Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1902, Page 15

v THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1002.™. TIPS ON TELEPHONE POLES ‘Bome Btatistios Ooncerning the Number in TR Use on Omaha Btreets. WHERE THEY COME FROM AND THEIR COST ) [N AT Comparative Figures Bas \ lations . to These Poles Wi Considerable he Variow t Serve Afford formation. “m [ Were all the telephons poles and all Rhe electric light poles and all the tele- €raph poles in the corporate limits of the city of Omaha cut up into cordwood it would make in the neighborhood of 55,734 corda. It would take an ordinary boy 111,- 468 days, or over 305 years, to cut this into Istovewood lengths, provided there was no };mmc to go to when the pile was finished, and he worked Sundays. Two boys would Become gray-headed before they finished the Job and three boys never would get done It 1t took an ordinary boy 111,458 days to cut this wood Into stovewood lengths it would take him 111,321 days to eplit it once, 222,641 days to split it twice, and 536,923 days to get it to fit the kitchen stove, pro- vided he worked ten hours a day. It would take him 2,000,769 days to cut it sufciently fine for his father to start a fire on a rainy morning without swearing. It would take dim over 60,023,070 days to split it fine enough to look Itke toothpicks, and 1,800, 692,100 days to polish them sufficiently for a purchaser to know that they were in- tended for toothpicks. When they were ready to be placed on the market people then on earth would have no need for toothpicks. A half-grain pill In a teaspoonful of gastric julce would mean a week's rations and no chewing would be necessary. Hence the people of that day would dub the boy a lunatic and banish him to Arkansas. Some Additional Sta Were all the follage cut from these trees, before they became poles, and the follage taken to Missourl and made into brush piles in the spring time, after the firet snow In the early winter, more rab- bits would hide under the piles than one ocould shake a stick at. Twenty-three thou- sund and forty school children would play 'hookey’* on account of the rabbits and brush piles, and the amount of ‘‘book larnin’ "' that would not be “larnt” during the time the snow was on the ground would make a president, did he know It all Were these poles to be placed right-end up in the Missouri river near Omaha, it would dam that mighty siream so com- pletely that only Jehosophat himeelf could save it, It would take a boy with a ham- mer as long to drive these poles In the river bottom as it would for a man to prove these figures incorrect. Were all the electric light poles and all the telephone poles and all the telegraph poles in Omaha, that fs, the large poles— not tadpoles—were all these planted in the business part of the town, in the same condition In which they were taken from the forests, the sun would never shine upon the pavements. Planting them forty- elght to the mile, they would make a row of trees over 207 miles in length. Place them one on top of the other, they would reach higher than Gilderoy's kite. A rough estimate places the number of large poles, poles from thirty to sixty feet in length, At 14,268, The exact number is not known to any of the managers of these companies. No one manager knows how many poles his company owns, nor how many miles of wire is strung on the poles. then, Home of the Pol These poles are white cedar and are shipped here from Idaho, Wisconsin and Michigan, and from the increased num- ber being used in the various cities of the country, It s not unlikely that at no very great distant day, these forests will be- come like the famous cedars of Lebanon— only 200 will remain. Did one person own all these poles, work for that man would be ended. They rep- resent more than one fortune. Could & man tramsplant them to Hanscom park in their pative state, that man would have a home for “‘razor back" hogs and insects, and that is all that could live in the park. Join them together and one would have a flag pole that would sweep the skies. It would not be less than 570,720 feet in height. Spellbinders could orate about it for years and the people would not cease to wonder. Imagine a forest containing over 14,000 trees, and one has an idea of the number of telephone poles in the city, and what 1t would look like were they all in bloom. ‘Were they scattered along the streets, awn- ings would be a nuisance. These poles would bulld a fence around the world, They would fence a majority of the farms in the state and make good tight fence: Some More About Poles. The manager of the Thomson-Houston Eloctric Light company stated that he did not know how many poles were in his pos- sesslon. It is estimated roughly, however, at 3,000. The shortest of these s thirty feet and very few exceed sixty feet iIn Jength. This company gets its poles from Chicago, where they are shipped from W consin and Michigan. The poles are fif- teon inches at the base and seven at the 1op on an average. The cost as much as any(hing else make one not familiar with lumber