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missionary Auxiliary Notes

The Homen roberman Clinic. OF
Los Angeles Calf. showed for one
quarter. s5i cases treated az clinic:
30 garments given away; $3.50 in gro
ceries given 20 needy families: 5c7
visits made TO 500 families. The Wis
It's were to 10 American families. EOS
Mexican and n Russian. Slayonian
and German families.
one Missionary Auxiliary composed
Of Eve members. raised si22.50 this
quarter and sent 10 friendless girls
TO vashu, This Auxiliary is In the
Mississippi Conference. The Missis
sippi Conference Woman Missionary
Society has purchased the Wesley
House at Biloxi. which viii be chang
cd and enlarged. The Biloxi Wesley
house Is monument to their zeal.
Feb. q: Don't forget to pray for
the spread Of the Christian religion
IN America No collection is 20 be
taken: Bible study and continuous
prayer for tho great needs OF our
country are features OF the program
Order the program from Mrs. u. W
Lipscomb, $40 Broadway, Nashville,
Tennessee.
There are about $4,000 Mexicans
m Texas There are about 10000
children OF scholastic age. and about
onefourth OF these are enrolled In
the public schools leaving 10000 Mex
lean children growing up In Ignorance
this is our problem. We have 300
children enrolled ~ Laredo Semina-
~. What viii We DO about those not
IN SCHOOL,
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-19

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nes- in opoas>l thi- vc~k. i~ssinF
On Ne Taesasy sfsrvsapa ssuAn
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-19

Il Is urged that Home Mission
DAY o. Prayer be observed In every
town on Feb %. aud thai the meet
ina he INSTRUMENTATION let All
the Womon's Missionary Societies
come together to pray for the spread
OF the Christian religion IN America.
No collection IA 10 be taken. Blhie
study aud continuous prayer for the
great needs OF our country are the
features OF the program. order the
program from Mrs W lIpscoinh,
$40 Broadway Nashville. Tenn.
william Borden. the young Amer
lean millionaire missionary, who died
In Cairo. Egypt. brQueathed hts en-
tirr fortune Ia foreign mission work.
IN the Methodist colleges " Kansas
are between s. and so students who
have pledged 10 60 a. FOREIGN mis-
xionar1es. and are SITTING themselves
for the work
In ~ or more Christian schools
throuehou, Persia. are fully 100"
boys and girls from Moslem families
who an, being brought directly IN
der the influence OF Christian train.
ing
4, is estimated that the Bible can
now b. rad IN their own languages
bv 10000 900 people. II ~ printed
in more than 500 of the languages
and dialects N the worlds. : Wis.
itor
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-19

"suttcriaks2B read produced sen.
satiou. HaOou tried mr. Il. H.
Martin tS2-io
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-19

Your health renshs that You buy
the hes, bread 9ntterfske. n. g. I
Martin go
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Are VALUABLE TONIC for TIRED EYES
and Make Their SIGHT MORE ACUTE

