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The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

1t is the duty Of the state to protect
its citizens-even those condemned 10
pass term Of years In Jail. The dan
ser to the inmates Of prisons, from
pulmonary disease. has only lately
Teen realized. A short time since .
man who had served sentence in
the Ohio penitentiary. declared that
to send him back meant death by
tuberculosis. Inquiry was made. The
head physician announced that the
building was q hotbed OF consump.
ton. A prominent odicial stated that
a ten years sentence was equivalent
to condemning a man to death-by
pulmonary tuberculosis.
DR.. S. A. Knopf. the greatest Ameri-
can authority on tuberculosis. was In
vited to visit the penitentiary. With
out hesitation he pronounced 1t the
most unssnitary penal institution he
Lad ever seen.
The output Of many prisons is
enough TO convince Of the truth Of the
above statements. The sallow com
plexions. weakened bodies. sunken
chests Of the ex-convicts. all are the
stamp Of murderous prison hygiene.
All the rules for combating the great
white plague are reversed. For sun
light. they are given darkness: for
fresh air. = damp, musty atmosphere:
for out-of.door life q weary indoor
grind. a large part spent within the
narrow confines Of single cell.
Is II not enough to take from . fel-
low being his liberty and appropriate
the labor Of his hands. without fore
Ing him to live under such conditions?
Dare the state continue to condemn
eny OF Its citizens to such . death?
Shall the sentence In a public prison
cease At It's legal expiration. or shall
the poor victim continue to suffer
from Its dire effects until be oils .
consumptive's grave?
In this day Of AntiTuberculosis
agitation. Il would seem that public
institutions. whether asylums. schools.
prisons or assembly halls should be
the FIRST TO be brought under proper
sanitary conditions. II Is useless.
hopeless TO educate the masses In re-
gard to the cure and prevention Of
tuberculosis and then maintain At
public expense hotbeds for the de-
velopment Of consumptives to be IN.
ally turned loose in the community.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

Cold water 10 the universal touic.
The best time for taking = cold bath
for tonic effect Is Just after getting
cut OF bed In the morning. when the
body Is warm. A cold bath should
never be taken when one Is chilled.
One not accustomed to cold bathing
should begin carefully With water not
colder than 70 deg. r. The bath should
be short. not TO exceed . minute. and
for feeble persons not more than AZ.
teen or thirty seconds when applied
TO the whole surface. The bath
should be Immediately followed BY
rubbing and exercise for fifteen TO
thirty minutes. There should always
he good reaction: that IL. the whole
surface. including the hands and feet.
should quickly become warm. The
lath should not be followed by Ian.
g,or. headache. lassiiude or other In.
dicatIons Of excessive reaction. When
one experiences such symptoms. the
indication Is that the bath vas too
long or too cold or rot followed by
suhiclent exercise. For feeble. very
young or elderly persons the water
used should rarely be lower than C.
degrees 10 IS degrees In winter. The
bath should be taken In . suitably
warmed room.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13
asc,eea.

Noodles with cssnbssslss. Beat
we'll one erx. or more according 10
the need. incorporating With each .
tablespoonful Of cold water and .
pinch OF ral,. kncad In -four suMcient
to mako sta dough. Roll ~ thin
a. thin pas,cboard. Let Il dry on one
side and then on the other. frequently
turning Il. but Go rot let Il become
dry enough TO crack whea rolled. Roll
Il very compaoiiy: with . very sharp
knife Gu, thin slices from the end
Until all IL used. Let these dry thor.
oushly obey may BE- prepared sew.
erai days before needed and cook 10
boiling saitsd water about twenty
minutes. Drain In . eolandcr. and
give . dash Of cold water 10 prevent
pasi!ness. Reheat. and scrve with
strained cranberry sauce % . dress.
Ing. Any other fruit may BE- used.
Any Of the various forms Of macarosi
may be substituted for the noodles.
Lance Ore1.-Bsat oes esg Into one
cup Of milk. Add salt and . spoonfui
Of sugar. Dip into Il sliees Of stale
bread and brown them nicely On Q
~eil-oiisd pancake sr,ddis. osrvs
while het.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13
For Q Cold.

