The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 237, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMP
CHILE’S CAPITAL
A
Three Horses Poll
Dr. Barton
’, went sea-
can give
and get
life.
many of
Malahat beach. Cobble hill, Van-
couver island, B. C., and get a true
interpretation of the words patients
and patience, spelled two ways, but
both meaning the same thing.
from a Rolls Royce; the
thought is to use the full
of that body of yours—no
no less—if you are to live
and happily.
the first thought is to be
man
incli-
what
On a small steamboat crossing
Juan De Fuca strait between Vic-
toria and Port Angeles, I observed
that nearly all of the passengers,
except an old man who sat quietly
sick.
. ‘‘That cove has got it on the rest
of these guys,” volunteered a deck
hand, who seemed much amused
by the widespread distress. .
“In what way?” I asked.
“Blind as a bat,” replied the ma-
rine. “I’ve spent nearly 20 years
on the water and never knew a blind
man to lose his lunch. Unless you
can see the horizon teetering or
spot something rocking from its lev-
el, you don’t get seasick. If you
don’t believe me, ask any sightless
man.”
Srepared by th* National Oaotraphlc Society.
Washington. L>. C.-WNU Sorvlc*.
ANTIAGO, metropolis and cap-
ital of Chile, is seen to great-
est advantage by climbing to
the summit of Santa Lucia
hill, which rises out of the heart
of the city much as the Acropolis is
encompassed by Athens."
Let us climb up to the pavilion,
built perilously on top of the rqcks.
At our feet lies a community of a
half million souls, dwelling for the
most part in one- and two-story
houses. But for the moment we
have no eyes for the beauties of
this fair city. To the east rise the
mightiest ramnarts of the Andes. As
the clouds drift over the sun, lights
and shadows pursue one another
and one secs the majestic moun-
tains in many marvelous rfioods.
Morning, noon, and evening they
present different aspects; but per-
haps ones favorite memory of
them is when the shades of evening
are gathering. A blue haze veils
the metropolis as the sun sinks- be-
hind the horizon, and multihued
shadows climb higher and higher
up the sides of the mountains until
finally only the white -crests of the
loftiest summits are left in light.
At length they, too, must surren-
der the glory of the sun's light, and
one’s eyes turn back to the scene
below—a vast City wrapped in dark-,
ness, but glittering with its tens of
thousands of night jewels, made to
shine by the hydro-electric engi-
neer, who transmutes the melting
Andean snows into light.
One turns in another direction and
sees on the outskirts of the city
"San Cristobal, a Conical mountain
springing up from -the level plain
and towering above Santa Lucia, as
the latter rises higher than the city
at its feet. The distant ridges that
separate the valleys of the Mapocho
and Maipo from that of the Acon-
cagua and from the coast, add their
beauties to this mountain-walled
Eden.
Striking Architecture of the City.
Santiago itself is a city of in-
storied building extending ndrth and
south into a beautiful grove of jack
pines, the whole set in a garden of
old fashioned flowers blooming riot-
ously among rocks and on trellises.
“We shan't be long," he said, wal-
lowing out from behind the wheel.
“It will do you good to see what is
being done there in the name of
humanity. Come along, only one
short flight.”
Automatically I followed the fat
man, with no interest one way or
another. But as he had insisted. . . ,•
Disciples of Hope.
At the second floor elevations we
,‘atne out on a wide platform fhc-.
ing west by north, and deluged in
yellow sunlight, tempered by coo)
breezes from the Georgian straits
filtered throught endless forests of
pine, fir and spruce trees, extending
to the blue sea. Against the back
wall, on 72 cots, spread with im-
maculate linen and pillows, enliv-
ened by an occasional colored blan-
ket, lay 72 children, in slips and
breech cloths, with nothing between
them and the sky.
In years they ranged from four to
twelve. Not among them all was
there boy or girl free from afflic- ]
tion, in the majority of cases, pre- I
natal. Brought into the world in- '
complete, knowing naught off any
life save one of pain and physical
restrictions, they-had'come, even
in childhood, to accept life w.th
resignation. From these misshap-
en, stunted, unconscious contortion-
ists, most of them flat on their
backs, came no single word of com-
plaint, no murmurs of discontent.
