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Science and Old Age as
Boon Companions
|ROM the very beginning of recorded
time the desire to be long-lived and
vigorous has been inherent in man.
Old age has been almost invariably
regarded as a ghoulish phantom, the
approach of which was inevitable, but
whose ravages were to be resisted as
long as possible. This spirit has
grown in intensity with the advance
of civilization. Especially in Amer
ica, where electrical conditions of
hurry and quick development pre
dominate, people have a nervous, aw
ful dread of becoming useless from
accumulation of } r ears. They are
fond of citing examples of elderly individuals who
have been “laid on the shelf” on reaching a speci
fied age. They claim that they have ceased to be
of any consideration in the vital affairs of life, their
friends no longer consult them, their opinions on
current topics are valueless, and all that is left to
them is to drift along on the sluggish current of
advanced age, embittered in spirit, impoverished
in ideas, waiting the fast-approaching but unwel
come end. Another type exists, the members of
which give themselves and their associates much
annoyance. They have led active, nervous careers,
and as the faculties and physical powers begin to
wane and pall, they grow querulous in speech and
manner, and anticipate with revulsion the coming
of the time when they will be forced to occupy an
easy chair in the chimney corner, full of aches and
pains, and out of the fierce combat and life in
which they have so long taken a leading part.
Urged by all these impelling forces and many
others, men and women are ever on the lookout for
some agency which shall stay the grisly hand of
Time and enable them to retain the normal ability
which entitles them to a place in the active work
of the big world. Ponce de Leon, creaking in his
joints, dim of eye, slow of intellect, sought for the
fountain of perpetual youth that he might repair
the waste of years and equip himself for further
battle with the exigencies and pleasures of exist
ence. “It is hard,” he might have been quoted as
saying, “that just at the time when my experience
is ripest; when I know how to manage and enjoy
men and women; when I have learned to a nicety
the adjustment of virtues and follies—that the de
cay of my faculties should bar me from gaining the
full value of my experience.” The same sigh rises
in the hearts of many a man and woman today.
They will tell you that they have spent a life time
in learning how to live, only to be mown down in
the heyday of their possibilities for pleasure and for
the working of good.
These are some uf the reasons why stories of
the lives of unusually aged men and women are
read with such avidity nowadays, the readers seek
ing some keynote which shall enable them to emu
late the example. New discoveries of science and
all manner of strange and complicated theories
which shed light on this subject are old standbys
of the magazine and the Sunday newspaper. One
of the latter, before us now, tells of a campaign of
research and experiment being conducted by the
Pasteur institute at Paris, which is based on the
injection of blood serum as an agent whereby nat
ural decay may be indefinitely delayed. This ac
count declares that experiments have been made on
rabbits and guinea pigs with truly marvelous re
sults, and that it seems only a question of time
when the system shall have been so perfected as to
permit of its application to the lengthening of hu
man life. ,
We may epitomize the workings of the svstem
for the benefit of our readers by explaining that it
depends for results on immensely increasing the
number of red globules in human blood, thus doing
away with anaemia (impoverished blood), the most
potent provocative of decay of the nerves and tis
sues. We refer to this system in passing merely
for the sake of comprehensiveness. No scientific
short-cut to longevity lias yet been discovered, and
it is folly for people to go on neglecting natural
laws for the better portion of their careers and then
expect, at the first symptom of breakdown, to pur
chase some magic treatment which’ shall restore
their youth and enable them to defy the approach of
old age and decay.
What we do believe, and what science has
demonstrated to be true, is the fact that careful liv
ing, adherence to the laws of hygiene and prudent
storing of the vital forces, will lead to long life, and
even when old age approaches endow it with meas
urably good health and a comparative freedom
from the vapors and real ailments of decrepitude.
But we cannot expect to overwork our energies and
faculties in youth and make up for the discrepancy
as years overtake us. Late hours, rich foods, over
work, dissipations of every nature are so many ac
tive, incessant foes, constantly undermining the
bulwarks of longevity and preparing the wav for
that very old age the onset of which is so univer
sally dreaded.
Common sense, nature in the last acceptation of
the term, is at the bottom of all science. Science
can help us by pointing out the royal road, by tell
ing us what to embrace and what to avoid, but, like
the doctor, it depends on us to follow its prescrip
tions.
