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Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

this should be so.
Their study leads them TO be-
lieve that one reason for the
prevalence Of tuberculosis among
shoemakers lies In the fatigue
caused by the constant exercise OF
care and attention In the execution
OF a number OF finely adjusted and
rapid muscular movements. The
men who cut the lasts have TO bend
over their cutting boards for hours
at q time with their abdomens and
lower ribs compressed and their
chests cramped. No attitude could
be more conducive to tuberculosis.
Add to this cramped position the
fact that shoemaking is sedentary
work carried on for long hours in
overcrowded factories which are
often dark. dusty and poorly Venti.
lated, and It is not hard to see how
so many shoemakers contract
tuberculosis.
To overcome these difficulties the
English investigators urge the pas.
sage OF laws regulating the lighting,
heating and ventilation of shoe fac
tories and prohibiting the dry
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

seest anything at ali this day 1t
will be fortunate" is another entry.
Look not at rat this day." Wash
not with water this day." go out
not before daylight this day." are
some OF the additional cautions.
This almanac was found in an old
tomb, and is supposed to have been
buried with its Egyptian owner
when he was converted into a
mummy for future explorers to dig
up and dissect in the interest OF
science and literature.
Next after this in point of age
among the existing specimens of
ancient almanacs are some COM
posed in the fourth century. They
are Roman Church calendars, Civ.
ing the names of the saints and
other religious information.
The Baltic nations, who were not
yersed in papyrus-making. had
calendars engraved on axe-helves,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
How We Learned to Use ALMANACS

walking sticks, and other articles
of personal use. The days were
notched with . broad mark for Sun.
day, and the saints days were sym
boliEed in various devices, such as
a harp for st. David's, q gridiron
for st. LAwrence's. q lovers knot
for st. Valentines. and 30 on. The
Saxon almanacs are numerous and
contain historical as well as ecclesi.
astical entries.
II 10 possible to trace In these
curious records ell the changes OF
popular belief and taste. They
were prepared to meet the current
demand and to constitute syste-
matte story of what took place in
successive periods and how
knowledge increased with the re.
volving years. We owe to them
most that we know OF the people for
whom they were made and by whom
they were endorsed.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
Would Be Very Hard to STOP EATING BRE

- RoBABLY man would survive II the earth never
produced another grain OF wheat. But he would
= not hnd It easy TO get along without this useful
grain for the eating OF bread and other things made
from wheat -four is a habit TO which he has been
addicted for nearly Eve thousand years.
Wheat It Is thought FIRST grown in the valleys
OF the Tigris sud the Euphraes Gradually It spread
to the East and it s known that in China 1t
tivated extensively as early as 1000 b. c. Wheat
formed the chief food OF the people OF Biblical times
The term wheat" is derived from an old English
word, "hivaete" meaning white.
The wheat OF to-day diners somewhat from that OF
early history Through intensive cultivation and
fertilization 1t has reached high state Of perfection.
Wheat 10 the most widely known OF the cereal grains
1t is found wherever the white has penetrated.
It is grown the Hmalayan slopes ten thousand feet
above leveli the great central plain OF North
America; IN the tropical countries OF Africa and India
We nnd that far north the Sixteth parallel
OF latitude in Alaska Russia, Germany, France and
Copyright, 1915 b. the Star Company, Great Britain
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

from the time the wheat is weighed until It is sold as
-four. The byproducts, bran and middlings, are sold
to the farmer for the feeding OF cattle.
There are over nifty varieties OF hour made but we
must classify 1t chiefly according to the kind Of wheat
Flour made from Spring wheat is commonly known
as bread -four. Bread flour is rich in gluten Gluten
has the OF expansion after the addition Of ois
ture and heat and -four rich in gluten as bread -four
is, will produce light loaf OF bread.
Flour made from Winter wheat is commonly known
as pastry -four Pastry flour contains less gluten and
more starch than bread -four.
Bread and pastry -four may be readily distinguished
from each other. Bread -four Is creamy in color and
granular TO the touch. Pastry -four is white in color
and smooth like cornstarch. II portion OF this be
squeezed between the hands the impression OF the
fingers win remain.
Flour should be kept in tightly sealed cans in dry
place. II is more economical in buying -four to get
good brand even though II does cost a halfcsnt
more pound than an unknown brand.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

