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INFLUENZA - MICROBE,

A Bacteriological Triumph.

The now familiar term “microbe,” meaning a'small li¢- ing creature, serves to indicats all the minute* organisms, or ** miaro-organisme," which cause disease, whether they be plants or animale, or definitely referable to. neither category. Of these| the first to be seer were, of course, the largest, which, especi- ally when in motion, can readily be seen by ordinary powers of the mioroscope, and without the use of any selective staža to show them up against their surround- In the seventies and

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important discoveries were made, increasingly dependent upon the use of special dyes, and special mordants, the most notable such event being the identification of the tubarele bacillus by Robert Koch, in 1881, he being the bacteriologist whose develop- ment of techrique and amazing! patience made him the most important pupil of Pasteur him. self. But many deadly parasites. could not be found.

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1923

DESIGNERS IMITATING ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

Dresses bare their fullness caught below the waist with a colourful ornament. The fullness held thne, falls in the pleats and ripples of the new jabot drapery.

They were too transparent and too tenuous. Dyes or no dyes. when the light passed upward through them, as they lay on the miscroscope stage, to the eye of the observer, nothing could be seen. But now let us modify our techaique, placing the object of study on a dark background, and throwing light obliquely upon it from above, to be reflected to the observer's eye. Immediately all manger of things become visible that were never seen before. A very simple difference in method: but it rendered possible the dis- covery of the spirockneta" pallida,

"Cinderella" Story Reversed, the parasite, of syphilis, by! Schaudian in Germany, upon Paris: You don't have to go to which discovery depended the the children's section of the li- possibility of the construction of brary in Paris these days for fairy salvarsa by Ehrlich, and the stories. You meet then on the recognition of the

syphilitic streets, in the stores, in the most

JAPANESE SCIENTIST'S

RUSSIAN EXILES.

MASKED X-RAY MARTYR.

Gives A Dance Hall Turn. With festures hidden by a black silk mask, a crippled X-ray ex- pert, who is an arist in lightning portraiture, is becoming a popular entertainer at big dance halls.

nature of, for instance, general unlikely places. For the Russian Working at a fablé 'ensel in a paralysis and locomotor ataxia.

revolution has ended by disguis-lounge recess, he deftly produces ing the proud familes of the old sepia sketch true to life in four regime which fled from it to Paris to seven minutes, and it is given in a variety of manners which to the sitter as s souvenir, for the would do credit to the storybook management pays the evening's writers. If nothing else, it has fee. exported romance.

DISCOVERY.

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Now comes the Rockefeller Institute, and the combination of every kind of resource and ability. in

fashion

You hop into a taxi for an even before norer

attempted.

ing of jazz at a dance club. If The famous Japanese bacterio you have the curiosity bump and logist, Kitasalo, who worked in Germacy, is followed by bis fel: ask questions you may find that the chauffeurfused to be on the list low-country man, Noguchi, work of the most exclusive hostesses ing in New York. Hence, for

of Petrograd. Colonel S-

influenza.

ene wal

Behind the mask is a story of sacrifice to science; it conceals she identity of a man who, by his devotion to bis profession, bas been crippled beyond further service in it.

It was in pathological' sketch.

bas embarked on his new venture

science

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TAI LEE CHAN Exablished 1884.

and

instance, the discovery, very in fact.. If you press the subiecting for hospital use that be cently of the parasite of yellow you find that his boss is Mr.turns to account: and under the developed talents which he now fever, the leptospira icteroides, or Georses Stepanoff, once a mem- pseudonym of Gideon Gaye he

slim-spiral jaundice-maker;"

ber of the Corps des Pages ja at- and now comes a further triumph tendance on the late Czar. His after doing a good deal of cartoon- for the great Japanese, whose methods have been available for story? Horatio Alger staff; Aring is the cause of charity and

rived in Paris without kopeck, philanthropy. ather workers to cultivate and turned bis hand to this and that,

