©WOO50CCOOCOOOODO90COOSO(| rsSni | Hints | | By DR. T. J. ALLEN, g © Health Culture and Food O 0 Specialist. X © (Author of "Exlng for a Purpoie," etc.) O CocoooecoccocooocoooooGootl P. X. A., Antipathy to Certain Foods. —Even a teaspoonful of honey always makes me sick. I know that this is cot Imagination, for my wife, who doubted it, tested it by disguising the honey In syrup, and the effect was the Fame as when I knew that 1 was eat ing honey. I have known others who had similar experiences. What is the cause of this antipathy, and how can it be overcome? Ans.—No explanation has been Riven, 60 far as I know. Probably this is only a pronounced form of dislike for cer tain foods, good or bad. Some time ego, 1 studied the case of a friend who had acquired an absolute distaste for liork, and, to a smaller degree, for all other meats, because he had been made sick by eating fresh pork. 1 know another man who is nauseated by the thought of eating oysters, be cause he was once made very sick by eating them. Probably these innate objections to certain foods are the re sult of some record, often hereditary, of severe sickness, due to over-eating a particular article or to eating it at the wrong time. These registers are of course subjective; we do not know of them until, by chance, we eat the particular food to which the antagon istic record exists. The effect will be the same whether we know we have eaten such food or not. The memory of the subjective mind is psrfect. Prob ably these peculiar tendencies could be overcome by suggestion and by beginning with a very small amount of the food and increasing it gradual ly, but there would be no particular benefit, as a rule, in doing this, and it might be hamful. It is not neces sary to eat everything. Such antipathy Is never found with bread, sugar, nuts or other substantial natural food. H. L. M., Insomnia. —I am troubled with insomnia. Has diet any bearing on this? Please explain. Ans.—The cause of sleeplessness is wrong feeding, foul air, want of exer cise, mental excitement or some irrita tion due to abnormal condition of the physical organism or to defective functioning of the organism. The ul timate cause is, of course, abnormal mental condition. The radical cure consists in complying with all the con ditions of complete nutrition, with special reference to the one or more that may be particularly violated. By getting the necessary detailed infor mation and perhaps by making a physical examination, your local phy sician can determine what may be re quired in this direction and tell you how to restore the normal condition. It is not wise to take a drug to allay the abnormal activity of the nervous system which causes the excessive flow of blood to the brain because such drugs always work injury, al though the necessity for sleep in severe cases may occasionally war rant their use. The simplest and most effective superficial cure is to eat a very light supper, toast, a poached or whipped egg or only a few prunes; drink nothing later than five o'clock, except to take a little warm drink after eating, or a cup of cocoa or lemonade immediately before retir ing. Sit with the in hot water for ten minutes before going to bed. Take a brisk rubbing with a rough towel and cool water, distributing the circulation. The electric vibrator would be beneficial in producing the same effect. On lying down assume the easiest possible attitude. Instead of fearing that you may not sleep, as sume a mental attitude of indifference as to whether you sleep or not. Hav ing assumed the most comfortable po sition turn the eyes up as if looking directly overhead in a perpendicular line. Imagine that you see pigeons be ing liberated from a tall building and count them, one by one, as they fly away up, and when you fall asleep and ■wake again repeat the same process. This occupies the attention and the imagination with the least possible ef fort. W. H. S-, Food and Thought.—About a year ago, I found myself in poor con dition, hardly able to do my work as a salesman in a store on account of nervous exhaustion. My attention was called to the importance of proper eat ing which, like most people, I had till then given no attention. I changed my diet, and soon found considerable improvement, but 1 was not satisfied. 1 not as well as I had been while working as a collector. I happened to read about a manuscript supposed to contain some sayings of Jesus not found in the New Testament. I got from this the idea that the healing power is within, and I am now better than I have ever been before, enjoy life, and cannot imagine myself as be ing sick, as I was for more than two years. Should I credit my improve ment to the food that gave me the start, or to the suggestion that gave me the finish? I am advising others and I want to know I am right. I can eat anything nuw, and have no fear of being sick, and say to others, "Bat anything and think right." Ans.