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TIlE OMAIIA DAILY BEK: 8TJK DAY, JULY 15 TIPS ON TELEPHONE POLES - i 8oim 8tatifttioa Oonceriing the Humber in I: Um on Omiha StreU. Etchings of Tropic Isles Charms of the Lesser Antlllles. VHERE THEY COME fROM AND THEIR COST ItTonparattve Flgares Based oa Cairo. latlona aa to the Varloe Ends ' Thru Poles Might gerre A If or ... Considerable laf oranetloau i f "Wer all the telephone poles snd all he electric light polea and all the tele graph poles in the corporate llrulla of the city of Omaha cut up Into cordwood It Would make In the neighborhood ot 65,734 cords. It would take an ordinary boy 111, 46S daya, or over 305 yeari, to cut thla Into Istovewood lengths, provided there waa no picnic to go to when the pile waa finished, and he worked Sundaye. Two boya would tbecoms gray-beaded before they finished the job and three boya never would get done. If It took an ordinary boy 111,468 daya to cut thla wood Into stovewood lengtha It would take him 111.S21 daya to split It once, 222,641 daya to split It twice, and 666,923 daya to get It to fit the kitchen stove, pro vided he worked ten houra a day. It would take him 2,000,769 daya to cut It sufficiently Una for his father to start a fire on rainy morning without awearlng. It would take Aim over 60,023.070 daya to split It fine enough to look like toothpicks, and 1,300 492,100 daya to polish them sufficiently for a purchaser to know that they were In tended for toothpicks. When they were ready to be placed on the market people then on earth would have no need for toothpicks. A halt-grain pill In a teaspoonful of gaatrio juice would mean a week's ratlona and no chewing would be necessary. Hence the people ot that day would dub the boy a lunatic and banish him to Arkansas. Bom Additional Statistics. Were all the foliage cut from these trees, before they became polea, and the foliage taken to Missouri and made Into brush piles In the aprlng time, after the flret snow In the early winter, more rab bits would hldo under the piles than one could shake a atlck at. Twenty-three thou sand and forty school children would play "hookey" on account of the rabbits and brush piles, and the amount of "book larnln' " that would not be "larnt" during the time the snow waa on the ground would make a president, did he know it all. Were these poles to be placed right-end up In the Missouri river near Omaha, It would dam that mighty stream so com pletely that only Jehosophat himself could ave It, It would take a boy with a ham mer as long to drive these polea In the river bottom aa It would tor a man to prove these figures Incorrect. Were all the electric light polea and all the telephone polea and all the telegraph polea In Omaha, that la. the large poles not tadpoles were all these planted In the business part of the town, In the same condition in which they were taken from the forests, the sun would never shine upon the pavements. Planting them forty eight to the mile, they would make a row of trees over 297 miles in length. Place them one on top of the other, they would reach higher than Qllderoy'a kite. A rough estimate places the number of large poles, polea from thirty to sixty feet In length, at 14,268. The exact number Is not known to any of the managers ot these companies. No one manager knows how many polea his company owna, nor how many mile of wire is strung on the poles. flome of the Poles. These poles are white cedar and are shipped here from Idaho, Wtaconsln and Michigan, and from the increased num ber being used In the varloua cities of the country. It Is not unlikely that at no very great distant day. these forests will be come like the famous cedars of Lebanon- only 200 will remain. Did one person own all these poles, work for that man would be ended. They rep- 'resent more than one fortune. Could a man transplant them to H&nscom park tn their Dative atate, that man would have a horns for "raior back" hogs and Insects, and that Is all that could live In the park. Jotn them together and one would have a flag pole that would sweep the skies. It would not be less than 570,720 feet In height. Spellbinders could orate about It tor years and the people would not cease to wonder. Imagine a forest containing over 14,000 trees, and one has sn idea of the number ot telephone poles In the city, and what It would look like were they all In bloom. Were they scattered along the streets, awn lnga would be a nuisance. These poles would build a fencs sround the world. Tbey would tenoe a majority of the farms In the stats and make good tight fences. Borne Mora About Polea. The manager of the Thomson-Houston Electric Light company stated that he did not know how many poles were In his pos session. It Is estimated roughly, however, at 3,000. The shortest of these Is thirty feet and very few exceed sixty feet In length. This company gets Its poles from Chicago, where they are shipped from Wis consin and Michigan. The