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cl rn. and lx ln(f hitiirrniih'd in the act l the
lit'- Ht niifl niimt thrilling fad In photography.
Six Knirlislii!i!i, youiiKi r soiiii most of them.
and four Alpine Riiidn are engaKed In thla
nf k hreakliiK enterprlw. Half a dofn time
ii day (h 'y huvf fared death, taken rhnnceg
that fiml.n even the moKt hardened Alpine climbers Fhuddi r.
fallen from helMhls into snowdrifts. tilnnKed at the end of
a rope down d- p en vnses. clunK to the fares of sheer bluffs
wlille crent stone thundered past them into the depths and
all that the world may be thrilled by seeing a moving picturs
machine d plet their wild adventures on the canvases of
vaudeville theaters.
Haeh time that they fall, or slide, or climb a moving pic
ture machine Is whirring away nenrby recording their every
move. The victims throw themselves over beetling cliffs.
M!ide with Incredible rapidity down the face of some awful
Klacler, stand on fearful looking slopes while their compan
ions loosen gnat masses of snow and start miniature ava
lanches that overwhelm them and sweep them into gorges
nnl the man at the picture machine gets u new thriller to
ilellRhl his spectators.
Horrors for Theater Audiences.
And, this h Itik the season of terrible accidents In the
Alps, the lecturers who accompany the picture machines at
tach the names of distinguished victims of the Alps to these
mimic tragedies, and skim brrctlly over the explanation of
how a moving picture machine happened to be at the best
possible plaqe to take pictures when the fearful calamity
occurred.
The men who are the actors In these mimic tragedies have
suffered severe Injuries, but all have recovered, and they de
clare that the work is more entrancing than any Alp climb
ing they ever attempted, and that the terrors of the Mattcr
liurn are dull compared with the Joyous delimits of throw
ing oneself thirty feet over a cliff In order to be photographed
while falling. They tell weird tales of the picture machine
operator calling to them to look natural while an avalanche
is whirling them away, and of the pleasures of dodging .UK I
pound bowlders while clinging like flies to the edge of a cliff.
These men have no desire to die they are working for
wages, and. as they are all enthusiastic Alpinists, they find
fun in their work, which commands big wages.
Picked Mountain Climbers Get Jobs.
The picture machlrfe men wanted pictures or uccldcnts
in the Alps. Now, there Is but one way to get a photograph
of a man falling over a cliff and that Is for the man to fall
over while the machine Is near enough to catch hhn In the
act. Po advertisements were printed, and a score of men
who are perfectly willing to fall over cliffs rushed to get the
Jobs. The ten. men picked were all expert mountain climbers.
The results achieved are something terrorizing. The au
dience sees u man clinging like a fly to the face of a bluff,
crawling upward slowly, surely, planting his feet with ex
treme care, and digging his fingers into the crevasses. One
hand moves up and clutches a Jut ling stone. The climber
lifts hlm.self-u. slip, a scramble, a wild upflinglng of arms
and clutching at nothingness, a little spurt of snow like gun
smoke, and a black fhfnre Is seen, whirling over and over,
pawing wildly at the air until it disappears Into the seem
ingly bottomless gorgtt.
A shudder runs through the crowd, which fails to realize
that the "victim" alighted In a soft and carefully selected
snowdrift Just the Instant ho disappeared oft the film. The.
man looks In the picture as If be was falling .KHI feet but
he probably fell twenty-five and was dug out of the snow
bank by his laughing companions without so much as a
scratch, and congratulated upon the artistic fall.
Dodging Showers of Stones.
Having secured some wonderful photographs of falls from
giddy heights the picture man set about getting other re
alistic results. One of the principal terrors of Alp climbing
lies In the danger of bring struck by falling stones, loosened
Vcrhaps by the climbers ahead, or by a sudden slipping of
snow or Ice. These showers of stones usually claim their
victims In " chimney climbing "when the mountain climb
ers essay to ascend to summits of great peaks by the nar-
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their victims in one of these traps di'Hth Is certain.
The venturesome picture man and his "actors" deter
mined to d plct falls of stone to dare death for the sake of
photographs. And they did It in a way that made even the
picture man wince to watch the perils to which he was ei
posltig his employes.
