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The Washington times., 1918-02-03
By Ira S. Vile, NJ. D.,
Editor American Medi-
cine and Former Member \. l.
city Board of Education.


city Board of Education.
~PINAL curvature suggests
marked deformity.
~ The twisted back. as a re-
suit Of sewers disease. always eI-
cites sympathy.
To overcome the bent form one
would lie willing to spend a for
tune.
The commonest types OF spinal
curvature are too generally ignored
or accepted as too trihing TO re-
Quire attention.
The years Of childhood. when
bones are soft and habits are in
formation, represent the time for
preventing or correcting the princi-
pal spinal deformities.
Look at your youngsters when
they are completely undressed. 10
make certain OF their straight
backs.
II the spine is curved outwardly
you will note the round shoulders,
the shoulder blades sticking out
there may be projection. rounded
or angular, Of the bony spine.
The humpback fortunately is
gradually disappearing as tuber-
Culosis IS being conquered.
There are milder degrees OF de-
formity which lessen physical de-
veIopment and Industrial capabil-
ity.
Cnde-nourishment causes mus
cular weakness. a lack of muscu-
lar power produces faulty position.
Incorrect posture as a habit re-
suits in deformity.
You regard the provision OF ade-
uuate food, as more rational than
the wearing Of braces.
Rickets, rapid growth. and I'M
derfeeding. coupled with incorrect
forward postures, form the main
causes Of rounded. Uniformed
spines.
what a strain falls upon the
school child who is told to stand
I'D straight when bis waaIEAnsd
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Copyright. 1871. International News ser'le''
<-HERE's the telephone now"
said Warren. For hsaE-
= enr sake stop crying and
60 and answer IT."
Helen, who had finally succumbed
to tears, looked at Warren indig-
Rantly.
Haven't you any regard at all
for my feelings:" she began.
Warren shook his head. mot in
this case. You know very well that
you aren't the type Of woman to
bear. malIce-you. couldn't II you
tried. You know you're dissolved
with curiosity this minute to find
out why she acted this way and cut
you as she did, and you know that
in the end you'll forgive her. So
why the useless tears and protesta-
tions?"
Helen was tee angry and hurt at
Warren's lack Of sympathy to stop
and reason that nearly everything
he had said was true. Women sell
dom stop TO reason when they are
angry, and the fact that Warren
could think, ths thing cut logically
and reasonably seemed to Helen I'M
fair. The fact that he was seeing
ahead a short distance TO the point
where Helen. herself would see 1t
the same way did not occur to her.
Just now she was certain that War
rem was all wong and was simply
talking to wound her further.
Aren't YOU going to answer the
telephone2f Warren asked calmly.
You know I'm not" Helen said
quickly; I'll ASK Mary to do IT,"
That's right that's the woman
OF it for you; let your servants in
on tho most private OF your af-
fairs" And Warren strobe across
TO the telephone quickly. =
warren, don't you dare to say
that I am at home" said Helen in
a half whisper. Warren had already
taken the receiver OF the hook aPd
was talking in his usual brusQus
way.
Yes, yes; hello! Oh, Is this yea
again, LauraT Yes. Helen is hOmei
do you want to speak to her now7"
There was evidently a frantic aP-
neal from the other end, ana War
rem held out the receiver\ts Helen
imperatively.
I'm not going to talk to hsr."
said Helen firmly.
Come on" said Warreni come
on and get the thing over with"
Helen felt unspeakably fooliSh.
She knew that Warren had caught
her fairly. II she had answered the
telephonsyin. the beginning at least
her pride would have been saved,
but II she refused TO go now her
attitude would be ridiculous. She
might have known that Warren
would not stand By her.
Hello, Laura" she said speaking
eoldly: did you want to speak to
met"
ooh, Helen" came Laura's voice
.c-oss the wire; you don't know
bow frantic I have been since that
.f,srnoon. I don't know what you
must think OF me-"
ualsn by this time had conquered
her tears and was angry again.
hut this time 1t was a cold. calcu-
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nerves Affected.