bTFHERE are few habits out OF which the
average man or woman gets more
real enjoyment than that Of reading
in bed. When the cares Of the day are over
and mind and body can both relax is the
time when ones tavorite book or magazine
is most inviting, and an hour or so over its
pages is often the best preparation for a
healthful. refreshing nights sleep. In fact
physicians often recommend reading In bed
to nervous patients who suner from in
somnia.
But beneficial as the habit may be TO the
mind and nerves, II has quite the opposite
effect on the eyes.
oculists have for long time been puzzled
by peculiar form Of eye strain, which is
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

especially common among college students.
Now they have decided that this is a direct
result Of the habit Of reading in a reclining
position.
College students are more addicted to this
habit than any other class Of people. Not
only do they enjoy a novel or magazine after
they get into bed at night. but throughout
the day much OF their reading is done while
reclining on couches or divans.
Just why this habit is SO harmful to our
eyes is clearly shown by the accompanying
diagrams. The one on the left represents
the eye with its various parts in the posi-.
tion nature intended them TO be for reading.
The axis Of the lens is. II will be seen, ex.
sctly vertical
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

England. thousands OF OF wheat are harvested
every year.
The fact that wheat be readily adapted to various
conditions of soil and climate makes It the most
valuable OF all cereal grains.
There are many different varieties OF wheat Cue to
the differences OF soil and climate but in general We
divide II into two great classes: Winter soft wheat
-sown in the Fall and harvested during the hot Sum
mer months-and Spring or hard wheat early in
the Spring and harvested late in the Summer.
grain OF wheat Is composed OF four parts; the
husk which consists Of five distinct layers OF BRAN
the cereal layer thin membrane enclosing the starch
cells, and the germ During the milling the
bran coats and the germs removed.
Graham nour is made by grinding the entire grain
TO moderate grade OF, hneness. Entire wheat nour
is made by grinding the grain and removing the three
outer coats. II the germ were not removed from the
hour. the color and the keeping qualities would be
affected.
There are tWenty'four steps in the milling process.
nta
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
GOOD for the NERVES to Read in Be but BAD for the EYES

The diagram on the right shows the con
ditions under which the eye has to work
wnen we read in bed. The crystalline lens
is slightly tipped. the suspensory ligsment
strained and the vertical axis thrown con-
siderably out OF plumb. BY doing work they
were never intended to do the ciliary
muscles which control the movements Of
the eyeball are able, for q time at least. 10
prevent the blurred, distorted image which
would otherwise be the result
Just as a rubber band after being
stretched a long time loses Its elasticity and
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

becomes unable 10 resume It's normal posi-
tion, 90 will the ciliary muscles, II called
upon for too much OF this abnormal work.
become lax and unable to properly control
the eyeballs.
Eye specialists say that eyes which have
been badly strained by too much reading IN
n reclining position are among the most
difficult cases they are called upon to treat.
The reason is that such eyes exhibit a GER
tain light rehex, known 70 oculists as the
Scissors movement" that is very hard to
deal with.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
T HE hrst almanacs were of

bs HE frst alnhanacs were OF
Arabian origin, and reflected
the local genius Of the peo-
pie in a very striking way. They
served as models in other countries
Tor hundreds OF years.
The oldest known copy Of such a
work is preserved in the British
Museum. and dates back to the
time or Rameses the Great of
Egypt, who lived 1900 years before
the birth OF Christ. It is written on
papyrus, In red ink, and covers a
period of six years. The entries
relate to religious ceremonies. to
the fates Of children born on given
days, and to the regulation OF busi-
ness enterprises in accordance with
planetary influences.
do nothing at all this day" is
one Of the warnings. "If thou
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
Why So Many SHOEMAKERS HAVE CONSUMP7

anything about the materials with
which they work that facilitates
the spread Of germs OF this disease.
Yet the death rate from tubercu-
losis among the workers in the
great shoe manufacturing centres
OF England is about S6 per cent in
excess Of the average for other In
dustries. And English scientists
have been making an exhaustive
Investigation to try to find out why
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

