The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-02
S0R0SIS DEEP IN SCIENCE.
sTsTERHooD STUDIES or CURES ron
THAT TIRED FEELING.

sua an tnqutry Mow to Cook Nock OF Beer.
Sorosis had n ponderous timesof IL yesterday
afternoon. Scionce.had marked the programme
for Its own. Melancholy seemed now and then
to have done tho same thing to tho audience.
There worc two hours OF science; two mortal
hours which sometimes appeared to bo on tho
verge of becoming immortal In point of length.
But even science can be Sorosliod into interest.
Before tho end Of tho afternoon at least two
vital questions had been preached. These
wore football and how 10 cook the neck OF beef.
Sorosis mover shirks n duty, not oven when It
takos the form OF an afternoon with science.
The attendance was therefore large. Fore
warned. however. is forearmed, and 1t was no
wonder that, after tho members had seen tho
subject for discussion, they fingered long and
fondly at the festive breakfast board. Talk
and tru1ics arc calculated to put anybody into
o proper frame Of mind for silence and advice
"a to tho care of tho stomach. Yesterday af-
tornoon there were various reasons for prolong-
ing the pie-and pickle preface to tho regular
programme. 1t must not DO understood, In re-
gard to Sorosis, shat pie and pickles are It's
chief diet. "pie-and-p pickle preface is merely
q generic term.
One of the reasons for tho prolongation Of
this pleasant feature of tho afternoon was the
presence OF an unusual number of 'distin-
guishcd guests" Sorosis sometimes has dis
tinguished guests whose only claim to distinc-
tion is that Sorosis has entertained them. Yes
terday 1t was not 30. There were present Mrs.
Alice Morse Earle, tho historian; Mrs. Thomas
Edison, Mrs. Francis Wilson, Miss Lolita Crab.
tree, Mrs. Margaret Sangster, Mrs. Kate Up
son Clark, Mrs. Margaret WEIGH, Mrs. Cynthia
Westover Alden, Miss Cora Lingo, President
Of the Twenty.ono Club, from Texas; Mrs. Fran.
els Stockington, wife Of the Consul-G General to
Austria; Mrs. Emerson of Boston. Mrs. Jobcs.
vice-president OF tho Spokane Sorosis; Mrs.
Tillinghast Of tho Cleveland Sorosis, Nine. Car
rani. Miss Perry Of the Fortnightly Club, Brook
Ign: Mrs. F. A. Waugh OF Baltimore, and Miss
Drislcr OF the Ultima Thule Club.
The programme was In charge of DR.. Harriet
G. Keatinge. In order to bring the subject into
some practical relation to her hearers, Dr..
kcatingc took az a question for discussion:
GLOW can modern science be applied to lessen
the mental and physical strain Of everyday
lifei' She arranged the subject into five d.
visions, and each Of these was presented by a diff.
fcrcnt speaker. 1t was Mrs. Florence De Graf
Shaw who, rs one OF these speakers, cham.
pioned the cause of football and stirred up the
loudest applause Of the afternoon. Mrs. Shaw's
subject was Exercise" and her paper imme-
diately followed one on Food"
Exercise" she began. referring to this fact,
should not come SO soon after food Let us
suppose that an hour has interviewed. 1t is be-
Chubo luht ~ uOcS nuJ intervene, anu our
husbands rush from the breakfast table, hurry
down the street, run up the elevated railroad
stairs. and bury themselves in their paper, that
they are losing their health. The liver becomes
torpid, and tho lover becomes a faultfinder.
Whether life Is worth living depends on the
lover as well as on the liver. 1t Is not easy to
easier TO apply u mustard plaster. Some of US
have tried that, and know that it isn't SO very
While Mrs. Shaw was rpeaking thus, the
clouds of science lifted, and Sorosis smiled
Our grandmothers took regular and varied
exercise in the care of their households" said
woman who sweeps, dusts, and makes her own
bed Is healthier. than the woman who does not.
eise Of s" Thy will hpl' The K @ BEST sN symnsst tHa' a ae t dnsr,
In the manual OF sitting,up exercises for the
I'm sms States s AdFmEy 1isd 4 havs s no time to on 1"lk iS of
system of Delsarte is so little understood in this
country, anyway. that terrible crimes are per
Now. want to say . word in season about the
: boys, and football is in season. We have
heard football denounced as rough, brutal, and
1t is rough. and as such is the best all-around
naturally brutal, or il he lacks self-eontrol he
will tind an opportunity of showing his DISPOSE
and punished with, the contempt and dislike
of his fellows, a punishment more effective than
any s'S bcs Ssn /" P phFs" tS or / ls's we'll who eats
sweets and pastry, smokes cigarettes, OF drinks
Tea, COHee, OF NCOnO1C beverages. he must
obey his captain, and thus he learns Organization,
subordination. authority. The spiritual lessons
are st,S eou witn ,b men h !. 5esr ana "a se sate raro ~ h hqs
body, a less on which will go with him through
life. Educators estimate that the interest in
athletics bias raised the standard OF morality
and temperance 80 per cent: in the last twenty
five years. As o teacher. of boys, I have found
are bolter learned. minds are clearer. and the
general behayior is better than at any other
There were a few skeptical shakes of the head
At this eulogy Of the anxious mothers bugbear,
Mrs. William Tod Heimuth had a learned
eohtrevertiblo statement TO lie effect that
peacefully at this: and, although they had no
di1 edt SsS desire ipsi fo Nm mor Hd PIE ana a. pi GacIsr. they the
was correct. When Mrs. Helmuth announced
that she herself was very fond OF eating. no one
raises a dissenting voice anyway, except in an
election, their silence, proved nothing. Tho
upon the rest Of the paper N FOOD" but they
accepted It all. correlation OF physical forces.
reciprocal production, cascine, albumcn, hbrine,
stearine, oleinc. heterogeneous food, and all the
Only, at the close of the meeting. Mrs. Raven
hill piaintiyely, remarked that she had dyspep;
STA; that sho had CONT TO tho meeting filed
with q spirit Of hope, a oeatiiic dream Of hear
Ing OF IA sure cure for acute dyspepia, and she
was going away as badly OF as she came.
edy for that tired feeling described in the ques-
day life" -.
"As a nero forgotten OF woes and weariness."
she said. "a strong, healthy curiosity is the best
device in tho world. Find your special magnet
OF interest in this teeming creation around US,
then concentrate upon IL every momcnt OF lei
sure. whether WEAKNESS bind your body or
fatigue assault your nerves."
She gave three examples of such concentra-
ton. The first was a grandmother who de-
voted herself TO producing a collection OF cameo
valid who studied the color OF white SO closely
That she CLASSIFIED twenty shades OF it. The
thlrn MI GFnaiAU har.nlt Enoha "a m apnnin
study OF pollen. which she described strangely
as The soul OF u plant" She made the botani.
cal discovery that.th pollen Of all different va
stance. the pollen OF all varieties OF the rose, Is
Identical la form.
In tho subsequent discussion Mrs. Earle, who
has become famous us an American historian.
vouched for the value of Mrs. Grceley's recon-
inendation; She said that as u schoolgirl she
dotested history, but that She had found in tho
olose study OF 1t All occupation Of marvellous
fascination.
Mrs. Snra Commit latrarn dcvaied her nnnnr