—You would not say that you live on air. Poisoned meat would affect you as much as anybody. The rightv mental condition la Important, but •jothing can annul law; as a man eats, to 1b be 2 !ISY e often lyjrd and failed to impress upon a nervous per son that nature "intends" ua to be healthy if we only give up our fears and recognize that she aims to make tho circulation perfect, to digest our food perfectly, to give us restful sleep, with just tho same care that she makes the rose bloom, forms the dewdrops, and germinates the wheat, if we will but harmonize with that beneficial desire of hers. Vet I have failed to induce this thought so as to make it effective in restoring normal conditions, because the liver was con gested, the brain beclouded, hope de ferred, the heart sick, as a result of wrong eating. Food influences thought. It is the man whose liver is congested who thinks the moon iB made of green cheese in his dreams. Yet this same person, when his brain clears of the effects of auto-intoxication becomes more hopeful, grasps the thought and is well. May not this have been true in your case. I have seen this demon strated many times. Let us not say that air is more important than food, for they are both necessary, except to emphasize the importance of air. Food could not be utilized without air, but how long could a man utiiize i air without food? 1 think the relations between food and thought are similar to those be tween air and food. Thought is more important than food, but if you say that since you think right you can eat anything, you are no more right than if I were to say that, since 1 eat the right food (so far as 1 know) I can breathe any old air, even that of tho black hole of Calcutta. All truth is relative; and sanity, mental and physi cal, is balance, seeing things in their p/oper relations, not denying that a thing exists because we wish to em phasize another thing or thought, which is related to it, and not saying that one thing or thought is of no im portance because another thought, re lated to it, is more important. The star that you are looking at through the telescope is more important than the sun to you, for the time being, and for your present purpose, but you cannot eclipse the sun by thinking that it does not exist. vCopyright, 190U, by Josfph B. Bowles.) HOME LIFE OF THE VEDDAS. Wild People of Ceylon, Who Inhabit Caves, Have Many of the Primi tive Virtues Of the curious customs observed by the Veddas, or wild people of Ceylon, a traveler writes; "All the men came to meet us and led the •way to the caves, which were compistely hid den by a thicket. On the rocky plat form in front of the cave the men all surrounded us shouting to their wom en to come and see their 'white sis ter-in-law' or 'cousin.' Veddas have always been renowned for their truth fulness, and this reputation we are able to indorse. Each community has its own hunting ground, and adheres strictly to its own game rights. Upon each hunting ground there are a num ber of caves and rock shelters, and the families of the community move from one to another throughout the year, as the presence of game, honey, yams or fish demands. The big caves are communal property, the smaller caves usually belong to single families; but even in the communal caves each fam ily has its particular place in which its members sleep, cook, eat and keep all their belongings. "Each family respects the pri vacy of its neighbors' few feet of the cave floor as faithfully as if partition walls existed; only the children roam all over the cave at will. Food, how ever, seemed to be public property, for one woman would cook food and share it with every one present in the cave. This may probably be explained as follows: The communal caves are sit nated in common hunting ground; therefore all the game, yams, iguanas or honey brought in from the com mon land is the property of the com munity, not of the man who pro cures it. "I have stated that the smaller > caves are usually private property. It would probably be more correct to say that Veddas possess private hunting grounds on which very frequently there are small caves, such caves be ing then the property of the owner of the land. When a man Is liivng in his own cave in the midst of his own hunting ground the produce of the chase would naturally be his own, though shared with any one living with him. Women and children al ways fared as well as the men, and the former would be fed first in any time of scarcity. Indeed, the dainties were often saved for the children." Marketing a New Product. Mrs. Dexter, from somewhere "down state," was enjoying her first ride in a crowded street car in Chicago. It happened that a health officer, in the performance of his regular duties, was taking a sample of the air in the car. Mrs. Dexter saw his manipula tions, but could not understand them, so she turned to a policeman who was sitting next her. "I beg your pardon," she said, "but can you tell me what that man is doing?" "Yes, ma'am," answered the officer. "He's bottling th' atmosphere." "For mercy's sake!" exclaimed Mrs. Dexter. "What won't they do next! Do they can the air and sell it now adays?"— Youth's Companion. With an Object in View. Deacon Hardesty—Mr. Muntoburn, you must come to our church next Sunday morning. The Rev. Dr. Uplift is going to preach for us. Mr. Muntoburn —I'm not sure I have ever heard of him. Is he such an elo quent preacher? Deacon Hardesty—l don't know about that, but he's the most wonder fully successful —er —church debt rais er there Is in the coiyjtr)^ CAMERON COUNTV PRfeSS, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1909. *Rg&ss* A CYCLONE CELLAR. Detailed Plans for Construction of Un derground Room in Case of Tornado. Many farmers on the western plains have cyclone cellars. When boards and timbers are used to construct the walls the wood will rot out in a few years and have to be renewed, says Concrete Review. The accompanying * ~y~ 3-- •]< ■■ t<y- 0" |>; IV 'J ' 1 '0 FIG.t '*> -i*' "FT n Plans for the Cellar. Illustration shows a cellar whose walls and roof are built of concrete. The walls are five inches thick and can be made by digging