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BUILDINGS BY THE LIFE-SAVING HIS ONLY

YARD.

VIRTUE.

Attention Being Paid to Criminal Rescuer's Four

Mass Appearance. Years' Sentence.

HOUSES IN AMSTERDAM.

"Formerly one built a house, "Nowadays one builds street. walls." This is how modern house

. A criminal who saved a man from drowning a few days after he had taken part in a "smash and

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE PROGRESS OF MEDITATIONS OF A AMERICA'S WAR ON

MEDICINE.

'Marked Advance in Surgery.

SPINAL ANAESTHESIA.

grab raid was sentenced at Leeds Among recent surgical advances Assizes to four gears penal ser-mention must be made of the inject vitude.

tion treatment of varicose veins,

SUICIDE.

Grim Diary of Efforts That Failed.

MOSQUITOES.

£20,000,000 for the Campaign.

ELABORATE PLANS.

A young man's extraordinary record of his emotions while try- ing to commit suicide was read at the Battersea Inquest recently on More than £20,000,000 will be George Vivien de Schiller, sgod spent in the United States this year 22, a naturallaed Austrian and ain a great national anti-mosquite

several other attempts gassed him The U.S. Public Health Service

mechanical methods and recommend-

building in Amsterdam (and also; A-Royal Humane Society certiThis disabling and disfiguring bookmaker's clerk, who after campaign, the rest of the Netherlands) · is cate should have been presented malady up to a few years ago cour self in his lodgings in Merton has not only tested out

of two

Road, Wandsworth.

new

characterized, showing that in to him on the day he was arrested only be treated by one these present days considerable. He was Harry Stewart, a Hullurgical operations-in some cases attention is paid to the outward young man, and he was accused appearance of the town as a whole with Stanley Sewell Taylor of the ligature of a main veln, while in In a letter addressed to his landed them, but has formed alliances with birds, fish, oils, and, In a few No longer single houses, inde- theft of thirty diamond rings from others the only possible line of lady he said:

There is nobody but myself instances, with other cannibalistic pendent of each other, are design a jeweller's shop window which treatment was the wholeenle removal

responsible for this. My principal mosquitoes in an attempt to an- of large areas of dilated veins. ed, but entire blacks and streets: Taylor smashed with a brick. Tay-

The modern injection treatment reason for killing myself is that in nihilute the pest, says Good Health This plan has been followed to lor was sentenced to five years' is a valuable advance, and no general all things I want myself I always (New York). such an extent that the architects penal servitude.

anaesthetic is necessary, and

the fail.

I wanted to be an author, are paid in terms of a certain The police described Taylor as amount of guilders per "yard of a cunning thief with eight convic-procedure can very easily be car

and sanitary experts are devising ried out in the doctor's consulting room, and the patient is perfectly times convicted for shop-breaking able to walk home afterwards and except that he saved a man The principle is the simple one of from drowning a few days after the present offence, the police said there was nothing in his favour.

facade length."

In Germany a new name has even been invented for these ar- chitects who are called "Schurzen macher" (apron makers), because their only concern is to design the "front" of the building.

The result of this new idea in house-building-which indientes aj wider vision-is that the new quarters of Amsterdam and other Dutch towns all impart a sense of

tions. Stewart had been twelve

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but I never shall be. Cheerio, best

new methods of attack, bringing of luck.

In a diary which he sent to a into play some of the latest inven- Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$4.00 friend, Schiller wrote:

tions. One of the methods recently Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 6.06 I have, bungled most things in evolved has proved simple, econom Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10,00 veins life; I did at least think I should ical and yet very effective. It Black or Brown Beats from 8.0

Black or Brown Shoes from Injecting into the varicose cortain solutions, which cause be a success in death.

