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Pocahontas star herald., 1916-07-28

CONSTIPATION AND INDIGESTION
81 have used Chamberlain's Tab
lets and must say that they are the
best | have ever used for constpa'
tion and indigestion. My wife also
used them for indigestion and they
did her good" writes Eugene 8
Knight, Wilmington, N. G. Cham
beTlain's Tablets are mild and gen
tie in their action. Give them
trial. You are certian to be pleased
with the agreeable laxative effect
which they produce. ObtainaOIe
everywhere.
Pocahontas star herald., 1916-07-28

In every home where there is
baby there IS a baby there should
a,so be a bottle of McGEE'S BABY
ELIXIR. 1t may be needed at any
time to correct sour stomach, wind
collie, diarrhoea or summer COM
plant, 1t is wholesome remedy,
contains no opium, morphine or IN
furious drug of any kind. Price
25c and SOC per bottle. Sold by
all druggists.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

in dfoSu ~ N'

Unfortunately, neither the American
nor the European statistics throw anv
clear light upon the question of the reason
for the superior vitalitr and viablity--
which is simply "livability''-of women.
Explanations, Of course as in Falstaff's
time, are 'as plenty as blackberries,' but
thoy are mostly OF The variety which does
not explain. Some undoubtedly play
part and help to explain some share OF the
difference between The sexes. but none of
them alone is adequate, nor even all of
them taken together
First and most naturally of all. came the
explanation that women living a much
more guarded and sheltered and indoor
lie than men, were less exposed to "thc
Sims ana arrows of outrageous fortune"
in the shape of accidents, injuries. infec.
lions, 10 say nothing of battle, murder and
sudden death. And a study of the actual
returns confirms this claim 10 the extent
that something like four-fifths of all the
victims OF industrial and railroad acct
dents. homicide and criminal violence ara
men. More men also die of the great in.
fcctions, like pneumonia, tuberculosis,
rheumatism and typhoid, probably for the
same reason that the more public and
rowing habit Of their lives brings them
much more frequently into exposure TO
the germs Of these diseases.
But neither Of these is sufficient to &C.
count for the difference nor both taken
together. Accidental and homicidal
deaths DO not for the reason that thew
comprise only about six or seven per cent
Of the total, while the difference bet ween
the death rates OF males and females at
all ages under fifty, ranges from twelve
10 twenty-five per cent. While the excess
OF men over women who fall victims to
tuberculosis. typhoid. etc, is little moro
than fraction OF one per cent.
Eut the most mortal weakness of the
accidents and exposure theory of explana.
ton is the striking and singular fact that
the superiority OF female vitality over
male Is greatest and most unmistakablc.
not merely III the earliest years or life,
but in the very earliest months. In fact,
ii is greatest OF all in the worry first year
after birth, when the death rate among
boy babies is nearly thirty per cent
higher ;han among girl babies.
Thcn comes the reasonable and valid
explanation that the superior health OF
women is due to tho much greater mo.
dcration and morality OF their habits OF
?. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

