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The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
DIET IN HEALTH
The Proper Food IL That Whsen
the system Graves and
Requires.

In health, as a rule, 10 live generous
Nv is to live wisely. dish which in
cludes a variety of fairly digestibie
articles of food supplies a reserve fund
which enables the system to meet emer-
gencies, and to avoid the possibility Of
physiological bankruptcy. Hip
pocrates observes that "a very slender
and restricted diet is dangerous to per-
sons in health, because they bear trans
gressions of il with more difficulty. A
sound digestion seems to possess, with
in certain limits, capacity for adapt
ing itself to circumstances = at any
rate, for the time being. When taxed
beyond endurance, like the whirligig
of time" il works it's reyenges."
Another fallacy is that we should eat
what we do not like; Or, as many I'M
happy children are taught, 1--WE must
eat what is good for us, whether we
like it or not" In other words, we
must disobey the instinct whereby ma
ture protects our idiosyncrasies. Even
Poor Richard, who is generally so SEN
sible-and who is by no means an ascot
ic-enjOins his reader: "Wouldst thou
enjoy a long life, "a healthy body, and a
vigorous mind, and be acquainted also
with the wonderful works of God, labor
in the first place TO bring thy appetite
to reason" las il the physical laws of
life are to be ignored), and bids him
''eat for necessity. not pleasure"
A healthy appetite Graves and digests
the food materials which the system re-
Guires. If we know that in infancy
milk is essential to the human organ
ism, because before the age Of six
months, or whereabouts, the 'physi-
illogical machinery" is not prepared for
the digestion of starchy foods; that in
childhood sugar and starch and fat are
required to supply the elements espe-
cially needed for growth; that in
youth bread and meat in abundance
are necessary to meet the increasing
demands which development imposes
on the constitution; that in matI~e life,
when the brain is most exercised, di-
Eestible phosphate salts are needed TO
repair wasted tissue; that in Old age
less food is required, and bread. as the
nOnOgenarian, Sir Isaac Holden, as
serted, renders the arteries like
furred bOilers"-if we find. in brief,
that every period and condition of life
has certain eXigencies in which reason
must take instinct for her guide-we
should listen to the voice of instinct, re-
alizing that the appetite is subject to a
law of its own" This law does not
involve the fallacy that instinct is not
to be trained or disciplined; it only re-
quires that the function of instinct be
given due recognition. In the words of
Shakespeare we should let good di-
gestion wait on appetite, and health on
both."-Harpef's Bazaar.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The wife of Gen. Z. S. Otis, command
er of the army in the Philippines. is the
daughter of soldier and Gen. Otis laid
siege TO her heart for 20 months before
she capitulated.
A life-size statue of Thomas Hughes,
the author of tom Browns School
Days." is to be erected at Rugby, the
money for the work having been main
ly contributed by old Rugbians. The
artist is Thomas Beck. r. a.
Samuel II. Thompson, of the Missouri
Pacific, is the oldest railroad travelling
passenger agent in the country. He is
G2 years old and has been with the Mis-
souri, Pacific for Sc years. during which
time he has Travelled 1,440,0 900 miles.
Israel Zangwill says he once over
heard some Jews discussing him. Hes
not clever" said one. HE is one of us,
and knows all about us. OF course, he
can write us. But there's Besant. He's
written book about us, and doesn't
know us at all. That's what l call
clever"
Oliver =. Hubbard, of New York, has
celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He
graduated at Yale in 1928 and is the
sole survivor of his class. His wife was
the second daughter of the elder Prof.
Silliman. He filled the chair of chem
istry. mineralogy and geology in Dart
mouth college from 1926 to 1866.
Dinah Mullock Craik, the author of
"John Halifax, Gentleman" is said to
have had the habit of leaving at her
bank the manuscript of each of her
stories as soon as she had finished IL.
She would allow long interval to
elapse, and then she would send for il
20 see how the story affected her. IL
it pleased her, she would send IL off TO
the publishers; and if not, it would be
rewritten or destroyed.
The Paris Gaulois recently published
a symposium of opinion of British au-
thors as to the French writer's most
Characteristic of the genius of France.
Mr.. Meredith votes for Montaigne, Mo-
liere, La Bruyere, Renan and Racine;
Andrew Lang includes Victor Hugo,
Dumas Pere and Balzac; Justin McCar-
thy proclaims Montague. Pascal, Moli-
ere, Noltaire, Rousseau and Hugo; Sir
Charles Dixie mentions the tragedies of
Racine
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
MONKEY LISTENERS.
The Queer Congregation to Which
Preacher Talked
In Irdtn.

