5. Make a good English sentence out of this latin-sounding one: "Amans tam erat hi desint hero ad digito ut mando."

6. And here is something the practice of which Bernard Shaw says people may not like: "Doun tooth ersa sy ouwo uld bed one by." For Stamp Collectors

The Department has received the following suggestion:

"For the real beginners in stamp collecting the advertisements in St. Nicholas may be of interest-and are reliable, which cannot be said for many stamp ads."

For San Entertainment Committees

The Woman's Press, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City, offers for sale the following books which contain much that is helpful for those who arrange entertainment for sanatorium patients:

Ice Breakers, by Edna Geister. Stunts, games, ideas, are all in this little book which holds the key to the success of every conceivable kind of party. Price, $1.35.

Special Parties and Stunts, by Era Betzner. Price, 20 cents.

Six Recreational Parties, by Helen Durham. Price, 50 cents.

A List of Plays and Pageants, by Helen Durham. Price, 50 cents.

Some Catchwords of the Combakker Brand

Selected by JOHN TOMBS,

La Vina, Calif.

Man does not live by bread alone, but also by Catchwords.-Stevenson.

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer.St. Paul.

Be of good courage; that is the main thing. -Thoreau.

Go on and make errors and fail and get up again. Only go on!-Anna C. Brackett.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.— Helen Keller.

Never talk of failure in anything.-K. H. Newcomb.

The secret of success lies in the man and not in the stuff he works on.-Bradford Torrey.

Who rises every time he falls will sometime rise to stay.-William Morris.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.-Buffon.

Nothing is impossible to the man who can will.-Mirabeau.

Pessimism leads to weakness; optimism leads to power.--William James.

After all, our worst misfortunes never happen.-Balzac.

Up, up! whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.-Carlyle.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.-Lord Houghton.

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.Marcus Aurelius.

There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness.-Dickens. Fields are won by those who believe in winning.-T. W. Higginson.

Music in Tuberculosis

By CHARLOTTE VIMONT ARNOLD, Glockner Sanatorium, Colorado Springs, Colo.

As in "Art in Tuberculosis," in Music in Tuberculosis the temperature and pulse charts can be of great value. The nurses should be instructed to add the cleff, stems, grace notes, etc., when charting, and at the end of each week those patients who are able to be up and about can entertain in the recreation room by playing and singing the resulting études, sonatas, opuses, etc.

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Choral work could be started, especially in sanatoria where there are wards or where the sleeping - porches are near together. Each patient could quickly learn to read the simpler or "incipient" charts. An interesting variety could be obtained by having all sing in unison, each one following his own chart.

Of course any patient whose chart read above high "C" should be required either to

give the solo numbers or to remain silent until his temperature was more normal.

As for the physician, music can and should play a great part in diagnosis, "for," says Doctor Otis, "both in percussion and auscultation one can better discriminate between slight differences in pitch and sound if he has a musical ear. Hence the advantage of being able to sing or play upon some musical instrument or training one's ear in listening to good pure music."

The elder Flint, master of auscultation and percussion, played upon the violin, and Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope, played upon the flute.

Staff doctors and interns should, then, be required to attend these weekly choral evenings given by the patients, after which they would feel more free to prescribe chloral to a selected number. The consulting physician should bring a saxophone or cornet when he plans to make a complete chest examination, so that with less effort both for himself and for the patient, he could give the pitch he desires for spoken and whispered 99's and coughs.

Should the patient have a bronchial or asthmatic complication giving rise to sibilant, sonorous or amphoric rales, the doctor should play an accompaniment on his saxophone.

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Science in Tuberculosis

Science, from the medical standpoint, does surely hold a very large place in the treatment of tuberculosis. But, from the mental side, what of the poor sufferer whose education, broad though it may be, has not included courses in anatomy and physiology, but who wishes to have an intelligent idea of his disease and its various manifestations and the functional changes it is likely to cause?

Although to carry out the scheme I wish to suggest, would entail much extra study and research for the medical fraternity, yet for the greater good of the majority of patients I put forth my ideas.

A concrete example will more clearly bring out the point I wish to make than pages of explanation.

An artist, stricken with tuberculosis, goes to an eminent specialist who, after making a thorough examination, explains to the anxious patient his condition in this wise, more or less: "Hum-m, very interesting chest. A good deal of activity, emphysematous apices, cracked pot, percussion note over right lower lobe posterior, denoting cavity, diffused parenchymal infiltration from mediastinum to periphery, cluster of calcifying nodules in hilum, a little secondary anaemia," etc., etc., and the poor man slinks away thinking he is about to die.