companies wonder. Recently this company needed ‘two poles seventy-five feet in height to earry a lead wire over an icehouse. These poles cost $48 each. Poles of the regular size, between thirty and sixty feet In dength, cost from $3 to §$18 each. It is not he scarcity of the timber, not the work of getting It trimmed up In shape, that makes them so expensive, but the freight The poles from Idaho are considered the best in the market and are the most ex- pensive. There is one objection to these, however, and that is they carry their fthickness too evenly. A pole seven inche Jat the top would be only nine inches at the sbase. For that reason the electrio light company uses the Michigan and Wisconsin poles. The telephons vompany, which is newer and is supposed to set the pace, uses the {1daho poles exclusively. This company idoes not know how many poles it has in !Omaba. In Nebraska, lowa and the Black Hills 1t owns 13,700 miled of wire. A third of this, it is estimated, is strung around on the streets of Omaha. It is es- ‘timated that it bas not less than 8,028 poles upon which to string this wire in Omaba. The Western Unlon Telegraph company is the owner of & string of poles thirty- miles in length In the corporate limits of the city and the Postal Telegraph has about the same. This would mean about 540 miles of wire. The Postal Telegraph has & man out now trying to find out just bow much wire and how many poles it does _— RELIGIOUS. conference of Catholic ool- held in Chicago on July § the Southern Presby- ls ha money t_The ual leges will be and 10 The chil terian 8 for & now missionary steamer on the Congo. Rev. Dr. ¥. E. Clarke has again been chosen president of the United Societies o Christian Endeavor at their convention ii Boston. In all France there are about 60,000 Frotestants, and during the last ten years Etchings of Tropic Isles | Floating in the bluest waters of the seven seas, writes & correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, lte the Antilles, dreamy, vaporous, uncertain of reach and outline, peaked with volcanoes, rimmed with vil- lages, the hill tops fringed with palms that rock in the wind and toes their leaves like & green smoke, their beaches white and clean, the very heavens bending over them in a softer light than that of our land These are magic isles and when one leaves them they have taded into opalescent mem- ories, not so dear as those which hold to cooler zones, yet filled with color, tender- ness and fragrance. Heaven knows, I would not live there, yet when I hear music and when the fragrance of flowers steals upon the sense at night I shall dream of the West Indies The very approach of them is different from that of our northern ports. Sea water Is to us a slaty dark that froths up into green in storms and that in the shi lows is yellow and turbid. In the Carib- bean it i¢ the most wondrous bfue that can be conceived. It is like nothing other than & few of those hot springs of the Yellow- stone that go down and down till they boll against the heated rocks of the earth's interior. 1t you can imagine the lapis lasull without Its flecks of pyrite and imagine it transparent and shot through with light and imagine it curling at the surtace into flames of sky color, that is the water of the warm seas. It is tremen- dously deep under your feet. If you were to step overboard you would go down for two miles. That depth may have to do with the purity, hence with the color of the water. Nature would seem to be partial. Thero are many places that could have been spared so much more easily than St. Plerre. Here was the handsomest and most com- fortable town in the Lesser Antilles. Else- where are towns that are neither handsome nor comfortable. They are beautifully en- vironed, but what poor, undeveloped places they are! For the West Indies, regardless of ownership, are wretchedly poor. These islands are owned by the English, French, Ditch and Danes, but all are alike in the poverty of the people. The white residents appear to enjoy certaln of the comforts of civilization, but the blacks, who constitute 90 per cent of all the population, live in cabins of slabs, with roofs of cane thatch, and subsist on yams, bananas, co- coanuts, mangoes and breadfruit, with an occasional loaf as a luxury. The wages run from sixpence to two shillings a day, only mechanics aspiring to so imposing a wage as 50 cents. Nor is this meager stipend offset by low prices in foodstuffs. Most of the foods that are mot produced at home are sent from this country, and when one adds freight and duty and the shopkeeper's profit, it will be seen that Delmonico din- ners are Infrequent among the workers. Still there is this advantage, that It costs little to keep house. I should judge that tho average West Indian residence cost about $10. And it is not often re- paired. It is perched on stilts to take it out of the malaria and to keep snakes from sunning themselves on the doorsill. The fur- nishing inside is merely of pots and pans, New Cathedral for Omaha “Any church,” says Ralph Adams Cram, the