Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-21
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would do, this baron Of the curious
patronymic. He purposes merely to
perform the Caesarean operation upon
the Gregorian calendar. Then, If the
calendar survives, he may resort to
ViVisection.
Won Herse- se-Martegg-that small is
an insignia of nobility and woe betide
the compostor who insists upon maxi
ing it upper case If the baron ever
meets him-has enough gulden and
florins and pfennigs and other out
landish coins of several different
realms so that he can afford to med
die. That's n lucky thing for the
baron, because, with his prediction,
he probably would NEEDLE anyway.
Just at present his meddling has
taken the form of an assault upon the
system whereby the world reckons time
| that same time which Mr.. II. @.
Welles declares to be the long-sought
and carelessly mlslaid fourth dimen-
sion. II J
The baron doesn't believe In twelve
months year. He proposes instead a
year of thirteen months, each of four
weeks His weeks are to consist Of
seven days, as at present and are to
beain with Monday. Thirteen times
| four times seven gives us 364. There s
a day over, for the baron though he
has changed the calendar, has no de-
sres to go a fitting with the sun
| Therefore he proposes that this extra
| day be run in between the new year
and the old, that 1t be day without
date, owning neither week, month
nor year. incidentally he suggests that
this founding day be observed as
world wide holday-a holiday Wh1ch
would have to be twins one year in
four. though this the baron seems to
have overlooked.
He's going to lay the matter before
! the London International Congress or
! Chambers of Commerce in June, Is the
! baron And he has prepared paper
in support of his suggestion. Mean
time Monday will continue to be wash
! day.
DR.. Charles T. Hatfield. until last
, week president OF the Pennsylvania
! Society for the Prevention of Tubercu-
| losis, has made u great discovery. In
! his farewell address before members OF
the P. S. F. T. p. o. T. he declared
that the fight against tuberculosis Is
| too much for the medical profession
that the doctors must call In the laity
to assist them. The problem, he said
Is not medical. but social.
| Doubtless this idea Is not new. but
| coming from n grave and reverend NJ
! D., It should acquire added signifi-
canee. IT means, of course. that just
| so long as men and women and chill
dren herd themselves, or are herded
! into cramped. badly ventilated ana
poorly lighted tenements; and just 50
! long as they are poorly nourished, the
great white plague will continue 10
| scourge humanity. All the panaceas
| in the pharmacopia will avail nothing
against the persistent little tubercle
! under these conditions, and so the
problem is sociological and not FOR
! Aesculapius.
Tubers arc not good for tubercles.
! but they are good for the tubercules
victim. Therefore, marshal your irish
pertaties turn on your sunshine and
ston living In tenements. whether you
! can afford to live elsewhere or not
/ That Is the doctors advice, and the
doctor has been on the job long
enough to know what he is talking
about.
| Most men are different. So is Fl. r.
! H.. the Prince of Wales. The Prince
of Wales is getting ready to go on a
! junket with South Africa as his OBJ
! tective OF course there's nothing par
! ticularly new about that. Other men
at least another MAN-have gone TO
| South Africa and returned to tell about
! II. The queer thing about this par
!
the prince expects to lug along with
him.
! You might suppose that he'd take
| friend or two, a lot of guns and, per-
/ haps, a dozen or so moving picture
machines, together with a set of teeth
a smile and a pair of eyeglasses. But
the prince is different. He's no weak
imitation. Not by jugfull. He's
genuine product, guaranteed under the
! a vnla OF blown
| in the blottle and all that sort of thing,
don't you know.
| Consequently, when II. r. II. goes
to South Africa he will be accompanied
! by an official historian, probably Sir
! Donald Mackenzie, and by fathers
painter-in- n-ordinary, Mon. de Martino.
These among Others of course.
No moving pictures for the prince
If he is to be done at all, he'll be done
in oil There might be a chance there
for John D., If somebody would only
tell him about it.
Judge N. NJ. Sheldon of Missouri is
a student of feminine human nature
as we'll as of Blackstone. Recently the
Judge handed down a decision in
divorce case in which the principals at
the time of their marriage to each
other were 45 and so years of age, re-
spectively In that decision he wrote:
"It is a fallacy to believe that per-
sons, especially if they have been mar
ried before, fall in love at that age.
1t does not happen. 1t is Impossible
The judges friends were astounded.
They told him he would have half the
women of Missouri suffragetting him
through the windows of his court
room. They advised him to retract
and save trouble, to explain that he
didn't mean it and never said it any
way, to declare that the reporter had
lied and to Jail him for contempt OF
court
But the judge, student of feminine
human nature as well as of Blackstone,
sat tight and did nothing. He didn't
take back a single word, and what's
more, nothing happened. There were
i no brickbats, no recriminations Every
| body, seemingly, was amply satisfied
with the decision and with the judges S
reasons for making 1t.
| Why? Merely because woman to
express herself aggrieved would have
been compelled to admit that she
was-how old did the judge say?
dent on her little chicken ranch for a