polea are flf 4sen Inches at the base and seven at the top on sn average. The cost ss much as anything else makes one not familiar with lumber companlea wonder. Recently thla company needed -two poles seventy-five feet In height to carry a lead wire over an Icehouse. These ( poles cost $43 each. Polea of ths regular lie, between thirty and sixty feet in ileDfth, cost from 13 to 818 esch. It Is not the scarcity of ths timber, not ths work of getting it trimmed up tn shape, that makes them so expensive, but the freight. The poles from Idaho are considered the best In the market and are the most ex pensive. There Is ons objection to these, however, and that Is they carry their thickness too ev.nly. A pole seven Inches .at ths top would be only nine Inches at the base. For that reason the electric light company uses the Michigan and Wisconsin poles. The telephone company, which Is newer snd Is supposed to set ths pace, uses the Idaho polea exclusively. This company does not know how many poles it baa In 'Omaha. In Nebraska, Iowa and the Black ;illlls it owns 13,700 miles' ot wire. A ( third of this, It is estimated. Is strung ; a round on the atreeta ot Omaha. It la es timated that It has not less than 8,028 poles 'upon which to string this wire In Omaha. ' The Western Union Telegraph company la the owner of a string of polea thirty-six miles In length in the corporate limits of the city snd ths Postal Telegraph has about ths same. This would mean about (40 miles of wire. The Postal Telegraph has a man out now trying to find out Just how much wire and how many pcles it does oa Floating In the bluest waters of the seven sets, writes a correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, lie the Antilles, dreamy, vaporous, uncertain ot reach and outline, peaked with volcanoes, rimmed with Til lages, ths bill tops fringed with palms that rock In the wind and tors their leaves like a green smoke, their beaches white snd clean, the very heavens bending over them In a softer light than that ot our land. These are magic Isles and when one leaves them they have faded Into opalescent mem ories, not so dear aa those which hold to cooler zones, yet filled with color, tender ness and fragrance. Heaven knows, I would not live there, yet when I hear music and when the fragrance of flowers steals upon the sense at night I shall dream of the West Indies. The very approach of them Is different from that of our northern ports. Sea water Is to us a slaty dark that froths up Into green In storms and that In the shal lows is yellow and turbid. In the Carib bean It If. the moat wondrous bfue that can be conceived. It Is like nothing other than a few of those hot springs of the Yellow stone thst go down snd down till they boil sgalnst the heated rocks of the esrth's Interior. It you can Imagine the lapis lasull without Ha flecks of pyrlte and Imagine It transparent snd shot through with light snd Imagine it curling at the surface Into flames of sky color, that Is the water of the warm eeas. It Is tremen dously deep under your feet. If you were to step overboard you would go down for two miles. That depth may have to do with the purity, hence with the color ot the water. Nature would seem to be partial. Thero are many places that could have been spared so much more easily than St. Pierre. Here was the handsomest and most com fortable town In the Lesser Antilles. Else where are towns that are neither handsome nor comfortable. They are beautifully en vironed, but what poor, undeveloped places they are! For the West Indies, regardless of ownership, are wretchedly poor. These Islands are owned by the English, French, Dutch and Danes, but all are alike In the poverty of the people. The white residents appear to enjoy certain of the comforts of civilization, but the blacks, who constitute 90 per cent of all the population. live In cabins ot alaba, with roofs of cane thatch, and subsist on yama, bananas, co coanuta, mangoes and breadfruit, with an occasional loat as a luxury. The wages ruu from sixpence to two shillings a day, only mechanica aspiring to so Imposing a wage as 60 cents. Nor Is this meager stipend offset by low prices In foodstuffs. Most of the foods that are not produced at home are aent from this country, snd when one sdds freight snd duty and the shopkeeper's profit, it will be seen that Delmonico din ners are Infrequent among the workers. Still there is this advantage, that It costs little to keep house. I should judge that tho average West Indian residence cost about 310. And it is not often re paired. It Is perched on stilts to take It out of the malaria snd to keep snakes from sunning themselves on the doorsill. The fur nishing Inside is merely of pots and pans. knives and forks and represents a smaller cspitsl than the house. The clothing Is a shirt and trousers for the man, a gown and bandana for the woman. No shoes, stockings, coats, overcoats, seldom a hat, no coal to burn, no lamps to fill, no srt. no