The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 8

8 THE SUNDAY CALL. JBuild Mew Wlings for Thhite House. N looks , somber and alto- would be involved. The business of the D A ey, Mantuiey: ot executive office has increased very greatly D new carpet put in recently, which light- within the last five years, and since the ens it up a little, but its claret-colored elected President will ue experience of wit- & messing the reconstruction of the y t since the re- » & made necessary after the British N s ¥ the century have any important changes been made in the se, and the old place stands ® 1t 4id in the days of pretty . en. The question of provid- etier, or at least larger, quarters for dent's family has been agitated mber of years. One plan contem- e purchase of & separate bouse THE RED PARL SHOWINNG PORETRAL Spanish-American war the pressure has been so severe that even the semi-weekly receptions have had to be ' abandoned. The President sees no one except on busi- ness or by special appointment. That something would have to be done in the way of alteration and enlarging has been apparent for a dozen years. As Pres- $dent Harrison laughingly remarked on ene oocasion, the Presidents’ families are fn the position of the grocer who lives vate residence, the Whits §Houss .§¥er the shop. The privats apartments o, s OF- MRS, A R SO M PRESIDENT AN 2 g7 Mrs. Step O MRS HRAYE S ed from the offices by a single n a corridor er gnd the expres parcels at the same door *Cesoccse® ===Z' BUSHNELL PHOTO hen J. Sill. g e e e e e o of Rppreciation edeeoteet tc The Call. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Dear Sir: I am in ench. I am very much pleased at ORI " e =i I od of diffusing knowledge. receipt of 2 handsomely exccuted certificate from The Call’s“Home Study Circle” certifying that I passed an excellent examination in this uneipccted result of my pleas- t_labors and desire to say that I consider “The -Home Circle” es, in all of its departments, a very use.ul and profitable meth- I wish to thank you and to compliment The Call upon this de- partment of that journal. Very truly, MRES. 8. J. SILL. ’-}:v& hen he decls MADE DURING THE TERM OF OFFICE OF THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT. where t 2 fa timés obliged to ps wagon discharges 1 gress decided th reed as “Mrs. first M to the husband Ohe Call’'s Fome Study Circle. ion was appointed to det will be su mmit slori, with some slight regard to -detail, is that whi the old hou: h proceed: co m upon by n gs car- plicity too far, and a rmine a building. is now mitted, with draw- the commis- modifications in who, besides being an al 1 1 in artist of the executive. voiced her sentiments that *notwithstandi ndir e He in its not believe there 18 a lady of any Presidential family, past, present or future, who would not cheel fully encounter many little inconv, rather than reside beyond the phere of historieal even which cluster so thickly & house, beautiful in its simplicity.” Mrs. Harrison’ n involves the con- struction of steel and w marble, the west wi ntain the family rooms and perhay me rooms for official fun 1 wing will provide additional for the ever Increasing staff of clerks secretaries, and also a large state din- -room, ble seating a hundred guests. The la t dining-room in the White House at present will hold no more than fifty persons, and of late vears all the state dinners have been laid in the or on the first floor. This apartm long and narrow, and after its éxtreme capacity of seventy guests as been tested there remains barely room r the waiters to squeeze between the backs of the chairs and the wall. Many an elaborate coiffure has been demolished during a state gloom remains for the most part undis- turbed.. There are some interesting por- traits in the red parlor—a lovely one of Mrs, “Prince John” Van Buren, who-pre- sidedd so gracefully over the White House soms sixty years ago. Another of Mrs. Tyler is full of charm. Huntingdon’s por- trait of Mrs. Hayes, In a sweeping red velvet gown, fits into the color scheme and the general motive of the room bet- ter than any of the others. Mrs. Harri- son, in a really artistic blue satin dress, is superior to her surroundings. In the MESSENGER dinner at the Executive reconstruction of the house this portrait n of one of the richest nations in will undoubtedly be given a more suitable place. It needs a certaln modernity lof there is no drawlng-room in environment. abandoning these pariors. They will probe ably be left pretty much as they are now and will be used occasionally. The east room will hardly be distur I a beautiful room, according to the taste of the present day, but it is thoroughly dignified and is admirably adapted to cer- tain uses. There is to be a ball room one of the new wings, and it will be used also for the two large receptions wt mark the opening and Tosing of the so- clal season In Washington. The inaugural ball is now given in the penston buflding, which does not seem exactly appropriat The plans and spectfications a drawn call for an expenditure of a a milllon dollars. G at interest work 1s felt by Washington people. They have been promised