Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-03
Cleaning S.

According to Mrs. Condo Hamlin,
daughter of Ex-Governor Austin Of
Minnesota, ST. Paul is undergoing d
genuine civic renaScence, started, APP
parently through the initiative of DR..
Ohage, the Health Commissioner. A
few years ago, when he stepped into
The office he discovered within eight
minutes of the City Hall an island in
the Mississippi which was inundated
at high water and was covered with u
dense underground. This he quietly
acquired, and made it the city dump
for rubbish. This raised it above high
water mark. making it SO valuable that
Il rich brewer offered a large price for
it. But Dr. Ohage had a different flu
ture in view for his recovered island.
He transferred it to the city, with the
proviso that il should always 1e.liain
under the control of the Health De-
partment, and upon it he has estab-
lished park, two gymnasiums, d play
ground for the children, public baths, a
steriliZing plant for the bathing suits.
IL small ZOO" and little vegetable
garden Ter the forty assistants. And
the island is only little over four and
Il half acres in extent
The home rest cure is advocated by
an English magazine writer in prefer
ence to the sanatOrium rest cure, in
stead of dragging ones self around I'M
til one drops and then is packed off to
the cure for months, she urges one to
take two days of rest every fortnight
or so by staying in bed, doing and
reading light literature. She recon-
mends seeing no one of the household
except the one necessary servant. In
fact, the writer pleads an almost alb
solute separation from the outside
world for a few days. This plan might
he carried out in a big country house,
but it would be next to impossible in Il
New York apartment or the average
city house.
A writer in 1.-THE Ladies' Field"
states vigorously that she is not a be-
lever in respect due to age" why
respect should be considered the sole
prerogative of age is thing ! have
never been able to understand. When
people have displayed consistent fool
ishness or vacuity throughout their
youth and middle age. why should a
younger and perhaps wiser generation
be expected to look up to them with
reverence simply because seventy years
have passed over their heads? Re-
spect, surely, should be a question Of
character and not of age"
| The advantages of the beanbag as an
eXerciser for children are sung by a
physician ip one of the magazines. He
suggests tina the nurse or mother play
with the child or children. SO that the
no fo nd
energy, the number of losses to be in
creased from day to day and week to
week. To begin with, both hands may
be used. then one at a time, but the left
hand and arm should have the same
amount to do as the right. A small
medicine ball may follow after pro-
ficiency has been attained with the
beanbag.
1t has remained for the white ribbon
ers of Nebraska to coin a new name for
punch. Punch they thought had too
hilarious and bibulous a sound for
beverages which had not suspicion of
spurious liquors about them. Punch
bowls, too, came in for the condem-
nation of the temperance reformers.
To read in the columns of the daily
paper that Mr.. So and-So, fifth vice.
president of the local Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union had presided
over the punchbowl at the social meet
ing of the What-Not Club, the day be-
fore, struck them as scandal, and
manifestly indecent. So they opened a
competition for a new name, and final
ly selected from the many suggestions
the name "Fruice." Women's temper
ance societies all over the country are
adopting it, and it is said that several
instances have been reported where
women's clubs have done the same.
Exit punch, enter "Fruice."