The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
TRIED SNAKE CURE
ON PARIS DOCTOR
italian Scientist Will Try New Safety
Valve on BeIchine vocano-Hopes
to Put Old vesuvius Out of Bust
ness Soon.
Special Cable to the News.
BY PAUL VILLIERs.
Hearst News Service.

Paris, May 22.-Gambling in Paris
is doomed. Prime Minister Clemen-
ceau the most energetic statesman
France has ever known has so decreed
police are raiding one mixed" gam
bling club after the other, and the pro-
prietors are sent to prison. In these
clubs women of the upper deminoude
are used as decoys and fortunes are
often lost in a single night as many
American visitors have found out to
| their sorrow. The games are nearly
| always fixed.
1t is more difficult a matter to sup
press gambling in the legitimate clubs,
where play is often very high. Inter-
| ference with these clubs is delicate |
business owing to. the fact that they |
pay to the government tax equal to
so per cent of the membership fees.
Recently a japanese officer, Major
Ideka Ideka, drowned himself because
he had lost money entrusted to him
by his government, at the gaming
table.
Women are generally more reckless
in gambling than men. When one of
the mixed clubs was raided recently,
, we'll known actress who had lost all
her cash had staked her jewelry, worth
$500. She did not lose her jewels, for
the police raid stopped the play.
Another difficulty in the way of sup
pressing gambling is the law which
allows health resorts to have gam
bling casinos. Several places, like
, Enghien, just outside Paris, have main
|. tanned iourishing gambling fhells' y
under the protection of this law, while
their claim to rank as health resorts
begins and ends perhaps with the pos
session of tiny spring of blackish
water.
:..::.:.:
Madame Leon Levy has had the
happy thought of founding training
school in Paris for nurse-maids. What
/ seems odd is that no one thought of il
/ generations ago. We would not trust
| our horses or our fowls to people who
| were not expert in their care, and yet
| we trust our children to the first
| conner.
/ At last the training school for nurse
maids is under way. 1t is established
in a circle. where poor working wo
Il men leave their children. The course
Il of training lasts for three months
Il Daily during that time the candidates
II battle, dress and amuse the babies
! ranging in age from fifteen days t.
four months. They are taught al
ba things needful-care of clothes, prep
ed aration of sterilzed milk, soup ant
ed other proper foods, how to heal cut
in and bruises, the rules of hygiene ant
II ventilation, and, indeed, all things tn
90 ruler of the nursery should know
he Those who go through the course sue
Id. cessfully are given diplomas. A happ
nd thought.
ID And now the mothers may sleep
ne or go dance at the Elysee-in peace
~ while the nurse-maids with diploma
a watch over their little ones. Life
I'm getting easier every day.
I'm :'''***
In A doctor living in the Place Pc
itn riere was victimized today in da
'o0 ing and novel manner.
,rs An old gypsy woman called on MI
ok this morning and asked him to Wis
pu- her daughter, who was lying serious
ish i'll in caravan on the fertilization
=. nearby.
~ II have tried the serpent cure," 81
az said, but there was no result. II "
ing will allow me to pay your fee in a
rho vance shall be sure you will come.
ted The doctor consented, and the Q
woman handed him 500 franc no
~ AS the doctor was getting the chan
az out Of his safe, she again mention
the rserpent