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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18

| tracts-for there is not single parti-
Gle Of nourishment in a barrel of them.
They act like whisky. They stimulate.
But that is ALL
The medical tradition that large
quantities of fluid-water or other
taken at meals "dilutes" the gastric
juice, and therefore interferes with di.
gestlon. is absolutely wrong The
stomach compensates the extra liquid
by increasing the flow of the juice in
SUFFICIENT quantity to keep it. Up to
standard digestive power
When the stomach is more than nor
! mally acid, the administration OF aka.
line solutions-such as soda-produces
no effect The alkalinity is compen.
stated by increased acidity.
When the gastric juice, on the con.
trary, Is not as acid as it should be the
administration of alkaline remedies"
on the theory that the stomach will
produce acid to compensate the alkalin.
lty-is In vain again. In a deficiency
or acid in the stomach-called techni-
cally "hypochloridia" alkaline re.
agents do not increase the flow of the
acid. What mystery there is here :.
Since Beaumont's time it has been
held that the presence in the stomach
OF any indigestible bcdy-such as 8
blackstone or a silver dollar-will pro.
duce a free flow Of the gastric Juice,
Pawlow has shown repeatedly that this
ancient belief Is wholly wrong. YOU
can batter the walls of the stomach
with a peck Of gunshot and not pro.
duce one drop Of gastric juice. Paw.
low did it with sand!
The stomach begins to secrete gas.
trio juice before morsel of food en-.
tiers the mouth. The sight, the smell
or even the thought of food starts ur
the flow of the juice. The ancient no
ton is that the stomach does not. and
cannot, secrete it's juice until stimula
ted by the presence, in it, of food
This preliminary secretion Pawloy
calls psychic juice" It's production
discloses how beautifully the incom
prehenslbly complex mechanism Of
the nervous system rises to meet situ
o1Aoio III duCc VI tuolT aCtualttY
Pawlow, In his almost too poetic way
calls 1t the "prophetic power" of the
organs and tissues of the body.
And Pawlow has made many imDor
tant discoveries about the work Of di
gestion other than those recited. What
pity it is that the average practi
toner Of medicine still clings to the
old notions! True, were Pawlow's facts
applied to the practice of medicine
there would. as a consequence, follow
severe shortage in the number OF
prescriptions given as we'll as filled
The doctor and the druggist must live
and the half-educated Professor in the
average American medical school can
not be expected to teach what he can
not understand. In view of which
there seems to be considerable sound
sense in the reforms sugg ,sted in med
ical education In America by Mr. Eek
ner and his friends
Copyright, 1311. by tho Columbia Pres
Syndicate)
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Known as the Richest Dog

cabin in the mountains The compan-
ion was confident that the dog was
misleading them, and kicking the in
telligent brute struck out in an op-
posite direction. The master, though
equally bewildered, trusted to his dumb
and faithful guide, who soon led him
to his cabin. Whereupon, having seen
his master safe and comfortable, the
sagacious animal set off Of his own
accord to rescue the man who spurn-
ed his kind Offices with brutal kick,
and contrary to that revenge which too
often appears in human requitals soon
brought the freezing man to the warm
cabin and then laid himself down,
content with having performed hu-
name act.
But the rescued men, whose life had
been saved by the magnanimous con-
duct of the great half human, though
half wolf dog, wanting to make some
amends for his own indiscretion and
unkindness, had made for the noble
animal q beautiful collar studded with
gold nuggets. This unique collar, such
as probably no other dog ever possess
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
CLEVER USES OF BASKETS
Make Very Pretty Jardinieres by Use
Of Cheap Materials and Little
Artistic Skill.

