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A law has Just gone into effect substantially in- creasing the awards portioned out to the parents whose progeny are many. Familles with four children or more under the age of thirteen are allowed 360 francs annually for each child third. ‘rovision is also made widows and wldowers. A widow with children would re- ceive under the new re 1 18 1,800 francs, or $360, according to pre-war standards. become scarcer after the for five Sure Relief \ y 2 AW 56 BELL-ANS —’ | Hot water Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION ee and 75¢ Pkgs. Sold Everywhere With Cuticura Soap Dust With CuticuraTalcum = De lisately Medicated Pleasing Freagranee Afraid of Old Wine There are several gallons of wine in the city of Speyer, In the Rhine, so old and rare that nobody wants to run the risk of taking a drink of it. The oldest vintage In the world is on ex- hibition In the Speyer “wine mu- seum,” which contains everything per- taining to the wine Industry. The wine is In an old Roman flask, which was dug up recently. It is 1.600 years old. Stamp Collections, Palaley Shawia Pewtler Plates, Carrier Prints, Godey's Magazines, Antiques Wanted W. Belcher, 6441 Wornall Terrace, Kansas City, Mo.-——Adv. All in the Chase H. M. Dubose sald at a dinner in San Francisco: “Take an army of boys chasing butterflies, put bald heads and wrinkles on the boys, and change the butterflies into banknotes, and there you have a beautiful panorama of the modern vorid.” Pittsburgh Chronicle- Pelegraph, Jishop A baby at the London zoo, of ten feet young to fly. 'ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE For Tired Feet It Can't Be Beat At night when your feet are tired, sore and swollen from much walking or dancing, sprinkle two ALLENS FOOT-EASE powders in the foot-bath, gently Jub th the sore find ins in ar in fie agi Shake ay agis, into your shoes In the morning and walk 1h comfort, It takes the friction from the shoe, Sold everywhere, For FRER Sample and a Foot-Ease Walking Rol ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, Le Rey, N. URIS os SCALDS Resino ol for condor, recuived recently has a wing spread although he is still too bands, clubs lodges, schools and societies, also spe- . cial embroideries such as letters words and designs in silk, gold or sil- an ver, end for fashion plates, sam- len and price lists EDWARD 8, Keyes & CO, 14 North Liberty St, Baltimore, Md. | ©000000 000000 | HOW TO KEEP WELL FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of "HEALTH" DR. (RQ. 14 Western Newspaper Union.) GOITER IN SCHOOL CHILDREN a6, O MUCH has been sald ten about goiter that almost every school child now knows that golter is an enlargement of the in the neck: that, while there are many kinds of goiter, simple golter 1s an enlargement of the thyrold with. | out any other marked constitutional symptom; that thls form of golter Is | especially common in some parts of the country, the so-called golter belt or golter zones, and that It is probably { due to lack of lodine and Is conse | quently most common In those parts | of the country far from the sea. Some | very Interesting theories have been suggested such as that, on account of all the higher animals having devel. oped from fishes, this need of lodine Is due to a demand of the human body for sea foods and sea products. However that may be, it has been can be prevented by small doses of lodine In salt or In drinking water and that simple goiter ean be largely cured by small doses of lodine The question of the prevention and | cure of goiter having been largely solved, the now interesting Investigators in this fleld Is, what ef. fect does goiter have on the physical and mental condition of the Does the child with goiter have mental abllity than the normal chi In an effort to secure some mation on this point, Dr. Re the United States public health and Dr. Mabel R. Fernalc tor of the psychological |! of the Cincinnatl public sche Just completed a study of publie school The result Is publ the Public Health Reports 21. 1928 The pages. given fOoMme question ils infor. shert Ole. sen of service rec thousand that elity. ished In for May complete feport covers m Only the here. Out ang can be of ' in } per the degree of golter was found 25.2 per cent of the 3 of girls, Comps record of the children with with the school record of nec falled to show sufficient. diffe to justify conclusion that the child with a nor- mal thyrold was any brighter than the child with an enlarged thyroid or, to put it the other way round, that the child with an enlarged thyroid was any different mentally than a normal ch ld, Marked enliitgen ant boys and cent the gchool ge iter rd Ne hildren marked the erence iy chil. any ability, but the number of such dren was too small to warrant general conclusion en this point FORECASTING DISEASE O° NE hundred years ago the idea of predicting the weather would have been regarded as not only impos sible but also as absurd, Five hun- dred years ago it would have been considered blasphemous, God sent rain upon the just and the unjust Hall storms and tornadoes were sent by malicious demons. How could thelr whims be forecast? Yet today the weather forecast ls the average person reads. What kind of weather are we going to have to day? Let's read what the weather | bureau says. Until recently the Idea of forecast. ing disease also appeared ridiculous, Sickness, pestilence and epidemics were certainly things that were regu- lated by super-human minds, How could such things be predicted? Yet when the League of Nations first met Dr. Richard M. Strong, an Americar public health authority, proposed, as one of the principal activities of the league, a series of health observation stations all over the world to report dally to a central station at Geneva, just as the various weather observa- tion stations report to a central sta- tion, so that advance warning of com- Ing epidemgss could be sent out all over the world, | pity, but it will be some day. Meanwhile, in a rece iby Dr. Victor C. dean medical school and a member of the | National Research Council. Vaughan's article on the “Present port, only It deals with disease In- stead of weather, Moasles, says Doctor Vaughan, Is now unusually prevalent all over the world. This disease Itself Is seldom fatal, but it is followed, In many cases, by pneumonia, which is highly fatal Influenza Is Increasing, both in fre. quency