The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 10

{WASHINGTON 4 \. LETTER, By ALLENE SUMNER (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, Dec. 17.—Uncle Sam has yielded up his fourth victim to the scourging demon of a disease im- prisoned in a little+glass vial in the U. 8. Public Health Service research ‘aboratory, Dr. Edward Francis, who has tought the whole world of germs for nearly 30 years in this bureau, has fallen victim to Malta fever, a dis- ease with which he had been work- ing night and day for months. He will not die, for the fever is rarely) fatal. But he faces a probable five years of pain on a hospital cot. He has been taken to the Naval Hos- pital. Dr. Francis is the fourth U. S. re- searcher to fall victim to this partic- ular culture, and it was as a pinch- hitter for some colleagues previously stricken with the disease that he in- curred it, see Miss Alice Evans, a bacteriologist, was stricken with the undulent or Malta fever in 1920. She has not yet recovered. Dr. G. C. Lake was the next victim, and is not yet cured. B. C. Sockrider, a technician, was strick- en by the little test tube next, and is the only one who has really recovered. The Malta fever research was al- most at a standstill. Dr. Francis of- tered to pinch-hit, though his one big interest was tularemia or rabbit fever, known also as Francis’ disease, in rec- ognition of his isolation of the germ and his almost perfected serums for dts cure. se @ Today, hectic with the 105 temper- gture of Malta fever, facing a five- year illness, Dr. Francis only com- Plains that he was stricken by a dis- ease outside his own province, the Tavages of which he cannot under- stand and intelligently appreciate as much as some other disease. He feels it a wasted opportunity, for the real research doctor not only expects dis- case “as part of the game,” but wel- comes it if it is along his own pe- culiar line of research. If that’s what he wants he had his previous privilege, for he was strick- en with his own pet tularemia or rab- bit fever a few years ago and used his own serums and methods of cure upon himself, finally restoring him- self to health, though the mortality ‘at e is almost as | of his present pain from the Malta fever is that he should~be stricken at |the time of year when rabbit fever at its height and when his services ded and the opportuni- ties for research greatest. se 8 Fifty cases of the disease have been reported to the laboratory since this season's hunting season opened. Dr. Francis is needed. He got busy on | this job back in 1912 when a plague- like disease of rodents broke out in the west. They called it “deerfly| fever” then. Francis isolated the| germ, connected it with a human dis- | ease, began working with his cure| serum and, in short, became the only American doctor ever to complete the disease cycle from germ discovery to Jcure. The disease was named in his | honor. When his own pet brain child turned to devour him he was almost pleased, his colleagues report, and su- pervised his own cure with all the in- terest of a laboratory experiment. ‘Today, suffering from a disease out of his own department, he is also in- terested in its cure, but only wishes that it were his own pet tularemia again. “Bitter about it?” he scoffs, “I wouldn't be in this profession if I didn't take this as part of the day’s work. I'll be around in five years and all set for another disease.” i | INNEW YORK | _ a i New York, Dec. 17.—Fads are born in New York on a Monday morning and, not infrequently, expire before nother Monday has dawned. A few survive the years and are carried across the land to bring quick fortune to the clever mind that conceived them. At this moment, society and ce- lebrities have “taken up” candles. But they're not the old-fashioned candles of grandma's time—they're candles scented with your favorite perfume; they're candles designed to match your bathrobe and ‘pajamas; they're candles to reflect the general tone of your room, or to match the new mod- ernistic furniture; they're candles to symbolize the art or profession you follow; if you're a dancer, they writhe and if you write, they have a vertain dignity and gravity. They're til turned out by special designers and a certain young Signor Ajello is, at the moment, the chief exponent of the art. The prices paid for a few candles, | thus specially designed and executed. | would keep electric lights blazing throughout the house for many a week. see The cycle of the fashions has brought more than candles and can- dlesticks back from grandma's time. A