The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-03

GrocerS who expose food to air breath
&c upon by patrons or to the atmosphere
and dust of the busy streets will be ar
tested with those who sell stale or adul-
terated produce. Liquid air refrigeratorS
Will keep great quantities of food fresh
for long intervals. There will not be as
mu1h dust.
The danger to health of massing mil
lions of people in cities will be overcome
by scientific appliances and discoveries.
Cities of the old world have been de-
populated by epidemicS which would not
be allowed to run their course today.
and epidemics will be great enough to
stamp them out upon appearance.
Philology will by 1000 change the alpha
bet and omit C Y and 9. They will be
abandone ed because unnecessary. Spelling
by sound will have been adopted, first
by the newspapers. English will be a
language of condensed words expressing
condensed ideas, and will be more ex-
tensively spoken than any other. The
Russian tongue will rank second.
In color photography science will find
grand ally in medicine, geology and
all branches of agriculture, botany, for
estry, etc. In art it will exert Il more
rCtent influence STILL enabling the Test
masters of the world to be reproduced
with Infinite exactness and installed IN
every household. When color photog-
raphy is combined with motion pictures
the results are bound to be of profound
educational value.
A hundred years from now roses will
be as large as the caulilower of the pres
ent. Eiolets will grow to the size of or
chids. A pansy will be as large IN diam
eter as a sunfioWer. A century ago the
panSy meaSur ed but half an inch dcrosS
its face. There will be black, blue and
green roses 1t Will be possible to grow
any flower in any color and to transfer
the perfume of a scented flower to an
other which is odorleSS.
Pneumatic tubes, instead Of wagons,
will deliver packages and bundles These
tubes will collect, deliver and transport
mail over certain distances, perhaps for
hundreds of miles. They will at first
connect with the private houses of the
wealthy; then with all homes Great
business establishments will extend them
= to stations, similar to our branch post
offices of today, whence fast automobile
vehicles will distribute purchases from
house to house.
Insect screens will probably be unnoc-
essary a century hence, as mosquitoes,
been largely eXterminated. They will
not be needed for bird food, because Of
the disappearance of birds Boards OF
health will have destroyed all mosquito
stagnant pools. filled in all swamp lands
ana chemically treated all still water
streams. The determination of the horse
and its stable will reduce the house fly.
The rapid means of communication
viii permit the landowner and the coun-
try manufacturer to dwell in the city
the greater part Of the year and still
look after their business interests at a
distance. And what marvels of cheap
ness ana convenience those cities of the
future will be. Municipal ownership of
all enterprises which c0nduce 10 publ
convenience, the railways, boats, teIe-
graph, heating and lighting plants, of
libraries and perhaps of amusements
will reduce the cost of city life, whieh
now appalls the economical visitor,
to a merely nominal sum.