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The. Value of The nocturnal habits of dwellers in| Von Moltke and Bismarck were all farge cities have for so many years tended to make people careless about betimes in the morning that e sturdy agriculturist who visits the t centers of population is shocked find himself alone in the streets |y when he lea‘\;es hishho(el .':jt olin t':u morning to begin the round of sight- peeing. Yet in all ages and all climes the advantages of early rising have been impressed upon the people by example and proverb, and there are many strong reasons why, especially in the summer, it is wise to make use of the early daylight hours. The ancient Athenian, rich or poor, would have regarded as unpardon- ably late the usual hour for the com- __ mutor to catch his train to go to “Nthe city. Athenian school boys will march to school at sunrise and law- yers and doctors were accustomed to . offer free advice to clients at 3 and 4 " o'clock in the morning in order to in- duce them to patronize the ecarly hours of ‘he day. ; The tim: for meals as fixed in_ dir- ferent rlrh of the world is a reliable indication of the getting up time. In the Scotch highlands dinner used to be served at 9 in the morning and supper at 6 in the evening. And this early hour for dinner remained in fashion all through the middle ages. The breakfast should be eaten at the usual time and the early riser will find that the appetite and the gener health will be much improved and the -~ mervous system will feel more settled. In fact, the special effects of early rising are so highly bepeficial that many of the “cures” to which people travel thousands of miles owe lulli as much to the sensible daily reg min which the patient is forced to undergo as to the medical properties of the springs. In the countr; places and among eountry people e value of early ris- is most a rlrent. Before man ed to build fires and avail himself i artificial light he was accustomed 80 bed when the sun set and his slumbers whenever the mfiuu of the sun furnished il- tion engugh for him to see his bout. it is that the man of o lives most nearly accord- !ll_!{ t:lg t plan is the most healthy. e oldest man of modern timey was Ml Clrna.wh: hveg neuri ihore- , where the parish reg- Ister «?&:uyur 1588 mentions h'u untimely death at the early .‘h. of 207 years, So much for the habit of regular and natural life, There is a well-authenticated case Servian peasant who lived to 185 Russian of 165, who was well ; a:l healthy at that age. Every one Y heard the celebrated: and ancient story of the Highlander of 60, who complained bitterly that his father had to'be after him for not being able to lift his 1r|ndhther. Benamin Franklin practiced his r ing in the matter of nrli ris- d Kant, Humboldt, Thiers, ing him, cut down al the veranda drinking the ozone to the nursings. THE BEE: Early Rising | fond of the early morning hours. They all realized the stimulating qualitics of that time of day, when the plants begin to give off their oxygen under the rays of the sun, and the lungs and the skin work est. The dweller in big cities will find that he benefits especially if he gets up at § in the morning and takes a brisk walk before. the dust of the streets is stirred up, and while there are fewer pairs of Jungs pouring foul gases into all outdoor. The city man whose business oc- cupation begins not until 9 or 10 in the morning, but who is then forced to spend the rest of his day penned in an office or shop with dozens or hundreds of other laborers, needs to get as much fresh air as possible, and for him there is absolutely noth- ing better than the habit of arising an hour or two before his breakfast time, The parks are deserted and the shores or river, lake or sea are free from disturbance or noise, To one living where it is possible to culti- vate evef so small a garden the early morning exercise and the close asso- ciation with the fresh earth will work wonders in refreshing mind and bod‘y. Since the weakly will find it bene- ficial to spend the early hours on ltrengthcn the system. And those who have a hobby—what better time can be found to pursue it? Great authors have done all their writing before brekfast. The ambitious young man who studies an hour a day be- fore the rest of the world awakens can acquire a liberal : education al- most before he realizes it. Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax No! Dear Miss Pairfaz: Do you think s-young about to recel ur!nl molnmkw‘::{a.l::‘n d.:& ing of her Inf husband being invited to several hen, she 1 n"nl concluded to refuse same. _Are the right steps to take? . 'PUZZLED.” My dear girl, you are making an ab- surd fuss about nothing, Since ‘you are not publicly engued there is no reason on earth why your fiance's friends should include you in weddin’ invitations, If your engagement is announcéd before these weddings take place you will probably receive invi- tations to them provided. the people concerned are versed.in questions of good form. However, if you. are not invited you can hardly hold your lover responsible for other people’s lack of knowledge of etiquette, and you will be foolish and narrow-mind- ed either to attempt to prevent his (oinr or to make your engagement contingent on his refusal. WhentheBaby Has Fever in Summer ‘Take off his clothes. _ Bponge him all over ‘with cool water every Put wet cloths on his head, § Call the doctor. ‘Lighten hie food at once.’ If you're nurs- I mlum't nursing him, put him on the food nearest to mother’s milk, NestlesFood (A Complete Food—Not a Milk Modifier) most delicate baby can digest it—it is as safe as mother's milk itself, Don'tgive him cow's milk. Raw cow's’ is usually the cause of summer fever and summer diar- thea, And summer diarrhea takes more bables from loving arms than any other cause. 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Madam?" or bot, with eatislying. - 'Pork and Beans — N - ourishing, appetizing and Ack Your Doaler for JGTKF Food Products ARMOUR R cOMPANY OMAHA, TUESDAY, HE Lover, tumbled of head, fresh from dreams where he touched her hand and facing the day with its wheel of work—and her hand far—"turns out” and gropes for the window where a pink- gold light glows. He tears back the curtains and lifts a dream- veiled eye. All the world liesAcogl and purple save the sill of his win- n Over the rim of the dark blue wall of mountains, casting her light to the pale,dying moon invading the quiet chilly sky with banners and they are touched with faery light. Things Worth Knowing A little olive oil poured into a bot- tle of home-made catsup after the bottle has been opened will prevent the catsup from spoiling so quickly. To remove old varnish from furni- ture, take three tablespoonfuls of bak- ing soda and put it in a quart of water and apply it with a rough cloth, If eggs are placed in hot water a few minutes before ‘breaking, the whites will separate from the yolks very easily. They must be cooled be- fore whipping up the whites. To hemove tea, coffee, fruit and vegetable stains from white goods, heap salt on the spot, rub hard, and rinse it in hot water in which consid- erable borax has been dissolved. A reliable test for mushrooms, says an experienced housekeeper, is to put Richmilk,malted grain extract,inpowder. Forlnfants, Invalids asd growing children. Pure nutrition,upbuilding thewhole body. The Food-Drink for all Ages More-nutritious than tea, coffes, etc. Subetitates cost YOU Same Price l T e JUNE 13, 1916. bbng il o ~ o R A TN S A AT B 9203 21 - By Nell Brinkley Copyright, 1916 International News Service. W 144000 9 m Iy 44 marching waves of gold and rose, comes the girl he loves, the light of the world. In the growing fire of the cloud-feathers he sees the great flare of her golden hair! superstitious. She wings u| of the world on rosy foot and gilds his world Knowing little, just over the dark edge or him. Lovers are then, they believe much! And when the first ruddy light reaches across the face of the land lies full on his breast above his heart, the Lover laughs aloud and takes the good omen! —NELL BRINKLEY. a bit of silver, such as a well-washed dime, into & dish in which they are cooked. If it discolors, the mush- rooms are unfit for food. The steel rod from an o}d umbrella | or parasol will make an excellent painted green will look well. The ribs, too, may be brought into use for a similar service. Rub a little butter under the edge of the spout of the cream pitcher; it will prevent a drop of cream from plant supporter next summer, and if‘rulning down over the pitcher. Strawberry Sponge By CONSTANCE CLARKE, . While in some homes lunch is quite an_elaborate meal, in other spicuous for its unappetizing and un- interesting menu. he impression one gathers is not worth while troubling t lunch. If the farmily are hungry, well, there is something for them to eat, and all energies must be saved for the dinner menu. This is a great mistake, and especially dur- ing the hot weather, when appetites flag, and need to be coaxed by dishes pleasing alike to the eye and palate. Here is just the kind of dish suitable for a cold luncheon. Take a fresh sponge cake, cut the cake through the center into two layers about one and one-half inches thick. Stalk a box of strawberries, whip half a gnt of crearh and flavor it to taste. Put a few halved straw- berries and the cream between the layers of cake, then decorate the top with the whipped cream. Serve at once. (Tomorrow—Cream Soup.) " Health Hints --- Fashions -- Woman’s Work -:- Household Topucs How the World Looks to Him - *Sunrise” War and the Birth Rate By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M.D Anybody can prophesy, but it take: a clever prognosticator to have more than half his predictions come true When the war first broke out, eugen- ists and pacifists, and biologists, his torians and hysterians united in pro: claiming with a loud voice that th deadliest and most serious damage of the war would fall not upon the present generation, ' terrible as its losses would be, but upon the genera- tion yet unborn, and the future stam ina and make-up of the race. Whatever else might happen, who ever might -win, whatever changes might be made in the long-suffering map of Europe, the one sure and in evitable result would be a tremendou falling off in the birth rate and a fear ful