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ROSE
of the
YEAR
It Is a Hybrid from a Hardy
Irish Rose and the Rare Red
Richmond of the United States
JUST by good luck flower lovers
have perfected a new rose-
Milady Is her name. It was exhibited
last week at the International Flower,
Show held in New York City. Rich
and red, splendidly petaled," and many
of the blooms six and seven inches
across.'"" / ;*} '■; ■}."-'
"The American Beauty has a rival
at last," declared A. L. Miller, chair
man of the Award Committee./
Milady was only an experiment
such as Burbank makes, but by great
good fortune this one turned out to
be something new and successful. In
a-word, two roses were crossed, one
for color and the other for hardiness,
and the crossing came out right after
years of experimentation.
Milady has an Irish father and an
American mothershe's a hybrid, of
course, as all new plants and flowers
are. The J. B. Clark rose, from Bel
fast, Ireland, and the Richmond rose,
from Richmond, Ind., are her fore
bears. The Clark for many years has
been known as among the hardiest
of the tea roses, the Richmond as one
of the biggest and most beautiful of
re,] roses with double petals, but one
of the hardest to grow successfully.
Four years ago Edward Towill of
Roslyn, Pa.pretty name for a town
where Milady was born—decided to
make an attempt at getting the red
of Richmond with the" hardiness and
blooming ability of the Clark. Towill
knew, as Burbank knows, that it
would mean years of waiting.
The raising of any seedling rose Is
a very slow process. The seed has to
have from three to six months to
ripen. It takes quite as much more
time to germinate. A year has gone
now. After this it is a wait of at least
two years to determine what the new
plant will do. It may not even bloom;
it may die. '-' „
Towill watched- the twenty seed
lings he started as carefully as any
man Who admires beauty and loves
fragrance possibly can. /One by one I
they withered and died and he began
to think that his long months of wait
ing would come to nothing. Ten died
soon, then five; more,. and two that
looked so strongs and hardy. There
were three left One died after an
other six months, of struggle and then
the nineteenth went the same way.
The twentieth survived!
.But what would the glooms be?
Would they have all the' hardiness' of
one rose and all the beauty and; color}
of the other? Would the new plant •'
flower at all? it was a' long, wail!
once more. And then Milady burst j
into blocm—she was a double rose :
with two petals for every one* that j
had been grown 'before with ;: Rich- j
mond! Her color was;a/surprise— it :
wasn't real red "or scarlet/or cerise or.)
magenta. As near as it may be de
scribed, it is the crimson lake which !
the artists use Who /"paint; the bright- '
ness of summer. . ' /'/, . .... - A
As yet; of course, this new rose had j
name. A. N. Pierson of Cromwell, J
Conn., another -lover; of .'the r rose and !
an experimenter i himself, ; bought } the ;
precious -seedling / and '/started'; into |
nurse along the one plant that had
lived and bloomed. > *
i /"I will /give $100 for a new name } for |
this rose,"'he said,}and eight/hundred
.persons"tried for' the prize. ' }}}
/.' Three men who know and love roses
! were chosen /by* Mr. ' Piersorir to be
i judges,:and: they awarded the prize to
;the-name Milady.'"'" } } }/
\ "The -' sentiment / that,- is /attached to
; sending a red rose to a lady undoubted
ly /had ■ much to do with selection
of the;name,": said -\ Mr. Pierson when
he /awarded the prize. *■ "We think '■ we
have }at last produced' a; flower which
will ;: take } ? its ; placei with; the/famous
La wson -pink,;: which /cost Mr. Lawson,
the Boston financier, $30,000 before he
washable}to; grow.;a'single bloom. r*
"Few persons realize the hard work
it takes'to develop a : flower with a new
characteristic. As ; a rule it; means
years of waiting} j We find a good trait
in; one—perhaps because; it can / stand
shipment "-"
The
"American
Beauty
Has a Rival
at Last and
* Her Name
Is Milady."