fads, so nothing much. Llfs la reduced to simple terms. It follows as a result of this poverty that little meat is eaten, in most families al most none. You do not crave It In the tropics, anyway, but rather resent It Yet, small as the dietary Is, the blacks sre lithe and muscular; they walk wtth a free step and an admirable carriage; they do as much ss csn be expected of a man In a broiling climate and they are middling moral. The crime for which so many ne groes sre lynched In the south Is un known snd s white woman la safe any where. Indeed, these negroes are a per ceptible Improvement on the colored peo ple of our southern states that is, the new generation of our colored people, for the old uncle and auntie were admirable char acters. These West Indians have as a rule been educated In a common school; they read and write; they express themselves in correct English; they are eald to be content with small stealings, snd when tbey beg they do it with an air and a modesty that take all the sting away. You have heard of the kind of colored people they have In Monserrat, haven't you? Down there a brogue Is spoken by the public, because this hss been an Hi bernian island ever slnoe Cromwell used it aa a place of exile for the rebels be did not kill. The exiles followed the fashion of the time In forcing the populace Into slavery and the descendants of the slaves sre engsved in making lime Juice and talking Irish. A sailor from Cork, hav ing lauded at the principal port, fell Into Conversation with a particularly black 'longshoreman and was filled with aston ishment at the familiar speech. "For hlvin's sake an' how long have yes been In this place?" asked Pat. "Sure, an' It's two months since I came over." Meaning that he had crossed from the other sldo.of the island. "Well, If It makes a rtaclnt man look like yous in two months here's what's gotn' to Ireland be the next ship," replied the scared member from Cork. One of the stunts that ths colored per sons do which is more difficult than to talk with a brogue is to dive for pennies or sil ver stiver preferred. These doings may been seen in various ports on the arrival of a steamer. A native Is rowed over to the ship in a boat that In some Islands Is like a coffin, and In the French possessions is almost a model, in little, of a Slwaah canoe. His costume consists principally of complexion. He asks you to throw some money Into the water. You bold out a alxpence. His eyes glisten. He puts one foot on the gunwale ot the coffin, places his hands together before him and watches for the dropping of the coin. You flip It Into the water, saying to yourself that It is the last time anyone will see It, for the eea Is deep and none too clear. Aa it njrlkes the surface the youth goes in with a splash and In three seconds hs is pulling himself into his boat and brandishing his arm with a grin. Between his thumb snd finger bo holds your coin. He will earn more In half an hour In this wsy than hs can earn by exemplary Industry on shore in two dsys and can keep cooler while hs is about It- But Imagine the quickness of a diver who has overtaken a ainklng piece of metal and ths sharpness of his eye as hs sees It going to the bottom through water filled with the bubbling and churning of his own descent. With so poor a people It Is hardly to be expected that the visitor will find much to please him in respect ot rosds, hotels and other appliances of civilization. Excepting two or three little mule trams, one of which was destroyed by Pelee, there are no railroads and the recent torrential ralna have Injured miles of what they call good roads for wagons. There are surprisingly few horses snd wagons, so the damage la not so great to the Industries and com merce of the region. Of roads It Is hard to imagine one more beautiful than that on St. Vincent, which winds along the shore from the chief port, Kingstown, to George town. It first ascends a ateep hill, lined for a mile or more with negro cabins nest ling among palms and bananas, then comes out on the heights, commanding views of Bequla and other little Grenadines, sleeping on the bluest of seas, their cliffy shores purple In the distance. Just at your feet the slopes fsll sharply toward the ocean, which rolls In big surges on white besches and hurls columns of spray against towers of volcanlo masonry. Usually there Is no guard to this road In the shape of a fence or wall, and where It wlnda along the shelf of a precipice you cannot avoid the wish that the driver had kept sober. You call his sttentlon to the risk and he responds by steering the wagon into the gutter on the other side, which is cut deep to carry the rain,- and nearly bumping your sconce against ths cliff. There has been no engineering to speak of in the construction of this road. It Is In fair order, but the grades are tierce. It would have been as easy to carry It around the bulges of the hills as over the tops of them, but the pioneers on ths Island