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4 (L575 WES) ‘by the Prees Publishing Company, No. 03 to 6 Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. +-NO, 18,071 DANGERS OF COLD FOOD. eal’ journal, lending the weight of its au- t to views that The Evening World has often ad- , advises against the eating of cold food. It is vag mush the more likely to overtax tho digestive powers. “are New England housewives who have alleged of evil falsely against the hot biscuit of y breakfast and tea tables. They have at- dyspepsia to fried chicken and gastric torments ‘pone. And for their own lunch tables they have ont The genesis of the quick-lunch counter was in ree notion that cold food is best. Of all the sins ‘man in ‘his ignorance of dietetic principles has in- ¢ on his stomach this is the worst. The cold ple abit line cut short many a promising career. eS ‘summer the hot weather diet specialist provided @ 4 model midsummer dinner one composed of these Girwes: Little Neck clams on the half shell, toed; cold ey cold salmon with tartar sauce, just out of the @-box; cold roast chicken with iced cucumbers and tips; ice-cream; a demi-tasse. A cold cock- YF White wine accompanied it. for the coffee, which was presumably warm, n coustituents of this bill of fare were Ordinarily condemned, the liquors. As for the i it was an ill-advised affront to the digestion, a wy tax on the vitality. For before beginning its irk of digestion the stomach was called on to raise “temperature of all this iced food to 98 dogrees weni the temperature at which digestion {s pos- . Had it not been for the alcohol, which gives the ‘an added impulse for its extra work, the task »liave been too severe for a weak stomac ‘The Housckeeper’s recourse to canned good and pre- fed food !# responsible for many digestive disturb- It is one of the reasons why the Sunday night Invites iusomnia. Cold bread, cold meats, cold cold baked beans, fresh from the can, a cold rh give others besides clergymen a blue Mon- ing a sleepless Sunday night. EDUCATION OF THE SENSES. illustrating the extent to which man’s senses may One related the feat of a post-office in- or whose keen sense of smell enabled him to track stolen registered package by the odor of the guia od by the thief in resealing it. Proceeding on the theory ) the paste provided for different post-offices may indvvidual and characteristic odors, he visited several offices through which the package had d ett route, suiffed at the paste pots on the clerks found the odor desired, and caught the criminal. @ Sherlock Holmes feat of a high order, one of “meind with, but surpassing in cleverness, that of the | Legation attache in “Diplomacy,” who tracks the nit the government papers by the whiff of the cul- intess's perfume exhaled from the plundered des- The other corresponding case {s that of Henry Crog- ‘an employee of the Treasury Department, who die, ¢ . Croggon was an expert coin teller. In forty. ps of service in the Treasurer's office he had at- | such facility of touch that he detected a counter- or bill the instant it came into his hands. important thing about these instances of edu- sennes is that they must be singled out for admira- ‘as exceptional when they should be only the nor- mal condition. Man, by his limited use of them, has these gifts of nature to degenerate. What ‘the inspector's feat be to a deer scenting a hunter fa mile away? Or the cojn-teller’s to that bulky of the deep, the whale, who, according to Prot. i, knows bv the resistance of the water against his when he is approaching a shoal or a sunken rock? whiskey, over-eating and neglect blunt the edge of the senses and stunt their development. pw acute the sense of taste may be made by Intel- it use is illustrated in the professional “tea taster, in the connoisseur whose trained palate recognizes > vintage of wines sampled blindfolded. of touch is more readily susceptible of refine- | Next to the tongue, it is most sensitive in the hewhich may be easily educated. It is dullest in the arm. The finger tips are the termini of multi- : tad ‘of deciicate nerve fibres, a fiftieth of a square in tad more than one hundred of them, A je seri attention to the fingers in youth, the dis- ‘stimulants and narcotics and the maintenance of wtate of health would make the coin-teller's ac- nt a common thing rather than a matter of by reason of its rarity. SETTLEMENT WORK. {those who go from homes of comfort on the west 6 do missionary work in homes of penury and equalor on the east there are two kinds. An of what the one kind is was given by Rabbi Chivago, when in his address before the Kdu- Alltence he said: ‘@il the west siders who come down here from and pat your children on the cheeks and to their drawing-rooms to tell of what hor- have seen, tell them to mind their dashed t iunes.” A strong and deserved rebuke to the @ dispensers of charity who invade humble kt tuctieas benevolence aud with patronizing er gort we have an example in J. Graham