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DR. LILLIAS HAMILTON.

ADVENTURE AND SERVICE.

Dr. Lillias Hamilton who died at Nee in Jandary was one of the pioneer medical women of the latter half of the last cen- tury, and a mingled desire for adventure and service led her into various fields. Some 30 years ago she was physician to

FEBRUARI 21ST, 1925

MORAL EDUCATION.

PARENTS' RESPONSIBILITY, At a meeting of the women's section of the Allance of Honour, Beld at the Queen's rial, Langham-place, London, recently, Dame Bantrix Hadson Lyall, who presided, said that citizens we should be chicken-hearted creatures so long us we shicked the question of purity as we had done in the past.

It was

DRUNKENNESS TESTS.

SNAPSHOT DIAGNOSIS DANGERS, DOCTOR CRITIC OF POLICE METHODS.

Strong criticisms of the tests usually employed in police stations to determine whether a person is drunk were made by Sir James Purves-Stewart, senior physician at Westminster Hospital, at a of the Medical rooms

THE EVILS OF INDIGESTION.

* AND HOW THEY ARE BANISHED

AND PREVENTED BY MOTHER

NEIGEL'S SYRUP.**

Of all human suffering, indigestion is far and away the most common.

In ita very earliest stages, indigestion is unpleasant; it its later stages it may be extremely painful, and finally it may become dangerous. Earther, it leads to many other And yet more serions disenters. The auferar kuowy no real rest of comfort by day or night,

the Court of the late Ameer of Afghanis- quicult to get anyone to come forward meeting of the Society for the Study of indigestion bis cutlook is darkened ton; her last service, was done as warden and give evidence or complain about Inebriety in the Chaudos.sysy dread of worse things to

of Studley Horticultural College for Women.

Dr. Hamilton came of adventurous stock. The eldest daughter of Hugh Hamilton, a cadet of the old Ayrshire family of Hamilton of Sundrum, she was a granddaughter of John Hamilton, N., who, in 1500, when in command of the Bumbay Castle, in company with the Esse, captured the French Frigate feder

George Inaes, of Yarrow. New South

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Good food, when properly digoated become.

pure, rich blood, in which the germs of disease cannot thrive. but when food remains too lony in the stanikeh, and does not readily undergo those natural

ses which should change prosesses

Society of London, cinemas, theatres, or books not it for

Sir James said that, to his young folk to see or read."

drunken person" could only be "One They excused themselves by saying who has taken alcobot in a suficient quantity to poison his central nervous that they were shy, and did not how

system, producing in his ordinary pro what to cowardly, and

cesses of reaction to his surroundings it into blood, and expel waste products. that L temporary lisorder which causes him

There are-macy causes for the courageous as citizens and Relped to get a ciena Press, clean amusements, and

to be a nuisance or danger to himself complaint, eating harriedly being

big probably the or to schers."

most common. Improper tood with which open spaces, we should never make our country what it ought to be. The moral Referring to the examination of sup- be eluded bad cooking), and eating

int too standard of a country was the standard

the geons. Sir Jamo declared that medi

no matter what the cause, the effect is younger women's cal others vary considerably in their arricut. Once the trouble takes bold, indiges- tion punishes its victim in a variety of wayi,

at

The younger women.

But 40

38 guns Her mother was à daughter of the its women, and especially by the posed drunken persons by police sur: much or too often, are also largely responsible... Wates, and she was born in that State, Liberty was not curtailed by mammas temperament and in

their of which fushing or sense of fulness after

"and

but came to Great Britain in childhood. degibilities than the women |

greater

to the dogematic suggestion of ness propounded by police

heart, wind,

but be added that police constables were als pain between the shoulders, palpitation heartburn, the bringing up in nine enses out of ten correct la theit of boulaches STC only a

of a disagreeable watery finid into the mouth and diagnosis.

