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The Borrowed Christm
Drawn for The Dee
Dy Windsor McCay
Girls in Business
Wkt Have You Done With Life?
Our Deadly Habits
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Part I.
By Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D.
The World Best Known Writer on Med
cal Subjects.
Our American dyspepsia, our nervous
nen, our vanishing teeth, our premature
baldness and our early death have all
been confidently ascribed to "bolting; our
food."
"The reason?" Why, reasons were a
Plenty aa blackberrlea. The atarch was
-,n escaped dlgostlcn. Our teeth did
noi gei. cnougn exercise ana. nncr, i wa
rned and fell out. Our food waa swal
lowed In aolld chunks and, hence, acted ;
like lead In the atomach and laid tha
foundation for dyspepsia and constlpx- j
Worat and deadlleat of all, we were
aravely assured that the stomach had no
teeth and. hence, that anything whlrh
escaped mastication In the mouth cou d
not be tackled In the Intestines and
passed through the body unchanged,
causing an appalling wastage of good
food materials.
One by one these ecarehrads were ex
ploded. The main reason why the sail
vary digestion of starch, which consists
In changing It into sugar, waa supposed
to be destroyed by bolting the food, was
that this change can only take place In
an alkaline solution, like the fluids of the
mouth, and, hence, the process would
stop aa' soon as the food reached the acid
stomach. '
But It waa one day discovered that in
stead of the stomach being constantly
acid, the left two-thirds or first pouch
Into which the food fell was alkaline
after a meal and remained so for three
quarters of an hour or more.
So that all that waa necessary was to
put down the starch, shoot the aallva on '
top of It and the sugar fermentation '
could go on perfectly for from three-
fmlf In the stomach. ;
But worse remained. It was found that
even under the most favorable of cir
cumstances only a part of the starch was
changed to sugar In the mouth and
stomach and that the most Important i
part of this first step In the digestion of ;
Insoluble starch, turning it Into soluble ',
sugar, took place under the -influence of
the powerful ferments of the pancreas in ,
th lntaftnAa. I
The most valuable feature of the saliva
is Its wttnui and. aa waa woven bv the
drinking at meals test, the more you can
i add to this wetness within reasonable
limits tne better the digestion win lane
place. So far as starchy foods are con
cerned that is to say. bread, crackers,
ceres', rice, corn, potatoes, etc. all that
Is necessary in the way of chewing, Is
enough to reduce them to a. soft pulp
capable of. being readily penetrated by
the watery juices in the stomach and in
the Intestines. Anything beyond this is
a waste of time and muscular energy.
It often happens that the reasons why
we do certain nature!, habitual things
are different from what we suppose. We
have always been sure that the chief
virtue of masticating our food waa to
mix It thoroughly with the digestive fer
ment of the saliva.
Now we know that while this sugar
ferment of the saliva is of tome Impor
tance, yet the two things which are most
important to mix with our food In mas-
v I tlcatlon are water and air. This does
II not mean that you are to chew
JjL mouth open and masticate a
,ITjorell aa rhythmically, though
illusion would be quite aa ratloi
II not mean that you are to chew with you
audibly a
the on
quite aa rational as th
"Chew-Chew" fad which had Its vogu
soma years ago.
Porousness of our food Is as Imports n
for good digestion as porousness of n
soil is for a good crop. One reason why
breads and hard biscuits, hot or Fold,
are such excellent foods, and mushoe
and cereals and gummy puddings and
slop of all sorts such poor ones. Is that
a pulp of bread or hard biscuit remains
porous when wet, while a pulp of mushes,
whether cormeal, oatmeal or hasty
pudding, or soft biscuit, or soggy dough.
Is almost as waterproof as so much
gum.
(For the same reason, another popular
illusion - fell namely, that soft-boiled
eggs are more digestible than hard
boiled when it was discovered by the
irrefutable method of dropping tea
spoonful of chopped up hard-boiled white
of egg and a teaspoonful of soft-boiled
white of egg into test tubes of pepsin
arid hydrochloric add side by side that
the hard-boiled waa dissolved first, be
cause the pepsin could penetrate Into It
quicker than it could into the gummy
pulp of the soft-boiled. But. of course,
hard-boiled . eggs must be reasonably
well chewed, and nobody bothers to chew
' a soft-boiled egg, and couldn't If he
tried.
So much for three-auarters of our
odatuff starches. When It comes to
the bulk of the remainder, the meats,
the situation la even more surprising. It
was long ago discovered by experiments
both on human beings and animals that
so active and vigorous are the pepsin of
the stomach juice and the pancreatlon
of the pancreatln, that meat swallowed
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is wen aigesiea in a neaitny aiornacn ana
'ntestlne.
