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a WEDNESDAY, TEBRUARY 20, 1918 | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1918 The Stars and Stripes It’s Not Stylish to Be Fat, Oldest Flag That Flies : So Eat in Moderation and Vf a ln. Ar =< Sg = cy: : ” In the Whole World Qjd Glory, Daddy of Flags of All Nations. Live Happy Ever After Born in 1777, It Antedates the Spanish Flag Eight Years, Is i sk SI esa ar ULES RG ee Seventeen Years Older Than the French Tricolor, Has a ¥ Thirty Year Lead on Great Britain's Union Jack, Other National Flags Following After Wider Lapses of Time. By Albert Payson Terhune. Sopyricht, 191%, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). HAT fe the oldest flag that files, the oldest flag flown by any W civilized or semi<ivilized nation? What country can claim the greatest antiquity for its national banner? Ask nine people out of ten, and the answer will be “China,” or perhaps “Japan,” or even “Spar Not one person in @ thousand | knows the correct reply. Nor, hearing that reply, will most people at Gret believe it, The oldest flag flown by any civilized nation 1*-OLD GLORY! | The Stars and Stripes ts older than the flags of Great Britain or Spain or France or Germany or Italy or Portugal or any of the rest. | Older by many years. F course, all those countries had flags before America was discov- O ered, But not the flags they are now fying. As far as the ban- ners now {fn use {s concerned, Uncle Sam is the Dean of the Flag Wavers, Go over the list and you will find this is true, (Remember, Old Glory was born June 14, 1777) Take Great Britain, for example: When the Union was formed be- tween Englar< and Ireland, tn 1801, the British then In use was abandoned for one bearing tne white cross of St. Patrick, along with fits earlier devices. That is the present British flag. And it dates | back only to 1801 France's ancient monarchical flag was thrown {nto the scrap heap by the French Revolution, Out of that turmoil arose the present French Tricolor—the red, white and blue representing Liberty, Equal- ity and Fraternity, This Tricolor was docreed in 1794—seventeen years after Old Glory The German flag—Black, White an] Red—was not adopted until ¥ the close of the Austro-Prussian War, The Hanseatic League's colors were red and white. The Hohenzollern emblem was black and white. Ry combining these two, the present German flag was devised; first tor the NorthGerman Confederacy (Nov. , 1867), and, about three years later, for the new German Empire. It fs more than ninety years younger than Old Glory (from whom the throe-striped youngster is due to learn an unforgettable lesson) As for Russia—well, does any one know just what the Russian flag 1s to-day? If so, the knowledge will probably be of little use by tomorrow. The old Imperial flag fs in the discard, The Red of the Bolsheviki; the standard (as yet unannounced) of the Ukraine; the tribal of clan banners of the other Cossacks, &c,—all these may or may not emerge one day into a national flag. But when they do, Old Glory will have had at least a start of 141 years on it | HE banner which Spain planted on Amorica’s shores five and a T quarter centuries ago is not in any way the same flag that mod- ern Spain swears allegiance to. The Spanish flag with which the world 1s now familiar was not adopted until 1785, when the Stars and | Stripes were eight years old, and growing rapidly Spain's turbulent little next door neighbor, Portugal, is one of the oldest nations in Europe. But the flag it now Mies was not adopted until 1815—after Napoleon had turned Portugal upside down and the allies had set it bewilderingly back upon its feet. It ts thirty-eight years Old Glory’s junior. Sweden and Norway, as you know, were once a joint nation. The flag they adopted for their unton was devised in 1817, Since then, of course, the two uncongenial countries have separated, and each has a flag of its own. But even thelr Union Flag was not born until Old Glory had celebrated its fortieth birthday Degeneration and Disease Follow Unwise Feeding, Warns Dr. Alsaker, Who Teaches Simplicity in Food and How to Win Health, Comfort and Graceful Lines—Three Meals a Day and Nothing Between, and Only One Meat Portion, Is His Advice. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Pvening Werl@). © you eat by inspiration or by system? Do you order for dinner whatever food happens to come & into your mind, and as much of it as you dare with the vision of Mr. Hoover haunting you? Or do you choose from one to three simple dishes, well cooked but not highly seasoned or covered with elaborate sauces, and eat until your hunger is satisfied? If you are a temperamental, go-as-you-please eater you are diminishing steadily your chances of health and long Ife. If you eat with moderation and simplicity you are likely to “live happy ever after,” in the opinion of Dr, R. L. Alsaker, a noted physician and the author of “Eating for Health and Efficiency,” “How to Live on Three Meals a Day,” and several other Interesting books on health building, It 1s Dr. Alsaker’s bellef that “the most important single health factor is the feeding.” ‘ | +OT Bee susoUr the entire life correct feeding will prevent dis- ease and cure it, as it does in childhood,” he says. “Bvery- body knows that to build a good house it is necessary to have fine material and make the proper use of it; that it 4s necessary to furnish good soil for the growth of grain and trees; that farm stock can be | Tralsed in good health by proper care and feeding. But many ignore | the fact that the human being has to have food of good quality and well prepared and properly eaten if he is to be healthy. “If we fall to select good foods and if we habitually err in our eating, degeneration and disease are bound to ensue.” And In his eminently sensible book, “Eating for Health and Et- ficiency,” Dr. Alsaker preaches the gospel most needed by Americans—— that of moderate and simple eating. “By moderation,” he explains, “we mean to take what food ia necessary to keep the body well nourished, but no more. By simplicity we mean eating plain foods, simply prepared, hav- ing only a few dishes in each meal. Many of the meals should con- sist of from one to three articles of food, and it should be the rare exception to have more than four or five kinds of food at a mea), Simplicity In eating is taught us by all the Iving beings on earth ex cept man, LJ “In the cities,” continues Dr, Alsaker, “many of our most prom- inent men eat and drink themselves to death. We read of prominent men ‘apparently in the best of health’ dropping dead, and we read such news frequently. They are not in apparent good health to e trained, true eye. They are too full of blood and waste and toxins; their weight ig usually too great; their abdomens too prominent and thelr ekins too ruddy. To a trained observer they appear physically degenerate, and they are. “ HIE women of wealth rufn thelr complexions and their figures with high living. Alcohol {s the deadliest foe of the com- plexion. It does not take much drinking to conquer the fine blush of color on the cheeks and replace it with coarse pores and dilated capil- laries. Alcohol and idleness and overeating and loss of sleep are the OP ShORY JON J ITIT FRENCH TRICOLOR 1794 i} "GERMaNy chief factors in robbing rich women of their beauty. China's dragon ensign dates back to the dark ages. But that 1s PORTUGAL + BELGIOM 'e67 “And this leads us to lunches and teas, popular with the fair sex no Jonger China’s official flag. The Chinese Empire has crumbled into 1814, 183\ in the cities. The ladies who frequently indulge in them and eat nothingness, at the breath of modernity, and in its place stands a new : three meals besides will lose both health and beauty, The foods, China with a new flag. This oldest country, therefore, boasts one of = - : ee ee seston arma cnataaaas thou , ray gh dainty, are not always fit to eat from the point of view of the very newest flags on earth,—a flag compared to which Old Glory ts “on ” Ww Ww: 0 @ snow bearded patriarch Cottonseed Sausage herethe ind Blows ie meals a day are enough The same ts true of Japan. The ancient ensign of the Hermit HG United States is certainly thy . . | 4 ig i Isle (with Its dual rulersbip of Shogun and Mikado) was changed to “land of cotton.” Nowhere ¢ ; Trains Off Tracks. for any one, and between these fit the new dyfusty and new conditions. The flag of up-to-date Japan ee A the world is cotton such a varlety meals nothing should be taken into the stomach except water, Fr qvent eating leads to overeating.” And for brain workers Dr, Al- saker would Hooverize even that regime. “Those who do light work in town or city should eat only one ndance und put te such «| Central Park's Zoo Has Its Tragedies and Comedies, HERE is a atreteh of railway uses, The fibre, of cours along the west coast of Ireland,| hin ths the ol fom tne, Especially When Snookums Gets Into Action and where {t was forinerly not an| Dlooming on a seariet fleld ds is used asa g subst He Puts One Over on Hoover and When Vindictive | un