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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22

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the digestive tract.
As DR.. Orison SWEET Marden, the noted
writer, says, "The brain gets an immense
amount of credit which really should go
to the stomach" And it's true-keep the
digestive system in shape and brain yitali-
ty is assured.
Food is the fuel of the human system,
yet some of the combinations Of food we
put into our systems are as dangerous as
dynamite, soggy wood and little coal
would be in furnace-and just about
as effective. Is it any wonder that the
average life of man to-day is but 80 years
and that diseases of the stomach, liver
and kidneys have increased 103 per cent.
during the past few years?
And yet just as wrong food selections
and combinations will destroy our health
and efficiency, so will the right foods create
and maintain bodily vigor and mental
energy. And by right foods we do not
mean freak foods-just good, everyday
foods properly combined. In fact, to follow
Corrective Eating it isn't even necessary
to upset your table.
Not long ago l had talk with Eugene
Christian, the noted food scientist, who is
said to have successfully treated over
$4,000 people without drugs or medicines
of any kind, and he told me of some of his
experiences in the treatment of disease
through food.
One case that interested me greatly
was that of a young business man whose
efficiency had been practically wrecked
through stomach. acidity, fermentation
and constipation, resulting in physical
sluggishness, which was naturally reflected
in his ability to use his mind. He was
twenty pounds under weight when he
nervous he couldn't sleep. Stomach and
intestinal gases were so severe that they
caused irregular heart action and often
fits of great mental depression. AS Chris
tan describes it, he was not so per cent.
efficient either mentally or physically
Yet in few days, by following Christians
suggestions as to food, his constipation
had completely gone, although he had
formerly been in the habit of taking large
daily doses of a strong cathartic. In five
weeks every abnormal symptom had dis
appeared-his weight having increased six
pounds. In addition to this, he acquired
store of physical and mental energy so
great in comparison with his former self
as to almost belle the fact that it was the
same man.
Another instance of what proper food
combinations can do was that of a man one
hundred pounds overweight whose only
other discomfort was rheumatism. This
mans greatest pleasure in life was eating.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22
Isn't Your
Tire Bill
Too Large?
By ERNEST A. STEPHENS

WITT this department take
Mr. Stephens Managing Editor In
of
A
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EDITOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22

The springs of my car are rafting and the effect
is very annoying. How can / remedy the troublef
ITS.
Try the effect of Tightening the shackle
bolts. The noise is probably caused by play
or looseness between the shackles and the
spring ends. If tightening has not the de-
sired effect, place thin strips of metal, known
as shims, between the spring and shackle.
Keep the bolts well fabricated and do not
allow mud to accumulate, as hard particles
are likely to find their way between the
working parts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22

Please inform me If the top fitted to my car needs
any attention after use in rainy weather. How can
remove stains from it1 C.L.
Do not fold the top while it is wet and do
not attempt to dry it by exposure to heat.
A lather made of good CASTLE soap and water
rubbed in with stiff brush will remove
spots and stains; this should be removed with
clean cold water. Do not use gasolene, as 1t
may dissolve the rubber with which the top
material is impregnated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22