VwFRY are shoemakers 20 liable
W to tuberculosisi There 10
w no reason why there should
be any more hereditary predispo'
sition TO the disease among them
than among any other class Of
workers. They are not as q rule
hard drinkers. and they are well
paid enough TO AFFORD comfortable
homes and sufficient nouriShment
Neither can It be said that there 10
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
That Your Scalp Will RETAIN ITS HAIR You Will

what the microbacillus requires months rrS---~
and years to accomplish. iii
When we wish to destroy an individual iii
hair or many OF them for keeps there is but l | -
one known means OF safely doing so, and koN N
that is the electric needle. This is an ordt S
nary No. s or No, jewelers. steel breach \
or a platinum needle with slight bulb at -
the point, attached to the negative pole OF ~
a galvanic battery supplying a four or ave
milliampere current. The needle is gently
insinuated down alongside the shaft OK the
hair until 1t penetrates the follicle or root
when a stream OF white bubbles comes to
the surface and the hair comes away with
out pulling or giving pain.
This, Of course 10 tedious process--an
operator does well TO destroy dosen to A.
twenty hairs at a sitting But Just the same B--N
1t is not one whit efficacous than the the i'm
mcro-bacIllus of Sabouraud when the latter
agent is kept protected with suitable hat
Lack OF fresh air darkness absence Of the actnic
disnfectant action Of sunlight, plus uncleanlness
these contributing factors aid the microbaelus in his
ruthless work.
You may note the succeeding stages Of the process
in any First there is increasing oiliness Of
scalp and haira seborrhoea, doctors call IT, an ex
cessive flow Of the natural oil secreted BY the
sebaceous or oil glands which lie about each hair
follicle and supply the necessary oil OF the hair This
excessive secretion Of OIL is response OF the glands
to the stimulating effect Of infection.
Perhaps II the nat were thrown IN the ring ana iet
there the process would 60 further, for the sebum
or oil itself possesses germicida power; but this
power is feeble at best and hence readily counter
balanced by the contributing factors just mentioned
lack Of air. light and cleanliness.
We say nothing here of the interference with nutr-
ton Of the scalp by rigid hat bands Even the derby
silk hat would hardly impair nutrition II It had no
roof Few heads regularly spheroid ovoid as
to suffer from the pressure Of hat bands the normal
irregularities of the outline OF the skull cap suffice to
protect the arteries and veins Of the scalp from serious
pressure.
The second stage Of the process s that Of dandruf
At first 1t is oily, greasy dandrun, seoorThoea,
oleosa, stearrhoea pityriasis. as is varously
known 1t may assume the form Of greasy coating
the scalp After time 1t generally becomes scay.
dry dandruh (seborrhoea sicca).
The oily dandru Is usually not 30 itchy 40 the Dry
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

