IFte HE LpUMM Wis® §®ES TOIIEAFpi By (UmSftOQ® K»DODBSia^^^^m T . ILL adjectives and ills have A three degrees—save one. Seasick and seasickness /I® are always in the superla- tive. Even a "light touch" if " is agony to the victim, and to him is just as bad as the worst case ever suffered by mortal. And yet, In itself, seasickness is no more dangerous than a stubbed toe, and not nearly as terrible in its pos sible effects as a severe bump of the knee. For the knee is one of the most sensitive portions of the an atomy, while the much-abused, yet patient, stomach can stand a lot of bad treatment. Just wnnt the percentage of av erage travelers is who succumb to seasickness savants have neglected to figure, but a conservative may place It at about 90 per cent. So, when statistical steam swlp agents tell you that probably 400,000 persons travel by boat on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the great lakes each year, you can easily compute the num ber of seasick sufferers at 360,- 000 persons. And seasickness is no respecter of per sons—prince and pntip er, young and old, man and •woman, all alike suffer from its pangs. Even animals feel it, and feel it sorely, while some persons never outgrow it, no matter how often they goto sea. Sailing out of port on regular trips are more than half a dozen well known navigators who "pay tribute to Neptune," as it is euphemistically ex pressed, every time they strike deep water. The attack does not last long with these victims, but it is doubly conspicuous because of their position. As every one knows, seasickness is caused by the motion of a vessel at sea, but just how the motion acts on the bodily organism is still an open question. According to some authorities, the violent and unaccustomed movements of the stomach produce gastric dis turbances, and these disturbances cause vomiting. By others the theory Is advanced that the center of disturb ance is the central nervous system, which becomes demoralized by the strange impressions striking the eyes. Circulation In the medulla oblongata is impeded, sny still others, with the result that a sort of storm develops in the nerve controlling the stomach. Finally, others aver that the imagina tion is much to blame, or that the brain itself is shocked, or that muscu lar fatigue, caused by efforts to main tain one's balance, Is the real cause of the trouble. On the whole, probably all of these things help. At all events. It makes no difference to the sufferer, and you may select your own cause when you next travel on the briny. Hut the first symptoms are some what alarming. Comes a faint sense of giddiness; a creepy, chilly feeling of light-headedn<'ss. Ofttiuies a per spiration breaks out on hands and fore head: your stomach seems sinking— and th<'ii cqmes nausea. fti gardless of the direction of the wind, the victim rushes to the side of the ship and gives up his last meal. Tears (111 his eyes and his face grows white and his whole body becomes cold and < lanimy. Hanging painfully ton stanchion, the sufferer \\"ts not 11:• • passage of time nor cares for the coming of eternity. H>- Is paralysed, overcome by the pang-- if u name). -is, unearthly terror 'I !»**»» kind 1 mis lay told on hint and had him to his cabin, where he lies In most abject misery for periods varying from hours to th<- length of the voyage, I It sis day* or sixteen. Sometimes, however, nausea dwi not devi top, anil this kind <>f Ickness Is described by Its victims us even worst- than that in which one glv> . up all within him. As the neuseuted sufferers say that their form Is th<> wnrsx, the question Is still open for dl*cua*l<>n At all • vents, no pang known to ter ra firm,i equal* In sh< *-r terror and niUtry the de.-pairing, lost nsation of th< snmlck. First, any those who know whereof they speak, the victim harbors a horrible fear that he I* go ing t<> die In the next stag*' he be conii » Apathetic and d<» n't care a picayune stM'ihi-r he dl«*s or sot; In the third stage he hop** thut he will di< and pr >i> for surc-aae from suf fering HesM throw tua overboard," la the *!»