the hole suf ficiently large to construct false work end leave an open space of five i.iches for the concrete. The roof is arched and the concrete can be put on false work to the proper thickness and smoothed over on the outside with a trowel. Tile with melai coverings over one end are fitted in the top of the arch for vents. Fig. 1 shows the plan of the cellar with proper dimen sions, Fig. 2 the doorway and Fig. 3 a cross section through the center. There is no danger of the roof blow ing away or being caved in with * piece of flying timber. SHEEP KILL WEEDS. Will Follow Furrow and Eat Roots of the Wild Morning Glory Vine. We have had no experience with Canada thistles for there are none in this section of the country, but the wild morning glory vine is here in plenty, and apparently here to stay. However, the best way to handle them is to pasture the field with sheep, says a writer in the Farmer's Review. They will keep them from going to seed. In the spring when plowing for corn if you can have a flock of sheep with you they will follow in the furrow and eat the roots which are very tender as they are plowed up. They are very fond of them and will do a good job of cleaning up. The great trouble with the morning glory is that it keeps coming and aft er the corn is laid by will run up the stalk and smother the life out of it. The vine is very bad in small grain and meadows and the remedy that will kill them will be a great thing for many farmers. The sheep in the fall will eat the vine and ail the seed if one pastures the corn stalks with them. If one has lambs you can turn them in the corn in August or Sep tember and they will clean up the morning glory and not hurt the corn. USEFUL WIRE REEL. A Convenient Device That Saves Barbed Wire Fencing from Becoming Tangled. Here is a device on which we can wind barbed wire vjiich is much bet ter than an old barrel. The reel is mounted on a truck made of old buggy wheels with short shafts. The Saves Old Wire Without Kinking. cart may be drawn along by a man while a boy steadies the reel to keep it from unwinding too rapidly. For winding up wire the machine is best pushed just fast enough to keep up with the wire as it is being wound on the reel. A crank placed upon the reel proves serviceable in winding up Corn Silage for Hogs. A swine grower says that he has tested feeding some corn silage to his hogs, along with corn meal, and finds that they thrive well, and by feeding them mixed with clover hay run through his cutting box the pigs grow more rapidly. He says the si lage keeps them in good condition, being succulent, like grass, and fed with the dry foods keeps them healthy. MIXING OF CONCRETE. Importance of the Proper Mixing of Cement for Culverts and Bridges. A writer in a pamplilot issued by r.n eastern cement company lays much stress upon the importance of the proper mixing of concrete for high way bridges or culverts. This writer points out that the proportion should be used to give the densest concrete with the maximum strength of the concrete. Speaking of the matter of mixing he says: The mortar mixing of sand and ce ment. is generally two parts of sand to one part of cement, yet mixtures of two and one-half to three parts of cement will give a mortar that is dense and for practical purposes as good on small bridges and culverts as stronger mixtures. The stone aggregate should not be more than twice that of sand and in most cases the proportion of four parts of stone will generally make the most desirable mixture, as it allows sufficient mortar to cover all the stone and leaves 110 rough spots on the sur face. Mixing the concrete is a most vital thing in the life of a structure, wheth er large or small, and to get the mass as dense as possible. Mix well and mix we:, will cure many faults, so-called, in working with concrete. Exposed surfaces of eoncrete may be made sufficiently smooth by spa ding, so as to force the stones back from the surface and allowing the mortar to crowd to tlie face; the forms should be sufficiently tight to prevent mortar running out. With these precautions, surfaces can be ob tained that require very little patch ing or plastering to make a neat job. SHAFT WORKS PUMP. Method of Securing Water Inside the House Without Going Outside by Means of Crank. The accompanying sketch shows a method of operating a pump situated outside of a building while the opera tor is on the inside, says Popular Me chanics. This device can he used on a pump where the well is close to the house. A shaft and crank operates a pitman that drives the pump rod. The shaft is fitted with a hand crank A Shaft Operates the Pumpi. wneel on the inside of the building An extension spout allows the water to run in the sink inside the house. LOG DRAG ON ROADS. Wisconsin to Encourage Farmers to Drag Their Roads by Offer ing Bounty. Recently in an address at the Wis consin State Farmers' institute, W. O. Hotchkiss, chief of the highway di vision of that state, noted that Wis consin proposes to encourage farmers to drag their roads by offering a sub stantial bounty for that service. Mr. Hotchkiss states: "It is proposed to allow farmers to work out their road tax in dragging adjacent roads with the split log or other drag at the rate of 75 cents per mile for each time they are requested to drag by the town board. This law should result in a great increase in the use of this drag and a consequent improvement of the dirt roads of the state." There is no question of the useful ness of dragging roads with the split log drag when the