TIIK OITIZRIT, ritlDAY, AI'IUIj
1, 1010.
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Boy's Voice Changed From Fal
setto After a Year in Boston
Hospital
WAS TAUGHT DEEP BREATHING
Relaxation of Nervous Spasm Sought
by Showing Proper Work of Dia
phragm Expert Gave Him Psycho
therapeutic Treatment.
Boston - Changing a boy's voice
from falsetto to deep baritone by sug
gestive hypnotism Is the feat Jilst ac
complished In the Boston City Hospi
tal. The success of the operation has
Jed Alice Nellsen, the opera singer, to
put herself upon record as having long
favored the use of magnetism In
voice training. A hoy of 14 presented
himself for treatment at the City Hos
pital more than a year ago. He had
contracted a severo cold and by lack
of attention had lost his voice. The
case finally came to the neurological
department, of which Dr. Philip
Coombs Knapp Is the head, and It
was turned over to Dr. Abraham My
erson, one of his assistants, who, al
though a young man, has already won
a big reputation as a specialist In
psychotherapeutic treatment of the
throat.
"The hoy," p?ys Dr. Myerson, "had
been examined by the throat depart
ment and sent to the nerve .depart
ment with the explanation that there
was nothing in his throat or nose to
account for his lack of voice. He was
not able to speak above a harsh whis
per, and this trouble was diagnosed as
hysterical in origin. At the end of
two months of varied electrical treat
ment he ceased to call at the hospital
and did not again appear for several
months. He had neglected all treat
ment and his voice had ceased to be a
pure whisper, but had In it a tinge of
a thin, high-pitched squeak like the
whistle of an old-fashioned peanut
roaster.
"The treatment used was simply di
rected toward a relaxation of the
Bpasm. The patient was divested of
clothing and placed in a reclining posi
tion on a table, where he was shown
how to use his diaphragm in breath
ing. After fifteen minutes' instruc
tion he managed to do this fairly well,
and next ho was given Instruction for
the control of his expiratory. At the
first treatment these were merely
vowels, and the instructor helped to
offset the tendency to spasm by hold
ing down the larynx with his finger.
He made progress so rapidly that
Hfter the third treatment he was dis
charged as cured. To-day his voice
Is a good and constant baritone, which
at first startled him on account of Its
depth."
HOSPITAL IN A TREE TOP.
Medical Missionary's Plan for Curing
Phthisis in Persia.
Urbana, Ohio. A cottage hospital
fo the treatment of tuberculosis, each
cottage to be built in a tree top, was
announced as the plan of Dr. Arthur
Funk, a medical missionary of the
Presbyterian Church, for eradicating
the disease In Persia. Dr. Funk ob
tained his idea from D. O. Stelnberger,
a resident of this city, whose home is
in the branches of a giant oak.
When the Stelnberger home was
constructed Its owner was a victim of
pulmonary trouble. Ho now claims to
be fully recovered and asserts that his
life eighty feet above ground is re
sponsible for his good health.
Dr. Funk and his wife are stationed
at Hamadan, a city of 8,000 popula
tion, about 200 miles west of Teheran.
They are confident that the tree-top
plan will materially reduce the num
ber of tubercular cases In their dis
trict SEES DEMOCRACY IN A GUN.
Judge Says Firearms Alone Keep Men
from Being Oppressed.
Cleveland, Ohio. "There is more
der.iocracy wrapped up In a musket
than in all the oratorical and academi
cal platitudes ever spoken,' declared
Judge Uobert W. Tayler of the United
States court, before a large gathering
in trinity Cathedral here.
The Judge declared that as men
were not born equal Intellectually or
physically the majority had been
able to escape the rule of the brainier
minority only by the development of
firearms.
"Free government Is not wholly duo
to an ethical sense of Justice," he said.
"Man has always yearned for it, but
p r"'er coi'ld havo it until he could
got It and keep it by resort to anas.
Physical potentiality is the main
thing, after all."
Our Bad Eagle Bird,
Hazel Green, Ky. "Billy" Pack, of
Grassy, one day last week killed a
gray engle which measured six feet
from tip to tip of wings. As we noted
last week, "Bill" Sweeney killed an
eagle of the same species measuring
seven feet from Up to tip of wings,
and the distance between the two
points being only Ave miles, the pre
sumption Is that they were probably
mates, the Sweeney eagle the male
and the Pack bird the female. Either
was large enough to carry away a
baby, a lamb or a shote weighing for
ty pounds, and the thanks of the peo
ple Ronnrally are due to Messrs.
