ENGLISH SECTION The Roman Capitol to the Capitol at Washington For the soul of Italy to-day the Capitol at Washington has be come e beacon light. A Roman garland wreathes the bust dedi cated to the hero whom free men cali the glorious Knight of Humanity. It is a garland pure as the branch of lilac offered by a poet on the bier of Lincoln. It is sacred as the ever-flowering bough "with heart-shaped leaves of rich green". It seems as though in this Aprii of passion and tempest there re-echos the cry of that Aprii, tense with joy and anguish: O captami JYly Captain! Kise up and hear the bella; Kise up for you the flag ia flung! Now the group of stars 011 the banner of the great Kepublic ha.s become a constellation of the Spring ; like the Pleiades ; a pro pitious sign to sailors, armed and unarmed alike ; a spiritual token for ali nations fighting a right eous war. I give the salute oi Italy, of the Roman Capitol to the Capitol at Washington; a salute to the people of the Union, who now confimi and seal the pledge that liberty shall be pre- ! served. To Italy alone of the allied nations the possibility was open of avoiding war and remaining a passive spectator. Italy took up arnis gladly, less for the recon quest of her heritage than for the salvation oi ali the things which symbolize the grandeur of freedoni. She armed herself, as to-day the American nation is arniing herself, for the sake of an ideal. The spontaneous act consummated by the people of George Washington is a glorious sacrifice on behalf of the hopes of ali mankind. America has achieved a new birth. She has molded for herself a new heart. This is the miracle wrought by a righteus war, the miracle that unexpectedly to day we of Italy see performed beyond an ocean dishonored by assassins and thieves. "Our war is not destructive ; it is creative. With ali manner of atrocities, ali manner of shame ful acts, the barbarian has striv en to destroy the idea which, until this struggle began, man had of man. The barbarian mul tiplied on the innocent infamous outrages inspired by hate, al ternating senile impudence, and brutal stupidity. The barbarian ground heroism to earth, cast down the airy cathedrals where congregated the aspirations of the eternai soul, burned the seats of wisdom decked with the flowers of ali the arts, distorted the lineaments of Christ, tore off the garments of the Virgin. Now once again we begin to have hope of the nobility of man. Love's face is radiant, though its eyes are moist with tears, for never was love so much beloved. Love overflows on ali the world like a brook in May. Our hearts are not large enough to gather it and to hold it. The people of Lin coln, springing to their feet to defend the eternai spirit of man to-day increase immeasurably this aum of love opposed to fury, the fury of the barbarian. "Ah, Liberty ! Let othera dea pair of thee. I will never despair of thee" ! once cried your rugged poet. In thia hope your nation ariaea to-day in the North, South, East, Weat —to offer your strength, proclaiming our cause to be the noblest cause for which men have ever fought. You were an enormous and ob tuse mass of riches and power; now you are transfigured into ardent, active spirituality. The roll of your drums drowns out the last wail of cowardice. Aprii 15 is the anniversary of ' Lincoln's death. From his se pulchre there issue again the noble words which fell from his iips at Gettysburg, on soil sanct ; ified by the blood of brave men. •AH your States North, South, 1 East, West hear them. I say ■ to you that "this nation, under : God, shall have a new birth of freedom." Gabriele d'Annunzio FOOD MATERIALS AND HOME ECONOMICS The new Diet Menu, with its underlying mystery of Calorie Values, is a major topic which has been crowded out in these days of hurrying circumstances. Yet now, with the urge of im pending crisis upon us, there is the need to profit by the tragic lesson taught by belligerent Eu rope. In the minds of many the matter of food production and distribution does not present a probleni as serious as that of the eonservation of food supplies. ! Further, there seems to be the growing demand for a working knowledge of the actual relation ship between the requirement of the body and food material. There is tohe ned to know, not only the weight but the vo lume of food sufficient to fur j nish a definite amount of energy. With an intuition of impend ing need, the New York Life Ex tension lnstitute has been be forehand with a panacea in the form of an exemplary twenty five cent diet, which in any event, war or otherwise, shall take care of ali the economie as ! well as the gastronomie troubles ; in the Pandora box. And by the way The lnsti tute has up its sleeve schemes ! for many social improvements. As