The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1904, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.: Proprietor ..;HXRD AND !;ARKET ETREETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFFICE... OCTOBER 23, 1904 JAPAN A TEACHER. ERHAPS one of the most useful of the international congresses P held at the St. Louis Exposition is that of the Military Sur-| geons. It has brought to the front certain matters that sug-| gest a function for army doctors that has been little considered. The ! Agricultural Department has long had under investigation the sub- ject of food and diet. It has patiently collected the statistics of diet in the several typical States of the Union, and of the people en-| gaged in the various occupations which make up the industrial and business energies of the country. By this means we have knowledge | of the average diet of farmers, financiers, professional men and | workingmen. The summary shows that in each class greater health | and economy could be secured by a more scientific adjustment of the diet and better methods of preparing food for consumption. The world has been made familiar with dietetic reform and re- formers. Graham corrected indigestion by eating bread made from unbo i flour, and so we had Graham bread added to our diet. But Graham flour is no longer made. What is sold as such is merely a mixture of fine flour and bran which the millers give us, and the bread it makes has none of the virtues of that made from unbolted flour. Graham’s dietetic reform was derived from individual expe- rience and not from any scientific study of the subject, though his conclusions were probably in line with science. The same has been true of all of our dietetic reforms, until the subject was taken up, systematically, by the Agricultural Department. Its work thus far has produced little impression. Though it has been scattered broadcast in bulletins, the people in sedentary occupa- tion go on injuring themselves by using a diet that is suitable for out- door and active workers, and these impair their health by consuming ore costly food which is suitable for the sedentary. the Now an army the subject sharply to the attention of the country. The army sur- geon has been looked upon as a professional person who cuts off legs and arms that ought to be left on, and whose duties are confined to the operating table of a field hospital. Major Seaman shows him in a different light and gives the credit where it belongs, to the Japa- nese in the present war. The Japanese Government took the results of scientific study and practically applied them to the army ration. In that way a ration was devised that sustains the health, strength and endurance of the Japanese army. Operating in a country that has been time and again swept by choleraic and other forms of intestinal disease, the Japanese soldiers have been entirely free from those maladies and have shown the most remarkable endurance and staying power ever possessed by a great army. Major Seaman very naturally resents the failure of this and the Governments of the other Western nations to detail army surgeons i issaries to attend the Japanese armies and study this part ary policy. In all wars heretofore intestinal diseases e men than have fallen in battle or died from wounds. > Japanese are saving themselves this vast loss of military strength m to the army ration, and the Western nations cannot be t to this part of military science. de from its importance as a military policy Japan is also Id a most impressive lesson in dietetics. The diet er in hard marches and the rigors of battle and at keeps him in such health that he quickly recovers from wounds Iy 1 to diers who are unscientifically fed t by the whole world as a means of preserving the | th 1 nishing strength to those who are enduring the | of peace. If such a diet increase the laboring capacity and strial output of the world and prevent the loss of time and money ssed by frequent illness, it will be seen that the most important cconomic resu will be accomplished. One of the most important advances made by our Spanish war | ( of our army surgeons in the demonstration of the; febrile diseases by mosquitoes. If we add to this the 1ade in dieting by Japan the world will have received sub- | ns to health and longevity as the contribution of the| ng to the art preservative of life. sol fa ¢ hea bl science of killi THE PRESIDENT AND PANAMA. ENATOR CULBERSON of Texas is much excited by the | S President’s Panama policy. Speaking to a Parker meeting in | New York City, the Senator exploited his views and sought to clinch them by reading a letter written by the President to Mr. Shaw of the Review of Reviews, in which the President said that | he could not give countenance to the fomenting of secession in! Panama, declaring that: “Whatever other governments can do the United States cannot go into securing by such underhand means | the canal cession.” The President added that he personally would be pleased if Panama were an independent state. Well, what good American, at that time, would have felt differently about it? The letter was confidential to Mr. Shaw, and at this late day the Presi- | dent himself removes the seal of privacy from it, which enables Senator Culberson to use it as a flail with which to pound threshed straw. Every reager of daily events on the isthmus knew that a Panama revolition was certain after the Colombian rejection of the Hay-Herran canal treaty. It came. It succeeded and we have the canal cession. dent Reyes of Colombia within the ‘last ! month has admitted the right of Panama to resume her former in- | dependence because of the injustice of her treatment by Colombia. 