•* fr« quantly urged til>o» *«»• W t>> unhappy suit i-rs. and at the tin.. , in. .Mi It gt»le 111 ton, t» ti| tbu aide and hurl blm >lf tutu it d' ptl i «s u b. i>. !n ial Wf I !i I ■ 1,, ftllfe, rathvr tl i. I: . d t. |,t> ta real a«d tubl .»t «tU who Haver at* i a far .ti I , l t UH « • U'HI "»•'* .1 the luxurious bills of fare tempting their palates and stomachs to over indulgence in good things. But the victim of seasickness cannot eat, and an occasional fast is a mighty good thing for the system. As far as is known, no one ever died of seasickness, although frequently this cause is ascribed in reports of tiie death of travelers. In practically all such cases, however, some orgaric disease has been the real cause, and not the simple seasickness itself. For example, a woman last summer was carried ashore from an Atlantic liner, unconscious and dying, after suffering from seasickness for the two weeks of the voyage. When the end came, her death was ascribed to ex haustion, following mal-de-mer, but the truth soon was demonstrated that she had been hopelessly ill with a heart malady when she had set sail. Some veteran traveler once counted one thousand and one alleged reme dies for seasickness, but as the end was not in sight he stopped counting and roughly guessed that there must bo ton thousand and ten. And each is as good as the other —or as useless. Still, each satisfies the patient's wild yearning to take something for it, and so eases his mind and contributes for it, and so eases his mand ondsOea ir. some degree to a sort of faith cure. A glass of water given to a nervous woman relieves her immensely, if she Is led to believe it contains in solu tion some subtle and powerful spe cific. So. too, with preventive measures; they are as numerous as the vain imaginings of man. Some are absurd and < thers may really be useful. As a general rule, a landsman preparing for a voyage should prepare by taking, for two or three days before sailing, some mild aperient, preferably one of the less ardent bitter waters. The sea air has the peculiar effect of I ni pt ding the intestinal functions of most persons, and the aperient serves to counteract this tendency. • As Boon as tiie first symptom of dis comfort strikes you, ntlre to your cabin and lie down stretching at full length on the couch. Lie on your side, with your luce to the wall and close your eyes If you use any pillow, let it be a fiat one, so that your head may not be el« vated. The® try to Sh-eild this treatment ease you aud relievo you, give reverent thanks, and fervent, it how. ver, n m ea develops prepare yourself for th«> worst of suf fering met « n-up. yourselt with the thought that 'you are not the only one " Wnlle the bromides, chloral, cocaine, chloroform and other drug. ure u.-eful In combating noma of th more vlo lent symptoms of aegjlcknesa, none should b ink n wlfnout th< advice of th? ship's amgeon. Venous wines and liquors also are r« couiiuunded by certain author I* b-s, but to bh effective they Uiuat IM taken In Ibrge quanti ties And th« relief I, ot.ly tempor ary, the tath-nt becoming gloriously druiia and sleeplug off hts ' bun,' ouly to wait, up to i«ti«» d l'iii.,">4 aud BgUSf-t I* soma ta«M, ho* * ver, rbMtMO" la really > ifut-iltu In relieving vhib-ni lieu fit, thf effect being a.io to Its . ar lon I - s« id gut, and prac tally tha licit of all, any Milan surgeon* of V t II Hi • I I t I his »ioim ■h w 111 be aiopiy "I hit gita k , istilut If the M# CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST n, 1910. mid-3 solution is concentrated, it will make him vomit again, while if it is sufficiently diluted he will retain it. Put him to bed and an hour or so later give him another dose. Nine times out of ten he will drop off to sleep and will awaken wall and hungry." By other good authorities this treat ment is said to be good in smooth water, but ineffective in stress of storm, when they aver, nature must take its course, and the seasick vic tims can only endure in what patience they may be able to muster. The growing custom of taking sed atives and sleeping powders on ship board cannot bo too strongly con demned. Cocaine, morphine and similar depressants are contained in most of these elixirs, and, while ef fective enough when administered by a regular physician, such things are extremely risky when employed in an unscientific, haphazard manner. While morphine may make a person sleep, its other effects are often dissipation, and ill many persons it excites vomit ing rather than abates it In conse quence, the prudent voyager will steer clear of all "bracers" that con tain it. So, too, are cocaine, chloral and chloroform and similar "remedies" ope.i to largely the same objection, albeit it is the theory of those who recommend them that they deaden the abnormal sensitiveness of the stom ach lining and thus stop the vomiting. This may be all very true, but also it is true that their