How much better to be able to explain to him in language he will understand, as: "Ha! An intriguing landscape; you work fast. Your palate knife-work is too heavy but your brush-work is good. Your canvas is crazed above the sky-line and air-blisters are forming. There is a hole torn in the right lower corner

at the back of your canvas. Your colors have run together in the middle distance, which gives the whole picture an impressionistic effect. You've put your zinc white on too thick in a couple of high lights on the tree boles in the centre. Your whole pigment chroma is too low."

To a mechanic, the doctor, knowing something of the car he drives, could be even more explicit with less effort.

"Glads" of a Lunger

By META JOHN,

4717 Waveland Ave., Chicago, Ill.

1. I am glad for the many starry nights and glorious mornings I enjoy from my porch.

2. I am glad to lie in the warm sunshine and breathe the health-giving air.

3. I am glad to remember many happy days, filled with living, that are lived again in this time of inactivity.

4. I am glad that once, "lighthearted and free, I took to the open road," so that now my spirit may travel those old haunts where my feet are forbidden to go.

5. I am glad that in this time of need I have been shown my real friends, that I may appreciate them more.

6. I am glad that I have had a peep into the sorrows of others that I may have a greater understanding of life and my duty in it.

7. I am glad that I have had time and solitude in which to think and look into my own heart.

8. I am glad that I am learning to see the value of the real things of life-to pick the gold from the dross.

Epidemiology and Public Health While primarily a "text and reference book for physicians, medical students and health workers," this volume would also undoubtedly instruct and delight the better - informed lay readers as well. Primarily for the "professional," it contains a store of information effectively presented, illuminated by the human spirit, rare literary technique, and constructive, experienced imagination of the author.

The preface, in particular, is pregnant with the ripe experience of the writer, ranging in epidemiological observations from his boyhood in Missouri, through the years of expansion in the west and northwest, down to the present relatively enlightened period in the evolution of hygiene. Combining the historical sense of a Sedgwick with the more technical medical knowledge of other current authors, the writer here, with his collaborators, contributes, in addition, a fresh sense of growth and discovery. It takes courage, too, to project three sixhundred or seven-hundred-page volumes on epidemiology and contagion, and simultaneously admit that "we are just now beginning to understand the nature of infection." Surely, the author (with seventy (?) years' experience) has acquired eternal youth!

The book itself, after an historical introduction and a preliminary chapter on the character of the infectious diseases, nature of immunity, toxins, etc., presents a series of chapters on hayfever, coryza, the pneumonias, and other respiratory infections (to which this volume is confined), such as measles, smallpox, dipththeria, yellow fever, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, etc. special interest to the readers of this magazine, will be the relatively extensive discussion of

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"Epidemiology and Public Health" (first of three volumes); Victor C. Vaughan, M.D., assisted by Henry F. Vaughan and George T. Palmer; C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1922; 683 pages and index; 83 illustrations. Price, $9.00 postpaid if ordered through the Journal of the Outdoor Life.

tuberculosis, covering 106 pages. This section discusses the extent of the disease in nature, the history of man's knowledge thereupon, the different forms of tubercle bacilli, the avenues of infection, the clinical forms of tuberculosis, the relation of the disease to the war and to the influenza epidemics, reinfection, home and institutional care, popular education, etc. Sections of the chapter are also devoted to the National Tuberculosis Association, of which the writer is a former president, to the Framingham Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration, etc.

The author effectively emphasizes the distinction between tuberculous infection and tuberculous disease. In reference to the ultimate control of tuberculous disease, he is optimistic, apparently believing that modern methods promise the reduction to a minimum of active tuberculosis in community life. He is also in sympathy with most tuberculosis leaders to-day in his emphasis upon the importance of increasing resistance to breakdown and of enhancing physical stamina. One of the concluding paragraphs of the chapter reads as follows:

"We are inclined to the opinion that a growing, scientifically conducted, physical education of the young must precede any great reduction in morbidity and mortality from tuberculosis. Every boy and girl should have a manual, as well as a mental, training. Each citizen should learn to do something with his hands and his muscles and to do that something so well that it will be a pride to himself and a benefit to others. This physical training must begin in our primary schools and extend through our universities, must embrace all and be adjusted to each. There should be a physical examination made of every one between five and twenty years of age. This should be repeated annually, and the results should serve in directing the line of work the individual is to follow. There should be in every com