Memory One of the Most
Valuable of Faculties
HE man possessed of a good memory
r is to be deeply envied. In his battle
for bread and for more than bread it
will serve him in good part as an as
set, and in his leisure moments and
his social relations it is one of the
most important and ever-willing com
panions and allies. Elsewhere on
this page is printed an article which
deals with one very important phase
of the subject—the training of mem
ory to enable us to have at our
tongue’s end the names and faces of
people whom we meet, the remem
bering of their peculiar characteris
tics, or the conditions under which we made their
acquaintance. While the article in question empha
sizes the value of such a quality with kings and
leaders of men, there is no doubt that it has just
as great importance in the everyday world, and
with the ordinary citizen and student. 1 he man
who invariably remembers the names of the people
whom he meets and is able to converse intelligently
and pleasingly with them in spite of the fact that
he may not have seen them for many years, has a
power which is sometimes greater than riches or
intellect. It is one of the surest ways to ingratiate
ourselves into the esteem of people, and it is pretty
apt to gain us entrance into circles which ; re
closed to the impolitic, tactless, forgetful specimen.
In this regard it is well for he who expects to be a
leader among men, the preacher, the politician, any
man who is thrown with the public continually, to
be well trained in memory. It is, in fact, one of
the biggest trump cards of the successful poli
tician.
But the mass of people are not leaders, nor are
they likely to be. For them the careful, intelligent
cultivation of memory has another and no. less im
portant meaning. They may memorize at a glance
poems or the thoughts of great men expressed in
less musical language. It is here that mental,as
similation goes hand in hand with the quality of
memory. If we train our minds to grasp readily
the text and substance of the written matter which
is constantly passing before the mental vision, it
follows that, in time, we will grow the habt of di
gesting such valuable information as may thus be
encountered and incorporating it into our minds as
spoken or unspoken thoughts. In this respect we
learn a suggestive lesson from the physical process
of digestion. The food enters the stomach, con
taining alike the elements of nutrition and of waste,
useless matter. In this organ is contained the ma
chinery necessary to winnow the profitable from
the waste, and in close proximity the apparatus
which shall throw into the human system the nutri
ment gained from the food and expel from the body
the matter which is either neutral or positively use
less.
The mind is furnished with apparatus built on
the same general plan, though of course with very
different texture and infinitely finer, more subtle
detail. The fact that this mental machinery is so
much more acutely adjusted than the physical
means that the process of mental digestion is neces
sarily slower and less perceptible than its physical
analogy. Unfortunately, the detail of mental elim
ination is not as entirely under our control as that
of physical. The evil which the mind picks up
along with the good stands a good chance of being
absorbed into the mental life, for the reason that
the process is intelligent and not automatic.
One of the best safeguards against this develop
ment is thoughtful, discriminating reading—unfor
tunately a practice which is not very popular with
the omnivorous, hysterically reading American r>ub-
lic. It is a virtue which is almost imperative of
cultivation, and without it the most retentive mem*
orv will fail to confer on the possessor the greatest
amount of good. Even the stomach, if long forced
to contain uncongenial foods, will rebel. ITow
much graver is the possibility of rebellion on the
part of the all-controlling mind, when constantly
gorged with material either useless or actually in
jurious.
We understand readily, therefore, that memory
is an indispensable adjunct to sound mental assim
ilation. There is another benefit that the merely
mechanical faculty of memory brings. It is re
ferred to in the article on this page. By its use we
are able to repeat for ourselves the masterpieces
of poets and writers, containing grand and elevat
ing thoughts, or those which may bring, solace to a
disordered, bitter moment. All self-made men. the
so-called captains of industry, have been endowed
with phenomenal memories, or at least those beyond
the ordinary. Their memory for detail, especially,
is finely developed and the minutae of their busi
ness, and necessarily that of other people, is at
their fingers’ ends.
That the memory for faces and names, for beau
tiful scenes, pictures, poems and profitable thoughts
tnav be cultivated and defective memory improved Is
undeniable. That the faculty itself is valuable in
certain directions, where discriminatingly and per
sistently applied, is a fact that is patent to the man
who takes the trouble to moralize on things con
stantly transpiring around him. Concerning the
various methods employed, no article of this nature
can treat intelligently. There are many helpful sug
gestions in another column, and common sense and
observation will furnish others suitable to diverse
minds and temperaments.
Memory, and the World’s
Discussed
Men
O possess an excellent
memory proves some
times as goodly an herib-
ance as a fortune. The
one may be lost In spite
of care, while the other.