is well known, it has for its high aim the prevention of ali ili», incluidng that worst of ali, and, so far, most incurable of ali diseases, poverty. Thia ia a pretty large order, but it is back ed up by auch names as ex-Pre sident Taft; Irving Fisher, Ph. D., Professor of Politicai Econo my, Yale University; David Starr Jordan, Chancellor of Le land Stanford Junior University j of Naples, and many others famed for Philanthrophy, Socio logy, and Science. Whatever other conclusions may be arrived at, the Institute's most recent experiment serves to emphasize again that profound est of ali faets "up the stream is causality", and down the stream is well, speaking eon cretely ,the direful effect of the baker's having left hot biscuits i for break-fast. Briefly, the Insti ' tute» thesis is Knowledge is , Power. Therefore, heal ali ills 1 by way of Knowledge. Unlock ali information tied up in scientific literature and translate it into household terms. 1 In the Diet Menu, the Insti , tute has endeavored to live up to i its creed by evolving menus with -1 in the reach of ali which are at , once palatable and wholesome ; 1 et'fective energy producers ; a ; means of preventing the miliion ; aire from passing off this mortai coil by way of the gastronomie > sea, and above ali a stab at exist -1 ing dietetic customs, characteriz ■ ed by their useless waste. , Wether ex-President Taft, the illustrious chairman of the • lnstitute, was secured for the • high position chiefly to serve as I an illustration of what the am -1 bitious might hope for on a , twentyfive cent diet ia a matter of conjecture not neceasarily concluaive, but happily suggest ive. Be this as it may, the Insti j tute, after seriously debating the fact that many millions of people are compelled to live daily on a ) twenty-five cent diet wlthout the > knowledge of how to get the best t values out of it, took upon itself the task of demonstration. LA RASSEGNA PHILADELPHIA, PA., SABATO, 5 MAGGIO 191 T It began its experiment on a group o£ New York Kookies, that atterward carne to be known as the Diet Squali. The Squad was put on the twenty-five cent menu and regularly exercised. The ge neral public expected the Kookies to grow low in spirit and iess juicy day by day. However, at the end of a limited period, they emerged frora the test happy, serene, eighteen pounds to the good, and absolutely converted to the belief that other forms of wickdness are almost righteous corapared with waste in foods. it was not the purpose of the lnstitute to insist on a twenty five cent diet, however much the ultimate benefit to rich and poor, but rather to suggest liow a sort of basic diet, or formula, might be used for building and suggest ing other diets more in keeping with the constitution and finan cial status of the individuai. Needless to say, ali this amaz ing altruism was accepted with more than a grain of suspicion. However, it was a timely hint. In an hour much less criticai than this did we not have the serious arising of one author to inforni us how best we might live on twenty-four hours a day? The need to know how to live on twenty-five cents a day, may yet be taken even more seriously. Now it is a well known fact that science, after positing its conclusions, has a heartless habit of scurrying on to new fields of investigation. Hers to pioneer, not necessarily to disseminate knowledge. But the new Science is not content merely to rend the veil guarding the mysteries from profane eyes, it also considers ways and means of putting ita conclusions to work. The lnsti tute, therefore, called together numerous prominent individuala from ali fields of endeavor to discuss the vaine of the disco very and the means of populariz ing it. it was a various band that as sembled at the Diet Kitchen and sai down .to test a aampìe mcau of requisite calories. There were writers, sociologists, medicai men, and physicnl educators; life insurance men and health com missionerà and there was a 1 oet. It was a decidedly exemplary meal, mainly sane and pacifist, with here and there a dish to suggest the needful thrill, yet nothing to cali forth ire or fire. At the end of the repast it was made clear that those wlio had come to scoff, wouid be expected to reniain if not to p v ay, at loast to testify. Ihe discussion was led by the medicai director n" the lnstitute. He said, in subsmnee, that as the world over a menu was the quest uf ali, the Life Extension lnsti tute had arrived at the goal by discovering one which would be applicable for every known corn bination; for old and for young, for sick and well, for the happy and the unhappy, from the un comfortably rich to the uncom fortably poor. It realized, how ever, that if there is anything the people squirm at, it is