The North Wales Weekly News

[Br A FAMILY DOCTOR.] BREATHING HABITS. Many of you have children who h. undergone the operation on the back of tbo throat for the removal of the tonsils ana adenoids. I want to impress on you the im- portance of the after-treatment. "Before the operation the child acquired the bad habit of breathing through the mouth, and after the operation, even though the obstruction in the respiratory passages is removed, the child will continue to breathe through the mouth unless properly taught. Every morning the window should be opened wide, and the child should stand in front of it. keep its mouth tightly shut, and take several deep breaths through the nose. It will require much patience and perseverance, but stick to it for as long as six months, or a rear if neces- sary, and in the end you will be rewarded.

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DRESS OF THE DAY. A SMART AND COMFORTABLE WRAP. Some of the big, new winter coats for travelling, driving, motoring, etc., are won- derfully smart and becoming, as well as re- markably comfortable for cold weather wear. The majority of these coats are ab- solutely simple in shape, depending entirely tor their effect upon their excellent cut and khape. Our sketch pictures a very good example of an up-to-date, loose, wrap coat. iliis useful model is carried out in heavy, mole-coloured serge of beautifully soft quality, and with an unusually pronounced diagonal rib in its weave. This coat fits the tigure closely on the shoulders, but hangs ijuite straight from the line of the bust, being slurped just the merest trifle at the back to faintly indicate the waist-line and no more. In front the coat crosses well over to the left and fastens in a diagonal line with immense buttons, which are simply lovered with the serge. From the opening at the neck turns back a smartly shaped A BECOMING WRAP IN SOFT SERGB. collar of quite, unusual size. This collar comes right down to the top of the 61ceve on each shoulder, and is faced with the serge of which the coat is made. Over it comes a very much smaller collar of rather lustreless black satin. The sleeves are fairly large and quite plain, and are finished at the wrist by big gauntlet cuffs of the serge, over which turn back smaller cuffs of the satin. This coat is lined throughout with thick satin foulard of good quality, the design being a conventional pattern woven in poppv-red upon a white ground. I would suggest to those of mv readers who have to travel by train to any evening entertainment that the above model would make an excellent and most comfortable evening coat. The serge, however, in that case should be replaced by cloth of good quality, or soft Liberty satin, preferably in black or in some dark shade that will not easily show soil. Collars and cuffs of handsome Oriental embroidery, or of fur, might with advantage replace those of the serge and satin. A FAVOURITE SHADE. One of the most popular of the present season's colours is that most charming shade cigar-brown. Though exceedingly pretty in almost any material, cigar-brown is most effective, I think, in velvet or in the very best quality of velveteen. There is quite a rage just now for the costume of cigar- brown velvet, and some really beautiful models are to be seen in smart West End showrooms. One of the very prettiest of these costumes that have been introduced to my notice was a going-away toilette re- cently made for a well-known London bride. This costume was carried out in very soft ehiffon velvet, in the most beautiful tone of tigar-brown imaginable, and was trimmed with pipings of black satin and handsome imbroidery worked in glossy, black, vege- table silk. A vest and collar of tucked ivory net, and beautiful ivory guipure put the finishing touch to this delightful and most uncommon toilette. DESIGN FOR FANCY DRESS. The romance of bygone days appeals never more strongly to the woman of to-day than when she has to choose for herself a fancy dress. Then even the most prosaic among us leans to the poetic, and gay ribbons, brocade, and lace become essential. With- out fear of the restrictions of Dame Fashion, and with the knowledge that one has simply to select a dress to suit one's face and figure, the choosing of a fancy dress becomes a veritable pleasure indeed. A CHARMING COSTUME FOR A FANCY DBISS DANCE. Our illustration this week shows an un- common and pretty design, well within the powers of the home worker. The Lady Teazle gown will suit a dark girl admirably, and can easily be made of quite inexpensive materials. It consists of a loose, flowered sacque, cut with a slight train, worn over a sharply-pointed bodice and satin skirt. The sacque should be fashioned of one of the new cretonnes—one with a cream ground and deep crimson roses being very appropriate. Bands of trimming to match are easily ob- tained. The petticoat should be made of satin, though, if economy has to be studied, Roman satin will serve very well, a frill of white lace making a dainty finish. Frills of similar lace finish off the quaint sleeves, and the front of the pointed bcdice is filled ill by frills of delicate lace, the top being finished off by a velvet bow. A narrow band of black velvet is worn round the throat. If a wig is not worn with this costume the hair must be powdered, so that all is in keeping with the Georgian period. The pattern takes five yards of cretonne and five yards of satin. EVENING COJLFFUliKS. The hair-dressing of tJle day is distinctly picturesque as well as far more becoming than were the coiffures of the early summer, the m'arked severity of which was decidedly trying to eight out of every ten women who slavishly followed the fashion of the moment. The coiffure of the hour, however, is so soft and pretty in effect that it is be- coming to nearly every type of face. Even- ing coiffures are particularly attractive this season, and are in admirable keeping with the beautiful evening frocks of the day. Perhaps the favourite style just. now is to part the liair, which has previously been waved, draw it loosely from each side to the crown of the head, and there arrange it in a mass of soft, natural-looking curls. The finishing touch is given by a jewelled fillet which is taken right round the head, coming: almost on to the forehead in front.

