The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-28
BIZARRE OR GROTEsQUE, IT IS
 NOT ODD HOUSE

NUT ODU HOOSE
 Give a knave an inch and heU take an ell. Most states and prov inces have laws regulating the prac- tice of medicine, defining practice as the diagnosis or treatment of human ailments, injuries, etc, establishing minimum educational qualifications for persons who seek 8 license to en- gage in practice. But here and there number of persons who lack the educational qualifications re- quired to obtain license decide to demand recognition anyway. They organize, . carry on propaganda, maintain lobby in the state or provincial legislature, assert that pills and potionS" are worthless or harmful and that all human ail- ments are caused by, let us say, wrong food combinations or the west wind. Presently the state or pro- vincial legislature lets down the bars and admits the new kind of headers to practice regardless, and as soon as they are well broken in the new kind of headers gradually adopt an- tiseptics, anesthetics, external med- icaments, SerunS, antitoxinS, seda- tives-and presently they are pre- scribing as nearly as they can con- trive to prescribe the same measures, including the worthless pills and po- tions, as ordinary doctors use. The joke is on the ordinary doctors for having taken the law seriously; and on the public for having entrusted to halfwits and grafterS the regula- tion of this vital matter.
 Jean, daughter of Mrs. W.'J. M, writes: x
 "You are spelling my mother and making my life miserable. Now she wants to put a ramp or runway in the house in place of the stairs, says she can go up in two or three long strides and perhaps slide down. She argues that 1t will save energy wasted in climbing stairs many times day.
 "Your description of me is per- fect-the hoop skirts and catnip. Of course I'd "swoon"eif YOU were here."
 Sure enough, it was Jeans moth- CT, Mrs. w. J. W.-who recited the heart-rending story here recently, of how she had cut the footboards off from all the beds, put the dining table on wheels and yearned to have a swing settee in the living-room before a wide window looking out over lawn and shrubbery-but was restrained from indulging her taste in this by the entreaties of her daughter.
 But, darn it, I don't know now. Maybe the girl is a bit facetious about this thing. Before it goes any further I desire to make it clear that the ramp or runway in place of stairs in the house is not my Idea at all, but the idea of Mrs. w, J. w., though it is an excellent idea-ex. cuse me moment-I just started to measure and pace off the front stairs, but my boss ctv1ght me and demanded, "NOW wh9t!"
 Let me assure readers that every- thing I have suggested or approved | for Odd House is quite serious and, in my opinion, likely to promote happier and healthier living. We want nothing bizarre or grotesque in Odd House. Jeans mothers ramp deserves careful consideration, and we invite comments or views of readers, to help us decide upon it.
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 ' When Is q Woman Old?
 Sister and her husband wish for | family. She is 38 and they fear 1t | may be dangerous for her. Can pel- | wis bones be measured to determine | whether childbirth would be safe? (F. P.) nf
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