If properly regarded, will
continue to aid and abet
a man throughout his ex
istence. The feasibleness
of cultivating a good
memory, if merely as an
act of policy. Is well ex
emplified by several nota
ble men who have lived In the public
gaze.
King Edward VXI would. If ap
proached on the subject, doubtless lay
a good portion of his popularity with
the masses at the door of his wonder
ful memory. Hardly 13 it believed that
another could be found to match it In
the present day. The king never for
gets a face, nor a name, and both he
associates in his mind with some con
necting place or Incident. Whoever is
prt sonted to him, no matter how great
™h.,f OW a personage, or under
. crowded, changing surroundings.
0 as it In his nower to recall years
afterwards and to relate the ctrcum-
Afn e C6S * attending the presentation.
y of his subjects have amusing sto
ries to toll of their surprise, amount-
ng almost to terror, at times when, as
I'ilnce of Wales, ha would suddenly turn
amid some tumultuous throng and call
one of a number fly name. Not to feel
nattered at such a.mark of favor would
® more than human, and aa surely as
tho deed was dore the king added to
his following.
Once when passhg Incognita through
Rome under tho lame of Mr. Smith,
and sitting in a restaurant on the Corso,’
tile king was heartily slapped on the
back by a waiter vho at tho same time
gave vent to the remark: "Blpss me,
man; you’re the only soul that's put
foot in this plac. who remembers me
oein’ at Ostend.”
Rut this is not altogether an Incoher
ent trait with tho king. The Implanting
of memory was a hobby, If one may to
speak, of the late Queen Victoria. In
his boyhoou the king was made to re
peat to his tutor every night before go
ing to bed the names of the people he
had met during the day, the circum
stances under which he had met them,
and made also to repeat, as nearly ver
batim as possible, the conversations In
which he had taken a part.
With his nephew, the emperor of Ger
many, the same training in this respeot
was pursued throughout childhood and
youth. The kaiser’s memory In Ger
many is held in reverential awe. To a
few, however, it is known that he some
times pulls through trying ordeals by
leaning strongly on his reputation.
Kaiser Doesn't Forget.
Recently at a large official dinner
given in Berlin by the medical staff, it
was favorably remarked that the kaiser
spoke with all those present on the par
ticular branches of medicine in •yhlcb
they were resnectlvely Interested. With
each man ho discussed his writings and
pet theories, dwelling always on the
point that marked him from his broth
ers. To do such a thing It was thought
required not only an Immense amount
of serious reading on the subject of
medicine, but a most extraordinary
memory. It was rather a denouement,
therefore, when a young physician, not
willing to have his thunder stolen, gave
the fact out rather broadly that twenty
minutes before the dinner he had been
summoned to the kaiser’s presence, and
had then given in synopsis, form every
bit of the Information that had beeij
used during the evening. Probably the
kaiser had thought little before of any
of the men present, and most assuredly
bad read none of their writings. Even
so it Is an achievement of merit to ab
sorb enough in twenty minutes to make
one au courrant of the labor and thought
of years.
Lord Kitchener, another Englishman of
trained and unerring memory, is unhap
pily more feared than loved by hig men.
and partly on this account. Delinquents
especially when awaiting his Justice are
painfully aware that the details of every |
e/ye Week in a P«sy
World &
other trip-up in their career are as fresh
in his memory as the day they occurred.
It la said of him that he knows not how
to forget.
James G. Blaine had, perhaps, as re
markable a memory as any one born un
der the Stars and Stripes, and it was one
which he was fond of saying "came with j
him." By this he meant that it had no
such rigorous training as that of King
Edward VIZ. But he, too, was always
glad to acknowledge his many debts of
gratitude to this Bource.
Thurlow Weed made it a practice to re
peat to his wife at night In sequence
every Incident of the day. 80 alive to
Impressions was his intelligence and so
careful his description of them that the
task would customarily take him from
half to three-quarters of an hour.
Another man who scorned above most
things a notebook or memorandum was
Roscoe Conkllng. To carry such a thing
ho regarded as an Indignity, and loud
were his anathemas against his country
men that they allowed tho custom to In
crease among them. "Teach children to
remember," was with him a favorite
maxi m.
Of chief omclals of tho United States,
President Tyler had undoubtedly the most
exact and host trained memory. Besides
being of inestimable service to his coun
try through a trying time, it gavo him
much pleasure. As he lay In his bed at
night, and before sleep vlsitod his eyes,
he would calm his mind by repeating to
himself such loved poems us “The Lady
of tho Lake,” or again, chapter ufter
chapter of sacred writings. After onco
hearing a long poem read lie could re
peat it perfectly. Nor was this only
U-unsiont ability.
