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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1916)
Health Hints -:- Fashions Individual Garbage Disposal By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. We c4n and ought to accomplish a great saving of food waste in our buy ing, our marketing, our" commission ' house handling and particularly in our present brainless and deplorable method of shipping foodstuffs. But a considerable degree of rejection and apparent waste will probably always accompany a liberal, varied, civilized diet, such as will furnish the highest grades of both health and efficiency. Already there is a rough parallelism between garbage' production and wages, a high food waste and low . death rate and high average longevity or length of life. While it seems in one sense little to be proud of to lead the world in garbage production per capita, yet the fact that much was thrown away shows that there was plenty to choose from and that the best was eaten, for humanity does know good food when it smells it, and that's the kind of diet that will pro- , duce result! in both health and work done. . - . We may even take a whimsical pride in grading our aociaj Handing by toch standards, as is illustrated bv a story told by the health officer of one of our most prosperous and pro gressive inland cities.- There was rather an exclusive beach colony of prosperous citizens scattered along the shore of a lake about ten miles distant. A new family built a cottage and moved in and were naturally be ing talked, over from every point of view at the little country store. ' Opinions differed as to their social tandard and prestige, but finally the farmer who collected the kitchen ' waste from the colony to feed his hogs chimed in, in no uncertain tones, with: "Wal, all I kin say is thet they've got the awellest twill on the beach 1" The same thins has to be borne in mind as to profit and loss in the ac tual disposal of garbage alter it nas beenjhrown into the bucket or can. There is no more gold in garbage dis posal than there is in the famous pot at the foot of the rainbow. One of our great practical dimcultirt is the feeling, which simply will not down in a omnmimitv that inftt ma irreat oack- ing houses are said to make most of their profit out of their waste and ' tankage, so there ougnt to be a profit in garbage disposal if only it is prop erly managed. i . Out in the country, for instance, it can be mixed with meal and given to chickens or fed directly to hogs and i a certain amount of return in eggs and pork got back from it. Hut if you have to live Vnywhere near the chick en yards or.'hog pen you are apt to get other returns in the way of odors and flies which, long before the sum mer is over, will far overbalance any financial return. . Indeed, chickens, when fed upon house scraps and gar bage, require an expenditure ot so much time and trouble to keep their yards and run not merely inoffensive to ncichbors. but healthful to them selves that intelligent, up-to-date poul- trymen will not even go to the trouble of collecting kitchen scraps from their neighbors for this purpose, With hogs the case is still worse, for not only is it impossible to keep the pens of swill-fed and garbage-fed hogs from being a danger and nuis ance to the entire neighborhood, but the pens become perfect hotbeds of hog-cholera and other septic diseases. Contractors who have been able to buy large tracts of worthless sand, or Drusn lana, wun no ncignoors wiumi several miles, have been able to fatten hogs upon garbage and make a mod erate profit. But they have actually found it necessary to gradually im munize the' hogs to living exclusively upon garbage, and not a few of them die in the process. Then, when they have got an immunized strain of hogs, able to eat garbage witlnout killing themselves, they breed from these strains and the offspring, either by heredity or by gradual education in youth, also grow up garbage-proof and can-be kept alive long enough to be fattened and sold. ' Breeders of pedigreed or any other type of civilized pigs, of course, turn up their noses atsolutely at swill or garbage for their favorites, saying it is one of the most unwholesome foods possible for them, and the only reason why the superstition has arisen that pigs like swill is that the poor beasts were never given anything else to eat and had no chance to expresa a preference in the matter. Wnwim's Wnrk -- RnuRP.hnld TovicS Household Helps Birds o f Wisdom as Pets New Danger to Morals BY LOUISE HEILGERS. 