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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 187, 23 July 1912, Page 6

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WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Wellington. July 23. Messrs. Harcourt and Co., stwk and share brokers, Wellington, report as iinbims nt noon call to-day:---SALES. Wellington Meat (-52. t> issue) (52 (>. Tiinpiri Coal 22 l>.

HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE.! What struck him as most extraordinary was the fact that while the DR. TRUBY KING'S ADDRESS, j - - i rich store of knowledge garnered in the last 100 years had been apsolnd COMMOXSENSE ADVICE. plied to regulating and improving the structure ami lines of plants and animals useful to man, he was only j A LARCH ATTENDANCE. now beginning in any serious way to appiv to himself and his own oil Dr. Truby King w:ls welcomed at St. Matthew’s Schoolroom yesterday by a large attendance of women, and his intel esting address held the attention of his audience from start to finish. His M oiship the Mayor in spring what had proved so beneficent in all other directions. The lecturer then went on to demonstrate the practical advocation of our knowledge regarding the composition and chemistry of foods as introducing Dr. King, spoke eulogist icallv of the invaluable service applied to the rearing of children, showing, for instance, that in every he had been to the Dominion in his ease of milk of each creature was work on behalf ot the health of wospecially made and adapted to serve men and children. tiie needs of the particular species. The lecturer said that speaking to The main purpose of the fat in milk a meeting of women it was perhaps a was to maintain the body temperalittle embarrassing to have to refer Lure. In mammals living in the air mainlv to diagrams ami to quote the proportion of fat was 14 per figures and statistics, because v.o cent., but that in the case of mammals living in cold water, such as men were alwavs rather inclined u. he anxious about anything whicn the whale, the proportion was 50 per was ealhd scientific, umh-r the idea cent., because in the latter case the that sc it nee meant what was dry, unloss of heat was 10 or 15 times as practical, complicated, ami difficult to understand. In reality just tin rapid. Turning to the flesh forming reverse should he the ease. As Miss material, he showed that in the case Huxk-v said, referring to the views of the human being the proportion of her father. Professor Huxley, he in the milk was about 1 per cent., in alwavs insisted that tire object oi the ease of the cow 3 or 4 per cent., niince was to simplify things and and in the case of the rabbit over 10 lender them more practical, not io per cent. The quantity present in complicate them. In fact, science the milk was proportionate to the was just systematized common sense. growth of the individual—the babv and there was needed lor the underdoubling its weight in 6 months, the standing of scientific matters no calf growing three times as quickly, faculty or qualification which we did not all possess. and the rabbit doubling its weight in a week. Li the ordinary aifairr. of life i. These allowances were rot acciwas really a good saving oi time, m dental ; thev were obviously natural the long rim. to be accurate ami and necessary.' Would anvone with definite rather than do tilings in a such knowledge think of giving a •dip shod, unml'tlmo.ical wav ; peorv,babv cither whale’s milk or rabbit’s would hud that gm ssing gave much milk merely because it was a white more trouble than acting on knowlluid superficially resembling human ledge derived from experience. milk. But it was only one stage less Dr. King then asked the audien ■>. absurd to give unmodified cows milk. to picture to itself what would ,>e because the flesh-forming material our position now. it we existed at was not onlv excessive in quantity ulL but tor the work done* by scien.--but wrong in quality. A crude curd in the course 1 of the last 100 years. was adapted for the calf winch had Take any walk of life. In the earn Victorian era Adams, of Cambridge, and Leverrier, in France, had simul special organs to digest it and which would soon have to cope with rough herbage and hav. tanecusly come to the conclusion that there was a star invisible to the naked eye some 3,<>00.000.000 away and nearly 100 times as big . s our earth, which was interfering with the rate of movement of the planet Uranus. Each mapped out the position where the unknown planet would be found, and where it was found subsequently by means oi powerful telescopes—found within a degree or so of the spot in space which they had indicated. This was the planet Neptune, distant from t - some 3,000,000 times the whole length of New Zealand. To go from the infinitely great to the infinitely little in matter,' m the middle of the latter part of the There was no excuse for using patent foods which consisted for the most part of baked flour on the one hand or dried milk on the other. It was the fad and fashion of the moment with many mothers to give their badies a much advertised brand of dried cows’ milk, which it was professed, was specially modified so as to make it similar in composition to human milk. Nothing of the kind had been done. There was ao patent food on the market which corresponded to human milk in composition or properties. By far the nearest adaptation was what every mother could readily arrive at in her own home with a minimum of trouble. Yl hat was Victorian era, it was observed by chemists—the men who deal wren the properties and behavior <f particles of matter that neither are nor ever will be visible to us t-y means of the most powerful microscopes—that there were certain relationships in the properties of the 80 or so elements of which the matter of our world is made up. Saj. the weights of the ultimate atoms varied from one to 100, the properties and affinities did