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Here are some facts about the things
you eat at the breakfast table :
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l poached and boiled. So many eggs in
I fact , that onsome * mornings , when the
I egg eaters are extremely busy , the eggs
wouhl , reach in a line , laid end to end ,
, several miles. The size of the omelet
those eggs would make varies accord-
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two eggs. , will make an omelet six
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.came into a city on record egg-import day would make an omelet fifty feet
wide and 337 feet long. .
The ordinary man who can afford two eggs at this season when eggs are
' being ! classed with precious stones , may have two boiled eggs for breakfast ,
and eat them entirely unconscious of the fact that one of them may have
-come from Texas , and ' the other from Alabama. Yet such could be true and
" very probably is true a great thousand tinjes a year. s
Now , eggs are not always just eggs. There are many varieties , as a
glance at the commission men's list will show : For instance , ' there are fresh
gathered extras , which are the real thing in eggs , and are known to the
- common or garden ' personage as a "fresh egg. " There : are also "fresh gath-
. ered storage. " These are also packed with a view to size and color and
are further divided into "packed firsts" and "packed extra firsts. " "Fresh
gathered firsts , " "fresh gathered seconds , " and "fresh gathered thirds" fol
low with only a tinge of difference in size , color and price. The rear guard
of the high -grade eggs is brought up with "fresh gathered dirties , No. 1 , "
and "fresh gathered dirties No. 2. " *
And then comes the division given over to refrigerator eggs and stored
away eggs. The "refrigerators" run in five classes , three of whic hare of '
the better grade. Then come refrigerator seconds and thirds-and the pro-
, cession is brought up with "limed firsts" and "limed seconds. "
- There is a lot of talk about germs in milk these days. Everyone knows
. the herculean efforts being made to protect folks from unclean milk , tuber-
' ilous cows , and the like , but the germ is more active than the much talked-
-Qf flea , as a glimpse at his ability to raise and provide for families will
show.A . .
A germ simply breaks : ) . in two and becomes tv { o germs. They break in
two andbecome four germs , they break in two and become eight germs , six-
teen germs , thirty-two germs , sixty-four germs , ' one hundred and twenty-
eight germs and so on-and the remarkable part about it is that they in-
crease almost as rapidly as the words are written down. Milk is a great
place for germs , although it is very true that some of the germs of milk-
such as those which are found in the lactic acid in the milk-are life-living
and healthful , so when the health officer says "there are three million germs
in this quart . , of milk , " he does not mean necessarily that there are three mil-
lion life destroyers there. _ .
Ten thousand'people handle Washington's milk , that is , they help shove
it along from cow to front door. Tons of ice are used daily in getting the
milk from ' the outlying farms on the railroad. A squad of inspectors meet
the milk every morning and check it off , so that every can may be traced
direct to the original farm whence it came. I
Before the anti-meat movement started people expected to _ eat about
200 pounds of meat apiece a year. Now , of course , they are expected to eat
none at all , according to the leaders of the great movement. Some of those
who have delighted in heavy breakfasts and have had a club steak and
"trimmins" every morning for years may think that steaks are indispen-
sable , but the figures don't show it-not by a jugful. The hotel men and
lunchroom men are pretty good judges of this thing , and they ' say that about
one-tenth of the meat only is eaten at breakfast. Still , if you had to pay
the check every morning you would have a nice little item to * attend to.
"Brown the wheats ! " A city's stack of wheat cakes , buckwheat cakes
and other delicious things of the sort would make a mighty nice warm
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blanket on a cold night. The theory that a newspaper reporter and a pre-
pared flour salesman worked out while waiting for a plate of hot cakes in a
. .hotel restaurant the other day was that if all the hot cake : flour in the city
was apportioned off into parcels representing the average morning consump-
tion , the cooks could mix 'and bake a stack of wheats a thousand feet high.
. Of course , all that includes cornmeal , patent pancake flour and the rest of
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There were no hills in Babylon.