"Then we try to. get the cross; we
fail more often than we succeed. Just
what; is' fine in one variety cannot sur
vive in the .''othc:/-' Many of the best
flowers, t fruits ; and * vegetables * : that /wa
have to-day are the results of experi
ment The apple 0f,1913; is far better
thar the apple of a century;-go. / "o is
the ; rose. So is the potato. :.-..."/
"One flower may}have fragrance but
no? size. / Another . has 5 fragrance ; and}
size,-but it has no color. A third has
all these, but it will wither a few hours
after it is cut; It is just the same with
fruit. ;} Some /of .the finest "flavored
varieties have never been tasted /by
billions of people : because the product
cannot stand the long trip across the
continent or oyer the c<*>ean. These are
fruits which some man of the future
will cross with some other, as Burbank
am* others are doing; to-day. In that
way they create a/new variety."
11 will be another year before Milady
will be known to j those who love, flow
ers and roses. .There has not yet been
enough stock : grown. Floriculturists
say that it is only a question/of ; ■ time
when this can be done. -The best proof
of ( this, however, * is / the » fact » that at
every flower/show where Milady { al
ready has made her I bow she has won
a prize. '. '
: Why? Because she 's a double rose
—that means that she wears two petals
t" every one of the ordinary kind. Her
color is the Richmond's. Her fragrance
is all her own:, Best of ail, she does
not die too soon. / She keeps her fresh
ness for a week: :
• Rich and red, splendidly petaled, she
looked at * you ( from out the '■ vases }at
her. first bow to the public and almost
seemed to say: "Next year I will be
somebody— j I'm not already!" -/'/...' ,/>
WATER AND LONGEVITY.
\ Water, : particularly / / salt ■-?"« water,
seems .to conduce to . longevity. > : : There
are gigantic,.'mussel s/}and, oysters
whose age Is assumed to be com
parable only with that of the Cape
Verde baobab tree and the big tree of
California,i which live for five thou
sand years. * Indeed, there appears no
particular reason . : why mussels " should
ever *dfe,/ though/ it ,fs also true that, ;
considering the sort of life a mussel i
leads, there } seems no particular ; rea- j
son/ why should ever have lived. £!
Sea anemones, again, delicate and:
sensitive though they look ■-< when we j
see ■' them ■' in the rock .< pools, may at-1
tain great age. Sir John=Daly ell, a!
Scottish • naturalist, captured in 1828 ]
a sea anemone of j the liver colored !
sort* so common around our shores. !
Its age was then estimated at seven '
years. It flourished in Edinburgh!
until 1887, and was just;attaining ai
vigorous - and • sober •; maturity when;•
from some unknown > cause, iit died, j
Things Worth Knowing
THE JSIEWLy DISCOVERED LIFE- |
OIVUNG VRIfiCIVLE
VITHETHER bread made from whole
"* wheat flour or from whir- flour Is
the better has long ■■■ been In dispute. A
discovery.- just made by four eminent
Japanese 'physicians seems to settle the
I matter in favor of - the t whole wheat,
which contains the bran* as weir as the
white' flour.
"The four Japanese, Drs. Suzuki, Shim-1
amura;^Odakes.'and} Kozai, have been
studying that }': terrible disease called
beri-beri < which is so prevalent among
people} living largely^ upon< rice. ;It was
already known that } beri-beri attacks
principally those \ who live on the so
called "polished" -}■> ricethat ■ is, ' the
i grain from j which the husk ! has been
removed, and that it can be r cured by a
f diet of whole or}"brown"-- ricethat
i Is, grain on which the . husk .-. still
; remains.. •■-",..' ' .
; In the course of their investigations
I the four Japanese doctors , analyzed {the
i *
j alcoholic extract of the bran of rice.
In it they found a new alkaloid,-to
Surgeons on Early Oper
/;,'-- ations for appendicitis.
it ■h. C ASE bf appendicitis should be
;;'xTk : operated on as soon as ever the
diagnosis is v made—within the first
twelve hours if possible," said Dr. Ed
mund Owen, addressing the Medical
Society of : London. The patient will
then not only get well almost . for cer
tain, but will get well very quickly."/
- This was the summing up of a paper
on the necessity for/ immediate opera
tion in all cases of .appendicitis.""} A
long debate followed in which surgeons
../nd physicians from: all f parts oil-Ins- j
land took part, and trie, • remarkable
leati're of it was that ther-* was not
one dissentient voice./ However, some
physicians still believe they can cure
appendicitis without operation, but Dr.
