Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 9

Roads By JAN M'LEAN, One road leans up and over the hill, And one is the road I know The gypsy call, with its urge and thrill 1s calling me and 1 go. One road dreams And its grasse But the end is no And its simple And mem'ry rustl Quite close to close to the river's grey, s catch at my feet, t too far away, joys are sweet, es her misty gown me as | tramp, And I anchor safe in a little town Where the smel 11 of the sea is damp. But the other road leads up and away And my truant feet must start To tramp its length for many a day At the bid of a gypsy heart. By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. Larly impressions cling most tena clously and echo longest in our memories No matter how basoless or irrational they may be later found to be, they stilt hold us in their grip on our emotional side and hag-ride our imaginations. Some of these fears which are so care- fully tmplanted fn our infant minds had at one time a certain amount of rational baslg and were what the student of ani- mal psychology would term ‘‘protective reactions.” The quivering dread of the davk, for instance, which is now one of our chief obstacles in getting bedroom windows kept open at night, for fear of the boogers that will git you if you don't watch out,” was quite excusable in jungle days when prowling beasts of prey sniffed at the doorway of the hut and swept the strects of the village under cover of night. Itg slster superstition, the profound be- lief in the unwholesomeness of night air, especlally just after sundown, had some justification in tropical and sub-tropical ancestral times from the malaria and yel- low fever bearing mosquitoes which fly at this hour. In similar fashion the panic terror and loathin gand dread which the very word “leper” rouses in our besoms had a cer- tain amount of rational basis in the Mid- dle Ages, when leprosy was almost as common as advanced consumption 18 now and the whole known world was dotted with leper houses and leper colonies. But in this age of sanitation and decent, civilized habits of living, these panic fears are almost as absurdly exaggerated, as utterly out of proportion to the real danger involved, as our fear of the night air and of the dark, The actual danger of any one in these United States dying of leprosy is about as great as being struck by lightning or killed in a rail- road adeldent, and the risk is steadily. diminishing. This, of course, is not for a moment to deny that leprosy is a dreadful and loathsome disease for which no speoific cure is known, and the prospect of whowe trequent occurrence and spread in a com- munity would justly be viewed with horror and alarm. We know the disease as thoroughly as we know tuberculosis or cancer, the ba- ve jtims often work at some handicraft or | occupation which interests them to within a few weeks of the end, and can be made, | within the limits of their disease, almost 18 happy as the average of their fellows By making the sufferers federal wards this would relieve the individual states of thelr responsibility and put an end to the disgraceful bickerings and attempts to shift them to one another, and aleo glve free right of way across their terri- tories for the transportation of the pa- tients in a suitable hospital car, which could be maintained especially for the purpose, What makes this national institution the more necessary is that most of the inmates of the few leper shelters pro- | vided in this country, in Boston Harbor and at San Franclsco, for instance, are Astatlc coolies or other laborers from the tropics of the poorest and least intelli- gent class: and while these are made very comfortable, according fo thelr standards, the atmosphere is, to say the least of it, lonesome and uncongenial for a white patient. When we have taken this step of en- lightenment and protection and justice, particularly to our brave soldlers and sallors who may be called upon to take the risk of contracting this dreadful dis- ease In our tropical possessions, we may safely dismiss all further fear or uneasi- ness about the disease from our minds, for any remaining menace rests almost entirely upon gross misconceptions. The first of these is that the disease is either epreading or likely to spread in civilized countries, or rather in the really civilized parts of so-called clvilized coun- tries. All the evidence points exactly in the opposite direction. The facts of the matter are that, whereas, in the fifteenth, aixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the disease was extremely common all over Burope and sparticularly along its western coasts and, indeed, persisted in Brittany, Spain, Ire- | land and the west coast of Scotland up to the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury, it has now totally disappeared over nine-tenths of this area and lingers only as & medical curiosity in a few scattered | leper colonies along the western coasts of Spain and France and three or four larger ones along the coast of Norway. In fact, the only reglon of the eivilized world in which the disease can be sald cillus that causes it, the different forms which it assumes and