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[By A. G. G. 19 THE “Day News
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It is useful at times to withdraw our
Allies and carrying on his activities sise- where, the fact suggests that he believes that internally Germany can hold out over the critical period while he avoids a decision and a disaster and while the
NEW HOPE FOR THE WOUNDED."
OF NATURE.
SWATTING" MOSQUITOS:
Ono of the very first questions con- cerning the immutable laws of nature that ocear to the inquisitive juvenile mind is Why are mosquitos 1 says an minds from the dominion of this erent submarine is carrying out the real offer HOW SCIENCE USES THE FORCES American paper. In the course of an or that and to try to see the drift of sive on which all the hopes of the enemy average intellectual development, we events as a whole. It is not easy, for are now concentrated should say, this bailing query is first pro each event is it comes up Recing so criti pounded at about the age of 3. The cal that it leaves no room for any other Infant pasce, through his youth, en ly consideration. We are like mariners manhood, middle age and old age, annually seeking in vain a satisfactory
answer.
ANAVAL GAMBLE,
Take the German retreat for example, tish Navy is, by a fatal stroke, put out The first impulso was to hail that event of action the war will be at an end. with unqualified rejoicing And inasmuch
Of the special: healing establishmentak that the war has called into existence one. of the most interesting and useful is they Red Cross Olinic at 196, Great Portland- street, W. It differs from other clinics in that it is devoted exclusively to physi cal treatment. Here disabled officers are treated by the elemental forces of Nuture the influence of hot and cold water and air, mechanical energy of all kinds, and electrical energy and currents,
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The visitors were greatly impressed by the demonstration of the whirlpool Baths which are applied to stiffened and wounded limbs and are development of the flowing water bath that has been used. in France. The whirlpool baths give the effects of hydro-massage. The electricall produced current is so strong that th
For that is what the war has boiled through a stormy sea, at on itself down to in German thought Mili moment swallowed up in the crough of tary decisions that will end the war are the waves, at the next, mounting to the no longer in mind. The operations on kkies, now seeing the stars shining land are now only intended to mark time To most of the other problems offered through the cloud-rack, then looking out while the submarine starves England, by life be can, with reasonable diligence, on a veil of impenetrable blackness into surrender. We do not know how find more or less satisfactory solutions. But these momentary fluctuations, though long the Germans have allowed for that but at this one, ho sticke.
And so he they play with the emotions of the voy- operation. They may believe in their pses into the sere and yellow, and at ager, give little clue to the great tendency capacity to finish it before their own To a spellbound company, which the age of 96 or thereabouts, with coun- of the voyage. They may be significant case beconice urgent in May and June included medical officers from Canada. tenance deeply wrinkled by the perennial or insignificant. We can only measure If they find they have over-estimated and Australia, Dr. Fortescue Fox de strain of this grest, riddle, as the breath their importance by their relations to destructive strength we may be certain monstrated recently the whole proocas of of life gently flickers away he murmurs the whole such of the forces engaged of one thing. There will be a desperate physical treatment, which the Royal in senile wonder: Why are mosquitos ? And at the best we can take but a vague attempt to inflict the coup de grace with Society of Medicine considers is destined SQUARE" Moral philosophers, of course, meaning guess at the nature of the aum made up the Navy. Hopeless, you any? Well, it to hold a very important place among those who have more morality than philo- of incalculable and disparato quantities. will be a gamble that they can afford, for the branches of medical science. Starting sophy: have undertaken to explain, the THE UETITEAT
if their Navy is sunk they will be in no in the Douchs Boom, he showed the tonic purposes of mosquitos. On the suppositi
worse position on shore, while if the Bri-effects produced by the Scotch Douche," tions theory that nothing, in nature is
in which jets of water at contrast tem without a beneficent purpose, we used to
peratures are made to play simultaneously be fold learnedly that the mosquito con
locally or over the whole body. These donches produce wonderful effects on nen sumed malaria germs and other things in the retreat was a confession of failure_____ / WHY BLINDFOLD UN ! the air and, so proved himself a kind to hold the line that hut traction was but unless we repline what is in the Ger- suffering from nerve and spine troubles. the same room is a manipulation bath, friend to man. In view of the good thus more than two years the satisfaction conferred the incidental stinging done well founded. But as the event has pro man mind we are hending for destruc which a limb or the whole body is;
assured and
tion. We have refused to see whit the by the insect was to be considered lightly. ceeded we have become less use with main tendency of the war from the Ger- immersed in water. Men with limbs that
more suspicious.. People who used to talk this way, have oval has been made without loss, that man point of view had become. We have have been stiff for six and eight months ing learned of it in recent years, havby making a desolation between the two allowed ourselves to be hectored into have found their muscles rolaxed after a
perhaps, that it was non-