One New York woman of note there
was who deserves mention among this
group of unusual memories. The refer
ence is to Mrs. Livingston, one of tho
founders and for a long time a director
of tho old orphan asylum. Without the
slightest effort she could call the 300 chil
dren there sheltered by name, and re
membered aa well the individual history
of each one. Also she had Piesident Ty
ler's gift of being able to repeat after
once reading any list of names or a long
poem.
Women Should Be Posted on Little Money
Technicalities
By HARRIETT P, SPOFFORD.
HERE may bo greater vir
tues In the possession of
tho married woman, but
ther- are few greater and
more excellent talents
than flat of knowing how
to spd'd money, not to
waste It, but to spend It
and !e acquainted with
Its management.
The w ! fe of one of our
foreign ( • am bassadors,
whnse Ifssband was about
to leavj her on a long
journey, was given a isleque book, which
unfortunately and unwlely she had never
had before, with a sun of money in the
bank. On her husband* return he asked
he if she had had mosey enough. "Oh,
yes,” she replied. "An. indeed, I have
half a dozen checks left” her idea being
that each check stood ftr as much money
as she chose to indicati upon it, without
reference to any specty deposit or any
thing apparently but capacity of tho
vaults of the bank; wfile the bank offi
cials, who had h'*’ Tusband’s greatly
larger account, h.-. -Tered her to draw
what she pleased. ; Ity
This little lady 'was no more unac
quainted with busfutss processes than an
other, who, seelij* that when her hus
band wanted matey, he drew a %heck,
deliberately signet his tame to a check-
lie being absent, aid it being necessary to
meet the subscription to a charity—and
j when other peoplo were in no end of a
scrape in consequence, she at once de
clared that she had done it as she and
her husband had always had their purse
in common. A very little Instruction would
have prevented any such exhibition.
Knowing these instances to be facts, it
is hardly necessary to emphasize the
statement that every girl should bo taught
the use of a check book, even If she has
only a single dollar in the bank.
Appalling Ignorance.
Where a woman can and docs have
funds to draw upon, it is inexcusable
that so simple a matter should be neg
lected, although It probably Is neglected
Just because it Is so simple. Still, one
cannot help wondering how a man, who
Is going to leave his daughter or his
wife many thousands, does not have her
fitted to take care of it by instruction in
the first principles of banking, in prim
itive bookkeeping, and in the drawing of
wills and their codicils.. "Is that my
husband’s will?’’ said a newly made
widow to the lawyer sitting beside her
and reading the document. “I can’t
think he would make such a will as
that! Let me look at it!” And, taking
it elanced it over, and tossed it info
tne lire, all unawaro that she had com
mitted a felony.
But whether or not one knows the
details of the methods of getting money
Into the right hands, it is an important
part of a wife’s virtues to know how to
spend the money when once hers. Many
a woman buys what she wants. If she
has the means to do so, without a thought
if It be best or if she could do without
it. or if she could get it at a better
price elsewhere. But, really, the more
open-handed a husband is, the more It is
the wife’s dut^- to think twice when
spending. For putting aside any question
of her equities In the husband’s income,
the fact remains that it is usually In his
power, and is under the province of that
law which declares that might makes
right; and if he ig open-handerl that cir
cumstance gives her a double obligation
to spend it reasonably and wdsely.
It Is riot a consideration of economy
that is involved, of sparing, of unselfish
ness, of doing without that another may
have; It is the exercise of a sufficient
degree of care in expenditure and of see
ing that nothing be wasted. And un
doubtedly w’here this case becomes a
habit, other habits of nice inspection fol
low in its wake; and in the house of the
wise and careful purchaser, where the
value .of a dollar Is known, but not prized
above its value, for all that, there Is
nothing left at loose ends; the meats
are all used up, the fruits are not left
to spoil! moth and rust do not corrupt,
to spoil; moth and rust do not corrupt,
tnus administered, ore quite prepared,
when they have a home of their own,
to make the most of Vieir o ln properties,
and to practice on the small scale that
leads to larger, the sort of housekeeping
in whose lexicon there is no such word
as “waste.”