Owen insists that such a cure is only
temporary, if it succeeds at all, and
that- In the vast majority; of peases.: in
which it 'fails'- an early operation would
have prevented serious "trouble and
danger of death. /
7 HE PASSING OF OUR DIRDS—SIX
SPECIES ALREADY EXTERMINATED
THE story of our vanishing birds is Cincinnati Zoological Garden; Yet Wil
■ one of the saddest tales that scien- son ' the ornithologist, writes of having
one of the saddest tales that sclen- ~....•■ -,-•--'. * - „ --\_.°
:•-..;-*„ :<-.-; seen a flock of these birds a mile wide
tists and those who love wildlife have and 240 mileg long> which took four
to tell in these twentieth century days, hours to pass. He estimated that there
It is well-nigh possible now to calcu- were 2,230,272,000 birds In that one
late whin there will not be left a single fliht In 1869 one; Michigan town
wild thing on this continent of ours; - shipped 11,880,000 of these birds to
Half a century ago the entire country market In six weeks!
teemed with every sort of wild game There are 23 more species now doomed
animals, fish; birds and ■ edible reptiles to go. The first will be the sage grouse,
like terrapin and snapping turtles: The The next animal to perish from the
waters swarmed with finny things, vast face of the earth Is the familiar gray
flocks and herds roamed the forests and squirrel. :It 13 figured that there are
the prairies and the air were filled with ",642.194 'armed men and boys after
birds. the remnants of our vanishing game.
■ Even now, he says, six species of one- Songbirds are }disappearing fastto
time common birds have been exter- day there is but one robin}where once
minated. Among those that are gone there were ten. Pot hunters get ; the
are the famous passenger pigeons, once most of them. Women's hats get the
thick"as flies in August But one known rest There are 61 species of American
specimen exists in the United "States— birds which American milliners' must
a lone female, twenty years old, in the have for their American customers. }
Class art it ions to
Prevent Contagion.
TPHE power of a small glass partition
*\ to prevent the spread of infectious
diseases has been known in the hospi
-1 tals of • Europe for several years, but is
only /becoming * recognized • in -America.
In/the contagious wards/of : the - Brook
! lyn /Children's Hospital glass partitions
about five feet high are placed between
the beds. And the -effect is really.
astonishing. In one bed may be a child
with pneumonia, in the ' next one . with
scarlet fever,/ in the ; next one *, with
measles. , Cerebro-spirial meningitis,
diphtheria and other" such diseases may
be represented the'other beds, but"
since the* installation of the glass parti
tions no child "catches" the disease
I that his neighbor;has.' *
THE EASE OF AVOIDING
THE INFECTION OF LA GRIPPE
\*«rHILE, there has not been an actual;?
epidemic of -influenza .-or- "la I
grippe" "..this; spring, ) there ■ has ; been a I
very large number of cases, especially!
Id the } form /in / which /the,--. nose and
throat are affected, One of the greatest
specialists in >few York, speaking }of
this the other day, said: . _~\- „--%
"We really know little more/about la
grippe; to-day: than/we did when it first
made its \ appearance. There is no
doubt:that it is a distinct disease, and
to be treated as such,; but it:has this
peculiarity—that it. masquerades as j
any/one*: of a; dozen other diseases./ It
searches out and attacks whatever
organ-, is .weakest or * most susceptible.
A person .< with "a " delicate throat '■ will j
have it in the form :of ; laryngitis or
tonsilitis. One with delicate lungs may
have' it as pneumonia, bronchitis or
pleurisy. In other persons it is the
kidneys, ; the ' stomach or the <■ liver ! that •'
which } they have given • • ther name
! orizanine. And } this, it \ seems,> isV the
most important constituent of bran,
i not only/that of rice ; but of wheat, bar
! ley and; oats.}. * \
"; The importance of orizanine was
proved by careful experiments on ani
mals, such as chickens, pigeons, rats
and dogs. These were fed on an artifi
cial diet composed: of . the ; proper j
quantities and proportions of < proteids,
carbohydrates, fats and } mineral salts,
which bran of all ; kinds carefully } ex
cluded. Without ".exception' they • failed
to thrive, but as soon as > a very ' small
proportion of orizanine was mixed with
their ; food they recovered and after
ward thrived. ;
Drs. Suzuki, Shimamura, Odakes and
Kozai 1 communicated the results; of
I their ; investigations to the Interna
tional Bulletin of Agriculture. , They
hold'that the "rusks of wheat, oats, rice,
I &c.; are thus proved to be of great food
value by, reason of this active principle
I called orizanine. Therefore it seems
as if ? the weight -of evidence was in
favor of the ■"whole-wheat" bread.