Sweeney and Pack for ridding the
country of tha"
ID
BARITONE
HYPNOTISM
Kl OSTRICtUOSES BRIDE
Pa ted Because She Couldn't Cook
Eteaks .So They Would
Scratch His Throat.
Gt. Louis, Mo. Terraco O'Qrady's
fondnoss for glass, tacks, tenpenny
nails and other dishes of which ho
partakes whon performing his "hu
mnn ostrich" stunts on the stage, has
parted him from his bride of two
months and landed him In the hands
of the police. His bride's cooking did
not pleaso him and his persistent com
plaints led to quarrels which culminat
ed In a separation.
Mrs. O'Orady likes ulcy steaks and
milk toast. The "human ostrich" can
not eat n piece of meat until It has
been cooked so dry and hard It lacer
ates his gullet when he swallows it.
Milk toast also is to him an abomina
tion. When he has toast It must be
dono to a brown or a black and be as
hard nB lire can make It.
Coarse sandpaper for desert Is an
other dish which Mrs. O'Grady never
could learn to prepare for her husband
or enjoy herself. In fact, the tastes
of JJie two' were found to be so far
apart that they simply were Irrecon
cilable. The understanding here Is
that when Mrs, O'Grady served ice
cream to her husband he threw the
cream out the window and ate the
saucer with relish, and that caused
the first quarrel.
FriomU of Mrs. O'Grady also say
thnt another cause of complaint sho
has ngilnst her husband Is that he re
turned home one night feeling hungry
and went to the sideboard, ate three
cut-glass dishes which she had re
ceived as wedding- presents, and com
pleted bis repast by eating a hand
painted plate which she prized highly
because it had been painted by a
schoolgirl friend who has died since
the wedding.
These accusations may be over
drawn, but that there was something
radically wrong with O'Grady's appe
tite was asserted In the Central dis
trict police station. 0"Grady and his
bri(!e met casually In the street. They
resumed their dobatea on gastronomic
questions. Finnlly O'Grady said
things which mi'de his bride angry
and she had him arrested.
"Why, he wants steak cooked so
hard you have to break it with an ice
pick," Mrs. O'Grady told the desk ser
geant. "He says he gets so used to
eating glass and tacks that he Isn't
happy unless his food scratches when
he swallows It. When I tried to make
toast for breakfast he would stand
at the lire and burn it hard and crisp,
so I pretty nearly starved."
0"Grady was discharged after he
had told his side of the story.
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DO NOT MAKE FUN O
OF THE FARMER. Q
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niB ocribmvc ouiib lhvc 1115 y
Farm, Then Up Goes the
Price of Food.
Columbus, O. The news
papers' comic Sunday supple
ments that picture hayseeds and
birds' nests In farmers' beards
O and make fun of the horny-hand-
Q ed agriculturist are responsible
Q for the high prices of food
8 stuffs.
So John A. Stewart, a New
8 1 ork manufacturer and founder
nf the State Agricultural School.
Morrisville, N. J., testified be
fore the legislative committee
Investigating food prices. Mr.
Stewart said the comic supple
ments ridicule the farmer and
his work and eo drive the farm-
O er's sons to the cities. So few
$ men are left to raise crops that
O many farms are boing abundon-
ed. Only the older people re
main on the farms, said Mr.
S Stewart, and little food In ex-
O cess of what is needed there is
8 being produced. So it is now
p comparatively easy to corner
S the market on many food com
modities. He declared the situ
ation is alarming and should
be changed by making farm
life more attractive. g
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FUDGE FATTENS GIRLS.
It Makes Them Shapeless Roly-Polles,
Says Food Expert Wiley.
Chicago. Dr. Wiley, who is United
States Pure Food Commissioner, and
the man who knowa more about food
than anybody else, in a discourse on
food, what to eat and what not to cat,
said:
"Fudge Is harmful. It makes girls
pfat, owing to Its excess of carbon hy
drates, which produco adipose tissue)
College girls and high school girls aro
round, roly-poly creatures Instead of
the slender maids that the country
used to know before the fudge craze
seized the nation. Fudge has become
a national feminine habit. Not only
do the collego girls and the high
school girls cat fudgo but It is made in
vast quantities In the country where
girls cannot buy candy except of the
worst grades, I might almost say that
fudge Is becoming a national menace..
Families everywhere are fudge rid
den." .
Lays Eggs with Two and Three Yolks.
