Health, Crops, and Spring Remedies
THE Journal of the American Medical Association, in reporting on some exhaustive experiments with cancer, reaches the conclusion that this dreadful disease cannot be directly transmitted in the line of heredity; but the child of cancerous parents inherits a tendency to develop the disease, and therefore should be extraordinarily careful, particularly in the matter of over-irritating any portion of the body. THE University of California is conducting a series of correspondence lessons on growing dates. In their circular, they say that this is the newest and one of the most promising of California crops. It will be a fine thing if we can raise a good supply of this wholesome food product. SULPHUR and molasses has been regarded as one of the standard remedies for the so-called “spring fever.” But Dr. Welzmiller, physical director of the Y. M. C. A. in New York, says, instead of taking such mixtures, “eat less steaks and more fruit salads and don’t forget exercise.”