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The Washington times., 1927-12-06
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

YOU may have about your house
l. certain beds that have been
occupied. some of them recently,
by persons i'll with some one of
the various infectious diseases.
II this is true, there are certain
features Of the situation to which
you need to give consideration.
Most of the infectious diseases
can be spread by "fomites." A
"fomite" is an article of any kind
which the patient has touched or
which has been near enough to
him to pick up some of the irfec.
ton. That this occurs has been
scientifically demonstrated. In
this way bedding is obviously more
liable to carry infection outside
the sickroom than anything else,
except the patients own secre-
tions. It is, therefore, very inn
portant that bedding that has
been in contact with infectious
patients should be carefully dis.
infected.
AS a result OF careful expert
ment. health authorities nowadays
are giving up fumigating and dis.
injecting the air of rooms and
are concentrating on removing all
bedding, hangings and other OBJ
jects to which infection may cling
and cleaning them in the public
disinfection station. They realize
that the disinfection of bedding
is in fact more important than
anything else.
Unfortunately bedding and
blankets are particularly diff.
cult to disinfect by heat. This
is only natural. for they rep
resent the highest outcome Of
mans ingenuity in inventing a
material which will check the
passage Of heat. Bedding does
not suffer much from being
heated for a long time, but
many public health bodies have
found that it can be adequately
disinfected by thorough summing
and airing. Blankets, however,
are still considered dangerous
by many medical officers of
health unless they are well
baked, and the steam disinfec-
tor is often very bad for them.
1t has been demonstrated that
blankets which are exposed TO
a temperature Of 115-120 de-
grees I'D were of little use
afterwards, although if saturated
steam is used and they are not
allowed to get too hot in the
process Of drying, they suffer
less damage. Still, everyone
knows that fabrics are liable TO
be damaged by the public disin-
fector, and there Is great
temptation to keep back infected
articles which have any value.
In order to prevent this, public
health authorities should intro
duce methods which will not
harm delicate materials.
This is quite possible. Professor
Sheridan Delepine discovered many
years ago that even anthrax
spores can be killed by warm for.
malin vapour. This does no harm
even to delicate fabrics, and at
least one type of disinfector can
be easily converted into a for.
malin chamber. This has been
done at Ladywell Sanatorium,
Stafford.
Delepin also showed how much
more effective a disinfectant be.
came when it was warmed. Ex.
posing for twenty minutes, it took
a one-in.forty carbolic solution to
kill colon bacilli at freezing point.
but at blood heat these germs
The Washington times., 1927-12-06
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
-Bv Helen Rowland
Any Wife to ANY Husband

Any Wife to ANY Husband
There's nothing that 1 do not
know about you
\ + \
The way you fling your clothes
around the floor.
- \
The way. in temper. you can slam
a doof.
The fearful things you long to
drink and eat
\ y \
The way yor size Up flappers on
the street.
&&%
Your vanity-and all the shoes
you wear!
The little thin spot, where you
part your hair.
Your weakness for a passionate
cravat,
And giddy hat-bands on your sum.
mer hat.
I know how gay You feel in white
plus-forrs.
And how you wiggle out Of doing
chores.
! know by heart all your pet
alibis,
Your favorite jokes and harmless,
little lies
The way you groan at "overwork"
then go
\ + \
Blithely to play a round of golf
l KNOW!
X
Your helpless means when syou
are i'll. or maybe
Just want a little mothering, poor
baby!
And when your hands were just
little shaky.
Just by your step. your smile,
your kiss. l vow
y -
know where you have been, with
whom-and how:
All, yes, dear Boy, I know you
through and through,
even know what you are GOING
l do not have to test your breath
TO tell,
Nor search for blonde hairs on
your coat-lapel.
Nor torture you with questioning
or spying,
To know when you are truthful
or are lying.
know how much of all you say
Is kidding
X y
know when YOU are going
straight or skiddingl
have, alas. what YOU would call
suspicion"
But what call my "woman's
INTUITION"
There's nothing that I do not know
. about you.
And yet-and vet. 7 cznnos nvs
WITHOUT you.
The Washington times., 1927-12-06
4ocJ Fe,eHrNrAlnpLQ'
FOL uFe 's:NAppALLlHe!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

- face dirt - face ridicule - face
sacrifice-face hard work-face
failure-face loneliness and mo-
ontony and encouragement and
danger-and death. DARE TO
BE CRUCIFIED AND TOTE
YOUR OWN CROSS!
II you don't, you're going to
go out with the first big wind.
Americans didn't need to be
told this once. Americans were
poor and despised and forsaken.
They had been kicked out of
England. They had to root hog
or die. And out of that roofing
in actual mud, and spiritual loan,
rose a Vision. And out of that
Vision came a Nation. A red
blooded Nation. A Nation with
backbone and CUTS.
And now we, their push button
descendants, expect to cash in on
their efforts. We can't do it.
We cant live on second hand
spunk or fourth generation
sweat.
LIES TOO EASY, LOOK
OUT AMERICA!
The Washington times., 1927-12-06