1t was a Central American teapot tempest, of which President Roose- velt took entirely justifiable advantage to secure the canal that had been the subject of dicker and bicker for a century and a half. What would Senator Culberson have? Does he intend, if Judge Parker is elected, to surrender the canal cession and hand Panama back to Colombia? That is the logical conclusion of all this attack on the President. We will see whether New York sympa- thizes with such a plan. The canal brings the whole west coast of Central and South America nearer to New York than the east coast of South America. It gives thac city a new water line access to the trade of a great region. It does for that city in respect to the Cen- tral and South American trade what the Erie canal did for it in the trade of our own continental center and west. The opposition is no more sensible than was the virulent abuse of De Witt Clinton when he projected and built the Erie canal. N diate aims of the Democratic party has been given than tha: set forth by Edward M. Shepard in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly. Here, summed up and clearly set forth, are enun- ciated the principles which are supposed to represent the platform ! of Parker and Davis. Alfter assuming the premises that the pres- ent Republican party is one in name only and expresses no continuity of sentiment or action with the Republican spirit of the days of Lin- coln, the writer draws the conclusion that “the present political campaign is a st e between tendencies—between ideals, even more than over specific measures of governmental policy.” i A’truer word has not been spoken. With one amendment Mr. Shepard’s dictum may be accepted as oracle. The present com- paign represents the struggle between definite ideals and purposes on the part of the Republican party and the random groping after ideals, the frantic search after definite purposes on the tic | side. The Democratic propaganda is a negative one. In the iter-| ation and reiteration of protest lie no ideals. The platform cautious! u-din;upifitdwmpromiupiecedmherzt& Louu,nndmnd{ to tremble under that unexpected blow from Parker’s gold telegram embodies not one ideal upon which positive issue may be made. ’ PARTY DIFFERENCES. O more lucid interpretation of the present temper and imme- i | X Z ! | copyr - HEARING THE NEWS FROM THE WEST. Ex-Senator Jones, Chairman of Bryan’s Two Campaigns, Tells Parker the Western Situation. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1904, : SHT. 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANG EMENT OF THE SAN FRANCICO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. PRIVATE SOCIETIES IN CITIES. HE New York Times in a recent issue, in commenting on a meeting of citizens called for the purpose of inquiring into cer- tain acts of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty {7 {to Animals, raises the question as to whether or not such private societies are really necessary for the enforcement of the criminal law, or whether that duty should be entirely in the hands of the municipality. In the October number of The Forum, Champe S. Andrews, an | eminent attorney of New York City, ably discusses the query pro- pounded by the Times, and argues convincingly that private so- | cieties for handling criminal and charitable matters have come to occupy a most important position in municipalities and asserts that the state invariably encourages and depends upon such bodies to assist in a work which, strictly speaking, belongs to the govern- ment itself. s 4 He shows that in the city of New York there have been brought into being, auxiliary to the regular representatives of the law, many | private societies engaged in assisting the state in performing functions | that the state itself would have to perform if the societies did not exist. They cover a wide field, such as employment bureaus, relief | societies, day nurseries and kindergartens, burial societies, asylums, homes, cheap lodgings, reformatories for children, relief for the sick, reclamation of discharged convicts, suppression of vice, and the Legal Aid Society. The latter is somewhat novel in municipal affairs and puts in motion the civil courts for the relief of the poor. It has manifested the need for its existence by recovering to the poor of New York over $1,000,000 since its incorporation in 1876. Mr. Andrews-argues that the preservation oi order, the protec- tion of property and the suppression of violence are, in practice, suf- ficient to keep any police force so busy that the lesser criminals may go practically undisturbed, and that it is not generally realized to what extent the government is compelled to lean upon private so- | cieties for the initiative in criminal and charitable matters, and that ! without such bodies the burden put upon the general public, not only | in taxation but in many other ways, would be so heavy as to be WHERE DANGER LIES. almost unbearable. N a recent number of the monthly consular reports to the De- I partment of