The Daily Messenger. (Claremore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 247, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 1901 Page: 2 of 4
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Claremore Daily Messenger.
Daily Kxcept Sunday.
BISHOP BROS., Publishers.
Miinitariuui K tMbllNli<-f1 In Clermanjr
Our Proponed in France I.a* Spanish
Methods Dioi-Hii' in Snrwuj.
Incident to colonial expansion, there
lias been, particularly in France an'i
Germany, so marked an increase in
the number of cases of leprosy in Eu-
rope tliat the matter is receiving seri-
ous attention. There are even alarm-
ists who say that western Europe is
on the eve of another outbreak of the
disease such as followed the return
of the Crusaders. The question wna
brought up before the French Academy
of Medicine in 1885 and 18SS. In Ber-
lin. in 1897. there was an international
medical conference to consider pre-
cautionary measures to prevent the
spread of the disrase. On May 21 last
Br. Besnier of the French Academy
of Medicine declared that it was ad-
visable to establish in France a na-
tional leprosy sanitarium, where per-
sons tainted with the disease m ght
l e Isolated. Taking this state of af-
fairs for his text. M. Dastre has con-
tributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes
a study of leprosy and the present dan-
ger of a spread of the disease. He
points out that in two regions in
Frnnce leprosy has existed continu-
ously since the middle ages. These
are Brittany and the neighborhood of
Nice. The Nice lepers are supposed to
be descended from a leper colony that
dated back to the Saracen invasion
As recently as 1888 two distinct out-
breaks of the disease occurred along
the Alpes-Maritimes coast, causing the
death of some twenty persons. In-
dividual cases of the disease are still
found In the neighborhood. In Brit-
tany leprosy in the seventeenth cen-
tury were very widespread and it has
never been entirely stamped out. In
a majority of the recently imported
cases from the French colonies in the
Orient the patients are government
employes, commercial travelers, mis-
sionaries. soldiers and sisters of char-
ity. All told it is estimated that the
proposed leper colony in France would
begin with between 300 and 400 pa-
tients. Germany established a leper
sanitarium two years ago. Up to 1840
the disease was unknown in Russia. A
few years ago 'it appeared in the
Memel district, causing the death of
nineteen persons. In 1899 seventeen
districts around the city were found
to be contaminated and the sanitary
department of the German government
opened a leper hospital, to which all
sufferers were forced to go, and in
which the isolation was complete. The
regulations on the subject are very
strict, as was shown in the case of a
German merchant who came home to
enjoy a fortune which he had amassed
in one of the tainted colonies and who
was found to be suffering from lep-
rosy. He was ordered to move out o!
the town forthwith, purchase a coun-
try house remote from all neighbors
and then live absolutely isolated from
the world, under penalty of being re-
moved to the leper hospital. The
authorities even went so far as to
designate the particular room in the
house which the leper and each of the
members of his family were to occupy.
Great Britain, with more foreign pos-
sessions in which leprosy prevails
than any other country in the world,
has always fully protected herself from
invasions of the scourge. In the 30
years from 1868 to 1898 only 96 im-
ported cases were reported. In Por-
tugal it is estimated that there are
In the neighborhood of 1,000 cases of
leprosy, while in Spain there are a
certain number of breeding places of
the disease. The lepers in Spain are
not Isolated. They work in the fields
even marry. They are avoided
only when the manifestations
avoided only when the manifestations
of their disease are particularly pro-
nounced. There Is one leprosy-infected
region of Spain which has a curious
history. It is Sagra in the province of
Alicante. leprosy was unknown there
until 1850, when it was Introduced by
a man who had returned from the
Philippines to enjoy the fortune ho
had acquired. The case was so far
similar to that of the German mer-
chant already described. Spanish meth-
ods are not as thorough-going as Ger-
man and no restraint was put on the
leper. He communicated the dispase
to his friends first and it gradually
spread to the near-by villages of Ja'.on.
Parcent and Orba. Within a very few
years more than 200 persons were pro-
nounced lepers, and only recently as
many as 160 of thes? unfortunates
were still living.
Origin of Stonehciige.
