The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-13
nOPEN DOOR" HAS
AGAIN MADE HIT

| The n. Y sun says of the open
Door" the publication printed aboard
the L. s. s. Kentucky:
The jackies of the United States bat
tleship Kentucky have issued a hand
some souvenir edition of the Open Door,
the newspaper which they published
aboard ship during their recent long
homeward bound voyage from the Phil
ippines. The leading paragraph tells
of the visit to the ship by Victor EN-
manuel. the King of Italy, when the
Kentucky touched at Naples.
All the editors of the Open Door and
all their readers on the Kentucky are
evidently nero worshippers. and Admir-
al Bob Evans is one of their heroes
The paper Itself is dedicated to him and
there is a long account of the organic
alton of a new garrison, aboard this
battleship, of the Regular Army and
Navy Union of the United States. The
new branch was named the Rear .Ad-
uiraI RobIey D. Evans Garrison.
Since the Kentucky was made the
AdmiFaFs flagship she has Travelled for
ty-two thousand miles and visited ev-
cry port on the Asiatic station.
The biggest journalistic feat of the
Open Door editors was their baseball
extra which told Of the winning of the
Asiatfc fleet championship by the Ken
tucky's nine on the day they defeated
the team from the Wisconsin The pa
per on that day was all set up in ad-
vance with the headline Kentucky
Wins put in as foregone conclusion.
There was nothing to do at the close of
the game but print the score, which
was wigwagged by special cores
pondent on shore, and then rush the
extra out on deck.
The ships joker gets a lot of space in
the souvenir edition He gives this
method as the quickest way of getting
into a hospital: Just tell a man on
the Kentucy that the Kearsarge is the
better ship
What is neutrality" asks the joker
and then replies: 1T is concealing your
desire to see the little fellow win
The Open Door finds many points of
similarity between men and old shoes:
When shoes wear out they are mend
ed; when humans wear out they are
men dead too"
The first thing that the crew of the
Kentucky did after reaching the home
port was to raise $500 for the families of
the men killed in the explosion on the
battleship Missouri. That fact is mod
estIy stated in the Open Door.
exercise. During the five days Of these
exercises Mr.. Fletcher ate twelve
ounces of food each day. It consisted
of maple sugar, cereal, and hot milk
The men training for the university
crew, who were taking the same ex-
ercises. were eating three large meals
a day Mr.. Fletcher's waste matter
analysed at Yale showed that the body
was being thoroughly nourished, and
the work he accomplished showed It. |
He lost no bodily weight. He slept five |
hours every night.
In December 1902. Mr. Fletcher !
climbed the 854 steps Of the Washing !
ton Monument in Washington. and |
then ran down without resting. In |
A Arlington. Massachusetts. last Novem- |
Der. he skated for three hours. He had /
not skated FOR thirty-f1ve years Hell
felt 10 soreness after IL In 1900, IN |
France and Germany. he rode $50 miles |
on a bicycle In ten days His daily /
1iet on this ride was rolls, milk, cream, |
potatoes and beans
Mr FIetcher's experiments with /
food have proved these things for him:
/ He can live on one-third the a
mount Of food usually eaten and be
healthy and vigorous.
? Only five hours sleep are neces-
sary
3. When food is thoroughly chewed
he waste Of digestion Is reduced nine
.enths-
4. The appetite indicates the needs
# the body and wants simple food.
5. Since an important part Of d.
,estion is done in the mouth, thorough
.hewing is necessary