Country Living at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

Fresh flowers are a country living room essential and look great in an old jar rather than a Vase (reinventing uses for vessels is a great way to add country style). There is also a mix of modern and traditional pieces which gives the room a relaxed, up-to-date country look.

Geopolitics, which considers the effect of geographic factors on government, is not necessarily a policy of conquest, but as applied by Haushofer, it became one. He asserted that the function of the geopolitician is to suggest ways by which a country "can grow into its largest possible living space" and developed the concept of "living space," or Lebensraum, as the right of every country to territory sufficient to support its population. This and other theories of his had special appeal to Hitler, who incorporated them into his book Mein Kampf.

Other Living Vaccines.—Very many kinds of pathogenic bacteria have been used in the living state as vaccines, but because of their inherent danger few such vaccines have survived. Plague vaccines containing living plague bacilli, attenuated by long-continued culture on laboratory media, are in use, however, especially in South Africa and Indonesia. It has been reported that some 10 million inoculations have been given in the latter country without untoward results. Living vaccines are also used to immunize domestic animals. Anthrax and hog cholera vaccines contain living anthrax bacillus spores and hog cholera virus, respectively, that are of full virulence, but the animal is protected against disease by the simultaneous inoculation of chemo-therapeutic drugs with the anthrax vaccine and of antiserum with the virus. A partially avirulent strain of Brucella abortus, strain 19, is given as a living vaccine to immunize cattle against brucellosis.