Bpokano. Wash. "Philadelphia
Torn" Smith, for twonty years a mem
ber of the Police Department of Spo
kane, now retired, has a Black Minor
ca hen which regularly lays eggs with
double yolks, crows like a rooster, and
Is, according to Its owner, a confirmed
suffragette, In that the fowl will not
stay in the hennery and hatch Its
eggs. One of the hen's chief feats Is
an egg with three yolks, which Is on
exhibition In the cxposltlou rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce.
TVI'KWItmNO IN TIIK IUKK.
Hiinv KiioiikIi for One Who Un
Learned by the Touch .Method.
The typewriter who has learned to
typewrite by the touch method does
not need to look at the machine In
working It. By this method the
li'aniHi' begins and practises on a
machine whose keys have no letters
on them, simply blank tops, white
In front of the learner Is placed a
reproduction of the keyboard, with
all tlio letters and diameters printed
on n sheet of paper The beginner
learns the keyboard of the machine
from the- printed keyboard, und
when she lias once mastered this she
Is able to keep her eyes on the notes
or copy.she is transscriblng und keep
all the time pounding away on the
machine without looking at the key
board at all. The training that she
has received prompts her every time
to strike the right key.
It Is a' very familiar fitct that peo
ple play on a piano without looking
at the keyboard. With our eyes on
the music In front the fingers In
stinctively seek and find the right
keys. It Is precisely the same In
playing a typewriter.
On The Ocean Bottom.
Sitting inside a submarine on an
ocean bottom you would be no more
conscious ot the enormous water
pressuro without than if you were
going to sleep in your own bed. You
might remain twenty-four hours un
der water without coming up, using
only the natural air supplied in the
boat without feeling the least un
comfortable. If you wished, you
mmht remain down four or five days,
tapping the air tank as you needed
a fresh supply of air. In the mean
time you would bunk over the tor
pedoes and torture yourself by let
ting your imagination, run loose to
your heart's content, or you might
read by electric light or play cards
or dominoes or checkers, the cook
serving you with coffee and canned
thlncs that can be heated on an
electric furnace without causing too
much smoke, and making the air
disagreeable to breathe.
Desert Talks to Outside World.
Before the year closes Southwest
Coast cities will bo on speaking
terms with Needles and other desert
points. Including Searchlight, Nev.
The first link In this immense tele
phone system was completed bet
ween Manvel and Searchlight Satur
day. The main trunk line Is now
building out from Salt Lake City,
eventually to connect with Los An
geles, and will be a link with tho
Needles-Arizona system connecting
most of the desert mining towns.
That actual construction of tho big
trunk line is under way Is news to
Coast people, but it has actually
been completed between Salt Lako
and Wells, Nev., the first message
going over the lino last Monday.
Gangs are now rushing to compl
tlon the line to Pioche From there
It will be a small matter to connect
with Searchlight, across the State
line, and when this is done Coast
counties will bo able to talk with
Salt Lake
Ik-nut it's of Gorse.
No one who sees a common or
hillside covered with gorse in full
flower can fail to appreclai" Its
beauty, and we can well understand
such plant lovers as Linnaeus and
Diilenius going into ecstacies of de
light, as they are reported to havo
dono. when such a sight first burst
on their view after being acquainted
with tho plant from botanical ma
terial only.
Rldlnu Hit Time.
A Boston child not yet In her teens
and unusually precocious, with ex
ceptional penetration, asked her mo
ther the other day "How long,
mother, will It he bntore 1 get old
enough for you to say that I am
nervous ahd not naughty when I do
so and so "
She Grew.
A teacher, after patiently defining
words In a spelling lesson, gave the
word "grewsome" from among them,
to be put into a sentence, with this
result from the brightest little girl
In the class: "1 cannot wear my
last Sumrer's dresses, because t
grow some.
ClmiiKcd Ills Mind.
Once theie was a bachelor man
who said that talk was cheap, but
one day he got married, and then
he learned a heap For when his
60-called bettorbalf dot,h speak of
gowns and audi he finds her talk Is
different It costs him mighty much.
Thut Sawing Motion.
"Some people do dislike work,"
remarked tho Observer of EventB
and Things; "and yet it takes about
tho same numbor of motions to play
one of Schubert's sonatas on the fid
dle as It does to saw a cord of wood."
Travel, the Teacher.
No young man can boast of a thor
ough education until hu bas been
abroad and learned the ways and'
ideas of other nations. In superior
schools traveling during the holidays
should be made compulsory, or at
least strongly encouraged.
Make Use of Hubblsh.
