The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1904, Page 10

THE’ SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. THE GREATEST World in London Dafly Mail. of holding the “blue riband” of the Atlantic, or the 4 for the fastest voyage, s It may give to the vhich covers this »ortance at once ex- sleading. e in a sentence or nd, belonging to e, holds the in spite of orrgance of the day—with to Ply- seven the Nord- ng within one es of the record, »m Sandy Hook n five days eight s. Ageinst ia doing the in five days seven hree minutes; and ter ship, in five minutes. But ection are fairly tted without con- troversy that the two German boats hold the first gecond places for speed over t Out of these and other ins f speed supremacy Germany bhas immense ad- ble. with 2 to Ply. b urs & that we westward hours and the Campe ) i an vantage in the way of advertisement for her passenger steamers, while, as I have said, creating a misleading im- pression throughout the world concern- ing the place of her shipping among the merchant navies of the world. For example, if we take the steam tonnage of the United Kingdom and Germany of twelve-knot speed and upward, we find our total to be 4,286,121 tons against 893,707 tons sailing under the German flag. Moreover/ Qur prepon- R i ] Britannia, 1840.. Great Britain, Arctic, 18 Persia, 1855 Great Eamern, 1843 ARAl i R Scotla, 1864 - (| City of Berl 1875 City of Rome, 1881 ] Aurania, 1882 . || Amarica, 1884, [ Feraria.” 1888 —— ] ; ] | MOPLE o1\ (=28 L == =i T i [ NI ‘-mv 2 F F HE {mprovement and cure of con- sumptives at Fort Stanton have been effected by the treatment of the body of the patient—not by the treatment of the disease. The med- ical profession does not admit that there has been d@iscovered e specific remedy that will cure consumption. In the absence of such & remedy, the doc- tors at Fort Stanton call upoh nature to aid the work of medicine. The whole gist of the treatment is: bulld up the genergl tone of the body to & point where the system, of its own sccord, will throw off the disease. To accomplish this, three things have been found to be of peramount im- portance. They are: rest, outdoor life, wholesome food. Consumption is the most devastating to the system of all the diseases to which the human body is heir. It not only eats up the lungs, but it reduces the vitality of its victim to the lowest ebb. The most meager student of med- ical science ought to realize that a body in which the vitality is badly im- peired should mot be taxed further, but should be given absolute rest, in order that the remaining strength be permitted to fight the disease. The question of f6od for & consump- tive is even more simple than the ques- tion of rest. He should receive plain, well-cooked, nutritious, tissue-building food—the same food that is given a prize-fighter training for a fight (for the consumptive is training for a hard fight), or an athletic team preparing for a contest. At Fort Stanton, it has been found that eggs and milk are ex- ceedingly beneficial, and patients are given both in abundance. A herd of dairy cattle is kept on the reservation, and increased from time to time as the number of patients increases. A herd of range beef cattle has been built up and, in another year or two, will sup- ply the sanatorium with beef. At pres- ent, meats are bought on annual con- derance over the rest of the world in potential carrying power is equal to 3,284,000 tons, figures representing more than the whole of Germany's steam and sail shipping. It must, however, be freely admitted that, enjoying as they have done a substantial monopoly, especially in first-class passenger traffic, the fast steamers of the two great German companies have been successful as commercial ventur+s. Nor have their DECK ')Z":l: IV U k GOVERNMENT CARE OF CONSUMPTIVES. tract. A large tract of land is devoted to the raisirig of garden vegetables, al- though the entire needs of the institu- tion cannot as yet be met in that re- speot. “‘Outdoor life” probably means more at Fort Stanton than at any other san- atorium in the country, because there the patients are out-of-doors, in the actual open alr, practically all the time. - About half the patients sleep in tents, thereby getting as much and as pure air at night as they would if they were actually out of doors, sleep- ing on the ground, with the naked stars above them. The remainder have beds in speclally ventilated dormitories, which they are not permitted to occupy except when they are asleep. All pa- tlents are under the direct contrel of nurses, who are required to keep their charges out of doors in the daytime, and the dormitory doors and windows wide open at night. One of the greatest advantages in the treatment of consumption at Fort . D advantages been confined to the conti- néntal trade. Calling at English ports, advantageously situated, they have been able to do a large amount of busi- ness in the passenger trade of the United Kingdom. Our great lines, on the other hand, have pursued a differ- ent policy, going largely into tonnage of lower gpeed and greater carrying power, vessels represented by the Ced- ric and the Celtic, with a speed of sev- enteen knots, belonging to the White DE( S"CCLASS SFOKING