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The Washington herald., 1910-02-20

modify to regarding Importance
diet This point emphasized entitled Diet and
Health in the journal of the American Medical association
official the medical profession country We quote
the following
Physicians should impress public the individual the
important fact that much food especially eaten
by considerable portion Of the population Economically
reduction TO the lower level advocated by Chendn
saving of from Onhd Onehaf present expended
for ooda little times of fierce industrial
competition Our knowledge necessitate change
The Washington herald., 1910-02-20
BY T1lary O'GUnnCr IleWeIT.

all absorption in the yellow brides. To each
OF us was presented-this was mere for
mality which it would have broken our
hearts to have foregone-a chicken Of our
own. We loved them all. especially during
the yellow fun stage.
As they grew older they scratched around
the lot and came home to lay fresh eggs
for US. Or if they didn't. the neighbors'
chickens did. so that the amenities were
preserved. II any gardens were torn, up
well, it was understood that gardens should
be screened off from chickenly depreda-
tons. The infiexible law, however, was that
chickens shouldn't poach on the front lawn.
and that was fulfilled by putting up a stout
gate between the front and the back yard.
which each child was charged to close care
fully, Many sudden swoop from comfort
able rocking chair on the front porch or a
seurfy out Of the front door indicated to the
rest OF the house that the side gate had been
left open and the chickens were in the
geranium beds or promenading out of the
front yard.
We also had horse and COW, and dog
and a cat Each year increase came to one
or the other or all OF them, as a pleasure to
US children, and not as remember. as A.
problem to our elders They gave every
appearance of being glad with US. Often the
morning treat was to 30 to the barn and see
the new colt or the new calf After few
days, or sometimes months, the youngling
had to be disposed Of The only problem in.
connection Herewith was how 10 break
their loss to the children and console them
for It.
When the cat gave birth to kittens. there
was more fun for everybody. Old Judy Law
behind the base burner in the sitting room
holding ievee. Proud as a queen Of her off,
spring. she was willing to spare them to US
ehildren-within limits. That is. we must
not startle her by going up suddenly and
grabbing one OF the babies away. Instead
father or mother knelt down and gent,r
took one Of them and we were allowed to
play with it II we wouldn't mistreat IT. II
mother had problem then. it was to keen
US from choking small cats to death.
BY and bymost Of the kittens disappeared.
Perhaps one was left to brighten the home
with its cunning pursuit Of ball Of yersted
or its leaps for piece of paper swung on a
string tantalizingly near its nose and then
withdrawn. The neighbors took the others.
or at least we thought they did All re-
member was that kittens were never con-
sidered problem. but something to make
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doesn't him with sociological sQunt long before
has need of literal spectacles.
Kings presidents. and everyday mionaras
for have been accorded faterng Just
when and where and how they have advantage
and without possible danger anything but dignity
SHOWN themselves merely human rising
mainly has called oudest them What such
response 10 call for human sympathy which from
king than ragged beggar in the ss?
The Washington herald., 1910-02-20

he fact that thousands OF working men are
temporarily adopting a nonhesh dietary nat
urally raises the practical question as to what
extent flesh food is really essential for health
strength, and endurance. The result of this
experiment, carried out on such a large scale,
may yet prove to be greater contribution to
the study of popular dietetics than even its in
huence on the market prices
The public should be fully informed in re
gard to the tremendously interesting studies and
experiments that have been made in late
years in this direction by some Of our most emil
nent scientists. As result of these careful and
The Washington herald., 1910-02-20

PeSsimsm has laid ne which the new
To the modern thinker precisely
% the soul of all his deeds and thoughts; This
known that there may smashing some
thing that nothing of it. This Unknown Unknowab
has revealed itself him precisely the hgyng
of without which existence would be nsuerab impossible
would simply Oscilate between qualification and safety
God who by Herewith to
The Washington herald., 1910-02-20