The daily cold bath is one OF the
most effective safeguards against
taking cold. OF equal importance IL
Abundance Of fresh air In the sleep.
NJ apartment Upon the hrst symp-
toms Of "A cold" deep breathing ex.
ercisss In the open air or In . well
Ventilated room should be taken At
frequent intervals. In nearly all
cases where this simple treatment IL
taken. there will be no further de-
selopmen, OF the cold. and the symp.
toms will disappear. A doctor con.
rected with 4 large institution for
children recently tried this method
Upon the inmates with surprising sue.
cess.
There Is nothing" he writes.
more irritable than . cough. For q
time have been so fully assured Of
this that l determined. for one min
ute at least. TO lessen the number II
coughs heard In . certain ward Of
the hospital Of the Institution. BY
the promise Of rewards and punish.
mcnts. l succeeded In having the ehil.
dren simply bold their breath whea
tempted TO cough. and In . little while
I vas myself surprised to see how
ZONE Of the ehildrea entircly rccov.
cred from the disease.
Let person. when tempted 10
cough. draw . ioas breath. and hold
II until II warns and soothes every
air-cell. and ZONE benefit will sooa
be received from this process. The
nitrogen which 10 thus refined acts
~ an anodyne TO the mucous mem.
branc. ailay!nG the desire to cough.
and giving the throat and iungs Q
chance 10 heal"
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A study Of statistics reveals the ter.
r!ble fact thst nearly one-haif Of oil
the human bsings born inio the world
die before the age of are years. II
the city of stestea. Germany. nearly
oas.half-<13 out OF every thousaad-
die durias the arst year Of their lives.
In ireland. Scotland. Norway and sws.
den. where children are given better
care. have moro outdoor life. and
more Intelligent asteation IL giveu 10
feeding. the number Of deaths ID only
ons.aftisth a. many ~ n the city
Of sts,ten. being ten per eeat.
Physician are coming 70 recognize
that the sse Of cows milk. which 10
infected With the germs os tubercu.
iosis. 10 one d the most active Of
oil the causes Of death aooas yosss
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A college professor has Just been
held up by two cashins girl highway
men." Il vas . novel experience. no
1oubt. hut how much more satisfac.
tory u he could have held up at least
Sae Of the daisiy bandits!
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

Secretary Taft has approved . rec.
omn~aaas!oA made BY Gen. Cha6e~
eos . sew bayoust which IL six inches
toages ihaa the Old weapon. With tho
ssv bayonet II will be possible 10
stiek a. saeay SIX iachss sooner than
sssstososs.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13
A. We Live, W. Ar.

II We look down. then our shoulders
stoop. II our thoughts look down.
then our character bends. Il 10 only
when ne hold our heads Up that our
body becomes erect. II 10 only when
our thoughts 70 up that our life BE-
comes erect.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A0htS. 1uo ulllk suOulu citueT Dc
boiled or well scalded before being
fed to the infant This rule should
be universally observed for adults a.
we'll rs for children. and. II applied,
will save thousands Of lives annually.
A Safety Valve.
In the Ladies' Home Journal .
writer tells Of an interesting visit
which be paid when boy to the
"Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table"
After breakfast DR.. Holmes took the
boy into 4 basement room. which was
fitted up as . complete carpenters
shop. and gave him the following ad.
vice. which he considered would be Of
more value TO him than anything be
had ever written:
You know ! am a doctor. and this
shop is my medicine. ! believe that
every man must have 4 hobby that
IL as different from his regular work
as 1t is possible TO be. 1t is not
good for q man to work all the time
at one thing So this is my hobby.
This is my change. like to putter
away at these things. Every day
try TO come down here for an hous or
so. II rests me because It gives my
mind complete change. For. whether
you believe It or not" he added. with
his inimitable chuckle. Ito make .
poem and to make 4 chair are two
very different things.
Now. II you think you can learn
something from me. learn that. and
remember Il when you are . man.
Don't keep always at your business.
whatever II may be. II makes no
difference how much you like II. The
more you like II. the more dangerous
1t Is. When you grow up. you will
understand what mean by an out.
let Every man must have an out
let'-a hobby-that Is. In his life. and
It must be 80 different from his rsGu.
lar work that II will take his work
into an entirely different direction.
We doctors call II 4 safety valve.
and II Is. would much rather" con.
cluded the poet. you would forget all
that have ever written than that you
should forget what I tell you about
having . sa.ety valve"
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A German court has decided that
Poker should not be ranked among
the gambling games. Perhaps the
Judge had played a game once with
zone American and discovered that
10 hadn't any chance.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13
phys'eIesy In English Public seh..,s.