In certain towns In Germany
householders aro compelled by law
to sort out their house dust. They
have to provide three receptacles
one for cooking refuse and one for
rags and paper. The rubbish Is util
ized by the town authorities
bsy tc nTLt'w Ann CAUTiutn.
No Cosrcr Out cf the fl Tlirn They
Scurry Down to the Sea.
.lust, hb soon as a baby turtle
emerges from the cps off ho 3citrrl0A
down to the sea, says the Los Angeles
Times. He lias r.o ono to teach him,
no ono to guide him. In his curious
little binln there ia Implanted a streak
of caution period In his llfo his armor
Is soft nnd no defence against hungry
fish, nnd he at onco seeks shelter In
the tropical profusion of the Gulf
weed, which holds within Its branch
ing fronds-an astonishing abundance
of marine life. Here the young turtle
feeds unmolested while his armor un
dergoes tho hardening process.
Whatever the young sea turtle eats
and wherever he eats Itfacts not
generally ascertained ono thing Is
certain, It agrees with him Immensely.
He leads a pleasant sort of life, bask
ing In the tropical mn and cruising'
leisurely In the cool depths.
Onco he has attained the weight of
twenty-five pounds, which usually oc
curs within, the first year, the turtle
Is free from all danger. After that no
fish or mammal, however ravenous,
however well armed with teeth, Inter
feres with the turtle.
How Shakespeare Spoke.
Shakespeare would find his lines as
recited by the actors of to-day almost
unintelligible, according to Daniel
Jones, who gave an address before tho
Elizabethan Society,
To provo his contention Mr. Jones
recited "The Seven Ages" as Shakes
peare himself would have spoken IL
Tho effect was a hotch-potch of a doz
en dialects of to-day. The broad "a's"
JuntlCcd the Lancastrian "fcylher" In
stead of father, and the Cockney nas
al "1" sounds found full satisfaction 'in
words such as maid.
Other of Mr. Jones's examples of
Elizabethan pronounclatlon have no
parallels In modern dialects. Watch
was made to rhyme with catch, should
with cooled, brew with new. Fifth and
sixth, he said, were pronounced with
out the final "th" sound, nnd the word
sea was accorded a final sound equiva
lent to the French "e."
An English Trait.
Mr. Itunclman testifies that It used
to be a siying among the Turks In
Constantinople that, whenever a man
was drunk, it was conclusive proof
he was an Englishman. That re
minds one of the story current in Ox
fqrd some years ago that in a certain
eastern country the populace would
cry "Ox! Ox!" after an inebriated per
Bon the explanation being that an
august native had brought the habit
homo with him ns the most visible re
sult of his English university training.
There is a phrase of our own which Is
almost as bad "as drunk as n lord."
Probably that was not intended in
reprobation of the peerage, but sim
ply expressed the envy of the
humbler Englishmen in less sober
days than those toward a class who
could afford continuing to do what he
wo'ild If he could. London Chronicle.
Alcohol and Health.
There can be no room for doubt
concerning the general soundness of
the statement that alcohol is no
strengthener of the human constitu
tion. In every country statistics show
that mortality is much greater among
drinkers than among non-drinkers.
When alcohol Is taken habitually It in-
injures the whole constitution; all tis
sues and organs and especially the
blood, suffer sooner or later a patho
logical change, with which the bus
ceptibility to disease is greatly In
creased. The bad condition of the
blood, tho weakne-s of the changed
heart muscles and the sunken energies
of the nervous functions all combine
to. give a bad course to every disease,
and a corresponding high mortality. It
Is a scientific certainty that alcohol
and health are not friends, but the bit
terest of enemies.
A Delicate Proposal,
A Scotchman who had survived"
three wives and who had a fourth In
contemplation decided upon a dellcato
method of proposing to the latest ob
ject of his affections. Accordingly, he
took her to walk one afternoon, and
before she realized where their foot-
Btops tended they had arrived at the
graveyard, where his lost loved ones
lay burled. Standing betore the three
tombstones he said:
"There lies Jeannle, there lies Oris-
sol, thero lies Maggie, and," ho added,
pointing to tho next vacant space and
taking her hand tenderly, "how wad
you like to lie there?"
Growth of Postal 8ervice.
In Washington's administration the
Postmaster-General had but one clerk.