"The idea bas taken on very stain, at long last, the microbe of but rarely toward his mouth-

for these were the lean months well," he said to a Daily Chronicle Small-por, chicken pox, scarlet finally got a good job in a bank, representative. "On the average fever, measles, whooping cough, made a couple of lucky specula.I do about 20 cartoons in an evan- and so on, diseases of men and tions on the stock exchange, and Ing when engaged at a dance ball "As I have lost the use of my other diseases of animals, are with the capital set up in business doubtless due, as influenza bas for himself, buying a garage and right hand, I have to do my now been proved to be due, to launching a taxicab company and sketching with my left; and I use microbes so minute that ordinary gaining more gratitude now from not caly sepia chalk, but engage methods entirely fail to show Russian ex-officers, by gving in pen-and-ink work as well" them; and that they pass through them preference to the jobs of For 13 years a radiologist, Mr. the pores of porcelain filters, such driving and cleaning the cars than Gideon Gaye has had professional as Pasteur need effectively to stop he formerly did from his post of experiences in London and South the passage of larger microbes,

Africs, and time was when he and such as the Japanese used Vantage at the Imperial Court. successfully for the filtration of GENERAL TURNS CARPENTER restricted his Xray work to water and the prevention of

He has reached the capitalist spells of six months, filling up typhoid, during the Russo-Japan-class, but most of the Russian intervals as sailor, journalist, and

artist. | refugees have not yet been able

Then huge war demands cutout) The discovery of this "filter. to leave the ranks of the pro- passer," which causes inflcenzi,letariat into which the revolution his rests, and the calls for X-Ty is a great event. Sooner or latarit flung them. Especially the older plates were to be counted by the will lead to the conquest of that ones. There is General Wadine, thousand to and in disease, which lately caused the who does the carpenter work for claiming another victim. widest spread and most deadly Countess Orlof Davidoff, former- pandemic in the history of many one of the richest women in Goudevitch, to mention the kind: and it will certainly ex Russia. She was one of the names of only few members of pedite the discovery of other fortunate few: who saved her the Russian aristocracy who have filter-passers, the casual micro-jewels, for by a lucky obance she joined the "working clase" at the organisms of many such diseases left Rassis just before the revolu- home of Counters Orloff-Davidoff. as those mentioned above. And, tion to join her husband and

„Business has so prospered that just as Noguchi's discovers of the daughter in Sweden. When the the Countess now has a couple of yellow fever germ led to the pretepped behind the counter, and the Rue Richepanse, is a sort of jewels were almost gone she branches. Her shop "Vorio," îng paration of a specific against that disease, and just an our Sir David instead of buying dresses started, clearing house for the possessions Bruce' discovery of the micrococ selling them for the famous which Bussian refugees wish to cus melitensis led to the conquest dressmaker, Gabrielle Chanel at sell, antique and modern pictures, of Malta fever, and bis discovery

jewelry, embroidery, lace, furs, In her spare time she knitted trifles for thirty cents and sables of the parasite of sleeping sick ness made possible the German jerseys in coloured wools in which only empresses formerly drug, Bayer 205," which cures various attractive tapestry des could bay. She still goes to that disease, so success will fapid-igns, which sold so well that she Deauville for the summer seasor, ly follow success, and in due out into the business of making but now to sell goods. Her old course the bold word of Pasteur them. A famous hostess in friend, the King of Spain, was a will be justified: "It is in the Retrograd, her invitations, now valuable customer, for by buying power of man to make all parasi-that they mean work and money, a miniature be sets fashion in tic diseases disappear from the are more sought after then ever Russian souvenirs which brought

by Russian ladies. With the many a frane to the refugees. help of these friends she turns But to get back to bat out from three to four bundred taxicab though that suggests hand-knitted jerseysevery month, another digression about the THE MIT UBISHI MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE CO. most of which are sold by Russian ex-admiral who ditives dame Chanel, though many the oar of Queen Olga of Greece exported to America, where in Paris and to that dance. If they are in demand for eports you have picked the right club,. west, ene

your order will be taken by a ́ PRINCESSES KNIT JERSEYS, rare maitre d'hotel who used to And then, it isn't always that be aide de camp to the Grand you can lay off-handedly to your Daks Nicholas. He in the mo“. friends, "Oh, you, this jurony was conspicuane by the fact that he made by Princess Troubetzkoy. refuses to wake the usual valves] Or Princess: Wiäzensky of dinner Acckat. — Philadelphia Countess Brobinsky, or Countess: Public Ledo

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