not run in that order, but in octaves, analogous to the octaves of music. Such at least was the theorv propounded by Newcalled humanised milk was simply cows’ milk adapted as closely as possible to the composition laid down by nature for the child, and a very great advantage of this where a child could not be fed naturally, was the fact that it was perfectly easy to alter the proportions of any of the three constituents of milk, sugar, fat or protoid, according to the digestive or assimilative power of the particular child. All these things were readily learned in practice from the Blanket Nurse. No such facilities existed in the case of patent foods. Dr. King insisted very strongly on no effort being spared on the mother’s part to nurture the child herself, saying that she should not give in merely because her milk disagreed with the child, but should make every effort to so establish her own health by outdoor exercise, etc., as to rectify the composition of the milk. She should do everything possible in the direction of rational and regular feeding, besides weighing the child before and after feedlands and elaborated by Mendeleef. Mendeleef went further. He announced what he called the periodic law and drew up a table showing ah the then known elements in then ciders and sequence of properties. But three were missing 1 . It was as if three notes of music had been left out. “But,” he said, "these three notes must exist, only we have not found them.” He described two substances accurately, but scarcely dared to hope that they would be dis covered in his lifetime. They were discovered, and proved to be just as he prophesied. One was found m ing, where necessary, in order to ascertain precisely what it was really the mountains of Scandanavi.i, Scandium ; another in the Pvrennes, getting, and thus prevent over or under feeding. The need for fresh Gallium (in honour of France) : and air, outings, etc, were touched on. the third in the mines of Germany. Einallj’ the lecturer pointed out Germanium. how much harm was done to young It had been well said that von children bv sending them to school would believe in astrology if a protoo soon. He said that the medical fessed astrologer told vou accurateprofession was strongly of the opinJy years ahead that you would meet ion that children should not go to three persons under given conditions, school before seven years of age, and told vou all about them, their because it had been conclusively weight, 1 their height, the colour of shown that too early schooling intertheir eyes and hair and the nature fcred with growth and development. of their minds and personalities. AsIt was found that the delicate chiltrology cannot do these things, and dren who were kept from school in therefore we do not believe in it, but Germane between six and seven chemistry can do what is parallel. vears of age, grew 20 per cent, more Within certain limits it can truly in weight than the. strong children prophesy ami firediet the hitherto who went to school during tim same unknown. What do we not owe to vear. In the case of girls growth the science of physics and sciences was almost arrested during the first and chemistry novv-a-days. How vear of too earlv school life. In the mud) narrower would our lives and ease of children under nine vears ol resources be had we no true knowage. schooling should be restricted ledge of steam and its properties, no to the morning, three hours was amsteamers, no railways, no knowledge pie, and even, then thev should be of electricity, no applications of eleccleared out of school everv threetrival power, no electric light, telequarters of an hour for a ten mingraphs or telephones, and no motor iites' scamper, this being especially rars. But to bring the matter of what necessary in our over-crowded infant schools. It was pointed oat that we owe to science more immediately over-pressure should cease especially clown to New Zealand, in particular in the case of girls, that far more where should we be to-day but tor attention should be paid to the the scientific development of the power of practically establishing playgrounds, recreation and bodily development, ami that the interests conditions of extreme cold and our I of dcmesticitv, and home life and application of that power to the love of children should receive far freezing of mutton.. Where should more attention in connection with ne be but for the development <4 education. Further eliinentary physcientific dairying, both in regard siologv should ha taught to both io butter and cheese. Nobody dreamboys and girls. cd nowadays of calling such things .... . . - — fads, yet in l lie beginning the practical farmer laughed to scorn the COMMERCIAL idea that anything would ever come ■ WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. of these interferences with the pracWellington. July 23. tical work of practiced people. He never dreamed that anything coni' i Messrs. Harcourt and Co., stock and 'share brokers, Wellington, report as ever take the place of the traditional slipshod ways ot inak'ng butter and cheese. The same thing applied till through in regard to farming. In the neat future no one would succeed in farm- : iollau $ :it noon call to-da’ : SALES. j Wellington Meat (-52. (> issue) (52 '(>, ; Tnnpiri Coal 22 l>. QUOTATIONS. | Buver. Seller, s. d. s. d. ing who did not atail himself ot : National Bank 119 0 120 0 scientific cultivation ami maimtmg and the application of our accumulating scientific knowledge in regard to the laws of bleeding. The men who were succeeding best were t | r (;-■-> who were availing them selv.s ef such knowledge. The others were failing behind and must fall ( ver farther and farther behind ;River Plat 1 39 " . Trust aiel Loan Iu2 (> 1 Christchurch Gas .... Ii2 0 , Fmiding Gas 20 G Wellington Gas (pref., 2o - paid) 2.1 U Wellington Meat (<>2 0 G3 Woollen C> 0 \\ •.‘ll'gton \\ ooileu (ord.) 6'J 0 m otrneule and competition of T.-.upiri Coal 22 G 23 0