The Washington herald., 1911-02-01

is quite certain that no human person
remains quite uninfiuenced or normal in
good car, by the side of a good driver
you add picturesque scenery. the pic
ture and the sensations would be COM
plete.''
You May Eat Onions.
IF you are sweet-dispositioned person
Of positive character. you can eat onions
without the least fear of tainted breath,
because that vegetable. being negative. is
your dietetic affinity. BY the same token.
IL you are strawberry blond or of a
cream-and-peaches complexion, you'd bet
ter let Strawberries and peaches alone. If
you do not. you are apt to collide with
natures seIective law, which makes only
opposites attractive"
This is the opinion of Dr. George ].
Drews. Of Chicago. who was seen at the
Arlington.
People should eat food that agrees
with their character" said the Chicagoan
Persons of positive character should eat
negative food. and vice versa. Sour ap-
pies do not go well with persons with
ner. those Of sunny character should not
eat the sweet fruits. Positive should 60
with negative, if you expect the best re-
suits
DR.. Drews painted word picture of
what he called an ideal salad
1t consisted of a few leaves of cab
bage and lettuce combined with a few
chopped carrots and sweet potatoes, the
whole garnished over with a layer of
ground nuts and honey. 1T is impossi-
BILE for such salad to ferment in the
stomach" said he. Fermentation is the
cause of all diseases. and only cooked
food can ferment"
Railways of Holland.
DR.. William F. Combe. Of Chicago, who
has just returned from Holland, where
he made study of the railway system
of the land of dykes and windmills, is at
the Arlington. In discussing the matter
yesterday. he said: "The railways of
Holland seem to have a pretty hardscrab-
BILE time of it. Water competition-that
Of the canals and the Rhine-has always
been their bugbear. Even now. after fifty
years struggle for business, the railways
carry only 10 per cent of Dutch freight.
From Amsterdam alone there are not
less than $50 lines of local steamers that
go regularly to every port Of the country,
providing a daily service-or rather a
nightly service-which enables them to
deliver freight from almost anywhere to
anywhere in the country every morning.
1t Is only when the canals and rivers
freeze up in exceptionally severe winters.
or when in summer there is unusually low
water, that the railways get for a short
time any considerable part of this traf-
fic.
Although the country is almost every
where on a dead level continued DR..
Combe. construction has been rather
costly. on account of the great number OF
bridges required. For example. between
and Rotterdam there are no
less than eighty bridges. Of which eight
are swing bridges. Sometimes the bridges
required to cross the numerous intersect-
ing canals are practically viaducts Of a
mile or two in length, and long stretches
of bridge work are not infrequent.
"An the lines in Holland are operated
by two companies. the Company Of the
Exploitation Of the State Railways and
the Dutch Iron Railway Company. The
total length Of all the lines is less than
1 900 miles, Of which the state operates
about 800 and the Iron Railway Company
about $50. made up Of 26 miles belonging
to the state. 30 owned by other compa-
nies. and 160 Of its own lines.
There Is considerable competition be-
tween the two companies. which, taken in
connection with the sharp competition Of
the rivers and canals, fnsures q very
good service. Each company pays a
rental to the state for the lines belonging
thereto which it operates. and each must
share with the state In its profits over
5 per cent
Origin Of the Banana.
THE banana Is believed by some peo-
pie to be the original forbidden fruit Of
the Garden Of Eden" said Jerry F. Muir
ray. OF New Orleans. La, who is at the
New Ebbitt. TN any case. 1t Is one Of
the curiosities of the vegetable kingdom.
being not . tree. palm. . bush. q shrub.
a vegetable. or an herb, but an herba-
ceous plant with the status Of tree.
Although 1t sometimes attains . height
Of thirty feet, there is no woody fiber
in any part Of its structure, and the
punches growing on tho dwarf banana
plant are often heavier than the stalk
which supports them. Mo- plant gives
such q quantity Of food to the acre as
the banana. 1t yields n times more by
weight than the potato. and 1as times
more than wheat. Moreover. no insect
will attack It., and II Is slways immune
from disease Of any kind"
Used Ticket Twenty-Five Years old.
Frou tbs Philadeiphia Recusd.