Crime wave? There's some.
thing worse than a crime wave
happening to this country.
There's laziness wave, a soft.
ness wave, a smartiness wave,
that Is going to do more harm
than all the robbery and murder
put together.
Too many theories about liv-
ing-too little actual life.
We talk about struggle-what
do most of us know about strug-
gle? l know a lot of emanci.
pated. educated young women
who put up an awful yelp IL
they're asked to struggle"
through one evening alone at
home with the baby. And
number of our most dauntless
young males who'd faint il they
had to struggle for ten minutes
with a spading fork.
But we can hire people to take
care Of babies and spade gard.
ems" they say.
Agreed. BUT YOU CAN'T
HIRE PEOPLE TO CREATE
SELF CONTROL FOR YOU. OR
The Washington times., 1927-12-06
ONCE-OVERS
BY J. J. MUNDY
FOLLOW THE RULES

Don't feel of your job that you think you can follow
your set of abide by the
will of the firm for which you work
Age and experience long job entle the
noder to axiy rules which laid
in general. - - -
fou may be able to attend satisfactory
but your failure requirements because
OF its effect upon the other workers.
The fact that old necessary
Tor you be strict in attention to regulations
Your example is likely to be followed by the others.
You cannot be firmly entrenched with firm
afford to let you be rule unto yourself.
You unwise to entertain such a thought.
Business competitive is necessary
Employers afford be sentimental in this
matter.
Morale be sacrificed
selves favorites with the powers that be-
The Washington times., 1927-12-06
LISTEN, WORLD!

T I F E'S too
IL e asy for
most of us.
We have too
many push but
tons to do the
things for us
W h i C h ur
granddads did
for themselves
with the sweat
of their brows
and the heave
of their biceps.
AS a result. an
increasing mum.
ber of us are
sitting around,
pic kin g our
souls and rising
Cain. Talking
smart and act
ing naughty to
show how brave
and free and
advanced w e
are. Pooh!
The Washington times., 1927-12-06
PATIENCE OR
PERSISTENCE

i "A i lENNE Oh
PERSISTENCE
OR GRIT.
No one ever
experienced life
by paying some
one to do it for
them. Or by
reading about ii
or kim z
about it-or by
going through
a lot of smarty
motions while
someone ell s e
pays the bills.
THE ONLY
w A Y Y D u
CAN EXPER.
IENCE LIFE
is TO GO OUT
AND HAVE 1T
B u S T Y o U
ONE IN THE
JAW.
Face hunger
=
The Washington times., 1927-12-06

were killed by a carbolic solution
of only one in a hundred. We
may trust a one-in-one- hundred
solution ot carbolic to kill all the
organisms in two hours, at blood
The Washington times., 1927-12-06

heat. for which disinfection is
usually required. Anthrax alone
needs a stronger solution and q
longer exposure. but, fortunately.
anthrax is rare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-08
he world is not the fostering of i'm

the world Is not the fostering of i'm
perial trade. vital as that is, but the
preservation of world peace" de-
clared Stanley Baldwin. premier of
Great Britain. in an address at the
dinner given III honor of the Prince
of Wales and himself by the Gov
crnment of Ontario here last night.
To that we are dedicated more
sincerely than ever in our history.
added Mr. Baldwin. Here / know
speak. for all parties and | voice
the deep and earnest prayer of the
British people"
The British premiers address was
on Canada as a pioneer Of empire.
lie suggested that as Canada had
led in the granting of imperial pref
erence she now might lead in the
solution of imperial problems,
Would it be rash TO prophesy,
he asked. that in finding the solu-
ton Canada will take a leading part
that she will once again, be q
pioneer of empire?"
The Prince of Wales strapped the
speech which he intended to make.
Tomorrow we celebrate "a hundred
years OF peace" said the prince.
After Il week of oratory we might
tonight hold our peace"
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SHIP TO SAIL FOR CHICAGO

PHILADELPHIA. August 8 F).--
Carrying merchandise to the Middle
West without breaking cargo, an I'M
usual undertaking from North Attain
tic ports, will be attempted this week.
The steamship Ormidale, now loading
here, will carry 5000 tons of refined
sugar TO Chicago via the River and
Gulf of st. Lawrence, The vessel will
proceed to Montreal, thence via the
Melland Canal TO Chicago.
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Odd lot Mems and Women Turkish
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Oddments Boys Vests, Wash Knee Pants etc F.. lOc
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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DAWES Is ONLY "AIDE."
Says He's "Merely Lieutenant Who
Doesn't Have to Know ANYTHING"

