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FOOD FOR THE AGED.
Some Diet Rules For Thise Who Are
Advanced In Years.
Libraries have been written on diets
little thought bas been given what aged
people should eat. “Superintendents
of homes for the aged show absolute
ignorance of the diet that senile
changes necessitate,” writes Dr. I. L.
Nasher in the Medical Review of Re-
views.
With advancing age there is less
strength and activity. For these rea-
sons the amount of food should be di-
minished. The loss of. teeth in old age
is nature's signal that an aged person
should no longer eat meat, the only
food that needs to be thoroughly mas-
ticated. “It is not necessary suddenly
to discontinue the use of meat.
should be a gradual reduction. and
only the light meat of young animals
and fowl should be taken.”
‘There is no definitely prescribed diet
for old age, but there are a few rules
that can be followed: The total
amount of fcod must. be dimini:hed
It must be thoroughly cooled and tine-
Iy¥ chopped. Vegetables = containin:
much cellulose should be. freely used.
Foods should be given in a lHquid. semi-
Jdiquid or mush form, and dry foecds
should Le avoided. [Foods should not
be given at shorter interyals than four
or five hours.
WASHING THE HANDS.
How to Get Them Clean After a Greasy
Job on the Motorcar.
The following is a practice long fa-
#niliar to railway engineers, who have
to mess around oil, and it should serve
equally well for their present day coad-
Jutors of the motor car:
Wash the hands in warm water,
using a soft, free lathering.soap. Work
up a good lather and then dip the fin-
gers into a small dish of lubricating
ofl. This will further emulsify with
the lather already on the hands and
quickly cut the grime and dirt, leaving
the hands clean and soft. Do not use
‘too much oil, and always soap the
‘hands before applying the oil.
| After using this mixture be sure to
lot the washbowl drain and then rinse
at quickly, as the oil, if left, separates
‘from the soap and makes a ghastly
: [Thess on the sides.
| Another good way*of cleaning the
hands after a dirty job around the car
is to wash them in turpentine, rubbing
it well into the skin and then wiping
off thoroughly on something that can
be thrown away. B: ‘ving this and
finishing with Warm-wases: and plenty
of soap the hands Pr te cleansed of
all traces of the go. gle wh JOD New
York Post.
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me The Road to Thrones:
In the year 1716 a gir} ‘called Marie
@’Abbadie was, hired" 48 a servant in
ughte amed Dom.
due Habas and Marie d’Abbadie.
A Bearnais from the village of Boellh,
whose ‘name ean de St. Jean.
stayed in’ ‘this HE sa%v the pretty maid,
fell in“1oVe with her and on May 80,
1719, wedded her in the church at As-
sat. They had several daughters, the
. 1754, was
adotte,
married at Boeilh’to Henri;
physician, son of Jean Beryadbtte, mas-
ter tailor. Their son Was Napoleon's.
marshal, Bernadotte, who became king
of Sweden and whose great-grandsons
are respectively King Gustave V. of
Sweden and King Haakon VII. of Nor-
way.
- Power of Eloquence.
A story is teld of .the great Irish
orator, O'Connell. An attack had been
made upon him in the house of com-
mons. When O'Connell arose to reply
‘his lofty brow was black with thun-
‘der and his arm uplifted as if to strike.
Then, checking himself, he said, “But
“the gentleman says he loves Ireland.”
Lowering his tone to the rippling mur-
mur of a summer brook, he continued,
“I have no words of bitterness or re-
proach for any man who loves Ire-
land.” The pathos in the fragmentary
‘utterance of the last word brought
tears to the eyes of many yeterans of
the house,
A Curious !Hlusicn.
People declare that they have seen a
field of grass gradually change color
during a shower of rain, thousands of
mushrooms springing up before their
eyes. This is an optical illusion caused
by the rain beating down the grass.
The mushrooms do not really spring
up during a single shower of rain.
They are there already, but hidden by
the grass, and when the rain beats
down the grass it exposes the hidden
mushrooms.—London Mail.
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Olive Oil.