II is something like the state OF
ineniciency into which the motor OF
an automobile falls when the cylin-
ders get coated with carbon. When
an automobile in that condition
tries to climb . hill It knows, or
would know II its Hutomatism sx-
tended into the nsld of intelligence,
what fatigue means in both the SCI
sntifc and the popular sense
There 's fatigue Of nerves as well
a. Of muscles, and 1t is the nerves
that convey the impulses from the
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How Long to Work
THE HUMAN MACHINE HAS DEFINITE LIMITS.
Prof. Serviss Gives Interesting Light
on the Question Drawn from
Experiences of the War.

brain to the muscles But q nel
RECEIVERS from fatigue much more
quickly than . muscle. Fatigue also
Affects the brain. the centre Of the
nervous system, but whether The
whole brain ever gets Bimulta-
nsously into = state OF fatigue u
doubtful
Everybody must have noticed the
sfeot Of . change OF the subject %
thought or attention when the mind
seems 10 be- tired or dullsd-ln-
SANITY the mind brightens up ~ II
It's current had been switched from
q clog into a free channel o.
from a group OF fatiguOd cells 70 q
group OF fresh ones. But the mind
can certainly tire the body out,
whether or not Il 10 ever itself tired
out.
Limit Is Fixed.
When the length Of the working
period Affects . large number Of
persons working together at the
same occupation. q hxed limit. de-
termlned by the principle Of aver.
ages. offers the best plan, but work.
ers who work alone By themselves
ought to ind out BY Bslf-observA-
ton how long they can continue -
work at q time with advantage u
they oVerstep the limit whatever
II may be. they md that the quality
OF TIE work as well a. the quantity
turned out in unit Of time h d.
minished.
Not only the kind Of work. and its
'laborIOusnsss." or hardness. but
also the individuality OF the worker
varies the result. Sometimes a man
will be found who can. without
fatigue. and with full efficiency.
continue to work twice a. long a.
another engaged In the same oecupa-
ton. That Is his gift, and he ought
not to be deprived Of II. since It's
use Is to the common benefit Of man
kind by Increasing the sum Of
production.
These exceptional workers Whs
seem never to tire probably repre-
sent the normal statO OF man.
Science has discovered no indica-
lions that man was ever in his
earlier stages . gentleman Of
leisure" II IL . mistake to think
that animals, such a. apes for in
stance, lead . life Of IdlenssA Thsy
work for their lives every day Of
their existence, only. what is work
fer them looks like play or loitsF-
ing to US. The IAzy-Iooking eov
chewing her eud Is working the best
way she Knows. and tirssome work
you would find Il II you had to Dc
1t, and keep IL up all day.
Work is the glory and delight q
life, and the only acceptable excuse
for being In this world, and the OBJ
ject of all these practical inysstigA-
lions OF the principle Of fatigue aAd
recovery IL to ind out not what u
the least possible amount OF work
that q human being can get along
on. but what Is the greatest amount
that he can do without decreasing
his working capacity.
Such 10 the gospel Of work. Whioh
those who are not Of the Slset ny
regard as hard doctrine.
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Advice to the
LOvelOrn
BY Beatrice Fairfax.
. To Win Love.