TORONTO, Ontario, August s.
Vice President Charles G. Dawes con-
siders himself only lieutenant who
does mot have to know any thing" as
long as his captain" is alive
Interviewed before he left Toronto
after attending the opening Of the
Buffalo-Bridgeport Peace Bridge, the
Vice President dismissed questions
relative to politics with: II am merely
the lieutenant. As long as my captain
is alive do not have to know any
thing"
Vice President Dawes, with Mrs.
Dawes, c. Z. Sibley and G. BARLEY,
left Toronto for Little Current and
Manitoulin Island, where he will spend
the next four or five days.
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First Saturday,
Evening star., 1927-04-07
DIARY OF A
NEW FATHER
BY RoRERT 3. pICKsoN.

Wednesday Night.
The boss called a meeting of the
city statesmen this afternoon, and so l
finished all my calls before noon and
drove back downtown for lunch be-
fore going to the office. And | parked
my car and started down the street to
q restaurant, and / ran into 81
lunch check before / had taken 10
steps, on account of me running into
Joan, and her making me buy her
something to eat And when your
wife is at home alone she does not feel
like getting herself any lunch, and
when she is downtown with you she
feels like making UP for 1t.
] said: "What are you doing down
town." And Joan said. Take me
to lunch and I will confess all" And
/ said: "Where is the baby?' And
she said: He is taking his nap and
the janitor's daughter is staying in the
apartment with him.
/ said: "Well, / suppose | have to
buy you lunch" And Joan said;
THAT'S the plot You caught on
qiffckly. Where were you going to
eat?" And / said: "In there" and |
pointed. And she said: "Why, that's
a lunch counter" And ! said: Ger
tainly it is. / have stopped eating at
shoe shining parlors." And Joan said:
Don't tell me any more of your jokes
or / am likely to have Mysteries right
here in the street.
Your wife does not think you are
very funny
Joan said: Come over to that new
tea room with me" And L said:
Evening star., 1927-04-07
SPRINGTIME
By d. c. PEATTIE.
Squills.

With the fora Of the world pretty
well ransacked by plant hunters for
new garden beauties, it seems likely
that nobody will produce lovelier
class of early Spring flowers than the
squill. unless somebody makes some
startling hybrids
Squills there are in variety
common blue squiIl, 50 like a hya-
cinth: the Ioseate Chinese squill, the
! Peruvian jacinth, the Spanish squill;
Japanese, Siberian, Italian. Taurian
and Spring sQuills-each one with its
diminutive charm, each so sweetly re-
flcshing Alas. we in America know
them not wild. They belong to that
pndearing class Of dubious plants
that inhabit the dry and sunny yet
not tropical parts of the earth that
have a warm and carly Spring. when
tulip and narcissus, squill. crocus,
hyacinth and Star of Bethlehem burst
into sudden bloom and then depart
from the face of earth in the long. hot
Summers.
O0ly parts of California have a
Mediterranean climate, SO we are poor
in the charming plants Of the sort
called geophilous or ground loving,
just as we are rich in azaleas. rhodo-
dendrons and magnolias.
Happily nobody need be without
/ the delicate pink. blue and white
/ spires Of squills in his Spring lawn.
/ / know Of no flower that requires less
care You put it in the grass in Au-
tumn and forget about it. and before
/ the lawn is ready for the mower in
! Spring the faithful little squin has
J bloomed and scattered its bit of Old
/ World charm and vanished.
Evening star., 1927-04-07
BEDTIME STORIES '1 7. 11sssss' sSsssss

Watch, and much good may it do
YOU" retorted Sally. When / once
reach the water you won't follow me
"oh," said Peter, "you are going
to the water, are you? Do you like
| the water?'
II was born in it; / ought to-" re-
| torted Sally. all the time moving
| along slowly toward the Laughing
| Brook.
"Do you mean" said Peter. that
you used TO live in the water alto
/ gether?"
why do you ask such silly ques-
| tions ?" protested Sally If I We're
| born in the water, naturally / lived
| there when I was young"
! Did you look just as YOU do now
| when you were born?" inquired
| Peter.
Sally the salamander stopped long
enough to look very hard at Peter.
| "Of all the silly questions I have
ever heard, you ask the silliest."
/ said she. do Grandfather Frog =
| children look like him when they are
lttle--that is. when they are first
| out of the egg ?"
NO" replied Peter. "of course
| they don't. They don't look anything
| like him. / shouldn't know they were
his children if I didn't know it,"
| Tommy Tit the Chickdee. who was
| close by laughed right out at that.
| Peter looked up at him suspiciously.
What are you laughing at?" he de-
4 manded.
Il was thinking how queer it would
be not to know what we don't know,
| replied Tommy his eyes twinkling.
In spite OF himself Peter grinned
| you know we'll enough what |
| meant" said he. Il meant that if ]
had seen a tadpole without having
been told what tadpole was,
never in the world would guess il
was baby frog. When you We're
little, were you as different from
| what you are now as a tadpole is
from a frog, Mrs. Salamander?'
Mrs. Salamander nodded. FYou
probably would have thought me
some kind of a queer-looking tad
pole said She My. it's long way
down TO that water" With this she
kept on and finally disappeared in a
little pool of the Laughing Brook.
Evening star., 1927-04-07
Lessons in English
BY ", L. GORDON.