There they are, disciples of forti- i
tude and hope, living legacies in no
way responsible for their presence
in this vale of tears.
Dr. Glenn Simpson, acting medi-
cal superintendent, conversing with
or touching tenderly each child as
he passed, informed us that the so-
larium patients have a 50 per cent ■
chance for complete recovery, and i
that about 70 per cent are pernia ;
nently benefited.
Kids Know How to “Take" It.
After an hour not unmixed with 1
considerable serious reflection that T
there should be so much misfor- '
-tune, and so little complaint among
the solarium waifs, we returned to
the open road, the luxury of lib- i
erty, the dissolving view that is ;
part of freedom.
“What do you think now of the
bad breaks we get and the ill luck
dealt to u4 grumblers?” asked j
George Warren, fumbling the wheel j
of his car. "Adults can’t take it
like those kids. Few of us stop to '
think ...”
I laid a restraining hand upon his
corpulent knee. There was nothing
more to be said, anyhow, that is,
nothing that words might convey.
However, to those who read these
lines, more especially to those who ;
go through life complaining, I would
suggest, if opportunity offers, that
they drop in at the Queen Alexandra
Dinitrophenol, Weight Reducer.
The fact that health authorities
are not writing or saying much
about di nitrophenol, the weight re-
ducing drug, is not because it is not
effective in reducing weight, but be-
cause of the serious results which
have occurred in some'cases—se-
vere skin eruptions, cataracts and
even death. x
It is interesting to see the results
of the use of dinitrophenol where its
action could be checked closely.
Drs. E. L. Bortz, Anthony Sin-
doni, Jr,,, and E. M. Hobson in
Pennsylvania “Medical Journal, re-
port their experiences in the meta-
bolic (building up and breaking or
wearing down of the body tissues)
clinic of the Lankenan hospital over
a two year period. The object of
the investigation was to find out the;
value of dinitrophenol in reducing
weight, in what cases it could be
safely used, in what cases it would
be unsafe to use it, how it could
be known beforehand or as early
after treatment as possible wheth-
er or not it was safe to use it.
There were 60 cases studied,
ranging in weight from 150 to 400
pounds; 12 were men and 48 were
women. They were placed on a diet
and also on a diet with dinitrophe-
nol With the use of dinitrophe-
nol the average weekly loss of
weight per person was two to three
pounds, whereas on the diet alone
the average weight loss per person
was one-fourth to one pound weekly.
Symptoms of poisoning from the
dinitrophenol found with some of
k. the cases were itching, hives, nau-
sea and vomiting, diarrhoea, ner-
vousness, slight rise in temperature
and in blood pressure.
The outstanding fact discovered in
this hospital was that “the quantity
of dinitrophenol necessary to pro-
duce loss of weight in patients who
are eating their regular full meals
is so large in the majority of cases
that it is practically unsafe to use
the dinitrophenol. For this reason
it is wise to use this drug only
when the food has been cut down in
amount."
Another fact brought out was that
patients may show symptoms x»f in-
toxication or poisoning from dini-
trophenol after a very few doses
have been taken, or they may taka
the drug without symptoms for sev-
eral weeks and then suddenly de-
velop symptoms of poisoning. Thus
far there is no method by which
the patient’s sensitiveness to dini-
trophenol can be learned before-
hand, hence only small doses are
first given. ~ ’
Thoughts for the Middle-Aged.
'HE great loss to families, to
business, and to whole commu-
nities by the sickness and death of
middle-aged men and women is
arousing thinking individuals to the
need of seeking the cause and re-
moval of this terrible wastage. Men
and women work hard in their youth
and early manhood and womanhood
and then are laid away on the shelf
by some chronic ail-
ment or may pass
to the beyond in a
few days or weeks.
And this occurs just
when they
most to
most from
And so
these cases might
have enjoyed and
contributed much to
life had they given,
half as much
thought to their
their bodies as they
health and to
i had to their business or profession.
After all that body of yours is
what does everything for you—gives
yOu strength to play, to work, to
think or plan, to enjoy life's great-
est successes and pleasures, and
alas to suffer life's greatest de-
feats and almost unbearable pain.