architectural writer, in his interesting work on “Church Building," *‘where the bishop establishes his throne, becomes a cathedral, but the cathedral line is more than this. As the altar is the center, the culmination of each individual church, so is the cathedral the center and culmination of the whole church. Structurally it s the work of generations of men striving to show forth in some sort the glory of the heavenly city, the power of the church triumphant.” It Is a sign of educational progress and development when a community begins to realize these things and to call for the inception of an edifice in accordance with them, to become the focus of enlarged and united religious actlvities. This bas taken place in the Catholle community of Omaha. The growth of the city and increasing importance of its Catho- lic socleties make the demand imperative. The result of this feeling materialized last week at the “retreat” of priests at Creigh- ton college, when the design of the pro- jected cathedral was shown by its architect to the assembled clergy. The new cathedral is to be placed at the junction of Fortieth and Burt streets on a magnificent lot In a highly Catholle neighborhood, close by tho Sacred Heart convent, the bishop's residence and the homes of some of his most prominent parishione The style of architecture shown in the design is Spanish renaissance, which naturally .prevalls in Mexico and South America and is well adapted to this part of the country. Another point in.favor of this style was suggested by the architect ~—1. e., that Spain, most deeply of Cathollo countries, is also the only one whose ca- thedrals were all originally built for wor- shipers of that faith and have never been appropriated by any other. This is a point of sentiment, but such will doubtless appeal to those who are interested in the cathedral. A short description will properly accom- pany the plan here shown. The bullding is to be of gray stone, as also the structural Interior portions. Its plans may be described as a great auditor- lum, the easiern end terminating In a round apse, enclosing the sanctuary. There are to be seating accommodations for about 1,800 persons with a total capacity much above this. Oppasite the eanctuary under the western rose window, are the choir and organ loft, flanked on either side by massive stone towers, severely simple in the shaft and richly ornamental above. Through the west portal one enters a epacious vestibule, or narthex, conneeting at each end with the ambulatorium, or surroundt way, by which one can make the tour of the church without disturbing the worshipers In its main body. Reached from this passage on north and south and surrounding the apse are grouped memorial chapels. A large winter chapel is at the left of the side emtrance, where the trans sept of the Gothic cathedral is usually found. Across the church, in the other arm of the cross are the sacristies. Beneath the whole is a great crypt, where services may be held for many years, pend- ing the completion of the superstructure; and where the permanent heating and ven- tilating apparatus will be placed. The priv- ate chapels and ambulatorium will be lighted through first etory side windows; the nave and apse chiefly through clerestory windows. The main roof is in the form of & huge barrel vault with richly moulded ribs, penetrated by the arches of the clere- story windows. The whole structure will be over 260 feet in length by 175 in width, the roof of the nave rising to a helght ihelr forelgn missionaries have increased from thirty-seven to ninety-seven and their annual income from $65.000 to $225,000. In China there are 1746 walled cities. In M7 of these missionaries are at work. Only slghty-eight vil and unwalled towns aave mission stations. Cholrmaster Evans of the Metropolitan temple, New York, says: ‘“‘Vesting does away with all class dis It enables knives and forks and represents a smaller capital than the house. The clothing is & shirt and trousers for the man, a gown and bandana for the woman. No shoes, stockings, coats, overcoats, seldom a hat, no coal to burn, no lamps to fill, no art, no fads, no nothing much. Life s reduced to simple terms. It follows as a result of this poverty that little meat is eaten, in most families al- most nome. You do not crave it fn the troples, anyway, but rather resent it. Yet, emall as the dietary is, the blacks are lithe and muscular; they walk with a free step and an admirable carriage; they do as much as can be expected of a man in a broiling climate and they are middling moral. The crime for which so many ne- groes are lynched in the south {s un- known and a white woman ie safe any- where. Indeed, these negroes are a per- ceptible improvement on the colored peo- ple of our southern states—that s, the new eneration of our colored people, for the old uncle and auntle were admirable char- acters. These West Indians have as a rule been educated in a common achool; they read and write; they express themselves in correct English; they are said to be content with small stealings, and when they beg they do it with an alr and a modesty that take all the sting away. You have heard of the kind of colored people they have in Monserrat, haven't you? Down there a brogue is spoken by the public, because this has been an Hi- bernian island ever aince Cromwell used it as a place of exile for the rebels he did not kill. The exiles followed the fashion of the time In forcing the populace Into slavery and the descendants of the slaves are engaged in making lime juice and talking Irish. A sailor from Cork, hav- ing landed at the principal port, fell into conversation with a particularly black ‘longshoreman and was filled with aston- ishment at the familiar speech. “For hivin's sake an’ how long have yez been in this place?”’ asked Pat. ‘Sure, an’ it's two months since I came over.” Meaning that he had crossed from the other side_of the fsland . “Well, It 1t makes a dacint man look lfke yous in two months here's what's goin’ to Ireland be the next ship,” replied the scared member from Cork. One of the stunts that the colored per- sons do which is more difficult than to talk with & brogue is to dive for pennies or sfl- ver—silver preferred. These doings may been seen in various ports on the arrival of a steamer. A mative ls rowed over to the ship in a boat that in some islands is like & coffin, and in the French possessions is almost a model, in little, of a Stwash cance. His costume consiets principally of complexion. He asks you to throw some money Into the water. You hold out a sixpence. His eves glisten. He puts ons foot on the gunwale of the coffin, places his hands together before him and watches for the dropping of the coin. You flip 1t Into the water, saying to yourself that it s the last time anyone will see it, for the eea is deep and nome too clear. As it rgrikes the surface the youth goes in with a splash PROPOSED CATHOLIC CATHEDRA! #THOS: R-KIMBALL - ARCHITECT+ of about 100 feet and the west towers to nearly double that height. The ambulator- ium and chapel roofs flank the matn build- ing on either side and with their vaulted buttresses will give it ample support, vis- ibly as well as structurally, The roofs will be of tiles, the floors of plastic mosalc and the whole fireproof. The style may be called one of brilllant coutrasts rather tham harmony, the orn: ment being grouped lavishly at focused points and thrown into relief by simple sur- roundings and backgrounds A high basement will give an added ad- Charms of the Lesser Antillies. and in three seconds he is pulling himselt into hie boat and brandishing his arm with a grin. Between his thumb and finger ho holds your cofn. He will earn more In half an hour in this way than he can earn by exemplary industry on shore in two days and can keep cooler while he fia about it. But imagine the quickness of a diver who has overtaken a sinking plece of metal and the sharpness of his eye as he sees It going to the bottom through water filled with the bubbling and churning of his own descent. ‘With so poor a people it is hardly to be expected that the visitor will find much to please him in respect of roads, hotels and other appliances of civilization. Excepting two or three little mule trams, which was destroyed by Pelee, there are no raliroads and the recent torrential rains have Injured miles of what they call good roads for wagons. There are surprisingly few horses and wagons, so the damage la not so great to the industries and com- merce of the region. Of roads it is hard to imagine one more beautiful than that on St. Vincent, which winds along the shore from the chief port, Kingstown, to George- town. It first ascends a steep hill, lined for a mlle or more with negro cabins nest- ling among palms and bananas, then comes out on the heights, commanding views of Bequia and other little Grenadines, sleeplug on the bluest of seas, their cliffy shores purple in the distance. Just at your feet the slopes fall sharply toward the ocean, which rolls in big surges on white beaches and hurls columns of spray against towers of volcanio masonry. Usually there is no guard to this road in the shape of a fence or wall, and where it winds along the shelf of a precipice you cannot avoid the wish that the driver had kept sober. You call his attention to the risk and he responds by steering the wagon into the gutter on the other side, which is cut deep to carry the rain; and nearly bumping your sconce against the cliff. There has been no engineering to speak of in the construction of this road. It is in fair order, but the grades are fierce. Tt would have been as easy to carry it around the bulges of the hills as over the tops of them, but the ploneers on the island never thought of that. We pass deep coves, where arrowroot is epringing broad and green, but with a queerly irreg- ular look, for it is not planted in rows as we jplant things, and wo see a little Indian corn and many palms, bread fruits and mangoe We want to try some of these strange fruits and vegetables; but no. The English taverns glve you only English food; roast beef, potatoes, preserved