FOom 1] ¢ = LM oSt oy Stanton is the climate. The sun shines on an average of three hundred and forty days per annum, and on nearly every one of these days it is mild enough for the patients to sit out of doors. The winters are mild and the summers cool. The altitude is 6150 feet, ‘which, combined with the slight precip- itation—from fourteen to seventeen inches, part of which is snow—produces an extremely dry atmosphere the year round. While the temperature on one ;z;-t"oom, lons has gone over ninety \ways the shade, and :\_uut one blanket is necessary at night. All patients sleep well, and as sleep is a great tissue- bullder the cool nights in summer are almost as beneficial as the’ clear days throughout the year. In -the winter the temperature at night is almost in- variably at freezing or a little below, but the days are almost universally mild.—From ‘“Government Care of Con- sumptives,” by Oliver P. Newman, in the American Monthly Review of Re- views for July. Star line, and the. Saxonia and the Ivernia, with a speed of fifteen knots, belonging to the Cunard fleet. These vessels have proved commerclally suc- cessful, capable of earning dividends, whife the flyers of our fleets often left the balance on the wrong side of the ledger. But the transfer of speed supremacy from the British to the German flag has undoubtedly offended the public sentiment of this country and our shipowners have been blamed for what has been thought to be.their failure to hold their own; the fact being that they pursued what they conceived to be, and which, undoubtedly, has been, the best commercial policy. Finally, however, an arrangement was entered into between the Government, repre- sented by the president of the Board of Trade, and the Cunard Company, which, briefly stated, is to the follow- ing purport: The Cunard Company undertook to build two steamers having a speed of twenty-five knots and to be avallable for service under the Govern whenever called upon, conditional the Governmrent paying a subsidy of £150,000 a year and lending to the Cunard Company an amount equal to the cost of the two ships at a rate of Interest of 2% per cent, the money thus advanced to be secured by the ships of the Cunard fleet. The cost of extra speed is one of staggering importance, Ilittle under- stood by the general public. By mak- ing a brief comparison between the Cedric and the Kaiser Wilhelm II this fact may be demonstrated. The Cedric on her load draught of 36 feet 6 inches displaces 37,870 tons, while the Kaliser Wilhelm II at her load draught of 29 feet only displaces 26,000 tons, the smaller vessel costing about 30 per cent more than the Cedric with her 12,000 greater displacement tonnage. The Cedric can carry 18,000 tons of car- o TLANTIC LINER., g0 and 3000 passengers, while the Kais er Wilhelm II carrfes but ver cargo and her passenger acc tion is less than 2000. To gain tra speed, equal to about 40 p the German vessel requires han while burning al cent more coal than her slow The cost of the Kaiser Wilhelm be fairly given at £1,300,000; that w be about the price of each of the n Cunarders. It may be stated that of these is to be bullt by the Tyneside firm, Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wig- ham Richardson and the other by Messrs. John Brown & Co, of Clydebank. They will be substantially larger as well as faster than the Kaiser Wilhelm II; e 760 feet long b therefore, disp 6000 tons more than the Kaiser W helm IL In the matter of speed, a they will show a superfority equal > peed helm II being twenty irth knots, while the are being bullt to do smooth water. motive power x , and requ! » & great deal of co: nission of experts we to examine the su rd was giv was cost about 0 cates of the turbine argue t class of machinery possesses adv ating engines bear- ing a relationship to the increase of speed—the h the speed the g while, in another d will be a substan y of space available for cargo and for passengers. Although we read of the turbine in ancient history and we knew nothing of it as a sub- ute for engines until a few years ago. G be the rejoicing of the race when the turbined rders shall win back again for e “blue riband” of the Atlantic.— British TO MANAGE A By Colonel Hate —_— MAN | | ON'T manage him too much. Don’t let him suspect that he is being managed. And above all things, let him think that he is managing you. Perhaps he may not be very much managed at this rate, but there will be more peace in the household and the end will be better acecomplished, which is the chief aim of matrimony after all. The old moth-eaten idea, “feed the brute,” will not pass muster now- adays. A man wants something else in his home, and it depends upon how the wife feeds him, whether he will submit to being fed at home or seek refuge in his club or at the nearest chophouse. The average man wants his wife to look up to him. He may in his heart know that she is a blooming sight cleverer than he will ever dare hope to be, but he likes to lay the flattering unction to his soul that she does not know it, or if she does will not be- tray it. Many men are managed out of house and home. The home that should be a happy abiding place is about as comfortable as a cold storage plant and the man who would dare infringe any of the household regulations would find him- self hustled into Coventry most un- ceremoniously. The neatness and spick and span order of the household s made para- mount to the man’s comfort, who feels that as long as it remains his exclu- sive privilege to pay the bills he has a little right to enjoy as much as they call for. The smell of a clgarette gives some women & regular h!