Stonehengo, one . f the mo.it remark-
able examples of the ancient stone
circles, is situated in Salisbury Plain,
Wiltshire. England, about seven miles
north of Salisbury. Stone 13 first men-
tioned by Nennius in the ninth cen-
turj-. who asserts that it was erected
in commemoration of the 400 nobles
who were treacherously siain near the
spot by Hengist in 472. A similar ac-
count of its origin is given in the trials
of the Welsh bards, where its erec-
tion is attributed to King Merlin, the
successor of Vortigern. Inigo Jones,
in his work on Stonch 'gne. published
in 1655. endeavors to prove that it was
a Temple of the Romans, out later
writers of authority are generally
agreed that it is of Druidical origin,
although there are differences of opin-
ion as to its probable date, some plac-
ing it at 100 years before Christ and
others in the fifth century. It is
therefore the generally accepted opin-
ion that it was a temple or holy place
with the Druids, the priest and wise
men of the early Britons, whom
Caesar found in possession of the isl-
and when he invaded it with tiie Ro-
man legions, 55 B. C.
FOR WOMEN AND HOME
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MA DS
AND MATRONS.
ImmhIvIcih'Im in £>res*N. Jaai* of tbe
Thing* for Wlileli ft'omen Are Criti-
cised — SuDtrt Walking ('ofttuuie —
Afternoon It louse.
Blsnutrek n* :i Poet.
Ill a recently published article ot j
reminiscences of Bismarck, to whom I
he acted as chief of the Prussian pres< '
bureau, I>r. Aegidi remarks that his j
hero's soul was "filled with the powei I
of poetry, and he was a poet through \
and through, without, as far as I know,1
having ever made a single verse." But
Dr. Aegidi must be strangely ignorant J
or forgetful to have committed himself
to such a statement. The truth is that
the iron chancellor had a very happy
knack for versification, and several of
his epigrams are still current. Per-
haps the best of these is the one he
wrote in a lady's album underneath
the words inscribed by Moltke, " False-
hood fades, but Truth endures." To
this Bismarck replied:
Believe I do that beyond the grave
Truth always will her banners wave;
But with the falsehoods of this life
E'en Moltke roust wage bootless strife.
—London Chronicle.
Vultures of Oolf I.Ink*.
"I never go out on the links." said u
g«lf enthusiast recently, "that i don't
see at least one vulture. I mean the
men and boys who make a practice of j
going over the course looking for lost |
balls. A good golf ball, you know,
costs 30 cents. Some of the caddies,
uniess you know thein to be thorough-
ly honest, may develop into vultures
themselves. It is an open secret among
golf players that a caddy, while pre-
tending to look for a lost ball, will
tramp it down into the earth with his
heel. Then, after you have exhausted
your patience and put out a new ball,
he makes a mental calculation and
that night or early the next morning
he goes and digs it up. There are men
who deal in second-hand balls, doctor
them up and makes them look like
new."
WOMAN'S INCONSISTENCY.
"For inconsistency In dress, com-
mend me to women," said a man on
a street car during one of Friday's
showers. He was looking at a girl on
the street who had her long-tailed
gown tucked snugly around her, reveal-
ing the "frillies" of her white cambric
petticoats. No doubt when the young
woman started out these lace-trimmed
flounces were crisp things of beauty;
but the floods had descended mean-
while, and now they were nothing less
than sloppy—a disagreeable but ex-
pressive word.
The white skirt has tealiy been quite
conspicuous all during our modern del-
uge. There were those who thought
that the sex had so progressed that the
wardrobe of even the humblest member
of It boasted a rainy-day skirt; but this
apparently is not so. and the long
skirt and the white skirt have helped
to absorb the water from the pave-
ments.
A Sight in Coot Weather.
On one of the coldest of the damp,
raw days of last week a daring lady,
who had not the fear of pneumonia
within her, apparently, appeared in the
business section wearing a lawn frock
with a yoke of lace so thin that at a
little distance she had the startling ef-
fect of appearing decollete at high
noon. Those wearing topcoats looked
at her in surprise, and a woman, snug-
gled in a fur boa, regarded her re-
proachfully. But the cause of these
glances felt no perturbation, for she
was secure in the fact that the calen-
dar was with her, even if the thermom-
eter wasn't.