Words often misused- Don't say
"She is a relation of mine. Say
relative
often mispronounced-Tu Pro.
nounce the "u7 as in futile" not as
in rule,
often isspelled-Ninety Note the
"e p"
synonyms s-Distinguished illnstri-
Gus. celebrated, renowned, eminent,
prominent, notable.
Word study-"Use word three
tin2es and it is yours. Let US in
crease our vocabulary by mastering
one word each day. Today's word
Cumplicate; to make or become diff
cult or perplexing; mix: confuse. Are
you not compucating the question:
Evening star., 1927-04-07

selvage may be used to form the
front edges of the coat, turning back
to form revers. Sometimes the goods
is used the other way around and
the selvage forms an attractive line
at the underarm seam.
There is an increasing demand for
fne linen handkerchiefs, which some
well dressed women are now using
instead of the colored silk and geor-
gette handkerchiefs that have been
I'm fashion. After all, there is moth
ing more attractive in the way of
handkerchief than O snowy white
square Of the finest linen, finished
with fine hand hemstitching and a
neat initial or monogram. White
linen handkerchiefs with colored
hems or borders are sometimes
chosen to go with the tailored cos
tune and the border then matches
the color of the ensemble or the con-
trasting color used in the button
hole flower or other accessories.
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-04-07

it out Of his head that judging by
their looks, they ought to be mem
bers OF the Lizard family But
Peter wasn't quite fair to Eft and
Sally. They We're not trying to be
anything but what they really were,
and they took pains 10 point out to
Peter the difference between them
selves and the real Lizards,
Sally the Salamander was all black.
with good sized yellow spots sprin-
kled over her. She wasn't hand
some No, indeed, she wasn't hand
some. In fact, there was nothing
pretty about her, TO Peters way of
thinking The members of the Liz
ard family with whom he was ac-
quainted were graceful and quick
moving Sally was not graceful and
She was anything but quick-moving.
III fact, she walked as though she
had no great amount of strength
Where are you going?" asked
Peter,
That's my business, replied
Sally.
Il can find out just by watching,
said Peter
Evening star., 1927-04-07
Popcorn Balls.

Boil together one and one-haf cup.
fuls of sugar with one cupful of
water one tablespoonful of vinegar
and one-haif a teaspoonful of salt
until the sirup hardens when dipped
in cold water. Add one teaspoonfnl
of vanilla. pour while hot over two
quarts of freshly popped corn. add
two cupfuls of nut kernels, then mix
well. When cool enough to handle,
grease the hands and form into balls,
or place the popcorn in deep layer
in a CREASED pan, and cut in oblong
pieces. When cold, wrap in waxed
paper. If desired. chocolate may be
added to the sirup for variety.
Evening star., 1927-04-07

This nice little desk and the book
shelves which hang above it would
be a pleasant addition to almost any
bedroom or guestroom. They are a
shining example of what can be done
when furnishings costs must be kept
low.
The shelves We're purchased, I'M
painted. for SO. The desk is a little
old-fashioned washstand picked up in
an antique shop for $3.50, 1t was in
very bad condition and had 10 be
scraped down to the clean pine wood.
These pieces were both painted a
clear, sunny yellow, for they were to
serve in a bedroom schemed in gray,
blue-green and yellow. yellow. by the
way, is a particularly satisfactory
color for painted pieces, as it can be
introduced. in small quantities at least,
into almost any color scheme with
beneficial effects
fCanvpiuhf 1907
Evening star., 1927-04-07
Fer An Emergency.

Take a piece of cardboard. and copy
on it the telephone number of the
Fire Department, family physician,
your husbands office or other mum
bers that you might find necessary to
use in an emergency So often in an
emergency, such as sudden illness, a
neighbor or some one else to whom
the numbers are not familiar may do
the telephoning. Hang this above
your telephone and see what con
venience 1t is.