Not that It is advisable to swallow it
in chunks of this sice, but simply aa an
illustration of what the digestion can
do If it is put to it. Our ancestors of the
stone age, and for the matter of that
of the fifth and sixth centuries, could
gorge thirty pounds of meat at a sitting,
when they could get it. In chunks th
else of which waa merely limited by the
r swallowing diameter of their throats, and
he none the worse for It. except a little
drowsiness for three or four days. That
is the sort of a pedigree our stomach
has.
In-Shoots
It never cleanse nastineaa to call it
1'pon the whole, a paying job la better
than a hero medal.
To appreciate histionlo art it is better
not to know th actor.
The woman with a velvety voir often
iia a disposition like a buss saw.
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By JAMES J. MONTAGUE..
f course I know there ain't no use of gettin' sore because
Them children on the avenue is friends of Santa Claus.
lie's like most everybody else in this here world, I s'pose; -ife'd
rather pass his presents round among the kids he knows.
No matter what some people says, I'll never think he's mean
i 'ecause he don't buy toys afl'.things for folks he's never seen.
13 ut when I see them Christmas trees, all loaded down with toys,
1 wisht that we was friends of his, like other girls an' boys.
The window we've been lookin' through is only made of glass,
But it's the same as iron bars, if we should try to pass.
An' on the side where Santa Claus came visitin last night
There's blocks, an' drums, an' tooting horns, an lots an' lots of light,
An, on the side where we are at it's awful cold an dark.
An' we can't touch the nice warm glass for fear we'll leave a mark.
An' somepin' maybe it's our hearts inside us Bort o' aches
It's funny what a diff 'ernce that thin glass window makes!
It's always this way, every year, we cannot keep away
We just got to go down there an' watch them children play.
We try to think that we're inside, an' sometimes we pertends
That we are like the children there ;-all Santa Claus' friends.
An' then it seems a lot o' fun, an' often we forget
That we an' Mr. Santa Glaus have never even met.
An' when we line up at the glass I look at Sis an' say:
"We'll borrow Christmas for a while; that's somepin,' anyway 1"
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By DR. ART HUB L. DAY.
Home Secretary of the National Academy
of Sciences.
It must hav been a very turbulent sea.
the molten surface of our earth upon
which the rocky crust began to form.
The flrat patches of crust were probably
shattered over and over again by escap
ing gases and violent explosions of which
our waning valoanle activity 1 but a fee
ble echo.
If the earth was first gaseous, and th
outer surface gradually condensed to a
liquid. Its outer portion at least must
hav been whirled and tumbled about
sufficiently, ven a few thousand year
(which I a very small Interval In th
formation of an earth), to mix it va
rious ingredients pretty thoroughly. It
has accordingly been hard to e just
how It cam to separate into Individual
rocks of such widely different appearance
and character. Of course, the num.
ber of its ingredients was large.
Wa hav already discovered eighty or
more different elementary substances In
the earth, and there Is an almost endless
number of more or less stable compounds
Of these. Th f reeling of an earth Is
therefore, different from the freetlng ot
pur water, but the freeslng of salt water
offer a clue to th explanation of the
nay in which th earth solidified w
find It. When aalt water freeses, th calt
la practically all left behind. Th Ice
contains much leas salt and th remain
ing water relatively mor salt than be
fore freeslng began. Applying this famil
iar observation to th supposed molten
surface of th earth as it began to
solidify, we have a suggestion of order
and reason In Its separation Into so many
kinds of rocks.
Now, what more promising questions
occur to one than these: If th earth was
originally fluid, aa tt appears to hav
been, and has gradually cooled down to
Its present state, its component minerals
must at some time hav been much mor
thoroughly mixed than now; how did
they com to separata in the procea of
StlarMed the Off Ear.
"Bobby." Inquired the mother, "did you
wash your fac before the music teacher
came?"
"Yes'm"
"And your hands?"
"Yesm."
"And your ears?"
"Well, ma." said Bobhy. Judicially, "I
washed the one that would be next to
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coooling into highly individualised masses
and group a w now find them, and
what were the step In their deposition?
If th whole earth w hot, whence
cam the marble of whioh w have so
much and which can withstand no heat?