What England Does Not Know About
Xohe Short Story Contest
U NSUCCESSFUL stories submitted in the prize
contest are being returned to the writers this
week. In a few instances the manuscripts have
been accompanied hv letters from the writers stat
ing that a return of an unsuccessful story was not
obligatory on the contest editor. The management
feels, however, that the best interests of the suc
cessful and unsuccessful contestants are served by a
universal return of the manuscript. Do not he im
patient at not receiving your story immediately.
The work of returning the manuscript is proceed
ing gradually, and the fact that the winners have
not been definitely chosen will cause a trifling de
lay. Next week the date on which final announce
ments are to be made will be set, as the last work
on the contest is. sufficiently progressed to warrant
the making of this promise.
An impression seems to have gotten abroad thst
the announcement has already been made in some
mysterious manner. Such a fact is manifestly im
possible. since the editor of the contest himself does
not yet know the names of the winners, or even the
titles of their stories. When the winners are an
nounced it will be in such decided fashion as cannot
escape the notice of the most casual reader of the
paper.
By CHARLES t. RUSSELL.
NE lives very well in tho
styes,” wrote Robert Louis
Strvenson after a trip
across the American con-
tiipnt In an emigrant
trin. It is a thousand
pfti-is one cannot return
tho compliment to Steven
son s native land. But one
does not live very well in
Great Britain. One lives
very badly - there.
It j doubtful if In any
other country inhabited by
white men one lf?es so- ill. And this is a
n.alter not only for the curiosity (and
concern) of the traveler and of him much
busied with the content of his stomach,
but for all sociologists and persons that
care to' consider ‘in a large way the
causes of human progress.
It is not merely the extrema paucity at
the dishes that fills one with dismay com
ing to England from the continent or
America, but also the truly dreadful man
ner in which the dishes are prepare.d.
In England tho art cf cooking can have
progressed little beyond its state in tho
Stone Age. Tli.-re is still some meat,
some fire and a vessel, and man has still
wit enough to bring these in some fashion
together; but beyond a vague but general
conviction that most food should be heat
ed before it is eaten there cannot be said
to be cooking in the length and breadth
of the unhappy land.
In England the'day grows In horrors
In a dietetic way. From the dreadful
breakfast of bacon and eggs, marmalade
and tea and the revolting luncheon of
chops and jam roll to the heavy and joy
less repast of the evening is a long step
toward nightmare and dyspepsia.
At this day-end function you are com
monly regaled, if you wish it, with some
Cooking'
Ill-saelling and greasy water miscalled
soup gome suspicious fish, some roast
(beet mutton or pork) overdone and some
slopp- vegetables badly cooked. Every
thing swims in grease, everything Is of
ill iiaor, everything is badly served,
most tings are of dubious cleanliness.
This s perfectly true not only of the
moderavpriced eating houses of London
(over nipt of which the suffering visitor
desires > draw a veil in his reminis
cences), iut of the most gorgeous and
pretenfio* hotels and West End restau
rants.
Out of t'puty-two dining places In Lon
don with v hi ell I once conscientiously
and paintyy experimented, ranging in
price fromyiree shillings sixpence to a
pound, I co d not find one that presented
ono dish w*J prepared or well cooked;
or, to speakguite plainly, fit for human
consumption •
The same edition prevails in private
houses. If tljo Is a good cook in Eng
land. he is 1 imported Frenchman or
Italian. The :,tives. except the wealthy
class. feeds uh "sausage and mashed"
(a dish for Es<j m auxJ. sickly vegetables
and bread so ird and so badly baked
that it would itke paving stones.
RoasBeef a Fake.
The "roast b(» of England” and all
that sort of thli i s n mere fake. What
there Is of beef imported from Amer
ica, and then terly ruined in the
kitchen. $ .
The natural qutlon then is, if the
English live on ch abominable food,
why are they so i»lthy? They are not.
That is another faj, The wealthy Idle,
who have plenty tyime to live in the
open air and ride nJ wa ik and over
come the effects of elr vicious diet, the
kind of people visit, Americans know
most about, are hea.j- enough, but the
masses are the worsi 0urlshQd an<J least
vigorous in Europe.
The idea of the vigorous and sturdy man
as the type of the English race was
evolved in the days when England was
an agricultural country and its people
lived out of doors.
Now It is a manufacturing country. Its
people live in stinking cellars up dark al
leys. and If you want to see the results
of these cheerful conditions you have
only to read the records and testimony of
the enlistment officers during the recent
terrific and crucial struggle against a
handful of farmers in South Africa. I
think that will open your eyes.