physIoiosy In English Public eehssis.
Sixteen thousand English physi.
clans have signed . petition request.
Ing Parliament TO inaugurais syste.
matte Instruction In the public
schools Of Great Britain In relation
TO tho preservation os health. especi.
ally In Sclassoa TO the evil effects Of
alcoholic drisks. Il 10 hoped that
this petition wili Be srantsd.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

MEMS hearts. says DIR. Hills. are
6lled with . longing for something
better and hLer." but why call at;en.
ton TO II unless you can suggest 4 way
to get salaries raised?
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

We don't observe any indication IN
the news from Philadelphia that al
those feryen, prayers for the ameiior.
riion Of the mayor have been an
fwered yet.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

tor has refused a position In the con-
sular service Just shows how wise =
man can be and yet fail to achieve
fame.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

The Savannah Press considers the
political situation in Georgia ''prom!s
Ing enough" The politician who will
DOT promise enough" is the rarest
thing on earth.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A New York man Is suing two WON.
en- for wasers which they lost. lie
ought TO have known tina, 4 woman Is
never In earnest when she bets. ex.
cept when sho wins.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

Connecticut Judge has decided that
women cant tell whether a man is
drunk or not. Don't try II on your
wife or this decision VIII be promptly
reversed.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A woman's club up In New Jersey
Is TO discuss the question: Why are
We poor!' Principally for the lack OF
n bank account. many OF US will ar
swer
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

1t Is announced that ball playing is
a cure for insanity. II has always
seemed 10 have the opposite effect
on the spectators.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

An oficiAi report on descr,ious in
t:,e American navy says tina, Of an en-.
listed force Of 5o.o6s men only 1917
per cent deserted. only" 1917 per
cent seems rather large.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

Boston authority says that men
are far more beautiful than women.
Perhaps SO: but they don't look 1t.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

The Atlanta Journal speaks a word
for the red-headed girl. Generally.
she is able to speak for herself.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

There are said to be 100000 mules
IN this country-an estimate which by
no means includes all the nat!ve.born
kickers.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

A young married man has Just
blown himself up with dynamite. Per
haps he was tired Of being blown up
by his wife.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

The work Of cornering the entire
supply OF electricity. visible and inylst-
bic, goes on apace. -a
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

The thing TO do with great wealth
II 10 spiritualize It," we are told.
Trouble in this office is to material.
!Ec II.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

Sir Henry Irving's son is playing
Hamlet In London and winning \
great triumph. Ow's is legs!'
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

DR.. Lyman Abbott adjures us to
hate the sin, but love the sinner.
Not unless the latter is lovely. though.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

King Alfonso has not gone so far.
however. as to give his bachelor din
ner.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

Sir Thomas Upton declines to let
the cup stand pat.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

1t will be noticed that Edward Al.
linson was too wise to say that every
woman could be made to dress GU Sos
year.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

An English visitor who says that
there is no humor in American politics
las been accustomed all his life to
reading Punch.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

After all. It won't do TO make too
much fun of Castro's threatened in
Nasion. Look what the boil weevil
has done.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13

The busiest thing in the world is .
dollar.
The Monte Vista journal., 1905-05-13
0NA-tA-sA-~il~~~
! HOTBEDS OF CONSUMPTION
Penal Institutions In Many States Proved to Re
Breeding Places of Tubsrculosis

children. This should be remem.
bered in the artificial feeding Of In.
fants. The milk should either be
boiled or well scalded before being
fed to the infant. This rule should
be universally observed for adults a.
well rs for children. and. II applied,
Evening star., 1905-11-11

