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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-02
Surgeon General Walter wyman.

Surgeon General Walter wyman.
At the present time the laboratory is
treating the largest number at one time
since it was inaugurated. and DR.. II. A.
Stimson. the surgeon who has charge OF
the Pasteur work. will have his hands
full for a couple Of weeks.
And DIR. Stimson is the right man in the
right place. in the opinion of the children
with whom he comes in contact in the
performance of his professional duties.
He has a method of dealing with them
that wins their confidence from the 1rst
administration of the treatment and they
never object to the ensuing operations.
They appear to like the gentle doctor
with the kind face and soothing voice.
and look upon his instruments and other
paraphernalia troublesome, but neces-
sary accessories to the process of becom-
ing better acquainted. One bright boy
who is being treated confided to- his play
mate a few days ago:
IT'S fun all right And the doctor is a
swell young fellow. He wouldn't stick
that needle into you if he didn't have to.
He's fine as silk
Scope of the Laboratory.
Although the rabies treatment is the
most prominent in the eyes of the public,
1t is only small part of what is being
done at the hygienic laboratory Over
forty doctors and assistants are kept busy
all the time in making tests and doing
research work. And though the present
building is quite commodious, it is be.
coming too small to accommodate the
workers and their necessary parapher.
MALTA. SO an appropriation was made last
year for an annex. which is now under
construction.
tuberculosis and typhoid fever are
among the other diseases that are be-
Ing examined specially at the present
time. and DIR. Rosenau is in hopes that,
shortly he will discover a virus that
Will prove effective in curing tubercu-
losis.
In two small closets on the second
hoor OF the building, one kept at a low
temperature by pipes OF brine and the
other heated by a small gas stove to
keep 1t warm, are enough bottled germs
to kill the whole world IL let loose in
the proper way Fortunately thew ara
all securely fastened in by shoppers of
cotton through which they cannot es-
cape. These colonies of germs all
ticketed and packed away in their num-
bered, cases, are carefully cultivated in
gelatin so as to be ready for immediate
use for study or for practical test should
the occasion arise.
The chemical Laboratories are often
called in use for the Districts work.
Last summer during the agitation over
milk and water. tests were made every
from the various diaries. and the water
OF different localities. The pure food
laws have also caused the laboratories
considerable work. as a great many Of
the articles affected by them are. SUBJ
raitted for analysis. They are nrst
the effects are studied by their use on
various animals.
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varies in strength according to the age
and constitution of the patient, and from
a mild injection at first until at the iast
when the full strength of the dose is 'ad-
miniStered,
The virus is prepared from the spinal
columns of rabbits that have been lnocu-
lated with rabies. These spinal columns
are dried in a cold room for varying
lengths of time.
Pasteur evolved this marvellous system
nearly twenty-five years ago, but 1t has
only been in recent years that 1t has been
generally adopted in this country In the
first place. the preparation of the virus
is long and expensive operation, and 1t
usually has to be made in TIL; place in
which it is used.
The efforts of Surgeon General Wyman
of the public health and marine hospital
service have been responsible for its in
PRODUCTION here. He has made an eX-
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Now the boarding house miss Will not Dc
satisfied unless her brick of cream. will
display all the colors of the rainbow. or
contain the most exquisite candied fruits
or rare nuts.
The sundae is a comparatively recent
effort to appeal to taste that has been
satiated by ice cream of conventional ma
vors. 1t is as everybody knows. a small
plate OF cream over which mas been
or which has been sprinkled with nuts
partially reduced to powder. But why Is
1t so called? Some time was taken In an
endeavor to penetrate the mystery. out
in vain. Many entertaining surmises were
advanced, and a few of them are given.
1t is a word first used by some soda
water fountain man. In an arbitrary
manner.
1t originated in the colleges.
1t originated at Atlantic City.
1t originated in Washington.
Did Name Just Growe
1t was first called Friday. and then
Friday is an unlucky day. and then the
spelling was changed to please some Mrs.
Grundy.