work is carefully and regularly done, saya the Prairie Farmer. Should Wisconsin undertake to put the proposed lav/ into force, good road builders will watch results of the experiment with interest. Growing Early Hog Pasture. It is of as much importance to have early pasture for hogs, and especially small pigs, as for cattle, dairy cowa or sheep. The hog has the name of being a mortgage lifter, and we must all acknowledge that the name is a very suitable one. Knowing this to be true, why not provide in a way that will be most satisfactory to him and offer the larg est profit to ourselves? A hog does not relish corn for 12 months in the year and nothing else, and it is not necessary to have to de pend upon corn alone for that length of time to feed him, nor is it profit able to alJow him to have nothing else. Potato Blight and Scab. A good remedy for blight and scab in seed potatoes is to dissolve one ounce of corrosive sublimate in eight to nine gallons of water and soak tlm potatoes in this solution about 90 min utes. While this is effective many prefer using one pint of formalin tc 30 gallons of water. The corrosiv sublimate is a poison aud more clan gerous. PUBLIC STATEMENT By a Public Official—County Treasurer of Granbury, Texas. A. A. Perkins, County Treasurer of Granbury, Hood Co., Texas, says: "Years ago a severe fall Injured my kid neys. From that timo I was bothered with a chronic lame back and disordered action of the kidneys helped to make life miserable for me. A friend sug- HV W ges te d my using ■ Uoan's Kidney Pills, 'I which I did, with the V most gratifying re- suits. I made a pub lic statement at the time, recommend ing Doan's Kidney Pills, and am glad to confirm that statement now." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Joke's Life. "What becomes of a joke when It gets too old for the newspapers?" "It goes on the stage." "And after that?" "To the theatrical program." "Where It ends Its existence, I 6'pose?" "Oh, no; It lives honorably for many years in congressional cloakrooms." 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The Panhandle and South Plains region of Jiorthwest Texas offers good lands at the low est prices in the Southwest. You can't buy land there as cheaply this Jear as last, and it will cost more next year. So the time to buy u now. I am not in the land business. The Santa Fe Railway employs roe to help settle up the country along its lines. The service to you is absolutely free. I aim not to exaggerate. The truth about the Southwest is strong enough. I consider the Panhandle and South Plains 8S unequalcd for the man with small meant, likewise nothing better for the man with a big bank-roll. Both will prosper. This country is no longer on the frontier. Thousands already have settled there. More are coming in on every train. Vou won't be lonesome, but you won t be crowded, cither. You ask what can be raised? Beef, cereals, fruit and other things. The average rainfall is twer.ty-four inches, enough for raising crops without irrigation. The more brains you farm with, the bigger the yield. " Dry-farming " helps out some seasons. I might talk on forever and not convince you half as much as by reproducing the testi mony of Mr. W. M. Curfman, of Hereford, in the Texas Panhandle. He says: " I came to Hereford four years ago and bought 640 r.ires of land nine jiilcs southeast of town. Corn Planting fcss iSrsrarxis / \ mares are foaling—Distemper /•jt/ 112 "V \j*\ «n»y take Homo of them—corn pluming may be luto if your horse* / / | J \ \ have Distemper. wlCSflft) SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE \A A."*)/ la your true safeguard—a cure as well as preventive—soc and JI.OO \<V a AV j / bottle—l6.oo and 110.00 dozen, delivered. LargeW more than twice the pQ/ (smaller size. Don't put it off. Getit- Druggists—orsend to manufacturer*. ii Spoho Medical Co.. Chemist! snd Bicterioloflali, Goshen, Ind.. U.S.A. 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Bent reeuiu W. N. U., CLEVELAND, NO. 20-190q GASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature W ft Jjv In (Tr S3 VA For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA VMS OIMTAUB MHNHTi ■[« YORK .ITT. Built me a house and broke about forty acres of land the first year. Sold $416 worth of produce off of same and had enough left to winter thirty-five head of cattle and horses. The second year had 120 acres in crop, and sold SBO2 worth of farm products and wintered forty-five head of stock. The fourth crop is not yet harvested, excent the wheat and oats. The wheat and oats will bring me about S4OO, and expect to get about $i f ooo out of the bal ance of the crop, besides wintering my stock. "I now have 165 acres in cultivation. I raise wheat, oats, June corn, milo maize, kafir corn, sorghum. California wheat, millet and cotton, and all kinds of vegetables. I came here with SBOO and could make my check out now for $4,500." Mr. Curfman seems to be a satisfied man. You can do as well as he perhaps better. May I help you get a home somewhere in this best of the few places in the United States where raw land may be bought for less than it is worth? Cut out this advertisement. Mail It tom 6 with your full name and address. I will then mail you illustrated land folders which tell the story in detail and send our homescekenr monthly, The Earth, six months free. Que## tions promptly answered. C. L. SEACRAVKS. Gnn. Colonization Aet. A. T. & S. F. Ky. System. Ix7o J Railway Exchange, Chicago. 7
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