Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-04
PRESIDENTS SISTER
AIDS ART SOCIETY
Mrs. Annie Wilson Howe lden-
titled With Movement
in Paris.
PROF. BERGONIE URGES
NEW HOURS FOR EATING
Declares Principal Meal of the Day
Should Be Early in the
Morning.

PARIS April 22.-Mrs. Annie Wilson
Howe. President Wilson's sister. has be
come an earnest promoter of the Fresh
Air Art Society. an international organi-
cation now about ten months old whose
purpose is to stimulate healthy and
rational ideas in every variety of art,
literature. music, painting and sculpture.
Mrs. Howe is one of four honorary
members. the others being the Princess
Alexandrine Windisch- Graetz Of Austria.
the Earl of Plymouth and Lord Windsor.
Among the thirty members are Augusta
Rodin, the sculptor: Camille Flammarion.
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Countess
Hartenau, widow of the Battenburg
prince of Bulgaria, and Lady Phyllis
Windsor-Olive. who is reputed to do the
most beautiful embroidery and decora-
tive work In England.
Some notable American members are
Grace King, the Louisiana novelist. War
rington Dawson, the novelist of Charles
ton, S. c.: John Powell. the composer,
and Alice Stopford Green, the historian.
Dawson and Powell are the founders of
the society.
Principles of Society.
Mrs Howe. who has been living here
est in France in the principles of the
society. which are as follows:
We believe in the oneness of life.
We believe in the oneness of art.
We believe in the fraternity Of art as
standing for life.
Wherefore art is a means, not an end.
Before the end can be conceived, life
must be understood.
Before life can be understood, it's re-
mi he
That the end pursued by arts means
may be true, the life which art repre-
sents must be true.
Wherefore life and art must alike be
founded upon conditions OF sound body,
nerves. heart and mind.
But such foundation must itself rest
upon the great laws which have promot-
ed the evolution of life.
That art may be controlled. it must
contain qualities of reason and Of con-
struction beneath all forces or subtlet.es
of appeal.
That art may not only exist. but may
wax strong in the harmony which is in
finity. it must like life itself obey the
laws of health which combat decay.
The great facts of human history
have been those which bespoke the
eliminating spirit of race; the great
works of human art have been those
which expressed the highest spirit of
their own age.
To acknowledge that exploiters of
superficial emotions or seekers after
sheer eccentricity represent the spirit
of our age is to pronounce this age
unworthy to be link between the
past as we know it and the future as
We have the right to desire it,
Wherefore we declare ourselves for
the art as for the life which rests
upon a respect for natures laws in
the fresh air of health and the clear
light of truth
Unsuitable Hours for Meals.
Prof. Bergonie of Bordeaux. the emil
nent authority on dietetics, declares that
the least suitable hours for meals are
between noon and l pm. and between
q and p.m.-precisely those hours
which modern usage has set apart for
meals.
According to the professor the meal
hours that rational hygiene would
prescribe would be as follows:
The principal meal of the day should
be taken at 1850 am. or as soon after
as possible, so as to obtain all neces-
sary energy for the days work and to
nights abstinence. A second meal a
light luncheon of milk. sugar and
cakes should be taken about pm
Finally third light repast at $50 or
9 pm would complete the a1imentary
regime.
The professor adds that in a family
which has accepted his views this re-
gime has been followed for six years
furnishing excellent results as regards
the general health of all the members
Prof. Bergonie has also eiven. much
attention to the application OF cleo
tricity in various disorders OF diges-
ton. He has invented an elecric bed in
which the passage of the current
through the body Of the subject sets
up organic combustfons similar 70
those brought on by muscular exercise
and leads to reduction of obesity. He