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THE ROWERS UJLUciiurt
A TALK ABOUT FOODS.
GENERAL LUNA OF THE FILIPINO ARMY.
Americans in the Philippines agree that General Luna is the most courageous
commander of the Filipino forces. lie it was who rode up and down the lines at
Calumpit, urging his men to come out into the open nnd fight like soldiers and bravo
men. It was General Lnna who sent envoys to General Otis to sue for peace.
There is only a small body of experi
mental knowledge to go on in determin
ing whether foods are desirable or un
desirable. L)o not give up an article of
food because it does not agree with some
body else. Consider the other conditions
surrounding the taking of it. Read sane
and moderate authors on the subject and
remember that there can be to dog
matism about another man's stomach.
“The three things to consider in deal
ing with food are: What is in the food?
What happens to it in the kitchen? and
what conditions does it find in the sys
tem ?
The journey from the market to the
table is an eventful one. Often a lack of
cleanliness in the kitchen is at the bot
tom of a great deal of lack ot taste in
the food.
1 think that we will soon come to re
quire good, plain, clean cooking for every
day and will go out to a fine dinner once
in a while as we go to an art gallery or
a symphony concert. Add to cleanliness,
accuracy and an effection for tin- family,
and you will have the ideal characteris
tics for a good cook.
Starchy food needs to be acted upon
by heat to break up the starch cells and
render it digestible. Heat on meat de
velops flavor, coagulates the albumen
and softens the connective tissue.
To cook an egg correctly pour boiling
water over it and remove it immediately
from the fire. The albumen will then be
converted into a soft, digestible jelly,
n 1 ereas, if the egg is boiled for two or
three minutes over the stove the albumen
becomes a hard mass.
Rice and cereals chould be boiled hard
first to break up the starch in them, and
tin n be finished in a double boiler.
Many more things ought to be broiled
than are broiled, and they are best done
when cooked over charcoal. This heat
brings out, some way, the most delicious
flavors iu meat, and it is used at all the
restaurants for steaks and chops.
If we are conscious of our digestion it
is our indigestion and not our digestion of
which we are conscious.
The simple and easily digested foods are
milk, buttermilk, butter, eggs cooked soft,
white-fleshed tish, lean beef, mutton and
chicken, white bread when it is baked in
small leaves, potatoes if floury and mealy
and properly cooked, meats broiled or
roasted and tirst cooked meats.
Trying foods are those with large
amounts of fat. like salmon, lobster and
eels, foods of dense consistency, like sog
gy bread, tough meat, hard boiled eggs
and hastilly drunk milk.
Many other things must be taken into
consideration in dealing with the digesti
bility of foods. Leisure and pleasure at
meals, plenty of exercise and fresh air,
and not too large quantities at one time
are great factors in maintaining health
ful conditions.
THE KINDS OF DIVORCE
The story runs of a man who claimed a
right of divorce on the ground that his
wife “did not like Shakcspy - v, and would
read Ouida.*’ So far as it goes, the story
is an indorsement of the wise old man
Arlo Bates speaks of, who had his one in
fallible receipt for happy marriages:
“Mutual love, a sense of honor and a lik
ing for the same books.”
Tt is easy enough to poke fun at such a
plea for divorce, but no doubt the poor
fellow who urged it took it very seriously.
Perhaps he knew from personal expe
rience that there are other—and quite as
final—decrees as those the courts pro
nounce. Practically, married couples
may become divorced at fifty points be
side Shakespeare and Ouida, and yet con
tinue to live together all their lives in ac
tual indissoluble separation. Every time
a mutual sympathy drops out, so much of
their tie is dissolved. If they cease to
laugh together over the same merry tale,
are they not divorced on the mirth side
of the nature? If they cease to weep to
gether over the same pathetic event, are
they not divorced on the tragic side? asks
an exchange. May they not thus be re
duced down from point to point till noth
ing is left to sympathize over but the
dishes on the dinner table, and may not
even this sole surviving stay of the ten
der tie finally lose zest for lack of stim
ulating variety enough of meats and veg
etables in so imperfect a world?
As for the two electrified pith balls in
the familiar experiment that fly together
and then fly apart under the influence of
what used to be called positive and nega
tive electricity, far too much interest has
been attached to them as examples of ex
treme sensibility and impulsive quickness
to express likes and dislikes in a lively
way. They are not half so sensitive as
many married eouples under the influence
of the positive and negative electricity of
Shakespeare and Ouida, not to mention
other perilous contrarieties. “The proper
study of mankind is man”—and women.
Pith balls derive their sole romantic in
terest from their see'ming likeness to hu
man nature, and because anthropomor-
phically interpreted.