A woman who likes to have her
house full of growing plants in win
ter has discovered the baskets which
can be bought for 10 cents make very
pretty jardinieres. These baskets, in
old-fashioned willow-ware. come in
dark green, deep red and brown. and
any Of them are effective with the
green of the plants. says the New
York Tribune. II the baskets are
bought in 10-cent store it is most
likely that one will need only to 20
to another department to buy for 10
cents the pans that will exactly fit
them. Before being filled by the flor
list the pans should he painted grass
green, or to match the basket.
One Of these baskets may also, with
little more manipulation, he made
to fill the more prosaic sphere of
work-basket, lined with Persian silk
In harmoniZing cOlOrs. On one side
is pocket of silk drawn up by mar
row elastic, and small bows holding
In place an emery ball, bodkin,
glove mender and a needle book make
a pretty decoration along the edge.
The outer edge is trimmed with a
modest little fancy fringe.
Newer in style is the brown one.
with yellow added for brightness
There is mat in the bottom cut from
cardboard and covered with brown
silk, which is fastened to the under
side with glue. The little silk cush-
lon, which is Of the tomato order.
measures four and a half inches
across. Both mat and cushion are
held in place by two stitches C strong
silk that go through the bottom of
the basket. A yard and a half CT rib
bon three and a quarter inches wide
will be required to hold the spools
and to make the bow. A quarter of
yard of wider ribbon in the same
shade will do for the cushion.
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safe against one; and one would do the
job as we'll as q million. A few million
germs more or less in a cubic foot Of
air makes small difference one way or
the other. We cannot enforce the laws
proposed by some well-meaning If I'M
informed sociologists who would pro-
hibit marriage to all persons not i'm.
BILE way BY which we can prevent non
immune persons from propagating
their kind; and decent human nature
revolts from the suggestion made by a
teacher of sociology that all weak in
fants should be murdered! Scientific
research does not trouble itself with
visionary and impossible schemes such
as these.
To produce by the art of scientific
experiment the anti-toxins, or anti
poisons, which nature itself in the ami
NAL body always tries to, and often ac-
tually does, produce. and by the In.
PRODUCTION of these laboratory-made
anti-toxins into the body to immune
the individual to the activities of de-
destructive germs-this is the highest
concern Of the experimental >patholo-
gist.
This new and wonderful science is
not twenty years old. Since it's great
est protagonist, Koch. first discussed
his now we'll established LYMPH"
vast and difficult technique, nomencla-
ture, literature End science have
grown up with rapid1ty inconceivable
even to him who can remember the be-
ginnings. A new world of marvellous
and beautiful chemism has been blazed
for those who are disposed further to
exploit its inexhaustible soil. There is
sound reason to hope if not to believe
that before the coming of the next cen
fury men will be safe from all but a
few, if not positivel' all, the frightful
maladies that now destroy them. And
If the man Of the future refrains from
splitting on the sidewalk-politeness
not hygiene. will be his principal mo-
tive for doing So
copyright. 1911, by the Columbia Press
Syndicate.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
DISFIGURED WITH CRUSTS

'Some time ago was taken with
eczema from the top of my head to
my waist. It began with scales on my
body. I suffered untold itching and
burning, and could not sleep. I was
greatly disfigured with scales and
crusts. My ears looked as If they had
been most cut of with a razor, and
my neck was perfectly raw. suffered
untold agony and pain. I tried two
doctors who said had eczema In its
fullest stage, and that it could not
be cured. I then tried other rem
edies to no avail. At last, tried a set
Of tho genuine Cuticura Remedies.
which cured me of eczema when all
else had failed, therefore I cannot
praise them too highly.
Il suffered with eczema about ten
months, but am now entirely cured.
and I believe Cuticura Remedies are
the best skin cure there u.s." (Signed)
Miss Matte J. Shatfer, r. F. D. I, Box
8, Dancy, Miss, Oct. q, 1910.
II had suffered from eczema about
four years when boils began to break
out on different parts OF my body. 1t
started with a fine red rash. My
back was affected first. when It also
spread over my face. The itching was
almost unbearable at times. I tried
different soaps and salves. but nothing
seemed to help me until began to
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
One box of them cured me entirely.
recommended them to my sister for
her baby who was troubled with tooth
eczema, and they completely cured her
baby" (Signed) Mrs. F. L. Marber'
ger, Drehersville, Pa, Sept. 6, 1910.
Although Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
Of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to CUT
cura," Dept. L, Boston.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
Georgla's Big Baby.