In India the people look upon the
monkeys as sacred animals, and will
not drive them away from their houses,
As the monkeys are as plentiful almost
as birds here they sometimes become
a great nuisance. which the people,
however. bear without grumbling.
\ minister, who was preaching a SER
mon one Sunday in village street in
that country, has this to tell about il:
behind the house on the other side
of the street there was a long row of
trees growing in their back yards, the
branches of which stretched out over
the fiat roofs.
Happening TO raise my eyes, saw
many branches of these trees bend
down toward the roofs. and saw the
faces of some old jack monkeys look
ing through the leaves. Soon some of
them jumped down TO see what their
big brothers in the street were doing
as they stood gazing at these white men
standing on the platform. Getting up
on the front edge of the roof, they seat
ed themselves with their feet hanging
over and looked at the preacher as they
saw the people i'm the street doing.
"Other monkeys came, until there
was long row of them seated on the
housetops. The last ones | could see
walking along behind, looking for a
place wide enough to get seat. Not
finding a place between two already
seated monkeys wide enough, they put
up their hands, and, pushing each one
sidewise, would seem to be saying. sit
along u little, please, and give me a
seat until the bench was crowded.
Il noticed that many monkeys had
brought their babies to church with
them. These little baby monkeys sat
upon the lap OF the mother, while her
arm was placed around them lust as
human mothers would do, but the ser
mon was too sober for these little folks,
for saw one of the little monkeys sIvIy
reach his hand around, and, catching
hold of another Baby monkeys tail.
give it a pull. The other little monkey
struck back. But neither mother mon
key liked this play in church. aud each
gave its own baby box on the cars, as
though saying: Sit still, Don't you
know how to behave in church?'
Except a monkey now and then try
ing to catch a flea that was biting him,
they sat quietly until the preacher lin
ished his sermon, and until we had
given tracts TO the people, and, bidding
them a polite good-by, had started for
our tents. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
FRILLS OF FASHION.
Dainty. Tribes which VIII he In De-
mand for Susnmer Cos
tunes.

Fine nainsook embr oideries WITH
medallions of lace introduced here anO
there add pretty variety TO the season =
trimmings. Irish point and Venice
point effects are also prettily repro
duced lin the cotton embroiderics FOR
trimming summer gowns.
Lawn rutfies in white and pale colOrs
can be bought ali hemstitched ready for
use, aud if you want to make your white
lawn gown especially chic scallop al
the ruffies in hand embroidery.
Buttons are a decided feature ol
fashion, but it is the little button this
time in polished or engraved metal, and
~edgwOOd instead ofcrystal.
Nuns yelling, because of its soft
elinging qualities, will be one OF the
most popular materials this season.
Plain tinted organizes will be very
much worn, and something quite novel
is a combination of plain white and vio-
let in one gown. The skirt and sleeves
are of white, and the plaitings at the
bottom and the bodice covered with
crosswise tucks are of the deep violet
organdie.
. Another idea in making up organizes
is the use of one color over another;
black organdie over pink, or white over
heliOtrope, and prettier still is the use
of deeper shade of the same color
for the organdie lining.
Narrow silk fringes with network
headings are used for trimming gowns
and silk bIouses as well.
Line the collar of your fawn-coIorcd
coat with shirred chiffon of the same
colors il it is high one.
Pink, white and pale violet pond lilies
are popular flowers in millinery.
Fawn and dull colOred laces generally
are one of the desirable dress trim
mings. Fawn-cOlored lace on a silk
whist worn with a fawn cloth suit is
the smart thing.-N. Y. Sun.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
They Have become a MeuRce in Can
ada So Rapidly DO They
Increase.