lights and shadows from this vibration are liable 10 do
iIarm your retina Why? Because the peephoIe
muscles and lens Of eyes be constantly chang
ng focus.
rhs is not the case with moving pictures At the
movies the spectator sits from twelve several
dred feet away from the upon which the motion
photographs thrown
AT that distance the focus OF the eve changes but
little. matter how much nlcker there may In fact
little flicker is beneficial, because it keeps tho eye
muscles from becoming sluggish and unadap
able to change.
one scholar maintains that tho Germans have become
better Observers than other nations. and
ahead Of Americans until short time ago because the
motion picture theatres swarmed In all the Teutonic
cities five SIX years before they spread the
United States.
Undoubtedly children. and adults as we'll have be
observant and better educated in many re-
spects since motion pictures have acquired such
Recent psychological tests made upon children immedi
atey after leaving moving picture exhibition
that they distinguish colors acutey, recognize
'orm and shape sharply, and remember figures.
and other visual differences better than they did
before they 10 the pictures. They surpassed
all the children who had not visited the "nOv
les" but who nevertheless, subjected to the
kind OF excitement by Witnessing meodrama per
formed by actual hesh-and-bood actors.
Instances weak eyes. astiematisIn tednes
granuated eyelids other troubles the optical ap
paratus commonly attributed by careless observers
motion photographs, found upon fair and thorough
investigation due entirely different causes.
Twitching the cyelids is enormously blamed upon
visits to the movies" was recently required, as the
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Chairman OF the scientific research committee OF ma
tonal organization 10 investigate run down the
cause OF this trouble. In large American city, where
there several hundred moving picture theatres and
half as many eye specialists it soon made clear
that not one true example OF overwhelming could be-
blamed upon motion pictures
Many of these only to The need OF eye.
glasses Others We're result OF defects with
which the twitchiug associated
Painful eyes, swollen eyes, Redeemed cyeballs waery,
eyes and stycs aiten natures roadside sgmpos5
which indicate that the specialist should be called
in to make visual Spectacles and eyeglasses will
frequently be found TO correct the irations
One man, who prefers the movies" to grand opera,
TO and asked il dark spots, which are always
dancing before the eyes to his fondncs@
for the phoo-pays. He gwen to understand that
such spots sign Of many different internal lsor-
ders5lood deficiencies, excessive pumping The heart
disturbances Of the brain and spinal marrow and the
accumulation Of mcrobc posohs in the lymph stream
There is. then danger eyes fre-luenting
moving picture theatres other than is liable 10
countercd in theatre, railroad train church park
other public gathering place. Contagious are or
course, picked up by the eyes At moving picture per
formances, we'll in school church these
by common and, With the protective regu
ations enforced by the building inspectors
cities the ventilation arrangements and hygiene the
picture lighthouses are becoming superior those OF
schools. churches and other public gathering places
habit has done nothing than people
accomplished incaculable OF good the
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Most young animals crack nuts with their
teeth. II strengthens the teeth and hardens
the gums. Children certainly should be al
iosed TO exercise their jaws too. The more
exercise the jaws are given, the less brush
ing will the teeth require. Herbiyorous ami
mails brush their teeth more thoroughly and
more regularly than any OF us carnivorous
animals do. and that's why we have so many
dentists. We simply substitute bristlcs. burrs
and sundry chisels for fresh green garden
truck.
And then there's sugar No, grandma. we
crave yonr pardon, but sugar cannot make
worms 1t makes rugged, lively children.
they naturally crave a generous amount OF
sugar and should have IL. Only give them
The most nutritious kind-the kind YOU used
70 give us when were little iots--rich full
favored unbleached brown susar-and spread
IL on about quarter OF an inch thick, that
Is to say, half OF the thickness of the butter
The particular reason for preferring brown
sugar TO the ordinary anaemc kind is that
Drown sugar contains something like 200
times more mineral food than white sugar
does. And mineral food is so essential TO the
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life and well-being Of every mammal that
mineral starvation Cor feeding animals with
ordinary foods from which the mineral mat.
ter has been removed) is more quickly fatal
than complete starvation.
Owing think, to the refined white subst
tute we use in place of the "staff OF life
from one TO all four OF our third molars. or
wisdom teeth" never erupt. They do raise
Cain with our jaws, though, under the inter
esting name Of "impacted molars"-as the
H-ray examination OF many cases of invet-
crate facial neuralgia teaches. Dr.. Talbot
Chicago stoma tologist has found by extended
series of examinations that one or more third
molars are missing from AZ per cent OF
ADULTS at twenty-five. Give us this day unde-
naturized bread!
1t does pay to have the temporary teeth
filled treated by the dentist, just as Ii
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Just How FISH GETS AHEAD

w how does he manage to move
w ahead? Does the water al
low itself to be showed out Of the
way in front and then flow in behind
the fish as he moves along2 If il
does, where does it go to in the
meantime? The fish certainly can
not lift the whole ocean above his
head, and water itself is practically
incompressible. Certainly a fish
cannot compress it any with a mere
flap OF its tail
All we have TO so on is the actual
fact that the FISH does move" There
is water all around him, above and
below him, there being not the tint
est bit OF space there for him TO
project himself in. At every point
he is met by solid head of water.
Now, OF course, we move about i'll
the air, but then We do not swim III
IL, and then air is compressible. Also,
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A MERCIFIJL WAY TO KILL RATS

