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Evening star., 1923-03-28
Have Beautiful Floors

Old floors dressed up neV' ones re-
laid t'all me- Lov before 1 get too busy g
ADAMS. Barris;er bldg. Main IIJ1. Night.
Franklin ti.,II 1ks
Evening star., 1923-03-28
Con Chances Belittled.

On al democratic hands il Is
already agreed that the 1924 conveu-
tion is bound to rival in dramatic
intensity the Baltimore contest of
1912. when Woodrow Wilson, Champ
Clark and William Jennings BRYAN
b&ttled for supremacy. Democrats S
consfdtr then prospects SO extraor-
| dInarily bright next year that the
fight for the presidential nomination
is bound to be marked by more real
ginger than the 1920 competition.
which. pretty nearly everybody knew
in advance, was destined to be loves
i hpr lost.
Evening star., 1923-03-28

Several papers devoted exclusively
to the bull ring are published in the
city Of Mexico.
Evening star., 1923-03-28

All-wool materials, i'll the
newest styles. The latest pat
terms, in plain shades and nov
elites. Sizes IL to 20 years.
Suits that combine outstanding
quality and good looks at an
unusually low price. .........
Evening star., 1923-03-28

Ask yourself. Why should | pay the present high
price for Easter clothing when the Young Mems Shop
will cut prevailing i'll haves: Hundreds OF
shop around to find the best bargains in town-and
they're sure to come back here to buy
Evening star., 1923-03-28
MeAdou Unbncked by Wilson

Woodrow Wilson's intervention in
the Colorado senatorial vacancy gives
rise to many speculat tions. The new
democratic governor of the silver
state, Charming Sweet, now and then
looms as a Mr.. X' of promising
proportions for 1924. 1t may be e-that
MIR. Wilson means to throw such
support a. he will command in
Sweets direction. Callers in S
street, Washington, Invariably come
away and report that the former
president is noticeably unresponsiye
to "McAdoo talk" Mr.. Wilson did
not Like Senator Cnderwoods role in
the Harding administration's four
power treaty fight. There are demo-
Gratis who think Joe" Robinson is
S streets favorite son.
Copyright. 1921 u
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-28

diet again. Each morning l would go to
my mirror the first thing after getting
out of bed to see whether my face was
rounder than the night before And each
morning l would stand upon the scales
to see whether they would verify or deny
the story my mirror told me. And, alas,
each morning those scales verified the
mirror: Unhesitatingly, undeniably they
recorded another half pound, a pound-at
the end of the week five pounds.
'At the end of two weeks I weighed
21Oi
"Once more I tried to cut down
diet, eating practically nothing. For
month | kept away from the scales. At
the end of that month they told me | had
gained twelve more pounds. | weighed
222.
'"Then I went to a doctor. After
thorough examination he told me that
what ! ate or did not eat had nothing to
do with my increase of weight. The
cause of it was in a arrangement of my
thyroid and pituitary glands. For some
reason they were not functioning prop
erly. He promised to try to remedy that
"But he could not. Pound by pound
the scales recorded my increase Soon
had passed the $50 mark. Then the 275.
| was determined that would not weigh
more than 800. In every way tried to
prevent it. But ever and ever the scales
marched on. They touched the 800 mark.
"They went over it!
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accident, and therefore, again, the rail-
road ought to- pay.
1t was an extraordinary and pathetic
picture that the attorneys for Mrs. Cald-
well and Mrs. Caldwell herself drew dur
ing the trial of the progress of that
blanket of fat which steadily thickened
around her, Gripping her and so changing
her appearance that her own little boy
grew puzzled, and at last, while she was
rising from the 300-pound weight,
actually failed to recognize her.
where has my mamma gomez" he
asked. "You are not like my mamma any
more. Are you my mamma?".
1t was on a December day of 1920 that
Mrs. Caldwell went out automobile riding
with some friends. She was then come,
ly young matron of twenty-one, not at all
overweight for her height and Justly
proud of her figure.
While it was going over a grade cross
ing the automobile was struck by a rail-
road train. The car was tossed aside and
Mrs. Caldwell was thrown out She was
severely shaken up, but no one, least of
all herself, thought she was injured. She
went about her daily housework and took
care of her year-old son quite as usual
was as active as any young woman
before the accident" said Mrs. Caldwell,
ampllfylng her testimony on the stand to
a representative of this magazine "T
liked to run around and dance and enioy
myself. At seventeen | was married, and
at twenty our baby boy came to make us
happy. was only twenty-one when the
train hit the car, and / was just beginning
70 ENJOY life. For little while after the
accident went about as usual. And then
L began to notice that my clothes were
getting bit tight
About this time my husband noticed
II too and joked me concerning it. But
neither Of US thought it anything serious
MY clothes kept getting tighter Then
! weighed myself. To my amazement |
fund ] tipped the scales at 1876 pounds.
Still | thought the matter nothing not
easily remedied. | loosened some of nv
garments and went on diet.
After week of this / weighed myself
again. Instead of having lost, instead
even of having remained stationary. I had
put on five pounds more!' weighed 19O
every well,' l told myself, here is
where you take hold of yourself in Spar
tan fashion, | cut down my food to as
little as / felt could get along on. For
two weeks / literally starved myself
Then one m orning stood upon the bath
room scales and moved the weights, sure
that | was about to reap the reward of
my self-denial.
II weighed exactly 200 pounds!
Even more vigorously cut down my
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hrs. LoRENE CALDWELL,

