New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1927, Page 30

¢ out Karer for the guar use human ps, rhinoceros run-down s0n nia they the sis- Elephants do most of the work in the jungle country of curious, traditional cure-z!ls from any troubl ind of yel the surprised. claimed as sure cure for everything signal for from earache : T 3 a4 bamboo Oriental peopl to seek me the when t replied do you live?” o much swelling ome med smell in most like g0 tter. vour road that It went told that ther lead up to th Ehic Y i t1 something pus blood nothing vour b; looks heavy ng ou b potiito tops. then when 1 Williams was or it was cor alone littl the big one ping in a ed pled hous from ticed on his bare 4 to say a word not to v fecling but bee use different tones in su | now e baby is about three . Ehe < in talking it ¢ It Ic t bocause n ot t, but only emotion, thi ingle word stage. end of the second year rn to use two or more words I'hiz iz one of the bigges netimes when some- ned to an thing, whole unnine | in tocether Ther v fixed order of word child u bs and nouns in wat ways someth ns in its youne life that makes th at tl word which it uses old ot of words time, after dy to nd rhythm. of developiment of comes when its wi from being like at of other child in the world. to o way own, that is recognized as time it to conmare th B persor And at t big. but whion in which babies learn to talk Johnson Features The supersti- tious native “doctors” of a Burmese village carry- ing some of their strange remedies in solemn procession The Karens—men, women and chil- think dren—smclie because they tobacco has a medicinal value , looked out of the window at that cerie hour made waked, except for a very sm Owil ve of Ber an inhale twen as—enough to and he , Germ four liters of other man- doesn’t t a heada ale the . but he can exhale the ive Otto a couple lungfuls of gas and he'll be op tw s lit for some time and heat ¢ only can he in poisonous ain hod purpose. able to k s iron besides. that because of his - most unique mcthod y to prevent worry over gas bills. When he he goes him to a glass of beer or a cheese sand wich, Otto say “I'd rather | of gas if don’t And he gets bit you mind” thus supplied Then by put- ¢ three tubes les the gas into the tubes and with is supply what will -— illu- wmte a light or heat an iron, or kecp the long does two, gas on a stove lit cnough to fry Otto trange pewer qui dently an cgg. his acci- He discov 1 when a bo a gaslit foet pet. mother off mother in At his S i I'hen turned gas and left the room. In the morning a acighborhood gather- ed before the door of Karl Omikron, father of Otto. Gas could be smelled for blocks. Doctors hurricd into the little cottage and brought out his the A\ cloth. Fach was carrying in one hand a long shiny sword, called a dah, in the other hand a torch lamp. handed me a piece of paper. “It was a note from a government of- ial who was spending the night in the village about a mile away, and stated that a woman and a boy had been in- Jjured with dahs, and asking me to come nd do what I could. “I dressed hurriedly, and, snatching together some bandages and first-aid ma- terial, I followed the naked fellows through the blackness of the night and the denseness of the jungle. My guides Burmese, I was unable to get much information from them, so 1 went along in silence watching the shadows thrown by the lamps. I thought of s, tigers and leopards. 1ddenly, at a turn in the path, we came to the village, all alight with torch- es and fires. A Karen headman was waiting and took me to the scene of the trouble. It was a small house. The woman and her son had been alone when a man entered, and, being recognized, showed fight. The woman tried to drive him away, but he pulled out his dah and slashed about, evidently intend- ing to kill both. “The boy's neck had been slashed and one finger cut off, while the woman had a split in her forechead and her left cheek was cut through. Her right arm was badly hurt, while her left arm was cut off just below the elbow. “I quickly tied up the cuts to stop the bleeding, then bandaged them well, and as 1 didn’t have enough mate- rial to stitch all the wounds, and b e it was an affair for the police, 1 hastened them off to the nearest hospital, which was about sixty miles aw % So hardy are these Karen peo- ple, he explained, that this wom- an did not die and the boy was still alive some months later. Dr. Williams and his party were amazed at the hardiness of the chil- dren. Boys and girls hardly able to alk are inveterate smokers. In fact, throughout Burma men, women and voungsters all smoke. With all their vices and their superstitions and cure-all medicines, they are a care-free, happy- go-lucky people. Otto’s mother, who collapsed, and Karl Omikron. They had slept in a room two doors away from Otto and “Kaiser.” When the doctors came to that room, sure that behind the door was dezth. e boy sprang to his feet, his eyes wide with surprise. He did not know what had happened and cried when he learned “Kaiser” had died. Thus it was that Otto Omikron, who today is the only man on earth who can le deadly and exhale it again without injury to himself, discovered that he is immune to gas poisoning. they wer Otto Omikron, operating two lamps and an iron with gas he has taken into his lungs