Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 20, 1905, Page 4

re Sra ay oat eas BES! By E. C. KILEY. WI DOLLARS A YRAR IN ADVANCE @atered in the Postottice at Grand Rapiz Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter, HOT DRINKS FOR SUMMER, Doctor Considers Important Subject in the Matter of Diet. A medical practitioner has drawn attention in the London Chronicle to a very important subject if. the mat- ter of diet. He points out that the stoker grilling in the stekehole of a Red sea liner and the explorer among the ice floes of the frozen North—pro- vided they are healthy men—have identical temperatures. The automat- ic heat-regulating mechanism im the body, no matter what the thermom- eter may register outside, sees that the body is kept at a normal tempera- ture of about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. in order to assist this wonderfull proc- ess in extremes of weather, it is _mecessary to consider the subject of food, and one of the most important items of food in hot weather is water. Water, as the writer points out, is a food, and it should be taken in sum- mer weather as a regular article of diet. The habit of drinking iced wa- ater is discountenanced, and the ice cream is barred as the most fruitful fause if innumerable dyspepsias. Bet- ter than cold drinks are hot drinks, and tea with a slice of lemon is rec- ommended as the most cooling drink | in hot weather. VARIOUS KINDS OF DAYS. Word Said to Have No Real Meaning Without Defining Adjective. Five kinds of day are recognized, and it has been said that the word “day” has no real meaning without an adjective defining what kind of a day is meant. There is a civil day, the 7stronomieal day, the apparent solar e@ay, the mean solar day, and the sid- ereal day. The eivil day begins at the midnight preceding mean noon, and consists of twenty-four hours counted after twelve o'clock; the astronomical day begins twelve hours after the civil day, or at the mean noon of the cor- responding civil day. These hours are reckoned from 0 to 24. It will be seen, therefore, that while 10nr. 12min., January 1st astronomical time, is also 10hr. 12min. January 1st civil time, yet 22hr. 12min., January Ist as- tronomical time, is also 10hr. 12min. a. m., January 2nd civil time. There are many anomalies growing out of this use of the civil day, and there are many arguments in favor of using the astronomical day. It its one of the reforms which undovbtedty will come some time. The Old-Time “Nanna.” A writer in a recent number of the Queen expresses the opinion (which is shared by many other people) that children are not one whit better brought up by the smart, white- frocked, certfficated nurses so much sought after nowadays than they were by the comfortable “Nanna” of the days gone by. The old nurse. still holds a place in the hearts of the men and women who knew her loving cczre when they were children, and tsey will never forget her “treats” that used to delight their hearts. “Best of all,” says & woman, “was lantern tea, when all the lights were put out, and the nursery was illuminated by penny tin lanterns, containing colored can- dies, which cast weird shadows on the solemn faces round the festive bourd. THEY HAD MET BEFORE. Business Man’s Introduction Decidedly Humorous. “The most curious break I ever made,” said a young business man the other day, “was at my club. I was in the lib 'y talking with a man wha was in my class at college and whom 1 knew intimately, As we were sit- ting there in walked another member of the club whom we both knew. We poth greeted him. Then the conver- sation continued, only three were in it instead of two. Suddenly it oc- curred to me that perhaps my two friends had not been introduced. pardon,’ I said; ‘I suppose you men know each other. Mr. S » Mr. They laughed, but they grave- ty shook hands and said they were ac- quainted, and all that sort of thing, and then they looked at me and laughed. again, only harder than be- fore. Then it all dawned on me. newcomer bore a fairly strong resem- blance to another man whom also I knew well at college, and I had as- sumed, not having looked at him close- ly, that he was this man. But he wasn't, after all, and the man I had introduced him te was his own brother.” Beauty Mask Displeased King. Margaret of Navarre, queen of Hen ry IV—she whose wedding torches were quenched in the blood of the massacre of St. Bartholomew—wore a peculiar complexion mask at night, which so irritated her husband that, not: being choice in his expressions, he said to her roundly, not long after the wedding day: “Madam, with that confounded black mask on, you look $0 much like the devil that I'm always tempted to make the sign of the cross & drive you away.” ‘Beg | The ; Verdict of Coroner’a Jury on cay of : Wreéked Sailor. : ‘Records