Thero were only soventy-flve postof-
fices nnd 1,875 miles of post roads In
tho United States. The cost of the
mall transportation was $22,081, tho
total rovenue 132,035, the total ex
pendlturo ?32,140, leaving a surplus of
$5 7115. It was not till 1838 that the
Idea of utilizing tho railroads In the
mall service was thought of, nnd the
present railway mall service was not
Inaugurated until 18G1, when It was
begun by Colonel Armstrong.
Bullets That Hit.
It hns been estimated that In the
Franco-Prussian War the Gormans
fired 20,000,000 bullets, which killed
and wounded 140,000 Frenchmen. Ac
cording to this, only one ball out ol
143 that were fired hit its man, and,
assuming that only one man out of
seven hit was killed, It would seem
that only ono bullet in 858 provod
fatal. But slnco the men killed and
wounded by tho aftlllory were Includ
ed In the above estimate, It may safe
ly be said that noj over one rifle ball
In a thousand Area killed Its man.
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Season's Prize Yarn from
Breezy West.
Lako City, Iowa. While on
his way homo late at night from
a party at a fnrmhouae nlong tho
railroad, Steward Dunbar foil
through n cattle gunrd, nnd his
r foot becamo caught.
Hoarlng n handcar, on which
O guests from tho party were rid-
$ Ing hilariously Into the city, np-
O proachlng, Dunbar frantically
q tried to free himself nnd lighted
the first tning nt nana to warn
the occupants of the car of his
danger.
The car stopped n few feet
from him. Dunbar was picked
up in a fainting condition, the
last burned edges of a $20 bill
still clutched In his fingers.
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IN DREAM FOR TEN YEARS.
Woman Awakes from Melancholia,
Mind Clear as Ever.
Detroit, Mich. After ten years of
unbroken melancholia, Mrs. Alexan
der Tannenholz hns nwakened In tor
feet health. Her case puzzles p5iyni
ctans. She says she was in a dream
all that time.
Mrs. Tannenholz had been active In
the social life of the city. Suddenly a
pall fell over her mind. She lost In
terest In everything, and experts srid
her case was hopeless. At times she
did not recognize members of her
household.
Recently sho entered the kitchen,
and with no sign of strangeness took
up the task of preparing dinner. Her
mlcl to-day In completely recovered.
Mrs. Tannenholz is fifty years old, and
yet such a blpnk wore the ten years In
hpr U'o -So 'o"ks harplv fnrtv
A KHIVA L AND DEPARTURE OF
ERIE TRAINS.
Trains leave at 8:2S a. m. and
1:48 9. m.
Sunoays at 2:4S p. m.
Trains arrive at 1:40 and 8:08
p. El.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:4E nnd
leaves at 7: It.
Sundays at 7:t2 p. tu.
BANK WITH A
SURPLUS EARNED IN
FOUR YEARS
Are You One of the 3,553 Depositors
Doing business at the
HONESDALE DIME BANK?
If not, the opportunity awaits you to open an ac
count now.
Start the idle money you have at your home to earn
ing interest.
If you have a small bank, bring or send it to us at
once. Put your idle money at work.
If you wish to make a loan on your farm or house
or to borrow some money call at the Dime Bank.
Business and Savings Accounts Solicited.
Wayne County money for Wayne Countcans.
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The Era of New Mixed Paints !
This year oponi witn a deluge of new mixed paints. A con
dition brought about by our enterprising dealers to get some kind
of a mixed paint that would supplant CHILTON'S MIXED
PAINTS. Their compounds, boing new and heavily advertised
may find a sale with the unwary.
THE ONIiY PliACK IN IIONESDAias
AUTIIOIUZED TO HANDLE
Is JADWIN'S
Thoro aro reasons for the pro-eminence of CHILTON PAINTS
let No ono can mix a bettor mixed paint.
2d Tho painters declare that it works easily and has won
dorful covering qualities.
3d Chilton stands back of it, and will agree to repaint, at his
own oxpenso.ovory surface painted with Chilton Paint that
proves defective.
4th Those who have used it aro perfectly satisfied with it.
and recommend its use to ethers.
Sleighing All tin- lc.-ir,
Because of the lichens which grow
abundantly on the stone-paved
streets In Madeira, mnklng them
sllpppry. It Is possible to use sleighs
the year nround.
MARTIN CAUFIELD I
Designer and Man
ufacturer of
ARTISTIC
MEMORIALS
Office and Works
1036 MAIN ST.
HONESDALE, PA.
For New Late N ovelties
-IN
JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
WATCHES
Try
SPENCER, The Jeweler
"Guaranteed articles only sold."
CROWING RECORD
$37,500
HONESDALE BRANCH
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