DANDELIONS AS THE FINEST AM)
SAFEST OF SPRING MEDICINES
MOW*is the time for spring mcdl
*-. cine. Everybody ought to take
it,. for the blood needs clearing '. after
the' heavy . foods of the, winter months.
Almost all families have some favorite
medicine, and there are thousands in'
which t the "brimstone and treacle" or
sulphur and molasses of our grand
mothers is served to all mouths morn
ing arid} night.} ~ .
/ But there is ho need to take drugs of
any sort, for nature supplies spring
medicine enough;. in the form of the
foods (that are now in season.; Rhubarb
stewed ior in r-ies should now be eaten
in} large quantities—it is virtually
impossible to eat too ~ much of it
Spinach, rich in iron : and iodine, Is
always" good. Salads of lettuce, en
dives, escarol, chicory, green peppers,
arid': especially dandelions, are one / of
the best /spring medicines. All these
vegetables have a high content of alka
line salts which tend to counteract the
THE MORDID PLEASURE SOME
* WOMEN FIND IN FITS OF HYSTERIA
SOME persons derive pleasure from outbursts. Petting them makes them
;-- : K: '-,-il' x ■"•■'■■'---. '—::. „ worse. Hysteria in young women? is
•receiving sympathy, and this often ;. - ..___.... m• _ --.-., .._• , ..,...-,.,
ii- - ° - -".v . often simulated. •In his classic work on
causes them, . especially if they are „ The Influence of Education on _-,- .
v - }."- TO v*=- Aa '"J} "~. ' ; ''The Influence or Education on Dls
women who have suffered some affile- eases of the Nervous System" Dr.
tion, to affect a very demonstrative Carter says: •}--•;' .'
grief, its paroxysms timed with "When once a young woman has dis
shrewdly selfish cunning, so as best} to covered her :. power to produce a
attract the attention and secure the hysteric paroxysm I: at; will, and has
sympathy of those about them. Of ten' exercised it for her own gratification
from being simulated or exaggerated, without regard to the anxiety or annoy
these fits become real. }.; , ance 'it may entail on - her friends, ;■ a
And there are other persons who de- very remarkable effect is speedily pro
rive ; a strange ; satisfaction } from excit- duced upon the whole mental and
ing the anxiety^; and even the distress,; moral. nature. The 'pleasure of receiv
of their friend?. This is not uncommon ing; unwonted ; sympathy } once tasted
among:-small children, are, how- excites a desire for it that knows no
ever, easily cured by ignoring their . bounds." } ; , / t
is /attacked.
/"! "There ■is one bacillus, the .strepto
coccus, that Is always found /in/ia
grippe. / It is an- active: bacillus and
easily 'communicated/ from one person
to another. This Is why la grippe is
so contagious. : , But, fortunately, } the
streptococcus perishes quickly outside
the body, and that* is why the conta
gion ,is easy }to avoid and why as
soon as the patient; is cured all* danger
of contagion vanishes.';. /
."Persons with \la grippe should sleep
alone, with open windows; they should
not kiss others, nor should they go into
closed apartments Where there are
crowds. ' These are all the precautions
necessary, however, and there is no
need of fumigation or the use of disin
fectants other than gargling. the throat
and rinsing . the mouth' with/some such
wash as this: Four; teaspoonfuls of
water mixed with one teaspooriful each
of llsterine and peroxide of hydrogen."
San Francisco Sunday Call.
I Hoto to Escape from
i~ Z 7* : E-Ven Middle
i : <»THERE ought to be no such thing
• as middle age," said Dr. Josiah
Oldfleld, . the great "" English food and
diet specialist, at the: Simple Life {Ex
hibition ' that has .; been ~on in West
minster. ; ''If a man lives properly ha
can carry the spirit of youth to the
end of \ his days. VI am on the way to
ward ninety,"'but I feel entirely young.