of the ancient city Gorge ana, founded in 1640, better known at © the present time as York Harbor, Me., j contain many quaint and unusual sto ries of the early life of the town. At the entrance to York Harbor a | bold promontory known as Stage Neck { | ‘not due for another half hour. extends some distance into the sea, from which formerly in stormy weath- er a temporary light in the form of a lantern hoisted upan an upright pole was displayed as a warning to mari ners, ‘ One dark winter night a sloop was wrecked on these rocks, A survivor, on being questioned about the catas- trophe, said: “The vessel struck, turned over on her side, and the skipper and another barrel of whiskey rolled overboard.” The local coroner Was summoned, and this samewhat startlikg verdict was returned: “We find that the deceased fell from the masthead and was killed; he roll- ed overboard and was drowned;. he floated ashore and froze to death and the rats eat him up alive!’”—Harper’s Weekly. GOCD ADVICE FOR ALL. Cultivate Calmness if You Wish Health and Happiness. A beautiful woman gave the follow- ing advice to a girl admirer: “Shield your nerves and don’t let them become too sensitive. Make yourself take life calmly. If you lose a train don’t pace the platform wildly, but inquire when the next comes ix, and sit down calm- ly to wait for it. That’s just what most women don’t do; they sit down, perhaps, but they tap the floor with their feet, clinch and unclinch their hands, and are apparently in a fever heat of excitement over thé arrival of every train that comes in, even though they have been assured that theirs is That half hour of waiting means to them a frightful wear and tear of nerves and they are practically weeks older for it. Try to cultivate calmness, bu:, if you cannot do that all at once, you can keep your face still.” “Dog Trot” a Misnomer. “Dogs have a variety of gaits,” said the boss. of the kennels, “therefore | can’t. understand why it is that peo- ple who describe a certain style of locomotion always call it a dog trot. Judging by the universality of that expression, a body would think that a dog never moves any other way than on a trot. But he does. All the gaits belonging to other four-fcoted animals are also his. He runs, he lopes, he even racks and paces, so when a person in a hurry falls into a peculiar kind of canter, there would be just as much sense in speaking of his gait as a dog run or a dog gal- lop, once in a while, as always to call it a dog trot.” Forest of Dwarf Trees. The most extraordinary forest in the warld is one discovered by Dr. Welwitsch, which occupies a table- land some six miles broad, at a height of 300 feet or 400 feet above the sea, near the West Coast.of Africa. The trunks of the trees of this peculiar forest are 4 feet in diameter, and yet they only attain a height of 1 foot, giving the tree the appearance of a round table. There are never more than two leaves, which attain a length of 6 feet and a breadth of 2 feet, che flowers forming crimson clusters. Stay, Stay at Home. Stay, stay at home. my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest; For those who wander they know not whe Are iull of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best. Weary and homesick and distressed. ‘They wander east, they wander west, And are baffled and beaten and blown about By the winds of the wilderness of doubt; To stay at home is best. ‘Then stay at home, my heart, and rest; The bird is safest in its nest; O’er all that flutter their wings and fly A hawk is hovering in the sky; To stay at home is best. Longfellow. Rest for the Bedridden. In cases where absolute rest of the body is necessary, and the patient gets very weary of lying still, a most welcome rest and change to the limbs can be managed by the nurse raising the knees of the patient well up in bed, and then putting a good, substan- tial pillow or bolster well packed un- derneath them. In time, of course, the patient wearies of this position, then the support should be with- drawn, and fresh relief is afforded. This would also give great comfort to people partly paralyzed. . Happiness a Great Force. A happy man or woman is a‘ better thing to find than a £5 note, writes Stevenson. He or she is a radiating force of good will,”and their entrance into a room as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty- seventh proposition. They do a bet- ter thing than that. They practically demonstrate the great theorism of the liveableness of life. A French Custom. In France a newly married couple do not have the ordinary bridal calls made upon them.: Instead, garbed in their best, the bride and groom pay | visits to all their married friends. Imagine a shy woman’s émbarrass- ment when she must call upon total strangers—especially if she marries away from her own