quinces and a lot of other things you get at home. You get light claret wonderfully cheap and beer that 1s dear at any price. All drinks are served warm, except tea. The white folks drink unpardonable quantities of rum and whisky, which ought never to be used in a hot country, and the best drink there, to my mind, is fced tea with limes in it. The native frults are squeezed of their juices, and you can drink watered syrups in the little cafes of Martinique, but they are trifing things, fitted for the French taste. Church Proposes to Edifice the Catholic Erect. e I PLAN OF TOMAHA_ vantage of position to the structure, while the approaches will be made easy by many landings and few steps. The sanctuary will be raised above the main floor, the inner eanctuary, where are found the high altar and bishop's throne, will be more clevated 111, offering to all a clear vi itself. The confessionais will be placed in the thickness of the walis. The plan provides for nineteen private chapels, & winter chapel and & baptistry, as well as for all other essentlal features of the great cathe- dral, the highest and most complete form Medical Monopoly! DIA you ever hear the agonizing cries of a little poodle that and chewed up by a large mastiff in the streets? Well, he yelps because he is get- ting the worst of It. When you see doctors neglecting what little business they have in order to annoy successfal doctors as much as possible, it Is very easily figured out on the above line “A llon was once informed by a monkey In & game of poker that there was no use for him to roar every time he 1ost & pot. ‘The lion retorted that he knew it was not, and that that was what was being shaken of argument one of of the altar | Cures for Diseases of Men. the difference between quit his profession, without regard to There Is an underhanded maliciousness than anywhere eise instance, have been told over and at thelir office, ‘The following extract, haera ter. ess matter. Frank Lydston, it says on the sub, “In nearly every young man hypochondriasis that in certain “In all cases of severe On page 990 of back and thighs are among the more “Some patients with vi in the back, thighs and testes, etc, et The author goes on to plea CENT . anti-septic_methods, however, have become deservedly popular. cal and mental effects of the diseas “The principles already for and the patlent instructed to tient This, gentlemen, s eth coming in vogue, but ts to mothing, in order, et 0o not. believe that the IN decelve the public. An honest physiclan, justly be condemned for attribute our them all on a single line of diseases, what we are absolutely certain case of VARICOCELE, that will not readily yleld to our sp su Little Booklet Free. profession, right to do it. interest of sick and needy poor they people’s money to keep some rival from tramping on their professional toes. “An Act to Protect “An Act to Bestow Certain Privileges Upon Certain Doctors and Deny to Others of Equal Learning the Right to Earn a Livellhood in This State in Their Chosen Profession.” lute, else the courts would be powerless to prevent subversion of rights in bullding up & medical aristocracy in a free government. Their aim ia not so much to protect the public health as to create and perpetuate a monopoly in the practice of medicine and surgery and protect the doctors instead of the public. should read: pills and musket Serienc ory ma breath whose experience in !ur“en\)lllflu: mona . (he. red in the world. ou let it al and they will tell you to let alone. " . to treat your case who can. 86n't Want someone else to ‘:"‘“yu"g"’ Xy f t on QUERL o oW A ke d0 of TA Text Book on Genito-Urinary and ect of Varicocela: ected with marked Varicooel instances make his life miserable.” Varicocele there is unquestionably a marked laok of tone of the sexual apparatus.™ Irritability of the vesical neck, neuraigia of ‘Opinions _as to the lld\'|!l;’\||“l)h:(;1 y o ave e Ametnods, however, have demonstrated the safety This is fortunate, for t o are very demoralising. " B o say that— After all this the author goes ofl 10 N&F A hapter on genito-urinary and sexual hygiene should be & Cortain extent {n sexual physiology Trom the clutches of the quacKs. informed. that y. y r marriage, all probability, entirely disapepar aftef MPTTRAL 1004, ‘and 1 ask, what do you think of 1t? He tells the young doctor how fortunate it is that operations are to tell the affileted one that it is a matter what he pleases to call quacks. of regular physicians are so much opposed o advertising as or by blows hot and cold with the same breath? man who' blows hot and eold with the, sHEy TELLIGEN they e 00 Powd to the army of advertisers who only fmitate someone else, NRE, CONT. ST RICTUR eclal treatment. (No charge for consultation.) made him roar.” The hide-bound doctors of this state a few years ago spent hundreds of dollars of the people's money to prevent an honest and worthy physician when a declsion of the courts showed that they had no legal or moral It they would spend a few Some of the medical laws that read would win more