Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-11-01
The Marietta Daily Leader.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1900.
Some Observations,


Some Observations.
Indian summer Is the perfection oil
autumn weather. So far October has
been above the average in its pleasant
weather, yet it should not occasion
surprise. While it is the habit to mar
vel that October does not come with
storm and bluster, the departure from
the normal conditions is not greater
now than in some years when the oth-
er extreme prevailed with cold ana
rain. The old inhabitant Will insist
that Indian summer is not due until
after a squaw winter, which Is quite
similar to the sugar snow OF spring
The suuaw winter comes with a little
bluster two or three inches of snow,
freezing enough to harden the slush
on the surface of the country roadsand
to afford the hunter the first tracking
snow in the woods. After the squaw
winter the Indian summer that comes
is delightful Then the falling leaves
have been broken by the trosts'
Through the clear air the sun Deats
down. Soft hazes begin to dispute
with the sharp clear air of the cooler
weather the right for place The mel
1owness of autumn is manifest in tor-
est field and sky. Wild creatures have
taken on their winter garments. Ihe
crisp nights have invested the hill ana
valley with an universal tonic, ana
men move more lively. In the city,
which is but half way in the Indian
summer zone business is stimulated
In the country corn-huskings, apple
cuts and like affairs attract interest
Pool Indian summer is a handmaiden
of Paradise.
A great many projects to improve
mans eating habits have been pro-
posed, some with much sense, and
some of doubtful propriety. Occasion
ally one hears of a scheme of this class
which is worse than absurd. Such, for
instance, is the proposition of a GER
tain Professor Tyler, of Indianapolis,
that people eat only uncooked food.
Professor Tyler argues in this way:
A gosling becomes a goose in a
year, and lives to be twenty years old,
if it is not slaughtered prematurely.
Man takes twenty years to develop,
and ought, therefore, to live to be four
hundred years old. And if he'd only
eat uncooked food, this apostle OF
progress hints, he probably would!
OF course, this is the worst sort OF
nonsense. Again, the cells OF meat
and vegetable food are killed by cook
ing, and dead cells are deprived of nu-
triton. Well, it is astonishing to see
how many millions have thrived on
baked bread, roast beef, boiled eggs
and fried potatoes for countless gener-
ations. Not only is all this argument
untrue, but there are excellent reasons
why the practice recommended should
not be followed
A certain gentleman prominent in
educational circles recently made the
following remarks concerning hazing
in college life.
"Hazing is gradually and surely dis
appearing from college life, and taking
it all in all, it is perhaps as we'll that
it is. Carried on mildly it wasn't so
bad thing, for it proved mans call
bre and gave his classmates quick
insight into his character that was Of
ten of value to them. On the other
hand, however, men were badly In
iured-sometime for life-and there
have been cases where men have been
so severely hazed that death resulted.
1t has been generally from some injury
to a hazee that the practice has come
to an unglorious end in each college |
In one they chased a man into canal; |
the poor devil, four weeks later, when |
every one thought him dead, was
lOuuu ulllc5 away WI hllso a. q Ltfi III |
hand. So thoroughly frightened had
he been that he had swum the canal
and escaped in the darkness. under the
impression that his life was in danger.
In another college town there was
drain pipe about the size of mans
body, which ran from a street on
higher level to street on lower one.
Through this the hazers tried to make
the hazee climb. He got about half
way and stuck. They couldn't get
him up or down, and finally fed on the
approach of a policeman. The pipe
had to be broken to get the man out,
and so exhausted was he that he came
within an ace of dying. The ban in
that college was at once put on hazing,
1t ended in a Southern college in
curious way. The hazing had been
accomplished, and the en-