Now the point I am coming to, and the
really Important thing, is this; We do
not like to admit It, and it seems material
istic and commonplace and savoring of
our jungle ancestors, but you can’t have
a fine, big-brained, progressive, art-loving
race without good cooking and good food.
T°n can't put bad food into a man and
house him badly and expect to get from
him fine thoughts or fine deeds. It is
lovely to think of the old hermits that
lived on bread and water and cared
naught for the vahities of tho fiesh, but
I doubt if a million hermits on bread and
water ever produced a grain of an idea.
You cannot escape the fact that the
great art nations of Europe, the French
and the Italians, are also the great cooks.
You cannot escape the other fact that,
going over the nations, their taste and
art energy are exactly proportionate to
the variety and excellence of their food.
The dreadful statues of the Thames
embankment and the squares, the hideous,
doleful streets, the tasteless houses, the
sad, unkempt parks, the dirt, the grease,
tho scum on everything, the melancholy
and dreary daubs of the Royal Academy,
the land without art and the people with
out mental vigor—for the secret of these
inevitable characteristics of moderp Eng
lish life we come at last, however reluct
antly, to the English kitchen.
DRD SALISBURY,
who is Reported
seriously ill in
of health imme-
Switztyland, wber*
he went In search
diately after re
leasing hls high
office a few weeks
agd into the hands
of his nephew.
Lord Balfour, had
a similar artack In
March, l«tt. His
i,or<t Salisbury medical attend
ants at that time In an official bulletin
stated that he was suffering from acute
Bright*s disease. On this f^count the
late reports are extremely alarming to
the British people, of whom the great
statesman is still the Idol. The earl of
Salisbury is the only living member of
that great group of history-makers.
Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Beaconsfleld,
Bismarck, Crispi and LI Hung Chang.
Lord Sailsuury’s hist service to his
country was the statecraft involved in
carrying on'and ending the Boer war.
which gave to his country vast areas of
new territory of incalculable value.
KCRETARY OF
STATE JOHN
if AY, whose peti
tion to the powers
in behalf of the
persecuted Rou
manian Jews has
aroused the admi
ration of Europe
and attracted new
attention, to tho
higa purposes of
th; United State3,
hag been in public
John Hay life since the
breaking out of tho civil war, when he
became military secretary to President
Lincoln. At the close of the war he
served in subordinate capacities in the
legations of Madrid, Vienna and Paris,
and was assistant secretary of state un
der President Hayes. One of the first
appointments made by President Mc
Kinley was that of Mr. Hay as ambas
sador to Great Britain. He was called
home to take the state portfolio on the
retirement of Judge Day in August,
1898. Mr. Hay has been the author of
many history ' making state papers.
TIIEF EDWARD
F. CHOKER, of the
New York fire de
partment, who has
just been elected
to the presidency
of the Interna
tional Society of
Fire Engineers, in
session in that
city, achieved an
other honor only a
few days ago in
his reinstatement
Chiaf Crokrr as chief after hav-
lng been suspended under charges. Not
withstanding the fact that Mr. Crokef
is a favorite nephew of the famous Tam
many chief, he is said to have won his
way from the foot of the ladder to his
present high position on his merit as a
fire fighter. He Joined the department
In 1S&4 and had steadily advanced, step
by step, until 1S99, when tie was made
chief by the retirement of Fire Chief
Bonner. Mr. Croker is known as a
brave, almost reckless fire fighter, and
has the'saving • of more than one life
to his credit, bio Is comparatively un
known In politics, and is said to have
created a nonpartisan department.
TLLIAM WAL
DORF ASTOR,
who is said to have
recently stated hls
regret that ha
gave up his Amer
ican citizenship
and became a nat
uralized English
man, has never
been on friendly
terms with his rel
atives in the
I "nited States
u.~ iv Mstar since he took that
step, about ten years ago. The most
public evidence of his American rela
tive's’ disapproval occurred at the time
of his wife’s death. Mr. Astor brought
her body to this country for burial in
Trinity churchyard, and all the New
York Astors promptly seized that oppor
tunity to give an elaborate series of en
tertainments, to show that the dead
woman was not considered to have been
a relative of theirs. For this course
I hey were severely criticised at the time.
TS9 CLARA BAR
TON, who was
given the extraor
dinary honor - of
being escorted to
her seat on the
stage by President
Roosevelt at the
public gathering
in Detroit recent
ly, in which tho
president * addressed
the veterans of
the Spanish war,
hag been the pres-
~‘ura UarCt,..
