New-York tribune., 1907-06-21

The onion is the latest panacea for human Ills
journal devoted hygienic matters declares that
people would be very much joer If they only would
eat onions. and much evidence is brought forward
10 support the contention Juan Is and chlldIKe,
Giovanni sings laughs and dles his sunny days
away. In former days the English ploughman ate
his bread and onions and was contented with his
lot. in marked contrast 10 the dissatisfaction OF
his present state. The trouble with the onion eat
ing habit IS that it would have 10 be universally
adopted otherwise the onion eaters would be osra,
ciZsd by the rest Of the world. and that would
scarcely promote cheerfulness.
Ii is seriously proposed in Germany TO institute
kind of female conscriptlon by compelling all young
women certain age TO serve year as mill
tary This kind OF military CONSUMPTION
might be defended grounds that could not be
adduced in favor Of the ordinary variety These
female soldiers would never be destroyers. and
would be useful in time Of peace as on the
battlefield.
The eternal antagonism between the bond
an and the free woman is at the bottom of the
servant problem says a woman who has suffered
much at the hands OF her domestcs The mutual
hatred with which mistress ana maid regard each
other is as great to-day when the slaves are paid
and INDUCED in every way, when they were
chained their tasks. They work upon COM
pulsion, just they did IN the past though It is
a different kind and they won't do work for
| any longer than they have TO. In few years
such of US are not nlillionaires will either be
obliged to do own cooking or die Of starvation"
The modern mania for hustling appears to have
reached England, and OF the English papers
grumbling about IL. AN American importation
which ought to have been subjected 20 prohibitive
on English railways are being requested now to
ENTER and alight from trains quickly and
newspaper correspondent, least does net like the
| request Il was under the impression he writes
that we had always been compelled to do this
be left the platform share the fate Of the old
| lady who trying TO emerge backward was hustled
in again every station until she had completed
the circle" SO they have really been hustling for
| some time in England 1t Is the having the fact
| forced their attention. the being requested to
| hustle, that they resent
| Observant people in st. Petersburg have often
| noted. says paper published in the Russian cap-
| tai. that the young women hired assistants in
| the general poetoffice none OF them homely.
| without exception they good looking. Tho
thouglhtless might have considered this
| Incidence but II is not Careessness, the bad
quality of the used by some postoffice at
! tachk has lei the cat out OF the bag Recently
! two Russian women applied for clerkships IN the
postof1ce Their application papers were returned,
| with a formal note stating that there were no
vacancies. But the margin of each returned ap-
plication paper number Of suspicious marks,
| partly obterated. Feminine ingenuity, quckened by
disappointment enabled them to decipher the same.
One ran follows: ''she looks to be thirty is
| small. plain and fabby." The other read: "old
maid: tall, bony."
| Indignation prevailed over vanity and they told
| a friend, who sat down and wrote the paper
| about It. The editor of the paper which publishes
the letter from the friend Of the rejected applicants
Sc evidently utiitarian man. for he would prefer
| the right letter given him by homely girl TO the
wrong letter handed over by beauty. he says
part Of the postal authorities deals the finishing
| blow TO a bad service. But cannot handsome girls
|
can girls to be both capable and good to look upon
Humanity has tested many methods Of curing
disease without resorting TO drugs that 1t seems
as IL no new ones could be left to try Nevertheless
one is announced from Chicago, the picture cure
That sounds more practicable than the music cure,
| about which good many people were enthusiastic
| some time ago With the music cure. at least IN
| hospitals where many patients are crowded TO-
gether the doses would always be spilling over on
| cases for which they were not meant The Ger
| man drinking song. sung TO cool the fever OF the
| typhoid sufferer, would float into the adjoining
ward where the man with delirium tremens lay
and fire his rawlings TO a higher pitch. The Sousa
march, played to revive some one In the last stages
Of exhaustion. might not be at all the thing for
the trip hammer pulse OF the patient In the next
| bed But the picture cure sounds all right Each
Patient be screened off alone with the Sistne
Madonna the Turner landscape. or whatever
picture is prescribed his her particular all
ment and nobody else will be affected. Impecun-
GUS hospitals obliged to do with Job lots Of
chromos. might have some pretty loud specimens
foisted on them and then, but fortunately the
tones OF picture. however strenuous, cannot pene-
trate beyond a screen
English dogs OF high degree have their visiting
cAros nowadays The cards are a couple OF inches
sausr~ and inscribed with the mama Of The aoG and