viii eat three and four large biscuits,
with bacon gravy, butter and a great
Zeal of syrup; two glasses of butter
milk and if allowed will drink two
ups OF coffee. Between breakfast and
dinner, he will eat two more biscuit
with butter and syrup. For dinner he
can eat large plate of green's or any
kinds of vegetables with boiled bacon,
corn bread, biscuit and whole pie If
he can get it, with two glasses of but
termilk. He eats again between din
ner and supper, and his supper is in
keeping with breakfast and dinner. He
consumes az much as any grown per-
son on the place and has sampled
every kind of food served on the Cody
menu.
When James Adolph was six months
old he showed a remarkable tendency
~ become a giant, and the family ply
stefan arranged diet for him to re-
duce his flesh and curb his tendency to
outgrow his baby clothes faster than
his mother could make them. They
tried everything they could think of.
but Adolph grew just the same, and
finally his parents cut out the diet and
let nature take its course. They have
the satisfaction of knowing that he is
the healthiest youngster in Habersham
county, in spite of his size, and his
mental capacities, while not in keep
ing with his avoirdupois, are really
equal to other children Of his age.
Scientists have been consulted as
to James Adolphus' future. Some of
them make gloomy prediction, others
believe he will stop growing taller in a
few years, his figure will develop to
that of man and he will be full grown
at 10 or IL years. But If he doesn't
stop growing-well, old P. T. Barnum
may turn over in his grave to think
what he had missed by living 20 years
too soon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
CARE OF THE GIRLS ROOM
Trick Of Having Apartment Beautiful,
Attractive and Clean Is Simple
and Easily Learned.

A girl can learn nothing more use.
full than the simple trick of having
her own room beautiful, attractive
and clean. It is not always possible
to have the furniture, but one can
have a honey looking" ROOM One
thing is absolutely necessary, room
must be clean, bedspreads, pretty
linen dresser pieces and chair cush-
ions are necessary. Cover the trunk
(if kept in the room) with cretonne
cover, and have scrap basket to
hold little odds and ends which must
be burned. On the table have we'll
selected books and magazines. Keep
gay postal cards In neat postal card
book. Do not decorate the walls with
them, for pretty as they are they soon
hang crooked and make q room look
untidy.
Have a place for shoes. for II any
thing makes 4 room upset it IL q pair
Of tan shoes lying. piGeontoed. und0r
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
infant EATS MORE !.
THAN A CROWN n. N
YOUTHFUL JOHN AOOlPH CODY
CREATES FAMINE ON GEOR-
GiA FARM.
CHILD WEIGHS. ITO POUNDS
Two-Year-Oid Seems Man, Except In
stature-Is Under Doctors Care,
Who Says "Little One'' Is Perfect
ly Healthy.

Mount Airy, Calf James Adolph
Cody keeps on growing for the next
20 years as he has for the past 81
months, there won't be street in the
country wide enough, for his passage.
He couldn't enter railway train,
couldn't pass under bridge without
crawling and would strain the axles of
the biggest auto truck in the country.
He now weighs 10 pounds and is just
three months over two years old. If
anybody knows of bigger baby
than that, George invites him to enter
exhibit B. But James Adolph is
unique.
Mr.. and Mrs James Aleck Cody, who
live on the mountain side not far from
Mount Airy, don't know what to think
Of the enormous size of their offspring.
He wasn't their first baby and his
predecessors were not unusually large
nor are the parents above the av-
erage.
Young James Adolph was larger
than the average when he entered this
world, but not of appalling size by any
means. But he began growing after
his very first meal and hasn't done
anything but grow since.
The child has grown in proportion
within the past six months with the
record he made in his first baby days.
With tho first indication of his alb
normal growth, his parents consulted a
physician and James Adolph was put
under his care for some length of time.
All efforts to keep the baby on a diet
suitable for one Of his age, proved as
unsuccessful as the physicians treat
ment to keep him normal in flesh
growth and any tendency beyond the
ordinary baby.
He now weighs more than 100
pounds. He Is 80 inches in height,
barefoot. His measurements are as
follows:
Around, head 24k inches; neck, II
inches; bust, 80 inches: waist. SO
inches; around arm above elbow. IL
inches; wrist, 8 inches; across hand,
above thumb, 6A inchee; around first
finger. near hand, 21a inches; around
thigh, 26 inches; above knee, IA
inches; below knee, 10 inches; ankle,
9 inches; around foot, 8k inches;
length of foot, 61k inches; across shout
der, Is inches.
His strength is we'll in keeping with
his size. He can draw his older broth
er in wagon made with heavy block
wheels with the greatest ease.
One Of his chiefest amusements is
to rock in an ordinary rocking chair,
which he fills comfortably. If candy is
added to this pleasure, he is perfectly
contented.
His appetite is more like a grown
person than baby. For breakfast he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
Toxins and Anti-Toxins

