MONTHS AND DISEASES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 3

MONTHS AND DISEASES.

Just as merchants have ascertain seasons runs on certain articles—overcoats hi the winter, bathing suits.in.the'trammer, and-so ! on—so doctors, says and English paiier, know just, what diseasos each month will bring . forth. They prepare for diphtheria in the last .'.three-months, of'the year. January is the mouth of measles. Whooping-cough is at its maximum in April. Hay fevor has a lone; run in the autumn. So, too, ? have scarlet' fever and typhoid. Dyspepsia, meningitis, : cholera morbus, maiari?.-~-all have their special, months.. . A highly-, ingenious device for putting on the market " old " furniture, the faking of which is quite a considerable industry in the '.Western-Midlands, has been told to a "Manchester. Guardian" correspondent by, : -a • dealer. He had eighty Welsh farmhouses on bis books,'. in each of, which he had deposited for tho use of the tenant, but also in the hopo that holiday peoplo might'desire to buy.: them, ." old " dressers and cupboards and tables. Tho inexperienced hunter for old furnituro invariably looks for' wormholes. They are provided ; for him by a judicious peppering with small shot, : and lest he should bo' suspicious and prqbe for worm-dust they are salted " with, fine sand.