Too many young couples set out in life
with the lofty vaunt that they want to
be l-'Vod for tl’emso! s ;ilon •. Th* g,-..-
lir.gs: Theuisdves alone. Whet tire i
they at best in their isolated selves but as
lungs cut off from the vitalizing air, eyes (
from sunshine, ears front the song of the I
bobolink or thrush? Never yet the man
or woman that was admired and loved
but for what the one was warmly inter
ested in. the other vitally sympathetic
with. If the woman’s eye was as dull as
a fish eye over a sunset, if the man’s
voice was as mechanical as a parrot’s in
repeating a tale of heroism or sacrifice,
neither was wooed and won on any such
score. What a human being truly enjoys
and lives into—beauty, nature, literature,
society, duty—that is what confers on him
all his attraction. Lei this dedication of
spirit die out, and no more of radiant
light streams from him than from the
gray, cold cloud off which the sunset glow
had vanished. Wordsworth saw far
deeper:
“The floating clouds their state shall lend
To her; for her the willow bend;
Nor shall she fail to see
E'en in the motions of the storm
Grace that shall mold the maiden’s form
By silent sympathy.”
The woman, then, who “does not like
Shakespeare and will read Ouida" is as
fatally cutting herself off from an en
trancing environment as the purple flag-
lily that refuses to grow beside a crystal
pool, where its beauty, along with that of
the graceful sedges and grasses, is re
doubled in the shining mirror and blended
with the reflection of the blue sky and
fleecy clouds overhead: nay. is a flag-lily
which deliberately prefers to grow up for
herself in her husband's mind enduring
associations of her, not with Juliet and
Portia and Rosalind and Beatrice, hut
with a company of morbid, shallow and
degraded characters. Metaphorically,
she has taken to the street. Now, in the
long run, no woman can do this and yet
maintain her spiritual ascendancy over
a man of higher imagination. If he can
not lift her up, she will be sure to drag
Jtj
Here is a photograph of the pretty Parisian girl known as La Cavalieri. whose
elopement and marriage with Prince Bariatinsky, a young Russian of a famous
family and of great wealth, has set European society circles agog. Now that
she has wound up her career of triumph by marrying a prince, Europe is ask
ing: "Will she return lo the stage or is our popular young beauty lost to us?”
THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER.
The moving spirits in “The People’s Refreshment House Association, Limited,”
the latest effort to inculcate temperance in England, are the Bishop of Chester, the
Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal Vaughan. Pure liquors only are sold in the Associa
tion’s inns, .and barkeepers are given a share of the profits from the sale of non-alcoholio
drinks. No credit is given. Stockholders are to have 5 per cent of the profits.
him down, unless, indeed, they finally os
cillate into a mid-way dead-level of com
monplace.
Depend upon it, to live happily together
husbands and wives must warmly sympa
thize with one another's higher tastes—
with some of them at least. Every ad
vance in refinement, knowledge, beauty,
humor, imagination, creates a keen de
mand fi r a superior order of mate to
share it with, and breeds sharp pain
where the demand is not met. Marriage
exists for mutual sympathy, and where
this fails to he found, there follow inevi
table loneliness and heartache. To dis
cover a new treasure and exult over it,
only to see it received with lack-lustre
eyes—barley grains rated higher than
oriental pearls—by the one person in the
world the soul would exchange heart-beat
for heart-beat with, this is a shattering
of love's ideal truly tragic. Of course,
if a woman marries a one-armed and one-
legged man—anil alas! how many men in
some sense are not—she must he prepared
for the sacrifice of many a ..ream of an
all-round embrace and long day’s moun
tain climb. But let her rally on other
centres of vital sympathy, and she will
find herself happier, after all, than with
a husband of as many arms as Briareus.
yet lacking in other essential points.
No end of young couples are guilty of
tin enormous presumption of thinking
that as soon as the minister has ended
the wedding service they are outright
married. No. not till they have sum
mered and wintered together, shared their
thousands of rich experiences, appreci
ated with one another the deep thoughts
of the wise and the lofty faiths of t lie
d *vout, wept together over t lie graves of
children, are they truly made one. The
minister did not marry them. Life,
death, duty, the wisdom of the sages,
the mirth of the humorists, the dreams
of the poets, the piety of the saints, can
alone marry them. Just in so far as they
moot one another in mutual sympathy at
all these points do they become husbands
and wives whom no tribunal can put
asunder. And just in so far as they do
not the sense of estrangement, loneliness
and heart-ache will grow up between
them, and they will he divorced without
need of any decree of court.
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
Page 1.—The Kinds of Divorce—A Talk
About Foods—Kisses Win Fortunes.
Page 2.—Lost Man's Lane/ serial.
Page 3.—Great South: News Notes—The
Boss' Mystery—Asbestos in Georgia.
Page 4.—Our Household: Pleasing Para
graphs—Chow-Chow—Our Letter Box
—Literary Notes.
Page a.— Household continued: May Pleas
ures—In the Book Salon—Three of a
Kind.
Page 6.—Editorial: Indifferent to Citizen
ship—Beethoven’s Last Play—Is Lying
a Disease?—A Defense of Pretty Wo
men—White House Functions—His
Wife Sues Him for Wages—The Length
of Human Life—Bill Arp's Letter-
Authors as Talkers.
