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Bellefonte, Pa., October 21, 1927.
Infantile Paralysis Treatment is Dis-
cussed.
“Within recent weeks much space
has logically been given in the news-
papers of the disease popularly known
as infantile paralysis,” said Dr. Theo-
dore B. Appel, Secretary of Health,
today. 2
“The unusual number of cases which
have developed throughout the Com-
monwealth since the latter part of
July calls for a definite warning as
to after-treatment at this time.
“It is difficult for the average per-
son to appreciate the necessity of pa-
tience and care in the treatment of
the type of paralysis caused by this
disease. Indeed, it is hard to under-
stand that infantile paralysis itself
is a general infection and that the
paralysis, which is an incident, occurs
only in a small proportion of cases.
However, when paralysis does occur
it is caused by small hemorrhages in
the spinal cord with a surrounding
zone of congestion; this causes pres-
sure on the nerve cells and destroys
their activity, at least for a time. It
should therefore not be hard to rea-
lize that during this acute period ab-
solute rest is the best and only treat-
ment. Nature cannot properly do its
work of absorption without it. And
until absorption occurs mechanical
means should never be employed in
an attempt to hasten the usefulness
of the affected muscles.
“The condition in the delicate spi-
nal cord is quite similar to that which
would be present in case there were
minute shot lodged therein. Certain
of the cells in the cord are perma-
nently destroyed, the majority
cells in the zone immediately around
the hemorrhage will recover from the
damage as the inflamation subsides.
But only if left alone. When these
facts are appreciated it is clear that
more harm than good will be accom-
plished by early manipulations.
“The acute stage of the paralysis
as a rule lasts from six weeks to_two
months. During this time complete
rest is required. The paralyzed parts
must be kept absolutely quiet. In
severe cases the affected parts may
even have to be in order to prevent
deformity. ,
“During the following two years
much may be expected from careful
and gentle massage, coupled with the
well known restorative measure of
nature. But do not try to hurry na-
ture,
“Therefore, during the convalescent
period, give your afflicted child a
fair chance to recover. Don’t rob it of
this opvortunitv in an attempt to hur-
rv a cure artificiallv. In this instance,
if an attemnt is made to defeat time.
. time will defeat you. Be wise and
patient.
SR
Locust Fighting,
The fight with the locust, commonly
called grasshopper, is described as a
battle that man never wins, but never
glyes up, by a writer in The Scienti-
fic American (New York.) As to the
condtions of this warfare, methods of
operation, and the signal aid given
by an insect ally, we are tol]:
. “Man happens 0 live in the age cf
Insects. No other branch of the tree
of life includes so many srecies, for
if we take the word insects in its com-
monest sense there are at Jaast three
hundred thousand opecies of them,
When man invented agriculture the
locust, or grasshopper, become one of
his greatest enemies, Like advanec-
ing armies these little creatures nii-
grate in swarms that sometimes Lit-
erally becloud the face of the sun. In
their path they leave nought of vey-
table lift but desolation. Crops, grass,
the foliage of trees and all that grows
from the soil are eaten and disappear
in a day as if the earth had been
blasted by a giant torch,
“In the Argentine Republic locusts,
or grasshoppers, are so persistent a
pest that the Government includes a
special department, the Agricultural
Protective Department, for coping with
their migrations. This department is
always organized, for the locust is
always existent in the Argentine. The
most practicable method of giving
battle to the locusts consist of driving
them into sunken traps, where they
are burned. In this manner no less
than 35,000 tons of locusts were de-
stroyed in a single season.
“Recently a natural enemy of the
locust was found, a true insect which
pursues them on the wing, depositing
her eggs within the bodies of the
swarming migrants. These eggs
hatch into maggots which kill their
hosts. When this happens the armies
of locusts dwindle into scattered,
straggling groups.
“Unfortunately, however, the at-
tacking fly must dwindle with the lo-
cuts, for they will lay their eggs in
no other place than the bodies of live
locusts. Thus the fly is never able to
‘wholly exterminate the locust pests.
“Perhaps, suggests Mr. Leonard Mat-
“ters, writing in The Illustrated Lon-
don News, the flies and the locusts
will some day disappear together, the
‘last fy killing the last locust and thus
‘depriving its own offspring of its own
‘food.”—Literary Digest.
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The Story of a Potato,
Luther Burbank, after trying to be
a machinist, determined "to follow
his inclination and work with plants.
