eases at their outset, when they yield best to treatment, is almost neglected. It is certain that if every physician were also a trained physiologist, watching to relieve the slightest functional troubles, he would often be able to recognize small changes that are the common preludes to grave maladies.—Revue Scientifique.
(2501)
See Fear as a Motive; Warning.
PREVISION
Otto Meyer and his wife, Mary,
solved the difficulties attending the
high cost of living as far as they are
concerned. They have lived for
years on a thirty-acre farm near the
village of Riverside, Cook County.
By a deed filed in the Recorder's
office, Meyer, for a consideration of
$6,000 in cash, conveyed to his son,
Fritz H. Meyer, the farm. But in
return for this, the elder Meyer is
to be furnished with all the necessities
of life, including a house, regardless
of the market price, as long
as he or his wife lives.
A part of this unique deed reads as follows:
"The grantee is to provide a sufficient supply of fruit, a sufficient supply of vegetables of all kinds, to be delivered on demand; one drest hog of 200 pounds weight, one fore-*quarter of fresh beef, to be delivered on December 15 in each year; one-half dozen fat ducks, one-half dozen fat roosters, drest, to be delivered November 1 of each year, and three barrels of best quality of wheat flour, to be delivered, one barrel each time on January 1, May 1, and September 1 of each year; twenty bushels of good eatable potatoes, to be delivered on demand; two pounds of fresh butter each week, one dozen fresh eggs each week, one quart of fresh milk each day, except Saturday; one half-gallon of fresh milk and $40 in cash, $20 on March 1 and $20 on July 1 in each year."
(2502)
Price as a Test—See Gold, Taint of.
PRICES AND WAGES
The welfare of wage-earners is intimately
affected by the relation between the rate of
wages and the prices of necessary commodities
that wage-earners have to buy. The
diagram below from The Literary Digest,
gives the comparison of wages and prices
for a term of recent years.
(2503)
Prices, Extravagant—See Extravagance, Modern.
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SHOWING THE RISE IN THE AVERAGE PRICE OF 96 STAPLE COMMODITIES.
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SHOWING THE AVERAGE RISE IN WAGES BASED ON AN INVESTIGATION OF 4,000 LARGE INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
PRIDE
E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, has
a big country place in Virginia—a hunting-box,
he calls it, but it is more like a hunting
Waldorf-Astoria. One morning Mr. Harriman
arose early and was sitting on one of
the porches.
A milkman drove up and got out to bring in some milk. The milkman started in the front door.
"Here, you," snapped Harriman. "Take that milk around the back way. What do you mean by bringing it in this way?"
"Mean?" said the milkman. "I mean that I am a Virginia gentleman, and I am not accustomed to be talked to in this manner, suh. I shall deliver this milk where I please,