What has given us th valuable deposits
or iron, of gold, of precious stones? i
What determines th various crystal
form found In th different materials, j
and what to their relation? Borne must
hav formed under pressure, some with
out pressure, some with th help of
center, and what th source of energy
In our volcaaoea? All these questions,
and many more, th geo physicist may
attempt to answer.
i nm uvopnysicai leDormiory or in car- I
negl Institution at Washington has en
tered upon some of th Investigations !
suggested by this long preliminary study
of th earth the physical properties and
condition of formation of th rocks and
minerals. The department of terrestrial
magnetism of the sam Institution has
undertaken another the earth' magen
tlsm; the German geophysical laboratory
at Ooettlngen a third th earthquake
and these will no doubt be followed by
other.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Temptation exists mostly for the peo
ple who look for It or Invite Itt This Is
not the hard-hearted statement of one
who falls to sympathise with the troubles
of her own sex rather It Is a generali
sation to which they are Indeed excep
tions. All throught the world. In every walk
I of life, there are unscrupulous and do
! signing men. The girl who Uvea shel
! tered and protected In her own home
meets with temptation. The alii who
goes down to business meets It, too,
but In both rssrs one of two things Is
true th girl is unfortunate In the men
with whom she comes In contact, r j;in
der on her own part Invite catastrophe.
Ther are plenty of men In the world
who are beasta of prey rather than hu
man twinge. From them neither maid,
wife nor widow la quite safe.
But the average man is a sane, decent
person, with plenty of kindly Inst. nets
and a great deal of chivalry. Such a
man respects nobody more than a self
renpectlng working girl who Invites
ne.ther Impudence nor familiarity. A
pood deal of the talk about the "wolf
In sheep's clothing," who Is the average
employer, is hysterical and quite untrue.
If the g.rl who goea down to business
goea clad In an armor of dignified Kelt,
respert, of efficient determination to do
her work nnd do it well, and of faith in
the fnct that the world la built on the
principle of "live and let live, ' she
likely to get on famoualy and to find
herself quite undisturbed In her desire
to do her work.
Rut does the average girl go thus
equipped? Doesn't she rather have u
'.Ittle sneaking feeling that her sex Is
an asset and one she might as well
make the most of? Doesn't she dress
to be attractive so that even office
boys will gallently sharpen pencils and
tun errands for her?
Drean't she roll her big, blue eyes at
"the boss" when ah wants to get a
few extra 'afternoon hours off? Doesn't
she Invite admiration because she Is a
pretty girl rather than because she is
n efficient worker?
If she dons those things. Is she justi
fied In poslr.g aa a persecuted martyr
when some man takes her at her own
valuation and treats her as a forward
coquette rather than aa an efficient j
business woman?
Not all giria do go down to business
with the idea that It Is a superior sort
of matrimonial agency or a place where
feminine charm la to make feminine
work a far easier thing than It wouM
be if the employers were women.
Not all men Imagine that the bual
ness girl is an adventures who is look
ing for trouble or a shy little creature
who Is fair game fur any man. But
there are men who take this umhlval
lous and contemptible attltuJe towai'U
women just as there are women who
warrant men in taking It.
Tho temptations of a bus ness girl are
due directly to two things the weakness
In tho armor of urns silly girls who
cause more dignified oues to be mls-
j judged, and the wickedness In the natures
or some men wnicn a ciigntnea gin Dy
meeting and meeting well may possiDiy
be able to lessen In slight degree.
! I The xlrl who goes down to business
'willing to do her work and not to be a
I cry-baby, and try to take advantas of
her femininity to get her off from any
I difficulties, will meet with the protec
tion oi cveijr OB.vm inan wun wnuin sui;
comes In contact.
That girl makes it easier for every
other girl In th business world! The
men who have met her and who know
what a "white, honest Uttl thing" she
is, remember her and treat all other
working women with a- respect due to
tha germ of an Idea that "white little
thing" engendered.
There Is a fine chivalry In work for
women. Women ow It to one aflother
to uphold 'it Every girl who behaves
herself with dignity, who does her work
well and who neither looks for trouble
nor becomes panicky when she sees
actual signs of It, keep that chivalry
white and fine.
And when ah meets with difficulty
sh will find ther are plenty of splen
did men ready to answer her with pro
tection and to give her th "benefit of
the doubt."
It does not pay for th business girl
to look for trouble. It 1 beneath con
tempt for her to Invite it. If she does
neither of th two th difficulties that
chance to beset her will be fairly easy
to handle.
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What have you don, .nd what r you doing with life, O Man,
O average man of the world
Average man of the Chritian world we call clrllUcd?
What have you done to pay for the Ubor pn ' tne mother who bore you?
On earth you occupy apace; yon consume oxygen from the lr,
And what do you give In return for these things
Who Is better that you live and strive and toll?
Or that you live through the tolling and striving of others?
As you pass down the street does anyone look on you and say,
"There gos a good son, a true husband, a wiso father, a fine cltlr.en?
A man whose strong hand is ready to help a neighbor, '
A man to trust?" And what do women say of'you?
Unto their own souls what do women ssy?
