The Helena Star (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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sight of pearls
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in the sight of a rope or a collar
of pearls around a white neck and
they are to most women the most
desirable Jewel of all But they
must be large or In quantity and
they are If good costly In the
extreme The small pearls one
sees — seed pearls — are cheap hut
still set about a large diamond In
a ring they seem to Improve the
diamond and at the same time to
derive some of - Its virtue from
their neighborhood
' The pearl Is all the more sought
after because unlike other pre-
cious stones no amount of artifi-
cial treatment Buch as cutting or
polishing cair enhance its beau-
ties Nature's workmanship must
be perfect and untouched and the
pearl comes to you exactly as it
emerges from the oyster On the
other hand It has this disadvan-
tage It la liable to discoloration
and the only way Is to give It a
rest from too much contact with
the skin Still that Is not the only
atone which suffers discoloration
Was it not the famous necklace of
Marie Antoinette preserved In a
guarded case In a museum which
after years of nonuse" began to
lose color and bad to be worn at
Intervals in order to give It Its
pristine beauty?
' The value of the pearl is com-
parable with that of the most cost-
ly gems Its price varies with Its
site form and general beauty of
appearance A pearl of the first
water must have symmetrical
form a smooth ‘surface be free
from all blemishes or fractures be"
translucent and have a fine white
color and a perfect luster and It
so happens that it Is rare to get
this combination The perfect
ahape Is spherical egg shaped or
pear shaped The perfect color Is a silvery milk
white but thero are yellowish pearls much es-
teemed In India and China
It Is not generally known however that there
are pearls which In color are red-brown bronze
garnet red rose red pale blue greenish white
violet and purple But most curious of all is the
black pearl which on account of Its hardness Is
much sought after' When It Is of a beautiful and
uniform color and of a perfect form it Is worth
almost as much as pearls of the purest white
The price of a string of perfectly matched
pearls Is much more In proportion than' that of
a single pearl for It may take years to get to-
gether a collection of pearls which are alike in
size shape and quality A string of yellowish In-
dian pearls costs $20000 of white $25000 of
black Pacific pearls $30000 and even then you
could not think that your string was anivay
unique
To seek a unique pearl one must go to the Hope
collection where there Is one almost as large as
a hen's egg almost but not quite faultless which
Is valued at $75000 — a pearl of 454 carats Again
there Is a much smaller one of 27 5-16 carats
among the French crown Jewels which Is valued
at $40000
There are other pearls however of distorted
shape called baroque pearls and of these the
most famous Is the great Southern Cross which
Is formed of nine beautiful pure white lustrous
pearls naturally formed In the shape of a cross
one inch In length for which your offer would
start at $50000 if you wished to buy It
To supply the world of women with pearls the
Ceylon government administration yearly pro-
claims a “fishery” determining whether or not It
should be held by examination and a sample
catch from the government banks Then If the
marine biologist wbo Is In charge declares that
the number of oysters warrants a fishery the
news files like lightning through the east and the
army of pearl -divers coolies merchants pearl
buyers and speculators move as fast as they can
to the Gulf of Manar— the ornate and oriental
“Sea Abounding in Pearls” Almost as If by
magic a town of 40000 Inhabitants arises out
of the sand There is no magic about it for the
houses of the town are easily built A rough
framework of tree- branches is formed and over
It as roof and walls are put the mats known as
cadjan — formed of the woven leaves -of the cocoa-
nut or date palm But there are also more pre-
tentious buildings erected for the use of the gov-
ernment officials residency postofflee hospital
court house while there are streets lanes street
lamps all the conveniences of a proper town
The aristocrats of the town outside of the
officials are the divers and they disdain to do
anything but dive having their own servants
who attend to the ropes and keep an eye on the
oysters brought up
Each morning the fishing fleet sets out some
300 odd vessels some of them carrying as many
as 30 divers their servants sailors and hangers-
on When the fishing ground is reached the dlTtr
takes his basket draws a Jong breath steps on
to the heavy atone hung by a rope and la plunged
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ures about the number of nursea and
doctors In the Orient “There are
probably he saye "not more than
100 nurses In the entire missionary
world and there 80000000 people In
non-Christian lands who have no med-
ical aid except missionary psyslclans
All Christendom has sent out only
689 medical missionaries male or fe-
male and this body maintains 848
hospitals 97 leper asylums and 21
classes for native women
“One physician who had no nurse
to help him treated 18000 cases In a
year So you see that the supply of
trained medical assistance is wofully
Inadequate
“In Calcutta which has the beat
facilities In the Orient three-fifths of
the population die without any doctor
or other trained medical assistance
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fathoms below Filling hla basket rapidly he is
drawn up and repeats the operation as often as
he can About two In the afternoon the government
gunboat fires a gun and the fleet sets sail back
As there are no wharves the oyBters are carried
on shore and deposited in the “kottu” by the
strong porters As soon as the shells are depos-
ited they are counted two-thirds going to the
government as their ahare the other one-third
going to the boat which brings them In At sun-
set the shells are auctioned by the thousand and
there la fierce competition for who knows what
the lottery of chance may bring them In pearls
The oysters brought are then removed apart by
each buyer and placed In his compound where
they are carefully guarded till the sun beats upon
them putrefaction lets in and the oyster beglna
to disgorge Its treasure Then the malodorous
-contents of the shell are washed In vats and the
residue yields — my lady’s pearls
YOE OF HINDOO WOMEN !