Dear Miss Fairfax.
l am desperately in love with
a young man who does not seem
to care for me. He has been
calling at my home fer several
years. and as he was number
of years my senior / did aOt real
lie / loved him until about year
ago. At first ! thought he loved
me as q sweetheart bit l have
come to the conclusion that II Is
only a brotherly love lie bears
me. would do ANYTHING TO
please him. My parents are anN-
iously awaiting the tine when !
can go to them and tell them
that he has asked ME for my
hand but what shall l do when
I am afraid he does not 'Oye me.
| shall anNiOusly await the ap-
pearance Of this letter n print
and trust that your RnSU er shal'
be one that will relieve my anN
iety. DESPERATE
II It were possible for me to
sit at my - 81, and tell you how
to compel tho love of man,
should not be a mDr" oman, hu
witch. MY dear Eir'. Il this man
comes to your hOu = very often
and shows you tender irotherly
affection. you have already in your
favor prOpinquity and natura
liking. Now " you want to win
him, you can only try wat sweet
ness and amiability and sympathy
with his work and ambitions vi !
do. Try to please him instead or
thinking always how much he
pleases you Show him YOUR best
and most generous self. II you are
respectful and loving t your pa
rents, clever and Interesting.
friendly and natural sympathetic
and stimulating. there IS a very
good chance that thes things.
plus his own fondness TO- :-ou. plus
little show of affection on Your
part, will all help you NIn him
Your own Over-anN.cty plus that
OF your parents. may -ork you
harm unless you are very tactfuL
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

1 seem to have been only like
q boy playing on the seashore
and diverting myself in now
and then finding a smoother
pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean
of truth lay all undiscovered
before me. ISAAC NEWTON.
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

The sublime and the ridicu-
lOus are often 90 nearly related
that II Is difficult to. elasS
them separately. One step above
the sublime makes the ridleu-
lous. and one step above the
ridiculous makes the sublime
again THOMAS PAINE.
The Washington times., 1918-02-03
LILLE
Boobies PA
By William F. Kirk.

THIS is the most Artiek' winter
. which I have ever saw, since I
was a yunE ESser, sed Pa
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

IIT GUESS wen have 20 give that
up as a bad job" said the
president of the company
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
FOE FEARS FRENCH TANKS

with the American Armies.-Greater
laurels daily are being won by the
French light tanks which are cooper
ating with the American forces In
pushing the Germans back toward the
Rhine.
Among the many individual feats OF
the tanks and their drivers which have
come to light, one of the most Interest
ing Is that of Brlgadier Cellier, who
has been decorated with the cross OF
the Legion of Honor for his work In
light tank which enabled 10 American
soldiers to capture 700 Germans.
Several hundred of these tanks leu
the counter-offensive from the Villers-
Cotterets forest in July, which marked
what appears to have been the turning
point of the war. They broke through
the enemy's lines, destroying his ma
chine guns, overcoming strong centers
of resistance and spreading panic csd
Generalization in the German ranks.
Where the infantry was preceded
by the "chars dassaut," as the French
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
GreWsome Sights Of Battle Fail
to Shake Nerves OF
YankS.
QUICKLY ADAPT THEMSELVES
Admiration Of French and British Vet.
Grams Is Aroused by Conduct Of
Americans on Bloody Bat
tlefields Of France.

With the American Army.-The cal
lousness and steady nerves Of fresh
American troops in recent advances
nave gladdened the hearts of veteran
British and French who have observed
them, ms well as filed with pride their
own officers.
The horror of warfare Is more mp
parent during an offensive when an
army Is advancing than ut any other
time; even during defensive action
In fetrent Attacking troops advance
over the enemy's positions, dotted with
dead and dying, then dig In and fight
among the corpses and manned. Often
In counter-attack they are temporari-
ly thrust back n few yards, and there
dig In and fight again, this time among
the bodies Of their own fallen com
rades.
When their advance becomes deeper
and the enemy's retreat more general,
as In Won Boehm's retirement from the
Marne to the Vesle, the terrain be-
comes even more ghastly. A wide belt
Of country Is Uttered with dead men
and dead horses. The advancing army,
eager to maintain contact with the
enemy at all times, has no time to
bury or burn these corpses, respec-
lively. The supporting troops follow
Ing up the advance guards must live
and eat among these grewsome sights.
Never Feased Them.
Fresh, untried Americans, who had
not seen the frightfuness Of war, al
though they had been trained in Its
artifice and had been In the line In
quiet sectors. traversed the CHASTITY
country like veterans, never turning
a hair mt the sight Of dead. friends
or foes, even when they came upon
such sights as Reddy farm, Bellevue
farm, Clerges. Seringes ct Nesles and
Sergy.
In these places. particularly the
first two mentioned, the bodies OF the
Prussian Guardsmen were literally
lying In heaps, for these picked troops
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
HUN SELLS SUPPLIES SEIZED
French Forced by Germans to Pay In
Coin for Ratlons They
once Owned.