increase in the already excessive surplus of females, There coulr hardly have been a more dignifien and substantially supported predic- tion than this—grave scientists, emi- nent eugenic authorities, statisticians, political economists, all subscribed to the prophecy. Indeed, the result seemed to he as unnecessary and self- evident as that the juxtaposition and superposition of two and two will in- evitably achieve the quadrate triumph of fourness. A large . proportion of married men, particularly of the younger ages$, when families arc in- creasing at the most rapid rate, would be taken from their homes and kept away for months or even years; and an even larger percentage of young, unmarried men, at the very age when they were most likly to marry, would also be taken out of the country en- tirely and prevented from marrying to say nothing of the percentage of both groups killed in battle. What else could possibly happen but large decrease in the number of children born to the nation? '_I'h&s it was clearly and indisputably pointed out would occur in highest degree and most striking fashion in those nations whose armies were filled by conscription and universal military service, and least noticeably in those which depended upon volun- tary enlistment and had a much smal- ler proportion of their young adult males on the firing line. At the end of a year of war the of- ficial records of vital statistics were consulted with fear and trembling, but showed a considerably smaller de- clinein births than had been predicted. This, it was explained, was due to the fact that many of the men, particu- larly in England and France, had been ‘kept for the first three to sfx’ months in training camps, from which they could easily revisit their homes, and had not yet been sent to the front or out of the country. But nine months more have now fasscd and this explanation will no onger Hold, for the fighting has been so general and so bloody that fully three-fourths of all the men called to the colors have been sent to the front and many of the regiments deci- mated by actual service, while those who are now in the training camps are mostly young boys of 18 or 19, not yet a factor in the birth rate. ‘There has been a frightful slaugh- ter of fathers and potential fathers in the European war, so that the full and unmitigated effect of wa~ on the birth rate has now had time to dis- play itself, with the astonishing and agreeably disappointing result that the figure show a falling off only of 10 to 15 per cent after more than a ear and a half of the bloodiest war in all history! Only a little greater than has been recorded in the years following any severe industrial crisis or period of gard times. What makes it still more surprising and appar- ently detached from war influences as such is that the fall of the death rate has been almost as great in vol- unteer England, with only about 20 er cent of her adult males on the gring line, as in conscription Geér- many, with over 40 per cent of ite male population in the army. Not only so, but in several districts in England, which have become ex- tremely prosperous from the huge boom in manufacturing ammunition and army supplies and the high wages paid, there is actually a slight in- crease in the birth rate and a distinct increase in that even more delicate barometer of financial conditions, the marriage rate per 10001 And a some- what similar result is actually re- ported from similar industrial com- munities in Germany. The very lat- est report from the English health authorities shows that the marriage rate for London is the highest in forty years (since 1876), due to the number - of women camm? good wgges in munition and other factories wgo are marrying disabled and blind. ed and crippled heroes in a fervor ol patriotism and devotion. So curiously and mercifully feebl appears to be the influence of the war’ god upon the ebb and flow of the great tides of human life. Witl all gxe deadly completcness‘of uni- versal military service, it still takes and will always take at least three men at home on the farms, in muni- tion plants and on the railroadSum (Lloyd-George says three meen and four women . at work) to keep onc man at the fronts, While the strange and dreadful stresses and geographi- cal permanence of trench warfare render regular and frequent furloughs home, not merely possible, but necés- sary for the fighters. Summer Commandments Thou shalt not continually pour iced water, or iced drinks down thy throat, if thou wouldst keep thy stomach in condition, and avoid nausea. Thou shalt not eat three Heavy meals per day, when the weather is hot, for such food keeps the body heated. Thou shalt eat meat but once per day and only sparingly then. Thou shalt make up thy summer menu very largely of vegetables and fruits. Thou shalt be unusually slow and deliberate, chewing thy food carefully, for digestion's sake. Thou shalt not go out into the hot sun just after a hearty meal, but rest awhile in quiet. Thou shalt not eat heartily aiter violent exercise, while thy body is excessively hot. Thou shalt eat very sparingly when traveling b{( land or water, f (hou wouldst cep well.—Philadelphia Record.