 Section 33 of the Handi-Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing. When King Stanislaus of Poland, then a young man, came back from a journey, the whole Laskincian house gathered together at Lysa to receive him. The schoolmaster, Jablowski, prepared a festival in commemoration of the event, and had it end with a ballet performed by thirteen students dressed as Cavaliers. Each had a shield upon which one of the letters of the words Domus Laskinia, the Laskincian house, was written in gold. After the first dance, they stood in such a manner that their shields red, Domus Laskinia. After the second dance, they changed order, making it read, Ades in Kolumnis, unharmed art thou here. After the third, Mane Sirius Loki, continued the star of this place. After the fourth, Siskumna Dei, be a pillar of God. And finally, I, Skadesolium, go, ascend the throne. These two words allow of one billion, five hundred and fifty-six million, seven hundred and fifty-five thousand, two hundred transpositions. Yet that five of them convey independent and appropriate meanings is certainly very curious. Points of Criminal Law You cannot lawfully condone an offense by receiving back stolen property. The exemption of females from arrest implies only in civil, not in criminal matters. Every man is bound to obey the call of a sheriff for assistance in making an arrest. The rule every man's house is his castle does not hold good when a man is accused of crime. Inbezzlement can be charged only against a clerk or servant, or the officer or agent of a corporation. Figumi cannot be proven in law if one party to a marriage has been absent and not heard from for five years. Grand larceny is when the value of property stolen exceeds twenty-five dollars, one less than that the offences petite larceny. Arson to be in the first degree must have been committed at night, and the buildings fired must have been inhabited. Drunkenness is not a legal excuse for crime, but delirium, Tremens, is considered by the law as a species of insanity. In a case of assault it is only necessary to prove an offer or attempt at assault. Battery presumes physical violence. Mayhem, although popularly supposed to refer to injury to the face, lip, tongue, eye, or ear, applies to any injury done a limb. A felony is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, and infamous crime is one punishable with death or state prison. A police officer is not authorized to make an arrest without a warrant unless he has personal knowledge of the offense for which the arrest is made. An accident is not a crime unless criminal carelessness can be proven. A man shooting at a burglar and killing a member of his family is not a murderer. Burglary in the first degree can be committed only in the night time, twilight if dark enough to prevent distinguishing a man's face is the same as night in law. Murder to be in the first degree must be willful, premeditated, and malicious, or committed while the murderer is engaged in a felonous act. Killing of a man in a duel is murder, and it is misdemeanor to accept or give a challenge. False swearing is perjury in law only when willfully done, and when the oath has been legally administered. Such qualifying expressions as, to the best of my belief, as I am informed, may save an avertment from being perjured. The law is that the false statement sworn to must be absolute. Subordinate nation of perjury is a felony. To tell pure water. The color, odor, taste, and purity of water can be ascertained as follows. Fill a large bottle made of colorless glass with water. Look through the water at some black object. Pour out some of the water and leave the bottle half full. Cork the bottle and place it for a few hours in a warm place. Shake up the water, remove the cork, and critically smell the air contained in the bottle. If it has any smell, particularly if the odor is repulsive, the water should not be used for domestic purposes. By heating the water, an odor is evolved that would not otherwise appear. Water fresh from the well is usually tasteless even if it contains a large amount of putrisable organic matter. All water for domestic purposes should be perfectly tasteless and remain so even after it has been warmed since warming often develops a taste in water which is tasteless when cold. Hand grenades. Take chloride of calcium crude, 20 parts, common salt, 5 parts, and water, 75 parts. Mix and put in thin bottles. In case of fire, a bottle so thrown that will break in or very near the fire will put it out. This mixture is better and cheaper than many of the high priced grenades sold for the purpose of fire protection. How to get rid of rats. Get a piece of lead pipe and use it as a funnel to introduce about one and a half ounces of sulfite, of potassium, into any outside holes tenanted by rats. Not to be used in dwellings. To get rid of mice, use tartarimetic mingled with any favorite food. They will eat, sicken, and take their leave. Friendly advice on many subjects. Tomato and Breitz disease. When Thomas Jefferson brought the tomato from France to America, thinking that if it could be induced to grow bountifully it might make good feed for hogs, he little dreamed of the benefit he was conferring upon posterity. A constant diet of raw tomatoes and skim milk is said to be a certain cure for Breitz disease. General Schenck, who, when minister to England became a victim to that complaint, was restored to health by two years of this regimen. Relief for asthma. An old friend of the editor of this book writes, I have been a sufferer from asthma for twenty-five years, and for more than a dozen years have used the following recipe with great benefit. It is not a cure, but in my case gives almost instant relief. Make equal parts of powdered stremonium leaves and powdered belladonna leaves and mix thoroughly. To each ten ounces of the mixture add one ounce of powdered salt-petter, nitrate of potash. Mix all thoroughly. I always keep some of this in a small tin box. When I wish to use it, I pour a little of the powder into the cover of the box, light it with a match, cover the hole with a little paper cone with the points cut off. I place the point of the cone in my mouth and breathe the smoke into my lungs with the air. The first trial is very hard, it almost strangles, but if persevered in will give great relief. This is much better than stremonium alone. The salt-petter makes it burn freely and also helps to give relief. When my home was in northern Indiana, I used to buy the leaves in Chicago already powdered. Now I send to New York. I find it cheaper to do this than to gather and dry the leaves. It is also almost impossible to dry and pulverize the leaves at home. By using a paper cone and brazing through it, little or no smoke is wasted, and the box and paper can be carried in the pocket and used as occasion requires. For swollen feet, policemen, mail carriers, and others whose occupation keeps them on their feet a great deal, often are troubled with chafed, sore, and blistered feet, especially in extremely hot weather, no matter how comfortably their shoes may let. A powder is used in the German army for sifting into the shoes and stockings of the foot soldiers called Festrupulier, and consists of three parts of lacylic acid, 10-part starch, and 87-parts pulverized soap-zone. Rules for fat people and for lean. To increase the weight, eat to the extent of satisfying. A natural appetite of fat meats, butter, cream milk, cocoa, chocolate, bread, potatoes, peas, parsnips, carrots, beets, perinaceous foods, as Indian corn, rice, tapioca, sago, cornstarch, pastry, custards, oatmeal, sugar, sweet wines, and ale, avoid acids. Exercise as little as possible and sleep all you can. To reduce the weight, eat to the extent of satisfying a natural appetite of lean meat, poultry, game, eggs, milk, moderately, green vegetables, turnips, succulent fruits, tea, or coffee. Drink lime juice, lemonade, and acid drinks. Avoid fat, butter, cream, sugar, pastry, rice, sago, tapioca, cornstarch, potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, and sweet wine. When quinine will break up a cold. It is surprising, says a family physician, how certainly a cold may be broken up by a timely dose of quinine. When first symptoms make their appearance when a little languor, slight hoarseness and ominous tightening of the nasal membranes follow exposures to drops or sudden chill by wet, five grains of this useful alkaloid are sufficient in many cases to end the trouble. But it must be done promptly. If the golden moment passes, nothing suffices to stop the weary sneezing, hankerchief using red nose and woe-begon-looking periods that certainly follow. A mistaken idea. The old adage, feed a cold and starve a fever, is characterized by the journal of health as very silly advice. If anything, the reverse would be near or right. When a person has a severe cold, it is best for him to eat very lightly, especially during the first few days of the attack. Hints on bathing. There has been a great deal written about bathing. The surface of the skin is punctured with millions of little holes called pores. The duty of these pores is to carry the waste matter off. For instance, perspiration. Now if these pores are stopped up of no use and the body has to find some other way to get rid of its impurities, then the liver has more than it can do. Then we take a liver pill when we ought to clean out the pores instead. The housewife is very particular to keep her sieves in good order. After she has strained a substance through them, they are washed out carefully with water because water is the best thing known. That is the reason water is used to bathe in, but the skin is a little different from a sieve because it is willing to help along the process itself. All it needs is a little encouragement, and it will accomplish wonders. What the skin wants is rubbing. If you should quietly sit down in a tub of water and as quietly get up and dry off without rubbing, your skin wouldn't be much benefited. The water would make it a little soft, especially if it is warm, but rubbing is the great thing. And where the sunlight strikes as part of your body, then take a dry brush and rub it, and you will notice that countless little flakes of cuticle fly off. Every time one of these flakes is removed from the skin, your body breathes a sigh of relief. An eminent German authority contends that too much bathing is a bad thing. There is much truth in this. Soap and water are good things to soften up the skin, but rubbing is what the skin wants. Every morning or every evening, or when it is most convenient, wash the body all over with water and a little ammonia, or anything which tends to make the water soft. Then rub dry with a towel, and after that go over the body from top to toe with a dry brush. Try this for two or three weeks and your skin will be like velvet. Tea and coffee. Tea is a nerve stimulant, pure and simple, acting like alcohol in this respect. Not any value that the latter may possess as a retarder of waste. It has a special influence upon those nerve centers that supply