He became a market gardener. Here
the pay was very small. He was
told that the potato was degenerat-
ing and that soon we would have a
potato famine. .
One day Burbank found on the
green top of a potato plant a seed
ball. He watched it carefully and
one morning found it on the ground.
This was the origin of what came to
be called Burbank potato. This dis-
covery has been worth several mil-
lions of dollars to the nation. Bur-
bank sold hig potato to a local grocer
and received one hundred and fifty
dollars for it.—Ex.
of the |
sin and pineapple,
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
“This be my wish: let all my lines
Across the pages run like vines; '
The words, their shining blossoms be;
The book, a field of melody.”
—Favors for Hallowe’en may be
purchased at the shops or made at
home, Among the former are big
chestnuts as natural as the real thing,
but whose contents turn out to be lit-
tle paper caps, a different one for
each guest. There are also witch
brooms, tiny gold-plated wish-bones
(5 cents each), rabbit-foot charms,
horse-shoes and four-leaf clovers.
Place and tally cards with little
orange pumpkins in the corners or a
black witch cat come as low as 50 cents
a dozen. There are also paper nap-
kins with appropriate Hallowe’en de-
vices.
No grown-up is too staid and “set-
tled” to unbend at a hearty frolic
some time or other. And Hallowe’en,
with its ample chance for fun, is just
the time when older folks as well as
younger can relax from more serious
work with an evening of complete
jollity.,
And Hallowe’en furnishes the hos-
tess with such unstinted opportunity
to be clever and original. Autumn,
too, with her russet and gold, and tke
different novelty manufacturers, will
come to her aid with color schemes of
brown and yellow and black—all the
truly “elfin” colors. Much of the work
of making favors and hand-painted
decorations is.removed by the oppor-
tunity to buy attractive decorated sets
and tissue paper with goblin, witch
and black cat patterns. One of the
prettiest is a set of paper plates,
cloth and napkins, with a black kit-
ten in a kind of raised material which
makes ‘it look most natural. A table
could be carried out as follows:
Centerpiece—Witch doll with broom
and large black stuffed cat.
+ Favors—Papier-mache cats and tiny
brooms.
Large gilt moon hanging over table,
vellow candles, yellow-and-white cloth
and napkins.
Menu-—Hot oyster loaf, deviled po-
tatoes, gold cake cut in squares and
goblin ‘face made in yellow icing,
pumpkin tarts, coffee, hazel and black
walnuts,
Another scheme in decoration is the
“ghost” one, which may best be car-
ried out in white, pale green. and
blue. Paper icicles and also the small
glass ones used on Christmas trees
can be used, laid above a background
of ‘sheets of white tissue paper. The
guests may be dressed in appropriate
dominoes, or the old-time “sheet and
pilowcase” plan, followed. All lights
should be dimmed by small false faces
cut from pale green tissue paper and
pasted over the bulbs.
Centerpiece—Small toy “skeleton”
sitting on cube of ice on plateau mir-
ror sprinkled with snowflakes (mica).
Favors—Small ‘skulls, owls and
crossbhones pins.
Above the table—Large owl with
illuminated eyes suspended on branch
under. shaded dome of paper of glass,
hung with paper branches.
Tablecloth and napkins white, tied
with pale green ribbons.
Menu—Chicken salad; white mayon-
naise, olives, celery, blanched almonds,
white bread, cheese and nut sand-
wiches, angel cake, silver cake cut in
diamond-shaped pieces, vanilla cream
or marshmallow whip in individual
square boxes.
Still another scheme is the brown-
and-russet one, which lends istelf so
well to the autumn leaves and fall
fruit. For this work out a plan of
using leaves along the walls, first
hanging on the tissue paper with the
same design of separate leaves, which
can be easily purchased.
Centerpiece—Half a small pumpkin,
edges scalloped, filled with rosy pol-
ished apples, grapes, pears and sur-
rounded with a “mat” of large perfect
grape leaves.
Favors—Small woven basket of
nuts and persimmons, if available.
Cloth—Tissue in red-and-white leaf
design, with some choice large maple
leaves pinned irregularly on the edges.
Menu—Fruit salad, apple, nut, rai-
maple-sugar buns,
cider, punch, gingerbread cakes (with
elf face traced in chocolate icing),
nuts, popcorn and molasses taffy
squares.
