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THE FIRST CONCERN.
DIABETES—A NATIONAL PLAGUE
John Harvey Kellogg, M. D. Battle Creek
(Concluded from last week)
Gets No Takers, So Flees in |
Fear of Charity.
Hutchinson, Kan.—Sam Harris, thir
ty-five, of Hutchinson, had to have an
operation on his nose and offered to
pawn his twin baby sons for the $200
~ ueeded for the operation.
In view of the great variation be-
‘tween cases, only a few general sug-
‘gestions as to diet may be given
-here. After ascertaining the amount
of starch or sugar that the patient
‘can make use of without an increase
«of the sugar of the blood or the ap-
. pearance of sugar in the urine, the
amount of carbohydrate and fat in
“the diet should be properly balanced.
This balancing may be done by.
means of formulate which have been |
- carefully worked out; or a diabetic |
diet table can be procured. The
amount of protein required, accord-
‘ing to the standard proportion
~adopted by many specialists, is not
more than one-third of one gram
per pound of body weight.
| ing In perfect health.
A considerable amount of raw food |
* should be eaten--fruits, praticularly
* grapefruit, strawberries and oranges,
‘as well as salad vegetables.
The free use of water is highly
“important. Patients may drink with
advantage three or four quarts daily,
. confided in friends that he had feared
even though thirst may not demand .
‘this amount.
Meat should be eliminated from
“the bill of fare, substituting for it
proteins of vegetable origin, such as
“wheat glutens, nuts, beans and oth-
ver legumes, protose, nuttolene, etc.
Since there is no harmless substi- |
“Rute for sugar, it is better that the
«diabetic patient wean himself from
“aweets. He will have no difficulty
‘in doing this if he will only fix in
his mind the fact that sugar is his
‘enemy.
‘self to indulge in longing for con-
fectionery and other sweets, the mo-
ment the thought of sugar enters
Ie ind Be Should plcture himself
a fierce mplacable -
ing his life, ? SHemy wedk
Instead of permitting him- |
Tea and coffee should be discard- |
ed.
fir tea. mav be empl
he ployed in their
nate hot beverages at meals.
Thorough mastication of the food
but the best plan is to elimi- |
Simple substitues, such as kaf- |
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48’ especially important for the dia-
since the amount of fi
‘takes is greatly oo .
pecially since the amount og insulin
used is based upon the amount of
_carbohvdrates eaten. it
“highest importance that the food
should be thoroughly chewed so
“that all of it may be utilized.
Special attention to the col
‘great mportadee in every oh
: e of the first thi
‘Tbe done is to restore the ings 1
three-a-dav habit of bowel movement.
“Fortunately, the foodstuffs which
‘are indicated for the relief of con-
"stivation are the very ones whirh
enter most lareelv into the diabetic
‘regimen: greens of all sorts and
‘Such coarse veeetables as turnios,
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carrots, artichokes .cabhaoe, Tettuce,
<élery, ete.
rpared bran (diabetic hran) ig
‘quired to secure the full deeree of
“activity which is
‘nee’'scted is intestinal lubrication.
y ng the intestingl
which must »acsive attention to se-
cure efficient howel movement,
Acar or edpeciallv pre- |
re-
] most desirable.
Another thine which must not be |
is
somewhat mora diffienlt than wanagl |
in race of dinhateg hensnes of the
‘small amount af carbhohvdrata which
dinhetic nationts are abla ta tolerate. |
But it mav ha accomnliched he us- |
ine sn®-tantly laren ~uantities of |
bulkeoa (agar ar Alahatia hegn ant
narafin all) A warm a=--a chon'd |
he nead at nieht TP aglitia fs nrea.!
ent the colon should receive snecial |
“treatment,
. Wxarcies id ana af the mast affen.
Five maang of noveagine the ntiliza-
"Han af eneave haat it i= imnartant tn |
rvememhar that antiva avarsige fa nat
alwave het far a Ainhatin When |
however, nndav cavaful dietine
oxraeeive matataliem hae
“rola romeidavahla amannt
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have ia rand
mila a daw
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finial IWant walcine and Nmh ctratoh, |
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mwantisand tn advantacn Darenna
fan wham far ane vaaenn any Aon.