willpower, exalting their sensibility beyond normal activity, and may even produce hysterical symptoms if carried far enough. Its active principal vein is an exceedingly powerful drug chiefly employed by nerve specialists as a pain destroyer, possessing the singular quality of working towards the surface. That is to say when a dose is administered hypodermically for schiatica, for example, the narcotic influence proceeds outward from the point of injection instead of inward towards the center, as that of morphia, atropia, etc. Tea is totally devoid of nutritive value, and the habit of drinking it to excess, which so many American women indulge in, particularly in the country, is to be deplored as a cause of our American nervousness. Anything on the contrary is a nerve food. Like other concentrated foods of its class, it operates as a stimulant also, but upon a different set of nerves from tea. Taken strong in the morning, it often produces dizziness in that peculiar visual symptoms of overstimulus, which is called muscae volilantes, dancing flies. But this is an improper way to take it, and rightly used it is perhaps the most valuable liquid addition to the morning meal. Its active principle, caffeine, differs in all physiological respects from feign, while it is chemically very closely allied, and its limited consumption makes it impotent for harm. To Straighten Round Shoulders A stooping figure and a halting gait accompanied by the unavoidable weakness of lungs, incidental to a narrow chest, may be entirely cured by the very simple and easily performed exercise of raising one's self upon the toes leisurely in a perpendicular position several times daily. To take this exercise properly one must take a perfectly upright position. With the heels together and the toes at an angle of 45 degrees, then drop the arms lifelessly by the sides, animating and raising the chest to its full capacity and muscularity, the chin well drawn in and the crown of the head feeling as if attached to a string suspended from the ceiling above. Slowly rise upon the balls of both feet to the greatest possible height, thereby exercising all the muscles of the legs and body. Come again into standing position without swaying the body backward out of the perfect line. Repeat the same exercise first on one foot, then on the other. It is wonderful what a straightening out power this exercise has upon round shoulders and crooked backs, and one will be surprised to note how soon the lungs begin to show the effect of such expansive development. Care of the Eyes In consequence of the increase of the affections of the eye, a specialist has recently formulated the following rules to be observed in the care of the eyes for schoolwork. A comfortable temperature, dry and warm feet, good ventilation, clothing at the neck, and on other parts of the body loose, posture erect, and never read lying down or stooping. Little study before breakfast or directly after a heavy meal, not at all at twilight or late at night. Use great caution about studying after recovery from fevers. Have light abundant, but not dazzling, not allowing the sun to shine on desks or on objects in front of the scholars, and letting the light come from the left hand or left in rear. Hold book at right angles to the line of sight, or nearly so. Give eyes frequent rest by looking up. The distance of the book from the eye should be about 15 inches. The usual indication of strain is redness on the rim of the eyelid, betokening a congested state of the inner surface which may be accompanied with some pain. When the eye tires easily, rest is not the proper remedy, but the use of glasses of sufficient power to aid in accommodating the eye to vision. How and When to Drink Water According to Dr. Lough, when water is taken into the full or partly full stomach, it does not mingle with the food as we are taught, but passes along quickly between the food and lesser curvature toward the Polaris, through which it passes into the intestines. The secretion of mucus by the lining membrane is constant, and during the night a considerable amount accumulates in the stomach. Some of its liquid portion is absorbed, and that which remains is thick and tenacious. If food is taken into the stomach when in this condition it becomes coated with this mucus and the secretion of the gastric juice and its action are delayed. These facts show the value of a goblet of water before breakfast. This washes out the tenacious mucus and stimulates the gastric glands to secretion. In old and feeble persons, water should not be taken cold, but it may be, with great advantage, taken warm or hot. This removal of the accumulated mucus from the stomach is probably one of the reasons why taking soup at the beginning of a meal has been found so beneficial. What Causes Coughs Cold and coughs are prevalent throughout the country, but throat infections are by far more common among businessmen. Every unfortunate one mutters something about the abominable weather and curses the piercing wind. Much of the trouble, however, is caused by overheated rooms, and a little more attention to proper ventilation would remove the cause of suffering. Dr. G. Ewing Mears, who was thus afflicted, said to an inquirer, The huskiness and loss of power of articulation so common among us are largely due to the use of steam for heating. The steam cannot be properly regulated, and the temperature becomes too high. A person living in this atmosphere has all the cells of the lungs open, and when he passes into the open air he is unduly exposed. The affliction is quite common among the men who occupy offices in the new buildings which are fitted up with all modern improvements. The substitution of electric light for gas has wrought a change to which people have not yet adapted themselves. The heat arising from a number of gas jets will quickly raise the temperature of a room, and unconsciously people rely upon that means of heating to some extent. Very little warmth, however, is produced by the electric light, and when a man reads by an incandescent light, he, at times, finds himself becoming chilly and wonders why it is. Too hot during the day and too cold at night are conditions which should be avoided. Physical Exercise The principal methods of developing the physique now prescribed by trainers are exercise with dumbbells, the barbell, and the chest weight. The rings and horizontal and parallel bars are also used, but not nearly to the extent that they formally were. The movement has been all in the direction of the simplification of apparatus. In fact, one well-known teacher of the Boston Gymnasium, when asked his opinion, said, four bare walls in a floor with a well-posted instructor is all that is really required for a gymnasium. Probably the most important as well as the simplest appliance for gymnasium work is the wooden dumbbell, which has displaced the ponderance iron bell of former days. Its weight is from three quarters of a pound to a pound and a half, and with one in each hand, a variety of motions can be gone through, which are of immense benefit in building up or toning down every muscle in all vital parts of the body. The first object of an instructor in taking a beginner in hand is to increase the circulation. This is done by exercising the extremities, the first movement being one of the hands, after which comes the wrists, then the arms, and next the head and feet. As the circulation is increased, the necessity for a larger supply of oxygen, technically called oxygen hunger, is created, which is only satisfied by breathing exercises, which developed lungs. After the circulation is in a satisfactory condition, the dumbbell instructor turns his attention to exercising the great muscles of the body, beginning with those of the back, strengthening which holds the body erect, thus increasing the chest capacity, invigorating the digestive organs, and in fact, all the vital functions. By the use of very light weights and equal and symmetrical development of all parts of the body is obtained, and then there are no sudden demands on the hearts. After the dumbbell comes exercise with the round or barbell. This is like the dumbbell, with the exception that the bar connecting the balls is four or five feet instead of a few inches in length. Barbells weigh from one to two pounds each, and are found most useful in building up the respiratory and digestive systems. There are especially province being the strengthening of the erector muscles and increasing the flexibility of the chest. Of all fixed apparatus in use, the pulley weight stands easily first in importance. These weights are available for a greater variety of objects than any other gymnastic appliance, and can be used either for general exercise or for strengthening such muscles as required. With them a greater localization is possible than with the dumbbell, and for this reason they are recommended as a kind of supplement to the latter. As chest developers and correctors of round shoulders they are most effective. As the name implies, there are simply weights attached to ropes which pass over pulleys and are provided with handles. The common pulley is placed at about the height of the shoulder of an average man, but recently those which can be adjusted to any desired height have been very generally introduced. When more special localization is desired that can be obtained by means of the ordinary apparatus, what is known as the double-action chest weight is used. This differs from the ordinary kind in being provided with several pulleys so that the strain may come at different angles. Double-action weights may be divided into three classes, high, low, and side pulleys, each with its particular use. The highest of all, known as the giant pulleys, are made especially for developing the muscles of the back and chest, and by stretching or elongating movements to increase the interior capacity of the chest. If the front of the chest is full and the back or side chest deficient, the pupil is set to work on the giant pulley. To build up the side walls, he stands with the back to the pulley box and the left heel resting against it. The handle is grasped in the right hand if the right side of the chest is lacking in development, and then drawn straight down by the side. A step forward with the right foot as long as possible is taken. The line brought as far to the front and near the floor as can be done, and then the arm held stiff allowed to be drawn solely up by the weight. To exercise the left side, the same process has gone through with the handle grasped in the left hand. Another kind of giant pulley is that which allows the operator to stand directly under it, and is used for increasing the lateral diameter of the chest. The handles are drawn straight down by the sides. The arms are then spread and drawn back by the weights. Generally speaking, high pulleys are most used for correcting height, round shoulders. Low pulleys for low, round shoulders. Side pulleys for individual high or low shoulders. And giant pulleys for the development of the walls of the chest and to correct