THE CLAIM OF LIFE By H. M. EGBERT ni (R by W. G, YRUS VANE stood In the lab- oratory of the hospital, watch- ing his test tubes. The little colonies that were’ spreading gpon the gelatin meant that the new bacillus could be developed In an or- dinary medium. With this he planned to do what science had hitherto falled in doing. He hoped to cure infantile paralysis, and convert what was a scourge into a mild illness merely. For six weeks he had devoted hls time to this alone. Meanwhile the scourge had fastened Itself upon the town. Children were dying. It had never been checked. What a boon the new antitoxin, prepared from the ba- cillus, would be! Vane was sure of it. He had in- Jected it into apes and watched them recover from artificially Induced pes- tilence. He had tested the serum In every possible way. Why, then, could he not give it to the world? That question is asked by those who are {impatient for new rem edies. The answer is that, before the conservative physician will make pub- lic achievenients it is necessary for the proof to have been plled up In Chapman.) often his at least a thousand experimental cases, In short, all over the country physl- clans were trying out Vane's discov- ery, on monkeys, on apes, and per- haps here and there on children who were in the grip of the disease and could pot have been harmed by the serum, even If it failed to benefit them. But sand he thou- serum of the the property. the results known, until CASES were made public much to the heard 1 be had wolnen of his him that morning, serum for their children. could not Vane wretched rumors said as who, having discovery, groveled imploring He bad before the almost forced them He walked The wide only a few their awnings, Here and there away. thoughtfully homeward. street was almost storekeepers sat gasping In the was a knot of white crepe upon the handle of a door. Vane fancied that the eyes of the townspeople followed him a little ma- liclously. He was within a block of his house when a woman rushed out at him from an open door on whose handle the fa- miliar knot of crepe hung. “Doctor Vane will Freddy!” she arm. empty, under heat. you save my cried, clutching at his you this moruing, you I have only and has the You won't leave me childless, doctor?” wy nothing for you, madam, replied the doctor sternly. The “One gone—] asked remember. he disease, one more, can do woman cried and clawed con- vulsively at his *You don’t understand tor. My second little boy Is dying. know you say it isn't etiquette to give out the but forget about the etiquette and save my son's life?” Cyrus Vane was not a hard-hearted man. He stood up rather stiffly and nerved himself with difficulty for his answer, “Il can't help you, madam,” he sald. “My work is for the good of humanity and selfish personal reasons must be forgotten. 1 am only at liberty think of the race. If I stopped to con- sider persons I should never have the strength to go through with my work.” The woman was looking desperately into his face. "I don't know what you mean, doctor, but will you let my sec- ond baby die?” she asked. “I am trying to explain,” sald Doe- tor Vane, “that these things have to Le done in an orderly manner. It is useless to ask me to make exceptions in J" ¢ woman shrieked. "My God, doc- you let my cried, Vane detached himself, ago hardened his mind against such scenes, such emotions, In the strug- gle for the race thousands fell. He turned and walked onward. He heard a man's curse follow him. He turned down a slide street toward his own comfortable home, Vane ldolized his wife and child. It was their only one, and there was not likely to be anothar. His birth had almost cost his wife her life. The lit- tle boy, seven years old, always ran to meet his father on his return to be taken up in his arms and kissed and petted, Today the boy was nowhere about, He was wont to watch for his father from the steps of the house, But hé wis not on the steps, nor playing in the hall when Vane let himself in with his key. Instead, a troubled woman came toward him, “Cyrus, you must come to see Dicky at once,” “1 put him to bed ; he has been feverish all day, and-—Oh, Cyrus, he can’t move his right arm.” Frantically Vane bounded up the stairs. He rushed into the bedroom in which the little boy was lying. One glance at his face, and he flung him- pelf down beside the bed In an agony of grief. He rose to face his wife, who had followed him. She read the verdict In his eyes. She screamed and caught at his arm just as the woman in the street had done, “Cyrus! What Is it? It lsn't-—7" “Yes,” he sald, bowing his head. “But it isn’t the worst thing that could befall him,” he added. “Many ehil- dren make a complete recovery from sleeve, Listen, serum, won't you to single cases, Th tor, are second gong to die?" she He had long she sald, It; some, of course, are crippled, “Cyrus! What are you talking about? Only last night you were tell ing me that you