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af tha haat fave Af Indanr avernica |
hana. |
gidaraRla amnnnt af avarsiea fe im. |
nnegihla mas ha ovaatly honafited
"hy manne af avtamatin avarniaa in
arhisak tha wmuanlag ave mada tn ant
“and An asta! woark hv alastrieal
Latimnlating,
Fregh.air claanine and ant.af.danre
Wa nwa mpasly ae walpyahla in tha
fraatmant Af Alahatae ag in the
treatment nf Hhareninaia
TAMOIS WEAY TW "ns
For centuries the “bads,” or health
rresorts, of Germany and central Bu-
rope have been famous for the med-
‘fcinal powers of their spring waters
and for the elaborate establishments
‘that have been built up about these
-springs, where every comfort and
tuxury is provided for those who
«come for the cure and for those who
:are merely in search of rest or rec-
-yeation. Hundreds of thousands of
-persons visit them each year, and
-many return annually to their fav-
worite resorts.
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bell, police matron, that he is willing
-commodates only ten at a time.
Harris was out of a job and fig-
ured that rhe only way that he could |
obtain money for the operation was to
pawn something. He didn’t have much |
to pawn except the twin babies, |
So Harris informed A. B. Leigh,
probation officer, and Mrs. Jack Camp-
to pawn the twins for $200. The twins’
uames are Daniel and Delbert,
“I can't get a job,” he said as he
sat with his wife and babies in thelr
one-room {enement home. “I have
nothing that I can mortgage and 1
won't accept charity.
“The twins are the only securit,
that 1 can offer for a loan,” he said.
“If some one will lend me $200, he can
adopt the twins, Later on, when I get
steady work, I'll redeem them.”
Leigh and Mrs. Campbell recom
mended that Harris go to the county
doctor for his operation, but he pro-
tested, saying that he would not ac-
cept charity.
The twins are six months old, ana
nave been described by doctors as be-
A few days after Harris made hl.
offer he fled from Hutchinson, taking
with him his wife and babies. He had
that city and county authorities would
take action against him, since he had
refused to move to the county farm |
as a charity family, |
All Adults in Village
Are Sentenced to Jail
Kovno, Lithuania.—The entire adult
population of the village of Naujami-
esta has been sentenced to jail and
the 400 inhabitants have begun serv-
ing terms of from two to four weeks
in relays of ten persons. The jail ac-
The wholesale sentence was the re
alt of a forty-two-year court action
over the right of the citizens to gather
firewood In a nearby forest, where for
generations they had found fuel, al-
though the government (requently |
warned them that the property be- |
longed to the state and that trespass- |
ing was forbidden.
The town first filed suit agains.
Jvzarist Russia and later against the
republican government of Lithuania, |
created after the World war. Police |
served thousands of notices of viola-
tign of the law, and many fines were
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assessed], while the suit was being de
cided by the courts. The government |
eventually won the action, hut by that |
time every person in Naujamiesta had |
heen lined once or twice,
None would pay a fine and the jaile.
decided to let them serve jail terms |
in relays. Meanwhile the population
continues to gather firewood from the |
forest as hefore, |
Bavarian Crown Jewels
Sold for 39,300 Pounds
London,—The Bavarian crown jew:
els were auctioned at Christie's for »
total of 20.300 pounds (about S190.900
at par). i
Considered the most important sal. |
since the auction rooms disposed of |
part of the Russian crown jewels for |
|" more than $400,000, the Bavarian col- |
flora, |
lection contained the famous Wittles- |
back blue diamond which was sold for |
5,600 pounds. The gem weighs nearly
35 carats and is mounted in a pendant,
surrounded by many smaller brilliants, |
One other piece, a magnificent dia. |
.nond tiara surmounted by trellis work |
from which are suspended 36 bril-
liants, was sold for 7.000 pounds. |
Three other large stones were sold |
for 4,000 pounds each, |
Autos Replace Camels |
as “Ships of Desert”
Detroit.—Automobiles are fast re |
placing camels as the ships of the des |
ert, according to H. K, Norman, Lon- |
don, England, on a recent visit here.
“Recently I was in Beyrouth,” Nor
man said, “and was amazed at the
lines of auto transportation that ex-
tended from that point over various |
desert routes. One line runs from
Damascus. Still another to Haifa. I
“The reason for the replacement ox |
camels with the modern auto has been |
largely the demand of tourists for |
more comfort and speed.”
Food Costs Dropped
16 Per Cent in 1931
Washingten, — The cost of
food declined 16 per cent last
year, according to compilations
made public by the government
bureau of labor statistics. Av-
erage prices of food now are ap-
proaching the pre-war levels of
1013. The bureau's index of the
cost of things to eat, in whieh
1913 prices equal 100, stood at
114.3 on December 15. A year
previous it was 137.2. During
December prices decreased on
all but ten of the forty-two foorl
items listed by the bureau. Larg
est decreases were: Pork chops,
13 per cent; oranges, 11 per
cent; lard, 8 per cent.