IRIS. LORENE CALDWELL, Of
4" Kansas City, has just won YER
dict for damages against the Chi
cago. & Alton Railroad because, SO she
claimed, peculiar injuries which she suf-
fered through being knocked about by
one of the defendants trains caused her
to become "disgustingly fat" The acct
dent, she asserted, made her weight in
crease from $50 pounds to 375 pounds.
Mrs. Caldwell had asked for $4,000
damages-or $222.22 a pound for the
worry and discomfort of carrying all that
extra weight. The jury, by its verdict,
admitted that they believed her attorneys
had proved all their points. But they
gave her only $1,000, or exactly 81
pound.
Mrs. Caldwelps attorneys are, however,
going to carry the matter to the United
States Supreme Court in order to obtain
the larger amount that they think their
client is entitled to. The case is unique
and attracted widespread attention in
legal circles because it involved the new
est discoveries of science regarding those
important mechanisms of the body known
as the ductless glands
Mrs. Caldwell's lawyers claimed that
she had grown day by day, in every way,
fatter and fatter after the accident be-
cause her thyroid gland, which is known
to have much to do in regulating weight,
had been disturbed in its functioning by
her severe shaking up. This, in its turn,
had affected the pituitary gland, which
also has much to do with the processes of
growth.
There was no other reason for her get
ting so fat except arrangement of the
functions of these two glands, testified
her medical experts. And as before the
tary had apparently been functioning per-
fectly, and as there had been no other
cause to throw them out of gear, why,
then, the experts argued, the railroad ac-
cident was what had injured. them
And therefore Mrs. Caldwell's too great
burden of flesh was direct result of the
railroads negligence in the matter of that
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that the change of the tadpole into frog,
which in our climate takes place usually
In the third to fourth month, can be
brought about at will in the youngest
tadpoles by feeding them thyroid gland,
no matter from what animal BY feeding
very young tadpoles with this substance.
frogs no larger than fly can be produced.
IT the young tadpole is deprived of it's
thyroid, it is unable ever to become a
Irog. 1t remains tadpole and continues
to grow beyond the usual size of a tad
pole. When, however, such super
animated tadpoles are fed with thyroid
extract, they promptly undergo meta
morphosis.
The pituitary gland is about the size of
hazelnut and lies at the base of the
skull. 1t seems scarcely credible that
this small piece of tissue-it weighs only
about one-sixtieth of an ounce-shoutd
De involved in the production of giants On
one hand and dwarfs on the other, and
that it, like the thyroid, should so pro-
foundry influence growth, brain functions
and the life itself Yet it does. ii
1t consists of two parts-two lobesr+-
somewhat like a peanut. Complete re-
moval of it causes death. A partial re-
moval of the gland. or an in jury ,.vii
that much reduces, the amount OF it's
secretions brings about changes closely
resembling those caused by faulty
functioning, or injury to the thyroid. ,EE
pertinent shows that in such cases tbe
sufferer also becomes fat and looks dni|.
The temperature has a tendency to be-
come subnormal and the heart slows I'd.
"The sufferer says Professor HaT-
row, "shows drowsiness and appears
stupid, like an animal about TO undergo
hibernation.'
Usually, but not always, the deficiency
of secretion can be made up by giving.
either hypodermically or by mouth, ey
tracts of the thyroid and pituitary glands
of animals. In the case of Mrs Caldwell
this treatment apparently failed. -
The jury in the district court, as has
been told, assessed the damage OF each
extra pound of fat she is condemned7 to
carry around at $500. 1t will be inter
esting to see what the Supreme Court
thinks it is worth to her to have to lug
it about. "to
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shoulders the dead weight of another
woman weighing approximately one and
a third times as much as she herself
should normally. Every movement she
made was hampered with this excess bag
gage of 200 pounds. Her heart was do
ing the work that two and third hearts
should normally do.
Imagine carrying around with YOU
night and day come, one weighing as + ch
as yourself and fifty pounds more. The
sensation has been described in the
Arabian Nights in the story of the Old
Man of the Sea who fastened himself to
Sindbad the Sailor. and that description
has never been bettered. 1t was Mrs.
Caldwel's plight exactly.
And still che pounds kept piling on.
When the jury which listened to her story
gave her the verdict against the railroad
company she weighed 375 pounds. Now