spinal curvature. The traveling rings, a line of iron rings covered with rubber and attached to long ropes, fastened to the ceiling some 10 feet apart, are also valuable in developing the muscles of the back, arms, and sides. The first ring is grasped in one hand and a spring taken from an elevated platform. The momentum carries the gymnast to the next ring, which is seized with the free hand, and so the entire length of the line is traversed. The parallel bars low and high, the flying rings, the horizontal bars, and the trapeze all have their uses, but of late years they have been regulated to a position of distinct inferiority to that now occupied by the dumbbells and pulley weights. End of section 33. This recording is in the public domain. Section 34 of the handy cyclopedia of things worth knowing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The handy cyclopedia of things worth knowing by Joseph Treanance, published in 1911. Section 34. All information in this section is intended for entertainment and educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. Accidents and emergencies. What to do? If an artery is cut, red blood spurts. Compress it above the wound. If a vein is cut, dark blood flows. Compress it below and above. If choked, go upon all thorns and cough. For slight burns, dip the part in cold water. If the skin is destroyed, cover with varnish or linseed oil. For apoplexy, raise the head and body. For fainting, lay the person flat. Send for a physician when a serious accident of any kind occurs, but treat as directed until he arrives. Scalds and burns. The following facts cannot be too firmly impressed on the mind of the reader that in either of these accidents, the first, best, and often the only remedies required are sheets of wadding, fine wool, or carded cotton, and, in the default of these, violet powder, flower, magnesia, or chalk. The object for which these several articles are employed is the same in each instance, namely, to exclude the air from the injured part, for if the air can be effectually shut out from the raw surface and care is taken not to expose the tender part till the new cuticle is formed, the cure may be safely left to nature. The moment a person is called to a case of a scald or burn, he should cover the part with a sheet, or portion of a sheet, of wadding, taking care not to break any blister that may have formed, or stay to remove any burnt clothes that may adhere to the surface, but as quickly as possible envelop every part of the injury from all access of the air, laying one or two more pieces of wadding on the first, so as effectually to guard the burn or scald from the irritation of the atmosphere. And if the article used is wool or cotton, the same precaution of adding more material where the surface is thinly covered must be adopted, a light bandage finally securing all in their places. Any of the popular remedies recommended below may be employed when neither wool, cotton, nor wadding are to be procured. It being always remembered that that article which will best exclude the air from a burn or scald is the best, quickest and least painful mode of treatment. And in this respect nothing has surpassed cotton, loose or attached to paper as in wadding. If the skin is much injured in burns, spread some linen pretty thickly with chalk ointment and lay over the part and give the patient some brandy and water if much exhausted, then send for a medical man. If not much injured and very painful, use the same ointment or apply carded cotton dipped in lime water and linseed oil. If you please, you may lay cloths dipped in ether over the parts or cold lotions. Treat scalds in the same manner or cover with scraped raw potato, but the chalk ointment is the best. In the absence of all of these, cover the injured part with treacle and dust over it plenty of flour. Body in flames. Lay the person down on the floor of the room and throw the table cloth, rug, or other large cloth over him and roll him on the floor. Dirt in the eye. Place your forefinger upon the cheekbone, having the patient before you. Then slightly bend the finger. This will draw down the lower lid of the eye and you will probably be able to remove the dirt. But if this will not enable you to get at it, repeat this operation while you have a knitting needle or bodkin placed over the eyelid. This will turn it inside out and enable you to remove the sand or eyelash, et cetera, with the corner of a fine silk handkerchief. As soon as the substance is removed, bathe the eye with cold water and exclude the light for a day. If the inflammation is severe, let the patient use a refrigerant lotion. Lime in the eye. Surringe it well with warm vinegar and water in their proportion of one ounce of vinegar to eight ounces of water. Exclude light. Iron or steel spiculae in the eye. These occur while turning iron or steel in a lathe and are best remedied by doubling back the upper or lower eyelid according to the situation of the substance and with a flat edge of a silver probe taking up the metallic particle using a lotion made by dissolving six grains of sugar of lead and the same of white vitriol in six ounces of water and bathing the eye three times a day till the inflammation subsides. Another plan is, drop a solution of sulfate of copper from one to three grains of salt to one ounce of water into the eye or keep the eye open in a wine glass full of the solution. Bathe with cold lotion and exclude light to keep down inflammation. Dislocated thumb. This is frequently produced by a ball. Make a clove hitch by passing two loops of cord over the thumb placing a piece of rag under the cord to prevent it cutting the thumb. Then pull in the same line as the thumb. Afterwards, apply a cold lotion. Cuts and wounds. Clean cut wounds, whether deep or superficial and likely to heal by the first intention should always be washed or cleaned and at once evenly and smoothly closed by bringing both edges close together and securing them in that position by adhesive plaster. Cut thin strips of sticking plaster and bring the parts together. Or, if large and deep, cut two broad pieces so as to look like the teeth of a comb and place one on each side of the wound which must be cleaned previously. These pieces must be arranged so that they shall interlace one another. Then, by laying hold of the pieces on the right side with one hand and those on the other side with the other hand and pulling them from one another, the edges of the wounds are brought together without any difficulty. Ordinary cuts are dressed by thin strips applied by pressing down the plaster on one side of the wound and keeping it there and pulling in the opposite direction, then suddenly depressing the hand when the edges of the wound are brought together. Contusions are best healed by laying a piece of folded lint well wetted with extractive lead or boracic acid on the part and, if there is much pain, placing a hot brand poultice over the dressing, repeating both if necessary every two hours. When the injuries are very severe, lay a cloth over the part and suspend a basin over it filled with cold lotion. Put a piece of cotton into the basin so that it shall allow the lotion to drop on the cloth and thus keep it always wet. Hemorrhage, when caused by an artery meaning divided or torn, may be known by the blood issuing out of the wound in leaps or jerks and being of a bright scarlet color. If a vein is injured, the blood is darker and flows continuously. To arrest the latter, apply pressure by means of a compress and bandage. To arrest arterial bleeding, get a piece of wood, part of a broom handle will do, and tie a piece of tape to one end of it. Then tie a piece of tape loosely over the arm and pass the other end of the wood under it. Twist the stick around and around until the tape compresses the arm sufficiently to arrest the bleeding and then confine the other end by tying the string around the arm. A compress made by enfolding a penny piece in several folds of lint or linen should, however, be first placed under the tape and over the artery. If the bleeding is very obstinate and it occurs in the arm, place a cork underneath the string on the inside of the fleshy part where the artery may be felt beating by anyone. If in the leg, place a cork in the direction of a line drawn from the inner part of the knee toward the outer part of the groin. It is an excellent thing to accustom yourself to find out the position of these arteries or, indeed, any that are superficial and to explain to every person in your house where they are and how to stop bleeding. If a stick cannot be got, take a handkerchief, make a cord bandage of it, and tie a knot in the middle. The knot acts as a compress and should be placed over the artery while the two ends are coiled around the thumb. Observe always to place the ligature between the wound and the heart, putting your finger into a bleeding wound and making pressure until the surgeon arrives will generally stop violent bleeding. Bleeding from the nose, from whatever cause, may generally be stopped by putting a plug of lint into the nostrils. If this does not do, apply a cold lotion to the forehead, raise the head, and place over it both arms so that it will rest on the hands, dip the lint plug, slightly moistened, into some powdered gum Arabic, and plug the nostrils again, or dip the plug into equal parts of powdered gum Arabic and alum, and plug the nose. Or the plug may be dipped in fryer's balsam or tincture of Keno. Heat should be applied to the feet, and in obstinate cases, the sudden shock of a cold key or cold water poured down the spine will often instantly stop the bleeding. If the bowels are confined, take a purgative. Injections of alum solution from a small syringe into the nose will often stop hemorrhage. Violent shocks will sometimes stun a person, and he will remain unconscious. Untie strings, collars, et cetera. Loosen anything that is tight and interferes with the breathing. Raise the head, see if there is bleeding from any part. Apply smelling salts to the nose and hot bottles to the feet. In concussion, the surface of the body is cold and pale, and the pulse weak and small, the breathing slow and gentle, and the pupil of the eye generally contracted or small. You can get an answer by speaking loud so as to arouse the patient. Give a little brandy in water, keep the place quiet, apply warmth, and do not raise the head too high. If you tickle the feet, the patient feels it. In compression of the brain from any cause, such as apoplexy or a piece of fractured bone pressing on it, there is loss of sensation. If you tickle the feet of the injured person, he does not feel it. You cannot arouse him so as to get an answer. The pulse is slow and labored, the breathing deep, labored and snorting, the pupil enlarged. Raise the head, loosen strings or tight things, and send for a surgeon. If one cannot be God at once, apply mustard pulses to the feet and thighs, leeches to the temples, and hot water to the feet. Choking. When a person has a fishbone in the throat, insert the forefinger, press upon the root of