The herald., 1895-07-17
Bible Readings Will Be Made a
Daily Feature
PRACTICAL PHYSIOLOGY
Was,the Subject Of the First Lecture
Given
Valuable Suggestions Upon Little Studied
Subiect-fiumerous and Serious
RecoIiectious

good thing that the seating capacity OF
the tabernacle had been doubled before
this years assembly was held, for If it
had mot been great many OF the audi
ence Monday night would now be feeling
as if one of their legs were really longer
than it ought to be. Besides enlarging
the size of the tabernacle. the floor has
been put on an incline, so that all can
easily see the speakers on the platform.
Carpets with a thick padding underneah
have been placed IN the aisles, SO that
much noise is avoided as persons are
finding seats. Electricians are busy put
ting in wires and incandescent lapms, and
it is hoped that the tabernacle and town
will be lighted by electricity by next Sat-
urday night. The sidewalks around the
building have been extended and rep ir d,
and numerous other Improvements made.
Every tent near the tabernacle Is occu-
pied or has been engaged. The tents
around the tabernacle are too crowded for
health, convenience or beauty. tract
of land several acres in extent, near the
beach, should be planted to shade trees.
marked off i'll streets iXed especially for
the benefit of campers. Half of the en-
foyment of seaside life to many people is
the freedom of tent life. But when tents
are erected only SIX feet apart. and no
one has shade tree all to themselves. the
freedom of camp life is lost.
The regular Chautauqua exercises COM
menoed IN the tabernacle at a. M. with
. Bible reading conducted by Rev. A. ].
Frost. These Bible readings will be eld
oaily at the same time and place during
the assembly.
Rev. F. Nj. Larkin leads the Bible nor
NAL class at a. m. This will be one of
the best and most largely attended
classes. Although Rev. Larkin is one of
the youngest men in the conference, still
he is recognized and forced to the front
rank on account OF his scholarly ability
and deep enthusiasm.
sAll the other classes started with fair
attendance according to schedule, and
they will receive special mention before
the Assem- bly, closes.
Madam Rose Wiesecke changed her
place of holding Der French and German
class from the Congregational church to
the Ralston on Third street, from to
II m.
At the 2:S0 hour Miss Marian Gertrude
Hards opened the exercises by recitng
The Kitchen Clock. This was heartily en-
cored and Miss Hards kindly responded.
Prof A. J. Cook then delivered the first
lecture of the assembly on Pract cal Phys
iology. He sau: There is much of
kindly feeling manifested in the bumor-
Gus Irishman of the man who said to his
priest 'Indade, sir, | nope that you may
live to eat the rooster that shall crow on
your grave life full OF years usually
betokens healthfulness and sobriety; so
we may all devoutly wish to live to a
ripe old age, and may well desire for our
friends like happy experience. in fact
good health is no mean factor in the
work of building up a noble Christian
manhood. The dyspeItic is proverbially
cross and dlsagreeable. "
There was certainly point in the remark
of President Phinney, who. upon hearing
nNTnr 1lcy Il fail
a solemn, oe-begone style most gloomy
experience, said: 'Young man, you are
bilious; you need something to work on
your liver"
Physiology shows how and or what
purpose the various organs act, and so
suggests the requisites TO healthy action.
Physiology then is the very Foundation
stone to hygiene.
One of the most important subjects to
which physiology calls our attention is
that connected with food. Brain force,
muscular force. all organic torce directly
depends on food.
The speaker then continued, making
use of the manikin to illustrate his re-
marks, showing how the work of diges-
tinn was accomplished and the part per-
formed by the different organs Of the
body. Plenty of food we'll digested is
essential to every healthy pody. The
kind of food should be governed by the
appetite. Good water is very i'm mportant
in this food element. Even the teeth
are one tenth water, while some of the
animal tissues are more than 99-100ths
water. OF all the food required to nourish
the body. none is so imperatively de-
manded as oxygen or pure air. We know
that a person may live at least forty days
with no foou except water. If robbed of
both food and water the vital forces will
continue to act Tor many days. Not SO
with oxygen. 1t takes $50 cubic feet of
pure air to supply our daily need. A
room seven feet each way does not fur
nish the required amount for each day S
supply. In every bed room one of the
windows should be open day and night
and should be protected from storms by
shutters. Everything that hinders per-
fectly free breathing WORKS toward the
same end, as does i'll ventilation. Men
will show more sense when they come
generally to admire the normal type of
the female form and not the hour-g lass
type SO common among lis. A protest
should be made against the atrocious GUS
tom of bandaging children the first year
of their lives, as if fitting them to be
emil lined as mummies.
Respiration forms 3 very i'm portant part
in removing noxious ehcretions. Neatness
and cleanliness are absolutely necessary.
Clothing should be frequently changed.
1t is found that sorrow, anxiety, grief
and anger are each strong brakes upon
the digestive functions. Such passions
check the SecreuonS ana hinder digestion.
Good nature and happy temper at the
table will 20 far to promote digestion.
Sleep. full and ample, is the great con-
servator of nervous force. Most of us need
full eight hours of this God-given elixir.
Another large audience assembled at
the tabernacle in the evening to listen to
the lecture by Rev. E. S. Chapman OF
Oakland on Humorous and Serious Recol-
lections.of Life in Washington from 1864
to 1869. A most interesting programme
has been arranged for today.
Briefs
Thursday is W. G. T. U. day.
Mr.H. Edmund Earle, the piano ac-
companist for the assembly, is filing his
difficult position very satisfactorily. To
accompany well and not make the audi
ence think you are the soloist is an art
that few possess.
The Eye and Breaker are both issuing
dailies during Chautauqua. The initia
issue OF The Eye was very creditable anG
shows the enterprise of the proprletors,
Iessrs. Lynn d Sharp.
MIS-. Edith Barnes of Ventura is visit
the family of Mr.. Amesbury.
Judge Widney ana family of Los An
geles have come down TO occupy thei
Summer cottage for the summer. Thei
daughter, Mrs. Helen Watson of Mt. Yer
non, H., is visiting with chem.
Mrs. Doyle aud Miss Patria Doyle o
University have rented rooms on ThirC
Pine