Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1891, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDA A Bird’s-Eye View of the Wonderful Capital of Our Sister Republic. BRIGHT STREE ‘The Lakes of the Mexican Valley and the Danger of Inundation—An Immense Drain- age Scheme Ficing Worked by American Contractors—The $2,000,000 Cathedral. SCENES. Correspondence of The Fvening Star. Mexico Crry, Inne 10, 1891 HE CITY OF MEXICO is the nearest heaven of the great capitals of the It ie more than straight up in the air above London, Ber- mmed in by atairs which kiss the sky with ther frosty lips some two or three miles higher. Here among these m tains there is a little oval-shaped valley about forty-five miles lon some thirty miles wide at the center, which contains half acdozen great lakes, one rising y all being higher than tha’ spot on which this great city stands. Mexico was built by the Az and they chose a swamp for a fou Spaniards when they rebuilt the cit) the old site, and with high ground all around and this great Mexican metropolis stands upon a slimy ooze of black mud +o soft that two feet below the surface the water is found, 80 that piles that are driven « the earth easier and easier as they go deeper. ‘The crust of eurth on which the town is built seems to be soli:!, but buil Il me they dare Rot attempt to muke deep foundations, and it may be that the city is built over a great sub- terranean lake. Considering this fact it is a ater wonder than Venice or Amsterdam, and ft isa model in the shape of good pavements, solid buildings aud excessive cl ‘There is no town m the United States which has Cleaner streets than this great Mexican eapital, and their condition is even better than that of the streets of Wash REMARKABLE CLEANLINESS, This cleanliness of Mexico ia all the more wonderful from the fuct that the city has no aystem of sewerage or drainage. For more than three hundred years the people have lived and died and have cast their garbage and their offal into its cesspools. Ten generations of men and women have poured the constant filth of their daily hfe and an enormous business vd all the refuse and waste of It is, ty corling to the wn go into a wonder th Dospital of dead and dyi mary rules of municipal health its whole yalation ought to die off every year, Esk" one would’ think that the typhout fever and diphtheria would leave the rest of the world for Mexico. The sua and the sir, however, fight them, and for the Better classes Mexico is a city of life rather than one of death. The life ineur- ance companies of New York which have ag cies here find @ m among the insur: Fate of Mexico Cit: who sleep on the grou: a foulest debris of ages, with slimy feet below them. them and the earth ¢x. and the red blanket which form their costumes by day and by night. These die more rupidly than is generally known. The better classes ‘on the second ficors and their health is generally good. YHOBLEMS FoR FNOINEERS. The question of the drainage of Mexico bas been discussed for generations and it is one of ‘the great problems of today. This little valiey has no outlet and the city is in its lowest part. Lake Tezcoco, which is at this time only two feet lower than the level of the city, has an area of sixty-seven square miles, and’ it rises during the wet season. Several times :t has overtiown the city. aud within only fe water two with nothing between pt the cotton clothes years back, I am told, the whole town was covered with’ three feet of water. One inundation lasted for five years, and the waters were finally carried off by an earthquak the crack cansed by it. higher than Tezcoco, and one of them is twenty “mine feet above the city. A Johnstown flood Bere would do an immense deal more damage than it did in Pennsylvania, and in coming fnto the city I rode by a great cut, which a Spanish engineer made ae 800 years ith the aim of draining the and the valley end car the Gulf of Mexico. A change of government oceurred whils the work was in operation and it was finally abandoned. The present govern- ment has given a contract for another immense canal to drain these lakes and hundreds of men are now at work on them under American en- gineers. A big cut is being made through the ng through The other lakes o Mountains and within two or three years at the | Which a few years ago were the richest and TLOWER arm! farthest Mexico City will be oat of danger and @ vast amount of iand now covered with water will be reclaimed. Pians for the sewering of the city are now under cousideration and this eanal will, I understand, be eighteen or twenty feet below the present level of the town. A very important question will be as to whether the city will not sink when the vast amount of water whiecn is found under it at every point is removed and whether such a drain- age would not be move disastrous than great earthquake. The expense of th canal, eo one of the engineers tells me, will ve five or six millions of dollars, and of the big engineering today. This expense, ever, isa Bagatelle in comparison with the lows bys single inundation. During the great food of 1640 it is extimated that forty millions of dollars’ worth of property was destroyed, and the Mexico of that time was not more than one-fifth the size in wealth or in population of ‘the Mexico of today. In the days of Monte- zuma the lakes surrounded the city. Sinee ‘then they have steadily recoded, but the floods may retcome. It is only by dikes and by this cut that the city has been saved several ‘ae shove © might be thought that above t it Mexico was a sort ofa second Rotterdam. It ie nothing of the kind. Its 500 miles of ‘are as dr; a bone, and the square houses which sidewalks with smooth fronts of plaster fairly glare with thirst the bright sun of the southland. es sts waterworks. The roads are not THE GREAT CATHEDRAL. CITY OF WEXICO.