The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-07-19
THIRD SECTION
LONDON GETTING USED TO ICE
4 GREAT CHANGE HAS FOLLOWED
THE AMERICAN INVASION,

Mems Bralns-A b0yas Garuen Faft
for Childrcn-Yarious European Notes
LONDON, July s.-The American visito'
In the last ten or fifteen years has done
lot OF good missionary work In ndo
For him London reformed her whole hote
system. For him new hotels have beer
built and old hotels rebuilt. Fifty years agt
oniy one hotel In London had bathrooms
and the fact was advertised as q great and
wonderful attraction; but he COMPETE
ton in the matter of bathrooms wa moi
keen tll the American visitor came along
then To the bathrooms were added eleva-
TORS. and. perhaps most wonderful Of all, to
these was added ice. 1t took q long time to
Introduce Ice TO London. That his butter
sho,,ld be soft, his milk sour and his drinks
tenid was considered by the Englishmsn
marsly as one Of the natural results OF the
summer season; but the American visitor
asked for Ice, kept on asking for Ice, and
gradually In the places where the Ameri-
can visitor was chiefly separated from his
GOOD American money ice was quite Ire
auently to be found.
The supply at first was grudging and
irregular. For long 1t was handled with
much the same caution as that employed
by a careful dispenser In making up a
medical prescription containing drugs OF
the most deadly kinds.
Gradually and with an appropriately
elacierlike motion ice began to make its
way through London. The supercilious
barmaid when asked for II would fish out
one Of two or three small knobs floating in
alarse bowl and drop it into a tepid whiskey
- -. tho,,oh har fhiratv mlatnm6r
had asked for the earth.
All that is changed now. Ice can
frequently be had nowadays even In the
winter. A generous bowl alec with large
humps Of ice is to be found on most bar
counters. II you cannot find a lump h q
will 10 into your glass the barmaid m
cheerfully to your rescue. produces a screw
driver, or some other useful implement
not meant for cracking ice. and manages
with very little splash to knock on enough
to make the lump fit. In many places too,
not distinctively american bars they
keep some bottles Of aerated water actually
standing on ice.
The exile In London is thankful for all
this; but. knowing better things. he wants
even more. The Englishman Ia still pleased
with the novelty Of finding ice in public
places. In a timid way he il even having
it sent home occasionally; but it Is to
the American visitor that London must
look for a reform in the way Of delivering
ice. A London ice cart Ia a dirtier looking
object than a coal cart. 1t is generally
a long, open, shallow bodied wagon. 1t
looks Its worst, perhaps, when half empty.
presenting then a desolate picture Of drip
pip1 lirfinooo Tho ,n1alivarad i'm Ia
more or less covered with pieces Of filthy
sacking. That part Of the wagon floor no
longer covered with ice shows a half inch
deposit Of muddy slush. in which the dirty
booted iceman stands while he pulls out
the next block for delivery. wrapped up
in onepf the awful pieces OF sacking. When
you have bought a block Of ice in London
you have becomes landed proprietor. Here
is a fine field for reform by the American
visitor Come over and help us
The museum OF the Royal College Of
Surgeons has recently received from the
Survey Department Of the Egyptian Gov
eminent an interesting collection Of patho-
logical specimens obtained during a survey
Of the tract Of the Nile valley which lies
Immediately south of the Pillars Of Konosso
and which will be submerged by the raising
Of the level Of the Assuan Dam.
Between September. 1907. and April last
ffty-seven cemeteries were located and
explored. and from the 1000 bodies ex-
amined was formed the present collection,
which illustrates the injuries. diseases.
ahnormalities and peculiariies of the people
who lived in the Nile valley just beyond
the southern limits OF ancient Egypt during
8 period Of some 5000 years. from pre-
historic until early Christian times. Among
the 800 specimens there Ia a large series
illustra ting the fracture and union OF bones.
Apparently the surgical results are as good
rs are obtained by modern means, and
there are two examples-the earliest known
of the splints used in predynastic time
for fracture OF the forearm.
Another series OF specimens represents |
diseases Of bone, the most common forms
Of which were those now olassed under
the generic term Of osteo-arthritis. and
q third anomalies Of development. Out |
side the pathological specimens there are
a number which illustrate the technique
and methods Of embalming. and others
the racial characters Of the various
Of which representative bodieshave
iouuu uuI"& Io oACaNaCiOnb. |
1t appears that the earliest predynastic
inhabitants were similar to the Egyptians
the same date. but subsequently changes
in the character Of the nose, face and
indicate an admixture Of negro
race. Still later. In the opening centuries
OF the Christian era. another race is found,
which is distinguished by certain anom-
allies Of structure and peculiarities Of dis
recorded In the remains.
The state OF preservation Of the remains
ls explained by the nature Of the climate
and the care taken Of the dead. but 1t is
none the less wonderful that Il should be
possible to examine not merely the bones.
but also In some cases the softer tissues
people who lived thousands Of years
ago. The collection includes a specimen
a liver containing gall stones. and in
another instance a post-Roman tomb
Yielded the abdominal organs Of q young
soman 80 well preserved that 10 was pos
Nole to say that she had suffered from
he very modern disease known as appen-
1icitis' Another early Christian subject
moved the typical LESSONS OF govt. the
around the joints giving the
factions characteristic OF uric aoid. So
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