‘When olive oil is good and fresh it is
[of a pale greenish yellow color, with
little taste or smell, except a sweet,
nutty flavor. Surprising to say, olive
oll is not made from the seed of the
olive, as in the case of most vegetable
oils, but from the flesh or pericarp of
the fruit.
Mending Hot Water Bottles.
To mend a hot water bottle use a
patch such as used for auto tires. They
can be had at any garage. Just clean
around the puncture with gasoline,
then apply patch. J
Our Troubles.
@Gibbs--80 you blame your Present
troubles on the middleman. Dibbg—
Not exactly. 1 blame all our troubles
on the first man.—Dallas News.
Too Much of It.
“Was the dinner cooked to suit you?”
“Yes, all but the bill. Take it back
and have it boiled down.”—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
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Let In the Sunlight.
All household furnishings should “i
exposed to direct sunlight for a num-
ber of hours every few days. Direct
sunlight is the best disinfectant known,
for business men and actresses. but | Lt kills germs in a few Hours. Difused
sunlight or daylight may have as good
effect, but in a much longer time. Shut-
ting the sunlight out of the house is |
It should go
an unhygienic custom.
as has gone many of the ideas and
customs belonging to the dark ages.
Germs live and thrive in darkness.
THE WHITE PLAGUE.
Tuberculosis Is Often the Result of
Lack of Nourishment. 3
While tuberculosis is caused by a
well known germ, we often have a
right to be suspicious of its coming
from want of proper nourishment,
This would seem to be a forerunner of
the true disease of tuberculosis.
This want of nourishment is to be ac-
counted for in several ways. The di-
For that reason sunshine should find | gestive system may be naturally weak
its way into the home daily, and its
—that is, born weak. It may have been
presence should be welcomed as a mes- | strong in early life, but abused by the
senger of cleanliness and good health. | use of alcohol, eating rapidly when
The drawing of shades and the closing
of windows to keep the carpets and
draperies rrom fa@ling should be dis-
couraged. It is better to have carpets
and draperies that are faded than to
have boys and girls with cheeks that
are faded. Roses in the cheeks are
more valuable than fFoses in the carpet.
How to Fit a Horse Collar.
A collar should be fitted to the horse
and not the horse to the collar. The
. collar that is too large should not be
used on a horse in the hope that he
will grow large enough so it will even-
tually fit. A collar that fits well in
the spring may not fit at all in the fall.
When one is fitting a horse with a
collar the animal should be standing in
a natural position on level ground, with
- his heau held at the height maintained
. while at work.
led should fit snugly to the side of the
The collar when buck-
neck, and its face should follow closely
and be in even contact with the sur-
face of the shoulders from the top of
the withers to the region of his threat.
physically or mentally tired or by
gulping food without proper chewing.
A plunge bath just after eating will
often arrest digestion. The drinking
| of ice water during a meal or iced tea
and coffee will reduce the temperature
of the stomach so that the natural.
jIrocess. of digestion is interfered with.
As a result, the food is not properly
prepared for the organs to absorb it.
Therefore it is not taken up by the|
blood stream as it travels through the
system of arteries to build up the dif-
ferent tissues of the body.
There are ce tain things that nature
demands for building up healthy bodies.
We must have some nitrogen in the
form of meat or eggs or beans. We
must have som fats, and we must
have some starches; otherwise the body
will be partly starved and disease
germs will thrive in the different tis-
‘sues. This ocers more often in the
lungs than anywhore else, but there is
hardly an organ in the body that will
not, under certain conditions, become
! tuberculous. — Dr. Samuel G. Dixon,
© At the throat there should be enough Health Commisisoner of Penpsylvania.
c room for a man's hand to be inserted
: inside the collar.— Farm and Fireside.
Waste In Food.
“Eat what is on ‘your plate” may
seem to many people to be a new table
precept, yet it has been practiced for
many years in certain little communi-
ties nestled among the rugged hills of
New England, where the waste of food
is regarded as almost a crime. Hang-
ing on the walls of many houses in
these communities may. be found the
“Table Monitor,” perhaps worked in
worsted or cardboard and setting forth
this sentiment, which somehow has a
“haracieristic old {time New England
ring: i
Prosperity may roll’ with araple flow,
Still to be prized, that it may widely
bless
The world is full enough of want and
woe;
1 will not mock with selfish wasieful-
ness.