A-Surfacs Of slrln. B--Hair stalk. c..
Oil gland, which becomes weakened by ths
unrelenting gnawing of the Sabouraud mi
crobes. D-EIair sheath. E--Hair muscle.
Flair root, which the microbes grad
ualIy eat away causing the hair to die and
fall out,
Mix. To bs rubbed In between parted hair
at night, covering onefourth Of scalp thor
ouohly each night. shake che bottle before
uslne
The one drawback about all sulphur preparations
10 the somewhat disagreeable odor of sulphur hard
to disguise And It 70 nsolube. and hence cannot be
sprayed upon the scalp like certain other medica-
ments For instance alcoholic solution OF two per
cent sacylc acid Of similar strength OF resorcin
may be sprayed forcibly upon the scalp by OF
n good atomizer whose downward bent tip IS held
lightly In contact with the scalp.
II convenience alone Is not the chief thing to be
considered either OF the three mediosments mentioned
would be most effectively employed in the form of an
ointment which may be systematically rubbed into
the scalp By parting the hair here and there without
leaving the hair unpeasantly greasy little oint-
ment the hngerips and thorough but not too forci
bic massaging with It.
We grow bald because we want to. not because We
have to. We don't give our scalps lighting chance
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06

\ AID air, vanity and laEiness are the three common
factors OF that execrable condition. alopecia pre-
matura, or denudation Of mans dome.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16

not lucrative employment. Princess Alice, also, is not rich, and the pair, who for royalties are poor as church mice, have four children, all girls, a sad prospect these days when Europe is full of royal girls and short of royal boys to marry them
 Mon Repos is a big and very beauti- full place Seldom occupied, the pro- perty has been let rIln to seed. The villa is in bad repair and has no mod ern comforts. The Casino, built by the British Lord High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Maitland in 1916, is all most gore to rack and ruin. But at that it IS far more beautifully situ- ated, the house and garden far lovlier than the Achilleen. the villa of the German Emperor, now used as, a French hospital. The Achilleen is on a height, overlooking the whole Corfu Channel and the distant shores of the Epirus; but Mon Rcpos is at the wa ters edge, and the pack of the place gives on the still and beautiful lagoon of the kaliopoulos Lake.
 The Princess Alice is very pleased and proud over the improvements she has made on Mon ReDos this summer,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16
Thin People Can
 Increase Weight

Thin men and women who would like to increase their weight with 10 or 15 pounds of healthy, "stay there" fat, should try eating a little SargoI with their meals for a while and note re- suits Here is good test worth try ing. First weigh yourself and measure yourself. Then take Sargol-one tablet with every meal-for two weeks. Then weigh and measure again. It isn't a what your friends say and think. The scales and the tape measure will tell their own story, and many thin men and women we believe can easily add from five to eight pounds in the first fourteen days byTollowing this simple direction. And. best of all, the new flesh stays put.
 Sargol does not of itself make fat, but mixing with your food it aims to what you have eaten into rich, ripe, fat producing nourishment for the tissues and blood-prepafe 1t in an easily as- similated form which the blood can readily accept. Much of this nourish- ment now passes from your body as waste. But Sargol works to stop the waste and do it quickly and to make the fat producing contents of the very same meals you are eating now develop tween your skin and bones. Sargol is safe, pleasant, efficient and ineXpen- sive. H. M. LeRou's Drug Store Nor wich, Chesbro's Drug Store, Willi- mantle, and other leading druggists in this vicinity sell :t in large boxes forty tablets to a package-on guar antee of weight increase or money back as found in each large box.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16

Villa Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece, Nov. 15-The Princess Andrew of Greece, who was the English Princess Alice of Battenberg, has spent the past summer chopring down trees to keep herself fit. The Princess Alice is thirty, a cousin of the Queen of Spain. Shortly she will take her children back to Athens for the winter season and give up felling trees to begin her work of encouraging the Greek women to earn their own living by home sewing-the Princess Ahce's own particular hobby.
 The two eldest little girls. Princess Marguerite anG Princess TheodOra, eleven and ten respectively, are as brown as their mother. and as strong. though they have not been chopping down trees. They nave been swim ming every day for an hour and a half in the warm translucent water of the Corfu Channel Prince Andrews wife herself is a fine strong swimmer now, but 1t has not been I long time since Sheldon Whitehouse who was then Secretary of the American Legation, pulled her out of the water and saved her life when she had gone down three times.
 The villa of Mon Repos, fhe sum- mer place of Princess Andrew and the Princess Alice, was the favorite coun- try residence of the late King George, who left it to his third son, but un- fortunately he failed to leave the means to keep it mp. Prince Andrew is a colonel of a cavalry regiment =
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16

Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves, the 'in- ternational spy' who was arrested in Washington on a charge of having at Bernstorff, wife of the German ambas- sador, by demanding S3,000 for three letters addressed to her an dsmuggled here from Germany, returned to New York and made several susational declarations.
 First, he asserted he does not ex- pect ever to have to answer the black mail charge, for he does not think the German embassy officials will dare have him give his translation of the three code letters on the witness stand
 H e insisted that there is not d word ref1ecting upon Countess von Bernstorff in any of the letters.
 They do contain information ahc ut certain stocks, he asserted which could be played as sure winner on the Amer ican market because of certain Ger man activities to come about in the near future. Also, he declared, they contain diplomatic secrets of high inn portance to this country.
 Count von Berstorff, he charged, has made millions of dollars with friends in sthis country by playing stocks on ad- vance secret information from Ger many.
 "Bernstorff knew twenty four hours before the U-53 appeared at Newport that she was in American waters, and he cleaned up in the market on this advance information" Graves said
 Count vonRerstorff called Graves assertions rot"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16
Thanksgiving Donations For HospitaI.
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
To Be Observed by St. Mary's Church With Special Services and ceremo- niaIs.


 The golden anniversary observances Of the establishment of St. Mary's parishs on date early in December, promises to be an event of great re- ligious brilliance and solemnfty. Dis- tinguishGd prelates and dignitaries of the church are to be in attendance and the anniversary services will be side of great cathedrals on festa1 oc- casions. The date of the annivers- ary will be announced soon. There will be many visiting priests, includ- ing some from the Dominion of Can ada.
 Will Work For Prohibition.
 Temperance organizations in Wind meetings enthusiastically discussed the splendid gains made at the na- tional election last week in prohibf- tion states already added to the list of states heretofore listed as dry"
 These gains and tthe promise of 1920'' are an incentive for such ac- tice campaigns a sthis section of the state has not. seen in years. The promise of this activity is already manifest and a supreme effort will be made in the fall of 1917, at the small town elections in Connecticut to make with view to quickly bringing Con- necticut into the list of prohibition states.
 Good Team at High. School.
 Putnam High School has the prom ise of a fast and snappy little team to enter the league for this season Last season the Putnam team was a great organization and won the cham pionship after a spirited contest with Killingly High School The men that made up the championshop team are gone, however. Captain Lowe Maynard, Angell, Shaw, Girace are unavailable for this seasons team on account of having graduated, having left school or removed from the city The new team is being built up under the coaching of Principal Lane of the Israel Putnam school The team has taken up periodical practice and dur ing the course of the season may be expected to give a good account ot itself.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16
5 and lOc
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feel deeply grateful to all the west for the splendid and generous ssp- port you have given to me; but I would not be worthy of their generous confidence if I were, to leave my desk at a time when duties of the most critical and pressing sort crowd up on me- I am promising myself the pleasure of such trip if ever I can get free from the tolls of exacting duty and in the meantime wish to ex- press my gratitude. appreciation and regret"
 The president also has written let ters to Gavin: McNabo,z democratic ma tional eornmitteeman of California, and other several democratic leaders in that I1tate expressing his apprecia- tion of California's support.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16
WILSON GRATEFUL TO
 PEOPLE OF THE WEST
Sends Message Promising to Visit That Section When Duties Permit.

Washington, Nov. 15. - President Wilson expressed his gratitude to the people of the west far their support in the election in messages sent tonight in reply to requests that he visit that section before congress opens. He said he would be unable to make the trip at present because of critical duties but promised to go west later if pos sible.
 The president sent the following tel egram to William H. King, success full candidate for the United States senate from Utah:
 '"The invitation to visit the west