Page 7.—Three Prominent Georgians.
Page S.—By Streams of Song—Montgom
ery's Wild Ride.
Page 9.—Our Boys and Girls: The Puz
zler—Chivalry on the Field—Larry, the
Wanderer, serial.
Page 10.—Confederate Vets: Johnson and
Stanton—Behavior in Battle—General
AVheeler's Speech—Incidents of the
Civil War.
Page 11.—With Lee in Virginia, serial.
Page 12.—The Divine Scales, Dr. Tal-
ntage's Sermon.
BRIGADIER GENERAL FRED FUNSTON.
The president has appointed Colonel Fred Funston of the Twentieth Kansas a
brigadier general of volunteers. Next to Admiral Dewey Colonel Funston is the hero
of tiie war in the Philippines. No obstacle has proved insurmountable to this intrepid
leader. In front, of Ids command he plunged into rivers when no bridge was at hand
and, still leading, faced and silenced avalanches of lead.
Hinduci .n
Although too great an appot
.OS n-,j- Cloud ten tim gh.rv
v-'uis more'than, once i.iiu tin
of a fortum .
Not long ago a too gallant butcher in
Sydney. New South Wales, yielded to the
temptation of a stolen kiss, and was
promptly hauled before the magistrates
to answer for the theft. The case aroused
widespread interest, and was much com
mented on in the papers.
rhe butcher paid a substantial price
for his kiss in the shape of a fine, but
his sudden notoriety revealed to a firm of
solicitors that he was the missing heir to
a large estate, for whom futile search
had been made for twenty years. Against
the fine of twenty shillings the amorous
butcher was thus able to place the sweet
ness of a stolen kiss and a fortune such
as lie had never even dreamed of.
it was a kiss. too. which made the fame
and fortune of one of the leading artists
in France tiylay. Twenty years ago he
was a young student in the Quartier
Latin, Paris, who had come to the end
of his slight resources left by his parents,
and was almost on the verge of starving.
His attic studio was littered with clever
pictures for which he could not find a
purchaser, but he had irrepressible spirits
and a sanguine temperament. In a mo
ment of hilarity he was tempted to steal
a kiss from a pretty pair of lips he met
in the street on the way home from a
friend's studio, and was quickly called to
account for the liberty by the offended
girl. When lie made his appearance in
court the presiding judge was struck by
the young artist's name and appearance,
and asked him if he was a relative of
Maitre C , a famous French advocate
of the ’fiOs.
“I am his son," the culprit answered.
After inflicting a small fine the judge
asked the voting man to call on him in
the evening, which lie did with some trep
idation.
It transpired that the young artist's
father had been the judge's dearest
friend and adviser many years earlier;
and the judge, who was a bachelor, was
delighted to be in a position lo assist his
son. He took the keenest interest in the
many of his niccur. s
• set e»a - ■ it - ■*' . \.
as his talent was recognized; and today
the artist tells to his intimates how a
stolen kiss was the keystone of his career.
A similar story is told of a successful
business man in Birmingham, England.
As a young man, penniless, but full of
promise and ambition, he was tempted
to snatch a kiss under the mistletoe from
a girl who was a guest at the same house
as himself. Although the girl showed no
disposition to resent the liberty, her
brother did, and vowed that he would
thrash the culprit. His words, however,
were stronger than his fists, for it was
the brother who was thrashed.
The audacity of a man who could steal
a kiss and then defend it so successfully
delighted the girl, and when later, she
met the thief and pugilist, she was not re-
luctant to give him her hand as well as
her lips. This marriage—for the girl was
richly dowered with money, as well as
with beauty—laid the foundation of a suc
cessful business career, all owing, as the
proud husband declares, to a stolon kiss.
THE PENALTY J3F GENIUS.
Edgar Allen Poe. Byron. Sir Joshua
Reynolds and a hundred other men of
genius have been either eccentric or the
victims of strange illusions.
Dr. Johnson used to hear strange voices
calling to him when none was near: and
Ben Jonson, the “rare.” had days when
even he thought lie was mad.
Lombroso attributes Vico’s genius to a
fall from a laddt r when a child, and sim
ilar blows on the head made geniuses
of Mabillon and Goetry the composer.
William Blake, the great poet-painter,
of last century, was undoubtedly mad,
and lived among the creatures of his dis
ordered fancy. Tasso, the great Italian
poet, was subject to attacks of mania so
violent that he was more than once con
fined in a madhouse.
ABDUR RAHAMAN, AMIR OF AFGHANISTAN.
The amir of Afghanistan is not dead and, according to the latest reports, is not in
poor health, notwithstanding recent, niraors. He is a picturesque and crafty old Oriental
and fully realizes the important position lie occupies because of the fact that his realm
is the natural barrier between Russia and India. The amir has an army of 150,000.