The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1898, Page 20

0 THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 18 UNCLE SAM | GOES SLUMMING. IS TESTING THE FOODS OF TEE POOR. Dr. Jaffa of the University of California Is Handling the Interesting Experiments She Muttered Some Sort of Formula as RC OR ATW ment’s food experi our food economy. 1. Fi moderate circumstances also. Pa thrown away in wastes of the less than if all the food we buy W name is legl on health as the 2. We purcha rinking habit. sive ones are just atable. Many do t omehow detrin , those who @ who can least afford it. Our diet is apt to be on different nutritive ingrec relatively too much of the burned in the body and ¥y muscle and sinew fegegeRegoRoFegegeegegoegegagegeRaoReFaRetatuReFatcpeguBoRaFat] Vot everybody eats too much; eat enough for healthful nourishment. But there on, with whom the eating habit is as vicious in its effect costlier kinds of meat, fish, vegets nutritious and when rightly cooked just as pal- for This Section of the Country. who is in charge ays we make a fourfold mistake st and foremost we use excessive quantities of This is true not only of the well-to-do but of many people in t of the excess which is bought is hen and th jury to health from overeating, great as it ma; culiar virtue in the dear food mate tal to thel most extra: sided. in the proper proportior 1 ingredients of food—those which are head and muscular power. fats of meat and butter, the starch which makes up the larger part of nutritive materlal of flour, potatoes and suga mous quantities are eaten in the United States. relatively too little of the protein or flesh-forming substances, like the lean of meat and fish and the gluten and which are the bases of blood, bone and brain. PRt Rtk oh R a2 -R-R-R=8-3-F-F=R-F-F-3-F-F==S-2-2-2 2 2] DGQOOOO’DOOC‘OOOOQOC’OOC-(-‘DOOOOOQOOOD Govern- in of the food. table, so that the in- be, is doubtless much e actually eaten. indeed, there are some who do not e those, and their ive kinds of food. We use the when less expen- sles on that there is some pe- and that economy in their dignity or welfare. And, unfor- gant in this respect are often It often does not contain the . We consume ich are the of which such enor- Conversely we have of wheat, which make VOCQOLORIOVOTVVOVBOVHAVLUODOROEBT HE United States Government is the poor live, what they live on and if just now engaged in a “slum- ming” expedition, and the Uni- versity of California is doing all | it can to help. Slum life always furnishes an interesting study to the intelligent observer. But when the TUnited States officially “goes a-slum- ming” and appropriates money for that purpose, it is with a definite end in view. The Government wants to know how their dietary condition can be improved. The guide for this new Government slumming expedition is no less a per- sonage than Professor W. O. doctor of philosophy, professor of chem- istry at Wesleyan University and direc- tor of the “Office of Experiment Sta- | tions” of the Department of Agricul- ture of the United States. It is through the last-named position that Professor Atwater will be the head and front of HERE IS THE BIGGEST SCHOONER IN THE WORLD. Has Five Masts and Garries Mountains of Canvas. ASSENGERS on the Boston and Bangor steamers are afforded an ex- cellent cpportunity at Camden, Me, to see the largest schooner in the world in process of construction at the shipyard of H. M. Bean. The frame is up and she is rapidly being timbered. The vessel will be five masted, and is being built for Captain John G. Crowley of Taunton, Mass. Some idea of her size may be had when it is stated that she could easily contain the former five masted and now four masted schooner Governor Ames. The Governor Ames was at the time of her construction the largest schooner in the world, but this new vessel will carry over a thousand tons more than she. She is the heaviest timbered and con tains the heayiest material of any vessel ever built in Maine, and she will be the largest fore and aft vessel ever built or ncw building. follows: The dimensions of this massive craft are as Her keel is 282 feet long; from taffrail to forward knightheads on deck she will measure 818 feet; she will be 44 feet and 4 inches in width, and 21 feet and 6 inches in depth. She will have two whole decks and a four- foot poop, running to one bertn aft of forward hatch. The frame is of of Georgia pine. and sycamore. Virginia oak, and her planking inside and out will be The cabin will be finished in ash, mahogany, cypress She will have five Oregon masts, the forward one being 29 inches and the remainder 25 Inches in diameter, each 112 feet long, and the other spars in proportion. It will take 10,000 square yards of canvas to propel this monster through the water, and when at anchor two 8000-pound anchors will hold