@ CIENCE is always after rats on
account OF the deadly diseases
they spread. The latest meth
Cd OF DISCRIMINATING the pests is to
XIII them by the bushel with COM
mon flue gas.
All that is necessary to do Is to
turn the invisible gas poison into
any place where the pests are mar.
bored. In time this now method
promises 10 do away with the torture
OF rats by the bone-breaking jaws of
dogs, the tearing teeth Of spring
traps or the lingering pains OF rats
bane.
NJ. r. Berkowitz. IL chemist. is the
originator Of this more mercirul
method OF combating these enemies
OF mankind. In the case OF rats on
board n ship, common coke is spread
ten or twelve inches deep over the
furnace fire. y pipe from the smoke
stack leads the gas formed in the
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BY William Brady. Nj. d.

A SOUND tooth is better than gold
~ crown. 1t is cheaper, lasts longer and
@' needs less care. Every normal baby
IS born with set OF sound teeth in his
mouth, though he doesn't cut them till grand
ma gets round to it. r. in spite of decadent
civilization, the baby can keep his milk teeth
sound he'll never wear crown when he
grows up and becomes a man. II the tenn
porary teeth are kept intact by good common
sense oral hygiene. there will be no necessity
OF keeping the permanent set in glass OF
water beside the seidlitz powders every night.
Something like SO per cent of the enamel
of teeth Jig lime phosphate. Lime and phos-
phorus are vital elements Of blood muscle,
nerve bone and teeth Cereals supply these
mineral foods i'll the most assimilable form.
There Is more than mere mmercialisrn in
the pictures the cereal manufacturers print on
the back OF your magazine un-denaturized
cereals with natures chemistry included in
the carton constitute the ideal food for little
animals. We add cereal decoctions TO the
baby's bottle because we want TO build
good, substantial baby.
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After the gas has had time 10 kill
all the rats. fresh air is admitted
and lighted lantern is put into the
apartment 20 see if the gas has been
replaced by atmospheric air When
the lantern burns brightly the place
is safe FOR men to enter.
Animal experimentation comes m
Mandy as a test for gas Live rats
III cages are lowered into tine flmi.
stated apartment ana if they are no,
affected by the gas the place Is safe
loaded ship may be cleared al alp
rats by llue gas in about three
hours, While an unoaded vessel ro
uuires only about half that tiuo.
Mr.. Rerkowitz says that ali rats
hiiied by the gas should be burned.
Tor disease germs may i've and
thrive in the dead bodies Il ~
therefore not safe 10 throw them
into the sea. lest they IloaL TO aus
and spread pestilence.
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pays TO keep children away from case OF
scarlet fever or measles. Every case OF a
so.called "childrcns disease" is reflection
on our sanitary intelligence. And every
cavity in milk tooth cries shame upon our
oral hygiene.
Give me thousand children with sound
teeth to care for and limit my practise to
the diseases of childhood" and | can go
away on a long fishing trip without ever be-
ing missed by my patients. When ] find
family with bad teeth | endcavor to treat
them with Il great deal OF respect. for their
patronage is sure to be worth while. Fact is.
when a doctor wants to see sound set OF
temporary teeth he has to hold up some child
Who isn't a patient at all Every family doe
tor should perpetrate this cowardly deed
once in while in order TO recognize the oral
pathology he SO commonly OverlOOks.
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Militant Drndes and beligerent
moralists who read vice into tea
drinking, and whose voices are for
war against any pleasures whatso-
ever; who spit forth their crusading
Indignation against moderate tobacco
smoking, Sunday walks, the stately
minuet and the graceful Boston
waltz, have already recognized the
trend to censor or -censure it.
But certain amateur psychologists
and opticians continue to attack this
form Of entertainment and instruc.
ton. In their ignorance they declare
that defective vision. s,yes, grann-
lated eyelids, eyestrain, pinkeye, in
famed lids, crossed eyes and other
troubles may each and all develop
from attendance at the moving pic.
lures.
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furnace to a tank OF water, where
the vapor' is washed of SCOT and
other impurities, and is cooled be.
sides y blower is used to force the
gas from the smokestack on through
the water and into the fire hose
through to which it is carried 10
every nook and corner o. the vessel.
1t seems that the only drawback
10 using this fumigator aboard ships
is that men may be asleep III the
hunks or overlooked in the stoke.
hold or engine room when the gas
rs turned on. Berkowitz points ont
this danger and warns that all sec
tons of the ship be thoroughly
searched for human beings before
iumigation begins. Another precau-
ton that may be taken is to mix
BADLY smelling gases with the coke
gas. SO as TO rOut ont any men who
may have been overlooked.
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On the other hand, less than two per cent of the
black and brown eyed patients succumbed TO
the disease
Septic sore throat, tuberculosis, tonsilitis
acute rheumatic fever and many other diseases
all proved more dangerous TO patients whose
irises are light colored
In what colors are YOU most interested? Why
do children and savages like 10 play with col
ored objects?
These questions come home TO everybody and
are closely associated with mental growth.
health, temperament and education.
W. {. Reavis, st. Louis educator recently
undertook a research upon the effects OF red
green, blue. yellow, pink, orange and other hues
upon many individuals particularly school
children.
One OF the tests he arranged 10 discover
whether or no colors give delightful sensations
was 10 prepare colored squares of paper of the
different shades OF the spectrum. These were
given 10 the subjects TO mount according to
their preference
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Two English physicians have recently been
trying to ascertain what relation If any,
exists between disease and the color OF
the eyes. They were led more by accident than
design TO the observation that many persons,
particularly children, Ill with scarleina dph-
liberia, septic sore throat. tuberculosis and per
ncious anacmia suffer and succunlb
more easily TO the ravages OF these diseases II
their eyes are light blue gray than If their
eyes are black or brown.
Statistics collected AT several English hospi.
'als and published by these physicians in a re.
cent issue Of the Lancet show that whereas
children with scaretina who dark eyed
rarely die or suffer serious complications. nearly
ten per cent OF those with light-coored eyes
die OF this dread ailmcnt.
They found even worse state of affairs in
the case Of diphtheria Fully fourteen per cent
OF children with light blue. hazel and light gray
eyes went to an untincly death from diphtheria
despite the correct Of the best treatment
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How MOTION
PICTURES Make
You See Better
BY Leonard Keene Hirshberg
Alb, MD, MA. (Johns Hopkinsl.