measles, that classic disease of child
hood, we have one of those ancient
maladies not yet conquered by man,
and for the simple reason that it is
seldom fatal. Were measles invariably
mortal, it had been wiped out long,
long ago.
When nature wipes out a disease
from among men she does it in one of
two ways: eithe- by destroying
through the disease itself all non-im-
mune individuals while children-thus
safeguarding posterity; or by perma-
nently immunizing non immune indi-
viduals by slow incubation 1t is be-
1eyed. for example, that farmers, and
other laborers, who are constantly ex-
posed to the germ of tetanus Clock
jaw through cuts or other slight
wounds on the hands, develop a nat
ural anti-toxin which protects them
from the activities of this fell organ
ism. Immunity such as this may come,
IN time, for all men. and in this slow
way man may emerge from his death
struggle with fell heterogeneous
safe and sound from them all.
But this is somewhat utopian view
The prospects, so far as present knowl-
edge goes, while not utopian. are at
least not disccuraging. We cannot
abolish germs by law. We cannot es-
cape contact with germs by public
health measures. We breathe them
constantly and become their hosts in
various other ways. We never know
when We will be invaded by frightful
tetanus. or by pyogenes (the germ Of
so-called blood poisoning) would as
soon take in few million bacilli of
tuberculosis as would one II were
not safe against million l wouldn't be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
NOT A "FULL-LENGTH" PAPA
Child Wanted Original Of Portrait That
Had Been Made So Familiar
to Her.

An amusing incident is related Of
q young service matron who had re-
1nquished her husband for two years
and who, having before his departure
insisted on good photograph, applied
herself assiduously to the INFRINGING
Of her two-year-old baby with a view
to the child's familiarity with her dis
tinguished father. Each day she would
call the baby girl to her and, kneeling
beside her, would hold up the photo
graph, pointing out each feature to
the child.
One day the officer came home, and
the baby girl, then four years old.
was summoned. "Come, DEAR" said
the mother in glee, papa has come
home at last" The child surveyed
the officer in perplexity and finally
shook her head.
What is the matter, dear?" asked
her mother. WELL" replied the child.
'he looks something like my papa. but
my papa hasn't any legs!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
Rifle for Under Water Action.

When he is working in water infest~
ed by sharks and other sea monsters
likely to do him harm, the diver has
at present to rely for his safety on the
use of the knife, or. failing that, on a
quick return to the surface. Now
comes the invention Of Captain Grobl.
a German diving instructor, who has
constructed a rife which can be fired
under water, and is designed for the
better arming of the diver The most
remarkable thing about this is that it
fires, not bullets, but water, which is
propelled with such force that it has
an extraordinary power of penetration.
Indeed, he inventor himself has
pierced arpor plate of medium thick
ness with the water jet from his
weapon. The rifle has stout barrel
and is loaded with a cartridge cased
In india rubber
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
Discoveries of a Russian Savant