a, a rich young man of well-known family, Bent a four years’ novitiate in settlement work to devote his life to it. Here is a man | of @ high order of inteligence whose é and enthusiasm promise tho ac- h good in his line of sociological wil | make him the most conspicuous sociation of earnest workers, the Uni- Ht, Tn the sixteen years of the Society's ) be less readily digestible than hot, and by #0} % d cold pork, cold pie, cold doughnuts and cola) | HPs tSCe SG6-365 950258 OE Serre rte eres wiSe 4 SPVPOPIODTSSOCOOY presebere ro GOS ESO THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1902. THE “3 4 AHVENING<& antd the merchant to the youthful applicant, “we'll have to test your ability an a whistler Sup- Dore you try. “I'm sorry, sald the boy 1 caift whistle at all,"" “Hung up your hat,” cried the merchant, prompt- ly, “you're the boy we are looking for." — Philadel- Phia Press The M ry Mac 1 i ins Play H OK GEORGE, YOUVE BROKEN MY WAND PRINTED CHOCOLATE SET Witt YOUEVER STOP READING? orse &&,. By Ladendorf, Creator of Mischievous Willie. Pop. | FOOLED. “Teacher,” Mttie “Didn't ‘HOSSY WONT DID DAB.MAMNA Its place by force of gravi “Yea, the traction of sun keeps Worl moving a rezular orbit.” my pa again, sald last that It Fierpont was Hera 4. John D. Rockefeller as a Tarrytown Fireman. Artist Powers Pictures the Millionaire ‘‘Mose.” AM EARLY CALE Jew! HE ur (Prom Prete) COME OUT ‘i STRONG ATA FIRE John D, Rockefeller has been elected an honorary member of the North Tarrytown Fire Patrol, which, according to “Hank” Johnson, hack driver, who Is also a member, ‘can now make the New York Fire Department look like the echo of 30 cents.” Mr. Rockefeller has not yet put the Tarrytown uniform on and he is waiting for his first fire-alarm. “I know what I would do if I were Joha” said Hank confidentially, % SOEOGO00OD $066 A By J. Noel Johnson. Copyright, 1902, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) OW, w'at objections kin you have ter me marryin’ Sarilda Jane, Mr, Toltver, thet won't also apply to Bili Anderson?" Old Ben Tolliver stood for some time against his hog pen, a judicial atr of pendering gravity sheathing his fea- tures, ‘Then he delivered the decree from which there could be no clvil ap- peat. “Tom McC “se y, you Know not how it batters my very soul to have to de- elde agin’ 1 know your fine p'ints as a son-in-law just aa well as you can tell me. | know you are worthy of Sarilda Jene, an’ that is braggin’ you mouty Big. I know ehe is the pintiest gal in the hills, an’ I know she loves you with a foree that would push a hoss over a bluff. Sarcumstances of polloy now compel me to put your royal glaims aside in favor of your rival, Bill Ander- on. You want the reason? You shall get it square, [ cannot live always. My shadder Js gittin’ mouty long toward the east. I must commingle with the dust of my dads. I must have a euccessor in the moonshine business. You know nothin’ about \t while Bill is not only An expert in distillin', but is the best man I ever seed dn eneakin’ a still down in some undiskiverable cave or bill- pocket. 80 good mawnin', Mr, McCoy. You ain't got no gun on, so less don't argy the matler no furde: Tom bowed his handsome head and said, “I submit to your deolden. There's plenty of other gala on this orlck jest as pirty as Sarda Jane. In other words, thar's just ax fat ‘possums In the ‘simon tree as was ever ahook out.” neni One night a month later the inham- tanta of Moonshine Creek leaped fram thelr beds with a cyclonic roar in their ears. Inetinctively they fled from thetr doors to find darkness in thelr eyes and hard feet in swirling water. oy @ Creek. many homes, wringing houses from foundations and whirling @way human beings like dry chips. The Toliver home, being on more ele~ vated ground than the majority on the ereek, the family escaped from the house with lttle danger through water not higher than the waist of the grown Old man Toliver was beginning people. IT WAS SARILDA JANE TOLIVER. PuToura Money 0 the crowd could see It sparkle. | end of the hose.” membered this his voice rose In fearful walling. The house of the aunt lo- cated on lower ground, and the two helpless inmates must be drowned. At this thought the cries and walls of the whole household mingled with the roar of the merciless waters, The old IN A PLACE OF PERIL. (eee man, though his knee stili held « fresh to thank the Lord that the lives of the family had been spared and to con- HE Comp FIRE WITH would have a uniform built that would stagger the State of New York. The boots would have diamond-studded heels and on top of my helmet I'd have a diamond as big as my fist. At a fire I would stand near the flames I'd buy a $50,000 automobile and tow the whole engine company to every fire, and I'd put a solid gold nozzle on the 909-99290099000008 A and the form on the roof became per- feotly distinct. It was Sdrilda Jane Toliver. A chorus of walls and groans sounded from the group. Every face, white and