Reports from the woods of Canada
is that the number of wolves is alarm
ingly on the increase. The most COM
mon variety in this country is the great
gray wolf, and its temperance in the
lumber districts of the upper Ottawa
has created great deal of alarm among
the settlers and lumbermen in sparse
L. inhabited districts. A number of
wolves have been destroyed by poison
and the skins and heads of several have
been brought TO the city. The only
common poison found strong enough TO
kill them is strychnine. Aconite, afro
pine and corrosive sublimate have all
proved ineffective. About two grains
of strychnine is mixed with little tai
low, forming a small ball, and covered
with a coating Of grease. This is left
with a portion of a deer's carcass or
something of that kind. Various rea-
sons are given for the present increase
in the number of wolves. One is I'M
doubleday the abolition of the bounty
on their heads, paid some time ago by
the Canadian government.
In the Yukon, where they are Just
now a source of great annoyance TO
miners, the ferocious beasts have been
driven to follow the miners nearer to
their camps than heretofore by the de-
crease in the number of moose and carl
bou, which are being killed off by the
newcomers. thus depriving the wolves
of their customary food. So dangerous
have they become in the Klondike that
the government of Canada is now en-
ploying n part of its northwest mount
ed police force in poisoning them. In
other parts Of the country it is said to
be the abundance of game that is an
swerable for the recent swarms of
wolves in the neighborhood of civiliza-
ton.
The red deer, of which the wolves are
particularly fond, and which fall an
easy prey when overtaken by them,
have multiplied exceedingly all over
the province of Quebec within the last
year or two, so that in many parts of
the country they have become positive
injury to farmers by feeding upon their
crops. This doubtless had much TO do
with the augmentation of their own
numbers. They follow the deer very
frequently right out into the clearings,
and unless they are destroyed will not
take long TO deplete the country of
game. 1t is well-known fact that
much of the suffering and distress of
the Montagnais Indians of Canada in
the interior Of Labrador and of the con-
sequent decrease in their number has
been due TO the great havoc wrought
by wolves among the caribou upon
which they feed.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
A Genius in Prison.

There are a number of geniuses in
Sing Sing, and foremost among them
is John A. Howard, an Englishman.
who. in 1894, was sentenced to a term
of nine years and five months. The dis
covery of this genius was an accident,
and is interesting. Several years ago
there was fire in the prison, and a ma
chine used for picking hair was almost
totally destroyed. The machine was of
complicated design, and was made
abroad at cost OF $500. After the fire
the debris was cast on a scrap heap and
nothing more was thought oft.
One morning Howard asked Col. Sage
if he would like to have the picking ma
chine repaired. lie said that although
not acquainted with the work he felt
sure that he could reconstruct the ma
chine. Permission was given him, and
he set to work. He made all his own
tools, and within several months he had
built new machine at a cost less than
$10O.-N. Y. Times.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
a SENATOR'S MIGHT SHIRTS.
Eugene Field Had No End of e'un
When Tabor Becnme
Wealthy.

"Up TO middle age the late Senator
Tabor's life was one of great hardship"
said former resident of the silver
state, land when he suddenly became
fabulously rich he plunged into lux
uries like a starving man wading into
a banquet. s-fEF rrrrtr
Zone of his early freaks was the pur-
phase of several magnificent lace night
robes which cost 500 apiece. and which
he kept locked up in a safe during the
day. Eugene Field was editor of rhe
Denver Tribune at the time. and those
lace night robes made him simply hys-
terical.
He wrote column upon column about
them, describing the garments in de-
tail, with numerous diagrams depicting
sections lore and aft. The diagrams
were hideous affairs which Field carved
out himself with penknife on the back
of old wood type. He used TO describe
how Tabor would forget the combina-
ton of the safe and sit up, shivering and
naked, half the night, trying to remem-
Der the right figures.
altogether he kept Denver in a roar
for weeks, and made Tabor so wild that
one day he rushed into his office,
snatched the unfortunate night robes
out of their compartment and tore them
TO threads.
when Tabor was appointed to the
senate TO fill an unexpired term of ex-
actly 20 days. Field broke loose again
and had all kinds of fun with the old
10 10 u1rI. 4
the tariff bill on the ground that it en-
couraged lawlessness in the west.
II don't know this tariff BILL he re-
ported the senator as saying in a
speech, but we have entirely too many
of 'em out where live. There's Wild
Bill and Pecos Bill and Billy the Kid
all no good. If you let Tariff Bill have
everything to do with the custom house
he is liable to steal the Atlantic ocean,
"Many of the honest frontier folk
took these flights of fancy seriously and
drove Tabor nearly distracted by long
letters of TemOnstrance, urging him to
read up and get posted, so as not to dis
grace the state.
AT the expiration Of the senator's
brief term he circulated an autograph
album among his fellow members, and
the incident tickled Field immensely.
He gave what purpOrted to be a copy of
the sentiments inscribed in the vol
ume by the different statesmen-such
things as 'when this you see remember
me, Roscoe Conkling,' and sure as the
moss grows round stump you are my
darling sugar lump mean chump-
George f. Hoar,' and similar nonsense,
all of which maddcned his victim.
81 think Field was the only man Ia
Dor never forgave, for in spite Of his
gaunt, forbidding exterior the miner
magnate was as tenderhearted as
girl. One thing is sure-if every fell
low he helped in secret would have
joined his funeral procession the other
day he would have gone to his grave
like an emperor of old."-N. o. Times
Democrat
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
jag" snakes,

