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1 The Omaha S UNDAY OAZ1N Copyright 1813. by tho Star Company. Great Britain Bights Reserved. mpjscomn ance is caused. So It isn't tho oxygon wo got nor tho carbonlo acid gas we avoid that doos ua good oa our vacation outing. Experiments havo boen mado in an air-tight room In which half a dpzen young men wore confined. The oxygon was reduced and tho carbonlo acid gas increased until the young men found thoy could not light matches and tholr clgarettos went out They ceased tboir laughing and became uneasy, re marking thai the experiment had gono far enough. Sweat poured out upon tholr bodies and they were ob viously in distress. One of them demanded oxygen, saying they worn all choking. 'All right," said tho scientist who was watching Why Your VACATION In the Country Does You GOOD IT seems, according to careful recent experiments, that much we havo learned of thevatue Of oxygen, of the open bedroom window at plghtand the poison of carbonic acid gas is erroneous. In the first place city Mr apd country air are exactly alike chemically; there IS not a bit moro oxygen in the country nor less carbonic acid gas than in the city, Bvcn f there were twico as much or even three pr four times as much, It wquldn't Interfere with onr health. Theje things seem against alt reason, yet they are true, even to the extent that pur old 'onomyfM etrbonta acid gas, isn't a poison or an enemy at all. The luBft apparently want to have the air they eeataia held just six per cent of carbonic acid gap, The ordinary atmosphere, of outdoors in the city or country carries lest, than ono per cent. If tho carbonlo acid ffts is arlllleally decreased in the atmosphere the Jungs at pace breathe more slowly sp that they give ut the gas with less speed and Jet it accumulate to the desired six per cent, If the carbonlo add gas Is al lowed to accumulate in a room the lungs broatbe a little faster, but nobody notices Jt 11 the percentage is doubled or trebled. When U 1 Increased to six times the normal amount, or the same as the lungs, themselves eeatata, then the breathing becomes labored and exer else causes distress In th,e fame way all sorts of liberties may he taken with, tke ecyge e teats of the air and no dlstijrb- Eat ASPARAGUS as a MEDICINE IMPORTANT EFFECT of &e AIR'S CIRCULATION m Your HEALTH thorn through a glass wlhaow. Ho pressed a button and startod a powerful electric fan in tho top Qf the alr-Ught room. This drove a column of nlr down upon the group of swoatlng, choking men. ' 'At onco thoy felt comfortable and returned to their laughing and joking until the end of the experiment They wort all convinced that tho scientist had driven In some oxygen, gas or at least somo fresh air when tho electrlo fan started. , As a matter of fact ho had BC-t changed the air in tho least, but merely causod it to circulate. This rapid movement of the atmosphere removed ihe moist, super heated air from tho clothes and around the skin and gavo tho bodies a chanco to cool. The entire discom fort had come not from the "badness" of the air, but from heat and moisture combined with lack of motion. So it 1b with "bad air.1' We xiever notice how much or how little oxygen or carbonic acid gas is in what we breathe, but we do feel and resent humidity and heat especially it the air is not movtqg. Another thing affects us powerfully through the nervous system and that is smell. Unpleasant odors may make ua even sick, but they are no indication that our lungs are not perfectly contented. ii iifiiai hi hiihiim ii ii n ill ih immmt it i "After remaining for some time in tho air-tight room the men begap to suffer. Sweat poured out upon their bodies and one of them cried cut that he was chocking, The oxygen was reduced and the carbonic acid gas iRcrcaseijj te such an extent that they could net light matches and their cigarettes went eut" "As soon as the electric fan was turned on the' men in the elr-tlght chamber began to feel better. They thought the improvement was due lo the fact that some oxygen er fresh air had been fqreed into the chamber, but this was not the case. The fan had relieved their dis-i comfort by setting the air n such vapid motion that it rcmeved the moisture from their clothing and gave their bedles a chance te ceoL" The reason that