questioning, stared into another, Then old man Toliver, lost to a sense of physical helplessness, surged forward towami the growling monster. Strong xms forced him back, “Oh, my child! Oh, my little sweet daughter! Can't some one save her for me? Bill Anderson, what do you mean, standing here like a stump?” “Mean? I can't swim,” whimpered Bill, “ain't no use ter drown meself till I fully know Saulda's gone.” A dart of angry disgust sped through the death-agony of the old fellow’s ex- pression. Now another sound js heard. ‘Tis the lumbering of great, churning feet. All faces are reversed. Shouts of hope leap out from a score of despairing bosoms. Tom MoCoy, his height In- oreased and his eyes cast over the peo- ple, fastened like a claw on just one object. He breaks not his gait. In- stantly, a Jane {s made for him through the group, Bill Anderson alone, being @ little laggard, getting knocked down. Into the boiling, roaring, snatching fren- sled waters leaps the giant. ‘he two white hands are now lowered toward a dark object moving toward them with the (precision of @ locomotive down a hough swinging eddies, black with riftwood, outs the dark ‘form. wager feet to tho ver said Richard, you say yesterduy that the world was kept {n th ate the the in “Then somebody has been stringing He * night oh Morgan. —Chicago Record- é BOS-2OH9090004443OO-490 9999090035 4 | rive Aghting will be considerabiy more Many Questions on All Sorts of Subjects An- swered for Evening World Readers by Experts. What's in a Namet To the Editor of The Grening World: FIND that threo out of four girls named Kate have quick tempers or bad tempers or are scolds. I also find that most of the people to whom 1 have expounded this theory agree with me qfter @ little reflection. I would like readers to discuss this, always remem- bering that I want to hear from thoso who agreo as well as those who disagree with me. ARTHUR BROWNE, Jr, An Arabio Quotation. To the Editor of The Wrening World: I grould like to know the meaning of the words “Allah hu Akber,” qhich I have eead. Is It German? BL M. It {s Arabic and means “God fs great,” It 19 the first sentence of the Moslem “Call to Prayer.” Dog vs. Aldermen. To the Edttor of The ®yening World: } have a dog who never annoys any tengzit in the house and is a favorite witit the nelghbors. If @ bill goes into effect. to do away with dogs why not do away with Aldermen, too? Mra, A. SMITH. Bath After Exercising. To the Mditor of The Evening World: Should gymnastic exercises taken up- on rising in the morning be taken before or after the bath? AMATEUR. Bathe after exercising, before the re- action sets In, Do not etay over one minute in the bath, and ‘rub down’? quickly afterward with a rough towel. ‘Then dress rapidly. In this way you will avold catching cold. For an Urban Athletic Field. he HAltor of The Evening World: ‘¢ New Yorkers have to travel eniles to eee any outdoor athletic event. Why not have an urban athletic fleld; one In the very centre of the city, easily reached, where foatball, baseball, track events, &c., can be held? I suggest Madison Square, = ATHLETIC JIM. The First Newspaper. To the Editor of The Ewsning World What. was the fir: American news- To | paper wnd when published? When was the first ever published? ROBERT A-LITCHNER, Providence, R. I. The first’ American newspaper was the Boston News Letter; first published June 30, .7D4, and continued until the Revolution. ‘The first newspaper dn his- ‘ltory was raiblished at Cologne, Ger- many, in 1498. Im Byron’s “Monody on the Death of Sheridan.” To the Editor of “fhe Evening World: ‘Where can I,find this, as often quoted? “Sighing that nature formed but one such man, Ani broke her die in moulding Sherl- dan,” HENRY BALLARD. Not Debarred from Fire Depart- ment. To the Editor of The MeninshVorld: Having been a member of the Metro- politan police farce and having been dismissed about three years ago for being off post one hour, I would Uke to know !f that stops me from getting in the Fire Department as fireman. iu A dismissed policeman may become eligible to admission to the Fire De- partment two years after dismissal, ‘The Squirrel’s Example. To the Editor of The Dyeing World: Notice the park squirrels when they K Few Ke Mostly The thermometer has given up trying to keep pace with the coal price. Now that the Rockefellers have bee mentioned in connection with the deal, will of] supersede electricity as motive power? Lorenz may, in a little while, (Hope to inaugurate A brand-new query on the style Of “Is my head on straight? “What sort of foliage do they have around the Government buildings at Washington?” “Plum trees, I guess." ‘The miners say a sensation is dus. As a matter of fact it has already arrived. It is one of cold. If they want to pro- vide a real sensation let it take the form of coal. id ‘To say the turkey’s gone would be A statement worse than rash; 'Dwill still appear for days to come In soup, croquettes and hash. ‘The strongest whitecap is