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THE ANIMALS' MAGNA CHARTA.
AN ACT THAT SHOULD
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3. L. Bensusan, writes ju the Daily Chronicle -
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
THE LAWN TENNIS TEMPERAMENT,
WAY THE GAME IS SO FASCINATING.
THE CURES OF LOURDES.
HOW THEY ARE RECORDED.
A great deal of interest bas recently been created by accounta af miraculous aures, which are
to pilgrimages to attributed Lourdes.
waters.
I think I have discovered one of the reasons for the great Lovers of animals are hardly popularity of lawn teania, says a aware of the provisions of the Daily Chronicle writar. It is quite
In his book, Twanty Cures at Animals (Anesthetics) Act, which extraordinary., This is my third became law last year; it is to be season at the
For Lourdes, Dr de Grandmaison даде feared that this measure is being two years I was contant to be relates instances in which people more honoured in the breach than known as a rabbit" at the game who have been suffering from in the observance.
that is, an extremely poor player. arrible diseases, in many cassa The Bill was a private mem-But this year I scorn such an believed to be incurable, have ber's Bill, and failed to full the epithat. I pride myself I have got been restored to health on visit hope of those who promoted it out of the duffer stage, and aming Lourdes and bathing in the Locked upon with a certain really a very tolerable player.
He also gives some interesting amount of suspicion in the Com-Perhaps just the leastest bit in mons, emasculated in the Lords, the world above the avarage, facts relating to the life and work of Dr Boissarie, who was for a delivered to the public full of to pai it по stronger. tairly obvious inconsistencies, You see, I am getting rather long time closely connected with and neglected rather than en-confident of my skill. That is the work of healing the sick at
Lourdes. forced to-day, it is still a measure the secret of the bold the game Dr Bolasarie was born in the that must command respect, has on its votaries. because it marks a definite step When you have played lawn south-west of France in 1537, in the right direction.
tennis for a fax seasons you can-and after studying in the Paris Don't miss these two records, they are Certain operations are speciñed not, try as you will, under-hospitals qualiñad as a doctor. Ha commenced to practice, says You game. in six schedules, and it is laid estimate your down that in all these, horses, develop a clean forehand drive, the writer, in his nativa place, absolutely the latest, and are both tuneful and dogs, cats and bovines are to be True, it does not always come and it was here that the accounts under the influence of either off, and your back hand, which of the remarkable recoveries at some general or Ipcal anesthetic has a troublesome tendency to Lourdes aroused his curiosity. He went to Lourdes, and so novel. If you wish to secure them place your order of suficient power prevent get out of control, is not quite
them feeling pain.
what it ought to be, but it invari- struck was be by what he wit A person convicted under the ably gives evidence of such nessed that he subsequen ly madə. long stays at the grotto every Act-unfortunately, there are amazing possibilities that very few opportunities for getting moments of exultation you com-year, and in 1991 brought not his first work, Lourdes Histoirs
early, we have only a few dozen of each.
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information with a view to con-pare iz not unfavourably to Maticule, which initiated the dis-
victions-is liable to a fine of 25 Tilden's.
in respect of a first offence, and What is it about-lawn tennis cussion of the cures in the to as much as £25 for subsequent that differs from any other formscientific world. On the death offences, with imprisonment for of apart that should lead one on of the president of the BureaD, any term not exceeding three to form such extravagant notions are succeeded to that office, months. The Ministry of Agri-of one's play? At golf if you where he was to labour untiringly
for twenty-five years. culture may add to the list of cannot get round the 'course
Reunions of those who had operations scheduled, or may under 272 strokes, the fact that kransfer an operation from out you are not a first-class player is been cured were instituted by schedale to another, that is to written on your card. At cricket, him and were held every year at say, may enforce general antes at football, at hockey your im- Paris, when the most striking thesis to place of local anas periactions and lack of skill are cares of the year were described thesis, or vice versa.
*** of Brat-class medicii, bore home is a je pomista fin de able terme. But at lawn tennis men. The crown was set to the WEAPON FOR ANIMAL LOVERS-it is apt 30.
labours of Boisearie and to the The Ministry may also declare
fame of Lourdes in the historic any substance to be suitable as a THE CHARM OF OPTIMISM. month
The of July 1914. general or local anaesthetic, but It seems to be the one game in "Eucharistic Congress" was then any Order of this kind must be which you can make mistake beld there. a second time, and poablished for a period of three after, mistake and not notice it.addresses were delivered by months in draft, and objectors Your one good drive, your single Cardinals, Bishops, and eminent must be heard. Even then the successful smash, your fluky pas«. laymen. Order has to go to Parliament ing shot, each makes full amends: After a long illness, brought os and be laid for 30 days before for all your pass errors, and you be the strain of the each House, either having the regard that unique ace as you: Beissarie died in 1917. power to annot such Order. The true form. Act applies also to Scotland and Ireland.
It is
war. Dr.