applause than by It 1s & good things that from following his hundred of their own money In the using the the Public Health" legislatures are not abso- constitutional Under many of these laws & man may have entered the army as hospital steward age, service or ABILIT ave been confined to a ou lar ethi Every mother’ er by local doctor: the testes, dragging pains along nd had the experience of lon embracing more deceit, son of you who are afliicted with Varicocs that the disease amounts to nothing That is because the average physician can do you no good, and by aptitude and skill in medicine and surgery there acquired, won by experi- ence and attention to his duties, promotion to aasistant surgeon, and from that to r full surgeon of a regiment dent d yet, unless he had a parchment from & few callow youths who knew not wounds and accldents incldent to war. and yet, uniess he had s parchment from x fo cullow youthe wh and take & course from a pair of eyeglasses and bad many years in diseases, He must quackery and for aand Go to them tom: word, from one of the latest and most standard works in ethical prao- o sincerity of the local doctor who tells you Bexual Diseases, there is more or less mental depression and sexual that Varicocels is a i and by the eminent author, G. the spermatic cord and pain in the disagreeable symptoms produced by the disease. o, iity in the following language: 'and preferable methods of treating Varicocele vary considerably. a decided leaning toward conservatism This beln, He should be the affect! " eto., ete. arn how to do them properly to keep them away froi T class he_sa; t Manhood in 30 to 90 OVER DAILY NEWS OFFICE. fon 1s perfoctly harmie mastered. v slight Varicocele are profoundly depressed and complain greatly of reflex neuralgic pains <. UNTIL RB- (non-interference). Since aseptic and of operation In Varicooele, various methods of radical cure ere is a certain proportion of cases in whom both the physi- riglaly antorced keep 'the Da- will, in What do you think of the absolutely necessa varfous absurd claims endeavor to who has ability and ekill to put on the market, for the benefit of his fellow men, cannot a5ing o by Aannouncements through the press, and such criticisms emanate only from jealous other physiclans to the faot that we only treat a limited number of allments, w m,": over the entire fleld of medicine rE o concentrate Success ove and surgery, as most doctors do, wi Instead of scattering our f B s rary o5 . s o t we can positively cure, to stay cured. We challenge the medical e 'AGIOUS BLOOD POISON, NERVO-SEXUA’ P10 aiiled trouties We therefore treat only DEBILITY or allled troubles . We cure Varloocele in 5 to 10 days to stay cured forever, and do not use knife, thread, draw a drop of blood or resort to surgery. We cure Blood Poison in 20 to 60 days; antec in every case we mccept for treatment. Write or eall. days, and give a legal written ook Medical Company 110-112 South 14th St., Omaha, Neb. FOOD ROUTE TO HAPPINESS How Far Belection and Good Oooking Cen- tributes to the Joys of Life. EXPERT REMARKS ON PROPER EATING Reasons Why Variety of Foods at One Meal is Bad—Unwise Combina: tions Ruin Taste and Digestion. (Copyright,. 1902, by Eustace Miles.) The Greek word for “cooking” was the same as the Greek word for “digesting.’ The “pep,” which is seen in ‘“‘peptonme,” “pepsine” and other derivatives, was once connected with the Latin root in coquo, whence we have our English word ‘“‘cook- ing,” and that is onme of the functions of cooking—to do some of the digesting for ue, as well as to improve the taste. The best kinds of food should be care- fully selected; they should be as fresh as possible and as clean as possible, and they should be gooked with their natural prop- ertles preserved. We must keep that which is usually thrown away, and we shall need few, it any, seasonings Besides this, we get the full taste and bave mot the same craving for varlety. We do not demand half a dozen flavors in a single dish, especially it we eat our food caretully. When we combine a number of foods the chances are that at least two of them will quarrel. That is the objection to great variety at a single meal. And yet we have not studied variety. Certainly no sus study displays its results at big din- pers. The last which I had—six years ago — -st, I think, $7 for myself alone. Quite apart from the irritating condiments and venomous waste products, I wonder of how many irreconcilable combinations of food I was the victim. The Hindus know the art of preparing and cooking food. With them the cook is a kind of priest; and why not? As the clergyman is supposed to prepare food for our minds, so the cook actually prepares food for our bodles. The Hindu, as a rule, will not combine fruits and vegetables at a single meal, even though that meal may be a banquet of many courses. He will think out what foods should or should mot g0 one with another. Does any hostess ever do this In America? It would be in- teresting to give a serles of dinner par- ties based on sclentific principles of food