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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
AN HEROIC METHOD OF
REDUCING

TWENTY years ago Truly Shattuck
4 was member of the famous
Weber and Fields chorus. More than,
that, she was widely known as having
The most perfect figure of any woman
on the stage.
Recently the daily papers stated
hat Miss Shattuck had entered Chi
:ago hospital weighing 1872 pounds and
with waistline of AZ inches, and had
oeen discharged few days later with
A 34-inch waist measure and weighing
1913 pounds. Sixty-nine pounds reduc-
tion in few days is certainly siren
uous method and one that few women
care to undertake.
Fat, anywhere in the body or in any
amount, is caused by surplus food,
over and above the body needs. If we
knew exactly how much fuel the body
required for its daily work and if each
one of us, whether banker, office
worker, housekeeper or laborer, ate
exactly what we needed and no more,
there would be no fat people. Prob
ably the death rate from Bright's dis
ease and diabetes would begin to go
down. Certainly great deal of
money would be saved for other uses.
Fat is not only Insightly; it's an ex-
pensive and useless inconvenience
We pay to get it and we pay to keep
it and we.pay to get rid of it.
In most cases, fat is deposited under
the skin and around the muscles all
over the body. 1t is particularly fond
of settling around the waist, on the
hips and thighs, but, as rule, it is
fairly evenly distributed. In some
cases-why, we do not know it accu-
mulates in masses in these particular
spots, so large that they can be shelled
out from the skin very much as the
cook shells peas out of pods.
The surgeon. after putting his pa
tient to sleep, cuts through the skin
down to the fat. loosens the fat layer.
removes 1t in wedge-shaped pieces and
sews the skin over the wound. The
amount removed depends on the case !;
from twenty-five pounds to seventy
five pounds have been removed in a
single operation. If carefully done by
a skilled surgeon, no harm and much
benefit may result.
1t is doubtful whether this form OF
reducing will ever become popular.
Most women would prefer to keep out
of the operating room and to reduce
more slowly.
That is wise, but how much wiser
to eat less, exercise more and so avoid
the necessity for any kind Of reduc-
ton treatment, efsher by the surgeons
knife or by fasting.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
ERASMUS DARWIN AND
MARY HOWARD

n s A LAST resort despairing sheiks
a and shebas may try this recipe
that Erasmus Darwin. the great EIg-
lish physician and grandfather of
Charles Darwin, sent TO Miss Mary
Howard of Litchfield. who had won his
heart
g. Take of sweetwilllam and
rosemary as much as is sufficient. To
the former of these add honesty and
herb-of- grace; to the latter of eye
bright and motherwort. each a large
handful; mix them separately and then
chopping them all together add one
plum. two sprigs of heartsease and
a little thyme. And il makes most
excellent dish. :"
The doctor, was about to conclude
this letter with a recipe for Making a
Good Wife," but he broke Off and
wrote this instead:
"Pshaw. an acquaintance of mine, a
young lady of I.itchfield, knows how to
make this dish better than any other
person In the world and she has prom.
ised to treat me with ii some time"
And the young lady of Litchtield lid.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
HOW TO KEEP
WELL
DR.. FREDERICK r. GREEN
Editor Of "HEALTH"
"COMMON COLDS" ARE
TOO COMMON

.
tffSOAfMON colds" are the most
common illnesses In the United
States. says DR.. Hugh Cummings, sur
geon general of the United States Pub
lie Health service. During the last
year this service has been making an
investigation of colds. 1t finds that,
out of every one hundred persons, only
ten have no colds during the year,
that ninety will have one or two each
winter or an average of nearly four
every year.
Now there are approximately one
hundred and ten million people in this
country. OF these, eleven million will
be free from colds, while the ninety
nine million who have four colds
year will have among them, three hun
dred and ninety-six million colds every
twelve months.
No wonder Doctor Cummings says
colds are the commonest disease we
have.
they are also expensive. How much Is
lost in time and wages because of
them? How much is paid out for "ca-
tarrh cures" cough drops, oils, syrups,
p0ultices and mustard foot baths? No
body has any idea, but you can be
sure that our national cold bill Is many
times larger than our annual coal bill
we hear so much about.
These colds are just the same In diff
ferent parts of the country. They oc
cur about the same time of the year
in every locality. The public health
service has found that the first out
break occurs in October. That's when
the first raw, chilly days are apt to
appear. We evidently get accustomed
TO this or protect ourselves better, for
after the first outbreak, the number
of colds decreases, until the latter part
of December when another outbreak
occurs.
Then the weather settles down and
we adapt ourselves to it again and the
number Of colds drops off until Janu-
ary During the late winter and early
spring, colds are general. Elderly or
delicate persons, who may have their
third or fourth attack. when they are
weakened and their resistance is re-
duced, are then especially liable TO
develop something worse, bronchitis or
influenza or the dreaded pneumonia.
80 that colds. while not generally dam
gerous to life themselves, are very
apt to prove the starting point for
other and more serious diseases.
No one likes to have cold. We'd
all be glad to be rid Of them. The
Investigation now being made by the
public health service is the first ma
:ion-wide study OF colds ever under
aiken. Anything which can be done
20 reduce this disagreeable pest will
BE a real service to the public.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
I HOW GREAT MEN |
MAKE LOVE
AS REVEALED BY THEIR
LOVE LETTERS
By JOSEPH KAYE
Do By whesIer syndlcate, Inc. ,
ANNE WINTHROP AND
ADAM WINTHROP
By JOSEPH KAYE