1t originated in some town when the
lid was down on the Sunday soda water
business, and the dealer fixed up q SUBJ
stitute which he called Sunday.
Like Topsy 1t just growed.
1t was called Sunday at first because
ice cream is popular Sunday desert.
One thing is certain, and that Is that in
Washington as long ago as twenty years.
in one Of the leading ice cream places. a
similar mixture of toothsome edibles was
prepared. and 1t was called "a Floro-
dora
Whatever may be an ice cream dealers
personal views on the temperance ques-
ton. he is enlisted in a business that
causes him to be classed among the i'm
portant foes of the Demon Rum. The ice
cream habit and the taste for, strong
drink are incongruous. When a town
votes at local option election to go
dry there is a marked increase In the
Ice cream trade. Drinking is on the In
crease here, especially among young
women. because there is not the Same de-
mand for ice cream the writer was told
by one. THE drinking habit 10 on the
decrease here, and more people are eat
ing ice cream than ever before" was an
other comment, radically different In con-
clusion. but based on the same elemental
fact. On the whole Washington seems to
be eating its proper share OF leo cre&m.
and may be called a good ice cream city
as well as a city where good ice cream is
to be had.
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He was buried in that suit, too. if 1 re-
member right
A silence falls over the little crowd as
tribute to the departed spirit of Dade
McCambridge.
1t is broken finally by little man who
wants to know If anybody remembers
Harry Wilson, who ran cigar and to-
bacco store and never changed his clothes
or cut his hair.
Queer cove e was" shrills the little
man in a strong cockney accent. finally
when e was taken sick and brought into
the 'orspital they took is bloomin' things
off him and found 81, 700 in the coat linin'.
1t was sewed in so tight they had to rip
the coat open to git 1t out. An they
wonderin' all the time why Wilson
wouldn't buy a new suit
Thus they ramble on. telling tales of
men who died unhonored and unmourned
on the field of battle. relating incidents
of the life at the home and comment
ing with due gravity upon every reminis-
ence told.
They will tell of Old Man Bagley, a
bugler, in the 18th New York. who al
ways marched down to the fagpo.e and
stood at attention while Old Glory was
being raised and lowered-of the old In
dian scout who could sing Home, Sweet
Home" II sufficiently Intoxicated before
hand. so that you couldn't help but weep
to save your life.
Always Saluted the Flag.
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AVERAGE MAN
AND WOMAN.

American stomach, DR.. H. w. Wiley.
chief Of the bureau Of chemistry of the
Department of Agriculture. says that ice
cream makers must observe this law. He
says:
THE Washington dealers, I believe.
are observing the law. 1t will be the
duty of DR.. Robert l.. French. the chem
is Of the District health department. who
has been commissioned an assistant
chemist in this department to make the
analyses incident to its enforcement in
the city of Washington
DR.. French's appointment as a chemist
connected with the Department of Agri-
culture was made by reason of the fail
ure to convict milk dealers for the sale
OF milk below the standard specified by
the District law in the Police Court sew
eral months ago. 1t was held that the
District law had been superseded by the
national pure food law and that the
analyses brought in evidence were not
adequate testimony because not made
under the supervision of the Department
of Agriculture. While the District has
taken an appeal from this decision. 1t has
also taken steps to qualify DR.. French as
a chemist acting under the supervision Of
the Agricultural Department. so that this
legal technicality may not again be
raised. DR.. French had about as or so
samples of ice cream collected last sum-
mer but no action, looking to a prosecu-
ton resulted on account of the uncer-
tainty of the status of the law as de-
veloped in the milk case that has been
appealed.
First Made in Italy.
Ice cream is not an American invention
or discovery, though it is probably more
popular in this country than in any other,
and its recent reported vogue in London
and Japan may be due as much to
American gastronomic missioners as to
any other cause. An italian, however,
made the first ice cream of which history
takes notice, about a century and half
ago. His name was Florin, and ice
cream Is still made and sold in the same
cafe in Naples by his lineal descendants.