Involves the use of a portable blower-Children's Bools ar Shoes from $2.00 obliteration to take place by a mild Last night, because I wanted | fan, similar to fans used for ventila-] Bast styles, most complete stock inflammatory reaction. A solu- death, I went to an hotel and en- tion in homes and offices, to spray z

of all sizes, Repairing a specialty. tion of quinine and urethrane was gaged a room with a separate bath. mixture of Paris green and powder- WONG SIU WOON used in the early cases, but I intended to open a vain in my ed lime over awamps and lakes] £1, Pottinger St. Phone 21474. nowadays other solutions are also arm and bleed slowly to death. where meaquito larvae are found. used including one of sodium mor- rhuate prepared from cold-liver oll.

ins

I made the mis ake of not finding The entire "dusting" outfit, in- out just what vein was the im- cluding a gasoline-driven generator portant one to be operated on. I may be installed in a rowboat with made two tentative scratches on an outboard motor. that it did not hurt much, but I my arm, and was pleased to find had not done much damage.

it moves

"Dusting."

harmony, of wideness and space MR. G. B. SHAW'S PLEA FOR A and unity. One may or may not

Free From Risk, admire the new style in building,

Carefully carried out this jection treatment la free from risk, but one cannot deny that the new quarters, to the designing of which

and can be applied to veins in al

Only one man is needed to accom- At the Independent Labour Party most any situation of the body. so much thought and careful atten-

I made another deliberate gash have used 'this method economically plish the 'dusting'. Sanitary officials tion of expert architects has been National Summer School at Digs-

Chemistry has helped surgery In given, show more "character" and well Park, Welwyn, Herts, Mr. such a procedure as the one out times, I saw the vein awell out like larval control has been found feasi and, after slicing three or four in places where no other method of are much more spacious; with their George Bernard Shaw spoke on lined above, and in another direction the inner tube of a bicycle. wide streets, broad sidewalks and "Anything that Occurs to Me." He also of great importance to surgery. The vein was

ble. The nozzle velocity of the in the wildest streets (some are as said that the Government owed the chemical discoveries have produced length the blood aquirted. It went

tough, but at blower is 1,600 feet a minute, and wide as 62 yards) even shrubbery fact that they were in office to the anaesthetics. The abolition of pain on to the wall and the edge of the dust-laden air a minute. It retains forty-five cubic feet of and pleasure gardens in the centre, prudence and intelligence of the ful sensations can be brought about bath and on my book, and I said its effectiveness up to 525 feet. which add considerably to the Conservative Party. It was a very with interesting results connected to myself: "Hoo-blooming--ray! beauty of the town and make busy slender security. Mr. MacDonald with roughly in four ways; by gase-I have done it! but it stopped and vice, have declared after the tests Experts of the Public Health Ser- thoroughfares into wide green was kept in office for two reasons; ous substances inhaled through the I felt very fit.

the Indian difficulty and the unem lungs producing general anaesthe I tried my wrist, hacked and that this method can be economical- carried on by the simple fan device, Removing the Slums.

ployment question. The Conserva-sia, by chemicals absorbed into the hacked, but nothing much happenly used where no tives found it much better to sit on blood from some other route, also ed. Then I lost my nerve and my method of larval control is feasible.

other known Especially after the war, when the Opposition benches and have producing general anaesthesia, by fingers would not, hold the razor. house construction was gradually nothing to do but abuse Mr. Mac-injections inte the spinal cord pro-

Reelfoot Lake, in north-western taken up again by private enter Donald and the Labour Government.ducing anaesthesia of the lower

Tennessee, known as "Fisherman's prise, this new idea has made it Against that security were the ease parts of the body up to a definite I went back to the bedroom and self felt, while at the same time with which the Conservative Party level, and by injections into the tried to hang myself from the towel active efforts were made to remove could be smashed and Mr. Snowden's actual region to be operated upon or rack and, although I had a hand- the slums. As during the War next Budget, about which the Con-into the nerves coming from this kerchief rolled in private house building had been servatives were in complete and region. stopped entirely, the town authori- absolute terror. The question was tics of Amsterdam started building whether they would face another

lanes.

vestment of forina.

Local Injections

"The Glamour Has Gone."