have df%covered an absolute cure. You sald there was not the slightest doubt about it.” “Dorothy-—" “Then how can you speak of crip- ples in connection with Dicky? Have you got the antitoxin with you or must you go back to the laboratory? Oh, there must be no delay.” The man looked into her face be- wildered. Had he never told her? Hadn't she understood? sinking into a chalr, “You mean it isn't for use?” “Yes, has to justify its use in a thousand cases, ally I am not justified until I am sclen- tifieally sure—" She was shaking him by the arm as he stammered out his explanation. “Cyrus! paralysis, and don’t you know that this is not the argue? Get the serum!" “Listen, Dorothy,” rising and going up to her. understand me. A doctor think of persons. the race. me for child. died later. time to may of for I refused. She caught me some the serum hy in the street and asked me other child I “You refused? ing to let Dicky die? They were face with issue now, and he saw that there was refused My God, are you go face to relenting her own. He might as well have argued with a From the bed Vane start upon stone, wall. came a it il. “I'm so hot!” walled the boy I ean't daddy.” The man’s His raise my right arm, onvul the aud face was working « him Knees wife ca to with sively. ught by hands; sank her pleaded wildly “You're science, rus, you brutal It it is a dev You At that moment sounds of aiterca gle, door was burst the woman who had Vane In the street appeared, breakin away from butler, who tried her. “Doctor Vane!™ cried, flinging herself upon her knees and ex- tending her hands. “My boy 1s dying. You can save him. You him-—you Otherwise the of Cal forehes or the whole of your Vane haggardly at the women, then at the child on the bed. future of No- is a Dicky “No, Cy- how asked Don't you If science demands that can't. see must save him—' there came tion outside, the open, pleaded the hold ” she also are going to must, save will You brand your f life,” looked two “If 1 do this my professional said. “1 am out yf the experimenters, is sacrificed,” he the ranks { body will have faith in me. It } breach of duty “Daddy, won't pleaded the child Vane | then bowed his head and hurried from He it of had He He had played false with egitated a knew that the cry potent work he room. his blood proved more his than duty. knew that was ended. science, But he knew that at least two wom- en would bless his name as long as they were allve, Simon Kenton One of West's First Pioneers Simon Kenton, ploneer and Indian fighter, was born on April 3, 1756, of Saotch-Irish parentage In Fauquier county, Virginia. He received a scanty education, and in 1771, after having, as he supposed, killed a rival In a love affair, he fled to the wilderness west of the Allegheny, where he as sumed for the time the name of Simon Jutler and became an Indian trader, Here he was at times an associate of Simon Girty, the renegade, Kenton ns a during Lord Dunmore's war, and later, in the frontier warfare that raged through Ohio and Kentucky, he with great distinction under Boone and Clark, his fame as a frontier hero be- ing second only to that of Boone him- self. In 1778 he went with Clark on his expedition to Kaskaskia. Later he was captured by Indians, suffered ter- rible tortures and wns twice saved from the stake hy the Intercessions of Girty, his old companion, and Lo gan, the Mingo chief. Finally Ken- ton was turned over to the British in Detroit, from which place he es caped and made his way southward, where he continued active In the bor- der conflicts until the end of the war, After an expedition against the In- dians on the Miami, Kenton settled In Maysville, Ky., and served again In Wayne's eampalgn In 1703.04, After living in retirement for some ydars he emerged for a short interval In 1813 to take part with the Kentucky vol unteers in the Canadian campaign, and was present at the British defeat on the Thames, His last years were spent In poverty, and he died April 20, 1836, In Logan county, Ohlo. Can’t Imitate Tourmaline Tourmalines are pecullar In one re spect—they cannot be successfully imi. tated because of certain optical tralts that they possess. Another peculiarity is that some tourmaline crystals will have different highly contrasting colors; one end of the long pencil shaped crystal will be a rich red, the dther end being a splendid green-—-a feature found In no other precious stone.