Though convinced of the necessity, he
hesitated for months to go under treat
ment, believing he would be deprived of
the pleasures of the table. He finally,
however, decided to try it out. Not only
did he begin losing weight at once, quickly
regaining his normal figure, all signs Of
rheumatism disappearing, but he found
the new diet far more delicious. to the
taste and afforded a much keener quality
of enjoyment than his old method of eating,
and he wrote Christian letter to that
effect
But perhaps the most interesting case
that Christian told me was that of multi
millionaire-a man 20 years old, who had
been travelling with his doctor for several
years in search for health. He was ex-
tremely emaciated, had chronic constipa-
ton, lumbago, and rheumatism. For over
twenty years he had suffered with stomach
and intestinal trouble, which in reality was
superaciduous secretions in the stomach
The first menus given him were designed
to remove the causes of acidity, which was
accomplished in about thirty days. And
after this was done he seemed to undergo
a complete rejuvenation. His eyesight,
hearing, taste and all of his mental faculties
became keener and more alert. he had
had no organic trouble-but he was starv-
ing to death from malnutrition and de-
composition-all caused by the wrong Sc
lection and combination NJ foods After
six months treatment this man was as
well and strong as he had ever been in
his life.
These instances of In. .f1,ca.v ~ r;oi,t aa4
ne : nay. SIMPLY CHOSEN az RANDOM tom
pelnaps uoAen EUGENE C el,, .oio me Of
49, one u wh'n was iuuy as nteresting'
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errsat r,ort, - Ao''s
There have been so many inquiries from
all parts of the United States from people
seeking the benefit of Eugene Christians adj
vice and whose cases he is unable to handle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22

Our Motor Service Department
Let us help to solve your problems. Write
fully, and remember that you incur neither
expense nor obligation. Mark your letter
"A Automobile Editor"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
What the State Department Does.

The average man knows little about the state department, but his ignor- ance is not so reprehensible if we look at the matter from his point of view. He never deals with the department himself, and, unless he lives at a sea- port where there is direct foreign in- tercOurse he sees nothing to remind him of American interests abroad. lie takes the executive government at Washington for granted and does not concern himself with the question of how it operates. Yet the regular Dusi- ness of the state department is ex- tensive and important. I make no apology for telling what a few of the duties arc.
 It manages the consular service, and the map of the world is dotted with American consuls. The service num- bers more than twelve hundred pcO- ple-tWO hundred and eighty-ninc principal officers, three times as many Vice-consuls and consular agents, be- sides clerks consular assistants inter preters and student interpreters. The American consular service is the larg- est in the world and second to none in efficiency Before the reform measures of 1906 put it upon a perma- nent merit basis it an inferior service. There were a few men of a high order of ability in 1t, but the av- craze was low, for the cOnsuls were appointed at the instance of politicians, and politicians chose their friends and henchmen. The state department used to try to train them, but they were dismissed before they were trained, and some of them were not trainable. Happily, these conditions have passed; now active young men are selected for the consular service after they have passed a severe exam inatiOn; the tenure of office is rea9On- ably certain and promotions come if the record is good. It is not an easy thing to be a good consul. The re- responsibilities are heavy and the duties
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
German Catholics and Mexico.
 New York World. ]

In the official printed copy of Presi- dent Frey's report to the German Catholic Centrally erein, meeting in New York, occur these words:
 Our neighbor republic, unfortu- nate Mexico, cannot find quietude. Owing to the swaying attitude of our government, the perpetrators of in fanny and crime against the Catholic church and her servants have taken hold of the government there."
 We look in vain for reference to "infamy and crime against the Catho- lie church and her servants" else where, upon a scale so vast as to hold the worlds attention.
 To the persecution of Catholic Greats and Poles; to the suppression of the Sokols of the Catholic Czechs, for their desire of freedom;
 To the plunder of the French De- minican mission in Armenia by Turks, the turning of it's consecrated build ings into Moslem schools, the wrongs of the Sisters of the Presentation there, the murder of two Catholic Ar
 menian Bishops, many priests ana l thousands of cOmmunicants;
 To German accusations against 1 French and Belgian priests so abom- | inable and so false that German Cath
 olics have indignantly refuted them; 1 to the murder of many such priests; | to the wanton destruction of the great
 Catholic University of Louvain and
 shelling of Rheims Cathedral.
 To von Bissngs revenge on Car l dinal Mercier for deploring in his fa-
 nous pastoral "the Imprisonment of l the (Catho1ic Belgian) nation on it's
 own soil," even though the Pope ] wrote to the cardinal that he shared his sorrow and his anguish'-to such arrogance, oppression and atrocity in the Iong-pIanned German assault upon the liberties of Europe, wherein Catholics have suffered wrongs inde- scribable, are President Frey and those who applaud him blind? Are they deaf? Are they callous?
 "Unfortunate MeXico," indeed. It has suffered under the flag of the pure and noble Huerta and under other banners. But before German Catholics waste more breath about of lenses which have been committed on Catholics in Mexico, let US hear from them one word upon the deliberate crimes against Catholics by a military rule whose discipline is it's boast and whose Kul- tur is the last word in ordered eff ciency. And when the misdeeds of lawless bands in Mexico are ascribed to the swaying attitude of our gov- ernment," does the German Catholic Central-Verein mean also that tho United States government should havo intervencd in Belgium to save Catho- lies from the consequences of imperial German frightfuness.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26