never thought of that. We pass deep coves, where arrowroot Is springing broad and green, but with a queerly Irreg ular look, for It is not planted in rows as we plsnt things, and we see a little Indian corn and many palms, bread fruits and mangoes. We want to try some of these strange fruits and vegetables; but no. The English taverns give you only English food; roast beef, potatoes, preserved quinces and a lot of other things you get at home. You get light claret wonderfully cheap and beer that Is dear at any price. All drinks srs served warm, except tea. The white folka drink unpardonable quantitiea of rum and whisky, which ought never to be used In a hot country, and the best drink there, to my mind, is iced tea with limes In It. The native fruits sre squeezed of their Juices, and you can drink watered syrups In the little cafes ot Martinique, but they are trifling things, fitted for the French taste. New Cathedral for Omaha Edifice the Catholic Church Proposes to Erect. niCLlGIOVS. t Ths annual conference of Catholic col leges wlU be hJd, In Chicago on July and 10. The children of ths Southern Presby terian Bunday schools have raised money for a now missionary eteamor on tlx Congo. Kev. Dr. P. E. Clarke has again been chosen president of the I'nlled Societies ot Christian fc.pdes.vor at their convention It. lioslon. In sll Franco there are about O.Ouu Protestants, aud during ths last lea years "Any church," says Ralph Adams Cram, the architectural writer, in his Interesting work on "Church Building," "where ths bishop establishes bis throne, becomes a cathedral, but the cathedral line is -mors than this. As the altar Is the center, the culmination of each Individual church, so Is the cathedral the center and culmination of the whole church. Structurally it is ths work of generations of men striving to show forth In some sort the glory of the heavenly city, the power of the church triumphant." It is a sign of educational progress and development when a community begins to realize these things and to call for ths inception of an edifice in accordance with them, to become the focus of enlarged and united religious activities. This has taken place in the Cat hoi to community of Omaha. The growth of the city and increasing importance of Its Catho lic societies maks ths demand Imperative. The result ot this feeling materialized last' week at the "retreat" of priests at Creigh ton college, when the design ot the pro jected cathedral was shown by Its architect to the assembled clergy. The new cathedral la to be placed at the Junction of Fortieth and Burt streets on a magnificent lot In a highly Catholic neighborhood, close by the Sacred Heart convent, ths bishop's residence and ths homes of eoms of his most prominent parishioners. Ths style of architecture shown In the design la Spanish renaissance, which naturally prevails In Mexico and South America and Is well adapted to this part of ths country. Another point in -favor of this styls was suggested by the architect 1. a., that Spain, most deeply of Cathollo countries. Is also ths only ons whose ca thedrals were all originally built for wor shipers of thst faith and have never been appropriated by any other. This is a point of sentiment, but as such will doubtless sppeal to those who sre Interested In ths cathedral. A short description will properly accom pany the plan hers shown. - Ths building is to be of gray stone, as also ths structural Interior portions. Its plans may be described as a great auditor ium, the eastern end terminating in a round apse, enclosing the sanctuary. There are to be seating accommodations for about 1.800 persona with a total capacity tnuh above this. Opposite the sanctuary under the western rose window, ars ths choir snd organ loft, flanked on etther slds by massive stone towers, severely stmpls tn the shaft and richly ornamental above. Through the west portal one enters a spacious vestibule, or narthex, connecting at each and with ths ambulatorium, or surrounding way, by which ons can maks ths tour of ths church without disturbing the worshipers In its main body. Reached frem this passage on north and south snd surrounding the spse are grouped memorial chapela. A large winter chapel la at ths left of the side entrance, where the tran sept of ths Oothlo cathedral is usually found. Across ths church, in ths other arm of the cross ars ths sacristies. Beneath the whole Is a great crypt, where services may ba held for many years, pend ing the completion of the superstructure; and where the permanent heating and ven tilating apparatua will be placed. The priv ate rhapela and ambulatorium will bs lighted through first story side windows; the nsvs and apss chiefly through clerestory windows. Ths main roof la In ths form of a hugs barrel vault with richly moulded ribs, penetisted by the arches ot ths clere story windows. The whole structure will be over 260 feet tn length by 173 tn width, ths roof ot ths navs rising to a