Hints About Fruits snd tbe Fruit Cure
By EUSTACE MILES.
71 T is generally found that
" those who eat fruits
need fewer stimulants.
There are many who sim-*
ply cannot combine the
two together. I knew of
a dipsomaniac who would
drink anything rather than
water. She required some
thing that would bite and
sting, and she would take
red Ink, or, In fact, any
thing that was acrid. And
so some fruits—at the out
set. perhaps, unripe fruits—might help to
remove any unnatural desire for drink.
Fruits have always been agreed to be
a valuable cure for invalids suffering
from almost every kind of disease. Albert
Broadbent, an authority on the apple, for
irstance, says:
“With rare exceptions, apples are good
for those disposed to gout and sluggish
liver, and for those who follow a seden
tary life. Two or three eaten at night,
uncooked or baked, correct constipation.
The juice of apples without sugar will
often reduce acidity ob,e stomach, be
coming changed into a dine correctives
and thus curing sot fermentation.
Where unsweetened old | S used as a
common beverage, ston>-> r calculus ta
unknown; but how much .[ter the fresh
ripe fruit must be!”
Oranges, again, are use^g a cure for
Influenza, especially In Flii., which Is,
of course, the garden of ojges. Near
ly every fruit will purify thlipod, partly
because of the soft water (vfyt takes up
more material In the systetynd partly
because of Us salts. Lemon famous for
this reason.
But such fruits are by no
in proteid. Somewhat richer
ten overestimated *n this res;
and prunes and raisins, whlc
the best cures for constipatic.
ana abounds :n fatty and oil;
but we have exaggerated not
powers. It seems that the dall
of this fruit to workmen li
America is 6 pounds. It mu
some other useful elements be.
But nuts are the proteid kin;
fruits, it it on them that the aj
Nuts aa
King of
Protaids
tain much of their vigor. Let us look at
teid to give it its staying power.
the almond for a moment.
It can be thoroughly mas
ticated, or else pounded
or milled. It is rich In
oil as well as in proteid.
Almonds and raisins,
which axe so often taken
after a full meal, are, like cheese, abso
lutely a complete meal In themselves; so
hideously gross is our ignorance about
food values. One Is reminded, when one
sees this extra meal of cheese and nuts
(or perhaps of both) on the top of an am
ple, ordinary meal, of the disgusting
song—disgusting because It has about it
the false ring of jollity and good fellow
ship:
Then take another;
Yes, take another;
Yes, take one more.
Not the same as before.
But another, and yet another,
For the sake of Auld Lang Syne.
It is said of the almond: “Nut-cream
Is recommended for brain workers. It
Is made as follows: Pound In a mor
tar or mince finely three blanched al
monds, two walnuts, two ounces of pine
kernels; steep over night In orange or
ldent of the American National Rec
Cross Association since its organizatior
ln . ,? SS1 ’ Sh f is on e of the most honorec
philanthropists In the world. Miss Bar
ton is a native of Massachusetts and It
now 72 years old. Her work in the civil
war gained her an international reputa
tion. and when tho Spanfsh-Amerlcan
•war was declared she was as active as
ever in the interest of humanity. She
did noble work at tho Charleston and
Galveston disasterss.
lemon juice. This cream should be made
fresh daily, and may be used in the place
of butter. Milk of almonds Is made of
the kernels finely minced, with boiling
water added. Almonds roasted to the
color of amber are delicious to eat with
biscuits or bread and butter. Grated in
a nut mill, they axe good to serve with
any kind of stewed fruit. They are use
ful medicinally, because of their sooth
ing and emollient properties. They should
always be blanched In hot water, the
skins being Indigestible.”
Good fruits should be chosen, and not
pulpy and fibrous rubbish. These fruits
should be carefully washed and eat-rn
while still fresh, if possible. As to tho
peel, some cannot digest it; but the juice
within and near the peel Is valuable, and
hence the peel should be boiled and the
strained water taken as a drink, ox at
least added to some dish. We must not
upset nature’s balance of elements.
The fruit cure is nrobably the pleas
antest of all. It has many varieties,
oranges, apples and grapes being three
of the best known kinds. There seems
to be no limit to the number of illnesses
which it will remedy. It may be classed
as a soft water treatment (a branch of
the fasting treatment) together wltb nat
ural (organic) medicine*.