and virulence, all over the world. Another epidemic of the dls ease such as we had In 1917-18 will come sooner or later, Scarlet fever, while commen, is mild. Smallpox, both the mild and severe form, Is rommon wherever vaccination is neg- lected. In 1025 there were ten times as many cases In this country as there were In Russian, "Cholera was com mon In China, Japan, Siam and the Philippines, but did not appear In America, There has been no yellow fever in the western hemisphere since 1923. Plague has also about disap peared on this side of the Atlantle, UD. 1854, Western Newspaper Unlan) showed pletures of mem- of our family the other Mr. Grasshopper, “Yes, there was a meeting of naturalists. Naturalists are creatures who study creatures such as us! "And, they study other animals and Insects and birds and so forth and so on.” “So asked per, “Just an expression, Ing that they study very lines.” “But grasshoppers haven't the same lines as * sald hopper. Tt »h, bers night,” sald of course, on? George Grasshop- George, same lons, George Grass- I don't mean such lines” sald Grasshopper. So They Could Take the Parts of Clowns, same branches of life—of the animal kingdom and so forth.” “Oh, I suppos Grasshopt well, said Ge Orge I hop a few Somet times I wil when I am nart and bright, | imes not feeling st a few times it seems to brace as a tonle Mr. opping is as good to a grasshopper any Grasshopper, he “Well,” to tell you day,” sald continued, “I was gol: about these pictures they ways “Are asked “Learned Grasshopper. naturalists learned ™ George, about “Or, at least, if they’ not so learned they're always study- people nature.” sald re ing nature creatures and trylng to be learned, “They showed plctures of the naughty Praying Mantis, You know, or at least you have heard, how looks as though she were praying to hide from people the fact that she is really n very naughty creature, She's a humbug, though her name Is Pray- ing Mantis. “And they showed plctures of the compound eyes of the fly, and how ti! fly sees the same thing so many thmes | over—at the same time, too, “That may sound curious, | know what [ mean, | eyes would Bee BO many i he has { pound sha but you A fly has so many say, or at times over with the because of thelr being And then they pictures of us as I have { "They were splendid | heard, and the people delight over the won | stunts we could do. “Now, that makes me think I'd like to get up a clrcus Grasshopper, “The one least CYes eves, told you laughed with lerful now,” sald George that mind." same my thought | through grasshopper | Mr. Grasshopper, “Tet us tell the ot { about It.” Bo Mr, { Grasshop { other just went ald gaia sald George "Grassho per wernt pper and George ut and tol ab wat and told that they ! grasshoppers | going to give a circus | And all the grass} | the preparations. me formed a band, « id do tricks selves up and ther wot each other or exhibit and lons wou hopping races They all and Mr. Grass! the ring ms Th inyited thers t! L514 ey in and the ‘ come, grasshor And all arrive the vell, there Pi ‘ when they aw applause and They, citement “Bravo, RETrasshiop; And Mr, Grasshopper the Gr a Mar Grasshopg were success of assh (Coprrizbht) WHEN I WAS TWENTY-ONE BY JOSEPH KAYE THE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVING KING At Twenty-one: Horton, famous English divine, took college examinations together Oscar Wilde. i“ T THIS age I was taking ex- aminations at Oxford. at this examination was Oscar Wilda striding up te the desk for fresh paper after the first hour; then handing io his book second nature. the first class; he reached by sheer ability a position which 1 had gained only by the concentrated and inter ested labor of two years.—Robert For Horton.” TODAY: Doctor Horton is one of the highest theological authorities In the world, He is chairman of the London Congregational union and of the Unlon of England and Wales, He was also Lyman Beecher lecturer at (E) by MeClure Newspaper Byndlcate ) ll isan GIRLIGAG.® (Fomprgeel IN FRONT, OUT BACK HAT going In a house at the front door and by the back do | brings strangers 18 a superstitic tically universal in this Europe. ters to the anclents and a decided tinge { of superstition hung out 1 no prac country ar a abou them. | teemed delty, was the god of doors. was double-faced and, ways, could watch entrances. The door of his ten opened only when there was war, At | | such times It was necessary to release | his full Influence to guard trances try. He looking both the en. But our superstition the front door and brings strangers vival not from arises from an actual our barbarian ancestors, ence not Infrequent even In day. A barbarian tha at evidently a any mythol t going In back sur- out the is ¢ of experienc i fleeing from tion of his tribe, and taking shelter in a friendly hut, would sneak out by the back way to the safety of the for- est when he heard his pursuers ap proaching and the trackers, strangers to the owner of the hut, Mm to the front door by which he had entered. If the hut had no back door--as was probable-—the fugitive's necessity for avolding observation Im. pelled him to make one by going through the back of the bullding. 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Cu- enough, he had very little to compliment of two chief of Wilbur Wright by the of Was de Unless you see the on package or getting “Bayer Cross™ tablets you are not genuine Bayer Aspirin by millions and prescribed ians over twenty-five years for on the proved safe by physic Colds Neuriti Headache say In the guests honor, was next called upon toastmaster., Slowly he his feet. “lI am no hand at public speaking.” he sald, this occasion must content myself with a few words of thanks to the company for its enter tainment of myself and my brother As | sat here listening to the speakers I have heard eagle, to the and to the hawk as typifying rose boxes Drug. 100, “and on ident in somethi in -Kyrus Every exeels which another falls. - Ends pain ene 4 minute ne comparisons made to the o 8 but somehow or other, 1 could from thinking of the bird which, of all the ornithological king dom, is the poorest flyer and the best talker. 1 refer to the parrot.” And down he sat amid tremendous | applause from the Americans present, | (Copyright by the McNaught Syndicate, Ine) not keep Dr. Scholl's Zine-padets the safe sure healing treatment for corns. 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