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...bichloride of mercury tablets around the house nowadays as an antiseptic. There is even less excuse for swallowing the deadly blue tablets by accident. Some drug manufacturers make them coffin-shaped. Others put them in bottles with round bottoms or covered with sandpaper. One uses small wooden caskets. The adult who takes bichloride of mercury usually wants to die, is usually successful. But in future he may be thwarted by an antidote reported by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal of U. S. Public Health Service last fortnight in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...
When a child has been exposed to measles, most highly contagious of all diseases, a doctor should be called at once. He will draw 30 cc. of blood from an adult who has had the disease, preferably one of the child's parents. Injected with this, the child will have a mild case of measles, be henceforth immune. Should this be neglected and a child grow very ill it must have blood from someone who has just recovered from the disease. Last week Washington's Children's Hospital, announcing that ten children in its care faced death...
Smirt, subtitled An Urbane Nightmare, is solemnly introduced by smirking Author Cabell as a serious and scientific attempt to picture "an adult dream represented from the actual point of view of a dreamer." Disregarding James Joyce's partially-published Work in Progress, Author Cabell avers that, with the exception of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, no such attempt has ever been made in English. But Cabell is a lover of red herrings. Actually Smirt is hardly more than a loosely-strung series of essays on its author's favorite topic (his own position as a writer), with...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...