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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The Chancellor at Conway. 7THUSIASTIC SCENES. Unpiecedented scones were witnessed at Conway on Friday on the occasion of the visit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to meet the electorate. Elaborate preparations had been made, and a long time before the meeting was announced to commence the Town iiall was full. Shortly before the arrival of the Chancellor the main entrance doors were opened and there was a rush, the crowd climbing on the windows and other -ipces, with the result that Mr. J. P. Griffiths, the Chairman, had to make an appeal to a Large number to descend from a point of vantage, owing to the danger which prevailed of the framework collapsing. Tremendous enthusiasm pre- vailed, and when Mr. Pryce Lewis, the de- feated Liberal candidate in one of the Wolverhampton wards, got up to speak, he received a hearty ovation. Mr. Lewis, who reduced the Conserva- tive majority by more than one half, paid a glowing tribute to the Chancellor, and added that he was the finest statesman the British Isles ever knew, and that they ever would know. lie (Mr. Lewis) was fighting a millionaire Tory in Wolverhampton, and he had 322 motors and carriages on poll- ing day, whilst he (the speaker) had only 12 and a half, and the half was a barrow. (Laughter.) He went on to deliver a very interesting address on Free Trade. He would like to remind the young friends at Conway what the young folks of Waltham- stow sang for Sir John Simon:- "Tariff Reform means work for all, Chopping wood in the workhouse." --(Laughter.) That was just what it .meant. They in Conway would require a bigger workhouse on the Bangor-road. At this point there was cheering outside, and the words" He's come were on everybody's lips. As the Chancellor came through the door everybody .got up and ftnemendous enthusiasm iprevailed. With one voice they sang" For he's a jolly good fellow." For several minutes this proceed- ed. the Chancellor and Mrs. Lloyd George acknowledging the hearty reception. The chairman said he had been instruct- ed by the Chancellor to ask anybodv in the audience to send up questions to him, and he would answer them. The Chancellor, after Mr. Prvce Lewis concluded his remarks, said he was on his wav through the constituency not so much to make a speech, but to give the electors an opportunity of asking questions on any point. The first question was "Will you kindly state your reason fcr voting against the re- duction of railway men's hours before the Select Committee. The Chancellor: I never did it. I was not on the Select Committee at all. The Chancellor went on to explain the matter at length, and added that so far from the suggestion having any basis of truth, it was just the opposite. The second question was whether the Patents Act was progressive. Certainly, it has," replied the Chancellor amid tremendous cheering. The third question bore upon insurance. He said there were a great many insurance agents who were afraid his proposals would interfere with their business, but this was not so as his proposals dealt only with sickness in the family, whereas agents insured against death. I want to .ch-ii,- hunger out of this land," said the Chancellor amid the greatest enthusiasm. The fourth question was whether small owners had to pay more tax under the Finance Act. L' Not a penny," was the re- ply. On the contrary he ventured to tell them that the result of the Finance Act would be to relieve taxation on small owners. (Loud applause.) The Chancellor also dealt with the veto of the House of Lords. He appealed to them to return him the seventh time on behalf of Carnarvon Boroughs. (A voice: We will, and the walls of Jericho will be down). (Loud laughter.) "Yes," said the Chancellor, "they will. We are going there this time to decide the question of the Lords, the enemy of Wales. You take care to-morrow and I will take care of them, because they will be afraid of us." Before I meet you again we shall have settled the Lords. (Ap- plause)—and we will also have settled the question of religious freedom in Wales. (Loud applause.) Later in the evening, another enthusiastic meeting was held, the Town Hall being again filled to its utmost capacity. Alder- man Dr. M. J. Morgan, J.P., presided, and a very fine address was delivered by Mr. Wm. Barton, M.P. for Oldham, an address which was greatly appreciated as evidenced by the enthusiasm which prevailed. Mr. G. Roberts Jones, B.A., B.D., who was known in South Carnarvonshire as the coming Lloyd George, also gave an inspir- ing Welsh address which raised the aud- ience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the speakers on the proposition of the Chair- man, seconded oy Mr. J. P. Griffith.

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.

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