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...mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins in pollens, foods, etc. get into the blood and reach the body cells. When the cells first encounter the strange protein, they manufacture an enzyme...
Unable to speak for himself to the public last week because of Conference se crecy, Mr. Stevens was much in the company of Col. Leopold Stennett Amery, onetime Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Great Britain, today a lobbyist. "We," said Col. Amery. "are not advocating anything so extreme as the old Bryan formula of 16 to one.* But much would be accomplished if governments would put a better silver content into their subsidiary coins and if they would allow their central banks to hold some silver as a backing for their currency issues...
...soon after her death in 1897, became known to all the world as "The Little Flower of Jesus." Beatified in 1923-the Roman Catholic officials waiving the custom that 50 years must elapse before a "cause" is begun-she was canonized in 1925 as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
...Little Flower's shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there...
...next spring no miner had a cold, although they lived in hot, stuffy barracks, went out into blustery cold every morning, picked coal at temperatures below freezing and returned tired each evening to their steaming quarters. Their healthiness suggested that drafts, bad weather, or freezing have nothing per se to do with common colds. In the spring the mailman went to the first ship for mail. A few hours later he was sniffling. Next day everybody in Spitsbergen had a cold, which suggested again that the virus which causes colds travels swiftly...