Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-29
WHAT WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT.

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Tent Life for consumptives is late
medical fad, says the Boston Evening
Transcript. Az soon as proper locations
can be selected there will be pitched near
Boston the first OF a number of camps
FOR consumptiyes. This camp (and each
succeeding camp will be like it) will con-
sist of ten piano box tents, arranged IN
N circle with an open-air flre in the cen
ter. and surrounded by duck wall eight
feet high. Each of these tents will be
Consumptive's home; a consumptiVe VIII
sleep there, even thru the coolest wealth
Ell, with no other protection than plenty
of felt blankets. felt sleeping boots ana
"a two-gallon jug of hot water. The peo-
PIE who live there will wear one heavy
suit night and day. They will each OF
them take one quick, soapless bath
week, and will eat three good hearty
meals, day. with coffee in the morning
and hot chocolate any time of the day or
night. Their bill of fare will include
milk, eggs, vegetables. bread and butter
and meat-chiefy beef, mutton or pork,
broiled on spits before the fire or roasted
In the embers or boiled down into soup
This open life is expected to cure them
of their disease The method is the re-
suit of experiments mace last winter in
o tent on Huntington avenue by gel
enlist whose name has not yet been d.
vuged. This gentleman pitched his tent
during the coolest part of q January
which was more than usually cold, and
STAYED in there until the early spring.
sengrossed in his experiments. but finally
seeing patients and announcing that he
wanted as many consumptives as posi-
Bile to prove the truth of his theories.
1.-The life there he said, quickly for
titles a mans bodily powers; it envo-
lutes. then evolutes. man back toward
ancestral or wild life. The skin, nails
and hair tougher and thicken; pulmon-
airy catarrh stops: hemorrhages cease;
a civilized man loses his constituencies;
his emotions change. He becomes In
sensitive and fearless. All his energy
goes to nutrition; his intellectual CEN
tiers are dormant. All his powers are
concentrated in building and repair. He
falls asleep at twilight and wakes at
dawn ready to eat. Incidental disaster
affects him little: he changes from
hot-house plant to an oak. The fear
and panic customary to a crowd of con-
sumptives no longer affects him and
thus the greatest danger of hospitalism
is avoided"
The camps are merely for the purpose
of scientific investigation, and If pa
tient can not afford the expenses he will
be taken free. The camps will all b.
near the city, where physicians are
within call.
General Kitchener is reported to be
FESTIVE" under the restraints imposed
upon him by the government, which
does not fully sanction the harshness of
his policy in dealing with the South At
rican situation. reported at late as Sat
urday to be almost desperate" Why
the British have not been able to keep
up with the rowing Boer commanders Is
perhaps explained by the following or
der recently issued by General kitch-
cner. The commander-fn-chief has
learned that mobile commands carry
With them furniture, kitchen ranges,
PIANOS, and harmonious, which nuliify
mobility. These. objects must therefore
be handed owed to the nearest stores. II
isn't strange that the man with the
man with the kitchen range and pan!
mas been unable to come up with the
man whose impedimenta consists of a
rife. cartridge-belt, and saddle bags.
The Buffalo Speech of Mckinley bids
fair to be a political text book. writer
in the Chicago News remarks that it is
not easy to reconcile these views with
those of William Mckinley, who as a
q few years ago advocat-
ed tariffs regardless of their restraining |
effect on trade and boldly declared thatl
the United States as a aelf-sutficienti
and self-sustaining power had no need
TO seek foreign trade. The president's|
change of view, however. shows that he
has followed the trend of events intellf-
gently, and 1t is in following opportuni-
ties rather than in promising or Great
ing them that Mr.. Mckinley is strong
est. He has learned that as nation we
can not maintain high-tariff barriers If |
we would hold commanding position
in the worlds markets The policy he
now advocates he styles reciprocity"
but the principle which it proposes to
apply calls for a broader name. Appar-
entity it looks to a revenue tariff with
liberal but incidental protective fea-
lures rather than to a consistent protec-
tive system modified only in special in
stances. to secure better basis for
trade operations. Mr.. Mckinley has,
eutlivee and outgrown the Mckinley
ISM of his more callow statesmanship.
That is a most hopeful sign of further
progress and of enduring greatness for
the nation which has also outgrown the
protective system 80 long advocated by
Mr.. Mckinley.
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A Fiendish Attack.
An attack was lately made OIL c. F.
Collier. OF Cherokee. Iowa. that nearly
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