The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31

1 l veloped product of Catholic thought. The contributors of this splendid work having
 been selected on grounds of special or l proved efficiency, they stand in the main
 for what has come to be known as the
 advanced Catholic scholarship; that Is 10 say, they represent the Catholic ideal and 1 tradition as influenced by the immense 1 accretions to human knowledge which l have resulted from modern science This ! is certainly an age of encyclopedias, and 1 it is very significant that about the time 1 when the Jewish encyclopedia was l brought to completion this similar en-
 terprise was launched by the Catholic
 church. Written and prepared primarily l for members of the Catholic church, it is 1 an invaluable contribution to literature 1 for all classes of readers in or out or l the Catholic church. Altogether this en- i cyclopedia deserves a cordial welcome l from students of all creeds. Its mum
 erous Illustrations have been widely l chosen and superbly reproduced. It's ar 1 t1cles are unusually informing, lnstruc- l tive and excellently written Each page l is attractive in appearance, and the bind 1 ing is most tasteful and serviceable. The l whole undertaking, in fact is one on 1 which the promoters and the Catholic 1 church may be unreservedly and heartily 1 congratulated. It may not be amiss to | add in conclusion that contrary to the
 
 l ous adaptability of the Roman church
 proved competent to withstand the ap- l parent menace of the new ideas. Rest 1 ing not solely upon the foundation rock l of the scriptures, but upon tradition as well Catholicism has been able to with l stand the assaults of science upon the 1 traditional conception of the Bible, to maintain its position and to cement, as
 it were, into It's unshaken structure the I mi nf Thanks | enlightened boldness of a minority or l Catholic scholars and to the encourage | ment they received from liberal pom l tiff in love with the future, the most pop ulous of the Christian churches has been l placed officially in the van of modern 1 thought. It is only necessary to add that If the future Q2) volumes of the Catholic l encyclopedia maintain the standard set
 by the first three, they will long remain l a classic set of books for reference. These 1 books are being published by Robert Ap- 1 pleton & Co., 39 West Thirty-eighth street, New York city, and are sold by subscription only.
 | Gaining Health In the Vest by George B. Price. (B. W. Huebsch)
 very useful little book is Gaining | Health In the Vest by MT. George B. l Price. It is especially useful in view of l the fact that 1t is about the first book 1 that gives with any authority accounts or l the tribulati and disoomforts-yea, trials
 which one frequently encounters while | seeking ozone in the far west, say Arizona, l New Mexico and Colorado. MT. Price has been himself a "lunger"-that unfeelinG, 1 familiar but definite name gwen all sui l ferers from tuberculosis in the vest 1 so that his little book-so far as 1t goes should be of great comfort to the esti- | mated 60000 new consumptive patients in
 q IT.-f% AoAl, Mv l
 book, as he states, is based upon the inn l prcsslons of layman who had seven 1 years personal experience with Climate l and chasing It. It would be most diff ficult performance to put into a book of
 comparatively few pages answers to the 1 many questions that would naturally come i from prospective healthseeker, starting l to the west, but MT. Prices book is about i the best on this subject Gudged in this l instance by another "ex-lunger'D that | has been written. While it may not give | answers to all questions one would care ] to propound, 1t does offer the searcher 1 after information a basis upon which to work out his own plans for a trip west. l The whole thing to be gained by trip | or stay in the west (for health) IS | change-change of environment, change of l habits and of living. The great and prac- 1 tically only advantage the west has over l Georgia Alabama or Mississippi for con l aumptivos outside of the change desired l (and you can get change at home) is the
 number of days in the year when the con- i sumptive can be entirely out of doors i day and night The air is drier in Ari- 1 zona, etc., than in Alabama or any other i southern state, simply because it does not rain so much there-the air is not neces- | sarily any purer, but for all practical 1 purposes should a consumptiye in Ala bama, Mississippi or Georgia change his | of living
 Simple life') and remain out of doors as do the ArlZonianS, etc., he would derive | as much benefit from home air as he | would from Arizona ozone. But when ono l figures that In Arizona there are only 16
 cloudy days out of the 365 in a year, one
 can easily understand the only advantage | that Arizona has over any southern state. Not simply from the dryness of the air
 (dry air Is better but not at all important l or necessary for consumptive) but sole ly because in Arizona etc., through the greater number of clear balmy days one
 can remain out of doors and breathe the 1 fresh air, wet or dry, it doesn't make g.
 particle of difference-other authorities to
 the contrary notwithstanding. Any fresh" air will cure Hunger not too far gone. l 70 air will cure any Hunger far in the
 last or middle stages of the disease. Dry
 air may be better, possibly-it may do tie
 work quicker-but not necessarily. There | IOre DelOfe ldklIB a journey or zVUO Hl1leS
 from home, from friends, business and
 loved ones, 1t would be well for con-
 sumptive to first make complete change
 in his manner of living-no matter how
 ke has lived before-only he must live the l simple life" By that is meant living a
 normal life, cutting out late hours and over exeTtion. Regarding exercise, more
 consumptives die in the west from too | much horseback riding and exercise of a
 strenuous kind than from any other one cause. In going west the Hunger must
 remember that he will undeniably have t, put up with miserable boarding houses at high prices, (even if he is fortunate
 enough to get in one-those lodging and l boarding houses are growing stricter
 every year as to admitting "sick" peo-
 ple-many boarding places in the west
 greet one with the sign NO sick taken
 here''-most objectionable and non-diges-
 tible food and that terrible diseases nos
 talga. Writing of this question then by
 one who has spent not quite as many
 years in the west as did MT. Price (but
 certainly long enough for this writer) it is advisable to state it would be a good
 Health In the Vest, then consider
 whether he could not do as well back
 home among friends and comforts which
 he positively will not find in the vest
 arywhere--at any price. Taken in time
 tuberculosis can be more ca silly cured UT
 arrested than typhoid fever. And let's
 stop talking and writing about tubercu-
 loss as If it were leprosy! Every now