Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1915, Page 9

THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1915. 14, The Borrowed Christm s :=: B Wi e Copyright. Our Deadly Habits No. 2—Bolting Our Food Part 1. 1915, Intern'l News Survice By Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D. | ‘ The World's Best Known Writer on Med- cal Subjects. Our American dyspcpela, our nervous- ness, our vanishing teeth, our premature baldness and our early death have all been confidently ascribed to “bolting our {ood.” “The reason?’ Why, reasons were as Plenty as blackberries. The starch was not properly mixed with our sallva and, wance, escaped digestion. Our teeth did not get enough exercise and, hence, 100! cned and fell out. Our food was swal- lowed in solid chunke and, hence, acted like lead in the stomach and lald the foundations for dyspepsia and constipa- - | ke X 49 Lk tlon, | [y Worst and deadliest of all, we were M gravely assured that the stomach had no Voo teeth and, hence, that anything which [ X« 7N escaped mastication in the mouth coud not be tackled in the intestines and passed through the body unchanged, | causing an appalling wastage of good tood materials, | One by one these scareheads were ex- ploded. The main reason why the sall- vary digestion of starch, which consists in changing it into sugar, was supposed to be destroyed by bolting the food, was that this change can only take place in an alkaline solution, like the flulds of the mouth_and, hence, the process would | Atop as #00n sa the food reached the acid | ¢ stomach. But it was one day discovered that m- stead of the stomach being constantly acld, the left two-thirds or first pouch | Ji§ into which the food fell was alkaline | after a meal and remained so for three- quarters of an hour or more. So that all that was necossary was to put down the starch, shoot the saliva on top of it and the sugar fermentation could go on perfectly for from three- aparters of an hour to an hour and a #ialf In the stomach. But worse remained. Tt was found that even under the most favorable of cir- cumstances only a part of the starch was changed to sugar in the mouth and stomach and that the most important part of this first step in the digestion of .80 insoluble starch, turning it into soluble . 7 sugar, took place under the.influence of ' the powerful ferments of the pancreas in the intestines. ! The most valuable feature of the saliva | is Its wetness and, as was proven by the drinking at meals test, the more you can add to this wetness within reasonable limits the better the digestion will take place. 8o far as starchy foods are con- cerned—that s to say, bread, crackers, cerea's, rice, corn, potatoes, etc.—all that is necessary in the way of chewing, Is enigugh to reduce them to a. soft pulp capable of ‘belng readily penetrated by the watery juices in the stomach and in the Intestines. Anything beyond this is a waste of time and muscular energy. It often happens that the reasons why we do certain naturel, habitual things are different from what we suppose. We have always been sure that the chief virtue of masticating our food was to mix it thoroughly with the digestive fer- ment of the saliva. | Now we know that while this u\mnrl ferment of the saliva is of some impor- tance, yet the two things which are most | important to mix with our food in mas- tication are water and air. This does not mean that you are to chew with you mouth open and masticate audibly as By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. avell as rhythmically, though the ™usion would be quite as rational as ti f course I know there ain’t no use of gettin’ sore because “Seow-Coaw" fad which had its vogu I'hem children on the avenue is friends of Santa Claus. Bome years ago. . . . Porousness of our food is as importan ie’s like most everybody else in this here world, I s’pose; for good digestion as pofousness of n ‘le’d rather pass his presents round among the kids he knows. soll is for a good crop. One reason Why AT o : 9 breads and hard biscuits, hot or - cold, No matter what some people says, 1’ll never think he’s mean are such excellent foods, and mushce Because he don’t buy toys an’ things for folks he’s never seen. But when I see them Christmas trees, all loaded down with toys, ! | wisht that we was friends of his, like other girls an’ boys. 1 1174 [ (/ and cereals and gummy puddings and slops of all sorts such poor ones, is tha' a pulp of bread or hard biscuit remains porous when wet, while a pulp of mushes. whether cormeal, oatmeal or hasty pudding, or soft biscult, or soggy dough. is almost as waterproof as so much The window we’ve been lookin’ through is only made of glass, But it’s the same as iron bars, if we should try to pass. - SERSHRCR o GO e An’ on the side where Santa Claug came visitin’ last night | illusion fell-namely, that soft-bofled There’s blocks, an’ drums, an’ tooting horns, an’ lots an’ lots of light, eggs are more digestible than hard- bolled—when it was discovered by the irrefutable method of dropping a tea spoontul of chopped up hard-boiled white of egg and a teaspoonful of soft-bolled white of egg into test tubes of pepsin and hydrochloric acid side by side that the