heat and moisture upset' ua so mu,cli more than the chemical qualities of the air Is tt? fact that the human body Is really a watorrcopled mfctpr, exactly like an automobile engine. Inside of us fuel is constantly being burned bp, ex ploded, and tho gases of those explosions are "ex hausted" through tho lungs. Heat also is created in side us and must be gotten rid of or we wojjjd "heat up and stick" like an engine run dry. The gas engine has a water-Jacket surroundftfg tho cylinder. ,Wben the water absorbs tho heat from tho cylinder and carries It to the front oi the car it runs through th radiator, which is- merely a dovjeo to glvo the water a chance to be cooled by close contact with air. From the radiator It returns to the cylinder jacket The blood acts as a water-cooling system. Every organ ia surrounded by a Jacket and even penetrated by blood vessels. Tho blood is continually making round trips from the heated interior of the body", to th,e skin, where it gives offv the heat to the air. If the sur- . rounding air is cool the system works easily. If ho aif is warm the pores assist by giving out moisture. This moisture by evaporating accelerates the cooling process. If the air is both- hot and moist the cooling process at onco meets difficulties. Tho air lsv too hot to absorb tho blood's heat and too moist to permit qf cooling by evaporation. Therefore, tho sweat drops collect tho heart pumps desperately, the veins stand out and distress is evident Even in this situation moving the air rapidly by an, electrlo fan or otherwise relieves the discomfort Wot pnly does the body peed a current of air against the skin to keep cppl, but it needs it as a stimulant to all the activities of the body. The human race, lke ,all. croatUres, has had Its main stimulus from outsld, and tho humar. engine runs bettor for an occasional dash of rain in tho face or enduring a plunge In cold water pr meeting a biting wind, It is the circulation of air you got in the country, the beating of the sun and the rain in your face that do you good, not the superior quality of the. country air, because it isn't superior in any great degree, AfFAJUMlttf is (MMifered on of thf beehltleet ef ie;rawi flnt q4 fr feed, and I re a, jaadfc, cine as .wW as a feed. It rlr a very rH aell, and thrive beet when the po ii given a liberal faltta which k almeet every ether ease would, not be teed fer the jlt life. The vegetaty grows very rUpldly, making a shoot from six to twelve laches tali, and from the site of a lead jpeasll to that of a gOod-eUqd walking stick la one sight. It acts quickly en the secretory organs pt the body, and especially the kidneys, Milk is often used in the preparation of this vege table fer food, and it la not wholly put out of commission by the ue of the milk, but the vetabl is much mere valuable as a kidney teaie if It Is ceoked In water, and the milk Se afcsest te, the dressing. The water carries the impurltled and the Uk combined ;flth the asparagus dbas not do the work so yeedtly, It eeems to be a fact that like a many eek ease, wawr k m iportnt factor ArVe ee4ed with a UgH teuca of travel will fld that la eattag a mm ef m peragae eeehet and dreeeed wkh wetef aad mei nMk, thr wiU be greatly heaaftted and relieved, and with little xr no pals. The Julee of tjils yegetable do nqt dissolve the hard particles, hpt hey afo carried away wltH aserp ease than Jo any other known man per, It Is well to haye plenty of Juice with the asparagus when served, When poured bver toast. It Is pot Injured In any manner, and Is a certain relief to certain 11)8, and it is wonderful tonic to the kidneys as well &8 to the entire system, Asparagus la best during Jt)ne, After the first week In July t should not he pulled or out, especially during the followlpg six or eight hot weeks. In September some of tho tender stalks may. be, gathered and served, when It is as good as In Spring or early Bummer, but the September gathering is not good for the plants unltus the month is Wet -and quite warm, like April or May. Canned asparagus, will act as a tonic on the kidneys, but l not as good as tho fresh Yegetable, which Is cookod within a few hours after t Is gathered. Kxperts declare the secret of the value ef Brau8 jim 8 the fact It can absorb more salt Is growing and in Its preparation fer the