neighborhood, or her husband has a country house in a different euarter. | talking together over the camp. fire, ; hand.” , great Lualaba river.” Scribner’s Magazine: “I remember one evening in Africa when we, were his telling me, laughingly, about a certain prominent personage who was well known for his pamposity and self- importance. He swid:- “When 1+ re turned from finding Livingstone Mr. X. distrusted me and otily offered me one finger of his hand to shake. After my return from my second’ expedition, when I sailed down the Kongo, he gave me two fingers. When I had founded the Kenge Free State for the king of the Belgiams and returned to England 1 got three fingers; but it took me years before |. got his whole This seems to me typically British, and 1 merely quote this little stery to vindicate the grudging recog- nition which has been given to most or the great explorers by those ‘arm- chair geographers’ who stay at home. Livingstone suffered from -his same attftude of incredulity and returned to the interior of Africa, where he met his death, because he could rot bear to face the unbelievers in London un- til he had solved the mystery of the FAKE TOOTH WAS VALUABLE. Enabled Missionary to Gain Influence Over Savage Tribe. A well-known Chureh of England missionary among the aborigines of Queensland, Australia, gained great influence over a certain tribe in a very peculiar manner. This tribe had the queer custom of | having the front tooth of the upper jaw knocked out. The missionary, by accident, had lost this same tooth and replaced it by a false one. When he got talking with the aborigines, he would .pull it out, point to the hollow place, and say, “Me, brother, belong to you!” In this way he gained the complcte confidence of the tribe, converte every member of it to Christianity, and introduced as much civilization as they were capable of assimilating. The Lord Is My Shepherd. PSALM XXItl. The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watehful eye; My noonday walks He shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. When in the sultry glebe I faint. Or on the thirsty mountains pant, To fertile vales and dewy meads, My weary, wandering steps He leads, Where peaceful rivers soft and slow Amid the verdant landscape flow. Though in the paths of death I trena, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear neu For Thou. O Lord, art with me stil Thy friendly crook shall give me a And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds 1 stray, Thy. bounty shall my pains beguile; The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowne e And streams shall murmur al! around. —Addisoa, German Betrothal Customs, When a maiden is betrothed in Ger- many she is called “bride” by her sweetheart, who addresses her thus until it becomes time to call her “wife.” Immediately upon betrotha! the lovers exchange rings, which, if the course of true love runs smooth, are to be worn ever afterward untit death parts them. The woman wears | her betrathal ring on the third {nzer | of her left hand until she is married, and then it is*transferred to the third finger of her right hand. The hus- | bend continues to wear the ring just | @s the wife wore hers when she was a “bride,” so that one can easily tell at a glance if a mar be or be not mort- gaged as to his affections. Memorials to Americans. Many American boys and girls visit Europe nowadays, hut perhaps few even of these fortunate young folk are aware that the greatest of Eng- lish cities contains. memorials to five distinguished Americans—a President, a patriot, a poet, a preacher, and a philanthropist. These five great men are Abraham Lincoln, James Russell | Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfel- low, Matthew Simpson and George Peabody—five names written high in the Hall of Fame, names immortal in life and letters, names forever illus- trious in character and achievement. —St. Nicholas. Bird Sentry on Guard. I was interested on Sunday in watch- | ing the movements of birds. Crumb- ling a biscuit, | threw it out, sat down on the piazza and awaited results. It was not long after the birds came and helped themselves before a cat appeared. Then a warning note was sounded by a bird, evidently on guard on the top of the piazza, where he could survey the whole scene. At his warning every bird disappeared and remained in hiding until a reassuring note was heard from the little sentry posted on the piazza roof.