her, at- tached by two and three-eighth inch chalnfl.,‘ «f twalva men. She will carry a complement 7, 4 | past year are now the Magic Herbs Began to Atwater, | the official slumming expeditions. He will not personally accompany any of the expeditions. It is simply with the results that he hhs to deal. In each State of our Union where there is an experiment station the work will be conducted by the person In charge of the experiment station. Dr. Jaffa of the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley has been conducting the experimental work for this State and he is now plunged in his work. In his official capacity, therefore, it will fall to his lot to conduct the dietary experimenting among the poor of San Francisco. This means that for several months Dr. Jaffa and his assistants will have to live in the quarters given over to poverty and ignorance. Dr. Jaffa has already done some very interesting work in the dietary line for particular California products. The re- sults of his experimenting during the | being tabulated. The data was obtained from the study of rew. | the diet of a training football team, | and the diet of an infant during one | year. This is simply preliminary work | in the wide field designated to be cov- ered. I Dr. Jaffa is looking forward with | much pleasure to the coming dietary | work among the poor. “The only draw- | back,” he said, “is an inadequate | amount of money to carry the research | to a practical conclusion. ' Scientific de- | | ductions must be made in the labora- tory and to conduct these properly will require more money than has been ap- propriated. “By an act of Congress experiment stations have been established all over the Union, and provision has likewise been made for a central bureau in con- nection with the Department of Agrl- culture in Washington for the scientific co-ordination of the work. Professor Atwater is at the head. The object of the work is to investigate the nutritive value of foods. o “Since more than half the incomes of the bread winners of Christendom are spent and must be spent for their food, then any information that enables the laborer to select his food according to | its nutritive value, and to prepare it in the most advantageous manner, must result in much saving of his hard earned money. “The amount of money that falls to the share of California from this gen- eral appropriation is necessarily small. | In some States the Legislature has ap- propriated additional sums for the car- rying on of the work. In other States private individuals have assisted by generous donations. -A man’s nourish- ment is such an important factor of his producing power that the subject of | nutrition is of vast and vital import- | ance. “In studying the diet of the poor we | shall find out exactly what kind of nu- | triment the people eat, and by compari- son of their actual food consumption with physiological standards, show how their diet might be improved.” It has not yet been decided who will assist Dr. Jaffa in this work, but in all probability it will be Mr. R. S. Louis of the chemistry department, who has made a special study of diets and has worked on these lines with Dr. Atwater himself. Dr. Jaffa will conduct the work in the same manner as the food experts who have studied New York slum life, as applied to the question of food. These experts have learned from con- stant association that poverty is often the offspring of ignorance. They have discovered that the poor are still poorer because they do not know what sort of food to buy. Poverty is due to un- wise expenditures rather than to small- ness of income. The practical work in New York city was done by Mr. Charles D. Woods, a food specialist, who is one of Dr. At- water’s principal assistants. The great- er part of the study was made In the lower east side tenements. Persons “When the Queen came to the throne her first public act was to go in state to St.,James’ Palace to be proclaimed. She naturally wished to be accom- | panied in her statc coach only by the Duchess of Kent and one of the ladies of the household; but Lord Albemarle, who was Master of the Horse, insisted that he had a right to travel with her Majesty in the coach, as he had #one with William IV. The point was sub- mitted to the Duke of Wellington as a kind of universal referee in matters of precedent and usage. liis judgment was delightfully unflattering to the outraged magnate—The Queen can make you go inside the coach or out- side the coach, or run behind like a d—d tinker’s dog."” Lord Shaftesbury told the following story of his uncle, Lord Melbourne: “When the Queen became engaged to Prince Albert she wished him to be made King Consort by act of Parlia- ment, and urged her wish upon the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. At first that sagacious man simply evaded the point, but