TIlE OMAIIA DAILY BEK: 8TJK DAY, JULY
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TIPS ON TELEPHONE POLES
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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
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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
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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.