| asare the thoroughfares ut they are swept every morning by pe: under the charge of policemen, and every bit of dirt fs picked up from the principal streets, till they are as clean asa Japanese parlor. These streets of Mexico are well paved and improve- ments are going on steadily. Not long ago some of the streete were laid with Trinidad asphalt, and this pavement is far better fitted for Mexico than Washington. Others of the streets are paved with Nicholson blocks and a great many have the old cobble stones of years ago. The streets are everywhere wide, and on the whole Mexico is a benuitital capital. ox THE srinr. Take a stand with me on the spire of the great cathedral which faces the pinza in the conter of MexicoCity. We havepulled theropo atthe little side doorand have paid our fee to the lark haired, big eyed. cream faced maiden in Mexican garments who guards the entrance, and have worn our lege sore in climbing hun. ireds of steps and we rit ona ledge above the forty great bells which thunder ont the hours as we look. We are 200 fect above the ground and more than 7,500 feet ubove thesea. Under our feet is the spot on which the Aztecs eucri- ficed their victims and upon the great altar, throughont the day, of an American cit which, in the days of Montezuma, lay only ‘fifty feet below where wo” a sitting, 60,000 slaves were sacrificed in a single year. In that long low building there infront of us you may see the wonder- fully carved stone upon which the victims lay when the — obsidian knife was plunged into their vitals, and there is the great stone pot which was used to catch their blood as it flowed down the trench from altar. It was on that altar that Montezuma stood with Cortes when he took him up here to show him his fair city, and the Mexico of the Aztecs of 300 odd years ago covered very much the same ground dloes the Mexico of today. What a beautiful site for a city! ‘ins on every side of you rise into the ing a nat i series of fortifications. pore of the richest green stret: at on all sides from the vast network of build- gs until it is lostin the hazy blue of th mountain sides. Silvery Inkes xparkling like lds of diamonds off in the distance. The great volcanoes of Popocatapetl and Ixtace huatl looking down upon you from th of perpetual snow. Canals in silvery 5 bordering the outskirts of the city, and a: over there at its edge the vast clump of green s which in hundreds of acres of forest sur- rounds what was once the summer home of the great Montezuma and which is now the aum- mer residence of President Diaz, the castle of are Frenchmen, Englishmen, Germans, Span- iards and Americans, and mixed with them are the diverse elements of the great Mexican poo- ple, Aswell carriage with great coach horses shes by you, its silver-mounted harness glistening in the wunlight and its coachman wearing 8 gorgeous sombrero and his pants lined with silver. It contains the wife and daughter of a rich hacendado, who are going to take their afternoon ride on the Paseo. Behind them rides a rich Spaniard in Mexican costume with saddle, hat and harness as gorgeous in their gold and silver as money con buy, and at the side of the street runs a half dozen little burros with great bales of hay almost hid- ing their little bodies from view, while in their rear is a poor Indian driving them with a like bundle of hay fas- tened on to his back and held there by astrap that comes'over the front of his forehead. Here isa brigand-like peon from the country ina blanket as red as the opal which shines out of its diamond setting on the necktie of the Amer- ican dude at his side, and you note that his feet are dirty with miles of ‘travel as they show out through his leather sandals. Thereare two ladies in black on their way to the cathedral to mass and the younger one casts a sly but mod- est look at you out of her shawl as they pass. On the other side of the street there isan In- dian girl whose wealth of black hair streams in afrowsy way down her shoulders and whose plump form is bent aimost double under the MEXICAN TYPES. = * great load of red jars she is corrying, and now through them all comes a squad of soldiers, dark-fuced and sullen, under the commend of an officer who looks down, as proud as Luciter, out of his addi Frere are water carriers and peddlers, millionaires and paupers, the rich and the — poor, the great and the small—all mixed up together <i the’ most I find any- ‘our eve turns im one of the most picturesque an; Jelightfal conglomerations you where in the world. Ever: it meets a new sight and everyt! is strange. Yon glance about you in bewilder- mentand wonder where you are. You put ‘our hand to vour head and almost ask when curtain will fall from view. peddiers and hatsand red bi and queerly cary e the great show e accosted by hwaymen in b you opala | and little Indians in ragged clothes thrust boxes of matches into your face and beg you to buy. ‘The news- boy is here in all his glory’ and a dark- faced old man looks out’ of the str gray locks whieh fringe his wrinkled face under his broad-brimmed hat and asks alms You give him acopper and he hobbles off happy, and makes you feel like a benevolent Chapultepec, the White Hcuse of Mexico. = A MEXICAN DANDY. Bring your eyes nearer home and take a look w. It is as big as St. Louis, and Minneapolis and St. Paul could be lost in its borders. Its form is that of one of the great of Europe, and like the cities of Spain its ne another at right angles and the center of the network of squares is the a filled with green trees which lies at our feet. There are a number of these spots of green squares through the network, and there at the right is the long strip of forest where shionable Mexico walks for an hour or so Sunday and where there is music every oon the year round. Further on is afte: the wide avenue known as the Paseo, where you may see any afternoon as gay a et of tur outs as you will find in Hyde Park or the Bois de Boulogne, and all around and below you is the great checkerboard of Mexico City.” Sup- pose yourself hanging still in @ balloon above | «5,000-acre farm. Let this farm be divided up into litle square fields and pave these fields with brick and make the fields flat,butat differ- ent levels, and you have an idea of how Mexico locks from the skies. The roofs of all the | houses are flat. ‘There is not a chimney in the whole city, and you could number the furnaces and the cooking and heating stov fingers of one hand. | ‘The Mexican capital does all of its heating by charcoal, and a base burner would be as much of a wonder here as a five-legged calf. If you will take your glass you will note that each field is made up of houses and that each of the houses has a greag well or hole in its center. These are the patios or courts around which every Mexican house is built, and which in many cases constitutes the only gai den of the family. Where there are horses th: is sometimes used for the storin, riages, and you note that all the close up to th treet and that the most of them are of less