table.' than any other form of vege tation used for feod. COFFEE WITHOUT GKEAM Does Yon &e LEAST HARM THB latest investigation of thq character of coffee and Us eSoot upon the human. system suggests more than! .ope modification of existing ideas. It has been proved that the chief alkaloidal element in cptfeo Is the caffeine, and that this- poison acta 'directly upon the norves, undor certain conditions. But the saner physicians suggest that if coffee be taken not too etrqng, and only as an adjunct to food tho deleterious effect is minimized almost, (f not quite, to the vanishing point The largo ampunt of water taken in the form of coffee ia nocosiary to the system, and aide n the gen eral economy. Tho danger In taking coffee alone is that Us effect is Increasqd tremendously, while it food is taken at the same time thq nerves are not so apt to be attacked. It has also been proved that when milk and sugar are put Into the coffee certain chemical changes, take place causing tho mixture to become highly indigestible. The omission of the milk makes a great difference in the digestibility na has been proved by the well-established custom of the French who take black coffee after their meals. The flavor of the coffee. Is pot duo to tho caffeine at all, but to its essential oil known as 'caffeoae. This Is produced in the process of roasting, and on this ao count the same coffee properly roasted or too little or too much roasted tastes altogether different A process qf extracting the caffeine from the coffee bag been perfected, and as this Is the polvo?us ele ment, tbps e whp are affected by it had best use the eat-' felaele'ss coffee which can be obtained generally. It Is not generally known that what we call the coffee-bean Is. not- a beaq at all, The blossom of the coffee-plant forms where the leaves, meet the stalk, and the blossom develop? Into a fruit about the Ue of a cherry, and not unlike it Jn colon when, Tipe, Inside of this fruit is tho seed, usually spilt in two parts, form ing two of pur common "beano." These are secured either by drying off the fruit in the sun, or by a wet process in which machinery Is used. The seeds when finally secured arp dried, and are vihat we call "grewi coffee," later to be roasted. It is generally agreed that coffee first grew wild in Abyssinia, thence being taken to Arabia, and afterward to all parts of the civilized world In which it would prow. There are some twenty-five different kinds of coffee found In different parts of Aft lea, still growing svlld in many sections, Tho name Is supposed to be derived from the Arablo IC'bawaw, or from the Abyssinian province of Kaffa. When first Introduced Into Arabia in the fifteenth or sixteenth century, Jt created a groat relgous scandal. It was utilised by deveut Mohammedans that they might more easily keep awake for religious vigil, aad the ICoran, which forbids alljntoxicants. U was so popular- however, that the authorities aeon cava -w.r ' arid coffee houses were established all over Arabia, and" fhenpq cproa even to the continent of Europe, as eariy as the Bevepteenth century. According to the records the first English coffee house was qpened la 1652, add "secante jso poplar that mny Others were opened soon afterward, Now-a-daya the "cafe" ts the; last place in which any one looks for coffee, but origipally that was the Trench name of coffee, and appeared on the sign outside Pt the coffee houseB In Paris. Other drinking wa introduced later, until gradually the caf 0 came to mean a barroom, nothing more. According to the latost figures BratU produces about 72 per cent of all tho cptfeo grown in the world, and. the Dutch East Indies only 2.3 per cent so it Is easy to fceq what smalt chanco wo haye of getting much Java (Sot fee Into thq .United Statefc. As for Mocha coffee, grown in Arabia, bo little is produced that hardly a grain coultt be spared for each inhablte&l Of the States, And yet we consume about nine-and-a-half pounds of coffee per year for each inhabitant 6t the United States, while la the Netherlands each person drinks mere fhap. fifteen pounds. And yet the Dutch are not the ssi&st nervous people in the worldfather are they the. meet, pit aaatlc, ThUs is anpther popular theory exjkded. When You're Perfectly i ftiiht in KEEPING What Yob FIND T'ITPjS are. a goes