The National tribune., 1908-07-30

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e vous wreck from one cause or anothe
: to some hospital or other place 70
j, treatment, where the constant presenc
| of similar fellow-sufferers is depress
ing reminder of his or her own af
Fiction, such a one is taken into smil
ing apple orchard, than which there j
i, no more beautiful sight in the world
and seated under one of those delicate
. ly fragrant pink-and-white bloSsome'
trees. For such people-and by tn
nervous wreck is meant those also sui
; fering from melancholia or any menta
disturbance-this treatment has beef
| found by several English physicians t,
be most successful, the cherry, acacia
and ash trees also possessing this cura
tive quality. On the same principle thu
flowers are now being made to minister
to human ills, and the laying out o.
i flower gardens, therefore, takes on {
new interest. The Frenchman, Viaud
Briant. who is an authority on sucf
subjects, tells us that gardens should
be restful, and that it is easy enough
to have them SO if we will only plant
in them the proper flowers, with view
to harmony in hue and tint. Your gar.
dener should be just as much of an
artist as he who handles brush and
palette, and from his seeds paint just
as beautiful picture. The garden
which is intended to exert its sweet
peneficent, curative influence upon those
suffering from a disturbance of the
normal conditions of health, must, be-
sides being harmonious in color, have
| in it flowers of those colors known to
produce certain effects. For instance,
red, yellow and orange are stimulat-
ing; blue and green quoting and sooth-
ing. garden, therefore, with plenty
of green in masses of shrubbery and
planted in larkspurs, bluebells and 9TH
er flowers of this hue, is the place to
send your highly nervous patient, while
in the gay, bright garden where bril-
| liant blossoms of red and yellow are ar
| tistically and tremendously arranged.
| those depressed, exhausted people with
whom the times are out of joint may
find peace and comfort, and from the
utter perfection of the flower, its fra
GRANGE, beauty and healthfulness, abb
sorb something that may convert the
clang and discord of their beings into
physical and mental harmony once
more. The idea may not really be very
practical but isn't it attractive, and
doesn't it make drugs and the usual
methods of treating illness seem even
more distasteful than ever?
Few people realize what very ex-
pensive baby the youthful heir to the
throne of all the Russias is. He is a
charming, handsome three-year-old lit
tie Prince, amusing himself in the royal
nursery with his picture books and 9TH
er playthings, in childish unconscious
ness of and utter Indifference to the
vast sums which his small personality
represents. A special allowance of ST.
100000 per annum was made for him
by the council of state at the time Of his
birth, and most people would naturally
wonder how so much money could pos
sibly be spent on a baby boy of three
years. Practically all of this allowance
is paid out to protect the precious life
of the little heir, for special guards de-
tectives and secret police, and to pay
the heavy insurance premiums. for the
baby is insured for 100000. 1t is
said his premiums are higher than mat
of any other person IN the world on
account of the many dangers surround
ing him. In spite of all the precautions
taken by employing these special
guards, etc, the Empress is constantly
in fear that her beautiful little boy will
be kidnapped. When the Prince is Is
years of age, if he lives until that time.
a larger allowance will be made him,
but in the meanwhile his royal parents
will be compelled to get along some
how with the s1,500.000.
Some one has made the alarming
statement that unless the sewer rat is
exterminated he will eventually drive
the human race from the face of the
earth. :, This rodent is migratory, and
whatever country may have been his
original home, he was first known in
Persia and the East Indies about the
time the Pilgrim fathers landed at
Plymouth, appearing somewhat later in
England and Europe, and in America
about the close of the civil war Not
only are they most destructive, eating
everything from meat and poultry to-
the bark of young trees, but they are
supposed to be the principal cause of
the disease epidemics which sweep over
the different countries every now and
then. They travel from land to land
in the holds of the great ships, and
they are said to wait patiently on shore
till nightfall, and then swim out to-
some ship that has taken their fancy.
climb up the anchor chain and crawl
aboard. The amount of damage these
rats do annually in the cargoes of the
ships, in docks and warehouses is in
credible. In the West Indies and the
Azores hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of coffee, banana, sugar and
orange plantations are destroyed every
year by them. 1t is difficult to kill them,
for they are wary and are not caught
easily; then, too, they are frequently
dangerous, not fearing to attack even a
grown person. They multiply prodig-
iously. 1t is asserted that in two years
one pair will produce 1000. While or
binary rats, which are harmless and fire.
quently useful, have existed since the
days of Adam. this sturdy, willy, intelli-
gent, dangerous rodent is entirely the
product of our modern civilization.
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for
thou shalt find 1t after many days"
says the Good Book. Several years ago,
seated in a Boston railway station was
an elderly, plainly dressed woman,
alone, and who appeared to be nearly
in a condition of collapse. A kind
hearted, ruddy-faced woman who satI
near her watched her for a moment in
silence, and then, hastily moving in the
direction of the restaurant, soon reap
peared with cup of steaming hot cof-
fee. Approaching the poor woman, she
gently touched her, urging her to drink
the coffee, which she gratefully did
and under its stimulating influence soon
recovered a fair amount of strength
and was thus enabled to continue her
journey. Before the two women sepa-l
rated however, she who had been so
helped by this simple act of kindness
inquired the name and address of her
benefactor, which was given her. The
other day the latter was amazed to re-
ceive from this woman, who had SEEM
ed to her so friendless and forlorn, as
she crouched in her seat in the Boston