This primitive ice cream was made of
honey, fresh eggs and sweet cream. fro
zen in long cylindrical shapes of various
colors and served in wine glass. Ice
cream was a rare delicacy in the early
part of the last century. for DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes. in ELSIE Venner,"
quantity says: The deacon, not being in
the habit of taking his nourishment in the
CONCEALED state. had treated the ice cream
as a pudding of rare species. There are
doubtless many persons still living who
may be able to remember when they had
their first plate of cream, and regarded II
as a curiosity. Not many generations
have been familiar with it from childhood
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LABORATORY WHERE VIRUS IS PREPARED.

haustive study of the treatment and is
one of it's most hearty supporters.
The department expects to extend the
use of this treatment in time--for. at pres
ent, there are only about ten or twelve
hospitals besides the government one
here, in which it can be obtained. How
ever. at present, if the virus is needed at
a place which is inaccessible to one of
these hospitals, arrangements can be
made to have ii sent from the laboratory
here if the authorities are assured that
the person making the request is COM
petent to administer the treatment.
The government makes use of the hos
pitfalls for its sailors. Last week the
transport which brought back the ma
rines from Panama had on board ten pri-
Yates and one officer who had been bitten
by dogs suspected of having hydrophobia.'
These have all been ordered to the hospi-
tai to be given the pasteur treatment.
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Der them pants of Dade's? lister wear
'em all the time and said 1T would be bad
luck If he took 'em off. Old knee breaches
they was and he ulster always wear a
snuff-colored coat with 'em. Blast If he
didn't look like picture of George Wash
ington.
"Dade was In the war of 1912. He must
ha been good deal Of a kid cause he
warn't moren eighty when I knew him.
Ever hear the story about them pants?
Yes? No? Well, it won't hurt If l tell
it agin.
You see Dade was about to celebrate
som'th or other when the Britishers
moved on Washington. He had this suit
made and was gittin' ready to wear 1t
when the girl told him he oughter enlist
an fight for his country. Dade enlisted.
Went through the whole blasted war. too.
When he came out he was SO stuck on
hisself that he Joined the regulars and
stayed there for long time. Finally one
day he come back to his home town.
somewhere near Bladensburg, and hang
me If the girl that sent him off to get
shot warn't waitin' for him with tears in
her eyes.
Romance in His Clothes.
Shed saved the suit for him, too. When
the Britishers come through the town
she'd hid that suit under her bed. Dade
was married in it.
When he come here you couldn't git
him to wear nothin' but that suit. You'd
thought it was his skin. the way he hung
by it. He said it reminded him of her.
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to obtain it, and even then the prices
were prohibitive to all except the very
rich.
Children Are Brave.
Forty three patients, most OF them
children, have already been treated at
the laboratory building without a single
case being lost. Every morning about
10 o'clock the patients begin to flock
in. The children are accompanied by
their parents. but there is no evidence
Of gloomy anticipation on their faces
Quite the opposite They play around
the halls until their turn comes as If
they were being taken for a visit in
stead of going to the doctors for treat
ment.
OF course, they have to be brave and
stand the sharp prick of the hypodermic
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again, zone o. the queerest ducks ever
saw back here in the eighties
Smith. l think his name was. He was
a long-legged Teller with a shock of hair
down the back of his neck like one of
these poets. ,
He was a man from the point and one
o. that gang that fought their way
through Mexico with Taylor. Havin'
chased greasers up the side of mountains
and helped haul guns along four-foot
towpath, he had a heap of respect for
the army rules. and especially fer the
flag. Always Sauted it when he saw it
and wanted to fight if you didn't, too.
But the funny thing was at grub
time. Smith warn't satisfied with the
regular mess call. He'd always stand till
the man in charge of the table I'D say:
Company at rest! Break ranksr And
then the way he'd drop in his chair and
light into his feed would be a caution
Evening darkens into night, a quiet
peaceful night. only broken by the occa-
sional chirp of the cricket and the trilling
of some nightbird. The pipes go out. but
the conversation continues until the
mournful sound of taps is heard from
the assembly hall!
