The Washington times., 1906-04-15
CONSUMP TON FROM
WORK IN LAUNDRY
Remarkable State of Affairs
Discovered by Scientist.
q NAP0LE0NIC DINNER
This to Be Feature of Cookery Exhi-
bition to Be Given Soon
in Paris.
q NAPoLEoNIC DINNER

PARIS, April IA report read before
the last meeting of the Academic de
Medicine has startled the public by re-
vealing the prevalence of consumption
among men and women engaged in
laundry work
IL is calculated that a strong. healthy
girl will succumb to tuberculosis at the
end of fifteen years. while the average
period for men is from eighteen to
twenty years.
The Academians voted the necessity of
making the declaration of tuberculosis
obligatory. and forcing persons so af-
ficted to inclose their washing in spe-
cial bags which would be disinfected
before the wash was taken out TO un-
dergo the regulation process Of launder-
ing.
Napoleonic Dinner.
Napoleonic dinner is TO be a fea-
ture of the cookery exhibition which will
be opened here next week. The dinner
will be an exact reproduction OF the din
ner served up a hundred years ago. day
for day. to the Emperor Napoleon I by
the cook Carame. who was employed by
Prince TalIeyrand.
Twenty-six persons will be served on
the kitchen table. which was used by
the celebrated cook, and the meal Will De
prepared in the identical pots and pans
In which the dinner 10 the French En-
perOr was cooked.
Robespierre Brickmakers.
NJ Feguet. of the French Academy. in
studying directories to see what occupa-
tions are now followed by bearers of the
most notable names in French history.
has found the terrible name OF Robes
pierre borne by a peaceful firm Of brick
makers. The Racine whom he discov-
cred is furrier.
At Paris there is a tailor named Mo
Here, a dyer named Musset and a dem
tist named Hugo.
At Lyons he lighted upon a Voltalre.
a bookbinder. a Barras who is a butcher.
a Cligny who keeps a cafe, a Marat who
Is draper, and a Richelieu who IS a
news agent, while at Nancy an Alphonse
Karr keeps bakery.
The saddest case of all Is that Of a
Mozart. the last surviving member of
the musicians family. He draws lager
beer in the railway station at Augsburg
Yellow Glasses Beneficial.
DR.. Motais. Of Anglers, has made
communication to the Academy OF Med
icine. setting forth the result of his ex-
perimentS with yellow light for weak
eyes DR.. Motais has obtained marvel
Gus results with yellow glasses. and his
experiments have been carried over a
period Of fifteen years.
He declared that the yellow tint i'm
parted to objects seen through saffron
tinted glasses Is most restful and
strengthening.
No More Army Drums.
The discontinuance of drums in the
French army has been definitely decided
upon The new short-service scheme Is
chiefly responsible for their abolition.
Drummers, IL seems, are MADE. not
ooTYl.
The time required to make a proficient
drummer is about a year and a half.
The consequent result is that no sooner
does the drummer become an adept in
beating a stirring roll than he has 10
prepare to return to civil life again.
The doom of the drum on sentimental
grounds is regretted by all classes of the
French, but the modern utiIitarians OF
France declare the drum 70 be as much
out OF place as would be the twenty
four violinists who went into action !
bowing and scraping when the great
Copde fought az IArida