The next time you see snakes after a
three days celebration console your
self with the reflection that they are all
in your eye. They are due, says an emf
nent oculist, to the presence, in certain
veins of the eye, of dark, pulsating
blood, as a result of alcoholism, making
them resemble snakes i'm appearance
and motion. Hitherto it has been sup
posed that the snakes" which men re-
ported having seen in their alcoholic de-
lirium were simply creatures of the i'm
agination. Now we are told that these
hallucinations have an actual basis.
Statistics on this subject collected by
the oculist show that 95 per cent. of the
visual Authorizations experienced in de-
liIHum tremens consist of serpents in
enc form or another. The only thing
that interferes with the philosophical
consolation to be derived from this is
thatat this interesting time a man is too
busy to remember it.-Cincinnati En-
QuiIer
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
MICROBES OF MALARIA.
what Passes for The Deadly bacillus
Has just Been Exhibited
London.

Somewhat conflicting notions are
still entertained by those who have in
vestigated the cause of malaria as to
the genuineness of the alleged microbes
which are associated with the disor-
der. The old theory was that a spe-
cific poison, originating in soil full of
decaying matter, would be thrown out
into the air when the earth was dis
turbed by excavation, and from shall
low water into which sewage drained.
This mischievous agent was not for
merly considered a living organism.
But several psychologists think that
they have identified a bacillus which
causes malarial troubles, and two or
three experts have found these forms
OF life in great abundance in mos
quitoes. DIR. Manson and Surgeon
Major Ross, of England, have thus been
led to suggest that the mosquito is
ton of malaria.
Two criticisms have been made of the
microbe theory. 1t is asserted by DIR.
Laurie, of India, that the objects seen
by Ross, Manson and others are not
parasites, but products of a diseased
spleen. Again, it is alleged that ma
laria abounds in parts of Italy where
the mosquito is never seen. The latter
fact merely exculpates the mosquito,
however. 1t does not disprove the ex-
istence of a malarial microhe
Fresh attention is drawn to the mat
ter by series of exhibits at the latest
cOnversazOine of the Royal society in
London. In confederation of their views
DIR. Manson and Surgeon Major Ross
showed a number of specimens of the
parasite under the microscope. The de-
velOpment of the creature was illus
trated by showing it in different parts
of the mosquito successfully. 1t was
thus traced all the way to the insects
poison gland, and thence down his or
her proboscis. 1t is only the female
mosquito, naturalists tell us, that bites.
Surgeon Major Ross is of the opinion
that the mosquito capable of carrying
this contagion is of a. peculiar species,
and that its extinction may be looked
for at no distant date. OF course, this
display at the Royal society's meeting
does not settle the controversy definite
ly. But the circumstance is deserving
of notice-N Y. Tribune
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
WIT AND WISDOM.



