Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 20, 1913, Page 7

octor Offers Couple Board, Lodging and Unique Chance of Glory. Chicago.—Board, lodging, incidenta) penses for fifteen months and the ory ultimate of being the parents of o first perfect baby, endowed with he all-knowledge, is the offer of a Chjs pgo doctor, to any young couple who ill put themselves entirely in his parge for fifteen months, Minerva, goddess of wiscom, says ythology, sprang full panoplied from e head of Jove. The little stranger e doctor wishes to superintend into b world will, he promises, arrive | th perfectly formed mind and soul, | pd will inhabit this world forever pd forever. He claims to have solved the rig. e of cugenics. He says that given | pormal man and wife he can, in fit- en wonths, make them parents of a pby, which, at birth, will weigh fif. en pounds and have teeth and eyes, Moreover, it will know al] things pd live forever. It will be devoid of 0se temptations and faults to which e human race is heir. It, and {ts nd, will inhabit the earth, and re- oduce its kind (not its young, for ere will be no young, in the sense today) once about every 500 years. will eschow meat and have a dis- te for all that it should not eat. It Il live on nuts, fruit and vegetables He says that he will place $50,000 any bank as a forfeit, that he can omplish this result, but he must ve perfectly normal people, educat- and in a receptive mood. He de- es that the result of his experi. ent will be to change the entire urse of theesophy. He does not divulge his method, but ys that he would go about it as a perarchitect would plan a wonderful d lasting edifice. He will lay out e plans and specifications. The ng couple who agree to the offer st put themselves entirely in his rge, and must not deviate from g rules and regulations he lays down them. He has no fear of the out- me. The doctor is married, and no children. ISS LAW AIDS MOTHERS urance Against lliness and Mater nity—Only Seven Per Cent. of Women Have Subscribed. eneva.—The {insurance of men against {llness and in view of ternity, as provided by the new fed- | law—which measure is known in § country as the “pearl of the new le"—has received general approval 80 far only 7 per cent. of the Swiss men have taken advantage of the , which came into force two months Sevcral women's societies are refore arranging and Lakeland News Job Printin o o Swiss | ences to v, ke~ig 4w Kiown, espe- ing classes, For a minimuy | Bubscription there is provid!:d y:;x:iv. cal assistance, necessary repose, and 8 daily allowance to women whé} are €xpectant mothers op are ill. It 1s be- Heved that with an active propaganda the majority ¢f Swiss women will, within g year, enjoy the benefits of | the new code fn this particular. _—— CAT GIVES LIFE FOR KITTENS Bravery—Entered Burning Building, | Rome—This story of the devotion of a cat to her kittens Is vouched for by the rector of San Juan Letran, Three kittens were trapped in a burning house, The mother went to the first floor, took up one of the kit- tens with her mouth and carried it outside to a place of safety. She re- turned and fetched g second Kitten and then went for the third, though the staircase had begun to burn, The flames spread, so the cat, still i holding the kitten, went to a window and jumped to the streot below. She was picked up with her back broken | and her tur all scorched and died eoon ; afterward, ——— HEARTS SHIFTED X-Ray Shows O:gans on Right Side of Breast Bone of Males In Phil- adelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.—Following an ex- amination in the X-ray department of the University of Pennsylvanla, it was announced that Frederick Steiner, forty-two years old, of 611 Henry street, Camden, wag suffering from a displacement of the heart, the organ being four inches to the right of the breast bone. It was the second case of the kind brought to light in Camden by a doc- tor, the other being that of Edgar Mer- rill, sixty-three years old, of 12 Fo- garty avenue. It was stated that with rest and care a cure can be effected in both cases, WO MEN’é { HAS BALE OF WIGS TO SELL | U. 8. Seized T;n-r:‘r;fl\'/;;en Attempt to Smuggle Was Discovered in Ho- boken, Jersey City, N. J.