This was a great relief to the
queen , who had lived all her life in
- . the highlands. She grew ill for
want of the pure air and the rest '
ful solitude , of the hills. So the
king built the Hanging Gardens.
Hills are' more numerous in New
York. , Babylon in all her glory had no elevated gar-
dens equal to those of the great modern city. They
cover a thousand roofs. Many of them are for pleasure
only , amid the enchantment of music and brilliant elec-
tric lighting.
But many also are' for health. These are the roof san-
itariums , and their near relatives , the roof playgrounds.
They are in some cases one and the same thing. They
i " " are recent developments of the mighty crusade for
health in the city. . ,
" All the public schools that have Veen built lately or
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are building now in Manhattan have on their roofs great
glass-covered solariums , which are gymnasiums and
playgrounds. In the new Bellevue Hospital an extensive
space on the roof is devoted to the solariu.m - one of
the great features of the city's chief hospital. It is
large for some hundreds of , patients to sit or lie in the
open air. . *
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On the roof of a tall apartment houee that overlooks
the beautiful south end of Central Park , from near
. Fifth avenue , there are two tents. These tents have
been the homes of two men for several months , their ,
sleeping quarters throughout the -winter. In the day-
time the men recline in chairs outside the tents. Their I
meals are usually brought up to them. These men
' have faith that tuberculosis can be cured by the' air of
New'York City. t . v
There are 20,000 consumptives in New York whose ,
names are recorded at the City Board of Health. Many :
of these are too , poor to go where they would find better
conditions for recovery. And this class is too numerous
td be cared for in the sanitariums that the city can con-
. trol through its charities. Hence , the roof . solarium , and
the heavily-cloaked invalid sitting all day in the quiet-
est corner of the public park. '
Dr. James Alexander Miller established the clinic at
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houses of this city , or on their roofs , is only a make-
shift , " says Dr. Miller. "It is "hot an adequate substi-
tute for the sanitarium.
"That the roofs . of tenement houses have been quite
largely used is due to the fact that no other suitable
place near the patient's home was available for secur-
ing a restful spot where he could breathe the outdoor
air. Dirt and dust ; ; objections of tenants or landlords ,
and interference or danger from rowdy neighbors , often
render the tenement roofs impossible. The patient is
then advised , and , if necessary , assisted , to move to a
place near one of , the public parks , or where ; he can .se-
cure the use of a suitable roof. '
"After a positive diagnosis of tuberculosis has been
made at the clinic the physician goes over carefully
with the patient the general , principles of the treatment ,
emphasizing the dangers of infection and the way to
avoid it and the necessity of painstaking perseverance
to obtain a maximum of fresh air , restand good food.
The dangers of dirt , darkness , poor ventilation , over-
eating , insufficient or improper food , irregular or vicious
habits in undermining the general health and so hurry-
ing the progress of the disease , are taught to the pa-
tient. This may be called the first lesson , and the
nurse then takes the task of drilling these principles _
constantly and repeatedly in the house with both the
patient and his family. '
"By means of an inexpensive steamer chair and suit-
able wraps , the patient may rest out , of doors , on the
roof , very comfortably , and should sleep there' during
the summer months. In some cases we secure for the
patient the sleeping bag and reclinirig chair or ham-
mock that will inake him comfortable while taking the
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"The great principles of sanitary treatment : An open-
air life by night as well as day and an abundance of
nourishing food. Simple a matter as this appears , it is
difficult enough to carry out in a sanitarium , and these
difficulties are much intensified in the home. Intelli-
gent co-operation on the part of the patient and his
family and a period of time amounting at the least to
six months , and generally a year or , more , . . are required
for successful treatment : : - "
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United States Leads All the World
in Number of Murders.
That the number of criminal homi-
cides in the United States each year is
practically forty-three times greater
than in Canada and eight times great-
er than in Belgium , which has the
greatest number of any European coun-
try ; that in the United States the av
erage criminal serves but seven years
of a life sentence , and that at the pres-
ent time only about one murderer in
every seventy-four is punished , were
statements in an address delivered by
Dr. Andrew D. White , former president
of 'Cornell University and former am-
bassador to Germany and Russia. He
said : .