effects are not lim ited to the stomach, while, further than this, with healthy persons the vomiting of seasickness is by no means alarming. Indeed, severe "fetching" without vomiting, is often moro painful and harmful than the vomiting, and fully as disagreeable. "Hot water for mine when I'm sea sick," says one man, and, "Hot, black coflee for mine," says another, and there you are. A list of all remedies for seasick ness would fill a largo book, and would Include all the bromides, ano dynes, narcotics, opiates and anesthet ics, to say nothing of a thousand and one other fearsome things. Besides there Is a long list of mechanical de vices for the prevention or cure of sea sickness. Some persons use tight belts and others are addicted to Ico bags on their backs, while another relief upon massage. Yet none of these measures has a sound theory to back It.and none has been found generally etticaelous. Some persons are always seasick, no matter how many voyages they make, ethers have never been seasick anil never will be, no matter how stormy the weather. May you be one of the latter number. WORDS OF MASTER OF SATIRE George Dernard Shaw at Hie Best In Answer to Invitation of Frenchmen. Ki din's Parisian friends gave him a luncheon In recognition of his pro motion to the rank of cross of th- I.of ion of Honor. tl. n. Shaw, whom the French papers call merely an Kngll h IrimorUt, dec II tint, an In vitatlou to attend, saying ho himself »i..i already assure I of Immortality, as thi encyclopedias will henceforth catalogue tit in: 'Shaw, subject of a bust by Ituiilu, otherwise unknown." Shaw concludes:: "To > uiertaln Kodlti seeius to me to l»e rather pre* 112 ilm die It U as If Adam, after the ■even days of ere ttlon, had offered a snuffbox to tb« Almighty with the re mark: '.My congratulations! It's quite no •«!) dnie ' l'er»onaUy I do not dare, but I trust Itudln Will (orglvu you lie already ha much to forgtw hi* coun try, so hti must bu accustoiui I tu It b> now." What he Wished to Knew, • Il.i. s an article in this magaslua entitled ll' t to Hint Tillable, '* ,il<| .Mis W«4d«il> .shall I (cud It tu No, tlialik ) I 4," replied M« wl/e'a the ' land I lutuimaikw I'm louktug Allsetiue iu »wu an« litre* * ;f lata DOINGS L 1 ( (STTHE I Odd Answers to Teachers' Questions WASHINGTON.— One of the princi pals in the Washington public schools has been telling her friends of Bome amusing incidents of the final examinations before the close of the schools for the summer. Among the-questions she gave to the children in the third grade was: "Name the five races of man." Imag ine her surprise when one tot an swered: "Automobile races, horse races, airship races, foot races and bicycle races." Another question was: "Name some of the organs of men." To this one child replied: "Mouth organ, hand organ, pipe organ." The spinal cord was defined as a string running from the back of the head to the bottom of the heels. "Ears," said one, "are Just as impor tant a3 good clothes and should be taken care of Just as well. Don't let bugs crawl Into your ears, but if one should get in there syringe your ear with soap suds and afterwards drop some molasses into It." Rural Free Delivery Is Growing Fast THE rural free delivery service of the United States means the dis tribution of nearly 3,000,000 letters and parcels annually along the highways and byways of every state and terri tory from Maine to Alaska. A force of 41,000 catriers daily go over the routes assigned to them, says a writer In the Bookkeeper. Bringing the mail to the farmer now costs the nation $36,000,000 a year in salaries for the carriers, expense of examining new routes, maintaining postoffices, payments of inspectors, special agents, clerks and chiefs of bureaus. To secure information to make changes in routes and carriers, where deemed necessary, to establish new routes and to record and tabulate statistics and data for the postmaster general as well as for the public, a force of only 110 persons Is required In Washington, In spite of the great amount of office work and correspond ence that must be finished dally. More than a million letters are re ceived and answered by the depart ment of rural free delivery in a year. Many of those received are merely ad dressed to the department. To save time of opening and reading missives not properly directed Is a part of the Baseball and the Declaration Mixed |p W ASHINGTON had a "safe and nuiie" celebration of the national birthday In years gone by the na tional capital