GARDEN FETE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18189, 9 March 1921, Page 6

GARDEN FETE

The Garden Fete, which will be held at the Botanic Gardens on Saturday, promises to provide a great attraction for old and young. Many novel attractions have been arranged, the piece do resistance, no doubt, will be the Palace de Danse, an £Oft square dancing platform, kindly lent by the A. and P. Society, and erected by the Dunedin Builders’ Association, on which all the latest dances will be held to excellent music supplied by the Kaikorai Band. Another attraction 'will be the dancing competition, for which a record entry has been received, and those 'competitions should create a great amount of interest. A musical programme will be provided at the rotunda both in the afternoon and evening. Other attractions will bo gymnastic displays by the High School and Y.M.C.A., and a dancing display by the pupils of the Albany Street School. Several side-show" have also been arranged, including laughing gallery, Signor Macaroni and his acrobatic ape. Punch and Judy. Besides these attractions all manner of stalls have been arranged. In connection with the fete an art union is being held, the prizes being gold nuggets valued at £25, £ls, and £lO. These tickets can be obtained from all leading tobacconists, but will not be on sale at the gates.

A STRUCTUAL DISRUPTION. Hernia is not a disease, but an accident—or in other words, an accidental structual disruption. The walls of the abdomen have been broken by inward pressure suddenly happening at one slace. It is well, however, to remember that it is a progressive affliction. At first the bowel protruding may be no more than the size of a pea, but if not attended to it is bound to increase. It has been remarked that, although animals—particularly horses, which have to bear great strains —sometimes suffer rupture, but it is rare with them in comparison with human beings, and the explanation given is that the human race being destined to walk upright, the whole weight of the viscera ;s thrown on to the lower muscles of the body, whilst in the case of animals the weight is extended over the whole surface. The appliances furnished in the Dr J. A. Sherman treatment, as applied by Mr A. W. Martin, gives an upward contractile pressure, its purpose being to bring the edges of the aperature together. No other method in the world acts on this principle, and without exception they all have a directly contrary effect. They give a downward (inward) pressure, which gradually enlarges the hernial orifice. Mr A. W. Martin has cured scrotal, inguinial, femoral, and unbilicial hernia, and in many eases after doctors have failed.' He has cured after operations have been tried as often as three times. Nothing but long and varied experience could give Mr Martin the skill he now possesses, and those who are now suffering from ’ hernia should conclude that it is scarcely posible for anyone in the Southern Hemisphere to be so entitled as he is to describe himself as a specialist in the treatment of their affliction. Mr A. W. Martin may be consulted at his rooms, Samson’s Buildings, Dowling street, daily, 10 to 12 (noon), 2 to 5; Saturdays. 10 to’ 12 (noon). A booklet on rupture and its treatment posted free to any sufferer.— 2/3/21.