E-~ gOMEN aren't as rule what we
4 used to call ia school sharks" at
Wv mathematics and this making Of
all phases Of existence into prob
lens " IS wearing US out. To marry
or no- 70 marry, that is the first problem;
neyt come, to board out our lives or 10 fiat il.
CT 10 have house; 10 buy home or 10 rent;
TO o22k husband 5 savingsor to invest them
IL real estate. or 10 buy more insurance; to
have enc child or two or three of course no
more: 10 feed cur infants on Bumpkin's
food or condensed milk; to spank OF not to
spank; early 10 kindergarten OF no kinder
gs-tea al all; TO devote our entire attention
20 our children at home. or to have outside
Interests against the time when the chill
dren shall leave US. and so forth.
What started this train OF thought was
the answer Of the mother Of one child and
the wife Of a rising young business man,
when asked If. she raised chickens on their
seven acre summer place in Michigan:
=" no. We can't get a man to look after
them and don't understand the problem"
Livery spring my mother used to buy set
fussy old hens we had all winter about our
two lot city home. and around about Easter
she would go out early of a morning 10 the
stable, as we called the barn, and bring back
TO the house a lot Of little fluffy, yellow balls
of checkers Seven children more or less
would be waiting for her return, probably
In their nlghtgowns, and would crowd
around IN joyous expectation as she stirred
UP some yellow corn meal and warm water.
spread a newspaper on the kitchen table,
then lifted the chickens out Of the basket,
and let them stagger around picking up bits
of the neal II We We're good and didn't
touch we could each hold bit Of meal in
our palms and feed it to one OF the yellow
balls
Then mother would tuck an old flannel
skirt into a box, snuggle the chickies in-we
were allowed to help. one at q time. II we
were gentle-cover them up and put the box
behind the range or perhaps in the oven with
the door open, where their incessant Peep!
Peep" kept our hearts a-quiyer With de-
light
Al noon, more chickens were brought into
the kitchen; the others were taken back to
the hem We went along, too but again. we
must not touch, II We did gently reach
under Biddy and try to abstract a nesting,
well. We learned anew how wise mother was
when she told US that Biddy would " bite
Us" For many days it seemed TO us, new
chickens kept coming but not problem
lifted its hydra head OF certainty moth
sr didn't have any. She was child with US,
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Or through the vegetable man mother
would hear Of some poverty stricken family
down in Marcy street, where he lived. To-
day that neighborhood is probably called
the slum Of Centerville. but there was no
such cult then. However, mother would
leave those Of her seven who weren't in
school, and the cat and the dog, and the
horse and the cow, and fhe pigeons and the
rabbits and 90 down TO see what she could
90 for the poor family. Perhaps she would
come back soon with strange. exalted look
on her face, go to the old chest Of drawers,
take out some tiny garments and hurry
away again Perhaps she didn't come
home that evening 70 supper. Father
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US happy and to keep us from under moth
er's feet"
AS children we saw life and the increase OF
life. We were brought up with puppies and
colts. and calves, and baby chickens. The
boys had pigeons and rabbits in the barn,
the girls canaries and kittens. We all had
playmates and we all had pets The prob
lem of keeping your children from mixing
up with other children, IN order to avoid
possible physical infection or spiritual con-
tamination. had not arisen. The boys for
aged the kitchen for -four with which TO
whiten their faces as clowns for their cir
euses in the barn and begged old clothes Of
mother and emptied the house OF pins,
which were tickets Of admission The girls
had tea parties on the front porch OF in the
sitting room with provender gotten by hook
or crook from the kitchen We cluttered I'D
the premises from street to alley with our
various interests and belongings. and no
body ever said the word problem" All
that mother ever said that we remember, as
We grew older and went to homes of our
own; My happiest days were when
could tuck you all into bed at night"
Mother did lots Of things for other peo-
pie. too, though she knew nothing % the
slum problem, or the settlement problem. or
the problem Of dividing your responsibilities
with proper consideration Of the duties YOU
owe to the community as whole. Mother
just knew some poor people that needed help
and she helped them There was the time
when we had all the mOtherless Blank chill
dren at our house for weeks, because their
father died so suddenly. That was great
fun for us children. We shared everything
with them, beds and ali, and mother never
lost cheerfulness on account OF increased
duties, but We wondered why she sighed as
she looked at the little ones laughing and
shouting in their play with us. Then father
and other neighbors put their hands in their
pockets and paid for the care Of the family
at the convent.
The Washington herald., 1910-02-20

