The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
HABTrATTONs

ID like to live in Germany. where dogs ara
-, eight feet long -
ihe gao eaa lem auadrupeds. but that is
ct they're not octopi, and this the where
-, fore of the why
Aney more than make I'D for their length
py being one foot high.
I'd love to live in Scotland, where the
CUT OF Celts wear kits,
Ut In Provencal marshes, where the meas
ants walk on stills:
ey ke w to I've tb In England Eng too-out mer
Nobody'd understand my iokes-the An
giles are obtuse!
Cleveland Leader.
|. Eating and Living.
Ihere Is a school of hygienists
whose motto is Eat less and live
longer Abstemiousness is com
mended as the first of virtues Per-
sons of course, who lead a physicalIv
active or laborious life are conceded
larger rations than are allowed to
persons engaged in sedentary occupa-
lions, or without occupations, but in
any case there is danger, it is con-
tended. OF eating too much. The hui
man engine requires just so much
fuel. and no more. If given too much.
the only result is to burn out the boil
ers and clog the pipes, with the effect
OF indigestion, dyspepsia, rheumatism,
Bright's disease. and the hundred
other ills caused by excessive feed
Ing and deficient exercise. Eat.
drink. and be merry, for tomorrow
we die" is commended as a wise say
ing, for the reason that those who
look chiefly to eating and drinking
for their merriment are sure to die
tomorrow or next day. 1t is pointed
out that octogenarians commonly
Lead the simple life, and are con-
tent with simple food, and little of
It, The older they get and the less
they do, the less they task the organs
OF digestion and assimilation, in con-
sequence of which they continue eff
Gent surprising length of time.
Circumstances, no doubt, alter
cases. The Laplander. needing heat,
consumes blubber and plenty of it,
While the southern negro takes, in
summer, to waterme1ons; but it is a
good general rule, according to this
school of hygienists, to eat sparingly
of every kind of food and cut the
meat ration down to one-third
The opposite school teaches that a
liberal diet is a protection against
disease, and protests against a regi-
men which reduces ones diet and
strength to the minimum. A margin
Of strength over and above the needs
Of mere existence is wanted, it is
urged, in order that the battle against
the germs Of disease may be fought
to successful conclusion A we'll
underfed man succumbs. 1t has been
held by doctors that, in the tropics,
the white man should reduce his diet
to a minimum, but the British in In
dfa have found 1t necessary to in
crease the meat ration. for the reason
that extra nourishment is needed by
the white man in that climate to meet
extra strains. The natives are feeble
folk, succumbing readily to epidemics
and it is because their diets leaves
them no margin of strength with
which TO meet ordeals. At Panama,
discovered that the healthiest negroes
are the well-fed prisoners in the
jails and that those fed as Wiley
and the others advocated are sickly
and cannot work. So the proper diet
was supplied by the official mess
Kitchen, and the transformation is
said to be marvelous-one writer be-
lieving that, without this generous
feeding, the canal cannot be built If
a man wants to stand the tro pics he
must eat more than enough for the
purpose, SO as to be we'll nourished
The medical profession has recon-
mended a low dietary, and it is a
grand thing to have their theories dis
proved
Injudicious eating and excessive
eating have, perhaps, worse results
than in colder climates, but a man
who does hard work must have plenty
to eat there. as everywhere else
Baltimore Sun.
A Tale of Two Derelicts
1t was only half-starved cur with
the sears Of many kicks showing on
its shfyering skin, but there was
something about the little beast that
touched the heart of a human derelict
who stumbled through Madison
Square yesterday. He stopped and
his burlap- feet. His hand
went into ragged pocket and came
up holding 25-cent piece just earned
by chipping the ice off the sidewalk
before a Madison avenue home.
Two minutes later man and dog
man had a glass of beer and a bowl
of stew. The dog was ravenously
tapping up a basin of hot soup. The
dereliet now and then dropped a
piece Of meat from his dish into the
dogs food that had taken the 10
cry lodging house bed. But he didn't
seem to mind that.-New York Tele-
gram.
Bishop the First English Pawnbroker
No one would guess that Uncle"
had SO illustrious an ancestor as a
right reverend pre1ate, yet this seems
to be SO. For pawnbroking was first
introduced into England by Michael
de Northburg, bishop Of London. in
Edward HIS reign.
He set up an establishment for lend
ing money to the poorer Londoners
on portable property, and. according
to Dugdale, If any sum SO borrowed
was not paid at the expiration of a
year. the preacher at st. Paups Gross
was to announce that the pledge would
be sold in fourteen days, unless pre-
yiously ACKNOWLEDGMENT Weekly.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record
Some men acquire their popularity
with a club.
The ties of wedlock-the kind
x,f;f, x,oLoc for him