The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-24

, | kept butlI ihb OAhOVo WV i'D'
their best lands.
Better be an iee-eream dude than
whlskey sponge or aelgareftee fiend
built Is not necessary TO be either.
Mrs. Dunham Of Southington, Conn,
has passed one hundred years and is in
the cheerful enjoyment Of good health.
About once in 25 years che has had
doctor, and her recipe for health and old
age Is quite simple. She goes TO bed
early and eats ~ much plain wholesome
food as ia needed to keep her going.
She spends most Of her waking time out
Of doors tending her garden, growing
vegetables and flowers. The life in'
surance tables compiled for a hundred
years determine that gardening is the
most healthful employment. BY this is
meant real work in contact with the
soil, not hiring some man to do 1t. 1t
keeps one In the open air and keeps the
blood in circulation, while the care and
contemplation OF growing plants, fruits
and flowers is favorable to that mental
peace and spiritual equilibricm, that is
the first requisite OF real health. II is
easy to imagine that mans first perfect
state was when he planted garden. A
woman's temptation and fall was when
she abandoned the innocent PLEASURE OF
tilling the soil and got man to do the
same thing. II both men and women
would 20 back to gardening now they
would take the one step necessary to re-
store paradise on earth. An hour or
two OF work In the open air each day in
actual contact with mother earth would
solve the health problem for sost people.
Religion Is something 10 be lived and
done every day. not merely banner
10 hang out on Sunday TO deceive the
community.
The chicle habit Is disfguring the
natural beauty Of the American race and
robbing II OF much Of it's character. The
American people are naturally lean and
spare, inclined 10 beanpole, especially
the females, and the mon are not given
TO embonpoint. We are too nervous and
exciteable people. and the chewing
gum habit formed early in life destroys
the perfect conditions Of assimilation 80
that the future generations will run to
splinters more than the present. The
toothpick and tack.hammer style OF
beauty in our men and women Is being
rapidly accentuated by the chicling Gus
tom that is now extended 10 old age and
even 10 children OF four and younger
In travelling recently the writer met
lady who had "chewn" two barrels o
gum travelling from Chicago to Port
land. They were not pork barrels but
small barrels made by The American
Chicle Co., to hold one Of its popular
brands Of chewing gum which, when the
person becomes fully addicted to ii,
never leaves the jaws idle a moment,
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night and II there 10 not much going on
several quids are used up before retir.
ing. Like the OK OF the field, she
cheweth all day and revolveth her oud
pretty much all night. One thing
chicllng will lead TO, the abolishment oI
great deal OF kissing. Ladies' who used
TO greet all their friends with kiss nov
steer clear of a confirmed chicler
Young ladies with a well-develope,
} chicle face are not very tempting OBJ
} ject TO man who looks upoI
, woman from the osculatorv stand
point. That may be one good thin
about the national habit Of chew
ing gum. IL may reduce kissing
d 10 an absolute necessity. something
to be done only when going upon yer!
long voyage or ON the occasion OF assum
ing the marriage relation, where custom
or law really requires a man L
kiss a woman. Even then the ehicle
n will confer favor ON man of refine
feelings by turning the cheek. One G
the sarmarks Of victim OF the gur
n habit, is two knotty protuberance
II raised at the hinge OF the lower ja'
!, from the excessive development of tn
~ maxillary muscle. IL stands out o
each aide OF a woman's face like kno
y on a olothesline. Next, long oontiny
N anee in the vicious habit gives the jaw
se well-dehned outline so that the eye
IA the close observer can follow il from th
=. point of the chin mp to the temple. Th
softer lines OF beauty In gum ohewin
woman's face altogether disappear, giV
o ing place 10 premature expression
p age, experience and disappointment
"a The bloom or blush on the surface
-, the ,naiden's cheek is wiped out 10y Ill
= ohicling, like dry grass before prair
70 fire. The male ohewer gets the chic
l. mouth about one OF the tirst of his aC
II qulsitions, This is produced by az e
"a fort OF nature 10 reduce the enlarge
ment OF the oriace Of speech by kiu
OF pueker. But nature soon gives
up, aud then Il is only a question {
a time how large a mouth he shall hav,
y The question with most young peop
n should be. 10 ehicle or not to chiel,
II you must chew kiss Me or BlaC
Jack aud 80 about with your breai
y smelling like crossroads apotheoai