September 3, 1964 (24 pages)

9 GO SSOSS SS OO HSSE SEES enee o4ese os 06 @0Ge “GATHERING MOSS , Hospital Patient Writes A New Charles Dickens Biography . Most hospital patients nowadays spend most of those dull hours between meals and sleep with eyes glued to a television screen from which they gain relaxation and amusement but certainly little to improve their minds. I have tried some serious reading while confined to hospital, with no success at all. My senses were just too dulled to grasp it. Sol was intrigued by the blurb on the jacket of “Charles,” a newish book, which stated that the author, Victoria Lincoln, hadresearched the-book during a long stay in a hospital, Ina matter of weeks she had read. everything Charles Dickens ever’ wrote, including all his letters and diaries. What emerged was a biographical novel on the life of Dickens which we thought exceptionally good reading, asa novel, ‘a biography and a history of his times. Perhaps Mrs. Lincoln was unduly influenced by her long so~ journ in the hospital and by her observation of modern medicine at work. At any rate, we were impressed by the extent to which herstory dwelt on the limitations of 19th century medicine. For even a young and vigorous person to be stricken with “con‘sumption" (tuberculosis) w as to receive asentence of death, “Inflammation of the stomach" (appendicitis), scarlet fever or diptheria usually made just as quick work ofthe resigned victim. Epidemic diseases seldom heard of. today, like the “black death" (bubonic plague), once turned loose ina port city by a newly returned seaman, might claim thousands of lives. There was no known preventive or cure for any of these diseases and it was traditional to accept death from such causes as "God's will." Persons afflicted with mental disease were condemned to insane asylums where they were treated as criminals, sometimes worse than criminals, anf from where there wasno escape-~ever. During his forties and fifties Dickens saw most of his contemporaries die of diseases which are no longer considered fatal. Fairy Lily, Lilium parvum, Lily family. Closely resembling the Tiger and Leopard lilies but much smaller and lacking the backward curling of the petals, these brilliant lilies pop out mischeviously from the willows along watercourses, Sometimes only a foot or two tall with one or two blossoms,* just as frequently they attain a height of six feet and produce thirty or more flowers at one time. This year I counted 22 buds on a five foot stalk, two weeks later half of them had bloomed and dropped, the others were blooming except for two remaining buds. Lanceolate leaves 3 to 6 inches long form whorls up the stem, then scatter for a short distance. Petals are funnelform, spreading at the tips, orange -yellow with purple spots toward the base. Boggy places and moist stream-banks afford favorable situations for this small-flowered lily, blooming in July and August, I find these in the lake area surrounding Bowman Lake, at Cisco Grove, and the Donner Tahoe area, Strangely enough, Dickens the crusader, , who lit fires of protest all over the western world with his portrayals of the evils of child labor, debtors’ prisons and sadistic, grasping private schoolmasters, accepted stoically the failures of medicine. It was for future crusaders to make of medicine a true science and to make this science available to everyone regardless of his means or station in life. Wouldn't it be fun to give Dickens a glimpse of one of our new retirement communities, or a modern hospital like the one that spawned Mrs. Lincoln's book, or a mental hospital where people are cured rather than confined? True, we are now confronted with diseases unknown in Dickens" day, and almost as many people are killed in accidents as were taken in the plagues of yesterday, but people today have a better chance than ever before of enjoying three score and ten healthy and productive years. CAROUSEL CORMER ~ CRAYON “BACK TO SCHOOL" by Mark Allen Mrs, Bennett's First Grade Bell Hill School Road Bid Called For Hwy 20 Bids will be opened Oct. 7 in Sacramento with a total of $27, 300 available for the project. The project consists of widening and painted channelization including a left turn lane for a The State Division of Highways Monday called forbids for constructing channelization at the intersection of State Sign Route 20 and Alta Ridge Road, approximately 1.5 miles west of Grass Valley, according to officials at’ the Marysville district office. Road. new connection toAlta Ridge ~ "*"Septembér 6 ..Last performance of the 28th edition of the famed Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies at the Winterland in San Francisco, September 18 . .9acramento Civic Theater production of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In the Closet andI'mFeelin'So Sad" opens for a two week run on the Harlequin Stage of the Eaglet Theater. September 23-October10' ..San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of James Baldwin's first play "The Amen Corner." September 29 ..Fallarts and lectures series at the University of California, Davis, opens with a filmed version of Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier” in the Varsity Theater on the Davis campus. ‘rhrough September 3U ..Nevada City Artists Gallery's fall season showing of the paintings and sculpture of Richard Hornaday of Redding. The gallery is open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 2-4 p.m. October 21 ..5ix internationally prominent foreign affairs experts will appear at American River Junior College during the 1964-65 school year for the third annual college-com~munity lecture series, The first lecture will be given by Ambassador Walter Dow ling, former American Ambassador to Western GermanyModel OCB1 SIERRA SPRING WATER PHONE 265 2401 430 Percy avenue YUBA CITY, CALIFORNIA 742-1639 ROW 10-Day Free Trial In Your Home Or Office We'll put this compact Oasis Electric Water Cooler or an Evaporator Bottle W ater Cooler in yourhome or office absolutely FREE OF ANY CHARGE, for 10 days. PLUS Two5-gallon bottles of healthful, refreshing Sierra Spring Water. PLUS 200 sanitary drinking cups. BE OUR GUEST! Treat your family tocool, fresh Sierra Spring Water ---the best tasting water in town. 