The film shows u wonderful sight four men. rnped to
gether, clambering slov ly and painfully upward In a narrow
cleft in a cliff, t'p at the top although the picture does not
reveal It one of the party was stationed at the side of a
huge pile of stones, some of them weighing hundreds of
pounds. By previous trials ho and the others have discovered
Just where the stones will fall when pushed over the edgt
of the cliff. '
Suddenly there Is a prelude as the pebbles come rattling
down. Then the men. flattening themselves Into crannies In
the chimney, hug the fare of the rock while great bowlders
go hurtling and crashing past, bounding from side to side,
narrowly missing the venturesome human lwlngs. Whlzi
crash roar-the air Is full of fragments from the cliff; th
bowlders, like shells from a thirteen Inch gun. pass.
The peril is over and even in a theater the crowd draws
a dec p breath of relief.
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Being Whirled Into a Chasm.
One of the most striking moving pictures Is that of two
men, roped together, sliding down the face of a glacier whirl
ing,, clutching, digging Angers, feet, and alpenstocks Into
the Ice and then, at the end, disappearing horribly Into a
chasm. The chasm. In reality, was only a few feet deep and
packed with snow like eiderdown.
Another film depicts a tourist falling Into a chasm. The
climbers are seen, Ave of them roped together, advancing
towards a treacherous snow bridge. The first two walk over
In safety. Suddenly, while the third Is near the center, the
snow breaks and the man crashes through. The two men
on either side of the chasm fight with feet and alpenstocks
as his weight drags them towards the edge of the precipice
and the man in the center hangs suspended in a huge crevasse
pcrhups a mile deep.
And all this for the sake of entertaining theater audiences.
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OCIKTY Is seeking beauty from vegetables,
complexion from olives and olive oils, health,
and beauty, and strength from nuts, and fruits,
and melons, and vegetables. Meat has been
abolished from many grand dinners, and the
fancy for vegetarian dinners is spreading.
Since the Roosevelt cabinet and diplomatic
Washington took up the vegetarian fad the
f society beauties and, later, beauties who arc not In society
have turned away from meats to seek more beauty in vege
tarian dinners.
Itraln workers persons who prefer brains to beauty
are still paying ieavy tribute to the beef trust, hut the
succulent sirloin and the royal roast have disappeared from
scores of society dinners. Soups, desserts, anil entrees are of
vegetables, and only eg?s, milk, and cheise, and fish can
reuch the table, being allowed by special dispensation to be
classed us vegetables.
What Are Vegetables?
In Washington tin y "all these feasts " health and beauty
dinners." The president has attended them, nnd so have all
the cabinet. There la a craze for them. There is a difference
und a distinction In the matter of vegetables All do not agree
upon what shall be a vegetarian diet. In one family, that of
u Judge of the Supreme court, the definition Is sharply placed:
"All should be strictly a product of the vegetable kingdom,"
said the Judge's wife, " at a vegeturian dinner. Hut you can
have chicken salad. This, owing to the oils, the mayonnaise,
the lettuce, the hard boiled eggs, and the beets and celery,
bictinHS so near a vegetable that you can call It such." So, In
this family, they serve vegetarian luncheons with fruit, vege
tables, hard boiled eggs, und chicken salad as a part of the
menu.
Great Variety of Food Served.
The health and beauty dinners In New York are limited to
vegetables, with eggs, and milk, and cheese counted in as
vegetables. They use the shellfish, which they count as
belonging to the vegetable kingdom.
The health and beauty dinners are most Interesting. They
beglu with clams und soup, and lead right on into all suits
of dishes made from the vegetable kingdom. There are ru3'
made from ground nuts and malt, all nicely browned in a
pan and made to resemble beefsteak. There are soups made
from stewed fruit, which Is strained and slightly sweetened
and served with hot crackers. Ttiere Is lee cream, made al
most entirely from crushed fruit, and there are f rapped dishes
and frozen fruit dishes by the don u.
The principles upon which the health and beauty dinners
are conducted are these:
The system demands a variety of food. There must be a
little sweet, u Unit sour, a little fresh food, a Utile salt, and
plenty of tilling.
hix delicately cooked dit.hcs ure better than one heavy
dish.
The human system requires sours for digestion.
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It requires sweets for muscle building
It needs green food for the appetite.
It needs warm food for nourishment.
It needs Iced food for the palate.
Agreeable Company Adds to Meal.
The rule Is that there shall not be less than seven at a
dinner. The seventh or odd member furnishes the mental
stimulus which would be lacking were all evenly mated off.
In selecting companions remember these things: First, that
a dinner alone Is only half a dinner. That a dinner with one
companion Is little better. That a dinner with four Is not
sufficiently furnished with Impetus, but that a dinner with
seven Is Meal. Seven is the magic number.