One by one the veterans slip quietly
away to dream of the battles of the past
and of the Incidents related by their
cronies, while the stranger within the
gates Is left alone with his thoughts.
In the matter of paper production. New
York, Maine and Wisconsin rank first,
second and third, respectively.
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in the winter as In the summer" said
another. These are the men who supply
the family trade, and whose season Of
greatest activity is when receptions and
balls are in full blast. and when their
customers are not away for the sum-
mer." At the hotels also there is a
larger consumption of ice cream in the
winter. because there is larger hotel
population. There are not wanting per-
sons familiar with the ice-cream trade in
Washington who express the opinion that
more ice cream is eaten in the best win
ter month than in the best summer
month. But that is another story. The
fact remains that by a most conservative
estimate the people in Washington will,
in the course of a summer month, not
an extraordinary summer month with
thirty-one days. when eggs may be fried
by the rays Of the sun beating down on
Pennsylvania avenue, but one that con-
tains sufficient number Of scorching
days to delight the soda water fountain
man without putting the umbrella man
out Of business-in such a month the peo-
pie of Washington do eat 100000 gallons
of ice cream. 1t Is the soda water foun-
tain that is the leading headquarters for
ice cream in the summer. and at the
soda water fountain probably one-half Of
the output Is consumed In the form Of
ice. cream soda, sundaes, and the new
tangled pastry cones introduced this
season. which enable one to eat ice cream
"ltuOut Lie dlu VI d SpOOH oH8 just
takes the cone in his or her hand and
eats the cone while he or she Is eating the
cream.
Lunchroom Consumption.
Next to the soda water fountains. with
their $4,000 gallons of frozen ecstacy,
come probably the lunchrooms, embrace
ing the dairy lunch and every variety Of
public eating place except the hotels.
The lunchrooms of Washington will prob
ably sell 10000 gallons of cream in
month. The hotels will supply to their
guests about 1900 gallons. the boarding
houses and home consumption will &C
count for the disappearance Of 1900 gall
Ions, and church and society festivals,
lawn fetes and outing places in the dis
trict will account for the disappearance
of another 1900 gallons.
The estimate for the hotels seems low.
considering the fact that there are 16O of
them in the telephone directory. but it
must be remembered that. in the hotels,
ice cream is served in very small por-
tions, unless there is special demand for
it. and the biggest hotel in town will not
usually use as much ice cream as some
Of the popular downtown soda water en-
poriums, while there are many lunch
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1000 to 1000 gallons month. has been
accredited in the foregoing figures to soda
water fountains.
Advance in Manufacturing.
The concern which makes speciality of
supplying the soda water trade keeps the
Ice cream packed for the retailer. Me-
chanical refrigeration, which enables the
freezing of a batch of cream in eight MIN
utes, is one of the economies introduced III
ice cream manufacture In recent years.
Use of ice that would otherwise go 10
waste is another Pasteurization or milk
is an improvement of different kind 1t
is g response to the demand for food
products of guaranteed purity. 1t Is not
required by law, but 1t is an assurance
that other requirements of the law are
met.
This brings up the interesting question
What does the law require of the Ice
cream maker and dealer?
First and foremost, the product must be
made and kept in clearly surroundings.
The ice cream maker and seller are sub
ject to the same regulations as those
which led to the recent lunchroom cru
SADIE.
Second, ice cream must meet Secretary
Wilson's definition Of ice cream, or 1t
must be sold under another name. Hockey
pokey is not ice cream. according to the
photographers of the Agricultural Depart
ment. Nothing can be sold as ice cream
that does not meet the definition to be
found in the dictionary of which the Sec
rotary of Agriculture is the authorized
editor, circular No. 10 giving standards
of purity for food products.
ice cream is a frozen product made
from cream and sugar. with or without
natural favoring, and contains not less
than IA per cent of milk fat
Fruit ice cream is a frozen product
made from cream. sugar and sound.
clean, mature fruits and contains not
less than II per cent Of milk fat.