with the American Troops In
France.-Renewed evidence Of German
ruthlessness In dealing with the civil
ian population of invaded territories
IS contained In captured army order.
It prescrlbes the treatment and the
procedure to be followed in section
south Of the Vesle river (Marne sail
ent).
All the inhabitants capable of work
ing, the order says, must be used for
the needs of the army. regardless OF
their age. Their Salaries" are to be
paid In paper currency at the rate Of
30 cents day as the maximum for
men; 40 cents for men and women be-
tween the ages of seventeen and twen-
ty: and 80 cents for boys from fifteen
to seventeen.
The inhabitants, however, must pay
in French gold or silver for their ra-
tlons. The supplies, Of course, were
taken from the population before be-
Ing sold back to them.
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through three or four men. These
corpses looked like heaps Of rags or
discarded uniforms and equipment, so
closely did they overlap one another.
No Trace Of Nervousness.
But, despite all, the Americans
marched forward, stopped three or
four times day for meals, and then
made camp, and slept at night amid
the horrible surroundings without ever
doing more than showing Il surprising
preliminary interest In the matter. II
they saw corpse In khaki they looked
IL over closely to see If they knew who
1t was. Only occasionally did they
have time to inter 1t; that was left to
the burylng parties that followed them
up. AS they walked through woods
and fields to get water or supplies they
implanted rifles, bayonets down, in the
ground to mark the spot Of every dead
American they discovered.
But there was no trace OF nervous
ness and no evidence of any of the
men worrying or brooding over the
fate Of their fallen comrades. The
corpses were entirely impersonal to
them and never ratified even the new.
est recruit.
The doughbOys showed no back
wardness about approprintlng Luger
automatic pistols the most priced
souvenir to be had, from dead Bocles,
nor did they hesitate to pluck off we'll
camouhnged helmets from the pates Of
Hun Cadavers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
SERVANT LACK AIDS HOTELS
Scarcity OF Help In Homes Sendino
Families to New York
Hostelries.

New York.-AlthOugh the fuel prob.
lem which developed in New York
homes last year is to II great extent re-
sponsible for the unprecedented bust
ness of the apartment hotels this fall,
there have been new developments
which increase the Influx of apartment
hotel dwellers throughout the city. The
greatest individual reason is the sery-
ant problem.
Persons who have had servant staffs
for years without change nave been
known to lose as many us three In II
single week lately because of unprece-
dented demand for experienced help
and the prices offered for 1t.
The apartment hotel habit Is easily
formed, and with the scarcity of fuel,
scarcity of help, scarcity Of suitable
apartments and scarcity of vans to ac.
complish large movings the fact that
there is hardly an apartment hotel VA
cancy left in New York Is not especial
ly remarkable.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
SIGNAL MEN HUSTLE

stretched along the ground and In
working order, call up headquarters to
tell them ''Thls Is the new post NJ
Squeedunk give us n ring to see how
she works" along comes another B0che
shell and cuts the communication.
There's nothing to do but go out and
find the cut and fix 1t, and probably
more Boche shells are trying to make
more cuts In communication. or even
cut you of.
The signal corps had wires every
where, In bushes, along the ground, on
poles left by the Boches, underground,
through ruins. Headquarters say they
never had such quick service. and they
were never out Of communication with
regiments longer than the few minutes
II took signal corps man to inspect
the wires and repair break.
A signal corps man was stringing
some wires across wheat field "Somc
war this" he snid. II haven't had Il
sleep for more than two Days. | sup
pose I'd fall asleep on the job II II
weren't for these shells that come
whistling along. Duck. There comes
one!"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07