every step of its course through progressive cripplings and disfigurements to the fatal end. But with all this, the simple fact of the mat- ter s that more than half our popular beliefs about leprosy are unfounded, and the remainder outrageously exaggerated. We are justified in taking every reason- able and rigorous precaution against the posuible spread of the disease when once it has landed on our shores. But let us at iwast know and face the actual facts, in order that our panic-stricken efforts to protect ourselves may not be as crue and barbarous to the handful of un- fortunate victims as they are shameful ang disgraceful to us. Every year or so the papers are filled with accounts of some unfortunate leper, usually an fmmigrant, or one who has resided in the troplcs, who is literally hunted and caged like a wild beast or fled from like a mad dog. The state in which he is discovered orders him deported, omly to have the freight car in which he is shipped met at the state line by armed guards and turned back. Then he is isolated in some wretched shelter surrounded by half a mile of six-foot barbed wire fence, with his food and water carried to him each day by a guard who retires to a safe d'stance before he allows the captive to ceme out and get it. Finally he is elther shipped, after pro- longed and tremendous dipiomatic negoti- tions between the various states which to some ome of our few leper hospitals, or else, as actually oc- curred only about three years ago, the poor wretch is found dead in his shelter some morning with a bullet through his heart, and everybody breathes a sigh of relief and says: “He was sure to die soon, anyhow, poor creature.’ The latest just in the last few weeks, is that of a soldier in the United Sta army who contracted the disease while on fce in the Philippines and who was entitled to a pension and the best of hospital care like anyc disabled in the of duty, whom various states refused to establish a shelter for or receive him into any existing leper hospital because he had not established a residen Finally, after months of legal obstruction, he was transported in an iron sheathed car, under a guard of armed soldiers, to a leper home tant state, and the car in which he eled solemnly burned with all ment as soon as he was safely de There was actually even serio of sending him clear to Molokai Hawailan Islands, for lack of @ institution in all this wide country There should be established at in the name of humanity and common- sense, for both the peace of mind and prompt protection of the public and the kindly care of these pitiable unfortu- nates, who are ounly discovered on an average about one in tWo years, a ma- tional leper hospital or leprosarium, un- der the charge of the United Btates army or public heaith service Here they could be organized > colony and made almost self-supporting for the disease, with all its loas of finger and toes and even of parts of limbs, i surprisingly slightly disabling. Its vic he must cross, ne yet Just else course pulaver and inads- trav uip- talk n the proper once. to be really alive Is the Scandinavian peninsula, and even here among poverty- stricken fishermen, living in a state of semi-starvation along that sub-arctic coast, it has shrunk from some 10,000 vic- tims—forty years ago—to only a few hun- dred at present. For some reason civilizsation and lep- rosy simply will not meet, and when one comes in the other goes out. A leper at large in a modern community is less than half as dangerous as an ordinary case of consumption, The Seeker ‘Woman Who Has Not Found Herself By BEATRIOE FAIRFAX. “I am a woman of education, a college graduate and am now doing lterary | work which I like. I am just an average irl with a reasonable amount of attrac- tion and calleq good company because 1 am full of life and use my brain. Aetat | thirty. 80 much for so much. I am not a freak nor a genius; just an average person—I like fine things, cultured things —and I love to dance. baps the whole crux of my prob- lem is this: I come of good stock—con- ventional, bromidic people. It Is easy for me to hold the center, to be the leader—but I am not stimulated. I have to some extent go out of my class and I don't belong in any other—at least I don't mect any of the people with whom I do belong. Recently my engagement was broken because my fiance's family, tremendously stald and ponderous people without a gleam of humor, didn’'t ap- prove of my nature. | “What would you Somewhere in be dozens of men my predicament do if you were I? Omaha there must and women in just Isn't there any solu- tion? This letter, which T have reprinted only In part, came to me recently under the signature “Seeker.” It volces what seems to me to bg the greatest tragedy of modern womanhood—loneliness. And loneliness has in out ita ‘own problem A woman as sane and strong and fine as | judge my unknown correspondent to the end to work be will of course work out her problem first she must know Out of that unhapi- | ness new strengh will come, and because of it she will be the finer woman some day, but today that does not help her at | ‘ the all In the signature ‘“Seeker” lies, 1 think, the best answer to