To have health and strength is
life's greatest asset, to be ill or fee-
ble in body is perhaps life's greatest
liability.'
And you can get from that body
of yours just what you can ’ get
from other activities, that is just
what you put in it. But, as Glad-
I stone said, “All time and money
spent in training‘or caring for the
I body, pays a larger rate of interest
■ than any other investment.”
Use Body’s Full Power.
Now you can get certain results
' nr power from a Ford engine just
as you can get certain results or
power
whole
power
more,
? safely
And
overhauled by your family physi-
cian. This doesn't mean a ten-
minute chat with him, but a thirty
to fifty minute examination when
he has the time to do it. It means
- examination of eyes, ears, nose,
■ throat, sinuses, heart, lungs, blood
J pressure, urine, blood, liver and
gall bladder. A talk about your
I food, amount of rest, and amount
of exercise taken daily may make
all the difference between health
and ill-health.
And when your doctor has fin-
ished, let your dentist make a com-
plete examination, including the use
of the X-ray. v
This investment of time and mon-
ey will pay real dividends.
the Santiago Cart,
bound citadel and dwell ever after
in the valley below.
It was not until 1872 that work
was begun on transforming this
once rugged mass of rock into a
magnificent .hanging park, ’ lor
which level Buenos Aires might
freely offer a million cattle or a
season's garnering of wheat. It was
then that Don Benjamin Vicuna
Mackenna began its transformation.
Public and private munificence
alike have shared in its embellish-
ment, and today it is a mass of lux-
uriant vines, blossoming trees, and
flowers, with here and there
glimpses of stairs, roadways, cliffs
•and walls, towers and battlements,
chapels and monuments. Flower
beds and fountains ornament the
terraces; trees, shrubs, and over-
hanging vines border the driveways
and-promenades. Here are dancing
pavilions, restaurants with pictur-
. esque nooks and balconies, and
rustic seats for those who wish to
-enjoy a view of the city, valley, and
mountains from such a charming
vantage ground.
Avenue of the Delights.
From Santa Lucia w,e wander up
the Avenue of the Delights and ap-
preciate the enthusiasm of the San-
tiaguino for his capital's major thor-
oughfare. For here one may see
not only an imposing array of beau-
tiful statuary, splendid residences,
and all that makes a morning stroll
delightful, but.one may also find a
cross-section of Chilean life.
The Alameda is 3Q0 feet wide and
4 miles long. It was-General O’Hig-
gins who banished the river to make
the city's principal boulevard. Many
new buildings border it. including
the splendid National library and
the famous Club Union. The cen-
tral parkway formerly was adorned
with four rows of trees—oaks, elms,
acaqias, and other varieties. In re-
cent years these have been removed
as a military precaution.
The Alameda is Chile’s “Hall ol
Fame,” not encompassed by four
walls, but placed in the capital’!
Tales From Vancouver Island
Along the Highway
I HAVE never known a
entirely free from the
nation to protest against
he'called the “bad breaks’’ re-
ceived now and then along the
route. Aik of us are prone to
complain when anything goes
wrong with our program, and
it doesn’t take much either to
start the squawking.
After a bad morning on a trout
stream, a blowout in the neighbor-
hood of Cobble hill, the loss of a
sweater alleged to be a rain shed-
der, and fried instead of grilled sal-
mon served for lunch, I was in-
duced by my fat friend, George
Warren, to halt and have a look at
the Queen Alexandra Solarium for
Crippled Children, along Malahat
beach off the main highway on the
east coast of Vancouver island.
“What is there that can »e turned
into copy?” I asked, thinking in
terms of the column, “aren't all
solariums pretty mlich alike?”
George said they were, but none-
theless drove into a maple-lined
road half a mile onward and
B6
Davi/
ic, and where the storjes of sculp,
tured marble and bronze inspire ths
. multitude to patriotism and cour-
age. Here is a stately monument
in memory of Don Jose de San
Martin, the Washington of South
American freedom.
A few blocks beyond the Alameda,
with the business district inter-
vening, is the Plaza de Armas, ones
the center of the open-air. social
life of the capital. Even today there
are certain evenings of each week
when a large proportion of Santiago
wanders there to see and to be
seen. Qn one side of the square is
the cathedral, on another the post-
office and government telegraph of
flees.
