The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-05

was the feller foundi
Never Snored in meetin'
When they passed the hat around.
In a world SO sinful
Seemed ashane to roam!
Bein' Jest SO perfect,
The angels called him home!
But there were some people
Who had the heart to say
Satan sfnged his feathers
When he tried to fly away!
Atlanta Constitution.
Better Parents Needed.
Failures of the body's nervous ma
chinery, or neuroses, as the Medical
Record phrases it, are on the increase
in every civilized community. Indeed,
such failure seems to be inseparable
from the advance of civilization. AS
life increases in completely and the
stress Of keeping up with the process
sion grows, the old system of bodily
regulation and control fails at va
rious points before nature has a
chance to brace it up by the needed
structural notifications.
That our nerves and brains as well
as our bones and muscles and teeth
and hair are undergoing evolutionary
modification Is manifest. But the
process in the former tissues seems to
involve more profound changes than
elsewhere in the body. Its results are
therefore more striking and its path
ology more serious. The increase of
nervous 1nSCaD1l1ty ana nervous
breakdowns in children is one of the
serious problems with which the mod
ern physician and educator are called
upon to deal.
A discussion of this important SUBJ
| ject took place at the recent meeting
of the British Medical association.
Those peculiar infantile neuroses be-.
ginning very early in life. faulty de-,
glutition, and defective respiration
were explained as due to defective
F,x ,1ks
tiers. And attention was drawn to the
fact that emotional, nervous children
are those in which moral perversions
| most commonly occur and in which
| the true psychoses usually develop.
| The ideal thing is of course to prevent
| at the source the long stream of suf-
| fering and crime which springs from
| them. This is more of an economic
and social than a medical problem. It
ing, better environment, and, above
all, better parents.-New York Press.
Cigarettes and Business.
The recent drastic action against the
cigarette in the western states is very
lsignificant, and the reason therefor is
well worth the careful consideration of
every young man who has an ambition
| tc do something and make som thing
in life worth while.
| The states of Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
Souri, and Nebraska have all passed
rigid laws prohibiting the manufacture
or sale of what are aptly termed "cof-
fin nails" within their borders.
These drastic laws are passed solely
found it utterly useless, to forbid
cigarette smoking by their employees,
as in spite Of the prohibition the VIC
Tins of the pernicious habit persisted
in its indulgence in, secret and felt that
they were at liberty to do so as much
as they pleased on their own time.
/ That, of course, was their right, and,
not being a crime, could not be for
hidden or punished by law. Moral
reasons and preachments did not
petent and reliable help employers
found it necessary to do something to
ut stop to cigarette smoking, and
the passage of the laws.-Binghamton
Republican.
Medicine i'm China.
Much is heard in these days of the
awakening of China. and undoubtedly
progress is being made in various di-
known to the native practitioner, re-
mains pretty much in the condition
described in the memoirs of LIE Comte
published in the seventeenth century
For centuries medical knowledge has
been at a standstill, and the popula-
ton has been at the mercy of the
ignorant charlatans who pass them
selves off as doctors. In spite of over
r alf a century of close contact with
Europeans, the Chinese doctor of to-
day remains ignorant OF the rudiments
, of anatomy and physiology, and has
the most ludicrous notion of the func-
: tons of the internal organs and the
causes of disease.-North China Her.
aid.