height 0 0 . D" ' 4 i plah or phoposed'cathouc cathedralTomaha eTHOS R- KIMBALL AACruTECT Medical Monopoly! DM you ever hear the agonising cries of a little poodle that was being shaken and chewed up by a large mastiff In the streets? Well, ha yelps because ha Is get ting ths worst of It. When you see doctors neglecting what little business they have In order to annoy succesofjl doctors ss much as possible, It Is vnry easily figured out on the above line of argument. "A lloo was one Informed by a monkey In a game ot poker that there was no use for him to roar every time ha lost a pot. The lion retorted that he knew it was not, and that that was what mads him roar." The hide-bound doctors of this state a few years ago spent hundreds of dollars of tho people's money to prevent an honest and worthy physician from following his profession, when a decision of the courts showed that they had no legal or moral right to do It. If they would spend a few hundred of their own money In the Interest of sick and needy poor they would win more applause than by using the people's money to keep some rival from tramping on their professional toes. Soma of the medical laws thst read: "An Act to Trotsct the Public Health." should read: "An Act to Bestow Certain Privileges Upon Certain Doctors and Deny to Others of Equal Learning the Right to Earn a Livelihood In This Stats In Their Chosen Profession." It is a good things that legislatures ars not abso lute, else ths courts would be powsrless to prevent subversion of constitutional rights In building up a medical aristocracy In a free government Their aim Is not so much to protect the public health as to creste and perpetuate a monopoly tn ths practice of medicine and surgery snd protect the doctors Instead of the public. Under many ot these laws a man may have entered the army as hospital steward and by aptitude and skill In medicine and surgery there acquired, won by experi ence and attention to his duties, promotion to assistant surgeon, snd from that to , Iull ,urgron f a regiment and bad the experience or many years in diseases, ' .. , , .r nA yet. unless he had a parchment from a few callow youths who knew not ZnTXA? nVJaf-pfesslon embracing more deceit, quackery and There Is an "n,'pnrh":J Sul in the world. Every mothers eon of you who are emic.ted with Varicocele, for maliciousness than "f'l"' i" er by local doctors that the disease amounts to nothing. Go to them tomorrow, s"t fhclr office, and they wlfl teU ySJ to let It alone. That is because the average physician can do you no good, and don't want someone else to treat yrdarwworc"from . of the latest snd most stsndard works In ethical prno. Tb' kWlS,J ieaj , o Tht on thelncerity of the local doctor who tells you that Varicocele Is a simple and tlce, ou"hmJeJhronap00f P-A Text Book on Oenlto-Urlnary and Sexual Diseases." by the eminent author. O. W. A. COOK. M. D. Discoverer of the Famous Cook Cures for Diseases of Men. a hypochondriasis mat " 5"'""'. i- there Is unouestlonably a marked leek of tons of the sexual apparatus." t.'S.-k Wt the vesical neck, neuralgia of the testes, dragging pains along the spermatic cord and pain In the. Irritability of the vesical ne .. symptoms produced by the disease back and thighs are 'flight Varicocele are profoundly depressed snd complain greatly of reflex neuralgio pains rjil and mental enen ui imc - ------ ... mil thin the author goes on 10 j mi AJL" "iLX. SlAadv formulated tn the chapter on and thrpnstructed to a certain "In ua. u . ,.tinta with very In the back, thighs and testes, etc., ete. .P? .B.h .. Bt the advisability and preferable methods of treating Varicocele vary considerably UNTIt, KB r.pinin5,nt .ureloni have had a decided leaning toward conservatism (non-interference Since aseptic and CENT YEARS most "urg'ons nave n . , d tn afety nf operation In Varicocele, various methods of radical cure anti-septic 'IV" uiir. This Is fortunate, for there is a certain proportion of cases in whom both tho physl. " ,"Vi::.--;, si. are verv demoralising. genlto-urlnsry snd sexual hygiene should he rigidly enforced invsioioo-v. 1 nia neins apauiuiciy nrcwMry a Keen ine ni. ormed that the affection is perfectly harmless, and will, in tient rrom mo mrri. -tn.. etn. ail Pr"0""?:,?""