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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919 “Health Doctor” of Future Will Do Like Chinese M. D. SAYS DR. LI BI-CU OF CHINA He'll Keep Patients Well Instead of Curing the Ill Chinese “Health Doctor’ Says Our Idea of “Pre- ventive Medicine”’ Follows Chinese Conviction, and Tells How She Plies Her Profession. | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Laat Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Eyming Warld i ars is Bast and West is West and never the two shall meet.” But out of the Bast has come its oldest medical idea—and the West is meeting it with interest and enthusiasm, The most absorbing subject of discussion among the truly pro-! gressive American physicians is “preventive medi cine—how to keep people well, instead of how to cure them after they become ill. Of course, “pre- | ventive medicine” is only another name for the time honored Chinese conception of the “health doctor,” the | doctor who is paid as long as his patients remain in| health, instead of during iliness. H So it was a most interesting coincidence that the two Chinese delegates, Dr. Li BiOu and Dr. Dau, to the International Conference of Women Physicians, | should arrive in New York, and at the conference halls in the Y, W. C, A. | headquarters, No. 600 Lexington Avenue, just in time to attend the ses- sion devoted to a discussion of the “health doctor” and the valuable health education he or ehe imparts, )| ————— peice ie ‘The two little women, tn their plain, @reight skirts and their pajama coats, the infant mortality in China has been something fearful. J have known of really are themselves “health doc-| 80 many cases of women who have tore”—although not in the old, aris-| had from fourteen to eighteen chil- fogratic Chinese sense of baing at-| dren, and of these but three or four Aaghed to a single wealthy household, | would live to grow up. | whose heaven-born members they| “Therefore, 1 have made a special must keep from iliness, But in their] effort to persuade the mothers to Le work among the people, and espe-| confined ut my hospital. a very un- ‘claily among the women and children, | usual thing for a Chi they put special empahsis on hygiene, | do, proper exercive, diet, fresh air and the other sane methods of preventive medicine. “Tt 18 most interesting to mog ad- mitted Dr. Li Bi-Cu when I talked woman to When a baby is born in the hospi tal, it means we hav two weeks. You have no idea | much we can teach ber {0 that time! about the proper care of her child, the | way to feed it, the necessity of the| the mother for how with her at the Y. W. ©, A. headquar- | daily bath, the little one's lunging for! tere, “to see the West is now devoting | fresh air and pure water. Of course, | attention to the old Chinese convic-| too, we conduct a steady pri anda | tion that the proper function of a doc- tor is to keep people well instead of to gure them after they become sick. Dr. Li Bi-Cu speaks fivent English, for, she received her degroe in 1905 ot the Women's Medical College of Penn- #yivania. Then she went home and es from iny point tablished the Lungtien Women's and) of view, is the truly logical doctor. 1 Children's Hospital in Lungtien, Foo-| is to the health doctor that the chow, China. For fourteen years she] will belong. He—or has worked as the head of this hoxpi- ta!, training Chinese women nurses, ating for thousands of Chinese moth- ers and bables and spreading every- where the propaganda against weak- ness and dircare. “What are some of the specific thine you do, as a heulth sostor?” 1 asked against the practice of foot binding, which is begun with sueh little ehil- dren, We huve persuaded many fami- Nes to give up that custom, although there is still too much of it in tie country divtricts “The health doctor sture sho—muy save suffering, such griof and misery, by teaching people the simple things they must do to escape disease. Tt is so much such great witer, so much surer to make well people stay well than to} make sick people climb up the long. | hard road to health “The hospital Nas been established Dr, 14 Bi-Cu. ‘ js0 long that there has been plenty of I begin with the babies,” she | time to prove that among the babdies plied promptly. “You know, Chinese| born under our cave, whose m thers ‘Women have very large families, But! learn the simp! hygiente rules for nnn | keeping « baby well, the death-rate is much smaller th: dabic ALFALFA SMITH. born at home cc eae A! Wie