HERE is surprising Puritan love
- letter written by the mother Of
John Winthrop, first governor Of
Massachusetts, to his father, Adam !:
Il have received. right dear and
well beloved, from you this week a
letter. though short, yet very sweet,
which gave me lively taste of those
sweet and comfortable words which
always. when you be present with me,
are wont to flow most abundantly from
your loving heart-whereby l perceive
that be you present with me or absent
from me you are ever one toward me,
and your heart remaineth always with
me. Wherefore. laying up this persua-
sion OF you in my breast, will most
assuredly, the Lord assisting me by
His grace, bear always the like loving
heart unto you again, until such time
as may more fully enjoy your loving
presence, but In the meantime | will
remain as one having a great inherit
lance, or rich treasure, and it being
by force kept from him. or he being
In a strange country and cannot enjoy
1t, longeth continually after it. sigh
Ing and sorrowing that he Is too long
bereft of it.syet rejoiceth that he hath
SO great treasure pertaining to him
and hopeth that one day the time will
come when he shall enjoy 1t and have
the whole benefit of 1t. So l. having
good hope Of the time to come, do
mere patiently bear the time present
and pray send me word If you be in
health and what success you have.
/. / commend you in my daily
prayers as am sure you do me; the
Lord keeps us now and ever Amen.
"Your loving wife.
ANNE WINTHROP"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
THE HAWTHORNES

or ALL the worlds love letters
those that passed between
Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife.
who was Sophia Peabody. are among
the most delightful
I The following is one of these anna
tory gems, and was written by Haw-
thorne short time before his mar
riage:
Salem. June 20, 1912.
"True and Honourable-You have
not been out of my mind a moment
since | saw you last-and never will
be as long as we exist.
"Can you say as much? Dearest, do
you know that there are but ten days
more in this blessed month of June?
And do you know what is to happen
within those ten days? Poor little
Sophie Now you begin to tremble
and shrink back and fear that you
have acted too rashly in this matter
Now you say to yourself:
.'Oh. that could prevail upon
this wretched person to ALLOW me a
month or two longer to make up my
mind. for after all he is but an ac-
quaintance of yesterday, and unwise
am | to give up father, mother and
sisters for the sake of such ques.
tionable strangerp
"Ah, it is too late! Nothing can
part us now; for God himself hath Or
dained that we shall be one. So MOTH
ing remains but to reconcile yourself
to your destiny Year by year we
shall grow closer to each other, and
thousand ages hence we shall only be
in the honeymoon of our marriage.
But cannot write to you. The time
for that species of communion is
past"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
A Soldiers Age

Napoleon in his italian successes
captured Hungarian battalion. The
colonel, an old man. said that he had
fought in the army of Maria Theresa.
"You must be old" said Napoleon.
Eyes, am" the colonel replied,
"either sixty or seventy"
"Why. colonel" exclaimed Napoleon,
you have certainly lived long enough
to know how to count years little
more closely"
General" replied the Hungarian, 81
reckon my money. my shirts and my
horses, but as for my years know
that no one will want to steal them,
and that / shall never lose one Of
them."-Youth's Companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Little Oil in Shells