personal popularity with the thousands who
had followed his career as employer ana
city administrator. Now little postum.
nous volume has been issued for general
distribution. comprising the weekly letters
that Mr.. Jones wrote to his employees OF
the Acme Sucker Rod Works-which manu-
factured the device that gave him his for
tune and one of his nicknames. These let
ters were sent forth in duplicate to the
men with their pay envelopes, and dis
cussed all sorts of questions, personal, po-
ltical, ethical and industrial. They were
couched In familiar yein and preached
consistently the goiden-rule doctrine that
Mr.. Jones had adopted as his guiding prin-
ciple OF life. In introducing the letters Mr..
Brand Whitlock, a novelist whose works
have treated interestingly OF political ques-
tions of our own times, sympathetically
portrays Mr.. Jones and describes his Pc
cular methods 1t Is an interesting fact
that since this book was published Mr..
Whitlock was nominated for the office of
mayor of Toledo and last Tuesday was
elected. thus succeeding to the place so long
occupied by Mr.. Jones.
THE MAN FROM RED-kEG. BY Eugene
s :Thwing, author of THE Red Keggers."
Illustrated by Walter H. Everett. New
YoSk: Dodd, Mead Co.
The days were the last days of the big
trees In lower Michigan, the early seven
ties, when the lumbermen had stripped the
land of the pine giants, leaving only rem
nant for the forest fires to scorch. They
were the days of the first salt discoveries,
that brought hope to the denizens who had
begun to despair of the industrial situation.
Red-Keg was small lumber settlement,
near Midland City, bit northwest from
Saginaw, where the saw mills were still busy
cutting up the logs that were fioated down
the Tittebawassee and the Shiawassee. The
social conditions were just emerging from
the crude state Of the frontier. Midland
boasted Of two weekly newspapers. that Is,
boasted of one and complained of the other.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
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VERSAILLES; and the Court Under LOUIS
XIV. BY James Eugene Farmer, M.A
author OF Essays on French Hlstory,
&c. New York: The Century Company
Versailles was evolved into an institution
under the Inspiration of Louis XIV 1t De-
came a city n capital. power. Architec-
tlIrally II has always been an interesting
study. Politically it has been one of the
most important focal points In all French
history Mr.. Farmer has undertaken, with
admirable success, to interpret Versailles
from various points of view, artistically and
socially personally and historically. He de-
scribes the chateaux, the parks, fountains.
galleries. chapels bosquets-all the para
phernalia of a royal establishment on
grand scale. He tells of the daily life of the
court. the pecJllarities of the king and his
mistresses and offspring and courtiers. He
relates instructive anecdotes of the great
gathering of intriguing men and women
within the gates and walls of the court. The
following extract from his vividly interest
ing book, the result of long study and re-
search. epitomizes the story of Versailles:
Thus the Chateau of Versailles, with Its
vast salons. with its countless lodgings for
courtiers. with It's numerous dependencies,
rose and spread itself in the sunshine. With
II rose the town of Versailles and the hotels
of the nobility In the rue des Reservoirs
were the hotels de Richelieu. de Crequi. de
Condo, du Lude and de scissors; In the rue
Evening star., 1905-11-11
81 WITH The BOOKS T

sentence just quoted suggests may be ques-
toned. In any event, If there were no diff
ferences what would be the use Of travel
ing and studying foreign peoples?
By reading of this work 1t Is possible
for those who stay at home to catch some
of the spirit of the French domestic life the
styles Of furnishing the houses, the daily
routine of life, the circumstances of fam
lilies Of different social grades. the educa-
tional methods. religious practices. train
ing of children. shopping and shop-keep-
ing, farming, all the ways and means OF
life. She treats these aspects of French
existence brightly and sympathetically.
with numerous illustrations which add
greatly to the attractiveness OF the work.
THE SA'-ZADA TALES. BY w. A. Fraser.
Illustrated by Arthur Heming. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons Wash
fngton: Woodward & Lothrop.
The heat Of the city had caused the arr
imals in Sa'-Zadas care In the big zoo to
grow fretful and quarrelsome. and to dis
tract them and give them diversion he ar
ranged a series of nightly meetings in front
of the cages of the beasts of the Blood-klnd,
the tigers and leopards and panthers. There
the animals told their experiences. big
HATH, the one-tusked elephant, and Magh'
the ourang-outang, and Mooswa. the moose,
and Safed Chita, the white leopard, and
Zard Chita, the yellow leopard; Bagh, the
tiger and the others. The tales were usu-
ally interrupted by the critical comments OF
the hearers, and 1t sometimes required the
gentle influence of Sa'-Zada and the threat
of Hathrs rebuking trunk to preserve or
der. The creatures told Of their modes OF
life in the Jungle and forest and on the
plain, of how they were captured, and how
they looked on life through bars or from
behind corrals Sa'-Zada wound up the
the series by telling how he was once
hunter Of big game, but became persuaded
of his error and was transformed into a
lover of all animal kind.
There is much interesting instruction
Evening star., 1905-11-11

erty. vice. crime and disease are due to eco
nomfc and Industrial causes. and are trace
able to our institutions rather than to the
depravity of human nature. He holds that
their correction Is to be brought about by
a change of our methods, by development
Of the city as more Independent political
unit. independent of the stateeand OF the
private corporations which profit from the
needs OF the people and are at all points
alert to thwart any expression OF the pop
ular will which threatens to add to the
taxes or diminish the dividends. Thus the
book Is a plea for municipal ownership.
optimistically expressed, buoyan, In its be-
lief that the remedy proposed will cure all
the Ills to which political flesh is heir. 1t
Is at all events an interesting work and
just now with the municipal ownership
doctrines in evidence in Chicago and New
York ii has q direct timeliness.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
BOOKS RECEIVED.