life, their almost total avoidance of to-
bacco and of alcoholic excess, their lack
of enthusiasm for free fights. and their
extremely low criminal record This ex.
PLANTATION, like the former, undoubtedly
contributes distinctly to the superior life
endurance Of the more well-behaved and
sensible sex. But even this has some
curious discrepancies in 1t, inasmuch as
the superior longevity and disease rate
Of women is as marked in France and
Germany, for instance, where women use
alcohohc liquors as an article OF daily
diet, just as regularly as men do, as it is
here in America where not one.ffth as
many women take alcohol habitualIy as
men. 1t Is as notable in prohibition States
as in wide open" ones, and In this very
report the one class of our population any
considerable percentage Of whose women
use alcohol habitually-the foreign.born
the superiority of women over men is
slightly greater than in our natiye-born
population.
Furthermore. when we come to the
disease in which alcohol seems to play
the most striking and extensive causative
part-insanity-the actual percentage OF
men and women in the asylums is exactly
the same. So that again we are puzzled.
although there can be little question that
the abstinence Of women from alcohol is
powerful factor for their benefit and
healthfulness in every way.
On the other hand, when we have listed
these environmental conditions which
seem to be In favor OF women we have
not only failed TO explain the mystery OF
their superior survival power, IL in every
other respect they stood equal with men,
but we have still to reckon with and &C.
count for number of heavy actual handi.
caps which the mere fact OF sex imposes
upon them First and most unfavorable
OF all is the extraordinary indoor, unven-
tilated, "cribbed, cabined and confined"
life which the overwhelming majority OF
women are more or less compelled to
lead, or, at all events, think they are
and do From hygienic point Of view,
the lack OF sunshine and fresh air in
most women's lives is something appa!-
ling: for, taking all classes and condi-
lions together If the sex averages half
an hour a day in the open air il is as
much as could be said Shut ND rabbits
and guinea pigs under the conditions in
which most women habitualy live, with
few tubercle bacilli scattered about,
such as are present one time or another
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

having the men folk sit down to the first
women. or to the fact that the mother,
who usually does the helping and serving,
helps the wage earners first, the children
second. and herself last Of all
Finally, there come the risks and fatal
tiles of childbirth and Of the diseases
peculiar to women, including their much
greater liability to cancer at certain
ages. In the older and, for reasons al
ready suggested. probably more accurate
vital reports, there were certain decades
OF life in which women lost their supe-
riority over men in the matter Of death
rate and disease rate, the collaborating
period and the early cancer period, ap-
parently on account OF the increased
risks they ran from this class Of dangers.
In fine, we seem to be thrown back
upon the conclusion that there is an in
born and inherent difference between the
sexes in survival power, which. however,
may be only polite way Of expressing
our ignorance Women being from the
point Of view Of race survival so much
more important than men, ii would seem
that they had acquired in the course OF
aeons a superior degree OF vital resist
ance and endurance to compensate for
their many limitations in point Of ac-
tivity, initiative and range. a score Of
straws point in this direction, none of
which would be conclusive by itself, but
all of which together carry considerable
weight.
The tiniest girl baby resists the infec-
tons and poor food diseases OF infancy
twenty to thirty per cent better than
her boy brothers and cousins. Women
have lower death rate from the acute
infections than men have. They bear
persistent and agonizing pain better, they
stand the shock OF surgical operations
better, they survive conditions and
strains in homework and IN nursing
which would drive men crazy or to drink
within a month; more OF them survive
to old age, and more than twice as many
of them, according to the records, become
alleged centenarians.
This last item, however, carries little
real weight, for ninety-nine times out Of
q hundred Il centenarfan Is merely an old
woman who has lost her memory and
forgotten when she was born. Not one
in Il thousand Of the cases reported,
either in the census or in the newspapers,
can produce documentary or any other
sort Of valid evidence in support OF their
claim to be "centurions."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

ity as whole, but al any given age OF in
any given year. This was terrible blow
TO our male self-conceit particularly in
the case of consumption, which we had
almost come to regard as peculiarly
FEMININE dlScaSe--So much SO that when
ever sinking into a decline" was men
toned, the victim which instantly spranc
into our minds eye was almost invariabl,
some fral, fair-haired ange-faced girl.
Besides, consumption was supposed to be
disease OF house jewellers, an outdoor
infection, and women were emphatically
the indoor sex
Finally, through the study OF the prob
lem of the million Of surplus females in
European countries. there was revealed
the still more humiliating and disouie,.
ing fact that although there were more
boy babies born than girl babies. the
girls, by their superior toughness and
resisting power, showed a lower death
rate at every age OF life than the boz:
and forged steadily ahead through each
successive decade, until, long before mid
die life, they outnumbered them heavily.
All Of these findings are corroborated
and many other interesting details given
in a special study of the comparative
death rate and disease rate of males and
females. just issued by the United States
Census Bureau. This shows clearly that
from the very first month of the first
year Of life and for every successive year
and decade following the death rate is
higher in boys and men than in girls
and women, with the partial exception OF
that misty and uncertain period of un-
profitable persistence upon the planet
beyond the ninety-fourth year, and this
raises in acuter form than ever the in,
teresting and insistent question Why?
OF course, il doesn't DO TO take census
figures too seriously, nor TO regard any
conclusions drawn from them as final or
even reasonably reliable. For the reason
first, that the whole decennial perform
ancc of census taking or gathering the
so-called statistics is shameful orgy
of spoils and pork and petty graft so
that the enumerators are selected for
every imaginable reason except compc-
tencc and intelligence.
Second, that the answers to the long
and appalling lists OF questions with
which enumerators are furnished are
and can be only in the nature OF csti.
mates or even guesswork that many of
them are resented as officious y"vinc
into private affairs, with the suspicion
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20
THIS Is What Led to THIS ~