many popular sayings pn matters, legal whlch if followed literally may lead to trouble. The old saying that ''Findings Are Keepings," is one of them, It U true- that Under the law the finder of lost property is entitled to keep K agai&st all the world except the rightful owner, but he may get himself into serious trouble unless he stakes a reasenable effort to locate the real owner. At least that is so in New York and probably in some of the other States where New York's Peb&l Code is more or less eieeely followed. There is a section of that code which pro vide that, unless he makes a reasonable effort to restore it to tte'pwserj the finder of lost property is gulity of larceny, ' 2M what amounts to "a reasonable effort" must depend ypftn ike clxeumst&nces of each particular case. One would net be e-x$eeted. te in to &ny considerable expense to locath the ewher ei as. -artiele of little value, but oh the other hand, it thq property found were worth several thousand dollars, the fmder might reaMtaafcly be expeeted to expend bla own money, it neenwary, te leeat? the leeer. It he didn't, ho would bo guilty ,f kreaay Under the statute. There 1 ne duty upon the part of the finder to advertise for Uki ewfte Male that method, aaems to be the most likely one te toeate him. If yen And )d wateh Sp a street car ilt is your duty to tr it ever te the eoaduetor er i$ the lost property department l ikh raiiway eeapasy, not beeaase the company has a better iiOe te H tha you, but because that le the most likely method rtsf leeatiaf the owner, if the property is set reclaimed within a reaeWMe time, yea may insist upon hariag it returned to yeit. r thk reaea, when ye ra over lost property in this way either ebtafa a reeelp for H admitting your claim tej it as , er K ye aet obtain fedoh a receipt deliver with the art)ee letter aseerltac yosr claim; heaping a copy pt the letter, Aafcia, it yen sd a eetbeek in a store, and thenj Is na " fte to ita WW, k M. yer aty to laferm the ehopkeaper of JW d hat there If so maen why ye should turn It over to hem fcaleee lf e tng th ewner may he ssere easily feund. Artietea k ft public hlhway may be turned over to n afet pH( atsAioal, but jta meet caseA H would suffice fee setter fee mm atsAomiee of yeur Aai, Will the "DASHEEN" Replace POTATOES? THE dasheen Is not a new vegetable, because, if has boen known and used in Japan and. China for thousands of year?, but in this country lUis., practically "new" to tho people, since it as Introduce here not very long ago, and even then it Is known tp only n few people. ( That a vogetablo wbjch makes shch an excellent n"b'. stltute for the Irish potato should have a name Ilka , "dasheen" It wpuld seem as though it were anIr(sh vegetable, for the name certainly sounds "Irish;" but it is far from that being an Oriental name. It is also cultivated in the West Indies, Central and South America, parts of Africa and Malaysia. But it is only recently that It has been grown In the Southf and ex- ' perlments are being made with It by the United States Agricultural Popartment. . To grow the dasheen a particular soil is needed. It cannot be grown to great advantage in the sections wjtere the Summer seasons is short as la Canada, but It is be. Uered it would succeed in moat )arta of the United States. The Ttihldad variety of the dasheen has bqen made to yield 400 bushels to the acre. A rich, wet soil is needed, with plenty of potash, The potash can be added If the proper soil otherwise la secured. The d&sheen is excellent cooked In as many ways as the potato may be served, perhaps In more. It can be boiled or baked, fried, mashed, made Into croquets, and also used as a stuffing for fowl and meat It is said to contain more nutriment than the potato, having from 40 to 70 per cent more pro tela or nitrogenous substances. It has an addoq advantage In that it dees not taste like thq potato, it would not add much were it to tas,te like the potato, aS people are always looking for new foods and w,,. , . . , new flavors, The dasheen has L KMpalhlng pf a flavor ef boiled Which May Prove chsstauta, the Petate, The leaf is something like the leaves ef marsh or , iwate? plants, being olephankear shape. The vegetable ia. a bulb or tuber and is planted much like the potato. 