- VERYBODY goes to the movies" Not only
AA moving picture theatres cheap. but the perform
good II not better than you in tho
dollar houses. You have the pleasure the music the
comfort, the entertainment and the instruction In
moving picture theatre certainty than in
many soca!led Legitimate houses" at far less ex
penre.
The other day James X Hackett and a Frohman
company in fourreel photo-play for five cents. You
may sec LES Mserables" Hamlet" and q thousand
other instructive plays ntermngled with zoology, trips
TO foreign lands, humor and the like In motion picture
playhouse These motion picture plays better
and in every way more satisfying than great many
theatrical productions for which you would have pay
dollars seat.
What harm is there, then, in visiting the movies?
Are the injured? Is the health the patrons de
stroyed? are the morals OF the young corrupted b.
them?
The answer to all OF these queries is an emphatic No.
Just the od-age playhouse gradually eliminated all
faint OF vice from its performances; just the editors
OF magazines have to understand that the reading
public does not relish small dose OF the wicked
The photopay producers have learned that their public
will have none OF the suggestive, the Vicious the
IN ca
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theory goes, the water at the head
must open first or the fish certainly
could not move. The pressure there
causes the wafer behind TO fill up
and pressure is carried in wave
which must have a certain velocity
in n fluid other than perfect one
and water is not a perfect fluid
The solution 10 the whole question
is, of course, the motion OF the tail.
Its flap causes n current OF water to
sweep down by the fish from head
TO tailor would cause it ii the fish
remained stationary But the pres
sure Of the current causes the body
to move forward However Won look
at it, the way a fish gets from place
to place Is very queer proposition
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Why It's SO EASY to Be DECEIVED ABOUT WEIGHTS