line, it has neutralised the preparation for fits of on vulnerable heel by treatment sens has been denwustrated that the of months and seriously delayed the the gibherings of the Fank hole Another tonic bath is the neration bath, mosquito's favourite habit is to load up delivery of the blow that had been con- fanatics. Even now do we see the full which has the stimulating effcet of sir his systent with poison of some sort or templated. In a senses it has restored the measure of the danger? Are we hut and water thrown on the body. It is like another, and then seek out some human native to the enemy, giving hinihirying our heads in the sand? I was a loan or surf Intl in the beach in the victim to inoculate. From all appens breathing time, und enabling him to col in the House of Commons a month ago Tropica, and is generally given at about The Sedative Fool Bath, ances this is the only joy that life affords fect his forces for the offensive of his and heard Sir Edward Carson declare blood hent to mosquito, and it is all that is accomon, choosing. For the moment he has that he would never conceal from his which four or five patients can take at the plished by him during his brief lifetime, left us beating the air and wondering
countrymen,” etc., and that ho intended, same time, was next shown. It is a execpt to provide an ample number of what it has up his sleeve, henceforth to tell the whole truth about revival of a form of treatment which was descendants to carry on the work. We know that in the past Hindenburg's submarine destruction And instead of in operation thousands of years ago, and Now even the most foolish optimist poles has been a defensive in the west telling us more, he has concealed imore--is applied to many conditions of nervous would scarcely venture to claim, that the and crashing blows on the other fronts infinitely more. We used to know day by depression and disorders of the heart. transmission of disease and suffering to It was the repudiation of the policy at day the ships that had been sunk, their The water flowing gently at about humanity is a beneficent purpose." If Verdun, followed by failure, that made names, their individual tonnage, the fate degrees below heat, has a most powerful the mosquito has a beneficen purpose, it him absolute master of German strategy of their crews. All that has been stop-sedative effect, can be no other than to serve as a chasten: It is possible, of course, that he has ped. Instead, we get a weekly summary ing influence upon the lives of men As changed his policy, but it is not likely which leaves us absolutely in the dark as flens exist only to keep dogs from forget: There has been suggestion that he is to the essential fact that of loss of ting that they are dogs, so mosquitos may going to invite a war of movement in tonnage. I leave out of the question the be designed by nature to induce a proper France, but the fact that a hint of that breach of promise, and ask, Is this wise humility to mankind, and also to impress has appeared in the German communi Ought the nation at this moment to be upon the race the tremendous importance is enough, apart from anything kept in the dark The Germans know of trifles, p
else, to throw doubt on the idea. He is Why shouldn't we know? Why should A close acquaintance with mosquitos more likely to be found in May ham we drift to peril blindfold? effectively shatters several wild and extra-mering at the gates of Italy, in the vagant notions - that- BRYD somehow hope if breaking that link in the Alliance.
What is the result Kept in ignorance, developed concerning the tribe. There is, If he could bring Italy to her knees lie we are not facing the food issue, nor the for instance, the notion that surgical work would have opened a door in the blockade ship building issue. It is true that we on the human race is only performed by and made the submarine situation in the are laying down standardised ships and the loud-singing mosquitos, and that these Mediterranean still more serious. He that America is laying them down too; are the females of the species. This is would have established himself between but car whole conception of shipbuilding Other features of the clinic are ridiculous, and no one with decent us and our Saloniko army that army reeds revolutionising. It is trifling with mechanical appliances for restoring reapert for the cause of beminism can which makes such a formidable demand the matter to aim at getting back to functional activities of legs, arms, cherish such a preposterous delusion upon her transport resources and whose something like the pre-war-standard of Angers and for measuring the muscu Possibly the lond singers are the females, remoteness from the source of supplies is buildingWe ought to build on a now power of disabled limbs. These meas and the comparatively modest and silent always a grave risk. It is conceivable seals altogether, is we made munitions cmnts play an important part in one es be the expecked males, hut the that, apart from the direct results of 4) on a new scale. It is not enough to all treatment, for they enable the dog fatter are quite is vicious in their dur successful offensive against Tinly, he may the present slips. New slips should be to see the exact results produced. gery, and even more exasperating, because regard this as the true line of attack on put down in every shipyard, and every of their sneaking manners
is of capital importance that Italy should providing them with abundant fabour. the Balonika position. In any case, consideration should be subordinated to There is also a pleasant illusion that be well equipped to meet an attack which screen constitute adequate sortications if it is made, will be made on the grand
But this can only help us months hence CANTON mosquitos in the house. There is scale. She has abundant men. Has she It is the position now and in the im
nothing in it. Whether the insects abundant material
medinte inure which is alarming. We the wires as horizontal bars, and by some
are told in two-foot letters that our food supplies are low, but what of the men contortionisud gill swing thetaselves through the sznair openings, or whether But whatever "Hindenburg's intention | aures that are being, taken to reduce they have discovered the secret of the may be, it has been compromised by consumption? They are inadequate and fourth dimension, no one seems to know recent events. While he has in a sense worse. Lord Devonport's voluntary ap But they do come through streens in large recovered the initiative by his retreat in peal, as we now know, has done harm numbers and apparemly without dim the West, he has lost by the movements and not good. It has made people curtys
thermal in the East. The capture of Bagdid, economise in ment, but it has actually fazanything favourable may be said on coupled with the Russian advance from increased the consumption of bread. this subject, it is in the interests or sport. Parsin and Armenis, has jeopardised the And the danger point is not meat but In his city, from the muuule of July tu whole Turkish position, and if that posi wheat. I am aseared that vo could kill.