—Boston Record. About Books, But for the art of reading there never would have been any books. The wide diffusion of that art ac. counts for the immense increase in the quantity of books. The lack of direction, cultivation and discrimina- tion of that art accounts for the de- cline in the quahty of books. Like readers, like authors. The great need of the world of letters.is the promo tion of the habit of reading with judg- ment and the Jove of reading with teste—Fenry van Dyke. cised ts One Reason. Faculties must be exercised or they will not grow. Nature is too good an economist to allow us ta keep any faculty or function which we do not employ. We can have just what we use, amd that will constantly imerease; everything else will be gradually taken away from us Man becomes strong aud powerful and bread just in proportion to the extent and health- fulness of the activity of his faculties; and it must not be one-sided, not an exercise of one or twe feeulties, or one set of faculties, or the man will topple over. Balance in life comes from the healthful exercise of alf the faculties. One reason why we have so many one- sided men im this country is because they pursue one idea, exercise one side of their nature, and, of eourse, they cannot retain their balance. This is one of the curses of specialties. They are a good thing for the race, but death to the individual who pursues his specialty at the expense of the de- velopment of the all-around. man.—O. S. Marden in “Success Magaziue.” BEAGLE HAD HOMING INSTINCT. Traveled Long Distance to Reach His Former Master. County Commissioner Henry P. Mann of Baltimore county, who lives ai Orangeville, near Baltimore, ts credited with telling the following story of the return of a beagle hownd to Orangeville, from Kent county: “Abcut three years ago I gave away a beagle hound, which was taken to Kent county. One night recently I and my family were amazed to see the dog walk into our home and take position near the stove. It was very eold and hungry. “I eannot account for how the deg got here unless it crossed the bay from Rock Hall to Baltimore county and walked thence to my home. The dog had:frequently hunted im the por- tion of the county thromgh which it had to pass, if it came all the way from the bay shore. “This is no more remarkable than a homing pigeon ffying 500 miles beek te his nome.”—Baltimore Sun. Ancient Canadian Castles. To Americans castles are associated with the storied Rhine, picturesque England or France and Spain, but it is interesting to be reminded by the St. John (P. E. I.) News that there are a’ number of ancient Canadian eastles still existing, the chief ones being St. Ours, Rimouski, St. Eus- tache, Lotbiniere, Montibello, Ste. Marie de la Beance, Vaudreil, Row ville, and, most interesting of all, the Chateau de’ Ramezay at Montreal. The latter was built in 1765 by Ger- trude de Ramezay, at that time gov- ernor of the district of Montreal and knight of the Royal and Military Or- der of St. Louis. From him was de- scended the last French governor of Quebec, at the time of the ecapitula- tion in 1759. How Brown Bears Catch Salmon. Alaska’s brown bears near the Ber- ing sea live largely on salmon and are extraordinary fishers. Before be- ginning to fish they always place themselves on the downward side of the river. “They seem to smell the | salmon by some extraordinary means,” says a hunter, “and then be- gin dashirg in and out of the river at some shallow place, rarely failing to catch a fish. They bring it out on the bank and devour it, if possible selecting some thick patches of bushes and grass in which to make their meal, which does not take them long.” British Warship Joke. A good original story is to hand from H. M. S. Alacrity, now in port. Sammy, the young Chinese steward attending on the wardroom mess, heard one of the officers at dinner complaining of the unusually hot taste the mustard had. Next day the mustard pot was miss- | ing and could not be found. was called and, after Sammy being ques- tioned, admitted having put it in the | tee chest, as he had heard the offi- | cers complaining that it was too hot. —South China Post. Might Have Answered “Fleas!” An East Side kindergartner was about to give her class a lesson, with “The Kitten” as the subject. She be- gan by saying: “Our lesson this morn- ing will be all about the kitten. Now, can any little boy or girl tell me which grows on the kitten—fur or feathers?” A dead silence followed for a min- ute, when one little boy said im a loud voice: “G-o-o-d Lawd! MHain’t you never seen a kitten?”—Life. The Bell. He died . - Alas, they said, what promise died With him—what youth, what eloquence, they sighed— They wee had left him lonely days te witnnoiding then what now they id give. But his rich grave, that to the living seemed So aa oe aw brimmed with starlight as he fain And ae away’ a muted bell set free Rang in immortal choirs his ecstasy. —Louise Morgan Sill in the Outlook. Humor of Clerical Life. To those about to seek admission j into holy orders, an interview with the ordinary is a time of much anxi- ety, sometimes of mental confusion. 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