in n occurrence for the trains Denmark's present flag came into use after Norway broke loose Saat aa a basin for lard i ¢ ; m from the ralia by the from her Danish parent, in 1814, or after Napoleon had finished jug» | now the seeds themselves aie being Larry Gets Even and Spills the Snookums Beans w\nis trom we ocean, says Popular gling with the dynasties of the Little People of ground into flour and used mi | —And “There’s Nothing Missing About the *ienee M These disasters are ig a creeping infant compared to ours. The former Imperlal Standard of Japan represented a golden chrysanthemum with sixteen petals, nto clo 4 1 purposes says Popular Selence how preven the use of an in- ‘square’ meal a day,” he warns. Bn ie See Aine tie te i yell : aa eyes A Monthly, Gingersnaps and jumbles Missing Link,” Says Jim Reilly. enious form mites tery me h "The other two should be lunchos. opted for the first tir ie black, yellor ed colors of th , a and itis mixed with n alarm-bell when the velocity ‘ vorke! - iden House of Brabant as a pational fag. Holland conce o @pantes [te ede from bane 667 FAYE it to the monks to slip one over on Hoover,” says Jin mn Aydt A econ No brain worker can digest a heavy a finely chopped meat an@ tied in sau L wind reac re mi meal and do first-class thinking province, then a republic, then a toy principality, created by Napoleon, | cape links Hol ‘ hour, Bagh staton.en (ene. ips at the same time. The big meal of ané finally a more or Inder make tho cottons & m Reilly is the monkey man out at the Central Pa 13 on hand @ stock of movable ndent kingdom), euffered several | 7 v4 the day should be taken In the eve- Ite ons 0! itional ensign befo g dow oh | three pounds of sau meat ed) Knows more al than you know about men st, a ton of which is placed startling alterations of 1 nal ign r ye down ( ft [three pounds of tn i wou pus ‘i a eiacl ning, when there are no more heavy present flag, Switzerland's modern form of Government did not begin [with one pound of cottor t there're better 7 ery car arriving sta : Ir 1 to cont h t . r p 7 hake, t the tion after the bel i cares and the hard work of the day until the Nineteenth Century—or rather, was resumed then, in an | This flour ts sai Yesterday was Meatless Day at the Zoo and clsewhere. Wut the | ‘ t the meat whicl kes 5 " 4 > fs done, But never eat a hearty improved form, when Napoleon could no longer bother tt. Bach of | nutrition as thy s Monkeys are better abstainers than most folks, because monkeys don't a si 1 the place of, and to effect a ¢ ter . eal SS meal when worn out or cranky its present cantonments has a flag of tts own, Though the original ) i hs h pound of lke meat hat is, most monkeys. ut le R ] Sh ness PR ALALSAKER ne aptac Swiss emblem is of great antiquity, it is a “revival,” not a continued, | Ul SAVIN & ae, Snookums d | Yr oya yi . eros design of | . ae id thereby hangs the tale 1E Princess Royal, Louisa Vie- | AS to the kind of food most desirable, Dr. Alsaker is not “faddy,” Mexico did nut win independence 1 the Nineteenth Century, | Warplane’s Record Flight. Hncokuma, being a carnivorous monks big: tiunk of meat-on [ SOHaRATEEANdEA DAGrARE DESH In his sample menus almost all simple dishes appear, but only eo had no flag of its own until then, The same te true of Greece, whose HAT possibly is 4 . Monday, but on ita on Tuesday | € of Fife, eldest of the three a few of them for each meal. This Js one of his dinners: Roast or national banner (the colors of the House o! avuria) was not adopted W country aerial r When Jim Je t rounds of the Jungle Snookums laushters of the late King Edward stewed cbicken, a side dish each of string beans and turnips, a salad until 1882, when a Bavarian princeling u 1 the newly bullt Greek cently made when a Britis was hanging } tail, devouring @ rosy piece of beet yt en called her “Her Royal] of Jettuce, celery and grapefruit, a dish of stewed figs, In general he throne. All the South American countries, « r won thelr inde bombing plane was driven f “Snooks, you slacker, where did you get that meat oiled Jim, | Shynes use of her timidity and} thinks that soup, meat, potatoes, salad and a succulent vegetable, pendence and t Heht toe fag lone after wo did, and several of and to a base in the M imuts. mionkeve ¢ ie Shas hervousness. She is a little - oe minus coffee, dassert and what he calls “messed-up" or made dishes, ihom have based thelr tas dealane on Qld Glor 1 dhiastannn about BnaokUl 4 itdown end beman to bounce @ young cocoanut on eae s hor brother: make a good enough