than three stories. On the tops of many of them you see white and gay- colored patches floating to and and fro in the breeze. ‘These are family washings, which are usually dried on the roofs. and those great spires and domes which spring up on every side of you are the buildings of the church, which are fewer now than ever before, and of the car ouses stand the most important buildings of the city ‘The government now owns these and not the priests. They are allowed to use them only on sufferance and when they were contiscated it is said they were worth millions and that the gov- ernment then took from the church property to the amount of 300,000,000. This building upon which we are standing cost $2,000,000 to build and its roofsare shingled with enough brick to pave a town of 10,000 people. Bricks are the shingles of Mexico. They are fus- tened down in mortar, and there is as much ma- soury on the top of every one of these churches tind houses as there is in ita sides, ‘THE GREAT CATHEDRAL. Take a look at this cathedral as you stand here above it. It covers acres and you wander for hours in going from one place to another within it, It bas been a gold mine in its costly decorations and its choir has a balustrade of a mixture of silver, copper and gold which weighs 50.000 pounds and which is worth more than this weight in solid silver. The walls of the church alone cost two millions of dollars \d the treasures of the interior have made some of the families of the Mexico of to- day. Ithad a single statue of gold set with diamonds which was worth a million of dollars, and one of the great lamps which lighted it in the past cost £70,000 and ite workmanship was So intricate that it cost a thousand dollars to clean it. The altars were once set with precious stones, and it was a second building like that Which the Shah Jehan and Akbar had ri at Delhi im India, and like their buildin; it has been plundered. by the unbeliever. It was right here that Cortes dexpoiled the Aztecs, and that long, low, two-story build: which ‘faces the plaza and which looks more | like a grent stable than anything else is the Na~ ional Palace, where the senate of Mexico is how sitting and in which the treasury and the | Kovernment offices are located. ‘There was the | palace of Montezuma and that site formed the residence of the successors of Cortes. Buck of it is the post’ office and farther on is that bee- hive of ant-like men and women, the great mar- ket of the City of Mexico, which isas much sight today as it was when the Spaniards en- tered it and described its wondors. At your feet is the market for flowers and dozens of men under big hats and pretty girls under no hats at all are there selling the most beautiful eir multitudinous dry goods rays windows, whose stocks of made goods are as gay as those of Sth avenue, and on down to the great doors which, with their portals of carved stone, admit you to the big palace of the Emperor Iturbide, which, like’ all. things im- 1 in this country of Mexico, has fallen from its high estate and is now turned into an immense hot Frank G. Canresten. Equivocal Sentiments. From the Boston Gazet! There isan old story about the merchant of Milwaukee who, during the war of the re- bellion, bejng an excellent hand at sketch- ing, drew most admirably on the wall of his store a negro’s head, and under- neath it wrote, in a manner worthy of the Delphie oracle, “Dis Union foreber.” Whether the sentence meant loyalty to the Union or uot was the puzziing question which the gentleman himself never answered, always replying to inquiries, “Read it for yourselves, gentlemen.” Thus iteame to be a saying in the town that “noone knows how dat darky stood on de war question.” Another similar story of more recent origin is about a question which is puzzling the young ladies who attend a western female colle It seems that one of them discovered it some reon had written on the outes wall of the college: “Young women shoul set good examples, for young men will follow them.” The question now perplexing the heads of several of the young ladies of the college is whether the writer meant whet was written in # moral or in an ironical sense. America’s First Strike. From the San Francisco Call. “Do you know that this government had been in existence over fifty years before such ‘a thing as a strike was known among the labor- ing people?” asked Frank Grassner of Cincin- nati, as he leaned thoughtfully against the cigar stand at the Occidental yesterday. “Yes, sir, fifty —_years, and it was reserved for Ohio to be the scone the first revolt. It was in 1840, in June, I think, that the employes of Wolf & ‘Co.'s foundry in Cincinnati struck for an increase in pay, and in afew days it spread so as to include all the iron workers of the city. For more than a month both sides held out, and at the end of that time the Isborers succeeded in securing money with which to start aco- operative foundry. They chose a business manager and a superintendent from among their own number, and sterted out with a great boom. At the'end of three years they went to the wall, and after everything was cleaned up they were still €300,000 behind. Aseach of the incorporators was personally respousible under the Ohio law for the liabilities of the concern, without limitation as to time, every one of the strikers was compelled to leave the state in order to prevent their savings from being seized to satisty their creditors. So ended the first strike.” ————— Too Indulgent, From the Boston ‘iranscript. “I have such an indulgent husband,” said little Mrs. Doll. 40 George says,” responded Mrs. Spite- ‘Sometimes indulges too much, doesn’t oS ee A Snow Storm in His Hat, From the Youth's Companion. ‘The same causes which produce a fall of snow in the open air—namely, a sabjection of amoist atmosphere to temperature cold enough to crystallize the drops of moisture which are formed—may, of course, take place under arti- ficial conditions. La Nature, a French journal of science, re- tates that a gentleman wao was walking rapidly along the street on a cold, fair day and had, by violent exercise, brought himself into a céndi- tion of profuse ‘perspiration, took off his tall hat in saluting # friend. Ashe did so he was astonished to fecl what was apparently a slight fall of snow upon his head. Upon casing his hand over his head he found sever unmistakable flakes of snow there. Jt is supposed that the freezing outer air