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Dunstan Times, Issue 3130, 14 August 1922, Page 2

A form of sleeping sickness, which doctors say is new to the medical profession has claimed one victim in Paterson, New Jersey, and five others there are suffering from it. The most peculiar symptom of the disease l is. that persons stricken with it have double vision. The disease became pronounced in the case of John L. Ala linen, aged thirty-six, and, despite efforts of nine doctors to revive him, lie died. Samuel Thompson, janitor of a public school, is seriously ill with the disease. Dr Isaac Surma ner, of Paterson, said he and other doctors have been unable; to trace the cause of the disease, and as yet have found no method of preventing it. The first symptom, according to n report prepared by the doctors, is an abnormal sleepiness, followed by periods of stupor and double vision, which later becomes constant. The cigarette craze aiming Italian women lias made a large increase in the Government’s revenue from its tobacco monopoly, according to figures just published. Five years ago a woman who smoked a cigarette in public was disgraced, says a Borne’ despatch to the New York Herald, but now fashionable women “light up” in the streets. Changing artificial light into “daylight” has been accomplished by an artist of London, England. He uses a reflector having a novel arrangement of colors painted on the interior surface of the reflector. The colors absorb the energy of the light rays to such an extent that it produces the effect of sunlight.