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9 GO SSOSS SS OO HSSE SEES enee o4ese os 06 @0Ge “GATHERING MOSS , Hospital Patient Writes A New Charles Dickens Biography . Most hospital patients nowadays spend most of those dull hours between meals and sleep with eyes glued to a television screen from which they gain relaxation and amusement but certainly little to improve their minds. I have tried some serious reading while confined to hospital, with no success at all. My senses were just too dulled to grasp it. Sol was intrigued by the blurb on the jacket of “Charles,” a newish book, which stated that the author, Victoria Lincoln, hadresearched the-book during a long stay in a hospital, Ina matter of weeks she had read. everything Charles Dickens ever’ wrote, including all his letters and diaries. What emerged was a biographical novel on the life of Dickens which we thought exceptionally good reading, asa novel, ‘a biography and a history of his times. Perhaps Mrs. Lincoln was unduly influenced by her long so~ journ in the hospital and by her observation of modern medicine at work. At any rate, we were impressed by the extent to which herstory dwelt on the limitations of 19th century medicine. For even a young and vigorous person to be stricken with “con‘sumption" (tuberculosis) w as to receive asentence of death, “Inflammation of the stomach" (appendicitis), scarlet fever or diptheria usually made just as quick work ofthe resigned victim. Epidemic diseases seldom heard of. today, like the “black death" (bubonic plague), once turned loose ina port city by a newly returned seaman, might claim thousands of lives. There was no known preventive or cure for any of these diseases and it was traditional to accept death from such causes as "God's will." Persons afflicted with mental disease were condemned to insane asylums where they were treated as criminals, sometimes worse than criminals, anf from where there wasno escape-~ever. During his forties and fifties Dickens saw most of his contemporaries die of diseases which are no longer considered fatal. Fairy Lily, Lilium parvum, Lily family. Closely resembling the Tiger and Leopard lilies but much smaller and lacking the backward curling of the petals, these brilliant lilies pop out mischeviously from the willows along watercourses, Sometimes only a foot or two tall with one or two blossoms,* just as frequently they attain a height of six feet and produce thirty or more flowers at one time. This year I counted 22 buds on a five foot stalk, two weeks later half of them had bloomed and dropped, the others were blooming except for two remaining buds. Lanceolate leaves 3 to 6 inches long form whorls up the stem, then scatter for a short distance. Petals are funnelform, spreading at the tips, orange -yellow with purple spots toward the base. Boggy places and moist stream-banks afford favorable situations for this small-flowered lily, blooming in July and August, I find these in the lake area surrounding Bowman Lake, at Cisco Grove, and the Donner Tahoe area, Strangely enough, Dickens the crusader, , who lit fires of protest all over the western world with his portrayals of the evils of child labor, debtors’ prisons and sadistic, grasping private schoolmasters, accepted stoically the failures of medicine. It was for future crusaders to make of medicine a true science and to make this science available to everyone regardless of his means or station in life. Wouldn't it be fun to give Dickens a glimpse of one of our new retirement communities, or a modern hospital like the one that spawned Mrs. Lincoln's book, or a mental hospital where people are cured rather than confined? True, we are now confronted with diseases unknown in Dickens" day, and almost as many people are killed in accidents as were

taken in the plagues of yesterday, but people today have a better chance than ever before of enjoying three score and ten healthy and productive years. CAROUSEL CORMER ~ CRAYON “BACK TO SCHOOL" by Mark Allen Mrs, Bennett's First Grade Bell Hill School Road Bid Called For Hwy 20 Bids will be opened Oct. 7 in Sacramento with a total of $27, 300 available for the project. The project consists of widening and painted channelization including a left turn lane for a The State Division of Highways Monday called forbids for constructing channelization at the intersection of State Sign Route 20 and Alta Ridge Road, approximately 1.5 miles west of Grass Valley, according to officials at’ the Marysville district office. Road. new connection toAlta Ridge ~ "*"Septembér 6 ...Last performance of the 28th edition of the famed Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies at the Winterland in San Francisco, September 18 . .9acramento Civic Theater production of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In the Closet andI'mFeelin'So Sad" opens for a two week run on the Harlequin Stage of the Eaglet Theater. September 23-October10' ...San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of James Baldwin's first play "The Amen Corner." September 29 ...Fallarts and lectures series at the University of California, Davis, opens with a filmed version of Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier” in the Varsity Theater on the Davis campus. ‘rhrough September 3U ...Nevada City Artists Gallery's fall season showing of the paintings and sculpture of Richard Hornaday of Redding. The gallery is open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 2-4 p.m. October 21 ...5ix internationally prominent foreign affairs experts will appear at American River Junior College during the 1964-65 school year for the third annual college-com~munity lecture series, The first lecture will be given by Ambassador Walter Dow ling, former American Ambassador to Western GermanyModel OCB1 SIERRA SPRING WATER PHONE 265 2401 430 Percy avenue YUBA CITY, CALIFORNIA 742-1639 ROW 10-Day Free Trial In Your Home Or Office We'll put this compact Oasis Electric Water Cooler or an Evaporator Bottle W ater Cooler in yourhome or office absolutely FREE OF ANY CHARGE, for 10 days. PLUS Two5-gallon bottles of healthful, refreshing Sierra Spring Water. PLUS 200 sanitary drinking cups. BE OUR GUEST! Treat your family tocool, fresh Sierra Spring Water ---the best tasting water in town. For your 10-day FREE TRIAL, call Seas THE DRINKS ARE ON US DAYS IN A BE OUR GUEST! 18 796T ‘g Jequieidas** *3088nN Aiunod epeAeNn’** a