On the ghost table a small lump of
solid alcohol may be kept burning,
either in the center of the table or
elsewhere in the room. Salt must be
scattered on the open flame, which
will give a most ghostly green light.
In the making of cakes, a pastry
tube will be found a help in tracing
the many “bogie” faces that make
the cakes more appropriate.’ A
“brownie” book will give many faces
easy to copy. Then chocolate, maple
or white frosting can be squeezed on
the cakes after they are cut in fancy
shapes, or baked in rounds or muffin
pans. Many mixtures may be poured
in muffin pans and then used, inverted,
Yih the “face” made on the bottom
end.
CELERY CREAM,
Boil the celery until very soft and
Squeeze it through a sieve until you
have a pint of celery. Add to this a
quarter of a pint of thick white sauce
and a tablespoonful of grated cheese,
and let the whole cool. Then add a
quarter of a pint of liquid aspic jelly
and stir in slowly a pint of whipped
cream. Season with cayenne and cel-
ery salt. Pour it into moulds and put
them in a cool place or by the ice,
hers they should remain for several
ours.
—Be sure your hot dog is actually
hot, warns a medical advisor. He
says that hot dogs made of many
species of raw pork which may con-
tain the cysts of worms known as
tapeworm and trichinae. If these
cysts are taken into the blood they
may breed in the intestines and cause
serious trouble. The only safe pork
is well cooked as the cooking destroys
the embryo of worms. Slice your dog-
gie through the middle and then cook
them thoroughly on both sides.
FARM NOTES.
—Ducks to be marketed should be
fattened for two weeks before killing |
on a ration made of three parts by
weight of corn meal, two parts of low
rade flour or middlings, one part of
bran, one-half of beef scraps, together
with 3 per cent. grit and 10 per cent.
green feed. The mash should be fed
thrice daily.
—Farmers of Pennsylvania who sell
home made cider vinegar should have
no difficulty in meeting the require-
ments .of the pure vinegar law. ;
It is simply necessary that this
vinegar be made in ordinary manner
from apple juice and that it contain
no added water, preservatives or
substances injurious to health. If care
is taken in its preparation and it
meets the standard of four per cent.
acetic acid, it can be legitimately sold.
Farmers are required by law to la-
bel their product with the name and
address of the maker, clearly printed |
on the container so that the product
can be distinguished from distilled
and other types of vinegars.
—More swine have been vaccinated
against hog cholera in Pensylvania so
far this year than during any prev-
ious similar period. Up to Septem-
ber 1, a total of 44,400 animals had
been vaccinated as compared to 30,-
170 for the first eight months of 1926.
The hog cholera situation in Penn-
sylvania is much better now tham it |
was a year ago at this time. How- |
ever, because of the severe outbreak !
late last fall, Bureau specialists are |
urging farmers to provide warm, dry |
quarters for their swine this fall and
winter, so that the cold rains and
severe cold weather will not reduce
the vitality of the animals and make
them more susceptible to cholera.
—Records show that 100 chicks will
eat 120 pounds of whole milk in three
weeks or 116 pounds of skim milk or
93 pounds of buttermilk during that |
time. ' Sour milk or buttermilk may
be used in place of water in the first
feed the chicks get. But when milk !
feeding is started it is necessary to
keep it up. Any change from sour
milk to sweet or sweet milk to sour
is apt to result in trouble. Either is
all right and once started should be
continued. A good many poultrymen
have a decided preference for sour
milk. One reason is that the acid it
has acts as a sort of disinfectant in
the chick’s intestines. Sour milk has
been found to be more easily digested
by chicks. And a third reason is that
it is almost impossible to keep ‘the
milk sweet after warm weather be.
gins. Water is kept in front of the
chicks all the time even though they
are fed milk.
—One can very readily detect mites
in the house by noting either the
grayish or red mites or the so-called
dust that can be noted. Nests that are
railed together or roosts that are not
treated will show this grayish dust.
In most cases mites will indicate
themselves whenever a person gets
into the house. Mites are one rea-
son why farm flocks refuse to roost
in the house during the summer but
prefer some adjacent building or the
trees.