call them, the advance was three miles
n day.
1t was these same French light tanks
which preceded the Americans in their
advance upon Juvlgny and Terny on
the SOlssOns plateau. One of them,
manned by lieutenant, killed more
than 200 Germans on the plateau.
Documents that have come into the
hands of the French staff show that
the Germans are greatly worried by
the light tanks and are studously
coaching their men In methods of de-
fense against them.
The light cars have the advantage
Of greater speed and of being more
easily handled than the heavier tanks.
They require Il crew Of only two men,
n driver and gunner, and carry one
-half-inch gun and Il machine
gun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
CALLOUS AMID
HORRORS OF WAR

had been told to maintain their
strong point positions until death, and
in most cases they followed orders
The dead were In the distorted posi-
tlons that indicated how the end had
come TO them. Those killed In ma
chine-gun pits were smashed to bits,
the effect of hand grenades and bombs
which American advance guards had
tossed In among them after working
round their flanks and getting In be-
hind them.
Occasionally one saw German snip
ers or machine gunners sprawled fiat
on the ground at the foot Of a tree
after they had been shot out OF their
camOullaged positions among Its foil
age. The most slckenlng sights were
where bodies Of the enemy had at
tempted to make stands In bitches or
beside sunken roads and had been
trapped by American enfilade machine
gun fire. The deadly automatic rifles
had ripped through whole lines of
Germans, and investigation frequently
showed that every mans body was
pierced by seven or eight bullets and
that frequently the same bullet passed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
HARD DAYS FOR THE CROOKS
New Draft Law Makes II Easy to
hunt Down Criminals.

Cleveland.-lts getting harder every
day for an honest crook to get by. Po-
lice here are not satisfied to hunt
crooks in the regular way, but are go
ing out of their line TO look them up,
according to the plants Of the under
world. 1t isn't enough to make them
give up their easy life, earned at the
expense Of the city, to register and go
to war, but now the local police are go
ing to get a lot more Of them by means
Of registration cards for the draft.
Many Of the robbers and other Grim
lnals have escaped detection through
series of aliases, but with their reg
lstration under the eighteen to forty
Ave call they had to make known their
right names, and police assert that 1t
will be "easy picking now to gather
In n number OF men who have been
wanted for some time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
They Have to Work Rapidly as
Fight RACES.
Wire Connection Is Prime Necessity
No Matter How Fast Shells
May Fly.

With the American Army In France.
The signal corps men had to do some
fast work during the recent lighting
to keep up with the infantry and to
keep communications always open be
tween headquarters and the villages
newly captured where the doughboys
were.
The signal corps was the connecting
link between the infantry, artillery,
ambulance service and headquarters.
It's no clnch being the signal corps
after division that IL continually
gaining ground.
"As soon as the infantry makes n
push you have to get telephone line
strung into the farthest ruins or woods
or wheat field, no matter how many
German shells are spatterlng madiy
over the area.
Then, about the time you get n wire
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
BUILD MOTOR MAIL SLEIGH
Vehicle Designed for Mail Delivery
Work in Alaska Completed
for Government.

Cleveland, 0.-The governments
first motor sleigh, designed for mail
delivery work In Alaska, has been
completed here and shipped to the
West coast, where 1t will get test
tour before entering the regular work
of delivering mail In the frozen North.
The machine was invented by +. G..
Horner, former Clevelander, who for
several years has been with the motor
transport service in Washington. II
Is 25 feet long, three feet wide and is
expected to cover mt least 100 miles Of
Ice or snow track day with burden
Of 800 pounds of mail. Present deliv.
cry In the field the sleigh will enter is
made by dog teams.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-07
He Takes The Blue One.

or course you've heard about the
hardworked guy whose job was to
pick the blossoms off the family cen
tury plant; the bloke who sticks the
spots on double-blant domlnoes and
tie culprlt whose life work is making
bird seed for CUCKOO clocks, but the
champeen, double-bowknotted, floatln
uxled and vulcanized war loafer Is the
cuss who said he was doing war work
by picking up the stitches his wife
dropped when she kRitted.-Indianapo.
lis Star.