WAKE sofa pillow in one hand, balance it care
fully until you think you have a right of its
weight. Hold large glass in the other hand and
have some one pour water into it until you think it
weighs about as much the pillow. Then weigh the
two and see how far out of the way you
Or take cap in hand, and put in the other
coins you think may be needed to balance it
You will find your judgment far from correct
Take two stone jars. Fill with hot water and the
other with cold and ask a friend say which is the
heavier OF the two The bottle with hot water will seem
twenty-five per heavier.
Take three articles weighing the same Pit one on
the ground one on table and high shelf. Ask
friend to lift them and determine which
the heaviest He will pick the shelf the one
Which weighs the most every time
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we have something to hold on to. II
is easy enough to see that the fish
can move because the pressure be
hind him is just as much as that he
fore. and so any little added pressure
that he may give will be sufficient
10 move himself forward. Also, We
know that he can get grip momen-
tarily on the water with his tail and
fins by quick motion on account OF
the inertia OF the water.
The only question that we must
decide is whether the water ahead OF
him opens before the water behind
flows in or whether the two actions
take place simultaneously. AS far as
appearances sc, they seem TO take
place simultaneously. AS far as
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Dr. Herbert Harlan, SUPERINTENDENT OF Maryland
perhaps the best ophalmoiosiEt in the South
envoy sent by the Government to study the dreadful
eye malady the wilds of Virginia says
these charges all nonsense. DR.. Harlan with whom
feel this matter in hearty concord asserts that
the hour spent each day in watching the moving
picture shows can result in no harm to the eyes
In fact go farther and assert that two hours
day in the dark auditorium of IL picture playhouse
watching the moving films, is actually valuable tonic
TO tired eyes
Experiments by Professor knight Dunlap III the Dsy.
Geological laboratories OF Johns Hopkins University nave
shown that even the slight flicker which occasionally
appears motion pictures up eyesight ANA
makes it acute
1t is unwise, perhaps. Tor persons 10 sew read
OF attempt 10 their eyes close range moving
train, motor fast boat aeroplanc The fickeri.
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Young children in the first grammar grades
and below preferred red to the other colors,
with blue as second choice. Older youths in
clined to prefer blue TO red.
Then the experimenter gave the children out.
lines of birds and told them to fill them in with
whatever they pleased.
In every drawing made b. children of the
fourth and firth grades the heads of the wood
pecKers were colored red and those OF the blue
Jays blue. On the other hand. still younger
children selected bright red oftener than any
thing else for both birds
There was marked decrease in the use OF
blue by both the very old and the very young. The
Older ones left blue out almost entirely, just as
the youngest children did. and used red avishly
Mr.. Reavis draws from his investigation the
conclusion that children are most interested by
the bright colors such red and blue. The
majority of persons are, he believes, more in
tercsted in the sensations derived from color
than in any thing associated with the colors
themselves
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lore the effect OF the cough has passed away
Unfortunately, Dr. Guthrie omitted to deter
mine from his patients whether they were deeDlv
in love--just comfortably So or not in love al all
This leaves the question as to the shape Cupid
skewered heart would take as yet unsettled, but
there, seems no reason to doubt the gravity of a
cough upon All already Overstrained organ.
Blowing horn or cornet is just as bad as cough
ing, and it is urged in consequence that only
married men be admitted into brass bands
yawn, on the other hand, is beneficial AS
yawns above all things Infectious the lover
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The laws of illusion in weight quite exact and it
is marvellous to what large proportion OF people
VIII make exactly the same mistake in exactly the
way Thus the pillow lighter than it is because Its
appearance suggests lighness Or two similar weights
the ole that is the larger In size Will always seem the
lighter That is why tho weight OF the cap will be I'M
uerestinated in the experiment just described
Amy change from normal temperature, either no, or
cold. will appear 10 increase the tcmncralrc A Diccn
OF ice the weight a. a glass Of wotcr win , =.
weigh twice as much
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Repeat several times, and then wait for
ten or twelve hours and repeat the treat
ment Keep this up for week or two. and
catarrh will disappear
Strong salt water will cause pain in the
mead, but weak, warm salt water is perfectly
harmless and will cleanse the tissues more
ehectually than any other remedy
Ihls treatment is great breath purifier
and will clear up the throat.
a little stronger salt water used as q gargle
VIII relieve sore throat and aid in preventing
diphtheria.