Putnam patriot., 1910-03-18
Editorial Scfaps.


 THe ' atlonai As7 IafH fd tHe Insnne In Haenua, tuba, IH sHieh afe 2t#H patients. k in 3 n6.t aerletaBie cahai tlon sinee hs eontfol sas assumed ty the Cuban sathafIlIes# Hdef tsenefaI Mood i was made motiei Institution When the Republic aas established lt came under the control 0f nafise aa- ihanlies When fhe American second intervention look piaee tbe hozPitei was found in ffightfui condition. The miserable patients wefe starving md desiit9te Of bedding and clothing Again il was put iu perfect order under General Magoon. Within year sue. eeedIng American control the hospital has again reiapeed Into the same fright. fui condition as before. IL k strange that sensible Americans can be found senianding that the Fillpinos, large part Of whom are but ignorant and uB- civilized beings, begfanted seif.gosefns ment. when the better trained tubans sfe proved unfit for the task,
 Al Joliet. Ill.,, the farmers, to the number of 640, held A banquet, the first of The kind ever held in the West. II was spontaneous movement and ga. fhered momentum as the announce ment spread around. As the farmers asked each other why should not the farmers have n banquet as well as city folks The desire spread, The attend nncc included women, whose talks were pertinent and feminiscent, and the whole affair proved to be such n brilliant success that il k to be perpei- uated.
 Among the many, great and besuti- fnl magazines published in this eouD' try, the Century" holds the first place in the esteem of the general read er. For young people, the '.fst. Stcho' lasn holds the same high petition. II contains nothing thai is moi interesting and instructive to it's young readers and older ones, for that matter, some os the latter reading no light literature exeep. what they find in the "-t. Nj cholas.s It's stories, and many other articles, are beautifully illustrated, and when years numbers are bound ih . book one possesses volume worth tn. subscription price, and Is read and re read in the family until II is worn out
 In the April namsef of the "st. Nj choias,i among ils varied contents, i' an article on "rhe Lives We Live, from which the following k an extract
 "Now, of ali the good things We can ret out Of books, the best is the numnet of lives We get by reading them W men a story really takes us out ot oufself as we say, II naturally puts as into some one else And no transformation wand of the falty tales did Il better foi prince or seventh son than really good writer can do II If we will only Tel him Space nor time are barriers, and We may ride with the knightsefrant ol the fifteenth century, or follow the tfail through Inc morning mists with tbs leatherclad plainsman or haekwoods' man of the past generation by simply tufniag the pages of book
 Scarlet fever has been very prevalent fn the State during the past winter, ss we learn from the report of Inc secfeta' " of the State Board of Health, fhers were ssa cases In February ss compared with i.s in February last year. otthis large number five occurred in fho,np- son and twelve In Willlmantic. There
 .i.., f.s n. CT adjoining town, There is no one ot the infectious diseases which differs In the intensity ef it's outbreaks as does scarlet isvef The present outbreak has been very mild The specific germ ol scarlet fever is not known, neither do we know how the infection k carried from one person to anothrf, bat preea bly by breathing the contaminated ar Says the report, For the control ei ths disease we must prevent the contact oi the sick with the well, and must lnsis' on thorough disiniectlon of the seere' tions during illness. Health officers and physicians can do liltlc In the control without the cooperation o the public. and sll should oevs th' tsaisen Rule hs submitting te psol<i diagnosis Of even the alil,iesI ease ane hv strict etsef, anee of all sanitary re gulalions.
 The boss leaders ef the Repubilear pafty. in New York stale, es thell hl.h.hsndesi methods h defeat GoXet nor Hughes measures, demanded l., the people, k likely to sisieas she party the coming fall. At ths feesnt tow elections in that Stsse The Democrats made stsal gains. This is what ffes fdent Tafa, senatof Root and other Ike pu6iicans ef National fepuialiea. gave warning would hs the case.
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