People Who Rarely Wink,
There are people who rarely wink.
How they manage to get along with-
out doing so is a marvel, ‘but ‘some-
how or other they do. Some eyes are
naturally more moist than others, and
the very moist eye does ‘not so much
need the assistance of the lids to keep
g 2 te constity-
winking, though
under the control of” the will, is done so
quickly that it is practically’ an invol-
untary action. Men wink when they
feel that the eye is. uncomfortably dry,
and when it, dges; not become dry the
necessity for w fing is not felt.
First Veterinary School. | ie
As nearly as the facts can be ‘got at
the first veterinary school was. found
ed in the city of Lyons, France. abont
the middle of May of the year 1iul.
Since 1761 veterinary schools have
spread ail over the civilized world.
especially in Germany, France, Eng-
land and the United States of Ameri-
«a, in which advanced countries the
norse has the-benefit of as fine a sei-
ence as that which exists for his mas-
ter, man.
Her Proposal.
“Ah, George, did you propose to
Vivian?"
“No. She made the proposal hefore
I had a chance to say anything.”
“She did? What did she say?”
“She proposed that I should leave the
house immediately, and I did.”
Simplicity.
1 am convinced. both by. faith and
experience, that to maintain oneself on
this earth is not a hardship, but a nas-
time if we will live simply and wisely.
as the pursuits of the simpler nations
are still the sports of the more artifi-
cial.—Thoreau.
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Measles.
“Every rise in fompeluture of
a child should mean isolation as
completely as if that child were
in fact afflicted with an acute
contagious disease,’ says the
Medical Record in discussing
means for -the prevention of
measles. By a “rise in tempera-
ture” is understood any tempera-
ture higher than 99 degrees F.
For measles is most infectious
in its earliest stages, when. the
symptoms are generally only
those of a cold in the head. The
typical rash has not yet appear-
ed, but the child is sneezing,
blowing a minute spray from its
nose with every sneeze. This
spray is laden with the germs
of the disease. These germs are
scattered thromigh the air of the
home or the sehoolroom and in-
haled by the noses of brothers
and sisters or schoolmates.
It is then, far more than when
the disease has developed to the
easily recognizable stage, that
infection is spread; therefore it is
then that the child must be iso-
lated.
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TO UTILIZE THE SUN'S HEAT.
Why Not Store It In Oil In Summer
and Make It Werk For Us?
Of course water can be heated only
to the boiling temnerature, but there
are many liquids that can be heated to
a very much higher temperature than
thi§ without boing. I have taken a
tumbler of olive oil and heated it by
means of a thin iron wire connected
with a voltaic battery. I placed in the
tumbler of oil a test tube filled with
water. . In a short time the water was
boiling, but the oil remained perfectly
quiescent. If you store up hot oil in:
stead of water you will have at yo
command a source of heat able to do |
all your cooking and even produce
steam powerto work machinery. a
We have plenty of heat . going to |
waste in Washington during: the sum- |
‘mer time, for the sun’s rays are .very
powerful, and we do not use the reofs
of our buildings except to keep off the |.
rain. What wide expanses of roof aré |.
available in all our large cities) for the
utilization of the sun's rays! Simple |
pipes laid up on the roof and contain;
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Ing oil or some-other Nglita Would soon |
become heated by the sun's rays. “Th
«hot. ofl could :be - carried: into. an
Watches and Water.
When a person falls overboard or
gets a ducking in any other way he at
once has trouble with his watch, un-
less, of course, it happens that he be
not wearing it. If he is wise he will
send It at once to a watchmaker.
What the latter can do to it depends
upon the extent of the wetting and
the length of time that has elapsed
since the immersion. :
The Jewelers’ Circular says the re-
pairer will take the watch entirely
apart. If there be water still notice-
able he will place all the parts in al-
cohol and then clean them. If they
be dry he will put all ordinary steel
parts in benzine and all plates, bridges
and brass parts in a solution of alkali
and soap.