A selected bibliography is attached to each chapter, and an index (that might perhaps with advantage have been expanded) is appended. D. B. ARMSTRONG, M.D. Lessons on Tuberculosis and Consumption* Another helpful book for tuberculosis_patients is "Lessons on Tuberculosis and Consumption for the Household," by Dr. Charles E. Atkinson. Compared with such books as Brown's "Rules for Recovery from Pulmonary Tuberculosis," Pottenger's recent book entitled "Tuberculosis and How to Combat It," or Wittich's "Information for the Tuberculous," and books of similar character, Atkinson's new book is a considerably more exhaustive treatment of all of the various phases of a tuberculosis patient's life. It is distinctly a book for those having tuberculosis and members of their families.

The chief purpose of the book, as Doctor Atkinson points out in the foreword, is "to indicate the course of procedure that the competent physician will probably follow and to outline in a general way the program he may be expected to map out for his patient." In line with the policy of the JOURNAL OF THE OUTDOOR LIFE, he has endeavored not only to tell the patient what to do, but to show him how to do it and to give him the reasons for doing it. The increasing number of books of this character and the emphasis being laid upon instruction to the patient himself is steadily dissipating the age-long fallacy and practice of general practitioners to the effect that the less the patient knows about his condition the better off he will be.

Doctor Atkinson deals with all of the various phases of tuberculosis in a scientific, readable manner. He discusses the general pathology and spread of tuberculosis, the manner in which the infection enters the body and the process of healing. He deals emphatically with climate, with the mental attitude, with after-care, with diet, rest, fresh air and all of the other essentials of taking the cure, particularly for the patient who is at home and not in a sanatorium.

His chapter on special methods of treatment is particularly interesting and probably will expose the author to more criticism than any other part of his book. There are individuals who will object to his attitude towards specific treatments, such as, for example, the Russell

* "Lessons on Tuberculosis and Consumption," by Charles E. Atkinson, M.D., published by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York, 470 pp., price $2.50 postpaid, if ordered through the Journal of the Outdoor Life.

Dietary Treatment. However much one may disagree with Doctor Atkinson in his frank presentation of questions of this sort, one cannot help but admire the way in which he has endeavored to sift the wheat from the chaff and to condense in small compass not only in this chapter but in other chapters the essentials about tuberculosis that a patient should know. Doctor Atkinson's book should take its place in the library of every tuberculosis patient and on the shelves of those who are interested in the treatment and prevention of this disease.

"The Play House"*

Two new books, which are written for the purpose of interesting children in studying health, are by Mary S. Haviland, who for some time has been writing the verse and captions for the health posters published by The National Child Welfare Association.

It is rather difficult to review these books as they are so interesting to read that one wants to tell all about them. Even if one IS grown up and supposed to be past "The Play House" period, the book of that title holds his interest and makes him want to build, own and "keep" just such a house as is described. Every step of building, furnishing and keeping the house is fully discussed, and with Ruth and Paul, the happy owners, one becomes engrossed in selecting the site so that the sun will shine in every room during the day, in having the walls and floors easy to keep clean, and everything from cellar to living-room suitable and beautiful. You can hardly wait for evening so that you can open the windows of the dainty bedroom and hop into the soft bed to get the long hours of sleep that will make you grow. The kitchen has an ice-chest 'neverthin' and its attractiveness precludes the possibility of cooking any but the most wholesome foods there. Any group of children would be enthralled with the story and want to do things at home just as they are done in "The Play House," and no doubt memories of it will crop up years after when a "really" house becomes theirs, for it will have done much to fix real lessons in home hygiene-the thing for which it was written.

"The Most Wonderful House" is its companion book on personal hygiene. It is excellently written though it has not the spontaneity of "The Playhouse." Perhaps it is not possible to make one's own body as interesting or maybe it is more difficult to see the changes in our bodies. At all events, both books will be a boon to children and to teachers, and intelligent parents will be glad to have it in children's hands. The chapters are well planned and each has a lesson outline at the end, so they are ready for school use. readable they will be especially good as an accompaniment to the regular text - books. They are well and prettily bound and plentifully illustrated. M. GRACE OSBORNE.

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* "The Play House" and "The Most Wonderful House," two boks by Mary S. Haviland. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Penna. 163 pp. Price $1.00 net each,