a sight of the model of the reco cted house, will form one of the e oits at the the house worthy of our President’s use The really beautiful blue parlor Is well g, enough for small, formal occasions. In @it There will be no object In altogether December. o e ol ettt this room the President receives newly ar-§ - rived Embassadors, diplomats and other: Y' Pa d Food foreign visitors. It will not hold a largel, ' comapan: Fifty people would be a tight. fit. In the blue tor, it will be remem- - bered, Grover Cleveland married Miss‘s F Folsom. It was into this room that Presi-}, the ! >a”9 Bread o a field was carrled when he Wasi brought hame after the attack of the as- sin upon him. + U u ’ The green parlor, importantly called the e F - ic room, probably because it is filled : doors with . crowded t that no l‘{wI ever choose to sit dewn in it. The red parier is the room most used as . a plano, is such- Continued from Page Seven. caloric units, o erage given in t son for men at I ard abor S could carry a Dr. Shrady’s Opinion. drawing-room by the Presidential fami-iply with ! F. Shr 1a lies. In the early seventles, and even the-of suffici “My ex to get rid of as th can. arly eighties, a very eleg we would have deemed this " Di. Louis T Apa ind d N rst street, 3 t apartment indeed. Nowa States Volunteer Er i wi . ool eefenfosfofocfofonfe sfoutuede @ S1UAY. Of rations in Cuba, Porto Rico a i *+®the Philippines, in a pamphlet on 1 | dier’s ration in the tropics, makes v _pertinent comment’ along the ntrated provender. He avers t te Spanish-American w en died of dis e for every ullets. o death from preventable dis- .~ ease,” says Dr. Seaman, ‘4s an insult to 18y he the intelligence of the age. The state de. Forsing the m prives thé soldier of his liberty, pre- (J.p8 Drocesse scribes his exercises, equipme dress g, %13 - and dlet: It should, ‘therefore, give him By aioy the begt sanitation and the best medical » supervision that the science of the age can dev From a moral as well as an economical ‘standpoint the state should guard the soldier’s health, for nothing is more costly in war than disease and, after war; than the pension. claims, “‘A personal experfence in latest tropical wars «nd a st £ statistics of others le¢ me to the conv tion that the cause most prominent bringing about the conditions most favor- neers, who made a I3 4 @ - 2 digs ? apparatus ulated that he ¢ manage it n than at any other time. We hav ¢ d other o of the work for all atrop able for the devélopment of preveniabie Nant (0 become | disease In both these wars resulted from tRISUSH neglect the misuse of food. Our Rations Unsuited to Tropics. “It s an old saying that ‘the ration wins the battle.’ The potentfal energy the ration served to the American soi- dler In the tropics, reotesented in | units, 1s 4.448: that issued to soldier in a temperate climate 2,500, a | The Ameriean regular atm: as fur- drooping | nished to the army is an ex mt winter t | food, rich in nutritive and caloric po under a low temperature; but for a t cal land the excess of carbon furnish u ener y vocating they can dispose of. imposes | liver and kidney | elimination, producing mentation and catarrhs, dy 2 and litharmia, glycusuria and phe phaturia, interfering with metabolism 1 conditions favorable tu bacte ment, together with almost the r train of disease which crowded the army hospitals,” . In consldering further the defects of the ration Dr. Seaman said. “The highly nitrogeious and heat pro ducing elements of the United States fie.qr ratiqn are of interest. It contains: Nitro 18.12 grams: protein, 113.% grams: 26 gTAMS, and carbohydrates. ams, and reépresents in calorie units 4.448. “Tea: and coftee contain the identicul . theine and caffelne, but for campalgn purposes tea has many advan tages. When compressed in calkes 1t s concentrated and easy of transportatior Two minutes is sufficlent for infusion, anid if taken In a weak solution, as it shoud always be taken, the largar quantity of gnhta.blc sterilized water introuuced I he system forms not only a refreshing beverage but stimulates the processes of digestion and increases remarkably- th soldler’s powar of enduring fatigue in hot climates. A liberal ration for the soldier in the tropics could be supplied as fof lows: Fresh meat, 10 ounces, or its equi¢ alent in dried and smoked 'ret; bacon, % ounces; flour, 12 ounces: rlee, lentils or maize, 4 ounces; succulent and green veg- : dried. fruits, 2 ounces; sugar with chocolate, 4 ounces: tea an d | condiments, including curry, sait, pepper and vinegar, 3 ounces. 3 e This allowance represents about 4 grains of protein, 15 of nitrogen, 83 of fat and 430 of carbohydrates, and equals 3.300 | | It to the lungs, over and above that w | | congestions, wcy ration Tobacco. 11 qu ile he was In charg epot at -Man tions for much of a wed | tl 2 Sportsme army ration there is almost as much nu them as in the normal product Physiclans able to have presecrip- conceivable sort ut up_in tabl lozenges. pills and pek: ets. such has been qui cessfully densed into its essentlals and now the refinement of concentration finds its last reduction in the emergency army ration. -