condensed the moist warm uir within the gen- tleman’s tall hat so suddenly that a veritable snow storm of miniature proportions was produced upon his hend. Avimilar incident is relnted by the same journal. During the past winter, on a very cold, clear night, an evening party’ was given in a salon in Stockholm, Swoden. Many people were gathered together in # single room and it became so warm in the course of the evening that several ladies complained of feoling ill. An attempt was then made to raise a window, but the sashes had been frozen in their places and it was impossible to move them. In this situation, gs it was absolutely neces- sary thatair should be admitted, a pano of glass was smashed ont. A cold current at once rushed in, and atthe same instant flakes of snow were seen to fall to the floor in all Parts of the room, The entrance of a frosty current into an at mosphere which was aatnratod with moisture of full-blown roses for had produced a snowfall indoors. Ui ticated Pareat—‘‘Hollo, there, nurse; what’ ¥ t's the baby yelling that way for? [ean't Nurso—“He's cutting his teeth, sir.” U. P.—Well, see nk he doesn't do ittany ‘more, or you your place.” —Life. HOW TO GET THIN. Diet Which Causes Loss of Flesh and Gain in Health, A CURE FOR CORPULENCY. Hot Weather is the Chief Essential in the Suecessfal Remedy—Celia Logan Gives Lots of Good Advice for Fat People—Health Hints, Written for The Evening Star. ‘The Salffbury system is the only one by which I lost flesh and recovered from sickness at the same time. That sickness would in no- wise interest the public had it not been directly caused by obesity, hence the writing of these pages in the hope that others may not allow, as I did, their corpulence to become #0 great as to be a menace of life and also to show that, not- withstanding my many failures, there isa way by which fat may safely be got rid of. ‘The chief of my many physical derange- ments was the accumulation of fat around the heart, which was slowly compressing that organ and threatening to squeeze out its life, as the wall closed about the doomed man in the “Iron Shroud.” That which happened to me may happen to any other person suffering from snr- plusage of adipose; but, unlike me, he or she may not have the good fortune to be warned in time for recovery, as sudden death from “heart failure” is liable’ to be the fate of any and every too corpulent person. ‘The means by which I was literally snatched from the grave are 80 simple as hardly to gain credence. They were inherent in the curative system to which I now submitted myself, and are to be found outlined in the following in- structions, which, by the kindness of Dr. Salis- bury, Iam permitted to make public. HOT WATER BEFORE MEATS. Drink a pint of hot water at abont 110 de- grees Fahrenheit one and a half to two hours befere each meal and half an hour before re- tiring. From five to fifteen minutes should be taken for drinking the water, 80 23 not to dis- ud the stomach to an uncomfortable degree. he object of the het water is to wash from the stomach the slimy mucus, alcoholic and sour Yeasts and bile before eating and sleeping. The water shonld be drunk long enough before each meal to allow it time to get cut of the stemach before the food enters. When thirsty, between two hours after a meal and one héur before the neat, drink hot water, clear tea, lomon water or crust coffee. Take no other drinks of any kind betweeh meals. At meals drink one cup (five to eight ounces) of clear tea or clear coffee. The best times for taking the hot water are at about 6a.m., 11a.m..4 p.m. and 9 p.n the meals at 7-30 to 8 a.m., 12:30 to 1 5:30 to6 p.m. It is better to take the h the morning in bed, hile after taking it he food should be either the muscle pulp of beef, broiled beefsteak free from fat, roast beef, broiled lamb or mutton and roast lamb or mutton. For side dishes—oysters, raw, broiled or roasted in the shell. broiled or boiled fish, chicken, game,and turkey, broiled or rousted All fat should be avoided, except a little but- ter. alt and pepper aud Worcestershire, Chntney or Halford sauce may be moderately indulged in with the meats, HAVE MEATS WELL COOKED. All meats eaten should be fairly well cooked. Very rare meats are harder to digest, the mus- cular fibers passing through the bowels often andigested. telery is admissible. Avoid all other foods and condiments. By persisting in this plan of alimentation the adipose tissue will rapidly disappear and the loss in weight will be from ten to thirty pounds per mon cording to the degree of fatness, the rigidity ad the exercise and menial condition of patient. f the loss of weight becomes too rapid and the shrinkage in bulk so fast that the skin does not keep pace with it, and begins to hang in folds and wrinkles, alittle of the fut-forming foods, such as bread, toast, rice, cracked wheat and potatoes may be used.’ Usually a shrinkage of from ten to fifteen pounds a month is about right. When the desired weight and bulk is reached increase the proportion of fat-forming food just sufiiciently to maintin the bulk and weight of the body as desired. Usually two parte of meat and ‘one of vigetable food, by bulk, will be about right. Often, however, this propor- tion may be varied either way under the guid- ance of good judgment. WHEN TO TAKE YOUR MEALS. The meals should be taken at regular inter- vals, and it is better to eat alone or only with those who are living on the same diet. All temptation should as much as possible be re- moved from the patient. If three meals a day are not sufiicient to satisfy hunger the patient may be allowed ® nice piece of broiled steak between breakfast and dinner and dinner and supper. These extra meals should be taken at and regular intervals. : Here isa real cure for the corpulent without the use of medicine or the expense of » physi- cian. All that it requires is the resolute will to adhere to that which I admit is hard fare. I lost thirty pounds in six months, and found that I had not merely disappointed physiclans who sald T must die, mut that I" had along with my painsand ever-present peril say cusmitecoomsn Uols, podt hat to feel better than I had within the decade at least. : ‘Those who are obliged to be out attending to business cannot, of course, take the 11 o'clock draughts, but the early morning pint canbe taken before getting up, and as is the most important pint of all-it should never be neglected. It is also easy