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the first place, can yjbu Imagine a boy of fourteen learning to trim hats? Or a man of 30 being ;paid the magni ficent sum of $6 for selling infants' wear? What kind of men would they vget? Brainy men, practical men, and courteous men they de mand that you be brainy and prac tical and courteous are wise enough to know they can get $4 a dayjplas-' teringt walls, and that that isn't any-' thing near as hard as forever being polite on starvation wages. , And they "Bay. they will move away from Chicago, from Illinois. Isn't that awful? We would miss them so. But they won't do that either. You see they know that if. they do retire on their millions they have -o made out of you, other stores' will spring up on the same sites and the battle still will be waged. And if you ever' discover a millionaire r who thinks he" has enough money to go out of business and destroy -the busi ness, please let me know. His place would be in the Field Museum. We don't want CHARITY,' and we don't, care anything about their idle threats we are. hard to scare but we do want to be .paid for the ser vices wegive them, and we want to be paidrqnan equal scale whether we live at- home or are self-supporting. In? each case we give them the same number of hours, and work throughout each hour. We want a living wage. HE BREATHED LIFE BACK. INTO THE DEAD BOY And Now They're Trying to Explain Another Fine Old Bible Miracle. Was the famous prophet EUsha the. first pulmotor? The Pulmotor, you remember, is the instrument they now use to save the lives of people overcome by gas, drowning or electricity. Elisha lived as many as 3000 years ago. One day, astold by the bible in II Kings, 4, he performed a miracle ' brought the breath- of life back into the Shunamite woman's boy. Was the prophet the -first pulmotor. London is in the throes of an ar gument of this question and the gen eral opinion of the men who know seems to be that he was. In fact, the learned men who write things for the London Lancet, the most'standpat of all the world's medical magazines, are convinced that Elisha's miracle was nothing more than the applica tion of "the modern idea of artificial respiration in other words, Elisha gave the son of the Shunamite wom an the same course of treatment the life saver does on the beach when he brings in the body of a person who hco been drowned. The bible tells that the young man in question was in the field when he complained of a pain in the head and .wds carried, liome, where he died. Elisha was, sent for. He went into the room with the body and stretched himself on the boy, with his -mouth covering the boy's mouth. This used to be the -way breathing was started in the old days of artificial respira tion. ( It is not a very sanitary way of doing it, but it accomplishes the result The boy's lungs were filled with air andfthe weight of Elisha's body caused the air to rushout again as soon .as Elisha stopped breathing and then more air was sent into thelungs to be'pressed out in the same way. The pulmotor is an oxygen pump. It is filled with oxygen and this is pumped into the lungs of the person treated until a certain amount has been supplied, and then it is sucked out of the lungs again by another part of the "apparatus and another, supply sent in. Roughly this pro cess is kept up until the lungs commence-to work of their own accord. That is called artificial respiration to dayin Ipsha's jtime. it was a mir acle. "