hard-bolled was dissolved first, be- cause the pepsin could penetrate into it quicker than it could Into the gummy pulp of the soft-boiled. But, of course, hard-bolled o must be reasonably well chewed, and nobody bothers to chew a soft-bolled egg, and couldn’t if he tried. S0 much for three-quarters of our odstuff starches. When It comes to the bulk of the remainder, the meats, the situation is even more surprising. It was long ago discovered by experiments | An, on the side where we are at it’s awful cold an’ dark. An’ we can’t touch the nice warm glass for fear we’ll leave a mark. An’ somepin’—maybe it’s our hearts—inside us gort o’ aches— It’s funny what a diff’ernce that thin glass window makes! It’s always this way, every year, we cannot keep away— We just got to go down there an’ watch them children play. We try to think that we’re inside, an’ sometimes we pertends That we are like the children there—all Santa Claus’ friends. A’ then it seems a lot o’ fun, an’ often we forget That we an’ Mr. Santa Claus have never even met. An’ when we line up at the glass I look at Sis an’ say: ‘We’ll borrow Christmas for a while; that’s somepin,’ anyway!"’ tered and protected In her own home meets with temptation. The girl whe goos down to business meets It, too, {but In both cases one of two things I8 | with whom she comes In contact, or Hlun- @irls in Business By BEATRICE FAIRFAX, Temptation exists mostly for the peo- ple who look for it or Invite it! This is not the hard-hearted statement of one who falls to sympathize with the troubles | Wh.t Have You " The Bees Home Magazine Page Done With Life? By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1915, Star Company What have you done, and what are you doing with life, O Man, O average man of the world— of her own sex—rather It Is & generall- | Ay erage man of the Christian world we call civilized? What have you done to pay for the labor pains of the mother who bore you? On earth you occupy space; yon consume oxygen from the air, zation to which they are indeed excep tions All throught the world, in every walk of life, there are unscrupulovs and de- signing men, The girl who lives shel- true—the girl is unfortunate in the men ders on her own part invite catastrophe. There are plenty of men In the world who are beasts of prey rather than hu- | man beings. From them neither maid, | wife nor widow Is quite safe. But the average man is & sane, decent person, with plenty of kindly instincts and a great deal of chivalry. Such a | man respects nobody more than a self respecting working girl who Invites ne.ther impudence nor famillarity. A good deal of the talk about the “wolf In sheep's clothing,” who i the average | employer, Is hysterical and quite untrue. | If the grl who «oes down to business goes clad in an armor of dignified selt- respect, of efficlent determination to do her work and do it well, and of faith in the fact that the world s bullt on the principle of “live and let live,' she is likely to get on famously and to find | herself quite undisturbed in her desire to do her work, But does the average rquipped? Doesn't she rather have w iittle sneaking feeling that her sex Is An asset—and one she might as well make the most of? Doesn’t she dress to be attractive so that even office boys will gellently sharpen pencils and run errands for her? Dcesn't she roll her big, blue eyes at the boss” when she wants to get o few extra ‘afternoon hours off? Doesn't she Invite admiration because she Is pretty girl rather than because she s sn efficient worker? It she does these things, fled in posing aa & persecuted martyr | when some man takes her at her own valuation and treats her as a forward coquette rather than as an efficient girl go thus| | is she justi- | business woman? Not all giris do go down to business with the idea that it is a superior mort of matrimonial agency or & place where feminine charm Is to make feminine work a far easier thing than it would be if the employers were women. Not all men imagine that the busi ness girl 15 an adventuress who is look- ing for trouble or a shy little creature who Is falr game for any man, But there ure men who take this unchival 1ous and contemptible attitude toward women just as there are women who warrant men jn taking it. The (omptations of a busness girl aro Aue directly to two things—the weakness In the armor of some silly girls who cause more dignified ones to be mis- Judged, and the wickedness in the natures of some men which a dignified girl by meeting and meeting well may possibly be able to lessen in slight degree. The girl who goes down to business ‘willlng to do her work and not to be & cry-baby, and try to take advantage of her feminin'ty to get her off from any dffficulties, will meet with the protec- tion of every decent man with whom she comes In contact. That girl makes it easier for every other girl In the business worid! The men who have met her and who know what a ‘“‘white, honest little thing" ehe is, remember her and treat all other working women with a. respect due to the germ of an idea that “white little thing" engendered. There is a fine chivalry in work for women. Women owe it to one afiother to uphold it. Every girl who behaves herselt with