Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 2

i | s R { { | | | S ~awe PACE TWO T MARVELS OF SURGERY Animal Nerves Transplanted to Heal War Veterans. Taken From Rabbits and Grafted Into Soldiers Paralyzed by Shot Wounds —Cures Effected. ' Chicago.—The miracles of modern yurgery which have developed since the World war have made it possible to transplant into a human being the nerves of an animal and so to repair the part of the anatomy that has been shattered by shots. There are wards in the big military hospital at Fort Sheridan filled with men who had nerves cut in half by bullets and fragments of shell and as a result were paralyzed. Sometimes the severed ends of these nerves could be sewed together, but in other cases a considerable length of nerve would be carried away so that a splice had to be put in. The nerve to be grafted does not have to be used immediately, but can be kept indefinitely in cold storage or chemicals until it is needed. There have developed experimental proofs where nerves have been taken from the dead, preserved for a short perlod aud grafted to the injured part of Uv- ing persons. In ward 59 is Joseph Higgins. A ehell carried away the muscles and nerves of the upper part of his left arm. The wound healed, but his arm * was paralyzed. Surgeons decided to transplant muscles from his chest. He 1s now regaining the use of his arm. Private Joseph Fleischman, One Hundred and Forty-eighth infantry, who halls from Antigo, Wis., was hit by a machine gun bullet, which cut & perve and resulted in the loss of con- trol of his right leg. He was sent to the British expeditianary hospital and from there to Fort Sheridan. The leg was operated on, nerves from & rab- bit grafted in, and now, six months Iater, he is again feeling sensation in the part of the leg which was dead. LOVE CURED SHELL SHOCK British Soldier, Wounded More Than : a Year Ago, Has Memory Restored by Wife. ! Brighton, England.—Loss of mem- ory through shell shock and inability to disclose his identity took a happy turn a few days ago in the case of Charles Edward Morris, who became reunited with his wife in this city. He had been reported dead, and the supposed widow had taken employ- ment as assistant in a shop. 1 Chancing to look through the shop door while a soldier in uniform was passing, Mrs. Morris, with a cry of delight, darted out and caught him by the arm. He stared blankly at her at first. Then, slowly recognizing her, he took her in his arms. Private Morrls had suffered shell shock more than a year ago. When sent to hospital in Mons, Relgium, his identity wus unknown. Not hearing of him, the regimental authorities re- ported him dead. By the time his jdentity was established the wite had moved, ing no trace. As it was supposed she was in Brighton, Morris was sent there and ordered to walk about, with a paper pinned to him Learing his name. He bzd heen walking for two Lours that morning when his wife saw him. When she had him back she quickly changed her blaek gown for one of bright blue. Kince then the memory of Morris has wonderfully improved, and his full v is fully expected, Toothpick Brings Back Voice of Ex-Soldier Sious City, In.—Swallowing a toothpick was n blessing in dis- guise for Donald Cullings of this city, an ex-soldier, here. At dinnec a bit of toothpick lodged in his throat and he coughed violently, ¢hoked and nearly strangled before It was dis- lodged. But when he had recovered he found that his voice, which he had aimost lost following an attack at St. Mihiel, September 12, 1918—just a year to the day —had returneids After recover- ing from the gas attack Cullings could only speak in a husky whisper. B sl SHIFTS LUNCH 0 SAVE COAL Vienna Orders Some to Eat at 11:30 and Others Must Dine at I 12:30 P. M. Vienna, Austria.—As a further aron- omy in coal, the city government hus altered Vienna's age-old custom of the midday meal hour. Instead, households in even numbered houses must dine at 11:30 a, m., and those in odd num- bers at 12:30 p. m. As most of the houses are very dark at this season, wen at midday, lighting is necessary, ind it is hoped by this measure to wvoid excessive pressure on the power plants between noon and 1 p. m. i Thousands Frozen to Death. ‘Washington.—A blizzard which swept across KEsthonia, Russia, on New Year's day froze thousands to death. The bodies of 300 refugees were found in a forest. Many babies were frozen at their mothers’ breasts, ‘according to word received by Ameri- can Red Cross workers at Reval. while awaiting investigation or deportation. bulldings on the island. MAN REALLY KNOWS LITTLE Even the Wisest of the Human Race Amazingly Ignorant, Asserts a Writer In Boston Paper. The wisest man in the world knows only tiny fraction of what there is to be learned, and the mass of human knowledge, painfully acquired and handed on since our far-off ancestors came down out of the trees, is only a faint glimmer In the midst of the dark unknown. Much of the unknown is unknow- able; a little of it, the human mind laborlously takes possession of as cen- turies pass, Most of us are amazingly ignorant. We are Mke the classic example of the school children, conning their books, who couldn’t tell what kind of wood their desks were made of. Actually, we are afrald of seeming to know too much outside of the trod- den ways; we despise the “high- brow.” And at the same time how contemp- tuous we are likely to be of some one who seems to be more ignorant than ourselves. The man who has stopped learning is living at a standstill. Make every- one you meet your teacher, if you would get the most out of life. That boy scout, that venerable farmer, that sharp young sulesman—each has a bit of special knowledge for you. Be a student, even though your schooldays are in the remote past, and not a mere book student.