Labor and Commerce there is embodied a Russian review of an article on “The Future and Power of the United States” from the pen of M. Hanotaux, a prominent French economist and member of the Academy. The spirit of the article is significant ir its bearing upon the tariff issyes of the present campaign, for the writer has sounded a note of warning to all European manufacturing powers who hope to compete with America under the protettive system. An “American peril,” rather than the bugaboo of Asiatic dominance, should keep Europeans up o’ nights, declares-the French economist; protection and organization have made our trade in- vincible. f “On the battlefields of international trade,” writes M. Hano- taux, “clever strategists have organized a trust vaster than any heretofore conceived, which binds the different States and the dif- ferent industries therein. I refer to the great national trust, the tariff. | Thus at the beginning of the twentieth century the United States faces the world as a mos} desirable market, on the one hand, and as an awful menace to manufacturing nations on the other.” Continuing, the writer shows how, within the operation of the protective system, the United States has been enabled to outbid the coal market of frée trade England in her own ports, how American wheat cut into the agricultural interests of France until a protective system remedied the losses of the home grower, and how Germany was compelled to fight against competition 6f American meats. & A stronger argument for the continued sway of protection could not be found than that unconsciously set forth by this French writer. 1f the giant strides made by our trade under protection have caused | which it is made, and it may be doubt- | our competitors abroad to fear for the future of their markets and to sound the rallying cry of opposition need we make a change? . Now that Judge Parker’s speach and | be remarked with Horatio: “The rest | wasps!-—New York Herald. is silence.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. The people like Roosevelt's candor. They admire bis industry., proud of the achlevements chief executive. And when and done, they are not beoks nor to his early ‘with refrence to . They are viewing his ord as President.—Kansas City Star, ‘While he would rather see himself elected than either Roosevelt or Park- § VELVET RIBBON TRIMMING. A most modish trimming for taffeta dresses is supplied by marrow velvet | ribbon. A chameleon silk, sheening blue | and erimson and beruffied from head to | foot, has each ruffie trimmed with four | rows of crimson velvet ribbon, the wid- est stripe half an inch wide and the | parrowest scarceiy an eighth. It is not permitted to put these ribbon trim- ! mings on by machine, either; they | must be painstakingly put on by hand. 1 e ABOUT VEILS. In black and white thers are many | arrangements. In colérs the dot invariably matches { the tint of the veil. Chenilles are the tavorite, though Automobile vefls are not now so often seen gathered on a small circu- { lar frame. | ' SMART SKIRTS. Circular-shaped skirts, cut bias, with matched edges at the center of the { front, are quite smart for striped plaid or checked materials, looks particilarly well veloped. A PRETTY FALL FASHION. A pretty fashion which has been started of late is that of wearing cockades of colored veivet or ribbon, one on the large and are generally of a contrast- ing color to that of the gown with which they are worn. Rosettes of ingly pretty accompaniment to a smart afternoon gown of brown plisse chiffon. MILLINERY. The hat scarf differs from the veil in that it is wound about the hat, never over the face. New scarfs are of lace in black, white and colors, with em- breidery in self color and contrasting colors. Ribbohs of all descriptions are to be used upon the new hats. Among the new ribbons are the plaids, the floral, the moire and double-faced colorings, satin and taffeta. The high crowns will lead in the large hats, the Directoire and the Gainesborough being the mest popular. ‘The Engiish round hat will be a fav- ored hat this season. CURIOUS COMBINATION. A curious fashion which has made its appearance of late is that of wear- ing a ceinture of black taffeta with a colored costume. To accompany it there is generally a rosette of black sage, and sometimes the same is re- not always of the happiest, especially when the gown is trimmed with a different colored material to that of ed whether the vogue will be of long duration. BRIEF HINTS. Hair nets of heavy silk, ornamented with beads and fringe, are a probable ‘Wide strings of net, tied + I embroidered and velvet dots are seen. | Checked mohair | when so de-| left side of the corsage _rather high up, and the other on the right side at the waist line, They are! burnt orange velvet make an exceed-' taffeta worn on one side of the cor- . peated on the sleeves. The effect is e AMERICAN ' GIRL'S FREEDOM — ——#| notoric‘y with a death charged to her account is a terrible warning against the so-called “freedom” of the Ameri-! can girl that has been the talk ((and not altogether favorable talk) of every country, says a writer in the Phila- delphia North American. Out'with another girl of her own age, at one of the amusement parks, with no check on her pert forms of amus- | ing herself, she swung on the power ot:\ the trolley that was just ready