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g ———— S i e 1 1 \ ¢ ST A Saaa PAGE FOUR HOW 10 PROPERLY o oyl BT AL (Board of Health Bulletin.) Published every afternoon from- thn Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla' Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. —_— - |subject already threadbare, the State . F. HETHERINGTON, BDITOR.|}0arq of health is again calling at- SUBSCRIPTION RATES. tention to the matter of malaria in IO JEAT ..ceeves : ...$5.00|Florida. #ix montos .......... ceeees 2601 There are several features of this Three montns ......... «eeeo 126 ¢0iction which can hardly be too Delivered anywhere within the frequently emphasized. The first is limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere tor §$1.00 per year. necessary—no one need have it if he doesn’t want to. Second, it is a very uneconomic disease, in that it re- duces to a low stage the physical and mental productiveness of the in- dividual, reduces his energy, his de- sire and his ambition to accomplish, far below the normal. While the Let’s all do our part toward check- ing this bubonic plague. If we can't swat a rat, let's swat a flea. 0 William Lorimer has at last been found guilty of a great crime—about the greatest a man can commit in this world--and his defenders are falling away from him. William Lorimer is guilty of the crime of failure. large degree, it 16wers the resisting force and makes easier the way for the entrance of more serious ail- ments, There is no scale by wkich the weakening capacity of malaria may be measured, but no one who has watched intelligently the progress of the disease in even a few cases, can fail to have noted this effect. —0 It will be a shock to many a sen-| The malarial parasite has been timental maid who has reveled in |identified under the microscope, Its the gush of the novels of Bertha M, |Picture has been taken and its hab- Clay and Charlotts M. Braeme, to its have been definitely described. learn that both these writers were | Ot only has the medical professlf)n one person—and that one person was Provided a simple cure for th? dis- a man! Can’t tell much about a®ase, but, better yet, it has discov- person from the way he or she may ered a method of prevention. It ha.s write. Picture Bertha McClay with |Deen established as a fact that if “a mustache resembling that of Em- [ONce this parasite could be comp]‘ete- peror William!" ly eradicated from any given section, the disease itself would disappear, never to return except by importa- tion. It has been done within cer- tain well known 1limits in several foreign countries. Oaieini Victor Starbuck has a rival right in his own town of Orlando, in the person of “The Citizen Devil,” who is some poet himself, though of the low-brow order. In such classic at- mosphere, however, perhaps his brows will gradually be elevated un- til he will be no longer content with such lowly subjects as “Oh, dem watah millions, oh,” but will be able to soar aloft on wings of poesy to infection and reinfection been de- scribed, that a repetition can bring information to few intelligent Flo- ridians. The parasite exists in the blood of the human patient. By the bite of the anopheles mosquito the the realms of the bfue empyrean, and |Parasite is takeninto the system of there pluck lyric posies to shower the mosquito where it passes down upon the proletariat. Go to(through a period and process of fur- it, Devil! ther development, and by the bite of RIS SR the same mosquito 1t is transmitted into the blood of a new human vie- HUDSON FOR GOVERNOR tim. The process is repeated indefi- nitely and the disease is spread through a constantly widening cir- cle of human beings. News comes from Tallahassee that Hon. F. M. Hudson has resigned as counse] for the railroad commission, to take effect next April, this action being taken that he may be left free to prosecute his candidacy for the governorship, which high position he will ask of the voters at the 1916 election. To interrupt this cycle of devel- opment at any stage is to interrupt and stop the disease. To prevent the inoculation of the mosquito by the human host, and to prevent the in- oculation of the new human vietim It has been generally understood by the infacted mosqmto—‘lha}'s al for some time that Mr, Hudson would there is to it. The matter {s re- be a candidate, and this action defi- so}ved i ,m the very simple: prop- nitely ends any speculation that osition—don’t allow yourself to be might have existed on the subject, bitten by the mosquito. Several other gentlemen have heen| I the particular case of the ano- mentioned in connection with the [Pheles, the matter is made even governorship; and there will doubt- |more simple by the known fact that less be other announcements ere |its Working hours are confined strict- long. President A. A. Murphree, of |1V to the early evening and the the State University; W. V. Knott, |night. at present comptroller; and Hon, H. J. Drane, of Lakeland, are among those