A repairer receiving a watch several
days after its wetting will immerse it
in coal oil. Then he will decide wheth-
er it will be less expensive to clean
the works or to replace them with a
ew movement.
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Three Servian Words.
Dobra is the general word of assent
in Servia. If a doughnut is good—and
Serbs make delectable doughnuts in
tin pans over camp fires—it is dobra.
A good looking girl is’ dobra, and if
she is very good looking she is dobra-
dobra. A good speech or a lucky gen-
eral or a pleasant summer or the word
to charge are all dobra.
One can go anywhere in Servia it one
is but letter perfect in dobra and nai-
mo, which latter, is the general nega-
tive. One should also be able to say
“Hydy!” with great force and convic-
tion. That is the slang for “hurry.”
And it is needed, for these Balkan peo-
ples do not like to hurry unless killing
is somewhere involved. One's conver-
sation might lack continuity perhaps,
but if supplemented by assorted rubs
and pattings-one need never miss a bed
er a meal where a Serb camp fire
shines.—Herbert Corey in Saturday
Evening Post.
Cheap and Good Foods.
Bome of the best foods are the cheap-
est. There are carrots, salsify, par-
have the rarest combination of food
‘qualities of anything that grows. « It is
80 healthful that it is said a steady
diet of it will cure many distempers.
Parsnips are cheap,. good, wholesome.
Anybody who doesn’t like the taste of
i|'a parsnip has his palate put in wrong.
‘Lettuce is cheap, and a lettuce sand-
wich is royal food. Any ome who
starves ‘while these things: are on the
‘market, to be bought for a few ¢ents,
“has mot much of a claim on life. There
is more health in them than in porter-
house steaks or oyster cocktails. Some
‘people affect to think they are .a low
‘brow food, but it might be sald in-re-
tort that they are’ low -browed people
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fi Washington's Bowery: | ;
Pennsylvania avenue, im your expec-
psuldted tank ‘and: Stored. “Yoh “toll
heat “that falls upon the’ ‘tops of your
houses, but: effect some cooling of the
‘houses themselves by the abstraction
of this heat.—Alexander ‘Graham Bell
1: National ‘Geographic Magazine. ?
An Audacious Sohoolboy.
The audacity of Warren Hastinas as
his name beneath the clock on the
western tower of the abbey pales be-
fore the audacity of another Westmin-
ster schoolboy, ‘who secreted himself
in the abbey in fulfillment of a waver
that he would sleep in the abbey, not
withstamding the report that the ghost
of Bradshaw, the president of the
court at the trial of Charles 1., who in
the time of the commonwealth occu-
pled the deanery, haunted the building.
He spent the night in the gbbey and
occupied his time in carving his name
on the coronation chair, which bears’
to this day the following rudely cut in- :
scription:
this cha
“I, Peter Abbott, slept ir
"—Dundee Advertiser.
The Call to Individuality.
No man thinks his own thoughts; no
man uses his own eyes; no man stands
upon his own feet; no man walks alone.
‘We go in flocks; we lean on others; we
follow the multitudes blindly; we bend
our necks to the yoke of public opin-
ion; we have no self reliance. The
only virtue we have is conformity, The
demand of the age is for men and wo- |"
men of character who are self poised,
self reliant, independent and self as-
sertive.’ Society follows customs and
routine. . The redemption of the race
is in the originality of individuals.—
Jacob Gould Schurman.
‘thus not only conserve and uthize the’
14" Westminster schoolboy in carving
tation the Broadway of Washington, is
morg or less its Bowery; since proprie-
soon, take over their holdings, see no
_tels bid for lodgers at 50 cents a night,
.venirs—the capitol on brass slippers,
the. capitol on silver puppies, the capi-
tol on patriotic’ dustpans, the capitol
illuminated with mother-of-pearl. Chop
suey resorts abound. On the" way to
his inauguration each new president
passes a “home of burlesque,” a penny
arcade, a tattooist’s studio and the
shrine’ where a ‘beautiful lady palm-
ist” reveals your name. And yet at the
end of this amazing thoroughfare rises
the matchless dome that crowns the
capitol, which crowns a lordly emi-
nence.—Rollin Lynde Hartt in Century.