go gOMEN aren't as d rule what we
4 used to call ia school sharks" at
Wv mathematics and this making Of
all phases Of existence into prob
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
SOLVES ysrER OF HAUNTED CHAMBER.

Sir William Henry Perkins, the inventor OF many coai
tar dyes, was talking in New York before ne saiieo iof
England about the Psychical Research society.
"Crookes and some other scientists go IN for psycnlcai
research" he said, though l confess that to me the SUD-
ject makes no great appeal,
Personally | have come in contact, during a fairly long
career. with but one ghost story. Its hero was a man
whom I'll call Shocks.
"Snooks, visiting at a country house, was put in the
haunted chamber for the night He said he felt no I'M
easiness; nevertheless he took to bed with him a reVol-
yer of the latest American pattern.
"He fell asleep without difficulty, but as the CLOCK was
striking two he awoke with a strange feeling OF oppres-
sion.
Lifting his head, he peered about him. The room
was wanly illuminated by the full moon, and in that weird,
blush light he saw a small hand clasping the rail- at tne
foot Of the bed.
"'Who's there?' he demanded. TREMENDOUSLY.
There was no reply. The hand did not move.
who's there?' said Shocks again. Answer or I'll
shoot
again there was no reply, and Shocks sat up cautious
ly, took careful aim and fired.
"He limped from that night on, for he shot off two O.
his own toes."--New York World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
GIRL DRIVES WAGON
Finds Delivering and Collecting
Laundry Great Sport.
Miss chIooe Hunter Of Detroit En-.
cages in Unusual Occupation FOR
Women, Because She Likes
Fresh Air.

netroit Mich.-Miss Chloe Hunter,
aged 20. bids fair to revolutionlze tne
laundry business, at least In this Guy.
This enterprising young miss mas
adopted the unusual vocation OF laun-
dry wagon driver with gratifying re-
sults. The success with which she Is
meeting, from a financial standpoint
will doubtless result in her com
petitufs sitting up and taking notice.
The Young woman has increased
her firms business fully 25 per cent.
in the time she has been working IN
this unique position.
Miss Hunter formerly was employed
in the Office of a coat and apron sup
NV company as clerk. The calling
was not agreeable to her health ana
she longed for a chance to do more
open.air work. The chance came Wnen
j. j. Callahan, proprietor OF the estap-
lishment. was taken sick and forced
to leave the city. This resulted IN
Miss Hunter being assigned the duty
of keeping up the business herself.
The situation was a problem az
first. but Miss Hunters ingenuity
oyercame all obstacles in a short time.
She fred the regular driver OF the
firms single wagon, hired another
girl as clerk and donned the money
satchel herself, starting out on the
wagon to canvas for new business.
Her plan was a success from the first.
"I 7 what you might call a fresh
air fiend," said Miss Hunter, in ex-
planning her entrance into the new
field of work. 81 am not as healthy
as l would like to be and always
wanted to get outside work for that
reason. Driving the laundry wagon is
Just the thing. 1t is easy work and is
doing me much good physically.
do l think l am getting better re
suits than did our former drivers
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