"The number of felonious homicides
per year per million population for '
various countries follows. Canada , 3 ;
Germany , 4 to 5 ; England and Wales ,
10 to 11 ; France , 14 to 15 ; Belgium ,
16 ; United States , more than 129.
These figures are based on an average
taken for eight years.
"It seems impossible that on one
side of an imaginary line homicide
could be so much more prevalent than
on the other , as in the case of Canada
and the United States. But the reason
is that on one side law prevails and
not chicanery , and that on the other
side has taken place a break-up in the
administration criminal law.
'By far the greatest of all causes is
the fact that the administration of
criminal law has become simply a
'game. ' A trial is a game between two
or three lawyers ; ; the whole thing has
become very much a farce. "
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HDTV a Girl and Her Photosrrnph Lee1
to Tivo CourtH-martlal.
A girl and her photograph were the
innocent cause of two courts-martial
at Boston recently , and the effects of
which " may be - long continuous. The
girl's name is Dorothy Hesler and her
home is at Evanston , Ill. '
Recently Miss Hesler paid a visit to
an uncle in Boston and a chance visi-
tor at the latter's home was Dr. Ed-
ward S. Cowles , middle-aged and mar-
ried. He greatly Admired Miss Hesler ,
who is a pretty young girl of 18 and
the daughter of a soldier who fell
fighting in the Philippines. One day
he took her photograph from her
uncle's home and is said to have
boasted , while exhibiting it , that his
manly pulchritude had charmed her.
Miss Hesler was engaged to ' Past
Assistant Surgeon Ansey H. Robnett ,
fotmerly of the Charlestown navy
yard , and acquainted him with the
conduct of Dr. * Cowles. There was a
dance given at the Charlestown navy
yard , , to which Dr. Cowles was invited
by one of the officers. There he en-
countered Dr. Robnett and the latter's
intimate friend and master of cere-
monies , Paymaster George P. Auld.
An altercation ensued , and during an
interchange of back-hand courtesies
Dr. Cowles was ejected by Auld , aided
and encouraged by Dr. Robnett. The
following day the latter . said things
to Dr. Cowles over the 'phone and de
manded that he return at once thf
picture of Miss : Hesl r.
The dignity of Dr. Cowles was in
sulted and he lodged a complaint
which resulted in the Secretary of the
Navy administering a reprimand to
Paymaster Auld and Dr. Robnett , and ,
in transferring the latter to Newport
naval station. The wife of Dr. Cowles
was not placated by this punishment ,
and went to Washington , where her
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representations resulted in the order-
ing of courts-marial for Auld and Rob-
nett. There were three charges against
the officers - conduct ' unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman ; assault , and
falsehood. The last charge was elim-
inated by the judge advocate. '
The affair created a good deal of
interest in Boston , and also in the
naval set in Washington. To the lay-
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out recourse to the courts and with-
out undue publicity the whole matter
seemss trivial. It seems like _ a temp-
est in a teapot.
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The Jfew Don't "XVorrie
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The dog is in the pantry ,
The cat is in- the lake.
The cow is in the hammock-
What difference does it make ? . '
I joined the new Don't Worry Club
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And now I hold my breath ; "
I'm so scared for fear I'llworry
That I'm worried most to death.
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Incandescent Light Beneficial.
According to a French scientist , the
rays from incandescent lights are ben
eficial to human health , destroying ,
bacteria stimulating circulation and
cellular activity and reducing pain.