Nut ice cream is a frozen product made
from cream. sugar and sound, non-rancid
nuts and contains not less than IL per
cent Of milk fat"
The "Frozen Dainties."
Some ice cream makers sell. for less
than half what they charge for standard
ice cream, a product which pleases their
customers, and with which no other fault
has been found but that it does not have
the required percentage of milk fat. This
is not sold under the name Of ice cream,
but of frozen dainties."
The ever watchful guardian Of the
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and so the chances of their being bitten
are greater"
Children are the ones that are most
often bitten. for the simple reason that
they I.lay in the streets, and with dogs,
too. A dog that is swapping at every
thing will take the thing that is closest
at hand.
Patients are admitted directly into the
laboratory. but the usual course of pro-
cedure is to get an order from the health
officer of the District and present that to
DR.. Rosenau. Then. after the dog has
been examined by the bureau of animal
industry of the Department of Agricul-
ture for rabies the treatment begins.
What Treatment Consists Of
The Pasteur treatment consists Of
twenty-four injections of rabies virus into
the stomach of the patient. This virus
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needle as the virus is injected but after
the first few treatments most Of them
show a decided interest in what is go
ing on and want to see everything.
1t is a relief to the mothers of Wash
ington to know that this sure preventive
for the bite of mad dog can be obtained
right at their very doors Rabies has
never been so prevalent in dogs as at
present A wave seems to have spread
over the country that is inexplicable, for
both in Pittsburg and New York the case
is the same.
DR.. NJ. ]. Rosenau. who is the director
of the hygienic laboratory, says: "A dog
cannot develop rabies of ITSELF no matter
how hot the weather may be. 1t has to
be bitten by dog which already has
case The onls reason that rabies is
more prevalent in hot weather than in
cold is the fact that in summer both
people and dogs are more out of doors,
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was being treated for rabies one day last
week at the hygienic laboratory OF the
United States Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service, ODD and E streets north
west
Willy was bitten by neighbours dog
on the arm a couple of weeks ago. said
his mother, land 1 was very much wor-
ried about it, but DR.. Stimson. who Is
treating him, says that there Is abso-
Iutely no danger now, so I'm awful glad"
This is only an example Of some of the
cases that come to the laboratory. Very
few people have had the slightest idea
that anything of the kind exists in Wash
ington, and it is only when they are told
by the health department about the Pas
teur treatment that their fears of hydro
pfobia are dissipated.
Tie Pasteur treatment IL taken in time
is. physicians declare, a sure preventive
is about 200 to /. and the immunity OBJ
tanned through its use has been known to
extend over a period Of seven years. OF
course 1t would not be safe to actually
reckon on this length of immunity. but 1t
always lasts for a couple OF years.
During the whole season the government
has been treating patients who have been
bitter by mad dogs. in the laboratory.
The treatment is administered free OF
charge. as the government considers it
a necessary measure to preserve the
public health. Heretofore people who
wished to take the Pasteur treatment
were compelled to travel great distances
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THE immensely of Many
/ of Washington's Land

l OF Washington's Land
marks Sink Into Insignifi-
canoe Before the Dimen-
sions of the Amount of Ice
Cream Used by the City
in a Month-With Proper
Weather Conditions It Is
Figured That 100, 900 Gallons
Are Used Monthly at An
Estimated Cost of $4,000
Demand for Good Ice Cream
on the Increase-What Con-
stitutes Good Ice Cream
Where It Was First Made
Origin of the Name Sundae.
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Director M. J. Rosenau, MD.
s :%s x x X K x x x z
: CHILDREN Enjoy the
: ~ Performance and Do
: Not Worry About the Pain s.;
/ DIR. Rosenau, Who Is in
; Charge of the Laboratory,
; Says That Rabies Cannot !
: Be Developed in Dogs Un-
; less They Are Bitten by !
!. Other Dogs Already In
: fected-Health Officer May
I Issue Permits That Officials
I of Hospital Will Recognize !
{ The Further Scope of the !
{ Laboratory. !