Well, l should say so. The district |
cover is the same, or perhaps a lit
tie larger, than that covered by the
men drivers, and since ] took hold of
1t I venture to say business has in
creased at a rate of rs per cent. /
don't think there is anything so un-
usual about my new line of business.
Men with whom I come in contact pat
me on the back and compliment me
on my pluck and all that, but I do
not know or care what the women
think.
"Any girl who wants outside work
should try driving a laundry wagon.
1t certainly is great sport. All it re-
quires is a little nerve and ability to
return the stares of gawks who don't
know any better. 1t does not bother
me how much people cape at me.
They will get used to seeing me
around the city pretty soon, / guess.
IT do not have any trouble with my
horse. 1t is gentle and I am a eau
tious driver. When l am through
with my route in the evenings / take
him to a livery stable, where he is
cared for.
when I went into the business
just knew that I would get some pub
licity out of 1t. My friends tried to
scare me out of the idea, but l do not
care now that l have got used to it."
Miss Hunter purposes to continue
at her work all through the winter,
Her hands are protected by a pair OF
heavy gauntlet gloves, while a heavy
sweater coat, thick skirt and heavy
tan shoes battle the most chilling
blast,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

and dying, facing the fever and death itself without
finching. He mentioned in the official communication
each doctor and man by name, recommending them for
recognition at the hands of the department. OF himself
he said nothing, his whole thought was that recognition
should be given others.
Lieut.. James E. Bell put down his pen, went to the
hospital and in three days was dead.
The closing paragraphs of one of the general orders
touching this man and his love of duty are these:
"The only officer in an isolated post when it was Wis
tied by a dangerous epidemic, he seemed to multiply
himself in his everpresent care and watchfulness for the
men of his command, and 1t is doubtless due to the ex-
haustion and fatigue resulting from his anxious dis
charge Of duty that he finally fell a victim to the
disease.
"He died in the faithful discharge of a soldiers duty"
WAY up north were wife and child. The little one
crept up to the blackrobed mother and said: "Is my dar-
lin foddy tummin' home to-day?"
mot to-day, dear. Perhaps tomorrow"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
BALLOON ARTILLERY PROBLEM
While One Inventor Constructs Air Craft, Another Builds
Guns to Destroy Them.

A writer in the Star has the following to say on the
subject of aerial war craft:
Germany's government has been induced by the won
derful flights accomplished by the Zeppelin, Parseval and
Gross airships to form an air feet which already numbers
six cruisers, but this very success has also awakened the
German military authorities to the necessity of improv-
ing Germans artillery with a view to combating hostile
air fleets, and, therefore, just as Germany was first in the
field with an aerial navy, SO she leads the way with bal
loon artillery. This year both the Krupp and Ehrhardt
works have placed balloon guns on the market. >
The inventors of balloon artillery had several things
to bear in mind. The objective is very mobile, can de-
velop great speed and change its direction, up or down
and to all points Of the compass very rapidly and with
comparative ease. Therefore the guns had to be capable
Of the most rapid laying while their project1es had to be
made to travel at a very high velocity. Again, since a
scouting airship, when nearing the hostile zone, will as
cend to the greatest height attainable, the guns had to
be made SO as to fire practically perrend'cu!arly to aH I'M
mense height.
1t is obvious that the field artillery method OF training
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
orlqIn of the Boycott.

The word boycott cannot be traced
back further than 1880. The word is
derived from the first prominent vic
tim Of the industrial system that has
been at the bottom of SO many dis
turbances, legal and otherwise, in the
last score or more Of years.
Capt. Boycott was a farmer at
Tough Mask, ~Connemara, and the resi-
dent agent of Lord Erne, an Irish
landlord, who, like all of the absentee
landlords of Ireland, was the object
of bitter hatred on the part Of the ten
antry. For the purpose Of crushing
not only the agent but the landlord
himself the tenants entered into a Sc
cret compact for a complete undoing
of them.
This little plot very soon came to be
called boycott" after the name Of the
man against whom 1t was aimed. That
was in 1880, and before long the
name, like the practice, became com
mon throughout the English-speaking
world. AS it was picked up and adopt
ed by the newspapers 1t soon came
into use in practically every European
language.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

as was a wealthy matron Of Park
lane. 1t was testified In the Needham
Market police court, in the English
capital, that this woman. pursuant to
her policy of insisting upon the most
punctilious politeness on all occasions,
had reprimanded severely a police
man who came to see her about her
carriage license. The bobby" indig-
nantly said his Involuntary hostess
had kept him waiting for half an hour,
and then had told him: You must
say, please. will you be SO very kind
as to show me your ~license?"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
The ChiId,s Lonninn.