the tongue so as to induce vomiting. If this does not do, let him swallow a large piece of potato or soft bread, and if these fail, give a mustard emetic. Fainting, hysterics, et cetera. Loosen the garments, bathe the temples with water or odour cologne, open the window, admit plenty of fresh air, dash cold water on the face, apply hot bricks to the feet, and avoid bustle and excessive sympathy. Drowning, attend to the following essential rules. One, lose no time. Two, handle the body gently. Three, carry the body face downward with the head gently raised and never hold it up by the feet. Four, send for medical assistance immediately and in the meantime act as follows. Five, strip the body, rub it dry, then wrap it in hot blankets and place it in a warm bed in a warm room. Six, cleanse away the froth and mucus from the nose and mouth. Seven, apply warm bricks, bottles, bags of sand, et cetera, to the armpits between the thighs and to the soles of the feet. Eight, rub the surface of the body with the hands enclosed in warm, dry, worsted socks. Nine, if possible, put the body into a warm bath. Ten, to restore breathing, put the pipe of a common bellows into one nostril, carefully closing the other and the mouth at the same time drawing downward and pushing gently backward the upper part of the windpipe to allow a more free admission of air. Blow the bellows gently in order to inflate the lungs till the breast be raised a little. Then set the mouth and nostrils free and press gently on the chest. Repeat this until signs of life appear. The body should be covered the moment it is placed on the table, except the face and all the rubbing carried on under the sheet or blanket. When they can be obtained, a number of tiles or bricks should be made tolerably hot in the fire, laid in a row on the table, covered with a blanket and the body placed in such a manner on them that their heat may enter the spine. When the patient revives, apply smelling salts to the nose, give warm wine or brandy and water. Cautions, one, never rub the body with salt or spirits. Two, never roll the body on casks. Three, continue the remedies for 12 hours without ceasing. Hanging, loosen the cord or whatever it may be by which the person has been suspended, open the temporal artery or jugular vein or bleed from the arm, employ electricity if at hand and proceed as for drowning. Apparent death from drunkenness. Raise the head, loosen the clothes, maintain warmth of surface and give a mustard emetic as soon as the person can swallow. Apoplexy and fits generally. Raise the head, loosen all tight clothes, strings, et cetera, apply cold lotions to the head and sand for a surgeon. Suffocation from noxious gases, et cetera. Remove to the fresh air, dash cold vinegar and water in the face, neck and breast, keep up the warmth of the body. If necessary, apply mustard poultices to the soles of the feet and to the spine and try artificial respirations as in drowning with electricity. Lightning and sunstroke. Treat the same as apoplexy. Poisons and their antidotes. General rules. Always send immediately for a medical man, save all fluids vomited and articles of food, cups, glasses, et cetera, used by the patient before taken ill and lock them up. As a rule, give emetics after poisons that cause sleepiness and raving. Chalk, milk, eggs, butter and warm water or oil after poisons that cause vomiting and pain in the stomach and bowels with purging. And when there is no inflammation about the throat, tickle it with a feather to excite vomiting. Vomiting may be caused by giving warm water with a teaspoonful of mustard to the tumblerful while stirred up. Sulphate of zinc, white vitriol may be used in place of the mustard or powdered alum. Powder of Ipica canua, a teaspoonful rubbed up with molasses may be employed for children. Tartar emetic should never be given as it is excessively depressing and uncontrollable in its effects. The stomach pump can only be used by skilful hands and even then with caution. Opium and other narcotics. After vomiting has occurred, cold water should be dashed over the face and head. The patient must be kept awake, walked about between two strong persons, made to grasp the handles of a galvanic battery, dosed with strong coffee, and vigorously slapped. Belladonna is an antidote for opium and for morphia, et cetera. It's active principles, and on the other hand, the latter counteract the effects of belladonna, but a knowledge of medicine is necessary for dealing with these articles. Strychnia. After emetics have been freely and successfully given, the patient should be allowed to breathe the vapor of sulfuric ether, poured on a handkerchief and held to the face in such quantities as to keep down the tendency to convulsions. Bromide of potassium, 20 grains at a dose, dissolved in syrup, may be given every hour. Alcoholic poisoning should be combated by emetics, of which the sulfate of zinc, given as above directed, is the best. After that, strong coffee internally and stimulation by heat externally should be used. Acids are sometimes swallowed by mistake. Alkalies, lime water, magnesium, or common chalk mixed with water may be freely given, and afterward, muciligenous drinks such as thick gum water or flaxseed tea. Alkalies are less frequently taken in injurious strength or quantity, but sometimes children swallow lie by mistake. Common vinegar may be given freely, and then castor oil or sweet oil in full doses, a tablespoon full at a time, repeated every half hour or two. Nitrate of silver when swallowed is neutralized by common table salt, freely given in solution in water. The salts of mercury or arsenic, often kept as bed bug poison, which are powerful irritants, are apt to be very quickly fatal. Milk or the whites of eggs may be freely given, and afterward, a very thin paste of flour and water. In these cases, an ametic is to be given after the poison is neutralized. Phosphorous paste, kept for roach poison or in parlor matches, is sometimes eaten by children and has been willfully taken for the purpose of suicide. It is a powerful irritant. The first thing to be done is to give freely of magnesia and water, then to give mucilaginous drinks as flaxseed tea, gum water or sassafras pith and water, and lastly, to administer finely powdered bone charcoal, either in pill or in mixture with water. In no case of poisoning should there be any avoidable delay in obtaining the advice of a physician, and meanwhile, the friends or bystanders should endeavor to find out exactly what has been taken, so that the treatment adopted may be as prompt and effective as possible. Keep still. Keep still. When trouble is brewing, keep still. Even when slander is getting on its legs, keep still. When your feelings are hurt, keep still till you recover from your excitement at any rate. Things look differently through an unagitated eye. A doctor relates how once in a commotion he wrote a letter and sent it and wished he had not. I had another commotion and wrote a long letter, but life had rubbed a little sense into me. I kept that letter in my pocket against the day when I could look it over without agitation and without tears. I was glad I did. Less and less it seemed necessary to send it. I was not sure it would do any hurt, but in my doubt I leaned to reticence and eventually it was destroyed. Philosophical Facts The greatest height at which visible clouds ever exist does not exceed ten miles. Air is about eight hundred and fifteen times lighter than water. The pressure of the atmosphere upon every square foot of the earth amounts to two thousand one hundred and sixty pounds. The violence of the expansion of water when freezing is sufficient to cleave a globe of copper of such thickness as to require a force of twenty-seven thousand pounds to produce the same effect. During the conversion of ice into water one hundred and forty degrees of heat are absorbed. Water, when converted into steam, increases in bulk eighteen hundred times. In one second of time, in one beat of the pendulum of a clock, light travels two hundred thousand miles were a cannon ball shot toward the sun and were it to maintain full speed, it would be twenty years in reaching it, yet light travels through this same space in seven or eight minutes. Strange as it may appear, a ball of ton weight and another of the same material of an ounce weight falling from any height will reach the ground at the same time. The heat does not increase as we rise above the earth nearer to the sun, but decreases rapidly until, beyond the regions of the atmosphere in void, it is estimated that the cold is about seventy degrees below zero. The line of perpetual frost at the equator is fifteen thousand feet altitude, thirteen thousand feet between the tropics and nine thousand to four thousand between the latitudes of forty degrees and forty-nine degrees. At a depth of forty-five feet under the ground the temperature of the earth is uniform throughout the year. The human ear is so extremely sensitive that it can hear a sound that lasts only the twenty-four thousandth part of a second. Sound travels at the rate of one thousand one hundred and forty-two feet per second, about thirteen miles in a minute, so that if we hear a clap of thunder half a minute after the flash we may calculate that the discharge of electricity is six and a half miles off. End of section thirty-four. Section thirty-five of The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org. This reading by Kara Schellenberg. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Traynans published in 1911. Section thirty-five. Advertisements. Part one. Things Worth Knowing about Dr. Graves' Toothpowder are too many and too well known to print on this small page, but here are a few. Three million three hundred sixty thousand cans sold in nineteen ten. Five girls can make seventy-five gross in one day. Forty-two thousand drugists in the USA carry graves. Two hundred tons of tooth powder made in nineteen ten. If so many people use graves, why can't you? Illustration. Preceding text with image of container. Perfect form health brace. Develop your chest from three to six inches. Compells deep breathing and ensures long life. Consumption claims thousands whose stooped shoulders and cramped lungs prevent them from inhaling the health-giving, revitalizing air. Special price. One dollar fifty cents for a two dollar quality for sale where you got this book. Illustration. Pictures of a man and woman modeling the brace. Products Worth Knowing. Now my mouth and teeth really do feel clean. Isn't it a godsend we had it in the house when the youngster cut his hand? Remarks frequently made by users of hydrox, peroxide of hydrogen. The always reliable antiseptic. You cannot depend on cheap peroxides in an emergency. They're dear at any price. For ideal cleanliness, comfort and hygiene use, hydrox, peroxide, cream, tooth powder, dental paste, soap, talc, face powder, the aristocrats of toilet preparations, all drug stores sell them. Hydrox Chemical Company, New York, San Francisco, Chicago. Illustration. Image of package. This is a reproduction of the handsome new style package of St. Jacob's Oil, which has a worldwide reputation as the great remedy for pain. No other oil or liniment has ever received the cordial approval of the medical and nursing professions the world over. St. Jacob's Oil is the safest, surest, and best pain-relieving agent. Best prize medals awarded at international expositions for being the best pain cure. Good for rheumatism, neuralgia, sore throat, chest colds, et cetera. Just rub it on the affected parts. The pain may resist a dozen treatments, but it can't resist St. Jacob's Oil. Send for illustrated booklet containing free music offer, price, 25 cents, 50 cents. The 50-cent bottle contains three times as much as the 25-cent size. St. Jacob's Oil Limited, Baltimore, Maryland. Illustration. Image of package. Stiefel's Medicinal Soaps. For more than a quarter of a century, Stiefel's Medicinal Soaps, the pioneer products in the field, have been the stand-by of physicians everywhere, and many of the varieties have, originally through the recommendation of the skin specialist or the family physician, become household remedies and toilet accessories in the homes of the refined and particular. The ideal, logical, and scientifically approved care of the scalp calls for the use of Stiefel's Superlative Boracic Acid Shampoo Soap. A most effective remover of dandruff cleanses the scalp and opens the pores, leaves the hair loose and fluffy so that you can do a thing with it next day. Price. 