dinner for anybody. Meat, he thinks, should not The flag of Austria-Hungary date from { ton (the so ane Fin'e head to idit s alittle, Over In the corner was a row i een tter, Queen Maud | be eaten more than once a day in cold weather nor more than threo called “Independence Union") of those two kingdor 1867, though |!" . f nuts, unm Jim examined the cage, but there wasn't any meat lop Nepway. She became the bride of} OF four times a week in warm wather, each country forme d fla varta | i, fa isih 1 t h and the helpers swore they hadn't |tne Duke of I in 1889, her husband Th {s Dr, 4 1 8 Warning to gluttons: Italy, up to 1870, was a collection of depende ha s 1 were ¢ od en mite ldying in 1912, For years the Princess A fat adult ays degenerating or sick. Fat people do not states, Napoleon, tn 1805, Joined the ¢ tance was covered In a t Just then I kumta roommate, rolled out the flivver, ‘T Royal and her two lovely daughters, | know what rea? health is, unless they have good memories. It is no tributary kingdom, and ord ed, € rh r fis Ra rms and er, by the w 2 ung Ford on spools that some of the kidd Alexandra Vietoria and Maud Alex: | longer stylish to be fat and it 1s decidedly unwise and unsafe. Diet ts ite flag. But whe e fe 4 with him were un po ¢ jonated to am monk | indra, were known as “The Three} the most important part of reduction, All fat people can become nor- The Italian patriots, in 1848, ado} ras thet One f the tris Snook ve for it, tore it from La nd protected Graces." mal in weight, And in 1870 it became the national fla ety-three year er Old o-m ATV NOE with. his bite | . “Those who wish to lve well and long,” concludes Dr, Alsaker, Glory's first boi SOUR ITY me nOrs eae Jim gra fiver and dumped out the siwdust. in the {Celluloid Substitute Found) “have to®practise self-control, ‘There is no substitute for self-control, The va lected the leider ‘ a bottom was 8 y-day store—roay, Juley, meaty meat—con- | \ imcomeutibte substiture for} Selccontrol results in moderate and simple living.” twiste of ¢ A MANY FEEL THAT Way erved from W) Monday A Maar aateh waas tavern ian oee - — ———— ——_—______. some are now lo AVO negroes were Ca Pake it f saya Jim, “there's nothing 1 & about t y Japanese university proton-| A TIP AND A BAT, | HM, HE star and ore pike wn the Chr a Hal vie Miswing Link |sor some time ago, has been found| Hy RATAN AAR nd ominously.) ¢¢ 7 DON'T believe any one has yet era—ever Great. 1 and: took res UES ——ven = - ane tisfact compa | re you the te r that tore} declded ah MS y tian era y A ke ee a ) satisfactory that a company 1 hat tore| decided if the world ts flat or and crescent Was Lic 4, in ‘ rgunized in Japan to pndertake | Henry's ehirt Avance WHY HOT WATER PIPES BURST. |fallen to several degree w the c ‘ae | round,” remarked the club gos- adopted as a personal Mah 1, the Tarkt “| The t ler crashed 1% IUSEHOLDERS > had tolfreesing point, at which stage amufacture, Popular Mechanics yak © Alg’wau és de ton® sip. “Now, Jortles, ole fellah, what nowadays as the flag of Turke 1 a ere ing dashes of rain, One 3 eo rece , author wih) water t neal at n from soy bea seal wouldn't behave, To make him Iisten| “Neither,” grunted Jorties, official “Imperial Flag” of Turke he“ ie cong al ditt terested French export: | ¢, ig point ite t being employed to produce @ durable, | to me 1 took him by the collar and he| swat? screamed t \ he tt 4 Held the or s guage would ease hi nent ar sto why hot lof air bubbles. ‘The give horniike suiftanee. According to re-|broke away.” Bid cold a2 he gossip. this, and bearing on ad field: the ons Look heah, yo! Ch ‘ ate BEANS nily {that heat is water gas par ty it can be mado more cheaply | |The woman awung the hall bat to- Whatever do you think it is then?” reigning Sultan, This causes a change of desten for ¢ ~ Sultan quit rt 1 y ! requently yw yeaa b A Fei |ward the teacher “Crooked,” said Jortles, ea Fike Not le el fel ger ge nan taining cold water. He : Ne bee | ay ordinary celluiold and in many|"4Next time he don't hehave,” she| Crooked” sald Jorties, as he sadly Yes, Old Giory is the Dean of the Ne see most | dat Gawd's got yo" ¢ } capone aris We e ther respects 1@ preterable to the|gaig, “vou Mit him with theccoNsw:. Angered lumps of emptiness in hip le would ssy offhand that it ig among the ont power jest now : en not begin | opyatal ° ne of ive 4 sete, i geople would say offhand th is among unges \ Be uedger, ke ‘a Cemperature baa! begips Sooner ad 8 more gradual, | vombusulble produch it 6 News. pockets, Ideas ee ee ET NE \,