Ne ona

of these

on

and they therefore had She was educated at Cheltenhamu College, and hersel: attributed the inspiration for preceded them. These so-called mo her career to some words on service dern women thought little of the women Having deter of the past, but unless they could show spoken by Miss Beale. mined on medicine, she braved

opposi.

womanhood as consecrated, a girlhood

great deal of loose thinking, has tion and first trained as a nurse at the as pure and swert, spiritual qualities been going on upon the subject of so- Liverpool Infirmary. Some of her experi ax Bue, idealism as exalted, and a recalled tests for drunkenness.

ligious faith as cleansing and cprobl ence of conditions at that time is refect-

In doubtful cuses the court, in my ed "A Nurses Bequest," 1907, na are

in

ing as past generations of the women opizion, should insist

second some of her later adventures in "A of this country had shown, thes, the me examination being carried out more fr Vizier's Daughter, 1000 (both published dert woman would have failed.

quently than it is at present, which is by John Murray). Qualifying in 1900 from

almost never. Edinburgh and the London School of Medicine for Women as M.D. Brus. and LRCP LR.C.S. Edin., she went to India and established a considerable pri vate practice in Calcutta. In 1885-4 Dr. Hamilton was physician in charge of the Dufferin Hospital, Cakutta.

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Failure to stand on one leg with the eyes shut, which, I have recently read, a supposed "test of cerbellar disorder, is a mild acrobatic feat which the most sober of us might easily fail to execute during the

few

bas a tendency to become chranis and then the difficulty of it becomes anoronsly increased, caring it becomes-

lisregarded; for indies should ever be

The proper course to adopt is to take from fifteen to thirty drops of Mother Soigel Syrup, in water thres times a day, after meals. Mother Beige Syrup is a herbal remedy, and

150 acts on the stomach, liver and bowel a to cause them to

their to periorat Functions healthily and

Nature just n intended. Indeed, the medicinal" extracts

pt roots, barks and leaves, contained in Mother these organs which is not obtained by any other medicine whatsoever. Belief follows. after taking a few doses of the Syrup; and if the treatment is intelligently and faithfully carried out, the happy result is never in doubt. The Syrup is sold also in Tablet form.-326.

which they grew up ing police arrest excitement follow. Beigal's Syrup, have a beneficial effect upon

Dr. Mary Scharlieb said that she thought punishment should fall most neavily on those who had neglected to forewarn their children on sex matters before they went into the world. The smallest children's questions shanit be answered by their anothers, and the knowledge

with would then be healthy

and pure Nowadays children grew up without knowing what was right. The only re- medy against impurity was a pure mind, but small children were permitted to,tell nasty stories and to use buik words in a way which sapped the foundations of good and strong character.

In 15, after an attack of cholera, Dr. Hamilton went up to Afghanistan, intend ing to stay for a few months, but reazin ed for three years as physician to the Court of the late Ameer. With the help for a time of her sister, and later of an English nurse, her house in Kabul became a hospital and the centre of far-reaching Lady Nott-Rower said that there would work among the Afghans. Photographs be a problem of moral education is of that time show her garden filled with groups native boys had been taught to sort out according to "the nature of their con plaints. In 1895 she., was in medical charge when the Ameer's son paid an dacial visit to England, and, having pro- mised to returni Afghanistan, she kept her word. The strenuous and adventus ous life in that country left her with broken health, and on her return to

Sir James also discredited the priì. any tests of eyesight and speech when person was taken to a police station as "drunk. He declared that, in his opinion the importance of the symptom qiated pupils was often exaggerat«

ed.

Disordered articulation, to be of value in establishing the diagnosis of intoxi- cation, should be present in the pro- nuneration of words which the particular

and family. parties, whom her Parents couth be ind need to view the individual was kkely to use in bis orde

question aright, Unfortunately parents had get into the habit of thinking that walking along a straight line, the ex nary conversation. As to the test of the State was responsible for the ten eitement of having been arrested would ching and phringing of their children.be sufficient to prevent a straight course The most cruel and wicked thing being taken. mother ever did was, when a child came "Where the decision is doubtful," Sir to her for information, to give it in James Purves-Stewart urged, it is the formation which was false abil mislend-duty of the medical officer, resisting the ing.