most prominently considered as gubernatorial timber. All these only precaution to be added is that gentlemen are said to have the mat- the screens should not be put up as ter of their respective candidacies if you were bullding a chicken under consideration, and any one of house, full of holes and loose arouna them would make the State a worthy the edges. They should be made lit- and able governor. erally mosquito-proof. At all the Mr. Hudson enters the race with windows and doors and a strong following to start with. His around the poreh that is used as a record in public life, his attainments sitting as a lawyer, his ¢ p of affairs of beds and State-craft, and withal his splendid personal character, won for him already the and good will of a large proportion of the best element of the State’ Without disparagement to other pos- sible entries,,it may be said that Mr Hudson's opponents will he hard put to it to point out any serious objec- tion to his candidacy, and the latter will be well received by the people generally. What's the remedy? SCREENS. [hat's the solution, simple and safe and complete, The outside room in the evening, over the at every place where the insect may members ain admission to the have the family The sereen respect s - IS a necessary part of the Flo house; no home in this State s citizenship. AR or comfortable wtihont \nd It should bhe constructed its place with as front door or the windows in their casings It is the duty of the individual to avoid malaria, a duty that owes to hi f and to t} omu 0 R : ity in whic Some Good Health Commandments Remember thy garbage-can to ke P it covered. Thou shalt prevent the bre eding of the fly, that thy children unto the third and fourth generation need not swat him. Remember thy back yard and al- Plént ley to keep them clean. Six davs Will come up ldpldly- Grow into Ial:ge for\’une shalt thou labor. f the task is not Good Crop as u accomplished thou couldst do worse P B ‘( SRNNRIE b I'ESUIQ!"]Y than continue on the seventh. Thou shalt covet the Depos:ts of air and sun- At the risk of wearing holes in a |leave Tampa on a 150 days’ Florida that it is unnecessary—entirely un-|°f greeting to the president of the ‘trip is being compiled. disease is not considered fatal to any | ipapers to newspapers, etc. EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA,, JULY 2, 1914, HOLLINGSWORTH ITEMS "N'UUE M'r"] Imp There was a pound party at the m AWEH“SE Fu house on the hill last Friday night ‘at which quite a number of the young folks gathered to have a good In a short time an automobile will | time and enjoy each other's society. The party was given as a farewell to Messrs. Fred and Robin Sandh, who are going to leave us for a tusi- ness and - pleasure trip to the old home in Tennessee. They left on Tuesday to be gone two or three weeks. Hurry back, boys. The sing at the house on the hill was well attended on Sunday night, about twenty-four being present. A good many of the old-time hymns ‘| being used. We miss at these sings those who leave us for the summer The may- |and they miss a lot too. _ ors of all the towns represented are| Mr. Jack Price has sold his horse asked to send greeting to all the|and now he wil] have to walk. mayors along the route, The boards Mr. Arthur Pearce is visiting of trade to boards of trade, automo- | home folks for a few days. bile clubs to automobile clubs, news- He has been working for the tele- { phone people at Winter lla\'oq but | will take a position with the new phosphate mine as soon as they start. Mr. Stansbury was taking a fine watermelon to townon Tuesday which weighed between fifty and sixty pounds. It made a person's mouth water just to look at it, but he never asked me to sample it. publicity trip through the principal northern States east of the Missis- sippi river. The route followed will be along the capitol to Capitol high- way, as Governor Trammell will send by Mr. Frank M. Thomas, who is in charge of the car, personal letters United States and to the governors of all the States through which the automobile passes. A booklet to be distributed on this FOMpL0 This automobile is sent out by the Florida Publicity Bureau, with head- quarters at Winter Haven. Governop Trammell heads the advisory board of the organization. Our lieutenant governor, Senator H. J. Drane, says: “It seems to me to be one’of the cleanest and most unique methods of advertising our State which has been HOPOTOTOTOFOT AT ATO So often has the cyele of malarial | PABBE SDEPIASPE PEBD 1 begins to run down without appar- ent cause, becomes weak, longuid, depressed, suffers backache, head- ache, dizzy spells and urinary dis- orders, weak kidneys may be the SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY “Tango Creamed Brazil Nuts,” ehocolate covered., Latest creation. cause. The slightest symptom of |Only thirty-eight cents per pound kidney trouble is too serious to neg- | package, LAKE PHARMACY, lect. 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