[-The secret is simple. - A* man must sub
; mit himself "to mental and physical dis
cipline /and/eat wisely . and } not: too
well." : '■■"■'-. V"". ."
I Think ; big thoughts ' and • cling;'to
noble Ideals.' '
j ~ *.' Live * on the: fruits of v the highest
I minds. v/;"-.'.*-•'•-
I"* Do not waste time over petty things
I and do not take narrow views.
; Eat fruits, vegetables, oils, eggs, but-
I ter and ■• bread; '' drink pure Vwine*.}and
milk. Avoid shoddy, second-hand food
of all kinds. ;• • ,"
|j/ Bathe every/ morning and rub j the
skin hard with a towel.
• - Change ' underclothing ■ every twenty
four hours. /'• "*
. - --- -. ■ v.- ■•-■■"• •-■■fi. ■■ - -
acidity of the blood. .They also contain
large ; amounts of cellulose, which
exerts a favorable action upon the
intestines arid prevents constipation.
There are certain of these vegetables,
however, 7 that should be avoided by
some persons. Rhubarb and. s,orrel, for
example, should not be eaten by/those
whose kidneys are out of order. •..."/'.
-Asparagus; is now In.* It contains no
nutriment, but is rich lln 1 iron" and pot
ash, and is ' recommended for persons
with a tendency; to diabetes. / : '■'■';
; Of all the spring vegetables, however,
the humble dandelion is the most to be
recommended. When cut young} and
small -it is delicious in a salad, - but
a
when; the leaves / have become large
they are likely to be tough and to need
much chewing. Like all plants that
grow/ close to the ground, lit needs a
lot of - washing before being served.
The tender flower-buds should not be
cut off; they are the best part of/ the
plant./ Dandelion ; contains all that 'is
needed as a blood purifier in the spring.
Hejcamethylenamine. , r
ZNeto Remedyfor Colds.
r\R. SAMUEL G. TRACY of the New
- York Board of Health calls at
'\-. : : -'" ; :--.'::-;•■:-'.-" : '-~ ..-■-■-■••**» - ■ ;-:■-=■: '-..., '■".-_
tentlon to "a new and successful rem
edy for} colds, influenza and other, acute •
catarrhal conditions of the respiratory
tract." This has the perfectly beauti
ful name of hexamethylenamine, which.
Dr. Tracy /says,. is "a.. safe and power
ful ' antiseptic,' not' manufactured from \
coal tar." .-/ ";• ■ -.:-' :r '
This medicine has been used for sev
eral years for certain other-.diseases.
When taken internally it is excreted by
the tissues of the nose, throat and
lungs,.upon which it has a local anti
septic effect and '". stops * the irritating
discharge. \ • :.■••■ ,' .*-
I Hexamethylenamine comes in tablets }
of four, five ■■» and seven . and a half •
: grains ; each. : A \ five-grain tablet ■ dis-
I solvedjin a ; glass of , water, taken three
, times day, is the ordinary dose.
Running on All Fours a
an Aid to Digestion.
ITF your i food .seems to stagnate In ~
I .Jr.- i* your stomach, try running • around
the, room/on} all fours, like a dog *or
I cat No, this is no joke, nor is it the
I prescription of a faddist or a crank, but
it is seriously advised by no less an au
thority than Dr. Meunier of -Paris';" and
presented in La Gazette Medicale. -
Dr. Meunier does not - claim for this
treatment that it is a /panacea for all
sorts of indigestion,/-but he 'i recom- ;
i mends it ;. for the condition ( known; as
"stomachic ; ptosis"-—that is, the stagna- /
tion 'of ' the mass of ? food contained in
the stomach. Its effect is to agitate the.
stomach, | giving it/a sort of massage
and,thus to aid it to discharge its con
tents. : Dr. Meunier proved by■ a . series
of v chemical : experiments ; and X-ray
photographs* of '■] several patients" that
evacuation ;of the stomach proceeded
with much greater rapidity in this po
sition than in the normal attitude,
, such as standing, sitting or lying down.