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Where Great Wall of China Would Run if Transferred to United States.
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(Prepared by Natlonal Geographle Society,
Washington, D. C.)—~WNU Service.
HE Great Wall of China, in the
shadow of which fighting between
| Chinese “bandits” and Japanese
soldiers recently has taken place,
is one of the greatest engineering feats
of mankind. The barrier, beginning at
Shanhaikwan on the Gulf of Chihli,
stretches in a snakelike source far in-
to Mongolia,
If transferred to a map of the Unit-
# States and its eastern end placed at
Philadelphia, the wall and its spurs
would penetrate the horder of Pennsyl-
vanin, West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri,
Arkansas and Kansas.
According to astronomers, the wall
1s the only work of man's hand which
would be visible to the human eye
from the moon. Some idea of the size
of its stupendous construction may be
gained from the calculation that if the
waterinls of which It was built were
used to encircle the globe at the equa-
tor, they would be sufficient to form
a barrier eight feet high and three feet
thick. "There are more brick and stone
in the Great Wall than in all the build-
ing in the United Kingdom,
Historians class this mighty rampart
48 the “Eighth Wonder of the World”;
and not the least wonderful part abent
ft is that it has survived all the others
save one, the Great Pyramid of Kufu
at Gizeh,
The Great Wall of China differed
from other famous wonders of the
world In that it served a utilitarian
purpose, whereas most of the others
were all “preposterous edifices of ex-
agzeruted hugeness, of dazzling and
ruinous luxury.” It had a mighty pur-
pose, serving as a barrier to Keep the
barbarians of the North from overrun-
ning China, whose fertile plains invit-
ed them,
The idea was not ridiculous in an
ern when hows and arrows and twisted
pikes were the weapons of invaders.
Then earth and stone were real deter-
rents (for artillery was unknown)
against armies that were simply cav-
adry hordes,
Was Completed in 204 B. C.
Walls dividing rival feudal kingdoms
or protecting them from foreign en-
emies are mentioned in the Chinese
chronicles as early as the Fifth cen-
tury before Christ, and it is probable
that portions of these previously built
walls, of which vague vestiges are still
traceable in some parts of Chihli and
Shantung provinces, were utilized by
Chin Shih Huang Ti (contemporary of
Hannibal), who extended and linked
them together when he built his “Long
Rampart,” stretching from Shanhaik-
wan, on the sea coast, to Minchow, in
distant Kansu, in order to proteet him-
self and his empire from the Huns,
whom he so long unsuccessfully tried
to overcome in the field.
Begun in 219 B, C, the barrier was
completed in 204 B, €. Thus it was
fifteen years in building, seven of
which were after the mighty emperor's
death. To him alone, however, is due
the conception of a work probably un-
equaled in any land or by any people
for the amount of human labor be-
stowed upon it. Three hundred thou-
sand troops, besides prisoners of war
and all the criminals in the land, In-
eluding many dishenest officials, were
impressed for the work.
How these unskilled laborers accom-
plished their task with the primitive
means at their disposal, how they over-
came the physical difficulties imposed
on them hy the steep slopes of the
high mountain ranges, remains a mar-
vel to this day.
As for the cost of the wall, no figures
nave heen preserved. A weaker man
might well have hesitated to plan an
undertaking which, though popular in
the main as a defensive measure, en-
tailed great suffering on the people.
But Chin Shih Huang Ti was one of
the strongest and most remarkable
characters In Chinese history, or, In
any history—a powerful and romantic
figure, who loft behind him an exam-
ple of personal activity unequaled
among Oriental sovereigns. Chin Shih
Huang Ti was, furthermore, the auto-
erat who united China by subjugating
a group of warring states from 240
to 210 BB, C.
He Made the Emperor Supreme.
He established two principles of gov-
ernment destined to endure In his na-
tive land for thousands of years—the
supremacy of an emperor and the non-
employment of officials In their native
provinces. The impression he made on
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With his “high-pointed nose, slit
eyes, pigeon breast, wolf voice, tiger
heart, and stingy, graceless, cringing
character,” as native historians por-
tray him, Chin Shih Huang Ti was the
classical type of a Chinese military
leader,
Yet he was not a great soldier hin. |
self, but simply a great fisher of men, |
to whose genius in choosing able lieu |
tenants was due the first standing
army in China, an army of several
hundred thousand men, which he
raised, equipped and maintained in a |
peace-loving country to defend his |
Great Wall, |
Wonderful stories and legends, o.
course, still find their place in the
minds of men about Chin Shih Huang
Ti and the Great Wall. The prettiest
is, perhaps, the story of how his magic
white horse was supposed to have
marked out the line of the barrier.