combinations and food values and see how much more the guests enjoyed it. Taste would be considered even more carefully than it is now, but health for the first time would be considered also. Choosin, One's Food. It is easy to say that each individual should choose his own food. We talk about treedom. In practice we are slaves. It is almost useless to urge persons who live in families to be a law to themselves. But, fortunately, we can say something practical. Discard whatever is indigesti- ble to you; except on very rare occasions let nothing induce you to take that which will cause you discomfort. It is not worth while. No one has a right to make you ill, not even your own family, day after day, with the very kindest Intentions. Get free | from that yoke. You can get free from it it only you show that you are healthier and more agreeable (or less disagreeable) without errors of diet. Realize this: When your devoted family says to you, “You must take so-and-so, or you will die, you have only one answer that will appeal to them, and that is, “I am in better health of religious architecture. the poor boy to stand beside the rich and Rot feel abashed because of & shabby A theological seminary under control of the southern Presbyterian church will be opened this fall at Austin, Tex. An endow- ment of $100,000 has been ‘subscribed. Prof. Stetson of the University of Chi- (0 told the students in a lecture on “Peychology and the Preachers” the other day that a minister of the gospel ‘should compose his own hymns, words and music; should be a skilled art critic, have a smat- tering of architecture and be an expert psychologist.” Rev. Edmund 8. Rousmaniere, who is Ukely o be the next rector of Bt Joh lwh. ington, was born on the umoud-:' i same year as nt Rooseveli—Oc- tober 27, 158 and in better temper living in my own way.'”” To that there is no repartee worth listening to. Directly they begin to ask you to be unhealthy physically for their sake, they might as well ask you to com- mit gradual selt-murder. Surely it is time we realized that & man bas no more right to poison himself that way than he bas to poison himself any otber way. Oue bhint here: The food sbould not be served o its orthodox order. Let the pro- teld come early in the meal; just t the | need to be end of the meal it is a bad mistake. If the | ttracted. If we have few foods we must take every pains to have them| foods be wet, let dry foods be eaten at in- | pleasantly and properly served. tervals. In German nature cure establish- ments of the best type this rule is insisted on. In English households it is considered “ungenteel’” to deviate from the regular mode of procedure, How utterly stupid we are to sacrifice vitality to silly custom! The Dry Food System. Whereas, that which s watery may, as 1t were, flush the body as a flood will wash away filth, a dry dietary may absorb ob- jectionable polsons and at the same time nourish the system well. The dry diet has effected innumerable cures; it must be eaten slowly—that is a physical neces- sity. No one can drink a hard biscult, though some people may practically drink a plateful of porridge or an orange. There is the story of a woman who went to a nature cure establishment in Ger- many. She was taken out early on her first morning there. At the end of a long walk to the woods she felt tired and hungry. All that was offered to her was a plece of brown bread, dry and hard. She refused it and refused also to walk & step further. The doctor who bad ac- companied her told her that she might stay there. ‘This, of course, she did not care to do and she began to walk back and soon asked for the bread agaln and ate it with comparative gusto. For a long while she was confined to this dry bread regime, with plenty of exercise and cool water, and soon she recovered complste health and refused to go back to her old way of living. With sufficlent hunger the dry foods became de- sirable and desired. They need nmot consist solely of bread, though dry bread or biscult or something tree from moisture should be added to wet foods that we take; for otherwise we do not excite our saliva, and thus we do mot digest our starch properly. The saliva also will help to fill the stomach and satisty the sense of hunger. The food ehould be as nourishing as possible and should not merely be white flour. Whole wheat bis- cuits are far better. Such a course should help to absorb what the old writers called “the evil humors of the body.” The less severe course s to reduce the number of foods which we eat. The Few Foods Plan. The few foods plan is not to be confused with moderation, though the two may be combined. Much food may be eaten, but the kinds of food are few. The advantage of such a mode is that the julces of the body get into a certain habit; they act regularly at certain times, in maDy cases they occur in increased quantities. Besides this, if we eat few foods the sp- petite is satisfied more sensibly; there is less craving for excess. Let a meal be provided in which there are fifteen delici- ously tasting dishes, and bow many bave the strength of mind or the knowledge of whatever it may be to refuse most of them? But take an extreme case, consider a state dinger. Then imagine yourself trylng to eat the same amount’of food if it consisted of two kinds only. It would be impossible. You would be disgusted long before you had finished a quarter of the meal. It is the variety which encourages you to overeat. A high authority has sald that when only one good food be taken at a single meal that food hardly can disagree, if there be real huonger. Health may be preserved or restored by many different classes of few foods, al- most any class can produce examples of great success. The Sallsbury treatment can do so, In spite of its frequent fallures. 