Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-01-05
MvsterioI. Wom an:

Mystsriois Woman:
Detroit Free Press: Just dis indigna-
ton reaches the billing Point and we
i square away for an attack upon the
Individual who opined that women are
queer animals something always hap
| pens TO check the threatened outburst
| Of enthusiasm III behalf Of the fair sex,
| tense. I'm Chicago last week Albert
| Newman was arrested three times in
four days for beating his wife Each
| Ofiense was more serious than the pre-
ceding 6ne. yet there was no indication
| Of resentment on the part OF the faith
ful spouse at the treatment accorded
hers Far from II. Refusing to lodge a
complaint against him, when the police
finally took matters in their oWn, hands
| ard held Newman She hustled about
seeking somebody to go his security SO
he would not he subjected to the hard.
ships Of y night IN the police station
insistihb thut i was just life, and that
see, It's lonesome III home when he isn't
I there;" she added. HE treats me
| cruelty, it's trle,. ana Fin dfeadfully
afraid Of him sometimes: But when he's
home evenings smoking; and talking TO
the children everything is all right and
its coxy.''
So frequently ne are confronted
SO aggravated as this, although ems
bodying the same elements. that the
story ID tot new, yet 1t Is ever interest,"
ing, furnishing Il commentary on the
blli1d devotien Of womankind as con-
trasted with the indifference 6f the
sterner sex: Not all wonien are OF the
same Stamp as Mrs. Newman, as the
divorce records show, although the fact
fetiiallis that il is frequently the ones
having the slightest cause for COM
pla1nt who seek relief III that direction,
1t is this willingness ON the part Of Il
woi,ian to forgive, If not forget. the In
dignitles heaped upon her by the one
pledged to support and protect her, to
overlook ;tll 81 ortcomings, TO rally to
the aid of the man whoiupon the slight
est I'ruvocatiun administers beating.
that furnishes one OF the ,nsolyable
riddles Of life. And. puzzling though
1t. may be, even eXasper atiDg at times,
after all 1t is Undoubtedly best for
erring mankind that woman was not
modelled along different lines.
Acute Indigestion.
New York Herald: Lately ii has be-
come SO much the custom to ascribe
I sudden death to what is now termed
acute Indigestion that the ailment Is
becoming, almost as common as heart
failure and equally as meaningless as
regards the actual causative element
at work. The fact is that the present
term, which means nothing more than
seizure of acute dyspepsia from AN
overloaded stomach, should not in any
sense be applied to an affection that is
likely to be fatal In itself. On the
contrary, the patients are i'll but a
short time, and recovery takes place
very promptly and often without the
aid OF medicine. In pronounced cases
the stomach may become infiamed and
be the seat of severe colicky spaSms,
but neither Symptom lasts long, and
the organ quickly RECEIVERS it's tone.
When such phenomena are followed
by death there is always some other
ailment present-acute or chronic
that explains the result. For Instance,
patients recovering from typhoid fever,
heart or kidney disease have been thus
stricken. the Indigestion under such
such circumstances acting merely in a
luton by means of shock. This was
evidently the case with the lamented
General di Cesnola, whose death was
chronicled yesterday. For d long time
he had been suffering from kidney dis
ease which had SO undermined his
vitality that 1t required Very little
additional indispositfon to cause death.
Speaking Of the rarity of fatal attacks
of acute Indigestion" Professor Brou-
ardel of Paris, one of the highest au-
thorities on the subject, says in his re-
cent work on Sudden Death" 81
have not met with single case (acute
indigestion) in which pre-existing le-.
sions in other organs than the stomach
We're not sufficient to account for
DEATH