The animal was allowed to wande.
freely, and wherever it went the build-
ers followed, up hill and down dale,
where no horse but a “magic horse”
could find a foothold.
“At one point,” so runs the legend,
“the workmen could not keep up with
the creature, so they called a halt to
drink their tea.
“Meanwhile a dry fog (probably on.
of the blinding dust storins common
in these latitudes) blew up, until they
could neither see the horse nor its
footprints; but after tea they contin.
ued in the same line for ten miles,
“Not seeing the horse yet, they ho
came suspicious and sent one of their
number up a hill to look out. He spied
the animal far away to the southwest,
heading In quite a different direction.
So the workmen abandoned the last
stretch, returned to their camp, and
built a new wall of forty li (the Chi-
nese 1i Is roughly a third of an Eng
ish mile), which still remains to prove
this story.”
Legend Accounts for Fast Work.
Another legend describes how “a
compassionate God in heaven looking
down and moved to pity by the suffer: |
ings of the builders, many of whom
had been killed and entombed in the
wall because they could not get their
work done fast enough, presented each
toiler with a magie thread, bidding him
tie it around his wrist.
“This gave the workmen abnorma.
strength and they were ahle to satisfy
the king.
“When, to his amazement, the king
saw how fast and how well his people
worked, he inquired the cause and
found out ahout the magic threads.
Then he seized them all and made a
lash for his magic whip, which there.
after was able to work miracles, re-
moving mountains at the pleasure of
the sovereign and causing the Yellow
river to stand still for the passage of
his wall.”
Despite the time and labor expended
upon it, Chin Shih Huang Ti's mud
barrier, with the watchtowers where
he quartered his garrison, soon crum-
bled away. There was apparently so
little left of it by the Sixth century.
A. D, that the Tungusic Wel and Ts!
dynasties, who ruled over North China
from 386 to 577 A. D.,, spoke of build-
ing. not of rebuilding, the Great Wall.
When the Chinese dynasty of the
Mings (1368 to 16044 A. D.) ousted the
descendants of Genghis Khan from
the Dragon throne, the Great Wall
again assumed much importance. Dur-
ing the 276 years that they ruled the
country they had to defend thelr em.
pire against the northern Barbarians,
The wall was therefore vital to
their safety, and Chinese historians
of that era describe In great detall
how they repaired it along its entire
length, from Shanhaikwan to Chiayuk-
wan fortress, on the frontier hetween
Kansu province and Sin-Kiang (east-
ern Turkestan), adding new loops to
strengthen it, from 1470 to 1592 A. D.
It was, In fact, under the Mings that
the defenses of the Great Wall were
most fully deveioped, with more than
20000 towers, which were practically
a chain of small fortresses, and over
10,000 signal beacons.
Almost every reign saw new de
fense works erected. Sometimes. as
under Cheng Tung (1435 to 1450 A.
D.), these were Ineffective, since his
secescor, the nnlneky Ching Tal (1450
to 1457 A. DO), suffered an invasion of |
his provinces. Under Cheng Hua
(1465 to 1488 A. D.) a general report-
ed that “to guard 300 miles he had 25
camps, hut each contained only from
100 ta 200 men, and that one man
econld not guard 200 vards of frontier
night and day.”
following anges was great and lasting.
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HOW
NAMES
IN
CHINESE ARE
WRITTEN AND ARRANGED. —
In Ching surnames are always
written first. For instance, in
Sun Yat-sen “Sun” is the sur-
name, while “Yat-sen” corre.
sponds to the occidental first,
given or Christian name, as it
is variously called. According
to the prevailing practice of
learned authorities and insti-
tutions, when a Chinese name is
written in English the surname
is capitaiized, while the two
parts of the given name are hy-
phenated and only the first part
capitalized; as, Chiang Kai-
shek, Li Hung-chang, and Chang
Tso-lm. The division of Chi:
nese literature in the Library
of Congress says that most Chi:
nese surnames consist of only one
syllable. but there are several
hundred dissyllabic surnames,
When a Chinese has such a sur-
name snd a given name, two
hyhens are used: as, Ssu-ma
Hslang-ju. In such cases only
the first part of each hyphen:
ated compound is capitalized.
If a Chinese has only two
names both are written in up-
per case without the hyphen;
as, Chung Hung. When regular
Chinese names like Sun Yat-sen
and Chiang Kai-shek are abbre-
viated the anglicized form and
order ate usually followed; as,
YX. 8. Sun, K. 8S. Chiang, T. 1.
