The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-12
THE HUMAN PROCESSION


 Sir William Osler, the celebrated Canadian-born physician who is hon ored by his professional brethren as one of the foremost living diagnosti- clans, but who is known to laymen as the author of the doctrine that men past sixty should be chloroformed- and put out of their misery, is himself we'll past the fatal mark, since he will pass his sixty-fourth milestone to-day. As a matter of fact-aIthough why should be bother with facts when f1c- as matter of fact, Dr. OsIer didn't say what nearly everybody. says that he said. He did remark that mans best (preparatory) work is done be- fore forty" which is a statement that few will deny. He also observed that men have a tendency to become ''set in their ways,' before reaching sixty, old proverb that You can't teach an old dog new tricks" The 'ch1oro- form doctrine'' started as a joke but Sir William is now inclined to think that it has gone quite far enough.
 William Osler was born in Tecum- sch, Ont, July 12, 1s49, the son of a clergyman, the Rev. F. L. Os1er. The theory that the offspring of ministers never amount to anything was dis proved by the Osler "boys,'' for the eldest won fame as a jurist, and an other, now Sir Edmund Osler, has an international reputation as a fnan- cier and has been a member of the Dominion Parliament for seventeen years. There are thus two knights in the Osler family, which is a pretty good batting average, considering the alleged handicap of having a cleri- cal father.
 pr. Osler was educated at Trinity
 
 medicine at McGin University Mon treal, and later studied at University College. London, and the universities of Berlin and Vienna. Returning to Canada, he entered the medical facul- ty of McGiu. After ten years in Montreal he accepted the chair of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1899 joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins. His con nection with the Baltimore institu- ton continued until 1904, when he settled in England, and since then has been regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford. Sir. Will liam recently visited the United States and Canada and delivered lec- lures in Montreal, Baltimore, New Ha- ven and other cities.
 Little Prince John Charles Francis the baby of the British royal fam fly, will celebrate to-day his arrival at the mature age of eight. The youngest of the six children of King George and Queen Mary was born July 12, 1905. He is described as an unconventional and democratic youth who objects to being called your royal hfghness," and prefers having even the servants address him as John. In his infancy he was rather more delicate than his older brothers but an open-air existence promises to transform him into sturdy and ath- letic youth. The baby is poorer in the matter of Christian names than his brothers and sister, since the Prince of Wales has seven and the other children four each, except John, who has to get along with only three Many stories are told of the Prince One is that he told his nurse, in a mo- ment of evaporation, to go to place noted Tor its heat. The nurse tat tle-taled to the Queen. and the royal motheN. shocked in the extreme, de- manded that her profane son make an adequate apology. It was immediate ly forthcoming.
 Nurse, I told you to go to heI,'' said John; well, you needn't