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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-11-24

are saddles. | will bring them ana the
Brides" and before he could stop her
she was gone.
Bayncs quickly united two of the
frightened animals and led them to tho
point designated by Mericm. Hero he
waited impatiently for what seemed an
hour, but was In reality but a few
minutes. Then he saw the girl al.
preaching beneath the burden of two
saddles.
Quickly they placed these upon tho
horses. They could sec by the light Of
the torture fire that still burned that
the blacks and Arabs were recovering
from their panic. Men were running
about gathering in the loose stock, and
two or three were already leading
their captives back to the end Of the
village where Mericm and Baynes were
busy with the trappings Of their
mounts.
Now the girl flung herself into the
saddle.
Hurry" she whispered. I'VE shall
have to run for it. Ride through the
gap that the elephant made. " And us
she saw Bayncs swing his leg over
the back OF his horse she shook the
reins free over her mounts neck. With
lungc the nervous beast lcaped for.
ward. The shortest path led straight
through the center OF the village. and
this Mcriem took. Baynes was close
behind her. their horses running at full
speed.
SO sudden and impctuous their dash
for liberty that 1t carried them half
way across the village before the SIR
prised inhabitants were aware Of what
| was happening. Then an Arab recog.
niZcd them and, with cry of alarm,
raised his rifle and fired.
The shot was signal for n vollcy,
aud amid the rattle of mlSketry Meri.
ON and Blyncs learcd their dying
mounts through the breach in the pal.
isadc and " nrr cone ~, the well worn
trail tOw""'
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-11-24
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER "a, 1917
SON OF TARTAN
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conner. lie had been about to tako
Mcricm in his arms. forgctful of all
that might have TRANSFERRED since last
he had seen her. Then the coming Of
the young Englishman recalled tho
scene he had witnessed in the little
clearing, and II wave of misery swept
over the ape man.
Already from without came the
sounds of the alarm that the three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
Doctor Tells Hoy To Strengthen
 Eyesight 50 per cent Ln One
 Weeks Time in Many nstances

and expense of ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of many descriptions may be wonderfully benefited by following the simple rules. Here is the prescription: 1: Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon-Opto tablet in a fourth of glass of water and allow to dissolve. With this liquid bathe the eye two to four times daily. You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation will quickly disappear. If your eyes are bothering you, even little, take steps to save them now before it is too late. Many hopelessly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes in time.
 Note: Another prominent Physician to whom the above article was submitted, said: Bon Opto is very remarkable remedy. It's constituent ingredients are well known to eminent eye spec iaists and widely prescribed by them. The man ufscturers guarantee it to strengthen eyesight 50 per cent in one weeks time in many instances or refund the money. It can be obtained from any good druggist and is one of the very few prepara- tons feel should be kept on hand for regular use in almost every family It is sold in this city by Golfers Drug Store and other druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

and their excessive use results in the acid dyspepslas.
 The only needful flavoring for food, In addition to the extractives in meats, IruIts ana vegetables which are really more palatable than any artificial condi- ment that can be added, is salt; and too mucn 2r that is harmful One food ex- pert irresponsible for the statement that we are picking our bodies with the brine that we make in adding so much salt to our foods"
 President Wilson did not appeal direct ly to the medical profession to aid in working out the problem of making a snort 1ood supply meet the normal, or even the excessive demands of the pres ent situation, but there is the opportu- nlty TOT the physicians who for good req sons cannot enlist in the army or navy medical officers reserve corps to serve thelr country in the highest degree by lnSTucung the public regarding the quantity and quality of food needed for the normal man.
 rystcians know that the average man consumes at least three times as much meats, moro than twice as much sugar and probably one-third more bread, po- tatoes and other starchy foods than his nutritional needs demand They know that if the American people would eat ratlonally and no more than their nu- tritional needs call for, the present food
 
 demands of war or peace; there would be no more meat and bread riots in New York and Chicago; nor would we have the present inordinately high prices for everything that we eat Physicians also know that our efficiency would be great | ly increased, that the ills of the average adult American would be reduced by per haps one-third those which we now suf- l fer, and that the average span of life would be heightened by one or two dec ades-if we were educated up to eating the proper quantity and quality of the | foods necessary to maintain health and 1 vigor.
 l If the average person could learn that in eating meat more than once & day l he is not only aiding in keeping up the | price of that necessity, thereby taking meat out of the mouths of those who need 1t, 1. e., the laboring classes, but l that he is actually injuring himself by taking into the body more protein than he can assimilate, he would be willing to do his part to solve the meat prob- lem If he could learn the well-estab- lished fact that one egg for breakfast, without bacon, ham or meat Is as much protein as is needed for the morning meal, and that in eating a light break fast consisting of fruit, cereal one egg, bread and butter, he can think and work better than by starting out the day with an overloaded stomach, he would be will ing to aid in keeping ydown the price of eggs, bacon and ham, of which the poor are now deprived. If he could or would learn the facts about sugar fermentation in the intestines and about the relative food values and the amounts needed for daily nutrition, of vegetables meat milk, butter, the vegetable oils and other food
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