?.0 head, and I ask, what do you think of It? What do you think of the 1 "J"' fi . Z .nVMli wIlh the same breath? He tells the young doctor now rormnaie it is mat operations are man who blow s hot an d n'o X" tll they learn how to do them properly to tell the afflU-ted one that it ts a matter coming In vogue, but advises mat ung . o fc ihfm wny from wnRt he pleagM to caU qullckl,. that amounts to n""""',,'" tha i nTELU OK N T claaa of regular physicians are so much opposed to advertising- ss thev are opposed to the army of advertisers who only imitate someone else, or by various absurd claims endeavor to deceive t'jePub"nv.,can who has ab'y Will to put on the market, for the benefit of his fellow men, cannot Justice condemned f'dolng so by announcements through the press, snd such criticisms emanate only from Jealous sources. ,..,,, ovpr ther physicians to the fact that we only treat a limited number of ailments. Wr,-Vi f raVterlnK our force" vr " entire field of medicine and surgery, as most doctors do, we concentrate .v ln?ite--diinu line ?f diseases which we have long studied and thoroughly mastered. We therefore treat only them all on a B'n1"loVv certain tna w w positively cure, to stay cured. We challenge the medical profession for k what we are absolutely " Ei CONTAGIOUS BLOOD POISON. NERVO-SEXUAL. DEBILITY or allied troubles case (if ARI(OCLLfc, BlKiLilJn . . that will not reaany yieia o our nV We cur Varicocele In B to 10 days to stay cured forevrer, and do not use knife, thread, draw m, -rOPWebc'-rc1 Sr.od'p'o!.:." 60 da,., Ix,.t Manhood in 80 f 90 days, ,lv. . le.sj wxt. guarantee In every case we accept for treatment. Little Booklet rrte. v rue or Cook Medical Company (No charge for consultation.) 110-112 South 14th St., Omaha, Neb. OVER DAILY NEWS OFFICE. of about 100 feet and tho west towers to' nearly double that height. The ambulator ium and chapel roofs flank ths main build ing on either aide and with their vaulted buttresses will glvs It smple support, vis ibly as well aa structurally. Ths roofs will bs of tiles, the floors of plastlo mosaic and ths whole fireproof. Ths styls may bs called one of brilliant contrasts rather than harmony, the orna ment being grouped lavishly at focused points and thrown into relief by simple sur roundings sod backgrounds. A high basement will gtve an added ad vantage of position to ths structure, while ths spproachea will be mads easy by many landings and few steps. Ths sanctuary will ba raised above the main floor, the Inner sanctuary, where ars found ths high altar and bishop's throns, will bs more elevated HI, offering to all a clear view of the altar Itself. Tbs confessionals will be plsccd In ths thlckneaa of ths walls. Ths plan provides for nineteen private chapels, a winter chapel and a baptistry, as well as for all other essential features of ths great cathe dral, the highest and moat complete form of religious architecture. their foreign missionaries have Increased from thlrty-eeven to nlnety-ssven and their annual Income from 105.000 to fcS,0u. In China there are 1.74 walled cities. In 147 of these mlislonsries are at work- Only jlghiy-oight villages and unwalled towns lave mission stations. Choirmaster Kvans of the Metropolitan temple. New York, says: "Vesting does away with ail class d la mictions, it enables ths poor boy to stand beside ths rich and not feel abashed because ot a shabby coat" A theological aemirutry under control of the southern Presbyterian church will be opened this fall at Austin, Tex. An endow ment of slOO.wO has buen subscribed. Prof. Stetson of the University of Chi cago told the atudents In a lecture on ' Psychology and the Pioacbers" tho other day that a minister of the gospel "should compose his own hymns, words and music; should be a skilled srt critic, have a smat tering of architecture and be an export psychologist." Rev. Edmund S. Rousmanlere. who la likely to be the next rector of St. John's, Washington, was born on the saras day In the same year as President Rooscvelb Oc tober tf, l&a, FOOD ROUTE TO HAPPINESS How Tar EsUotion sTnd Good Cooking Con tributes to tho Joyo of Lifo. EXPERT REMARKS ON PROPER EATING Reasons Why Variety of Foods at One Meal Is Bad Invrlse Combina tions Rain Teste and Digestion. (Copyright,. 1902. by Eustace Miles.) The Greek word for "cooking" was tho same as the Greek word for "digesting." The "pep." which is seen in "peptone." "pepslne" and other derivatives, was ones connected with the Latin root 1n coquo, whence we have our English word "cook ing." and that Is one of the functions of cooking to do somo of the digesting for us, aa well ss to improve the taste. The best kinds of food should be care fully selected; they should be as fresh aa possible and as clean ss possible, and they should be cooked with their natural prop erties preserved. We must keep that which is usually thrown awsy, and ws shall need few, if any, seasonings. Besides this, we get the full tasto and have not the same craving tor variety. We do not demand half a doren flavors In a single dish, especially if we eat our food carefully. When we comblns a number or foods me chances srs that at least two of them will quarrel. That Is ths objection to great variety at a single meal. And yet we have not atudled variety. Certainly no sui study displays Its results at big din ners. The laat which I had six years ago st. I think, $7 for myself alone. Quite apart from the irritating condiments and venomous waste products, I wonder of how many irreconcilable combinations of food was ths victim. The Hindus know the art of preparing and cooking food. With them ths cook ts a kind of priest; and why not? As the clergyman