The Jersey City news., 1901-05-04

I alities, because conventionality reigns as
supreme at the summer hotel as it does
| in the city drawing room. There is all
the slavery of dress and none of its free
dom. There is a bigness, a free
| dom, an honesty, a sincerity in the life
of the farm and its folks which thou
sands of us know nothing about The
sanest, the highest lives are led by these
! people, and yet in our narrow horizon we
think their lives are contracted. The fact
is. that we are narrow: not they. 1t IS
! their lives that are real: not ours.
1t is the essence of the lives that are
lived in the country that we need 50
much in our lives: the essence of SIM
plicity, of sincerity, of freedom from
things which are external and not worth
while We cannot of course, live in the
city and live as do country folk What
! we can do, however, is to go to the coun-
! try in the summertime and live with them
! and extract some of the wholesome les
J sons of simple living which their lives can
teach us. The love of nature is imprint
! ed in all of US to a more or less degree:
the crime to ourselves is that we give it
SO little chance of development or ex-
preston And the crime is doubled when
we withhold the expressions of Natures
workings in our children"
The use of sweets is one of the most
prevalent and most pernicious customs of
the day, says Health Culture" The
habit of using sweets is usually contracted
in early life. The child before it can walk
is frequently a victim of the candy habit;
and this love of sweets usually lasts
through life. Although it contains food
elements, ordinary cane sugar is not ac-
tually a food; but for all practical pur-
poses may be regarded as a condiment.
1t is injurious in many ways. In the first
place it acts to retard digestion through
neutralizing the action of certain of the
digestive fluids. A cereal taken unsweet-
ened is converted by the ptyalin of the
saliva into digestible product, dextrine.
But when sugar is taken with the cereal
the ptyalin cannot act upon the starch,
which enters the stomach unchanged. So
a cereal with cream, or fruit juice I'M
sweetened, is readily digested, where the
same with sugar, at once ferments in
the stomach. The same is true of fruit,
which should never be eaten with sugar.
Strawberries. for instance. which by
themselves, are an ideal article of diet,
become an indigestible mess when mixed
with cream and sugar.
Another injurious result from the use
of sugar is that through its appeal to the
palate, it induces overeating. Surely,
after oysters, soup, fish, roast, game,
salad, with several vegetables, the appe-
tite is glutted, and the digestive system
sufficiently taxed. But just at this point
the ice cream, the pudding, the candied
fruits and confectionery are brought on.
The appeal to the palate is irresistible.
The foolish diner, tempted by fiavors,
takes into his already overloaded system
quantity of sweet matter which, in ad-
dition to those resulting from the chemi-
cal combination of the matters already
taken, must be promptly eliminated by
the depurating organs, skin, lungs, bowels
and kidneys. Unless carried off by the
depurating organs these poisonous mat
tiers are retained in the system, setting
up disease in many forms.
There is no end to the comments which
have been written about the dangers of
wearing celluloid combs. Cases have been
cited where women have had all their
hair burned off their poor heads, and
been forced to resort to the perruquier in
consequence of the sudden igniting and
flare up of the celluloid, sol disant steel,
combs and pins. In one or two instances
death has followed the agonizing acct
dent.
Now if there is so much to be feared
and dreaded in connection with these
small fragments which tend to complete
a coquettish woman's toilette, what abouc
whole gowns of jet paillettes, which are
made of even more inflammable mater
ial than the combs? Conceive a spark
or piece of lighted red hot tobacco tum-
bling upon one of these thickly pailletted
dresses from the cigarette which is now
the custom even out of smart novels to
indulge in, either before or after dinner,
as the case may be- What would be the
result? Why an instantaneous blaze,
like the lighting of a trail of gunpowder,
minus the explosion. There seems to me
to be more danger in a single jet gown
than million and one little celluloid
combs. But what is to be done? The
adornment is so becoming that until
something equally beautiful is produced
and vouchsafed fireproof women will go
ON wearing it even at the risk of being
scored and burned by cinders.
Z Paradoxical as it may seem, quart
of skim milk is more valuable as food
than a quart of whole milk. Cream is
pure fat, and is not a muscle, bone, or
flesh builder-it is simply heat producer;
the skim milk contains all the protein,
the really valuable part of the milk. If,
therefore, the cream, which is one-sixth
of the whole milk, is taken out and re-
placed by one-sixth of quart of skim
milk, there is more protein to the quart
of skim milk than to the whole milk.
Professor w. o. Atwater, one of the high
est authorities on food products. and the
United States Government expert, states
that the sale of skim milk sholld be en-
couraged, or at least permitted. OF
course, it should be sold for what it is.
A cheap and wholesome food product is
found in it, one, it may be added, that is
sometimes more digestible than the whole
milk, as cream disagrees with many per-
sons.
Tea is an article that loses much of its
strength and fragrance by exposure to the
air. Packers in the Orient fully under
stand this fact and therefore send their
tea to the American and European mar
kets in lead-lined chests, holding about
sixty pounds each.