plant, Just TOT ll1lS SlnSlc type. By utter efficiency he cut fac tory cost in two. On this years output, his methods will save us about &, GOO, 1000.
 It is that @,0OO,0OO which pays for Mitchell extras. For the 31 extra features, for the "A per cent added luxury, for the 100 per cent over-strength.
 31 Extra Features
 For one thing, the Mitchell is a complete car. It has 31 features which nearly all cars omit Things like a power tire pump, reversible headlights, dashboard engine primer, ball. bearing steering gear, etc.
 You will find each extra somethingthatyouw When you see it, no car will seem complete without it.
 This year our bodies are built under Bate methods, in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
A Frse Prescription You Can Have
 Filled and Use at Home

Philadelphia, Pa. Do you wear glasses? Are you a victim of eye strain or other eye weaknesses? If so, you will be glad there is real hope for you. Many whose
 eyes were failing say they have had their eyes restored through the principle of
 this wonderful free prescription. One man says, after trying it: II was almost blind: could not see to read at all. Now i can read everything without any glasses and my eyes do not water any more. At night they would pain dreadfully; now they feel fine all the. time. It was ike :e \ miracle to me-" A lady who used it says: "The atmosphere seemed hay with or without glasses, but after using this prescription for fifteen days everything seems clear. I can even read fine print wifhout glasses. It is believed that fhousa nds who wear glasses can now dis card them in reasonable time and n1ul- fitudes more will be able to strengthen their syes 10 as to be spared the trouble
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

products, he would become a healthier and better man, not to mention having the glorious privilege that every true cit izen should enjoy of doing something for his country in it's hour of need.
 Never before has so much interest been manifested in dietetics. It is not unusual to hear laymen discussing food values; and their minds are open for informa- tion that would make them give inme- diate aid in reducing the consumption of meats and other articles of food that we may be In dire need of in a few months. They might be induced to eat less as q patriotic measure. They would then learn that their efficiency and comfort would be Increased by rational eating and they would continue to live properly after the war.
 Physicians should take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to begin a propaganda for reform in eating. Inn petus to the movement might be given if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
PRESIDENTS APPEAL

The appeal of President Wilson to the patriotism of all classes to serve their country in the work of their particular vacations during the period of the war that has been forced upon us touched a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

physicians would write popular articles on diet and nutrition for the newspapers and magazines. Addresses on the subject before business Organizations and wom- ens clubs would also reach large num- Der. The department of agriculture Is already sending out important informa- tion on proper eating that is being read with profit by the public.
 If the American people can be taught to live rationally. and If the farmers learn to raise larger food crops, the ex- pense and the sacrifice of the present war will be justifid. In a recent sermon Dr. H. M. Edmonds of Birmingham said: God did not cause this war, but He is using it for the betterment of man kind" It is evident that President Will son is endeavoring to make the war, which was forced upon us, blessing to Americans, as well as an aid in estab- fishing universal and permanent peace in democratic Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

some corn bread every day and at
 the same time eat less wheat bread.
 Polished rice-that is, rice whose grains have become shiny because Of the re- moval of the thin outer coatlng-has been proven to be the cause of a frightful dis ease. beri-beri, among the Chinese and sailors whose nourishment consists large ' rico The cheaper unpublished rice Is more suited to our needs
 Goldberger of the United States public health service has proved that dlet with an excess of carbohydrates. e., corn meal potatoes, syrup. etc-and deficiency of the proteins, is at least an exciting, if not the sole cause of pella- gra.
 The importance of a well-balanced diet In maintaining health and efficiency can not be overestimated, yet few educated men have the slightest idea of the proper proportions and amounts of protelns (eggs, meats. fish, etc), carbohydrates (bread, cereals. potatoes, sugar, etc,)' ana fats Gutter, cream, fats of meats, Vege- table oils, etc), that are needed for eacn meal,
 !. DIETETIC SUGGESTIONS
 would not be understood as advising that meats and sweets be dispensed with altogether, though stimulants like coffee, tea and alcohol should have no place in a rational dietary. It is the excess of any one or more classes of food that is harm full.
 One egg for breakfast, a small portion of meat, fish or fowl for luncheon or din- ner are enough protens for the day. Peas, beans, nuts and cream cheese have a large protein content and may take the place of meats
 One teaspoonfui of sugar, on cereal or fruit, or it's equivalent a teaspoonful of honey or syrup is enough at one meal. light dessert may be taken once day. Bread rice and potatoes-"the staff of life"-should constitute a considerable part of our food, but too much of them may cause trouble, though they are less likely to produce digestive disturbances than meats and sweats.
 Fruits in season; the cereals like oat- meal. hominy, grits, etc; milk, cream, butter and cream cheese; most vegeta- bles, particularly spinach, lettuce, tur- nip and mustard greens and cabbage should be eaten in abundance
 Refined cotton seed oil has 9 better flavor than olive oil and is quite as wholesome. Indeed, most of the olive oil sold on the market today Is refined cot ton seed oil to which little olive oil has been added to give it the olive fla vor The cotton seed oil products may also be used as substitutes for butter and lard. They are as palatable, have as good food values and are very much cheaper.
 Most of the spices, pepper sauces and other condiments should be dispensed with altogether. The taste for them is ultivated-learned from the ignorant peo- pie of the tropics and they are harmful, since they are stimulants to the stom- ach, producing an abnormal appetite,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
tate Medicnl Association.