1t consists of incompletely cooked beef and | plenty of hot water. Others have lived en- tirely on oats. Frult cures have been count- less, whether luscious fruits slone be taken or whether nuts be added to them. Or trults may be combined with grains or with certaln grains. There is & salad cure. There is & vegetable cure. There is & cure of vegetables with meat and without pud- ding. The truest health is to have few wants. The man who is not content with one or two dishes at & meal may be enormously rich, but Be is mot independent Yet we | midday? Few Foods and Few Tastes. It there is any law here it seems to ba that at one meal there should be few foods and few tasies, however delightful these tastes may be. Certalnly the whole tasta should be preserved and increased by wholas some culinary art. Certainly the whole o most of the taste should then be extracted by careful mastication. The question Is whether we should stickd to two or three kinds of food always. Im favor of the idea is the fact that econ wa are able to extract the greatest amount of benefit and of flavor from these few foods, as our digestive julces get into special trains ing, and that we are unlikely to eat in gross excess, since the temptation is emaller and the sense of taste and the instinct of sae tiety keener. But against it is the dimzer of becoming a slave to a narrow regime. There are eome who are simply ill if they €0 out of their small beaten track of dfet or of lite. I know of one who does not dare to wear boots; he is thus cut off from much coclal life. He s regarded as a orank. Probably it would be the ideal to be able ta enjoy a few foods, and to be able to digest them thoroughly, but not to lose the power of digesting many other foods as well Time for Meal The soclal difficulty also stands in tha way of taking meals at the times whicly might otherwise be best for the individual, Except in cases where very small meals should be taken very frequently, when there is, as it were, a perpetual nibbling of tiny mouthfuls (which 1s far the least soclal of all arrangements), the tendency seems ta be toward two meals & day as the best plan. A week's trial must be given before any verdict can be passed, If only because what 1s called the “hunger habit,” akin to the thirst of the dipsomaniac, may prevail during that time But how can we adopt the two-meal plan without interfering with domestic and othen requirementa? Perhaps the evening meal is that which we can I Let us, therefore, re consider a two-meal plan, evening meal shall form one. The Two-Meal Plan. ‘We may give up our breakfast or lunch« eon, or eat a very light breakfast or lunche con—for instance, & fruit breakfast or & biscuit luncheon—according to our individual needs and temperaments. Reformers un< derestimate the power of the household and of soclety. They do not calculate for doe mestic tyranny; they do not realize that the permission of those In authority must be obtained or else peace may be lost. kOlh!r'll‘ the ome-meal plan might ba st The one-meal plan can be led up to ‘adually through the three-meal and two- meal plans. The other two meals should become lighter and lighter by degrees, easy steps being made by fruit er biscuit me; or by some other form of small re freshment. When should the ome meal be? Is it possible to stay the whole day untll the evening without exhaustion? One can not possibly tell till after fair trial and at once nearly everybody cally out that & fair trial would not be worth the cost. Or shall we wait till midday, then eat and rest and eat nothing again till the next Or shall we take breakfast only and live the whole day, from morning till the next morning without taxing our die gestion? Probably most people could ac« custom themselves to any system if they bad the strength of mind and the patlence. But which is best? In view of the soclal life, I should decide agalnst the one-meal plan except as a temporary means of restoriug balance. For that purpose it 1s most excellent. I should sug the approach toward tho two-meal plan, with the second meal taken at least two hours before one retires to rest. Then there need be no heavy break- fast, but perhaps a fairly heavy meal at midday. I do not imagine that whom the two-meal plan has once r sulted will care to go back to any other plan or absence of plan. of which the