Promenade of Youth.
There are walks around and
through the Plaza, and during the
evening promenade these are
crowded with people on pleasure
bent, always moving in two lines.
Round and round they go, lovely
young girls walking with their du-'
ennas, and the handsome young
men, in their clothes of latest cut-,
usually in groups, the members of
each line undisguisedly looking
over and assessing the members of
the other.
In spite of the watchful eyes of
the mothers who bring their daugh-
ter^ to the promenade, which usual-
ly takes place on Thursday, Satur-
day, and Sunday evenings, Cupid
seems to find the Plaza a delightful
haunt.
The cathedral stands on the site
which -Valdivia appointed for the
erection of Chile's first church. It
contains numerous paintings by old
masters; a reclining, life-size fig-
ure of San Francisco de Xavier,
carved from the trunk of a pear
tree; a monstrance and altar of sil-
ver more than 200 years old; and a
crystal chandelier which hung in
the room where the flfst Chilean
congress met. The organ Is one of
the finest in the world. It camo to
Chile by accident. The ship which
was carfvina it to Australia
wrecked in the Strajt of Magellan:
the organ was.salvaged, purchased
at a bargain, and placed in the
cathedral.
Across the city from the Plaza de
Armas is the Parque Cousino, the
Central park of Santiago. It is
about a mile long and half a mile
wide, green with eucalyptus, aca-
cias, poplars, magnolias, and myr-
tle and a great variety of shrubs,
vines and grasses. Here and there
are charming little lakes and love-
ly flower beds. In the center is a
parade ground, flanked by a grand-
stand.
numerable domes and spires, which most frequented promenade, where
i join with the few skyscrapers of the birds sing and the children frol-
1 the downtown, district, the imposing
railroad stations, and the great I
arched arcades to give diversity to ,
its skyline. On the city's outskirts j
are the new hippodrome, perhaps
one of the world’s most beautiful
racing plants; the Cemetery Gen-
eral;-and the famous Parque Cou-
sino and the Quinta Normal.
Past and present mingle striking-
ly in the capital. Here rises the
tower of the Franciscan monastery
from which sounded the bells of the
curfew in days colonial, and there
the steel-framed buildings of the
commercial district. The cloister-
constructed houses, with their open ■
patios, red-tiled roofs, and stuccoed
walls, are overshadowed by the
brick and marble palaces which {
share the blocks with them and
which radiate the architectural spir- ■
it of France and America.
Stretching past the base of Santa
Lucia is that magnificent avenue i
officially known as the Avenida de
las Delicias, but popularly called the
Alameda. It is, as its name pro-
claims, truly the "Avenue of the
Delights.” Once the Mapocho river
ran down, a part of its length, but
the city planners gave to this
stream an artificial channel, and
thus converted a river bed into a
beautiful thoroughfare.
Some one visiting Santiago during
the season when the rivers are
largely dry, and seeing the numer
ous bridges spanning the canalized
section of the Mapocho, remarked
that Santiago ought to sell its
bridges and buy a rivtf; but in the
flood season the necessity for the
bridges is obvious. The Mapocho's
waters flow through the city with
the rush of a mountain stream, and
only a marathon runner could keep
pace with a bit of board thrown in-
to the water and carried down-
stream by the current.
On a charming terrace stands the
statue of Pedro de Valdivia, sur-
rounded by flower beds in which
the most beautiful blossoms of Chile
exude their fragrance to the mem-
ory of the hero it commemorates.
The inscription tells us that “The
valiant Captain of Estremadura,
first governor of Chile, in this very
spot encamped hie band of 150 con-
querors, December 13, 1540.”
Beautiful Hanging Park.
It was from the top of Santa
Lucia, with its sharp cliffs and steep
slopes, that Huelen-Huala, surround-
ed by a gorgeous retinue of chiefs
in full regalia, had been accus-
tomed to issue his decrees to his
people before the coming of the
Spaniards., Now vanquished, he
wee forced to abandon his rock-
Now Ease
Neuritis Pains
Fast
Livens
Boyer Tablett
Dieeolve Almort
• Inttanlly
the mince
and you,” to
vegetables. I
the turkey.”
“But wherh are we going?”