As a treatment it is necessary to
select the material that will penetrate
and not rapidly evaporate. The great
objection to kerosene lies in the fact
that it will kill. some of the mites on
the snrface but evaporates too rapid-
lv. The eggs are down in all the lit-
tle cracks and the mites. during the
early stage of growth, live on filth,
decaved wood and dirt. Unless the
treatment can prevent the eggs from
batching, success cannot be expected. |
—Cleaning up all corn stubble, stalks
and cobs in the fields last spring be-
fore the 1927 corn crop was planted
has proven a great aid in combating
the European corn ‘borer, according
to officials of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture ~ who have
just returned from an inspection trip
through the heavily infested sections
of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and
Ontario, Canada. Accounts of degrees
of infestation in Michigan, Ohio, New
York and Pennsylvania indicates that
the increase in degree of infestation So
far this year over 1926 is much less
than the increase in 1926 over 1925.
The corn borer, however, is contin-
uing its spread and reports from
scouts up to September 10 indicate
the corn borer is present in 386 town-
ships in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, New York and Indiana, outside
the quarantine area of the past year.
This fiugre includes 48 townships in
Pennsylvania located in the following
countes: Monroe. Wayne, Lackawan.
na, Luzerne, Wyoming, Columbia,
Northumberland, Union, Huntingdon,
Bedford, Somerset, Greene and Fay-
ette. All or parts of these counties
will be included when the new quar-
antine is placed.
—What is believed to be a new ap-
plication of electricity to agriculture
has been undertaken on a large farm
near Leroy, N. Y., and is being
watched with great interest by elec-
trical engineers and farmers, accord-
ing to the Pennsylvania Public Sery-
ice Information Committee.
For three weeks in June a field of
fifteen acres was worked with an
electric gang-plow, which impreg-
nates the soil with a current of
103,000 volts. This process, it is said,
not only destroys weeds, bacteria, and
grubs, but restores the fertility of the
soil without the use of fertilizers.
Corn planted in the. electrically
treated soil was up in five days, as
compared to sixteen days required in
similar, but untreated, land, accord-
ing to the reports. Beans and po-
tatoes have also shown extraordinary
speed in sprouting in the “electri-
fied” land.
Another application of electricity
is reported by the Swedish Agricul-
tural Department, wheh is success-
fully forcing the growth of farm pro-
ducts and flowers by electrically heat-
ing the soil. The department by this
method produced spring vegetables at
a time when all other soil was still
frozen, according to the reports. and
had lettuce ready for the table in
March. :
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
Tired of Liver Diet?. Apricots Just
to Goud sd,
Rochester, N. Y.—Anemics who
have had to eat liver until they re-
volted at the word itself may obtain
a little variety with apricots, peaches
and prunes. Recent experiments at
the University of Rochester medical
school by Drs. G. H. Whipple and F.
S. Robscheit-Robbings indicate that, al-
though liver and kidney are by far
the most potent food materials for
the regneration of the red blood cor-
puscles, certain other animal organs
and several fruits are also effective,
and hence can be used to vary the diet
in anemia.
A long-debated question in medicine
is whether iron must be in organic
combination before it can be utilized
i by the body in regenerating the iron-
containing hemoglobin, or whether a
simple inorganic salt of iron, such as
ferrous carbonate, will suffice. Appar-
ently the form of iron and the quan-
tity in which it occurs are not the
deciding factors.
Beef kidney contains three times as
much iron as does beef liver, but the
latter is far more effective in blood
regeneration. Raspberries contain
more iron than do apricots and peach-
es, but are inert in blood regeneration.
There is certain evidence that some
unknown substance is supplied by the
effective foods, and that it enables the
body to utilize the iron.
Eider Ducks Brought Close to Ex-
tinction.
For a long time Iceland prospered
in her trade in the down of the eider
ducks, which was prized all over the
world for making pillows and quilts.
As always in such cases, however, the
pot-hunters overworked the industry
and the result is that now there is no
great amount of money in it. Very
severe laws protect these birds, and
the taking of the down from the nests
is carefully regulated.
Sea birds of various kinds make
their nests in the cliffs and the hunt-
ing of these birds is a regular but per-
ilous activity. They are caught with
nets on the end of long poles, and also
by trays made with horsehair snares
and having a live bird as -a decoy tied
to them. In some cases men are let
down with ropes from cliffs hundreds
of feet so as to gather eggs in other-
wise inaccessible S.
These wild birds, such as puffins,
auks, guillemots and terns, collect in
such vast multitudes at some of these
rookeries that they will sit perched
so close together, as to form a solid
mass. This helps them to keep warm,
The noise made by their strident cries
is overpowering, and when they are
scared up and all take wing the rush
of air is like a tempest.—Pathfinder
Magazine. -
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