1 Anv fool can imagine evil, of course, but it takes a really clever person to see white until black is thoroughly established. So that, when a pretty girl rushed up to me, and, heedless of the few male things about with whom I was exchanging the usual platitude about the weather, gushed breath lessly, "You really must come and see my new pompadour." I merely re turned, "I shall be delighted to, and left it at that, although i naon i me faintest idea what mv promise in volved, or what I might be letting myself in for. And, as it happened, virtue pres ently received ita own reward. Noth ing really thrilling or immoral wat un veiled to me, , The pompadour, when displayed to me, wai merely a frock a gathered, hooped, flounced, ruffled, ruched and pleated frock, composed mostly of pink roses couchant on a white ground. "We ve simply all got to be pompa dour now." the orettv girl said tri umphantly, at I stared at her in sur prise. "It'tsthe latest out." The pompadour frock, like itt pe riod, is certainly not a cheap one. The eratof brocade and oatchas and pow der was noted for ita extravagance as well at for itt redjieelt and blue morals. - And I suppose, if we start the pompadour, frock now, the rest will meviiauiy louow. mere w ruiueihiub about the very atmosphere of a pom padour (rock that does not make tor virtue. , -. ' -.v I know this, because when, at the orettv airl't urgent request,' I slipped her's on for a moment (the frock, not the virtue), I felt frightfully giddy all of a sudden no, the room didn't go round my morals did. It was as if the mere wearing of a frock garlanded with tatin roset made one long in stinctively to pluck Herrick't or love't blossoms... So I'm ture I don't know where we shall end if we alt wear pompadour frocks. . Whatever else can, be said of the present fashions, they certainly do not mak for that veneration and respect our great-grandmothers Ve credited with being treated witn by our great' grandfathers. -But then crinolines and mitten and collarbones were one thing; our brief extension of skirt, extended silk ankles and rosily-powdered necks an other. And now on top of all this the pompadour I Ahf well, better a thort skirt and a merry one than a dull affair of length and virtue. Anyway, if you do tread the primrose path, you are ture to find some roses there to match your pompadour. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. There may be something worth pondering over in the suggestion that the persistent "good luck" which seems to attend some persons is due to their having accidentally become the pets of higher beings, whose ex istence we do not clearly recognize. However that may be, it is certain that-some of the lower animals that we make nets ot have fortune rnrust upon them without any comprehen sion on their part of the cause of the smooth-sailing life allotted to them. On the ottier hand, to be a pet is often to lose freedom, so that the goodness of the luck becomes questionable after all, and this seems particularly true of birds. - ' lhe oct-niakinsr instinct sometimes takes odd turns, as in the case illus trated by the accompanying pictures, aiftiiminiaill Pairfi - Soiimmer The Map Shows . How Burlington Through-Service Linos Make It Essentially the Route for Rocky Mountain Travel. - tattoo! Park forsaua r-- i aTS ,.V rk.i :fi is J " a i WA W .laBBtH' . immni m a air KT-r-r HiiiiT T""Nj,.to- r . iitGaVadaSpringa, .rtlfSSry-1 Rocky Mountain NaAtTI 1 -. rH ."-I.!. I want to tell you about th wonderful aoenic tour of the CIIO VVS HOllO Rooklea through, the West's magnificent out-of-doors National Park possible to you on, a Yellowstone Park ticket Ton can tour Yellowstone either direct, or via Denver , and our Denver-Oody-BUlings through-service route through the Wind River Canyon and the Big Horn Basin. You may enter the Park via Cody and come out via Gardiner, or the reverse. On such a scenic tour, could you think ot any thing more .recreative than the 00-mile automobile tour over the Government road between Cody and the Lake Hotel through the Shoshone Canyon, alongside one of the greatest engi neering structures of the age the Government Shoshone Dam the second highest in the world, through the Forest Reserve and over the Absarokas, the east wall of Yellowstone, via Sylvan Pass, one of the world's most inspiring viewpoints. And if all these mighty mountain masses still leave you with a craving for ''more," we give you a free side-tour from Denver to Pueblo and return, through the Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak region. 