bound to be swamped by a single wave of chivairy. “I've analyzed this medicine which you claim will cure etammering, and I find it completety paralyzes the voicgt" “Well. that blocks e man from stam- mering, all right, doesn’t it?” Thanksgiving Day's 18 fires, tho al- leged MoNutt $18,000 swindle, and the drowning of 13 members of the Vent- nor’s crew #how thet the hoodoo number is etl!) doing a “land office business" at the old stand. For the next ten months, at all events, brutal than football, A young man who owned a steam yacht Begged a maiden to share his life lacht. “Won't you Join me," said he, In my sail o'er Ife’s set” she: murmured, "I surely will nacht.” are fed. Those little animals have the common sense that a lot of people stand In need of. Uncracked peanuts - aro stored away by them in the ground for the bleak winter days. Should some of those "good t!me summer folks” ao likewise with thelr money the strain on charity would not be so great. Crack- ed peanuts would decay should they be placed in the ground, so the squirrels bi eat them. Feed them cracked and un- cracked peanuts and they'll proft both ways. BENCHER. italian Word Meaning Termina- tion. i To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘What is the meaning of the word “finale,"” and from which language 4s i$ derived? M. JACOBS. Summer Holidays. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Does New York have any legal holl- days in the months of August, Septem- ber and October, and whet date does Hallowe'en fall on. FRANK BANKS, Portchester, N. Y. Only Labor Day (first Monday tn Sep- tember). Hallowe'en falls on Oct, 81. London Bridge In 1,005 Feet Long. To the Editor of Tho Evening World: What is the length of London Bridge? 8. ROBINSON. Address Miss Marion Earle, No. 241 West 109th Street. To the Editor of Tae Evening World: Whers shall I apply for information concerning the Bachelor Girls’ Club, which I think was formed through your paper? 8. ML This Name Ties the Record. ‘To the Altor of The Evening World: READ in the letter column of @ man ho had a very jong name and a query if it cous be metohed. In 1889 I was in a smali town in Virginta And met a young man whose name was “Stanley Wrederick Stewart Haynes Berkely Byron Bartman Pittman Sny- der." I think that at least comes up with the man in Northern New York, if It does not seat him. Mrs. E. V. JACKSON, Mineola, L. L The Theory of Evolution, To the Editor of The Evening World: A correspondent says he believes the first man was evolved from a monkey. What proof has he to give that he is right? And what proof have we that Darwin was right? Darwin claims that the firet mac sprang from a monkey. If this be true I will es why man is 0 long aman? Why does he not {nto something else? Way does he change into a different being? If changed from monkey to man we ha been now a long time without change, Why? LH “Social Introductions.” ~ » To the Biltor of The Evening World: I read that @ certain minister ls going to have a church without social intro- ductions. Now, I believe it is absolutely necessary to have social introductions for the’sake of the church members who are not supposed to attend worldly amusements, such as the theatre, races, &c, and therefore the church must have these social Introductions for the benent of the church members. ANON, He Should Ask Permission to Call, To the Editor of The Evening ‘World: Is it proper for a young man whe ' has intention of marrying a young lady to call on her without being anked? cc G H \ ebaee marks. on Topics of the Day. Committee and Board of Governor, =, while I am the ‘capable staff of em ployet It must pain the janitor to see #o much good blame going to the coal people, If a dumbwaiter strike could be ordered his last joy in life would filt, It !s to be hoped that Fireman Rocke- feller won't get his maxims mixed and try to “cast oil on the troubled” fires “I hear he's lost his figure fine And gains flesh more and more,” “Oh, no; his figure isn't lost, It's only gone before.” Now that Patt! has really stopped her annual “farewell tours’ of the United States, Buffalo Bill js ‘getting back” at the effete Old oWrld by “farewelling” Burope for the severalth time. Cold weather {s here and not a big trial {n sight to help the handwrfting expert through the winter! "The émployees at our offic®are rate ing a fund to help along such of us ap are discharged.” “Sort of fire ini ce, eh?’ 3 you his daughters “Did he give hand?" “Not exactly, but he did the next best thing. He gave me his own foot.”’ It's not altogether impossible that some of the fowls whose flesh decorated Plymouth's inner man Thursday, fur nished the feathers to decorate McDen- * ald outwardly. “Moon Daisy" dazed the Broadway soubrettes, The Horse Show Joke, the Football Joke, the Anthracite Joke, too, Have one by one at last gone out ef ot Therefore the Jokesmith waen't strong on Thankfulness, ‘tls true, But you can bet your Hfe the Public @st “I've never yet had Justice,”