as ee inese mothers are | very affectionate, ; and therefore now rT nt. tee there iy competition among them to tae ee cinta have what are called ‘hospital babies,’ nate Sal who seem to have so much belior admire the hues and shades || °"anee of life.” Th A ‘ 1010, by The ishing Comeasy (Te New York Evening Work.) Parquet at the end of her the preparations of special dishes for seat—make women Then Df. Li Bi-Cu told of a vit of PLE girl, only seven years old, with blazing black eyes and ance; the Duke of Alba ba Patti, who was always frankly intere ® large patch in the preventiv medical work which, black elf Jocks about her pale face, nade her debut as @ pritet;, wreath from bis box ested in her food. Then, in 1894, New ‘or t on i} d ° this . ! 7 trousers adorned with oer “ need not be done in this donna at Niblo's Garden, in this city, sixty-nine years ago. There | Queen of Spain sent a f!York heard other rumors. Patti be- fashionable to wear pid y by our coming “health doc- | must still be persons in New York who remember that debut of Adelina | sapphire and diamond ngs. gan make numerous displays of ag Shewhen Make it cal ates ae Patti, the made-in-America “Queen of Song,” who has just died at the| At twenty-five she married for the |temperament, refusing to appear in ing what bea ne beat thin ' « 6 ¢ he fortuna nan m g | scheduled certs « ‘ Be menatag what we Pe k Hig? nk we | age of seventy-six, after one of the most picturesque and eventful careers, | "St time, the fortunate man heing | scheduted concerts and finally | ‘what is not necessary o Sor ARiNe Healthy,” sho observed | oi oS ihe cindersiie of grand opens, rising from poverty and misery |Henri, Marquis de Caux, Equerry to | America with unwonted suddenness Pree Sy Siscarding Ree eRe SAMAR LO0t Te tiente thane o bi Sry | Napoleon Hl, described as having | It Was hinted that Nicolini had gro Mold! Rather let tap re wives, x P. mae ¥ , " e m | the hysiognomy of a horse dealer } less appreciative, that he no longer now $807 t is frequently the question for atti and her silver-pure voice, Patt! and the thousands per perform-| yng auout the hardest and sharpest |aasured her daily that her voice was Muchas the'price to the rich Chinese man to have a num. | ance she asked for and obtained; Patti and her three husbands; Pattl) pai. or eyes ever seen in a man's! the greatest on earth, and that he adorn ourselves just er of wives in his household—per- | und her chameleon hair; Patti and ber gfernal youth—how well New York | head, The marri was far from{even ventured to protest over “the @bout a $25 suit to aps as many 4a# he can support. | remembers this “songstress” (as the old crit’es called her) and her famous | happy, as, under the French law, the | money lose” when she post- But th p Bhould we worry re hat ar Angement makes for un achievements! That very first night of her appearance she so capti-|Marquis had control of his wife's | poned a concert Why? ogee gow the women, and] vated her somewhat scanty audience—she appeared in the rather third-jearnings, and she even intrusted her| He died in 1898, an@ the next time when you are ny yor » ver: la ps ‘ >| sh 4 " wearing. likely not eS A Mare y 9 rate opera-company to which her father and mother belonged—that the | diamonds to a friend for fear that he|she came to New York she brought human peege, ore naw ag Gy Megat! Le Dhighibad *| notrons went out after her first song, “Una Voce,” and brought their |S"ould substitute paste for them Bhs her third husband, Baron Rolf Ceder- iT of new. © Oppose more an one | wa it divorce anc came 6 | stro who she ud urvie oy peeres Fou at the raiment f ; friends to hear this child at the doll-playing age sing ner second number. | *2* finally divorced and Became the | strom, whoin she had m a 1 28F you, my brethren, look wife for one home. ira Sonaanenian fe of Signor Nicolini, an Iallan }at her Welsh castle, Craig-y-Nos, He I therefore beseech ‘After teaching the mothers to care ws . Fi . senor singer was a Swedish nobleman, but at the too big to mend. for their babies” continued Dr. Iai) | She was | ten aly \ end ot the dew lattes hak anal ewan eith ha ‘ our years carlier, however, time his marriage director of the the seat of my trousers Bi-Cu, “we try to make physical ex. | York pavements, for although a! wee - ; > | 1881, she began her American tours. | Swedish Gymnastic Institute in Lé minati f , vorn in Madrid of Italian parents, st ing Jog, where she held the girl} & deficiency appear in aminations