“Over to your house. Weren’t
mas dinner?”
“Dinner first, then presents,” she
suggested, and when, having Oaten
all they could hold, they gathered
about the-holly, she found a crude-
ly wrapped present for herself. It
was a picture scrapbook, somewhat
smudged.
" Were those tears in Martha
Goodwin's eyes? Surety not, tor
she was smiling.
"Why, thank you,” she ex-
claimed. “Such a lovely surprise:
My,” she added, “I do wish Christ-
mas came more than once a year.”
U'T'nANK fioo-lness," said
I Martha Goodwin, bustling
-A about her kitchen, “Christ-
mas comes but once a year.” She
wiped back a loose wisp of gray-
ing hair with a weary gesture. “But
it will be fine seeing you again,
Lad,” she murmured, thinking of
her distant son. “Now, let’s see.
Those star cookies you’re so fond
of—” She glanced at the hurrying
clock.
Loud shrieks of laughter under
her window interrupted her
thoughts. Those new neighbor chil-
dren again. If they were dirty-
ing up her freshly swept walk! She
strode grimly to the porch. There
was a path in the snow from their
yard,, around hers, and back again
to their own, "where all four of them
had apparently trudged, pushing a
snow ball, across her walk in two
places. A tussel started suddenly,
and they were all tumbling about in
the snow, shrieking at the top of
their voices.
Martha scolded shrilly at them,
and they stood up, an abashed lit-
tle line of stair steps. “The ideal
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Three Foes
Nothing keeps us down like our
own ignorance, laziness and folly.
On Christmas, too!” Martha chid-
ed. “Whatever is the matter with
your ma, that she lets you make
such a racket?”
“She's sick,” answered the old-
est girl.
“Sick! Then all the more rea-
son why you should keep still.
Shame on you.” The little group
stood like statues.
Martha tucked in the wisp of
hair. .“You children come in here
and sit still while I work, and I’ll
tell you a story,” she invited.
“Mind you wipe your feet.”
“I suppose it should be 'a Christ-
mas story,” Martha began. “Do
you know about the'shepherds and
the wise men?”
"Yes'm,” they chorused. "We
go to Sunday school/' added the
oldest girl.
“Then.” Martha asked her,
“shall I tell you about Santa
Claus?”
Her face clouded a little. “Moth-
er told us that,” she answered so-
berly.
“Oh,” said Martha. She dusted
the flour from her handz and
turned to baste the turkey. Fpur
pairs of eager eyes watched her
every move. The doorbell rang.
“LaddieI Good heavoru.,” cried
Martha, slipping off her apron, and
rushed to the door.
But Instead it was a telegram:
“AWFULLY SORRY OAK-
LING BUT 1 JUST CAN’T GET
AWAY STOP DO TRY TO
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS
STOP GO ON A SPREE AND
I LL FOOT THE BILL STOP
EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO -
GET DOWN FOR NEW
' YEAR’S AND WILL EXPLAIN
EVERYTHING THEN LOVE ’
LADDIE.” ”
Martha Goodwin read it twice.
Then she smoothed the s'traying ,
wisp of hair and went back to the
kitchen.
“Well,” the older girl was ex-
plaining, “it's sort of like a chick-
en, I guess, only ever so much big-
, ger.” The four children looked-up
as Martha entered. “Why’, what’s
• the matter, Mrs. Goodwin?”
“My son—I Was expecting him—
he isn’t coming.”
“Gee,” came a sympathetic
chorus. “And you’d fixed every-
thing so nice and—and Christmas-
sy.”
“I’m not going to have it
spoiled,” Martha decided. “Here,”
she said and draped the holly
wreath over the youngest’s arm.
“You,” she said to the next one,
“carry the potatoes, and you take
If cinnamon toast is served fre-
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a shaker so that it can be used
quickly.
To prevent’ the delivery boy
from tracking dirt across the:
kitchen .floor place a shelf at the
back door on which he can place
packages.
• • •
Before storing winter cabbage
wrap each head in an old news-
paper. This will keep the cabbage
crisp and green much longer.'
• • • -
A teaspoon of granulated sugar
added to the water in which tur-
nips areboilec. removes the strong
turnip taste some object to.
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