Evening star., 1898-08-27

Departmental headaches are distinct
nIalady." remarked a well known physician
to IA Star reporter "ard IT is somewhat of
q surprise how many sufferers there are
among department clerks from this trou-
BILE The thing seems to grow among them
and they have their headaches as regular
as they have their work. All kinds of
remedies are used. and while the various
proprietary medicines and ten-minute cures
so-caIIed cure for a while, they seem to
lose their power to relieve after frequent
use. Lack OF ventilation in majority of
cases is probs bly, the cause, but this does
not explain all the cases, for the reason
that in many of the rooms in the depart
uents the ventilation is as perfect it
can be provided by human ingenuity, and
every advantage of the science of Ventlla-
tion is taken. OF course the arrangement
f0r lighting the rooms has considerable to
do with it. The light Should never be ad
mitted 10 desk directly. 1t should come
from the side of the clerk If it is possible
to have it 50. This prevents strain on the
eyes, which in many cases results in head
aches \ simple remedy which is worth
trying is to put a rubber band around the
head just above the ears. The band should
not be tight enough TO stop the circulation
gf the blood. The band known the string
o1nd is generally sufficiently heavy for the
purpose. 1t should be applied just as soon
as il is noticed that the headache is set
ting in and taken of the moment the pain
ceases. In many cases the rubber band
works nicely, though it affords no relief
when the headache is the result of stomach
troubles or biliousness- l find also that
rubber bands twisted about a toe. between
the corn and the foot, is a handy remedy
20 stop the pain from a jumping corn.
CCrns are very liable to ne troublesome
when there is much humidity in the at
mcSphere. The rubber band seems to tenn
pCrarily quiet the nerves in the toe, and
in this way step the pain. AS in the case
Of band around the head the pressure
should not be tight enough to stop the cir
CusatiOn of the blood"
X
The paragraph N The Star of last Sat
urday IN relation to Sam Ward the once
prince of lobbyists. reminded me-" remark
ed railroad conductor to a Star reporter,
''of a popularity in the life of Ward which
is not generally known, and that is that
he could not sleep anywhere except in a
s.eepIng car. He tried beds in all of the
hotels and in many private houses, but he
could not get any sleep without the use of
opietes- The motion of railroad car, how
ever, seemed to supply him with what he
required. and ne always managed to get
his sleep in that way. During the sessions
Of Congress when his profession required
him TO remain in this city, ne always took
a night train for Wilmington, Del where
he caught the train bound for Washing
ton from New York He made the change
in his night clothes. arriving back in this
city about $50 10 : O'Clock the next morn
ing Ordinarily this would be expensive
lodging. for the railroad fare would be ST
and the sleeping car fare 50 additional
Uncle Sam, however, lad an annual pass
on the railroad, and was also dead head
on the Pullman cars, SO his sleep cost him
nothing. During the recesses of Congress,
when he generally resided in New York
he either took train for Wilmington or
Philadelphia and changed back for New
Hork on meeting the train bound for New
York from Washington, or took car from
Albany ON the New York Central, changing
cars so that he would get back to New
York city in time for early breakfast In
this way he travelled hundreds of thou
sands Of miles, for Il long time he could
not get sleep in any other way. The
change Of cars which ordinarily wakes a
person up had the opposite effect upon
him, and made his sleep more sound. Still
his Is tae only case l ever knew of during
a long railroad life of a man having to
sleep on a railroad to get a complete
rest. There are many persons who sleep
better on 2 car than they can on a bed
but they can get a satisfactory sleep in a
house when they try to. This Sam Ward
could not do
Ever since steamboats, have been rum"
explained an official of the supervising in
spector Of steamboats, office in the Treasury
Department to a Star reporter, lit has al
ways been understood that better meals
are prepared and served on ttem than in
hotels. A steamboat cook is lot paid as
much as a hotel cook, though he gets much
more credit for his work Hotel cooks have
been tried time and time again OH steam
boats, but somehow they never appear to
please the patrons of the boats About
the same things are cooked and they are
cooked in about the same way but some
how the meal served on a steamboat seems
TO taste better 1 have rarely ever heard
Of poor cooking a well-established
steamboat line or of poor meals. though
the public have but little idea of the trouble
and expeT sc it takes to get up a fine meal
on a steamboat. which in every instance Is
nearly double what it costs to get up the
same meal on shore. Take the old-fash-
iOned Mississippi river steamers for an il
lustration. or indeed the modern steamboats,
now plying that and other rivers. The
meals that are PREPARED on them are not
eXcelled anywhere in the world-what
makes the steambcat meal go down so well
probably IS the fact that there is plenty of
time in which it can be eaten. There is no
hurry. slap. dash or bang about them. In
nine cases out of ten the meal is paid for
before II Is eaten, the meal ticket being
paid for before entrance can be had to the
dining room. This does away with all ques-
tions Of charge. ETC.. which often arise af-
ter a meal IL eaten in a hotel. 1t can be
taken as a whole, the American steam
boats furnish more satisfactory and even
elegant meal than does the average hotel.
1 do not know why it should be so. but
1 am convinced that the Judgment of the
American people is that 1t is a fact
The government viii in the next couple
Of months brand as condemned. and sell
for want Of further use, a very large num-
Der Of horses and mules" observed 2 horse
trader 10 a Star reporter. and there viii
be considerable money made buying and
holding them. but not as much for the
horse traders as there would be if the
same amount of stock was thrown upon
The market next spring. Thousands and
thousands Of horses have been thrown
upon the market during the the past four
or five years as the fall season opens and
the result has been that they have been
sold a-Eay down as far as price is con-
Cerued- The keep Of horses and mules dur
ing the winter is considerable. and hardly
is in proportion TO the price they bring in
the spring. All the horses and mules
bought by the government since ApriI last
Tor the army in the field and camps have
bad the U. 8 branded on their left shoui-
helr ha