she is touching the 4O0-pound mark. Nor
is there any telling where she will stop.
If her doctors are right, she will go on
and on, getting heavier and heavier I'M
less the faulty functioning of the glands
is corrected or until the overburderel
heart gives up the battle and stops beating.
Just how the accident had impaired
the functioning of Mrs. Caldwell's thyroid
and pituitary the experts could not say,
but as the impairment dated from the
time of that accident and there were no
other known causes they concluded that
the accident was the cause, and the jury
thought so too.
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tiles OF the two are closely connected. end
in disturbing the other.
The thyroid is usually the most at fault
In producing obesity or excessive emacia-
ton. When it is too active we have the
living skeleton" and when it is not
active enough we have the ''fat lady,
of the circus side show.
This gland, which usually weighs any
where between one and two uances IS
situated in the neck. It consists of two
parts, one on either side of the larynx (or
organ of the voice) and the windpipe, and
these two parts are connected by a narrow
strip. of tissue. The substance it secretes
and pours into the blood is essential not
only to the physical well being, but to the
mental. When there is a lack of thyroid
activity, as in the case of Mrs. Caldwell,
there is weakening of heart action and
the blood is not pumped with sufficient
force or rapidity through the lungs.
Hence there is a lack of oxygenation and
burning up of what are called carbo-
hydrateS and of the waste with which
the blood returning to the lungs from it's
course through the body is laden.
These substances assume the form of
fat and as such are deposited in all the
muscles of the body. At the same time,
fat, all the muscular tissues become
weakened. Both nervous and mental dis
turbances appear.
The victim looks dull and feels dull
But when the thyroid is too active we have
an entirely different and just as easily
recognized set of symptoms. The stupid
apathetic expression is replaced by an
anxious, restless one. In place of a
deposit of fat, there is a wasting away
of the tissues. Instead of too little burn
ing up through oxygenation there is too
much. The slow pulse gives way to an
excessively rapid beating of the heart
The eyes bulge, and where the sufferer
from too little thyroid activity is dull and
listless, the sufferer from too much is,
writes Professor Benjamin Harrow in his
interesting book, "Glands in Health and
Disease" "intractable, selfish, restless and
inconsiderate."
Professor Jacques Loeb has described
the remarkable effect of thyroid feeding
on the development of the frog. He writes
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"There was something dreadful
about that slow but memorable in
crease. Thicker and thicker grew
the blanket of fat enveloping me.
| began to find it hard to breathe.
1t became more and more difficult
for me to move around. And at
last it shut me off from the outside
world almost as completely as
though it were an actual prison of
steel bars and stone walls"
By this time the unfortunate
Mrs. Caldwell, had passed the $50
mark. And it was at this time that
her boy, now able to talk, began
to look at her with a puzzled face.
Where was the mother: he remem-
bered? She had been gay and had
danced him on her knee as all
mothers do. This moon-faced
woman who it seemed had taken
her place could not cross one knee
n the other. She could not play
with him. It was all she could do
20 move around. She was his
mother, and yet she wasn't. The
mother he remembered had been
lost, covered up, submerged in
those folds of fat.
Nor was it any wonder that
she moved so slowly and painfully
and was short of breath. Every
time she went upstairs it was as
though she was carrying on her
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Every morning Mrs. Caldwell would hopefully get on
the scales and with nervous fingers adjust the
weights. Ind every morning to her horror the
scales recorded that day by day in every
way she getting fatter and fafter.
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There is no uncertainty
in the minds Of medical
men, however, as the eff
fects of disease or injury
to these two glands. The
secretions of both of them
have been found to have
much to do with the
growth of the body, both
in weight and size. Giants
and dwarfs, very fat folk
and very lean folk all
come from abnormal con-
ditions of either the thy
roid or the pituitary, and
sometimes of BOTH, Usu-
ally the trouble starts in
one, and, since the activ-
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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-02
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