here We See Primitive Woman Doing Most
Man ould ompty Fall Before ndre
RnsI DAYS Women Not Only Did Most of the
"ners While Women Had to Brave the Drafts During
Developed
To-day Go Around in Freezing Weather with Her
Shouldc Bare
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

tne., they may be used as basis for IN
creased taxation and answered accord.
ingly. What affects this particular study
most directly is that all statements <
to ages at death represent mercy the
belief or opinion of the single member
of the family who happens to be at home
when the census lakcr calls.
Even where data from the rcpor,s cf
deaths and births made 10 the various
health authorities are used, a wide nos
sibiity Of error still remains. bccauso
Inc reports OF deaths are not conpie,c
ana the reports OF births almost lndi
crously imperfect. Special expert stu,,ies
which have been made OF birth racnr,is
in selected counties or cities. oven ~
the registration area, that is. those
States and districts in which vital sta
hstics are supposed 10 be fairly VOL
kept and reliable. have shown that in
many cases barely two.thirds, and in
others less than half OF the population
had ever been registered or reportcd a;
birth M ALL However tho findings cf
this report agree in the main with tho
other data upon the subject, which were
already i'll our possession.
Copyright. 1916. by tho star Comm
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

e r G a II Y sur.
Drised 10 dis.
cover that more
men d Il Of
them than wo-
men, not only
in the commun
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

o'Cidn-HutnOT.
and secluded lives OF Their
sex in old age. So masculine
superiority was still able TO
hold up its head and keep it's
plumes flying.
But worse was to come.
When we began to study care
fully the fatality OF the grea,
common diseases, such as
tuberculosis, pneumonia and
heart disease-all Of which
are supposed to be favored by
ana conditioned by n low.
cred vital resistance were
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

In almost even
house, and two
thirds OF them
will develop tub
erculosis.
The next han
dicap u n d ell
which women
suffer is that az
a class they are
distinctly worse
fed than men.
This is partly
due to t h e IL
more capricious
a n d uncertain
appetite, caused
by their indoor
life and by their
having to live
perpetually>iu
the odor Of food
and the steam
q n d S t e W OF
C o o X l n 6 a n d
washing. Partly
and even moro
potently to the
h a b i t W h i C h
pretty generally
prevails among
the W ork l n &
classes. BIO t b
farmers a n d
a rti s a n s, of
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20

Women being from the point of view of survival
so much more important than men, it would seem
they have acquired superior degree of vital resist
ance and endurance to compensate for their many
limitations in point of activity, initiative and range"
DR.. Woods Hutchinson
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
A New Ice House

The Pratt Ice company have
work we'll under way in the
erection of their new ice house
which will be located on the cor
ner of Omaha street and Central
avenue. The building is 25x8C
feet in size and will be big
enough to hold all the ice which
this city will need.
1t is the intention of the Pratt
Ice company to run business
along business lines and ice will
be delivered to customers
promptly. They will also put ur
enough to last during the entire
season, so that the people here
will not be put to the incon.
venience having 1.-THE supply run
out during the early part of the
simmer, compelling them to get
ice from out of town as was the
case during the past two years.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Shops Operating Punch Boards
Gambling Places