7C3 Diss of Mountain Panortaa, Colorado to Sho Yellowstone The Colorado Rockies, Long's Peak, the Laramie and Owl Creek Mountains, Wind River Canyon, the Pass of Thermopylae, the Big Horns, , y Cloud Peak, the Shoshones, the Absarokas. Here's another scenio vacation land, immensely popular Glacier, the indescribable olimax of the rugged grandeur of the Rockiesthe realm of glorious perspectives in countless hues that challenge word painting or any kind of painting. Glacior National Park What tond of a tour can you make on a $35 Glacier Park ticket? You can go direct or via Denver and Billings, with the free Pueblo .iH.trin Vnn rub detour from Loveland. Colo., and at side-trip charges visit Rocky Mountain-Estes National Park. You can detour at Cody for a tour of Yellowstone. You can visit , Tkreo national Parks on a Glacier Park Tour ; Note How Burlington Through-Service Routes May be Combined for a Swoop Ing Circuit Tour of the Rockies, from Colorado to the British Boundary. Burlington Through Service to Cody Entrance. Burlington Through Servlcerto Gardiner Entrance. Burlington Through Service to Denver, Colorado Springs. Burlington Through Service to Glacier Park. Burlington Through Service, Denverte Cody or Gardiner. Burlington Through Service, Denver to Glacier Park. Let ue help you plan a "See America" Mountain Tour. J. B. Reynolds, 0. P. A. Farnam and I6!h St., Qmaha ? Klip" ! .. tlmt D-I2S3. 0-3588 ' 1 - - -. i I' , - , - i ; . V. -: ft r-' "f!j IL-!'il-C VVW... II ) A Fernando Eagle Owl. I WVTkTW i X-TW n 1 1 V ,i 1 otherwise their di.esteion is upset. lv'i; 4 C v X VI Ji I ' Ihey like rabbits, kittens, mice, 't"T , 4 I I sparrows, cockafors, stag-beetles and V' VVAV 1-1 I other similar things and if they could "" , till be kept about a house without being I 'i,y ''X ' till rnnfined thev mieht be superior to 11 V'J. J V I cats as destroyers of rats and mice. a f? . An Australian which sho- pet owU belonging (o an owl-fancier in England. To inost people an owl teems a very strange pet, and the bird certainly doet not thow the intelligence usually expect ed In a pet animal. But at a thing to look at, an owl it as "curious a creature as almost any that the animal world affords. It is a bird with a "face," and its face hat an element of terror even for hu man beings. The huge staring eyes, with the great circular disks of stiff feathera turrounding them, the big i: ).. A V. ... t. , L - x.k ucrtcijr-tu, tgu Mn.i m hum v.i- ers covering the whole body, which makea the bird look several timet larger than it really it, and the make-believe "horns" which tome owlt have all of thete things togeth er inggest that nature intended that rightfulness thould be an important part of an owl's outfit. Then, it it a night bird, and the silence which the softnest of its feath ery coat imparts to itt flight gives it i another element of terror. Itt prey, consisting larjjely ot rats, mice and I other rodents, it unaware of ita ap j proach until too late. Courage grows I with desperation, but desperation re ! quires time to develop, and the sud den swoop of the ' noiseless owl, and ! the instantaneous apparition of its terrifvina: countenance, allows no time I for the oaralvait of feartto pass away. t ine cngusn owi-ianticr iruin i whose livinsr collection these photo- graphs were obtained makes much of Marbled Owl. the '"beaW" of hit 'strange pets. Their feathers often are beautiful on account of their exquisite texture and tometimet they possess attractive col or and combinations of colors, tuch at dark brown, golden brown, gray and deep black, marble white and snowy white. Yet, upon the whole, the beauty of an owl resembles the quaintnesa of that odd-faced flower, the pansy, which seemr to stare at you out of a countenance whose features were con ceived in a spirit of mockery or bur lesque. 