The Jersey City news., 1902-05-31


my dears" he said, but put them not
| dowr ir Ink
! l have no doubt he emphasized his
meaning with a sly and whimsical smile,
| and made clear to those arch coquettes.
| in powder and brocade what Iwould Ike
| to impress on the tailored matinee giris
4 and that is this. The practice of writing
sentimental notes to men should not be
| INDUCED in by gentlewomen under any
| circumstances.
If course, this does not mean that girls
! should cease from burdening the mail
bags OF Uncle Sam with tender messages
10 their accepted lovers. DR.. Franklin may
| have harnessed the lightning. but he.
cou-s rot do as much with the human
heart; and as long as love lasts-and.
please God that shall be until there IS
no more life on this star we call the
| earth-lovefs language viii be written.
! and the gray-clad postman Will continue
| to be envoy extraordinary TO Cupid.
Lovers are seldom fluent enough to put in
speech the things that they would say,
| but the man. dumb with love, is always a
poet when he writes to her And she
/ covers page after page with sweet as
| surances that her could never speak.
| So love letters are among the sweetest
privileges of love; and I believe that they
/ should be written with all the fervor and
madness and extravaganza of the time.
| that in the after years they may be taken
| from their place and united with their
| dried roses among them. and light, with
their yellow leaves. the hearts that have
/ grown weary and cold, and fan into life
a forgotten passion.
I do not believe much In the love that
withho.ds trust. For where one is there
! should be the other. But the mustom now
widespread of sending notes of compH-
ment and admiration to strange men, who
by reason of some whim of fate have
been thrust into public notice, cannot be
abolished too soon for the credit of the
| bonniest, most wholesome and merrtest
creature in the world, the American girl.
1t is said the popular hero or actor
rarely takes sugar in his breakfast coffee
| because the letters heaped beside his plate
| bring a surfeit of sweets. If he is rev in
| the hero line he may be scsrnfu.ly tolerant
over the missives and light his pipe with
them But In the end he will be bored
| and disguised and whether they are
/ opened at ali or not will depend wholly
| on the curiosity of his servant. He does
| not want foolish girls to write to him.
| and he has never fallen in love with any
| one in that way Even his vanity is not
| touched by the letters. For he is aware
| the the murdered waiting sentence in
| Jail is as well remembered and that his
| hands, red with crime. fiutter hysterical
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/ nothing of evile, but fret in their honor
| sheltered homes for the knowledge which
| brings misery, and the experience which
| brings shame. Many are moved by false
| notion of charity which makes them long
| to lift up and encourage the criminal and
| to hold their frail and untried hands be-
| tween him and the law And i believe
their motives, sometimes, are as high as
the plans of the pitying angels. But the
| 1, fr- ioft M
| think So Not knowing that he has a soul,
| he naturally thinks that it is he. the man,
| who calls out this sentiment, and he dies
gloating over his conquests.
Nearly al public men have the annoy
| ance of unsolicited correspondence. Af-
| fairs of moment TO the nation are. doubt
| less. delayed while the Presidents secre-
| tary sends courteous. unmeaning answers
! to questions of similar character and i'm
Dortance. But in all cases without the
much desired signature of the Chief Ex-
| ecutive No one is safe from the admir-
| alton which must express itself in ink.
| Before he was made President of the ma
| tion Mr.. Mckinley received a set of
twenty verses from a girl in Kansas and
| they were all in praise of his flashing
| black eye" He bent two troubled blue
ones over the poem and remarked, smil-
ingly:-
you suppose this is a campaign pro-
| phesy?"
/ He was assured of its innocense; but I
shall always remember how suddenly
serious he became as he said
IF I had daughter l shsuld hate to
have her do things like this" Then he
folded the paper and laid it on the Goals;
but the foolishness of that little girl way
down in Kansas left a cloud on his brow
that all the laughter of the rest could not
| dispel. So all high-minded men must feel
| who receive letters from women If they
| are fathers they think with sharp pang
of dread of the thorns that wait the feet
that they guide in the right way
Comparisons, show that the same nutri-
tive elements exist in both vegetable and
animal foods, and that they are within
certain limits interchangeable.
Both are divided into two subdivisions
! or classes-the nitrogenous and the nom
nitrogenous, or flesh formers and heat
| givers: the former being greatly in ex-
| cess The nitrogenous embraces all seeds
and vegetable tissues; while the starch
and sugar in vegetables are what fat is
| in the animal-the especial representa-
| tives of the non-ntrogenous.
/ Hence. seeds in vegetables represent
| flesh in animal foods and the starehes and
| sugars take the pace of fats; for the
| seeds W0en ulgeSteu Will produce HeSH.
/ and by the same law of nature. the
| starch, when transferred in the body. may
produce fat. Every other element re-
| quired for nutrition. whether mineral or
| organic, may be obtained from the vege-
| table kingdom--the salts of potash. soda,
| lime, magnesia, iron. marganese; sub
/ stances corresponding to fibr.n, albumen
,and gelatin gum, pectin and sugar; phos-
| phoric. acetic. su,phuric and hydro
\ fae. nor nil Is
peculiar to vegetables.
| The question is whether these same ele-
| naents in their different form in the vege-
tables will Sufficiently sustain life In the
same manner as those obtained from the
animal foods, and whether there Is any
| practical difference between them for the
purpose of nutrition. Some argue in favor
1 of the meat because it presents elements
| OF nutrition in a form more concentrated.
| so that less bulk Is required to be eaten to
get the same amount of nufritive value;
/ that meat ia more easily 6igested and
| the cooking does not play such an. import
ant part in its digestibilty as with yege-
| table foods Also that a diet OF meat
| leaves less waste In the system
| The comparison between these two
c,asses of foods may be stated generally
vegetable foods must be eaten in larger
| volume and must be better cooked than
| animal food. and they require a longer
time for digestion, and although the vital
action may be well sustained by both
| kinds of food, the vegetable excites the
vi+al nranesss more slowly and to a less