25 cents per cake. Tear out the coupon printed on page 381 and get a free sample. Soul agents for the U.S. Sharing and Gluts. 150 to 152 Maiden Lane, New York. The oldest yet most up to date. Listen to these men. There's no use talking. Your appearance has much to do with your success, yes, any man's success in business. A small investment with us will give you the right appearance, the appearance of real prosperity. Many men are wearing clothes made by us because they're stylish, reliable, and maybe had at very reasonable prices. We import many of our own goods and always display a large line of exclusive novelties at very attractive prices. The proprietors of this publication are our customers. Our work pleases them and they think it will please you. We know it will. We would very much appreciate a call and if you will mention this advertisement, we will allow you an extra cash discount of 5%. Our household accounts are subject to premiums and make buying clothes easy. Drop us a card and we will mail you a pamphlet giving full information, also samples. Misslehorn and Nelson. Tailors. Telephone, Maine, 3906, 19 South Fifth Avenue, Chicago. Our specialty, orthopedic apparatus for all deformities including spinal curvature, hip joint disease, weak legs, bow legs, knock knees, club feet, flat feet, et cetera. Shoes for the lame. All apparatus made in our own factory by skilled mechanics on short notice. Estimates cheerfully given. Send for catalog D. Sharp and Smith. Manufacturers of orthopedic apparatus, shoes for the lame, artificial limbs, trusses, crutches, abdominal supporters, elastic stockings. 103 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Two doors north of Washington Street. Illustration. Image of person modeling a corset. Image of shoe. Are you too fat? Down's obesity reducer will reduce your fat. Down's obesity reducer is unlike other reducing remedies in that it does not require other medicines to strengthen up the system after it has performed its function of relieving the patient of superfluous fat. On the contrary, Down's obesity reducer not only does away with obesity, but it strengthens the entire system, discharges all impurities, and tones up the blood. It is easy to take, being put up in pill and capsule form. Down's obesity reducer contains no injurious drugs. A child might take it in any quantity without harmful effects. It is not one of the so-called new discoveries. It has been used successfully for over 30 years and has never produced an evil effect. Scores of people have been reduced by it from 20 to 80 pounds and never felt better than while taking and after taking. Guaranteed by the Down's chemical company, Chicago, under the Pure Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, serial number 17092. Regular price for a full month's treatment is $2.50. Illustration, silhouette of obese man and woman, finest razors in the world, hand forged, largest factory in the US, satisfaction guaranteed. Ask for the Geneva Standard brand, made by Geneva Cutlery Company, Geneva, New York, USA. Illustration, image of razor. Illustration, picture of blacksmith pounding iron on an anvil. Pure olive oil is a health-building food. It builds firm, solid flesh, aids digestion and clears the complexion. Dress your food with cheres. Pronounced cheres, olive oil. It is the first pressing of the choicest French olives. Every package put up and sealed at the factory at Grass, France. American agents, Antoine Cheres Company, 1820 Platte Street, New York. Don't be cut open. Don't suffer. Promptly use maize poultice, hygroscopyne. For pains, wounds, swellings, burns, bites, stings, and all, inflammations. Maize poultice is in airtight glass jars. 12 ounces net, 20 ounces net, two pounds net, and five pounds. Maize poultice is a safe, clean, soothing dressing, is antiseptic and anesthetic, does not soil or stain. It dissolves in water, lasts 24 hours as a dressing. Maize poultice is endorsed by physicians everywhere. It has no equal as a treatment in pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis, croup, rheumatic joints, carbuncles, old ulcers, infections, pelvic pains, ovaritis, erycephalus, or chitis, tonsillitis, enlarged glands, and appendicitis. Maize chemical manufacturing company, Chicago, Illinois. Prevent disease, Australian eucalyptus globulus oil, kangaroo brand. Recommended by the highest medical authorities for sick room and household use as a general antiseptic, disinfectant, and deodorant. It is non-poisonous and non-irritating. Used the world over, take no substitute, but see that you get our kangaroo brand. Eucacental, a fragrant but powerful antiseptic and inhalant, invaluable to those exposed to infection and contagion, to travelers, and for use in crowded cars, theaters, et cetera. Mosquitoes and other insects shun it. Use it when on the water or at summer resorts. Either of the above sold by or obtained through any drugist in original bottles only. Australian eucalyptus chemical company, 305 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Colds, Qatar, colds in head, hay fever, condons, Qataral jelly. Sample free for relief to prove why it cures. Please try condons with our compliments for Qataral sore throat or colds or any Qataral trouble. Pleasant, pure, quick to stop distress and speedily cures. Don't delay, sold by over 35,000 drugists or write us for free sample. Condons in sanitary tubes gives quick relief. Snuff a bit of this aromatic soothing healing jelly well into the nasal passages. Take a small portion internally, leaving in the throat as long as possible. Rub the throat well with the jelly. You'll find almost instant relief. Get a 25 cent or 50 cent tube today of your drugist or send penny postal to us for free sample. Condon Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 25 cent or 50 cent sanitary tubes at all drugists. Sample free. Illustration. Image of woman rubbing her throat. Image of package. End of section 35. Read by Kara Schallenberg, www.kray.org, on January 6th, 2007 in Oceanside, California. Section 36 of The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Caitlin Sticco. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Treanance, published in 1911. Section 36. Springhouse, Poland, Maine, can boast of two things that are unsurpassed if equaled in the United States. Poland Spring Hotel, which is the most delightful summer resort in the state of Maine. And the famous Poland Spring Water, known all over the civilized world for its purity and sweetness and beneficial effects, has not its equal for kidney trouble, diabetes, gallstones, and various other ailments of a similar nature. The Spring House is the most magnificent of any Spring House in the world, having cost more than $100,000. Poland Water is the purest, most efficacious, and lightest of all natural mineral waters. Hiram Riker and Sons, South Poland, Maine, proprietors. Sprague, Warner & Company, Chicago, Western Agents. Add features an idyllic photograph of the Spring House, a long clapboard building with a tall belfry surrounded by slender young trees. Return to text. A hygienic cleanser, a youthful complexion, a protection from sun and wind. Brown's Wonder Face Cream. Wonder Face Cream is recognized by both users and dealers to be the best face cream on the market. It is the best looking package and the most goods for the money. For oily skin, Wonder Face Cream will prevent an oily skin, whether this is caused by the use of a grease cream or by oil extruding from the skin itself. No other face cream is equal to Wonder Cream for this purpose. As a cleanser, it is superior to soap. It penetrates the skin and removes the secretions, which if allowed to remain will cause blackheads and pimples. Wonder Face Cream contains no grease and will not grow hair. It will remove tan and sunburn, give users a fresh complexion, whiten the skin, will gradually remove freckles, and when used with massage, will remove wrinkles. One jar will convince you, if you do not think this is possible, give it a trial. Every person going out in the wind or sun, especially on automobile rides, requires a face dressing, and only a non-grease cream can be used. Wonder Face Cream is perfect for this purpose. An invisible dressing of Wonder Cream will protect the face, preventing sunburn, roughening of the skin, et cetera. No one will suffer from sunburn if they will put on a dressing of Wonder Face Cream before going out. Put up in 25 cent, 35 cent, 50 cent, 75 cent, $1 and $1.75 jars. Add features an image of a jar and a box of cream. An abstract flower-like design graces the label. Return to text. Brown's Wonder Salve, a household remedy, perfectly harmless, can be used on both adults and children. Wonder Salve cures sore throat and colds, inflammation of lungs or chest, frostbite, neuralgia, chill-blain, tired or aching feet, rheumatism, burns, boils, sprains, bruises, croup, ear aches, warts, appendicitis, eczema, sores at long standing, mumps, sore corns, cuts, piles and fistulas, deafness after scarlet fever is best cure for pneumonia. Brown's Wonder Salve cures first by removing inflammation or irritation of the parts. Second, by regulating the circulation, one from any cause it has become impaired. With the cause of the inflammation removed and the circulation brought to its normal condition, nature does the healing. Put up in 25 cent, 50 cent and $1 sizes and hospital size of $1.75 cents. If not obtainable at your drugst, goods will be sent by mail on receipt of price. Safe delivery guaranteed. RH Brown & Company, 2701 Menlo Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Kola's famous corset ankle supports