dignity, who does her work well and who neither looks for trouble nor becomes panicky when she sees actual slgns of it, keeps that chivairy white and fine, And when she meets with difficulty she will find there are plenty of aplen- did men ready to answer her with pro- tection and to mive her the “benefit of the doubt.” It does not pay for the businees girl | And what do you give in return for these things? | Who 18 better that you live and strive and toll? Or that you live through the tolling and striving of others? As you pass down the street does anyone look on you and say, “There goes a good son, a true husband, a wise father, a fine citizen? A man whose strong hand is ready to help & neighbor, A man to trust?” And what do wom Unto their own souls what do women en say of you? say? Do they say, “He helped to make the road easier to tired feet, To broaden the narrow horison for aching eyes, He helped us to higher ideals of womanhood ?"" Look into your own hearts and answer, O average man of the world, 1 Of the Christian world we call civilized Ard what do men think of you-—what do they think and say of you, O average woman of the world? D> they s 8he can be trusted to meid the mind Look into your own heart, O woman, Is your today a better thing than was Have you grown in knowledge, grace And throwing away the threads? Strikes have been prevalent over the | country, and laborers aro demanding that | the eight-hour system become universal No human being should work at any one | oceupation more than elght hours a day. All the work in the world should bo properly aecomplished, and there could | he comfort and prosperity If every one | in the world worked' six hours a day. If there were no idle people there would be no necessity to overwork the laborers. The time is approaching when matters will be more fully adjusted and equalized. But meant'me, while you are clamoring to have your hours of labor reduced from ten to elght, are you making plans re- garding what you will do with those extra two hours a day? It you are a man, do you intend to devote those wonderful 120 minutes to your home? Do you mean to glve your family more pleasure, and your wife and children the happiness of your soclety, or are you thinking of the extra time you can spend at the club, or In the corner saloon, or lrl the poolrooms and gambling houses? If you are a single man Is it your ambfion to devote those two hours of time each day to studying and perfecting yourself in some line of endeavor which will enable you . to fill a higher position later on, or are you hoping to indulge yourself in greater disa'pation and frival- ity each day during your hours of leisure? Results little short of miraculous can be achleved by applylng one's self to a certain line of endeavor two hours every day. A trade can be acquired, a knowl- ecge of music, a language, an accomplish- ment, a plicture can be painted, a book T BEATRICE PAIRFAK Covault & Phywsician, Dear Miss Fairfax: T am about to be- asked me to marry him, but I have held off answering him. until 1 get your ad- vice. I do not know whether 1 should tell him that my mother died from consump- tion, as 1 know most peo) to marrying into uuch father says it makes no di there {s no use telling him. you think in justice I ould tell this to him before 1 become engaged? 1 am very much upset. HELEN. Consult & rellable physician aa to your problem. Tuberculosis s not hereditary— to look for trouble, It Is beneath con tempt for her to Invite it. If she does neither of the two the difficulties that chance to beset her will be fairly easy to handle. but occasionally the tendency is. I hope #incerely that the doctor will give you a clean bill of health, but in any event you will never know peace of mind unless you What are you doing with the beautiful year ““There is A woman with a great heart, | Loyal to her sex, and above envy and evil speaking; There is a daughter, wife, mother, with a purpose in life. ot little children; She knows how to be good without being dull, How to be glad and to make others glad without descending to folly; She is one who {lluminates the path wherein she walks , One who awakens the best in every human being she meets?" and answer this, your yesterday? and usefulness? Or are you ravelling out the wonderful fabric knit by Time Make answer, O woman, average woman of the Christian world: can be written, and many other wonders ful things can be achieved by the person who resolutely applies himeself two hours every day to some one purpose. Reducing the time of labor does not mean for you a blessing unless you re- solve that your brain, your body, your heart, your mind and your purse, shall all share In the benefits which thoas two hours can and should bestow upon you and yours. It you sre a woman, the same state- ments apply to you. The oight-hour system will not profit you It your two hours of leisure each day are to be spent in idleness, in meaning- lees chatter, In vnplanned and misdi- rected ghopping, or in foolish reading. There are good books to be read, studies to take up, and the beautifying of your surroundings to worthily occupy those extra hours. If you have a home you can do much toward making it a real home in adding