to arrange to drink the hot water before retiring, which is the second time in importance. ‘These two pints will suffice for those who cannot take the others. ‘The dict, however, is a different matter, depending entirely upon the individual will. Those who are not following the Salisbury system for the recovery of health, but simply for the reduction of weight, should adhere as strictly as possible to the diet until they have lost at least twenty pounda or as many as they desire to be ridot. After that they ma vance to what 18 called the “two-thirds dic that is, two mouthfuls of animal to one of vege- table food. I append the directions for the “two-thirds or normal diet” as prepared by Dr. J. H. Salisbury for the instruction of patients: if up, to lie down for Tar “Two-THIRDs” pret. Let all meals consist of two-thirds animal food and one-third vegetable food. ‘The pro- portions are by bulk, to be measured by the eye, broiled steak and ordinary baked potato being the best data for making allowances for arti- cles having lesser density or more water. What I mean is that you can take, for example, with out exceeding the one-third, a larger apparent bulk of boiled rice than you could of baked potato, on account of the separation of the rice grains and the water they have absorbed. Chew vegetable food thoroughly: If it can be chewed until it isso that it disappears, as it were, down the throat without any special effort to swallow it, it will be perfectly mas- ticated. Eat always at the same time. Do not drink more than six ounces of liquid at a meal. ‘The principal thirst should be slaked between meals, about an hour before meal times. Do notgeat or drink anything cold if it can be avoided.” If obliged to take something cold warm it, if possible, in the mouth by chewing or holding it there. Do not eat manufactured sugar or products thereof, nor any dish or article prepared with the, same. Do not drink choke damp, i. ¢., liqiiids having carbonic acid in them, aa soda, ginger ale, champagne, &e. Ent and drink Hothing. the composition of which is doubtful or unknown or which is known to disagree with you, Avoid malt liquors. An occasional glass of good, sound, ‘still wine may be taken if it agrees, or some well-diluted distilled liquor of dest quality. But it must not be a daily prac- tice. Smoking, not to exceed one cigur right after each meal, is permitted if it does not agree. Soups, spies, puddings, pastry, preserves, candies, sweetmeats, cakes, nuts, raisins and dates should be avoided. An occasional fig is allowed if it agrees. USE NO VINEGAR. No condiments allowed excepting salt, black pepper (usea French table pepper mill), lemon juice (fresh) and mustard and horseradish freshly prepared with lemon juice, A littl onnine cayenne occasionally, especi one fase iitde cold fn the head.” Vi 5 m , JUNE” 20, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. Fresh fruit is recommended, but strawber- rigs, grepes and pinen: yen be eaten ally ly, strawberries. the rind of Rit te eaten or” 2 the or th month it should first be well washed, = . Live principally on roast or broiled meat, fish, poultry and game, boiled rice, wheaten bread, potatoes baked in their jackets, butter, hot water, tea and coffee. Eschew the fatter, oily kinds, such as geese, ducks, salmon, eols: t nothing fried, no made sauces, stuffing or Qremsing. Avoid meats and Ash that have been sm excepting, good dried codfish well soaked out,’ A'soft boiled or « ate °g§ now and then, but not asa regu- ES thing. ‘The watery, ligneous and nitrogenous vege- tables are allow omen Proportion once in awhile. They can easily be dispensed with, being. with the exception of beans and peas, mostly for favor only. They are dear food considering the small nutrition derived. Such as have peculiar specific properties, as aspara- . onions, had better be avoided. lany persons, especially women, dislike the change made iu’ their looks by the reduction of fat. The face becomes drawn and haggard, andthe lower portions about the chit hang flabbily and in wrinkles. This lasts but a short time with the Salisbury diet, in consequence of the nutriment afforded by the meat. HOT WATER AS AN ELIXIR. Hot water is the natural scavenger of the body; those who persevere in drinking it will find not merely the promised reduction of obesity, but a surprising clearness of the com- plesion and a feeling of general rejuvenation, a fightness of body and elasticity of motion, which they have not had since losing their slenderness. Professionals and traveling salesmen who are continually on the road may urge that they cannot take the hot water because they cannot et it even at first-class hotels. But nearly all od rooms are supplied with gas, upon which tho water ean be heated in five tainutos. Ono should carry a tin teapot or thin Japanese cop- per, Kettle holding one pint, either of which can ¢ bought for 25 cents, and a brass or tin éup- port to screw on the gas jet, which may cost from 15 to 50 cents, according to style. The water should always be brought to a boil before using, and sipped when suficiently cool. ‘The boiling is advisable as a means for ren- dering innocuous any organic matter or ani- malculm the water may contain and to know foracertainty that it has reached a proper temperature Itshould never be taken less than an hour previous to eating, or with food, or shortly after meals, as such imbibition would retard or impede digestion by diluting or wenking the gastric juice. Nor must the patient fall into the error of supposing that cola water will be as efficacious as hot and thereby save the trouble of heating it. Cold water drank in excess is liable to. produce weight and discom- fort, colic and pain. It does not act on the liver as hot water does, It depresses vitality, and the heat of the body is lowered in the en- deavor to raise the temperature of the fluid to that of the blood, and this causes injurious ex- penditure of nerve force. JUST A LITTLE PIXCH OF 8ALT.