The bureau of fisheries says that the
composition of sea shells, or the shells
of any mollusks, varies with the kind
or species. In general. the shell is
composed Of about 80 per cent calcium
carbonate, 6 per cent organic matter
and 2 per cent water. The organic mat,
ter present in mussel shells is cOnch.
iolin, a substance very similar to
keratin.> Keratin is an albuminoid, or
sclero-protein, very rich in sulphur. in.
soluble In neutral solvents, but which
may be dissolved upon warming with
concentrated alkalis. 1t is not be-
lieved that shells have any appreciable
amount of hydrocarbon or oil.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Buv Concord Yarns

spun from long combed wool Write for fires
samples. Many beautiful shades and heather
mixtures soc per 4-oz. skeip; $500 per 10.
STED MILLS. Dept. 47s. West Concord. N. h
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Got His Words Mixed

A certain NJ. p. who is very stout
made an eloquent speech at banquet
When he had finished another guest
rose to thank the great man and, De
string to pay compliment to the lat
ter's patness of speech, looked along
the table for a smile.
. His eye alighted on small box OF
preserved figs and he decided to de
scribe the previous speaker as being
"as pat as box of preserved figs"
At the critical moment, however, the
political bigwig nearly collapsed or
hearing himself called IAN eloquent
speaker and as fat as box of pre-
served pigs.'-London Mail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23

10-Artist's stand
17-Encl0sures
1S-Slcight of hand
19-Religi0us ceremony
21-Wandcr
ga tree
25-Pastries
3O-ERnce :
31-OdOr
32-An anesthetf0 q
38-Groups
35-COnfusiOn
N-Part of head
4O--A, stopper SIS Is
41-Fancy
42-Pltcher
48-Measure of length
44--Dagger
45-Motives
47-Digits
40-To comply
51-Sediment
56--KnOb
57-TO ensnare
50-Weh-footed bird
8O-Saucy
03-A grain
6S-Be indebted
sra a-ssn a.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23

FREE-CONsOLO RADIO
1000 Agents Wanted. Get yours. Free
Send dime for particulars. N. W. PURCELL
Co.. 1925 Ingersoll Ave. Des Moines. Iowa
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
HOW TO SOLVE a CROSSWORD PUZZLE


the column headed oronta defines will
n
etc forms indie N he
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Solution of Last Weeks Puzzle.

rhe solution win appear in next issue
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
THE wooLLY CROCODILE

The Wooily Crocodile has very smile,
He's funniest of all when he goes walking,
For his back broad and flat while his legs
And his tail it always wags when he Is talking.
He eats snow-baIs for lunch drinks Sahara punch;
When he's enrased his teeth 90 chatter, chatter;
His s long and pointed his double ointed
While his stick out like grapefruit platter
To say the very least he's most peculiar beast,
And If you should him, beware.
For II you're not discreet, he will
And devour you, skin and clothes, and bones
The Washington times., 1925-02-10

w. n. BARSM
The Washington Times and The
Washington Herald newsbOys
were guests last night at the
Earle theater through the court.
esy Of Mr.. Mastbaum labovel and
supper guests later at the Hanlil.
ton Hotel through the courtesy
Of Manager Barse below.
ONE DEAD, BIG PROPERTY
LOSS IN ENGLISH GALE.
LONDON, Feb. 1O.-A gale which
swept all England throughout the
night, today had taken "a ton of one
life, several injured and considerable
property damage.
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
CHINESE FACES
CHARGE, OF
FORGERY
Yale Student Arrested Here
on Complaint Of Member
Of Faculty

Chi Chun Hsiang. member of the
Chinese Educational Mission. a
former Yale student and son OF a
wealthy Chinese merchant, IL being
held by local police on q charge of
forgery awaiting the arrival Of a
warrant from New Haven, Conn,
charging him with using the name
of one of Yale's faculty members
unlawfully to obtain $5f500.
Hsiang will be turned over to
New Haven authorities.
The prominent Chinese refuses to
make any statement on the charges
facing him He refuses to deny
them, but when arrested was pack
ing q grip to go, he said, to New
Haven. 1t is presumed that he had
heard Of the charges facing him and
was going to face them.
Hsiang was arrested last night at
the home OF Lyman E. Adams, 1852
Seventeenth street northwest where
he has been renting an aIhrtment.
He had only about 500 in his pos
session, according to Headquarters
Detectives Cullinane and O'Dea,
who made the arrest.
The Chinese student said he came
to this country six years ago to
study American methods in order to
introduce them into MS own coun-
try. He is said to have. a wide So
cial acquaintance here.
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
women TO SEEK
G0VER|V0RSH|P
Of VIRGINIA
Or. Kate Weller Barrett, Of
Alexandria, IS Mentioned
as One Candidate
By InternationaI News service.