few seasons ago the “rage” was for early American articles—particularly furniture. Scouts went through Massachusetts and Connecticut start- ling the old natives by the prices of- fered for grandma's rag rugs and grandpa’s easy chair. Those grand old wall mottoes reading “God Bless Our Happy Home” became “collector's items.” And so did those glass paper- weights depicting a snow storm or an angel in flight. In the smartest and most expensive little shops of Madison avenue I have come upon articles such as my own Particular grandmother once gave me as playthings. They are the sort of knick-knacks that caused grandpa to spout: “What do you keep all this junk around the house for?” To- day they bring pretty prices. oe 8 Recently dear old pingpong came back with a flourish. And crossword Puzzles have refused to die, in spite of time and competition. There's a ‘vogue for detective and crime stories just now which has all the publish- ers running in circles. The dyed-in- the-wool detective story fans have reached the point where they insist on playing sleuth, with the result {that there are now any number of books in which a mystery is posed and the reader must follow the clues for himself and supply the answer. Last winter the owner of a sub- urban road house, which has done little business during the summer |months, found that he could make a tidy income from operating old- fashioned hayritles into the country. On Broadway, the good old melo- drama thrillers began to appear last. season—and even “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” was revived. This year there have been half a dozen that re- called the days of the “ten-twent’- thirt’” circuits. The bored and blase night club goers seem unable to get enough of the maudlin oid ballads. Dozens of places have rounded up singing waiters who, somewhere about 2 o'clock in the morning, burst forth with “Frivolous Sal” or “My Old Girl.” Up and down the by-ways the “sob” singers have been enjoying a return to favor. Agencies have gone about the city searching for the fat and faded old gals who can “put a tear into a song.” Bicycling is another of the by-gone outdoor sports now in vogue. Hun- dreds go biking on sunny Sundays, GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Russia Women Learn to Do Squads Right Moscow, Dec. 17.—(7)—An eve- ning school to train militia women has been opened in Moscow. Any working woman between twenty and twenty-five may enter the school for six months’ training. Stone Age Men Used Marble for Weapons Charleville, France, Dec. 17.—(P) |—Prehistoric weapons of marble jhave been found in a field near here. The weapons included a sharp- pointed kind of dagger and numer- ous triangular missile stones. Whether stone age man ever used marble for weapons is a controvert- ed archaeological question. This discovery seems to support the af- firmative. MOSCOW'S ONLY DEPARTMENT STORE ALWAYS CROWDED, LUXURIES FEW Government Owned Store Is Watched by Soviet Guards Directing People Moscow, Dec. 17.—(7)—In Mos- ‘tow’s one and only big department store, every day is like the day be- fore Christmas. From the opening hour in the morning until the doors are locked at night, shoppers stream through them in a pushing, unhalt- procession. are no elevators in the big LITTLE JOE four-story building and the stair- ree resound to the shuffle of many At every counter there are many shoppers, at every cashier's window @ queue, and whers calico and other [cheap necessities are for sale, the crowd is held away by guards, who permit only 50 or 60 persons to ap- |Proach the goods at a time. Each article bought at the govern- ment-owned Mostorg, as the store is called, must be paid for separately, 5 e Mostorg’s shop-windows are of a pattern with those in countries where private merchants make their living encouraging people to buy. There are, however, not many luxury articles to be seen. A few Chinese table ornaments, imported clocks and jewelry, some dolls and toys, Perhaps, but none of the furs that Russia sends abroad, no elegant eve- ning wraps or fancy and flimsy fem- inine underthing: hint of any in- piraiee fom to for the women fe ‘ Pah looks like’ London to Substantial the windows and most of the shelves, Chess for grownups and to: for children are about the limit (3 a display of unessential Necessities fill most of effort is made to di attractively. The Pall died trying to break down anybody's The big problem ~ = ~_ wl Ouro THINNIGHT AIR COMES TNE CLAYTER OF HOOF BEATS WELL, 7IS WEEK WE LANE OUR. 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