pears to have been made a
practicable method of determining the condition of the heart, more
reliable than any other test that can be applied.

(2)

(_Boston Transcript_)

TAKING HOSPITALS TO THE EMERGENCY By F.W. COBURN

Taking the hospital to the emergency instead of the emergency to the
hospital is the underlying idea of the Bay State's newest medical
unit--one which was installed in three hours on the top of Corey
Hill, and which in much less than half that time may tomorrow or the
next day be en route post haste for Peru, Plymouth, or
Pawtucketville.

(3)

(_Kansas City Star_)

MUST YOUR HOME BURN?

Autumn is the season of burning homes.

Furnaces and stoves will soon be lighted. They have been unused all
summer and rubbish may have been piled near them or the flues may
have rusted and slipped out of place unobserved in the long period
of disuse. Persons start their fires in a sudden cold snap. They
don't take time to investigate. Then the fire department has work to
do.

(4)

(_New York Times_)

ONLY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH POOR EYES

There was opened down Hester Street way last week the only public
school in the world for children with defective eyes. Bad eyesight
has been urged for years as a cause of backwardness and
incorrigibility in school children. Now the public school
authorities plan, for the first time, not only to teach children
whose eyes are defective, but to cure them as well.

(5) (_The Outlook_)

DISEASED TEETH AND BAD HEALTH BY MATTHIAS NICOLL, JR.

The complete disappearance of teeth from the human mouth is the
condition towards which the most highly cultivated classes of
humanity are drifting. We have already gone far on a course that
leads to the coming of a toothless age in future generations. Only
by immediate adoption of the most active and widespread measures of
prevention can the human tooth be saved from the fate that has
befallen the leg of the whale.

(6)

(_Harper's Weekly_)

THE SPAN OF LIFE

BY WALTER E. WEYL

You who begin this sentence may not live to read its close. There is
a chance, one in three or four billions, that you will die in a
second, by the tick of the watch. The chair upon which you sit may
collapse, the car in which you ride ma