1 responsive chord in the heart of every true American citizen In one of the
 greatest addresses in history the presi-
 dent pointed out that one who is efficient
 in his work, whatever it may be, and eco
 nomical in his expenditures is as much q | patriot as the man who volunteers as a
 soldier; that the housewife, in cutting down her household expenses, particular | ly her grocery bills and in raising vege- 1 tables in her back yard may serve her | country as well as her husband or son
 who is called to the colors
 l He appealed particularly to the farm
 CTS to raise larger food crops, because it ! is as necessary to feed armies and the ! civilian population it is to manufac- ture guns and ammunition. He wisely said that one of the best ways to aid our 1 allies, and thereby protect ourselves, Is
 to supply food to the soldiers in the | trenches of France
 | The farmers of the south, as in other | sections of the country, are responding | to the presidents call, and never before have so much and such varied food crops been planted; in spite of this fact there is great danger of actual suffer- ing from the want of food, even in our
 own country because of the shortage of the 1916 grain crops, and food exports have reduced the visible supply to very low point.
 Perhaps the most serious danger lies In the scarcity of meats and other pro teins. The agricultural department has recently reported shortage of 100000 GOO pounds in our meat supply as compared to year ago. That the food situation is serious must be admitted by anyone who has studied the question, and the con- servation of the present supply before the 1917 crop is harvested is one of the great problems of the war That it is also an important public health problem the eX- perlence of Germany is sufficient proof.
 FOOD SUPPLY
 Having spent sometime in hospital work in Berlin and Vienna, and having made a number of visits to the rural districts of Germany and Austria, where I had the opportunity of observing living con- ditionS among the Germans and Austri- ans, was impressed by the fact that the middle and upper classes, and the labor CTS and peasants to a less extent, in those countries overeat enormously, which, with their habits of excessive beer and coffee drinking, caused pro- digious amount of stomach, liver and heart and kidney diseases among them. The well-known predilection of the Ger mans to overeating, particularly of meats and other proteins, probably partly ac- counts for their inordinately high death rate over 50.
 I estimate that the average adult Ger man, before the present war. consumed per day from 45O0 to $500 calories Ca food
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
CONSERVATION OF FOOD OF NATION AND
 HOW EVERYONE CAN AID
Some Dietec Suggestions Reduce Cost of Living serve Food-How the Physician Well Every
 Householder Can Do His Part
By DIR. SE.ALE HARRIS Inv before Mis- Sissfuni Stat

In the last number of the Journal o the American Medical association ther was published a communication entitled Food Shortage: An Appeal to the Phy sicians." by J. Ogden Armour that men tons phase of the food problem that have thought much about. He said.
 "A food shortage without precedent confronts the United States. Unless there Is a change for the better, the coming winter will see prohibitive high prices and consequent suffering from lack of food. The physicians of the United States. as guardians of the public health, are vitally in- terested because the health and the vitality of the people are at stake. It Is in the power of the physicians to help relieve the food shortage by talk mig the lead in teaching people how to conserve the food supply. It must not be forgotten that conservation of the food supply is just as important and just as necessary as is increased pro- ductfon. Physicians cannot very well increase the production of foodstuffs, but on the conservation side of the problem they can be of inestimable service to the nation.
 Tt is generally recognized that peo- pie eat too much As nation we are more inclined toward living to eat than toward eating to live The physicians, better than any others, can discourage this habit of overeat- ing
 As one familiar with the food sit- uation, I can say that the public has not yet been sufficiently impressed either with the need for more pro- duction or with the necessity for more economical handling: This is time when one can do things that would seem presumtpous in normal times. Under that right I call on the physi- clans of the United States to inter- est themselves in the food conserva- ton campaign and to do all in their imperative need for conserving. to the greatest possible degree, the food sup ply of the. nation.
 By preventing waste now we can avert hunger later on."
 PRESIDENTS APPEAL The appeal of President Wilson to the patriotism of all classes to serve their in the work of their particular 1ocations during the period of the war hat has been forced upon us touched a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
John w. Bates Idea
Of What You Want In Lifetime C.
Come see the Mitchells in both sizes See the extra features the machless luxury the vast overstrengh