Almost every Rainy Daisy one sees
nowadays wears irreproachable foot-
wear more fitted for dancing than for
wading over Baltimore's sometimes
submerged crossings. Patent-leather
thin-soles shoes and the filmiest of
openwork stockings form the footwear
that mademoiselle elects to walk
abroad in when J. Pluvius is making
himself fait.
A Man Expresses Himself.
Another mere man expressed him-
self on the subject of feminine incon-
sistencies in dress to the writer the
other evening thus:*, "I was invited to
take a young woman to a concert the
other evening," he said. "It was rather
a smart affair, and I wore evening
dress, of course. Now, the young wo-
man whom I was to escort is usually
beautifully clothed, but upon this even-
ing she appeared in a cotton shirt
waist and rainy-day skirt. I tried to
hide my opera hat and appear uncon-
scious of my expanse of shirt front. But
her ladyship didn't seem worried, and
so we toddled off together—she in her
golf rig and I looking as if I were go-
ing to a dance. Now, mustn't we have
presented a lovely spectacle?
"She said she was too tired to dress
that evening; but, inasmuch as I had
been down town from 9 In the morning
until 6 at night hustling, and still had
strength to get into my duds. I thought
this was a poor excuse—but I have
been afraid to say so until now."—Bal-
timore News.
sleeves are mads to correspond with
the waist.—Wiensr Chic.
AFTKRKOON HI.Ot'NK.
Blouse of white
embroidered linen,
made up ovsr rose
taffeta. The fronts
are cut with straps
which confine the
ends of the black
velvet cravat. The
odd collar is of the
embroidery, bor-
dered with a ruf-
fle of the plain ma-
terial. The sleeves
have a platting let
in on the outside
at the bottom, to
give the proper
fulness, and then are gathered into an
odd, flaring cuff, fastened on the out-
side with a little strap. The wide
girdle is of black velvet.—Wiener Chic.
MM ART WALKING COSTIMK
I
Dark blue serge trimmed with Mack
I braid, red stitched cloth piped with
white and gold cord and buttons; red
silk ceinlure and vest
Carnegie's Favorite Flower.
Andrew Carnegie Is a great admirer
of pansies, having partly taken a fancy
to the flower In consequence of the j
beautiful varieties that are grown by,
some friends in Scotland. The famous
multl-mllllonalre Is alto a connoisseur'
In exotics.
WHITK TAFFKTA HI.OCHK.
The upper part
simulates a bolero,
and is trimmed
with bands of the
taffeta and with
medallions of gui-
pure. The lower
part Is made with
fine tucks a 11
around, which op-
en out to form a
blouse. The little
plastron la of guipure
The fancy
OIK COOKING SCHOOL.
fireen Peppers Fsrve.
Remove the steams and seeds from
six green peppers. Be sure they are
young and fresh. Blanch them by
covering them with boill-ig water for
three minutes, and then drop them
Into cold water. Prepare a deviled
clam filling by making a cup and a
half of rich cream sauce (for which
recipes have appeared in this column),
add one cupful of chopped clams, the
smoothly mashed yolks of two eggs,
tablespoon of chopped parsley and
squeeze of lemon juice. Cook for five
minutes, fill the pepper shells, cover
with buttered crumbs, stand upright
in a pan, pour around them one-half
cupful of stock and bake twenty min-
utes.
I.awton Jullp.
This recipe answers equally well for
currants or any kind of berries, and
is particularly fine for grapes. Rinse
thoroughly and crush the fruit, strain
and mix with half of the fruit's bulk
of crushed ice. Put two tablespoon-
fuls of crushed ice in each glass, add
two cubes of sugar and a crushed mint
leaf. Fill the glasses to within an
Inch of the top with the Juice, add a
trifle of lemon juice to accentuate the
flavor, and crown the top with seven
or eight whole berries or peeled grapes.
When desiring to serve the Jullp at a
company luncheon, line tall, delicately
thin glasses with mint stalks, having
the leaves come well above tbe tops of
the glasses. The effect Is very dainty.
StrawB must then, of course, accom-
pany the beverage, each tied with the
lunchesn's color In ribbon.
Without even a bone leftTbld Moth-
er Hubbard couldn't have had a skele-
ton in tbe closet.
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