New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-28
AIDS TO IMMORTALITY.
,Soyr MiIk and Soul Exercises Rec
commended to City "Fed.'

The New-York City Federation of Womens
Clubs learned yesterday at its convention IN
the Hotel Astor how il might attain to ifnmor-
talitv. DIR. Sarah J. MacNutt recommended sour
milk as a specific for the encroachments of old
age and Mrs Howard MacNutt who happens
to be no connection OF the doctor, suggested eA-
ercises of the soul Dr.. MacNutts theory enla-
mates originally from Paris, where q Famous
savant Professor Metchnikoff by name, chief of
the Pasteur Institute has discovered the long
sought fountain of youth in the unromantic
form of a microbe which causes the souring OF
milk DR.. MacNutt. who thinks life valuable
and even worthy of prolongation after forty e&-
planned the operation of this microbe as follows
You all know, she said that the phagocytes,
or white corpuscles of the blood. are engaged In
a. continual struggle against microbes injurious
to the system Now it is curious fact that
where these phagocytes find this struggle going
against them, when there are more microbes
than they handle, they turn upon and at
tack the body. When the hair turns white. for
instance it is because the phagocytes are de-
vouring the coloring matter. This process is no
different from that which takes place in any
ordinary condition of Ill health The disease of
the arteries which attacks old people is sim
ply an Inflammation.
The irritation which causes this action of the
ton in the body of injurious microbes. and
Professor Metchnikoff's theory is that. by aiding
the phagocytes in their struggle against these
organisms they can be prevented from attacking
the body. He believes that he has discovered
means Of accomplishing this end In sour milk
which contains germ which he regards as an
antfdote to many germs which produce diseases
and death.
Mrs MacNutt took less material view OF
things In her opinion it was not sour milk 1or
which poor humanity was suffering. but 'exer-
cises OF the soul" Mrs. Helena Secor TONES did
not agree with either Of these views.
1--WE have heard" she said. "how we may
secure Immortality by means of sour milk ana
sniritual exercises, but think need ventila-
ton more than either. Women are leaving our
clubs because they don't want to overwork their
lungs What are going to do about it?'
..Open the windows" suggested Miss Mary
"And sit in draft and get consumptiom.t re-
of ventilation that would give us air without
drafts"
from this lofty plane the federated clubs
came down to the lower regions of single tax
and woman suffrage, with MIS- Prisclla "
Hackstan chairman Before ihtrouu 1.ni n I
Republican candidate for Mayor. in when ne
professed his adherence to the principe OF
woman suffrage Mr. WINS stated that he was
a member of the national ana lhteTnalioI a.
woman suffrage organizations, ana DeheVeo III
woman suffrage for various reasons
II think that womanS nina is OF thdt
direct and simple kind" the letter read. that
would drive us a long way and specify on the
road 70 civil service reform. I think that the
participation OF women in politics would be the
beginning OF economies now undreah't OF one
thing a woman knows how to do is to get the
value of her money. II she didn't Know II man
would go by the board.
There is nothing partisan in the readihg or
this letter" explained Mrs. HackstaH. would
have been pleased TO read letters from the other
candidates if they had replied TO my request for
an expression of opinion on this supJect,
| Mrs Hackstaf then introduced MIS-. Harriet
Stanton Batch, who declared that IL women
were going TO stand the OUTSIDE ana pc
content with watching things go the Republic
! would be failure. ,, -,
IF women did not live beyond their haspahas
| incomes" she said "the husbands would not re-
| sort TO stealing If women had hgier iueals
| the would have them"
The meeting closed with the adoption 0. Leso-
| lutions one of which protest TO the MAYOR
| and Controller against the awarding or any coh'
| tract for the disposal OF the citys sau .
under the terms OF the advertisement puoii'heo
| In THE City Record" of August.t
THE Mayor and the Controller and TIE Coiii-