•

Paradise," was elected as a place to work out the detalls of the dusting equipment. This lake is of earth- my mouth, Tquake formation, with thousands of started gurgling and groaning, submerged stamps, tho.result of de- and I became afraid that the row caying forest. It has large areas of

shallow in different parts of the town. Up Budget or throw the Labour Govern- developments have been

and densely overgrown, In all four types of anaethesia would be heard." till now the community of Amster-ment out at the end of the year. place.

taking

After a while I decided to go water, and there are many types of dam since 1916 has built and There could be no question that laughing-gas for prolonged opera ingloriously back to bed....

For example, the usa of home and gas myself, and I groped mosa, duckweed, lies, and other plants. The lake seemed to offer the managed 9,500 dwellings (of which there was a great deal of disappoint- tions is now possible by means of more than one-half are two-family ment and disillusion on the part of a somewhat complicated apparatus I paid my wasted 7s. 6d. for the to operate. Parts of the lake were Next morning after a vile night, most difficult conditions under which houses), involving a capital in the voting proletariat with regard which allows a mixture of oxygen room.

known to be producing mosquito! about 61,500,000

to the Labour Government. If Mr.

and laughing gas to be given to the

I want to go to see Marion larve profusely. MacDonald had to face the electorate In considering these figures one at the next election in these condi-

patient.

Davies at the Empire. Afterwards Dragonāles to the Rescue. should take into consideration tions, with the issues chosen by the has also been tried by certain

A new inhalant called "ethylene" I shall gas myself.

Science has also enlisted the mos that because of the extraordinarily Conservative Party, and nothing anaesthetists who report favourably geois finish, and I did want to fish, lizards, bats, and frogs have a horrible and bour-quitoes' natural enemies. Birds, high prices for materiala during more definite on the Labour side of the new substances which are bleed to death, hut, like the re- been used, together with other in- an ordinary labourer's than that if they were returned absorbed into the blood stream by cruit in battle, the glamour has sects and plants, in an effort to stem dwelling cost as much as 10,000 again they would do what they were other routes, avertin is one of the gone and only nausea remains. florina while to-day the same house doing now-he was afraid the re-

the breeding. The greatest destroy- The coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddic, er of the mosquito larva is the most promising, and it

said that de Schiller was evidently dragonfly, which feeds on them. in a highly strung, neurotie young Bladderworts, plants that live in the

man who had had

a love affair marshes, trap the larvie In large with a young woman who had numbers. The Azolia Caroliniano is turned him down. It was clear another plant deadly to the mos- feriority complex. that he was suffering from an in-quito.

the war

is

is constructed at a cost of 3,500 sults would not be satisfactory to thought that this submitance may in florins. Besides this, private the Labour Party.

built invest- Apart

house building socicties 15,000 dwellings, with an

Devolution. ment of 94,000,000 florins.

Mr. MacDonald and the Govern- from this private builders are now ment were not to blame for this dis- showing great activity, especially appointment and disillusion. Their in building houses for the middle programme was J constructive programme, which involved very active government, getting business

classes.

future be of great maternity work.

value

been

thio

It seems

A verdict of suicide while of in furthering the cause of the mos- Several varieties of fish are used unsound mind was recorded.

quito Aghters, The Gambusia, bet- ter known as.minnows, are great! destroyers of larve. They have been known to eat as much as fifty- Detectives ralded a dump on the six times their weight in larvæ in

Spinal Anaesthesia. Spinal anaesthestia has greatly developed in recent years; a certain amount of the fluid which surrounds the spinal cord is removed The removal of the slums i done in a large scale and getting anaesthetic is run in.

by a needic and a solution of the Amsterdam entalled the construc- it rapidly done. But the Parlia- is then tilted according to the posi The patient tion of cheap houses in special mentary machine quarters where the occupants Government from doing anything at from the area where anaesthesia is prevented the tion in the spinal cord of the nervee

earners. For this special purpose He suggested, therefore, that it was time complete blocking of all senge. way, which contained a large num- are others known as destroyers of] mostly consist of very small wage all; that was its historical mission required, and after a very abort Beashore at Renvyle, County Gal-one hour. Goldfish and polliwogs|| the Dutch Government provides very important part of the busi tlons from this area occurs

ber of bombs, 2,600 rounds of the mosquito's offspring.". the community with the necessaryness of the Labour Party to make state remaining for varying lengths ammunition, a revolver, and a rife. loans for building. This clearing the country thoroughly aware of the of time, according to the drug of the slums necessitated also the building of living room, 3 bedroom difficulty by producing a Keform Bill