The conversation must be us varied as the food. The
guests should be selected with a view of scouring the wide
world of conversation while at dinner.
To make the health and beauty dinner Ideal the whole
menu Is cooked upon the table. The fruit soups are served
from hot chafing dishes; small gas stoves quickly heat the
easily cooked roasts and stews, while the hostess and her
servants Juggle the salads and the desserts. Even the Ices
are ground In a little freezer in the presence of the guests.
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The principles upon which the health and beauty advocates
work are something like these. The, leading principle Is that
foisl musl be taken often.
I'on't eat unless you are hungry, Is one motto.
Don't continue to eat after you re filled up.
Don't eat Just because you are afiaid you will be hungry
before the next meal.
Don't overload your stomach for fear you will feel the need
of more food In an hour. Eat Just what you actually need.
Don't eat alone. But. If It should so happen that you are
obliged to take your food alone, there ure food thoughts which
should go with every pieal. The first of these food thoughts
la one that Is borrowed from the philosophy of Calcutta.
Translated. It means this: " I have before me the best dinner
In the world." With this contented thought you go to work
upon your nicul.
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It would be well to karn the dinner thoughts taught by
the old philosophers of India. They are th.se:
" Good food Is mine."
" Appetite is mine."
" My food Is grateful to my stomach."
" Spices, fruits, the fullness of the earth are all gathered
together to make my meal Ideal."
" I love my food."
" My food loves me."
" Together we hpt n4 the best hour In the day my dinner
and I."
" I must not hasten my dinner or I offend my food."
" I must not complain or I drive my food away."
The exciting catastrophe shown in
the lower part of the picture is what
the audience sees. The top part of the
picture shows how it Is produced, the
small overhanging mass of snow being
made to fall on the" victims." who throw
themselves into appropriate attitudes
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"I must not envy the food of others, nor set k to take
from them the food which belongs to them. My own food is
the best of all foods for me."
" Therefore shall my stomach be glad."
With each mouthful these precepts must be repeated.
With each deep breath one must think tin m over. Whili
eating there must be a spirit of contentment. All business
cares must be driven from the mind.
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The pretty girls of Chicago und New York are giving
the luncheons of India. They call them the health und beauty
luncheons. They make a study of the best foods, und they
learn how to serve them. The centerpiece of the table Is fruit,
upon which the main body of the luncheon is built. They
follow the IfOndon dietary laws, which have almost driven
appendicitis out of I,on ion.
It was to a reigning oeauty of London during the present
season that the king's physician gave his famous advice.
" What shall I take for my complexion? ' asked this beauty,
In distress. " I am a slijht."
"Take olive oil," said the physician. "Live on It, live
in It, live with It. Kat It, drink it, dress your food with It,
and don't do without It. Lubricate your system."
The beuuty did us she was told, and her complexion
Improved. Meanwhile she ate no incut. She began to give
health and beuuty dinners, and the countess of Warwick,
Mrs. George Corfiwallls West, I.ady Henry Somerset, anil
the princess of liess Joined her. Today their vigetarlati
dinners are famous.
Vegetables Not for Brain Workers.
"Do vegetables feed the brain sufficiently?" is u question
often asked.
To this many a brain worker will reply " No." So with
them It Is a question of brains vs. beauty. Would you rather
be beautiful with little brains, or brainy and ugly? That Is
something for each Individual to settle alone. Huskln tiled
vegetarianism for three years, und finally gave It up, directing
that all work done during that time be destroyed Gladstone
tried It three days and gave It up. Hisrnarck wanted to try
It, but never did. King I'dward thinks It good, but not for
himself. All t he American statesmen lia c bad a whack at It.
but few have stuck to it.
Hut from a pretty girl's standpoint. It dears the com
plexion and does a great many other thing.
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For the woman who lunnot exercise much the quickly di
gested vegetable diet Is ideal.
For a girl who Is low spirited vegetables, nuts, ( live oil,
and fruits lift the spirits.
For a woman Mho wants a peaches and cream complexion
cooked grains ure Is-st. They char the skin.
For the woman with ! dull cuticle the ull milk and vege
table diet will ai t like a scrubbing brush. Ami that Is tlni
reason why the health and beauty diet dinners ure popular.
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A dangerous " climb up a chimney.
A small chimney is selected, the climbers
start, and an operator hurls down bits
of rock and stone so as to miss them.
When the photograph is thrown on the
screen to thrill the spectators, the top
figure is omitted.
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