Do they say, "He helped to make the road easier to tired feet,
To broaden the narrow horison for aching eyes.
He helped us to higher Ideals of womanhood?"
Iook Into your own hearts and answer, O average man of the world,
Of the Christian world we call clvlllicd.
Atd what do men think of you what do they think and say of you,
O average woman of the world? ' . '
Di they say, "There Is a woman with a great heart.
Loyal to her sex, and above envy and evil speaking;
There Is a daughter, wife, mother, with a purpose in life.
She can be trusted to mold the mind of little children;
She knows how to be good without being dull. . . .
How to be glad and to make othrs glad without descending to follyj
She Is one who Illuminates the path wherein she walks ,
One who awakens the best In every human being she meets?"
Look Into your own heart, O woman, and answer; this.
What are you doing with the beautiful years?
Is your today a better thing than waa your yesterday?
Have you grown In knowledge, grace and usefulness?
Or are you ravelling out the wonderful fabric knit by Time
And throwing away the threads? . ,
Make answer, O woman, average woman of the Christian world..
Strikes have been prevalent over the I
country, and laborers are demanding that
the eight-hour system become universal.
No human being ahould work at any one
occupation more than eight hours a day.
All the work in the world ahould be
properly aecompllBhed, and ther could
be comfort and prosperity if every one
In the world worked six hours a day. It
there were no Idle people there would be
no neccstlty to overwork the laborers.
The time ta approaching when matters
will be more fully adjusted and equalised.
But meant'me. while you are clamoring
to hav your hours of labor reduced from
ton to eight, are you maklnr plana re
garding what you will do with those
extra two hour a day? '
if you r a man, do you Intend to
devot those wonderful 1M minute to
your home? Do you mean to glv your
femlly mor pleasure, and your wife and
children the happiness of your society.
or are you thinking of th extra time you
can spend at th club, or In th corner
saloon, or In th poolrooms and gambling
houses? "
If you are a single man I It your
ambfion to devote those two hours of
time eaah day to studying and perfecting
yourself in some line of endeavor which
will enable you ,to fill a higher position
later on, or are you hoping to indulge
yourself In greater dlsa'patlon and frlval
Ity each day during your hour of
leisure?
Results little short of miraculous can
be achieved by applying one's self to a
certain line of endeavor two hours every
day, A trad can be acquired, a knowl
edge of musle, a language, an accomplish
ment, a picture can be painted, a . book
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olf answering him. until I get your ad
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him that my mother died from consump
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Consult a reliable physician aa to your
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but occasionally th tendency Is. I hope
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a 111 never know peace of mind unless you
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can be written, and many other wonder
fut things ran be achieved by the person
who resolutely applies himself two hours
every day to some on purpose.
Reducing th time of labor does not
mean for you a blessing unless you re
solve that your brain, your body, your
heart, your mind and your purse, shall
all share in the benefits which thoaa
two hoi'rs can and ahould bestow upon
you and yours.
If you r a woman, the same state
ments apply to you.
The eight-hour system will not profit
you if your two hours of leisure each day
are to be spent in Idleness, in meaning
less chatter, in unplanned and misdi
rected shopping, or In foolish reading.
There are good book to be read,
studies ,to take up, and the beautifying
of your aurroundlngs to worthily occupy
those extra hours. If you havo a home
you can do much toward making It a
real horn la adding those little touches
of comfort and beauty which only
woman's loving hand and taste can pro
vide. . 1
If you are a mother you can com In
closer touch with your children by en
tering Into their pleasures, ' by reading
to them and with them, and by helping
plan pleasures and recreation for them.
If you are a alngi man, living in furn
ished rooms, you can devote that tlm
to a school of correspondence or in ac
quiring eome new light and new power in
your chosen field of endeavor.
Two hours a dny frittered away without
a purpose or an aim or spent in frivolity
are much worse for you than two extra
hour of hard work. There waa on
woman whose husband waa industrious
and comparatively sober and orderly In
his life, while ha worked ten hours a
day. Saturday evening waa frequently a
time of dread with her because then the
man loitered at the corner saloons and
came home the worse for liquor. But th
remainder of the week he cam directly
to hi horn.
Finally all the workmen in his depart
ment stuck for the eight-hour system and
obtained, It together with an Increaae of
wages. Within a week after the inaugura
tion of the new law th man began pay
ing a dally visit to th saloon on his way
from work. Every night he returned to
his family the worse for drink, and be
fore fix months had passed he waa dla
changed as an Incompetent workman.
This poor wife charged all her mis
fortune and unhapplneag to the eight
hour system. But it waa the lack of
systematic thinking and ' a lack of
ideal which caused the trouble. What
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