A Loaded Revolver. BOY WHO READ TRAGIC NOVELS." On Saturday, at the Bettwsycoed Petty Sessions, before Col. Johnstone and Mr. George Bovill, a youtfi named John Robt. Jones, Pen y Bont, Llanddewi, Llanrwst, was charged that he, on November 22nd, did carry a jpisltol, (then being a person under the age of 18 years and not being exemptby virtue of Section 7 of the Gun Licence Act, 1870. Sergt. Breese conducted the prosecution and stated when arrested at Capel Curig the defendant said he left home that morning and had walked from Llanddewi, and intended to walk back. Witness paid his fare to Llanrwst. Defendant also stat- ed that he had been down South Wales, and had been stabbed by a man in the leg, and he was returning to South Wales, and now that the strike was on he was afraid to meet that man. P.C. Ross stated that in consequence of complaints he arrested defendant and found the produced revolver upon him, loaded in six chambers. He had also 47 cartridges in his pockets. He took him down to the police station, and on the way defendant said that it was through reading tragic novels that he carried the pistol, and also that a man in South Wales had stabbed him. The Chairman Were there any specific complaints about him. P.C. Ross: The people were afraid of him, and afraid that he was labouring under a delusion. He had been employed at Capel Curig. Defendant, who did not appear, was fined 10s. and costs, and an order was made for the confiscation of the pistol and ammuni- tion.

BAD HUMOUR. OFTEN DUE TO A STARVED BRAIN. The True Remedy. If you dress in a hurry and in bad humour very likely bolt your breakfast and give yourself a chest ache, and feel fit to drop before the day's work—manual or other- wise—is finished. It's all due to a starved brain. There is an easy way out of this. Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa is just as easy to take with breakfast as anything else. Men arid women who use nr. TYMn^s* Vi-Cocoa for supper and breakfast can feci the difference from the moment they wake in the morning until the very end of the day. There is no weariness, no disinclination to start work, no low-spirited disgust with having to get up, but instead of these cheerfulness, en- ergy, good-humour, thorough enjoyment of work as well as play. All this is your re- ward if you simply ask the grocer for Dr. Tibbies" Vi-Cocoa. Do not ask your grocer for cocoa. Ask for NÚíJcoa it makes all the difference. Every grocer sells Vi-Cocoa in 6d. packets and gd. and is. 6d. tins.

-0: THE MASTICATION CURE. One of the cures for indigestion is known as the mastication cure. Oi course, you must 0.art with good teeth. Then every mouthful you take must be chewed and chewed until it is like pulp: most of you swallow lumps. Words will not exjiress the gratitude of vour stomach if you car.7 out this plan conscien- tiously. Try it for a fortnight. You have to manufacture bones ana muscle, brains and blood out of eggs and bacon and bread and butter. The first, and therefore the most im- portant process, is the mastication of the toed in the month; if the first process is bndiy done the whole digestive apparatus is t.irov, out of gear. If you want to have iiealtity children, teach to bite their food, and give them hard biscuits to use thcjr teeth 011

0: A USEFUL OINTMENT. The condition of piles is frequently" asso- ciated with itching of the skin. The best ointment to apply is zinc ointment, with a little menthol added. About fifteen grains of menthol should be mixed with one ounce of zinc ointment. A surgeon should examine this state of affairs, as the itching may be due to the presence of a fistula, and, if that is the case, nothing will be of any avail but an operation.