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When a Buddhist prays he implores hla god
that when he dies he shall not be cursed by be-
ing born again as a woman or as vermin That
la the attitude of the native men of India toward
women and against which the missionaries in the
Orient are directing all their energy
' Dr Eleanor Stephenson a Brooklyn woman
who haa been practicing medicine in India for
three years and who will return to her work
there soon makes an appeal to American women
to go out there the New York Evening Telegraifi
says'
“I want the women here to realise what It
means to be born In America" she said recently
“To be born where a woman is the backbone of
the man his strength and help In every way!
Why out In Ahmednagar where my work la a
woman la no more than an animal She is for
the purpose of raising children and that la alL
A man thinks more of hie cow — if he is lucky
enough to have one — than he does of his wife
“A Hindoo husband will let hla wife die before
he will call in a man to give her medical or sur-
gical treatment That shows the need for women
physicians In the Orient”
In Ahmednagar which la an inland plateau
about a hundred miles from Bombay there are
two physicians Dr Ruth Hume and Dr Stephen-
son and one American trained nurse Miss John-
son Under Miss Johnson there are 14 native
women who have had some slight training and
these help with the nursing - In the mission hos-
pital which this handful of women run 15000
people were treated last year an average of 41
a day These folk have come from a radius of
about 60 miles though some special cases have
come aa far as 300 miles
The Rev Alden IL Clark who la an educa-
tional missionary at the same place as Dr Ste-
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la probably one American or European trained doc-
tor to every million and a half of people In the
United States there are 160000 physicians and 22-
000 nurses an average of one physician to every
650 people”
“Of course we do a great deal of actual nurs-
ing and that la most Important" Dr Stephenson
says “but another thing which la even bigger la
this: We show women who have thought them-
selves wholly unloved that Borne one cares for
them They know that there Is a very small
money consideration given us and that what we
do Is 'done for love So they love us
“When 1 see woman physicians struggling for a
living here and know what a field there la In India
1 feel aa though they must be told
“The kind of work 1 have been doing la a ter-
rific appeal to the sympathies We have to respect
caste which makes nearly all of our cases long
standing One woman whom I treated came to me
with her entire arm In a gangrenous condition
She had pricked her finger seven months before
at the time of her husband’s death On account
of her caste she could not so much as leave the
house for the seven months during which time
septicemia set In and went up aa far as her shoul-
der I told her that her arm would have to be am-
putated She refused absolutely to part with It
and died aa a result
“Another woman burned her knee and turned
up at the hospital five months later with that part
of her leg In terrible condition The leg was cut
off and the woman made a perfect recovery
“1 went many miles Into the interior to see an
- Injured woman She had fallen down a well and
was fearfully bruised all over I found her lying
' on the floor grinding corn every turn of her arm
causing the most intense agony She couldn’t
bear to have me even touch her she was suffering
so I told her husband she had to be taken to the
hospital or she would die and he asked who would
cook the bread If she were gone He refused to
allow her to go All I could do waa to leave
little medicine”
Dr Stephenson finds that the natives Invariably
prefer using ointments to clean dressings Women
come In large numbers to get ointments for raw
sores where their husbands have beaten and cut
them and they are full of gratitude to the doctor
She finds that those of high class are just aa bru-
tally treated and Just as grateful as the lowest
“Transmigration is one of the stroRfest beliefs
In India” she says “and on that amount the
people will not kill any animal not even a flea Aa
a result the poor homes are overrun with bedbugs
and other vermin which spread all sorts of fevers
and diseases
“And qnothor of their Ideas is that we don't
know anything about raising babies Hindoo
mothers without exception give opium to their
babies to make them sleep while they work in the
fields As a result a large proportion of the little
Hindoo babies die before they are a year old Most
of the work among the natives is surgical and tbs
obstetric cases are the most interesting Tbls Is