when her Majesty in- sisted on a categorical answer, ‘I thought it my duty to be very plain with her. I'said, “For God's sake, let's hear no more of it, ma’am; for if you once get the English people into the way of making kings, you will get them 2 hnto th: way of unmaking them. Very interesting are the anecdotes chased. weights were consumed, the amount of nourishment in the food eaten by each were selected from the tenements as subjects for the study. The investi- gators spent about a week with each family. During this time they carefully re- corded the qualities and quantities of food eaten at each meal, the prices paid for it, the weight of the food actually eaten, and the amount rejected as waste matter, the percentage of the varjous food nutriments contained in that eaten and wasted, and the age, nationality, income, occupation, ex- penditure and physical condition of each member of each family. Separate accounts were kept of the food eaten by each person living in the houses as well as the visitors. The food bought for each meal was welghed before being eaten. Every morsel wasted in the kitchen or left on plates or dishes was carefully account- ed for after each meal, and when the weight of this was deducted from that of the food as originally purchased, the difference represented that actually consumed. Samples of all food were carefully analyzed. The analysis show- ed the proportions, fat and carbohy- drates contained in each food pur- It being known exactly what person could readily be learned. Ex- amples of extravagance as a result of ignorance were found in each family. For instance, it cost about $31 a month, or about one dollar a day, for the food (exclusive of beverages and condi- ments) of a family of flve, a father, mother, two little girls and an infant. Dietary experiments have shown that food sufficient to meet the demands of one grown man at moderate work need cost but from fifteen to twenty cents a day if proper management be used in ¢ & W /76 HOLD. A 3 I > EART Vil AL SGYPSY RING BURNED{ IN A MAGIC FLAME ° ‘s DINIDED GEMS GUARANTEEDW, To UN ITEASEPA‘::s A Lov its purchase. At such a rate the poor mechanic and his family might have purchased their food for a very much smaller expenditure. The childish taste of the eleven-year-old girl who did most of the marketing led her to buy peanuts. Mr. Woods said that, though unconscious of her wisdom, in buying the peanuts she did very wisely. Though difficult to digest, ten cents’ worth of peanuts contained more nutrition than an equal value of any other food eaten by this family. The same criticlsms were passed upon every case studied. The main cause of poverty in almost all of these was that weight or bulk was sought In food rather than nutrient value. These criticisms passed upon the foud consumed in the slum tenements apply as well to the average person, according to the dietary experts. An ordinary housewife is apt to have more goods or carpets than of food. She knows little concerning the actual sources of nourishment which ordinary food contains. Many valuable lessons from dietary studies of the prosperous classes as well as of the poverty stricken are being learned by Govern- ment experts. A number of interesting standards are used in these studies. One Is that of the food required by the average man. The average woman is found to require about eight-tenths; a boy of 14 to 16 years old about the same; a girl of the same age seven-tenths as much; a child 10 to 13 six-tenths as much; a child 6 to 9 one-half as much; RGNS EEE NG ERRERREERERRRRNERRY GOOD STORIES OF THE ENGLISH COURT. in contact with it Mr. Russell is ob- liged to conclude that “religion was al- most extinct in the highest and lowest classes of English society.” Here are some quotations from an unpublished diary of Lord Robert Sey- mour, who was born in 1748 and died in 1831: “The Prince of Wales declares there is not an honest woman in London, ex- cepting Lady Parker and Lady est- moreland, and those are so stupid he can make nothing of them; they are scarcely fit to blow their own noses.” “The P. of W. called on Miss Vaneck last week with two of his Equerries. On coming into the room he exclaimed: ‘T must do it; I must do it!' Miss V. asked him what it was that he was ob- liged to do, when he winked at St. Leger and the other accomplice, who lay’d Miss V. on the Floor, and the P. positively wipped hLer. The occasion of this extraordinary behaviour was occasioned by a Bett wch I suppose he had made in one of his mad Fits. The next day, however, he wrote her a enitential Letter, and she now receives im on the same footing as ever.” In these days, and even later, only sixty years ago, “Hard drinking was the indispensable accomplishment of a fine gentleman, and great estates were constantly changing owners at the gaming table.” “The scene was the