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The man who can cling to a good
resolution is stronger than the low-
brow who is able/ to lift a kitchen
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orbitant advance in the cost of living
not based on theory , but dealing in .
facts such as every householder i > l -
these days is compelled to face. A ; '
compared with ten years ago , she says
"The increase , in the simplest arti
cles for mere subsistence is marked } .
not by cents and fractions of a cent , " -
but by 25 , 50 and 100 , and , in the
case of lard , actually 200 per cent *
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cost living
falls on the average wage earner , espe
cially the office wage earner , who has
no Jabor u'nion to send his market
value up - falls with the heavy hand crt
a tax collector in time of war , 01
tribute levied by a conqueror. As a
matter oL fact , with the exception oi
two or three staples , like cotton and
wheat , - prices are higher to-day hj
America than they have ever been In .
time of war. Never has the country
been so prosperous. Never has there .
been vaster abundance of all the
staples supplying human subsistence ,
yet never in the history of America
have all the staples of living gone tc
such a level of extortionate prices. "
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The Russell Sage foundation report
on the standard < l of living in 1907 said-
that it required no statistician to show
that $600 and $700 ' a year was wholly
inadequate to maintain a proper stand
ard of living , "and no self-respecting
family stioulu be asked : or expected to
live on such an income. " The com .
mittee expressed the opinion that wit ] }
an income of between $700 and $800 .
a family can barely support itself , pro- .
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vided it is subject to no extraordinary
expenditure. Statistics show that the
average income of a worker in the .
United States does not begin to equal !
$800 a year. It is really under $600.
But take as illustration an income
between $600 and $700 , with the fam ;
ily unit as five-two parents and three-
children. A few years ago a family i
of this size could lease apartments at
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$14 or $ 16 or $ IS a month , in a typi
cal city. To-day decent sanitary sur
roundings will cost from $25 to $30
a month-$300 to $360 a year-one-
half of the income. It is estimated
that where the income ranges from
$600 to $900 a year , with a family of .
five , 50 per'cent must go for food.
Add thereto the rent , and so there is .
left but $150 to $200 at the outset for
'clothing , illness , fuel , carfare , educa-
tion , insurance and incidentals. At
present prices : the absolute minimum '
at which a family of five can be cloth- - . .
ed is $100 a year. Economists figure ' A
that a man can be poorly fed at 20 } F
cents a day ; adequately fed at 25
cents. With a family of five this
means $35 a month. So the writer . I ,
says :
"Screw it down as you ' will , you ' 1
cannot kdep your family of five in
health and keep : the food bill' below
$400. If -you screw your food bill '
lower somebody is going to be skimp-
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ed as to brain and brawn. Screw your .
rent below $300 , somebody must pay
carfare , or take lodgers , or live in
dark rooms for -low rent. Pay for
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plain but adequate food and housing
and you are coming out with deficit
on incomes and from ' the $900 income , j
with less than $200 left for clothes ,
carfare , fuel , clothing , education , ill . .
ness , incidentals. .
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day beginners are compelled to care
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6 cents a day for raw material , out ,
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a later day , the estimate tis { increased
to 12 cents a day. .But taking the
lowest possible limit (6 ( cents ) for
bare material , handled with all the
knowledge and care of science , the low .
wage earner is unable to meet the \
conditions , or , if he were , with a fam-
ily of five , his food bill is equivalent
to $300 a year. It is readily seen at ,
his best the small wage earner will :
need his entire income for fuel , food
and rent , leaving clothing and other . . ,
incidentals of living to be met with a .
deficit. The result is. poorer housing , .
overcrowding. with nothing for edu-
cation , health , recreation-just plain
underfeeding tainted food , child labor .
and other attendant ills. Where the . . -
income runs to $1,500 , better housing
and bettef clothing is essential , so- '
that the wage earner can move in the- .
sphere - to which his position . entitles
him. No matter how economical he
may bp , fully $1,100 of his income Is
absorbed in essentials , and there are
still the items of ed cation , ' illness , .
insurance , recreation ; wear and tear ,
and savings. All the resources of "
economy must be brought into play by - ' , '
him to make ends. meet. -
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thought you think. Like tiny rlppling-
rills of water they steal unconsciously- ; ,
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