with removable bones. The only real support for weak or sprained ankles. Men's, ladies and Mrs. Price per pair, $1. Children's Price per pair, 50 cents. Made in tan or black leather when ordering state shoe size worn. Dr. Bull's Elastic ankle supports. Merkinized silk. Men's, ladies and Mrs. Price per pair, $1.50 cents. The feature of our elastic support is they are made to fit and conform perfectly with the ankle giving free in step movement recommended by leading physicians when ordering state size shoe worn. The Harvard Athletic supports. Price each 75 cents. Made in three sizes, small, medium and large. These are used for all classes of athletic sports such as baseball, football, basketball and all other indoor games. When ordering, you can close five cents extra for mailing goods. H.J. Colis Manufacturing Company, Taunton, Massachusetts. Strops all blades. Gillette, OVB, Durham, Duplex, Enders, Keencutter, Ward and Clark safety razor blades. Old blades better than new. When you use Meehan's razor stropper, we guarantee every one of them to be in perfect condition. If a fair trial fails to convince you of it's being the most economical stropping device on the market, come and get your money back. Double edge blades sharpened without readjustment. Ways only five ounces. Meehan's razor stropper. A sharp razor blade is the most essential point for the home shaver. No safety razor set is complete without Meehan's razor stropper. Only one insertion of blade in holder is necessary for sharpening both sides of both edges at the same time. No complicated parts. Simple construction, easy to operate. No possible chance of an accidental cut when inserting blade or stropping when you use Meehan's razor stropper. Two dollars for sale where you got this book. Ad features a drawing of a clean shaven young man in a black coat with slick black hair stropping a razor on a strap hung on a nail in the wall. Return to text. Woman's beauty is her power. Every woman can be beautiful if she uses G.O.W. Laird's bloom of youth. Woman's beauty rules the world. Kings, emperors, sultans, millionaires, statesmen, and men of influence all bow to women's beauty. Then it is not to be wondered at that women do all in their power to attain that wonderful charm. A clear, smooth, soft, white, beautiful skin is far more attractive than the most costly costume. Laird's bloom of youth will remove all imperfections of the skin, tan, freckles, and all other discolorations, leaving it clear and beautiful. Laird's bloom of youth has been in use the past 50 years and improved from time to time until now it is simply a perfect toilet preparation. Woman's duty. Woman should use every legitimate means in her power to make herself attractive if nature has not been generous to her and blessed her with a clear, soft, beautiful skin. She should use some of the artificial means of attaining the desired effect. We would recommend the use of Laird's bloom of youth. It has been in use the past 50 years by millions of society ladies, actresses, and opera singers, both in this country and in Europe, sold at all drugists and fancy good stores, price 75 cents a bottle, manufactured by G.O.W. Laird, Clifside, New Jersey, for sale where you got this book. Ad features a drawing of a lovely young woman with languid eyes and a pompadour in a low-cut, skin-bearing evening gown of silk and lace, resting casually against a chair. She is surrounded by four intently admiring men in tail coats and white vests with shiny slick hair and monocles. One holds a bouquet of flowers for her. In the background, more men have their heads turned her way as well. Return to text. I wish to state that we have been using your baby food for one year and have met with nothing but the best of results. It was only after trying, I think, all other kinds of foods which only seem to make matters worse, that a trial was made of Dinos food, which we feel is a lifesaver. The photo and the boy's condition will best testify as to the merits of Dinos food. Yours very truly, signed Ralph Crows, 316 Union Street, Seattle. Photo labeled Ralph Crows Jr. features a cherubic, curly blonde baby boy smiling contentedly and gazing off camera with his face resting in one of his chubby little hands. Return to text. 600,000 babies die every year, almost invariably from improper feeding. Doctors agree that the only substitute for mother's milk is fresh cow's milk scientifically modified. That is why physicians and mothers alike are giving much heartfelt welcome to Dinos food. The wonderful new cereal preparation which adds to cow's milk all vital nutritional elements, flakes the indigestible curd completely and saves baby's lives. I am using Dinos food in my practice and find it very satisfactory, signed W.C. Emery, M.D., Kenton, Ohio. I have tried several foods with very little success until we put our baby on Dinos. Dinos food is a godsend to mothers, signed Mrs. M. Lawrence, 1734 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sold by your druggist, ask your doctor about Dinos. Write to Dinos Food Company, 911 Western Avenue, Seattle for free sample and baby book. Sweet Ola, high grade chocolates made for a discerning public, packed in packages containing either bittersweet chocolates, milk chocolates, chocolates and bonbons, assorted chocolates. Made by the Chicago Chocolate Company, 3233 West Lake Street, phones, Kedzie, 2261 and 5888, Chicago. Things worth knowing, Dr. Lemke's Golden Electric Linnament is a powerful pain expeller and reliable house remedy. It alleviates and heals external and internal pain and inflammation, both for man and beast. It is an extraordinary and valuable liniment, priced $1.50. Dr. Lemke's St. Johannes Drops is a valuable medicine. In thousands of cases, these drops have alleviated pain and cured sickness. Yes, in a great many cases, saved lives in attacks of spasms, colic, cramps and cholera. In case of excitement and anxious feelings in the head and nerves, these drops bring quick relief, a very important medicine, priced $0.50 and $0.25. Dr. Lemke's Laxative Herb Tea has a salutary effect on the whole system in case of colds, biliousness, costiveness and intermittent fevers. It thoroughly cleanses the blood, creates appetite, works on the liver, kidneys, bladder and produces a regular stool, priced $0.50 and $0.25. These remedies have been in use over 40 years and have enjoyed a gradual increase in sales through their good work. They are for sale by drugists and prepared by Dr. H.C. Lemke Medicine Company, 1538 Elburn Avenue, Chicago. Typewriters, special prices for serviceable machines as low as $12, $15 and $20. I sell all makes, rebuilt and some nearly new. Write me for special price on any make or model preferred. Telephones, Franklin 1737, automatic, 32, 32.6. Walter H. Fox, 106 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois. Add features a line drawing of a smiling woman in a pompadour busy at a typewriter. Return to text. The perfect removable buffer with three extra chamois. The metal band being removable, the chamois may easily be replaced, making the polisher practically everlasting. In four sizes, four and one-half, five, six and seven inches. Three colors, ebony, coca-bola and olive wood, manufactured by the Manicure Novelty Manufacturing Company, 140 Sullivan Street, New York. Inquire where you got this book. Sanford's Inks Mucilage Library Paste. For permanent records, the only ink for a fountain pen, a necessity in every home and office. Add features drawings in a row of a dark bottle capped with a pour spout, a squat bottle with a clear cap and a jar of firm paste with a well built into the center where a small brush resides. Return to text. You must have an antiseptic always on hand to protect yourself from disease breeding bacteria. Be absolutely sure that it is A, free from poison. B, reliable. C, easily applied. D, free from objectionable odor. How can you be sure of finding these four properties in an antiseptic? Read the official reports on salubrin from eminent authorities, professors of medicine in the Royal University of Lund, Sweden. Buy from your drugist a bottle of salubrin and read the circular containing such reports or drop us a postal card, giving your address and we will mail you absolutely convincing proofs. There is no other antiseptic remedy equal to salubrin. The Salubrin Laboratory, Grand Crossing, Chicago, Illinois. Particular people demand Calder's saponaceous dentine, made for 60 years. It cleans and polishes the teeth, making them white and beautiful. It keeps the gums a natural red, the breath fragrant. Buy it anywhere. The material used in Calder's dentine is made especially for it. Lund miel, honeymoon. The new perfume. A charming new perfume of exquisite odor. Cut glass bottle in satin lined case, beautifully put up. An unusually attractive package at a moderate price. Lund miel, the French for honeymoon is probably the most delightful perfume on the market. Its fragrance is not alone pleasing, but lasting. Lund miel perfume is now enjoying the same large demand in America as it has in Europe. Lund miel toilet water, sachet, face powder, and soap. The Crown Perfumery Company of London, 30 East 20th Street, New York. Add features a rectangular glass bottle capped with a cut glass stopper standing next to an open box lined in satin. Return to text. Burnishine did it. For cleaning and polishing copper, brass, zinc, tin, nickel, silver, and all kinds of metals. Warranted not to contain anything injurious to the metal. Works quick and easy. Put up in cans, four ounces, half pint, one pint, one quart, two quart, one gallon. For sale by all dealers, J.C. Pollen Company, manufacturers, Chicago. Add features a drawing of a smiling pompadourd woman in a ruffled blouse and tidy dark skirt, triumphantly displaying in one hand a shining sugar bowl. On the surface before her, her other hand holds a crumpled shining cloth. Resting there are also a metal teapot, metal coffee pot, and of course, a large open jar of burnishine. Return to text. Mount Clemens Bitterwater, nature's great laxative and tonic for biliousness and indigestion. Prepared from and containing all the remedial merit of the famous Mount Clemens Mineral Waters. The original, the Long Green Bottle, born in Mount Clemens, 1886. The dose is small, it's not bad to take. 100% satisfaction. Analysis and history for the Asking. Mount Clemens Mineral Springs Water Company, Mount Clemens, Michigan. End of section 36. Section 37 of the Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Jason Oakley. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Trianon's, published in 1911. Section 37. Ask your druggist. The Canton Seamless Hot Water Bottle, as the name implies, is seamless. It cannot possibly leak. The highest grade materials are used in its construction, making it the most durable, seamless water bottle ever devised. Guaranteed two years, made in all sizes. Ask your druggist. Dead stuck for bugs. Big bugs, little bugs. All sorts of bugs are exterminated by dead stuck. Price, 25 cents per can. All druggists, manufactured by the Penn Chemical Company, Incorporated Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sinitas, the best disinfectant. Powerful, fragrant, and non-poisonous. Sinitas, disinfecting fluid. 