In congratulating ourselves on the
wonderful achievements of modern
science it would be we'll now and then
to pause and figure the immense
waste Of life. wealth. comfort and hap
piness occasioned by the stupidity or
the deliberate greed of men, in spite
Of the rapid progress of scientific dis
covery ITSELF
To illustrate this point let us con-
slider one respondent example. Let us
take flashlight Of the work OF Paw
low-it is pronounced Paylov, or Paff-
lif-the celebrated physiliogist of St.
Petersburg, who. in TIE dozen yearz
last past. has discovered more useful
and Illuminating facts about the
stomach, and about the process of d.
gestion In general. than were upturned
by all the investigators before him,
from the ancient Greeks down.
When we study the work Of Pawlow
we marvel at the ingenuity of this
wonderful Russian, and when we have
sated ourselves marvcling at Pawlow,
we begin to marvel at the monstrous
criminality Of human society In permit
ting the work Of Pawlow and common
medical methods Of treating the stom.
ach to exist side by side at one and
the same time.
Thousands of medical doctors-l do
not say in Europe, but most certainly
in America-are treating the stomach
with the same old drugs, on the same
old theories, that were used by their
predecessors Of fifty or sixty years
ago.
In those old days they had mass of
traditions about the stomach that had
been gathered together by physician
of the good old school-good old Beau
mont. who made observations of the
stomach Of one Alexis st. Martin. a
veteran of the War Of 1872. by means
of an unhealed istula, or hole, in the
wall Of the stomach, left by the pass
ing of bullet. From that time until
Pawlow-with the possible exception
Of the German Heidenhein-the SCI
ence Of Europe made no progress in
the study Of the stomach
Pawlow came and shattered the an
cient traditions. He proved beyond the
possibility of question that the old no.
tions, the old beliefs. were wrong. He
did it openly before the assembled
Faculty" OF Europe In the University
OF St. Petersburg; and he published
his results in the journals and in the
form OF book.
Here are few of the things which
Pawlow proved, and possibly my read
ers. as we'll as the average medical
man, will be disposed to question the
reliability Of the great Russians work:
Broth, beef tea, bouillons and that
sort Of stuff and soup itself, do not
stimulate the flow Of the gastric Juice
more strongly than will so much cold
water. Cold waite: will prepare the
stomach" for its meal just as efficient.
ly as the finest potage ever brewed by
the genius Of French art. 1t is not a
question OF the nourishment one gets
from these broths and soups and ex-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
This Animal Has a Gold Studded Col.
lar to His Account in an
Alaskan Bank.

There Is man at Nome whose town
residence is near the congregational
pasonage and whom l found to be a
good neighbor. Although he never
came to hear me preach he was and
is warm friend of mine because Of
my we'll known defense of the defense
less. He Is an ardent member Of the
Alaskan Humane society of Nome and
a great friend Of the dogs, who are
also very fond Of him.
His own dogs, of whom he has sew
eral, are fed on the best the market
affords and sleep at night on beds fur
nished with mattresses. His favorite
and inse7arable companion is large
dog known as Billy, who has earned
the right of freedom from toll and
achieved q reputation for sagacity in
saving the lives OF numerous miners
who were lost in Arctic billiards.
On ono occasion he was plotting his
master and companion to their
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18

ACES and nets are more generally
used in making hats for mid
summer than for many seasons
past. They are fine for remodeling
shapes that have been worn but are
available for a second or third season,
as leghorns and milans. If the used
shape is dtscolored or not in perfect
repairs, ruff1es OF lace, sewed one row
above another. may easily cover the
upper brim entirely. With a crown of
net draped over thin silk for the
top, no part of the original shape is
visible except the under brim. Such
hat Is shown in Fig. 1. The lace is
a German val pattern and is knife
plated. making ruffles a little less
than two inches wide. These are slip
stitched to the brim.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18

The wreath of buds and foliage
about the crown at the base is all that
Is needed to complete the hat.
A leghorn in Fig. shows the under
brim covered to within an inch and q
half of the edge with dotted net in
pale blue. A big pulled crown of the
net Is draped over a wreath of by
drangeas, which grows wider at
the back. where it climbs to the top
OF the crown: Very little of the upper
brim is visible and the crown of this
hat Is almost wholly concealed. On
the crown the net is draped over plain
chiffon trifle lighter in tone than
itself. This is another excellent de-
sign for hat which is to be remod-
eled from one that shows signs Of
wear. JULIA BoTTOMLEY.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-18
Combinations Quick Sellers.


Combination garments have taken
so well with the trade that they are
now made in the cheapest grade, az
well as the highest priced numbers,
says the Dry Goods Economist. e.
fective corset-cover and drawer COM
binatons are made of wide embroid-
cry, the corset-cover being made of
one piece. The embroidery being
wide enough to form the leg of the
drawer, a narrow yoke joins the cor.
set cover and drawer section. So lit
tie workmanshipis required on these
numbers that the quality 10 exception.
ally good In the cheap grades, 40 the
extra cost 10 put into tho material,