Madison, Wis. Nov. 21. Pool
rooms, ice cream shops, cigar
shops, and other places of the
kind operating punchboards
slot machines and other con-
trivances of chance, are gamb'
ling houses, and as such can be
prosecuted under the state law.
according to an opinion of At
torney General Owen to District
Attorney G. M. Hilliard of Dur.
and today.
"The fact that school children
ften frequent the shops in
question does not change their
character as long as they are
permitted to gam bile in said
rooms. and can resort to the
same contin ually says Mr.. Owen
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Local Company Rebuilding
Their Entire System
Say Plant will be One of the
Most Up-to-date in
the Country.

The Bayfield, County Tele-
phone people have not been
making much noise about the
improvements they have been
making to their lines in this city
but they say when the work now
under way is completed they
will have one of the most up-to
date telephone plants in the
country.
For some time the company
have had a crew of men at work
rebuilding their system. Now
cables have been put up to take
the place Of the open wire work
throughout the city and their
poles are to be removed from
the main street. $17,500 will be
expended by the company in the
work being done here.
In addition to the outside
work being done the company
will also install in the central
office one of the very latest types
of switch boards, giving their
subscribers the same service
here as they receive in the
larger cities.
The common battery switch
board does away with ringing
at the phone. They will also
have the harmonic automatic
ringing, so that when the CEN
trail girl makes the connection
the phone will ring automatical.
ly until you have answered or
the operator finds that you do
not answer.
The company expects to move
to their new office over the post
office building on Saturday of
this week. The switch board
now in use will be removed to
the new office and will be used
temporarily. Shipment of the
new board has been made and
the connections will be made
upon it's installation, without
any interruption to the service.
The company have fine set
of office rooms and will have an
up-to-date system.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Want Law Changed

An effort is to made by the
Rod and Gun Clubs of the north
ern Wisconsin to have a closed
season for deer for a period of
three or four years and a bill
having this as it's object will
likely be introduced at the COM
ing session of the state legisla-
ture.
Hunters who have been in the
woods during the past few weeks
report a scarcity of deer and
they claim that the one buck law
now in effect is not proving
successful, They claim that a
large number of does are killed
each season despite the law and
that it will be a matter of a few
years when the deer will be ex-
terminated. They suggest that
a closed season for four or five
years would give the deer
chance to increase and when the
season is again opened that the
hunter should be allowed to kill
Just one deer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Farmers Invade Every Section w ith
Institutes

Farmers Invade Every Section w ith
Organized campaigns for
better farming, better business,
and better living will be started
ia Wisconsin next month, when
the thirty. first annual state far
mers' institute season begins.
One of the most successful
series of farmers meetings in
the history Of the state is anti
cipated by the groupe of farm
er-conductors and assistants,
who are now making the final
arrangements for the season s
gatherings.
Exact dates have not as yet
been Decided for many of the
Institutes, but the list of places
where these agricultural con-
Eferences will be held has been
determined. There will be
! 72 two day meetings for farm
ers, 48 two-d day sessions for
both farmers and their women
folks" %. special fruit growers
institutes, 20 sandy soil insti.
tutes, and about a dozen live
stock meetings, with demonstra-
tions in connection where teasi-
BILE. Nearly all of the counties
| in the state will be entered at
some time during the season oy
the institute conductors in
carrying on their campaign.
Active support in many of the
meetings will be given by the
Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders
Association, the State Horti-
cultural Society, and the Agli-
cultural Experiment Associa.
tiOn.
Special Fruit and Garden
Institutes--in charge of D. F.
Bingham, Sturgeon Bay. and
IN. A. Rasmussen, Oshkosh,
will be held at Bayf and
Washburn, Bayfield, county.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
County Dads Will Meet
at That Time
Much Business to be Disposed
of When County Board
Meets.

