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PNEUMONIA DANGERS.

WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 3, 1926,

LOST WORLDS.

COLD EARTH THE CAUSE. GLORIOUS CITIES UNDER THE

We have now reached the begin ning of that period of six weeks. during which the danger of "catching cold" is greatest in this country says a Hurley Street

SEA.

PRISONS IN OLD CHINA.

DISILLUSION OF A GAOD

REFORMER.

How the modern scientist is A correspondent of the N. C. trying to reveal to the world the Daily Nous, writing from "Some- lost cities which fringe the Italian where in China" says coast was referred to by Dr. R. T.

It seems wise to the writer that Doctor in a Home paper.

Gunther, Fellow of Magdalen the following facts should remain The period extends from about College, Oxford, when he discuss unlocated. It is well to be "wise the 18th of January till the early fed with a Daily Chronicle repre- as the serpent and harmless as the daya of March.

Its special dia-sentative the work recently car-dove" especially when light is. tinguishing feature is the fact riod out in the Gulf of Naples by beginning to penetrate into the that the ground, our good Mother the Hartman, Deep Sen Exped!-dark and Althy corners of the Earth, le colder than at any other tion.

local yamen; and the light bearer

Elme in the whole you'r When A fascinating dispatch from is already a marked man, among the earth is cold, the gorms of

Naples was published on January those who grow rich on bribery bronchitis. broncho-pneumonia,

8, describing the discovery of and corruption and that, it seems, and pneumonia itself become

ruins which, it is thought, might is the system on which official lifo terribly active.

prove to be the anciònf lost city is run in this inland city: With- of Paleopolis...

nut doubt it is not an isolated cose,

from

This is not quite so easy to understand as it may seem at a

Dr. Gunther, over a period of or China would not be in such a first glance.. Because it is the

distracted and chaotic condition coldness of the earth, not the cold- 12 years, spent many of his,vRCA-

The informant is a lawyer and ness of the air which matters. tions exploring the const Soft breezes may be blowing evor Génoa to Vanlee, and his surveys 80 is well qualified to speak of the have proved of great value to Dr.laws supposes to govern the the cold ground.

Chinese people, and is equally {Hartman.

well informed us to their mal- In

own experience the my

This work has, owing to unfore-administration, having suffered in danger is always greatest when the air is warm. Because, at such seen circumstances, been discon-consequence of seeking to enforce moments, nobody feurs danger: tinued by British scientists, but it prison regulations in another pro- When snow and ice come, on the is hoped that its importance may vince. This and similar experi- ather hand, everybody takes pre- lead to another forward movement ences left him'a-disillusioned and nations. That, probably, is why when it is referred to at this sorrowful man though still in the oneumonia cases are upt to be year's meetings of the British Asprime of his carly manhood. His country seemed in a hopeless more numerous in "open" than in sociation.

condition. mowy weather.

4:

One-Man Theatre.. By far the best precaution

Submarine exploration, Dr. Gun-- Money Buys Anything, against colds, during the days of ther explained, is only possible Quite recently ho has beca chill earth, are overshoes of india-off the Italian coast, as here the given charge of the prison here, rubber. This fact is by no means sea is deless. At Naples and and in spite of past failure to so widely known as it should be. elsewhere he found ancient build-make any headway against exist- Indeed, the fact that "pale youngings which have been wholly, ing evils, he has accepted the urates" took BO kindly to olliers only partially, submerged; position, full of hope that this goloslies" when those useful while there were important dis-time "something will be attempt. articles of footwear were first in-

coveries on land.

ed, something done." In the troduced seems to have created a strong popular prejudice against

thani.

"The Body Insulated.

