The National tribune., 1910-02-17

One of the very handsome young la
dies of Washington who confesses to
% years of age declares that she mas
never eaten a mouthful of meat in her
life She is Miss Ora Kress, daughter
of Dr. d. II. Kress, of Washington, and
is herself a student at the woman
Medical College of Philadelphia, ana
was brought up by her father in ac-
cordance with his diet theory, which
strongly teaches modern yegetarlanlsm.
Miss Kress eats vegetables, milk, butter
and eggs only and declares that it en-
sbles her to do severe mental work and
retain good health. She is round
faced, very bright, charming young
lady, rather athletic and very active.
DR. Kress, who is Superintendent OF
the Seventh Day Adventists' Sanitarium
on the outskirts of Washington, is a
food expert of ability, and has many
theories as to why man should not eat
meat He places particular emphasis
upon the fact that meat has to hlgh
degree the poisons which are suddenly
bottled up in the carcass when the meat
is killed, and these when eaten are very
apt to produce poisons in the human
stomach. Miss Kress says that to see
people gorging themselves with beef,
poultry and fish is to her extremely re-
pulsive. She doesn't wear feathers on
her hat either.
In the superlative degree the wart
hog is absolutely the ugliest thing on
earth. except it be another Wart hog-
1T would be hard to analyze the rea-
sons for anything being as hopelessly
d phantasm of hideousness as the face
of a wart hog. 1t is pretty much all
dun-colored bone. and starts from
about two inches from behind the ears,
ending in kind of a point where his
teeth protrude. His tough hide is as
tba ha oil nf shaved hog
cepting half dozen bristles under his
excuse for a chin. Such a critter is
now in the Washington Zoo.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and her
granddaughter, Mrs. Preston, have re-
turned to their home in Charlottesville,
Va. Mrs. jackson, who has been the
guest of Mrs. L. z. Letter while in
Washington, was very much entertained
socially, and, being advanced in years,
was unable to stand the pressure, and
80 is quite seriously i'll. 1t was thought
that it would be best for her to return
to her home in Virginia, and get away
from the social pressure.
The United States Government and
Congress are very often accused of be-
sng paternal, and now it looks as tho
they were going to be maternal as We'll
mere mas D6en more tHdl d y tdi > us
cussion in that big white marble pile
up on the hill, known as the Senate
Office Building, over the running of the
restaurant. While the larger part of
the Senatorial appetite is plain. ii is at
the same time epicurean. A Pure Food
Committee has been on an investigating
tour of the cellars, kitchens, pantries,
cold-storage facilities and other para
phernalia in the Senate Restaurant, and
conditions show that there is a woeful
lack of cleanliness. The Senators have
now concluded that they want the Sen
ate restaurant under their direct super
vision, hence an amendment was in
serted by the Senate in the House bill,
which provides that all improvements
and the equipment to the Senate kitch-
ems and restaurant, including personal
and other services, shall be under the
supervision of the Committee on Rules
of the Senate, and the moneys for such
be expended by the Superintendent of
the Capitol Building. The walters will
be classed as laborers on the Capitol
pay roll.
There has been introduced in Con-
gress a bill to give former President
Roosevelt the franking privilege.
Franking privileges are now enjoyed
by Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Harrison,
both widows of former Presidents, and
themselves had the franking privilege.
Mrs Taft, wife of President Taft,
occupied box at the National Theater
a few nights ago to witness the bare
footed dancing of Maud Allen. She
was accompanied by her sister, Mrs.
Charles Anderson, and Mrs. Torrey, the
aged aunt of the President.
DR.. H. L. z. Johnson, one of the
prominent physicians of Washington, is
extremely bitter against dairymen who
keep diseased cows. Those known to
be infected with tuberculosis he says
he would destroy, every bloomin' one of
'em. He says that tuberculosis COW
should meet the same fate as q hydro
phobiac dog, and when found should be
killed. AS matter of fact, it is known
that these cows are sold for meat when
it is found that they are prohibited
their use for dairy purposes. He thinks
every farm on which a tuberculosis COW
is found should be placarded, so that it
can be read from the road. He thinks
that the public should be fully protect
ed thru the interstate commerce act
and cooperating State laws.
Mrs. Marilla N. Kicker. of Dover n
H, has announced her candidacy for
Governor of New Hampshire, and
thereby created sensation Mrs. Rick
er is lawyer and also a leader in the
suffrage movement and general all
around bright woman. She has plenty
of money, and for the Winter has been
sojourning in California. Mrs. Kicker
says that taxation without representa-
tion is tyranny, and she protests against
the injustice OF having to pay taxes
without having a vote to protect her
property. She also says that so long
as women are hanged under the laws
they should have a hand in making
those laws. Mrs. Kicker. will at least
make things interesting in New Hamp-
presumably stands no show of reaching
the Office or of holding it even II she
were elected.
Senator Frank r. Flint of California,
has firmly decided that he will not be
a candidate for reelection to the Unit
ed States Senate. He says very simply
and plainly that the primary law of the
State of California is fashioned only for
rich men. 1t makes it necessary for
the success of a candidate 10 the United
States Senate to have a personal politi-
cal organization in every State Sena-
torial and Assembly District He saws
he is not rich enough TO maintain such
an organization, and he wouldn't accept
an office that was obtained at a price
from his friends, and so he is just go.
ing to quit.
The wag has-said that politics is tho
vice of Washington women" and If Won