;0 bORE TJIHOA T-OR WORSE. Always seek advice when anvone in the house has a sore throat. You cannot be sure what is really the matter; it may be only a simple sore throat, or it may be diphtheria* or scarlet fever, and the disease will spread unless proper precautions are taken. I have found children in the schools actually jtecling jrom scarlet fever; the mother thought the children had only had sore throats.

0 SHELL-FISII DANG E118. I like to write every three months on the inadvisabilify of eating .hell-fish. There are so many other things to eat; and the poison- ing from shell-fish, which is by no melius an infrequent occurrence, is always a serious matter. I have had a good many lessons, and I like to give you the benefit of my experience. Mu^els, cockles, and whelks had much better be left to waste their sweetness 011 the desert air. Crab and lobster are not particularly wholesome, and the complaints from your digestive organs at having to attack the leathery muscles of these denizens of the deep are apt to dis- turb your plea-sant dreams and sweet repose. Leave shell-fish alone.

-0; CAUSED, NOT CURED, BY DRUGS. Those of you who do me the honour to read this column may have noticed that 1 try to discourage indiscriminate drug- taking, and am for ever harping on the medicinal effects of fresh air, sunshine, good food, sound teeth, and sleep and exercise. I have just been reading an article on consti- pation in one of the finest text-books of medicine in the English language, written by the Professor of Medicine at Oxford University. Under the heading of the causes of constipation is given the following:— "That most injurious of all habits, drug- taking." The italics are the Professor's, not mine. Oh! I know. Aunt Maria will not believe a word of it: she was brought up on brimstone and treacle, and she knows, with- out being told by anyone, that no child can possibly be healthy without plenty of pills, powders, and potions. Well, you must make up your minds whether to believe the Head of the Faculty of Medicine in one of our greatest Universities, or the ignorant vapourings of stuffy old women. It is up- hill work trying to teach you people: I think I shall give it up in despair and take to breeding rabbits. You think you are curing constipation by your drugs: why, you poor, misguided creatures, there is not a reliable text-book on medicine published that does not give drug-taking, "that most injurious of all habits," as a call."e of consti- pation.

-0: FOUHPENNY DOCTORS. These remarks may apply to some of you. You attend a doctor, to whom you pay a fee of sixpence, or perhaps foul pence. He sees dozens of patients every night, and cannot afford to give much individual atten- tion to each. You pay him a few pence, and you must see that it is ridiculous for a professional man, who has spent live years of time and over a thousand pounds in money on his education, to treat you in return for a few coppers such as I might fling to a boy for cleaning my boots. If your sole aim and object is to have a bottle of stuff, it does not matter where you go; but if you are really ill and getting worse, I advise you to save up your small fees until you have got a few shillings, and then you have a right to aek a doctor to give a little more time and care to you. It will pay you in the end.

o: OUR CHILDREN. I was born an optimist: I am a great be- liever in the millennium the forces of sick- ness and wickedness cannot hold out much longer. They are being beaten all along the line, but I daresay they will hang on for my life-time. We really are getting on splen- didly in my schools. If you will believe me, all the children have had their teeth attended to, and swollen faces, toothache, gum-boils, and neuralgia are all unknown. Then the paler children are given sometimes as much as two pinte of good, fresh, warm milk every day, and they simply blossom forth. And our boot-fund was a great suc- cess; the deserving poor have boots provided, the good-for-nothing cadgers have been sternly repressed. And as for cleanliness, I defy you to come into the schools any day of the week and see if the boys and girls are not as clean as your own children. Ah it was wise of the Founder of Christianity to emphasise so often the blessedness of lov- ing and caring for little children. The care of children is the most joyous, the most in- spiring occupation imaginable. And in all our work. the mothers, God bless them, have helped us like bricks.

-:0;- ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. K.—Coffee will not hurt you, but mode- ration in all tilings. Henrietta.—The specialist who examined you knowh more about your case than I do. Anxious.—Continue to ^read the column for hints 011 rearing children. Daddv.—Complimentary letters are tied I in a bundle with pink silk ribbon and shown to the Editor once a month. Thank you. Read column for ;{v:ce on your r-uV.eet. Burrows.—If your son has fj1. a careful examination is necessary. Anxious.—Such a common pseudonym ia confusing. I do not recommend hair dyes.

