fact stated by Mir Fowler. The one which he offered was this. "The reader buys the paper for the advertising as we'll as for the news; because he pays for the paper he proposes to get his moneys worth, and lie cannot get his moneys worth unless he reads that paper, advertising and all.''
 Trailing arbutus, the rarest of all the New England wild flowers, and the first to brave the uncertain weather of early spring, has once more made it's appearance. It is still very scarce, but in a few more days, if the sunshine continues, it will be as plentiful as it has been at any time in the last ten years. The reason for this is the fact that the snow kept the roots so warm that very little of it was injured by the frOsts. The legislature has passed law making it crime for anyone to pull up arbutus by the roots. This legislation was secured by people in- terested in the preservation of the fra grant flower, for it has been so often pulled up by. the roots that it has been yearly getting more scarce. Were it not for this protective act the trailing arbutus might soon become only q memory in Connecticut
 A method of treating cerebral menin- gitis that holds out some promise of consistent success has been discovered and applied by Dr Ernest B. Schallen- bach of Chelsea, Mass, upon a patient in the Frost hospital of that city. His method is the simultaneous application of extremes of temperatures by means of packing the patient from the waist to the top of the head in cracked ice and covering the lower half of the body witu hot water bottles. It is somewhat heroic treatment, but is gen VI iult uOL lSCu putIClL iltto developed such symptoms of the dis ease as leave him in semi-consciol,s condition. Eight days ago James Gold man. 8 years old, of 146 Auburn street, Chelsea, was stricken with meningitis, and Dr Schallenbach applied this treatment from the start, When the lad was taken to the hospital he was unconscious at times. To-day he is re- covering rapidly, and the doctor and nurses believe he will get well.
 "NOt that I'm any walking physical culture-did-it advertisement unused the man before the mirror, but I'm not as bad as might be at that. For example, I'm not so thin that my shirt studs make my coat stick out in the back. and I'm not so fat that I have to climb mountain every time 1 want to take my shoes off. What's more, I'm not so tall that my soup gets cold before it reaches my stomach, while on the other hand I'm not so short that when I slip l don't notice the fall Another thing I've got 10 be thankful for: I'm not so narrow shoul dered that people have to look at my Q hands to tell which is. mIny right. arm and which is my left. That must he as bad as heinz so knock-kneed that crimson ramblers take you for trellis and try to grow up you. But best of all, to my mind. is the fsct that I'm not so Ow-legged that the rush-hour crowd ever clamor about my feet under the annoying impression that I am the subway"