Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-23

TGIdLIVG
addressed as follows: The Los Angelo
ment. Neither The Herald nor the edi
lions of personal nature. No inquiri
Everybody is no doubt we'll supplied
with turkeys Christmas roasts and
other good things to eat. Did I say
everybody? Well, take it back for
L know one who has not had time
even to think of the toothsome things.
Anyhow, am glad everybody else has
them already in the refrigerators, and
l cannot help but wish all a merry
Christmas, and especially that he and
she shall enjoy the good things that
the modern markets afford But-but
remember that to the stomach all days
look alike and if anyone will be foolish
enough to enter into competition with
that organ he or she will lose. 1t is
utterly absurd to eat more on that
day than the individuals organ is ac-
customed to eat. 1t only makes work
for the doctor, the surgeon (ever heard
Of the appendix veriformis?), the drug
gist and last, but not least, the under
takers.
We readily admit that all of these
enumerated gentlemen or ladies, as the
case may be, need the wherewithal to
celebrate this and perhaps-next Christ
mas, and so on. But who is not anx-
ious to be wise rather than foolish ?
TO which class do the readers of The
Herald desire to belong? Well, we
will pass 1t up, because we know our
people well.
The editor has been requested to give
the names and addresses of the best
specialists of this city and San Diego
who handle chronic cases of bowel
troubles; also the names of a few
sanitariums that I can recommend.
No names of undertakers are desired
just yet. Specialists and sanitariums
that can show first class credentials
will please communicate with the edi-
tor.
In Pennsylvania they are having a
hot time about vaccination. The vac
cinationiSts insist that everybody shall
be vaccinated just as often as the
health" officers issue orders, and the
ti-Vacclnationists are rebellious,
that is, they refuse to be bulldozed
or poisoned against their will. Cali
fornia, of course, has her own troubles
with this poisonous subject of vaccina-
ton; but what makes the former state
more prominent in this battle between
the pro and anti-vaccinationists is the
fact that her public officials from the
lowest to the highest are sort of
angels. In other words, they are all
honest and will do nothing that is
detrimental to the people, If we are
to believe what they say.
The time is near at hand when the
people will rise in their majesty and
tell the so-called conservers of public
health to mind their own business and
let the people alone to mind theirs.
For there is not another subject in
which the arguments of the pro-vacci-
nationists are so ridiculous and ill
founded l never could understand
how a virulent poison, such as vaccine
is, can benefit the individual into
whose system 1t is inoculated. One
can readily understand how much
harm 1T can do him.
Some time ago our all-wise United
States supreme court rendered de-
clsion to the effect that a state has a
right to enact vaccination laws and
to enforce them. Whereupon a weekly
journal. which calls itself 1.-The Ma
tional Weekly for the People," or words
to that effect, handed to the supreme
court all kinds of bouquets for its