Master's own dining-room, and the moment that the ladies had left the room one of the guests began a most outrageous con- versation. Every one sat flabber- which throw a distressingly white light on the state of society at the close of % last century, when from all the evi- 1ca af people who had Table :w:z':ad t'inh: ottenden, 33 e g E sicHim, gasted. The Master winced with an- down the WATER WA a baby 2 to 5 four-tenths as much, and an infant under 2 three-tenths as much. Of protein, called the “body and soul of food,” and known to be its most nu- tritious constituent, a man without muscular exercise is found to require 100 erams daily, a man doing light mus- cular work 112 grams and a man doing moderate muscular work 125 grams. Mr. Woods summed up his sugges- tions for reforms in the slums of New York as follows: It is impossible to lay down any hard and fast rule which shall govern the pur- chase of food by & family. This must to a very great extent be governed by the different local conditions of supiply and demand, by individual peculiarities, and by the different circumstances surround- ing the family life. In many families studied no attempt was made to set the table. The food was left standing on the bare table and the ‘erent members of the family took hasty meals when It suited ‘their conve- nience. Such cases should be remedied by a complete change in the family cus- toms and by the education of the person who does the marketing, go that more ju- dicious selections of food will be made and the tables set. Throughout all these dietaries there was shown very little comprehension of the nutritive value of food purchased, se- lections being made according some whim of taste, the presence of certain food materials in the market, or because the housekeeper had become accus- tomed to purchasing certaln foods. The families spent more than they could really afford for food, and yet frequently re- celved insufficlent' nourishment. How these people could have obtained more nutriment for the money expended, or even for less, can only be answered in general terms. In the first place the cheaper cut of meats for stews and pot roasts might have replaced almost en- tirely the more expensive steaks and LACE TH. YEWR roasts without impairing the nutritive quality. Then the amount of eggs and butter might have been reduced to the minimum amount that would give the food relish. Eggs at more than sixteen cents a dozen began to grow expensive | and at lwen!?-fl“fl or_thirty cents should be entirely eliminated if it is_desired to cut off unnecessary expense. The money saved by the purchase of cheaper meats and less butter and eggs could be profit- ably expended for flour and other cereals, bread, rice, beans or potatoes. One of the best and purest ways to im- prove the condition of the poor is to give them practical instruction and object les- sons In the preparation of attractive yet simple and cheap foods. Unless it can be demonstrated that the changes pro- posed will give a more attractive and palatable diet, as well as a cheaper and more nutritious one, people of the character of many of those whose dietary has been studied will scarcely trouble to follow any suggestions that may be made toward cl eng«nlng thelr food and con- | fining it to the most nutritious food ma- Knowledge of the actual value of dress | terials. From slum workers here who are toil- ing to better the condition of that class it is learned that the same errors are committed as in the New York tene- ment districts—namely, welght or bulk being sought in food rather than nu- trient value, and marketing and pre- paring to poor advantage. However, not until Dr. Jaffa has made his investigation can we have any positive knowledge of the dietary meth- ods of the poor of this city. It will be interesting to learn whether our poor display more intelligence in the selec- tion and preparation of food than that which is shown by the dwellers in the slums of New York city. BRURRRBURRUBRUNIRG conversation in the drawfhg-room?" and rose from his chair. It was really a stroke of genius thus both to termi- nate and to rebuke the impropriety without violating the decorum due from host to guest.” “At dinner at Balliol the Master’s guests were discussing the careers of two Balliol men, the one of whom had just been made a Judge and the other a Bishop. ‘Oh,’ taid Henry Smith, ‘T think the Bishop is the greater man. A Judge, at the most, can only say, “You be hanged,” but a Bishop can say, “You be d—-d.”’ ‘Yes,’ charac- teristically twittered the Master; ‘but if the Judge says, ‘“You be hanged,” you are hanged.’” In his collection of repartees Mr. Russell has many old friends, but all are good. Here are a few examples: “Lord Bowen is immortalized by his emendation to the Judges’ address to the Queen, which had contained the Heep-like sentence: ‘Conscious as we are of our own unworthiness for the great office to which we have been called.’ ‘Wouldn't it be better to say, Consclous as we are of one another's unworthiness WAYS OF EASTERN POTENTATES Says the Malay Mail: His Highness the Buitan, we hear, has raised by public subscriptions several hundred dollars for the forthcomi festivities in honor of his birtday. This is a novel proceeding, but gfrha%- not_quite so bad as that o awab of Rampore, who, on being blessed with a daughter ordered a week's pay to be deducted from every state em- ¢ to for the Por Ay oy vicitngs in UP-TO-DATE LOV E CHARMS. COST ALL THE WAY FROM 2 CENTS TO $200. War Started a Boom in Cupid’s T okens and Now the Factories and Seeresses Have All the Business They Can Handle. HE war has created a great boom in love philters, love charms and things that are sup- posed to have a mysterious power in keeping the flame alive in loving hearts. Astrologers, seeresses and plain every-day fortune tellers that inhabit back stairs, four flights up, all report a rushing business in the love token line. The soldiers’ sweethearts and the sol- dlers themselves, with their countless brass buttons and remnants of, uni- forms, began it, and now the epidemic has spread from the camps to the counting houses and from the kitchen to the drawing room. Not only does the fever rage through all classes of soclety, tons unostentatiously marked U. 8., now range from herbs gathered under certain phases of the moon to cabalistic signs ostentatiously carved on queer . Oriental gems. Then there are strange | things that have to be made Just so | while mysterious mutterings and queer | signs are being made, and stranger things that have to be worn just so while your wearied spirit is lost in slumber. Six months ago any old love token In | the shape of a brass button warranted [to hold two loving hearts together through war's alarms could have been | bought for 1 cent. Fancy paying $200 now for a charm that has to do all sorts of mysterious | work before it earns its money. Yet that’s what the seeresses say some peo- ple are paying for love charms to gain | their heart’s desires. As _for lqve | charms ranging from $5 to $20, they're | quite common, though in the break- Some of the Oueer Things the Seeresses Guarantee for Love Charms. but the love tokens that begun with plain brass but- neck way in which the war and love ’ business has gone on lately you have to file your order early with an up-to- date seeress if you want to get it filled { ! Continued on Page Twenty-six. HUNTS THE Exploits of Miss Alice Swasey EDDING, Oct. 1.—Miss Alice Swasey returned from her sum. mer outing in the wilderness of the Trinity Mountains with a reputation of being one of the best markswomen in the northern part of the State. Besides squirrels and pigeons galore, the record of her suc- cesses includes a fawn and a spike buck, as seen in the accompanying il- lustration. In an outing party composed of the family of ex-Assemblyman D. G. Reid, now of Redding, and Mrs. A. H. Mar- shall and family of Douglag City, Trin- ity County, Miss Swasey proceeded from Douglas City to North Fork by wagon, thence by pack train and horse- back by way of Cox's Bar to Corral Bar. Here, in the wildest portion of Trinity County, the party went Into camp. One morning late in August Mrs. Reid and Mrs. Marshall came in from a stroll and reported they had seen a deer on the mountainside. Dropping her dish-washing task, Miss Swasey grabbed a heavy rifle and put off to the mountain. With her sleeves rolled to her elbows, just as she had left the dishpan, away she sped, lug- ging a gun whose weight almost equaled her own. Not more than half a mile from camp a spike buck sprang into view. Before she had time to catch her breath, with a bound the buck crossed her path in direct range. As the deer paused to look back, Miss Swasey raised the heavy rifle, took steady aim and fired. The deer turned 2 somersault in the air and fell with a broken neck. Later Miss Swasey brought down a The “life plant” is a species of creeping moss found in the West Indies. It is abso- lutely indestructi- ble by any means except immersion in boiling water or the application of a red-hot iron. It may be cut and di- vided in any man- ner and the small- est shreds will throw out roots, grow and form buds. The reasons for this have never been found by FLYING DEER JUST LIKE A MAN. and Her Rifle in Trinity Gounty. spotted fawn at long range with a 22. caliber rifle. Miss Swasey is 18 years of age, the daughter of the Register of the United States Land Office at Redding. She is known to nearly all the members of the Califcrnia Press Assoclation, having accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Swasey, on many of the jaunts of that organization to various places on the coast. MISS ALICE SWASEY. From a photograph.