Notices have been sent out by
County Clerk Nels M. Oscar to
the effect that the annual meet
ing of the County Board of Bay
field County will be held on
Tuesday, November 28th.
This is the annual meeting of
the board and a large amount
of business is on hand to be dis
posed of, such as the auditing
of accounts, checking up ex-
penditures, making tax levy,
hearing reports, etc. Practically
all of the business of the entire
year will be gone over at this
time and disposed of.
1t is not expected that much
Of a scrap will develop over the
tax levy and equalization. The
board have learned that it is
best to take the figures of In
come Assessor William Lam
draint as the basis for the
equalization and this will likely
be done at the annual meeting.
The report of the committee
on roads and bridges will be
interesting to board members.
Since the visit of the board
members to all of the roads in
Bayfield, county they will have
more knowledge of road matters
when this report is presented.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Washburn Wisconsin, Thursday, November 23rd 1916
Has Issued Rep ort

The report of Income Assess
or William Landraint has been
prepared and has been forward
ed to all mem bers of the county
board. The report deals with
the valuations, assessments and
true value of all real and person.
al property in the county and is
a very important document.
In the prefix to the report
Income Asse ssor Landraint t
takes many of the assessors to
task for the poor assessment in
their towns and in one district
he considered it so poor that he
has ordered a re.assessment by
the State Tax Commission.
In regard to the assessment
in the City of Washbarn as
made by Assessor Kinney and
the Board of Review Mr.. Ian.
draint says: ''The city of Wash.
burn is over-assessed and had
to be cut down by me. 1.-THE
reason for the over assessment
is claimed to be a desire to show
to prospective new comers a
lower tax rate than heretofore,
while others claim it is done to
meet the expense of the new
pavement. It is just as we'll
illegal to over.assess property
than to under value the same
and I cannot approve of the
course followed by the assessor
and board of review. The in
fated prices paid for property
in the city the last year do not
furnish a solid basis for assess
ments. except the property
sells in the future at the same
rate and values become more
established
The city of
assessed for 81
ing to figures of the looa.
assessor while the figures as
placed by the Income Assessor
RI
are $1,518, 638.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Removing Poles

The Wisconsin Telephone
company have completed the
work of removing their tele.
phone poles from Bayfield,
street. It makes quite an i'm
provement to the street.
The Bayfield, County Tele-
phone company expect to begin
the work of removing their poles
from the street the first part of
next week and when they have
completed the work there will
be no more poles and wires on
this street, except at one or two
crossings where the cables of
the Bell people cross the street.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
Fire Near Omaha Depot

The fire department was
lied out last Saturday after
moan TO fire near the lOmsha
depot which destroyed several
freight cars. When the fire
alarm sounded the alarm spread
rapidly that the Omaha depot
was on fire and the people OF
the city who had been working
long and hard for a new depot
for the city saw visions in the
smoke of a new depot raising
from the ashes.
But these dreams went a
glim ering when the fire lad.
dies arrived for it was discover.
ed that only a couple of box
cars were burning.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-11-23
The LIMIT HAS
Been REACHED
All Available Space in Post
Office Used
Ninety-Six New Boxes In
stalled but demand has not
Yet Been Supplied.

During the forepart of the week
ninety-six new lock boxes were
installed in the local post office,
the second installment since the
Office was moved to it's present
location, but even with the ad-
ditional number the demand
will not be supplied and the post
officials are at a loss to know
what to do to provide more room.
For the past several months
there has been on file at the post
office applications for several
hundred boxes and every avail
able space in the post office has
been utilized and if more room
is to be had the present build
ing will either have to be en-
larged or another location will
have to be found.
For some time the Post Office
Department at Washington has
had the matter up of furnishing
a new building but the rent
which the Department is willing
to pay is not sufficient to be an
incentive to anyone with money
to invest.
The only way to relieve the
present crowded condition of
the post office would be to pro-
vide free mail delivery and an
agitation has already been
started along this line.