The National tribune., 1909-12-16

fact, and nothing illustrated this better
than Mrs. E. II. Harriman's recent as
sumption of the entire management or
her husbands vast estate. Mrs Mar
riman has her office in New York, with
her corps of clerks, and for three or
four dayS in every week she is at her
desk for the greater part of the day
reading reports issuing orders, ana
giving interviews. The last days or
the week she proposes to give to her
family and friends, as a great many
of our men of affairs do nowadays
Mrs. Hartman may have q somewhat
better head for business than many OF
our women, but the chances are that
unless Mr.. Hartman had begun MS
married life by talking over his al
fairs with her, she would not now De
able to take her place in the great
young wife so utterly frivolous or light
headed as to make it impossible for the
husband to gradually instil into her
mind O more or less intelligent compre-
hension of his business. OF course
there are all about us young women
like the doll-wife of David Copperfield,
whose heroic efforts to interest her in
the family accounts, it will be remem-
bered, were so dscouraging, yet after
all the Dora" type is comparatively
rare, and the great majority of girls
are entirely capable of understanding
and would make vastly better, happier
wives if they understood the details
of the business which furnished the
family bread and butter, to say moth
ing of the jam. When girl is first
married her whole attitude towards
her husband is plant and receptive,
and it is pretty safe to say that If he
went about it in the right way she
could easily be made to acquire an in
telligent interest in his work. In most
European countries the wife under
stands the family finances as well as
the husband, and among the working
classes has just as much of hand In
the business as. he. There Is hardly
any woman so foolish or reckless who
would go on spending her husbands
money eXtravagantly If she knew she
was approaching the bottom of the pile;
and yet, kept in ignorance, as SO many
of our fashionable women are, of the
truth of the husbands affairs. how can
they be blamed for the failure which
ensues? The trouble is our men do
not feel like talking business when
they are at home, and most OF them
honestly believe the pretty wife could
not understand if explained to her the
intricacies of finance. But this is not
SO, a great many. wives-t Is be-
lieved the great majority-if taken as
soon as they were married and each
days transactions gone carefully over
with them would soon be able to give
their husbands really valuable advice.
IL advice were needed; at all events
would know just how they stood finan-
cially, would stand shoulder to shoul-
der with him in his ambition to build
up fortune, and in case of his death
before her, be able to go on with the
business, or at least to direct it. far
more intelligently than any other per-
son. .-
: King Gustave of Sweden has lately
performed a truly kingly act. Dis
guised as a common workman, he has
mingled with all classes Of iaborers
in order to ascertain from them the
real facts with regard to their dissat-
fsfaction. 1t seems the business life or
Sweden has been disturbed for some
time by q general strike, and aitho
KING Gustave has done his best to
end this by endeavoring to bring about
a compromise, etc, conditions have re-
manned serious enough to cause his
Government much anxiety. The King
and other members of the royal fam
lily have subscribed literally to Ma
tionai fund to relieve the working
classes, and certain of the public lands
have been given to the unemployed,
all of which has not seemed to miti-
gate the gloom of the situation to any
great extent. Now the monarch, by
minglinR with this class of his people,
sharing their daily toll and their pri-
vations, hopes to get at solution of
the problem.
The new anesthetic called stovaine
which the Roumanian, DR.. Jonnesco, is
trying to Introduce, seems to be work.
ing WELL and if proved a complete sue
cess will undoubtedly preserve many
lives. 1t is administered hypodermi-
cally, and while the patient suffers not
at all, he or she remains perfectly con-
scious thuout the operation. 1t has no
injurious effect whatever upon the
heart, the converse of which in so
many instances has prevented the ad-
ministering of the usual anesthetics
with death resulting. DR.. Jonnesco has
eral illustrations of the working of his
recent discovery. A little boy, less
than five years old, cripple from birth,
had q most painful operation performed
upon him the other day, that of cut
ting the Achilles tendon and stretch
Of his hypodermic syringe into the
boys back just below the spinal COL
umn, patted the child on the shoulder,
and then informed the operating sur
geon that he might begin making his
incision. During the progress of this
the little boy remained perfectly quiet,
and upon being asked If he were suf-
pain at all. When the operation was
over tine face of the little fellow was
cheerful and serene and there were no
indications of nausea, one of the almost
invariable and unpleasant results of
ether or chloroform. Another inter-
esting operation performed under the
influence of stovaine was that of re-
moving a tumor from the brain of a
boy with weak heart, and subject
to epileptic fits. The boy felt no pain,
and the operation was entirely success
full. Another new anesthetic called no.
vocaine, which belongs to the same
fanny as cocaine. has also been tried
lately with excellent effect. This, like
stovaine, does not render the patient
unconscious, and is supposed also to
have no bad effect on the heart 1t
was tried on an old woman suffering
with bad case of incancenated hernia,
and all during the operation, which
lasted an hour, she read her prayer
book and did not seem to mind in the
least what was being done to her
Skilful surgery has accomplished most
wonderful things during the past dec
ade. and the only thing which has stood
IN the way at all of its triumphal
progress has been the danger in ad-
ministering ether or chloroform. II
these new anesthetics prove to be what
is now claimed for them, hundreds OF
sufferers upon whom the surgeon has
hesitated TO apply the knife on account
Of the weak heart, may be relieved
and restored to health.
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