those Jittle touches of comfort and beauty which only a woman's loving hand and taste can pri- vide, It you are a mother you can come in closer touch with your children by en- tering into their pleasures, by reading to them and with them, and by helping plan pleasures and recreation for them. If you are s singie man, living in furn- ished rooms, you can devote that time to a school of correspondence or in ac- quiring some new light and new power in your chosen fleld of endeavor. Two hours a day frittered away without & purpose or an aim or spent in frivolity are much worse for you than two extra hours of hard work. There was one woman whose husband was industrious and comparatively sober and orderly in his life, while he worked ten hours a day. Saturday evening was frequently a time of dread with her because then the man loftered at the corner saloons and came home the worse for liquor. But the remainder of the week he came directly to his home, Finally all the workmen in his depart- ment stuck for the elght-hour system and obtained, It together with an increase of wages. Within a week after the Inaugura- tion of the new law the man began pay- ing a dally visit to the saloon on his way from work. Every night he returned to his family the worse for drink, and be- fore six months had passed he was dis- changed as an Incompetent workman. This poor wife charged all her mis- fortune and unhappiness to the elght- hour system. But it was the lack of stematic thinking and ‘a lack of fdeals which caused the trouble. What tel the man you love the facts of the case. ;ldeflll have you regarding life? both on human beings and animals that | so active and vigorous are the pepsin of the stomach juice and the pancreation of the pancreatin, that meat swallowed in cubes three-quarters of an inch square | is well digested in a healthy stomach and ntestine. L_ How the Earth Was . swallowing diameter of thel Not that it is advisable to swallow it in chunks of this size, but simply as an fllustration of what the digestion can do If 1t is put to it. Our ancestors of the stone age, and for the matter of that af the fifth and sixth centuries, could gorge thirty pounds of meat at a sitting, when they could get it, in chunks the size of which was merely limited by the throats, and be none the worse for it, except a little drowsiness for three or four days. That is the sort of a pedigree our stomach has. In-Shoots By DR, ARTHUR L. DAY. Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sclences. It must have been & very turbulent sea, the meolten surface of our earth upon which the rocky crust began to form. The first patches of crust were probably shattered over and over again by escap- ing gases and violent explosions of which our waning valcanic activity is but a fee- ble echo. If the earth was first gaseous, and the outer surface gradually condensed to a liquid, its outer portions at least must have been whirled and tumbled about sufficiently, even & few thousand years (which is a very small interval in the formation of an earth), to mix its va- rious ingredients pretty thoroughly, It has accordingly been hard to see just It never cleanses nastiness to call it t Upon the whole, & paying job is better than a hero medal. To appreciate histionic art it is better not to know the actor. The womaan with a velvety voice often has & disposition like a buzz saw. how it came to separate into individual rocks of such widely different appearance and character. Of course, the num. ber of its ingredients was large. We have already digcovered eighty or more different elementary substances in the earth, and there is an almost endless number of more or less stable compounds of these. The freesing of an earth ia therefore, ditferent from the freezing of pure water, but the freesing of sait water offers a clue to the explanation of the way in which the earth solidified as we find it. When salt water freezes, the calt is practically all left behind. The Ice contains much less salt and the remain- ing water relatively more salt than be- fore freezing began. Applying this famil. far observation to the supposed molten surface of the earth as it besan to solidify, we have a suggestion of order and reason in its separation into so many kinds of rocks. Now, what more promising questions occur to one than these: If the earth was originally fluid, as It appears to have been, and has gradually cooled down to its present state, its component minerals must at some time have been much more thoroughly mixed than now; how did they come to separate in the process of the Off Ear. ‘‘Bobby," inquired the mother, “did you wash your face before the music teacher came? “And your hands?" “Yenm “And your ears?" “Well, ma.” sald Bobhy udicially, 1 that be next to the one her.”"— Loulsv Ilk Conrhl Jouml and groups as we now find them, and what were the steps in their deposition? If the whole earth was hot, whence came the marble of which we have so much and which can withstand no heat? What has given us the valuable deposits of irom, of gold, of preclous stones’ What determines the various crystal forms found iIn the different materials, and what is their relation? 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