~Los Angeles Times. served seout served OOOOOOOO POINTS ON KEEPING WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of “HEALTH” OOOO OVOOOOOOOOOOT PREVENTION OF BEDSORES HE healthy human being, bed at a time, will turn from side to the body from the pressure of the chronic Invalld, who must times pass months or ewen vears in bed, has no such ability. one of the most serious and dangerous which such unfor- known as weeks, complications from are These velop at is long-continued troublegéme de- any point pressure or sores may there irrita- tion, such as is caused by the patient iving from the pressure splints even where too long in of too such wrinkles one position, ill-fitting tight apparently triv ial f i casts or from or bandaging from i CAUSES as or crenses in the other sheet, under the fron bodies friction or of the or any irritation on two Ssur- touch eo cause of pressure pressure skin other the long period of time, havi Invalids, es] fires yeh other or which on spot sae Nurses those or chronie | patients, should know CAUEeS bedsores and should be consta { the alert to prevent vd, they are ex tween recovery | tient | fact t tion from heart 4 due ease, diabetes are particularly long-continued ; at vn} and typd of berculosis th) the e resistance prevent fresh, clean an develop does . wound and shoul a sur geon, be treated by MICROSCOPES FCR THE PUBLIC EEING Is belleving, says the old | «J proverb, and the truth of this say ing Is shown In all educational work ! 80 the effort of our best teachers to day is to make everything they teach visible to the pupil. Every means that can be thought of has been adopted to make our school children what they are studying. In this effort, the moving picture has been an enormous ald. Our children today in the schools ' see not only still but moving plctures of things thelr parents could only read about. This method has been carried #0 far that a national soclety of seach ers and psychologists has been formed to encourage and develop such meth It is called the Society for Visual helping to prepare see ods, E<iucation and, by pictures and films, showing things In stead of talking about them, it is seeking to give school children better and more graphic ideas of many sub jects than they have had before. Now the same idea Is being taken up by astronomers. These men devote thelr lives to learning all about the stars. Through their telescopes of Im mense power they study the heavenly we are with our next But when they try to | with them as door neighbor, | tell other people about | they don’t make any impression, be | enuse most of us know nothing about | our unaided eye on a clear night. | and bathing beaches. And why not? | Put If free telescopes are needed, surely free microscopes are much more | necessary. We llve each imitations Into two worlds, a visible and an of what we cannot see. Not because it doesn’t exist but because our eyes cannot see It ts full of dangers far greater than those of the visible part. Surely a school system that insists that every child must have glasses, If It needs ought to be able to provide micro dangers around them. (Ea 1984, Western Newspaper Union.) for Autumn Wear Two-Color Effects Also In- dicated by Showings in Paris. The question of the moment In circles sartorial is—what changes are to be Inaugurated for autuunn? It Is generally felt that there will be more and Intricate style, that the bloused back and the more elabo rate hat are certain to be featured Beyond that, no one cares to predict, asserts a Paris fashion correspondeat in the New York Herald-Tribune. The Parisienne, having found a slim, practical for all purposes of a life that is fllled with diverse occupations, refuses to be persuaded to adopt any other, During the Grande meetings, garden private and balls it was the slender slihouette with the skirt just covering the knee, a little longer in tl women, with suf Semaine all race parties, receptions n the case of older ¢ ficient fullness to permit freedom of movement, that was the right one. Of ap peared In full bell-shaped skirts, and a few in pleture gowns of the rly eighteen thirties, There are al course, some Individuals the ways certain women who ignore fash fon and create a mode for themselves, recent weeks In Paris, of the they with the pleture, hem is a sign of chic during evening During however, were it out ‘he uneven destined autumn, and afternoon gives a chance to the wom somewhat short her to have a ankles are and helps provides same of 1ally only pe the ressmakers of lesser grade Jumpers w +4 torr wWo-0 * Popular, thane! thoug Two-Piece nper dresses, forefront of th , FEITOUN 4 ’ dresses, still Hort sports r effects have been much ter part of the sensor areful treatment Bo can act fo come nat a Wart! however and one that SUCCPRE tha chile! dress Beige Crepe Marocain Skirt and Beige Jersey Sweater, With Stripes, used all the soft pinks and delicate faded shades of rose that are so in- Perhaps it would be too rash to prophesy that the mode could turn en- n single season--undoubtedly some of the haute couture, clinging tenderly to the habit of years, will proffer styles which will again make a fetish of the mode garconne. But the vast majority will turn, hungrily, to the almost for- gotten art of intricate styling, retain. ing at the same time the attractive elements of recent fashions, Helen Wills, the American tennis champion, is to be seen In one of the more fanciful genre of sports frocks which has developed