-terlcu Dowie shiver and a glass of old' rye arouses antagonism like unto dear Cousin Car- rie, who raised the temperature in Kansas when she thought herself the only thing that stood between the na- tive heath and perdition. Such women should not indulge the vagaries and uncertalnties of matri- mony. \ There are two inanimate yet animate objects. that a man loves better than he ever did or will love his mother-in- law, sometimes with the wife thrown in, and these are, first, his cigar, sec- ond, his newspaper. He may love his wife as much as he could love any woman, but when it comes to his cigar and his newspaper he wants to be let alone to the solid enjoyment of ome or both, and the woman who objects to either is apt to find herself minus a hubby with an d@ccumulation of troubles on the side. A man is rarely in ugly mood when a fragrant cheroot nestles between his lips and he feels the seductive kiss and in the rings of curling blue builds his castles in Spain and coddles a few other pipe dreams. ‘When angered, or when the cigar has outlived its usefulness, he tosses it aside and therein the cigar and the woman are likened in a man's life. He loves each, until each has lost its oharm and then he throws aside the woman as carelessly as he would the cigar. The woman who tries to cast out the cigar will find herself the one to be cast out. Of course a woman with a sensitive throat may nearly choke to death in the surcharged tobacco atmosphere, but the chances are that hubby. will think she will get used to that, con- sequently she had better try to. Anyhow the cigar is there to stay. There are many homeless hushands wandering about ltke poor little, neg- lected orphans, Wwhose wives are to blame if they seek more congenial re- treats where the cigar and themselves are both at home. A man also likes to feel in the eyes of the woman he loves and who loves him that to her he is the one and only good thing that ever hap- pened. Then, too, he likes to think himself vastly her superfor, although he may know full well that he is not. He wants to be deferred to as if his opinions were quotations from Holy ‘Writ and the woman who is tactful may let him enjoy the comfort of thinking so by refraining from ex- pressing any contrary opinions and de- ferring to him as her chosen authority on all subjects. It is always the woman who humors a man continuously who gets along bet- ter in the end. It is the woman who is always antagonizing, who takes such delight in rubbing him the wrong way, who eats her heart out in loneliness and regrets. A man can stand more coddling to the square inch than a sick poodle can to the square foot and the bigger the man the more in the coddling line will he smile over with a sweet, serene, su- preme content to which the poodle is stranger, —_——— Flattery of action rather than of word is the incense that tiekles a man’s nostrils to a point of delectation that is falrly ecstatic. If he receives this wholesome court at home he has no desire to court it elsewhere, The trick though must be done with the skill of a jugsgler to be successful. To flatter clumsily is to insult his bet- ter judgment and his intelligence, and the woman may be caught in the act. I have little sympathy for the man who indulges in his libations to the point of firresponsibility, yet have no prejudices against the moderate use of wine. A man’s manhood and sense of pride should keep him from the indul- gence that neither his head nor his pedestals can stand sponsor for. But there is one thing certain, if he is not in the habit of indulging, and one of the accidents of soclability occurs, whereby he comes home feeling glor- fously happy, too full to be perfectly sober, and- too sober to be actually drunk, if he be in a good humor it is better to accept him In that mood than to start in with a lecture that may have only the effect of making him y and ugly. When he is cold sober, “in the cold gray dawn of the morning after,” the chances are that'a woman's influe will do ver uch more good th: would at time when he was much w the ience to have self well in hand. In.that stage, § m between a well con in which he is received at cides whether he shall natured or become ugly and remain ery normal woman hates ted man and has little syr yet a treatment of semse will often do more good t tirade of abuse, and the man not accustomed to wine will ashamed of himself treated we while he would be rebe s and angr if lecturea. There are times when, if a spark is let alone it will die out, while at o ers the tiniest touch will cause a: plosion and the matrimonial art will let out a deafening roar But after all is said, I guess the whole matrimonial game i§ an experi- ment, at least the first plunge; the second r-ay be an experience, and the third—well, that may be either the lashing of Fate, or a special disvensa- son of Providence.