She was sandpapering propellers Lethe middle of September, the dominans tion is not to be entirely lost, and with hity per cent of our home stocks without
indoor sport 18 mosquito-hunting.it the German dominion in the Balkans, danger to the milk supply or reproduc figure of a woman, with bright thread
large acroplane factory slight Possibly it is a sporting instinct that Hindenburg must come to the rescue with tion, and in doing so increase the com: silver running through her soft bu prompts the practical discontinuance of all the support he can give sumption of meat, save the tenang, on hair and a proud and happy light ship
municipal anti-mosquito campaigo, And the revoltition Russia is a fuller, substantially increase our
in her deep set hazel evos soon after the Summer is well started. further complication. If that vast event stores of wheat
The best weapon for this purpose is an is consolidated one immediate result
She was by no means the only won ETL-WASHES AND REALITIES engaged on this somewhat monotois all-wire flyswatter The mosquito is a should fellow Russia ispired by the And now we are threatened with a task, but an intense eagerness and gamey insect, as elusive as a trout, and breath of liberty, should at Inst be for house-to-house inspection of our larders joy in her work that her earnestness cel the hunt makes for hot work, but anmidable in the war. The revolution in Cannot we stop these futile eye washes not suppress set her apart. expert hunter can make an hour yield a ita main manifestation has followed with rich return: There is a subtle fascination curious exactness the course of the French Cantiot ye yet see that it is in control. She must to beginner, I about the sport but without prejudice it Revolution, and it may be expected to ing distribution and not in looking intens. I watched her bending over her w
a smile of satisfaction. But may be said that men are usually better reveal the same astonishing military larders that the remedy, consists. I have with a hunters than women. The latter do not energy that was exhibited by the French rged for months past that the bold skilfulness of her quick, dexterous ha seem to find in it the same spiritual on the morrow of the revolution. In any course is the sound course that the only dismissed the suggestion as absurd exhilaration that they get from swatting case. Hindenburg no discount of economising is by communal dis; the wonderful determination that radinį flies. In the zest of the fly hun, the lady Russia, our the ground that Getirany tribution Thit will save us 30.cent of from her, was not born of the enthusia of the house never hesitates to swat the friend, the Tanritsu is taking care of our food, do justice all round and of the novice but of the same grand spi bald spot on the back of friend husband's Germany's interests. The Taaritsa is secure a standard of foot, values for the that his seat Britain's men to fight at head, but she would seldom do this for a under arrest, and the revolution has put that will serve, and that will not serve toil
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Moisan mother Of her three sons | Hauenburg's designs in and are sub-be ulurint. I believe and in this I an fighting uge two have gained the D.C.N and a third has been recommended fo servient to his designs at Sea. We can expressing not my own but the most the Military Cross. Her husband an not too often repeat that" this - is no instructed view obtainable-that we shall A Berlin correspondent says --I met longer primarily, a war of armies, but get through the peril But it will only the father of the brave boys is an ol a diplomatist just returned from Brus war of the starvation of nations. We bo by severe trial and by the storiest Campaigner who was served with th
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When the great European War brake murder. He could not sleep and was a hunger. They have had years of short-
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soldier spirit, and August, 1914, ond was haunting hius, and once he exclain complative We know that their position GERMAN OFFICERS WHIPPED BY ready for battle against the foes of again in the ranks of those tager ud ed I can state before God I was not is serious, that food riots are increasing,
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But he'd far rather be at the front! eyes for a moment from her work.
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the war as that described in these columns The hatred of the Gerisis in Constan by that most veracious of witnesses, Mr. tinople is reaching extraordinary propor, H. M. Tomlin on, if the enemy believed tions, and Enver Fasha, who is generally that they might soon have to ask for called the only pro German in Turkey, quarter from the foes they have insulted has been warned that his days are nums and outraged. And If Hindenburg's bered if he does not resign. There is policy is a slow withdrawal in the West general war sickness throughout Turkey to the Mouse laying waste the country where misery is spreading among all
bind him to impede the advance of the classes to society.
Trily she spoke us the of herves sweethearts have done in the past thirty thousands of mothers, wives, and months with never a sign of the dread and fear that every woman feels for a loved one. The honour and glory that cover this deeds and sacrifices of the true sons of the Empire are reflected in no less degree upon the women who have smiled while they have helped to buckle on the armour of those who have gone forward to fight G IVY SANDERE..