Every child wants to be owned:
wants to be somebody's child; wants
to hear my boy" or my girl" spa.
pas girl" or mammals boy" from low
Ing lips. Think Of the soul-hunger and
desolation Of such little lives when
individually lost in the mass or group
often hearing only the last name
spoken, and with never a kiss or ca
ress from dawn to eve, and you win
not be surprised at the readiness Of
institution children to place their lit
tie hands in any open palm that offers,
or to bestow the affections Of their
little starved hearts upon any one,
even though he be a veritable old
tramp, who says he is their uncle. It
Is sympathetic personality for which
the child yeayns.-Delineator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

one wall of a chamber to which r at
tached two tubes, n Of which brings
in acetylene gas. while the other leads
to a vertical burner, where the gas Is
ignited. The vibrations Of which the
heart sounds arc composed are trans
mitted to the membrane and SO to the
fame. on d paper tape run through
the flame tip, therefore. will appear
the record. The fluctuating flame pro
duces a succession Of rings, due to a
swift succession Of slight Earrings, and
each makes Its mark. entirely legible,
O the paper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

submarine.
Krupps have constructed hitherto three makes OF paI
loon euns-a &c centimeter field gum, which fires a 4kli'
ogram projectile with an initial velocity OF ezo meters
or about 2,100 feet a second, attaining at a a1 * nno ian an,
oa of discharge of GO degrees and a height of $1,000 feet;
a fortress rs gun, firing a 6h-kilogram shell and a heavy
gun of 1O5 caliber, primarily intended for use on board
warships.
The fortress gun can hit and destroy an airshlp at a
height of % 900 feet from a discharging angle of Is de-
grees, SO that as, on the evidence of Count Zeppelin him
self, an airship only in case of emergency rises TO a
height of 5000 feet, the range the new balloon artllery
$4,000 feet.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
RECORDS BEATINGs OF HEART

traclngs from the point Of a tiny blaze
appears to have been made a newly
practicable method Of determining Its
condition, more reliable than any
other test that can be applied,
The exact means employed Is to ap-
ply to the subjects chest an instru-
ment like a telephone transmitter,
containing a thin rubber membrane
which will reproduce the vibrations
Of the heart. This membrane forms
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

In order to allow this method to be
universally applied ip medical practice
and to make 1t most effective and com
plete, apparatus has been designed, in
which the paper tape is unwound from
one cylinder to another, passing
through the vibrating flame. Beside
the latter is installed another fame
for giving time records, which comrnu-
nicates with an electrical tuning fork
Of 100 vibrations. Producing their
records side by side. on the same tape,
they provide a picture from which the
duration Of and the intervals between
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
the heartbeats can be exactly ascer-
tained.-Technical World Magazine.
London "Bobbys' Taught Pollteness

London "Bobbys" Taught Pollteness.
Instructions to policemen, railway
employees, cabmen and others in the
art of being polite is the latest fad
Of London's society women. They
seem to have banded together to In
still the rudiments Of courtesy into the
manners Of those they consider their
interiors. Few Of them, however, are
SO particular III bringing up the lower
classes" in the way they should go
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13

Occasionally at the United States military academy,
in seeking to teach the lesson of the beauty OF self
sacrifice. the chaplain will tell the cadets that all he
roes who give up their lives for principle do not die
by rife shot or saber stroke. The martial spirit that Is
engendered by military instruction and by the glorious
heritage of the memory Of the sons of the academy
who gave up their lives for the flag often leads the
cadet minds into a train of thought which holds that
the death which is more fitting to the soldier than any