against that vast horde of specula- tors that harassed other land grants in the past.
 A journey into the far West will show to the traveller from the East any amount of men who have become fabulously rich because of a start at ownership given under the auspices of the United States government. The old homesteaders have made money off land given them for nothing and some of the land that was so secured twenty years ago is selling today up around five and six hundred dollars an acre. It takes time, of course, to cultivate land and bring it to the stage where it is extremely desirable. question. Primarily, railroading has a lot to do with making farm land valuable. And that is what will eventually happen in Arkansas where but where they must of necessity be placed on a par with the great roads of the country. The area west and south of Little Rock, opening into the great oil fields of Oklahoma, demands good railroading facilities. It will have them in course of time. Here then is the chance for those ambi- tiOus souls of the East who would follow the advice once laid down by Horace Greedy, Go West, young man, and grow up with the cOuntry.''
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
IN THE COUNTRY

Spendin' Sunday in tn open. 1n tn country, Out-O'-doOrs. tOamin', rambljn', in th' fa1ds
 O rustlin' hay. Fills th' heart chuck'd full O. honin, Cause there ain't no earthly chores An a fellcr doesn't have to u-orl5
 that day. Nothin then to do but dreamin' From th mornin' to tn night. In tn calm an peace an sweet
 ness of it all; When there's no sich thing as schemin', Where there ain't no wrong-iust
 right
 And a humans soul must an-
 sWer to tn call Oh, it's great t spend a Sunday In Gods Garden Out-O'-town, When tn foWr's an', trees an
 things are all a-blOOm. Why. it even makes a Monday Seem a little farther down On tn calendar and not so
 filled with gloom. It's not so hard returnin' Through tn citys narrow door When your heart is thrilled and
 filled with life a-new; An your brain don't have that burnin' That you kind O felt before, Just the day before the country
 called to you. Spendin Sunday in tn open Tn Gods Garden Out-O-tOWn, Is the greatest sport feller ever
 knew: For, it sets tn heart to hopin' And it chasea eV'ry froWn, Till you almost b'feve sometimes
 that dreams come true.
 WY LADD.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
The Alcohol Habit.
(BOStOn P POst.)

Restriction and regulation of the sale of liquors more or less intOXicat- ing in Great Britain has resulted in a violent conflict with the advocates of absolute prohibition. These de- clare that under the system of con- trOl designed to restrict consumption of alcohol the figures for the first six months of 1916 show an increased expenditure over those of the half year preceding.
 It is stated that the nation is now spending $2,5OO,OOO daily for intoxi- cants; that "the drink bill since the war began must have reached $1,75O,- 900, ,0OO." This figures largely in com parison with the total cost of the war. and it is made to confirm the de- mand that prohibition shall be made total in order to reach practical re- suits.
 But there must be something wrong in the manner of carrying out a scheme of regulation which has seemed reasonable No such difficulty, has been found in Russia, nor yet in France, where similar restrictions are enforced. The readfest explanation is that the ulea prohibitionists are mistaken in their charges.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
7 he Average Reader Seldom
 Real1zes Import of Paper

