The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-08
WHAT A LOT OF INCURABLES CURE
 THEMSELVES

| Old Doctor Nightly sported nanosonie l Vandyke necktie eliminator. His picture wa' published more frequently than any otner ooe' | tor except pr Munyon, at least till came on and Nigntly's pictures always bore the soori- | ouet the specials" the well known or famous specialist. Just the specialist. what his snecialty was no one knew, but the doctor made the circuit of the jay towns at bi-monthiy intervals. His coming was duly heraiaeo in I the Village Squawker, complete wlth iis's VI real and imaginary ailments Tn whicn the sps cialist considered himself good, and the hours at which the multitude might interview the doctor at his parlors in the hotel near the nv cry stable.
 It was natural that pr Nightlys pitch should overlook the livery stable, for his hobpy was horse racing; indeed he owned string Of race horses and the racing circuit kept him mucn OH the road so that the specialist racket made nice sdeline to fill in the time between track meets.
 At the race track Dr Nightly's spiel was sim ple: I'm entering such and such hosses in this or that race. Beat 'enl! Back in the hotel parlors it was more subtle: Pronounce by his medical brethren an incurable consumptlVe There ought to be a movement to persuade more ordinary dub doctors to pronounce more patients incurable. It seems to be just the stimulus need to make the lncuraDles qult Iool- ing roll up their sleeves, study the matter for themselves and like as not discover the cure ln a few short evenings. suppose there Is no disease on the incurable list but that some vlc- tim has lost patience with the ordinary doctors and sought out for himself the cure he needed. In spite of everything have taken an optim- istc view of the situation and fixed upon the year 194O as the time of the dawn of enlght- enment in the regulation of healng-the pe- riod when some sort of minimum standard of educational fitness will be set up by the federal Government and all persons seeking license to practice any sort of healing profession shall be required to comply with the standard. The politicians now drawing graft in the ln- numerable boards of examiners maintained by
 the states and provinces for this purpose will do all in tO dawn of enlightenment but believe their day is waning and their graft is due to disappear under the present policy of retrenchment arS reduction in the high cost of government Our country is now sufficiently united and the people intelligent enough to have fed | eral government. We ought to be ashamed of our narrow, provincial practice in the regula- tion of the practice of healing. Graft-what is euphoniously called legitimate graft-is the only remaining excuse for the archaic and cha otic system of licensing headers carried on 1 by the various states or provinces to-day. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS How to Teach Baby to Use Cup Fourteen months old baby drinks water,
 orange juice and tomato juice from cup but re-
 fuses milk at first taste. month ago tried | to wean him from bOttle He refused any at all
 ro. ,yeaIy and f;uaIIv ,vouId take notbing fro,,,
 a cup. (Mrs F. w. D.
 1 Answer-Every baby should be given water | from a cup at the age of eight months, and | then when weaning the baby it is not difficult | to withdraw the bottle entirely at the age of a
 year or IA months. In this case the baby
 knows his ma will give in if he puts up good | fight.
 Hydrophobia Phobla | Neighbours dog. Funny shaking of head
 Child opened dogs mouth with hands. Dog
 licked cliids face. Next day dog was seen in
 pasture snapplng cattle, was killed and sent to
 state agriculture college and wire came back
 saying dog had rabies. Boy has no sore or ab.
 raslons but did have chiggers and might have
 scratched himself after. (J. A. WD I lnIx hA haxt aha a,id { ba
 Pasteur ant-rabies treatment from the family
 physician. Although I personally doubt the
 disease rabies ever occurs in man, I'd give any
 child the bencft of the doubt in any such cr-
 cumstance.
 Eye Test
 Last spring I got q pair of glasses fitted, bul | I cant wcar them. If try to wear them my
 eyes ache and if do not cant see clearly. Ms
 family doctor thinks tie diiafioB method is bet.
 ter. If yon think so 1 will go to an eye doctor
 ncxt time. fR. M WI
 | Answer-f think persons middle age or 0ldai
 can be fitted without drops" but younger per.
 sons should have the drops used, If they want
 an accurate test of tho eyoH, without guessworll about the amount of unconscious strain,