her problem. | in much end, unhappiness. but Women who not omly think and work but also feel and long, must always seek, and eventually the search is re- warded—perhaps not just as they would have it rewarded. But fulfillment has to come. That faith is the saving grace that gives one courage to ge on ‘ng. Filends come life ftight- unexpec ‘Through work, tedly through nto one's chance in- troductions, ingly unmomentous new with a volce of all womanhood, seems almost to haye brought me a new friend. I could wish that I knew the woman who wrote it, and say. sisters. We both THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1915 Santa’s “Side-Partner” :.: (A Portrait) Copyright, 1915, Intern'l. News For what would he do—the white old man with the bag on his back—without Love? When folks go squeezing about through shops for whole weary days with just a snatch of lunch, vondering what “Dad” would like that he hasn't already; when women folks sit up o' rights over pale blue slippers and aprons and caps with faery embroidery on 'em; when father creaks in laté with a knobby package under his arm and a guilty flush on his face, to go straight to his own dresser-drawer before he takes off his hat; when little kids dive under chiffoniers with Santa Claus. — ] fight you are making today is worth‘dl.y life and to trust that they are all some worthwhile through all sorts of seem- trifles one gains while. It is the fight of a ploneer, and |tending to carry to The letter, which speaks ploneers always must suffer that those goal. who come after them may find the trall | blazed and the settlement begun.' out and The problem for you is to keep your |woman friends. like you that I could go to her “I am a woman, too. We are understand. And the By Nell Brinkley Service and beds and get dust on their hair pushing something against the wall that they almost bit their small tongues off making, or almost lost their will-power saving for, and beg mother not te sweep under there 'til after Christmas; when lovers leave the office early and sneak about pa- tiently, hunting for something nobody ever had —ever; when grandmas knit mittens and stock- ings; when grand’'thers take slow, feeble trips downtown once a year and come back with boys' eyes—why, then Love's right at the work table NELL BRINKLEY, Not by a definite search, not by golng looking for friends, does a make them. She has sanity and polse, to go on believing In |rather to keep her lamp trimmed, to keep yourself and In the joy of working, to herself in readiness, to be receptive for make friends with the events of every- [ all impressions and all friendly advances. | ful. By GARRET P. SERVISS, Ploase explain the term mass as used The of bodies I8 proportional to their weight.' also the dif- | ference between mass and welght.—Roy Roper, Baird, Tex in physics, as mass | The mass of a body is the quantity of matter that body contains, and it depends | upon the body's density, or the closeness | With which the ultimate particles are | packed together. The welght of a body 18 the force with which the earth attracts it. This force. called gravity, acts equally upon every particle in the body It two bodies are composed of precisely the same state, then their massos will be proportional to thelr mizes, and so will | their weights. But if one of them consists | of & substance denser than that of which the other (s composed, then the denser of the two. although smaller, may possess the greater mass and the greater weight This shows why welght rather than size | 18 used to measure the masa of a body But, still, welght is not the same thing as mass. Welght varies with the distance | from the center of the earth, but mass remains unchanged no matter what the | situation of the body concerned may be. Thus, If you welgh a certain body with & apring balance and then take that | body to some other point on the earth | and weigh it again, in the same manner, | | the weight will vary slightly, owing tu irregularities in the shape of the earth, and to effects rising from the earth's rotation on its axis, although the mass, or quantity of matter in the body, is manifestly unchanged. Tf you were to travel about the uni- verse instead of being confined to the earth, you would very quickly find out the difference between mass and welght. e Advice to Lo‘tlr_e'lgrn Persiatence May Win, Dear Miss Fairfax: I love a girl, good natured, jolly, attractiv thy, In short, everything a man 1i he has a rmd position, makes a fine salary and IQ]JII uurmrl her funll‘y. I love music an 'ond of home life. I am healthy and ally strong. Now, this girl is 1 proposed on account of the am an myself. to her and was refu difference in again and answer in six month she s right, should she again refuse me, in saying difference in age is too much, Bhe has number of admirers and I know for a fact that she refused several proposal ANXIOUS. ‘When a woman marries & man so much younger' than herself she takés a great risk with her future happiness, since ‘when she is i and distinotly middle aged, he is a young man in the eyes of the world, And yet many such marriage have worked out well. 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