* The water should not be morely tepid,as that isliable to cause nausea and, besides, effect nothing. Take the water as hot as you can— the hotter the better. If you cannot get down whole pint at once take as. much as you can. You will find that the repugnance to its in- sipidity is soon overcome and that you can take the prosoribed quantity without diecom- fort. Itaffordsan immediate relief for flatu- leney, usually one of the numerous annoyances of the corpulent. The hot water should not customarily be mixed with anything, but when first exsayed au infinitesimal pinch of walt will take away its insipidity and dono harm; a small dose of bicarbonate of soda taken with ‘it will give instant relief from sour stomach or “heart burn.” Those things, however, trench upon the province of medical treatment—where Ido not propose to go. ver put sugar in your hot water, for it will do you far more harm—even a very little. of it—than the hot water can do good. “It is hardly necessary to say that the water should be pure. Here are a few things which will soon be noticeable to any one who follows the Salis- bury system: Increased appetite. Improved digestion. Absence of discomfort after eating. First loss of flesh, afterward (partial) gain. Flatulence, heart burn, sour stomach, &c., are cured. Perspiration starts freely after drinking the water. ‘The skin becomes healthy and clear. Iced water and stimulants are not cared for. EATING. Arrowep Ap Lisrrum.—Roast and broiled venison; beef, mutton, lamb, fish, oysters, poultry and winged game (prefer the dark meat), baked and boiled fish (except the oily kinds). ‘fhe meats should be cooked “medium rare” and their fat, sinew and cartilage dis- carded. Fish should be partaken of guard- edly—not for the reason that it makes fat, but dishes or seasoned with any of the foregolag coups, stows, shell sh (excepting oysters), the ollier kinds of Yish and poultry, such as’ salmon, eels, tame ducks and -gecso. breads, all products and pre) Indian corn, such as ‘oatmeal, hominy and corn bread; pan and griddle cakes, fritters, crullers,’ pies, puddings, pastry, cakes, candies’ beans, green corn, crackers, nuts, pickles, manufactured sugar, molasses, sirups, vinegar (substitute lemon juice), Jams, jelltes, preserves, strawberries, meapples, bananas ‘all foods and iishes’ prepared or seasoned with an; foregoing. _ Generally—everything teed or chilled foods, the cartilage tendon, gristle, skin and fat of meat and fish, the peel, core and seed of apples, pears, &c., all sauicos; spices and condiments not permitted in this car DRINKING. Quench the thirst by drinking, about one hour before meals and retiring, all the water that the body craves—drink nothing else be- tweon meals. ALLowxp at Mraxs.—Still dry wine and water alf water), beef tea, water with or without a little lemon juice or good whisky or brandy or gin, clear toa or coffee. Tea and coffee may be Sweetened; lemon juice may preferably be added to tea. Not more than half a pint of liquid must be taken at any meal, and the less you take the better. Do without drinking at meals if you can, and you can if you will only try and keep trying. To Be Cangrunty Avorpep.—Sweot wines, all sparkling or effervescing beverages, such a8 champagne, soda water and ginger ale; all fer- mented, undistilled liquors, such as ale, beer, cider, &c.; liquors, cordials; distilled liquors untess diluted,one part of spirits to atleast four of water, iced water, all iced or chilled drinks. Smoking allowod if it agrees, but one good cigar at the end of each meal is the limit. To reduce corpulent children give them half apint of hot water to drink at the ified times, and put them on the two-thirds Salis- bury diet. Let them fully satisfy their appe- tite, as an inmaficloney, of food would be in- jurious to them. Children are the best judges ‘themselves as to what they require, and rarely eat more of such plain, healthtul food as they should have or than nature needs. It is not so with adults, who are much more likely to over cat to satisfy the cravings of a fictitions and artificially created appetite or merely to please the palate. EAT LESS AT DIXNER. food, but should diminish the quantity taken atevery meal. It can be done, as I can vouch for. Like others, used to eat a regular courso dinner, Lin pot with soup and ending with coffee. Now dinner is my lightest meal, aa 1 eat only a little beef and one smatl saucer of vege! and I.cun confine myself to this meager fare at a hotel table d while seeing others enjoying the delicious vinnds forbidden to me, and tem the obesity will retarn. Tt will most as- suredly if the person reverts to the consumption of anexcess of fermentable and fat-formin foods, just as the beer drinker who has got ri of his “bloat” by leaving off lager will puff up gain if he resumes drinking it, clearing away of the fiabby, clogging, valueless excess of adipose tissue under this treatment will very bly at the beginning induce a condition of emaciation and possibly such reduction of weight as may alarm a timi patient; but noteven the most rigid adher- ence to the meat diet and hot water can make that minimum weight permanent. The health- fulness produced causes the building sp ot sound, thoroughly vitalized tissue in the p! of what bas becn lost, and that substitution will continue until nature has perfected her work, until symmetry of form has been re- gained and vitality in every part is fully re- stored. So, it will be clearly understood, the slight augmentation of avoirdupois inevitably fol- lowing touch of the lowest limit isa demon- stration of returning strength and beanty, not of fat coming back. The amount of such regaining of weight cannot be stated py any hard and fast rule of ounces and ponds, or even approximated asa proportional percent- age, for it will depend entirely upon the in- dividual. Suffice it to say that the rebuilding Will go on ineach case until the limit set by IT 18 A WISE MAN That Both Knows Who Me ts an@ Can Prove That He is Himsetr, From the Detroit Free Press, A citizen of Detroit, who has resided here for nearly twenty years, and who has for the past dozen years runa small carpenter shop on hisown hook, got a check on one of the banks the other day and stepped in to have it cashed. lave to be identified, sir,” replied the cashier, as he handed back the paper. “But Tam John Blank, the carpenter.” “Possibly you are, but you'll have to bring Some one who knows you.” “Tl b in five minutes! claimed the man as he walked out Standing on the steps of the bank he scanned the faces of the passers-by, and, to bis own was ten minutes before he ph ieud. The two entered the bank, and the iatter said to the cashier: know this man to be John Blank. ‘But, who are y you. He must bring some one whom I know fs responsible nature to the perfectability of that particular | ¥,“See here: ‘This ts ai ense !” exclaimed form is reached, and no further. 