20 ounce bottle, 40 cents. Sinitas, crude disinfecting liquid. Eight ounce bottle, 25 cents. Sinitas, oil. Four ounce bottle, 40 cents. Sinitas, jelly, salve. Four ounce jar, 40 cents. Sinitas, disinfecting toilet soap. Per cake, 15 cents. Remember, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Write for book, How to Disinfect. The Sinitas Company, USA 636 to 642 West 55th Street, New York. For 90 years, Gray's Ointment has stood the test for burns, boils, carbuncles, sores of all kinds, frostbite, and all external inflammations. A box should be kept in every home. Immediate application to the wound has saved thousands of cases of blood poison. 25 cents from your druggist, or WF, Gray & Co. Nashville, Tennessee. Write for a booklet. Dr. Lindley's Golden Remedy for Epilepsy. 15 years of successful treatment. Golden Remedy has stood the test of time. It is no new thing, but a well-tried remedy, which stands alone as the only medicine that will stop fits in 24 hours. Of course, to do away with them all together, it must be taken from one to three years, although many cases have been cured in much less time than this, depending upon the severity of the case. Golden Remedy is also a great value in the treatment of the following troubles. Nervous headache, great nervous excitability, insomnia or sleeplessness, hysteria, St. Vitus Dance, spasms and convulsions of men, women and children. Those who seek the best get Borden's malted milk. Those who accept substitutes are losers. Malted milk department, Borden's condensed milk co, New York. Every woman is interested and should know about the wonderful Marvel whirling spray syringe. The Marvel, by reason of its peculiar construction, dilates and flushes the vaginal passage with the volume of whirling fluid, which smooths out the folds and permits the injection to come in contact with its entire surface, instantly dissolving and washing out all secretions and discharges. Ask your druggers for it. If you cannot supply the Marvel, accept no other, but send stamp for illustrated book sealed. It gives full particulars and directions invaluable to ladies. Address Marvel Company, 44 East 23rd Street, New York. For sale, where you got this book, $3. Where there's life, there's hope. Reverend W. W. Brown's asthma remedy, all preventive of paroxysms or choking spells. All we ask for this wonderful remedy is a fair trial. Why not try it? Address, W. W. Brown, Sioux City, Iowa. Peckham's Croop Remedy is the children's safeguard for colds, cough, croop, hooping cough. Mothers get a bottle today. You may need it tonight. Sold where you got this book, $0.35. Chevette Diptheria preventive, $0.50. A pleasant fruity syrup used by thousands of families to safeguard children against diphtheria, scarlet fever, disease, tonsils, and all-throat infections. It should always be kept on hand for immediate use. Its value is well worth knowing. Chevette's Solace, $0.50. A standard household remedy for all distressed conditions, neurologic or rheumatic. A comforting insurance against loss of time due to pain, headache, or legrip. One bottle proves its value. Chevette Laboratory, 200 West 61st Street, Chicago. Lusterite, a brand on manicure goods which is recognized and stamped with the approval of thousands of users standing for purity and quality of manufacture. Lusterite specialties are sold by the Central Drug Company, State and Washington Street, Chicago. The Floridine Manufacturing Company, New York. Shaving Comfort found only in a tube of Bonheim's shaving cream. No soap, no cup, no trouble. Price per large tube, $0.25. If your dealer cannot supply you, send $0.25 to us and a full-sized tube will be mailed to your address. Savoy Drug and Chemical Co, Chicago. Physiological Tonicum. This is what may be described as scientific ion tonic. In it, the ferric and ferrous oxides are combined in exactly the same proportions as they are found combined in the normal human blood. Hence, it is the psychological tonicum is a blood maker or if the term be preferred, blood purifier. It corrects the blood. Thus it is that this tonic which may be used in connection with other medicine is useful in nearly all diseases that save such as are characterized by plethora states or full bloodedness. In any instance where the physician wants to prescribe ion which will cause no untoward effects such as disturbing the stomach, affecting the teeth, et cetera, this physiological tonicum is the best preparation of ion he can find on the market. Price 4 oz bottle, $0.50. Price 12 oz bottle, $1.25. Prepared solely by Borek and Tafal, publishers of hand-cell scientific works in the United States and Germany and sole authorized repositories for his physiological preparations for sale by the store where you got this book. Everybody admires a beautiful complexion. Dr. T. Felix Grode's Oriental Cream or Magical Beautifier, an indispensable and delightful toilet request for fashionable women, a daily necessity for the ladies toilet whether at home or while traveling. It protects the skin from injurious effects of the elements, gives a wonderfully effective beauty to the complexion. It's a perfect non-greasy toilet cream and positively will not cause or encourage the growth of hair which all ladies should guard against when selecting a toilet preparation. When dancing, bowling or other exertions heat the skin it prevents a greasy appearance. Grode's Oriental Cream has been highly recommended by physicians, actresses, singers and women of fashion for over half a century and cannot be surpassed when preparing for daily or evening attire. Grode's Oriental Cream cures skin diseases and relieves sunburn, removes tan, pimples, blackheads, moth patches, rash, freckles and vulgar redness, yellow and muddy skin giving a delicately clear and refined complexion which every woman desires. Number 11 for sale by drugists and fancy goods dealers, 3rd T Hopkins Proprieture, 37 Great Jones Street, New York. Oriental Cream or Magical Beautifier trademark, the most elegant and delicate preparation for the skin ever invented for tan, pimples, freckles, morphew and old blemishes of the cuticle prepared by 3rd T Hopkins successor to T Felix Grode, 37 Great Jones Street, New York, price $1.50 per bottle. Employed and prescribed by leading physicians everywhere, simplex steam vaporizers lead, size five by eight nickel plate, complete with crimp kettles, warm vapor inhalers and nursery vaporizer. Number one with eight ounce boiler and restricted alcohol flame complete, price $1.50. Number two with eight ounce boiler and copper boiler and jacket, handsome instrument price $1.00. Number three with 16 ounce boiler hospital size with restricted alcohol lamp, price $2.00. Number four with 20 ounce boiler with retaining test, works half hour with flame, price $0.75. Number six with 16 ounce boiler and kettle with improved vent tube, highly finished, price $0.25. Simplex inhalers and benzoin kettles for whooping cough, grip, colds, lost voice bronchitis, singers, speakers and smokers' throats delivered post-paid with direction and formulae, simplex lamp manufacturing company, Brooklyn, New York, GeoH Bell's patents sold at all leading drug stores. Nadine, a name to be remembered by every housekeeper as is the name of one of the best household remedies on earth. It is divided into a series of specifics. Each specific is intended to eliminate a certain group of disorders as follows. Number one, guitar, cold in the head, grip, neuralgia, hay fever, asthma. Number two, eczema, itching, salt room, sunburn, mosquito bites, boils, burns, bruises, chapter cracked hands and all forms of skin eruptions. Number three, sore throat, bronchitis, lung trouble, whooping cough, croup. Number four, for indigestion, guitar of the stomach, cause sour stomach and foul breath. Number five, for piles and chafing. Number six, for chillblains, tender feet, calluses, bunions and corns. Number seven, for complexion, blackheads, pimple skin eruptions. Number eight, for toothache, headache, earache, deafness. Sold by all leading drugists everywhere. Price 25 cents or sent direct from this office on receipt of price, trial box free. Nadine Medical Company, Schenectady, New York. We sell Alexander's remedy for asthma and hay fever. Don't fail to give it a trial. The sweet baby nursing bottle, painted at May 3, 1910, has no neck, therefore is washed on the inside like a tumbler and filled without a funnel. Every mother is familiar with this style nipple. We have simply added the large bottom to fit the opening of the bottle. It is reversible and will not collapse endorsed by doctors and nurses as the most sanitary nursing bottle made. For sale by all drugists, price complete 25 cents. The Yankee Company manufacturers, Utica, New York. End of section 37. Recording by Jason Oakley, Brisbane, Australia, www.bangrocks.com. Section 38 of the Handysyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Handysyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Trinance, published in 1911. Section 38. White Moors Polishes, the oldest and largest manufacturers of shoe polish in the world. Finest in quality, largest in variety. Below we mention some of our special brands. Guilt Edge Oil Polish, blacks and polishes, ladies and children, boots and shoes, shines without rubbing, always ready for use. Price 25 cents. Dandy combination for cleansing and polishing all kinds of russet or tan boots and shoes. Price 25 cents. Star size 10 cents. Also oxblood and brown combinations in same sizes and at same prices. Elite combination for those who take pride in having their shoes look A1. Restores color and lesser to all black shoes. Polish with a brush or cloth. Price 25 cents. Baby elite size 10 cents. French gloss for blacking and polishing ladies and children's boots and shoes, shines without rubbing. Price 10 cents. Quick white makes dirty canvas shoes clean and white in liquid form so it can be quickly and easily applied. No white dust will not rub off. A sponge in every package so always ready for use. Two sizes 25 cents and 10 cents. Bullies shine. A waterproof paste polish for all kinds of black shoes and old rubbers. Blacks polishes, softens and preserves. Contains oils and waxes to polish and preserve the leather. Large tin boxes price 10 cents. Boxes open with a key. Ask for Whitmore shoe polishes if you want the best. Leslie safety razors and spiral strapper. Leslie standard, the shaving outfit of the world. Contains Leslie safety razor and spiral strapper and six Leslie blades. Pronounced by its users to be far in advance of all other shaving and stropping devices. Enhance some leather lined and covered case. Number one special Leslie finish, 5 dollars. Number two gold plated, 7 dollars and 50 cents. Leslie tourist. The Leslie tourist safety razor with 12 Leslie blades identical is our outfit with the exception of the Leslie strapper. The true test of any razor is the blade and without reservation or qualification we pronounce this the finest and most efficient no-hone, no-strop safety razor ever produced. This outfit will outshave and outlast all other makes of safety razors and in doing so will afford far greater comfort and satisfaction. Enhance some leather lined and covered case. Number three specially Leslie finish, 350. Number four gold plated, 5 dollars. Leslie junior. The vest pocket safety razor. Realizing the enormous demand for a really first class safety razor that will far excel all others now and use at the popular price of 1 dollar we have brought out the Leslie junior safety razor which consists of the unequaled Leslie holder and six regulation Leslie blades. Enhance some leather lined and covered case. Number five specially Leslie finish, 1 dollar. Number six gold plated, 2 dollars. Made by Leslie manufacturing company Boston USA. Retain a bloom of youth by using Lux tone beauty secret. A dainty invisible cream powder with skin tonic combined which freshens the complexion and tones down the hard lines as though by magic. It feeds the tissue, refines the texture, instantly beautifies and permanently benefits. Only under the Lux tone label will you find the real beauty secret that you have no other for then you are safe. Price 75 cents, 50 cents and 25 cents. Lux tone rubbittant. A delicate coloring for cheeks and lips when combined with the beauty secret produces an effect truly captivating. Price 50 cents and 25 cents. Lux tone almond olive cream. The cream for making flush and banishing wrinkles. Price 1 dollar. Lux tone cold cream. The cream that cleanses clear through. Price 50 cents. 