—Bostoa Herald. Fairy Baskets, Tairy baskets are made of large hazel nuts, filberts or peach pits. Fil- must be soaked In hot water for hours; hhzel nuts and peach s may be used green. With a sharp, fine pointed penknife bore through the filbert or hazel nut on each side in the light colored upper third, cut away the shell carefully around the hole so as to leave a han- Me between the inecisions, dig out the meat that is inside, then cut very tiny notehes in the lower edge. If you use peach pits trim oft the sharp point, then hore and cut out the shell and trim the k end smooth, Those basl s are a never failing pleasure to both children and grown- ups. One use to which you can put the fairy baskets is loop a dezen or more upon a strand of silk floss, fill each one with earth and supply it with a single fine grass seed, then hang them in a sunny window and keep moist. Britons Eat Less Meat. Englishmen used to be considered the grentest meat eaters in the world. Now, declares the Soclety of Meat Im- porters (London), the average Eng- lishman eats 33 per cent less meat ,than he did before the war. Unless he can be induced to eat more of it the country will be faced with such a glut of meat as it has never had before, a London dispatch says. The annual consumption of meat in the United Kingdom before the war was ahout 1,800.000" tons. say the im- poiers. It is now only 1.200.000 tons. And this, they contend, is due entirely to the high cost still maintained. Eng- lishmen and Englishwomen, too, are Just as fond of meat as ever, but they cannot afford. to eat as much of It as they used to. Use for Helgoland. The Royal Society for the Protec- tlon of Birds in England and the Per- manent Wild Life Protective Fund of the United States join in suggesting that Helgoland be made a reservation for the birds that migrate along the coast of Europe. The island Is less than one-fifth of a mile square, but it is directly in the path of migratory birds, and when Germany has re- moved the fortifications and other military establishments the birds will probably use it. First Cotton Export. The earliest exports of cotton from America were made in 1785, in which year one bag was sent from Charleston to Liverpool, while 12 were sent from Philadelphia and one from New York WHERE THE DON HELD SWAY Palace of Santa Fe for Three Cen- turies Housed High Representa- tives of Spanish Poyver. One of the Interesting buildings at Santa Fe is the old palace of the gov- ernor, and from this building for 305 years Spain ruled a large part of North America now a part of the United States—Montana, part of Texas, part of Kansas, and part of Oklahoma. It was built in 1608 by Juan de Onate, who was the great grandson of Montezuma, the Aztec emperor of ancient Mexico, and the grandson of Hernandez Cortez, the Spanish con- queror who subdued and took over the Aztec or Indian civilization of Mexico and, with the sword in one hand and the cross In the other, substituted Spanish civilization. El Palacio, as the building is termed in Spanisk, was originally designed for a palace, castle and fortress, Its vicissitudes during more - than three centuries, under Spanish, Indian, Mexican and American rule, formed a most dramatic and thrilling chapter in the history of the nation. For three centuries it was not only the seat of government, but also the home of cap- tains general and governors, their re- tainers and families, and from time to time it housed the dungeon, the jail, the post office, the legislature, the supreme court, the territorial secre- tary and family, the teritorial law li- brary and law offices. On every page of the history of the venerable edi- fice one finds romance, stirring inci- dents and important episodes, in which the figures of Spanish conquerors and Franciscan monks, Indian .chieftains and American adventurers, soldiers, statesmen, authors, scientists and dainty .society ladies step into the spotlight te vanish again as Father Time, grim and inexorable, swings his cycle—Lxchange. i CLASSED HIM AS BEGINNER Retired Sea Captain Evidently Knew Little of “Impressionistic’” School of Painting. “I once engaged board and lodging at the house of a retired New England sea captain,” says a New York artist, “and from him I received some sincere advice. ) “One day, while T was busy paint- ing, I became aware that the captain was standing behind me, gazing at the canvas over my shoulder, “‘How do you like it?" I asked. “Now, it chanced that the captain’s house has been without an artist boarder for several years and that I was the first follower of the impres- slonist school it had ever harbored. ““The old sea dag gazed thoughtfully at the lower righthand corner of the canvas where I had thrown a mass of parti-colored splashes and splotches. “‘You're kinder young’ sald the captain, kindly. “This Is your first summer outdoors at it? “‘Yes. “.\Well, now, see here,’ resumed the captain. ‘There's two or three old palettes up in our shed chamber. You get one of those and try out your paints. You'll have to lose that whole corner of your canvas, I'll bet you, and it'll make your picture consider- ably smaller. T wouldn’t do that again £ I was you.”—Harper's Magazine. USE OIL AFTER SHAVINu, The editor of this paper adopted the suggestions contained in an arti- cle published here a few weeks ago about oiling the face after shaving, and begs to report the results: If two or three drops of olive oil be rubbed into the face after shav- ing, there will be no danger of in- growing hairs, rough skin or tender- ness going out into the cold. And the next day the beard will be softer and more easy to shave close without cutting or scratching the skin. Two or three drops are enough, and the smell of the oil may be dis- guised by mixing a few drops of good perfume with the oil in a bottle. —New York Wosld, Bemidji Lodge No. 119, I. 0. O. F., Beltrami Ave. and 4th St., meets every Friday evening at 8 o’clock. THIS WEEK FIRST DEGREE C. J. Winter, N. G., Tel. 362 R. A. Hannah, Rec. Sec., Tel 719W A. Brose TOBACCONIST 400 Minnesota Avenue Keeps the best stock of Tobacco in the Northwest, also Pipes. 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