ial made from fbrous pulp, and some
 Investigators profess to have found evidences that paper existed in the
 Celestial kingdom at least two centur- ieS before the Christian era. Whether
 these claims Of centuries of priority
 will endure the light of further re-
 search, or whether they will be dis credited just as have been same na
 tions claim to the invention of the mariners compass and gunpoWder,
 the fact is fairly well established that
 when the Arabs defeated a raiding
 army of CeIestials before the gates
 of Samarkand, in the middle of the
 eighth century, they captured a party of Chinamen who were skilled paper makers. It was from this city of Rus
 sian Turkstan, once the capital of
 that most ruthless of Mongol princes, TamerIane, that the art of these cap
 tiVes spead throughout Asia Minor and Northern Africa, into Moo,ish Spain
 and finally into Italy, where the first extensive factories were established in
 1276 at FabrianO, still a center of the paper industry in Southern Flu rope.
 '"The Arabs and their Persian as sistants are supposed to have used flax
 and cotton in the manufacture of their first paper, and subsequently, rags were extensively utilized Cotton
 and linen rags arc still the basis of the best grades of paper, but the ar ticle used by the newspapers is made exclusively of wood pulp. In the
 United States spruce, hemlock, aspen and poplar are the most widely used woods, while in Europe the Scotch fir supplants the hemlOck.
 "England manufa cures much of
 her paper from esparto or Spanish
 grass, which has been quite exten-
 sively imported by that country from North Africa during the last 50 years Germany and France use quantities-Of rye, wheat, Oat and barley straw in the paper-making industry. The wide ly used India paper comes chiefly fOm England, Germany, France, Bel
 gium and Italy. It's name is a mis- homer and was given to a soft quality of Chinese paper introduced into Eng land in the eighteenth century but, like many other commodities brought from the Tar East during that per iod, it was credited to India. It is anufaCtured from rags. and it's Opa- city is due largely to the admiXture of
 mineral matter with the fibre. Its thinness is due to special processes of 'beating.'
 Up to the closing years of the eighteenth century all paper was made by hand, sheet by sheet, but in the same year that Napoleon fought the Battle of the Pyramids Louis Robert
 humble workman in the paper mil of Didot, at EssOnes: south of Paris invented machine for making paper in an endless web. This invention was developed in England by the two Fourdrinters, who lost a fortune ir their pioneer work. Their names
 however, are perpetuated in the pa
 per-making machines of the present day.
 "The first American paper mill was
 tab1ished by William RittenhOuse in ROXhOrOu@h. near Philadelphia, just 92 wears after the first permanen+ English settlement in the United States at Jam estOWn.'
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26

the polls in the coming elections. It was so in 1912 on a larger scale The split in the party put Woodrow Will son in the White House. The same scale in Connecticut. There are two elements in the Republican party in this state and they are as near to a split as the law allows The first man. ifestatiOnS will be on the gOVernOrship. Frank Healy and his followers are optimistic. So are the men behind Mir. Blakesley. The campaign mana gers this morning gave out some very optimistic statements. Governor HOl- comb, with his usual modesty, re- fuses to comment upon his chances but says he is ready and willing to accept tho nomination if his party will draft him. If his party does not draft him and takes in his place Frank Healy, there will be trouble ahead. Also, if Healy is not nominated there will be many hard rocks to kick out of the road. And Blakeslee, heaven be praised, he is the William Jennings Bryan of Connecticut. This is his third time out, and if he does not win, his followers will be peeved. So, after all, the fights and ructions and battle-royals and other things that have been going on and are going on, and will be going on, in the Republi- can party in this state, are not so very encoura ging. They do not place diff ferent meaning on the old time slogan Limited we stand; divided we fall" That classic phrase means just what it says. The Republicans here are divided. And if the Democrats of Connecticut get together this time and do the right thing they can easily bring about the fall of the Republi- cans. It is due.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26