our new body plant The saving is enormous. All that saving goes into comfort, beauty and luxury. We have added 24 per cent to the cost of finish, upholstery and trimming So the Mitchell is the handsomest car in it's class.
 Now Double Strength
 For three years MT. Bate has worked to double our margins of safety We used to give 50 per cent over-strength. We now give 100 per cent in every vital part
 Over 40 parts are built of toughened steel All safety parts are vastly oversize. Driving and steering parts are built of Chrome -Vanadium. This means some added weight It means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
IGNORANCE REGARDING FOODS

The hardships entailed by the in- creased cost of food are to be deplored, yet the agitation that has resulted from the fear that we may suffer from a short age of food may in the end make for the good of the human race; because, for the first time, the public is becoming Interested in the study of dietetics. The crude experiment of the Chicago "diet squad" in proving that men can work and maintain normal weight at cost of 90 cents a day did not add anything to scientific knowledge. But the means used by this well-advertised group of men, while painfully faulty to those well in- formed in dietetics, contained about the right quantities of carbohydrates, pro teins and fats, and the public has learn ed little about, and is becoming inter- ested in, food values-at least from the economic viewpoint.
 It is remarkable fact that very few educated people know anything of dietet- les, and nothing of the science of nutri- tion of what we should eat or why we eat different articles of food. The col- leges graduate thousands every year who are supposed to be familiar with the classics and higher mathematics, not one of whom, with the exception of a few special students in four or five of the large universities, has been taught any thing about the most essential thing in life, viz, the nutrition of our bodies.
 We trust the selection and preparation of our food to the most ignorant class of people and we eat three meals a day without any thought as to whether or not our menus are suited to our nutritional needs Men specify the caloric value of the coal used in their engines. and they know that too much or too little, or im- proper, fuel interferes with the energy output of their machinery. Yet they never seem to know or care about the quantity or the quality of the food burned in their bodies
 Apparently we eat as do the lower anil mals-merely to gratfy our perverted ap- pctites-and without their instincts as to the foods suited to our digestive and un- tan1 raao de
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

John w. Bate, our great efficiency engineer, has built 19 Mitchell models.
 He has spent IA years in perfecting these cars He has worked out more than 700 improvements.
 He has travelled far and wide to get other mems ideas. He spent one year in Europe. So this years Mitchells show-in fnality- his conception of ideal cars
 Must Not Skimp
 To build an extra-fne car the maker must not skmp. He must have margin to work on. MT. Bate secured that margin by cutting fac tory cost. He built and equipped this model
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13

calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of water degrees Fahrenheit of food, at least one-third of which was protein (beef pork fowl fish, cheese, etc). From 5000 to 4Oo0 food calories. of which not more than from one-tenth to one-eighth should be pro- tein, is a liberal daily amount for per son Of average weight It would there fore seem that the food supply in Ger many would have to be reduced more than one-half before German efficiency would be decreased from lack of nour- ishment.
 From various reports published in the magazines and newspapers regarding the food situation In Germany and with some knowledge of the habits and lives of the people in that country prior to the war, the writer thinks 1t possible that up to about one year ago, while the average German had lost weight-he could easily spare flesh-his efficiency had increased as the food coffee and beef supply de- creased.
 Recent reports. however indicate that the food situation in Germany has be- come very serious. It Is said that meats and fats have almost disappeared from the diet of the German people, and that tuberculosis-a disease that rarely occurs in well -nourished people and was there fore less prevalent in Germany than in most other countries prior to the war has increased more than 800 per cent in Berlin.
 Had the Germans not had the habit of overeatfng and had they conserved their food supply the first year or two of the war, they would not now be in such distress that they would resort to submarining merchant ships in order to try to make England suffer for food as Germany is now suffering
 Napoleon is credited with the saying that "an army moves on it's stomach" !" He probably learned that from the inglo- rious retreat from Moscow of his starv- in gsoldiers If reports of the food SUD- ply in Germany and Austria are true, empty stomachs will prove ineffective ve- hicles for transporting their armies, and we may expect soon to see the Kaiser's wonderful military machine go to pieces provided of course, that the food sup ply of the allies can be kept up to their physical needs.
 Americans are not given to gormandiz- ing so much as the Germans were prior to the war, but our efficiency would be increased if we ate less and exercised more. It would seem, as a part of our preparedness plans for both war and peace, that now is the time to carry on the propaganda for rational eating and other habits of living to make every man and woman fit to perform best his or her part in our national life; so that our food supply will be equal to the nutditional needs of great armies and navies, as well as for those who remain in civil life.