New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

According to The British Medical Journal ply
scians as class are more subject to illness than
their seIiow men. The journal adds: An eXpiana-
tiou of this is readily found in the anxietes caused
h,- responsibilities which must weigh heavy on
every man of right feeling. in the amount and try
ing nature of the work the doctor has to do in fr-
regularity in meals ard broken Steep IN exposure
to weather and infection, and last but not least
in the scanty remuneration which his labor 700
often brings him The combined influence Of all
these causes is sufficient undermine the strongest
constitution long before q has reached the
limit of threescore and ten comparison OF
tables compiled by statsticans in different coun-
tries gives doctors an average age of hfty-seven
years at death
The new rubber in the Turkish bath had formerly
been a barber 49,.
thus If was when his first patron came in, that
the rubber looked him over and said' pltylnns PITY n
Louisville Courier-JournaL
4 restaurant where a full course dinner may
be had for seven cents opened recently at No.
800 Clinton street. For the reasonable sum named
one may have soup, ertree meat, bread and tea or
coffee The restaurant is under the direction OF a
charitable organization, whose officers say that
the food which they furnish is wholesome, clean
and well prepared. and that they will soon be in
position TO furnish meals twice day, from II a. m
to / D. m. and from 3 to p. m
Was it a case of love at first sight" asked the
sentimental girl. 50. l...o
=,
when they first met he was wearing football
clothes and she had on her motor car costume -
Washington star
We stand and sit too much. according to the
views Of DR.. Gelbke, expressed in lecture re-
Gently delivered before body of German ply
scians Chairs may have been known TO the an
cents but they used only on extraordinary
occasions Persons of culture, as well as the bar
barians took their meals and their rest reclining
..The bad effects" says DR. Gelbke, 'of the sitting
ic,,tIx- OLspn a hOJ l.
though the remarkable cures effected by rest are
well known II is only reasonable that the mer-
chant OF the professional man who sits all day
should recline take exercise in the evening Inc
American rocking chair to be practical
niece of furniture that purpose" In discussing
the subject DR.. Kruche, of Munich says that to
this dav the primitive peoples prefer the reclining
to the sitting posture. and the fact that they lie
not upon the back but on the stomach, accounts
for the better and more supple figures OF these
people Not until late in the Middle Ages" he
saws "do we find in pictures the fat human
being" and he thinks that the change of posture
at rest from reclining to sitting fastened the
advent.
Mrs Chatterton-I always weigh my words be
fore speaking.
Mr. t,hatteTton-Well, my dear can accuse
YOU of giving short weight.-llluStrated BltS
..t5oIitxak" writing in the current number of
The Hebrew Standard" says: we have this year
Purm and St Patrick's Day coming together. and
for the life Of | cannot make up my mind. is 1t
P,Irim that falls on St. Patricks Day is it st.
Patrfck's Day that falls Purim.' He praises the
Irish for their persistency in celebrating the day
and compares with their never waning enthusiasm
the growing Indifference of the Jews. He says:
We Jews and the Irish-two deSpised races. The
Irish haye lived down the worlds contempt. We
Jews have not We living up ii. We despise
ourselves The Irish despised themselves.
Now they have risen superior to the prejudice of
an ignorant and unsy ympathetc world. The Irish
have proved themselves among the finest races in
the world. because a that believes in itself
is of the worlds best. Even while compelled to
sleep the sleep Of the submerged they stil kept
awake to their latent possibilities; and they have
shaken the torpor off them. have swept the cob
webs off their skies and have risen the full
light of the sun No longer do they spend their
national holiday in the back kitchen of the shebeen
drowning the shamrock. The tables have been
turned: St. Patrick's Day is clean day. when all
the beer houses throughout Ireland shut, by
when the British Parliament has been forced to
sanction 1t a state holiday. and when the bluest
blood in the British army is proud to sport before
all the world the Irish emblematic little plant
What of Jews and Purm? Where We?
Where is t?'
Where is the spirit of 1872 thundered the hoi-
day orator dr%n m nososo III. uDkemr, ,ut inter
ested individual in the front row.-Judge.