The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-11-03
Bp the 0Qaap.
BY ZOZ.

could derive no advantage from a
downfall of the beautiful. white. in.
nocent-looking stuff. The snow puri.
Hes the atmosphere far better than
RAIN does, and 1t gives us a beauti-
full and clean carpet that requires
no busting, 10 talk upon and pre-
vents our being disagreeably covered
with dust as We generally are in the
summer time. The sleighers derive
pleasure from 1t and the kids. who
ike the transfers and friegthers,
think the snow was made for them.
make good use of it in Their plav
frolics. But what is there more in.
MIGRATING and beglowing than to
strip to the waist and have good
snowbath in the morning?
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We often hear talk about and
read Of. "vSxed" quest ons.' AT
present 1t lodks mighty Ike as If
the Great Powers would agree to
call the Mexican question the vexi-
can question.
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There is scarcely a day but we
read from the papers about people
suffering from stomach trouble. We
meet people on the street who talk
of the same complaint. Now there
is scarcely any manner of doubt bat
that the chemicals used as preser-
natives for most of the food stuffs
brought North are injurious to a
certain extent, and eerta My do
harm by continuous use. If We
were not using SO much garden truck
It's hard to say how we would feel.
or if We would be alive to feel at
all
But it may Abe that there is some
thing else zen more pernicious
than the chi nicals. Well cook d
food when badly masticated and IL
digested does harm. Then what mus
be the result when badly cooked
food gets into the stomach? Glad
stone. the great statesman, was a
hard worker both day and night in
the house of commons. and he at
tributed his good health and great
age to the fact that he gave sew
enteen chews to every bite of
meat he put in his mouth. That
was not swallowing like savages
and dogs. We frequently meet PEG
pie who could tell the United States
President how to do things and
think they could manage the affairs
of all the nations on the face of the
earth as we'll. and they simply do not
know how to chew their food Let
us give our stomachs a chance that
they may be able to do their share
of the work. Some great man said
the greatest battlefields of the world
were the eating tables
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A certain postoffice official lately
made speech in which he state d
that enormous sums of money were
lost in conveying mails to Interior
Alaska. Like good many others
who want to argue only in favor of
their own side of the Question, he
only told halftruths. Why didn't
he tell US OF the great revenue de-
rived from money orders, rent of
! boxes, etc, and why didn't he tell
US about how his department allows
public money to be squandered in
paying six or seven worthless
clerks to try to do the work which
two efficient hands could perform
with more satisfaction?
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Coming events cast their shadows
before. When was reading lately
in the evening paper an article Oh
what items Of news it would, or
would not publish in the future, and
saw that he coupled diseased meat
with crazy people l thought that
the PROFESSIONAL editor was trying
to establish a connection between
the two diseases, but reading on
found it was nothing OF the kind.
He was just merely giving hint Of
what he would do provided? In deal
ing with the leaving out the publica-
ton Of certain records by request he
showed prudence and caution in not
going into particulars which he
thought more wise to leave sub
rosa.
By the Outside papers we see that
the men are raising an awful rum
pus about how the women dress
They may be right, but it is
matter of wonderment why, when a
Scotch Highland man marches along
the. street wearing only short
plaid petticoat exposing half his
thighs and the calves of his legs,
not one of the women folk raise a
boiler. 1t may be that women folk,
after all, are not as much afraid
as they say they are of calves, COWS
and bulls.
By the way the English newspap-