25 cents. Lux tone cucumber cream. The only cream for sunburn. Price 50 cents. Manufactured only by Blanche W. Mo. 314 west 42nd street New York, New York. Look for our trademark. El Perfecto. Veta Rose Rouge. A wonderful beautifier. Sold in the highest class store in many places all over the world. El Perfecto, California. Perfectly natural tint to the cheeks. This article of great merit has been manufactured by the El Perfecto Veta Rose Company for over 14 years. It is harmless and never fails to give satisfaction. Any rouge bordering on the shade of El Perfecto Veta Rose is an imitation. Use the original which is known to be the most perfectly natural shade ever before manufactured. El Perfecto Veta Rose Company San Francisco, California. Sand home skin lotion and clear liquid used externally eradicates all skin and scalp trouble by absorbing the germ. Returns the skin to normal condition. It has no equal for salt room, eczema, rash, tether, herpes, scald head, milk scald, plant poisoning, hives, mosquito bites, small burns or scratches, barbers itch, parasitic diseases, scaly or scabby eruptions of the skin, itching piles, acne, psoriasis, pimples, blackheads, cracked hands and lips, etc. A perfect antiseptic after shaving. What is more desirable than a clear healthy skin? Remove the blotches, pimples and hideous red marks by the free use of sand home's lotion. When used as a massage, sand home's lotion is the greatest skin beautifier ever discovered and produces that velvety softness of the skin which is so much admired. One trial will convince you of its merits. Manufactured by Sand Home Drug Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Abelina, America's truest and purest natural laxative. One of the most remarkable of all natural phenomena is the famous wells of Abelina from which flows a perfect laxative water. Scientists of today with the accumulated knowledge of 1,000 years to guide them have not been able to manufacture a harmless, non-irritating laxative which relieves constipation and stimulates the liver as Abelina water does. You will never need laxative medicines of any kind. Pills, tablets, capsules, salts, artificial waters. You occasionally drink a wine glass of Abelina when conditions call for laxative or cathartic. Abelina comes to you pure just as it flows from the famous wells of Abelina. Harmless is the water you drink. Clear, sparkling, vitalizing. It flushes and cleanses the system thoroughly and in the gentlest way possible. Instead of irritating the delicate membranes of the stomach and bowels as drugs and artificial waters are very apt to do it relieves congestions and soothes these membranes and it stimulates liver activities. There is no magic in the name Abelina nor no special virtues simply because it happens to be America's only natural cathartic water but it's splendid clinical use and effect is due solely to the fact that Abelina is almost wholly pure and true sodium sulfate the world's truest representative of this ideal laxative and reconstructive base. All the other waters on the markets are largely solutions of epsom salts consequently are nauseous, harsh and irritating. The same thing is more or less true with pills, powders and manufactured cathartics. Abelina is a safe, pure inexpensive laxative and cathartic convenient and pleasant to take suited for old and young alike a cure for constipation and biliousness and truly the ideal family remedy. Abelina is America's only bottled natural cathartic water. We will mail free upon application the natural method an interesting booklet on the importance of normal elimination and a study of the comparative values of the better known cathartics. The Abelina company Frank M. Gear M.D. President, Abelina, Kansas The sad story of my father's great suffering from cancer read the following and be convinced there's hope for you 45 years ago my father who was himself a doctor had a vicious cancer that was eating away his life the best physicians in America could do nothing for him. After nine long years of awful suffering the cancer had totally eaten away his nose and portions of his face as shown in his picture here given his palate was entirely destroyed together with portions of his throat. Father fortunately discovered the great remedy that cured him he lived over 40 years and no return of the disease. The same discovery has now thousands who were threatened with operation and death and to prove that this is the truth we will give their sworn statement if you will write us doctors lawyers mechanics ministers laboring men bankers and all other classes recommend this glorious life saving discovery and we want the whole world to benefit by it. Have you cancer tumors ulcers abscesses fever sores goiter cat or salt room rheumatism piles eczema scald head or sclerofola in any form ask your druggist for mixers cancer and scruffle a syrup it will cost you nothing to learn the truth about this wonderful home treatment without the knife or caustic and if you know anyone who is afflicted with any disease above mentioned you can do them a Christian act of kindness by telling them of our great treatment and how to get it 40 years experience guarantee success ask your druggist for illustrated booklet free showing half tones of many people cured with their testimonials manufactured by mixer medicine company 151 Jefferson street Hastings Michigan your feet as well as any part of your body should be properly treated and taken care of if you are in need of a positive guaranteed remedy something entirely different from the everyday so called corn cures an article for moving corns and calluses and for relief of painful bunions by a 25 cent tube of Goodwin's chiropotty corn salve for tired aching swollen bad smelling or burning feet there is nothing to compare with Goodwin's foot powder these articles are for sale and recommended by your druggist manufactured by Goodwin German foot remedy company Chicago Illinois Strong's Arnica Tooth Soap cleanser and mouthwash in one polishes the teeth to dazzling whiteness while its fragrant antiseptic foam reaches every part of the mouth neutralizing all tooth destroying acids preventing discoloration and decay Strong's Arnica Tooth Soap comes in a handy metal box nothing to break or spill a convenient cake that ensures beautiful teeth healthy gums and sweet breath at your druggist 25 cents Strong's Arnica Jelly keeps your skin smooth no need to endure the discomfort of sunburn or winter chapping apply with fingertips rub gently into pores in collapsible metal tubes 25 cents note if your druggist does not have these goods send price to us we will forward them prepaid guaranteed under the food and drug act June 30th 1906 serial number 1612 ch strong company Chicago USA delays are dangerous unexpected changes are apt to bring on coughs and colds mayors cough balsam will not allow a cough or cold to run to the dangerous point it checks the irritation and drives out the inflammation if you have children you ought to have a bottle of this medicine on the mantle 25 cents a bottle at all drug stores mayors cathartic capsules tone the stomach help the liver and clean the bowels for women orange blossom Dr. J. A. McGill's famous female suppositories are famous remedy for all female diseases the orange blossom is simple and harmless every lady can treat herself suffering women call and get a free sample and book telling how at the store where you got this book one dollar groups method after three minutes no pain for complete eradication of toe corn soul corns bunions calluses soft corns heel corns kills the seed leaves smooth skin one drop corn remover advise no cutting with knife use eraser to remove hard part rub well apply one drop covering corn completely to kill seed of the trouble cover it with tissue paper peel it off third day result a normal smooth skin between toes with soft corns price 25 cents when properly applied gives relief in three minutes excels your chemical company 30 100 state street Chicago for sale at the store where you got this look out for the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves and old saying look out for the blood cells and the body will take care of itself you can't expect to be well or to ever accomplish much in the world if the blood and nerve cells are lacking strength and vitality as the blood races through your body head and brain every little cell should be brim full of life and power then you feel the vim and go that will make you a power among your fellow men no nervousness no indecision no sign of the weakling if you use doctor hoag's cell tissue tonic the great nerve and tissue builder this goes straight to the cells of the blood and enriches them and puts new strength into them so they can combat and throw off disease this is undoubtedly the greatest and grandest rebuilder and strengthener that modern medicine has produced cell tissue tonic is particularly recommended for paleness and weakness debilitation stomach and bowel trouble of both infants and adults hysteria fainting spells insomnia and sleeplessness and poor assimilation of food all drug is cell doctor hoag's cell tissue tonic price one dollar per bottle or it is sent direct upon receipt of price address doctor c a hoag company 25 west kinsley street chicago illinois doctor hoag's home doctor book contains instructions on care of sick and sick room as well as much other valuable information sent to everyone free upon request doctor c a hoag company chicago illinois end of section 38