"On the mainland at Posilipo," meantime his whole outlook has Dr. Gunther said, "I discovered been transformed by embracing two large Roman baths belonging the Christian faith, and linked as to the Imperial villa, with evi- he now is with Omnipotence, he dence that the plumbing had been feels he will no longer be working I heard A young man, Тезд

But the tale ho brought up to date in the reign single-handed. example, declare with vehemence of Hadrian. At the villa Augas-tells of what exists makes it tus is conjectured to have spent abundantly plain that it will take happy days, and

the other day that he wouldn't be seen dead in.a pair of goloshes."" I tried, in vain, to point out to him that there was no chance of his being scen dead in these admirable pieces of apparel. People who wear goloshes do not suffer from pneumonia. This is a fact attested by a large number of doctors of wide experience.

all his new found faith to face

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"It was on this site that Virgil the situation.

In the first place money will said to have recited, his 13 poems, perhaps where a special secure for the prisoners any form building called the Odeon-of vice which they may choose to really a theatre for a one-man indulge in, there is no attempt to better their condition either performance-now stands.

morally or physically though they "Here there was a very narrow may sin more comfortably if they stage, with an alcove in the mid-expend more money. None of die for the actor alone.”

the

My own view is that these indiarubber overshoes insulate the

those in charge are adequately body from the ground, and so

Much of the exploration work puid. They are expected to prevent that rapid loss of heat had to be done from a small boat, supplement their salary by the which must necessarily occur and where visibility through the taking of bribes. It requires no when the ground is so cold as it water was impossible, data were imagination to picture the diffi- is at present.

ascertained from diving men and culties, or possible dangers con- This idea finds support in some by the use of bamboo poles. fronting any who discountenance

interesting experiments.

evil Dr. Gunther's investigations which were carried out recently have primarily been to ascertain custom.

very

this

old-established but

to discover the various, factors the earth-movements that have No Money No Escape.

huencing body temperature. It taken place, and which have had was found that merely putting the

縣 profound influence on the

wrists and hands in hot water habitability and vulcanicity of the

actually raises the temperature of italian peninsula.

the whole body. The reason, of

Ahother side-light on the grave |

miscarriage of justice is the way

in which prisoners are kept in

"durance vile" after they, pre

course, is that the blood flows "I believe," he explained, "that nominally dequitted because they round the body very swiftly. It the present eruptive phase of cannot pay the price demanded ot carries heat from one place to Vesuvius is but one of the secon-them. I witnessed the righteous: another with almost incredible dary effects of the up-and-down indignation of my informant as he speed. In the same way exactly movements of the const line. cold is spread over the body. It is not only our feet which grow cold when we stand ground: it is our blood,, which

told of two pitiful cases held who ought to be released. Since then

At Naples, for instance, my he has succeeded in effecting on chilled measurements show that the fore their release, and he has other shore sunk 40 feet after the plans on foot for others in like must flow through these cold feet: Roman age: it has since come up case. But because of the powers 20 feet, so that it is still 20 feet of evil, he feels he has to move Thus the "chill is carried to below the "old Roman level. It every member of the body, to is now believed to be slowly sink being given to the prisoners and slowly. Helpful literature is heart, lungs, and brain. All these ing again." vital organs suffer because of the

very practical ways A conclusion readjustment of remedial measures are being taken beat-loss going on through the inthe Calabrian foreshore after the in order to confer lasting benefit sufficient soles of ordinary foot-earthquake at Messina is but on the criminal class of this city

another instance in volcanic and district. phenomena which seientists are I may say in closing that this investigating.

gentleman appreciates fully all the

wear.

"Sure Shield of Health.

This suffering. naturally re- duces the power of the vital

•

in other

Dr. Gunther's work on earth-objections being raised by many Forgans to fight against the germs movements was interrupted by the against the abolition of extraterri-

of disease. Those ever-present, war, and although he was elected toriälity. ever-watchful foes are quick to by his college to a research fel

seize their opportunity and strike lowship in order to completo and

down their victim.

publish the results of his. inves-

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which so many girls are now wearing, serve as a sure shield ngainst this danger. They come between the cold ourth and the warm body. For rubber is a non- conductor of heat just as it is n zion-conductor of electricity. It prevents this “lenkage” of warmth [from the body, Leather, on the {contrary, is a mere sieve so fur fas heat is concerned.

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