Page 6 Advertisements Column 1

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 361, 21 February 1914, Page 6

Three hotel employees were fined! a nominal amount at Wellington I yesterday for failing to sign their > names in the holiday book, showing' the da yon which each hotel worker: is allowed a half holiday. | The. New York Herald quotes a curious ease of music being used as an anodyne- The'incident occurred at Poughkeepsie, and the subject was a boy aged 14 years, named Stephen Klantsky. An artery in Klantsky’% wrist was cut with a rope while at play. The first repair of the arterjf was not successful, and, accordingly, Dr. John N. Bassin decided to reopen the wound and do the work over again. The boy’s heart was . too weak for ether, and Dr. Bassin called a little girl in from next door and 1 asked her what was the' liveliest piece she could play on the * piano. She said it was a ‘‘Highland Fling.” She was asked to play it the best she could, and the hoy was I directed to concentrate his mind cn the music. He did so, and the surgeon performed the operation withjout difficulty. Later, the boy said he I felt little pain. Dr. Bassin said he ! had used music* as an aeaesthetic on < ■ a man less than a yejfr ago. and that it had proved satisfactory. > I A remarkable coincidence is reported ' by Messrs. Baldwin and Rayward, the ' well-known patent 'attorneys. Recently I they received from the Hon. Sir Charles ! Parsons particulars of an apparatus' i for producing high vacua. The same - ■ mail brought details of an almost simi-1 lar invention from Monsieur Blanc, a 1 noted French savant. Prudent iuven- f tors everywhere consult Messrs. Bald- . win and Bayward, whose local representative is Mr. J. A. Eraser, accountant.*. 1