1° owner of the check, w ‘as in a hurry. Cetra Looax. rhaps so,” was »ol reply. “Mr. Dash, +e —___- THE BACCARAT BEAUTY. “Of course I do.” “Have you ever bad a legal paper with signature?” °. Ever pay him an account or collect one by that nany Sympathetic Account of the Attractive Quali- ties of Lady Brooke. Marquise de Fontenoy in New York Recorder. Lady Brooke, whose name is just now so Prominently before the public in connection with that of the Prince of Wale far more beautifal woman than her photographs make her appear. Indeed, I have never yet seen portrait that did her justice. With ker wealth of goiden hair, her graceful figure and her ex- quisite complexion, she has always seemed to me the perfection of freth, delicate, lily-like, English loveliness. She is, however, far from popular in London, a fact due to the jealousy caused by the partiality which tho Prince of Wales shows for her society, and also to the strong individuality of her character. She does not make friends easily, has a hor- ror which she does not attempt to disguise tor all bores and for everything commony lace, and possesses a mind of niuch originality as active as her body. She drives handiing the ribbons in a delighttul talks cleve: hi “TT nim called John Blank.” Mr. Blank brought in three other, men each don’t believe Tcould. I've just heard one of whom started in with the gre fidence, but came out of the little end of the horn when asked the usual questions. length he remembered a man to whom he sold apiece of property four years ago, and he walked half a mile to bring him to the bank. “You identify bim as John Blank, do you?” queried the teller. Y ned that name to the deed.” “Would you make outh that he is the same fe at him more closely manner, : ly, is a devoted mother to her beau- tiful children’and doesan immense amount of good with her enormous wealth among the poor, both around Easton Ls her country ex, andin London. At the former has organized and maintains a school e over a hundred poor girls of the neigh- od are educated and taught dainty ference, ted Biank. “Haven't I lived a stone's throw of you for ten years?” ~e-s," was the hesitating rep] Didn't I build your barn for you?” “I—I guess you did.” n “Haven't you seen me almost every day for years and years’ g 5 i, I've seen you or somebody who looks feminine trades, such as Incemaking, em-| very much like you, Ithink you are Jobu underwear, &c., commanding both | Blank, but of course I can't swear to it.” cite money was paid, and the teller afterward id: ‘Ho was the right party, of course, but kad T carried out our rule to the letter I doubt if he could have founda man among all his neigh- bors to swear to his adentity. I don't believe we have ten men in Detroit who can prove their legal identity without taking an hour's time todo it. One man knows another as Smith. Jones or Green, but that isn’t legal knowledge, and it would bother some of our leading merchants to furnish legal proofs to establish the fact that they are the persons the; claim to be.” J something of a But what pretty wonuun is not, € when, as in the case of Lady Brooke, she been taught from her earlier youth ‘to consider herself the greatest heiress in London? —e Divorced Ali Around. From the Lewis' ‘The true story is told of a one-time Lewiston man who several years ago was divorced in the west. He came east and married a woman who had also been divorced. They traveled south a few years Inter and there, as they sat on a hotel veranda, the Lewiston man bowed coldly to lady who passed them hanging on the arm of gentleman. Curiously enough his wite also bowed to the couple. She said: “To whom did you bow? “To the lady,” said the Lewiston man with a sort of flushed look on his face. “She was once my wife. To whom did you bow? Did you know her’ oe TRE ARIZONA KICKER. ‘Western Journalism Has Its Annoyances. From the New York World. We Dw Ir.—Bill Burbanke, the mule- whacker on the other side of the creek, is try- ing to make a great mystery of the fact that he gota dose of bird shot in this town the other evening. He says that some one certainly at- tempted to assassinate him ashe was riding along Cheyenne street at midnight, and he thinks of offering 2 reward of $200 for the ar- ,” suid she, “I bowed to the gentleman. I once had the fortune to know him intimately. He was my husbaud. The hotel register read: “Mr. and Mrs. Blank of ,” and this was their wedding journey. rest of the wretch. William is simply playing the public, but he can't play us. We had just stretched ont on our cot Thursday night, and the hour was about 12, when Bill came along on his old dromedary. We heard him cussing while he was yet along ways off. When he reached the office he dismounted and hunted up a club, and was about to smash in a window when we pep- pered him with « handful of fine shot kept on \d for such emergencies. We hardly believed any of them would get through the buckski and dirt, but it seems they did, gnd he had to have adoctor pick them out. The best thing Bill to keep shet. He attempted a smart A Marvelous Transformation, From Puck. H a ft ii F Bd i 4 4 i i ist i Fs, Hn # i il il | f it ru i H +f e i i 8 few drops of my marvelous take this annel cloth— —“Applyi peopenslien, f Society is not cultivated. Such a thing as toothbrush or a volume of poems found’ on man here would hang him. ‘The land around the town is so poor that it takes nine feet of it over a dead mule to bold the carcass down. It is not trade center. We have the Dig- ger Indian on three sides of us and a large family of coyotes on the fourth. The climate wobbies all over creation, mak- ing the demand for buffalo-skin overcoats and linen dusters about equal and mighty steady. Itis notasanitarium for invalids. If the climate didn’t kill "em our doctore would. This is about all, but enough to put our #ub- scribers ou their guard and to our con- science if our advice is not taken. Now, gen- tlemen of the combination, go ahead with your boomlet. Ear for Music. From the Chicago Tribune. A quiet little man poked his head through the office window and said diffidently: ‘live at 206 Bellevue place.” “Yes, sir,” snid the accommodating clerk, as he stuck his pen behind his ear. ‘And I don’t care anything for music.” T beg your pardon,” with surprise. ‘I say I don’t care anything for music. I've probably heard all the best whistling soloists.” Li, what of i i impatient. “Nothing much. You don't expect a man