WHITEWASHING JULIA: an Original
Comedy in Three Acts and an Epf-
logue. BY Henry Arthur Jones; New
York: The Macmillan Company. Wash
ington: Brentanos.
SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF
JOHN GODFREY SAKE. Boston:
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
THE JOY THAT NO MAN TAKETH
FROM YOU. By Lillian Whiting au-
thor of The World Beautiful" &c.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
PLUCKY 10. BY Edward s. Ellis. author
of Lucky Ned" &c. illustrated by J.
w Kennedy. Boston: Dana Estes G.
SIDNEY: Her Summer on the ST. Law
renee. BY Anna Chaplin Ray. author
of Teddy: Her Book" &C With il
lustrations from Drawings by Alice
Barber Stephens. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
TOMMY JOYCE AND TOMMY JOY. By
Harriet A. Cheever, author of Little
Mr.. Van vere." &c. Illustrated by Ber-
tina G. Davidson. Boston: Dana Estes
& Co.
Charles G. Blanden. San Francisco: /:
Paul Elder & Co.
THE BRASS BOUND BOX. BY EVELYN
Raymond. author of The Doings of
Nancy" &c. Illustrated by Diantha w.
Horne. Boston: Dana Estes & Co.
MILTON BLAIRLEE AND THE GREEN
MOUNTAIN BOYSs a Story of the New
Hampshire Grants. BY Willard Goss
Davenport, author of "The Isle of the
Lake" &C. New York: The Grafton
Press.
THE HOUSE BIZ THE RIVER. By Flor
ence Warden. author of "The House on
the Marsh" &c. New York: J. S. Ogil-
vie Publishing Company.
SING THE SOUTH, Poems. By Judd Nor
timer Lewis. Houston, Tex: j. ".
Dealy Company.
ORIENTAL STUDIES. BY Lewis Dayton
bandry," &c. oxford, N. Y: The Ir-
wing Company.
THE CZAR,s SPY The Mystery of a
Silent Love- By Chevalier William Le
Queux, author Of The Closed Book :"
&c New York: The Smart Set Pub
fishing Company.
BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY. BY Benjamin
F. Cobb. New York: Thomas Y. Gro
well & Co.
COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY. BY Henry
Gannett, geographer United States
Geological Survey and the Twelfth
Census; Carl L. Garrison. principal
ton, % B. q. ana Edwin s Af J. Houston. .1 An.
Ph.D, (Princeton) emeritus professor
OF physical geography and physics.
Central High School. Philadelphla-
New York: American Beck Company.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

fit Crown" &c. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
The author declares that "this is not a
book with purpose, for it breaches no
dogma 1t is not book with a problem, for
every one lives (or dies) happily and saneIy:
1t is only new way of looking at an old
fact" That old fact is that environment
may be overcome as an influence upon life
and character. by some single action which
asserts the Individuality. Thus, Dick Fax
ons lazy society life. as the husband of the
miner. might have continued indefinitely
and he might have become a bored and
wretched man, but for the sudden folly OF
his WIFE Then again, Dick Faxon might
have brooded over his misfortune-or was 1t
a fortune?-and degenerated into a misan-
thrope, had he not been headed off to the
west to work as camp physician. Be-
tween these two elements he developed to
his true stature, man indeed. and finally
his great reward came. after he had passed
happiness by with eyes temporarily blinded
by the glare Of yellow hair. The hollow
life of the metropolitan smart set Is clev-
erly portrayed and a charming character
Is presented in Emily Blair.
THE CITY, The Hope Of Democracy. By
Frederic C. Howe, Ph.D.. author Of
States Under the Internal Revenue
System" New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: William Bal
lantyne s. Sons.
The author Of this thoughtful treatise be-
Iieves that most Of the literature ON munic-
ipal affairs has dealt with the least Inn
portant phases OF the case, those relating
to the machinery. the personnel, the char
ter. the legal limitations and relations. and
also with tho corruption OF oniciaIs. He
styles 1t "a literature Of forms and func-
tions.', In his volume he aims at q re-
versai Of method and undertakes an eco
nomic interpretation of the city, holding
that the corruption, indifEenence. incompe-
tencc OF the oilicdai and the apathy Of the
citizen, the Disparity Of wealth.. the pow