because the natives have medicines of tbeir own
hut know nothing of the use of the knife”
DEIZIIE E1FUSIH HE GI05E If Fill
8earch for Bodies Has to be Discon-
tinued on Account of Totted
ing Condition of Walls-
Twelve are Recovered
Chicago — Search of the wreckage
for the remaining bodies of those
who lost their lives In the Fish Fur-
niture company fire here Friday was
discontinued from danger of totter-
ing walls but pot until twelve dead
had been recovered ana eleven of
these identified
While earlier estimates placed the
number of vlctlma trapped on the
fourth and fifth floors of the build-
ing as being twenty later and more
thorough Investigation indicates
there were but sixteen Two of these
escaped with their lives but two
more are to be accounted for
The search was abandoned for the
day on the report of Chief Building
Inspector Short who declared that
three of the walls were In a danger-
ous condition -
Lee Stoekel a clerk of the Fish
company who Is said tr have start-
ed the fire told hla story to Fire
Attorney Frank Hogan Friday after-
noon Although Stoeckel who is but
20 years of age Is admittedly more
fortunate than ' culpable— Attorney
Hogan says he will bring more
charges against the young man to In-
sure bis attendance at the inquest
Stoekel claims that he was filling
some patent cigar lighters with ben-
zine when in some way one of them
exploded which started the tire He
appeared before the fire attorney
swathed In bandages and almost
heartbroken
Following is a list of the Identified
dead: Darlington Harry age 40
painter: Anderson Ethel age 18
stenographer Bell Miner W adver-
tising manager Burcke Rosie age
17 stenographer Burden Mrs Han-
nah age 30 widow forewoman fold-
ing department Sullivan Lillian
age 16 folder Green William age
24 clerk Lichtenstein Ethel age
1H stenographer Mitchell Harry
M auditor of the company member
of firm brother-in-law of Simon
Fish McOrath V age 18 stenog-
rapher Quinn Gertrude age 20
folder
The missing: Wargo Mary age
20 folder SL Clair Bert age 28
confidential clerk Three others
whose names could not be learned
are also reported among the missing
“Black Hand” Man Killed
Pueblo Colo-Sam Falcone a
“Black Hand” operator was shot and
killed In a fight with a sheriff's
posse A companion escaped on
horseback but Is believed to have
been wounded The shooting follow-
ed threats made by letter to Tony
Santuso ordering him to place $2000
at a point several miles beyond the
county poor farm He complied and
when the two men were taking -ae
money the sheriff's posse ordered
them to throw up their hands They
refused and opened fire on the posse
Fire Destroys Kansas Town
Kansas City — Thirteen houses
were destroyed at Excelsior Springs
Mo a watering place 26 miles north-
west of here by fire at an estimated
loss of $75000 The flames were
carried by a stiff breeze into & small
residence Bectlon from a bath house
where the fire originated
Recognizes Madlz Government
New Orleans— Aa a result of the
new German minister having been
received at the Managua palace by
president Madrlz of Nicaragua gov-
ernment officials declare that Ger-
many has practically recognized the
fadriz government and at the same
time has taken a slap at Washing-
ton diplomacy The German minis-
ter was received at the palace and
presented hia credentials and while
greatly pleasing the Nicaraguan of-
ficial it la regarded In purely a com'
merclal light by Americans
Five 8ailors Drowned
Vancouver B C— Five sailors per
ished off the Frazier river lightship
when their boat the 62-ton gasoline
schooner Arthur Bt bound from Ta-
coma for Nanaimo B C- with a
cargo of gypsum foundered
Oldest Mason Dead
Newport N H— James Bellows
McGregor believed to he the oldest
Free Mason in the world Is dead at
his home here aged 108 years
Wage War on Jape and Chinks
Oklahoma City— The Chinese and
the Japanese must go and no more
buildings must be rented them for
business purposes if the Oklahoma
City Trades Council has its way A
committee was appointed to wait
upon the Real Estate Mens' associa-
tion of the Chambe of Commerce
and ask them to assist the unions of
Oklahoma City In driving the Japan-
ese and Chinese from the city by re-
fusing to rent building to them when
the present leases expire
Stops Pain In the Bladder Kidney
and Back
Wouldn’t It be nice within a week or
o to begin to say goodbye forever to
the scalding dribbling straining or too
frequent passage of urine the fore-
head and the back-of-the-head aches
the stitches and pains In the back the
growing muscle weakness spots be-
fore the eyes yellow skin sluggish
bpwels swollen eyelids or ankles leg
cramps unnatural short breath sleep-
lessness and the despondency?