to for musie he hasn't ordered.” “Certainly not. But what in the world— ‘Exactly. I've never made any arrangemen: with you for music, have “OF course not. ’We don't furnish ——” “Well, I wish you'd stop the pumps.” “Stop the--what in thunder are you talking about? ~ “Pumps and music. You're pumping air through the pipes so hard that it whistles when I turn on the gas. Always does it near the end of the month. Now, I didu’t order that whistle and I don't want to ‘pay for it, butit’s going through my meter lke acyclone. You adimit I never ordered it.” ‘The clerk ran his hand under the counter, undecided whether to —“And rub vigorously for a few seconds. The result— eEe i i a3 Es , Positively know this man to be John | | | | mascot now, M MICKEY FINN TO THE Bar, His Parents and Their Kitchen Farniture Join Him in a Game of Ball, Prom the New York Sun. A rubber overshoe lay in the dust of the Old Point road in Cooney Island. Its asofulness had long since «i ried. There wax gaying hole in the heel. Across the toe scart wheel had cut a wide gash. But Mickey Fism pounced down upor it as he returned (rom «cl koa bat ona Junebug. It was just what he wanted for the springy core of a bali. His face shone and his tiny fingers fairly tremble light as he brashod the dust from the welt with the tail of his coat and hurried homeward with his prize. “I'l make an Irish weal league ball wid you afore I od this night,” he muttered, as ho ent Mickey got the legs of which to make a cover he unraveled in the evs ttle pile of blue y shanty nd a tot have in base ball , key “He's a little nagar dre-sed in id the by ‘And fwhat's a footer, I dunno?” asked Mr. Well, he's fist a man wid a big stovepipe hat as sits on the f ail the hairs on Moll k holy poker if someb he will, so ther ‘Will ve hold yer whist th anda ye m im w har has tw mn his two Lome “Wan by Shure, he's at 10's him as hs aix, I can't ail o you're sayin’, Mickey,” said Mr. Finn intereste bis son's t “That through hix body as the yielding sphe feeling wich nature to give Impelied promt oft excl hot kr week to tell yon nd thin you wouldn't know bo this mantel Fil +b \e w “Mr. Finn readily complied moved and the | Then Mickey t The table was laced ont of burm & the four plntes be kitchen etove and placed them on the floor in the shape of a diamond. He the coal veut tleas a right fielder, and the placed in the left field. 7 posed on its back duty as short wash basin was e werub b riield. AW shape mother lad. been watching. with a good deal of interest. 4 Mickey maid “Now, mother, you stand behind me and catch the ball when I don’t bit it wits the club. Father will stand foruin paravions ng t ber me aud piteh like Mickey Welch, d'ye see, and rah, go to blaves out o’ that!” anid Mre. F ping torktand up and toake a target o° meself fur yer father to be throwin ould yarn at!” “Don't be foolish, Biddy ane! Tamed Mr. Finn ina conciliating tone. “Sltand up there like good girl and catch the ballin yer apron and don’t be s'piliw With much grumbling and al Finn took the place assigned lier, 3 straddled the home stove plate, while the Finn spat upon his hand and dug the bail i his hip in the usual fastic: to do by his youthful men hich fell loosely eT Was WIUE Open. when all was in ‘The door behind the pitc “Now, father,” snid Mu readiness, “ye inusht twist the bull around me club wid ‘a jerk o' yer wrist and send it over the home stove plate at the same time. May ‘The ball shot from Mr. Finn’s muscular hand as if ithad been shot out of a gating gan. It whizzed by Mickey's huir, surring lis scalp locks, and, narrowly escaping is mother s eat, struck the bed room dour with eacu force that it started the is tat right/” he asked as his wife fell vas into w chair from fright. “Vis, that'll do,” replied the delighted boy, “only 'ye musht send them over we shtove ‘That's wan ball. ‘This time Mr. Finn pitched the ba'l less vio- lently. Mickey missed it purposely, and bie mother caught it in her aprou, wish the gina ery, “Begorra, I have it?” *Phat’s wan gaid Mickey, in exp tion of the technically, na ‘The next bali came half way between hiv bij and his shoulder. He With a broad the ball and sent it sailing out door. Mr. Finn was gratified “Begorra, bat base bail’s a fine gu: musht have a whack at the ball mes lf to row night. Fuix, I think Ican knock it into the middie o’ next week.” Early next morning Mickey wen‘ out into ‘the yard to look for the ball. He picked up the which be had jeaned anst the door ib on the previous evening. He found that ‘one of the splinters on the hemlock bud caught the end of the yarn which had becuime As ut Mickey could find no trace of the rubber ich he had fo carefully encased in the yarn. He looked for it in the grass and under stones and other imposible places. Just as he was about to retrace lus steps to the shanty he saw the guat chewing upou something epparentiy with great mutisiaction. ikea flash the track dawned upon him. He did mot ery out, but there was u world of sorrowful reproach it the gaze which he bent upon the billy as he climbed the hill and entered the shanty. Mrs. Finn saw his moist eye and trembling lip. Catching her boy in her arms she exciaimed, in a strong Kerry accent: the matther, Mickey dear? Tell “Weil, ye see, mother, whin I wint down the hill—the “hill—to look for the rabber, I found—I found the goat chewin’ on some- thin’, and I'm afeard he thought ‘twas chewin’ gum!” Almost a Tragedy. the Chicago Trivane. veka, have you ever looked death in the In the dim light of the single gas jet that flickered lonesomely in the sky parlor of a West Madison street boarding hous the form ofa young man who asked this question ina trembling whisper cast a vague unearthly ghastlines« fia! ha!” she lang does it matter to y: “Tt matters to y set weet your life has fickleness, your Ceceit, y ment of me a little too fa He did a slungshot, n sandbag. a pair of brass knuckles, two bowie knives, a bottle of vitrol anda brace of Ts O® the table, drew from under hie coat a huge entle vaneed upon the girl, who now turs “It is no use!” he sid, in a harsh, grating vole. edoor is locked and the k my pocket. Do not underiake to cry out. If on do J shell smother you with this" he snatched his overcoat irom the chair on wi it hung and held it threatening ever ber. ‘The truth flashed uyon the horror-struck girl. She was alone with a madman. peril tue brain, onless ur heartless treat- quickness. the brah of Bareke Plamaad.