as often as necessary of untey when she vas |UD till help come |Her first appearance at this time, was don, He was a handsome young man, get too shiny or the owing children and young | told, and ahe has said| New York remembers, too, har firat |!" the same New York Academy of}and the latter years of the singer's ike daould my coat girls, no that If anything ix wrong | "8 tar rite pastime when ahe {formal operat eee ie Acccdeney | Music where she had earned such }tife have been with him have to pay for new with them we can correct it before | | /Aviatdaae ptaseeke vie bregisg cey PR Re 1450, where, at the age j*Picndid ‘plaudits ay a sixteen-yeur The most perfect y the fait of the price | will the: tendency becomes pronounced,| VO4 # ttle girl was rolling & Hoop) oe tet aha sang “Iacla di Lam | old She was, of course, the} nineteenth century" has been con-l We find many gastri¢ ‘oud! vo es seine . aap t , , ini Z . . ensatio f winter 1 a t rat N Beeeeet of adornment, th gzpadhe paguie w penne nh Meecker Street, and later on 22d] Mermoor." Her wonderful soprano | neation o} winter, and | ceded critically to Pa ew York @nys, not with any poor people, caused by cating wrong]. ot aetwoen Highth and Ninth|#et the audience aflame with delight. |the following year she sung at vurters first remember her as a small, With my clothes these teod, In bad years, WHER They My eee eee ee are almost destitute [ed enthusiasm, and with i earned {ReWly opened Metropolitan Opera] slight person Chow can so litle getting better acquaint ho rice, they sllee potatoes into! y ine time of her first public appear: | What was then the remarkable salary | House, At that time she wus re-}woman make so much n some- I confess 1 am hips and dry them for the winter | ince, “Don't sell your beautiful tu $100.0 week. Again she toured the; ceiving $5,000 a might and she in-| body asked after her first appear elves. and spring, Huch chips ure not ea8-| 9 Oise pin, pas no urged her anx- | Principal cities of the United States, |#iated on “handling the money” be- | with jet black haly, eyes and others or to please them- lly digested, we find i ean he ‘Let me help you: Tecan | this time singing in opera, and then| fore every appearance eyebrows, dark and richly colored to attract the attention of “The Chinese women have never had | ying wel enough, and I will be a little | went to England, where» In New York she made her home at] complexion, After her hair turned the bottom) rkirts all much exercise, and that is unott ers Aanes cated her success by appearing |the Hoffman House, where she fre-| red her complexion magically whiten- yard and a quarter (round thing we urge upon them, to keep|” gne aid * to pers {at Covent Gurden in “La Sonnam-| quently entertained her friends in the |ed, with just a touch of strawberry trousers, shoes, neckties, them wall, mit er pe n their be-| buli late afternoon of the days she did not | red in the cheeks. She kept her youth ancestors put on hats, “All the time we talk fresh alr—!t] jongings from the pawnshop, for New| That was the beginning of her |S!" amazingly; when she made her fare say, our ADAM AND EVE is so hard to get them to open the| york uccopted her aa it# pet child | uropean conquests, for she did not] Patti, to the extreme interest of | Well tour in 1904 she was well over | ment ONLY. That is to windows in their homes. And many] prodigy, ‘Then she toured the coun-|return to this country for twenty|New Yorks returned to us in Sixty, yet she was described as not forsthe purpose of adorn- baths, we tell them, are necessary | 1 py ng even to the West Indies | years, Mowever, New York followed} with her dusky locks transfor to more, than thirty-five, and originally wore clothes for health, fund South America. Sho was so Nitle [ier career with apeoial Interest, re=|into a beautiful Titian red [without a wrinkle. Her recipe for animal called man hia work is the true work of the lthat at each concert she stood on a|mombering that it had given her afelared she had done it because she | Youll was the Aveidate of wor matter up, I find that the doctor,” concluded Dr, Li Bi-Cu, “Of] chalr beside the piano, frequently | start read of how royalty enter-|did not care to wear a blonde wig )8NG 4 sinbie, meMulan Mle Having looked the course, we care for persons Who are} holding her favorite dol! in her arms, | tained her, how her hotels were|when she sang Juliet, ‘The contrast | oity, wore estimated as Worth a mi I wonder! Ml, but we do not use much With