since the Leng. len-Wills-Godfree struggles on the Ri Designed by Jean Patou, it consists of a beige Jersey sweater with | i i an ornate design painted In yellow and brown, a belge scarf and a plaited skirt of beige marocaln. It evidences a decided new species of sports Paris than London in atmosphere, Finally, there is a Chanel which spells contra-simplicity in every fold. Made of white with large red flowers printed there n bloused walstline, The Fashion Bhows, being broadeast around the world, and ing the new season on its way. have scanned the accounts If you of these that the they cloud, rather than clarify, style situation and that all you eventually glean from them Is a maze of conflicting ldeas, There are several reasons for this, concerned, midsummer is the hay-mak- I { Background, Large Flowers. Paid Paris ing season Lservers ing merest SUEges Fr to wtioned model York misconstruct openings are are not so there is may not Eg The New one to on. hut at Parls be In Except for a of individual showings by some of the exclusive shops the New York fashion hows are group affalrs of the are two iarge proportion of the original designs are based on the early professional show. ngs of the French couture, Natural. ly, therefore, the American style shows as advanced as their Paris rototypes, and while they usually ex- pr always the danger tl accord handful 5 many purchased In Paris ' and three months before and a are not oit the keynote of the new season, ere are many times when they miss e mark. It is wisest then, not to he too deep. ly disturbed by the early autumn re You are going to hear a lot of You will and shorter of walstlines that are high and that low, of magnifi- simplicity, of elegant mil linery and of garconne cloches,. Much of this will have no greater founds- tion than the Worth Incldent men- tioned Other accounts will come from authentic and authorita. tive sources, In Pajama Costumes. It created a sharp sensation sev- eral years ago when the news was re layed round the world that the Lido ladies were parading the public prom. enades clad In pajama costumes. It did not matter that these costumes were almost as elaborate as evening dresses and that for resort purposes they were comparatively discreet——the pertinent fact was that smart matrons had ventured into the open, wearing what was formerly considered quintessence of the robe Intime. One of the characteristics of the Lido pajama is the Infinite variety of its form. Some models have trousers that fit neatly to the ankle and have a little strap passing under the foot to hold them in place. Both Molyneux and Lanvin have made charming cos tumes along these lines, On quite opposite lines are other chic models worn along the languorous Lido. One that has been designed for wear at a Spanish country club is made of an exquisite printed crepe de chine that is furnished by Redmond. its trimming of heavy white fringe makes it a most original and appeal. ing garment. Another, made of a Rodier printed shawl, has a Chinese design printed in red and green on a mauve ground and is finished with an purple-colored georgette crepe blouse and trousers, : confifcting news this season read much of lounger Rg waistlines are above, A prominent film married, star wus being “we at the bridegroom, are m Monday morning nine we the registrar After that we go to the church and then you Have thing to say about the arr “Only that “Ro," sald agreed, { wi ul Visit gemenis? hts will, of {sg Justige the film rig course, belong to me.” riin Blaetter. A FREEZE OUT Fast Work aern mel} “How of the Fords striking Sir afar ramnlyvine Sin 1fter complying ass the h is, Mr. Slay pi itter ov Tit-Blts passing Safety First these motion NOT FOR QUESTIONS Mr. Freeman—Guess § i for ask you won't a question, Mr, "oor 3 ow v charge me ng Im Laws? Lawyer- volved Is In a5 answer, No: requ my the only expense in. ring me to give you dear mir, We Know Him ot a baker, not Henry Gopher no dough, though he's own's best loafer. Hawkins you believe that there's ything In palmistry? Hawkes—I know there is. When | look at mj three aces and a palr of kings I know that I'm going to fall heir to a sum of money. hand and see Proof First Knut—Can your girl keep a secret? Second Ditto—I'll say so. We were engaged two weeks before I knew a A Hard Guy You say Whimple is a man of mettle? Brave, eh? Whyte—No, I sald he was a man of metal—iron-gray hair, steel-blue eyes, compiexion and lots of Browne brass, Not Musical Stenographer—I'm sorry we haven't our records, Jones—\What do you think I am? A orchestra? Not Desired “I'm sure Max would make an Ideal husband, my dear. Ie understands women thoroughly ™ “But, mother, 1 don't want to be understood.” -- Everybody's Weekly, Loundofi. mms Cw ious to Know Large Luady-No. Me ‘usband ain't never raised ‘ls ‘and against me In anger, Small Lady-—Reely! Wot's ‘is ‘obby then <London Opinion, +
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