Evening star., 1897-04-17

marked a physician to Star reporter,
'.and there is hardly a day that some of
my patients are not complaining of 1t and
its effects. Other physicians have similar
experiences. The patient complains of feel
ing all broke up. He or she sleeps badly.
eats but little, and has but little desire to
eat anything at all. many of them having
a shivering sensation at some time in the
day. followed by a slight fever. They have
no ambition to work or read or to enjoy
life in any way. There is nothing wonder
ful about it, and it is but the evidence of
the wind-up of the winter and the coming
of the spring. 1t is the result of the eat
ing of heavy meals all winter. with little
no rest for the digestive organs The
cure has been provided by nature. and all
the patient has to do is to change in the
quality of their food Instead of heavy
meals of meat let them eat the various
green Stuffs that the markets now furnish
in abundance-kale. cabbage. sprouts, green
onions, rhubarb and number of similar
things Any of them are good. and lib
eral combination of them frequently in
dulged in will be found advantageous No
mistake can be made. Eat any green thing
that the appetite Graves. and eat 1t even
If there is no craving for it. a week of
such food will do more than any other med
fcine. for they are medicines in every sense
of the word Start off breakfast with some
OF the red radiSheS which
plenty in the markets Three four each
morning will be sufficient. but that many
will be found beneficial 1t will be all right
If they are skipped at lunch, but be sure
to have at least two green vegetables for
dinner. This kind of food will cost less
than a heavy meat dinner, and will do
more to cure spring fever than anything
Il can recommend in the medicine line. 1t
viii be well enough to use apothecary shop
medicines in case the green things fall but
In nine cases out of ten there will be no
need for them"
Il don't want to iniure the book can
vassers business. fer | am sure these fel-
lows have hard enough lives as 1t is said
department clerk to Star reporter, but
l am convinced that ii is a poor invest
ment for many department clerks to in
vest in expensive encyclopedias and books
of that sort. In this city where there are
full sets of all of the encyclopedias handy
in every department building, which can
be consulted any hour in the day, it is
poor economy. Ior the average clerk es-
pecially if he lives around in rented rooms
to own expensive encyclopedias. even if
they are sold in small monthly payments
To man who has home or who has
children going to school il is somewhat
different The cost of carting expensive
books abou, from enc house to another as
the owners change 11orrs in boarding
houses. is considerable. | know it is the
habit OF many who own such books 10
store them in storage roorns rather than
10 have them lying about their rooms. oc-
cupyInS space and Il Temptation to ser
wants 10 steal tEeru. [ had a forcifLe i'll
luStrauon Of this several summers ago
when the Knox storage ware rooms were
uesuoyed by fire. as we'll as their contents
was oi Il r:''rOad train GcinS cut on the
Metrcpolltan branch Of the baltimore and
oiffo Faiiroad with number of other
summer continues AMI happened to re-
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encyclopedias and several Che. exDen-
Sive publications. which mad cost me in
all abou- SLID To my surprise three otner
men Ia The car adIritted that they had
played in he SAM kInI OF luck one of
them having lost over three hundred dol
IarS worth Of books They made tn, Same
excuses 1 did. that they hadsgot tired of
cartlns the books around ami had stored
them when they had given ut, their rooms
IN the city for the summer With H.
Drary IN each government tuilding that
y as Lar as encyclopedias are concerned
there Is less reason fol the ownership Of
such books in This than in any other ciIy
IN Ihe .niie'i States In many OF the de-
partnents there a half dozen sets Of
the various encyclnpac,;'a; WINCH can no
consult ri ~ any iiIne.-'
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we think We will make a scarcity of
Nagrant dogs before this season is over"
saio one OF the poundmaster's assistants.
and already We far ahead of any
as usual are of the cur family, with now
and then some well bred dog who has been
turned out to look about for himself old
age having rendered him useless for or
oinary dog purposes The commoner q
dog Is in his breeding the easier he is
caught n well bred dog is rarely netted
by our people for the reason that he
smells mice, as it were. and eludes U.S.
Ihere seems 10 be telegraph arrangement
between members OF the dog family and If
We fail to catch a dog after having given
him a chase. he is bound in some Way to
lei the other dogs know that We are out
on a raid for them. and in a few minutes
dogs are powerfully scarce On Tuesday
last our wagon began to work up on I4th
street above . street Dogs were reputed
10 De very plenty in that neighborhood
and when We got up there We saw that
they Were 1t looked as If we would make a
large catch. Our nets were first thrown
out for half blind monsrel that hangs
about a livery stable up that way. We
failed to catch him. but just the same that
dog managed to let all dog krd in that
neighborhood know that we were out for
business. and though We hung around
there for couple of hours such a thing
as dog could not be seen. The same
people who will complain of vagrant dogs
VIII help dogs TO get out of our reach the
moment We put in an appearance to
try to capture them"
"OGr hindSight Is much better than our
foresight. remarked a gentleman who op-
posed very strongly the idea of having tho.
parks along Pennsylvania avenue used for
tie inauguration stands on March last
Like number Of others. / thought the
building of stands on the parks would do
them great injury and lost no opportunity
OF saying so. 1t is just one month since
the stands were removed. and today there
Is no more trace Of them, as far az the
condition of the grass and shrubbery Is
concerned. than If the parks were never
so used 1t is remarkable how quickly they
have resumed their neat appearance The
grass. II anything. has been improved by
the walking on IL which was necessary in
the construction of the stands. 1t removed
the luinpy appearance they had last season
remember the objection made TO the use
OF me White Lot, south of the Executive
mansion, some years ago. when the ma
uonai militia drills took place there; again
lhe tempest thai was created when the fde,
was started of having the tents of the
Grand Army encampment and later whom
the Christian Endeavor convention pro-
posed to erect their tents there Let anv
one examine the grass In the White Lot