Sung, H. J. Ssu-ma.—Pathfinder
Magazine,
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How Years Affect the
Brain of Human Being:
There is a noteworthy change in the
chemistry of ilie brain from birth to |
old age, it is reported by Dr, Ireder- |
ick Tilney, professor of neurology at
Columbian un.versity, and Joshua Ros
ett, in a bulletin of the Neurological!
Institute. |
"In a chemienl analysis of GS hraim
chey found that the percentage of Li
poids, or fats which cannot be decom-
posed by alkalis, increases uuti! mid-
dle life while the water content de-
creases, Then the amwunt remains
stationary uuti! between the uges of
sixty and eighiy, when the reverse
process takes place and the lipolds
give way to water.
The greatest increase of lipods coms
aear the end of the second year, and
the largest increase noted from birth
to middle age was 8 per cent.
Generally, they conclude, this pro
gressive increase gives an index of
brain development. It is affected,
however, by (isenses and toxins,
How to Render “First Aid”
When first aid has to be applied
‘remember that nothing has yet heen
invented by any chemist or druggist
that takes the place of a pure soap
and water scrub prolonged to get
cleanliness,” says Doctor Wilkes,
“This provides 99-100 of the necessary
Antiseptics give the final
1-100. Then after you have the spot
clean, don’t hind in the germs from a
soiled handkerchief. Use a sterile
piece of cloth, In avoiding in
fection, time is an importam factor.
A five-cent sterile gauze bandage, ap
plied to a cut after a good soap and
water scrub, can do more in the first
five minutes after the accident than '
the most experienced surgeon often
can do several hours after.”
How Rubber “Fatigues” i
When a piece of rubber is stretched
to several times its original length it
returns almost completely to its orig-
inal form as soon as the force is re-
leased. However, when rubber Is
stretciied again hundreds of thousands
of times, it undergoes a form of de
terioration which is called “fatigue.”
When ordinary rubber “gets tired” it
cracks; witness, for example, the
cracks that develop on a pair of rub-
ber boots where they are folded.
Chemists have discovered that
very small amount of certain organic
chemicals, introduced into the rubber
before vulcanization, prevent “that |
tired fe ling” and the resultant cracks.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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How Stamps Are Perforated
After being removed from the gum |
ning machine the sheets are hand-fed
chrough a motor-driven perforating
machine which cuts them in half and
perforates between the stamps length.
wise, in one operation, by means of a |
series of perforating wheels and knives,
The half sheets are likewise [fed
through another machine which cuts |
them in half and perforates between
the stamps crosswise of the sheet,
These two operations reduce the
sheets to one-quarter the size of the
original sheets, each sheet containing
100 stamps, perforated both ways.
How Coffee Trees Are Raised
Coffee trees ure raised from seea
grown In nurseries, and when of a
size to endure variations of tempera-
ture, usually in about six months’
time, they are transplanted to the cof-
fee orchard, where they begin to hear
when three years old and bear fruit
for about twenty years.
How to Clean Gilt Frames
Gilt frames may be cleaned by wash |
ng them with a small sponge mois.
tened with hot spirits of wine or oil |
of turpentine, the sponge only to be
sufMiciently wet to take off the dirt
and fly marks. They should not after.
ward be wiped, but left to dry of them
selves,
“Employers
POPE TIGHTENS UP
A tightened restriction on mixed
marriages came out of the Vatican
in the form of a ruling that all chil-
dren of such unions must actually
be reared within the church.
The penalty of annulment and
gality in the eyes of the church was
provided in the drastic measure,
which was handed down by
of the sacred office
to
drawal of dispensation from
riage between a Catholic and
Catholic, when the parties involved
violate their promise to bring up
their children as Catholics.
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Ice
Harvest
T was warmest in the
kitchen, beside the stove.
Mrs. Drake stirred the fire
and pushed the rug against
the door. “It's freezing
hard.” she said. “We'll be
cutting ice soon!”
Sam, deep in a book,
perked up. “Gee, Ma, let's
have an ice-cutting party!
That'd be fun! There's
the Hays and the Meyers
and the Greens
“You wouldnt forget
Sally Green,” laughed his
mother, and Mr. Drake, be-
hind his paper, chuckled
too.
“It's a good idea,
though,” Mr. Drake said
“We'll be needing help.
Let's have the folks on
Saturday.”
Sam was already at the
telephone. “I'll call them
up now, Ma! You bake
the cakes 'n everything—
chocolate layer, you know.
This is going to be a
bang-up affair!”
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