the proceeds of her performs | stormed by wildly cheer owls, | with her dark eyes and brows was! Lars, she is You wear clothes? jeine, We believe that nature willlances a comfortable brick mansion for| how men of every 4 In life lay- | piquant, she admitted naively 1 $4.6 ey with her EAR FRIEND: Why do | help more than drugs.” lher family was bought in Mi, Vernon, | ‘shed attentions and fortunes upon! that “Nicom is charwed with the] Voce Maen BAUS «ae ORR OY (The Xow Yors bsening Word.) Then whe and Dr. Dau MIN. ¥ mad ny friends of her | her {or ia’? i ott a8 .u hurried | ¢ made many friend \ change did” is the etful comment on her perma, 1910, vy the Ieee Pubtioning Co, away to go shopping for new fall/own age there, and rescued one gi Wher she appearedsin Madrid two! Me was at first, apparently, an ideal | passing, uttered by many New York @pf 4 hats, which proves, if anybody | om drowning, after she had fall wadred beautiful canary birds, each | husband, and New York heard how at | (ads to-day, J count myselt Alp valet Govisted jt, that a heulth doctor may! into a deep woodland pool during u| vith a colored ribbon around itslthe Hoffman House be even used to Visit to this gity. “Ady heart is ere phils uch of a human Woman! yutling cagureion Jal plunged in! uook, were loosed irom the boxes and gv dowa to ihe klicken aud sUpCLViN® always,’ { ina a Cath aman aC Adelina Patti As New Yorkers Remember Her Famous Prima Donna, Who Died Saturday at 76, Made Her Debut in New York, at Niblo’s Garden, When She Was Only a Little Girl of Seven—First Formal Operatic Debut Was Made When She Was 16—Then Began a Career New Yorkers Followed With Interest—Her Professional Successes, Her Three Marriages, Her Jewels and| Fortune. a. A MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919 One Year Azo To-Day New York Guardsmen 27th Division, A. E. F. Broke Hindenburg Line On Sept. 29, 1918, New York State Troops, Com- manded by Major Gen. John F. v’ Ryan, Counter Attacked on Three Sides by Enemy’s Reserves, in Hand-to-Hand Fighting That Rolled Up a Terrific Casualty List, Smashed Germany's ‘Impreg- nable’’ Defenses. ea By Eugene J. O’Brien. Former Sergeant, 27th Division, A. E. F. mright, A919, by ‘The Pros Publ EST we forget battles in the European wa Pa hing Co. (The New York E Word ~today first anniversary of one of the greatest On Sept. 29, 1918, the National Guards- men of the State of New York, commanded by Major Gen. John F. O'Ryan, atiacked and broke the Hindendurg Hne at its strongest potnt. Today a number of these guardamen—those of them who returned are engaged in various walke of civil life—perhaps will go through the day without once thinking that one year ago they were a cog in a great machin: that was weeding out Prussianism. Those of the division who will remea. ver Sept, 29 may ehudder at the thoughts of the events of this day one year ago. The relatives the heroes who fell on this day, however, will always re- member this day and hold it sacred. | into pattle- |away formation jog-figt and, dik it f ntegrating inelved Hundreds of graves dot the feld of Picardy midway between| It would be unfuir to the whole Cambrai and St. Quentin, for it is| division to detail the deeds of valur [here that most of the victim: that were so numerous ,in this battle ( Divis fell. We canno jin such a brief account. A protective lexe graves to pay our respects to ue was laid down on the op those who died facir enemy, but os tannel position and : t leoat tomer the day, tte New Yorkers continual the task ciara Pekar che towns. (Sf MOPPNE Up every nook and cor bh ate A ere atiemont, the er in the tunnel, They established hole aba eat ; ap positions in advance of the main sys dialed Aap ge 7 > wht em of the Hindenburg line and held sea are strewn, will take care on until! the Australians passed p little plots bearing the names Of) i oueh them on the 30th yur fall As a token of grat Hundreds of the New York guards tude. men were not content with what they \ For two sh ae oe talants had accomplished and joined the prember 3 aria’ Australians and “carried on’ with omposed of the 105th, 1 parts them until they fell exhausted the und 2d New Y juard & The “impregnable Hindenburg line ments, and the lith, with PALO ©} wag Hroken, however, and through the Mth and 47th Regiments hole m by the 27th Division British n, had the task of breaking jos vicioriously flowed. Hindenpurs puter defenses of t It was during this terrifie fighting After two days of Rtrenuets thar some of