Is supposed to prepare food for our minds, so the cook actually prepares food for our bodies. Ths Hindu, as a rule, will not combine fruits and vegetables at a single meal, even though that meal may be a banquet of many courses. He will think out whst foods should or should not go one with another. Does any hostess ever do this In America? It would be In teresting to give a series of dinner par ties based on scientific principles of food combinations and food values and see how much more the guests enjoyed it. Taste would be considered even more carefully than It is now, but health tor ths first Ums would be considered also. Choosing Oae's Food. It is easy to say that each individual ahould choose his own food. Ws talk about freedom. In practice we ars slsves. It Is almost useless to urgs persons who live in families to be a law to themselves. But, fortunately, we can ssy something practical. Discard whatever is indlgestl bis to you; except on very rare occasions let nothing induce you to take that which will cause you discomfort. It is not worth while. No one has a right to maks you ill, not sven your own family, day after day. with the very kindest Intentions. Get free from that yoke. You can get tree from It If only you show that you are healthier and mors agreeable (or less disagreeable) without errors of diet. Reallzs this: When your devoted family says to you, "You must take so-and-so, or you will die," you have only one answer that will appeal to them, snd that Is, "I am In better health and In better temper living in my own way." To that there Is no repartee worth listening to. Directly tbey begin to ask you to bs unhealthy physically for their sske, they might as well ask you to com mit gradual self-murder. Surely It is Ums ws realised that a man has no mors right to potson himself that way than hs has to poison himself any other way. v Ons hint here: The food snould not be served U Its orthodox order. Let Ui pro- teld come esrly in the meal; Just at the end of the meal it is a bad mistake. If the foods bs wet. let dry foods be eaten at in tervals. In German nature cure establish ments of the best type this rule Is Insisted on. In English households It is considered "ungenteel" " to deviate from the regular mode of procedure. How utterly stupid we are to sacrifice vitality to silly custom! The Dry Food System. Whereas, that which Is watery may, as it were, flush the body as a flood will wash away filth, a dry dietary may absorb ob jectionable poisons and at the aame time nourish the system well. The dry diet has effected innumerable cures; It must be eaten slowly that is a physical neces sity. No one can drink a hard biscuit, though some people may practically drink a plateful of porridge or an orange. , There is ths story of a woman who went to a nature cure establishment in oer- many. She waa lateen out, eariy on uoi first morning there. At the end ot a long walk to the woods she felt tired snd hungry. All that was offered to her was a piece of brown bread, dry and hard. Bhe refused it and refused also to wsik a step further The doctor who bad ac companied her told ber that she might stay there. Thla, of course, she did not care to do and she began to walk back and soon asked for the bread again and ate it with comparative gusto. For a long while she was confined to thla dry bread regime, with plenty of exercise and cool water, and soon she recovered complete health snd refused to go back to her old way of living. With sufficient hunger the dry foods became de sirable and desired. Tbey need not consist solely of bread. though dry bread or biscuit or something free from moisture should be added to wet foods that ws take; for otherwise we do not excite our saliva, and thua we do not digest our starch properly. The saliva also will help to fill the stomach and satisfy tne sense of hunger. The food should be ss nourishing as possible and should not merely be white flour. Whole wheat bis cuits are far better. Such a course should help to absorb what the old writers called "the evil humors of the body." The less severe courss Is to reduce ths number of foods which ws sst. The Few Foods Plaa. The few foods plan Is not to bs confused with moderation, though the two may be combined. Much food may be eaten, but the kinds of food are few. Tbs advantsgs of such a mode is that tbs Juices of ths body get into a certain habit; they act regularly at certain times, in many cases they occur in lncressed quantities. Besides this, if we eat few foods tbs ap petite is satisfied more sensibly; there is less craving for excess. Let a meal be provided tn which there are fifteen dellcl ously tsstlng dlsbss, and how many have the strength of mind or tbs knowledge of whatever It may bs to refuse most of them? But take an extreme case, consider a state dinner. Then imagine yourself trying to eat tbs same amount of food if It consisted of two kinds only. It would bs impossible. You would bs disgusted long before