1 'I is harvested, however, with leas tabor, as the planta grow close tcsothor and one dashfiefi of tuber is at tho end of the stalk. It Is harvested by pulling up the 'Blalk. Then it iq allowed to dry 6 fop of the ground, if possible. Jf there is too much rain it has to be dried e)sewhore. It will keep six mbnths, soffietimaa longer, , if kept dry. While it will probably nqver take the place of the potato, it will supply a new food, and beeaUsfc of its nature it will doubtless partly take the place of tho potato, giving ua two suth vegetables Instead of the ,'ene. Just how cheaply it may he grown is 6ot known as-ypt but the Government experimenters hope to learn all this Within another aeaion or so. The desirability of & vegetable that will at least partly take the potato's place is understood by all agriculturists, and by many house keepers. Farmers are always seek ing some new variety of potato that is hardier than the bid ones for unusually wet or unusually dry Seasons always affect the crop seriously, sometimes to the extent of a potato famine. The famous Burbank has done a great deal toward meeting this Situation, the potato bearing his pama having proved immune .to many of the Influences qf weather and unfavorable soil which mean almost total crop failures of older varieties. Still, such Is the popu lax dependence upon this tuber that the cultivation of ah a6cept abte substitute would iaeet a real aad widespread ecoaomta need. It is well known that the fall ure of one potato crop la Ireland reduces thousands pt the popula tion to starvation's point In this eoUntry a. scarcity of potatoes, with prices increased three or 'four times' above normal, adds a neavy ouraen tq taoso eorne.Dy a , , ,, rt.i..j. majority of households, as fw ef the Asiatic -Dasheen, Jsallles sow tooomlxe In the a YaUsbla SubJtUUte far asatter f potatoes any mere Uua they de iA the aM at bread. Why a Talking Machine is One of the HARDEST Audiences to SING Before T is well known that the grand opera stars make a great deal of money Singing Into the talking machines of various con corns 1n order that these comnanlos mav mnntifndtiira the records for sale, but the fact that almost without exception a grand pp6ra star would much rather sing before thq most critical audience than before a talking machine is by no means goUor&lly known, ' In the first place it Is rather uncanny, standing In n big empty room before a mammoth horn protruding from between, curtains, with thq conductor awy up high where he will nqt interrupt the Bound waves, and the "orchestra cejflpoaed of weird looking instruments made especially for this work. The singer stands on a little wooden platform at the mouth of tle receiving trumpet A red light Is flashed, and the queer little orchestra gets to wbrk. Then at the crucial moment tho artist has to sing t6 this strange little assembly with the Same zest h6 would tinder the inspiration of brilliant lights, beautiful clothes, splendid settings aad ah applauding audience. It Is an ordeal, because he has to elag with far greater care in front of the talking machine than is required When an audience ia to be pleased- The slightest variations means a start-over, a slight clearing of .the tbroat, ft deep breath or slight shuttle of the feet And the revolving discs record every one of these faults and the record is spoiled, But these faults are all criticised by an experienced record-direc tor, ind It is his business to see that nothing short of the perfect records are produced because from these first moulds are made alt of the thousands of records that go into so many homes!, When the artist has finished ,the records is played over and the imperfections criticised. The weak spots are rehearsed, and the whole trying business commenced over again, And so It is acknowledged by many of the theatrical and musio-hall stars that to produce b record of pure and distinct tone U far harder than to make their way eUcessfully thfoUgh a whole operatic score. It la a tremendous tAsk to get a ket of the perfect records from the opera favorites. It has been said that Caruso has been forced to spend over four hours of natir tag work before he waa able to perfect hi "Rldl Pagllacct" in thd opera of "I pagltaccl," and in that time was forced to make ever thirty (rut start before a dUc of pure and distinct tone waa ebtaine4 T