MAN CONDUCTS WEDDING.

FEMALE DEPUTY REGISTRAR.

"Everything went off splendidly, and I was not a bit nervous. I got quite chunms with the bride, and she stopped here talking with me for half an hour,

In these words the first woman who has ever conducted a marriage ceremony cially in England or Wales summed up her unique experience.

**

Europe surgical treatment was necessary The years that followed brought a suc cessful consultant's practice in London' and an interlude in South Africa, when she bought and started a farm in the Transvaal later carried on by her brother. In 1908, Dr. Hamilton became Warden of Studley Horticultural and Agricultural College for Women. She was influenced to this decision, no doubt, by a variety of reasons, but strong among them wa the desire to help in opening up a health giving career of active work to women. for whom at that time the choice of pre- fessions was in general limited to two or three. The suffrage campaign emphasized for her, as she said, the inpurtance of constructive rather than destructive work for women, and her medical experienes had shown the preventive as well as the curative possibilities of work on the land. From 1908 until last year, when ill-health The story of how she came to conduct Snally compelled her to resign, Dr. Hamil the wedding was related to a Daily Chronicle representative by Mr. Ashley. ton poured into the college time, energy. strength, and fortune. In her hand, was called to Bowstreet. Police Court It was by "a mere chance." he said after years of great difficulty, the college a witness, and was kept there about became established as one of the two

In the middle of the case premier training schools of horticulture I realised that I should not get away side saan any other. One of the studenta Haldane, and although it was her first. for women, with a stronger agricultural for the marriage, so I telephoned Miss she trained is now Principal, and her

experience of the kind, she took it on hrother, Colonel C. L. C. Hamilton, without any fuss and conducted it C.M.G.. D.S.O.. who served in the South splendidy She speaks several langu- African War and the Great War, is chair ages, including French, like adnative, man of the governors, Of her other and that is particularly usefel here, as brothers, George Jones settled in New we have to marry & good mapy | Zealand, and James Dundas, ip the Trans" | foreigners..

appointed Ber my de- puty because I had difficulty in getting a mac, and the passing of the Removal of Sex Disqualification Act gave me the opportunity

The woman who has thus added fresh page to the history of feminine i advancement

Haldar, he acts as deputy to Mr.

18 Miss

Dorothy M. Sydney Ashely Superintendent Regis- trar of St. Giles's Bloomsbury, and the wedding took place at the register office, Oakley House, Bloomsbury-street.

veal.

Her forceful, brilliant personality, and her natural instinct to do big things in a big way, had a most invigorating effect on a self-contained community of women. and above and beyond their techuical training her students acquired habits of work and independence, and some prac tical understanding of community life and responsibilities, that have stood them in good. stead in many varied activities in many lande. Her greatest satisfaction in ater years was to know that her "old girls were making good, contributing their share of the common service as women of purposeful action in one direc tion or another, and to feel that Col lege" had brought them inspiration and training for life and work

!

Once a dector, always a'doctor." and war claims gave Dr. Hamilton no peace until in 1915 she was able to leave the college in the hands of her sister, and to go aut to Montenegro, where she was in charge of a hospital until forced to share in the general retreat through Serbia.

are hours

**

Miss Haldane is over 30, good looking and has a fine musical voice.

human tendency to corroborate without gareful consideration the "snapshot" the patient the benefit of the doubt. diagnosis of the police-constable, to give

There is no shortcut to accurate diag nosis. Our only safe guide is by means of careful and systematic clinical ex- amination."

The only satisfactory general test of drunkenness was whether a man was ia a fit condition to pursue efficiently hir ordinary daily avocation in lif

LIFE'S NEW TERROR.

BUSINESS IN THE BARBER'S CHAIR.