inter ference with their right to live to eat. It, therefore, availed it self of its prerogative in calling for expert opinion as to the value of the menus and the most ef fective ways of imparting them. Many and various suggestiona followed. Educational Institu tions, such as churches, colleges and schoola were the favored means. The difficulty with these was at once seen. The benefit could not be immediate, since only the young might thereby profit. The Poet arose. "Why not rely, as indeed the world always had, on woman; the wivea and mothers in the homes ? Then the contention began. The King of the Life Inaurance men stood up. He was a sophiat. To him life had ceased to be either revelation or delight. "Woman humph ! The average motherise is impossible. She is | lazy and incompetent." He was perfectly Strindbergian in his at titude toward women. The Poet remonstrated. "Woman, in any sphere, is ao being not of one, but a hundred souls. One good wife equips a man with a whole spiritual harem. She is mother; she is sweetheart, she is friend. VVhenever her loved ones were concerned he trusted her to dif ferentiate a calory from a bean or a bug. Since the day Ève had handed the first raw Skookum to Adam, woman had been busy making over this same fruit into various delectable, profitable, and nutritious love sauces for the table, thereby fairly driving medicai mento other occupa tions. Yes clearly the burden might be safely added to wo man's shoulders." i The argument then shifted to the value of the diet itself. The Director explained that scien tists were wont to consider bodi ly needs in terms of calorie» and proteids. The first being a unit of strength, or heat measure ment; the lattei- such foods as make for growth and repair of the body. The lay mind, of course, approaches the subject in terms of bread and butter, meat and eggs. Happily there are those who bave translated these food values into chart forms con venient for kitehen use. He suggested that, in the face of the constantly increasing high cost of living, there was a growing, disposition to emphasize the ! cheaper carbohydrates, in the form of cerials, rather than the more expensive fresh vegetables, meat, eggs, and oil, the prices of which were almost prohibitive. The Sociologist arose in affir mation. He cited the doggedly self-approving Scot as having contributed largely to civiliza tion and ali on porage. He refer red to many notable peoples who had made even greater contribu tions on other celebrated brands of Force. Especi ully remarkable «ro the. Italiana. Had they not evolved a Leonardo da Vinci, a Raphael, a D'Annunzio, and last but not least, had not the music of the world been cornered by Caruso and ali on spaghetti. The Financeer was dubious. Feeling a cavity in his rotund stomach, empty oi' its usuai image of good red steak, he said that from the craddle up he had been encouraged to know and to demand what was good. Here the Psychologist frowned him down. He thought to develop brain-power people must eat more brain food. "Nonsense", in sisted the Director of Physical Education, "Brain-food, so-call ed, develops not brainy men, but fat-heads. The man who tries to feed himself into strenght, will acquire only a storehouse for food and accumulate fat. Food suplies the material for energy. Its what we do that makes us what we are. For instance, fish has always been considered brain-food, but if the brain is not exercised, ali the fish in the At lantic will not increase its size or force." The Personal Hygiene Professor supported the Physical Educator by showing statistics that proved the rich were swift ly coming to eat their pie with tears. Here the Sclerotic Finan ceer moved uneasily and breath ed hard. This was the psycholo gical moment for the Social Service Representative. He said impressively that he had a vision of the poor coming to renounce their dreams of higher gluttony, and he saw himself guiding them to theif high duty on cheese and macaroni. And this, while enthusiasm ran high, the Director from the Life Extension Institute closed the debate by remarking that the Institute was not a mucker. It attempts to warn the people of their high responsibility, and with plain common sense to lay before them the tremendous ne cessity not only of avoiding j waste, but of conserving and heightening the energy of ao |ciety. Bianche Wylie Welzmiller THE IMPORTANTE OF THE l- I TALIAN LANGUAGE The italian language is known to be the most musical and the refore in practice also the most consistent in being applied to their studies by students of vo cal. Its elasticity, combined with a degree of fluency and smooth ness of speech and sound, free FARMACIA Gennaro Salerno Cor. 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