The sick poor sent to Lourdes
A RECORD OF THE CURES. If you are partnered in a doubl and go down it is not you who|
The author also explains how not necessary. and it lost the match. Your partner every affort is made to make sure would not be pleasant, to go was of bis game or missed that all the recoveries purporting through the schedules attached strokes that he should have taken to have resulted from visits to to the Act, for they deal with You were playing quite a good Lourdes are really genuine. most painful operations, and a game. It is quite eerie the with the great pilgrimages are copy of the measure may be jacity for self-deception engender- bought from any booksellerforthejed by lawn lennia.
only allowed to estrain, he asserts, modest pace of one penny. The 1 bare been playing in one or on producing a medical certificate. whole point of this paper is to of two tournaments lately, and detailing the actual state of their! call the attention of those who one of my delights is to listen to health. If this document is want. love animals to the fact that Par- the comments of players on their ag io precision; if the incurability liament has placed a weapon of handicaps. They are invariably of the disease, its duration and kint in their hands, an ill-over-handicapped. Fancy gi character, are no: clearly enough made weapon, even a trancateling me 15." as one player. established, or if the case is one one.. but a weapon non the less. It's a.walk over for me. Bu of a fonctional disease, such as and it is for thein to see that it is when the match comes off it is in hysteria, with its multiple mani- not allowed to become ineffective.the nature of a walk over for the festations,
At the present moment we opponent.
Stanted.
admission is
no:
have thousands of unqualifed But the vanquished player is: This applies only to the sick practitioners going from farms to not abaabed. Not in the less for whom all things are supplie farm and inflicting hideous He was of his game. It was not gratis at Lourdes; as anyone may cruelties on animals not because his day. He was not playing op journey thither at his own ex- they wish to be cruel, but because to his proper form. On paper, of pense; but no case is taken into these cruelties bare become par: course, he ought to have romped consideration unless a certificate of the common life of Farmland.home.
of this kind can be prolocad,
The father and grandfather of 'Does not that explain the drawo up a few days previous to the unlicensed operator carried charm of lawn tennis? It is a departure for Lourdes
盛
out the same revolting perform-game at which you are never as A9 5000 23 cers, real or ances. The father and grand- bad as you really are. A game apparent, takes place at Lourdes, father of the present farmer were at which (on your day) you are the fortunate individus has to an active or passive party to anybody's match. The game of report himself to the "Bureau des Constatationg,” whatever the unconquerable optimism
place or circumstances in which the cure occurs. Under the direction of the president of the
them.
USQUALIFIED PRACTITIONERA.
My belief is that, in view of
the Act, many of the unqualified practice, have become quite skill-borean, the patient undergoes sn
in animal practitioners carry a bottle ed
their
1940.
work; but as examination, and the president!
of chloroform about with them far as operations og animals decides for or against the casa to-day, and thay may- even are concerned, he is assuredly being further considered. The sprinkle a few drops in the asigh- an unqualified man who is unable various documenta-the two bourhood of the animal that is to to administer a local or general certificates of the doctor and the be maltreated: if I am rightly anesthetic in such fashion as will interrogatories and the medical informed the pretence is a very s ci re for an animal the freedom examination at Lourdes-are kept | paltry 00.. Few unqualified from irment that the Animals either in the Archives of Lourdes, practitioners-there are many. (Anæsthetics) act demands.
and the business is very brisk—| would dare to put an animal on-
FARMERS' FALSE VIEW.
or at the Paris office of the National Pilgrimage. Documen
obtainable.
der complete anaesthesis, be I have talked with farmers tay evidence is thus always cause they would not know how about the Act, and it is significant
Among these thousands of to do so without running risks, that, while most agree that every travellers continues Dr. de Grand- they would not know what was a soimal in their charge is entitled maison, one notices every year dangerous dose.
to the consideration that is now about 800 doctors, who thus As a ruls the only person who enforceable by laz, some believe become more or less directly can give an anaesthetic to an that the animal they paid for be witness of cures for which selance animal safely is a qualified veter-longs to them. This of course, is has stil to account. Some there inary surgeon, and very many an entirely false view. No saimall are who declins to make any com farmers would rather employ an belongs to the man who bought it ment on these marvel's thinking unqualined, man because he is to the full extent that certain it idle to compromise themselves; cheap. Those who know enough farmers iroagise. They have the a number are fall of prejudice, of the ordinary incidents of farm right to kill it or have it killed in and seek to explalu sway every- lifs to understand how terrible are a humane fashion, and to benefit thing. se due to hysteria and some of the operations inflicted by its market valus; but they suggestion: while "very fow on horses, bovines, boars and have never had a moral, and now doctors will acknowledge that other animals, must realise that they have not even a legal, right many of these occurrences lis the offence of the unqualified to submit an animal to torture beyond
the observations of practitioners "is rank and smells because they are too ignorant or medical science. to heaven."
too parsimonious to call in ́u
It goes without saying that no veterinary surgeon.
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dit is wre carried out, and, further, to
those
serious operation should be per- We have in this country a vast s formed on any animal by an un- and steadily-growin qualified man. It is not necessary people who love to use the term "ungnalifed in for those who are the narrow, senise, because there make the love are plenty of people who, by long force to ase that the
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