What is claimed to be Europe's most luxuripas bairdressing establishment at popular prices is to be opened in London this month. Part of the right wing of the Corner House in Coventry-street will) be transformed into bairdressing and

tures of the men's hairdressing "depart- beauty parlour saloons. ment are:-

Amongst fen-

Swivel chairs with telephones attached, Facilities for dictating letters, and thee work for customers.

Freshly sterilised hair-brush for every customer in a sterilised paper bag.

Clean white cost and towel for every customer.

Freshly sterilised shaving brushes for each shave in sealed bags.

Reading frames attached to chairs., Chairs for boot eleaning while being shayed.

customer will have a Each woman cubicle to herself, furnished in Louis: XVI. style, with a lock-up drawer for her small personal effects, the key of which she will retaia while being attended.

BRIDE'S VAIN WAIT.

MAN REFUSES TO LEAVE BED TO BE MARKIED.

ROMANCE OF SHOPKEEPING.

"SELLING AS A FINE ART.

How a shop assistant should behave Alter a bride at Muckamore, County towards a man who goes into a ledies Antrim, had waited some time for the shop, what altitude be should adopt to bridegroom to come to her home and a woman who comes in with crying take her to the church for their wed baby, and how he should deal with per ding, as arranged, messengers were sent sons who do not know what they really in search of him. waat are some of the subjects which He was found asleep in bed, and said are being taught in a course for shop he had changed his mind about getting assistants under the auspices of the married. London County Council.

لودا

He refused to get up, and the messen- gers had to take the news to the bride waiting in her wedding dress and the clergyman waiting at the church.

HEROINE'S BABY.

NAUGHTER FOR SAVIOUR OF MIES MOLLIE

ELLIE,

The course, which under the title

goes of the Romance of Shepkeeping is unique in England, and will be watched the London County Council, with a view to further development of Dr. Hamilton's deep and generous the scheme. The syllabus,, which has understanding of human nature, her gay been drawn up by a committee of in- courage, her unconquerable zest for life, Buential tradesmen in conjunction with brought even those who might be differ-

the educational authority, comprises ing from her under the speil of her per just those subjects which will be most Suusive charm. Panting care, indeed, toil helpful to the young, carnest, and ambi- ed in vain after her infinite, kaleidoscopic tious shop assistant who wishes to

to make

News has been received of the birth of variety, her swiftness in decision and in good, and eventually to be a manager a daughter to Major and Mr. Underhill

For action, but to all, from governor to farm or have a shop of his or her own. at Peshawar. hand, there was no one like the Doctor" instance, to encourage confidence, 14

im- Mrs. Underhill, formerly Mrs. Lilian -no one like the Doctor, if you are in agination, and a good address, dramatic Starr, was the heroine of the North-West real trouble," no one like the doctor in sketches will be produced; while to assist Indian frontier outrage, when in April, appreciation of a joke, even one against the young shopkeeper to cultivate a clear 1923, she rescued from the Afridis Miss herself the cold suffer self-conscious style for advertisement writing English Mol in Enis, dapped after the murder of

and had been gladly, no honest folly was dull, lessons will be too feehle, for her sympathy, her

eri- take the form of experi

composing a play in her mother by Pathans. ence, her wit, and ingenuity to seck,

and

which various types of customers will be Mrs. Starr in November, 1923, married generally to find, some field for activity, represented. There will also be instrus Major G. E. 0. Underhill, 1st Punjabis. some environment calculated to encourage tion in window-dressing, in the rudi- Sho, was awarded the Kaianr-i-Hind gold the development of qualities often an inents of business organisation, in the medal for her brave, rescue of Mollie suspected. To her work spelled salvation, origin and development of great shops, Ellis and however great the demands the made and such subjects as laws relating to on, others and she asked of them the shops, the importance of good w utmost they could give, and generally got "conomy without rein um " the posi- how little it yet abo. laboured more abundantly things amount to a big sum, than they all, and that through years of tion of shops, and arithmetic so far uncertain health"

as it concerns the shopkeeper.

prescribe for his child's body, but he A parent will not go to a doctor and will go to a schoolmaster and prescribe for the child's mind.—Lord Gorell.,

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