An epidemic of spring fever seems
10 have broken out among the stu
dents. Ii is so hard to study when one
longs to be outdoors. -.
The boys are enjoying the sport Oh
marbles.
Last Friday night Oroville saw tie
championship slip away, when Brew
ster defeated our team at omaR- a
very large crowd Of rooters went
along 10 see the most important game
of the season.
The first few points were made py
Oroyille A foul was called on Brew
ster and Oroville converted 1t into
two points. Brewster played fiVe
man defense so all basket shooting
had to be done from center. Orovilie
had four points to their nothing out
the half ended with 10 to 5 In Brew
ster's favor. For a while. in the second
lalf. the two teams scored evenly, but
Oroyille's downfall was too many
fouls. Each team shot seven field Das-
kets but Brewster got the other IA
points by shooting fouls, while Oro-
Vile shot only four fouls. The final
score was % to 49, The Oroville boys
outplayed their opponents but could
not hit the basket. The boys are all
ready to challenge Brewster to an
other game. anytime. Brewster's
team has only been defeated twice in
two years and then by very few
points. We have a team to be proud
of. and in spite OF this defeat. They
have far outplayed the other schools
in this district. Baseball will now oc-
cupy their minds, the rest Of the
school year
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-02

geo. Bartell, local agent for the
Studebaker cars. has opened tho COO
soh ny selling TO Milo Hicks a Stude-
oaher SEDAN, one of the handsomest
closed cars among the multitude of
eais put out. Mr.. Hicks believes IN
ssl.ihs some of the JOY out of life
"hiie on earth and is starting ou,
rlsht this spring. The placing of this
seuah VIII be an incentive for others
" invest and the automobile business
should take decided squirt this wear
Dr. Bevis is greatly improvina b,s
esiu' 9 on Bridge street bv cover.
ing / building with shingles.
Ihe'o is to be an election At tbo
nish school building tomorrow after.
noon for the purpose of selecting !.
MEMBER OF the board of education for
period of three years. 1t is safe IN
say that very few of the indifferon,
voters VIII buck the hill In ordor 20
exercise the franchise, and yet the If.
one y. scnool director is an important
que ana the people of the distr;ot
should exercise some care in sa,oc,,na
a new member III seiectihg
D Al, An entertainment entitled .skv
noaen put On by local talent of Okla
nosah' was presented at the Iihorty
.nealer Tuesday before a good s,1ad
auuience. No advance notice WAS ,,rn
isAed OF the coming Of the vouno naa
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-02

IF YOUR WATCH NEEDS REPAIRING.
rlElning order.
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pie so that the performance ~
publicity, otherwise the au
would have been much lars''
reported that the visitors ?"
very creditable entertainment
c. P. Willis, the new horue
inspector, has located In OrosM,r J.
manently and will have chan!
district from Riverside nona
British Columbia line. Unu
cures a telephone any grower ~
In touch with Mr.. Willis Dy n
word at Dell Harris real estas =
The Ladies' Aid of the N. =
served a tempting lunch N
garage Saturday which was -
orally patronized.
G. NJ. Scott is the first Gnu
break ground for new impio
for the new year. He Is havI.e
lar excavated at his home IN Y
part of town and will build ~
cradle addition to the presens :
ing, including the installanes.
modern heating system. TIN
an extensive improvement. b.
be a neat improvement to thai q
town, for when Mr.. Scott a.
thing in the constructive IL
certain to be neat. 1t Is mod~
toward more pretentious thinss :
the year Is over.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-02
REAL SURPRISE PARTY.