to start | and ran the car over the motorman | (who wa anding in front fixing the fender) instantly killing him. i In the face of eye-witnesses, before court, with its lawyers and Judges, | and its hundreds of accusing eyes, be- fore the very consciousness of the| crowd that would break a woman or a | man down, to say nothing of a child, | she becomes defiant. | Women everywhere are wondering | rat it. The very shock, itself, of being | present at so sudden a death, should have shaken her composure. Her futher, realizing the enormity of the ‘deed and her apparent callousness, ! broke completely down, and left the ‘ courtroom sobbing, while his deflant !little child was led away—dry-eyed— ! to await the decision of the court. | | The whole story is terrible. But' iwhat has made it possible? Isn't it : time something frightful like this very ! accident should occur to make people ‘ realize that the wonderful freedom our girls have been reveling in is becoming | | unlicensed ? 2 | Webster, or some one of our glorious | patriots, says that “there can be no {true liberty where there is no obe- | idience to just laws.” Surely some sort of diseipline ought to be main- | tained over children! | | The growing practice of allowing i young girls to roam the streets and pzrks alone, by day or night, is becom- !ing one of the eviis we women must | work to destroy. | Give a child a taste of the unnatural | life and her appetite becomes perverted. | | Instead of romping and playing in an | ! innocent way, she requires something | ! to be going on every moment, until, at | - | the best, she becomes a hollow, incap- {able, hardened woman, and at the | worst—! ! The cld idea of shielding a woman from care and knowledge of the world | was perhaps too bindimng in its restric- | tions, but it kept young girls safe— | kept them in a state of wholesome in- nocence and sweetness. That life couldn’t exist now. With girls pushing to the front in every way | —in business, in sports, in the thou- | send and one ways that were debarred | in olden times, there must be more | freedom. { But surely it need not extend to children. Girls of 11 or 12 are no fit judges of their own acticns and need a certain amount of restraint or dis- cipline. Keep your girls close to you—you mothers who hail their going out with so much relief—keep your girls close, i and don’t let them be added to the list | of terrible sacrifices to the spirit of | unlicensed freedom! | IF LOVE WERE ALL { The frail, sweet summer day is done, | _ Sweet heart, good night! | Too soon, alas! thesvdark has come; Sweet heart, good night! | Thy true love kiss rests on my brow, i My lips shall keep our kiss-seal'd vow, | { Thy faith my faith shall be—and now ' Swket heart, good night! } | Still one more kiss and we must part! Sweet heart, good night! Thy love is safe within my hLeart! | Sweet heart, good night! | If love were all, as once of yore! Thank God. it smooths the parting o'er. | Ah, maids may weep, but men must war! | Sweet heart. g night! | Sweet heart, good nlfhl! | —Metropolitan Magazine. FOR THE TABLE Tea Cake.—For a cheap cake, to be| eaten fresh, beat twp tablespoons ot; melted butter into e.cup of sugar, | add a beaten egg, two-thirds cup of | milk and two cups of sifted flour, sifted with three level teaspoons of baking | powder. Add half a teaspoon of mixed | spice and bake in a shallow pan. Serve | partly cool. 5> | Lemon Cake.—Cream one cup of but- ter, add two cups of powdered sugar slowly, and beat well. Add the yolks of four eggs, well beaten, one-half cup i of *milk and three cups of flour sifted with four lével teaspoons of bckln:; powder, and, last the stiffiy beaten | whites of four eggs. Bake in layers and cool. Make a filling from the whites of | three eggs beaten with one pound of ! powdered sugar, the grated yellow rind and the juice of one lemon. ! Spread between the cakes and over ! the top. Let stand a few hours to let the frosting or filling become firm. Milk Frosting.—Put one cup of granulated sugar and one-quarter cup jof milk into a saucepan and cook five minutes after the bofling point is reached. Stir all the time and then take | from the fire and stir all the time un- , til thick encugh to spread. , Blancmange.—Mix five level table- | spoons of corn starch in a little milk, | add two heaten eggs, stirring rapidly | ; ble boller and cook ten minutes; then iadd two beaten eggs, stirring rapldly and cook a minute. Pour into small | molds rinsed in cold water and when firm serve a teaspoonful of jelly on each mold, as turned on the serving dish, also powdered sugar and thin cream. i CARE OF THE EYEBROWS. | To every fifty women who worry themselves over their hair, there is only about one “ance. | A great deal the eyebrows. That little girl who was brought into : SMILES— A COLUMN | OF "EM | 4 GAVE THEM THE SHAKE. Tired Tommie—How did you lose vour teeth, Willie? Willie—Shook ‘em all out trying ter pronounce them Ruseian names in de war bulletins. -4 | b NOT A STUDENT. He—You are not the first gisi I ever kissed. She—Then you've got a | t to learn. . * THESE FOOTBALL GAMES. First Footbail Player—Pity about Kickem getting killed in that football game. Second Football Player—Yes, and it | was against a scrub eleven, too. INHERITED. She—He certainly is a great talker. He—Oh, well, he can't help that. His father used to be a barber.