I have a recipe for these troublea
that you can depend on and If you
want to make a quick recovery you
ought to write and get a copy of it
Many a doctor would charge you $350
just for writing this prescription but
I have It and will be glad to sehd It
to you entirely free Just drop me a
line like this: Dr A E Robinson
K-264 Luck Building Detroit Mich
and I will send it by return mall iq a
plain envelope Aa you will see when
you get It this recipe contains only
pure harmless remedies but It has
great healing and paln-conquerlng
power
It will quickly show you Its power
once you use it so I think yon had bet-
ter see what it la without delay I will
send you a copy free— you can use It
and cure yourself at home
May Maks Convents Into Sanatoria
Efforts are being made In Bulgaria
to abolish the numerous monasteries
and convents of the Greek Catholio
church and to use thejr buildings and
revenues for the establishment and
maintenance of tuberculosis sanatoria
King Ferdinand has given 100000
francs for the erection of a national
sanatorium The death rate from tu-
berculosis In Bulgaria la very high
being 31 for every 10000 living
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury
H mercury will rarely destroy tha aenra oi amS -and
completely drnnM Uifl whom ayatem wham
entering It through tha inueou aurtaee Suck
arth-lM should never ba used Sleeps on prescrip-
tions tram reputable physicians as tha danuss thsy
will do la ten (old to tha rood you cam possibly dw
rive bom them Hall's Catarrh Cura manulactund
by F J Cheney A Co Toledo O coo tains so bmt
eury and Is taken Internally sctlnr directly npom
tha blond and mucoua aurlsns o ( the ayatem la
buying Hall's Catarrh Cura ba sura you get tbs
S-nulns It la taken internally and made hi TStsdos
hto by F J Cheney A Co TMImonlem tree
Bold by Drue leu Price 73e per bottle
Tike Hall's Family Film fog sonstlpaUem
Fighting Dlseaas In Groses
Consul General George Horton has
made a report from Athena on th
conspicuous work of Greek physicians
In combating the country’s chief
scourges — malarial fever and tubercu-
losis An annual average of 2000
persona die each year from the for-
mer while In epldemlc'years due to
excessive rains the number exceeds
6000 which waa the case In 1905 The
population of Greece Is 2433806 The
people have been Interested through
lectures pamphlets etc to fight ths
malaria-carrying mosquito by draining
stagnant ponds and throwing petro-
leum on them A tuberculosis con-
gress will be held at Athens next
year to "which will be invited not
only physicians but all the mayors
and other prominent people of Greece
“How Sharper Than Serpent's Tooth”
An irritable old farmer and hla un-
gainly slouching Bon were busy grub-
bing sprouts one hot Bultry day when
the old man suddenly stumbled over
a small stump
“Gosh durn that everlasting stump!”
he exclaimed “I wish it was in hell!”
The son slowly straightened - up
from hla work and gazed reprowchiuly
at his father
“Why you oughtn't to say that
pap” he drawled “You might stumble
over that stump ag'ln some day"—
Everybody's
Two Points of View
Mrs Whoopser — For my part 1
think Mr Dyler was mean when he
made hie wife promise she would never
marry again
Mr Whoopser — Oh Mary don’t
judge the poor man so harshly you
ought to be thankful because he prob-
ably prevented some brother man
from being made miserable
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A LITTLE THING
Changes ths Home Feeling
Coffee blots out the sunshine from
many a home by making the mother
or some other member of the housw
hold dyspeptic nervous and Irritable
There are thousands of cases where
the proof la absolutely undeniable
Here la one
A Wis mother writes:
“I was taught to drink coffee at aa
early age and also at an early age be-
came a victim to headaches and u I
grew to womanhood these headaches
became a part of me aa I was scarcely
ever free from them
“About five years ago a friend urged
me to try Postum I made the trial
and the result waa so satisfactory that
we bare used it ever since
“My h isband and little daughter
were subject to bilious attacks but
they have both been entirely free from
them since we began using Postum In-
stead of coffee I no longer bars
headaches and my health Is perfect"
If some of these tired nervous Ir-
ritable women would only leave off
coffee absolutely and trj Postum thef
would find a wonderful change In thefr
life It would then-be filled with auni
shine and happiness rather than weari-
ness and discontent And think wbat
an effect it would have on tie family
for the mood of the mother u largely
responsible for the temper of the chll
dren
Read “The Road to WellTllle" la
pkgs “There's a Reason"
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