7 - The owl in captivity cannot be weaned from itt love of darkness- at, indeed, could not be 'expected, in view of the ttructure of its eyes, which are expressly made for seeing at night, and are almost useless in daylight. ' -Accordintflv an indispensable fea ture of the aviary in which they are kept is a dark chamber into wnicn thev can retire. Still, notwithstand ing their natural wildnets, some owlt 'tret to like beimr fondled and ttroked, and recogfiTze their owners, but they will fight furioualy on occatlon. Considerable difficulty hat been en countered in enabling tome of the owls, tuch as the magnificent 'eagle Owl, to breed in the aviary. They take cold easily in a draught, but can be fed without much trouble, provided they are furnished frequently with flesh having the fur and feathera on; ' "j1 .i St 1 J- Before boiling a piece of bacon, soak it for twelve hours in cold water. If this is done it will waste very little in cooking. k Vinegar and salt mixed together will take away stains on chinaglass, flower vases and water bottles. To keep butter fresh, place in ulean pots and surround with charcoal. Tumblers, fruit dishes, lamp chim- ., ncys, globes, and other similar articl can be mended when broken with the following preparation: Take five , parts of gelatine to one part of a solu tion of bichromate of potash. Cover the broken edges with this, and press together, then place in direct sunlight for a few hours. The mended article will not come apart even if washed in bailing water nor will the break y show. ' . x .' ' Don't throw away apple parings. 11 Stew to a pulp, rub through a sieve, and add to the cooked apples. Or else flavor the soup'with. them. It is fe part of the apple immediately urfder the skin which contain the most valuable salts. . Water in which fish has been boiled should be poured, when cold, on 'TiT"! the rose-bed, if you aje not making it into soup. It will improve your rnsp. wnnderfullv. ..... y. . cleanses grease, Drigniens cniiM, uu is a good disinfectant. V ' Salt put on Van ink-stain freshly made will loosen the mark. - Ink stains can be removed without injuring the most delicately colored material. Mix some mustard into a thick naste and SDread over the ttain. . - fter twenty-four hours sponge thor oughly with cold water, ano no trace of the ink remains If eggs you are about to boil ar cracked, add a little vinegar to tha ... . i . i t i. : I . -. WdtCI, ttllU unj .oa uw - u ileal, a uiavi. uioo i ivy leaves and steep them in boiling water. i.cave mi cuiu, incu iuu wen over the stained parts. This liquid .- " will remove all stains and make the cloth look quite fresh. Don't throw bones that have been boiled for,soup into the dustbin. Put them at tSe back ot the tire, Dank up m with well-Vamped small coal, and they V will burn for hours, ' . A little camphor rubbed on a mir ror after the dust hat been wiped off will brighten it wonderfully. taxnnri; nam ak::ie mtf Broiled Lamb ChopsyWth Peas By CONSTANCE CLARKE. , Ji TV. lnmK .linna sliniiM h( C.llt to the desired thickness, trimmed neatly, removing all unnecessary tat, season--H with a little salt and Depoer, and broiled, turning them every three minutes, allowing eigni minuies iui chops cut one inch thick. The distinctive touch of this dish it itt Bernaise sauce. Once one serves this with lamb chops it will be found an indispensable adjunct to the chops thereaner. Sauce Reduce two tahlespoonfuls of white tarrigan vinegar to about half the quantity with twelve crushed peppercorns' half a saltspoon of pa prika pepper, two bay leaves, a little thyme, one smaii oniu", uicu uu iu-. raw yolks of eggs, and work in by de grees a quarter of a pound of butter, then strain. This sauce requires car in making. ,... j Take two cups of shelled peas ana put them into boiling water with a bunch of mint tied in a piece of mus lin; season the water with a littles salt, sugar, and a tiny pinch of sodas boil the peas gently for fifteen to twenty minutes, then strain oft and mix them with three tabletpoonful of butter. Serve on the dish with the thops. Arrange chops around a mound of toasted bread and serva the sauce in a sauce boat. (Tomorrow New Carrott a la Francaise.) " f " 4 on 4Lakes-2,200 Miles of Beautiful Scenery. 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