RICHMOND. Va. Feb. 10.-Tak.
ing their cue from the successful
candidates Of Miriam (NIa) Ferguson,
sof Texas. and Nellie Ross TayIoe, Of
Wyoming, for the governorship Of
those states. several Virginia wo-
men ars believed to be planing to
enter the Democratic gubernatorial
race, this year. it was learned today.
According TO reports received at
the capital Doctor Kate weller Bar.
.rett. well.known soclaIogist and phil.
anthropist Of Alexandria, va, as
spires to the Eovernorship. and prob
ably Will announce her candidacy
soon
From Norfolk the report is re.
ceived that Mrs, Sarah Lee Fain,
general assembly member, is being
urged to enter the lieutenant COVER.
norship race. In Cumberland coun.
ty, Mrs. Robert Garrett, Is being
groomed for court clerk. Her Eus,
band, now serving b prison sentence
for Killing a baptist minister, form
erly held this job.
Mrs. Beverly Il. Munford, widow
of prominent Richmond attorney,
who was recently mentioned as a.
prospective candidatey denied She
would enter the race.
IA strong, feeling prevails in the
capital that with the three. cornered
race now in prospect, entrance of a
woman candidate would further
complicate the situation. and the Wo-
men would stand the better chance
Of nomination. In other quarters
the belief prevails that the time is
not yet ripe for the commonwealth
to be ruled by b woman
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
BOYS ARE
GUESTS At
EARLE
Have Pictures Taken With
Actress, Then Get Supper
at Hamilton Hotel

Boys who deliver The Washing
ton Times and The Washington
Herald were guests last night at
the Earle Theater. They were
later treated to q supper In the
Hamilton Hotel.
Led by the forty piece Times
Herald Newsboys Band, the boys
marched from the Hearst Building
to the theater where they were
greeted by President Jules Mast
baum and Manager Wilson. Aftes
the show. Miss Mae Francis, one
of the performers, posed with them
for photograph.
At. the Hamilton Hotel the boys
were the guests Of Manager w.
H. Barse. Sandwiches. chicken
salad, milk and ice cream were
served.
Addresses were made by T. J..
Wagner, circulation manager, The
Washington Times: w. D. Miller,
circulation manager, The Wash
ington Herald, G.. G. Lewis, .circu.
iation supervisor and branch
managers.
The Times-Herald colored news.
boys last night attended Hus-
bands and Lovers" at the Lincoln
Theater. through the courtesy OF
Charles b. Lane, manager.
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
St UDENT HELD
IN COLLEGE
POISONING
Admits Obtaining Capsules.
Without Permission to
Give Friend

-
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Feb. TO- solu-
ton of the Ohio State University
poisoning seemed nearer today.
Louis Fish, seventeen, Canton, q
,first-year pharmacy college stu.
dent. is under arrest ON an In
vestigation charge. after admitting
that he had obtained from the col
lege dispensary. without permits.
sion, the supposed quinine capsules
which caused the death Of David I.
Puskins Canton, from strychnine
poisoning.
Fish il scheduled to. undergo d.
stiff grilling at police headquarters
today, Police Prosecutor Chester
said. He viii be called upon to ex-
plain his "act OF kindness" in OBJ
tanning the medicine Tor Puskin,
after at least one student clerk
in the dispensary had refused to
fiji the prescription for him.
Evidence given BY Miss MeilOnna
Wahnoff, Delhpos, the clerk then
on duty in the university campus
laboratory, that she had seen Fish
in the dispensary between q change
OF shifts, and when he had no
duties there, led to his arrest No
formal charge has been lodged
against hins
Fish vigorously denied having
placed the strychnine IN the cap
sules which killed Puskin, Chester
said today.
The arrest Of Fish followed his
sfntay1nnrft that ha HAD yfahfafrfnd the
CAPSULES Tor Raskirl. without aIi.
police investigators BY David Gold
berg, Canton Ffsh's roommate,
which supported F'isl's statement
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
kOyENE
inexpensive Mouth Wash

six ounce bottle eco eents) of Ko-
sene added to water viii make half =
gallon of a better. more powerful and
more pleasant mouth wash than you
are now using.
And that's beating the high cost of
keeping the mouth dean and pure
yOu'H have to admit
No germs can live when this new and
wonderful hntiseptic Is used. Try one
0oftle-you'il be so delighted you n never
care. to 50 back to the weak ones again.
At Peoples Drug Stores and all progress
size drugkfsts -
You don't need to make II all at once
- teaspoonfuI makes a tumblerful.
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
ADVERTISEMENT
At Meal Time
Snap Into 1t
Your Box OF Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets Enables You to Face =
Big Banquet With Delight.