The dead party gets the most praise.
Chicago Daily News. ~
No animal in the world has as little
sense as a man when he gets mad
Washington (Ia.) Democrat.
'She's a wonderful woman for bar
gains "How does her husband stand
the expense ?''-Chicago Evening Post.
All the angels are not in Heaven; n
good many are on earth and they may
be picked out by their cheerfulness in
getting up in the night to wait on sick
people.-Atchison Globe.
On the Wrong Tack. - Tommy
GRANDPA, are kings and queens always
good?" Grandpa-"Not always, my
boy; not when there are aces out
against them" Brooklyn Life.
Stage Gossip.-The Clown-'I hear
Lottie Lightfoot is engaged. They say
The mans old enough to be her father"
The Complexities; but he's rich
enough to be her husband. Puck.
Parting Kick.-A horse went pranc-
ing by. Your sun is setting" brayed
the mule in the adjacent barnyard,
but you never hear anyone predicting
a muleless age."-Chicago Tribune.
SchOolmaster-"So, then, the reptile
is creature that does not stand on
feet, and moves along by crawling on
the ground. Can any of you boys name
me such a creature?" Jchnny-'Please,
sir, my baby rothcr."-LOndOn Tit
Bits.
Author - 'You have noticed, of
course, that the suffering of the hero
inc is intended to be terrible in the first
act" Critic (whO has just read the
play)-''Still, it'll be as naught in COM
parison with the suffering of the audi
ence along toward the last act."-Chi-
cago Daily News.
II is often said that no European can
understand Chinese commercial meth
DDS. Here is a curious instance of the
Celestial mental inversion. A Chinese
hotelkeepcr had contracted to board
and lodge a visitor for one dollar a day.
AS time went on he found it impossible
to get his weekly account settled. So
he offered to maintain his guest for half
a dollar week. He said he would lose
leSS-IOndOn Chronicle
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19
Preserving Asparagus,

Peel and cut the asparagus in even
lengths. wash and fit them neatly in
quart jars. Mix together salt and wa
ter, allowing two ounces salt 10 four
quarts cold water; stir till dissolved.
Fill the jars TO overfowing with the
salted water. Close the jars. wrap each
one in cloth. Put either hay. paper or
straw in the bottom of large boiler.
Put in the jars and fiji the Kettle with
cold water; place over the fire 10 heat
gradually and boil 20 minutes. Then
remove the jars, open each one a Sec
ond, close quickly, return them to the
water. bath and boil two hours and a
half. Remove; when cold. see that each
jar is tight, then set them in a cool
place.-Brooklyn Earle.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19

Nenrly all the women who are promi-
nent to-day in literature began to write
original compositions of some kind OF
another as soon as they could hold a
pen. Mrs. Meade has produced over 1OC
works of fiction, and is still a lady in
her prime. Mrs. HOdgson Burnett be-
gan her literary career in earnest at the
early age of Is. Reverses had come to
her family by reason of the cotton fam
inc, and she was anxious to help the
family funds, Edna Lyal1 began to
write stories when she was about nine
years old. She wrote, as she says, 'foI
the joy of writing" and because she
could not resist the craving to. describe
the beloved heroes and heroines who
filled her young imagination.-N. Y.
Journal. fH
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19

According TO the modern arrange
nent of our houses, odors from the
kitchen pass through the drain pipes,
and are noticed even in .he upper halls
of the house. When cooking. the veg
etables should not be permitted to emit
any Odors. Careless cooks, however,
when cooking cabbage, allow il to boil
rapidly, dissolving in water substance
which is thrown off in steam and is
most disagreeable; this odor, passing
upward, scents the whole house. If
cabbage has been cooked carefully in
salted water just below the boiling
point in an uncovered vessel, and
drained outside, instead of in the kitch-
en- sink, no odor whatever will be no
ticed. This rule applies also to onions
and turnips. The water in which these
have been boiled may, when cool, be
poured down the drain outside, and all
odors thereby avoided Ladies' Home
Journal
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-07-19

Keep your children busy at some
wholesome work or play, and this is
more to the young mind than homiIies
on vice, which only tend to direct their
attention constantly to it. BY Occur
plying their time every minute of the
day they will be more thoroughly
helped and cleansed than would be
possible in any other manner. The ma
jOrity of parents do not realize the
Importance of the duty laid upon them
or else they are too lazy or incapable to
attend to it. The first duty of the rich
is to be industrious and to- inculcate
habits of industry i'm their children. If
they are taught to keep constantly busy
in some useful and ennobling employ.
ment, the chances of their evolution
into honorable men and women are a
million times increased. The making
of collections and the hard study of al
most any branch of natural history are
likely 10 interest children. The making
of machines, the intricacies of music,
the management of a printing press,
are all useful in keeping the young
mind occupied in a wholesome, healthy
mauner-N Y Herald p Haa