Washington, D. C., Aug. 26.-"Over tWo-thirds of the more than a billion pounds of wood pulp Supported into the United States during fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, and used in the manufacture of paper came from Canada" according to a Communica- ton to the National Geographic sO- ciety from John Oliver La Gorce and issued by the society tts l bulletin in connection with the governments in Quiry into the increase in the cost of newspaper.
 The pulp importatioc.s for 1915- 1916 have been 18O million pounds less than for the previous twelve months, yet the amount shipped to Us from Canada during the past year was 130 million pounds in excess of her 1914-1915 shipments.
 During the year just closed nearly 70 per cent of our 1135, 0OO,O00 pounds of pulp came from our neigh Dor to the north while most of the remaining 30 per cent. came from Norway and Sweden.
 The enormous volume and import ance of the paper manufacturing in- dustry in the United States is seldom
 
 average reader. According 10 the most recent figures of United States Department of Commerce (191D the value of the annual production of the paper mills of this country eX- ceeds $330,O00,0O0. Owe" $50, 100000 of this sum is represented in news paper-1 313, 2S4 tons, or enough to print ten and a half billion fOurteen- page, eight-column papers. The book paper (plain, coated and cover) out put was valued at $73, 3,OO0,000 in 1914, an increase of 34 per cent. over 1909. The weight of this class of paper was 1,S69,95S, 900 pounds-enough to print 33 standard-size magazines of 12O pages each for every man, woman and child in the United States.
 For the manufacture of coated or calendered paper two essential in~ gredients-casein and kaolin-are ex- tensively imported. For the nine months ending March 31st, 1916. our receipts of casein from abroad reached the enormous total of 7,185, 794 pounds valued at $59S, S,979, much of which, of course, was used in other arts as well as in paper manufacture. Case1n is the principal ingredient in cheese, and in it's pure form is a white crumbling ac1d substance. MOSL' O1 our IIn- ported kaolin or china clay. which is used in the manufacture of porcelain as well as in paper-makjng, comes from England, the shipments from that country for 1915 amounting to over 500, ,000, 900 pounds, valued at $1,- 478,905. Our total imports of kaOlin from all countries for the year end- ing June 30th, 1916, were valued at cI,i otc England alone the year before.
 "However much we deplOre the stringency in raw material for the pa per market brought about by the European war, it should not be for. gotten that to the benefcent results of a battle fought nearly 12 centuries ago can be traced the introduction of the art of paper making to the west world. China is credited with having nurtured the genius WnO first conceived the idea of a writing mater
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
DIVIDED, THEY FALL.

Looking upon the ruction of Con- necticut Republicanism as a sooth- ing tonic for the nerves, as a pre- liminary warming up" which will eventually end in a love feast, is the height of optimism. Those guardians of the public veal with offices in Hartford are prone to spill a little philosophy of their own invention
 on the subject. All the bitter fights within the party point to success at
New Britain herald., 1916-08-26
BOY BABIES INCREASING.
Nature Already RcdrcssinG the Bal
 ance in the Countries at War.

(New York Times Sunday Magazine )
 As far as the next generation is concerned, the question of the balance of the sexes, is expected to find it's solution in an xtraordinary phe- nomcnon, first announced from Buda- pest, then from Vienna, later from German cities, and now receiving a certain confirmation in Paris. This Is the fact of the great excess of male children being born in the belligerent countries, a verf1cation of the old time belief that Nature brings a prompt remedy for the destruction of men in warfare, an apparent mystery for which, however,. some medical authorities have recently presented seemingly adequate scien- tifc explanations.
 Tn the Baudelocque wood of the proat Maternite hospital in Paris there were born in one day recently 23 children. Of these 21 were males. On the same day, in an adjoining ward of the same hospital, Y children were born. 16 being males.
 "If this phenomenon should prove to be general" says M. Urbain Confer, the famous French editor, in the Paris Journal it will be the girls who will be scarce and who will be at premium between the years of 194O and 1850"