Holyhead Train Tragedy. On arrival of the <1..30 train at Holyhead on Friday night, medical aid was summoned to the assistance of George Wood, a painter in the employ of the L. & N.W. Railway Co. Dr Hunt, found Wood was dying, and that nothing could be done for him. Wood expired twenty minutes after the arrival of the train. He was a native of Sandbach, and leaves a widow and one child. He had been in 'the service of the company for 25 years, and lived at Bangor. The cause of death was hemorrhage of the brain.

Home Rule for Wales. SOME OF THE EXPECTED BENEFITS. Mr. J. R. Ellis presided over a large audience at the Ship Cafe lecture Room, Abergele, on Friday evening, when a de- bate took place on Welsh Home Rule. Mr. W. J. Evans, County School, took the affirmative side of the question, and Mr. Payne the negative. Mr. Evans gave a brief survey of the Home Rule movement in Ireland and Scot- land. If Scotland with its 72 members, with its immense accumulated wealth, and with its preponderating representation in the Cabinet had so much cause to complain of inattention and neglect by the Imperial Parliament of Scottish affairs, it was not surprising that Wales, with only 34 mem- bar. should be of opinion that its national interests would be best served by a Parlia- ment or National Council in Wales. In advancing the demand for Home Rule for Wales, the Principality was only re- turning to THE FLAG OF TOM ELLIS. Mr. Evans gave an account of an interest- ing conversation he once had with Tom Ellis on the occasion when Mr. Gladstone was opening the toy railway up Snowdon, in the course of which Mr. Ellis remarked that the genius of the Welsh nation would never be given full scope until Wales con- trolled its own affairs in accordance with its national individuality. Mr. Llovd George, twenty years ago, also devoted his earlier speeches to the same subject, and was now returning to the charge. Mr. Evans based his claims for Welsh Home Rule upon nationalism, necessity and expediency. The nationalism of the Welsh people had persisted for 2,000 years in the face of the most strenuous efforts to crush it out of existence. It kept the Normans at bay for 200 years after England had fallen under the heels of the conquerer. It was signifi- cant that the language of the Roman con- querers of Britain was now a dead lang- uage. while the language of the Brythons flourished in all its beauty and purity. Even the castles built by Edward the First to destroy the nationalism of the Welsh people had now fallen into the hands of the most ardent Welsh nationalists of to- day. The late King Edward entrusted the care of Carnarvon Castle to Mr. Lloyd r e George, and only last week King George had appointed Mr. Herbert Lewis, Con- stable of Flint Castle. All the oppressive laws passed from time to time to kill the Welsh language had completedly failed in their effect. The nationalism of Wales still breathed through its language, its poetry, its literature, its Eisteddfodau and its political ideals. If Wales was to secure legislation conceived with a due regard to its national aspirations and its special needs and circumstance:, and if the political, social, industrial, agricultural and educa- tional interests of the Welsh people were to be served, a Welsh Parliament became an imperative necessity. The legislative machinery was at present clogged by the multifarious duties which the Imperial Parliament is called upon to perform. Freed from. the endless details of (purely local (questions, which could be more adequately dealt with by National Parliaments for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England, the Imperial Parliament could the better devote its attention to the pressing demands and wider interests of Greater Britain. The Imperial Parliament is unequal to the administrative and legis- lative work entrusted to it. In the 200 years since the Union with Scotland and in the century following upon the Union with Ireland, the population of the British Isles had quadrupled, and beyond the seas thickly populated semi-continents had come under the British flag. While the work thrust upon the Imperial Parliament had multiplied enormously, the machine itself remained in its essentials what it was two centuries ago. Millions of pounds of public money were voted in a few minutes without discussion, and the closure and the gag were unmercifully put into operation when contentious measures were under dis- cussion. The result of all this was that Welsh demands had no chance of being satisfied, either because public opinion in England was not so enlightened as in Wales, or because of the immense pressure upon Parliamentary time. For forty years Wales had been overwhelmingly in favour of the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Church of England in Wales. Many years ago the Welsh Land Commission had made certain recommendations, very few of which had been carried out. A compre- hensive Land Bill giving to the farmer fixity of tenure, fair rent, and freedom of cultivation, and an exhaustive enquiry into the administration and alienation of Crown and Common Lands in Wales were urgently needed. The wishes of Wales in the matter of temperance reform cannot be carried out because Parliament is over- burdened with work and because England lags behind. 1 he same was true of educa- tional reforms. The development of the Principality was hindered because of the high charges involved in PROMOTING PARLIAMENTARY BILLS at Westminster. The greater part of this outlay could be saved if we had a local Parliament to deal with Welsh affairs. The Imperial Parliament, made up of duly elected representatives of the four nations, would still have a veto over the enactments of the Local Parliaments. It was folly under these circumstances to speak of separation. The Imperial Parlia- ment would deal with all matters affecting the Army, Navy, Foreign relations, cus- toms, Imperial taxation, matters pertaining to the Crown, the Colonies and all other questions which are Imperial and not local in their nature. It would have supreme authority ever the local Par 1 laments as it has to-day over the legislatures in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. The work of the Home Parliament would be connected with the control of licensing and education the administration of the Poor Law, muni- cipal and rural self government, the devel- opment of afforestation, the multiplication of light railways, the maintenance of roads, and with all matters of a purely domestic nature. just as in Canada men of differ- ent races and creeds had joined hands to promote the well-being of their own com- mon country when Lord Durham's policy was carried out, and just as in South Africa there had been a complete trans- formation of feeling and sentiment with the granting of Home Rule, so the granting of Home Rule to Wales, England, Ireland and Scotland would have an unifying effect upon the British Empire. (Loud applause.; I much regret to say that somehow or other the notes I had taken of Mr. Payne's speech for the "negative" have gone astray. I remember this much, however, that the pith of his eloquent address was to the effect that Home Rule for Wales would be a retrogressive and not a progressive measure. His motto was International brotherhood. Let England and Wales for- get the past and look forward to a nobler future. They ought to take a higher view of the question than that of mere econ- omics. By that he meant the spirit which exalteth a nation. The evils from which Wales was suffering to-day were attn- butable to her isolation. He would liloe to see England and Wales more welded to- gether. Let the Welsh women chose Englishmen for their husbands, and let the Englishmen chose Welsh girls for their wives. England had great need of Wales. Was not the great force in English politics to-day a Welshman—Mr. Lloyd George. (Loud cheers.) Wales no doubt needed Disestablishment and better land measures but these could be attained better by unity than by Home Rule. Therefore let them shun everything. In the voting the Affirmatives carried the day by a majority of three. So Mr. Asquith will now krow how to proceed