Those grouchy dyspeptics> who throw
Z fit when food is fried can get back
In the good graces of the family circle
by the simple expedient of Stuarts
Dyspepsia Tablets One or two at meal
time not only. aids digestion but stops
acid fermentation. clears away the
gassiness, lifts off, the bolted feeling.
ends heartburn and makes the stonl-
ach carry with ease the FOOLS that
used to apparently cause dyspeptic
dependency.
These tablets sweeten the stomach
OF dyspeptic by giving It .he alkaline
effect as in health. Thus, whether
you eat corned beef and Cabbage, pork
sausage, mince pie. buckwheats. baked
beans. or other table terrors. you laugh
at all fear and once again enjoy the
freedom OF a good eater in good cnm
Rany.t Get 60-cent box today of
gtuarts Dyspepsia Tablets and then tell
dyspepsia to so hang.
STUAN$
OyS6EnSA nBlEtS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-04

felt certain the United Thank Offer
ing people did not feel that way.
The woods of Maine resemble
Alaska, Miss Wright stated. The
birches and the spruce predominant
there. The Maine mountains are
like the smaller mountains of Alas
ka. The highest peak in that north
land is 10000 feet above sea level.
She said it seemed too bad to name
=, the mountain Mt. Mckinley. The
Indians have always called it. what
| means in English, Big One" The
other one. nearby, they call big
Ones Wife and the others, "Chil-
dren." The natives have very human
feelings towards the mountains. The
coolest in her II years there was the
winter it was 6S degrees below zero
| for ten days. That was most unus-
ual. The only thing to do on those
, days is just to pile wood in the fire
and hug the stove. When the warm
spell comes and one stretches out
| their arms. after having them hug
| ged about them for so long. there is
a most peculiar feeling in the mus
cles
1t is unlawful in Canada to take
out dogs when the thermometer is
40 below. Darkness is most difficult.
| During November and December
there are three hours of daylight.
! The children go to school in the dark
! and go home byf moonlight. The
moon is very bright in the winter.
The northern lights are beautiful,
with gorgeous coloring.
1t is difficult to sleep in\the sum-
mer. when it is always light with the
exception of twilight from midnight
| to ~ IN hn nc
end of the summer. Miss Wright
! finds she is very tired. The gardens
are started late in May. She is very
proud of her garden and spoke
temptingly of the delicious peas, the
cabbage, the potatoes. The season is
too short to raise corn and tomatoes.
Last year in their garden potatoes
were raised to last the Mission all
winter. The wild flowers there are
wonderful and the berries are lus-
cious.
"They call me the Mushroom Lady
! because l am so fond of mushrooms
Miss Wright described the hords of
mushrooms which grow there and
she spoke of the delicious dishes
made from them. The Indian keeps
pretty close watch on his trap lines.
1t may seem cruel to trap the ami
NAL. But it is either the animal or
the child. The Indians depend upon
the fur to buy their food. They hope
to raise $4,000 to build new Mis-
sion and DR.. Rowe wants it done be-
fore he leaves Alaska.
After Miss Wright's talk, tea was
served. Miss Wright had very bad
| cold but she was piled with eager
questions which she graciously ans
| Wered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-04
Colby Mentor Gives
Candidates Chance
To Display Wares
Especial to Kennebec Journal)

tSp6CIdl " hciiIicpCC Joui Hoi(
Watcrville, April 3.-Coach Roundy
sprang surprise on the large squad
of baseball candidates this afternoon
on Seavern's field by staging two i'm
promptu ball games and using practi-
cally all of the candidates in one po-
sition or another to see what kind of
material he had on hand. While the
result of the practice was little in
doubt, the Blue and Gray baseball
mentor had a good chance to take Il
keen look at all of the large stock
of materials which he has on hand
and he will be better able to direct
the work the coming week before maxi
ing the first large slice in the size of
the squad.
The baseball diamond has been well
scraped and is being rolled so that it
will be in first class condition by the
first Of next week. The entire field
is well dried out and in excellent con-
dition 70 the practice sessions of the
college men. The first of next week
will witness the start of the initia'
drive for the opening games OF the
schedule and no let-up will be evident
in the work until after the exhibition
game with the University Of Maine
nine. which IS scheduled to be played
in Waterville on Patriots Day, two
weeks from Monday.