Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-30


An EnIoyabic At Christmas time Is
Christmas Time hcld the posada,
In Old Mexico. sort OF family party
lasting nine days it
commentaries the Journey of Joseph
and Mary to Bethlehem and It's OBJ
scrvunce includes festivities and rchg-
ious services. There ls begging for ad-
mitt0nco ut the door OF friends. enter
inF after repulsion. and the giving OF
gifts. me largest of which Is the pinata,
o sort Of paper doll with lat stomach
stu0ed full OF sweetmcnts When 10
Is hung Ia the patio and the smallest
child In the posada party gives IL
blow which sends down ita contents,
the Northerner thinks he has never at
tended more enjoyable or unique
Chrlstmns. II he b. in Queretaro at
mis- time he may see allegorlcal floats
besides attending the posada, and II no
is IN Vera Cruz tho sailors win sere-
made him.The Travel Magazine
Future OF Banooning as
BallOpning branch OF aeronau-
n SPORT. ties win never be but
a sport--but what n
SPORT The recent contest at st. Louis
has shown the possibility OF lonr-dis-
lance flights which are practically inn
possible abroad for physical reasons.
from Paris was rather an accident and
probably viii never be duplicated with
that city as a starting point. Here In
America we have the probability OF a
1000 mile flight with Denver as a
starting point. Even starting at st.
Louis II is easily possible to make
1900 or 1900 miles. We have heard
universal regret that Major Hersey
did not continue his trip. He had. by
reason OF the direction I'm which he was
going the best chance OF all, but he
apparently threw Il away a worlds
record was almost In his grasp. Erb-
sloh was stopped by the Atlantic ocean.
with plenty OF ballast for many more
miles. The dozen or rs gas balloons
now owned IN this country will before
long be considerably increased I'm num-
Der. Since this race we have heard
many announce their intentions OF pur-
chasing balloons. and ID Is impossible
% state how many more have ideas Of
taking up the sport all over the coun-
try. At no time before have as many
o1rlgible balloons been gathered to-
gether as at st. Louis on oct 28. no
less than five shining silk bags dis
ported In the air over Forest park.
While little improvement has been
made in these In America 81 has not
been for lack OF knowledge but OF in
centive. Struggling against a wind.
out Of eight flights they made the Blair
monument and back five times. The
best time for the quarters OF a
mile was four and a half minutes with
an engine Of only 10-horscpower,-
Christmas Recreation.
Thinks Candy In short, sugar IS. ar
Necessary for ter meat, bread and
Human System. butter, easily our
next most important
and necessary food. You can put the
matter TO a test very easily. Just
leave OF the pie. pudding or other
desserts at your lunch or midday din
ner. Youll be astonlshed 70 find how
quickly you'll feel empty again, ana
how unfinished the meal will seem.
You can't get any working man to
accept dinner pail without pie In e.
And he's absolutely right. The only
thing that can take the place OF sugar
here IS beer or wine. II is a significant
fact that the free-lunch counters run in
connection with bars furnish every
imaginable thing except sweets. Even
the restaurants and lunch grills at
tached to saloons or bars often refuse
TO serve desserts Of any sort They
know their husincss The more sugar
and sweets man takes at a meal, the
less alcohol he wants. Conversely,
nearly every drinking man will tell you
that he has lost his taste for sweets
The more candy a nation consumes
the less alcohol. The United States
government buys pure candy by the
ton and ships IL 20 the Philippines 70
De sold at cost 70 the soldiers IN the
canteens' All men crave Il IN the
tropics ana the more they get OF il,
me less vino and whisky they want
In hne, the prejudice against sugar Is
porn OF puritanism and stiuginess,
equal parts. Whatever children cry
Tor must be bad for them. according
20 the pure doctrine OF original sin; be-
SIDES, IL costs money. know families
IN the rural districts yet where the
9ead OF the family groans over every
dollars worth OF sugar thai comes ~
the mouse as sinful and "unwhola-
panion.
DO Wireless All down the ages
Messages 60 until comparatively
Out Into Space? recent times. man has
failed 20 make prac-
ueally any advance whatever in the
faculty OF pressing the forces OF nat
uIe INTO his service. the earlier cart
or the eighteenth century being al
most on level in that respect with
the exception Of the mariners compass
and OF gunpowder). with the ante
oluyian age. But with the advent
or the ninteenth century the kno,yl-
edge OF these forces. and the mower
70 utilize them. has advanced bv leans
ana bounds; steamships, railways.
teleBraphs, telephones. motors cleo
trlcitv for lighting ,ttrv,csoe 80 -.