—Going! | government advertises for sale a { whole bale of the m, of all kinds and colors of hair. The sale will be at | auction in the Jersey City post office. | The wigs were seized recently by cus- | toms officlals in Hoboken when an at- | tempt to smuggle them into this coun- glving confer ' try was discovered. ; Rector Tells Unusual Story of Feline | Going! I‘ route. ! Who wants a wig? The United States | KILL OR CURE GAME By F. 8. JENSEN. B T ———— J “How are you, old sport,” said Jep- son to Simcoe, who, supported by a | crutch and a cane, came slowly down |the sunlit street. Simcoe was swath- yed until he resembled a mummy; he moved with extreme care. When he vercelved Jepson he smiled wanly. “I don’t feel very well,” he returaed wearily. better somehow.” “What are you doing for it?” in- | quired Jepson. “That has a lot to do | with how you feel, you know. Now, I've got a second cousin, whose wife's mother knows a man who was down (flat on his back with something or other, and he took—let's see, I am not | sure that I know just what it wag— !'but, anyway, it was some sort of medi- ! cine that you rub on and ‘take inter | nally, tco; I don’t doubt but that any idru‘;gist can tell you the name of it, if you tell him what it's for. You get |some and try it, and maybe it will cire you as quick as it did that fel- low.” { Simcoe held up his thin hands. “No | use,” he said. “If it’s known to medi- cal science I've already tried it. I've changed medicines once in every jtry a new preparation every time I | turn around. I think I get worse all the time.” “Why don’t you hunt up a new doc- ['tor?” queried Jepson, with a sudden | Inspiration. “Doctors!” snorted Simcoe, for the | moment aroused from his lethargy. “Doctors! I've had more doctors than there are men in the Mexican army. ! I've had doctors that give medicine | in lage doses, and doctors that give medicine in small doses; I've had doc- tors that rub and maltreat their pa- | tients until most of them either die {or get well in self-defense; I've had | doctors that give various sorts of | treatment, and some that don’t seem | to give any at all. T've had ’em old ; and young, male and female, white, red, black and tan and yellow—all | sorts and conditoins of doctors, but none of them {8 ahle to make me feel ! as I ought to feel.” son. “All of them,” sald Simcoe. “Sul- phur, salt, mud, steam, hot and cold water, hops—I've been the whole And every ,new kind of bath does me up worse than the one before. I must be in awful shape, and I don’t know for the life of me what I'm to do with myself now.” “I'll tell you, old man,” conseled Jepson, after deliberation, “it I were in your shoes, 1 wouldn't do anything, Maybe no. treatment at all js what _you ; e ; W need until” you get rested up agafd. clally among the womey of the work- An “I don’t seem to get much‘ | three or four days for a year or so; I} “Ever try the baths?” ventured Jep- | yway, the things you've tried t i haven't helped you, you say, and this | might.” “Not do anything?” exclaimed Sim. coe in amazement. “Why, if I took a j chance like that I'd probably be dead | @8 a pickled eel before tomorrow. I'm ; on my way now to see a new sort of i medical genfus that puts his patients iIn a barrel and piles hot bricks on ! thelr heads. It's sald that he has! | worked some wonderful cures, “But as for me, I don’t hope for very : j much. It doesn’t seem to be much | ' use, because the more I doctor, some- how, the worse I get, and the worse I ! get the more I have to doctor, and the more I doc—" But Jepson had fled. Coal Mine Rescue Work. Under the British mines accident (rescue and aid) act, it is established that at every mine in the United Kingdom there shall be organized and maintained competent rescue brigades | —one when the number of under | ground workmen is 250 or less, and in- 1 creasing according to the number. A brigade must consist of not less than five persons employed at the mine, carefully selected for their knowledge of underground work, cool- | ness and powers of endurance, and | certified to be medically fit. A majority must be tralned in first ‘ald. No brigade is deemed compe- tent without a course of training ap-| 1 proved by the secretary of state. | ‘The type of apparatus employed con- sists of a mouthplece, breathing bags, { twin oxygen cylinders, regenerator, fzjoctor and reducing valve. It weighs 35 pounds, and is at- i tached to the front of the body by | The cylinders contain to- { straps. | gether ten cubic feet of oxygen at 120 | atmospheres, which will last two hours. Optimistic. ! “Well, Bill,” said the temporarily re- | tired burglar to his pal, “there’s one ' thing we oughter be thankful for here in the pen.” “Wot's that?" sald Rill. “We ain't bothered much dodgin’' ortermobiles, or worryin' over the high cost o’ livin',” said the T, R, B.— Harper's Weekly, i ' Brotherly Love. “Ah!" said a conceited young per 1sm|, “I have this afternoon been | preaching to a congregation of asses.” { “Then that was the rcason why you | alw ays called them beloved brethren,” replied a strong-minded lady.—Life NOTICE. In compliance with constitution and by-laws of B. M. & P. I. U. No. PLM. "BVER Hunt For "HUNTS” No Lie on the Can No Lye in the Can Peaches Pears Apricots Cherries Hawaiian Pine App}c Pure Food Store W.P, Pillans & Co. 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