these orders were issued the outer defenses of the 4. Gon. O'Ryan: “If the gun team nable’ Hindenburg line were”, t remain here alive it will rv wrecked, but the human loss bMd ain here dead, but in any case, It oon terrific will n her ‘Should any man, rhe Sith Infantry Brigade, ¢ through shell ck or other cause, posed of the 107th, with parts of t empt to surrender he will remain sth and Ist N. Y. Guard Regimen 4 nd 1osth, with parts of the 74iN, ? ¢ New York guards- and 3d.N. ¥. Guard Regiments, + ago to-day, Should eved the torn remnants of the 106) 4, fon uy entirely oblit j Infantry erate this fighting from our minds? ly on morning of Should we not remember this day as the eventful day—the entire dvisiOBs! 1) voars poll on? hind a harrage from artill - ———— — massed wheel to wheel and supp —- ~— by forty tanks, "bit" int e } eS ee TWO MINUTES weve worms oc tie erates if 0-1 OR OPTIMISM ing ever done ‘on any front or | i | war By Herman J. Stich ‘The Germans, warned by the fees liminary fighting, quickly rushe Copytiaht, 1919 by The Press Publishing Ga nts into thelr tunnel (The New,York Evening World Shon. force! the strong point of the concret> en 1 Hindenburg line, and the troops | they assembled were the best (he¥] ¢ ¢ me ip you ever notice,” said the could bring to bear, It was throu Chief, “that when sowe ! hurricane of hine gun and artillery people have climbed a te fire that the w Yorkers charved ©M-} pyngsy on life's ladder, instead of Of the forty tanks that went OV¢'l taking advantage of the fact taat with the infantry waves something} they can look further on, they «em like six reached their objective, the} to swell up physi and. shrink remainder went out of action eiLher) mentally til) from the little height from tank traps the enemy had laid) they've reached they grow dizzy and or from direct artillery hits, but With) op with what a nowspaper writer these odds against them the 27th) would call @ dull, heavy, lifeless fought on with a flercene ss that should] thud?” be written indelibly in the history of eminds me,” continued the Chief, the world’s war. of a chap whose name I have The enemy by the hundreds flooded} forgotten but whose good-natured jut of the rabbit holes in the tunnel |Duteh employer dubbed him ‘Shon,’ to be slaughtered as they came to} “Shon had started as an office boy the surface of the earth. Those whojand had been udvanced to chiet urvived after the passing of the first} clerk, and since his pr ynotion he ayaa turned the machine guns on|had on almost haif a dozen ocea- “Tithe backs of the advanel nen and | sions struck hoes for a raise : ich he always One day manned them until they their | Which } w 1 he had been put out of actign, | came ar und to the boss and again Phe mm rves w g . jsheltered in the tunnels flowed out was pretty and beatd Jtrom both ends and ahead and coun- | 'he old Dutchman's bonnet was dis- ‘i 1 multaneously from turbed by the bee that Shon was al- ‘ Ee Vt mm the town of Vend ready getting somewhat more than he was worth m he heaviest counter attack was | ie the heaviest ¢ ‘Shon, he said I tink @ bays launched with the intention of rolling) vou putty vell alretty yet; vat for £ jup thé American 1 : flank i hu: Ipaye' sou vome more Seren Br os division bad not | rts foamed to bo just what Ghen 4 sha, ** | was loo tdvanced ip accordance with the ,lun Se ee ecaniceainae! tack and the position of the New Yorkers was dangerous. A battalion f the 107th and one of the 106th, wit two machine gun battalions, met the he answered. ‘Tam acquainted with your business, and the e fact of th tion is smash every detal Je | irrefuti your that firm would go to ‘counter attack, It was repulsed, but | without me. the Boohes came on again, Casual-| + ts dot so? said the Dutchman, ties on both sides were terrible, Shon, vot T do s'pose you die Bombs, bayonets, rifle butts end even At would be extremely unfors teeth and fists were not uncommon.|tunate both for you and for the con. Hand-to-hand fighting was in evi-| cern,’ replied Shon, ‘but then you ldence everywhere. Let no one think} would be compelled to get along that enemy Jsomenow or other, 1 presume morale or were fr “the old Dutchman very goede jfought — flercely heir opponents | naturedly took a few long pulls from were madmen at this point, making |nistory for the State of New Yoro, and they lost. The terrible slaughter on the icht caused this dank again to his pipe Riess dead!’ he finally said, ‘Show, , f ou potter gonsider yourself * iniveeilts'>