Mrs A /. Johnston aaa a hlr''lua'
last Friday, something that all u -
MORALS are In the habit OF e%perien.
ins ~ We hold out from one natai ua'
- rho other. but In the case Oh hi ?,
Iohnston's birthday that WORTH! iau'
experienced the surprise oil her iile,
Now Mrs. Johnston has TWO cAafniine
Young daughters. just buddihs in'o
ron,anhood and these offsprings put
,bair heads together and framed up
srrnrise for their mother for the even
ing Of her birthday. Numerous iriehus
of the family were quietly inViteo "
narticipate In a surprise party, anu
from the number that attended ABOUT
every nerson invited must nave re-
sponded to the invitation. In mus
cases where a surprise party Is al
ranged for, a leak occurs anu Tue oN
N no surprised does not undergo that
sensation. II was different on this oe
easion Those who we're to take par,
in this sudden social decent upon the
house of Johnston met at the nome VI
Mr. and Mrs. John Truax, just acrosS
the street and when the mob had as
sembled the merry maruders loon
the Johnston premises by storm. MIS-
Johnston was dumbfounded by the
sudden and tumultuous arrival OF her
friends en- masse. but she was equai
to the occasion, and at once regaiheo
her equipoise gave her visitors nearly
welcome and made them feel at home.
There we're so or 20 persons present
and the evening was spent in playing
games and pleasant intercourse, the
party not breaking IN until late
hour. The unexpected guests came
fully prepared to relieve the hostess
of tae embarrassment Of being unpre-
pared for such a multitude. for the
days Of distributing five loaves ana
seven fishes to appease the appetite
of a crowd have passed, and a deli
cious contributed repast was partaken
of before the party broke up.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-02
Lives of Seniors all remind us,
We can live our lives sublime,
But We have TO work like thunder
To get those school notes In on time.

Mr. Bullock has three new pupils
in beginning short hand. last week,
who answered TO the names of "Jen-
ME" Heath, Lizzie" Mulch, and An
ME- Truay Mr. Bullock informed us
Ihat Annie" was a trifle bashful as
shorthand was new to her.
Ernest Sanborn has daily occupa-
ton of swiping things from the girls
He evidently wants some keepsakes.
Seniors are planning to give car
uival. sometime in the near future.
The operetta. Love Pirates OF Ha-
wall. has been postponed this week,
but will be given Friday. March 9.
Practice has started for the H. s.
I.yceum play, to be given the last of
March.
The sadest words Of tongue or pen,
were heard today, Exams again"
Sad to say, this is exam week, so
We are living on hopes and dread.
Some of the typewriting students
have been learning to put a typewriter
together, but we discover that the
machines arn't what they used to be,
for there are 50 many necessary
screws missing.
Frosh girl-''Why do they call the
Soph boys "cereal?"
Senior girl-"Because they are so
mushy."
The Sophs haven't been able to find
any news lately. and complained that
no one had even fallen out of his
seat. We offered to push one of the
children over the banister, for a little
excitement. but no rush orders have
been received as yet.
The U. s history class managed to
get their long themes in by Friday, OF
last week. but the only thing that saw
ed them was Washington's Birthday.
The fresh spring breezes were blow
ing through the open windows of the
English room. and Geo. Washington
was the momentous question in hand.
Miss Burrows Glass why do YOU
think that Geo. Washington was the
first MANI"
Because he was first in war. first
in peace, and first in the hearts Of his
countrymen. A bright boy then rails
ed his hand. We'll. Ross. who do you
think was the first man." Ross
Don't know his name, but know
George Washington was not the first
man because my history says he mar
ried widow. so there must have been
a man ahead OF him"