Arizona republican., 1912-04-15
New York Housewives De. eide to Settle Domestic
 Questions Without Any Help s ...,,
PAST WEEK WAS
 A NOTABLE ONE
Peculiar Case May Have the Effect of Placing City in the Doctors !.
 Glass
[.SbeciQI CorreSboudencel

Special C0weSb0udencel
 1 NEW YORK, April 14-Whether the five thousand dollar limousine to say nothing of the lowlier taxicab is really an effective agent in reducing ! the high cost of living is one of the many questions which New York is trying to answer in checking up the actual results in the greatest move ment in this field which this city has vet seen. In all the hundred lyears of it's existence the famous Washington market which furnished the scene of action probably never before experienced such day as the one this week when five hundred members of the Housewives League descended upon it determined to do i their own marketing first hand in an effort to eliminate the middleman and reduce the food bills. Never probably has the city seen marketing under such conditions. As social affair the demonstration was un- doubtedly , success. Music was fur nished by a band and every visitor received a tiny American flag and bouquet There were guides to furnish information and all the dealers in
 
 their best each with a flower in his buttonhole. Some of the would-be marketers who in all probability had never been in a market before and inever will be gain came in their town autos with their own maids to icarry their baskets. Others in taxis although the majority arrived by street car or on foot. Many out os ! arr.lrsa rf their packages to their homes, leav- ing the husbands at the other end to wonder just where the saving came in. The prices obtained were of course lower than those prevailing at the small retail markets but considerable tdoubt exists among the skeptics as to whether the ultimate cost to the consumer in view of the cost of au- tos. express charges and the like was any less. Even the dealers voted the gala day a huge success, one butcher going So far as to say that he en- joyed it almost as much as the an- nual chowder party. Pressed for ex- pert views, however. he expressed an opinion to the effect that most of the women didn't know nothing about marketing and that until they
 
 efforts would not prcve effective. He added that one woman who wanted some veal outlets expressed desire to see whole veal, and was much disappointed when she found that 1t did not resemble d seal, to which she had always supposed it to be closely related. New York is still trying to determine the economic value of the auto in reducing the cost of living.
 The lawyer and not the physician may yet become the final factor here in deciding whether or not an illness or disease is curable as the result of a unique situation which if carried to its logical conclusion, may make it necessary for an ailing person in search of a cure to consult statute l book instead of a doctor. This strange state of affairs las been brought about as the result of an extradition jwrit issued bv neighboring state to compel q practitioner of this city to stand trial on the charge of re- ceiving money under false pretenses. The facts in the case show that one of the citv's best known physicians who has been prominently identified with a number of medical institutions rendered bill for twelve dollars for his treatment for the disease known as hydrocephalus, or water on the brain. of a boy in New Jersey. The r doctor says physicians now recognize that this disease is in some cases curable by medical treatment, while 1 the indictment says that it is in ! jcurable except by surgery As the , doctor in question did not attempt Q the latter method the charge of ob- h taining money under false pretenSes , | is made. Should the state win it's u ease a curious situation would arise under which it might be called upon to codify all diseases with the proper treatment for each. for physicians nlent if such an act, through conflict r with the views of the authorities. might lead to indictment and punish
 ment 4 legal code of all diseases and their proper treatments would un
 doubtedly be a remarkable work. and l. scribing castor oil for juvenile ston- ach ache is no less wonderful than
 would be the predicanfent of a phy
 sician who at a critical moment hap pened to have misplaced his code book.
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