Mr. Arthur Hammond, a conduc- and a kitchen, for aged couples.

which would make as much sensa- During the past twelve monthstar of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, These dwellings are rented for tion as the old Reform Bill did a several new solutions have been flew from Cologne to conduct The only 3 fiorina per week. In a new hundred years ago. They would devised by the chemists to provide Flying Dutchman" at Golders Green garden village which the town of have to get rid of the party system; surgeons with anaesthesia of various Theatre, N.W., at night Amsterdam has built in the north there was no reason why there

degrees as required. The local of Amsterdam (called "Buiksloter- should not be substituted at West-injection of drugs of the cocaine ham") 78 auch dwellings for aged minster the conditions which applied series into the region where in couples have been built out of a in borough and municipal councila. operation is to be performed is no- total of 621 dwellings.

LIBELLED BY A BANK.

employed.

They would have to have Home Rule thing new, but up to recent years for England, Scotland, and, he sup the application of the method has posed, Wales, and the present been limited to dental work and Parliament would survive to deal minor operations. Further Work solely with big questions of foreign has shown, however, that operations Damages of £750 were awarded policy, economics,, and finance, about on the abdomen or chest can safely in the King's Bench Division to which very few people had any be carried out by this method in cer- Mrs. Helenor Harriett Sterling, information, and they were not in tain cases, and it offers a valuable widow, of Church Street, Islington, the House of Commons and had very means of obtaining anaesthesia In an action against Barclays little chance of getting there.""

for operations on the chest when Bank, Ltd, for the wrongful "dis- Mr. Shaw urged that Mr. Snowden honouring of a cheque for £100 should declare, that the first time he the lungs are affected and a gaseous and for libel in putting the letters was in a thoroughly strong position anaesthetic might cause great

he would nationalise the banking irrigation.London Morning Post.

"R.D. on i

Mrs. Sterling, who carried on system of this country. There was business at Barnsbury-grove, N., no difficulty about it; all the man- At a Leicester inquest on George as the Abbey Construction Com-agement could be done by the men Thomas Ingram, aged 11, it was pany, exhibition contractors (and who were doing it at present. The said he had been to see the school to stand fitters, had an account at the banking system of this country was which he had won a scholarship Highbury branch of the bank based upon the Intelligence and when his cycle skidded and he was

On October 22, 1928, when she atability of the ordinary manager, thrown under a lorry. had an overdraft of over £1,000, not of the financier. The great

for which the bank held security, middle class wanted the help of the

she drew a cheque, payable to: a Manchester firm, for $100, which abe alleged the pank manager pro mised would be met

bank as much as the rich man.

There were people, he went on, sulted in an extreme Government who asked why Mr. MacDonald and being able go to faster than the Mr. Snowden did not do what 08 reactionary - Government. Trotsky and Lenin did and get rid was the wildest folly to talk as

She contended that her reputa- tion was injured by the chaque of the whole thing. That was what happened in Russia could pos being dishonoured.

question that had to be answered sibly happen bore without the cor

responding conditions. He urged Cole's

The bank, Indofence, pleaded very carefully, because if a

that the interview with the mana considerable social

ger related only to a cheque for made by some parts

495 which Mrs. Burling required be smashed. It

for the wakes - of her':

that the 100 charbel was

ntion to Mr. stion for the est

onal Labour

lovernment of ht to bring

Frivolous Fifi.

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Even the lowly and despised bat has been brought into the war, When placed in an Infested area, bats seem to eat nothing but moa- quitoes, and examinations of their stomachs show that they are capable of disposing of nearly one thousand in a single night,

A great deal of oil is used in disinfecting stagnant pools and marshes where the mosquito lays) her eggs. Thousands of barrels of crude oil are being sprayed over auch places, much of the work being done by aeroplane.

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