The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-06-23


me in care of the editor.)
All that mankind has done, thought
gained, or been, it is lying as in magic
preservation in the pages of books
They are the chosen possessions Of
men.'-Carlyle, in Heroes and Hero
WORSHIP.
What Herbert Quick did for the
Iowa prairie farmer pioneers In his
"Vandemarck's Folly. Emersoa
Hough has done for the brave mer
and women Of the Oregon trail in
The Covered Wagon. appleton, SO. }
The story is epic in quality. most WV
idly told, with the human interest CEN
tered in the old triangle of fine girl
and two men. a good and a bad. hero
and villain. The long trek starts from
Kansas City in the spring of 1S4S for
Oregon and arrives in December. a
mere handful of the original party. In
dian warfare, the news of gold in Cal
lfornia, and the various hard vicissi-
tudes of the trail. as well as the dis
couragement that turned some faint
hearted back, cut down the vast con-
course of enthusiastic pilgrims to the
Few most staunch and courageous who
won through and laid the foundations
or rich empire. 1t is an extremely
easy book to read aloud, as it is writ
ten largely In the form of conversation
between the characters. 1t does not
lack excellent passages of descriptive
pictures of the country. 1t would do
very well indeed, think, as a book to
interest boys and girls in the early
history of this country. They have had
so much of the Pilgrim Father mater
ial that | think they would welcome
this change of menu Courage and hon
esty and persistence are given so much
emphasis that | should recommend it
especially as good book for boys in
the teens.
AT last have copy of the Richest
Man in Kansas, by Dr. Charles M.
Sheldon (The Christian HERALD to
send to my friend Mrs. Adair, mission
airy In the Soudan. Some time ago
put here query as to that book, into
| this column, and a reader identified
the publisher for me so that l was
able to send for it. 1t is a small book,
only some sixty pages, but it contains
a story that reflects conditions in
many family where the father is on
small salary, struggling along and
bravely keeping his head above water
but unable to satisfy the ambitions of
his wife or give his children the ad-
vantages he longs to. A fortune from
relative sends them all into New
York society circles, where he and one
of his daughters pine for the simple
comforts and joys of the Topeka home.
Her death and the loss of most of the
money finally brings the proud and
selfish mother to realization of the
real worth of the things she had for
saken, and they go back west should
think this story would film very we'll
| indeed. With Dr. Sheldon's name be-
hind 1t such movie" should attract
a new clientei.
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LUNCH.
Dreamed Dried Beef Boiled Rice
Cabbage and Nut Salad Iced Tea
Baking Powder Biscuits
Honey Butter
DINNER.
Cold Tongue Dreamed Potatoes
Bread and Butter
Beet Greens Chilli Sauce
Lettuce and Onion Salad.
Strawberry Shortcake
Doesn't that sound good? 1t is a
sample of the menus at the end of
| THE American Home Diet" (Mathews)
| by e. V. McCollum and Nina Simmons.
The nutrition expert of the home
economics department at the State
College Of Washington has given the
book enthusiastic approval, and ord
cred it for the use Of students in die
tetics work. 1t seems to me the most
thorough treatment of the subject
have seen, and it is clear and simple
in its statements. You do not have to
wade through pages Of statistics as to
calories and vitamines and bacteria
and ptomaines. Any mother could we'll
make it guide in dealing with the diet
difficulties in the home. 1t is so full of
valuable and practicable discussion
that / scarcely know where to begin
to give an idea of its scope. The auth
ors who are in charge of the chemical
hygiene work in John Hopkins Univer-
sity, Baltimore, tell the ".why" and
what" OF daily eating for health and
pleasure, Just as the cook books tell
the how"
One of the important topics discuss
ed is the relation of diet to old age
The shortening of the span of life and
the reduction of the productive period
of the individual by old age diseases
are accepted as facts; and it is beyond
doubt, also, that improper feeding is
one Of the most important factors in
such illness. The need of learning just
what We must and must not eat is
clear when one realizes that these dis.
eases have increased 100 per cent in
the past thirty years.
Why do we need spring medicines"
And why is it that people who gel
plenty of milk and green vegetables
are free from such diseases as scurvy?
There are various diseases of children
such as ricketts,, directly attributable
to wrong feeding, and this is true OF
older people as we'll. The outward
signs are sometimes slow in appear
ing, but the results are serious.
Which foods definitely protect the
eater against certain diseases, and
which are a danger, are indicated in 6
chapter on the diet properties Of the
more important American food-stuffs