has been noted for the i noisiest Fourth of July celebration of ' any city In the union, f.a.st year they adopted the "sale and ■ntie" Idea. Day fireworks and a parade In the morning with apecchmaklng on the plaza fronting the city buildings. In Hi* afti ruoou a motor parade mid, ut | tili:ht, an Illumination of the Monu- < Bunt urouud and more fireworks. The "»ufe mid sane" Idea took well , at llrst ?.nd Washington determined to ; stick by the modern form of celubra- j tlon thi.'i year. Therefore the celebra tion last .Monday began wtfh the read ing of Hit I»• i Uratn uof Independence In trout of the city buildings 'I n o'clot k was th« hour set, but. as luck i would have It, the same liotir the Bos ton lied Hon and th« Nationals , crushed bats. The Washington Post ( and thi* Washington Times have of ! Him opposite the city building A i rowd of about I,two people bad gath J ■r. d loi tin* ci remold- s At the news i u|• r ottli'es th" megaphone men had ! beuM i'uuiiwN by aire with tlx base I ball | ai k Why Burton Didn't Climb Mountains TW. - •/*! *mJm> T " ST'lf I~ r 7 [' • '.'■ Ix. . i.A SI Nt'K nktitt'ui* HuHtitt tuult liU fW> 11 iMt ut K'uift )*>»H <> 4t I » «V» Mkwul fc« fch* I>"1| <»tt' ■ IUH4 |>< II II"I U.». tlMvi «< >. It** i« fc ' *»• »< I t >l*o » Ml* •il«|» "Poison," wrote another, "should be doctored at once and not allowed to run on as it is dangerous. Don't treat poison rough—it is liable to run into blood poison. If anyone should take poison it is a good idea to keep it as high up out of reach as possible." "You ought to keep poison in a little room under lock and key in a little bottle and the cork in so it can't be got out and hide the key and have skeleton on the bottle and not let no body go in there." "A good anty dote for poison," Bale one, "is to take a teacupful of soap suds every ten minutes to make you vomit till the doctor comes." (It is awful to think of the doctor's being delayed several hours.) A class of six-grade pupils were asked to write a short biographical sketch of Longfellow. One member of the class proudly submitted tho following: "H. W. Ijongfellow was a grand man. Ho wrote both poems and poetry. He graduated at Bowdoin and after wards taught the same school where he graduated. He didn't like teaching and decided to learn some other trade, so his school furnished him money to goto Europe and learn to be a poet. He wrote many beautiful poems for children. He wrote "Billy, the Black smith." work of the mailing section. It in eludes a private postofflce through which every letter received or sent relative to rural delivery must pass. Every one of the half-million and more letters sent from this depart ment is copied for record by a me chanical system which saves the labor of a hundred copying clerks even where the hand copying press or the carbon method has been employed. A force of only seventeen clerks is need ed in this section, yet in addition to handling and copying mail they keep a daily record of all the outlay for postage expenses of the department and sort and examine the hundreds of letters daily received which must be returned to the postofflce where they should have been directed. What the service does in receiving applications for new routes, petitions for carriers, decisions of the depart ment, the payments and receipts, is told by the postofflce newspaper. Pub lished every day by the accounting section, it is a record of what every one In this postal counting house, in cluding himself, Is doing. The esprit de corps of the rural free delivery Is best shown by the last an nual report. During the year it states that out of the 41,000 in the service the total dismissals for cause were only 165, loss than the total number of deaths. The reasons for the dismissals were principally incompetence and failure to obey Instructions. No dismissals whatever for stealing from the mails or other dishonesty were on the rec ords. Promptly ut ten o'clock a baldhead ed man In a frock coat arose on the flan draped stand In front of the city building cleared his throat and be- K»n: "When the course of human ev—" Across the way the megaphone man Interrupted with: "Milan is at the bat—Hall one!" —"veuts It becomes necessary," con tinued the haldhended reader. "Foul—Strike one." roared the ■in Kaphoue. The masculine portion of the listen ers became restive. Their attention turned In tho direction of the mega phone man and their barks toward the haldheudt'd patriot. 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