you had finished a quarter of ths meal. It is the variety which encourages you to overeat. A high authority has said that wbsn only ons good food be taken st a single meal that food hardly can disagree, If there bs real hunger. Health may bs preserved or restored by many different classes of few foods, al most any class can producs sxamples of greet success. Ths Salisbury treatment can do so, in spits of Its frequent failures. It consists of Incompletely cooked beef and plenty of hot water. Others havs lived en tirely on oats. Fruit cures havs been count less, whether luscious fruits alone be taken or whether nuts bs added to them. Or fruits may be combined with grains or with certain grains. There Is a salad curs. Tbers is a vegetable cure. There Is a curs of vegetables with meat and without pud ding. Tbs truest health Is to havs few wsnta. Ths man who is not content with ons or two dUhss at a meal may bs enormously rich, but bs la not independent. Tst wo need to be attracted. It we have few foods) we must take every pains to havs then I pleasantly and properly served. Few Foods stud Few Tastes. If there Is any law here it seems to bet that at one meal there should bs few foods) . and few tastes, however delightful theso tastes may be. Certainly the whole tasta should be preserved snd Increased by whole.'. ' some culinary art. Certainly the whole o most of the taste should then be extracted , by careful mastication. The question is whether ws should Ottcsi to two or three kinds of food always. la favor of the Idea is the fact that soon wsj are able to extract the greatest amount of, benefit and of flavor from these few foods, ss our digestive Juices get Into special train Ing, snd that we are unlikely to eat in groea excess, slncs tbs temptation Is smaller and, the ssnse of taste and ths instinct of s& tlety keener. But against it is the dimmer of becoming a slave to a narrow regime. There are some who ars simply ill If they go out of their small beaten track of dtet or of life. I know of one who does not dare to wear boots; he is thus cut off from much, social life. He Is regarded as a crank. Probably It would be the Ideal to bo able to enjoy a few foods, and to be able to digest them thoroughly, but not to lose tbs powee of digesting many other foods aa well. Time for Meals. Ths social difficulty also stands tn 'tha. way ot taking meals at ths times whloh) might otherwise be best for tho individual. ' Except In cases where) very small maala should be taken very frequently, when thero Is, as It wore, a perpetual nibbling of tiny mouthfuls (which Is far tha least social ot all arrangements), the tendency seems to be toward two meals a day aa tho beat plan. A week's trial must be given before) any verdict can bs passed, if only beeaus what is called the "hunger habit," akin U the thirst of the dipsomaniac, may prevail during that time. But how can ws adopt ths two-meat plan without Interfering with domestic and other) requirements? Perhaps ths evening meal Is that which we can Isast easily give up. Let us, therefore, retain that, and lot us consider a two-meal plan, of which tho svsnlng meal shall form one. Tha Two-Meal Plan. Ws may givs up our breakfast or lunch. eon, or eat a very light breakfast or lunch, eon for Instance, a fruit breakfast or a biscuit luncheon according to our Individual needs and temperaments. Reformers tin'. derestlmats ths power of ths household and of society. They do not calculate tor do. mestlo tyrsnny; they do not realise that the permission of thoas In authority must; bs obtained or else peace may be lost. Otherwise tho one-meal plan might bsi best. Ths one-meal plan can bs led up to gradually through the tbree-meaj and two meal plans. Tha other two meals should become lighter and lighter by degrses, easy steps betng made by fruit or biscuit meals or by soms other form of small re freshment. When should tbs ons meal bst Is It posstbls to stay ths whols day until tha evening without exhaustion? Ons can hot possibly tell till sttsr fslr trial and at ones nesrly everybody calls, out that a fair trial would not bs worth tho cost. Or shall ws wait till midday, then sat and rest and sat nothing again till ths next midday? Or shall ws taks breakfast only and live ths whols dsy, from morning till tbs next morning without taxing our di gestlon? Probably most people could ac. custom themselves to any system If tbey bad tha strength of mind and ths pstiencs. But which is best? In view ot ths social Ufa, I should decide against tbs one-meal plan except as a temporary means of restoring balance. For that purpose It is most excellent. I should suggest ths approach toward tho two-meal plan, with ths sscond meal taken at lsast two hours before ons retires to rest. Then there need bs no heavy break fast, but perhaps a fairly heavy meal at midday. I do not imagine thst anyone whom tbs two-meal plan has ones really sultsd will cars to go back to any other, plaa or absence of plan.