Welsh National Memorial. At a meeting of the Denbighshire County Committee, field at Chester, it was stated that Mr. Thomas Williams, Llewesog, had promised a subscription of £100 to the County Fund in aid of the National Crusade against Consumption; also that Sir R. H. Egerton, K.C.S.I., had subscribed £10 and promised ,fS per annum for the next four years. Several new menbers were added to the Committee from both ends of the county, and on the adoption of the Secretary's re- port it was resolved to invite the Town and Urban District Councils and all the Parish Councils in the county to hold public meet- ings in their respective portions of the county at an early date, at which meetings speakers will explain the movement and urge the need of subscriptions to carry it to a successful issue. It is hoped that Local Government and Secretaries will be appointed in each parish and urban district to arrange for collections, ,and that collectors will volunteer att the meetings to take collecting books.

A Wonderful Light! on e u ig Apo™,I?a'tilciIi:iigl, Simplicity K Estimate, Given safe, odourless and clean at For Installations of any Less than a Quarter the p number of Lights, from Cost of any other Artificial £ |C0I10iny Result. one upwards. • Light. The Petrol Gillet Light. 7t gekHrator. Our Generator has no Engine or other working parts to-get out of order, and requires the :minimum of attention. Can be used for LIGHTING, COOKING or HEATING. Agent:— D'P 1 O Electrical Engineers, L 1 1. Jones & Co., Russeii Buildings, KiiyL JUST TO REMIND YOU THAT JOHN A. WOOD Still gives the public the greatest possible value fo.r their money, and by closely acting up to this principle he has made his name a Household Word for his Fair Dealing throughout the District. —————————— When buying food he alway considers the best to be the cheapest ARRIVAL OF NEW FRUITS. A hough prices this year are very high, vou cannot do better elsewhere. THE SATISFACTION NELSON HOUSE, ———————— GROCER. LLANDUDNO JUNCTION