Hibernation.
In the state known as “hibernation”
‘respiration practically ceases.' Diges-
tion seems to follow respiration, and
the waste of tissue is reduced to the
smallest possible limit, the circulation
in the meantime being only just suffi-
cient to sustain life. It has been as-
certained that animals can endure the
loss of tissue until it amounts to 40 per
cent of their normal weight. Should
"the weight be reduced beyond that lim-
it the result is death. It is the stored
up fat within the body of the hibernat-
ing creatures that sustains them dur-
ing the many months of cold weather.
Cleaning a Water Bottle
To clean the inside of a water bottle
or any glass that is too small to insert
‘the hand into put into the bottle a small
quantity of tea leaves, pour in’ aboul
: one-third of a ‘teacupful of vinegar,
E 3 i shake well, empty and rinse with cold
Milton's Works.
“Milton regarded the “Paradise Re-
gained” as infinitely superior to the
“Paradise Lost” and once expressed
great surprise that any one should en-
tertain a contrary opinion. He said
that of all his works the poem “On the
Morning of Christ’s Nativity” was’ his
best. It was his earliest, being writ-
ten in 1629, when he was twenty-one
Years of age.
Domestic Bliss.
“You are always reaching for some-
thing you can’t afford.”
“You were not always of that opin-
fon.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“I think so. At least you didn’t say
that when I proposed.” —Houston Post.
Too Sensitive.
“What is wrong between that young
engaged couple?”
“He didn’t like it because when he
told her that he would die for her she
wanted to know how much life insur-
ance he carried.” —Baltimore American.
There is one broad sky over all the
world and,
the same heaven beyond it.—Dickens.
whether it be blue or cloudy, |
water. A perfectly clear glass will re-
sult. - -
. Must Be Paid.
“Dad, I want to be a musician.”
“Then I'd be either a piper or a fid-
dler.”
“Wey?”
“When there is any paying to be
done I notice they are always preferred
creditors.”—Kansas City Journal.
Work as Well as Pray.
Pray fer what you want, but don’t
wear out de knees of yo’ britches at
ft. Ef you don’t git a quick answer
rise up an’ go to work befo’ you git too
weak ter rise.—Atlanta Constitution.
The Alternative.
to keep up with your neighbors? Mrs.
B.—If we can’t, my dear, we'll move. —
Pittsburgh Press.
The Giraffe.
In its native country of Africa the
giraffe sometimes attains the height of
seventeen feet.
Many things difficult to design prove
| easy to perform.—Johnson.
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snips, lettuce and such stuff. Carrots:
Mr. B.—Do you think you'll be able
tors, aware that the government will | :
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Head of Chautauqua Light Opera
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J. K. MURRAY A8 GEOFFREY WILDER.
R. MURRAY during his long career before the public in operas hae been
has been associated with Francis Wilson, De Woif Hopper and practi-
in Hoyt’s “A Tin Soldier,” “Nanon” and many other pieces. His great fame,
as well as that of Mrs. Murray (Clara Lane), lies in the fact that they prac-
tically made the noted Castle Square Opera Company of Boston. .They were
. engaged to head the company when it was at its lowest ebb, and through their
efforts it was brought to the high standard which it afterward attained.
For the past two seasons he has sung the leading male part in “Sari” un.
der the management of Henry W. Savage. “Sarl” is one of the most popular
and successful light operas which has been put on’ the stage in several years,
and Mr. Murray’s excellent work contributed in no ‘small part to its success.
Mr. Murray was born in Liverpool, England, but is 4 true American in
‘every. sense of the word. Both he and Mrs, Murray” are delightful people as
well as singers of high merit. They are prominent, in the cast of the light
opera “Dorothy,” to be given at the local Chautauqua.
cally all of the other stars. He starred for a time in Irish drama and played
Company Famous In Stage World
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connected with some of the most famous operatic organizations. He
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